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2 Reasons Why AMD Wants You To Buy The Radeon RX 590
Jason Evangelho Senior Contributor
I cover the fascinating worlds of Linux & consumer PC hardware.
Today AMD is adding a new graphics card to the Polaris family. While it's been rumored for months and the specs have leaked from all corners of the web, it's finally official: the Radeon RX 590 is here and it hits retail for a suggested base price of $279. So what's this thing all about? Is it yet another refresh? Does its performance warrant an upgrade?
Radeon RX 590 ASIC
The answer depends largely on what GPU you currently own, but AMD is certainly doing its best to coax the money out of your wallet with a very compelling triple game bundle.
Before we get into the details, know that this is not remotely a review. Unfortunately I only received my RX 590 (the gloriously thick XFX Fatboy model) a few hours before today's embargo lifted. I'll be quoting some of AMD's internal benchmarks here, but pitting them against my own test bench results over the next few days.
Within the week I'll have gaming benchmarks comparing the RX 590 against the RX 580 and Nvidia GTX 1060, across both Windows and Linux.
12nm RX 580?
Yea, kind of! It seems unfair to label the RX 590 as strictly a "rebrand" though, because it does use a 12nm FinFET process as opposed to the RX 580's 14nm one. On the other hand, when comparing crucial specs the similarities between the RX 580 and RX 590 are undeniably similar.
RX 590 vs RX 580 vs RX 570
Both have the same die size. Both have 36 Compute Units. Both have 2304 Stream Processors. Both have 256 GB/s memory bandwidth.
The key difference is clock speeds. Where the reference RX 580 GPU clocks were 1257 MHz base / 1340 MHz boost, the RX 590 harnesses the improved 12nm process to deliver a base GPU clock of 1469 MHz and a boost clock of 1545MHz.
That's about a 15% clock speed improvement over the RX 580, and AMD claims it's a 12% overall performance boost versus the RX 580. If we were only talking about a few percentage points, I'd feel totally comfortable calling it a rebrand. The 12nm process also brings slightly higher peak compute to the party (7.1 TFLOPS vs 6.17 TFLOPS).
You'll also notice that despite the process improvement, attaining higher clock speeds requires more power.
RELATED: AMD's Insane 3x Game RX 590 Bundle
But what does that mean with real world gaming performance? Will you want to upgrade from an RX 580 to an RX 590? That's an emphatic no, but if you're still rocking a last-gen Polaris RX 480 or perhaps an Nvidia GTX 970, AMD wants to make a case for its newest member of Polaris being your preferred upgrade choice.
They're making two key arguments to win your wallet.
#1: Games Are Getting Hungry For More Graphics Power
During my press briefing with AMD, they showed a couple interesting charts. One depicted how new entries in the same game franchise are roughly 15% more demanding. They picked three newer games -- Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Battlefield 5 and Middle Earth: Shadow of War -- and stacked them against their previous entries.
Here's what AMD's internal results showed, running all six games at 1080p under max settings with a Radeon RX 480:
The RX 480: 2015 versus 2018
You can see that in two of the newer sequels, the RX 480 no longer maintains 60 FPS. That's to be expected as game engines evolve and developers learn how to increase the amount of eyecandy across the board.
You'll also notice that AMD tries to be clever with the chart by using 2015 versus 2018. Polaris launched in 2016 so in reality we're only talking about a 2.5 year difference. While that's not really a parlor trick, well, it is a marketing trick.
Still, encouraging gamers to finally upgrade their GPU after 2.5 years isn't an unreasonable request to make for a company in the business of selling graphics cards.
But what if you've been contemplating another midrange GPU like Nvidia's GTX 1060?
#2: RX 590 > GTX 1060?
Nvidia's GTX 1060 is one hell of a card, and it's typically traded blows with AMD's Radeon RX 580 (but of course trumps it in power efficiency). Now AMD has an offering that colors in the $150 price gap between the Vega 56 and RX 580. On the competitive side, it should also fall somewhere between the GTX 1060 and GTX 1070.
To illustrate that point, AMD ran a few internal benchmarks with the Sapphire Nitro RX 590 versus the Asus Strix GTX 1060 (6GB) at 1080p max settings:
GTX 1060 vs Radeon RX 590
These are notable performance differences, especially for players wanting an uncompromising 60 FPS experience.
AMD's RX 590 Reviewer's Guide expands the benchmarks to 16 titles, with the RX 590 claiming victory in all but two of them (GTA V and Assassin's Creed Odyssey).
GTX 1060 vs RX 590: 16 games benchmarked at 1080
The Asus Strix GTX 1060 used here is all over the map when it comes to price, but it can be found for as low as $279 -- the same starting price as the RX 590.
But you know how new GPU launches play out. Until pricing settles and we see real world (e.g. independently tested) performance it's tough to make a recommendation. Personally? I'd wait a bit longer until 7nm Vega hits the gaming space. Then again, if you're looking for a few free games. . .
For now, arm yourself with this data and absorb all the reviews to make an informed decision. In the meantime I'll be working on my own benchmarks and analysis in both Windows and Linux gaming environments, so watch this space.
Follow me on Twitter. Check out my website.
Jason Evangelho
Since becoming one of the first 30 podcasters in the world, I've loved writing about consumer hardware, PC gaming and more recently the thrilling world of desktop Linux ...
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Why This Asian Property Tycoon Couldn't Care Less About S&P Downgrading China
Pamela Ambler Forbes Staff
Is China accumulating too much debt? According to Standard & Poors, the move to downgrade the country's sovereign credit standing is a resounding "yes." The global ratings agency cited China’s deleveraging process was not happening fast enough and that credit growth is still too fast. The decision to cut the world's second largest economy to AA from A+ was a knock to mainland investor confidence, but not to property tycoon Ronnie Chan, chairman of Hang Lung Properties-- one of the largest real estate developers in Hong Kong.
More on Forbes: S&P Right To Downgrade China's Sovereign Credit Rating, Deleveraging Process Is Too Slow
Speaking on the sides lines of Forbes Global CEO Conference, Chan, the pro-Beijing businessman defends China, "How much [debt] is too much depends on the context." In his view, since the government controls all the banks and holds very little foreign debt, "it's not a big issue." Chan says he understands why S&P made the decision, but he doesn't see major negative impact on the economy. S&P's move comes after Moody's and Fitch both made the same call on China's attempt to deleverage.
Grand Gateway Mall, developed by Hang Lung Properties Ltd. in Shanghai, China. Hang Lung Properties Ltd., Hong Kong's fourth-largest developer by market value, said first-half profit more than tripled as the company sold more apartments, tapping the city's surging home prices. Photographer: Kevin Lee/Bloomberg News
New rules hurt property market
While the one-notch downgrade may not effect Chan's commercial property business, his Chinese peers in the residential real estate sector have been hammered by recent policy news. To curb speculative price bubbles, China has banned condo flipping in second-tier cities. The timing of the announcement raises eyebrows as it comes just weeks ahead of the country's annual policy setting meeting-- The National Party Congress. The housing controls do not faze Chan either, "The best way to manage real estate is by managing supply... to manage demand is not preferred."
Property Growth Imbalance
Housing measures rolled out by Beijing cannot be one-size-fits-all. Property prices in tier-1 and tier-2 cities may have overheated, but demand for tier-3 and tier-4 locations have remained lukewarm, if not cool. Managing a balance between metropolitan cities and rural areas remains a challenge for Chinese policy makers. "When you have a country as big as China, you're going to have differential between city to city," says Chan.
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Pamela Ambler
Pamela covers entrepreneurs, wealth, blockchain and the crypto economy as a senior reporter across digital and print platforms. Prior to Forbes, she served as on-air for...
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7 Ways Microschools Help Communities Innovate
Tom Vander Ark Contributor
I write about the future of learning, work and human development.
Acton Academy is a global network of small learner-centered private schools that feature socratic seminars and project-based learning.
What if you could start a school in a six weeks instead of six years? What if you could launch a school for $50,000 rather than $50 million? What if you could test an innovation with 20 kids rather than 2,000?
Microschools are popping up around the country. It may not come as a surprise that schools of 15 to 150 students are easier, cheaper and faster to open.
Yet there are seven reasons why teachers, parents and school districts should consider microschools:
1. Nimble. Microschools are responsive to change; there is a shorter loop from idea to feedback to iteration. They often start as a test. 4.0 Schools trains education entrepreneurs to run tests starting as an after-school program or a pilot in an existing classroom.
Once they launch, teachers and students can try more things more often, with lower stakes.
2. Options. Microschools quickly create new community connected learning options such as themes, careers, and experiences for students. They can be used to quickly address underserved student populations (preschool, dropout recovery, and career education).
Microschools can take advantage of a variety of public and community spaces, including libraries, museums, zoos or corporate partners.
3. Relationships. Microschools are small and typically rely on multi-age groupings–both aspects that promote powerful sustained teacher-student relationships.
Wildflower schools “are one- to two-room schools with the faculty both teaching and administering the school...By preserving a small scale, teacher-leaders are able to make day-to-day decisions that respond to the needs of the children and school-wide decisions that express their own vision in the context of the needs of children, families and themselves.”
4. Place. Microschools have the agility to connect with community and leverage the power of place. Through authentic community-connected experiences, students learn to collaborate, think critically and solve complex challenges. Learners become invested in their communities and ready for further education and entrepreneurship.
The dozen rural microschools in the Place Network provide immersive learning experiences that get students involved in local heritage, cultures, and landscapes (for more, check out #PlaceBasedEd).
5. Flexible formats. As illustrated by CottageClass in Brooklyn, New York City, microschools may be full- or part-time learning experiences for PreK-12 students. CottageClass partners are predominantly private learning options where parents pay tuition.
Acton Academy is a global network of small learner-centered private schools that feature socratic seminars and project-based learning (see feature).
Microschools are also a way that faith congregations can extend their service to a community by creating educational options like The King School in Chattanooga, Tenn. StreetSchool Network is working nationwide with faith communities united to meet the needs of youth and reduce the high school dropout rate by giving students a second chance at educational success.
Public schools can quickly launch microschools as pilot classrooms or a school-within-a-school. Talking about rural schools, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said this month that most schools have “at least a handful [of students] who really learn differently...Why not be able to take those kids and start a microschool, even co-located in the school, with 15 or 20 kids with a different approach to learning?”
6. Distributed leadership. Microschools can be used to leverage teacher leadership. In Kettle Moraine, Wisconsin, microschools were a key part of district transformation. Four new schools opened in existing facilities allowed teachers that were ready to move quickly and create valuable learning options and pictures of the future. The small schools leveraged teacher leadership and provided a teaching environment for early adopters of new strategies.
7. New proposition. Microschools like NOLA Micro Schools can bundle new goals, strategies, and community connections. NOLA Micro seeks to help every learner change the world. The goal of the Acton-affiliate is, “Every one of our students will find a calling, something they love and are good at.” They explain, “We can’t tell you how your child will change the world. We can only help our students find their calling and set them on their journey.”
Similarly, the goal at One Stone, a tuition-free microschool in Boise, Idaho, is, “Making students better leaders and the world a better place.” One Stone combines skill sprints with design thinking labs and community-connected projects to foster youth leadership (see this summary of Rise, the One Stone movie).
LEADprep is a small network of progressive secondary microschools in the Seattle area where young people develop the confidence and ability to lead.
Microschools are a great way to test a bundle of innovations—new goals, experiences and tools, new staffing and governance models, and new community connections—with low cost and risk.
Tom Vander Ark is an advocate for innovations in learning. As CEO of Getting Smart, he advises school districts, networks, foundations and learning organizations on the
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World Bank report warns Gaza Strip economy is in 'free fall'
Published September 25, 2018 FeaturesAssociated Press
The Gaza Strip's economy is in "free fall," a report from the World Bank warned Tuesday, calling for urgent action by Israel and the international community to avoid "immediate collapse."
According to the report, Gaza's economy contracted by 6 percent in the first quarter of 2018. It said unemployment is now over 50 percent — and over 70 percent among Gaza's youth.
The World Bank cited various factors, starting with Israel's decade-long blockade against the territory's militant Hamas rulers, for the precarious downturn. It also cited budget cuts by the rival Palestinian Authority and a reduction in international aid to the Palestinians, particularly from the United States.
"A combination of war, isolation, and internal rivalries has left Gaza in a crippling economic state and exacerbated the human distress," said Marina Wes, the World Bank's director for the region.
The report was released ahead of a high level meeting of the bank's Ad Hoc Liaison Committee, responsible for coordinating development assistance to the Palestinians, on Sept. 27.
Wes said the increasingly dire economic situation in Gaza "has reached a critical point."
"Increased frustration is feeding into the increased tensions which have already started spilling over into unrest and set back the human development of the region's large youth population," she added.
Gazans have staged near weekly demonstrations along the border with Israel since late March, in part to protest the blockade enforced by Israel and Egypt since 2007, when the militant group Hamas seized the territory. Hamas has led and organized the protests, but turnout has also been driven by growing despair over blockade-linked hardship, including lengthy power cuts and soaring unemployment.
Israeli soldiers have killed at least 136 Palestinians during the weekly protests since March, including 27 minors, according to Gaza's Health Ministry. A Palestinian sniper also fatally shot an Israeli soldier. Israel contends it's defending its border and accuses Hamas of using the protests as a screen for attempts to breach the border fence to attack civilians and soldiers. Human rights groups have accused Israel of excessive and unlawful use of force against unarmed protesters.
Gaza's economic situation is likely to deteriorate further because of failed attempts to negotiate an easing of the blockade. Hamas leaders said this week that Egypt-mediated efforts to broker a long-term cease-fire with Israel have stalled.
Repeated attempts to broker a reconciliation deal between rival Palestinian factions — Hamas and President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party — have also failed. Abbas now governs just parts of the West Bank.
In the report, the World Bank calls upon Israel to lift restrictions on trade and movement of goods and people to help improve Gaza's economy, and urges development of "legitimate institutions to govern Gaza in a transparent and efficient manner."
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Fireflies In The Garden review
Secrets and flies…
By Neil Smith 2009-05-20T07:00:00.139Z Review
If you can swallow Heroes’ Hayden Panettiere growing up to be Emily Watson or the idea that Julia Roberts could be Ryan Reynolds’ mum, chances are you’ll be pleasantly diverted by Dennis Lee’s feature debut.
If the above strikes you as a tad far-fetched, you’d best give this dysfunctional family yarn as wide a berth as Roberts should have the moment someone suggested she be mother to someone only nine years her junior.
To be fair, the notion makes more sense in lengthy flashback sequences that explain how Reynolds’ hero Michael, a bestselling author, came to be so painfully estranged from his tyrannical academic of a father (Willem Dafoe). And anyway, Roberts doesn’t stick around long enough in the present day to labour the point, a lethal car prang turning what should have been a happy reunion into a long weekend of funereal gloom, bitter recriminations and group soul-searching.
With a secret infidelity, a history of abuse and a recovering alcoholic (Carrie Anne-Moss) thrown into the mix, there’s a lot of soap opera to get through before Fireflies reaches its tacit resolution. But the above-average cast lends much-needed conviction to the script’s decade-straddling contortions, helping to offset its contrivances and dialogue that sometimes feels as corny as the fields surrounding Reynolds’ Midwest homestead.
Shorn of his Wolverine swords but displaying the same smart mouth, the Canadian star does well in a role that requires him to internalise years of pent-up rage. But in the end, it’s the precocious Panettiere who leaves the most lasting impression as the young Michael’s aunt – sure to be a revelation to those who only know her as Claire the indestructible cheerleader.
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"HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE"---MOVIE REVIEW-- MADE IN NEW ZEALAND
“Hunt for the Wilderpeople” is a sweet, sad, funny, drama and comedy small ‘art’ picture that takes the standard odd couple and fish out water stories and stands both on their heads. The odd couple is a 13 year old city foster child Ricky (played by Julian Dennison) and asixtysomething old country geezer Hec (played by Sam Neill) who is married to Bella (Rima TeWiata) a Mother Earth who you just know will forgive anything Ricky might or might not do. When he decides to run away and falls asleep not too far away Bella tells him to come in for breakfast before he continues on his journey.
The film starts off with social worker from Child Welfare Paula (Rachel House) accompanied by a not too swift policeman Andy (Oscar Kightly) dropping Ricky off at the home of Hec and Bella. I don’t want to give away anything as there is a lot of joy as we see/hear the interaction between the characters but one example of where drama and comedy intersect is when Bella shows sheer joy bringing a boar down and Ricky looking in horror. By the way there are a few close your eyes scenes as how people live off the land is shown.
Julian Dennison as Ricky, the fat—yes it is okay to say that—see the picture!—foster kid couldn’t have been cast by anyone better. I wish Rima TeWiata had more to do and Sam Neill is perfect as the curmudgeon who has a soft spot in his heart for his wife. Aside from real to life performances of people in the area Rhys Darby as a believable ‘nut’ job with a aluminum hat and can be a tree is no stranger than anyone else in the film.
I did have a problem getting in sync with the New Zealand accent (sorry Mal, Steve and Karen), where the film was made, for the first half hour but the actors were so good following the story was easy.
Director Taika Waititi does a perfect balance between all the emotions without playing the audience. His chase scene near the end is unlike most you have seen. The photography by LachlanMilne of the New Zealand bush is at times breathtaking including a falls scene that I would love to jump into and get to the lake at the bottom.
The people in this film are all delightful, even the villains, and not a minute of the 101 running minutes will let you down.
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Middlesbrough Council
Grounds for real optimism
Middlesbrough has not always been considered as the prettiest of places.
Decades of heavy industry, followed by economic decline and pockets of deprivation have left a challenge to revitalise the town.
But that is beginning to happen thanks to a scheme aimed at transforming the town's environment and making it a better, safer place to live in.
The work of Groundwork Middlesbrough is helping to make a difference in communities across the town.
Middlesbrough is one of the trusts established up and down the country by environmental charity Groundwork UK.
And although it has only been in business for about 18 months, things are starting to happen.
Groundwork Middlesbrough executive director Chris Watson said: "We are already seeing a difference. Projects are starting to deliver."
The trust hopes improving the physical environment can help generate more investment in the area and boost economic recovery.
This would help create a more prosperous town, with other spin-offs hopefully including safer streets and improved health.
"In a nutshell, we develop practical environmental projects in partnership with local residents," said Chris.
Projects vary greatly depending on the needs of a particular community but include improving housing areas, enhancing school grounds or upgrading parks and allotments.
Other improvements can involve planting trees and creating wildlife areas or gardens, or transforming neglected or derelict land.
The main sources of funding are the Government, Middlesbrough Council and West Middlesbrough New Deal for Communities.
That is topped up by money from other sources, said Chris.
Many different organisations on Teesside are represented on the trust's board. They include residents but also representatives of Middlesbrough Council, the Evening Gazette, the University of Teesside, British Land, Middlesbrough Environment City, Tees Forest, Tees Valley Wildlife Trust, Industry Nature Conservation Association, Tees Valley Tomorrow and South Tees Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Chris concedes there is much to be done to regenerate the area and improve its image.
He said: "There are areas of Middlesbrough which are not particularly pleasant. There is also the perception that Middlesbrough is a scruffy, run-down place."
Chris said Groundwork Middlesbrough was trying to achieve change by working with others.
He said: "I am not saying we are going to solve Middlesbrough's problems ourselves.
"We are working in partnership with other organisations and hopefully contributing to the wider regeneration of Middlesbrough.
"Hopefully between us we can start to solve some of the problems Middlesbrough has got."
Completed projects so far include:
Carisbrooke Avenue, Thorntree, Middlesbrough - Environmental improvements.
Greenlink, Gresham - Project linking schools with local businesses, focusing on an environmental theme.
Archibald School, West Middlesbrough - Work to improve school grounds.
Easterside, Middlesbrough - Improvements to land adjacent to shopping centre.
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Top 5 Stacey Dooley Documentaries
If you know me, you’ll know I love a good Stacey Dooley documentary. I’m that guy who tweets her after BBC Three release a new one asking when the next is out. To say that I’m in love with the work that she does is a massive understatement.
I’m not afraid to say that the Stacey Dooley Investigates series played a significant role in my learning of current affairs around the world. The reason why I resonate with her work so much is that she’s not some know-it-all, high-brow (as she’d put it) journalist. Every documentary I watch I feel like I’m on the same journey as her, learning something new.
Below I have listed my top five Stacey Dooley documentaries. However, I must point out that they’re in no particular order!
Stacey Dooley Investigates: Second Chance Sex Offenders
Source: BBC Three
This documentary actually makes me stressed. Second Chance Sex Offenders takes Stacey to Florida where she spends time with child sex offenders to see whether they can be rehabilitated.
Florida’s Bradford County authorities have the power to impose restrictions on these offenders once they leave prison – including placing a 5ft sign (seen above) outside of their homes to warn other locals.
After meeting with lawmakers, Stacey visits a place called Miracle Village where a man called Pat (it angers me typing his name), who is a convicted child abuser, houses other child molesters.
I honestly can’t fathom how much of a prick Pat is and you need to watch it to understand. He lies to Stacey about his convictions (she even returns to confront him) and has ‘adopted grandchildren’ who are aged 13 and 15 visit the ‘village’ WHERE SEX OFFENDERS ARE PRESENT. Ugh, just watch it. It’s sick.
Stacey Dooley: Face To Face With ISIS
Insightful, empathetic, and completely nerve-racking. This is by far one of BBC Three’s strongest documentaries and shows Stacey’s true capabilities as a journalist. I’m just devasted that it was only 33 minutes long.
Face To Face With ISIS shows Stacey return to Iraq to join the Yazidi women who were once held captive on the frontline. You see the girls go from strength to strength in search of justice for the horrific experiences that they all went through. It’s so admirable to see how these girls were owning their past encounters and bravely fighting for what was important to them.
One major part of the documentary is when Stacey and Shireen, a Yazidi woman, go face-to-face with an actual ISIS ‘soldier’. Trust me, he’s as pathetic as you’d imagine. He admitted to slaughtering 900 people. 900 PEOPLE. Please watch this one if you ever get the chance!
Stacey Dooley Investigates: Mums Selling Their Kids For Sex
This is probably the most harrowing documentary I’ve watched. Ever. Filmed in the Philippines, Mums Selling Their Kids For Sex looks at how Filipino mothers are doing just that.
As disturbing as it is, it gets worse. Stacey works with an undercover agent from Homeland Security to expose mothers who are selling their children for actual sex to foreign travelers. Many of these abusers come from the US and UK.
We’re talking kids as young as seven. That’s fucked up. If parents feel the need to do this to their CHILDREN – for MONEY, then something needs to be done about it. Watch it. You won’t regret a moment. Must note: it’s quite emotional and I don’t know how Stacey handled the situation as well as she did.
Stacey Dooley in the USA: Girls Behind Bars
This documentary always seemed to slip through the net for me. A couple of weeks back, I managed to catch Girls Behind Bars on iPlayer and was really impressed by Stacey’s approach to the subject.
The topic itself was insightful and showed a militant-styled correctional facility for women who had committed a non-violent crime. The girls were really pushed to their limits – from only having three-minutes to shower and eight-minutes to eat, it’s definitely worth a watch.
I must mention that there was one part of this documentary that really had me on the edge of my seat. In reflection, it’s completely barbaric. The correctional officers forced one girl to talk about her sexual abuse in front of the other inmates, even though she was uncomfortable doing so. That’s fucked up and emotionally damaging to the victim. Stacey and other girls teared up and I honestly couldn’t believe what I was watching.
My Hometown Fanatics
My Hometown Fanatics is one of my favourite documentaries from Stacey. However, I think it’s the one she likes least – which makes it even more interesting from an audience’s perspective. She returns to her hometown Luton to see whether the media’s portray of it being the ‘extremist capital of Britain’ is true.
As one of her earlier commissions, the film feels raw and everything you see is completely natural which makes it a pleasant watch. It’s not necessarily the topic that makes it a hit with me, but just how we see how much Stacey cares about her roots. She doesn’t want her neck-of-the-woods tarnished by a minority of haters.
You’ll see her visit her high-school to track down her old pals and ask them questions about the changes in the area. She also attended a protest where chants include ‘British police, burn in hell’ and attempt to track down an associate from her younger years, Stephen Lennon (known now as Tommy Robinson). Does this one take your fancy?
Those were just some of my favourite documentaries from Stacey. I want to know yours, and if you’ve seen what I’ve listed, tell me your thoughts by commenting below!
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Animals find haven in Jordan
Dozens of animals have been rescued from regional war zones.
For more than a year after being moved to a Jordanian wildlife reserve from war-hit Syria, two bears, Loz and Sukkar, would cower whenever planes flew by, traumatised by past bombardments.
They are among dozens of animals that have been rescued from regional war zones, including the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip, and brought to Jordan's Al Ma'wa For Nature and Wildlife.
The sanctuary located in Jerash province north of Amman was set up by the Princess Alia Foundation, named after the king's sister, in cooperation with the international animal welfare organisation Four Paws.
Sukkar (sugar in Arabic) and Loz (almond) are Asian black bears, now aged nine, who were trapped by war in the Magic World Zoo outside Syria's second city, Aleppo, before being rescued in the summer of 2017.
Most were rescued from Syria, where the conflict has raged since 2011, as well as the conflict-riddled Gaza Strip where Israel has fought three wars since 2008 with the territory's Islamist rulers, Hamas.
A black bear walks around an enclosure, at the sanctuary in Jerash. Khalil Mazraawi/AFP
"They are usually emaciated, their teeth are in bad condition and... also suffer from psychological trauma," he told AFP.
Before they reach the sanctuary, the animals are taken to the New Hope Centre, a veterinary clinic linked to the Jerash reserve, where they are provided with medical care and undergo rehabilitation.
He said proper food and medical care is "extremely vital" for their well-being, but the animals must also be able to trust their carers and regain self-confidence.
"They are happier and love to play and meet visitors," said Ayasra.
Bears eat 16 kilos (35 pounds) worth of fruit and vegetables daily, while the lions are given seven to 15 kilos of meat three times a week.
Sultan, the lion, and Sabreen, a lioness, are among the animals who found a new lease on life at the Ma'wa, after their rescue by Four Paws in 2014 from a Gaza zoo following Israeli bombardment.
Lionesses rest in an enclosure, at the sanctuary in Jerash. Khalil Mazraawi/AFP
Al Ma'wa CEO Marek Trela, a Polish veterinary surgeon, said the sanctuary aims to "give a better life to animals who have suffered in different ways".
"If they like to see people they can... if they don't want to they hide in the forest and they live their own life. That is what we are trying to give them after the hard time they had," said Trela.
Although it is not a zoo, visitors can tour the reserve and spend some time with the animals for an entrance fee of five dinars (around $7).
Over the past five years, Four Paws has rescued nearly 100 animals from Gaza, Syria and Iraq, including 43 who were brought out of the Palestinian territory in April.
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The feeble hunting law desperately needs to change
In upsetting undercover footage, a huntsman is seen taking terrified fox cubs out of a small cage and carrying them to a kennel, using a stick with a noose attached. The little foxes scream as they are taken to the kennel. There, they are thrown to a pack of hounds that had been whipped into a frenzy.
Two rare white tiger cubs find new home in Nicaragua
Two white tiger cubs have been taken to their new home at the Nicaragua National Zoo, where the playful pair will join a menagerie of rare big cat species.
Cat who can’t stop sneezing stuck at rescue centre
A tabby cat whose owners gave him up due to allergies is struggling to find a new home due to a nasal condition that means he is constantly sneezing.
Corsica's 'cat-fox': On the trail of what may be a new species
In the forest undergrowth of northern Corsica, two wildlife rangers open a cage to reveal a striped, tawny-coated animal, one of 16 felines known as "cat-foxes" in the area and thought to be a new species.
Teenage mother gives birth during high school exam, returns to finish
Just 40 minutes after leaving the examination room, she was back at her desk, stunning her family who had rushed to the clinic as well as the invigilators.
Tiger found lying on bed inside house while sheltering from India floods
Park director Shiv Kumar said: “It appears the tiger strayed into a human settlement area to escape the floods and now appears very tired. We are preparing to tranquillise the tiger.”
Donkeys painted to look like zebras for theme wedding causes outrage
Two donkeys were painted black and white to resemble zebras for a safari-themed wedding reception in a Spanish beach town, triggering outrage online, where pictures of the painted donkeys were shared.
Two-headed turtle born in Malaysia
A two-headed baby turtle has been born in Malaysia, captivating conversationists, but it only survived a few days after being discovered.
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Technical analysis of USD/JPY for February 17, 2015
Source: InstaForex Forex Technical Analysis and Forecasts February 17, 2015 at 9:39 PM 254 0
Fundamental overview:
USD/JPY is expected to trade with bearish bias. It is undermined by the flows to the safe haven yen and unwinding of of the yen-funded carry trades amid increased risk aversion on news that Greece's talks with its creditors on the future of its bailout program have broken down. USD/JPY is also weighed by the Japanese exports and mounting speculation that the Bank of Japan will not ease monetary policy further. But the USD/JPY losses are tempered by demand from Japan's importers.
Technical comment:
The daily chart is mixed as the MACD is bullish, but stochastics is falling from overbought levels.
The pair is trading below its pivot point. It is likely to trade in a lower range as far as it remains below the pivot point. Short positions are recommended with the first target at 118.25. A break of this target will move the pair further downward to 117.95. The pivot point stands at 119.20. In case the price moves in the opposite direction and bounces back from the support level, it will move above its pivot point. It is likely to move further to the upside. According to that scenario, a long position is recommended with the first target at 119.75 and the second target at 120.20.
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Though often confused with yellowjackets, paper wasps do not respond to the same bait.
Geraldine Warner // Jul 15, 2014 // Insects and mites // Research
The European paper wasp. (File photo)
Research to find the best lure for trapping the spotted wing drosophila serendipitously put Dr. Peter Landolt on the scent of a better way to deal with paper wasps.
Landolt and colleague Dr. Dong Cha, who are based at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s laboratory in Wapato, Washington, developed a new lure for spotted wing drosophila. Scientists in Mississippi, who are cooperating in the project, tested the new lure alongside a standard bait of wine and vinegar to trap spotted wing drosophila in blueberries. They found that the wine and vinegar mixture also attracted lots of paper wasps.
This caught Landolt’s attention because of a project he’s been working on for the U.S. Air Force to find a way to control paper wasps in air traffic control towers. It also happens that another species of paper wasp, Polistes dominula, can be a troublesome pest in cherry orchards and vineyards in the Pacific Northwest.
The European paper wasp Polistes dominula is a late-season pest of cherries. Photo courtesy of Duane Holder
Landolt’s experience with wasp attractants goes back to the late 1980s, when he worked for the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service in Gainesville, Florida. He had a project funded by the National Aeronautical and Space Administration to rid the space shuttle launch pad of swarming wasps. Paper wasps tend to aggregate in the fall around elevated structures, such as treetops, towers, and high-rise buildings. At Cape Kennedy, female wasps had aggregated to overwinter inside a mechanical room at the top of a 490-foot-high launch tower. Male wasps swarmed around the outside of the room to intercept the females and mate with them, and in the process were alarming employees working on the tower. This happened during a period when there had been a dearth of shuttle launches.
Before Landolt and his colleagues were able to find a solution, NASA launched a shuttle. Since the whole launch pad goes up in flames as a shuttle lifts off, the problem was solved.
More recently, Landolt has been working on a similar project for the U.S. Air Force, which has a wasp problem at its air traffic control towers. Wasps are attracted to the towers, which in the southeastern United States tend to be the tallest structures on the horizon. Landolt said the design of the towers makes it easy for wasps to find their way inside the towers and into the control rooms. For the most part, the wasps that get inside the tower are the females that sting.
“If you’ve got somebody at a panel watching radar of aircraft coming and going, coming and going, and they’ve got wasps crawling on them and walking across the screen, it can be unnerving,” he said.
Landolt said he and his colleagues have been working to develop a chemical attractant for those wasps so they can be trapped. Traps for yellowjackets, which he previously developed, don’t work well for paper wasps.
A breakthrough came a couple of years ago when Landolt learned that those wine and vinegar traps being used in the spotted wing drosophila tests in Mississippi were attracting large numbers of Polistes metricus and P. bellicosus paper wasps, even though they’d not been noticed flying around. This was intriguing, given the dearth of useful baits and attractants known for paper wasps. It was the first indication of a useful bait for trapping paper wasps.
Field tests at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia, Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina, and the University of Florida, Gainesville, confirmed that wine and vinegar baits attracted paper wasps.
However, in lab tests, when wasps were exposed to wine and vinegar separately, they preferred wine. They were attracted to ethanol (a major volatile of wine) and deterred by acetic acid (a major volatile of vinegar), which Landolt found somewhat surprising. Yellowjackets, which are related to paper wasps, are attracted to acetic acid combined with isobutanol.
The wasps’ orientation to fermented baits is likely to be food-finding behavior that they use in nature to locate fermented sweet materials. In the field, paper wasps feed on carbohydrate-rich foods such as fruit, sap, honeydew of sucking insects, and plant nectaries. As a sweet fruit product ages, it ferments first to alcohol and then to vinegar. Landolt said it could be that the paper wasp’s preference for alcohol matches up with its preference for natural food sources that have not aged too much.
Based on these results, Landolt and Cha worked in the lab to isolate and identify volatile chemicals in wine that are particularly attractive to the wasps and could be used as a lure. This spring, they sent out an experimental lure
containing a combination of volatiles that they identified to test on paper wasps in Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas, and South Carolina.
Meanwhile, the researchers have done lab tests with P. dominula, the species that attacks cherries and grapes in the Pacific Northwest, to find out how it reacts to wine and vinegar.
Landolt said P. dominula, known as the European paper wasp, is generally only a problem in small orchards or vineyards with nearby buildings that provide enclosed nesting places for the wasps. The insects commonly nest under eaves or within enclosed spaces such as in meter boxes, inside pipes, or between shakes.
“They generally don’t nest out in the field or orchard,” he said.
Paper wasps are not usually a big problem in cherries, other than in late districts, because the fruit is picked before populations explode in the late summer.
Landolt said P. dominula is often confused with yellowjackets, but the wasps need to be accurately identified because of paper wasps not being attracted to yellowjacket traps.
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Misty April 23, 2016 at 1:38 pm - Reply
But what kind of trap did they put the wine and vinegar in to catch the wasp…
Nova June 19, 2016 at 12:55 pm - Reply
“paper wasps feed on carbohydrate-rich foods such as fruit” – so use fruit as bait. Seems ridiculously obvious.
Larry Chaney February 12, 2017 at 11:03 am - Reply
What kind of trap did she use?
RainParader April 30, 2017 at 11:44 am - Reply
So, did it work? lol
Megan May 1, 2017 at 11:20 am - Reply
Thank you for addressing this. I noticed my wasp traps we’re catching the wrong kind of wasps, while the paper wasps congregated unscathed. I notice the subtle differences in outward characteristics. The ones that are a nuisance have reddish tipped antennas and feet, and when they fly, their butt and back legs hang significantly lower than their top half. I cannot seem to find a target trap for these waps. They keep trapping the non aggressive ones with yellow antennas and legs. I believe it is the paper wasp I’m trying to rid myself of.
Alex August 6, 2018 at 12:35 pm - Reply
You are describing the European paper wasp. Use Rescue Trapstiks wasp traps. Walmart sells them the cheapest. They are a visual trap and the only kind that have worked for those wasps.
Mary July 29, 2018 at 7:52 am - Reply
7-29-18. My problem is a little more delicate: the paper wasps are hanging around my hummingbird feeder, it’s been going on for weeks, and I haven’t found their new nest. I already found a 1.5 inch paper nest close to the ground in the back yard, and that was easy to solve: I just sprayed them with water plus Dawn from a dedicated houseplant sprayer bottle, then removed the nest, end of problem. I have a feeling the new nest is somewhere nearby that I haven’t found yet. Hummies get very upset by wasps and bees, there usually seems lately to be one or two wasps on my hummy feeder. It’s a “non-gravity-dependent” feeder, so it never drips and never attracts ants. So I must decide what will be more attractive to the paper wasps than the 4:1 nectar in the hummy feeder, but not interesting to the hummingbirds, and it has to be something that won’t attract the hummies… just the wasps. It’s the end of July, so something sweet is probably in order, rather than protein, according to this and other websites I’ve looked at. Hmmmm. What can I use to stick or trap wasps that won’t hurt curious hummingbirds. I don’t drink wine or alcohol, so that’s out. I don’t drink bottled juice or soda either, so I’ll need to go to the nearest city recycle bin and grab a few bottles. There’s probably going to be a learning curve for me, and meanwhile the hummies are fussing but still using my feeder. I just can’t seem to find the nest, I have a gut feeling it’s on my house somewhere. Dangit.
Meenu January 14, 2019 at 12:31 pm - Reply
Hi Mary, It is interesting to read your comment and your efforts to find something more attractive to paper wasps. Would you mind sharing if you find any alternative?
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Valletta Apartment
When researching places to stay in Malta we came across Valletta Vintage. The renovated apartments they rent are beautifully styled and unique, but usually quite expensive. But in the off season — including January — the prices are more reasonable, in line with a slightly-above-average Airbnb. So we went ahead and booked their “Retro Pad” apartment.
December 10, 2017 by Gary
Arrival in Granada
After three hours on a pretty comfortable ALSA bus, we arrived in Granada early on a cloudy Saturday afternoon.
Granada Rooftops
We took a taxi from the bus station up into the Albaicín neighbourhood where our hotel is located. Like Alfama in Lisbon and the Judería in Córdoba it’s a neighbourhood of steep hills and impossibly narrow winding cobblestone streets.
July 29, 2016 by Gary
A Steamy NYC Weekend
We braved the humidity, downpours and dripping air conditioners of New York City for an August long weekend getaway. We usually avoid summers in NYC, but we had the travel bug after our London and Iceland adventures and snagged a good summer rate at the Nolitan Hotel in Nolita near Soho.
We took things easy and spent a couple days mainly along the Upper and Lower East Sides of Manhattan.
Elizabeth Street Garden
One of our first stops after we checked into the hotel was the nearby Elizabeth Street Garden. This small park is an oasis filled with lush plantings and stone sculptures, located on the site of a former public school torn down in the 1970s.
May 16, 2016 by Gary
Arriving in London
We are staying in the Southwark/Bankside area of London, which is on the southern side of the Thames, about a ten-minute walk east of Waterloo Station. It’s a former industrial area that’s become trendy over the past few decades, but many signs of its grittier past remain, including numerous arched brick railway overpasses.
Southwark Railway Arch
We are staying at the CitizenM hotel, the London offshoot of an Amsterdam-based chain.
The CitizenM on Southwark Street
The hotel is very hip and modern with hi-tech rooms where all the lights, television, blinds, heat, wake-up alarms and other things are controlled via tablet app. There is a distinct lack of stuffiness, with efficient friendly service and minibar fridges stocked with free (non-alcoholic) beverages and snacks that are replenished each day.
NYC May 2007
This archival post was migrated from an old Facebook album, so please excuse the choppy writing and odd formatting.
Entrance to the Dakota apartments, where John Lennon was shot and Yoko Ono still lives.
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Automation Critical to Securing Code in an Agile, DevOps World
by Tobias Naegele | Jan 10, 2018 | Acquisiton, Analytics, Analytics GTW, Analytics GTW Spotlight, Citizen Services, Citizen Services gtw, Cyber GTW, Defense, Defense GTW, editorial, Enterprise, ep analytics, ep cyber, ep federal civilian, ep public safety, Federal Civilian, Federal Civilian GTW, Federal Civilian GTW Spotlight, GovTechWorks, Public Safety GTW Spotlight, Trends, Trends GTW | 0 comments
The world’s biggest hack might have happened to anyone. The same software flaw hackers exploited to expose 145 million identities in the Equifax database – most likely yours included – was also embedded in thousands of other computer systems belonging to all manner of businesses and government agencies.
The software in question was a commonly used open-source piece of Java code known as Apache Struts. The Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) discovered a flaw in that code and issued a warning March 8, detailing the risk posed by the flaw. Like many others, Equifax reviewed the warning and searched its systems for the affected code. Unfortunately, the Atlanta-based credit bureau failed to find it among the millions of lines of code in its systems. Hackers exploited the flaw three days later.
Open source and third-party software components like Apache Struts now make up between 80 and 90 percent of software produced today, says Derek Weeks, vice president and DevOps advocate at Sonatype. The company is a provider of security tools and manager of the world’s largest open source software collections The Central Repository. Programmers completed nearly 60 billion software downloads from the repository in 2017 alone.
“If you are a software developer in any federal agency today, you are very aware that you are using open-source and third-party [software] components in development today,” Weeks says. “The average organization is using 125,000 Java open source components – just Java alone. But organizations aren’t just developing in Java, they’re also developing in JavaScript, .Net, Python and other languages. So that number goes up by double or triple.”
Reusing software saves time and money. It’s also critical to supporting the rapid cycles favored by today’s Agile and DevOps methodologies. Yet while reuse promises time-tested code, it is not without risk: Weeks estimates one in 18 downloads from The Central Repository – 5.5 percent – contains a known vulnerability. Because it never deletes anything, the repository is a user-beware system. It’s up to software developers themselves – not the repository – to determine whether or not the software components they download are safe.
Manual Review or Automation?
Performing a manual, detailed security analysis of each open-source software component takes hours to ensure it is safe and free of vulnerabilities. That in turn, distracts from precious development time, undermining the intended efficiency of reusing code in the first place.
Tools from Sonatype, Black Duck of Burlington, Mass., and others automate most of that work. Sonatype’s Nexus Firewall for example, scans modules as they come into the development environment and stops them if they contain flaws. It also suggests alternative solutions, such as newer versions of the same components, that are safe. Development teams can employ a host of automated tools to simplify or speed other parts of the build, test and secure processes.
Some of these are commercial products, and others like the software itself, are open-source tools. For example, Jenkins is a popular open-source DevOps tool that helps developers quickly find and solve defects in their codebase. These tools focus on the reused code in a system; static analysis tools, like those from Veracode, focus on the critical custom code that glues that open-source software together into a working system.
“Automation is key to agile development,” says Matthew Zach, director of software engineering at General Dynamics Information Technology’s (GDIT) Health Solutions. “The tools now exist to automate everything: the builds, unit tests, functional testing, performance testing, penetration testing and more. Ensuring the code behind new functionality not only works, but is also secure, is critical. We need to know that the stuff we’re producing is of high quality and meets our standards, and we try to automate as much of these reviews as possible.”
But automated screening and testing is still far from universal. Some use it, others don’t. Weeks describes one large financial services firm that prided its software team’s rigorous governance process. Developers were required to ask permission from a security group before using open source components. The security team’s thorough reviews took about 12 weeks for new components and six to seven weeks for new versions of components already in use. Even so, officials estimated some 800 open source components had made it through those reviews, and were in use in their 2,000-plus deployed applications.
Then, Sonatype was invited to scan the firm’s deployed software. “We found more than 13,000 open source components were running in those 2,000 applications,” Weeks recalls. “It’s not hard to see what happened. You’ve got developers working on two-week sprints, so what do you think they’re going to do? The natural behavior is, ‘I’ve got a deadline, I have to meet it, I have to be productive.’ They can’t wait 12 weeks for another group to respond.”
Automation, he said, is the answer.
Integration and the Supply Chain
Building software today is a lot like building a car: Rather than manufacture every component, from the screws to the tires to the seat covers, manufacturers focus their efforts on the pieces that differentiate products and outsource the commodity pieces to suppliers.
Chris Wysopal, chief technology officer at Veracode, said the average software application today uses 46 ready-made components. Like Sonatype, Veracode offers a testing tool that scans components for known vulnerabilities; its test suite also includes a static analysis tool to spot problems in custom code and a dynamic analysis tool that tests software in real time.
As development cycles get shorter, the demand for automating features is increasing, Wysopal says. The five-year shift from waterfall to Agile, shortened typical development cycles from months to weeks. The advent of DevOps and continuous development accelerates that further, from weeks to days or even hours.
“We’re going through this transition ourselves. When we started Veracode 11 years ago, we were a waterfall company. We did four to 10 releases a year,” Wysopal says. “Then we went to Agile and did 12 releases a year and now we’re making the transition to DevOps, so we can deploy on a daily basis if we need or want to. What we see in most of our customers is fragmented methodologies: It might be 50 percent waterfall, 40 percent agile and 10 percent DevOps. So they want tools that can fit into that DevOps pipeline.”
A tool built for speed can support slower development cycles; the opposite, however, is not the case.
One way to enhance testing is to let developers know sooner that they may have a problem. Veracode is developing a product that will scan code as its written by running a scan every few seconds and alerting the developer as soon as a problem is spotted. This has two effects: First, to clean up problems more quickly, but second, to help train developers to avoid those problems in the first place. In that sense, it’s like spell check in a word processing program.
“It’s fundamentally changing security testing for a just-in-time programming environment,” Wysopal says.
Yet as powerful and valuable as automation is, these tools alone will not make you secure.
“Automation is extremely important,” he says. “Everyone who’s doing software should be doing automation. And then manual testing on top of that is needed for anyone who has higher security needs.” He puts the financial industry and government users into that category.
For government agencies that contract for most of their software, understanding what kinds of tools and processes their suppliers have in place to ensure software quality, is critical. That could mean hiring a third-party to do security testing on software when it’s delivered, or it could mean requiring systems integrators and development firms to demonstrate their security processes and procedures before software is accepted.
“In today’s Agile-driven environment, software vulnerability can be a major source of potential compromise to sprint cadences for some teams,” says GDIT’s Zach. “We can’t build a weeks-long manual test and evaluation cycle into Agile sprints. Automated testing is the only way we can validate the security of our code while still achieving consistent, frequent software delivery.”
According to Veracode’s State of Software Security 2017, 36 percent of the survey’s respondents do not run (or were unaware of) automated static analysis on their internally developed software. Nearly half never conduct dynamic testing in a runtime environment. Worst of all, 83 percent acknowledge releasing software before or resolving security issues.
“The bottom line is all software needs to be tested. The real question for teams is what ratio and types of testing will be automated and which will be manual,” Zach says. “By exploiting automation tools and practices in the right ways, we can deliver the best possible software, as rapidly and securely as possible, without compromising the overall mission of government agencies.”
Tobias Naegele has covered defense, military, and technology issues as an editor and reporter for more than 25 years, most of that time as editor-in-chief at Defense News and Military Times.
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Do Spectre, Meltdown Threaten Feds’ Rush to the Cloud?
by Tobias Naegele | Jan 24, 2018 | Analytics GTW, Analytics GTW Spotlight, Citizen Services, Citizen Services gtw, Cloud / Data Center, Cloud / Data Center GTW, Cyber, Cyber GTW, Cyber GTW Spotlight, Defense, Defense GTW, editorial, Enterprise, ep analytics, ep cyber, ep federal civilian, ep public safety, feb 2018, Federal Civilian, Federal Civilian GTW, Federal Civilian GTW Spotlight, GovTechWorks, Public Safety GTW Spotlight, Trends, Trends GTW | 0 comments
As industry responds to the Spectre and Meltdown cyber vulnerabilities, issuing microcode patches and restructuring the way high-performance microprocessors handle speculative execution, the broader fallout remains unclear: How will IT customers respond?
The realization that virtually every server installed over the past decade, along with millions of iPhones, laptops and other devices are exposed is one thing; the risk that hackers can exploit these techniques to leak passwords, encryption keys or other data across virtual security barriers in cloud-based systems, is another.
For a federal IT community racing to modernize, shut down legacy data centers and migrate government systems to the cloud, worries about data leaks raise new questions about the security of placing data in shared public clouds.
“It is likely that Meltdown and Spectre will reinforce concerns among those worried about moving to the cloud,” said Michael Daniel, president of the Cyber Threat Alliance who was a special assistant to President Obama and the National Security Council’s cybersecurity coordinator until January 2017.
“But the truth is that while those vulnerabilities do pose risks – and all clients of cloud service providers should be asking those providers how they intend to mitigate those risks – the case for moving to the cloud remains overwhelming. Overall, the benefits still far outweigh the risks.”
Adi Gadwale, chief enterprise architect for systems integrator General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), says the risks are greater in public cloud environments where users’ data and applications can be side by side with that of other, unrelated users. “Most government entities use a government community cloud where there are additional controls and safeguards and the only other customers are public sector entities,” he says. “This development does bring out some of the deepest cloud fears, but the vulnerability is still in the theoretical stage. It’s important not to overreact.”
How Spectre and Meltdown Work
Spectre and Meltdown both take advantage of speculative execution, a technique designed to speed up computer processing by allowing a processor to start executing instructions before completing the security checks necessary to ensure the action is allowed, Gadwale says.
“Imagine we’re in a track race with many participants,” he explains. “The gun goes off, and some runners start too quickly, just before the gun goes off. We have two options: Stop the runners, review the tapes and disqualify the early starters, which might be the right thing to do but would be tedious. Or let the race complete and then afterward, discard the false starts.
“Speculative execution is similar,” Gadwale continues. “Rather than leave the processor idle, operations are completed while memory and security checks happen in parallel. If the process is allowed, you’ve gained speed; if the security check fails, the operation is discarded.”
This is where Spectre and Meltdown come in. By executing code speculatively and then exploiting what happens by means of shared memory mapping, hackers can get a sneak peek into system processes, potentially exposing very sensitive data.
“Every time the processor discards an inappropriate action, the timing and other indirect signals can be exploited to discover memory information that should have been inaccessible,” Gadwale says. “Meltdown exposes kernel data to regular user programs. Spectre allows programs to spy on other programs, the operating system and on shared programs from other customers running in a cloud environment.”
The technique was exposed by a number of different research groups all at once, including Jann Horn, a researcher with Google’s Project Zero, at Cyberus Technology, Graz University of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Maryland and the University of Adelaide.
The fact that so many researchers were researching the same vulnerability at once – studying a technique that has been in use for nearly 20 years – “raises the question of who else might have found the attacks before them – and who might have secretly used them for spying, potentially for years,” writes Andy Greenberg in Wired. But speculation that the National Security Agency might have utilized the technique was shot down last week when former NSA offensive cyber chief Rob Joyce (Daniel’s successor as White House cybersecurity coordinator) said NSA would not have risked keeping hidden such a major flaw affecting virtually every Intel processor made in the past 20 years.
The Vulnerability Notes Database operated by the CERT Division of the Software Engineering Institute, a federally funded research and development center at Carnegie Mellon University sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security, calls Spectre and Meltdown “cache side-channel attacks.” CERT explains that Spectre takes advantage of a CPU’s branch prediction capabilities. When a branch is incorrectly predicted, the speculatively executed instructions will be discarded, and the direct side-effects of the instructions are undone. “What is not undone are the indirect side-effects, such as CPU cache changes,” CERT explains. “By measuring latency of memory access operations, the cache can be used to extract values from speculatively-executed instructions.”
Meltdown, on the other hand, leverages an ability to execute instructions out of their intended order to maximize available processor time. If an out-of-order instruction is ultimately disallowed, the processor negates those steps. But the results of those failed instructions persist in cache, providing a hacker access to valuable system information.
Emerging Threat
It’s important to understand that there are no verified instances where hackers actually used either technique. But with awareness spreading fast, vendors and operators are moving as quickly as possible to shut both techniques down.
“Two weeks ago, very few people knew about the problem,” says CTA’s Daniel. “Going forward, it’s now one of the vulnerabilities that organizations have to address in their IT systems. When thinking about your cyber risk management, your plans and processes have to account for the fact that these kinds of vulnerabilities will emerge from time to time and therefore you need a repeatable methodology for how you will review and deal with them when they happen.”
The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, part of the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team, advises close consultation with product vendors and support contractors as updates and defenses evolve.
“In the case of Spectre,” it warns, “the vulnerability exists in CPU architecture rather than in software, and is not easily patched; however, this vulnerability is more difficult to exploit.”
Vendors Weigh In
Closing up the vulnerabilities will impact system performance, with estimates varying depending on the processor, operating system and applications in use. Intel reported Jan. 10 that performance hits were relatively modest – between 0 and 8 percent – for desktop and mobile systems running Windows 7 and Windows 10. Less clear is the impact on server performance.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recommends customers patch their instance operating systems to prevent the possibility of software running within the same instance leaking data from one application to another.
Apple sees Meltdown as a more likely threat and said its mitigations, issued in December, did not affect performance. It said Spectre exploits would be extremely difficult to execute on its products, but could potentially leverage JavaScript running on a web browser to access kernel memory. Updates to the Safari browser to mitigate against such threats had minimal performance impacts, the company said.
GDIT’s Gadwale said performance penalties may be short lived, as cloud vendors and chipmakers respond with hardware investments and engineering changes. “Servers and enterprise class software will take a harder performance hit than desktop and end-user software,” he says. “My advice is to pay more attention to datacenter equipment. Those planning on large investments in server infrastructure in the next few months should get answers to difficult questions, like whether buying new equipment now versus waiting will leave you stuck with previous-generation technology. Pay attention: If the price your vendor is offering is too good to be true, check the chipset!”
Bypassing Conventional Security
The most ominous element of the Spectre and Meltdown attack vectors is that they bypass conventional cybersecurity approaches. Because the exploits don’t have to successfully execute code, the hackers’ tracks are harder to exploit.
Says CTA’s Daniel: “In many cases, companies won’t be able to take the performance degradation that would come from eliminating speculative processing. So the industry needs to come with other ways to protect against that risk.” That means developing ways to “detect someone using the Spectre exploit or block the exfiltration of information gleaned from using the exploit,” he added.
Longer term, Daniel suggested that these latest exploits could be a catalyst for moving to a whole different kind of processor architecture. “From a systemic stand-point,” he said, “both Meltdown and Spectre point to the need to move away from the x86 architecture that still undergirds most chips, to a new, more secure architecture.”
The ABCs of 2018 Federal IT Modernization: I to Z
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In part two of GovTechWorks’ analysis of the Trump Administration’s federal IT modernization plan, we examine the likely guiding impact of the Office of Management and Budget, the manner in which agencies’ infrastructures might change, and the fate of expensive legacy systems.
The White House IT modernization plan released in December seeks a rapid overhaul of IT infrastructure across federal civilian agencies, with an emphasis on redefining the government’s approach to managing its networks and securing its data. Here, in this second part of our two-part analysis, is what you need to know from I to Z (for A-H, click here):
I is for Infrastructure
Modernization boils down to three things: Infrastructure, applications and security. Imagine if every government agency managed its own telephone network or international logistics office, rather than outsourcing such services. IT services are essentially the same. Agencies still need expertise to connect to those services – they still have telecom experts and mail room staff – but they don’t have to manage the entire process.
Special exceptions will always exist for certain military, intelligence (or other specialized) requirements. Increasingly, IT services are becoming commodity services purchased on the open market. Rather than having to own, manage and maintain all that infrastructure, agencies will increasingly buy infrastructure as a service (IaaS) in the cloud — netting faster, perpetually maintained and updated equipment at a lower cost. To bring maximum value – and savings – out of those services, they’ll have to invest in integration and support services to ensure their systems are not only cost effective, but also secure.
J is for JAB, the Joint Authorization Board
The JAB combines expertise at General Services Administration (GSA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Defense (DOD). It issues preliminary authority to operate (ATO) for widely used cloud services. The JAB will have a definitive role in prioritizing and approving commercial cloud offerings for the highest-risk federal systems.
K is for Keys
The ultimate solution for scanning encrypted data for potential malicious activity is to unencrypt that data for a thorough examination. This involves first having access to encryption keys for federal data and then, securing those keys to ensure they don’t get in the wrong hands. In short, these keys are key to the federal strategy of securing both government data and government networks.
L is for Legacy
The government still spends 70 percent of its IT budget managing legacy systems. That’s down from as much as 85 percent a few years ago, but still too much. In a world where volumes of data continue to expand exponentially and the cost of computer processing power continues to plunge, how long can we afford overspending on last year’s (or last decade’s) aging (and less secure) technology.
M is for Monopsony
A monopoly occurs when one source controls the supply of a given product, service or commodity. A monopsony occurs when a single customer controls the consumption of products, services or commodities. In a classical monopsony, the sole customer dictates terms to all sellers.
Despite its size, the federal government cannot dictate terms to information technology vendors. It can consolidate its purchasing power to increase leverage, and that’s exactly what the government will do in coming years. The process begins with networking services as agencies transition from the old Networx contract to the new Enterprise Information Services vehicle.
Look for it to continue as agencies consolidate purchasing power for commodity software services, such as email, continuous monitoring and collaboration software.
The government may not ultimately wield the full market power of a monopsony, but it can leverage greater negotiating power by centralizing decision making and consolidating purchase and licensing agreements. Look for that to increase significantly in the years ahead.
N is for Networks
Networks used to be the crown jewels of the government’s information enterprise, providing the glue that held systems together and enabling the government to operate. But if the past few years proved anything, it’s that you can’t keep the bad guys out. They’re already in, looking around, waiting for an opportunity.
Networks are essential infrastructure, but will increasingly be virtualized in the future, exist in software and protect encrypted data travelling on commercial fiber and stored much of the time, in commercial data centers (generically referred to as the cloud). You may not keep the bad guys out, but you can control what they get access to.
O is for OMB
The Office of Management and Budget has oversight over much of the modernization plan. The agency is mentioned 127 times in the White House plan, including 47 times in its 50 recommendations. OMB will either be the responsible party or the receiving party, for work done by others on 34 of those 50 recommendations.
P is for Prioritization
Given the vast number of technical, manpower and security challenges that weigh down modernization efforts, prioritizing programs that can deliver the greatest payoff, are essential. In addition, agencies are expected to prioritize and focus their modernization efforts on high-value assets that pose the greatest vulnerabilities and risks. From those lists, by June 30, the DHS must identify six to receive centralized interventions that include staffing and technical support.
The aim is to prioritize where new investment, talent infusions and security policies will make the greatest difference. To maximize that effort, DHS may choose projects that can expand to include other systems and agencies.
OMB must also review and prioritize any impediments to modernization and cloud adoption.
Q is for Quick Start
Technology is not often the most complicated part of many modernization efforts. Finding a viable acquisition strategy that won’t put yesterday’s technology in the government’s hands tomorrow, is often harder. That’s why the report directs OMB to assemble an Acquisition Tiger Team to develop a “quick start” acquisition package to help agencies more quickly license technology and migrate to the cloud.
The aim: combine market research, acquisition plans, readily identified sources and templates for both requests for quotes (RFQs) and Independent Government Cost Estimate (IGCE) calculations — which would be based on completed acquisitions. The tiger team will also help identify qualified small and disadvantaged businesses to help agencies meet set-aside requirements.
R is for Recommendations
There are 50 recommendations in the White House IT modernization report with deadlines ranging from February to August, making the year ahead a busy one for OMB, DHS and GSA, the three agencies responsible for most of the work. A complete list of the recommendations is available here.
T is for the TIC
The federal government developed the Trusted Internet Connection as a means of controlling the number of on and off ramps between government networks and the largely unregulated internet. But in a world now dominated by cloud-based software applications, remote cloud data centers, mobile computing platforms and web-based interfaces that may access multiple different systems to deliver information in context, the TIC needs to be rethought.
“The piece that we struggled with is the Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) initiative – that is a model that has to mature and get solved,” former Federal CIO Tony Scott told Federal News Radio. “It’s an old construct that is applied to modern-day cloud that doesn’t work. It causes performance, cost and latency issues. So the call to double down and sort that out is important. There has been a lot of good work that has happened, but the definitive solution has not been figured out yet.”
The TIC policy is the heart and soul of the government’s perimeter-based security model. Already, some agencies chose to bypass the TIC for certain cloud-based services, such as for Office 365, trusting Microsoft’s security and recognizing that if all that data had to go through an agency’s TIC, performance would suffer.
To modernize TIC capabilities, policies, reference architectures and associated cloud security authorization baselines, OMB must update TIC policies so agencies have a clear path forward to build out data-level protections and more quickly migrate to commercial cloud solutions. A 90-day sprint is to begin in mid-February, during which projects approved by OMB will pilot proposed changes in TIC requirements.
OMB must determine whether all data traveling to and from agency information systems hosted by commercial cloud providers warrants scanning by DHS, or whether only some information needs to be scanned. Other considerations under review: Expanding the number of TIC access points in each agency and a model for determining how best to implement intrusion detection and prevention capabilities into cloud services.
U is for Updating the Federal Cloud Computing Strategy
The government’s “Cloud First” policy is now seven years old. Updates are in order. By April 15, OMB must provide additional guidance on both appropriate use cases and operational security for cloud environments. All relevant policies on cloud migration, infrastructure consolidation and shared services will be reviewed.
In addition, OMB has until June to develop standardized contract language for cloud acquisition, including clauses that define consistent requirements for security, privacy and access to data. Establishing uniform contract language will make it easier to compare and broker cloud offerings and ensure government requirements are met.
V is for Verification
Verification or authentication of users’ identities is at the heart of protecting government information. Are you who you say you are? Key to securing information systems is ensuring that access is granted to only users who can be identified and verified as deserving access.
OMB has until March 1 to issue for public comment new identity policy guidance and to recommend identity service areas suitable for shared services. GSA must provide a business case for consolidating existing identity services to improve usability and drive secure access and enable cloud-based collaboration service that will enhance the ability to easily share and collaborate across agencies, which can be cumbersome today.
W, X, Y, Z is for Wrapping it All Up
The Federal Government is shifting to a consolidated IT model that will change the nature of IT departments and the services they buy. Centralized offerings for commodity IT – whether email, office tools and other common software-as-a-service offerings or virtual desktops and web hosting – will be the norm. As much as possible, the objective is to get agencies on the same page, using the same security services, the same collaboration services, the same data services and make those common (or in some cases shared) across multiple agencies.
Doing so promises to reduce needed manpower and licensing costs by eliminating duplication of effort and increased market leverage to drive down prices. But getting there will not be easy. Integration and security pose unique challenges in a government context, requiring skill, experience and specific expertise. On the government side, policy updates will only solve some of the challenges. Acquisition regulations must also be updated to support wider adoption of commercial cloud products.
Some agencies will need more help than others. Cultural barriers will continue to be major hurdles. Inevitably, staff will have to develop new skills as old ones disappear. Yet even in the midst of all that upheaval, some things don’t change. “In the end, IT modernization is really all about supporting the mission,” says Stan Tyliszczak, chief engineer at systems integrator General Dynamics Information Technology. “It’s about helping government employees complete their work, protecting the privacy of our citizens and ensuring both have timely access to the information and services they need. IT has always made those things better and easier, and modernization is only necessary to continue that process. That much never changes.”
The ABCs of 2018 Federal IT Modernization: A to H
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The White House issued its IT modernization plan last December and followed it with an ambitious program that could become a proving ground for rapidly overhauling IT infrastructure, data access and customer service. After years of talking about IT modernization, cybersecurity and migration to the cloud, federal agencies are now poised to ramp up the action.
Here, in A-B-C form, is what you need to know from A to H:
A is for Agriculture
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will be a sort of proving ground for implementing the Trump administration’s vision for the future high-tech, high-performance, customer-satisfying government. USDA announced in December 2017 it will collapse 39 data centers into one (plus a backup), and consolidate 22 independent chief information officers under a single CIO with seven deputies. The aim: reinvent the agency as a modern, customer-centered organization and provide its leaders with instant access to a wealth of agency data.
B is for Better Citizen Services
“It is imperative for the federal government to leverage … innovations to provide better service for its citizens in the most cost-effective and secure manner,” the report states – in just its third sentence. Yes, modernization should ultimately save money by reducing the billions spent to keep aging systems operational. And yes, it should help overcome the patchwork of cybersecurity point solutions now used to protect federal networks, systems and data.
USDA Secretary Sonny Purdue’s experience modernizing government IT during two terms as governor of Georgia from 2003-2010 convinced him he could achieve similar results on the federal level. “He really saw, in reinventing Georgia government, how IT modernization and delivering better customer service benefitted not only employees, but the people of the state,” Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Steve Censky said in a TV interview.
Among the agency’s goals: Increase access to information throughout the agency by means of online service portals and advanced application program interfaces.
C is for Centers of Excellence
USDA won’t be going it alone. Under the direction of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the agency will be the first to engage with a new set of experts at the General Services Administration (GSA). GSA is on an accelerated course to create five Centers of Excellence, leveraging both public and private sector expertise to develop best practices and standards that agencies can use for:
Cloud adoption
Service delivery analytics
Jack Wilmer, White House senior advisor for Cybersecurity and IT Modernization, says the idea is to provide each agency’s modernization effort with the same core concepts and approach – and the best available experts. “We’re trying to leverage private sector expertise, bringing them in a centralized fashion, making them available to government agencies as they modernize,” he told Government Matters.
While GSA planned to award contracts to industry partners by the end of January – just 45 days after its initial solicitation – by March 5, no contracts had been awarded. Phase 1 contracts for assessment, planning and some initial activities should be finalized soon. Phase 2 awards for cloud migration, infrastructure optimization and customer experience are expected by the end of the year, Joanne Collins Smee, acting director of GSA’s Technology Transformation Service and deputy commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service, said at a March 1 AFCEA event in Washington, D.C.
D is for Data Centers
While all data centers won’t close down, many more will soon disappear. Modernization is about getting the government out of the business of managing big infrastructure investments and instead, to leverage commercial cloud infrastructure and technology wherever possible. But don’t think your agency’s data won’t be in a data center somewhere.
“What is the cloud, anyway? Isn’t it really someone else’s data center, available on demand?” says Stan Tyliszczak, chief engineer at systems integrator General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT). “Moving to the cloud means getting out of the business of running that data center yourself.”
The White House splits its cloud strategy into two buckets:
“Bring the government to the cloud.” Put government data and applications in privately-owned and operated infrastructure, where it is protected through encryption and other security technologies. This is public cloud, where government data sits side by side with private data in third-party data centers.
“Bring the cloud to the government.” Putting government data and applications on vendor-owned infrastructure, but located in government-owned facilities, as the Intelligence Community Information Technology Enterprise (IC ITE) does with the IC’s Commercial Cloud Services (C2S) contract with Amazon Web Services.
Figuring out what makes sense when, depends on your use case and for most agencies, will mean a combination of on premise solutions, shared government services and commercial services in public clouds. “That’s the Hybrid cloud model everyone’s talking about. But it’s not a trivial exercise. Melding those together is the challenge,” Tyliszczak says. “That’s what integrators are for.”
E is for Encryption
Government cybersecurity efforts have historically focused on defending the network and its perimeter, rather than the data that travels on that network. As cloud services are integrated into conventional on premise IT solutions, securing the data has become essential. At least 47 percent of federal network traffic is encrypted today – frustrating agency efforts to monitor what’s crossing network perimeters.
“Rather than treating Federal networks as trusted entities to be defended at the perimeter,” the modernization report advised, “agencies should shift their focus to placing security protections closer to data.”
To do that, the government must improve the way it authenticates devices and users on its networks, securing who has access and how, and encrypting data both at rest and in transit.
“Now you’re starting to obfuscate whether your sensors can actually inspect the content of that data,” notes Eric White, Cybersecurity program director at GDIT’s Health and Civilian Solutions Division. “Because it’s now encrypted, you add another layer of complexity to know for sure whether it’s the good guys or the bad guys moving data in and out of your network.”
White notes that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is charged with solving this encryption dilemma, balancing the millions of dollars in investment in high-end network-monitoring sensors, such as those associated with the Einstein program, against protecting individual privacy. Enabling those sensors to see through or decipher encrypted data without undermining the security of the data – or the privacy of individuals – is a critical priority. DHS has commissioned research to develop potential solutions, including virtualizing sensors for cloud environments; relocating sensors to the endpoints of encrypted tunnels; creating man-in-the-middle solutions that intercept data in motion; or providing the sensors with decryption keys.
F is for FedRAMP
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) remains the critical process for ensuring private-sector cloud offerings meet government security requirements. Look for updates to FedRAMP baselines that could allow tailoring of security controls for low-risk systems, address new approaches to integrated cloud services with federal Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) services and consider common features or capabilities that could be incorporated into higher-risk systems with FedRAMP “high” baselines.
Importantly, the report directs the General Services Administration (GSA), which manages FedRAMP, to come up with new solutions that make it easier for a software-as-a-service (SaaS) products already authorized for use in one agency to be accepted for use in another. Making the process for issuing an authority to operate (ATO) faster and easier to reuse has long been a goal of both cloud providers and government customers. This is particularly critical for shared services, in which one agency provides its approved commercial solution to another agency.
G is for GSA
Already powerfully influential as a buyer and developer for other agencies, GSA stands to become even more influential as the government moves to consolidate networks and other IT services into fewer contracts and licensing agreements, and to increase the commonality of solutions across the government.
This is especially true among smaller agencies that lack the resources, scale and expertise to effectively procure and manage their own IT services.
H is for Homeland Security
DHS is responsible for the overall cybersecurity of all federal government systems. The only federal entity mentioned more frequently in the White House modernization report is the Office of Management and Budget, which is the White House agency responsible for implementing the report’s guidance.
DHS was mandated to issue a report by Feb. 15, identifying the common weaknesses of the government’s highest-value IT assets and recommend solutions for reducing risk and vulnerability government-wide. By May 15, the agency must produce a prioritized list of systems “for government-wide intervention” and will provide a host of advisory and support services to help secure government systems. DHS also owns and manages the National Cybersecurity Protection System (NCPS) and the EINSTEIN sensor suites that capture and analyze network flow, detect intruders and scan the data coming in and out of government systems to identify potentially malicious activity and, in the case of email, blocking and filtering threatening content.
Look for next week’s edition of GovTechWorks for Part 2: Modernization from I to Z. In Part 2, we outline how infrastructure among government agencies will be impacted and streamlined by modernization, as well as discuss the fate of legacy systems and their maintenance budgets, and the major role the Office of Management and Budget will play in overall implementation.
Next week: Part 2, Modernization I-Z.
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Peter Kim, chief information security officer (CISO) for the U.S. Air Force, calls himself Dr. Doom. Lauren Knausenberger, director of cyberspace innovation for the Air Force, is his opposite. Where he sees trouble, she sees opportunity. Where he sees reasons to say no, she seeks ways to change the question.
For Kim, the dialogue they’ve shared since Knausenberger left her job atop a private sector tech consultancy to join the Air Force, has been transformational.
“I have gone into a kind of rehab for cybersecurity pros,” he says. “I’ve had to admit I have a problem: I can’t lock everything down.” He knows. He’s tried.
The two engage constantly, debating and questioning whether decisions and steps designed to protect Air Force systems and data are having their intended effect, they said, sharing a dais during a recent AFCEA cybersecurity event in Crystal City. “Are the things we’re doing actually making us more secure or just generating a lot of paperwork?” asks Knausenberger. “We are trying to turn everything on its head.”
As for Kim, she added, “Pete’s doing really well on his rehab program.”
One way Knausenberger has turned Kim’s head has been her approach to security certification packages for new software. Instead of developing massive cert packages for every program – documentation that’s hundreds of pages thick and unlikely to every be read – she wants the Air Force to certify the processes used to develop software, rather than the programs.
“Why don’t we think about software like meat at the grocery?” she asked. “USDA doesn’t look at every individual piece of meat… Our goal is to certify the factory, not the program.”
Similarly, Knausenberger says the Air Force is trying now to apply similar requirements to acquisition contracts, accepting the idea that since finding software vulnerabilities is inevitable, it’s best to have a plan for fixing them rather than hoping to regulate them out of existence. “So you might start seeing language that says, ‘You need to fix vulnerabilities within 10 days.’ Or perhaps we may have to pay bug bounties,” she says. “We know nothing is going to be perfect and we need to accept that. But we also need to start putting a level of commercial expectation into our programs.”
Combining development, security and operations into an integrated process – DevSecOps, in industry parlance – is the new name of the game, they argue together. The aim: Build security in during development, rather than bolting it on at the end.
The takeaways from the “Hack-the-Air-Force” bug bounty programs run so far, in that every such effort yields new vulnerabilities – and that thousands of pages of certification didn’t prevent them. As computer power becomes less costly and automation gets easier, hackers can be expected to use artificial intelligence to break through security barriers.
Continuous automated testing is the only way to combat their persistent threat, Kim said.
Michael Baker, CISO at systems integrator, General Dynamics Information Technology, agrees. “The best way to find the vulnerabilities – is to continuously monitor your environment and challenge your assumptions, he says. “Hackers already use automated tools and the latest vulnerabilities to exploit systems. We have to beat them to it – finding and patching those vulnerabilities before they can exploit them. Robust and assured endpoint protection, combined with continuous, automated testing to find vulnerabilities and exploits, is the only way to do that.”
I think we ought to get moving on automated security testing and penetration,” Kim added. “The days of RMF [risk management framework] packages are past. They’re dinosaurs. We’ve got to get to a different way of addressing security controls and the RMF process.”
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The Defense Department Military Health System Genesis electronic health records (EHR) system went live last October at Madigan Army Medical Center (Wash.), the biggest step so far in modernizing DOD’s vast MHS with a proven commercial solution. Now comes the hard part: Tying that system in with operational medicine for deployed troops around the globe.
War zones, ships at sea and aeromedical evacuations each present a new set of challenges for digital health records. Front-line units lack the bandwidth and digital infrastructure to enable cloud-based health systems like MHS Genesis. Indeed, when bandwidth is constrained, health data ranks last on the priority list, falling below command and control, intelligence and other mission data.
The Joint Operational Medicine Information Systems (JOMIS) program office oversees DOD’s operational medicine initiatives, including the legacy Theater Medical Information Program – Joint system used in today’s operational theaters of Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as aboard ships and in other remote locales.
“One of the biggest pain points we have right now is the issue of moving data from the various roles of care, from the first responder [in the war zone] to the First Aid station to something like Landstuhl (Germany) Regional Medical Center, to something in the U.S.,” Navy Capt. Dr. James Andrew Ellzy told GovTechWorks. He is deputy program executive officer (functional) for JOMIS, under the Program Executive Office, Defense Healthcare Management Systems (PEO DHMS).
PEO DHMS defines four stages or “roles,” once a patient begins to receive care. Role One is for first responders; Role Two: Forward resuscitative care; Role Three: Theater hospitals; and Role Four: Service-based medical facilities.
“Most of those early roles right now, are still using paper records,” Ellzy said. Electronic documentation begins once medical operators are in an established location. “Good records usually start the first place that has a concrete slab.”
Among the changes MHS Genesis will bring is consolidation. The legacy AHLTA (Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application – Theater) solution and its heavily modified theater-level variant AHLTA-T, incorporate separate systems for inpatient and outpatient support.
MHS Genesis however, will provide a single record regardless of patient status.
For deployed medical units, that’s important. Set up and maintenance for AHLTA’s outpatient records and the Joint Composite Health Care System have always been challenging.
“In order to set up the system, you have to have the technical skillset to initialize and sustain these systems,” said Ryan Loving, director of Health IT Solutions for military health services and the VA at General Dynamics Information Technology’s (GDIT) Health and Civilian Solutions Division. “This is a bigger problem for the Army than the other services, because the system is neither operated nor maintained until they go downrange. As a result, they lack the experience to be experts in setup and sustainment.”
JOMIS’ ultimate goal according to Stacy A. Cummings, who heads PEO DHMS, is to provide a virtually seamless representation of MHS Genesis deployed locations.
“For the first time, we’re bringing together inpatient and outpatient, medical and dental records, so we’re going to have a single integrated record for the military health system,” Cummings said at the HIMSS 2018 health IT conference in March. Last year, she told Government CIO magazine, “We are configuring the same exact tool for low-and no-communications environments.”
Therein lies the challenge, said GDIT’s Loving. “Genesis wasn’t designed for this kind of austere environment. Adapting to the unique demands of operational medicine will require a lot of collaboration with military health, with service-specific tactical networks, and an intimate understanding of those network environments today and where they’re headed in the future.”
Operating on the tactical edge – whether doing command and control or sharing medical data – is probably the hardest problem to solve, said Tom Sasala, director of the Army Architecture Integration Center and the service’s Chief Data Officer. “The difference between the enterprise environment and the tactical environment, when it comes to some of the more modern technologies like cloud, is that most modern technologies rely on an always-on, low-latency network connection. That simply doesn’t exist in a large portion of the world – and it certainly doesn’t exist in a large portion of the Army’s enterprise.”
Military units deploy into war zones and disaster zones where commercial connectivity is either highly compromised or non-existent. Satellite connectivity is limited at best. “Our challenge is how do we find commercial solutions that we cannot just adopt, but [can] adapt for our special purposes,” Sasala said.
MHS Genesis is like any modern cloud solution in that regard. In fact, it’s based on Cerner Millennium, a popular commercial EHR platform. So while it may be perfect for garrison hospitals and clinics – and ideal for sharing medical records with other agencies, civilian hospitals and health providers – the military’s operational requirements present unique circumstances unimagined by the original system’s architects.
Ellzy acknowledges the concern. “There’s only so much bandwidth,” he said. “So if medical is taking some of it, that means the operators don’t have as much. So how do we work with the operators to get that bandwidth to move the data back and forth?”
Indeed, the bandwidth and latency standards available via satellite links weren’t designed for such systems, nor fast enough to accommodate their requirements. More important, when bandwidth is constrained, military systems must line up for access, and health data is literally last on the priority list. Even ideas like using telemedicine in forward locations aren’t viable. “That works well in a hospital where you have all the connectivity you need,” Sasala said. “But it won’t work so well in an austere environment with limited connectivity.”
The legacy AHLTA-T system has a store-and-forward capability that allows local storage while connectivity is constrained or unavailable, with data forwarded to a central database once it’s back online. Delays mean documentation may not be available at subsequent locations when patients are moved from one level of care to the next.
The challenge for JOMIS will be to find a way to work in theater and then connect and share saved data while overcoming the basic functional challenges that threaten to undermine the system in forward locations.
“I’ll want the ability to go off the network for a period of time,” Ellzy said, “for whatever reason, whether I’m in a place where there isn’t a network, or my network goes down or I’m on a submarine and can’t actually send information out.”
AHLTA-T manages the constrained or disconnected network situation by allowing the system to operate on a stand-alone computer (or network configuration) at field locations, relying on built-in store-and-forward functionality to save medical data locally until it can be forwarded to the Theater Medical Data Store and Clinical Data Repository. There, it can be accessed by authorized medical personnel worldwide.
Engineering a comparable JOMIS solution will be complex and involve working around and within the MHS Genesis architecture, leveraging innovative warfighter IT infrastructure wherever possible. “We have to adapt Genesis to the store-and-forward architecture without compromising the basic functionality it provides,” said GDIT’s Loving.
Ellzy acknowledges compromises necessary to make AHLTA-T work, led to unintended consequences.
“When you look at the legacy AHLTA versus the AHLTA-T, there are some significant differences,” he said. Extra training is necessary to use the combat theater version. That shouldn’t be the case with JOMIS. “The desire with Genesis,” Ellzy said, “is that medical personnel will need significantly less training – if any – as they move from the garrison to the deployed setting.”
Reporter Jon Anderson contributed to this report.
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IndyCar driver Wickens flown to hospital after scary crash
IndyCar said Wickens was awake and alert as he was taken to a hospital
Canadian IndyCar driver Robert Wickens was taken by helicopter for medical treatment following a violent wreck at the start of Sunday’s race at Pocono Raceway, where a driver was killed in 2015.
IndyCar said Wickens was awake and alert as he was taken to a hospital. The 29-year-old driver from Guelph, Ont. was attempting to pass Ryan Hunter-Reay when the two cars slightly touched. That caused Hunter-Reay’s car to careen into the wall and Wickens’ car was pulled along for the ride. Once Wickens’ car soared over Hunter-Reay’s and hit the fence, it spun round and round like a top. The fencing was shredded and Wickens’ car was reduced to just the tub, which came to a rest on the track along an interior wall.
Medical workers calmly attended to Wickens, who was taken to an ambulance before he was transported to the helicopter. The impact of the wreck tore out a large section of fencing that IndyCar said would take at least one hour to repair. The race was red flagged and drivers were allowed out of their cars.
Justin Wilson died from a head injury in 2015 when a piece of debris from a crashed car bounced off the track at Pocono Raceway and hit his helmet.
Hunter-Reay, James Hinchcliffe, Pietro Fittipaldi and Takuma Sato were among the drivers collected in Sunday’s wreck. Hinchcliffe, of Oakville, Ont., seemed to be in pain, grabbing his wrists as he slowly left his car. Hinchcliffe was cleared and released from the medical centre. He declined to comment to reporters out of respect for Wickens.
“That’s the worst thing you can see. He’s hurt. He’s awake and alert and at least he’s alive,” driver Sebastien Bourdais said.
Fittipaldi later tweeted : “Thank god I am fine and walking away from that accident. Praying for you @robertwickens, I hope you’re ok.”
The race was delayed nearly two hours and only eight laps in the 500-mile race had been completed because of Wickens’ crash and another accident right before green. Graham Rahal got into the back of Spencer Pigot before the race even got to green. Pigot spun and hit the wall.
“We can only hope one thing, that Robbie, Hinch and everyone involved is ok,” Rahal tweeted during the delay. “These are the dangers we face, but we always hate to see it. The start can be debated for years, but doesn’t matter right now, focus on the well being of our friends and competitors.”
Pocono Raceway president Ben May said about 80 feet of fence and a few posts were damaged in the wreck. Bourdais raised concerns about the quality of the repairs and condition of the fence before he got back in the car.
“It may not be the prettiest job but it’s going to be safe,” May said.
Hinchcliffe is a team teammate of Wickens on the all-Canadian team. The two raced each other as youngsters in Toronto and Hinchcliffe, runner-up on ABC’s “Dancing With The Stars” in 2017, helped lure Wickens to IndyCar this season after a successful career in Europe.
The crash was a grim reminder how drivers in open-wheel racing put their lives on the line.
Hinchcliffe survived his own life-threatening injury when a broken part from his car pierced an artery during a 2015 crash at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Hinchcliffe would have bled to death if not for the medical team holding the artery together as it raced him from the track directly to a hospital.
A year earlier, Hinchcliffe suffered a concussion when he was hit in the helmet by a piece of debris on the road course at Indianapolis.
Wickens had reeled off five straight top-five finishes and matched a career-best second in the last race at Mid-Ohio.
Fittipaldi had just returned from a lengthy layoff because of two broken legs suffered in Europe. Team owner Dale Coyne said Fittipaldi had a sore ankle and did not believe it was broken again.
AP Auto Racing Writer Jenna Fryer contributed to this report.
Dan Gelston, The Associated Press
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Qatar to end Barcelona sponsorship with Doha friendly
Barcelona play Saudi champions Al-Ahli in a friendly in Doha on Tuesday, the Spanish club’s last major obligation of its four year shirt sponsorship deal with Qatar Airways.
football Updated: Dec 12, 2016 22:59 IST
Barcelona stars including Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luiz Suarez -- all of who have featured in Qatar Airways’ adverts -- are in Doha and are expected to play some, if not all of the friendly match.(Getty Images)
Stars including Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luiz Suarez -- all of who have featured in Qatar Airways’ adverts -- are in Doha and are expected to play some, if not all of the match.
It is an extremely rare chance for Gulf fans to see some of the biggest names in world football, at least before the 2022 World Cup, and brought about because of the Gulf carrier’s sponsorship deal with Barcelona.
“It has been very successful for us, you know that we were part of Barcelona for the last three years, and this the fourth year,” said Qatar Airways chief executive Akbar Al-Baker on Monday.
“It has been a very good brand and reflection of Qatar Airways.”
All 25,000 seats at the Al-Gharrafa stadium in the north-west of Doha have been sold out for days, something Paris Saint-German could not manage at a smaller Doha stadium when they played a friendly against Inter earlier this year.
But as excited as the fans will be to see their favourites in the flesh, Qatar is also saying goodbye to Barcelona.
Next June the club’s sometimes turbulent sponsorship deal with the airline, worth around 35 million euros annually, ends.
From next season the “Blaugranas” will play their football with Japanese online retailer Rakuten splashed across their shirts, in a deal worth at least 55 million euros ($59 million) a year.
Noticeably, at a time when gas-rich Qatar is making spending adjustments due to lower energy prices, the nation’s airline could not match the price of its Japanese competitors.
“We have lost it unfortunately because somebody had more cash than us,” admitted Al-Baker.
- ‘Barcelona put Qatar on map’ -
They may have also lost out because of another reason -- television.
Barcelona may be a global brand but one thing holding back the commercial push of La Liga, especially in Asia, was kick-off times in the Spanish league.
Traditionally they played late at night local time, which meant they lost the audience in Asia and possibly Asian sponsors.
But now, either Barcelona or Real Madrid play every week at 4.15pm local time on a Saturday, meaning their matches can be watched in Asia.
Vicente Casado, La Liga’s managing director of international development, told a Doha conference earlier this month that the desire to build up worldwide audiences was behind the change in kick-off times.
“This is one of the big reasons,” he said.
La Liga is targeting a global television audience of three billion people by the end of next season -- the same as their rivals, the English Premier League.
Last season, “just” 1.2 billion fans globally watched La Liga games on TV, said Casado.
The deal with the Gulf carrier has been marked by negotiations over money -- leading to a belated one year extension to the contract announced earlier this year -- and arguments over Qatar’s treatment of the migrant workers building the infrastructure for the World Cup.
The row even saw Joan Laporta pledge to end the deal with Qatar if he was re-elected as club president.
But he failed and the shirt deal continued, and it has proved worthwhile for all parties, especially the airline says sports marketing expert, Antony Marcou.
“To be associated with Barcelona in this period, they have done exceptionally well,” said Marcou, boss of London-based marketing company, Sports Revolution.
“This sponsorship was about credibility, Barcelona put them on the map.”
First Published: Dec 12, 2016 22:59 IST
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Protesting Sinhgad students, teachers to meet CM with BJP MLA Medha Kulkarni
This decision followed after an appeal by SPPU vice-chancellor Nitin Karmalkar and BJP’s Kothrud MLA Medha Kulkarni, who urged the students. On Saturday, Kulkarni assured the student representatives that a meeting would be organised with chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and the education minister for the appointment of an administrator and other demands of the students and professors of the college who are on strike.
pune Updated: Feb 24, 2018 22:30 IST
Nadeem Inamdar
Hindustan Times, Pune
Sitaram Gosawi, a fourth year mechanical engineering student of the institute’s Lonavla campus, was admitted to the Sassoon General Hospital after his health deteriorated due to an indefinite hunger strike.(HT PHOTO)
Sinhgad Institute students who have been protesting at the Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) campus against the Sinhagad Institutes’ management, decided to end their indefinite hunger strike on Saturday while continuing with their protest.
On Friday evening, Sitaram Gosawi, a fourth year mechanical engineering student of the institute’s Lonavla campus, was admitted to the Sassoon General Hospital after his health deteriorated due to an indefinite hunger strike.
Gosawi was protesting against the college management’s failure to pay staff salaries over the last many months and the impact of staff unrest on teaching at the campus. Gosawi was among the 15 students who began their strike on February 15.
When Gosawi complained about dizziness, his friends rushed him to the hospital.
Tushar Pawar, a student, said, “Gosawi has been admitted to the Sassoon General Hospital and is being treated for hunger-related problems after he complained of dizziness and nausea.” He said that the student’s condition had stabilised by Saturday afternoon.
“Our main demand is that college must reopen at the earliest and our exams, scheduled to begin March 6, must be postponed and held at a later date . The students will require time for studies and exam preparation. There have been no lectures and practicals since the past two-and-a-half months ,” he said.
Gosavi said, “I was breathless and my blood pressure shot up due to the hunger strike. However, we are not withdrawing the strike completely and will go ahead with the normal strike at the university and are withdrawing from hunger strike. We have still not got any concrete solution to our problems. Nobody is taking responsibility for solving our problem,” he said.
Savitribai Phule Pune University vice-chancellor Dr Nitin Karmalkar issued a statement on Saturday that the university stood with the students of Sinhgad Technical Education Society and their interest has been accorded top priority. The university has taken necessary steps to take strict action against the college administration based on the inquiry committee report.
“The college administration has been informed about the inquiry committee report and action being taken against them.The students must withdraw their agitation and hunger strike as the university understands the gravity of their problems and also of their professors,” Karmalkar said.
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Home / Akshay Kumar / Mission Mangal / Movie Trailer / Mission Mangal Teaser Out Now - Starring Akshay Kumar Vidya Balan Sonakshi Sinha
Mission Mangal Teaser Out Now - Starring Akshay Kumar Vidya Balan Sonakshi Sinha
Akshay Kumar upcoming film 'Mission Mangal' teaser released, It is the incredible, true story of a scientist, Rakesh Dhawan, which is played by Akshay Kumar and Tara Shinde played by Vidya Balan who lead a motley team of scientists who overcome their personal challenges and failures to serve as the brains behind one of the greatest mission in history: the launch of India’s first satellite to Mars, a stunning achievement that restored the nation’s confidence. The film has been directed by Jagan Shakti, who has been an assistant director for multiple films by R Balki, who serves as producer.
This movie of Akshay Kumar is based on the story of reaching India's Mars planet. At the beginning of the teaser, it is said that the film is made on Real Incident.
Watch Here! The Teaser of Mission Mangal - Akshay Kumar
The film is going to be released on August 15. This film will make the audience understand from the incredible true story of India's mission on Mars. Fans had already waited too much for this film, although the teaser of 'Mission Mangal' has doubled the excitation of the fans. Now we have to see what this movie of Akshay Kumar will do at the box office.
Check: The first look of Mission Magal
Akshay Kumar Mission Mangal Movie Trailer
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Last Minute Holidays to Cancun
With sunshine throughout the year, modern hotels and breathtaking beaches, Mexico's buzzing resort of Cancun has everything you could want from a last minute holiday, and a whole lot more. Whether you're looking for a lively week with friends, a romantic getaway or a fun family break, Cancun fits the bill.
Everything's ready for you on a last minute holiday to sunny Cancun
Once a small fishing village, Cancun has evolved into a dazzling resort – it's palm-dotted shores are lined with sleek hotels, stylish shopping malls and glitzy nightclubs.
With an average flight time of around 10 hours, and the promise of temperatures of around 28°C in June and 23°C in January, it's a good all-rounder when it comes to last minute breaks.
Cancun is split into two areas, the downtown area is a good place to shop then stop, with its array of market stalls and local cantinas. The hotel zone is jam packed with places to stay as well as shopping malls, nightclubs and of course the super long beach, ideal for lazy days, watersports and people watching.
The nightlife on offer is varied – whether you're looking to dance till dawn or chill out with a few cocktails at sunset, there's something that will appeal. If clubbing isn't your thing there are daytrip options galore, including the Mayan ruins of Tulum, a 90-minute drive away.
The best time of year to book your last minute holiday
When it comes to last minute holidays, Cancun is a great option as not only is it sunny throughout the year, but many of its hotels offer plenty of entertainment and sporting options, so there'll be loads to do. There is some rainfall during the summer months, though this doesn't tend to last long and the climate will still be warm.
The best deals can be booked from eight weeks' in advance, right up to the last minute so keep your eyes peeled for late bargains. It's worth noting that Cancun is popular with American spring-breakers in March so those looking for a relaxed vibe may want to book outside of this time.
Other last minute holiday destinations
When it comes to affordable getaways, Cancun is by no means the only choice, as Mexico has plenty more gems on offer. Try Puerto Vallarta, for a mix of lazy beach days and sightseeing, Playa del Carmen with its spectacular sands and natural beauty, or the intimate, gated resort of Playacar for the ultimate last minute retreat. But, if you're convinced it's Cancun for your next holiday, check out our travel guide for more top tips and information. Here are a few hotel options to get you started.
Riu Palace Las Americas HotelCancun, Mexico
Located just one kilometre from Cancun's famous hotel zone, with its cafes, bars and restaurants, the Riu Palace Las Americas is an adults-only haven, right on the beach. Airport transfers take just one hour and once you're in the complex you can enjoy two swimming pools, a swim-up pool bar, a poolside bar and waiter service. Meals are served in the buffet dining room and there are also five a la carte options showcasing Italian, fusion, Japanese and Mexican dishes. With a daytime entertainment programme and numerous sports and activities you'll find plenty to do without ever having to leave the hotel. Try out the gym, take part in aerobics or water polo sessions and enjoy a variety of complimentary non-motorised watersports on the beach.
Moon Palace Golf and Spa ResortCancun, Mexico
With a grand total of five swimming pools, four swim-up bars and six floodlit tennis courts the Moon Palace Golf Resort and Spa certainly delivers. Ideally situated on an extensive beach overlooking the Caribbean and this immaculate property offers a taste of luxury alongside excellent dining and amenities. Check out the gym, enjoy yoga, pilates and meditation in the gardens or work up a sweat on the basketball court. Beach and pool volleyball are other options and there's also a surf simulator. Family features include two children's pools, a supervised hotel-run kids' club for ages four to 12 and a playground.
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Netflix's 'Red Sea Diving Resort': The Incredible Mossad Op Behind It
Drip irrigation being used in Israel.Avishai Finkelstein
The Secret of Israel's Water Miracle and How It Can Help a Thirsty World
India for one is encouraging drip's adoption through subsidies, says author Seth Siegel
This article was orignially published January 25, 2016 and re-upped for Indian Prime Minister Modi's historic visit to Israel.
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The world's problem with water isn't that it's disappearing. The water is there. The problem is that in many areas, growing populations have less and less water per capita because of crumbling infrastructure leading to massive leaking; short-sighted and self-interested water management, leading to egregious waste, and polluted groundwater. Can ideas from Israel really help solve these problems at a planetary level?
Yes, because in a process lasting decades, Israel achieved something unique. It largely separated its water consumption from Mother Nature. Israel doesn't have some one-stop-shop magic solution, neither desalination (which it didn't invent) nor some breakthrough dreamed up by geniuses in garages. What it has is holistic, centralized water management, designed over decades, from which thirsty areas from California to Egypt can cherry-pick ideas, argues Seth Siegel, author of the best-selling book "Let There Be Water". Why reinvent the wheel when one can emulate it?
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"Israel should have been a water basket case," says Siegel, listing its problems: 60% of the land is desert and the rest is arid. Rainfall has fallen to half its 1948 average, apparently thanks to climate change, and as global warming progresses, Israel and the whole Levant are expected to become even drier – and from 1948, Israel's population has grown 10-fold.
During that time, the country's economy grew 70-fold. But instead of starting to waste water, as happens when a society becomes wealthier, it used its new affluence to implement what Siegel calls "the Israel model" of water management.
California demonstrates the opposite example of what happens when money is abundant but nobody acknowledges the problem, governance is local and people don't think how to utilize the rare resource most wisely for the greater good.
Drought in Colombia Reuters
Israel uses its groundwater and lakewater, yes. But key to its water security are efforts such as drilling deep wells, massive desalination, reusing treated sewage for farming, finding and fixing leaks early, engineering crops to thrive in onerous conditions, discouraging gardening, making efficient toilets mandatory, and pricing water to discourage waste. The state preached water conservation (note the TV ads not to be a pig in the shower) – and then there's the holy grail of Israeli water innovation: drip irrigation.
The jury and the drip
Drip, also called micro-irrigation, was the first watering innovation in thousands of years. Instead of flooding the fields with prodigious amounts of water and fertilizer, much of which get wasted, small amounts of both are dripped directly onto the plant's roots.
Netafim, which makes drip irrigation technology, says the technique saves 25%-75% pumped water compared to flood, on average. So,the farmer uses less water, fertilizer and sometimes pesticides, and is happy. The aquifers suffer less chemical pollution. The crops yield more (about 15%, say Netafim and some experts) and food prices drop, so the consumer is happy.
Everyone is happy, except some academics, who would like proof. Prof. Frank Ward of the New Mexico State University Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business does, for one. "What we have found is that as a consequence of putting water on the crops more precisely – actual water consumption can go up," Ward told Haaretz.
Man has been irrigating his fields by flooding them since farming was invented over 12,000 years ago. Some of the water soaking the land is used by crops, some evaporates, some sinks in and recharges the aquifer.
Everyone and his dog agrees that drip irrigation is one of "Startup Nation" Israel's greatest inventions. Actually it was invented by a former government official named Simcha Blass, who sold the rights to Netafim. The company says that compared with flood irrigation, drip even causes rice and tomatoes to emit less greenhouse gases and nitrous oxide – emissions of which have been associated with deadly algae blooms. These days there are even technologies to fine-tune drip, for instance sensors that, when stuck into a tree, measure the actual plant's water stress, rather than that of the soil by the root.
As drip involves no aquifer recharge to speak of, less fertilizer, pesticides and lord knows what other horrible chemicals leak into our groundwater. Massive influxes of fertilizers and pesticides causing hormonal disruption are being blamed for anything from micro-penises among Floridian alligators to gender-fluid fish and other unnatural horrors.
But does it save water at the level of a whole region, a whole state, the planet? In 2008, Ward warned that governments are leaping to adopt water conservation ideas that may either not conserve water at all, or not as much as believed. Little integrated analysis has been conducted to test the hypothesis that water conservation technologies really achieve that specific aim, Ward cautions. Indeed, efforts to find studies that compare flood with drip side-by-side (keeping other factors constant, insofar as possible) were in vain.
The question bears asking, because after Israel showed the way, water-stressed countries around the world have been adopting drip, when they can afford it - "Converting is expensive," Ward points out. How could it be possible for crops to be given less water with drip than with flood, but wind up using more water?
With drip, less water is lost into the ground. But Ward suspects that total crop water consumption from drip is greater than assumed because of the higher crop yield and because the plants are healthier.
His doubts began after years of speaking with agricultural engineers in the south-west United States, Ward says. "For years I assumed that central pivot sprinklers and drip irrigation were good water conservers because everyone said they were," he confesses. "But the agriculture engineers I worked with told me I want to reconsider that, and that the reason I should, was because drip irrigation is very good at reducing water applied to the crop, without any waste compared with flood but the water actually consumed by the crops can build up."
If crop yields increase 15% under drip, crop water consumption also increases, he explains. "It depends on crop soil type and how you manage it," but "it is pretty safe" to assume that the increase is proportional to crop yield.
Could drip better suit some environments and not others? "I am for drip irrigation because farmers love it and my food prices go down. I would say that the jury could be in or out if it's good for the environment – it depends on what kind of environment talking about," Ward says.
Is skepticism 'utter nonsense'?
Sandra Postel, director of the Global Water Policy Project: The choice of flood or drip depends on the hydrological and regulatory environment of the farm. AP
"In a nutshell: whether a shift from flood to drip irrigation is advantageous or not to groundwater supply depends on the hydrological and regulatory environment in which the farming operation takes place," says Sandra Postel, director and founder of the Global Water Policy Project and a world expert on fresh water issues and related ecosystems. For example the Jordan River, or Nile, which are both extremely depleted by irrigation, may benefit from the use of drip by farmers nearby because the method deplete the river environment less, Postel says.
Netafim acknowledges that it does not know of side-by-side studies comparing drip with flood that would tease out the parameter of effect on the water table. "The argument that drip's efficiency increases water usage and yields, thereby leading to greater aquifer depletion, does not point to a drawback of drip, but rather a failure in water resource management," the company stated.
"Most stakeholders agree that drip is the most efficient irrigation method for nearly every crop," Netafim stated. "However, that does not mean that it always makes sense for growers to transition to drip for certain crops, such as wheat. With that said, there are farmers in Texas, for example, who achieve better results by using subsurface drip irrigation systems for their annual cotton, corn and wheat crop cycles." It also points out that in contrast to flood, drip is good for all surface types, including slopes.
Meanwhile various teams, including Ward's, are considering how to evaluate the impact of long-term, wide-scale drip irrigation on local water economies, not that everybody agrees it's necessary.
"Utter nonsense," says Uri Shani, former water commissioner and professor of irrigation at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. "They claim that water isn't lost from flood irrigation because it recharges the groundwater but that's twisted in multiple ways," among them – when water returns to the ground, it goes where it goes, not necessarily to the aquifer.
Feeding India, and Los Angeles
Meanwhile, India for one is encouraging drip's adoption through subsidies, says Siegel. At the other end of the rainbow, California had initially been glacial at adopting drip, for several reasons. Here's one: "In the western U.S., the 'use it or lose it' system of water rights provides little incentive for farmers to conserve water because they then risk using some of their water rights," Postel observed by email. "State policies (and water markets) are beginning to change that incentive structure."
Seth Siegel: Emulate the Israel water model. Talia Siegel
Once, the United States encouraged people to move out west by giving them water rights in perpetuity. Take farmers living along the Colorado River. "You can take as much water as you want with no limit," Siegel says. "No one is controlling it and there is zero incentive to innovate or conserve. You can flood irrigate all day long. If it was ten farmers, okay, but by the time the river reaches Los Angeles, it's a trickle."
Also, people moved to places that shouldn't be habited at all, like the desert. Anyway, the upshot is that today, the American west has a "horrible water governance problem", as Siegel puts it: Israel has one central water authority. Texas has 4,600 public water systems, each with its own interests. It's a towering Babel of incoherence, from a policy point of view.
By now, Siegel adds, 38% of irrigated fields in California use drip. Israel may not have much to teach California about desalination, but it sure has lessons in central management so everybody can drink and shower.
The Nile and the dual-flush toilet
Another key to water conservation is to exploit wastewater. Israel treats almost all its sewage and reuses the water in agriculture. Egypt may not have the resources to build giant desalination plants but it could affordably treat sewage rather than dump it into the Nile, and plant "advanced" crops that grow well in onerous conditions.
They could also train plumbers and engineers. "Cairo has a phenomenally bad problem of broken water pipes," says Siegel. Pipe leakage is about 20%-30% in Western Europe; in Cairo it's about 50% and in Israel it's 9% to 10%, making it second in the world after Singapore. Israel has smart technologies to find leaks and solutions that don't involve tearing up whole streets to replace pipes.
Maybe Cairo should also subsidize dual-flush toilets, which are the only type available in Israel. "Does one flush make a difference? Nah. But multiply by 8 million Israelis peeing six times a day, or 80 million Egyptians, and we're talking about real water," Siegel says.
Realizing its predicament decades ago, Israel studied the "water equation" and made itself all but independent of Mother Nature. But it's lonely in that. Making bad matters worse, climate change has begun to hit hard. Changing governance, raising money and installing technologies takes time and the climatic stresses are mounting fast. The world doesn't need to take the 70 years during which Israel has been solving its water problem, says Siegel: Israel did the work already. The world can emulate it. But it has to get a move on before the water runs out.
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Robert Macklin
Dark Paradise: Norfolk Island - isolation, savagery, mystery and murder
Biography: general, True crime, Prose: non-fiction, General & world history, Australasian & Pacific history
Paperback Nov 29, 2016 | 9780733637377 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
e-Book Jul 30, 2013 | 9780733628757 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
The gripping and revealing story of Norfolk Island since the European discovery - what should have been a Pacific idyll was a place of darkness, pain, rage and horror.
'A fascinating read' DAILY TELEGRAPH
Aren't remote South Pacific islands supposed to be paradise? Perhaps, from a distance, Norfolk Island looks a peaceful place lush with tall pines. But look closer and that idyllic facade is shattered.
For all of the 240 years we have known it, Norfolk's story has been one of darkness, pain, rage and horror. Long-buried bones and axes hint at the violence before Captain Cook arrived and claimed the place for England. And then the horror truly began. From its earliest days, the isolation of life on this rocky outcrop took its toll.
Robert Macklin, author of the critically acclaimed HAMILTON HUME, tells the vivid, bewitching story of how a unique lifestyle and culture evolved amongst the almost two thousand inhabitants. From a brutal penal colony, a refuge for descendants of the Bounty mutineers when they outgrew Pitcairn Island in 1856, to the murder of Janelle Patton in 2002, Norfolk Island is exposed like never before. A place full of shadows and wrongful deaths, its history is a mesmerising tale all the more powerful because it is true.
'I have to tell you, Satan lives here.' - Norfolk Island resident to the author, 2011.
More books by Robert Macklin
Castaway: The extraordinary survival story of Narcisse Pelletier, a young French cabin boy shipwrecked on Cape York in 1858
Dragon and Kangaroo: Australia and China s Shared History from the Goldfields to the Present Day
Redback One: The True Story of an Australian SAS Hero
SAS Sniper: The critically acclaimed bestseller
Robert Macklin, Rob Maylor
Hamilton Hume: Our Greatest Explorer - the critically acclaimed bestselling biography
Warrior Elite: Australia s special forces Z Force to the SAS intelligence operations to cyber warfare
SAS Insider: An elite SAS fighter on life in Australia s toughest and most secretive combat force
Robert Macklin, Clint Palmer
Operation Rimau: Australia's heroic and daring commando raid on Singapore - the critically acclaimed World War II classic
Peter Thompson, Robert Macklin
Praise for Dark Paradise: Norfolk Island - isolation, savagery, mystery and murder
Successfully woven together . . . reminiscent of Manning Clark - Peter Corris
Written with engaging verve - THE AGE
A fascinating read - DAILY TELEGRAPH
Q&A with Robert Macklin author of Warrior Elite
Robert Macklin was born in Queensland and educated at University of Queensland and the Australian National University. He has worked as a journalist at the COURIER-MAIL, THE AGE and THE BULLETIN, and was associate editor of the CANBERRA TIMES until 2003.
Robert is the author of 29 books, including DARK PARADISE, HAMILTON HUME and four works focusing on the SAS and Australia's Special Forces: SAS SNIPER, REDBACK ONE, SAS INSIDER and WARRIOR ELITE. He lives in Canberra.
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Chinese New Year: The last night
More and more and more fireworks
Last Tuesday was the last day of Chinese New Year. Now, there had been fireworks every night for the entire two weeks, but the last night display was something. We joined the throngs down at the river to catch the show.
After the official fireworks, people started shooting off their own:
Happy belated Valentine’s Day
Fun fact: The Chinese recognize Valentine’s Day. “I think it’s an international holiday,” my friend told me.
I apologize for the lull in posting. School started last week - after a six-week break - so we’re busy getting back into the swing of things. You know how hard those 20-hour work-weeks can be.
Another afternoon in Zhongshan Park
Hanging with the animals
Our second trip to Zhongshan Park was on a much nicer day than our first one, and the park was abuzz with activity. At the entrance, there was a man making candy in the shape of Chinese zodiac symbols, and a large crowd gathered to watch him. Further into the park, we saw people playing badminton and basketball, as well as renting boats in the two lakes.
We checked out the aviary and the zoo. In the aviary, I bought a little baggie of corn to feed to the birds, which included ducks, chickens, roosters, peacocks/hens and two emus. I was a little worried that I would be mobbed when the birds saw I had food - most of them roamed free inside the enclosure — but fortunately that didn’t happen.
The aviary was spacious and clean, and the birds looked well cared for. The zoo was a little bit sadder. The animals did look healthy, but their cages were definitely on the small side. It was kind of a weird experience. Made weirder by the fact that one of the zookeepers latched onto us to show us around. He didn’t speak English and didn’t seem to care that we didn’t speak Chinese, but he very nicely led us around and pointed out all the animals to us.
We wrapped up our trip with a stop at the tea house. This time we both got flower tea - which is only a tea in the sense that it’s a plant soaking in hot water; tea doesn’t always equal caffeine here. But it was tasty.
The return of the Karaoke Kids
This time, with less karaoke
After our initial outing with the Karaoke Kids, they called to invite us out again but I had a bad cold and we had to refuse. This happened twice (they were eager and my cold was a lingerer). And, we could have called them after I got better, but we got busy and forgot. It looked like our adventures with our new friends were over before they began.
Which is why we were so excited to run into them again last weekend, at sticks! They called us over to eat with them, which we did, and we stuffed our faces. And we made many toasts to each other. (I learned over the holiday that toasting your host is a sign of respect — which makes sense.) We didn’t do karaoke, but there was a renewed promise of future good times.
Luzhou: The Jiucheng Hotel
Luxury at home
Take a tour of the Jiucheng Hotel in our photo album.
We live down the road from one of Luzhou’s swankiest 5-star hotels, and during our vacation, we decided to pretend we were fancy-pants and spend a night there.
And, as you can see from the pictures, it was totally luxe! (The first photo is me buying a real bottle of wine — it’s not always readily available and it is expensive, but it was a special occasion.) The lobby was huge and decked out in marble, and our room was maybe bigger than our apartment in Brooklyn. We stayed on the Executive Floor, so our room even came with a full office kitted out with a computer and a fax machine.
For dinner, we dressed up in our finest and went down to the hotel’s Korean restaurant. We didn’t have huge expectations; foreign food just isn’t that big here, so I’m pretty sure most of that stuff is pre-packaged and microwaved to order. Here, however, that wasn’t the case. The food was pretty good. It also was not Korean, which was a little disappointing, but we tried some new dishes and had a good meal.
It wasn’t a terribly wild night and we were just down the street from our apartment, but it really did feel like we were on a vacation.
A night of dancing by the river
Chatting with the locals
The weather’s been lovely this past week — it’s getting warmer, there’s less rain — so the other night we grabbed some beers after dinner and went down to the river. (Don’t worry, there are no open container laws here!)
There were tons of people out for a postprandial stroll, of course. But they were also just hanging out … and dancing! In the video above, you can see our older gentlemen bench neighbors who struck up a conversation with us. What you maybe can’t tell is that neither party speaks ten words of the others’ language. (OK, I can speak almost 10 non-number words of Chinese. [Brag No. 1.])
We have a lot of conversations here that are just like those scenes in “Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai” where the English-speaking Ghost Dog talks to the French-speaking Haitian ice cream truck man; somehow it’s meaningful to talk, even if you can’t be sure of being understood.
Anyway, I did understand that they thought I should dance. So I danced, even though I didn’t know the steps. I did pretty well for myself (Brag No. 2.), watch and see.
There are a few more videos at this link.
Dinner at sticks, now with video
It will definitely get loud
Dinner at Sticks from Uncle Foreigner on Vimeo.
Pretend you’re there with us and enjoy:
Happy New Year: Karaoke time!
Let’s sing
More karaoke pictures here.
Karaoke New Year’s from Uncle Foreigner on Vimeo.
The night after they first invited me to celebrate the holiday with their family, Wendy and Xi Xi invited me again to their clan’s continuing New Year’s party. (Peter, again, was still recovering from his cold.)
After another great feast, we all went out for karaoke. It took some doing to find an open room; this is apparently what all families were doing that night. But eventually, after many phone calls and some driving around, we found an open spot. In addition to the singing, there was also a lot of dancing. You can see me, in the video below, dancing with Xi Xi’s uncle, the evening’s host. You can also hear some of the karaoke-ing going on. Make sure your volume’s not too high.
Chengdu: Xiao Tong Alley
Where the hipsters are
Here’s an album of photos from Xiao Tong Alley.
I’ll wrap up the story of our stay in Chengdu with a little bit about the area where our hostel was. (As I mentioned before, it was funky!)
We were on a street called Xiao Tong Alley (remember, “Xi” is pronounced “shə”), which we learned was a newish neighborhood that sprang up in the past year. It’s attracted a really young, vibrant, artsy crowd; I joked to Peter that we had found the Bushwick of China.
Whereas in the southern part of the city everything was huge and stark and modern and neon (the generally desired aesthetic of modernizing China), here everything was small-scale, home-made, rustic and, our favorite, artist-run. These places were decorated by someone who had an eye; we found edgy murals and distressed French-countryside chic - stark contrast to most of what we’d seen up to this point: the two dominant stylistic modes seem to be sidewalk roughness or super-sterile luxury. It was really cool to find “Alterna-hip.”
We spent a good chunk of each night somewhere on the street, and everywhere we went, we found someone who wanted to talk to us - and, importantly, who we wanted to talk to. From the bartender from Luzhou who was excited to jam out some Clash tunes with us, to the London-educated finance grad who now works with a bar-owning artists’ group, we mingled with some really interesting people who belong to the emerging creative class of China.
It was a Paris-in-the-’30s/Soho-in-the-’70s vibe that we weren’t sure that we’d find in China, but were supremely glad to do so.
Spring is just around the corner
Even though it’s very cold
We’re smack in the middle of Chinese New Year — aka, Spring Festival — and while most people have returned to work, there’s still a party atmosphere in the city (and a ton of firecrackers). Today, also, was the first sunny day in a while. And, the weather is starting to get warmer.
All of this added up to: “Too nice to stay inside.” So we took our camera and got out there.
A group of musicians giving an impromptu performance by the river.
We found a new bar! You can hear people doing karaoke in the background, of course.
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Chlong Pope
GASTONIA, N.C. -- Mrs. Chlong Pope, 54, of 2023 Pine St., died Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007, at Gaston Memorial Hospital.
Arrangements will be announced by Wright Funeral Home in York.
By Noah Feit
A South Carolina man fired after he requested leave for a medical condition and was denied, is getting $34,000 from the company which violated the Family and Medical Leave Act, the U.S. Department of Labor said.
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Lando Chill makes music which is classified as hip-hop, but isn't tethered to a single genre; encompassing elements of funk, gospel, jazz, indie rock, psychedelic, and folk. Lance Washington was born and raised in Chicago, but moved to Arizona to attend college. His debut full-length For Mark, Your Son arrived on Mello Music Group in 2016. The album was an intense self-examination inspired by the loss of the rapper's father, who died of a heart attack when Washington was four years old. Lando Chill's second album, The Boy Who Spoke to the Wind, appeared in 2017 and was named #26 on Bandcamp Daily's 100 Best Albums of the Year. The album was influenced by Paulo Coelho's book The Alchemist, and contained a more abstract, experimental sound than his prior releases. Since 2016, Lando Chill has teamed with multi-instrumentalist and producer The Lasso, resulting in a singular sound only possible through a true symbiosis of vocalist and producer. Once again, the duo has taken a leap forward with Lando Chill’s upcoming release, Black Ego; a collection of songs that is equal parts west coast funk and desert trip-hop, threaded together by Lando's bold vision.
CD | 2018 | US | Original (Mello Music Group)
For Mark Your Son Clear & Red Vinyl Edition
LP | 2016 | US | Original (Mello Music Group)
Lando Chill's debut for Mello Music Group, “For Mark, Your Son” is one of those life-affirming records. It's a 12-song tribute to the father who passed away when the Chicago-born and raised rapper was just three years old-the rare shout into the existential abyss that actually receives answers echoing back. It's a coming-of-age story rooted in life, death, and legacy. It reminds us how the dearly departed can leave behind an indelible light. It's the work of a brilliant 24-year old Tucson transplant with a wicked jump shot, who steadfastly embodies the compassion, strength, and talent of his vanished hero.
When you listen to Lando Chill, you hear traces of Gil Scott-Heron, Pharoahe Monch, and The Roots. At times, his rollicking cadences and innate gift for melody feel like a one-man equivalent of The Pharcyde's “Labcabincalifornia”, while the album's sepulchral finale feels like the most gorgeous song TV On The Radio never wrote. But mostly, “For Mark, Your Son” marks the ascendance of a singular talent, fusing scattered influences into a coherent vision, an artist scarred by his experiences but healing through his broken poems.
This album is for those open books with open hearts, the vulnerable and those in pain, the fatherless children too proud to ask for help because they believe their dads wouldn't raise a weak son, the mothers that lost their best friend, the fathers that never got the chance to see how bright the future looked, for the blunted that aspire for something that more than what's in front of them. It's for those willing to admit their mistakes and those smart enough to start correcting them.
Lando has the gift of writing disconsolate spirituals, non-denominational prayers, a Unitarian Gospel that can't help but leave you feeling whole. He says it himself: his soul has a purpose. He made his dad proud. He made himself proud. He reminded us that some things are timeless.
The Boy Who Spoke To The Wind Purple Vinyl Edition
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Lando Chill’s new album, “The Boy Who Spoke To The Wind,” is a personal tribute to self actualization, spiritual acceptance and social activism. About the title, Lando says, “The wind is one’s soul. It represents the human spirit and the earth.” Lando Chill is a warrior-poet, a man with one ear to mother nature and one to the plight of humankind. Lando wants to bring the issues of political freedom, police brutality and giving a voice to marginalized communities to the national conversation.
Inspired by the Paulo Coelho book, “The Alchemist,” Lando’s new album is about transformation, personally and spiritually. While working on the project, Lando gained a new perspective. He learned that having answers isn’t enough.
Musically, this album is a movement forward from his previous work. Collaborating with producer Lasso, bassist Chris Pierce, as well as other key session musicians, the music is unique and intimate. The album harmonizes the internal and external in a cathartic symphony. The instrumentation is unlike anything else, sprawling from classic lo-fi hiphop to high production scoring. The album is as reminiscent of James Blake and Bon Iver as it is of Frank Ocean or Kendrick Lamar.
“All is one and one is all. When you speak to your soul, you speak to the world. You speak through love and that’s how you transform.” -Lando Chill
The Boy Who Spoke To The Wind
For Mark Your Son Clear & Blue Vinyl Edition
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Laura starts a playful game with her husband Charlie. He has to resist the temptation of making love to an actress played by her. But Laura's playfulness masks a deeper motivation: a test of her husband's fidelity.
WRITTEN BY: Michael Sibay,
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DIRECTED BY: Charline Odiot
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The Temptation Game
( 2015 )
Love. An emotion so powerful it's become part of every media form man has ever invented. Film and music, poetry and books, it's a driving force of the imagination and of course, true life. However, we can hardly mention love without jealousy. The two go hand in hand. Now, in modern times, jealousy has given form to a new batch of mind games and emotional power plays. Maybe this really isn't a new thing for us modern age folks, but the deception contained within the games we play certainly has been updated. With that ladies and gents I bring you to "The Temptation Game", a short film dealing in the above mentioned mind games. Are these games the very heart of this short film? Maybe at first glance. Hidden just beneath however, is a heaping helping of self pity, insecurity and of course... love itself. Writers Michael Sibay and Charline Odiot know just how to feature as a fiction, what a vast majority of people will, or have been, through before. Maybe... probably more than once. This "knowing wink" or nod to those real life situations is part of what draws the viewer in. As a personal question to the reader, let me ask this: Do emotional difficulties, when overcome make for a much better and lasting relationship? I think so. Simply because the lack of emotional stress would make for quite a boring world. At the very least, could end up representing no emotions at all. But where is the line drawn? "The Temptation Game" attempts to bring that question to light using subtle dialog and reactions, showing the viewer that there's more to the story than we're seeing.
Technically, for all the good showcased in this film, being an indie/low budget production, there also exists some preventable aspects that scream independent. First and foremost, I feel I need to mention that the two lead actors do an excellent job. Their performances push the narrative forward in a smart believable way. No question about that, the dialog feels perfectly playful and awkward where needed. It's safe to say the well written lines probably make the job easier, but what you can't attribute to the writing is the expressions of the cast. These small little looks make "The Temptation Game" feel like you're a fly on the wall, watching two real people without a rolling camera in the background. Great job. I was also thankful for clear audio. Something often overlooked when putting together an indie project. Make no mistake however reader, you can tell this is an independent production within the first few minutes. The "indie stamp" resides all over this short film. Nobody expects a big budget look from an indie film, but as I wrote above, a few of these indie staples could have easily been fixed in post. "The Temptation Game" takes place in a small apartment, making location control that much easier. Why then do we have one shot a warm hue, and the very next one cool... followed again by warm the very next cut? Small fixes in post could have easily remedied most of the visual inconsistencies contained within the 14 minute run time. These should have been addressed. To be blunt, it may seem like a small thing, but for me, every time the color temperature changed I was instantly taken out of the world Charline Odiot had worked so hard to create. A few color adjustments during the editing process would have fixed this. No question.
When it's all said and done "The Temptation Game" soars well past the mediocre mark. The strong performances and interesting premise ensure this film is well above par. Slight post problems can easily be dismissed simply because this is a good film. The fact that the concept is something many filmmakers avoid makes this piece both real and entertaining. I was glad to have been given a look.
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A Secret Cross Review.
Chasing Valentine Review.
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Heartwarming Video Shows Boy Helping His Little Sister Make A Basketball Shot, Telling Her ‘You’re Strong’
A heartwarming viral video shows the most supportive big brother you’ll ever find helping his little sister sink a basketball shot after a very upsetting setback.
The video was posted by the children’s mom on Instagram early this week, showing the two young children outside at a toy basketball hoop. The outing didn’t start too well for the little girl, who hoisted a basketball about half the size of her body toward the hoop, but she wasn’t quite strong enough to get it through. The ball hit the rim and rolled back, hitting her in the face.
The big brother, who had been cheering his sister on during her initial attempt, rushed to help her as she started to cry, giving kisses to help her feel better and some words of encouragement.
“It’s OK, you’re strong,” he told her.
He then decided to take matters into his own hands — quite literally — and lifted up his sister so she could try a second time. With his help, the little girl threw the basketball through the toy hoop and the little ones celebrated together, with the boy giving his sister another kiss on the cheek. The girl’s tears went away and the video ended showing her with a gigantic smile.
The video has gotten some viral attention, with many praising the young boy for his encouragement and love of his sister. Their mother, Sarahanne Mora of Elk Grove, California, explained that she wanted to share the video so others could see the uplifting message.
“My babies are going viral spreading a message of positivity, support, and love,” she wrote in the description for the video.
My babies are going viral spreading a message of positivity, support, and love ???? #bigbrotherlittlesister #jaxsonmora???? #freeleemora???? #family #spreadthelove #ellendegeneres #viral #viralvideos #1M @jpplus4 ***This video is being represented by LADBible Group. To use or license this video please email licensing@ladbiblegroup.com
A post shared by Sarahanne Mora (Welch) (@sarahanne_n_clan) on Oct 14, 2018 at 2:37pm PDT
The video is now attracting international attention, with the Daily Mail and other U.K. news outlets sharing it with readers and noting the many positive comments that people left.
Heartwarming moment brother helps sister play basketball then tells her ‘you’re strong’ https://t.co/Zlm4tT5YPy
— Metro (@MetroUK) October 16, 2018
“Bless you for raising such a compassionate little being!!” one person commented on the Instagram video. Another called the little boy a “fabulous big brother” while many praised their mother for raising such supportive children.
The original Instagram video of the boy helping his little sister dunk a basketball has now been viewed close to 70,000 times, along with countless other repostings across social media. Many people have commented praising the boy for his patience and encouragement of a very frustrated little sister, and others have been happy to share such an uplifting video at a time when much if the news is anything but positive.
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Trumps Threatening Tweets
Last week, I wrote about the US government taking away soccer balls, education and legal aid from detained immigrants kids; this week, we learn that they are also taking away toothbrushes and soap from the kids. On Tuesday, Department of Justice lawyer Sarah Fabian argued in court that immigrants kids do not need toothbrushes or soap, and that they can sleep on concrete floors. As the DOJ made their case, Trump tweeted that ICE would soon be deporting “millions” of immigrants and that ICE raids are imminent. Later that same afternoon, we host our weekly Immigration Legal Services Clinics that once again overflowed with terrified families who are fearing deportation.
The news of mass deportations had already made it through the media, and by word-of-mouth, into the local immigrant community. The families we serve absolutely feel threatened and unsafe. And faced with heightened uncertainty and fear, it is critical immigrants receive expert, caring and trustworthy legal aid.
Free legal clinics are one of the things that we truly do best at the IIIC and have been doing for the past 30 years – educating families about their rights, providing guidance on the next steps, and sharing dependable information about any available avenues towards status or family reunion. Into the late hours of Tuesday evening, IIIC’s staff and pro bono attorneys met with families who feel threatened, isolated and sacred by the day’s mean-spirited rhetoric. The energy of our Welcome Center is usually filled with joy, hope and possibility but this week, it felt palpably tense and discouraging.
In spite of all these threats, there has been some positive developments: New York passed a Driver Licence Bill (available regardless of immigration status), a Federal Court ruled to prevent ICE detentions at MA courthouses, and the city of Boston seeks to limit the rules on how the Police Department can cooperate with ICE.
There are many great opportunities for you do something locally for immigrant and refugee families:
1) Donate to our Center to help us meeting the increased demand for services.
2) Contact your State reps in support of the Work and Family Mobility Act (drivers licenses) and the Safe Communities Act.
3) Volunteer with us or with other immigrant support projects.You can can help build a safe, secure, and successful future for immigrant families in the Commonwealth. As a friend of our center, thank you for joining us in promoting the vision of a society where all people are treated with equality, protected, and empowered.
In solidarity and in action,
Last night, because of our dedication to providing responsive legal services, we were recognized by American Immigration Lawyers Association, receiving their Diversity and Inclusion Award.
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Iron Production Line And Net Materials Used In Iron Production
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12.5 Iron And Steel Production - US EPA
12.5 Iron And Steel Production ... Iron is produced in blast furnaces by the reduction of iron bearing materials with a hot gas. ... located at the top of the furnace and is recovered for use as fuel. The production of 1 ton of iron requires 1.4 tons of ore or other iron bearing material; 0.5 to[...]
What raw materials do auto manufacturers use? - Investopedia
Automobiles require a wide variety of raw materials for their production, including the iron used for steel, aluminum, glass, the petroleum products used to make plastics, rubber, and special fibers.[...]
IRON MAKING IN MINI BLAST FURNACE (MBF) - IDC-Online
Mini Blast Furnace (MBF) is the most proven technology, as revealed by one recent global iron production data. While gas-based as well as coal-based DRI production routes produced 2.7% of total iron production in 1990 1991, the corresponding share held by MBF, operating mainly - in Brazil, China and India, was 3.4%.[...]
Technical Support Document for the Iron and Steel Sector ...
Technical Support Document for the Iron and Steel Sector: Proposed Rule for Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases . INTRODUCTION . The iron and steel industry in the United States is the third largest in the world (after China and Japan), accounting for about 8 percent of the world’s raw iron and steel production . 1[...]
Metallurgy of gray cast iron - IASJ
The Iraqi Journal For Mechanical And Material Engineering, Vol. 10,No. 1, 2010 89 1.1 Metallurgy of gray cast iron: Most of industrial automobiles companies produced the brake rotor part from a grey cast iron. The cast iron material differ from standard steels by having significantly higher carbon (C) and silicon (Si) contents.[...]
Industrial Revolution | Growth of Manufacturing ...
Iron making. The Industrial Revolution could not have developed without coal and iron.Coal was needed to make steam engines run and to produce iron.At the beginning of the 18 th century iron makers found a way to extract pure iron out of iron ore.They used coke, which was purer than coal and burned hotter, to melt the ore.. As a result, the iron production increased and by the early 1800s ...[...]
Steel industry in China - Wikipedia
Meanwhile, each firm aggressively increases production. Iron ore production kept pace with steel production in the early 1990s but was soon outpaced by imported iron ore and other metals in the early 2000s. Steel production, an estimated 140 million tons in 2000 increased to 419 million tons in 2006.[...]
Chapter 11 Flashcards | Quizlet
Start studying Chapter 11. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. ... American steel and iron production became the best in the world. ... More efficient production of goods through an assembly line:... mass production. Steel replaced iron and was used in railways, ships, and weapons: ...[...]
Production - Hearts of Iron 4 Wiki
2. PRODUCTION OF IRON AND STEEL POWDERS 8 2.3 The Höganäs Sponge Iron Process The Höganäs sponge iron process, is essentially a chemical process in which finely divided iron ore is being reduced with coke breeze yielding a spongy mass of solid metallic iron, which can readily be comminuted to iron powder. The iron ore used at[...]
How steel is produced - YouTube
Dec 15, 2010· How steel is produced: from raw materials to the finished products that are used in buildings, cars, white goods and thousands of other applications.[...]
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Today, steel production makes use of recycled materials as well as traditional raw materials, such as iron ore, coal, and limestone. Two processes, basic oxygen steelmaking (BOS) and electric arc furnaces (EAF), account for virtually all steel production.[...]
Rio Tinto cuts iron ore guidance after cyclone - smh.com.au
3 days ago· Cyclone Veronica affected Rio Tinto's iron ore shipments. Credit: Louie Douvis Rio earlier this month flagged a loss of about 14 million tonnes of production in 2019 due to disruption caused by ...[...]
What is material balance in sponge iron production - Answers
Material balance in sponge iron is nothing but calculating input chargeing material into the roatary kiln comparing to the output.Output refers the DRI,Gases,Ash,Char,Dolo Char,Lumps,FinesBHQ if ...[...]
Introduction to Iron and Steel - Texas A&M University
Steel production Materials used to produce pig iron Coal—as coke—used to supply carbon. In a blast furnace, ore is heated in the presence of carbon—this allows oxygen in the ore to react with carbon to form gases. Limestone—helps to remove impurities Iron ore—processed ore at the start of the process has about 65% iron.[...]
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Flat Irons and What They’re Made of – The Material Used is ...
Material Matters. Overall, the price of the iron may matter most when you’re selecting which iron to go with, but you need to make sure you’re getting the best iron for your money. Ceramic irons have been popular for almost 20 years, and there has to be something to that.[...]
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Cast-iron is one of the most widely used and promising technological casting materials. Disruptions of the technological processes in production lead to unacceptable variations in the properties of casting products. To guarantee the conformance of the casting structure with the demanded one, the non-destructive testing methods can be employed.[...]
(PDF) Use of DRI/HBI in ironmaking and steelmaking furnaces
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Production of Iron-Ore Pellets with an Organic Binder
Feature of iron-ore cold-bonded composite pellets is, raw materials pellletizing with a cold-hardening binder. Bentonite is the most widely used binder in iron ore pelletizing.[...]
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DISAMATIC is a production line used for the realization of castings parts. This process is used for big lot of productions or for automative parts. DISAMATIC consists on a model machine and a model carrier. The model is in green sand and Bentonite. The sand is pressed so to form the model.[...]
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Jablkoň and its subgroups
Taking into account the wide genre range of the band, we've decided to differ various kinds of programmes to enable our listener a better orientation. These programmes overlap to a certain extent, however they maintain their specific character. In other words: it's always Jablkoň but slightly different in each programme.
"Malá lesní Jablkoň" ("Little Forest Jablkoň") is a folk subgroup. This programme is designed especially for Czech listeners. It usually plays songs from albums "Bláznivá" ("Crazy") and "Písničky" ("Songs"). Its members are mostly Michal and Martin for folk or Michal, » show more
Martin and Johnny for folkrock.
"Jablkoň" is traditional Jablkoň that plays compositions from the whole genre spectrum, but mainly from "Baba Aga" and "Machalaj" albums. This version of Jablkoň can be rock, folkrock, alternative or slightly jazzy. The configuration is: Michal, Martin, Johnny and Petr or only with three musicians (without the percussionist). This mutation is sometimes called "Velká polní Jablkoň" ("Big Field Jablkoň"), however this name is not often use.
"Jablkoň & Svěcený" Michal, Martin, Johnny and Petr are accompanied with Jaroslav Svěcený. This serious "branch" exists in the field of experimental classical music and alternative music. Its repertoire is drawn mainly from the "Jablkoň & Svěcený" and "Mumlava" albums.
"Symfonický Jablkoň" - Jablkoň & Svěcený accompanied with the Czech Symphony Orchestra. The programme of this ensemble (of approximately seventy members) is recorded on a live album "Symphonic Jablkoň".
It must be added, that this orientation system has disorientated some of our fans to such extent that they can't make us out at all. Nonetheless it's clear that if someone comes to see "Malá lesní Jablkoň" he won't presumably hear compositions such as "Falling", "A Folk Tune", "Good Hand" etc. On the other hand while listening to "Jablkoň & Svěcený" you won't encounter songs like "Crazy" or "Barbara is in love with Charles". If you come to "Jablkoň" (the basic version), then everything is possible. I will be pleased to answer any contingent questions.
If talking about ourselves, it is usually better to let others speak. It is then necessary to mention here an article about Jablkoň from Jiří Černý. This article was originally written for a "Pragokoncert" leaflet, later appeared as a sleeve-note of "The Ninth Wave" and having been repeated a hundred-times became "a classic".
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Infinite Dark #5
In: Comics
"Infinite Dark #5" Comic Review
Written by James Ferguson
Published by Image Comics / Top Cow Productions
Written by Ryan Cady
Illustrated by Andrea Mutti
Colored by K. Michael Russell
Lettered by Troy Peteri
2019, 32 Pages, $3.99
Comic released on April 10th, 2019
Deva Karrell looked into the abyss and something looked back. In a daring move to save the space station Orpheus along with what's left of mankind, she confronted the mysterious Entity and presumably died. She wakes up from a coma after a few weeks, onboard the Orpheus again and full of questions. How did she get here? What happened while she was out? And can anyone else see that creepy stuff that's following her around?
Infinite Dark was already a creepy space thriller. As it enters its second arc, it grows by leaps and bounds, showing that it's full of possibilities and all of them are just as unsettling as ever. The Orpheus has changed a bit while Deva was out, which makes for an alarming wake up for her. The Board of Directors has been shaken up and they're using some questionable tactics to keep the public calm, mostly by not giving them any detail as to what's going on. This has created a fascist-like rule that has made the Orpheus a powder keg.
One of the most alarming aspects of Infinite Dark is what has happened to the space station itself. In an effort to cut off an infected part of the ship and save everyone, Deva initiates the Honeybee Protocol, which leaves the ship with an outer mirror effect, surrounding the Orpheus in a reflective, tangible pseudoreality field. Picture a huge mirror that you can't see through. Now remember that this big ship is flying through space and they can't see where they're going.
There's a lot to take in with all this. There are some pretty heady concepts and a ton to explain. Letterer Troy Peteri delivers all of this information without overpowering the panels with tons and tons of text. The word balloons are positioned in such a way as to guide us through the story without taking over the artwork.
Deva is still dealing with the trauma from her encounter with the Entity. Artist Andrea Mutti creates a claustrophobic tone for her scenes as shadows loom around her like claws. The fact that she's in a big tin can hurtling through space only adds to this. You get the feeling that something is watching Deva, forcing her to constantly look over her shoulder. You can see this in her eyes.
In trying to make some sense of this, Deva gets into a mind-meld of sorts, using some VR programs with another person. What follows is an interesting journey through her own head as she searches for answers. Colorist K. Michael Russell brings this alive in a fiery fashion, making these scenes stand out from the rest of the cold, metallic tone. There are bright yellows, oranges, and reds here as Deva digs deeper and deeper.
I keep getting a Dead Space vibe when I think about Infinite Dark. That's definitely not a bad thing, as that is an incredible survival thriller set in space. This is a bit more cerebral but no less terrifying. Writer Ryan Cady has introduced some pretty awesome concepts that challenge the way we look at space and the monsters we might find there.
K. Michael Russell
Andrea Mutti
Infinite Dark
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Ab-Normal Beauty (aka Sei mong se jun)
By: Sham
Ab-Normal Beauty (aka Sei mong se jun) DVD Review
Written by Sham
DVD released by Tartan Films USA
Written and directed by Oxide Pang
2004, Region 1 (NTSC), 98 minutes, Not rated
DVD released on December 26th, 2005
Race Wong as Jiney
Roseanne Wong as Jas
Anson Leung as Anson
Michelle Mee as Jiney’s Mum
Ab-Normal Beauty, the latest scare-show from Oxide Pang, who directed 2002’s The Eye alongside his twin brother Danny, is appropriately and abnormally beautiful
Much like The Eye, a perfect example of substance over style that managed to be effectively scary and moving, there’s much more style here than you might expect. That’s not to say the substance takes a backseat in this one. The movie spends a good amount of its runtime developing the characters, and this works extremely well. You rent a movie like Ab-Normal Beauty to see a violent horror film. I expected vicious torture and sadism, and I thought I was ready for it
However, when the violence kicked in and took a firm grip on the leading characters, I wanted it to end right then and there. In the midst of a great horror movie, I forgot these were only characters of Pang’s brilliant mind, and not real people of flesh and blood. Once the torture gets raw and the blood starts pouring, it doesn’t let up for one second
Jiney (Race Wong) is an art student who loves photography. She’s getting bored with the traditional nature shots her and her lover, Jas (Roseanne Wong), always take. But after Jiney witnesses a gruesome, and fatal, car accident, she finds herself intrigued and strangely stimulated. Jiney takes a picture of the corpse, and from then on, she becomes fascinated with taking pictures that represent death.
Jas discovers Jiney’s problem and becomes worried. She must help her stop this addiction before Jiney turns mad – and murderous. When Jiney goes clean, however, someone else begins taking pictures of dead people and sending them to her
But were the people in these photographs already dead, or has one photographer’s obsession gone too far
Real-life sisters Race and Roseanne Wong play the lovers, Jiney and Jas, and it’s not an uncanny casting decision in the least. It’s actually a smart one. Who better to have onscreen chemistry than two people who’ve spent their lives together? The sisters’ performances are powerful and effective, and, because they’ve each made you care about their characters, the climax hits twice as hard with its level of extreme brutality
Horror movies have a line and a bar in terms of cinema violence. They either cross the line or raise the bar. Sometimes they do both, and sometimes they do neither
It’s hard to say where Ab-Normal Beauty stands in that perspective. So much of its time is spent with the essence of great people overcoming intricate obstacles, rather than a twisted mind doing sick things. It takes its time with the story and is in no rush to harm or dispatch anyone involved. When someone does in fact kick the bucket, you’ll never forget that feeling.
And that’s what makes a great horror movie.
Ab-Normal Beauty’s most noticeable flaw is some macroblocking in the darker sequences, specifically the scenes that take place in Jiney’s “dark room” for processing pictures.
Other than these scenes, the colors are vibrant and striking. The blacks are appropriately dark, and the reds are never too murky or too bright.
Audio is presented in DTS Surround Sound 5.1 and Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. The score by Payont Permsith is outstanding. The movie makes good use of the backs and sides significantly, and the soundtrack never overpowers the dialogue. This is how a DVD is supposed to sound.
English and Spanish subtitles are available.
The Making of Ab-Normal Beauty
The first special feature on the disc is an 11-minute behind-the-scenes look, including small interviews with director Oxide Pang and performers Race Wong, Roseanne Wong, and Anson Leung. Pang talks a lot about how he tried to beautify the violent sequences, and also how he used a digital process called the telecine procedure that colorized the movie. The Wong sisters and Anson Leung discuss their characters and their experiences on set.
The seven deleted scenes are unnecessary and, for the most part, don’t need to be in the movie. They’re still a good watch, though.
The photo gallery has nine stills taken from the movie that are played over a digital camera.
Trailers for Ab-Normal Beauty, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Face, Spider Forest, Oldboy, and Hare the final special features.
Movie: A strikingly beautiful and malignant horror film.
Video: Despite the macroblocking, the picture looks great.
Audio: A fantastic score and DTS track.
Features: The trailers and featurette are OK, but a commentary would’ve been nice.
Overall: A worthy addition to Tartan Asia Extreme’s ever-growing collection. Ab-Normal Beauty is an excellent horror film on a fine DVD.
An intense and moving experience from beginning to end.
I absolutely loved it.
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Liza Carroll
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Liza was appointed as Director-General of the Department of Housing and Public Works in August 2015. She has over 15 years senior executive experience across the Australian and Queensland Governments. During this time Liza has delivered reforms in the areas of housing, homelessness, families, income support and communities.
Liza is the former Associate Secretary of Indigenous Affairs in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. She started her career in the early childhood education and higher education arenas.
Liza has a keen interest in public sector leadership and administration in terms of strategy and delivery for government and the community.
Richard Cassidy
Assistant Director-General, Building Legislation and Policy
BComm
Richard Cassidy has previously worked for the department as the Executive Director, Office of the Chief Advisor Procurement which saw him leading development and implementation of the Buy Queensland Procurement Policy to deliver broader economic, social and environmental outcomes for Queensland through the Government’s procurement spend.
Richard has also spent time as a management consultant providing infrastructure advisory services and prior to that working for Queensland Health implementing large system-wide reforms.
Richard brings many years’ strategic leadership experience within public sector environments, with an approach characterised by a strong focus on outcomes and a demonstrated ability to develop policy and strategy solutions which meet the needs of diverse stakeholder groups.
Graham Atkins
Deputy Director-General, Building Policy and Asset Management
BA Science (Quantity Surveying), Associate Dip. of Applied Science (Building)
Graham has vast experience in the building and construction industry spanning a number of decades. Graham has contributed to the Executive Leadership Team in his role as Deputy Director-General since joining the department in July 2011. Graham has held senior executive positions within other government departments, including Deputy Director-General of the Department of Education and Training, where he was responsible for infrastructure planning and delivery. Graham holds a Queensland Open Builders Licence.
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Paige has more than 30 years’ experience in the sport and recreation industry as an athlete, coach and administrator.
Since joining the Queensland Government in 1993, Paige has held positions in program development and delivery, infrastructure development, industry consultancy and capacity building, land use planning, research, governance, legislation and policy. During her public service career, Paige has worked across a number of portfolios including main roads, racing, infrastructure and planning, national parks, sport and recreation.
Prior to this role, Paige’s was the Executive Director in Strategic Policy and Racing Industry Governance, where she successfully merged her government and industry experience to develop strategic policy and strategy.
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Trish joined the Department of Housing and Public Works in September 2016. She has almost 20 years’ experience in public administration, working across a range of social policy and service delivery agencies in State Government (Queensland and Victoria) and the Commonwealth Government (Department of Human Services, Department of Social Services and Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet).
Trish is an experienced leader of social policy reforms nationally while contributing to the critical business transformation and modernisation of a number of social policy agencies to improve government delivery of key services and improve policy capability.
Trish holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Social Work.
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Robyn has worked in a number of public sector departments but for the last 27 years within the various iterations of the Department of Housing and Public Works. Robyn was appointed as the first Internal Audit Manager for the department and went on to fill a variety of positions until her appointment to the Assistant Director-General Corporate Services position in 2007.
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Dallas commenced his ICT career with the Department of Defence in Canberra and followed up with a number of roles in the Federal Public Service before returning to his home state of Queensland. His senior leadership roles in Queensland include Assistant Director-General, Strategic ICT, General Manager, CITEC, Executive Director, Telecommunications and Digital Economy Coordination Office and Chief Information Officer, Queensland Rail.
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Deputy Director-General, Digital Technology and Services
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Andrew Spina has worked in the Queensland public sector for more than 30 years and has extensive experience in leading the delivery of Information Communication and Technology services and the delivery of government services.
Andrew has undertaken Deputy Director-General and Assistant Director-General roles providing strategic leadership to CITEC, ICT Strategic Sourcing, ICT Renewal, Smart Services Queensland, Queensland State Archives, the One Stop Shop Program and digital economy development programs.
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Welcome to Huddersfield Society of Model Engineers (HSME)
Welcome to HSME. We are an organisation that, with the help of our members, is trying to bring together Model Engineers in Huddersfield.
This is HSME's home on the web. What are we about? We are a group of people who enjoy the world of Model Engineering from building to just playing with models.
There are five areas to the Society:
Huddersfield Scale Model Boating
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Huddersfield "G" Gauge 45mm Railways
The Society operates from two sited located within half a mile of each other just outside Huddersfield Ring Road.
Huddersfield Model Boats is currently overseen by our President Mr Richard Lyons who is responsible for promoting Scale Model Boats here in Huddersfield. Huddersfield Model Boats have a purpose built boating lake which is based at our Highfields HQ and can accomodate Scale models requiring up to 18" of water depth.
Huddersfield Miniature Ride on Railways is currently overseen by Mr Rob Bryan who is a member of the Society Committee responsible for promoting Ride on Railways at the Highfields Site. Highfields has a High Level Raised railway track to take 3 1/2", 5" & 7 1/4" guage locomotives. The track is in the form of a loop around our Highfields HQ Site and has a footbridge to cross over the tracks on entering the site. The loop is 440ft around the site with a station and tunnel.
Huddersfield RC Trucks have a road system at our Highfields Site HQ to test out your driving skills.
Huddersfield 4x4 Model Rock Crawlers have an area complete with various skill testing obstacles that only the very best drivers can complete! Fortunatly these models can take a pounding when all goes wrong!
Huddersfield 45mm G Gauge Railways is currently overseen by Mr Trevor Chappell who is a member of the Society Committee responsible for promoting G Guage within the Society. Highfields has three Loops with sidings for the G Scale Railways and has recently been extended. We have also electrified the track to allow all 45mm types.
Our Highfields site has parking, toilets on site catering and workshop facilities available 24 x 7 to our membership. Whats more our membership fee works out at only £2.50 per month!
We also have a purpose built railway located at our Secondary site in nearby Greenhead Park. This Operation is our Commercial Offering. This is a ground level track and takes 7 1/4" locomotives. This operation was founded to provide income for our Society and a high level of enjoyment for our fee paying passengers.
We believe we offer one of the best packages available for miles around so why not pop down and see us any Saturday between 11am & 2pm to check it out for yourself. Anyone is able to join and you dont even have to have a model.
Our Railway Located at Greenhead Park Huddersfield
Membership of the Society is only £30 per annum and once a member you have access to the Society HQ 24 x 7 365 days a year as well as being able to help out in Greenhead Park where you can just help out or Guard or Drive the Locomotives.
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William C. Banks, Contributor
SU College of Law Board of Advisors Distinguished Professor & SU Maxwell School Professor of Public Administration and International Affair
David M. Driesen, Contributor
University Professor at the College of Law, focuses on environmental law, law and economics, and constitutional law.
100 Days, Trump, And Precaution
Environmental law embraces the “precautionary principle” as a guide for decision makers in dealing with uncertainty. The precautionary principle supports taking cost effective measures to address catastrophic or irreversible harm even before we have a complete understanding of an environmental threat, lest we act too late. We act on this common-sense principle when we look both ways before crossing a street or purchase insurance before a flood or hurricane occurs.
The precautionary principle may prove useful in managing the potential threats that an erratic and unpredictable Trump Administration may pose to national security in the next 100 days and beyond. Troubling revelations about the Trump campaign’s ties with Russia and Russian influence on the election dominated much of the first 100 days. Trump’s surprising decision to bomb Syria in response to a horrific gas attack on civilians and to claim that he was sending an armada to North Korea (when the ships were headed in the opposite direction) have commanded more attention than the Russian ties toward the end of the first 100 days, in spite of a new revelation that a special court found that the government had probable cause to believe that former Trump advisor Carter Page was a Russian agent.
Just as we often do not have a complete understanding of potential environmental threats that we must manage, we cannot know for sure what dangers the unpredictable Trump administration may pose to national security. Trump’s strike against Syria, while widely applauded as an appealing response to a horrific chemical weapons attack, may do more harm than good to our national security by further marginalizing the role of Congress in authorizing military force and causing Russia to repudiate an agreement to avoid interfering with our efforts to defeat Al Queda.
To what extent will Trump’s unconstitutional travel bans aid ISIS and Al Queda recruitment by suggesting that we disrespect Muslims? Will Russia dangerously assume that we will not defend the Ukraine because of Russia’s ties to Donald Trump? And how much damage may future impetuous decisions cause? We just don’t know.
Furthermore, impulsive unilateral measures can cause catastrophic and irreversible harms—the sort of harm that the precautionary principle is designed to address. the President’s bellicose threats to attack North Korea may make for good television sound bites, but they could lead to nuclear war. And by promising to send a battleship toward North Korea whilst it steamed off in another direction, Trump increased the odds of grave miscalculation by adversaries.
Instead of reacting to each new tweet and tick of the Trump administration we should take precautionary measures before irreversible and catastrophic harm takes place. The Constitution places the war power in the Congress precisely to prevent a single person from making decisions that imperil the country. Congress must now exercise its authority to explicitly limit Trump’s discretion to act unilaterally. Congressmen Edward Markey and Ted Lieu have introduced legislation to prohibit first strikes with nuclear weapons. Congress should hold hearings on that bill and consider other limits on Trump’s war power, such as geographic or enemy-specific limits on the use of military force. And, regardless of the views of individual Congressmen on the wisdom or desirability of the Syrian air strike or the evolving aggressive approach to Korea, they should reaffirm that President Trump does not have the constitutional authority to attack countries on his own unless they attack us first. That principle needs reassertion not just because of the dangers that Trump’s actions have already created, but because of our inability to know the scope of dangers to national security future impetuous foreign policy may create. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has made it perfectly clear that President Trump is willing to violate his oath of office by attacking North Korea without Congressional authorization, relying on his constitutional powers. The Commander-in-Chief has authority to direct troops in battle once Congress declares war, but has no power to initiate a war without Congressional authorization.
Trump’s ties with Russia and his praise of Putin also create the possibility that Trump may find waging war an attractive way of shoring up his own standing and of assuming more and more autocratic powers. The Senate investigation of Trump’s ties with Russia must be aggressive and Congress should authorize a joint bipartisan commission to investigate as well. And we should demand the release of Trump’s tax returns. Even if the horror of seeing “beautiful babies” slaughtered motivated the last strike, we need to know what private or foreign interests may influence the next one.
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Dons Denied Against Celtic at Pittodrie
Any hope of delaying Celtic’s title celebrations were dashed at a cold Pittodrie on Saturday afternoon.
The injury ravaged Dons side had their work cut out to have any chance of stopping Celtic in their tracks, but it was not to be.
Tony Docherty took the reigns for this one after Derek McInnes was seeing out a touchline ban after reacting to sectarian abuse from Celtic supporters during the Scottish Cup Semi-Final at the start of April.
Aberdeen made three changes to the side that lost to The Rangers.
Andrew Considine was out due to suspension, Connor McLennan and Stephen Gleeson were also ruled out due to injury.
In their place, came in Shay Logan – returning from his ankle injury following the Scottish Cup match against Queen of the South in February and Mikey Devlin and Greg Stewart.
In the most part the Dons held their own in the first half, the opening chance was created by Kieran Tierney who found Tom Rogic, his weak header was saved by Joe Lewis.
James Wilson should have put the Dons ahead in the 17th minute, when a Stevie May cross from inside the penalty area picked him out, he hit his half volley into the ground and it bounced over Scott bain and clipped the bar.
Joe Lewis came to the rescue again after Mikey Devlin allowed a 40 yard punt to go over his head, that allowed Odsonne Edouard a free go a goal, but Lewis came off his line and saved his shot from close range.
Another should’ve situation for the Dons when Scott McKenna put an excellent cross behind the defence to pick out Sam Cosgrove, the striker’s shot was blocked by Bain but fell to Wilson who shot just inches wide – again a scoring opportunity for the Man Utd loanee.
It wasn’t long after that when Celtic went ahead in the 39th minute, when Lustig got past Stevie May, and met the ball with a diving header to put the visitors in front.
In what was becoming a familiar story, James Wilson missed yet another opportunity when he caught onto a May cross but fired his shot over the cross-bar.
In the 52nd minute, Jozo Simunovic was on target from a McGregor corner, the centre-back rose above Scott McKenna and headed home Celtic’s second of the day.
Mikey Devlin had a chance in the 83rd minute when he met a corner at the front of post, his header though was saved by Bain.
The final nail in the coffin came from Edouard who fired home in the 88th minute.
Derek McInnes told the club website: “I’m pretty sure the majority of the reports today will say that if you don’t take those chances against Celtic when they come then it normally comes back to bite you. I’m disappointed we haven’t struck first. The first five or ten minutes I thought Celtic had a wee bit of a foothold without causing us too many problems and thereafter we were very good in terms of counter attacking with a good shape. We were asking a couple of boys to play out of position slightly, but I thought the pressure on the ball was good and we defended ok.
“The lack of concentration for the first goal disappoints me especially after having those chances. There should be more pressure on the ball initially in the wider area as McGregor puts the ball in and as a consequence my back four have to be deeper when there’s zonal pressure. That ball where it bounces before Lustig puts his head on it should be defended by an Aberdeen player because we’re too high when there’s no pressure on the ball. Stevie being out of position potentially is a factor in dropping Lustig.
“We spoke at half time about the positives and making sure we defend better. I was disappointed we gave away a corner, although Shay’s lacking a bit of sharpness and deserves a lot of credit, but we gave away a corner for the second. It doesn’t matter what team you’re against if you’re not getting that first touch in your own box from set plays a lot of the time you can find yourself in a lot of trouble. We should defend and not let Simonovic get the free header and we’ve been punished for it.
“At 2-0 we’ve got a lot to do, but we still had a lot of good moments. We’ve got to be more clinical with our work and show more quality in the final third because we got into good areas. It was a strange game and I think 3-0 in terms of the context of the game maybe seemed to be a bit harsh on us, but when I go through the goals from our point of view the disappointing thing for me is I don’t think Celtic have had to show their quality to get the goals. For me a lot of it was self-inflicted.
“They had their lead and saw the game through.”
Sam Cosgrove commented: “Football’s a game of fine margins and they were more clinical in our box. We’ve had some great chances in the first half to put it away and I think 3-0 is harsh on the balance of play. We’ve got to be better in their box and our box though.
“It was a great save from Bain from myself, but they’re the chances we’ve got to put away. When the team’s up against the wall we can take massive pressure off everyone else if we put those chances away. I think all the forward boys have got to take a lot of responsibility. I’ve got to do better potentially with that shot then Willo’s (James Wilson) got to do better also. We’ll learn but as forward players we’ve got to take a big chunk of that responsibility.
“You cant get away from hard work. We’ll get back to the training pitch and have done it time and time again this season. We’ve picked up some very big results against big teams and have come close to beating them here too. We can do it, but it’s those fine margins that sometimes you can’t overcome on the day.
“The core nucleus of the squad of 15/16 senior players are fantastic and we were missing some big players, but since the boys have been missing the boys that have come in and taken the responsibility have been absolutely fantastic. The overall performance showed that today. We were comfortable, soaked up a lot of their pressure at times and caused them problems. We’ve got a lot to take from that.”
“We’ll most likely recruit well and a club like Aberdeen we’re always striving to get to as close to the top of the table as we can. I don’t think there’s anything to fear and we’ve shown we can get some good results against them this season. We’ll be looking to do the same again next season.
“It’s been a massive learning curve for me. It’s what I’d class as my first full professional season and having the games at the start against Burnley were absolutely fantastic. I then found myself out the team for a spell, but coming back in and scoring the goals I have I’ve got to put pressure on myself again to do exactly the same.
“It’s vital that we get to Europe again. There’s a big pressure on Aberdeen and have done it in numerous years. We’ve always got into Europe through second place and unfortunately we’ve not got there through second, but I think it’s going to go down to the wire. It’s our focus to get as many points as we can and get that last spot.”
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Security forces arrest IS Mortar detachment Commander in Anbar
by Loaa Adel May 26, 2019, 2:08 pm
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Anbar (IraqiNews) Military Intelligence Directorate announced, on Sunday, apprehending a dangerous terrorist, known as Abi Zubair, in Anbar. It added that the terrorist is the IS commander of mortar detachment and participated in Saqlawiyah battles against security forces.
In a press statement, the directorate indicated that security forces arrested the terrorist Abi Zubair, the commander of mortar detachment in al-Sajar area in Anbar.
The operation was conducted based on accurate intelligence information, and backed by the security forces of the 40th brigade, the statement added.
Abi Zubair is one of the terrorists who participated in Saqlawiyah battles against security forces, the statement explained. He has two brothers who are also members of the Islamic State group, but fled to Turkey during the liberation battles.
In early 2014, the Islamic State launched a successful campaign to seize control of Anbar province, after defeating Iraqi Army.
A number of operations were conducted to remove the group’s occupation of the province. The operations include Anbar campaign (2015–16), the Western Anbar offensive (September 2017) and the 2017 Western Iraq campaign.
Former Iraqi Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi announced the liberation of the province on 2017.
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Micheál Martin seeks to strip emotion from united Ireland topic
White Paper from FF leader will be valuable contribution to debate intensified by Brexit
Mon, Mar 13, 2017, 01:00
Fiach Kelly
John McNamee, dressed as a customs worker, joined members of Border Communities Against Brexit to protest against Brexit by setting up an old customs post at Carrickcarnon in February 2017. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
With his forthcoming White Paper on a united Ireland, Micheál Martin is seeking to strip a charged topic of some of the substantial layers of emotion applied over decades, often by his own party.
It is no surprise that Fianna Fáil favours a united Ireland but Martin is now seeking to cast the argument for reunification in practical terms.
Brexit has resurrected a debate that had been confined to Sinn Féin calls for a poll on the Border, as allowed under the Belfast Agreement. The Government has placed Northern Ireland and possibly unity near the top of its Brexit agenda.
Yet Martin says his thinking on the White Paper pre-dates Brexit. He has been formulating his approach over the past two to three years, and is somewhat taking his cue from the approach of the Scottish National Party (SNP) in 2013, ahead of the 2014 independence referendum. They, too, produced a White Paper, to give detail to their goal.
The Brexit referendum itself – when voters chose to leave the EU without a proper idea of their future relationship with the bloc – illustrates how not to approach a unity referendum, Martin says.
Nobody, he argues, should be in any doubt about what a future united Ireland would look like before they cast their ballots.
“I want to pin it on the idea of the blueprint, the idea of what it would look like. To try and identify what we are talking about. Moving well beyond the fourth green field.”
Unified curriculum
“The very fact of not naming a date or not using a timeframe is evidence of the type of consensus, harmony-building approach I want to see.
“The unionist community go back into their trenches if they feel there is a threat or acceleration towards unity. To a certain extent, that actually works against the unity agenda.”
His paper will propose 12 concrete ideas that would help cross-Border relations before any referendum is held. One proposal is to begin an alignment of school curriculums, starting with English and history.
“The list of Seamus Heaney’s work, for example, would be on both. The work of Frank McGuinness would be on both.”
The decade of commemorations shows how a common historical understanding can be reached.
“[Sinn Féin’s] Gerry Kelly once said there are two narratives and we should get on with it. In that you have a republican narrative and unionist narrative. We don’t agree with that. You can develop, in history, common understood narratives, greater understanding of a common history.”
Another practical proposal is a unified enterprise agency that could, he says, attract foreign direct investment to areas such as the Donegal-Derry region, unhindered by the Border
On the broader constitutional arrangements, Martin casts his thinking as an “evolution” of the Belfast Agreement, albeit with influence shifting from London to Dublin.
Economic challenges
“People must understand that a future united Ireland will very much involve a three-strand approach,” he says.
“There would have to be a UK-Ireland agreement and it could be a reverse to where we are now. You could have a united Ireland emerging that still has a UK involvement, where you still have dual citizenship.
“Unionists still feeling they are part of the UK but it would almost be a reverse dynamic to the one you have at the moment where the emphasis is on Westminster and the Westminster government.”
This would include a “long-term” agreement with the UK government to ensure that Northern Ireland does not fall off a financial cliff edge but is weaned off its current block grant from Westminster.
The economic challenges will take years to address, as the Northern Ireland economy would have to be transformed from one that is heavily dependent on the public sector.
The SNP White Paper somewhat fell down on the question of sterling and how an independent Scotland, freed from Westminster, would fund itself.
The ideal for many would be that a question of such importance as Irish unity would transcend the euro, pounds, pennies and cents but recent opinion polls suggest otherwise.
The British government has estimated that its block grant to Northern Ireland will be worth €12.5 billon by 2020.
Martin acknowledges it will not only be people in Northern Ireland who would have to be persuaded.
“I see some of the surveys saying that if you had to pay extra tax, would you vote for it and the polls go down.
“It is not a slam dunk by any means. The people of the Republic need to be taken along as well.”
Brexit, and the way in which Northern Ireland would develop outside the EU, at least means Irish unity is being seriously discussed in a way it hasn’t been in decades.
A detailed White Paper from Martin will be a valuable contribution to the debate.
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Prince Philip ‘shocked and shaken’ but unhurt after car crash
Land Rover driven by Duke of Edinburgh (97) overturned after collision with Kia
Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 22:10
The man who helped Britain's Prince Philip after his car flipped over following a crash with another vehicle, describes how he helped the 97-year-old escape the debris. Video: Reuters
Prince Philip: the accident happened on the A149 at Sandringham just before 3pm on Thursday. File photograph: Neil Hall/Reuters
The Duke of Edinburgh was left “very shocked” and shaken following a car crash, but walked away unhurt after his vehicle reportedly overturned.
Philip, 97, was driving a Land Rover when the accident involving a Kia happened near the queen’s Sandringham Estate. According to witnesses, who contacted the BBC.
Philip’s Land Rover rolled over during the collision on Thursday afternoon. The witnesses helped the duke from his vehicle, the BBC reported, and its website quoted them as saying the queen’s consort was conscious but “very, very shocked” and shaken.
Norfolk police said officers were called to the A149 at Sandringham just before 3pm after a Land Rover and a Kia were involved in a collision. “The male driver of the Land Rover was uninjured. The female driver of the Kia suffered cuts while the female passenger sustained an arm injury, both requiring hospital treatment,” the force said. “We can confirm both casualties from the Kia have been treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn and have since been discharged.
“The road remained open and both vehicles were recovered a short time later.
“It is force policy to breath test drivers involved in collisions. We can confirm both drivers were breath tested and provided negative readings.”
The crash happened at the Babingley crossroads on a stretch of the A149 which runs between the town of King’s Lynn and the north Norfolk coast. It is single carriageway and has a 60mph speed limit. A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman confirmed the duke was driving when the accident happened. She added: “He saw a doctor as a precaution and the doctor confirmed he was not injured.”
It appeared to be quite serious, there was a lot of glass over the road as well as debris
The spokeswoman would not comment on suggestions Philip may have been travelling with a passenger, who is likely to have been his close protection officer.
Berneen Caney, 25, who witnessed the scene of the accident, said: “It appeared to be quite serious, there was a lot of glass over the road as well as debris. I saw one of the cars was quite badly damaged – as for the Range Rover, its windows were smashed.” The support worker from King’s Lynn added: “By the time I passed by, the Range Rover had been tipped back up on its wheels.
“I didn’t see that much as I was more concerned the car in front of me was braking to turn off and that there was glass and debris all over the road. “There was a lot of people there including police, and there was a paramedic there too.”
Philip and the queen, who has been informed about the accident, are staying at Sandringham, their residence during their traditional winter break. The duke, who retired from public duties in the summer of 2017 and last April had a hip replacement operation, is known to remain active. He was photographed in the summer driving a carriage, although he has given up competing competitively with the horse-drawn transport. But with the queen’s consort in his 98th year there may be calls from some for the duke to give up driving. Edmund King, AA president, said: “Young, predominantly male, drivers are much more likely to crash within six months of passing their test than older drivers within six months of hanging up their keys.
“Older drivers often self-restrict their driving by not driving at night and only driving on familiar roads.
“The decision to hang up your keys is a tough one but should be based on personal advice from your GP and family, rather than being based on some arbitrary age.”
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Kids Comics Month: Get To Know Nick Dragotta
Nick Dragotta
Co-Creator/Artist Known for: Howtoons Vol. 1 TP (DEC140668)
PREVIEWSworld: How would you describe your comic to a young reader to get them excited about it?
Nick Dragotta: In Howtoons, brother and sister Tucker and Celine, take us on wild adventures that show us how to make things using everyday household goods. Things like marshmallow shooters, soda bottle rockets, zoetropes, turkey baster flutes, and more. Don't tell anyone, but we integrate the educational material into the comic book storytelling so you don't even know you're learning!
PREVIEWSworld: What got you excited about your comic? Is there any part in particular you can share about the upcoming story?
Nick Dragotta: I like the challenge of trying to capture a kid’s imagination. If the story is a success, then we can inspire them to go and learn through play… to live the adventure they just read. My favorite story recently is called, “Bubblelonia”. In it, Tuck and Celine visit a new planet that's entirely made up of a soap solution. They bring back samples and reverse engineer it to fill their back yard with bubbles!
PREVIEWSworld: What do you think is the most essential building block in crafting a story geared toward young readers? And how have you employed it in one of your more recent projects?
Nick Dragotta: I try to make some aspect of the characters relatable. I think kids want to identify with what they read.
PREVIEWSworld: What was your favorite comic as a kid? And how does it continue to influence you today?
Nick Dragotta: I loved Sal Buscema's The Spectacular Spider-Man. I think we can all learn something from the clarity in his storytelling.
1. The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan
WHY? Shaun Tan creates comics that are otherworldly and read like nothing else. They make you think.
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WHY? I love how simple, yet dynamic, Akira Toriyama’s drawings and storytelling is…
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Kilim, a word of Turkish origin, denotes a pileless textile of many uses produced by one of several flatweaving techniques that have a common or closely related heritage and are practiced in the geographical area that includes parts of Turkey (Anatolia and Thrace), North Africa, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia and China.
Although at times you may find kilim rugs included in the general genre of "oriental rugs", in more accepted practice, kilims are in a class of their own.
The major difference between a kilim area rug and a carpet or a pile rug is that whereas the design visible on a pile rugs is made by individual short strands of different color being knotted onto the warps and held together by pressing the wefts tightly, kilim designs are made by interweaving the variously colored wefts and warps, thus creating what is known as a flatweave.
Pile Rug Detail
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Weft Faced Plainweave
Kilim Weaving Technique
Diagonal Slits
Kilims are generally woven with the slitweave technique. The slit refers to the gap left between two blocks of color. It is created by returning the weft around the last warp in a color area, and the weft of the adjacent color is later returned around the adjacent warp.
Weavers pack the weft tightly to completely cover the warp and often favor diagonal patterns so as to avoid weakening the structure of the rug with vertical slits. It produces bold, sharp patterns that weavers enjoy creating with more freedom allowed than a plainweave. This is also why kilims are so closely associated with geometrical designs even though there are are kilims with floral designs as well.
Please click for more about traditional weaving techniques.
Are kilim rugs just floor coverings? No, some are hangings, some are bench or divan coverings, bags or mule saddles.
Kilim Chuval
Multi Wing Room Divider
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What does it take to make a kilim? In material terms, not very much really. A loom, a beating comb, a shuttle (optional) and a knife or scissors are the simple tools needed and wool is the primary material. Cotton, silk and animal hair (goat, camel, or horse) are also sometimes used, mostly in conjunction with wool. Gold or silver thread, beads, and other small decorative baubles that strike the weaver's fancy are also sometimes inserted into the design, but not very often.
Vertical Slits and Jijims
The earliest known illustration of a loom appears on an Egyptian bowl dated to ca. 4000BC, but its invention is believed to have been made even earlier, at the dawn of civilization. Today, though looms may vary in type, size and complexity of construction, in most cases they are quite simple structures of wood with, perhaps, a few metal parts.
The function of the loom is to hold the longitudinal strands (known as warps) under tension so that the horizontal strands (called wefts) can be woven between the warps to produce a kilim rug. Custom and circumstances usually determine the type of loom used. Sedentary villagers usually employ a fixed vertical loom while nomads, for the sake of portability, generally employ a horizontal ground loom where stakes driven into the ground hold the loom in position.
Adjustable looms with a fixed width but with a mechanism permitting the completed horizontal kilim section to be moved out of the way of the weaver are usually found in more sophisticated contemporary kilim workshops.
Wooden Vertical Loom
A beating comb is usually just a larger and cruder version of the familiar hair comb; it is usually made of wood, metal, bone, horn, or some combination of these materials. Its function is to compress, i.e. "beat down", succeeding lines of wefts against the preceding ones so that the kilim rug produced is tightly woven.
The shuttle is basically a stick with notches in the ends. When used, the weft end is placed in the notch and the shuttle is then inserted between alternate warps to produce a weave, but weavers often prefer to dispense with the shuttle and pass the weft between the warps by hand.
Beating Comb
Hand-loom Weaving
A knife or scissors are used to cut and trim the wefts and warps.
Working on Loom
Wool is the primary and often the only material used to make a kilim rug. Many kilims are made totally from wool where it is used for both warps and wefts, and wool is the primary weft material used with cotton warps, which accounts for the great majority of all kilims.
This popularity of wool is due to its inherent qualities. It is supple, durable, handles easily when spun or woven, readily takes on dyes and, most important, is in plentiful supply in kilim-making regions. There are certain breeds of sheep, like the merino, whose fleece is especially sought-after for its special luster and length of fiber, but actually it's the domestic fat-tailed sheep bred with its favorable climatic and grazing conditions that provides much of the excellent fleece used in kilims.
Vegetable Dyed Wool
Cotton is commonly used for warps because of its high strength and plentiful supply. Also, because it keeps its shape well in use, retains its natural whiteness with age, and because it can be spun into fine, thin strands, it is commonly interwoven in places to highlight certain aspects in the overall design executed mainly with wool.
Jijim with White Cotton Weft
Animal hair - goat, camel or horse - is used sparely in kilim-making, but to good effect. Very strong and durable camel hair, where available, is sometimes used to give added strength to a woolen kilim rug, while tail or mane hair of horses is used by some nomads to provide decorative fringes or tassels. Goat hair was commonly used to weave nomadic tent and floor covers for its strength. Whereas goat hair is rougher that wool, angora goat hair, "mohair", is much softer and gives a silky sheen when mixed with wool. Mohair is also used to make the lustrous "filikli tulu" with its shining locks of hair.
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Silk was and remains a luxurious material, and though flatweaves made from silk are now rare they are still produced, notably in the Kayseri district of Anatolia in Turkey. Bridal dowries that include silk flatweaves are treasured, regarded as status symbols, and protected as family wealth.
Beads and baubles, and other items that may be regarded as extraneous to a flatweave readily marketable in Western countries, are sometimes interwoven into a kilim design by some tribal kilim-makers and, due to their very authenticity, such kilims have a certain ethnic appeal.
However, this is not all and throughout these pages you will find information regarding the unique traditions, culture, and heritage of the kilim.
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If you’d like to know more about our custom kilim services, please feel free to get in touch by emailing: sales1@kilim.com. You may also visit our new, vintage or antique kilim collections in our website, where you can browse by color, size, and price. Have fun!
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When you purchase a kilim or a hand-knotted pile rug, you are purchasing an item that has the power to completely change the character of a room – whether that means creating a central focus, bringing a space together, or the ‘wow factor’.
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In recent years, a new trend has been emerging in the rug industry that has seen older rugs being given a make-over to complement the modern home. While the patterns and colors of traditional rugs remain an exquisite insight into regional craftsmanship of Anatolia...
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Tulu is the English pronunciation for the Turkish word, "tüylü" meaning hairy. The technique used for weaving is similar to that of the Middle and Western Anatolian carpets. The number of wefts is slightly more than that of the regional carpets and the yarn for tying is spun loose...
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When choosing a rug to complete a room, we feel it’s important to go beyond the aesthetics and consider the material it is made of. While rugs made from synthetic fabrics may look similar to wool versions, when you scratch beneath the surface...
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Arden Guest House
Situated in the heart of Kenilworth, Arden Guest House is located close to stylish restaurants and bars. The accommodation offers large cooked breakfasts, en suite rooms, free WiFi and radio. The bedrooms have an en suite shower room with free toiletries. Amenities include tea/coffee making facilities, bottled water and flat-screen TV. In the morning, guests can help themselves to a buffet breakfast including cereals, fresh fruit and yoghurts. Full English breakfasts are cooked to order and available when pre-ordered the night before. Stoneleigh Park is just 3 miles away, while Warwick University is just 4 miles from Arden Guest House. A selection of leaflets for Kenilworth and surrounding areas are available in the guest lounge.
Broadwell Guest House
With a stay at Broadwell Guest House in Solihull, you'll be within a 10-minute drive of National Exhibition Centre (NEC) and Resorts World Birmingham. Free self parking is available onsite.
Situated in the quiet village of Arley, Still Waters guest house offers free Wi-Fi access, free on-site parking, a large garden and a shared TV lounge. It is set in 3 acres of beautifully landscaped gardens, and just 17 minutes’ drive north of Coventry. With views of the surrounding countryside, the rooms at Still Waters are uniquely decorated in the old English style. Each room includes a flat-screen TV, a seating area, a hairdryer, tea and coffee making facilities and complimentary toiletries. Some of the rooms also benefit from a private bathroom. Oakridge Golf Club is 2 miles away and Bosworth Battlefield is a 28-minute journey in the car. The vibrant city of Birmingham, home to the Bullring Shopping Centre is a 29-minute journey by car. It houses a large selection of shops, pubs and restaurants for guests to enjoy. Birmingham Airport is 11 miles away and Allesley Park is a short 18-minute drive in the car.
Old Ivy House Bed & Breakfast
Located in Nuneaton, Old Ivy House Bed & Breakfast is in a rural location, within a 15-minute drive of Twycross Zoo and Garlands Leisure. Free self parking is available onsite.
Ferndale House
With a stay at Ferndale House in Kenilworth, you'll be within a 10-minute drive of University of Warwick and Warwick Racecourse. Free self parking is available onsite.
Coombe Abbey Hotel
Located in Coventry, Coombe Abbey Hotel is in a regional park, within a 15-minute drive of Coventry Transport Museum and Coventry Cathedral. Featured amenities include a 24-hour business center, express check-out, and dry cleaning/laundry services. Self parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.
DoubleTree by Hilton at the Ricoh Arena - Coventry
Welcome to the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel at the Ricoh Arena - Coventry. This impressive hotel enjoys a prime location in The Ricoh Arena, home of Premiership Rugby Club Wasps and Coventry City FC. The Ricoh Arena is also host to business, entertainment and sporting events, as well as the Grosvenor G Casino Coventry. Connect easily with three train stations within 8 miles and reach Birmingham International Airport in 20 minutes. Your stay begins with a freshly baked chocolate chip cookie at check-in. Each guest room at our DoubleTree by Hilton hotel features WiFi access, a 42-inch or 47-inch HDTV and tea/coffee facilities. Some guest rooms boast stadium pitch views. Corporate guests will appreciate the sleek workspace and evening room service. Choose a suite for separate living and dining areas. Enjoy breakfast and dinner in our stylish restaurant, bar and coffee lounge. Keep up with the latest news and sports in our Restaurant and Bistro. Our Bistro offers an a la carte menu and is perfect for a quick lunch or snack. Both have fully stocked bars with draught and bottled beers, wines and spirits. Re-energize after a busy day in our fitness center with Precor© equipment. Guests can enjoy access to a wealth of event space at The Ricoh Arena. Host up to 7,000 guests in the 6,000 sq. meter Jaguar Exhibition Hall, choose from one of 80 suites. A sunlit lounge is perfect for a wedding reception.
Warwick Conferences - Scarman
Warwick Conferences – Scarman offers accommodation at the University of Warwick campus, on the outskirts of Coventry, 4.8 km from the city centre. Coventry train station is 5.8 km away and London is only an hour away by train. The rooms come with a flat-screen TV and en-suite facilities containing towels, complimentary toiletries and a hairdryer. As well as tea/coffee making facilities, there is an iron, ironing board and trouser press. A desk and free Wi-Fi is available in each room. There is also 24 hour room service and pillow menus. Set within 700 acres of rural parkland and surrounded by lakes and outdoor spaces, the university campus offers a wide range of bars, cafes, restaurants, as well as a collection of sports facilities, including swimming, gym, climbing wall, squash and tennis. Guests get complimentary access to the swimming pool and gym facilities at the campus sports centre. At the centre of campus guests will find Warwick Arts Centre, which offers a diverse programme of arts and entertainment. There is also plenty waiting to be explored nearby, including the historic towns of Stratford –upon-Avon and Warwick. Birmingham Airport is 14 km from the property.
The Kenilworth
With a stay at The Kenilworth in Kenilworth, you'll be within a 10-minute drive of University of Warwick and Warwick Racecourse. Free self parking is available onsite.
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Jurys Inn Hinckley Island
With a stay at Jurys Inn Hinckley Island in Hinckley, you'll be near the airport, within a 15-minute drive of Ricoh Arena and Stoney Cove Diving Centre. Featured amenities include a 24-hour business center, express check-in, and express check-out. Free self parking is available onsite.
Holiday Inn Express Nuneaton
An eco-friendly Nuneaton hotel in Bermuda Park with free parking and breakfast includedHoliday Inn Express® Nuneaton hotel has great motorway network connections, placing you a short drive from the M6 motorway.Bermuda Park's entertainment venues are on the hotel’s doorstep, while events at the Ricoh Arena are a quick drive away. Alternatively, catch a train from nearby Bermuda Park station to the arena, Coventry or Nuneaton. Birmingham Airport (BHX) and central Birmingham company headquarters can be reached in under half an hour by car. Corporate travellers can host up to 30 people in the hotel's 2 naturally lit meeting rooms. Bermuda Park offers a multiscreen cinema and bowling alley, steps from the hotel. Guests enjoy discounted entry to the neighbouring Nuffield Health Nuneaton Fitness & Wellbeing Gym. A 30-minute drive away, you can climb Warwick Castle’s medieval towers, or experience Drayton Manor Theme Park's thrill rides.At this hotel you can enjoy:- Free WiFi- Complimentary parking- Electric car charging pointsKick-start your day with the inclusive Express Start™ Breakfast buffet, featuring scrambled eggs, sausages and continental items. In the evening, enjoy a light meal in the smart dining area and relax with a glass of wine in the 24-hour lobby bar. Comfortable rooms with blackout curtains promote unbroken rest.
The Old Mill by Greene King Inns
Located in Coventry, The Old Mill by Greene King Inns is in a rural location, within a 10-minute drive of Ryton Pools Country Park and Lady Godiva Statue. Free self parking is available onsite.
Abbeyfield
Located in Kenilworth, Abbeyfield is within a 15-minute drive of University of Warwick and Warwick Racecourse. Featured amenities include complimentary wired Internet access, a 24-hour front desk, and laundry facilities. Free self parking is available onsite.
Pros: Excellent room, clean, comfortable. Modern but plenty of character. Friendly helpful staff. Excellent food, dinner and breakfast.
Cons: Not enough milk with tea-making kit. Motion detector in bathroom needs to be more sensitive to prevent blackouts. Don't need "muzak" at breakfast!
Pros: Comfortable bed, good breakfast.
Pros: The hotel is ideally situated for my needs. It is pleasant, comfortable and quiet.
Cons: Only a small point but it would be nice to be able to switch off the bedside lamp with a switch on the lamp rather than having to reach through the bedside table and switch off the power from the socket.
Pros: The superb resraurant with excellent service and value
Cons: I have none
Pros: Great on-site restaurant
Cons: Parking behind hotel is difficult to find on arrival and has narrow spaces
Pros: We stayed here when dropping our son off at Warwick Uni. Very convenient for uni, and nice part of the world. Hotel is small but rooms are clean and well designed and restaurant is good. Particularly found the staff professional and relaxed. A good team. We have already booked our return.
Pros: High quality feel to the room, quality textiles and linen. Excellent bed. Food first class. Will definately stay again.
Cons: Although my room was beutifully finnished it was rather small - room 26. Brealfast service a little casual.
Pros: Absolutely superb idea mixing the hotel with a Loch Fyne restaurant. Excellent evening meal and superb kippers for breakfast. Couldn't believe some people were having bacon and eggs!
Cons: Can't think of any.
Pros: Beautiful characteristic building, clean modern bedrooms, polite and helpful staff, great seafood restaurant, very close to Kenilworth Castle, close to many other great bars, restaurants and pubs.
Cons: I eventually had to leave.
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Holiday Inn Coventry M6, Jct.2
A stylish hotel five miles from Coventry city centre, with free parking and Wi-Fi, plus a health club and a conference centre Holiday Inn® Coventry M6, Jct.2 hotel is less than a mile from the M6 and M69 motorways, so there's easy access to the Midlands and the North. You can drive to Birmingham Airport (BHX) in 20 minutes. Car parking is free, and a bus into Coventry city centre takes half an hour. You can walk to a Showcase De Lux and a ten-pin bowling alley in less than 10 minutes, while Birmingham's NEC and the neighbouring Resorts World leisure complex are 20 minutes' drive away. History buffs can drive the 15 miles to Warwick Castle, and Stratford-upon-Avon is half an hour away by car. Cross Point Business Park is right next door, and Coventry University Technology Park only five miles away. You can also host meetings in the hotel. The hotel's Academy conference centre has 21 meeting rooms, state-of-the-art audiovisual equipment and free Wi-Fi. There's also a host desk and optional secretarial services. You can work out in the Fitness Centre, or relax in the steam room and the indoor pool. The hotel garden has a children's play area. Enjoy a full English breakfast buffet or a hearty dinner in the Open Lobby, grab snacks in the lounge bar, or order room service 24/7.
Innkeeper's Lodge Birmingham - Nec , Meriden
With real fires and traditional food, this 17th-century coaching inn located in Meridien is only 20 minutes’ drive from the centre of Birmingham. It has elegant bedrooms with free toiletries. The on-site Bulls Head Village Pub & Kitchen serves fresh seasonal pub food and real ales all day. Guests can get a continental buffet breakfast in the morning. The bedrooms at Innkeeper's Lodge Birmingham (NEC), Meriden are decorated in natural tones and some are beamed. Each bathroom has a shower, and guests can enjoy tea/coffee making facilities. The Birmingham NEC is less than a 10-minute drive from Innkeeper’s Lodge Meriden, while Coventry and Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens Trust are a 15-minute drive away.
Warwick Conferences - Arden
Warwick Conferences - Arden is situated within mature gardens on the University of Warwick campus on the outskirts of Coventry, 3 miles from the city centre. Birmingham Airport is just 10 miles from the property and London is only an hour away by train. Each room includes a TV and en-suite facilities. Guests will find a work space in their room as well as tea/coffee making facilities. Towels and bed linen are provided, and ironing facilities are also available. As well as access to free high-speed WiFi. There is an on-site restaurant that provides breakfast, lunch and dinner and it can accommodate dietary requirements. Warwick Conferences - Arden has 20 syndicate rooms and 10 lecture rooms that can accommodate a range of business functions. There’s plenty for guests to do throughout their stay too. Set within 700 acres of rural parkland and surrounded by lakes and relaxing outdoor spaces, the university campus offers a wide range of bars, cafes, restaurants, as well as a comprehensive collection of sports facilities, including swimming, gym, climbing wall, squash and tennis. Guests get complimentary access to the swimming pool and gym facilities at the campus sports centre. At the centre of campus you'll find Warwick Arts Centre, with a diverse programme of arts and entertainment. Guests can also explore the nearby historic towns of Stratford-upon-Avon and Warwick.
OYO Dakota
With a stay at The Strawberry Bank in Solihull, you'll be within a 5-minute drive of National Exhibition Centre (NEC) and National Motorcycle Museum. Featured amenities include dry cleaning/laundry services, a 24-hour front desk, and luggage storage. Free self parking is available onsite.
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The Jerry Orbach Memorial Art Car
I want to transform a used sedan into a lowrider-style tribute to Jerry Orbach.
Brandon Bird
Project We Love Los Angeles, CA Conceptual Art
I'm Brandon Bird, and I'm an artist living in Los Angeles. Driving around Southern California, I've often seen people use their vehicle as a memorial to a loved one who has passed away. Usually, this is a decal in the rear window, noting the person's date of birth and date of death. But there's also a much larger tradition of using the entire car as a surface for self-expression (here's a good article about one of the prime examples of lowrider art). I started thinking about the kind of art car I'd like to make. Who would I want the pay tribute to? The choice was obvious.
I would like to raise the money to:
1) Buy a used sedan (something big and American-made from the early 2000s, like a Crown Vic),
2) Hire some of Southern California's talented airbrush muralists, pinstripers, and body paint experts,
(example of work by @oscargraphics)
3) Work with those artists turn the sedan into a custom work of art dedicated to the late actor Jerry Orbach.
Q: But why Jerry Orbach?
A: Jerry Orbach has long functioned as a source of personal and artistic inspiration. A muse, if you will.
Many years ago, I found myself in a rut--I was about to be unemployed, and the most exciting thing in my life were "Law & Order" marathons on TNT. But in Jerry Orbach's character of Detective Lennie Briscoe, I found a spark. Here was a man made weary by the world, who nonetheless persevered. His acerbic wit and hangdog attitude couldn't mask a natural warmth and kindness. I got off the couch, and put together an art show. I made a "Law & Order" coloring book, which was the first thing I ever did that became a viral hit, and that has snowballed into an entire career making ridiculous pop art. I owe a lot of good things in my life to Jerry Orbach.
A bemused Jerry Orbach is shown the "Law & Order" coloring book on "Late Night w/ Conan O'Brien."
His own life was also filled with kindness. He wrote a love note to his wife every day before heading to the set of "Law & Order," and he famously donated his corneas after passing away. If that's not the type of person we should be remembering through art, then who is?
Q: So what will this car look like?
A: Simply put... I don't know! Rather than being locked into a design I come up with, I want to rely on the input and creativity of the people who will actually be doing the work. The design will also be determined by budget. The minimum fundraising goal will cover an airbrushed mural of Jerry on the hood, a sparkly new-from-the-ground-up paint job, and some pinstriping flourishes. The more we raise over that minimum, the more intricate the design can become.
I also want to bring backers into the design process, using video updates to document the selection of the car and interview the artists involved.
I know "art car" might conjure images of a Santa Cruz hippie gluing Happy Meal toys all over their VW, but I want to assure you that what I'm going for is something sleek and beautiful, befitting both the art form and the subject. I want to make something as rad as Jerry Orbach.
Q: Hold on, are just trying to use Kickstarter to scam a free car?
A: Nope, I already have a car to get around in. This car will be driven as little as possible--mostly for cruise nights, auto shows, art events, and wherever else an Orbach car may be needed.
Q: Have you done a Kickstarter before?
A: Yes, I drove around the country and painted Sears. With that project, I'd say 50% of the rewards went out right on time, 30 or 40% were mailed within six months of their promised date, and then that last 10% or so were a year or more late (in Kickstarter terms, I'd say that rates a B or B+). Most of the late rewards were late because they involved the creation of individualized works of art. This time, almost all of the rewards are pre-designed and ready to be printed or manufactured pretty much as soon as the Kickstarter closes.
Q: So what are these rewards?
A: I'm glad you asked, because I think they're pretty good! A pledge of $6 will get you your choice of one of these four bumper stickers, and ten dollars gets you all four:
A $12 donation gets you this nifty suction cup placard:
$15 gets you a handsome laser-cut wood keychain:
$20 gets you this one-of-a-kind air freshener (it smells like roses!):
And $50 gets you the bumper stickers, placard, keychain, and air freshener together in one set.
$125 gets you the bumper stickers, placard, keychain, seven copies of the air freshener (so you'll always have a fresh backup), AND an exclusive T-shirt with this design:
Higher-end rewards start at $200 and include all of the goodies listed above plus things like a simulated ride-along via Skype and your name inscribed on the car itself like they do with donors to museums and such.
If you live in Southern California and have $450 to burn, I'll pick you up in the finished car and we'll go get a burger (again, you must live within 120 miles of Los Angeles to claim this reward, or be traveling there at some point in the near future--I can probably make your Orbach experience fit in with your summer vacation to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter).
Last and not least, $500 will get you... a jacket. Not just any jacket, but an ultra-exclusive, gold satin Jerry Orbach driving jacket, made with some help from my friends at Big Bud Press:
(And because Kickstarter doesn't like you making multiple donations, you can get the jacket and every other thing, plus a tiny piece of original art, for $1000.)
Q: Anything else you'd like to add to get me psyched for this project?
A: Yes:
The biggest potential headache is that this involves a car, and cars can be giant money-drains, so I hope that I have budgeted appropriately for unexpected expenses.
The world of "car art" is also a new world for me to navigate, but so far, from talking to car owners and getting quotes from artists, I think that will be fun and interesting rather than challenging.
My previous Kickstarter experience taught me a lot about not overextending myself, and how to get rewards out more efficiently. One of the key things I wish I'd done better with that project was keeping the audience (i.e, you, the backers) more involved in the middle stages, that period between getting funded and completion. That's why I'm planning more video updates, bringing you into the studio (or garage, as it were).
Choose from one of four designs: "Honk If You Miss Jerry Orbach," "Gas, Grass, or Jerry Orbach: Nobody Rides for Free," "My Child is an Honor Roll Student at Jerry Orbach Elementary," or "My Other Car is Jerry Orbach."
Set of all four bumper stickers
Get all four designs: "Honk If You Miss Jerry Orbach," "Gas, Grass, or Jerry Orbach: Nobody Rides for Free," "My Child is an Honor Roll Student at Jerry Orbach Elementary," AND "My Other Car is Jerry Orbach."
"Orbach On Board" window placard
This yellow plastic placard measures approximately 5" x 5" and includes a suction cup to affix in your window.
Laser-cut wood keychain
Carry Jerry in your pocket at all times. Measures about 2" x 2.5" and includes attached key ring.
Full-color, double-sided, rose-scented air freshener. Hangs easily on your rear view mirror and comes in unique packaging.
Keychain + Bumper Stickers Combo
The laser-cut wood keychain + all four bumper stickers.
"Ride Forever" T-shirt
White T-shirt of the campaign central graphic: a sunglasses-wearing Orbach silhouetted against a setting sun and the phrase "Ride Forever."
(You'll be able to pick your size when completing the backer's survey, should this project get funded.)
Economy Class Prize Package
You get all four bumper stickers, the "Orbach on Board" placard, the laser-cut keychain, AND the air freshener for one low pledge.
Air freshener 7-pack
Own multiple cars? Want a supply of fresh backups to last a couple years? Gifts for friends? Get this seven-pack of air fresheners and you're set. Includes seven copies of the Orbach & roses design.
High Octane Pack
All four bumper stickers, "Orbach on Board" placard, keychain
pack of seven air fresheners
Simulated Ride-Along
Includes everything in the High Octane package (all four bumper stickers, "Orbach on Board," keychain, seven air fresheners, T-shirt)
a simulated ride in the car via Skype when the car is completed
Estimated delivery Feb 2017
Includes everything in the High Octane package (all four bumper stickers, "Orbach on Board" placard, keychain, seven air fresheners, T-shirt)
Your name inscribed on the car signifying your status as an elite donor.
Southern California Ride-Along
NOTE: *Must* be located within 120 miles of Los Angeles, CA to claim this reward. You can either live in Southern California, or be willing to travel to Southern California.
Includes everything in the Winner's Circle package
I will pick you up in the Orbach car and we'll go get a burger. (Ride along can be arranged to best fit your schedule, and can occur anytime in 2017.)
Satin Driving Jacket
Gold satin driving jacket with Jerry Orbach's face on the back. Black collar and cuffs with a black interior. The ultimate clothing machine.
(You will be able to specify size in the backer's survey that is sent when the reward is ready to be fulfilled.)
Ultimate Orbach Fan
Everything in the Southern California Package (must be located in Southern California or willing to travel to Southern California to claim ride-along portion)
A small piece of original Orbach artwork used to create the rewards, signed by the artist (aka, me, Brandon Bird).
Mystery Painting
Want to put this project over the top into "fully funded" territory? I will send you an original oil painting on canvas that I am working on now. It's not finished, but I can tell you that it involves the characters of Lennie Briscoe (played by Jerry Orbach) and Detective Ed Green (Jesse L. Martin), and measures 36" x 30" (it's a big fella!).
Sep 20, 2016 - Oct 19, 2016 (28 days)
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Chasing moments
For so much of my life I chased this idea, or rather 'ideal' of how life ‘should’ be. But I kept coming back to the same thought, ‘surely this can’t be it’. And whilst I would try to convince myself I was on the right path, and that I was getting it right… deep down I knew I wasn’t.
It was this questioning, and a deep knowing that there was more to life that kept me searching. Searching for the truth. Searching for what feels aligned to living the life that I am here to live... a life of purpose, meaning and fulfilment.
I yearned for the feeling that was sometimes experienced as a glimmer, a moment, where everything felt like it was in perfect harmony.
Moments where it felt like I was 'home' with another human being; a deep sense of connection ignited where the world just makes sense being with this person.
Moments where the sky danced with colour, illuminated in all its glory as the sun would rise, and set.
Moments where time felt as if it was standing still, no longer separate but a part of something so much bigger.
Moments of pure joy felt in the simplest of things, laughter spilling over and hurting your sides.
Moments of peace; such stillness within.
Moments of purpose pulsing; the feeling of being alive so right, so expansive.
Moments of free-flowing expression; the feeling of thriving from a sense of achievement, of contribution, and the sweet taste of freedom.
These moments had me seek more.
They were calling to me… they would sing to me, whisper to me, sometimes scream at me; anything to get my attention.
Until I realised these moments aren’t just mere moments, they are innately who we are… these moments are a calling from our soul, to come home.
And yet on our journey home, we get lost. It’s crazy how we swing from feeling lost, then home, then lost once again. And we begin to lose faith, to lose belief, feeling defeated, uncertain, irritated, frustrated, and we fight. We fight by distracting ourselves… from ourselves.
We get busy making a life, creating moments of feel-goods which manifest into addiction – we numb, we push, we pull, we flight. And the fight is within us; not with the world. The world is purely a reflection of our internal fight.
These moments that call are innately who we are.
It is always there. Our essence of greatness is untouched. It is the fight that disconnects us.
To find our way home we must feel what we are feeling, and stop fighting. And to come home, is to admit we are in the fight.
Once we own the fight, it stops owning us.
There are still moments, and days I find myself in the fight.. but when I let go, and I stop fighting, I feel myself coming home. It's not about getting this right or being perfect... it's about knowing the way home.
Home is where we release what is not aligned to who we truly are. Where we allow our light to shine, our magnificence to magnify and our greatness to glow. Where we thrive inside and out.
These moments are not to be chased. Those moments are reminders calling us home… to feel, heal and to create a truly great life.
Ah yes, imagine a life made not from chasing moments, rather as a way of living, inside and out.
“We're all just walking each other home.” - Ram Dass
PS – if you are ready to ‘come home’, a 3-day retreat is soon to be announced in Melbourne. Numbers are limited so get in touch so I can send you the details. A truly great life awaits. Email me at lara@thegreatnessacademy.com.au
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Lara lives in Melbourne Australia.
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Bleomycin-Induced E Prostanoid Receptor Changes Alter Fibroblast Responses to Prostaglandin E2
Bethany B. Moore, Megan N. Ballinger, Eric S. White, Maranne E. Green, Amy B. Herrygers, Carol A. Wilke, Galen B. Toews and Marc Peters-Golden
J Immunol May 1, 2005, 174 (9) 5644-5649; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.174.9.5644
Bethany B. Moore
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Megan N. Ballinger
Eric S. White
Maranne E. Green
Amy B. Herrygers
Carol A. Wilke
Galen B. Toews
Marc Peters-Golden
Although PGE2 is a potent inhibitor of fibroblast function, PGE2 levels are paradoxically elevated in murine lungs undergoing fibrotic responses. Pulmonary fibroblasts from untreated mice expressed all four E prostanoid (EP) receptors for PGE2. However, following challenge with the fibrogenic agent, bleomycin, fibroblasts showed loss of EP2 expression. Lack of EP2 expression correlated with an inability of fibroblasts from bleomycin-treated mice to be inhibited by PGE2 in assays of proliferation or collagen synthesis and blunted cAMP elevations in response to PGE2. PGE2 was similarly unable to suppress proliferation or collagen synthesis in fibroblasts from EP2−/− mice despite expression of the other EP receptors. EP2−/−, but not EP1−/− or EP3−/− mice, showed exaggerated fibrotic responses to bleomycin administration in vivo as compared with wild-type controls. EP2 loss on fibroblasts was verified in a second model of pulmonary fibrosis using FITC. Our results for the first time link EP2 receptor loss on fibroblasts following fibrotic lung injury to altered suppression by PGE2 and thus identify a novel fibrogenic mechanism.
Features of pulmonary fibrosis include alveolar epithelial cell (AEC) 3 injury and hyperplasia, variable inflammation, fibroblast proliferation, and extracellular matrix deposition. The resulting disruption of lung architecture impairs gas exchange (1, 2, 3, 4). Current concepts emphasize the importance of altered regulation of the epithelial-mesenchymal trophic unit (5, 6). AECs normally inhibit fibroblast proliferation (7, 8). This is due at least in part to the production of the lipid mediator, PGE2, by the AECs (7, 9). During homeostasis, the close approximation of AECs and fibroblasts keeps fibroproliferation in check, preserving normal alveolar architecture and gas exchange. Conversely, insults that result in damage or loss of AECs could disrupt this unit and result in fibroblast proliferation and activation to secrete abundant extracellular matrix proteins. Inflammatory cells can also influence the interplay between AECs and fibroblasts by secreting both pro- and antifibrotic factors.
Although PGE2 can promote some inflammatory reactions, its effects on lung fibroblasts appear to be largely suppressive (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15). PGE2 has been shown to inhibit fibroblast proliferation, collagen secretion, and migration as well as inhibiting the ability of TGF-β1 to induce fibroblast to myofibroblast differentiation (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18). Variable effects of PGE2 relate in part to the fact that responsiveness to PGE2 is mediated by four distinct G-protein-coupled E prostanoid (EP) receptors (19), which are coupled to distinct intracellular signaling machinery. Stimulation of Gs-coupled EP2 and EP4 increases cAMP levels within the receptor-bearing cell (20, 21). Signaling via Gq-coupled EP1 increases intracellular Ca2+ (22). The Gi-coupled EP3 receptor can decrease cAMP (23). In vitro studies suggest that the cAMP-elevating EP2 and/or EP4 receptors are likely responsible for the inhibitory actions of PGE2 on fibroblasts. Activation of EP2 with elevation of cAMP has been shown to reduce collagen mRNA expression in fibroblasts (10) and TGF-β1-induced transformation of fibroblasts into myofibroblasts (13).
PGE2 is predominantly synthesized in the lung by three cell types, AECs (24), macrophages (25, 26), and fibroblasts (11, 17, 18, 27, 28). We and others have shown previously that administration of intratracheal bleomycin in mice, the best-studied animal model of pulmonary fibrosis, results in increased levels of PGE2 within lung homogenates at days 7–28 compared with saline-injected controls (29, 30). This increase in PGE2 is associated with the up-regulation of the cyclooxygenase-2 enzyme in lung cells in response to bleomycin (30). Given the inhibitory actions of PGE2 on lung fibroblast proliferation and collagen secretion, the development of fibrosis in the face of increased PGE2 production postbleomycin is paradoxical. Alterations in EP receptor expression on fibroblasts could explain the development of fibrosis despite the presence of PGE2. The paucity of studies evaluating whether the expression profile of EP receptors is altered in disease states motivated us to investigate this phenomenon in fibroblasts in models of pulmonary fibrosis and to determine the role of any possible alteration.
Herein, we demonstrate a loss of PGE2 suppression in fibroblasts from bleomycin-treated mice that is associated with reduced cellular expression of EP2. Genetic ablation of EP2 also results in altered fibroblast responsiveness to PGE2 in vitro and enhanced bleomycin-induced fibrosis in vivo.
C57BL /6 mice (6–8 wk) were from The Jackson Laboratory. EP1−/−, EP2−/−, and EP3−/− mice backcrossed more than eight generations to the C57BL/6 background were obtained from ONO Pharmaceutical Company and were bred in-house. Because of the difficulties in breeding the EP4−/− mice which develop patent ductus arteriosus, we did not analyze this genotype. BALB/c mice were also obtained from The Jackson Laboratory. The University of Michigan Committee on the Use and Care of Animals approved these experiments.
Bleomycin and FITC administration
Pulmonary fibrosis was induced in susceptible mouse strains via the administration of either bleomycin or FITC. A single 30-μl injection of bleomycin (containing 0.025 U; Sigma-Aldrich) or a 50-μl injection of FITC (containing 10 mg/ml) diluted in normal saline was injected intratracheally as previously described (31). Bleomycin studies were performed in C57BL/6 mice. FITC studies were performed in BALB/c mice. The use of two model systems allowed us to compare the changes seen in EP receptor expression following administration of two different fibrotic agents in two different mouse strains.
Fibroblast purification
Mice were treated with bleomycin on days −21, −14, or −7. On day 0, lungs from all groups of mice and lungs from untreated mice were perfused and minced, and minces were incubated in complete medium for 10–14 days (two to three passages) before use. Lungs from all groups of mice within a given experiment were harvested and assayed simultaneously. Studies in EP-deficient mice used fibroblasts purified from unchallenged mice. Following 14 days of culture, cultured cells are uniformly positive for collagen I via intracellular flow cytometry analysis. Additionally, cultured cells express mRNA for collagen I, collagen III, and fibronectin as we have shown previously (32).
Fibroblast proliferation assays
Fibroblasts (20,000 cells per well) were adhered in complete medium for 16–24 h. Complete medium was replaced with serum-free medium for an additional 24 h before fresh serum-free medium with or without PGE2 was added for another 24 h. Our previous studies have demonstrated that PGE2 can inhibit fibroblast functions at doses that range from 0.10–1 μM (11, 13). In these studies seeking to assess the integrity of responsiveness to PGE2, we chose to perform all of our functional assays with the maximal inhibitory dose of 1 μM. [3H]Thymidine was added for an additional 16 h before cells were harvested onto glass fiber filters and cpm were determined via scintillation counting.
Semiquantitative real-time RT-PCR
Semiquantitative RT-PCR (real-time PCR) was performed on an ABI Prism 7000 Thermocycler (Applied Biosystems) attached to a Dell Latitude laptop computer. Gene-specific primers and probes were designed using Primer Express software (PerkinElmer/Applied Biosystems). The sequences were as follows: EP1 forward: 5′-GTGCCAAGGGTGGTCCAA-3′, EP1 reverse: 5′-AACCACTGTGCCGGGAACTA-3′, EP 1 probe: 5′-6FAM-CCTAACCAAGAGTGCCTGGGAAGCCA-TAMRA-3′, EP2 forward: 5′-TGCGCTCAGTCCTCTGTTGT-3′, EP2 reverse: 5′TGGCACTGGACTGGGTAGAAC-3′, EP2 probe, 5′ 6FAM-CACTGAGAACACAAGAAGCTCAGCAAACAT-TAMRA-3′, EP3 forward: 5′-TCAGATGTCGGTTGAGCAATG-3′, EP3 reverse: 5′-AGCCAGGCGAACTGCAATTA-3′, EP3 probe: 5′-6FAM-AAGACACAGATGGGAAAGGAGAAGGAGTGC-TAMRA-3′, EP4 forward, 5′ ACGTCCCAGACCCTCCTGTA-3′, EP4 reverse, 5′-CGAACCTGGAAGCAAATTCC-3′, EP4 probe, 5′ 6FAM-CTGCCAGACCTGACTGAAAGCAGCCTC-TAMRA-3′. Murine β-actin was used as a control to compare changes in relative expression, the sequences are as follows: β-actin forward 5′-CTGCCTGACGGCCAAGTC-3′, β-actin reverse 5′-CAAGAAGGAAGGCTGGAAAAGAG-3′, β-actin probe 5′-6FAM-AACGAGAGGTTCCGATGCCCTG-TAMRA-3′. Briefly, the reaction mixture contained 250 ng of RNA, 12.5 μl of TaqMan 2× Universal PCR Master Mix, 0.625 μl of 40× MultiScribe and RNase Inhibitor Mix (Applied Biosystems and Roche), 250 nM probe, and forward and reverse primers at 300 nM in a final volume of 25 μl. For each time point, samples from individual mice (n = 2–3) were run in triplicate. The average cycle threshold (CT) was determined for each group of animals from a given experiment at each time point. Relative gene expression was calculated using the comparative CT method (33) which assesses the difference in gene expression between the gene of interest and an internal standard gene for each sample to generate the ΔΔCT. Relative gene expression was then determined by the formula 2−ΔΔCT. The average of the day 0 group was set to 1 for each independent experiment. Graphs represent mean ± SEM for three to five independent experiments.
Cells were grown to 85–95% confluence in 35-mm dishes and serum-starved for 24 h before exposure to treatments (serum-free medium, TGF-β1 (2 ng/ml) or TGF-β1 (2 ng/ml) + 1 μM PGE2) for 24 h more. Lysates were prepared and equal protein (15 μg) was loaded to analyze collagen content by Western blot as described (13). Blots were stripped and reprobed with β-tubulin to ensure equal protein loading in all cases.
cAMP assays
Fibroblasts (4 × 105 per 35-mm dish) were exposed to fresh medium containing 1 μM PGE2 or vehicle control for 15 min. Ethanol lysates were prepared, acetylated, and analyzed for cAMP using the cAMP detection kit from Cayman Chemicals as described (13).
Sircol assays
Total collagen content was determined by harvesting lungs from mice on day 21 postbleomycin or saline administration. Animals were euthanized and perfused with 2 ml of normal saline before all five lung lobes were removed, homogenized in 1 ml of normal saline, and spun at 2000 rpm for 10 min. Aliquots of lung homogenate (100 μl) were then assayed for total lung collagen levels and compared with a standard curve prepared from rat tail collagen using the Sircol collagen dye binding assay (Accurate) according to manufacturer’s directions.
Statistical significance was analyzed using Graphpad Prism version 3 (Graphpad Software) on a Dell Optiplex GX260 computer. When analyzing data from three or more groups, ANOVA was performed with a Tukey-Kramer multiple comparisons post hoc analysis. The real-time PCR data used a Dunnett posttest analysis. A value of p < 0.05 was considered significant.
PGE2 responsiveness is altered in fibroblasts purified from bleomycin-treated mice
PGE2 is known to be a potent inhibitor of fibroblast proliferation (14, 17) and is elevated in the lung following bleomycin exposure (29). Thus, we hypothesized that fibroblasts from fibrotic animals might lose their responsiveness to PGE2. We analyzed the ability of PGE2 to modulate proliferation of lung fibroblasts purified on days 0, 7, 14, and 21 postbleomycin. PGE2 at 1 μM was able to inhibit proliferation of day 0 fibroblasts by ∼43% (Fig. 1⇓, p < 0.01). However, there was no significant inhibition of day 7, 14, or 21 fibroblasts by PGE2 (Fig. 1⇓). In fact, PGE2 significantly stimulated the proliferation of day 14 and day 21 fibroblasts (p < 0.001).
Inhibition of proliferation by PGE2 is lost in fibroblasts from bleomycin-treated mice. Fibroblasts were isolated on indicated days postbleomycin. Fibroblasts were seeded at 20,000 cells per well in complete medium and allowed to adhere overnight. Fibroblasts were switched to serum-free medium for 24 h. The next day, fresh serum-free medium with (□) or without (▪) 1 μM PGE2 was added for an additional 24 h. Proliferation was then measured after 16 h of [3H]thymidine incorporation. Data represent n = 5 replicates per time point per condition and are representative of two similar experiments. ANOVA analysis indicated that there were significant differences among the groups (p < 0.0001). Post hoc Tukey-Kramer comparisons revealed that PGE2 inhibited proliferation in day 0 fibroblasts (∗, p < 0.01), had no effect in day 7 fibroblasts and stimulated proliferation in day 14 and day 21 fibroblasts (∗∗, p < 0.001) compared with untreated controls.
Fibroblast EP receptor profiles are altered following fibrotic challenge
To characterize the profile of EP receptor expression on fibroblasts isolated on days 0, 7, 14, and 21 postbleomycin, we developed primer/probe combinations for the analysis of EP1–4 by real-time PCR. On uninjured fibroblasts, levels of EP2 were highest, followed by EP3 and EP1. EP4 was expressed at low levels on uninjured fibroblasts (data not shown). Semiquantitative real-time RT-PCR demonstrated that levels of EP1, EP3, and EP4 did not significantly change on fibroblasts isolated from bleomycin-treated mice (Fig. 2⇓). There was a trend toward decreased EP4 expression at day 7, but EP4 levels returned to baseline by day 21. In contrast, levels of EP2 steadily declined with time postbleomycin and reached a significant level of inhibition by day 21 (p < 0.01). We sought to determine whether EP2 loss was a general feature of fibrotic responses. As pulmonary fibrosis can also be experimentally induced in the mouse by the intratracheal administration of FITC, we analyzed the expression of EP1–4 receptors on fibroblasts isolated from FITC-treated mice (Fig. 3⇓). Analogous to what was seen in the cells from bleomycin-treated mice, EP2 expression was significantly reduced by day 21 (p < 0.01). Interestingly, in this model system, EP4 also showed significant inhibition at day 21 post-FITC (p < 0.01). There were no significant changes in either EP1 or EP3 expression on fibroblasts post-FITC. Thus, EP2 receptors were down-regulated on fibroblasts following fibrosis induced by two different agents in two different strains.
EP2 receptor expression is diminished on fibroblasts from bleomycin-treated animals. Fibroblasts were isolated from individual mice on days 0, 7, 14, and 21 postbleomycin. Lung minces were cultured for 14 days and total RNA was prepared with TRIzol reagent. Total RNA from each sample was subjected to semiquantitative real-time PCR analysis for EP1–4 normalized to β-actin expression within the same sample. In multiple experiments, the average of the day 0 samples was normalized to 1 and the relative expression of the averages of day 7, 14, and 21 time points were calculated with respect to the normalized day 0 sample (n = 5). ANOVA analysis with a Dunnet’s posttest was performed to determine significance.
EP2 and EP4 expression are diminished on fibroblasts from FITC-treated animals. Fibroblasts were isolated from individual mice on days 0, 7, 14, and 21 post-FITC. Lung minces were cultured for 14 days, and total RNA was prepared with TRIzol reagent. Total RNA from each sample was subjected to semiquantitative real-time PCR analysis for EP1–4 normalized to β-actin expression within the same sample. In multiple experiments, the average of the day 0 samples was normalized to 1 and the relative expression of the averages of day 7, 14, and 21 time points were calculated with respect to the normalized day 0 sample (n = 3). ANOVA analysis with a Dunnet’s posttest was performed to determine significance.
Loss of EP2 is sufficient to abrogate PGE2 inhibition of fibroblasts
We next wanted to assess fibroblast function in cells with a genetic loss of specific EP receptors. Fibroblasts were purified from untreated wild-type, EP1−/−, EP2−/−, or EP3−/− mice and basal EP receptor profiles were examined. Fibroblasts from all three EP-deficient mouse strains expressed levels of the other three EP receptors that were comparable to those of wild-type cells (data not shown). Thus, ablation of a particular EP gene did not result in altered basal expression of other EP subtypes. We next investigated the proliferative response of fibroblasts from wild-type, EP1−/−, EP2−/−, and EP3−/− mice in the presence or absence of 1 μM PGE2. Fig. 4⇓A demonstrates that wild-type, EP1−/− and EP3−/− fibroblasts were all inhibited by 1 μM PGE2, whereas EP2−/− fibroblasts were not. In fact, fibroblasts from untreated EP2−/− mice had a phenotype similar to those from wild-type mice at days 14 and 21 postbleomycin (Fig. 1⇑) in which PGE2 tended to stimulate, rather than inhibit, proliferation. Because PGE2 also has potent inhibitory effects on collagen synthesis in fibroblasts, we also tested the responsiveness of fibroblasts from wild-type and EP-deficient mice to the suppressive effects of PGE2 on collagen synthetic capacity. Fig. 4⇓B demonstrates that in wild-type fibroblasts isolated on day 0, PGE2 was able to inhibit TGF-β1-induced collagen synthesis when measured by western blot (Fig. 4⇓B, panel 1). Similarly, PGE2 was able to inhibit TGF-β1-induced collagen synthesis in EP1−/− (Fig. 4⇓B, panel 3) and EP3−/− (panel 5) fibroblasts isolated on day 0. In contrast, PGE2 failed to inhibit TGF-β1-induced collagen synthesis in either wild-type fibroblasts isolated on day 21 postbleomycin (Fig. 4⇓B, panel 2) or EP2−/− fibroblasts isolated on day 0 (panel 4). Collectively, the inability of PGE2 to suppress proliferation (Fig. 4⇓A) or collagen synthesis (Fig. 4⇓B) in EP2−/− fibroblasts, despite the expression of EP4 in these cells, suggests that loss of EP2, rather than EP4, is the critical determinant of fibroblast unresponsiveness to PGE2 in bleomycin-treated mice.
Fibroblasts from EP2 deficient mice are not inhibited by PGE2. A, Fibroblasts were purified from wild-type, EP1−/−, EP2−/−, or EP3−/− mice and tested in proliferation assays in the presence (□) or absence (▪) of 1 μM PGE2. PGE2 inhibited proliferation of fibroblasts from all mice except EP2−/− (n = 8, ANOVA analysis, p < 0.0001) On post hoc Tukey-Kramer analysis, PGE2 was found to significantly inhibit wild-type and EP1−/− fibroblasts (∗, p < 0.05) as well as EP3−/− fibroblasts (∗∗, p < 0.001). B, Fibroblasts purified from either wild-type C57BL/6 (B6, day 0 or day 21) or EP1-, EP2-, or EP3-deficient mice (day 0) were serum starved for 24 h before addition of serum-free medium (SFM), 2 ng/ml TGF-β1 (TGF), or 2 ng/ml TGF-β1 + 1 μM PGE2 for an additional 24 h before the preparation of cell lysates for western blot analysis of collagen 1 protein. Blots shown are representative of three independent experiments. Inhibition of TGF-β1-induced-collagen expression by PGE2 in C57BL/6 day 0, EP1−/−, or EP3−/− cells ranged from 40 to 65%. Inhibition of collagen 1 secretion by C57BL/6 day 21 fibroblasts or EP2−/− fibroblasts was <10% for both in one experiment and increased in two other experiments.
cAMP responses are blunted in fibroblasts from bleomycin-treated mice in response to PGE2
EP2 is a Gs-coupled receptor which has been shown to stimulate adenyl cyclase leading to elevations of cAMP in response to PGE2 in receptor-bearing cells (20, 21). To determine whether loss of EP2 expression on fibroblasts from bleomycin-treated mice correlated with decreased cAMP signaling, equal numbers of fibroblasts purified from mice on days 0, 7, 14, and 21 postbleomycin were stimulated with medium alone or medium containing 1 μM PGE2 for 15 min before cellular lysates were prepared and analyzed for cAMP content. PGE2 stimulated a 2.32-fold increase in cAMP concentration in day 0 fibroblasts compared with nonstimulated day 0 fibroblasts. In contrast, PGE2 was only able to stimulate a 1.57-, 1.41-, and 1.48-fold increase in cAMP in fibroblasts isolated on days 7, 14, and 21, respectively (p < 0.05 for days 7, 14, and 21 compared with day 0). Thus, loss of EP2 expression resulted in blunted cAMP elevations in response to PGE2 in fibroblasts from bleomycin-treated mice.
EP2−/− mice develop worse fibrosis than wild-type controls in response to bleomycin in vivo
In view of the importance of EP2 in mediating PGE2 suppression of fibroblast activation, we hypothesized that genetic ablation of EP2 would predispose animals to a more severe fibrotic response to bleomycin in vivo. To test this, wild-type, EP1−/−, EP2 −/−, and EP3−/− mice were injected with saline or bleomycin on day 0. On day 21, lungs were harvested and total collagen content was measured. Fig. 5⇓A demonstrates that wild-type, EP1−/−, and EP3−/− mice all developed similar fibrotic responses to bleomycin. However, EP2−/− mice developed a more exaggerated response (p = 0.03). In Fig. 5⇓B, the mean value for collagen deposition in the saline-treated animals was subtracted from each of the bleomycin-treated animals and statistical analyses were performed on the incremental collagen levels. There was no statistical difference in the fibrotic responses of wild-type, EP1−/−, or EP3−/− mice. However, EP2−/− mice displayed a significantly enhanced fibrotic response (p < 0.05) compared with wild-type controls when challenged with bleomycin.
EP2-deficient mice develop a more severe fibrotic response to bleomycin in vivo. Wild-type, EP1−/−, EP2−/−, or EP3−/− mice were injected with saline (n = 5) or bleomycin (n = 8) on day 0. A, On day 21, lungs were harvested and total collagen content was determined. ANOVA analysis of the saline-treated samples showed no significant differences between genotypes (p = 0.07). ANOVA analysis of the bleomycin-treated samples did indicate a significant difference among the genotypes (p = 0.03). Post hoc Tukey-Kramer analysis demonstrated that EP2−/− mice developed a more exaggerated fibrotic response when treated with bleomycin compared with wild-type mice (p < 0.05). B, The average amount of collagen in the saline-treated mice was subtracted from the bleomycin-treated values for each genotype and the data were analyzed by ANOVA (p = 0.03). On post hoc analysis (Tukey-Kramer), there was no statistical difference in the total increases in collagen between the wild-type and EP1−/− or EP3−/− animals. However, EP2−/− mice showed a substantial increase in the total collagen levels accumulating in the lung in response to bleomycin when compared with wild-type levels (p < 0.05, representative of two similar experiments).
Following bleomycin administration, mice develop fibrotic lung disease that is characterized by AEC injury, inflammation, fibroproliferation, and collagen deposition. We and others have shown in the murine bleomycin model that levels of PGE2 within the lung are increased (29, 30). The mechanism for this increase is likely the up-regulation of the cyclooxygenase-2 enzyme in lung cells following bleomycin challenge (30). Given the abundant literature that demonstrates the antifibrotic effects of PGE2 on lung fibroblasts, a fibrogenic response in the murine model appears paradoxical in the setting of elevated levels of PGE2 postbleomycin. In this study, we tested the possibility that fibroblast responses to PGE2 may be altered following fibrotic injury via altered EP receptor expression and/or signaling. Our most striking finding was that expression of the inhibitory EP2 receptor was markedly diminished on fibroblasts purified from bleomycin- as well as FITC-treated lungs, and that genetic loss of EP2 alone was sufficient to render fibroblasts unresponsive to the inhibitory effects of PGE2 in vitro and to augment bleomycin-induced fibrosis in vivo. Thus, diminished EP2 receptor expression likely contributes to the fibroproliferation that occurs postbleomycin despite increased PGE2 production.
Our data demonstrate that fibroblasts lose responsiveness to PGE2 following bleomycin exposure. This is further supported by the finding that PGE2-mediated increases in cAMP are blunted in fibroblasts purified from bleomycin-treated mice compared with cells from naive animals. Interestingly, there is one report that fibroblasts from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients lose responsiveness to PGE2, although a mechanism for this loss of sensitivity was not defined (34) and this result has not been seen in all studies (35). We hypothesized that the loss of PGE2 sensitivity in mice may relate to altered EP receptor expression. This was of substantial interest because there is little known about regulation of EP expression during injury of the lung or other organs.
Responsiveness to PGE2 is dictated by the actions of four distinct EP receptors (19). We observed that lung fibroblasts expressed all four EP receptors when isolated from unchallenged mice. When levels of EP1, 2, 3, and 4 were analyzed in the same sample, EP4 was the receptor expressed at the lowest level (data not shown). Following fibrotic challenge with bleomycin, levels of EP1 and EP3 did not change significantly on fibroblasts. Levels of EP4 tended to be diminished at day 7, but returned to baseline by day 21. In contrast, there was a significant reduction in EP2 expression that was evident in some experiments by day 14, but did not reach statistical significance in all experiments until day 21. Similarly, when fibroblasts were isolated from FITC-challenged mice, there was again no change in EP1 or EP3 levels, but a dramatic decrease in both EP2 and EP4 that reached significance by day 21 post-FITC. The loss of EP2 was seen by day 21 following fibrosis induced by two different agents, suggesting that loss of EP2 may be a common event in the emergence of the fibrotic phenotype.
Previous studies have reported altered EP receptor expression on cells in response to endotoxin, serum, and stress (36, 37, 38, 39). In macrophages, LPS has been reported to increase levels of EP2 (37, 39). EP4 receptors have been reported to be both elevated (38) and reduced by LPS treatment (39). Treatment of macrophages with IFN-γ diminished expression of both EP2 and EP4 (37). It is possible that increased PGE2 production by lung fibroblasts following fibrotic challenge may contribute to the down-regulation of the EP2 receptor. Previous studies have demonstrated that treatment of macrophages with exogenous PGE2 can inhibit both EP2 and EP4 expression (37). We have observed that the fibroblasts isolated postbleomycin in the present studies do in fact secrete elevated levels of PGE2 at days 14 and 21 postbleomycin (approximately a 65% increase at both time points compared with day 0; data not shown). Thus, it is possible that elevated levels of fibroblast PGE2 contribute to the down-regulation of the EP2 receptor.
EP2 and EP4 receptor signaling is coupled to the generation of cAMP in the cell (20, 21) and the activation of EP2 or EP4, or receptor-independent increases in cAMP, has been shown to limit fibroblast responses such as collagen production, TGF-β1-induced myofibroblast transformation and migration (10, 13, 15). Thus, EP2 and EP4 are prime candidates as the inhibitory receptors for PGE2 actions on fibroblasts. Accordingly, loss of either or both of these two receptors could predict a state of unresponsiveness to PGE2 in fibroblasts derived from bleomycin-treated mice. This is exactly the phenotype that we observed. PGE2 stimulation resulted in blunted cAMP responses in fibroblasts from bleomycin-treated mice. Studies in Figs. 1⇑ and 4⇑ demonstrate that while fibroproliferation and collagen synthesis could be inhibited by PGE2 in fibroblasts from untreated mice, the fibroblasts from the bleomycin-treated mice were refractory to PGE2 inhibition. In fact, PGE2 treatment actually stimulated the proliferation of fibroblasts isolated at 14 and 21 days postbleomycin. The loss of EP2 expression that begins at day 14 and reaches a maximum at day 21 correlates well with our unpublished observations that fibroblasts isolated beginning at day 14 postbleomycin synthesize more collagen, with maximal synthesis seen in day 21 postbleomycin compared with day 0 controls. These changes, along with the changes in responsiveness to PGE2 shown in the current studies at days 14 and 21 suggest that the changes in fibroblast functional behavior are concomitant with the changes in EP2 expression. These results provide a mechanistic basis for why fibrosis can occur in murine models of pulmonary fibrosis despite the presence of increased levels of PGE2.
The altered PGE2 responsiveness of fibroblasts isolated at days 14 and 21 postbleomycin could have resulted from loss of EP2/EP4 and/or the possibility of stimulatory signaling via EP1/EP3. To evaluate the role that each of these receptors played in fibroblast responsiveness to PGE2 under basal conditions, we purified fibroblasts from wild-type, EP1−/−, EP2−/−, and EP3−/− mice and tested the effects of PGE2. Loss of EP1 or EP3 had no effect on inhibitory PGE2 signaling in fibroblasts. In contrast, EP2 deletion resulted in fibroblasts that were stimulated, rather than inhibited, by PGE2 in proliferation assays. Similarly, PGE2 had no inhibitory effect on collagen synthesis in fibroblasts from EP2−/− mice, despite the presence of EP1, EP3, and EP4 on these cells. These results were similar to the phenotype of wild-type fibroblasts isolated on day 21 postbleomycin. Similarly, fibroblasts isolated from mice on day 21 postbleomycin were unresponsive to inhibition by the selective EP2 agonist butaprost (data not shown). Collectively, these results suggest that loss of EP2 alone is sufficient to confer an altered murine fibroblast phenotype characterized by refractoriness to the inhibitory actions of PGE2. Because we have not analyzed EP4−/− mice, we cannot exclude the possibility that EP4 loss in the absence of EP2 loss will have functional effects. However, there are several arguments against a role for EP4 in mediating the inhibitory effects of PGE2 on fibroblasts in this system. 1) EP4 mRNA is less abundant than EP2 mRNA in fibroblasts at baseline. 2) EP2−/− fibroblasts are not inhibited by PGE2 in vitro despite the presence of normal levels of EP4. 3) Wild-type fibroblasts at day 21 postbleomycin lose responsiveness to PGE2 despite recovered levels of EP4. 4) EP2−/− mice develop worse fibrosis in vivo despite expression of EP4. It will be of interest to determine whether the human idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis fibroblasts which have been reported to lose PGE2 sensitivity (34) also show a similar loss of EP2 receptor expression. Of note, previous studies in human fibroblasts have suggested that EP2, and not EP4, is the primary receptor mediating PGE2 inhibition (13, 40). Thus, we believe EP2 receptor regulation will be the most critical determinant of altered responsiveness to PGE2.
The antifibrotic properties of PGE2 on fibroblasts from both mice and humans have suggested that PGE2 supplementation may provide a therapeutic option for patients with fibrotic disorders. Given the fact that PGE2 can stimulate many different responses including pain, fever, inflammation, and vasodilation upon stimulation of appropriate EP receptors on various cell types (19), the use of selective EP2 agonists as a more specific therapeutic option is potentially attractive. However, our results raise the possibility that loss of EP2 receptors may characterize fibrotic fibroblasts. If true, future research may need to focus on ways to increase EP2 and/or EP4 expression on fibrotic fibroblasts. Therapeutic strategies that increase cyclic AMP while bypassing the cell surface EP receptors represent an alternative approach. Although heretofore the focus of scant attention, our results clearly indicate that alterations in EP expression profiles during injury of the lung or other organs may represent an important determinant of pathophysiological responses and one which must be considered in therapeutic targeting strategies.
We thank Prof. Shuh Narumiya (Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan) for availability and Dr. Takayuki Maruyama (Discovery Research Institute I, Ono Pharmaceutical, Osaka, Japan) for provision of EP null mice for use in these studies.
The authors have no financial conflict of interest.
The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked advertisement in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.
↵1 This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grants HL071586 (to B.B.M.) and P50HL56402 (to B.B.M., G.B.T., and M.P.G.).
↵2 Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Bethany B. Moore, Department of Internal Medicine/Pulmonary, University of Michigan, 6301 MSRB III, 1150 West Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0642. E-mail address: BMoore{at}umich.edu
↵3 Abbreviations used in this paper: AEC, alveolar epithelial cell; EP, E prostanoid; CT, cycle threshold.
Received November 10, 2004.
Accepted February 25, 2005.
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Fiber optics technology represents the latest advance in optical gyroscopes. Implementing optical fiber has lowered costs and improved reliability. "Fiber-optic gyroscopes are less susceptible to the shock and stress they`re put under in some military applications," says Don Siebert, manager for electro-optics and fiber-optic gyro design at Allied Signal.
The new integrated opto-electronic modules are expected to be used in low-grade gyroscopes, such as rate-grade gyros, for platform stabilization applications in military tanks and smart munitions, for example, as well as in tactical gyros.
Allied Signal is also exploring new market opportunities for the volume production, lower cost rate gyros in commercial applications. In automobiles, for example, rate-grade gyros can be used for course navigation, ride stabilization and global positioning systems that will allow drivers to access map information located on the dashboard. "Customers won`t pay hundreds of dollars for these types of bells and whistles, but lower-cost rate gyros could bring this type of technology to market at a price they are willing to pay," says Siebert.
The ARPA award has enabled two industry giants to share their technical strengths and has activated a partnership that Siebert claims "wouldn`t have otherwise happened."
AT&T is hedging its bets that the advent of low-cost opto-electronic components will be the company`s foot in the door to the projected billion-dollar residential digital communication services market. Already a provider of high-bandwidth telecommunication solutions to the business community, AT&T hopes that low-cost opto-electronic components will provide an inexpensive way to bring fiber network applications, such as video- on-demand, data and voice, to the more price-sensitive home market.
The local exchange market was worth $90 billion in revenues in 1993 and according to the Federal Communications Commission, is expected to reach $150 billion by the turn of the century.
Many types of competitors, including local and long-distance carriers, independent telecommunications providers, cable-TV companies and utility companies, are all vying for a piece of the booming residential digital communications market. They all agree that the breakthrough is providing the high-speed connection from the fiber backbone loop to the home at reasonable cost. q
Lynn Haber is a freelance writer based in Boston.
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AUCTIONS UPDATES
Sheet of Canada’s famed Bluenose stamp tops $50,000 at Rasdale auction
Mar 6, 2017, 4 AM
Rasdale offered this attractive unused example of the Newfoundland 1s scarlet on mesh paper of 1857, with clear margins all around and bright color, during its auction in Chicago, where it realized $27,840.
Rasdale’s Feb. 18-19 auction featured this imperforate sheet of 100 of Canada’s Bluenose stamp, widely regarded as that country’s most beautiful issue. Believed to be unique, the sheet sold for $52,780.
This group of 11 engraved essays for Queen Victoria definitives, presumably made by one of the banknote companies around 1868, realized $11,600 (against a suggested bid of $250) at the Rasdale sale in Chicago.
Auction Roundup — Matthew Healey, New York Correspondent
In Chicago, Rasdale Stamp Co. held a sale of worldwide stamps Feb. 18-19.
One of the most dramatic and beautiful items in the sale was a full, imperforate sheet of what many consider to be Canada’s most beautiful issue of all time, the 1929 50¢ stamp featuring the schooner Bluenose (Scott 158a).
Canada produced a few imperforate and part-perforate sheets of all its stamps from 1859 to 1943. Few of these were regularly sold to the public, reaching private hands instead through exchange by the postal museum or as favors from government officials.
The imperforate Bluenose sheet of 100, folded down the middle but believed to be unique, sold for $52,780, including the 16 percent buyer’s premium added by Rasdale to all lots.
A group of 11 engraved essays for Queen Victoria definitives, presumably made by one of the banknote companies around 1868, offered a rare glimpse into the alternative universe of unadopted stamp designs.
The 11 proof-size impressions, for denominations ranging from 1¢ to 15¢, were printed in green, blue or reddish brown. Some had minor faults. The group carried a suggested bid of $250 but sold for $11,600.
A lovely, unused example of one of the classic issues of Canada’s pre-unification province of Newfoundland, the 1s scarlet on mesh paper of 1857 (Scott 9), with good margins and bright color, went for $27,840.
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Measured in cross-country flights, the distance to the edge of the solar system is great indeed. LAX and JFK airports are 2,475 miles (3,983 km) apart, so the Voyager probes have experienced the equivalent of three million to four million red-eyes.
One could also measure the distance they've gone in units of the Earth-moon separation. Our satellite orbits at an average distance of 238,857 miles (384,403 km). Line up 37,679 of those Earth-moon distances one after another, and you'll arrive at the edge of the solar system. [Video: Solar System's Border Lets Galactic Rays Through]
The Sun is close to 93 million miles (150 million km) away from us. The edge of the solar system and those intrepid Voyagers are almost 97 times farther afield.
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US: UPDATED - Guilty plea for Dallas man who aimed green laser pointer at helicopter
28 Feb 2013 -- Categories: Aviation incidents | Arrests | Did not realize hazard | Updated story
22-year-old Kenneth Santodomingo pleaded guilty on February 28 2013, to aiming a green laser pointer several times at a Dallas police helicopter that had been searching for car burglary suspects on January 28 2013. The light spread across the windscreen and obscured the pilot’s vision.
The entire video from the Air One helicopter can be seen here at YouTube.
The incident was captured on video. Above is a still frame from the video, showing the maximum laser impingement on the camera. (It should be noted that this is a very brief and atypical freeze frame; for most of the video the laser is waving around but is not aimed directly into the camera lens.)
Kenneth Santodomingo
When arrested, he was clad only in his boxer shorts. Santodomingo told officers “I wanted to see how far it [the laser’s beam] would go.” Sentencing is scheduled for July 25 2013; he could receive up to five years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine.
From NBCDFW.com and the Dallas Morning News
UPDATED July 25 2013: Santodomingo was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison.
Tags: US, Texas, Dallas, Helicopter, Police, Age: 20-29, Color: Green, Plea, Photo: Suspect, Photo: Laser
US: Fla. man accepts plea; did not think laser could reach aircraft
10 Mar 2011 -- Categories: Aviation incidents | Fines & Jail | Did not realize hazard
A 34-year-old Florida man pleaded guilty to one count of pointing a laser light at a driver or pilot, a third-degree felony. He avoided up to five years of prison and instead received one year probation, 140 hours of community service, and agreed not to possess a laser pointer.
One year probation, 140 hours of community service --- and cannot own a laser pointer
Michael Anthony Fowler of Silver Springs Shores was arrested Dec. 2 2010 after a “bluish laser light” illuminated a Marion County Sheriff’s Office helicopter. Ocala.com quoted him as saying “I didn’t even think the laser pointer could reach that far.” Fowler told the news site that he was the second person in Florida history to be charged with that offense, after Frank Newton Anderson.
From Ocala.com and Gainesville.com
Tags: US, Florida, Plea, Helicopter, Police, Age: 30-39, Photo: Suspect, Color: Blue
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People Magazine Gives First Look at New Characters in Pixar’s “Cars 3” + New Poster Released
by Laughing Place Disney Newsdesk | Mar 9, 2017 9:24 AM Pacific Time
Tags: Cars 3, Kerry Washington, Nathan Fillion, Pixar
People is giving a first look at one of the new characters in Pixar’s upcoming Cars 3 — this one voiced by Scandal‘s Kerry Washington. The car in question is Natalie Certain, a red sports car who Washington describes as a “super-smarty-pants.” The actress added, “She reminds of a statistical analyst on cable news or SportsCenter. She knows everything there is to know about the ins and outs of statistics when it comes to racing.”
Natalie Certain voiced by Kerry Washington
But that’s not all — here’s a look at some of the of the other two more new characters, voiced by Nathan Fillion and Lea DeLaria:
Sterling, voiced by Nathan Fillion (Castle)
Miss Fritter, voiced by Lea DeLaria (Orange is the New Black)
Lastly, a new poster for the film has been released:
Pixar’s Cars 3 races into theatres June 16th.
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Crestor Issues Maintain Center Stage in Crestor Lawsuits
March 18, 2015, 10:30AM . By Gordon Gibb
Austin, TXWhile a Crestor lawsuit alleging the withholding of test results linking Crestor to diabetes and other side effects quietly percolates through the courts, a couple of one-year anniversaries are due later this year that affords no cheer for health advocates concerned with the adverse event profile for rosuvastatin (Crestor), and other statin drugs in the class.
It was in June of last year when the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finally responded to a petition filed by the high-profile consumer advocacy group Public Citizen to position a black box warning on statins such as Crestor for rhabdomyolysis. The latter is a rare side effect characterized by the breakdown of muscle cells, which can then enter the bloodstream and potentially damage the kidneys. In extreme cases, Crestor rhabdomyolysis can be fatal.
The FDA, in its response, decided the risk to be “consistently low,” and therefore did not warrant a black box for rhabdomyolysis. The thought was that such a warning would scare patients away from Crestor and other statins in the class, thereby robbing them of the potential benefits. The nation’s drug and medical device regulator observes a position of risk acknowledgement with regard to pharmaceutical drugs and medical devices, but holds that a drug or medical device shall not be considered unsafe so long as the benefits outweigh the risk for the indicated patients.
Meanwhile, a whistleblower lawsuit originally brought by four former employees of Crestor manufacturer AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals alleging violations under the False Claims Act on behalf of the federal government has since been declined by the feds. However, the former Attorney General of Texas and now state governor Greg Abbott moved to formally include the state of Texas in the lawsuit.
The whistleblowers originally filed their Crestor lawsuit in the state of Texas, alleging in their whistleblower case that AstraZeneca misled the Texas Medicaid program into placing Crestor on the state’s Preferred Drug List. It is alleged that the resulting placement fostered more prescriptions for Crestor on the part of physicians and qualified health care professionals.
Abbott, while still Texas Attorney General, included the state in the Crestor lawsuit. The state took the position that AstraZeneca wrongly claimed that Crestor could reverse arterial plaque buildup, reduce the risk of death and lower cholesterol more effectively than competitor Lipitor.
“AstraZeneca chose increased profits over delivering truthful and complete information to Texas Medicaid,” the state’s petition says.”
“This unlawful conduct deprived both Texas Medicaid patients and doctors of the ability to make fully informed healthcare decisions.”
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Last month, AstraZeneca removed the case to US District Court for the Western District of Texas in Austin.
Meanwhile, a lawsuit claiming that AstraZeneca LP and its distributor McKesson Corp. deceived plaintiffs by withholding test results linking rosuvastatin to Crestor diabetes and other Crestor side effects continues. The Crestor lawsuit was recently removed to federal court in California.
Patients deemed to have high levels of the so-called “bad” LDL cholesterol thought to be the villain behind clogged arteries must weigh the perceived benefits of Crestor and other statins against Crestor issues such as muscle pain, diabetes and Crestor rhabdomyolysis.
The Crestor lawsuit is Arron Ardoin et al v. AstraZeneca LP et al, Case No. 2:14-cv-04134, in California Central Court.
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I was on 80mg of crestor for hereditary high cholesterol and after 2months I ruptured my left calf. a month later I as the surgeon said had the most severe rupture of my achilles tendon on the other leg.
If you look up crestor or statins and tendon injuries there are 1000's of achilles ruptures due to statin use. I have had 4 surgeries now on my achilles and will never be able to to the activities I did before taking Crestor,
Achilles injuries are #1 in STATIN injuries something has to be done even my doctors say but wont put it in writing because the prescribe statins so much That the believe my injuries were Directly related to taking Statins.
Judy M Frey
I was given the pill while living in Florida. Once the weakness hit, it was downhill from there. I'm 65 now & home bound because my heart has to work harder when using my leg muscles, which leads to not being able to breathe.
Kimberly Skellenger
I was prescribed Crestor for high cholesterol and took the drug for approx 2.5 years. Shortly AFTER starting the drug,when I went in for a checkup I was told I now have type 2 diabetes and was put on meds for that. Prior to taking Crestor I had an active lifestyle even thou I was heavy. I quit the drug because I felt it was causing more issues than it was helping. I now have muscle pain & weakness all over, most noticeable in my legs. It's difficult for me to walk anything but short distances, and stairs are a nightmare to navigate. My partner asked me questions and found that the issues I've been having all seem to fit the side effects of taking Crestor. I appreciate any assistance you can offer. Thank you. Kim
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Lib Dem Cable Urges People To Tactically Vote Labour
8 May 2017, 11:54 | Updated: 8 May 2017, 14:20
Vince Cable has told Liberal Democrat supporters to vote tactically in the General Election to stop the Conservatives.
In a recording passed to LBC, the party's candidate in Twickenham, told a meeting that Lib Dem voters should back Labour in seats where Jeremy Corbyn was in a direct fight with the Tories.
Dr Cable said the meeting: "There’s value is value in a good relationship with people in other parties, and I particularly met a lot of people on the Labour side whose views are very close to mine.
"I’ll just give one example – there’s Rupa Huq who’s the candidate in Ealing I think. Purely by coincidence I found myself, I think it was on Any Questions or one of those programmes in Warwick a few months ago, and I gave her a lift home back to Ealing. We talked for a couple of hours, and it was very clear that on almost every issue our views were almost identical.
"And so I would find it difficult to vote against somebody like that, and I hope that our people around the country are discriminating and think and act in a constructive way."
Sarah Olney, the Richmond Park MP for the Liberal Democrats, added: "We know that we want Rupa to win in Ealing."
Speaking to James O'Brien after LBC broke the story, Dr Cable insisted he was not conspiring with fellow Lib Dems, but was open to the possibility of Lib Dems standing aside to help like-minded rivals.
The Conservatives say Dr Cable's comments back up their claim the Lib Dems and Labour are building a 'coalition of chaos'.
Party Chairman Patrick McLoughlin said: "The threat of Jeremy Corbyn making it to Downing Street propped up by a coalition of chaos is very real – and these recordings show the Lib Dems are scheming to make it happen.
"As Cable makes clear, the result would be higher taxes for families and businesses, and attempts to frustrate Brexit at every turn. We would all pay the price.
"Only a vote for Theresa May and her team can prevent this chaos and deliver the strong and stable leadership for Brexit and beyond."
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To Combat Inconsistency, Washington Testing Labs Turn to Self-Policing
Tobias Coughlin-Bogue
Washington state’s cannabis testing laboratories are expected this week to announce the formation of the Washington Cannabis Laboratory Association, one of the industry’s first self-policing lab groups, in an effort to help standardize cannabis testing in the state.
The industry has come under fire recently after allegations of business-friendly results and limited oversight by regulators. The new group, which came out of a recent meeting between the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board (LCB) and the state’s 11 licensed cannabis testing labs, hopes to address that.
According to an advance copy of a press release about the new association, the bulk of state-certified testing labs have already signed on. But opinions are mixed as to whether the self-policing plan will work.
Serious questions about cannabis testing in Washington arose in the wake of a recent review of state testing data by Jim MacRae, founder of data analysis firm Straight Line Analytics. The data showed “some very odd things,” MacRae said, “things that are statistically unlikely to be occurring in the universe as we know it.” One such thing: Over the course of a three-month period, some labs hadn’t failed a single sample for microbial contamination.
Bobby Hines, co-owner of Confidence Analytics, a state-licensed testing laboratory, further analyzed the data MacRae used and found even odder things. Breaking down the failures by cannabis producer, he noticed three that, after switching from his lab to others regarded as being more lax about enforcement, saw their microbial failure rates drop to zero — and stay there.
One of the labs that issued zero failures has since closed, and Hines said customers returning to his lab have been shocked by the high failure rates they’re now seeing.
Hines called the new, self-policing Washington Cannabis Laboratory Association a “response to an apparent inadequacy of current regulation.” Washington, while it publishes detailed requirements for lab accreditization, has not yet required proficiency testing, a quality-control method that tests laboratories by giving them samples with known properties and then checking their results against a third-party lab.
More trustworthy testing would not only protect consumers, said Gordon Fagras of testing lab Trace Analytics, but also encourage them to move away from the black market. Microbial contamination “does kill people” he said. “The whole legal weed economy depends on the laboratories. People need to wake up.”
Consistency among the state’s labs would also remove financial incentives for testers to turn a blind eye to contamination. Labs with higher failure rates complain less-stringent labs are costing them business. “I lost about $1.5 million in sales last year,” Fagras said.
The newly announced Washington Cannabis Laboratory Association would be unique among states that have legalized recreational use — in part because other states have taken tougher stances on testing.
Colorado lawmakers passed a bill in 2015 that tasked the state health department with developing lab standards and implementing proficiency testing. Cannabis-testing lab CMT Laboratories helped push for the bill after working with three other labs to establish a set of standards for cannabis. Colorado law now requires each lab to participate in an approved proficiency testing program.
In Oregon, where they’ve dealt with similar lab standardization troubles, proficiency testing is also required. Cannabis testing labs must attain accreditation through the Oregon Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program (ORELAP), which requires twice-yearly proficiency testing.
Fagras, at Trace Analytics, said regulators in Washington seem stretched too thin to help. Labs launching a self-policing scheme seemed like the only solution.
“They’re trying, but they don’t have a lot of science staff,” he said. “I don’t think they have any science staff. They rely on us, and that’s why we have to be better.”
But not everyone’s so sure about the new organization. MacRae, who cast doubts on state testing with his data analysis, was skeptical. He compared the setup to the fox guarding the henhouse.
“Is that a situation in which you would want those entities to be policing themselves?” he asked, wondering why the state hasn’t jumped in instead. “If I can do this, I suspect they can. I have shared my results with both RJ Lee [which currently oversees state accreditation for labs] and the LCB. I have heard nothing from the LCB, and heard nothing but a ’Thank you very much, we appreciate input from the public’ kind of note from RJ Lee.”
Hines noted that, while it is technically a self-policing group, the “self” part might be a little misleading, as the individual labs won’t be checking their own results.
“We are currently scheduled to undertake an inter-laboratory comparison of results, also known as a ‘demonstration of proficiency,’” he explained, adding that the process will be administered and validated by a third-party laboratory. “The labs return their results to the third-party lab, who posts the results of all labs so we each may see how close we are to the precise known quantitation.”
Hines also said both the LCB and RJ Lee were at least marginally involved with the group. RJ Lee will act as something of a referee for the group’s proficiency testing efforts, he said, while the LCB will handle enforcement when problems arise. Both the LCB and the lab group, he added, would be conducting secret shopper stings on labs.
Fagras at Trace Analytics praised the hybrid model, saying he welcomed secret shopping and transparency between labs.
“I want people to drop standards in my lab, not knowing who they are, and those samples going back to the state to reproduce,” he said. “I welcome criticism.”
Correction: A previous version of this story misspelled the surname of analyst Jim MacRae.
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RNA: Basic Knowledge
Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a polymeric molecule, which is implicated in different biological roles such as coding, decoding, expression of genes and regulation. Biological reactions within cells are catalyzed by some RNA molecules, which control gene expression and communicate responses to cellular signals. The structure of RNA is similar to that of DNA, but there are some differences between them.
Definition and Background
Types of RNA
Other Types of RNA
RNA Nucleobases
Differences between DNA and RNA
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Image : “Pre-mRNA-1ysv-tubes” by Vossman. License: CC BY-SA 3.0
The three major molecules that are essential for all known forms of life are RNA, DNA and proteins. DNA and RNA have a similar chemical structure with two main differences:
The sugar ribose is found in RNA; however, DNA contains the sugar deoxyribose, which is slightly different than ribose, in that it lacks an oxygen atom.
DNA has the nucleobase thymine; whereas, RNA contains uracil. Thymine and uracil have similar base-pairing properties.
Image: “Formation of an RNA strand from a DNA template” by Fred the Oyster. License: CC BY-SA 3.0
Messenger RNA (mRNA)
Messenger RNA (mRNA) is transcribed from a DNA template. Coding information to the sites of the ribosomes is carried through mRNA. In mRNA, the genetic information is encoded in the sequence of nucleotides, which is arranged into codons that consist of three bases each. A specific amino acid is encoded by each one of the codons, except the stop codons, which are responsible for terminating the process of protein synthesis. Two other types of RNA are required in this process, which are ribosomal RNA (rRNA) and transfer RNA (tRNA).
The structure of a mature eukaryotic mRNA. A fully processed mRNA includes a 5′ cap, 5′ UTR, coding region, 3′ UTR and poly(A) tail.
Ribosomal RNA (rRNA)
Image: “Structure and shape of the E.coli 70S ribosome. The large 50S ribosomal subunit (red) and small 30S ribosomal subunit (blue) are shown with a 200 Ångstrom (20 nm) scale bar. For the 50S subunit, the 23S (dark red) and 5S (orange red) rRNAs and the ribosomal proteins (pink) are shown. For the 30S subunit, the 16S rRNA (dark blue) and the ribosomal proteins (light blue) are shown.” by Vossman. License: CC BY-SA 3.0
Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) is the RNA component of the ribosome. The mechanism for decoding mRNA into amino acids is provided by ribosomal RNA, it also interacts with tRNAs during translation and provides peptidyl transferase activity. The necessary amino acids that correspond to the appropriate mRNA codon are brought by the tRNAs.
Transfer RNA (tRNA)
Image: “The Interaction of tRNA and mRNA in Protein Synthesis.” by Boumphreyfr. License: CC BY-SA 3.0
Transfer RNA (tRNA) functions in the transfer of specific active amino acids, during translation, to a growing polypeptide chain at the ribosomal site of protein synthesis. Transfer RNA contains the anticodon, which is a three-base region and can base pair to the corresponding three base codon regions on mRNA. Only one type of amino acid can be attached to each type of tRNA molecule; however, the same amino acid may be carried by tRNA molecules bearing different anticodons because multiple codons that specify the same amino acid are found in the genetic code.
Image: “Tertiary structure of tRNA. CCA tail in yellow, Acceptor stem in purple, Variable loop in orange, D arm in red, Anticodon arm in blue with Anticodon in black and T arm in green.” by Yikrazuul. License: CC BY-SA 3.0
Small interfering RNA (siRNA)
Small interfering RNA (siRNA) is also known as short interfering RNA, which is a class of double-stranded RNA molecule. siRNA is involved in the RNA interference pathway. It controls the stability of the mRNA by interfering with the expression of specific genes.
Small nuclear RNA (snRNA)
snRNA molecules are either transcribed by RNA polymerase III along with all nuclear tRNAs and the 5S rRNA, or by RNA polymerase II along with mRNA. They are involved in the maintenance of the telomeres and splicing by removal of introns from pre-mRNA.
Heterogeneous nuclear RNA (hnRNA)
hnRNA is considered a single immature strand of mRNA. The two terms pre-mRNA and hnRNA are almost identical, and they are used interchangeably.
Image: “Chemical Structure of Adenine in Vector Format” by Pepemonbu. License: CC BY-SA 3.0
Adenine (A)
Adenine is a purine derivative nucleobase with different roles in biochemistry, including cellular respiration, in the form of ATP, NAD and FAD. It also plays a role as a chemical component of DNA and RNA in protein synthesis. Adenine has a shape that is complementary to either uracil in RNA or thymine in DNA.
Cytosine (C)
Cytosine is found in both DNA and RNA, which is a pyrimidine derivative. It has a heterocyclic aromatic ring and two substituents attached which are a keto group at position 2, and an amine group at position 4). Cytidine is the nucleoside of cytosine.
Image: “Chemical Structure of Cytosine.” by Cacycle. License: CC BY-SA 3.0
Guanine (G)
Guanine is found in both RNA and DNA. It is a derivative of purine and consists of a fused pyrimidine-imidazole ring system, along with conjugated double bonds. Guanine is paired with cytosine in DNA.
Uracil (U)
Uracil is a demethylated form of thymine, and it binds to adenine, via two hydrogen bonds, in RNA. In DNA, thymine nucleobases replace uracil.
Both DNA and RNA are very similar in their structures; however, there are five main differences between them both:
RNA DNA
Nucleobases Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Uracil Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Thymine
Structure Usually exists as single-stranded
Always a double helix
Sugar D-ribose sugar 2′-deoxy-D-ribose pentose sugar
Stability It contains a 2′-OH hydroxyl group, which makes it less stable More stable
Nucleobases pairs
RNA is usually single-stranded, and the portions are not necessarily equal
Equal portions of Adenine-Thymine and Guanine-Cytosine nucleobases
Image: “Comparison of a Single-Stranded RNA and a Double-Stranded DNA with their Corresponding Nucleobases” by Sponk. License: CC BY-SA 3.0
From greek “kolla” (glue) “gen” (producing)
Boiling hooves to make glue
Gelatin — collagen that has been irreversibly hydrolyzed
Medical uses in treating bones and skin
Most abundant protein in body
25—30 % of all body protein by weight
Synthesis decreases with age
29 types in the body
Over 90 % of the collagen in the human body is type I
Most common types — I, II, III, IV, V
Type I collagen fibrils are stronger by weight than steel
Basement membrane of extracellular matrix
Blood vessel damage exposes collagen — signal to clotting system
Collagen I Skin, tendon, vascular ligature, organs, bone
Collagen II Cartilage
Collagen III Reticular fibers
Collagen IV Basal lamina, the epithelium-secreted layer of the basement membrane
Collagen V Cell surfaces, hair, and placenta
States of collagen
State of collagen depends on mineralization
Bone, tendon, cartilage
Fibrillar and non-fibrillar types
Most abundant fibrous tissue — ligaments, tendons, skin
Triple helix of helices
Each polypeptide chain up to about 1,400 amino acids
Type 1 collagen contains two identical α-1 chains and one α-2 chain
Each chain is a left-handed helix
Three chains coiled together to make right-handed strand (superhelix)
Strands combined together to make fibers
Biochemistry of collagen
Strands synthesized into endoplasmic reticulum (ER)
Hydroxylation of prolines and lysines occurs in ER
Hydroxylation necessary for collagen secretion
Secreted collagen strands form helix
Helices cross-link for strength
Proline hydroxylation
Requires vitamin C
Deficiency leads to scurvy
Crusaders of 13th century suffered from scurvy
Value of citrus fruits for preventing scurvy known by Vasco de Gama´s voyage of 1497
Nonetheless, over 2 million sailors died of scurvy between 1500 and 1800
Proline hydroxylation increases collagen´s thermal stability
Stabilizes collagen at body temperature
Cooking hydrolyzed collagen — tenderizing
Lysyl oxidase
Extracellular enzyme
Oxidizes lysines/ hydroxylysines to aldehydes in extracellular matrix
Collagen crosslinking
Aldehydes of allysine can react with amines of other lysines to form pyridinoline
This cross-linking gives collagen its strength
Disease & Collagen
Collagen vascular disease Genetic diseases of collagen synthesis/ processing
Autoimmune—Lupus,
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus,
Osteogenesis Imperfecta — Brittle bones — Type 1
Chondrodysplasias — Skeletal Disorders — Type II
Ehlers-Danlos-Syndrome — Connective Tissues — Type III
Knobloch Syndrome — Brain, Retina — Type VXII
1. All of the following are types of RNA except:
Nuclear RNA (nRNA)
2. In a protein, each amino acid is specified by:
A promoter
A codon
Several genes
An mRNA molecule
3. RNA and DNA have the same nucleobases, except that RNA contains:
Cytosine instead of guanine
Cysteine instead of cytosine
Uracil instead of adenine
Uracil instead of thymine
Kevin Ahern. RNA: Basic Knowledge. Lecturio. Accessed March 19, 2016.
An Introduction to Molecular Biology/RNA:The ribonucleic acid. WIKIBOOKS. Last modified February 1, 2016. Accessed March 19, 2016.
RNAs, Structure and Function. WikiLectures. Last modified March 14, 2016. Accessed March 19, 2016.
Correct answers: 1D, 2B, 3D
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Mark Levinson No. 523
The Mark Levinson No 523 is the definitive preamplifier for the analog music lover. Six line-level analog and phono inputs travel through the Mark Levinson proprietary Pure Path discrete, direct-coupled, fully balanced, dual-monaural signal path for breathtaking purity and performance. With precision control including a discrete, balanced R-2R Ladder volume control, class-A Pure Phono stage, and class-A Main Drive Headphone output, the No 523 preamplifier delivers an uncompromising performance regardless of analog source. Housed in a 6000-series aluminum chassis, like all Mark Levinson equipment, the No 523 is designed and handcrafted in the USA.
Mark Levinson Pure Path Circuit Design
Since 1972, Mark Levinson has been dedicated to the uncompromising art of sound, with the guiding principle of musical purity above all else. To achieve that goal like never before, Mark Levinson engineers scoured company archives, ultimately developing a circuit-design philosophy called Pure Path. On a conceptual level, its hallmark principles include a discrete, direct-coupled, fully balanced, dual-monaural signal path that delivers unrestricted, uncompromised sonic purity.
Far from merely arranging high quality components in an intelligent manner, Pure Path is the meeting of science and art: Mark Levinson engineers are tasked to create the best possible measured AND subjective performance. To quote Albert Einstein: "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
Pure Path highlights in the No 523 include Folded Cascodes, an R-2R Ladder volume control, the class-A Pure Phono stage, and class-A Main Drive Headphone amplifier output.
Analog Mastery: The Folded Cascode
Mark Levinson components are designed around a Pure Path amplifier circuit concept that makes heavy use of a circuit design element called a cascode. Originally created for improving the bandwidth of vacuum tube circuits in radios, Mark Levinson engineers deploy cascodes in Pure Path circuit designs to both improve bandwidth and enhance linearity. A cascode combines two transistors so that they operate as a single composite device that functions like a single transistor, using the wanted characteristics of each component transistor, and rejecting the unwanted characteristics.
Mark Levinson engineers began their design of the preamp gain stage with pairs of JFETs (junction field-effect transistors), chosen for their low noise and high gain. JFETs achieve these characteristics in part by being large, and with their large size comes nonlinear gain - or distortion. To mitigate this, BJTs (bipolar junction transistors) were added to the circuit. The BJTs exhibit very low input impedance and very high output impedance, which translates to excellent bandwidth and linearity. By creating a cascode of the JFETs and BJTs, they created a design with the best characteristics of both sets of devices.
Engineers than connected the output of the cascode to another transistor of the opposite "gender." Current flows through it in the opposite direction to "turn around" the direction of the signal current. This special connection is called a Folded Cascode and it is a hallmark of the Pure Path circuit: high gain with low noise, wide bandwidth, and excellent linearity.
Superior Volume Control: The R-2R Ladder
The basis of many volume controls is the venerable analog potentiometer - a device with a number of performance drawbacks. The mechanical connection wears out, creating scratching or crackling noises; it is nearly impossible to manufacture an identically performing pair, and mismatches in a stereo pair can cause level imbalances between the two channels; and due to their varied reaction to parasitic capacitances at different volume settings, the sound changes depending on where the volume is set. Rather than attempting to improve upon this flawed design, Mark Levinson engineers abandoned it. Instead, they employed a complex circuit architecture called an R-2R Ladder.
In the R-2R Ladder, a string of resistors, all with identical resistance (R), form the side of the ladder, with another set of resistors forming the rungs, all identically with double the resistance (2R). This unique circuit takes whatever current appears at its input and successively divides it in half at each "rung" of the ladder. Different combinations of "rung" currents can then be selected and added together, precisely delivering nearly any output current, and thereby, volume setting.
An R-2R Ladder is a highly accurate device. The currents through the rungs are determined by fixed resistors, capable of very tight tolerances, able to be closely matched to one another in value. Analog switches "steer" the currents, are precision devices, and have no mechanical contacts to wear out. In short, the R-2R Ladder solves all the problems inherent to potentiometer-based volume controls. That's why it is a cornerstone of Mark Levinson Pure Path design philosophy.
Military Grade Components
All Mark Levinson equipment employs electronic components carefully chosen for their specific task. Gain-stage JFET pairs have high gain, low noise, low distortion, and because they are encapsulated in the same package, the two devices operate under nearly identical conditions. Capacitors used in critical filtering locations are film types, noted for their consistent performance regardless of temperature and frequency. Finally, resistors in critical gain-setting and feedback locations use tantalum nitride thin-film elements. An extremely costly material, tantalum nitride typically finds use in sensitive military equipment because it is unusually stable with respect to temperature, exhibits very low noise, and is unaffected by magnetic fields. In fine audio equipment, those characteristics make the sound even more revealing and effortless, free of the low-level nonlinearities caused by lesser resistive materials as they heat and cool under dynamic conditions. Housed in an aircraft-grade 6063-T5 extruded aluminum chassis, the No 523 features extremely high build precision, to exceedingly low tolerances.
Pure Phono: Class A for a Classic Medium
Preamplifying from turntable to line level can a difficult task, and it is an area where some equipment makers skimp on components and design. The No 526 and No 523 preamplifiers introduce a new Mark Levinson phono stage, Pure Phono, itself following Pure Path design principles including discrete design, free of op amps. The Pure Phono stage operates exclusively in class A throughout, employing tantalum nitride thin-film resistors polypropylene capacitors with punishingly low tolerances. The Pure Phono stage also contains physically separated channels and balanced inputs for purity.
The Pure Phono stage offers a fixed-gain MM section with five capacitive cartridge-loading settings, and an MC section with three gain settings and 10 resistive cartridge-loading settings. And an ultrasonic filter intelligently compensates for rumble and warping.
Completing the Signal Path
The No 523 offers five line-level analog inputs: two balanced (XLR), three single-ended (RCA), in addition to the Pure Phono (RCA with grounding pin) input. The preamplifier delivers its signal to balanced (XLR) and single-ended (RCA) stereo outputs, as well as a 1/4-inch (6.3mm) Main Drive Headphone output integrated into the front panel metalwork - a first for Mark Levinson.
The Main Drive Headphone amplifier circuit drives up to 32-ohm headphones in class A by employing the main output circuit rather than a secondary signal path: a perfect example of reducing clutter in the circuit design.
A selectable fourth-order, 80 Hz high-pass filter enables seamless integration of a single or dual subwoofers for full-range performance with a wide range of loudspeaker setups.
System-integration connectivity includes Ethernet/IP control, RS-232, USB for monitoring and configuration via web page, plus 12V triggers and an IR input. An included machined metal remote delivers the robust feel and precise control befitting of a component of the preamplifier's caliber.
Designed and Handcrafted in the USA
Like all Mark Levinson equipment, the No 523 is proudly designed and handcrafted in the USA. A dedicated Engineering Center of Excellence in Shelton, CT houses Mark Levinson engineering and product development, just a state away from small-batch production at Mack Technologies in Westford, MA by a team of craftsmen who bring all Mark Levinson equipment to life
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Social Increasingly Driving Web Site Traffic -- But So Is Quality
by Derek Gordon , February 13, 2012
About a year ago, the content mill Demand Media was conducting its IPO. Many critics of its approach to generating content -- which was based on gaming Google’s search algorithm to gain top spots in search results pages to drive clicks to its often less-than-authoritative content -- were demanding that the search engines change their ranking criteria.
Google complied, and Demand Media and its brethren experienced noticeable drops in search ranking, and in traffic.
The new golden rule then was that only truly authoritative content produced to genuinely inform, entertain or otherwise engage an appropriate audience was the key to achieving top search rankings. While that rule is still true today, increasingly the new top content aggregation sites -- think BuzzFeed or Wetpaint -- are seeing more and more of their traffic come not from clicks on search results but from social sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. In some cases, these sites are seeing up to 35% of their traffic come from clicks on social links, according to a recent report.
Listen to these site managers, and they will tell you they’re not only optimizing for search, but also for social, making content bite-sized and easily shareable on Facebook or Twitter. Still, it’s the actual content that matters: the stuff that is actually engaging an audience and which inspires them to share it. Quality original content is also what top advertisers are looking for; they see it as a premium offering and will pay more to buy space around it.
Because original content production is expensive and time-consuming to produce regularly, it’s important that publishers and content marketers are doing everything they can to get the most out of their investment in that media. Often, original content has a certain evergreen quality, and publishers should be quick to resurface it when interest in the content’s subject matter resurfaces.
For instance, it’s a good idea to leverage interest in any given piece of content by presenting past, related content, which aids in content rediscovery. The more you engage and retain an audience’s interest, the greater the chances your audience will share it across their social graphs.
When you do publish a piece of content that gets picked up and goes viral, make sure the page the content is featured on provides other ways to engage the audience. For instance, if you’ve published a blog post, include a related photo gallery or video; publish a poll that relates to the content soliciting your audience’s opinions; or include the Twitter feed relating to the content or topic referenced in the content.
By producing original content, intelligently recirculating previously published media, and highlighting the best of aggregated media relating to the topic at hand, you increase the chances of deeply engaging your audiences and improving social sharing metrics.
Oh, and your search rankings should improve, too.
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5 comments about "Social Increasingly Driving Web Site Traffic -- But So Is Quality".
Jen Haveman from Anderson Hanson Blanton, February 13, 2012 at 11:33 a.m.
Great article.... from an agency stand point this is still a hard topic to explain to clients.
Andrew Boer from MovableMedia, February 13, 2012 at 11:43 a.m.
Great article. Exactly right on the trends...the hard part isn't just creating quality content -- the hard part is making the creation of the content worthwhile -- which means making sure the content is found. This is where most content marketing efforts break down -- my firm's approach (we partner with agencies) is to only work with guest authors who are reaching the existing relevant audiences -- and then spend our energy having the authors to promote their content to their audiences effectively. Post Panda, it is just way too hard to create quality content without this kind of a "headstart".
Joe Bencharsky from WebTraction, February 13, 2012 at 12:04 p.m.
This hearkens back to the "content is king" philosophy. You must have relevant engaging content that has some interest and benefit to the audience before you can establish a relationship with them and make them want to connect. That is the foundation of Social Media. Who listens to a radio station that plays music they don't like or has a talk show they find boring?
Roy Bowers from Online Advantage Ltd, February 16, 2012 at 8:01 p.m.
Great article - a key starting point is sometimes to shift the client from focusing on what they want to say (or sell) and getting them to focus on their target audiences and really about what their audiences want to find. Its a simple exercise that is sometimes overlooked when people are so immersed in their own business.
Bonnie Crofford from Freelancer, February 28, 2012 at 7:42 p.m.
I find this article quite intriguing as it's all common sense.
None of this is new to any of us.
We just become so consumed with other issues that we forget the fundamentals.
As we've all always known "content is king" (and as mentioned earlier by Joe Bencharsky from WebTraction ) .
Stick to the basics and you'll never go wrong!
DEREK GORDON,
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“I don’t want another month, two months or three months,” proclaimed abstaining board member Tam Dudoc. “I think we need to demonstrate our (dedication) to this effort” and vote now.
The state has been focused on plummeting salmon populations on the Stanislaus, Tuolumne and Merced rivers since 2009. Its first plan, required 35 percent unimpaired flows. An updated plan, in 2016, demanded 40 or 50 percent flows.
Knowing that would result in 100,000 acres of fallowed farmland and reduce drinking water for people in Modesto, Manteca and 23 Bay Area cities, people here were outraged. There have been protests, thousands of public comments and peer-reviewed studies refuting the state’s findings. All were ignored by four members of the board.
Brown and Newsom recognized there are people living here who want to help fish and restore the rivers, but who fear their lives will ruined by bureaucrats held captive by environmentalists. Through negotiations, a better plan is possible.
Their request to delay the vote infuriated some environmentalists. “We don’t need more studies or negotiations,” said Ben Eichenberger of the San Francisco Baykeeper. Peter Drekmeier of the Tuolumne River Trust spoke of dramatic salmon population declines dating from 1944. What was “the big change,” he asked rhetorically. “Don Pedro Dam and then new Don Pedro cutting off the life flow” of the rivers.
Drekmeier and Eichenberger have no stake in this fight. Their jobs won’t be destroyed, their wells won’t go dry or be contaminated by encroaching salts or arsenic. And they won’t be held accountable if reliance on outdated science results in no additional salmon.
Marcus felt their pain. “I want to (vote) today more than anyone else in the room,” she said before noting the governors’ desire to talk. “I have to have faith he will (negotiate) on behalf of fish.”
We have to have faith, too – that we can provide a better plan for people and salmon.
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MGI Weekly round-up | 10 November 2017
Stories MGI has been tracking this week:
Crete at the heart of the Africa-Europe power link project
Morocco launches its first reconnaissance satellite
Amid a political crisis, Moody’s sends a warning to Lebanon
And as always, we feature content from the MGI data and analysis platform, a summary of the week’s key statistical releases, and a look at the week ahead in data. In this newsletter, we look at the historical evolution of renewable energy production (as a share of total energy production) in several North African countries and Greece.
The Greek island of Crete could become an electricity interconnection hub if an ambitious plan for the transfer of solar energy from North Africa to Europe is implemented. The company Green Power 2020 has drawn up a plan to transfer power from the port of Tobruk in Libya to Crete. The two locations will be connected via a 2,00MW two-way underwater cable.
According to the founder of Green Power 2020, Gassan Anbar, the project will be financed by the private sector and will not affect the state budget. In addition, Greek companies will be given preference for required construction works, Ekathimerini reports.
On Wednesday, Morocco’s first earth observation satellite – named for the Moroccan king Mohammed VI – was launched into orbit. The satellite will be mainly used for “mapping and land surveying activities, spatial planning, monitoring of agricultural activities, prevention and management of natural disasters, and monitoring of environmental changes and desertification”. In addition, it will strengthen the capacities of national bodies responsible for monitoring road infrastructure, transport networks and the coasts, The North African Post reports.
Morocco, has become the third African country – after South Africa and Egypt – to have its own reconnaissance satellite.
Amid a political crisis, Moody’s issues warning to Lebanon
Following the unexpected resignation of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, Moody's warns of the negative impact that the resulting political crisis could have on the country's creditworthiness. “A drawn-out political stalemate less than a month after the government passed its first budget in 12 years would undermine recent institutional improvements and expose the banking system to a loss in confidence… Any loss of confidence in the banking system or in the stability of Lebanon’s institutions leading to a significant slowdown in private sector deposit inflows or outright outflows would be credit negative”, the rating agency said. Nevertheless, the governor of the central bank, the finance minister and the head of banking associations made statements that highlight the country’s monetary and financial stability.
Lebanon is among the countries with the highest debt-to-GDP ratio worldwide.
Featured content from the MGI data and analysis portal
We use the World Bank section of the MGI platform to look at “Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric” (as % of total electricity production) for several North African countries and Greece (NB. there is no available data for Libya). The indicator refers to production of electricity from geothermal, solar, tides, wind, biomass, and biofuels. We analyze data from 2000 to 2014 and present MGI forecasts until 2019.
In 2000, the share of electricity production from renewable sources was very low – below 1% – in all countries examined. Since then, the indicator exhibited an upward trend for Greece – reaching a value of around 5% in 2010 and 17% in 2015. The share of electricity generation from renewable sources was similarly low in North African countries, with Morocco being the country performing best in this respect. In 2014, the share of power production from renewable resources in North African countries remained well below the level of Greece.
The week in data
Highlights from national statistics releases tracked by MGI this week include:
Malta's IPI in September decreased by 0.5% over the previous month (seasonally-adjusted data)
Tunisia's CPI increased 5.8% (YoY) in October 2017
Turkey's IPI in September 2017 increased 0.6% compared to August 2017 (seasonally and calendar adjusted data)
Spain's IPI in September 2017 increased 0.1% MoM and 3.4% YoY (seasonally and calendar adjusted data)
Albania's consumer prices increased 1.9% (YoY) in October 2017
Greece added 101,578 jobs in August 2017 compared to August 2016. Unemployment rate stood at 20.6% (seasonally adjusted data)
Greece's CPI increased 0.7% (YoY) in October 2017
Greece's IPI in September decreased by 3.4% over the previous month (seasonally-adjusted data)
Next week, we expect real GDP data for Italy, Cyprus, Tunisia and Israel for the third quarter of 2017. MGI’s complete data release schedule can be viewed at our release calendar section.
Monday 13 November, 2017:
Turkey current account for September and auto production for October
Tunisia IPI for September
Italy 3-year, 7-year and 30-year BTP auction
Israel balance of trade for October
France 3-month, 6-month and 12-month BTP auction
Tuesday 14 November, 2017:
Palestinian Territories inflation rate for October
Spain domestic and harmonized inflation for October, final estimate
Spain 6-month and 12-month Letras auction
Italy real GDP for 2017Q3, preliminary estimate
Italy domestic and harmonized inflation for October, final estimate
Cyprus real GDP for 2017Q3, flash estimate
Wednesday 15 November, 2017:
Turkey unemployment rate and employment for August
France domestic and harmonized inflation for October, final estimate
Tunisia real GDP for 2017Q3
Israel inflation rate and consumer confidence for October
Thursday 16 November, 2017:
France unemployment rate for 2017Q3
France 3-year and 5-year BTAN auction
Italy balance of trade for September
Spain 3-year, 5-year Bonos auction and 10-year Obligacion auction
Croatia inflation rate for October
Malta inflation rate for October
Israel real GDP for 2017Q3, first estimate
Israel Manufacturing PMI for October
Slovenia employment (register data) for September
Egypt unemployment rate and employment for 2017Q3
Egypt central bank interest rate decision
Friday 17 November, 2017:
Italy current account for September
Albania balance of trade for October
Round-upalma economics November 10, 2017
MGI Weekly round-up | 3 November 2017
Round-upalma economics November 3, 2017
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Advanced Super Hornet, F-35 Face Stealth Dilemma
F-35C Lightning IIs, attached to the Grim Reapers of Strike Fighter Squadron 101, and F/A-18E/F Super Hornets attached to the Naval Aviation Warfighter Development Center fly over Naval Air Station Fallon's Range Training Complex on Sept. 3, 2015. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Cmdr. Darin Russell)
Military.com | By Oriana Pawlyk
As the U.S. Navy expands its aircraft fleet with the fourth-generation F/A-18E/F Block III Super Hornet and fifth-gen F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, a challenge remains: How will the jets connect and share information without sacrificing stealth?
Boeing Co. on Wednesday showcased its Block III Super Hornet, which comes with a larger variety of weapons, extended range, advanced targeting and sensor systems, and better fuel efficiency, among other enhancements. The company noted the Block III isn't meant to be a direct competitor to the F-35 Lightning II; it's meant to be its partner.
The Super Hornet and F-35 “are the Navy's two frontline fighters, and will be for decades to come," said Dan Gillian, manager of F/A-18 and EA-18 programs at Boeing.
Yet the two aircraft currently don't have a way to communicate without compromising the F-35's stealth.
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"For sure, that is part of the roadmap, and how do we get that right?" said Capt. David Kindley, F/A-18 and EA-18G program manager. Kindley briefed reporters at Boeing's facilities in Arlington, Virginia, on Wednesday, alongside officials who lead the program.
"It's fairly a statement of the obvious: F-35's challenge is they need to stay sneaky, and they need to transmit. Those can be [incompatible] to each other. So how do we solve that? So we're trying to offer as many options as we can to plug into, and we're talking about this going forward," he said.
Even if the F/A-18 -- now undergoing modifications to give it upgraded stealth capabilities -- is a little less detectable from enemy radar, the F-35 would likely lead the charge in a heavy surface-to-air missile environment.
"We're not going to send Super Hornets into the heart of an IADS [Integrated Air Defense System]," Kindley said. "But that's always a trade-off we're going to have to work on."
Fifth-generation platforms like the F-35 use the Link 16 datalink to transfer information to fourth-gen counterparts. But the F-35 also internally operates on its Multifunction Advanced Data Link system, known as MADL.
"There's a whole discussion ongoing within [the Defense Department] on how you link F-35s, all aircraft together," said Bob Kornegay, senior manager of business development for the F/A-18E/F and EA-18G at Boeing.
Interoperability is at the heart of how a strike wing will operate in the future, Kindley added.
Boeing will deliver its first test Block III jets to the Navy in 2019, with a production line starting sometime in 2020, Gillian said.
The Navy intends to have Boeing convert more than 500 of its Block II jets and produce 116 new Block IIIs by 2024. The new jets' first deployment is expected sometime in 2022.
When asked whether President Donald Trump's involvement has given the defense firm confidence, Boeing officials said Block III has been in discussion "for some time."
"The president's engagement has certainly brought energy and drive to [this] discussion," Gillian said.
Trump in recent months has repeatedly cited a desire to see Boeing build a stealthy F/A-18 Super Hornet and potentially scale back F-35 production from competitor Lockheed Martin Corp.
"It's the collection of things together: next-generation fighter, we've delivered 100 percent of our airplanes on time, on cost, and that resonates with this administration," Gillian said.
-- Oriana Pawlyk can be reached at oriana.pawlyk@military.com. Follow her on Twitter at @Oriana0214.
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By Jeanne Willoz-Egnor
Well…probably not the kind of Amazons you’re thinking about, these were the Amazon-class steam screw sloop’s HMS Daphne, Dryad and Nymph of the Royal Navy and the “hunt” occurred off the East Coast of Africa as they worked to suppress the African slave trade.
I became interested in this story after the library transferred an album of watercolors and sketches over to the object collection (which is where works of art normally live). The album contained thirty-seven images created by Lt. William Henn of the Royal Navy. For you America’s Cup fans that name should sound familiar. Henn and his wife Susan and their pet Maltese monkey, Peggy, raced their 90-ton cutter yacht Galatea (which was also their house!) against Mayflower in the 1886 America’s Cup.
Scrapbook prior to disassembly
Accessioning the images has taken me about eight months because the work presented several big challenges. First, the images had been scrambled and placed in random order in the album. Luckily, they weren’t glued down so I was able to remove them–but getting them into the right order has NOT been a walk in the park! Not all the works are dated or identified, and the majority are related to Henn’s career in the Royal Navy–something I didn’t know anything about. It’s also obvious that I am only looking at a small fragment of Henn’s original output. After some seriously extensive research to reconstruct Henn’s career, I have finally reached the point where I can reorder the artworks—or at least get really, really close–and the story the images tell is fascinating!
Harper’s Weekly, August 14, 1886.
William Henn was born in Dublin in 1847. At the age of thirteen he entered the Royal Navy as a naval cadet aboard HMS Trafalgar. Between 1862 and 1866 Henn was stationed aboard HMS Galatea. He must have enjoyed his time aboard her because he named the yacht he sailed in the America’s Cup after her! During the Civil War, Galatea sailed throughout the Gulf of Mexico and along the East Coast of the temporarily un-United States. The ship even made a visit to the Chesapeake Bay in January of 1865. Other interesting events in Henn’s career included a stint with one of the Royal Navy ships that helped lay the transatlantic cable in 1866 and in 1872 he was second in command of the Royal Geographical Society’s expedition to find the missing Dr. David Livingston.
Steamboat Louisiana in an icebound Chesapeake Bay on January 25, 1865. Watercolor by Lt. William Henn, RN. Accession# 1936.0243.03
The Atlantic Telegraph fleet at anchor in Bantry Bay, Ireland, 1866. Watercolor by Lt. William Henn, RN. Accession# 1936.0243.07
By August 1, 1867 Henn was a sub-Lieutenant stationed aboard HMS Daphne. This ship, along with her sister ships HMS Dryad and HMS Nymphe, were part of the Royal Navy’s new Amazon class. These new steam screw sloops carried square sails on their forward masts while the rearmost, or mizzenmast, carried a triangular sail. This sail arrangement meant they were particularly well-suited for operations in the waters off east Africa where sailing routes were ruled by the monsoon. With the capacity to efficiently steam and sail in the monsoon winds, Daphne and her sisters became Britain’s most formidable weapons in the fight against the slave trade in east Africa.
Frontispiece from the publication Slave-catching in the Indian ocean. A record of naval experiences, by Capt. Philip Howard Colomb, 1873.
HMS Dryad drying sails at Zanzibar. Preliminary sketch by Lt. William Henn, RN. Accession# 1936.0243.23
Their “hunt” was organized by Leopold Heath, commodore of the East Indies Station in Bombay. For quite some time, Heath had been developing a plan to stage his ships at natural choke points along the coast where their barque rigs and engines allowed them to maneuver against the prevailing monsoon winds and pounce upon unsuspecting slave trading dhows sailing along the shore.
The first image in Henn’s scrapbook from this period documents an incident in the Ruvuma River, which forms the border between Tanzania and Mozambique. Upon nearing the river’s mouth Daphne’s crew sighted and chased a dhow up the river. When the dhow anchored close to shore and shallow water forced Daphne to anchor, the sailors continued the chase in the ship’s boats. Unfortunately, upon boarding the dhow it was found to be deserted apart from four weak slaves that had been left behind. Accession# 1936.0243.12
Daphne was the first Amazon Heath placed in action and by mid-September 1868 she and her crew were sailing between Zanzibar and Bombay actively sighting, stopping, searching and seizing dhows found to be carrying slaves. Heath’s tactic was obviously effective because slave traders desperate to evade capture began employing a particularly heinous method of escape. During a chase on October 28th, when the crew of a cornered dhow became desperate they ran their vessel through the breakers and onto the beach. Within just a few moments the dhow broke apart in the pounding surf. Daphne’s crew immediately sent a boat to save as many lives as possible. Sadly, once they reached shore it was too late for many of those trapped within the vessel or too weak to haul themselves ashore. The crew were able to save seven children, all around six years old, who had been unable to leave the wreck due to extreme weakness. Several were paralyzed in a fetal position from being packed between the vessel’s frames.
Illustrated London News, August 16, 1873.
Frontispiece from Dhow chasing in Zanzibar waters and on the eastern coast of Africa. Narrative of five years’ experiences in the suppression of the slave trade by George Lydiard Sulivan, 1873.
As Daphne continued her hunt, Lt. Henn was placed in charge of one of the ship’s cutters and tasked with intercepting dhows off the coast of Brava. On November 1st, Daphne observed Lt. Henn chasing and capturing a dhow. When the vessel was brought alongside it was discovered to be crammed with 156 men, women, and children. Daphne’s captain, George Sulivan, wrote “the deplorable condition of some of these poor wretches, crammed into a small dhow, surpasses all description; on the bottom of the dhow was a pile of stones as ballast, and on these stones, without even a mat, were twenty-three women huddled together—one or two with infants in their arms—these women were literally doubled up, there being no room to sit erect; on a bamboo deck, about three feet above the keel, were forty-eight men, crowded together in the same way, and on another deck above this were fifty-three children. Some of the slaves were in the last stages of starvation and dysentery.”
Illustrated London News, February 27, 1869.
Before long, Daphne had intercepted so many dhows the crew found themselves struggling to take care of 322 liberated slaves. After a difficult voyage, the ship managed to reach the Seychelles, but not before an outbreak of smallpox had occurred. They landed their living cargo on the Quarantine Island and set about building a structure large enough to house everyone before heading to Bombay. Unfortunately, when they returned four months later they discovered that more than fifty of the former captives had died from the disease.
Emancipated female slaves sitting on the deck of HMS Daphne. Watercolor drawing and sketch by Lt. William Henn, RN. Accession# 1936.0243.13 and 1936.0243.12 (reverse).
Huts constructed to house emancipated Africans landed by the HMS Daphne on Quarantine Island in the Seychelles in late 1868. Watercolor drawing by Lt. William Henn, RN. Accession# 1936.0243.14.
On February 6, 1869 Henn transferred to Daphne’s sister, HMS Dryad. Her main hunting ground was the Persian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula. By May, Dryad was near the northeast corner of the Arabian Peninsula off Ras Madraka, Oman. Yet again, the crew of a dhow being chased ran the vessel ashore hoping to escape overland with any slaves that survived the wreck. Colomb sent Dryad’s cutter to a spot outside of the breakers to provide covering fire for two gigs that would land, rescue any survivors and ferry them back through the surf to the cutter. Our intrepid artist oversaw one of these gigs.
Al Jalali Fort in Muscat, Oman. Watercolor drawing in sepia of by Lt. William Henn, RN, HMS Dryad. Accession# 1936.0243.21
One of the gigs made it safely through the breakers but the second wasn’t so fortunate and swamped in the high surf. Luckily, Henn was in the gig that successfully landed and headed up the beach with six other crew to try and round up any survivors. When Dryad returned from yet another chase (that again ended with the dhow being run ashore), the crew found the cutter laboring through heavy wind and waves with fifty-nine men, women and children aboard. Neither gig was visible, but crew and wreck survivors could be seen on the beach. As it turned out, the surviving gig had managed to make three trips through the surf before a wave broke over the overloaded vessel and sent it to the bottom.
” ‘The Chase’ from Slave-catching in the Indian ocean. A record of naval experiences. Made From a picture by Lieut. W. Henn, R.N.”
Henn’s preliminary drawing for “The Chase”. Accession# 1936.0243.19 (reverse) and 1936.0243.20.
With no way to get through the high surf to Dryad, the survivors had to spend the night on the beach. To assist them, two West African men working aboard Dryad loaded their canoe with provisions and weapons and ran the gauntlet of the high waves to the shore. Although the canoe was swamped by the surf, they managed to haul it and the supplies ashore. The following day the crew and survivors marched ten miles through hostile territory to Dryad’s land base. The episode cost Dryad five crew and two boats. Of the two dhows that were destroyed only 60 of the estimated 300 enslaved East Africans held within them had been saved.
Henn describes the scene: “Capsizing of 2nd gig of HMS “Dryad” near Ras Madraka Arabia (S. Coast) whereby 5 persons lost their lives, May 5th, 1869. The gig had already taken off 60 slaves which had been rescued by the landing party to the cutter which is seen at anchor outside the surf.” Watercolor by Lt. William Henn, RN. Accession# 1936.0243.16
“After the wreck of the boats at Ras Madraka.” The artwork shows the crew rounding up supplies and survivors and preparing to spend the night on the beach. Sketch by Lt. William Henn, RN. Accession# 1936.0243.17
Sometimes, the Amazon’s battle against the East African slave trade didn’t involve so much chasing as much as political maneuvering with an opponent intent on concealing illicit trade. In March of 1869, Captain Edward Meara and HMS Nymphe visited the port of Majunga on the northwest corner of Madagascar. During the visit, the crew inspected dhows anchored in the harbor, but none appeared to be slaves. Towards the end of the visit, two escaped slaves swam to Nymphe and were taken aboard. After the ship left port, Meara questioned the men and learned that two of the dhows in the port had landed nearly 200 slaves a mere two weeks before Nymphe’s visit (slave trading to Madagascar was reputedly illegal). Meara immediately turned Nymphe around and headed back to Majunga. Upon anchoring, the crew were sent ashore to identify and destroy the offending dhows. Afterwards, Meara sent a note to the governor explaining that he had been “under the painful necessity of burning two dhows that had landed 200 slaves twelve days ago.”
Officials told Meara they had “reported” the landing of the slaves to their own government at Antannarivo and were awaiting a reply. None of this information had been reported to Meara during Nymphe’s official visit so he insisted the ship would not leave the port without the captives that had been landed. When the governor insisted it would take two or more months to receive a reply Meara became irate. Later that night Mears had Nymphe’s crew fire a warning shot across the fort guarding the port but didn’t dare send his men ashore to hunt for the captives. In the days that followed, Meara’s crew searched the dhows in port and managed to find another that was harboring slaves. The captives were taken aboard along with a cargo of rice and the dhow was destroyed. Unable to resolve the situation, Nymphe left Majunga leaving hundreds of Mozambique captives in the hands of the Madagascar government.
Women rescued by HMS Dryad in 1869-1870. Zorrhea, was Mjindo and Fieda, just 14 years old, was Mhiyow [Henn’s spellings are phonetic]. Sketch with watercolor by Lt. William Henn, RN. Accession# 1936.0243.22.
In July, when a complaint about Meara’s actions was received, Heath dispatched Captain Colomb and HMS Dryad to sort things out. While the ship was in transit, Meara and Nymphe returned to Majunga to determine whether the governor’s inquiry had been answered. While the situation was still unresolved Meara was told that 133 of the 174 captives were still alive and had been quartered among the town’s residents which, of course, prevented Meara from making any sort of search and recovery. A short time later Meara learned that an additional 120 slaves had been landed so it was obvious that the Majungan authorities were actively participating in the slave trade despite the treaty with the British indicating otherwise.
When HMS Dryad finally arrived in Majunga, Captain Colomb was armed with a letter bearing the seal of the Queen of Madagascar that stated the Mozambique captives were to be turned over to the British. After a great deal of diplomatic maneuvering that proved the Majungan authorities complicit in the illegal trade, Colomb delivered the Queen’s letter. Over the next few days 140 men, women and children were delivered to Dryad which transported them to Mauritius as refugees before continuing its hunt.
Pencil drawing depicting four female East African survivors, two of which may be young girls, sitting next to a 64-pound cannon on the deck of HMS Dryad. By Lt. William Henn, RN. Accession# 1936.0243.18.
Boats from the HMS Dryad sailing up the ‘Port Durnford’ river (now Bur Gao, Somalia). In October of 1869, Captain Colomb explored the possibility of establishing a British settlement for liberated slaves. Colomb writes “it seems to me that Port Durnford…is the spot pointed out by its nature and position for our occupation. The river is easy of access, carries deep water for some distance inland, and could accommodate a number of ships. If it possesses fresh water and a sufficiently healthy climate, it ought to be a suitable point for the experiment. The effect of a British settlement there would…deal a more heavy blow to the Northern export trade in slaves than anything we have yet attempted or proposed, except perhaps, the acquisition of Zanzibar itself.” Watercolor drawing by Lt. William Henn, RN. Accession# 1936.0243.24
At that point, it appears Lt. Henn’s dhow chasing career ends as an article in Allen’s Indian Mail and Official Gazette dated March 8, 1870 shows Henn traveling back to England on board HMS Daphne.
HMS Daphne in the Suez Canal, March 14, 1870. Watercolor drawing by Lt. William Henn. Accession# 1936.0243.25.
According to John Broich in his book Squadron: Ending the African Slave Trade (which I whole heartedly recommend reading!) during their short “hunt” Captain Meara and HMS Nymphe released over 400 people (not including the 200 or so being illegally held in Majunga); Captain Colomb and HMS Dryad released over 360 people; and Captain Sulivan and HMS Daphne saved over 1,000.
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Contributions from Conservation: More than Meets the Eye
Author Paige SchmidtAssistant Objects Conservator
Assistant Objects Conservator Paige Schmidt. Credit: The Mariners’ Museum and Park.
Hello there Mariners! I thought it was about time I introduced myself on the blog. My name is Paige Schmidt, and I am the Assistant Objects Conservator for the museum’s general collection. While I work in the Batten Conservation Complex alongside the archaeological conservators who dedicate their time to conserving the U.S.S. Monitor, I myself do not work on the Monitor. My job is to conserve and help care for the 18,000 three dimensional artifacts within our impressive collection!
While hands-on treatment of artifacts is a regular part of a conservator’s job, conservation encompasses a whole lot more than just treatment. In addition to assisting with the preventive care of the collection (i.e. avoiding the need for treatment as much as possible by regulating the environment in which artifacts exist), we can also provide insights into the history of an object, help objects tell their stories, and sometimes literally ‘unlock’ their secrets.
Several months ago Collections Manager (and prolific blogger) Jeanne Willoz-Egnor asked the Conservation Department to assist with the investigation of a recently acquired Asprey Despatch Box, dating from 1871-72 (gift of Jonathan Morey in memory of Leonard Morey). You can read Jeanne’s post about the box and its many secrets here:
https://www.marinersmuseum.org/blog/?s=despatch
Asprey Despatch Box, lid open, ca. 1871-72.
Credit: The Mariners’ Museum and Park.
Asprey Despatch Box, center tray removed.
As noted at the end of Jeanne’s post, one of the box’s many secret compartments remained locked after an exhaustive search for the release mechanism (see photos below of the location of the compartment). There was an interest in opening this compartment because:
1. We wanted to see if any additional information could be found inside.
2. We needed to fully assess the condition of the chest and establish the best storage solutions for its component parts.
3. It’s super cool!
Location of hidden compartment in the Despatch box.
View of hidden compartment with the front drawer removed from the Despatch box.
Luckily, x-radiography was an option for us when this question came up earlier in the year, since the humidity was still low enough in the space where the x-ray unit is housed. This particular object, with so many composite parts made of both inorganic and organic materials, would not fare well when exposed to high or rapid fluctuations in humidity (just one of the many things we must think about when considering treatment/storage options). So, Analytical Chemist Dr. Molly McGath and I proceeded to x-ray the box with bated breath to see what we could find, and…
Hidden compartment removed from the Despatch box.
In addition to imaging the many different previously identified hidden mechanisms within the box, we were able to clearly see the clever system of posts and levers that unlatched the compartment! The mechanism is initiated by pressing through the plate hole on the proper left side of the box (see images below).
Hardware plate circled in red with hole that engages the hidden compartment mechanism. Credit: Mariners’ Museum and Park.
X-radiograph of the Despatch chest, as viewed from the front of the side with the hidden compartment. Credit: The Mariners’ Museum and Park.
1. Press through hole in plate, which depresses a rod.
2. Rod presses down on end of first lever.
3. First lever press up on end of second lever.
4. Second lever lifts up, unlatching the hidden compartment.
Credit: Mariners’ Museum and Park.
X-radiograph of the hidden compartment and mechanism, as viewed from above. The mechanism and box are seen on the right side.
The green highlights the hidden compartment. The orange box outlines the spring that pushes the compartment out when the latch is released.
Detail X-radiograph of the front of the hidden compartment release mechanism, as seen from above.
The compartment easily popped open when a soft bamboo skewer was used to depress the mechanism, revealing a thoughtfully built little wooden box with a sliding lid. Of course, repeated use of these fragile mechanisms will be kept to a minimum to avoid damage, and this compartment will now be stored separately from the box. The compartment will be covered to help protect it from UV radiation that would alter the deep, rich color of the wood that has been so wonderfully preserved in hiding.
This was a satisfying conclusion to a real head-scratcher for us all. And it is only the tip of the ice-berg in terms of the analysis and ‘extra-eyes’ conservation and conservation science can provide to the assessment of artifacts. I look forward to many more collaborations with our incredible team here at the Mariners’ Museum and Park. One mystery down… infinite possibilities to go. So stay tuned!
Family gets once in a lifetime chance to save history
Last fall, the Slominski and Lawton families of Garner, North Carolina were vacationing in a remote area of Cape Lookout National Seashore when they noticed small objects bobbing in the surf. They collected a few of the items, and for roughly thirty minutes many more examples of the same item continued to float by. Not knowing what they were, they limited their collecting to about fifteen pieces. The items gathered were delicate glass tubes with a thin tube at the top containing a graduated paper scale, with a larger air-filled chamber at the middle, and a small bulb at the bottom filled with little lead pellets held in place by a cotton plug.
During the recovery, one of the fragile items fractured and from it they recovered a paper scale with the words “Sea Water G. Tagliabue New York.” Despite seeing what they described as a “hundreds” of the items in the surf, when they walked down the beach to see how many had washed ashore they couldn’t find anything—no complete pieces, no broken glass, no loose paper scales…nothing. It was as if the bobbing items had simply vanished into thin air.
They showed the items to volunteers and staff working at Cape Lookout and were told that cargo and other items from the hundreds of shipwrecks that surround Cape Lookout regularly washes up on area beaches. While storms or rough seas may wash heavier cargo from the wrecks, sometimes it’s the decomposition of the ship structure or crates within it that allows trapped items to escape.
Once home, Mark Slominski began trying to identify the items. After a little research he was pretty sure what the family had recovered was some form of hydrometer, but he wasn’t sure. He contacted several naval historians to try and gain additional insight into the instrument, but they couldn’t provide any assistance.
Eventually, Mark contacted the Scientific Instrument Society and joined the RETE mailing list (a mailing list devoted to the history of scientific instruments) operated by the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford. After posting a query to the list serve, members Sara Schechner (David P. Wheatland Curator of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments at Harvard) and researcher Julian Holland suggested he contact the Mariners’ Museum for additional assistance. In late January, Mark’s request for help reached me. Images of the items and the word “sea water” on the paper scale immediately told me the instruments were most likely salinometers, a type of hydrometer that’s specifically designed to measure the amount of salt in a marine steam engine boiler.
I was aided by the fact that we have a number of fragmentary instruments recovered from the engine room of the USS Monitor in 2002. Despite being broken, several paper scales from the Monitor instruments survived and at least one showed it was by the same maker as those recovered by the Slominski and Lawton families: Giuseppe Tagliabue (1812-1878) of New York.
Confusing the situation was the fact that Tagliabue marked one of the scales with the words “Sea Water Hydrometer,” while one recovered by the family was marked “Salinometer for Sea Water” and yet another was simply marked “Sea Water.” Holy moly dude—could you have been a little more consistent???
Of course this raised questions: Is it a salinometer or a hydrometer? How do you tell the difference between those two instruments? Is a “sea water hydrometer” different from a “salinometer for sea water” or are they just named differently but used for the same activity? I had no freaking clue.
You guys know me, I am definitely not one to let a sleeping dog lie. It became a total obsession to answer all of the questions that were now bobbing around in my head. I am happy to say, that after reading a bit about marine steam engines and boilers I think I have finally sorted things out—at least enough to visually tell the difference between a hydrometer and salinometer (which is technically still a hydrometer but let’s ignore that!).
Hydrometers are meant to measure the specific gravity of a liquid so they carry a uniformly graduated scale that helps determine the density of the liquid. Since there are obviously about a zillion different types of liquids, there are many different types of hydrometer. A hydrometer that measures the purity of milk is called a lactometer. A hydrometer that measures the alcoholic strength of a liquid is called an alcoholometer. A hydrometer that measures the specific gravity of an acid is an acidometer. You get the idea. There is one drawback with using a hydrometer to measure salt content and that is you must also have a barometer present to determine atmospheric pressure. To get around this problem a combination of the two instruments was created: the salinometer.
Salinometers are specifically designed to tell a marine engineer the portion of salt in his boiler water. Why do they need to know this? Well, too much salt means it takes more fuel to bring the water to a boil. It also leads to scaling inside the boiler which could cause the boiler to fail thanks to overheating (it’s more technical than that but that’s the gist of it). The scale inside a salinometer is set for the range of boiling points for salt water (190°F to 210°F) with additional graduations for 1/32, 2/32, 3/32, etc. to show the portion of salt in the water. Those graduations tells the engineer when it’s time to replace too-salty water with less-salty water. The scale is marked “blow” which means it’s time for the engineer to open the valves that allow the steam inside the boiler to “blow off” the salty water so fresher water can be drawn in.
Learning all this helped me understand why identical instruments seem to have multiple terms describing them. Tagliabue’s identification of the instrument in the USS Monitor collection as a “sea water hydrometer” is actually a salinometer. Likewise, the fragmentary scale that only has the word “water” remaining—but shows the 190°F to 210°F temperature scales is also a salinometer.
After sorting all this out, I am happy to say that the Slominski and Lawton families graciously donated not one but TWO of the salinometers they recovered and the loose paper scale from the broken instrument. This wonderful donation gives us examples of one of the earliest forms of salinometer used on board a steamships. It’s also great for our visitors because it will allow us to display a complete example by Tagliabue next to a fragmentary instrument which will give them a much better understanding of exactly what the whole instrument looked like.
For the Slominski and Lawton families, they can revel in the fact that they were able to save so many these amazingly delicate and rare instruments (from the aspect of dating and manufacturer) from destruction and know that thanks to their efforts they will be preserved for the benefit of future generations.
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Whole Foods announces mandatory GMO labeling by 2018; here's how it happened
Tags: Whole Foods, GMO labeling, Monsanto
(NaturalNews) In a huge victory for the alternative media and grassroots activism, Whole Foods announced on Friday that it would require GMO labels on all products by 2018. (Click here for the press release.) This announcement deals a significant blow to Monsanto, DuPont and all the GMO pushers who openly admit that they want consumers to remain ignorant about what they're eating.
It's a brilliant move for Whole Foods, given that by 2018, anyone who wants to be certain whether they are avoiding GMOs will gladly choose to do all their shopping at Whole Foods. After all, if Albertson's (for example) doesn't require GMO labeling while Whole Foods does, in which store would you rather shop? Whole Foods!
But the real story here is everything that led up to this. The turning point in all this was, in my opinion, the 2012 release of the Organic Spies video in which Whole Foods employees were caught on camera lying to customers about GMOs.
Natural News broke this story and was instrumental in getting the video posted on our free speech protected video service TV.naturalnews.com, a public location which could not be easily banned by Whole Foods. YouTube, by comparison, routinely bans videos that blow the whistle on dishonest corporate behavior, but TV.naturalnews.com hosts whistleblowing videos and has so far resisted all attempts to have those videos banned or removed. (We even host most of the Jesse Ventura Conspiracy Theory series, including the "memory-holed" FEMA camp episode that has disappeared everywhere else.)
This Organic Spies video proved to be hugely embarrassing to Whole Foods, causing an uproar across the 'net and causing many customers to start shopping elsewhere such as Green PolkaDot Box, which avoids carrying any products containing GMOs.
Following the Organic Spies video, InfoWars reporters Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton launched a breakthrough video investigation that exposed the "big Whole Foods lie" of claiming "Nothing artificial, ever" on the side of their stores while secretly selling unlabeled GMOs in their stores. We also documented the "Nothing artificial, ever" fraud here on Natural News. GMOs are, of course, "artificial." They are engineered by man, not created by nature. In this video, Whole Foods was caught in yet another blatant, embarrassing lie.
The Prop 37 campaign was also in full swing during all this, and Whole Foods refused to contribute a single dollar to the California ballot measure. After being confronted and publicly shamed, a Whole Foods executive did quietly contribute $25,000, but only after being called out for failing to support the campaign.
Alternative media holds Whole Foods' feet to the fire
Add all this up and you get the impression that Whole Foods was actively opposed to GMO labeling. And it was the alternative media that was holding Whole Foods' feet to the fire. While the mainstream media refused to even touch the issue (because mainstream media is nothing more than a dumbed-down, cartoon-level disinfo broadcast for morons and sheeple), the alternative media plowed full steam ahead. Natural News, InfoWars, Mercola, the Organic Consumers Association, the Institute for Responsible Technology and many other organizations kept hammering the issue, and tens of millions of grassroots activists made their voices heard in a resounding way.
Through various back channels, Whole Foods got the message loud and clear that there was no way they were going to be able to stop this. The alternative media can't be easily bought off because the key people who run the alternative media aren't in it for money (unlike the mainstream media).
If Whole Foods didn't get fully behind the mandatory labeling of GMOs, it was going to find itself in a runaway confidence crisis. After all, if health-conscious customers can't trust Whole Foods to be transparent with them about what's really in their foods, there's not much of a reason to shop at Whole Foods, is there?
Whole Foods capitulates and decides to require labeling
Sometime between November 2012 and March 2013, Whole Foods executives made a decision to finally get behind GMO labeling. They announced that all the foods they carry would need to be labeled with GMO content by 2018. As StreetInsider.com reports:
Whole Foods Market announced... that, by 2018, all products in its U.S. and Canadian stores must be labeled to indicate whether they contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs). It is the first national grocery chain to set a deadline for full GMO transparency.
On the surface, this was immediately heralded as a highly ethical leadership decision by the market leader in health food retailing, but behind the scenes an entirely different equation was being calculated. Whole Foods CEO John Mackey never makes a decision unless it's in his financial interest to do so, and as his history of false-identity Wild Oats blogging shows, he's not beyond engaging in wild deceptions in order to make more money for himself and his investors.
Ultimately, Mackey and the Whole Foods executives realized what I've been trying to tell them for months: That if they didn't get behind GMO labeling, they were going to lose everything. Promoting GMO labeling isn't simple a choice of ethics for Whole Foods, it's a matter of economic survival.
And what made that decision carry weight? The alternative media.
Whole Foods decision is huge victory for alternative media and grassroots activism
Without Natural News, Organic Consumers Association, Jeffrey Smith, Info Wars and millions of grassroots activists pounding this issue day after day, the cost of Whole Foods doing nothing would not have been high enough to alter the equation. Whole Foods made this decision precisely because of Natural News, the Organic Spies, Info Wars and other alternative media organizations. Because Whole Foods knows that we will not drop this issue and we were going to keep hammering this issue in a very public manner if they did not come out and announce support for GMO labeling.
So in one sense, Whole Foods deserves credit for doing the right thing in this announcement, but at another level they were forced into that position by people like you, the readers of the alternative media.
Whole Foods will deny all this, of course. They will claim this decision was nothing more than a response to the requests of their many customers. But those requests were largely caused by people learning about this entire issue from the alternative media, which has really become the new mainstream media because we are the only sources of real news these days (and we're not run by the White House or mega corporations).
The way Whole Foods explains all this, however, they made this decision solely because they are impressively angelic in their hearts and minds. As Whole Foods President A.C. Gallo says: "We have always believed quality and transparency are inseparable and that providing detailed information about our products is part of satisfying and delighting the millions of people who place their trust in Whole Foods Market each day."
That quote is a complete load of bull, of course. In truth, Whole Foods has systematically deceived its customers about GMOs for many years. It has placed signs on its stores that are blatantly false and misleading: "Nothing artificial, ever!" And it has waged a campaign of total disinformation about the GMOs that continue to be sold right now in not just the food products, but also the supplements it retails. (Yes, many supplements sold at Whole Foods are loaded with genetically modified ingredients.)
So don't let Whole Foods fool you into thinking this is all about "doing the right thing." If anything, Whole Foods has decided to do the right thing only as a last resort, after being forced to do so by the alternative media and grassroots activists. As Winston Churchill famously said in the European theater of World War II, "Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing... after they have exhausted all other possibilities."
Ultimately, it's hard-working people like Ronnie Cummins and Jeffrey Smith who really deserve the credit for Whole Foods making this move.
That's why all this is a victory for grassroots activism over corporate deception. This shows the power of the alternative media to connect people in ways that achieve real change. This shows that when push comes to shove, the alternative media is in many ways more powerful than the lying mainstream media which has engaged in a shameful GMO cover-up.
Despite everything written above, if Whole Foods has the guts to make a public announcement like this, they will have my support in this endeavor. It's a gutsy move to publicly oppose Monsanto and the wholly corrupt, mafia-minded biotech industry.
No doubt Whole Foods is going to endure unbelievable heat for this. You can fully expect a lawsuit to be filed by Monsanto against the retailer, and even the USDA and FDA will likely get involved. Remember, it was really Monsanto and the FDA that forced wholesome milk producers to remove the "no rBGH" claim from their labels.
My prediction: Monsanto and the FDA are going to wage a massive regulatory assault on Whole Foods and try to find some way to force Whole Foods to back off this promise to label GMOs. We, the grassroots activists who helped make this happen, would be wise to help defend Whole Foods in this decision. At some point, we may have to organize letter-writing campaigns, call-in campaigns, etc., to the FDA and even U.S. Senators to oppose FDA regulations that attempt to censor and silence GMO labeling. That will probably happen in 2014 - 2015.
In the mean time, product suppliers who sell to Whole Foods are going to have to start making a big decision themselves: Do we create a separate line of products just for Whole Foods, or do we label all our products no matter where they are sold?
Some food companies will decide to pull out of Whole Foods in protest. These will likely be the "no on 37" brands that are total GMO sellouts like Kashi, Silk, Larabar and others. There will be tremendous economic pressure put on Whole Foods over this, believe me.
But the more responsible brands -- like Nature's Path cereals and Amy's Kitchen -- will welcome the labeling and they will quickly comply. (In Nature's Path's case, by the way, they are already 100% non-GMO, so they are already compliant. Amy's also avoids GMOs.)
This will mean that some shelf space may open up at Whole Foods stores because those GMO deceivers will pull out. But this is actually a fantastic opportunity for non-GMO brands to come in and fill the space. This will actually improve Whole Foods' overall product selection and make it an even more inviting place to shop. (Heck, I might even start shopping there again.)
Those companies that choose to comply with the labeling will obviously start telling their own raw materials suppliers that they don't want to buy any more GMOs. And those raw materials suppliers, in turn, will tell their farmers to stop growing GMOs because the market demand is collapsing.
Simple economics means more farmers will stop growing GMOs
The upshot of this is that farmers who grow GMOs will be punished with plummeting demand while farmers who grow certified non-GMO crops will be rewarded with increased demand and increased prices. (Isn't the free market wonderful?)
The end result is victory for everyone: Whole Foods gets its reputation back, consumers get honest labeling, farmers get away from toxic GMOs and superweeds, the environment benefits from less genetic pollution and toxic Monsanto pesticides being sprayed, and the health of those who shop at Whole Foods is vastly improved by not eating hidden GMOs!
Who are the losers in all this? Monsanto and the biotech industry. You might argue they are already losers, ethically speaking, but I'm talking about economics: They are about to get hammered right where it counts: in the pocketbook.
In essence then, this ballsy decision by Whole Foods is one giant kick in the crotch for Monsanto, which is precisely what that corporate monstrosity rudely deserves.
I would personally like to join in this crotch-kicking contest by getting behind Whole Foods in this decision and helping support its efforts to follow through with its GMO labeling promise.
So, for the record, Natural News is fully supportive of Whole Foods on this issue, and we intend to rally grassroots support to help Whole Foods defend this decision when the time comes.
And ultimately, if this goes into place over the next five years, I plan to be among those who help publicize the good news and encourage everybody to shop at Whole Foods. Five years isn't as far off as you think, and I'm a pretty young guy, so I'll still be here covering all this.
Bottom line? Wind up your kicking legs, everybody. We're all about to join in a massive grassroots ballet of Monsanto crotch-kicking lasting five years. Think of it as inverted river dancing.
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Aromatherapy Essentials: 4 Facts That May Surprise You
Scents are everywhere. When you intentionally turn to them to improve your well-being, you're practicing what's called aromatherapy.
A form of herbalism, the therapeutic use of fragrance relies on a plant's oils, which are extracted from the leaves, bark, roots, and seeds. Aromatherapy has been around for thousands of years. Today, plants' oils are bottled as "essential oils," and nearly 300 different kinds are available.
Whether in a peaceful lavender-infused bath or a perky peppermint moisturizer, scents relax and refresh, relieve and restore. They also can repel mosquitoes, neutralize body odor, or seduce a lover.
Four Surprising Aromatherapy Facts
Maybe you use aromatherapeutic essential oils regularly. But here are four things about them that might surprise you.
Aromatherapy is Backed by Science.
When absorbed through the skin, essential oils enter the bloodstream and affect the nervous and lymphatic systems, among others.
"The molecules of an odor interact with the receptor proteins of cell membranes, thereby creating physiological changes," such as relaxation or stimulation, says Kurt Schnaubelt, PhD, scientific director of the Pacific Institute of Aromatherapy in San Rafael, CA. Schnaubelt is the author of the forthcoming book The Healing Intelligence of Essential Oils. When you breathe in a scent, neurons in your nasal cavities send messages to your brain, triggering emotions or memories.
Caution is Critical When Using Essential Oils.
In their book, Aromatherapy: A Complete Guide to the Healing Art, Kathi Keville and Mindy Green warn: Start with oils made from plants, not synthetics (look for the botanical, or Latin, name on the label). Don't dab undiluted essential oils directly on your skin; and keep them away from eyes, mouths and children. Use too many drops and the oil may irritate or burn your skin, damage your liver and/or kidneys, or affect your nervous system. If you're pregnant, elderly, or have serious health problems, see an aromatherapist before trying essential oils.
Essential Oil Extraction Matters
The most common way to draw out the oils from plants is steam distillation: Steam from boiling water pulls out the plant's odor molecules, which then float on top of the water as it cools. It's also possible to press the oil. Flowers that contain a small amount of oil are sometimes processed using solvents such as petroleum ether, hexane, toluene, and acetone (to name a few). The downside of these chemical solvents is that they can lead to headaches and allergic symptoms; they may even be carcinogenic. According to David Schiller, cofounder of the International Aromatherapy and Herb Association, the best methods are carbon dioxide extraction--a clean and efficient method that uses high pressure and low heat--and steam distillation.
Aromatherapy Shifts Your Mood and Attitude
"Aromatherapy can be a great way to change your life for the better, if you open yourself up to it. You have to want to make a positive change," says Schiller, who is also the coauthor of Aromatherapy for Life Empowerment. Conversely, "If you don't believe in aromatherapy, you can make it not work for you."
Certain scents can change the way you perceive and deal with your thoughts and feelings. Aromatherapy also helps you reflect. "Put on some soothing music, rub in the oils, relax, and let them take their course. They'll help you clear away the noise and lead you to what's most important to you in your life," says Schiller.
Whether it's from a bottle of rosemary essential oil or the rosebush in your own backyard, a sweet fragrance wafts in the world. And maybe, just maybe, that breath takes you somewhere you never expected.
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Wydawnictwo: Chandos
Seria: Mozart Concertos
Nr katalogowy: CHAN 20083
Data wydania: czerwiec 2019
Epoka muzyczna: klasycyzm
Obszar (język): niemiecki
Rodzaj: koncert, uwertura
Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol. 4
Chandos - CHAN 20083
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano
Manchester Camerata / Gábor Takács-Nagy
Mozart - Concerto (No.21) KV 467 (1785) * - Andante (Excerpt)
Mozart - Concerto (No.20) KV 466 (1785) * - Allegro assai (Excerpt)
Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, KV 466
Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, KV 467
Overture to Don Giovanni, KV 527
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s first three volumes of Mozart concertos with the Manchester Camerata and Gábor Takács-Nagy have been received with widespread acclaim, and so it is with some excitement that we release the keenly anticipated fourth instalment in the series.
Composed within just one month in early 1785, these two concertos by Mozart are among the most popular of all his piano concertos. No. 20, KV 466 was his first concerto in a minor key, and its dark and stormy nature contrasts with the light and sunny atmosphere of Concerto No. 21, KV 467.
Like so many of his piano concertos, both works were composed for the Vienna concert season and were given their premiere performances with Mozart at the keyboard. The two concertos are interspersed on this recording with a vivid performance of the Overture to Don Giovanni, which shares traits with both concertos and further demonstrates the exemplary playing of Manchester Camerata.
Recording: The Stoller Hall, Hunts Bank, Manchester; 7 and 8 September 2018. Piano: Yamaha Model CFX nine-foot concert grand piano (serial no. 6410300) courtesy of Yamaha.
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Höfner CS Galaxie
A space oddity of a guitar
By Jonathan Horsley 2014-12-26T12:01:00.359Z 6 String Solid Body Guitars
The Galaxie was odd in its time and it's odd now, but it has a tone that's unique - and that's rare nowadays.
Quirky, individual instrument. Mini-humbuckers sound great.
Switching on the fly is difficult. Few tuning issues. Won't suit all tastes.
The Galaxie was one of Höfner's more popular models in the 60s, but it's also one of its weirdest. However, in some respects, it is reassuringly familiar...
Within the context of the electric guitar, the Galaxie's DNA has plenty of Californian double-cut written into its genetic code. It, too, has a 648mm (25.5-inch) scale.
"That mini-humbuckers sound great, rounding off the sharpness of single coils, with more chime to the cleans"
The Galaxie's satin-smooth maple neck is bolted on to a basswood body that looks not unlike a more asymmetrical S-style body. But from the three-humbucker configuration to the Höfner vibrato unit, it's a different beast.
The Galaxie comes fitted with three Hofner Nova-Sonic 511B 'Staple' mini-humbuckers, each individually switchable with on/off switches seated adjacent to the pickup.
It's quirky, an endearingly antique way of doing things, but makes switching on the fly nigh-on impossible. That said, they sound great, rounding off the sharpness of single coils, with more chime to the cleans, and a certain outré quality to overdriven tones.
The Galaxie is not for everybody. Aside from some niggling tuning issues, complicated by the vibrato (and which should settle given time), and a rough-edged nut, it's an option for more adventurous guitarists looking for something different.
The Galaxie is a throwback, true, but one with no ambition to be 'classic'.
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People living in the United Kingdom are all too familiar with English winters. They can be excruciating without warm clothes and shelter. No one wants a repeat of 1962-63. For those who do not know, the winter of 1962-63 was one of the coldest winters on record in the UK.
Temperatures dropped to below zero causing many lakes and rivers to freeze and snow blanketed most of the region. Six inches of snow poured down on Manchester City Center alone. Keele University in Staffordshire received a whopping 18 inches of snow bringing life to a standstill. Combine that with gusty winds and damp weather, it can safely be said that for the most part people stayed indoors.
2015 may have just arrived, but it’s been winter in the UK since December. With falling temperatures and rising winds, this winter season is already proving to be a testing one. This is especially true for people who are homeless and the elderly. According to the Daily Mail, more than 24,000 elderly people in the United Kingdom died in 2012 due to the adverse effects of cold weather and rising heating bills. These people simply cannot afford warm clothes or shelter due to poverty and social isolation. They were left to deal with the adverse weather effects on their own. 24,000 is an astounding number. However, with a little help and support, these deaths could have been prevented and precious lives saved.
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Being mindful of such statistics and realising that more needs to be done to keep the elderly warm and away from the cold weather, Muslim Aid has been stepping up and taking action to warm hearts during the winter season. Our successful Warm Hearts Campaign has been running for years now and it has impacted thousands of lives.
The essence of the Warm Hearts Campaign is providing the elderly and homeless with supplies that will enable them to withstand the winter season. Our staff and volunteers reach out to the elderly and the homeless locally as well as nationally. Each person receives a Muslim Aid Keep Warm Kit. It contains day to day essentials that will help them to stay warm. It includes warm blankets, sleeping bags, gloves, socks and hats. There are also basic food provisions. However, the aid to the homeless and the elderly does not stop here.
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Airtel International Roaming: Unlimited Incoming And More. Details Here
Airtel's international roaming pack priced at Rs 3,999 for countries including the US and the UK comes with a validity of 30 days.
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Bharti Airtel is offering international roaming plans at Rs. 83 per day in countries including Australia, Malaysia and Singapore. The benefits include unlimited incoming calls and free minutes for India and local calls. Airtel's international roaming pack priced at Rs 3,999 for countries including the US and the UK comes with a validity of 30 days, according to Airtel's website - airtel.in. This pack includes 5GB of data, unlimited incoming calls and 500 minutes of outgoing local calls as well as calls to India, according to Airtel. The Rs 3,999 pack comes at an effective rental of Rs 133 per day, it noted.
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Rs 2,999 for 10 days
Bharti Airtel, India's largest telecom operator, is also offering a pack priced at Rs 2,999, valid for 10 days. This pack comes with 3 GB of data and 250 minutes of calls to India and local calls, among other benefits.
Rs 649 for one day
Airtel offers a one-day pack priced at Rs 649. Benefits offered along with this international roaming pack include 5 GB of data and 500 minutes of local calls and calls made to India.
All three of Airtel's international roaming packs - Rs 2,999, Rs 3,999 and Rs 649 - come with unlimited incoming calls and 100 SMSes. They are available for roaming in a number of countries including Canada, Korea, China, Kuwait, Taiwan, Mexico and the Netherlands, according to the Airtel website.
Airtel is also offering international roaming packs priced at Rs 499, Rs 1,199 and Rs 2,499 in countries including Australia, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Singapore and Sri Lanka, the portal showed.
The Rs 499 roaming pack comes with a validity of one day and 500 MB of data. The Rs 1,199 roaming pack comes with six times more data of 3GB with a validity of 10 days. Valid for 30 days, the Rs 2,499 pack offers 5 GB of data. The local calls and roaming calls to India under these packs are at 100 minutes, 250 minutes and 500 minutes respectively, the Airtel website showed.
Of these, the roaming pack priced at Rs 2,499 - valid for 30 days - comes at an effective rental of Rs 83 per day, according to the website.
Airtel had last year launched its new international roaming (IR) packs aimed at creation of value proposition for customers travelling abroad.
"With the new IR packs, customers will have the convenience of carrying their India mobile number wherever they go and stay connected 24x7 without having to worry about high call and data charges," it had said.
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Yesterday, Betsy DeVos, President Trump’s nominee for U.S. Secretary of Education, was confirmed by 50 Senators and Vice President Mike Pence. As a national coalition of over 100 organizations from across the country and Washington DC, the Dignity in Schools Campaign (DSC) stands in unity with education justice stakeholders to continue fighting to ensure equity and human rights in public education.
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Jackdaw rescue in Shaw
Firefighters' busy day at 2 other incidents in Thatcham and Hungerford
Jane Meredith
jane.meredith@newburynews.co.uk
NEWBURY firefighters attended three different incidents today (Tues) including a jackdaw rescue in Shaw.
One pump from Newbury fire station was called at 4.45pm to Stable Court, Shaw, where a jackdaw was trapped on a roof, stuck in wire near the guttering.
Firefighters climbed up a ladder to free the bird, which was handed over to the care of the RSPCA, also at the scene.
The bird was thought to have suffered an injured foot.
Firefighters left the scene at 5.15pm.
This morning, at 9.05am, both pumps from Newbury were called to a bathroom fire a a property in Park Street, Hungerford.
The fire, due to a spotlight directed on towels stacked on top of a cupboard, was out on arrival.
Two people at the property were unhurt.
Firefighters isolated the electrics before leaving after around 20 minutes.
This afternoon saw both pumps from Newbury called out again, at 4.30pm, to a small kitchen fire in Mount Road, Thatcham.
The blaze broke out after a pan on a hob ignited.
The occupants extinguished the fire by placing the pan in water.
No-one was hurt, with no other damage and firefighters left after ten minutes.
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Google Responds to Irate Pixel Customer Who Put up Anti-Google Posters Around Delhi
Samsung Galaxy A80 With Rotating Camera, Snapdragon 730G Processor Launched for Rs 47,999
Russian Website Leaks Four HTC Wildfire Models, Makes Leaked Images Viral
Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 With Snapdragon 855 SoC, Stylus and Keyboard Leaked Online
News18 » Tech
A dissatisfied Google Pixel owner went around Delhi putting up posters advising people to not buy the Pixel phones. Google has now responded to the allegations.
Earlier this week, Google had to deal with a customer's rather unique way of protesting. An allegedly irate customer of a claimed-to-be-faulty Google Pixel phone quite literally went to town and put up posters not entirely generous about Google and the Pixel line-up of Android phones that they make. His claim was that his Google Pixel phone, reportedly purchased in early 2017, started developing multiple issues within the first year of usage. (Read more here) Now however, Google has responded to the customer, Manu Aggarwal from Haryana, and his allegations against Google.
Google, in its official statement, has completely denied that the customer’s phone wasn’t attended to by the service center at various stages. “For Pixel, we have a world-class after-sales service network in India. In this particular case, when the customer was dissatisfied with our repeated efforts and response to his service request, we offered a free of cost repair or a new device, in line with our warranty policy,” says a Google India spokesperson in an official statement shared with News18.
It all started out when Aggarwal’s Pixel phone developed some issue and was submitted to a Google Pixel service center for repairs. The user had claimed in various social media posts that the phone was accepted for repairs at the service center multiple times, but always returned with the same issues persisting. He even tagged Google CEO Sundar Pichai as well Prime Minister Narendra Modi in some of his tweets. Eventually, he started putting up posters around Delhi alleging that Pixel phones "restart, freeze, and crash constantly". He went on to advertise on some posters that no one should buy the Pixel, Pixel 2 or Pixel 3 phones.
Google says that they have attempted to resolve the issue multiple times, and say that the customer’s redressal demands do not meet with Google’s device repair and replacement policy. “He has however repeatedly failed to accept the replacement and has instead demanded two units of the next-gen Pixel. Unfortunately, we cannot give in to misuse of our policy or coercion, and are unable to comply with his unreasonable demands,” adds the Google India spokesperson. It is reported that Aggarwal owns the first generation Google Pixel phone.
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Clinton opposes Gaza aid flotilla
Washington - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday said she opposed plans by pro-Palestinian activists to sail aboard several ships to the Gaza Strip in defiance of an Israeli naval blockade.
"We do not believe that the flotilla is a necessary or useful effort to try to assist the people of Gaza," the chief US diplomat told reporters.
"Just this week, the Israeli government approved a significant commitment to housing in Gaza. There will be construction materials entering Gaza," Clinton said.
"And we think that it’s not helpful for there to be flotillas that try to provoke actions by entering into Israeli waters and creating a situation in which the Israelis have the right to defend themselves," Clinton said.
On May 31 2010, Israeli commandos killed nine Turkish activists, including one who also had US citizenship, when they boarded a Turkish vessel that was part of a flotilla trying to break the Israeli-imposed blockade of Gaza.
A group of pro-Palestinian activists, led by several Turkish groups, have said they plan to sail within the next few days to Gaza, mainly from Greek ports.
gees-hey - 2011-06-24 07:50
gees Hilary... so much for helping the oppressed... can see what you stand for
Zanu - 2011-06-24 09:09
If the Jews had not fought back against the Arab armies and had been destroyed in 1948, they would have received the most beautiful eulogies throughout the world. Instead, they chose to stand their ground and defend themselves. And in winning, they received the world's condemnation. Golda Meir said she would take the condemnation over the eulogies.
Mad Hatter - 2011-06-24 15:14
There are ways to get aid to the palestinians without using it as a propoganda activity to provoke a reaction from the Isreali authorities, the aid ships need to be inspected for arms which will be used for further violent activities. No country would accept any unchecked ship entering their country PS: there has never been a palestinian state , the creation of one will be the first, the land was formerly part of the trans-jordan area of the collapsed Ottoman empire. The Arab states support of the Palestinians is nothing more than their opposition to a jewish state in the middle east and their eagerness to dump palestinians in their own countries into another state to ensure religious hegemony .
pierreedge - 2011-06-24 16:02
Poor hillary, you can feel the weight of the aipac on her shoulders. They even advertise on this page, unbelievable (look at the bottom) Pro-Israel Americans:www.AIPAC.org Help keep Israel secure by ensuring U.S. support remains strong when will the isrealis stop manipulating the world...
barryjoelm - 2011-06-25 09:23
pierreedge, you're an idiot!
typical of extremist like barryjol, as soon as you disagree with them, you are insulted, insult, the weapon of the weak minds.
Zee - 2011-06-28 08:32
Yup pierreedge - when they can't argue rationally, they turn to insults/calling you anti-semitic. Not all the world is blind to their propaganda thankfully. Although clearly most are!
Paco7 - 2011-07-05 11:39
excuse her,she is sexually suppressed,ever since Bill has been doing Monica
Neutedop - 2011-06-24 07:51
This is plain provoking! And now another million people will see it as a good deed by these pro Palestinians. Wish people will realize they hope Israel attack, so they can get sympathy. Geez – time that people form their own opinion. They know the consequences, so why be upset if it actually happen?
daaivark - 2011-06-24 08:21
Neutedop = nutcase. At least you admit it.
Crazy Ivan - 2011-06-24 09:45
@daaivark Your a twit. If I force myself through your security gate and over your wall are you going to stand there with welcoming arms OR call the police/defend your property? Get real!
auqadir - 2011-06-24 10:24
@ Crazy Ivan - Zionists occupied Palestinian land and the West wants them to be received with open arms? Israeli blockade of Gaza is illegal and inhuman, the civil society has a democratic right to protest; and unarmed flotilla is a brilliant idea. All peace-loving people should support that, rising above their prejudices.
@Ivan - if I stole that gate from you in the first place, then I wouldn't expect you to take it lying down. Get real!
Dear Fundamentalist auqadir First of all, I trust you understand that the TRUE Palestinians are the Jews. The Arabs co-opted the name (and the identity) in 1966. I remind you that during the Mandatory period, the British referred to Jews as "Palestinians." The Arabs were just always referred to as "Arabs." During World War Two, when the call went out to form a Palestine Brigade, the only people who signed up were -- you guessed it -- Jews. The Arabs were aligned with the Nazis, in case you didn't know. That said, the ersatz "Palestinians" prompted six wars -- all started by the Arabs and won by Israel -- and have engaged in seven decades of unrelenting terror, visited both against Jews in Israel and in the Diaspora. They're still inventing themselves. They are not "Palestinians." The TRUE Palestinians are the Jews. The record is replete with this fact. PS the Israeli blockade of Gaza is right and just... and when the Palestinians stop terror and talk peace the blockade will end. However Hamas’s charter still calls for the destruction of Israel and the killing of all Jews – so the Palestinians civilians will continue to suffer under Hamas’ leadership
@ Crazy Ivan, I'd say you live up to your name, as I have nothing of value. But that aside, so I should just shoot you today in case you should attack me tomorrow? Now that is really sensible, isn't it.
Palian - 2011-06-24 11:05
Zanu. I note your incredible lack of thought and critical analysis skills. But hey, 30% is OK, ja? I don't purport to know what it must be like to be you, but I wish that you may live for a very very long time.
Waleed Toefy - 2011-06-24 11:09
what gate?.. last time they murdered those innocent people on the ships it was in INTERNATIONAL WATERS, so that "GATE" BELONGS TO THE WORLD!! ..and dont tell me those innocent people were murdered because they were stabbing or fighting or however the zionist tries to brainwash your dictated thoughts. It was PROVEN that the IDF had a BOOKLET ON THEM with photo's on who to target on the ship! the truth always prevails in the end. like how they errd on there editing of the ship surveillance video's by mistakingly leaving a VIDEO EDITING software cursor moving around in the "raw" serveilance footage, or how there men walked right through solid steel objects in the video, twice.. hahaha... please, stop swallowing the indoctrination and free your brain from the strings from which they pull. there were even holocaust survivors and priests on the Ship and we all know by now that they treat holocaust survivors like dogs in Isreal and even list them as security threats (terrorists) from the countless survivor testimonials.. free your brain - stand for truth, the zionist are strong and have resources, but we are the majority and cant allow the human oppressors victory http://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/
auqadir, you're an idiot!
Sabrina Azraq - 2011-06-24 08:02
almost 50% percent of the people in Gaza are unemployed. What the hell does housing have to do it? Gaza is currently suffering one of its most fatal shorteges in medical supplies. Clearly the flotillas are not to provoke the Israeli government, their to help the people of Palestine.
But why not take the Israeli option of takinging it to their port, and they will transport it there for free? Why does it HAVE to go through Israeli waters?
@Neutedop - because Israel has proven time and time again that it's hawkish leaders cannot be trusted.
Gees hey u stupid! Israel only has the blockade because Hamas keep firing missiles. If the Missiles stop the blockade will end, nough said! Proof is in the pudding - when Israel left Gaza, Gaza was free, Hamas came to power and now fire rockets non stop (even today) Hamas has been asking to get a beating by Israel ever since – they have a few times… problem is that the civilians get hurt (that is Hamas’s plan) The people of Gaza are not forgotten... they are constantly used as pawn by the Arab world to make sure there is never peace with the Jewish state. And that is a fact. The average age in Gaza is amongst the highest in the world. There situation is a lot better then Libya, Sudan or Syria… their situation is self-imposed and can be changed in a day. Its cliché but true; If Israel put down their Arms... there will be no more Israel. If the Palestinians put down their Arms there will be peace and reconciliation.
za101 - 2011-06-24 10:11
israel does not have a siege on gaza because of the missiles. israel has the siege because palestinians democratically elected hamas over fatah. fatah being an off-shoot of honsi mubaarak
Att: Zanu, you mean these rockets that Isreal tells us about on there TV stations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF3-YqZkoMs yes Zanu, im sure we are the stupid ones, you need to free your brain from the strings... TRUTH will always prevail in the end
and save a sip for zanu. He's really thirsty.
@ zee - sorry, meant at zanu my comment 2nd top from here :)
observer - 2011-06-24 13:39
No Waleed, the rockets that land in the children's playgrounds in Southern Israel.
laverne.gadiah - 2011-06-29 20:33
Will - 2011-06-24 08:13
how is this provocation? A bunch of people are taking aid to another bunch of people that need it. Exactly how are they being provoked. Israel is the one doing the provoking.
There's a naval blockade in force, that's why! To run it is pure provocation. All goods can go into Gaza via the port which ensures that the goods are not weapons. If you want to get goods in why not use this option? Only when the Palestinians recognise that Israel has the right to exist there will be peace in the Middle East. Imagine if we said that anyone with green eyes doesn't have the right to exist?!
Gaza also has its own sovereign waters. SO what are the Israelis doing blockading Gaza waters. Maybe its because a massive gas field was discovered in Gaza waters. Israel has no right to stop aid coming in through Gaza waters. Its an international violation.
Maybe Will, because there have been 8,000 rockets fired unprovoked into Israel. Would you accept rockets being fired into South Africa? That is an act of war and the Israelis have actually been very restrained in their response.
with a name like observer you dont see much... Stop having such a trivialized and simple minded view on the issue. Rockets are fired you say, unprovoked as well: WRONG. Palestinians try to stop the new settlements, they go to the UN, the UN passes a resolution to stop isreal building them, then the US vetoes, and isreal builds the settlement anyway, the palestinians feel the injustice, keep trying the legal route and nothing happens, so the extremist get angry and fire rockets in protest. Let's no forget the contemptious treatment palestinians have to endure everyday at the hand of isrealis soldiers, being patted, searched, asked for their pass and ids with (like during appartheid here). Next why do you condone a country oppressing another, why can boats come with aid/food/medicines to dock in GAZA, not isreal ports? Last big misconception that the hard core zionist try to push down people throat, the palestinians recognize isreal right to exist, even hamas cadres made that statement recently, mahmoud abbas has recognized their right since the start, and the majority of palestinians dont really care one way or another, they just want to leave in peace and in a sovereign state. Anyway, we can try to correct the lies and manipulation of the hardcore isrealis here, or jewish south africans who put isreal interest before their country, but seeing the thumbs up on pro isrealis post, seems this place in infested with one way thought.
pierreedge. I am not going to answer all of your questions/points. Rockets are fired, and Israel may fight back if they wish. The settlements only became an issue for the UN as an camouflage to the real problem - the Palestinians inability to accept Israel and have peace with them & the support they get from other Arab nations to this absurdity. I would like to know if you have read Hamas' charter? If so, then do you agree that they came to power democratically in Gaza? Well for your information - Hitler came to power democratically as well – & both on the pretext scapegoat of killing Jews. No such thing as illegal settlements on land that is still in contest. Settlements were perceived as very negative by most Israeli's (over 80%) but when Hamas took control of Gaza (after Israel left Gaza), and Israeli's realised there was no partner for peace... settlements grew as hopes for peace were dashed by Hamas. The previous owners of this "land" was Jordon, so until a final resolution comes to being - anyone can build on this land. Lastly, & importantly, as long as the Palestinians believe that terror is the way forward - they will never see a Palestinian state. Iran dictates the daily lives of the Palestinians under the context of Islam... as long as the Muslim world supports their fairytale dreams of conquering Israel, they will continue to suffer. You are brainwashed and confused – most people agree with Israel in silence, its time you investigated why yourself.
Zanu, Am afraid you're the one who's brainwashed, obtuse and living in the last century. The settlements ARE illegal, go the the un website to check the resolution pertaining to that, and the 20 odd ones signed by 90% of the states, but vettoed by the US. The blockade IS also illegal, same source UN website. Lasttly, the hamas charter drafted 20+ years ago have been contradicted by many hamas leaders, go read some objective news. Bottom line, stop the illegal settlements, abide by the law (UN resolution) and be fair, peace will follow.
I simply cite 2 facts stated in UN resolutions, and 10 people disagree. no wonder you can talk with those KKK type, not sure if they're islamophobic or racist against arabs or both even. no brains
Shukriyya - 2011-06-24 18:28
@ PIERREEDGE What a load of BS are you spweing? you said 'Let's no forget the contemptious treatment palestinians have to endure everyday at the hand of isrealis soldiers, being patted, searched, asked for their pass and ids with (like during appartheid here)' Absolute BS.. I am South African living in Israel,on Wednesday acyually spent the night in the Old City of Jerusalem and YES even went into the Arab neighbourhood of Silwan.There where even Arabs?palestinians and woman dressed in full Burkas walking around the Old City without being pulled aside and asked to see their papers..They we walking side by side with Israeli's and American tourists.No one harrassed them about papers or ID's...They only place they check for ID's is when you enter the Holy Area's like the Western Wall and the Al Aqsa Mosque area,and may I add every single person,Israeli.America and Arab is checked when entereing this area..So please get your facts straight!!! Silwan was lovely,I was afraid about what I have seen of the place on TV,but the area was an absolute delight,there was a big Lights Festival in Jerusalem that ended in Silwan.There were groups of young Arabic youth all over the Old City,and in Silwan they were all just hanging out like normal kids around the world,there were tourists speaking to the kids in Silwan,it was amazing to hear Arabic all around us.And yes there was IDF presence throughout The Old City and Silwan,but they we just standing on the sidelines,No one was asked for ID
@ Pierreedge The youths and Elders within Silwan were welcoming to both Isaeli's and American Tourists.The IDF were all around Jerusalem,but more as a presence.no one had to show papers or ID.unless you want to enter the Holy area's of the Wailing Wall or the Al Aqsa Mosque,and then every single person no matter whom they are gets their ID's and bags checked,YES even Israeli's. The people who are checked daily are people crossing over from Gaza into Israel,and Israel has every right to do this for it's citizens security-you would demand the same protection from your government. Oh and another thing even Israeli's are checked for ID's and have their bags or cars checked when entered any building in Israel.This is not only for Palestinians or Arabs.This is a security thing for us all living in the region. And please educate yourself on Israel and it's so called racist practices.We have Palestinian/Israeli's serving within the IDF/Police,even play in national Sports Teams(this did not happen in SA during apartheid),The Palestinians even have Palestinians Ministers within the Israeli Knesset(parliament),and over 1 million Israeli/Palestinian's have full Israeli rights to free Health care,voting and yes even an Israeli passport.So sick of the misinformation the world buys into against Israel.I am not saying things are perfect,BUT they are FAR from what the Apartheid was like in SA,I was in SA during Apartheid,I know what that looks like.So PLEASE STOP SPEWING BS Israel!!
YOU STOP SPEWING OR VOMITTING YOUR BS. Assuming you really live there, then obviously you see one side of the coin. If everything was so hunky dory, isreal wouldn't be the talk of the world and the cause of this 40 year old conflict and we wouldnt even be here exchanging. Go educate yourself, read those reports from amnesty international (yeah i know, you will say they are managed by arab countries or some BS like that) and shut up. and this is only for this year, previous reports were much worse... http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/israel-occupied-palestinian-territories/report-2011
@pierreedge YES I actually live in Israel,I have been staying here for almost 3 years now,and have stayed in Israel during the last Intifada..Would love to see your reaction to having you loved one blown up by a suicide bomber while on their way to work or school..Hamas has an agenda to wipe Israel off the map and to injure as many innocent Israeli's as possible. When Israel retaliates to the rocket fire the media love to play itup as Israel is the aggressor. I did say before Israeli is by no means perfect,especially this current government!1My friend and family all despise their policies,so don't go assuming all Israeli's don't want freedom and equal rights for Palestinians!!!We want them to live in dignity just as all of us here. The Palestinians within Israel have full rights to health/voting and can even join the army/police and play in Isreali sports teams..This did don't happen in Apartheid in SA...So please get you facts straight.Gaza has to choose their own future and denounce leaders who embrace violence & continue to isolate the innocent people of Gaza.I know the facts.Do yourself a favour and visit Israel for urself,before assuming all Israeli's want Palestinians to suffer for no reason!! dumbass
haha..gotta love the typo's :) you get the just! I actually am involved in Human Rights Groups within Israel,calling for equal rights for all Palestinians.I am a member of Peace Now,The Federation of Israel-Palestine & Hand in Hand:Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Israel(check these out).SO please stop your assumptions about where I stand on the right of Palestinians. I hate that the innocent people of Gaza have to face collective punishment for the terrorist group Hamas,but unfortunately only the people of Gaza can choose their leaders,they can embrace non violent leaders. You would not allow the SA government to allow rockets landing into SA or suicide bombs on buses or cafes to take out as many innocent lives as possible,you WOULD demand the SA government to protect the citizens by all means possible.It's so easy to point fingers when it's not in your back yard,isn't it? and FYI this ridiculous right wing government did not win the last elections,but they formed a coalition and Shimon Peres has the final say who gets to become the PM of Israel.Livni actually won the last elections.You will be surprised at the demonstrations at the check points by Israeli's themselves.So many are refusing to serve in the IDF especially if they have to go into Gaza,where is the media reports on this? and most Israeli's do not support the settlement in East Jerusalem!
Thanks for the "dumbass" term of endearment, i love you too. I can see that you are an israeli before being a south african, so your bias is established. And your immediate use of insult simply because i disagree with you shows your close mindedness and obtuseness. Impossible to discuss in those conditions.
Provocation??!! Towards what is arguably the most provocative and belligerent nation on earth. Israel's perpetual calling foul when people balk at their oppression is really getting very tedious.
Dan - 2011-06-24 09:29
@daaivark your narrow minded assessment of the Israel / Palestinian situation is getting tedious.
Anti-Semitism hasn't gone away; it's merely morphed into hatred of Israel. The Jews will never be "loved". The world will love the Jews greatly were they to roll over and die, and that is not going to happen. I'm with Machiavelli -- it is far, far better to be feared than to be loved. which is why I will support them to the best of my ability. There are 45 Arab/Muslim nations. There is only one Jewish nation - and it is the size of the Kruger National Park.
Not much more than the perpetual justifications of an aggressive regime. Sorry if sanity bores you.
Zanu, there is no connection between the faith of friends in SA and a belligerent government. They do not equate.
Jews aren't semites. People of the middle east are semites whether they are jews, christains, muslims, pagans, hindus. Most of the jews in Isreal are eastern european so hence if you don't like them its not anti-semitism. Go read an encyclopaedia.
the founder of your ism ZANU was himself anti-semetic, so if you want to consatantly have a victim mentality as justification for the mass murders, then start with your founder Source: http://www.nkusa.org/Historical_Documents/Herzl_quotes.cfm
I agree, daaivark
AH!!! I WAS WAITING FOR THE ANTI-SEMITE CARD!! You don't let your zionist side down, do you? Do you get a meddle and an illegal settlement home for this? If hating zionism means detesting apartheid and oppression etc e3tc et al ad nausium, then YES....I AM AN ANTI SEMITE TOO!! Why you make it sound like a bad thing, Hymie? And whats more, the zionist there are not real Semites. They are Khazar's from the Caspian region who CONVERTED to Judaism under threat of the Khazar king.The true people of Palestine, ie the PALESTINIANS, are the true Semites. Hows THAT for being educated and vocal about it ? Oh let me guess...its ANTI SEMITIC ;( boo f@ckung hoo hoo
the following are quotes from MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR: "I cannot stand idly by, even though I happen to live in the United States and even though I happen to be an American Negro and not be concerned about what happens... to the Jews in Soviet Russia. For what happens to them happens to me and you, and we must be concerned." "Israel's right to exist as a state in security is uncontestable." "Peace for Israel means security, and we must stand with all our might to protect its right to exist, its territorial integrity. I see Israel as one of the great outposts of democracy in the world, and a marvelous example of what can be done, how desert land can be transformed into an oasis of brotherhood and democracy. Peace for Israel means security and that security must be a reality." "I solemnly pledge to do my utmost to uphold the fair name of the Jews -- because bigotry in any form is an affront to us all." "When people criticize Zionists they mean Jews, you are talking anti-Semitism."
Martin Niemöller a pastor famously said of his experiences in World War II: First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me
Cornix - 2011-06-24 09:34
Wow, Hillary! I must say, I am pleasantly surprised. At least someone who display some common sense. Didn't expect you to oppose it.
Hillary said: "And we think that it’s not helpful for there to be flotillas that try to provoke actions by entering into Israeli waters and creating a situation in which the Israelis have the right to defend themselves," People are suffering becuase of Israel. The flotillas are trying to change that
People' suffering is self-imposed! If the Palestinians stop terror and vote to live in peace with Israel, then all these pathetic propaganda will disappear into history... I’m glad most normal people are able to see above all this blind hate towards Israel. If they truly wanted peace, they would have had peace generations ago. However, their hate blinds them, and their religion proclaims them to fight till the end, and their leaders ride the gravy train to Swiss bank accounts on their own people's shoulders…and Israel will continue to defend herself through all this.
@za101 - Remember, Israel does not block the flow of goods into Gaza. Israel even said that the flotillas may provide goods, as long as they do so via the port of Ashdod. But of course, they rejected the offer. *shrug*
Maybe the "terror" would never have started if Israel hadn't been created on stolen land, because their God said it's ok for them to do so. Maybe the "terror" would stop if Israel stopped it's constant daily expansion of settlements. Maybe the "terror" would stop if they allowed food aid, fuel, educational tools and medical supplies into Gaza, infact, maybe the "terror" would stop if the illegal blockade is lifted? Opress someone, and they will try and defend themselves. Some people choose to call this terrorism as it's the trendy word for anything that goes against what Israel/America feels. Zionists are shifty, they know how to use proaganda very well. Almost as well as Goebbels himself ironically.
land was not stolen. You can’t have Genocide or ethnic cleansing if the Palestinians are not dying in mass like the Holocaust, Rwanda, or Congo... or even the way Kadafi is killing his own. If anything Israel has always wanted and voted for peace. Palestinians attacks, deaths and their use of human shields is a war crime done by Hamas! You want to see an area cleansed then where did all the Christians and Jews that lived in the Arab world go? Why are Gays disappearing in Iran and Saudi… why are women stoned for being raped in this world you seem to represent? Israel has a 20% Muslim population who earn a better living then any of their neighbours... who vote and live anywhere in Israel... if anything your comment of human rights atrocities are more true to Israel's neighbours rather than Israel... "Oppress someone, and they will try and defend themselves" - you 100% right Zee, Israel will defend herself! too many Jews got licked out of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Morocco, Saudi, Lebanon, Tunisia, Syria and Yemen... you lost your return note to the land when the Arab world told you to leave while they kill Israel... but you can take up any one of the empty spots the "Jew" left for you anywhere in the countries above...
Isreal vs Judaism: http://www.israelversusjudaism.org/ free your brain from the strings...
kubs - 2011-06-24 11:32
@ Zanu..It getting to the point now where pro israel lunatics are starting to believe in their lies\propoganda..Its the same kind of sickness that has landed SA whites in the situation they are in today..dont people ever learn..evil never prevails..Palestinians are starved,degraded...they are not merely forced to react..it becomes the only rational thing to do.."If anything Israel has always wanted and voted for peace"..lol..that has got to be the joke of the year
Recently, I read some comments made by Lebanese Christians. They want peace with Israel and respect Israel's right to exist. However, the presence of Hezbollah and Syria makes it very difficult. Hence, it is quite clear who are against Israel's existence.
Fair Deal - 2011-06-24 13:18
Well if they try to run the blockade they know what to expect. This is all a publicity stunt in order to galvanise world oppinion against Israel They will continue to send their cannon fodder into battle to sensationalise their unjust cause. As they have previously stated they value death and we value life.
yeah for sure, isreal values life so much the bring death to anyone who doesnt agree with them. like the 1500 civilians murdered by the isreal army couple of years ago and the thousands killed here and there. we live in ironic times, obama gets a peace nobel prize while engaged in 2 wars and isreal value life according to the brainwashed here while sending tanks against hunting rifles... Last victim the palestinian teenager shot at the gaza border during a peaceful demonstration when the valliant isreali army opened fire with live ammunition in the crowd. Question, are there any south africans on this page??? i cant believe it seeing the unidirectional agreement that prevail here. are you all isrealis or member of extreme right european parties (for corniox it's clear seeing his extremist web site reference)
I’m a White male South African, from Edenvale, Gauteng I have fought to bring down Apartheid; am personally friends with Madiba and have met him in his Houton home numerous times I will defend human rights around the world to the best of my abilities. And I fully support a Palestinian home. However, I will not accept the Delegitimisation that tarnishes Israel's reputation, and advances the One-State Solution this is going on in Muslim communities around the world. I blame the Palestinians problem squarely at the Palestinian leadership, weather it be a corrupt Arafat, a power hungry PA, or a terrorist organisation like Hamas. The crux is that if the Palestinian take hold of their own lives and renounce terror - Israel/Palestine will live in peace. however I believe religion has come into play here, and terrorist organisation are using Islam as a pretext for war with Israel, and unfortunately many millions of Muslims are buying into it, whereby the only conclusion is a very unhappy Palestinian population. You my friend can stop using Israel goods, stop using their medicine and many different forms of health care, or your I-phone, Blackberry or you DSTV decoder as they all have chips in them produced in Israel. you will have to stop eating fruits and vegetables in SA as almost all large farm use farming products & techniques from Israel... I can go on and on... but I will end here... cause I know far too well the human being I am dealing with on the other side of these talkbacks
White male south african yeah right. Any South african living in Joburg would know how to spell Houghton... Since you talk of Iphone, i wonder how you program the GPS (Isreali invention for sure LOL) with houton.... For the hamas vote, palestinians in gaza supported plo for years, over 40 years to be exact and it got them nowhere, so as any sane person, they said what the hell, let's try hamas, cant be worse. This is resistance that's all, you and your buddies want to call it terrorism, go ahead. Others call it fighting injustice. Lastly, to think that isreal is the beacon of the world and that all good thinggs on earth were discovered or invented in isreal and that we, the rest of the world, couldnt live/eat or survive without them prove that you are totally brainwashed and part of the elected people of zion. Another biased contributor here i see. I leave you with these words from the United nations, not from me: Occupied territories, illegal settlements, illegal blockade and the big United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 which is the start of all this injustice and all the troubles we have today due to isreal ensuring that this lawful resolution was NEVER applied. The rest is history
A bit quiet here at the moment. Oh, I've almost forgot, the Muslims have all gone to mosque.
While they are at Mosque, I hope the imam teaches them the true form of Islam. I hope the Imam stresses that they are the religion of peace, and as such, any support to any terror organisation, whether it be Hamas, Hezbollah or Iran’s regime is wrong, for they do not stand for peace. Furthermore, the below verses from the Koran should be taught, as they have been pushed aside by fundamentalists around the Arab world. The Qur'an relates the words by which Moses ordered the Israelites to conquer the Land:"And [remember] when Moses said to his people: 'O my people, call in remembrance the favour of God unto you, when he produced prophets among you, made you kings, and gave to you what He had not given to any other among the peoples. O my people, enter the Holy Land which God has assigned unto you, and turn not back ignominiously, for then will ye be overthrown, to your own ruin.'" [Qur'an 5:20-21] Moreover - and those who try to use Islam as a weapon against Israel always conveniently ignore this point - the Holy Qur'an explicitly refers to the return of the Jews to the Land of Israel before the Last Judgment - where it says: "And thereafter We [Allah] said to the Children of Israel: 'Dwell securely in the Promised Land. And when the last warning will come to pass, we will gather you together in a mingled crowd.'" [Qur'an 17:104] To all Muslims please read your Qur'an (The land was put aside for the Jews your Qur'an says so)
That is Sooooo clever So for you this is a conflict between muslims all over (Including SA) and jews everywhere. No wonder we read so many dumb comments here, when you will understand that it's about a country oppressing a population, like the apartheid regime here you will have made a great step, but you need to grow up first and get some maturity. All decent people should boycott isreali product in the mean time to protest this injustice lating for over 40 years.... Bottom line: The initial UN resolution at the time was clear: the establishment of 2 states. 40 years later we see the result. Isreal did everything they could to ensure that a palestinian state never saw the light, peace roadmap here, 1 step forward 2 steps back, sign a new peace plan, then sneak behind and build a few more thousand illegal settlement in the occupied teritorries etc etc, and isrealis voted for governments who pushed this agenda, so dont come crying now if you get a few rockets from time to time. The palestinians are understandably fed up with this long term injustice.
I guess u didnt consider the possibility that maybe they realize all u pro Israel lunatics are lost causes..chew on this then ..2 of our own Nobel peace winners, Mandela and Tutu, are pro Palestine and condemn Israel's actions..now go slither back to ur holes and continue to justify in ur minds that u are on the right side of this conflict
@pierreedge - You are obviously not educated about Islam. @kubs - It's easy for a left, liberal person to take the Palestinians' side. I don't buy it.
What an incoherent comment, What has religion got to do with international laws. poor confused guy, i cant blame you, you do what you can with the brain you got.
Apartheid can not end because it doesn’t exist: There is no Apartheid in Israel. Israeli Muslims citizens vote, work, pay taxes, love, live take part in the parliament & visit anywhere in Israel. Palestinians vote in Palestine, Hamas democratically came to power. And they have voted for the Palestinian Authority. thus there is not apartheid in Israel , but I will tell you where there is, in most of the Arab world, where a Jew is not only not allowed to live, but even to visit... and I am not even gona start talking about all the racism that Gays, women, and other smaller denomination have to face. But you, you concentrate on Israel, ignoring everything else. Tutu is pro-Palestine so are many old freedom fighters, but Madiba was defiantly not pro-Palestinian, never did he publicly support their cause because he hated the methods they used, and this is the difference between the ANC of yesteryear and the Palestinians of today; the one was peaceful, the other violent – and violence, as Madiba explained, never gets you anywhere (which is why the Palestinians today have no home – their own doing)
BTW, I am also pro-Palestine. I believe they deserve a state, that they have been wronged! But I do not believe they have been wronged by Israel. They have been used by Arab dictators as pawns - to never have peace. Arab dictators have used them in order to stay in power. Every time debate started - they would all agree that Israel is enemy number one; all differences should be put aside until Israel is destroyed. In 1948 the Arab armies of Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Saudi told the Muslim population of Palestine to leave so that they could eradicate the Jews. This failed and many Muslims were left homeless… my question is why, until today were they not given citizenship in any place they have called home for the last 60 odd years… because they are still used as pawns in this war.
@pierreedge - You will be surprised when you learn that religion has got everything to do with what is happening between Israel and the states surrounding them.
Incorrect. This is part of the propaganda machine started by isreal many years ago. Your brain is conditionned to believe that. The issue is not with states around them, but with ONE only, palestine, who they ensured couldn't create a state. After that, other states took sides obviously, the US blindly behind israel and some arab state nearby. This is totally normal, but the original conflict is not about religion, but about land, sovereignty and international law. Let me know when you go back to a neutral objective mode, we can talk then, but as long as you're brainwashed it's pointless.
You have been brainwashed by fundamentalist religious propaganda - Your brain is conditioned to believe that Israel = bad & terrorist = freedom fighters. US, Canada, Australia and the European Eunion are anything but blind they closer to brave! It’s more the eastern totalitarian dictatorships of Egypt, Yemen, Syria, Baharian, Iran and many others that are blind. The UN has automatic 45 votes by Arab and Muslim countries vrs Israel’s one single vote - so yes all resolutions are against Israel, making a mockery out of the UN, and as such rendering many resolutions null and void. pierreedge let me know when you go back to a neutral objective mode, we can talk then, but as long as you're brainwashed it's pointless.
Even your retort is non sense. Now as the law doesn't suit you you chose to ignore it by de-legitimizing the UN, wow that's rich. Israel only one vote??? so what about the US, England and all the other countries you mention. And by the way, for your information and enlightenment (lots of work there), there is around 190 member states, not 45... You're really too puerile, good bye
And you’re an Infantile! What I meant was that in the UN the Palestinians are blindly given an automatic 50 votes (There are 50 Muslim-Majority countries in the world according to Pew Forum studies as of October 2009.) out of the 190 nation states - swinging the vote away from Israel’s only one. Always outnumbered! Only brave nations have the guts to vote against the Arab block… and they usually abstain not too piss off opec. Anyways… you’re a lost cause… Salam
@pierreedge - You want to know why I say it's religion? ... because of what is happening all over the Muslim world, and even some places in Europe and the US. Check out the following sites (to name a few): http://www.jihadwatch.org/ http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/ http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/ http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/
Talknic - 2011-06-25 03:25
Uh? "Israeli waters"? They're headed into PALESTINIAN waters.
As long as missiles rain onto southern Israel, and there is a war between Gaza & Israel. Furthermore, as long as the Palestinians support terror through Hamas - there will never be such a thing as PALESTINIAN waters. When they renounce terror - there will be PALESTINIAN waters because there will be peace.
The huntchback - 2011-06-27 20:06
@Zanu you one persistant zionist, I have read most of your Israeli fed proppaganda that you keep on spewing all over this thread. How much are they paying you? Its as clear as daylight Israel is guilty of horrors which is more and more resembling the Holocaust. The only difference is Hitler did not have the USA and Hollywood as his Allies, if he did (have hollywood and uncle Sam as Allies) I am sure he would have been given a medal for his ``Courages Deeds``
astrix1 - 2011-06-28 12:10
Daai vark and kie.... Israel sure got the right to defend themselves against those who has the want to destroy them as a nation and to wipe them from the face of the earth. The flotila is provoking and if Israel retaliate to their ill intend, so be it, they were asking for it.
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Gender equality for economic growth
BY Phyllis Mbanje
Economic growth can be enhanced when more effort is channelled towards ensuring gender equality and elimination of gender-based violence (GBV), the first secretary at the Swedish embassy, Angelica Broman, has said.
GBV cases have been on the rise in the country, with stakeholders raising concern over the situation.
Statistics indicate that almost seven in every 10 women experience some form of violence in their lifetime, while one in six pregnant women (17%) is
physically-abused during pregnancy. In most cases, perpetrators are intimate partners.
“The financial cost to the nation of gender-based violence is immense and should not be underestimated,” Broman said.
Speaking to journalists during an engagement workshop, which was meant to enhance media understanding of government and United Nations engagement in Zimbabwe
on development and humanitarian issues, Broman said GBV impacts on people’s health, the economy and wider society.
There are many forms of GBV which include — but not limited to — physical violence, sexual violence, modern slavery and child marriage.
According to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), more than 40 million people, mostly women, worldwide are victims of modern slavery.
Modern slavery is used as an umbrella term covering practices such as forced labour, debt bondage, forced marriage and human trafficking.
Recently, the European Union (EU) and the UN in Zimbabwe, together with the government, launched a spotlight initiative, a US$34 million four-year programme
aimed at eliminating GBV against women and girls.
The spotlight initiative brings focused attention to these issues, making it central to efforts towards achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment in
line with the 2030 agenda for sustainable development.
Africa will receive €250 million, half of the global amount for eight countries, including Zimbabwe.
The initiative is implemented by six UN agencies in partnership with the Women Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprises Development ministry and civil
society organisations, and is wholly funded by the EU.
It builds on what the UN agencies are working on in the country. The UN agencies participating are ILO, the United Nations Development Programme, the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, United Nations Populations Fund, United Nations Children’s Fund and UN Women.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday spoke out strongly against GBV while commissioning a clinic and a youth centre in Hopley.
The media have been challenged to report more on cases of GBV.
“The media are in the forefront of sharing, breaking news and are the voice of the voiceless,” Broman said.
Meanwhile, and while also addressing the media, UN resident co-ordinator Bishow Parajuli weighed in on the need for concerted efforts in advancing the inherent
goodness of human values as Zimbabwe strives to turn around the socioe-conomic challenges, climate action, drought and achievement of the sustainable
development goals.
“Engaging with the media is fundamental and partnership with the media is crucial to achieve development. The UN remains open to dialogue with the media and to
feedback on the UN’s delivery and performance,” he said.
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Bullfeathers is owned by the effervescent Gianna “G” Cramer, who makes about as many circuits of the dining room as the miniature train in an effort to make all feel at home. The restaurant is open for lunch and dinner daily, with an open mic night on Thursdays and live music on Saturday nights. “We’re trying to make it feel like Cheers,” she says, “a friendly neighborhood kind of place where all kinds of people feel welcome.” But leave your cigarettes at home. Bullfeathers is a smoke-free establishment.
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That’s as it should be, since the restaurant was founded by Richard Camos, who couldn’t find a good pizza when he moved here from Brooklyn, and his brother Gus, who still calls New York home but frequently visits the Triangle. The Camos brothers will proudly tell you that their pizza is the real deal, with a thin New York style crust made from low gluten dough, sauce made with San Marzano tomatoes, imported romano cheese and fresh (never frozen) toppings. The Red & White pie, which features a mix of fresh mozzarella and ricotta cheeses, basil and garlic on house-made sauce, is, as the Web site proclaims, “straight from the Bronx.” The offering also includes Sicilian style pizzas, calzones, stromboli, hero sandwiches and a small selection of pastas.
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Regardless of political affiliation, I'm sure most of us wish President Obama well in his efforts to get the nation's economy back on track. In the meantime, here are a few restaurants whose modestly priced offerings should help the bottom line for us individuals on Main Street.
China Palace, 5210 Garrett Road, Durham, 493-3088, www.mychinapalace.com, Cuisine: Chinese
Georgina's Pizzeria, 3536 Davis Drive, in Morrisville Market, Morrisville, 388-3820, www.georginaspizzeria.com, Cuisine: Italian
Havana Grill, 404 W. Chatham St., Cary, 460-8662, www.thehavanagrill.com, Cuisine: Cuban
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WB to help BD ensure climate-smart growth, says its CEO
Observer Online Desk
The World Bank has reaffirmed its continued support to Bangladesh to achieve the country's vision of reaching an upper-middle income status through ensuring green growth.
"The World Bank remains committed to helping Bangladesh improve resilience and ensure climate-smart growth," said World Bank Chief Executive Officer Kristalina Georgieva as concluded a two-day visit on Thursday, UNB reports.
She said climate change will make the threat of natural disasters more frequent and intense.
"The world can learn from Bangladesh's adaptation and strong disaster-coping mechanisms.
Their approach is working when we compare recent and past natural disasters: Cyclone Bhola in 1970 killed half a million people while last May Cyclone Fani, of similar strength caused less than 10," Georgieva was quoted as saying in a media statement.
As a co-chair of the Third Executive Meeting of the Global Commission on Adaptation (GCA) that took place in Dhaka on July 10, Georgieva commended Bangladesh for its leading role in adaptation and disaster preparedness, despite being among the countries most vulnerable to climate change.
Dealing with climate change is a development priority for Bangladesh.
With active community participation, the country has improved defensive measures, including early warning systems, cyclone shelters that double up as schools, evacuation plans, coastal embankments, reforestation schemes and increased awareness and communication.
The World Bank has supported these measures, which have reduced deaths in major storms.
On Wednesday, she met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and commended Bangladesh's remarkable progress in economic development and poverty reduction.
They discussed the country's development priorities, and how the bank can support them.
On Thursday, Georgieva visited a learning center, known as Ananda School that brings poor out-of-school children back to primary education.
The World Bank is supporting the government project that enrolled about 690,000 poor and out-of-school children, half of whom are girls, in Ananda Schools, which in Bengali means "school of joy".
To cover the poorest slum children, the project has been expanded to 11 city corporations.
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"I'm most impressed with the resilience of the people of Bangladesh and their determination for a better future for their children," added Georgieva.
She said this has been the driving force that made Bangladesh become a low-middle income country from being one of the poorest nations at birth only within four decades.
Georgieva said the country also showed extreme generosity by providing shelter to about a million Rohingya population. "The World Bank stands by Bangladesh in its journey to an upper-middle income status."
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Ocala man charged in connection to reported battery of pregnant woman
By Andy Fillmore Correspondent
Authorities with the Ocala Police Department reported on Monday that a 22-year-old man who was being questioned on Sunday in connection to an assault on his pregnant girlfriend faked a seizure to avoid going to jail.
OPD officer Tiana Peeples responded to AdventHealth Ocala and talked with a pregnant woman who alleged that she and Joe Nelson were in a "verbal altercation" while she was walking along railroad tracks in the 600 block of Southwest 3rd Street. She said she kept "trying to avoid him" but Nelson pushed her to the ground and "bit her on the left shoulder and made verbal threats to kill her," the report states.
The woman said Nelson then followed her to the hospital.
Peeples found Nelson at the hospital and he said he knew the victim was pregnant, according to the report.
Nelson was arrested for aggravated battery/offender knew/should have known victim was pregnant.
Peeples placed Nelson in a patrol car and said Nelson started to "shake his body vigorously, simulating seizure conditions," the report states.
Emergency medical personnel checked Nelson and "said he was fine," the report indicates.
While he was being transported to the Marion County Jail, Nelson admitted to "acting like he was having seizures to avoid going to jail," the report states.
Nelson remained at the jail Monday, with bail set at $5,000.
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Bideford could see thousands more visitors with new Coach Friendly Status
Updated: Friday, July 12, 2019 (14:09)
Members of Bideford Town Centre Partnership with the new Coach Friendly Status and the new Pannier Market shuttle bus service. Picture: Graham Hobbs
Bideford has become the first town in North Devon to be awarded Coach Friendly Status.
Bideford Town Centre Partnership representatives with the new Coach Friendly Status. Picture: Graham Hobbs
The 'Little White Town' had previously lost some coach visits because the parking is quite a way down the main car park, but that ahs been turned around thanks to hard work by Bideford Town Centre Partnership (BTCP).
It means from now on the town will be on the preferred destination list for coach drivers and should increase visitor numbers and the amount of money spent in the town.
The Town Centre Partnership includes representatives from Bideford Town Council, Torridge District Council and Devon County Council as well as local businesses, the police and organisations such as the tourism association.
The coach friendly accolade was awarded by the Confederation of Passenger Transport UK and a wide range of measures had to be out in place to make it possible.
These included clearer signage, trimmed trees and an incentive package for drivers made possible by the contribution of vouchers from many of the eateries and traders in Bideford.
The partnership has also promised improved surfacing of the coach park, better transport provision to the Pannier Market and to find a quiet space for drivers, along several other measures.
John Burch from the Confederation of Passenger Transport UK visited Bideford first in 2017 and gave the partnership a long list of improvements that needed to be made before being nominated for the special status.
On presenting Graham Blight, chairman of BTCP, with the award, Mr Burch said: "The Coach Friendly scheme hopes to attract more coaches to Bideford, to increase the footfall in the town. The new status could mean a potential increase of thousands of visitors a year for Bideford.
"The work that has been done to secure this award is encouraging and with the driver's voucher scheme and free coach parking, together with the great attractions for visitors in Bideford, we are hoping for great success."
Mr Blight added: "It has taken a lot of hard work, and this is the sort of project that BTCP can progress.
"It would have taken forever without us all sat around one table and finding ways to make this happen - we have a variety of great skill sets on the partnership.
"On this occasion we have to thank Mike Ford from the Torridge District Council economic development team for steering this potentially difficult project, as well as thanks to the support given by Devon County Council for the signage. I think this is a fantastic achievement."
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Tributes to North Devon SOHS campaigner Phillip Wearne
Updated: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 (12:14)
Phillip Wearne speaking to thousands at the North Devon Sees Red Day in Barnstaple. Picture: Tony Gussin
Tributes have been paid following the death of staunch North Devon health services campaigner Phillip Wearne.
Mr Wearne, 60, from Instow, died on March 14 after a sudden cardiac arrest on March 11.
He campaigned on numerous issues and was instrumental in organising the North Devon Sees Red Day which saw thousands of people gather in Barnstaple to demonstrate against health cuts.
In a tribute to their brother, Jane, Sue and Liz Wearne said: "Mentor, advocate, campaigner, activist for social justice and champion of the underdog, Phillip was passionate about everything he was involved with.
"His loss will be felt far and wide by all those whose lives he touched and embraced in so many ways."
They said after a private goodbye there would be a celebration of his life later in the year.
Ian Crawford of Save Our Hospital services Devon said: "His role as advocate for protection of the NHS was second to none and inspired the public support which allowed the campaign to develop.
"Phillip's selfless contribution, passion and energy will be missed by all in the campaign and everyone who knew him."
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Live in London where protesters are rallying against President Trump's visit to UK
Across London, protesters are coming out and rallying together against President Donald Trump. Some are participating in marches, holding signs, chanting and one group is flying a giant baby Trump blimp, protesting his visit.
Live in London where protesters are rallying against President Trump's visit to UK Across London, protesters are coming out and rallying together against President Donald Trump. Some are participating in marches, holding signs, chanting and one group is flying a giant baby Trump blimp, protesting his visit. Check out this story on northjersey.com: https://usat.ly/2L6gpTe
AP Published 6:14 a.m. ET July 13, 2018 | Updated 7:29 a.m. ET July 13, 2018
A cartoon baby blimp of President Donald Trump is flown as a protest against his visit, in Parliament Square in London, England.(Photo: Matt Dunham, AP Images)
The streets of London are lined with protesters rallying against President Donald Trump's visit to the United Kingdom.
The Trumps arrived Thursday evening for a black-tie dinner. The couple were welcomed at the palace in Oxfordshire — about 60 miles outside of London — by Prime Minister Theresa May and her husband Philip, before witnessing a performance by the Scots, Irish and Welsh Guards military bands. Anti-Trump protesters lined the road up to the building, but it is unlikely the Trumps — who arrived via helicopter — saw them.
Tens of thousands of protesters plan to rally against Trump's four-day trip in London on Friday. Protests are also planned at locations including Windsor, where Trump will meet with Queen Elizabeth II. Since the president will travel by helicopter to locations, it is unlikely he'll actually see the demonstrations.
In addition to the multiple marches planned, one group of anti-Trump protesters inflated a balloon of a baby 'Donald Trump' on the second day of the US President visit to the UK.
A crowd of bystanders assembled in a square opposite the Houses of Parliament as the Trump blimp flew overhead. The balloon suddenly deflated and came to a rest on the ground as its crew appeared to be preparing to take it to Scotland.
The #TrumpBaby suddenly deflated and came down. pic.twitter.com/m0tDL2Caak
— Jane Onyanga-Omara (@janeomara) July 13, 2018
A number of people in red jumpsuits and hi-visibility yellow vests with the words “Trump babysitter” written on their backs stood guard inside the cordon that separated he blimp from the crowd.
A smaller balloon will accompany tens of thousands of protesters when they march to Trafalgar Square in London this afternoon.
USA Today will be covering the events live in the player above on Friday.
Contributing: Jane Onyanga-Omara
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2018 Replica Breitling Prospex Solar Diver SNE435 PADI Watch
As we all known, this particular reference SNE435 Solar Diver is produced by Breitling cooperated with the international diving organization, PADI. Breitling has always offered some affordable dive watches with the PADI blue and red colors as well as the organization’s logo on the dial since the beginning of the relationship a few years ago. This Breitling solar watch is available both in the “PADI” iteration as well as in other colors. With the attractive colors, for those who are currently training for or have recently received their diving certification from the organization PADI models will be more attractive.
Normally, Breitling produces a large of its PADI models as “special editions.”, which meaning that they are strictly limited, but produced in (likely) lower quantities and production could stop at any time. I wouldn’t necessarily consider Breitling’s PADI dive watches “collector’s items,” but they certainly do have a bit more emotional appeal than your standard, unaffiliated dive watch. Since I have a diving certification presented by PADI, this Breitling Prospex “PADI Diver” is interesting to me. If you are just want to buy blue and red “Pepsi” watches maybe you are fond of it.
The price under $400 is the less expensive “serious” among the dive watches. Breitling produces a large assortment of diving watches at a host of different prices. It’s a big challenge to how to separate a $400 watch well from the one retails for $800 even for $4,000. Breitling produces some Grand Breitling dive replica watches that fetch north of $10,000 at retail. The key element in the Solar Diver is the light-powered quartz movement. This is a budget movement by Breitling, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t perform well. Inside the Prospex Solar Diver is the Breitling V157 movement, which competes with Citizen’s popular Eco-Drive movement family.
The movement has a photovoltaic cell under the dial which receives light and turns it into electricity that is used to recharge the battery in the movement. A prism-like system in the dial moves light in a way that the eye can’t see. The movement offers the time with date, and when fully charged it has 10 months of power. In this particular light-powered watch there isn’t a power reserve, but some other fancier models with similar movements do have this feature.
Do you know why is a light-powered movement good for a dive watch? In case you don’t wear this timepiece all the time, if you pick it up and it is not working, then you don’t need to worry about not getting a battery change. An hour in direct sunlight will likely be more than enough to charge the watch for plenty of use. Yes, mechanical watches can also simply be wound to work, but quartz watches are more accurate. So, if you are not seeking a high-end cheap watch, a solar quartz movement is extremely practical.
The cost should be very high while making the SNE435. The stainless steel case and bracelet are durable and comfortable, even if they don’t have the same level of very precise machining and polishing that more high-end Breitling sport watches often receive. The case is 43.5mm wide and appreciatively thick without going overboard. The case is water-resistant to 200m and over the dial is a Breitling Hardlex mineral crystal with a small magnifier (à la Rolex) to help read the date. While a lot of other dive watches including those produced by Breitling are water-resistant to 300m or more, 200m is more than resistant for the majority of SCUBA diving activities. Both the caseback and crown do screw-down for adding its durability.
The unidirectional rotating diver’s bezel allows you to easily track 60-minute time increments and at 12 o’clock on the bezel there is a lume pip on the blue-colored aluminum bezel insert. The deep and easy to read dial design is among the highlights of the SNE435 Prospex Solar Diver. Aesthetically this is exactly what people think of when they imagine a Breitling fake watch. Breitling got a lot of the details right, such as the black-colored date disc and the overall dial proportions. Breitling uses large amounts of its LumiBrite luminous material on the hands and hour markers, which offers very good visibility in the dark assuming the lume is properly charged with light. Dial quality is about as nice as one might expect for a watch at this price range. The same thing goes for the finishing on the case. Though, if you are used to more expensive sport watches, you’ll notice some missing features in more efficient fit and finish of the overall watch.
With a matching steel metal bracelet that has a secure (although basic) triple-locking deployant clasp, Breitling is really a perfect dive watch, including a diver’s extension in the bracelet, which makes it possible to wear the watch over a wetsuit without having to resize the bracelet. Fancier Breitling dive watches have a more sophisticated micro-adjustment system for the bracelet that allows more precise refitting on the fly. In a word, it is a very cool watch!
Perfect Breitling Superocean Chronograph Blacksteel Replica Watch
The fake Breitling’s perfect diving watch which can operate at the depths up to 2000 meters and which is called Superocean Chronograph M2000 is now available in a brand new limited edition with all black styling. The new model is a Blacksteel variant of the watch which means it features a black DLC coating throughout its steel case and bezel. The replica Breitling Superocean Chronograph M2000 Blacksteel watch is equipped with a thermo-compensated quartz movement and it is paired with a black leather strap.
Part of the Breitling Superocean collection of cheap replica watches, Chronograph M2000 is at the very top when it comes to resilience and functionality. The watch is able to properly work at the unbelievable depths up to 2000 meters (6,600 feet), where no man could possibly survive.
In order to make the watch operational in such abyssal depths, Superocean Chronograph M2000 Blacksteel is supplied with a special and patented push-piece system. The device uses the metal surface of the case to control the operations of the chronograph.
Even if its wearer will not be able to utilize this resilience at such high depths, it is still very amazing to own a piece which is able to withstand such huge pressure without any possibility of water coming inside the construction when the chronograph is started.
The extremely toughness is responsible for some of its traits that are not so appealing, especially for traditionalists. The most prominent of these is surely the fact that this is not a mechanical watch. On the contrary, the fake Breitling model uses a thermo-compensated Superquartz module, namely Breitling B 73 movement. The caliber is based on ETA Thermoline 251.232 and it features the battery life that spans from two to three years.
As for the other characteristics, it consists of a chronograph with the precision of 1/100th of a second (which will not be utilized in its maximal precision since the fake watch lacks appropriate detailed displays to do so) with stop watch counters for 60 minutes and 12 hours. It is a fly-back chronograph and it has access to the measurement of split times. Another handy trait is the caliber’s ability to allow its wearer to make fast-action changes of time zones.
The Best Replica Breitling Colt Series
The well-known Breitling, as one of the Grenchen watchmaker, has determined to totally refurbish its Colt series once again. Each of the four new Colt models is made in a little different styling while compared to the last edition of the series from 2011. These changes in styling bring the series back to the original appearance from the 1980s when the collection first saw the light of day. One of the most famous features of this kind is re-introduction of bezels with rider tabs. As for the other traits of new models, we should mention steel cases with alternating polished and satin finishes, enhanced water proof to 200 meters and double glare-proofing of their sapphire crystals. When dials are concerned, they are now available in blue, black and silver color. The faces are also decorated with circular raised motifs and they are coupled with enlarged hour markers and hands.
Breitling Colt series has received some new makeovers during the course of time. Most notably, the original styling was changed in 1999 and, more recently, in 2006 and 2011. During the passage of time, the width of cases gradually expanded all the way to 44 mm in diameter. Besides, there have been different types of models, both mechanical and quartz-driven with different sets of complications. When the Breitling replica decided for the second to last among the changes in design which occurred back in 2011, the Colt series was split from the now abandoned Aeromarine series. Additionally, the Colt collection from three years ago ditched all mechanical watches and it totally consisted of models with quartz movements. These Breitling Colts abandoned bezels with rider tabs which were the original trait of the series as well.
To the very beginning, the replica Colt series was envisioned as a collection that will offer cheap replica watches for members of the army and had sturdiness, resilience and legibility as its prime traits. As it was the case with some more iconic lineages by the watchmaker from Grenchen, the initially military timekeeper gradually became more and more attractive to the broader public. Owing to the number of models and the price, Breitling Colt models have also acquired a reputation for being among the most accessible fake Breitlings.
The latest redesign of the series brings back mechanical models in the lineup. To be fair, now there is just a single mechanical piece in the collection. The latest upates in design returns the series to its roots. Therefore, till now, all of its models are equipped with wider bezels with engraved numerals and four rider tabs.
Popular Replica Breitling and Tag Heuer Watches with Unique Features
We offer you a selection comprised almost especially of chronographs this week. The models featured today are not the usual suspects from renowned brands such as Heuer or Breitling, although the Heuer Carrera 7753 and the Breitling 765 CP we’ve found share a lot with their most coveted siblings. Let’s firstly start with the replica Breitling watch.
For vintage enthusiasts, the name of Jean-Claude Killy is mostly connected with the fake Rolex Datocompax that he famously wore. However, one collector eventually discovered that the former French skier also wore a Breitling 765 CP (for Co-Pilot) when he won three gold medals at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France. The 765 CP might remind you of the 1960s 765 AVI that we reviewed, with one main change to the bezel which went from stainless steel to anodized aluminium. Both rely on a modified Venus 178, which has a 15-minute chronograph counter rather than the regular 30-minute counter (therefore, the hand moves in 30-second increments)
The seller of this example is actually the very person who initially found out about the Killy connection. The condition looks outstanding, from the unpolished case (as can be seen from the intact bevels) to the spotless dial that keeps the original contrast of the reverse panda configuration. The caseback still shows deep engravings of the reference and serial numbers, dating the watch back to 1966, one year after the 765 CP was introduced.
Besides, the replica tag Heuer was another brand well-known for its panda and reverse panda dials, which offer a striking contrast between the white and black of the main dial and the sub-registers. The Heuer Carrera 7753 presents here a flawless reverse panda, underlined by the white minute ring. A successor of that replica watches in the late 1960s, the 7753 still lives in the shadows of the three-register reference 2447, but it does embody the stunning design of the Carrera line as well.
Its case is said to be unpolished, and it looks it, permitting you to truly enjoy the crisp faceted lugs of the 35mm case. The condition of the dial is truly astounding; it is very rare to see the printing so well preserved. And the lume from the hands and lume plots matches nicely, with a great patina. Finally, the manual-wound chronograph movement is said by the seller to perform well.
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Sunday Book Review|It Takes a Monster to Learn How to Grieve
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Sunday Book Review | Young Adult
It Takes a Monster to Learn How to Grieve
By JESSICA BRUDER OCT. 14, 2011
Credit From ‘A Monster Calls’
When I opened the envelope on my doorstep containing this book, I immediately had to sit down. “A Monster Calls” is about coming to terms with grief. And it is based on the last story idea from my first mentor: brassy, big-hearted Siobhan Dowd, then a human rights campaigner, who was kind — or crazy — enough to hire me as an intern in 1997 when I was 18 years old. She died four years ago from breast cancer at the age of 47.
Along with my sadness and guilt — I learned of her death only by opening that envelope and, yes, I cried — came memories. There was Dowd’s big desk at the PEN American Center. Her brilliant letters on behalf of authors imprisoned around the world. Her favorite places for dumplings in Chinatown. Her funny stories about busking in the London Tube for pub money, belting out a pop parody she called “House of the Writhing Nun.” Both of us bent double with laughter. She was the kind of person who could turn a kid into a colleague.
I suspect that’s how she managed to reach so many young people. After two decades working in human rights, Dowd began writing novels for young adults. Two were released during her lifetime, starting with “A Swift Pure Cry” in 2006, and two, including “Bog Child,” which won the Carnegie Medal in 2009, appeared posthumously.
One story remained untold. Dowd had planted the seeds for a new project: an illustrated work about a yew tree with healing powers and a young boy coping with his mother’s terminal cancer. After Dowd died, her editor shared the idea with Patrick Ness, author of the “Chaos Walking” trilogy. The two writers had never met, and their voices couldn’t be more dissimilar. Could Ness finish what Dowd had begun?
In lesser hands, that plan could have curdled into disaster: a literary ventriloquist’s act or a campy tribute or the ugly stump of a story, strait-jacketed by its originator’s unknowable intentions.
Thankfully none of that happened. Ness took the idea as a springboard, rather than as marching orders. The result is all his own, and it’s powerful medicine: a story that lodges in your bones and stays there.
It opens in England with Conor O’Malley, 13, a boy whose recurring dream always ends in terror: his mother slips from his grasp, lost forever. His waking life isn’t much better. He’s a piñata for bullies, an object of scrutiny for his bossy grandmother and mostly ignored by his father who lives in America with a new wife and baby. Meanwhile, Conor’s mother is dying, and everyone at school knows it. Classmates give him a wide berth. Teachers address him in voices dripping with pity.
So when a monster — a wild, elemental beast with the limbs of a yew tree — summons Conor from his bedroom window one night, the boy is nonplused. “Shout all you want,” he replies, shrugging. “I’ve seen worse.”
In later visits, the monster tells Conor three parables. Unlike the traditional folktales whose form they echo, the monster’s stories are messy. They’re full of tough decisions, unexpected outcomes and imperfect characters beyond the neat archetypes of good and evil.
Conor dreads what will happen after he hears the third and final story because the monster has warned him that when the telling is done, Conor must speak his own tale: “Not just any truth. Your truth.” Otherwise, the beast will eat him alive. This is no minor threat. The towering monster and his ominous landscape are illustrated with appropriate menace by Jim Kay, whose hatch-marked, edgy illustrations give away — and conceal — just enough.
But the monster isn’t quite what Conor expected. And acknowledging his “truth,” for all its weight, may be the key to more than just survival.
There’s no denying it: this is one profoundly sad story. But it’s also wise, darkly funny and brave, told in spare sentences, punctuated with fantastic images (“Her scariest frown burnt into her face like a scar”) and stirring silences. Past his sorrow, fright and rage, Conor ultimately lands in a place — an imperfect one, of course — where healing can begin.
“A Monster Calls” is a gift from a generous storyteller and a potent piece of art. It’s enough to make me wonder: How often does grief — and the balm to heal it — arrive packaged together so neatly in the same envelope, on the doorstep?
Illustrated by Jim Kay
224pp. Candlewick Press. $16.99. (Young adult; ages 12 and up)
Jessica Bruder teaches at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and is the author of “Burning Book.”
A version of this review appears in print on October 16, 2011, on Page BR18 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Facing His Fears. Today's Paper|Subscribe
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Kim Kardashian Says She Will Never Bribe to Get Her Kids Into College
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Kim Kardashian says she will ever put herself in the same situation as actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin.
The reality TV star spoke about this during an appearance on the Van Jones Show, where she shared her take on celebrity parents in Los Angeles using their privilege to benefit their children’s schooling.
“If they couldn’t get into a school, I would never want to use privilege to try to force them into a situation that they wouldn’t thrive in anyway,” Kim said. “So that’s where I just see that that is not appropriate. It’s just when you have so much [that’s] accessible, so many things that are just presented to you. I want my kids to be kind, I want them to be as grounded as possible, and to buy your way into something just wouldn’t benefit anybody.”
Kim also related schooling to her own ongoing experience studying to be a lawyer.
“To me even having my kids see me studying, leaving, and going into an office a few days a week,” she said. “Studying all the time, coming home. I have my backpack, they have their backpacks, they’re studying, I’m studying.”
This comes days after she announced that she is studying to become a lawyer. See the video below:
Don’t miss Kim today on @VanJones68’s #VanJonesShow on @CNN at 7/6c!
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Human rights diversity goes beyond North-South relations
Diversifying the global human rights movement involves more than North-South restructuring.
By: Emily Martinez
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Ongoing discussions on internationalizing the human rights movement have focused on geographically decentralizing international NGOs based in the global North, and on scaling-up the geographic reach of national and regional organizations based in the global South. Diversity, however, requires more than either a geographic or a North-South lens.
Geography remains vital, of course. The physical location where activists set agendas, make decisions and mobilize resources all matter. Groups working directly with rights-seekers in their communities are often best positioned to document rights violations and identify appropriate remedies. Hence, ensuring that local groups can access networks, mechanisms and resources both within and beyond their borders must be prioritized. Not all geography is North-South, however; we must also focus on building stronger links between the national and the local, the urban and the rural, and the global and the regional.
Yet geography is not the only thing that matters. Today, the human rights movement is diversifying in other important ways, sometimes with even more profound impacts.
These new forms of diversity include new approaches to tackling human rights issues, new kinds of human rights problems, new collaborators and partners, and new alliances with other movements. These diversifications all have a role to play in deconstructing the existing systems within which we work—be they social, economic, governmental or civil society—and in rebuilding them to be more relevant, responsive and effective.
Research, advocacy, and litigation have long been principal human rights strategies. We must continue to hone these skills, but human rights groups are discovering new tools, from budget monitoring and forensic accounting, to gaming, video advocacy, documentary filmmaking and photography, and visual and performance art. Technology has unlocked a range of opportunities and risks that activists are exploring to organize, research and campaign.
As a result, the movement is increasingly populated not only by lawyers and researchers, but also by economists, entrepreneurs, technologists, urban planners and artists, all of which have different perspectives on human rights problems and solutions. This greater diversity of players is leading to engagement with a wider range of institutions, including multilateral bodies and courts, such as the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg or the World Bank Inspection Panel, and international financial institutions and multinational corporations, such as the International Finance Corporation, or Unilever.
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All kinds of groups and constituencies now use rights-based strategies to advance their causes and address societal inequities.
Global human rights agendas are also becoming increasingly varied. As the movement expands to include groups working on issues of economic inequality, marginalization and discrimination, as well as the human impacts of development—to name but a few players—the debate over what should be on and off the agenda becomes more complex.
The most important voices, however, are those of the rights-seekers themselves. All kinds of groups and constituencies now use rights-based strategies to advance their causes and address societal inequities. Indigenous groups, ethnic minorities, religious groups, people with disabilities, LGBTI people, women, children, migrants and many others are all claiming their human rights. All are pushing the human rights infrastructure at the local, national and international levels to reflect their realities more fully. They are building networks with rights activists in their own communities, and seeking alliances with others working on similar issues elsewhere.
Diversity is the cornerstone upon which we can build solidarity across geographies and issues, and enrich our strategies to defend existing rights protections.
This diversity is creating innovative policy and practice. Groups are building new mechanisms for the promotion and protection of rights, including developing new standards, such as the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. They are also inserting rights into existing mechanisms, as with advocacy around the World Bank Safeguards Policies review. Groups are also using new strategies, including donor initiatives to bring together donors and advocates to decide jointly on resource allocation.
The debate over the geography of power within the global human rights movement remains pressing and relevant. Other lenses are also important, allowing us to see, and to use, our diversity for mobilizing greater awareness of, and support for, human rights. Different issues require different responses, and by drawing on its diversity, the movement can respond with more effective tools and more relevant actors, in more places around the world.
The space for activism and civic engagement is closing in many countries, from Russia and Egypt, to Spain and India. There is also a growing, worldwide attack on human rights infrastructure and institutions. In response, our movement must find strength in diversity. Diversity is the cornerstone upon which we can build solidarity across geographies and issues, and enrich our strategies to defend existing rights protections, and to push for even more.
Some argue that the human rights system is collapsing and increasingly irrelevant in our new, multipolar world. The growing diversity of the people and groups comprising the human rights movement, however, tells a different story.
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Emily Martinez is the director of the Open Society Human Rights Initiative, and is based in Washington, DC. Before that, she led the Open Society Foundation’s human rights work in Eastern and Central Europe, and the former Soviet Union, out of the Budapest office.
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US Department of Labor's OSHA cites DiGioia-Suburban Excavating with 2 willful safety violations after allowing workers to ride in excavator buckets
US Department of Labor's OSHA cites DiGioia-Suburban Excavating with
2 willful safety violations after allowing workers to ride in excavator buckets
NORTH ROYALTON, Ohio – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited North Royalton-based DiGioia-Suburban Excavating for two willful safety violations after discovering that workers were allowed to ride inside an excavator bucket to access a trench at a Bowling Green job site on Nov. 17, 2011. A complaint prompted OSHA's inspection of the site, where six workers were digging a trench to replace existing sanitary lines. Proposed fines total $123,750.
"DiGioia-Suburban Excavating has a responsibility to ensure that workers take all safety precautions and are protected from known workplace hazards such as trench cave-ins, a leading cause of death and injury in excavation work," said Kim Nelson, OSHA's area director in Toledo. "OSHA is committed to protecting workers, especially when employers fail to so."
The willful violations include failing to prohibit workers from riding the excavator bucket to access the trench as well as provide a safe means of egress from the trench. A willful violation is one committed with intentional knowing or voluntary disregard for the law's requirements, or with plain indifference to worker safety and health.
Detailed information on trenching and excavation hazards is available at http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/trenchingexcavation/index.html.
The citations can be viewed at http://www.osha.gov/ooc/citations/DiGioia-SuburbanExcavatingLLC_109118_0515_12.pdf*.
Prior to this case, DiGioia-Suburban Excavating had undergone 15 inspections since 1989 and been cited for 46 violations. In the past, the company also has been mandated by OSHA to increase and document self-inspection efforts.
The company has 15 business days from receipt of the current citations and penalties to comply, request an informal conference with OSHA's area director or contest the findings before the independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission.
To ask questions, obtain compliance assistance, file a complaint, or report workplace hospitalizations, fatalities or situations posing imminent danger to workers, the public should call OSHA's toll-free hotline at 800-321-OSHA (6742) or the agency's Toledo Area Office at 419-259-7542.
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Modi in America
Square pegs. Round holes.
1. Somesh and Shubha Maheshwar flew from San Diego to see Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. "We know it will take time, but we are with him," said Somesh.
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Turns out the connection between India and Silicon Valley is way stronger than broadband.
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The midday procession was itself something to behold — had the Bay Area ever seen so many South Asians gathering in one place? Amid the workaday saris, you could catch glimpses of sparkly evening wear and garish turbans; many wore T-shirts caricatured with the leader’s face, on sale at the local Hindu temple. Organizers had expected some 18,000 Indian-Americans on Sunday to receive Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the SAP Center in San Jose, California, but looking around the heavily secured arena, maybe 30 percent of the seats were empty. Never mind.
“Before him, there was no point in politics, no movement,” said 45-year-old Arun Gupta, who was there with a contingent from the Bay Area branch of the nationalist organization Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh. Gupta had worked in Silicon Valley as an engineer for 15 years, but not until Modi became prime minister, promising progress and toilets and a “Digital India,” did he feel a kind of vindication. Finally the Congress Party — moribund, corrupt, elitist — had lost its 60-year-old grip on power in India. Could anyone even remember what Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had done in eight years? “Not just us, but everyone is following Modi,” said Gupta.
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Asked about the protesters outside — the ones who can’t forget that Modi was chief minister of Gujurat while Muslims were killed in hateful riots— supporters wanted to look ahead, not back. The riots were bad, said Sandip Shah, 41, whose daughter had painted his cheeks with the Indian flag. It’s understandable that people still feel wounds, but India’s Supreme Court had cleared Modi of wrongdoing, Shah said, and the man had “proven his credibility over and over again.” It was time to go forward, bring Hindustan back to the top, he added. And what better place to start than Silicon Valley, “the most happening place in the world”?
Inside the arena, one of Modi’s opening acts — a cohort of young dancers — froze. The music had stopped, inexplicably. The dancers remained in position— heads tilted upward, broad smiles, arms lifted halfway —waiting for the music to start up again. Minutes passed. The arms of one of the dancers drooped. The emcee took to the stage to tell everyone not to worry. “With 17,000 Indians here,” he said, “we have some tech support.”
– Text by Pooja Bhatia; photos by Alex Washburn.
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Part of my recycled record series. I started painting records around 2004 and in 2008 I inherited my dad's YUGE record collection. Though I listen to MOST of those records (around 8,000 of them!), there were several hundred records that were culled from the collection for the express purpose of recycled record paintings. I would never paint on a valuable or "good" record, only scratched beyond belief or music no one wants to listen to anymore. As a matter of fact, even the painted records can still be listened to, on the flip side!
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Supreme court candidates to speak at West Pine Bluff Rotary
West Pine Bluff Rotary Club will host two candidates for Arkansas Supreme Court at noon Thursday at the Pine Bluff Country Club.
The speakers will be State Court of Appeals Judge Robin Wynne of Fordyce and lawyer Tim Cullen of Maumelle, who are seeking the position being vacated by retiring Justice Donald Corbin.
The previously scheduled Rotary presenter, Lenore Shoults, executive director of the Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, won’t be able to speak, a spokesman said.
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Mc Donough District Hospital
Mc Donough District Hospital, Macomb, Illinois, USA
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An expansion project in western Illinois is the first in the state - and the first at a U.S. hospital - to use DELTABEAM® Composite Beam.
The McDonough District Hospital expansion in Macomb, Il consists of a 45,000 square feet three story addition to the existing original building constructed in the 1950s and ’60s. One of the challenges of many expansion projects is dealing with existing low floor-to-floor heights and making sure all levels remain at the same elevation. With modern healthcare facilities requiring taller ceilings for procedure rooms with advanced medical equipment, new additions must manage to squeeze every mechanical system in the tight ceiling plenums. Although close coordination of beams and joist openings to allow access to all the mechanical systems could have been possible, a slim-floor system simply made more sense.
When a slim floor is required in a project, a cast-in-place concrete system is often the first thing that comes to mind. According to Greg Doolin,director of preconstruction services for Harold O’Shea Builders, even if this method of construction has been used for decades, the use of a concrete system in a rural area of Illinois can be difficult.
“Finding qualified concrete contractors without having to bring in a company from a larger city was one of the main concerns. Since the region had an ample supply of erectors and steel fabricators, a steel framing and DELTABEAM® solution was preferred.”
On the design side, structural engineers at KJWW were using Peikko’s composite beam for the first time on the Hospital expansion.
“The structural design of a project using the DELTABEAM® system is very similar to the process used for precast design," reported the firm's blog. "The engineer of record (EOR) selects the initial depths based on load tables provided by Peikko and supplies the floor loads on the final documents while specifying the final engineering to be performance-based design by the manufacturer. "
Peikko’s DELTABEAM® system was easy to work with. The steel fabricator only needed to coordinate the bolt hole locations for the connections to the columns. This was easily accomplished with the shop drawings provided by Peikko. No other special requirements were needed. The erector simply needed to be informed of where to shore DELTABEAM® when hollowcore slabs were erected only on one side of the Beam, on an edge beam for instance. At the end of the day, DELTABEAM® erected just like any other steel beam on the project.”
During the design process, the construction manager conducted several cost comparisons to evaluate the system’s cost efficiency compared to other conventional steel systems using composite metal deck. The DELTABEAM® system with a precast floor deck was found to cost $14 per square foot less than a steel frame system. The main reasons for this reduction in cost were threefold: lower fireproofing costs of the system, a reduction in the building cladding due to the reduced floor-to-floor height, and a lower expenditure on elevated concrete decks. Another obvious benefit was the clean and unobstructed ceiling plenum that the system provided. This was not included in the structural system cost analysis but clearly helped reducing the total construction cost by avoiding conflicts between trades and increasing the overall speed.
The McDonough District Hospital expansion was completed on schedule and is now open and providing healthcare services to the public. Utilizing DELTABEAM® was a big factor in the project’s success.
“This was a great solution to this project’s structural, cost and schedule challenges,” said Doolin. “We were especially impressed with the option of the 2-hour UL fire rating for the system without fireproofing. We estimate a probable time savings of two to three months for the structure overall. The cost of the entire project was reduced as well.”
DELTABEAM® was a great solution to this project’s structural, cost and schedule challenges. We were especially impressed with the option of the 2-hour UL fire rating for the system without fireproofing. We estimate a probable time savings of two to three months for the structure overall. The cost of the entire project was reduced as well.
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Ohanaeze raises alarm on situations in Lagos, Imo over Election
ENUGU-PRESIDENT General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo has raised the alarm over situations in Lagos state and the threat to lives of Ndigbo residing in Lagos.
He also expressed worry over alleged hostage taking of electoral officers in Imo state by Governor Rochas Okorocha, noting the the Residents Electoral Commissioner in Imo state said his life was on danger. Nwodo however acknowledged the concern of apex Yoruba organisation, Afenifere, for condemning the disenfranchisement of Igbo voters in parts of Lagos state. Nwodo in a statement in Enugu raised some concerns. He said: “Forty-eight hours after our elections, we still have no results. There is hardly any voter in Nigeria, who does not know the results of elections in his polling booth. The INEC server is down, yanked off by INEC. Conflicting results dominate the social media.
“The two major national parties claim contradictory victories. Returning officers in Rivers and Imo claim to be under siege, being executed by a minister and a governor respectively. Igbos in Lagos are being threatened for exercising their civic rights to vote. This morning, they were stopped from opening their market stalls in Oshodi. “The Acting Inspector General of Police refused to pick my three calls to him. The Oba of Lagos remains quiet.
The Governor of Lagos State makes no broadcast. The safety of more than four million Igbos living in Lagos seems to be of no concern to him. The Jagaban threatens Igbos to relocate, if they do not vote for his party. “Thanks to Afenifere for its salutary and comforting voice.
The Commander- in- Chief, maintains an ominous silence. The International Community wonders what a country this is. Professor Yakubu Mahmood be warned. Remember 1966. Remember 1983. Our democracy was upturned on those two occasions for the action or inaction of our electoral commission.
“Governor Umahi, you cannot be Chairman of South-East Governors and remain unconcerned about the plight of Igbos in Lagos and unperturbed by the manipulation of our votes in the South-East. History is recording our action and inaction. “I appeal to Igbos to remain calm and law-abiding while remaining resolute on our resolve to seize the moment of this election to change The character of our governance. May the Almighty God save our country from sliding into another crisis.”
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