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The Art of Satyagraha
May 09, 2014 By: NCVeditor Category: David Swanson, Michael N. Nagler, Politics
Achieving ‘Victory’ With, Not Over, the Forces of Conflict
by David Swanson
Michael Nagler has just published The Nonviolence Handbook: A Guide for Practical Action, a quick book to read and a long one to digest, a book that’s rich in a way that people of a very different inclination bizarrely imagine Sun Tzu’s to be. That is, rather than a collection of misguided platitudes, this book proposes what still remains a radically different way of thinking, a habit of living that is not in our air. In fact, Nagler’s first piece of advice is to avoid the airwaves, turn off the television, opt out of the relentless normalization of violence.
We don’t need the art of war applied to a peace movement. We need the art of satyagraha applied to the movement for a peaceful, just, free, and sustainable world. This means we have to stop trying to defeat the Military Industrial Complex (how’s that been working out?) and start working to replace it and to convert the people who make up its parts to new behaviors that are better for them as well as for us.
It can seem out of place to shift from a discussion of the world’s largest military to personal interactions. Surely giving John Kerry a complete personality transplant would leave in place corrupt elections, war profiteering, complicit media outlets, and the assumption held by legions of career bureaucrats that war is the way to peace.
No doubt, but only by learning to think and live nonviolence can we build an activist movement with the greatest potential to transform our structures of government. Nagler’s examples highlight the importance of knowing what is negotiable, what should be compromised, and what must not be; what is substantive and what symbolic; when a movement is ready to escalate its nonviolence and when it is too soon or too late; and when (always?) not to tack on new demands in the middle of a campaign.
Tiananmen Square should have been abandoned and other tactics pursued, Nagler believes. Holding the square was symbolic. When protesters took over the Ecuadorean Congress in 2000 one of their leaders was elected president. Why? Nagler points out that the Congress was a place of power, not just a symbol; the activists were strong enough to take power, not just ask for it; and the occupation was part of a larger campaign that preceded and followed it.
Nagler has a lot of praise and hope for the Occupy movement, but also draws examples of failure from there. When a group of churches in one city offered to join with Occupy if everyone would stop cursing, Occupiers refused. Dumb decision. Not only is the point not to get to do every little thing we want, but we are not engaging in a struggle for power — rather, in a learning process and a process of building relationships, even with those we are organizing to challenge — and certainly with those who want to help us if we’ll refrain from cussing. It can even be helpful, Nagler documents, to be accommodating to those we are challenging, when such steps are taken in friendship rather than subservience.
We are after the welfare of all parties, Nagler writes. Even those we want removed from office? Even those we want prosecuted for crimes? Is there restorative justice that can make an official who has launched a war see his or her removal from office and sanctioning as advantageous? Maybe. Maybe not. But seeking to remove people from office in order to uphold the rule of law and end injustices is very different from acting out of vengeance.
We should not seek out victories over others, Nagler advises. But doesn’t the organizing of activists require informing the deeply victory-dependent of every partial success achieved? Maybe. But a victory need not be over someone; it can be with someone. Oil barons have grandchildren who will enjoy a livable planet as much as the rest of us.
Nagler outlines obstructive and constructive actions, citing Gandhi’s efforts in India and the first Intifada as examples of combining the two. The Landless Worker Movement in Brazil uses constructive nonviolence, while the Arab Spring used obstructive. Ideally, Nagler thinks, a movement should begin with constructive projects and then add obstruction. The Occupy Movement has gone in the opposite direction, developing aid for storm victims and banking victims after protests were driven out of public squares. The potential for change, Nagler believes, lies in the possibility of Occupy or another movement combining the two approaches.
Nagler’s sequential steps in a nonviolent action campaign include: 1. Conflict Resolution, 2. Satyagraha, 3. The Ultimate Sacrifice.
I imagine Nagler would agree with me that what we need as much as peaceful behavior by our government is Conflict Avoidance. So much is done to generate conflicts that need not be. U.S. troops in 175 countries, and drones in some of the remaining few, are known to generate hostility; yet that hostility is used to justify the stationing of more troops. While it’s important to realize we’ll never rid the world of conflict, I’m sure we could come a lot closer if we tried.
But Nagler is outlining a plan for a popular campaign, not for the State Department. His three stages are a guide for how we ought to be outlining our future course of action. Step 0.5, then, is not Conflict Avoidance but Infiltration of Corporate Media or Development of Alternative Means to Communicate. Or so it occurs to me.
Nagler sees growing success and even greater potential for nonviolent action done wisely and strategically, and points out the extent to which violence remains the default approach of our government. And the case Nagler makes is made strong and credible by his extensive knowledge of nonviolent campaigns engaged in around the world over the past several decades. Nagler looks helpfully at successes, failures, and partial successes to draw out the lessons we need moving forward. I’m tempted to write a review of this book nearly as long as or even longer than the book itself, but believe it might be most helpful simply to say this:
Trust me. Buy this book. Carry it with you.
David Swanson is the author of War Is a Lie and Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union. He blogs at davidswanson.org and warisacrime.org, works as Campaign Coordinator for the online activist organization rootsaction.org, and hosts Talk Nation Radio. Among his many publishing venues, Swanson is a Contributing Author for New Clear Vision.
Tags: action, books, militarism, nonviolence, peace, reviews
1 Comments to “The Art of Satyagraha”
jkelvynrichards says:
Having recently been researching the ‘ascent of money’, and the development of banking, it has become totally clear to me that the making of ‘war’ is greatly beneficial to those families that are able to raise monies and to help monarchs and presidents pay for soldiers, sailors. ships, guns, tanks, bombs: all the equipment for war. In fact to pay for war!
The researches by Niall Ferguson reveal that all the principal banking families in Italy, in France, in Britain, in Germany, in Holland, in Spain, from the 14th century onwards operated hand in glove with the rulers in their campaigns of war against the Ottomans.
This reveals that ‘war’ is a product of capitalism, colonialism, christianity. What is more, ‘war’ prepares the way for ‘war’ and the enrichment of the wealthy elite.
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Vikings using Cordarrelle Patterson all over the field
By Marc Sessler
Published: May 3, 2014 at 09:30 a.m.
Updated: May 4, 2014 at 10:51 a.m.
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The Minnesota Vikings took their time incorporating Cordarrelle Patterson into the offense last season.
He was a dangerous return man from the start, but it wasn't until Week 11 that the plus-sized wideout caught more than three passes in a game. Patterson bloomed down the stretch, scoring three times through the air with another three touchdowns on the ground over the final five games of the year.
New offensive coordinator Norv Turner hasn't been shy with the second-year pass-catcher, using Patterson all over the field during this week's voluntary minicamp, per ESPN.com's Ben Goessling.
That makes sense after general manager Rick Spielman told reporters at the combine that Turner, upon his hire, immediately cooked up 10 new plays designed to unleash the 6-foot-2, 220-pound athletic freak. We saw Patterson used in different ways as a rookie, but Turner plans to unleash him.
"We've had guys who have been very productive players, extremely outstanding players I would say, and they lined up and played one position," Turner said Thursday. "We've had a bunch of other guys we've moved around. We've moved Cordarrelle around quite a bit this week and he seemed to handle it pretty well, so we'll see how much he can handle."
For his part, Patterson is showing maturity, acknowledging he could have worked harder as a rookie, saying: "I think I was kind of bad last year. This year will be way better."
Greg Jennings (101) and Jerome Simpson (96) both saw more targets than Patterson's 72 in 2013, but his 6.4 yards after the catch led the team and tied him fifth in the league with Julio Jones.
Turner has a reputation of unleashing young wideouts. He used Josh Gordon in Cleveland last season as an "X" receiver with the ability to kill teams deep. Patterson figures more as a "Z" type in Minnesota's attack -- something closer to a monster-sized Percy Harvin. That alone should keep NFC North opponents up at night.
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Sean Lee tears left ACL at Dallas Cowboys OTAs
By Gregg Rosenthal
Around The NFL Editor
Published: May 27, 2014 at 10:53 p.m.
Updated: May 28, 2014 at 12:48 p.m.
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Twenty-four reasons why Nick Chubb will be even better in Year 2
The Dallas Cowboys have lost their best defensive player to a serious injury again.
NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport reported Tuesday night that linebacker Sean Lee tore his ACL at the team's OTA session and is expected to miss the 2014 season, according to a source who has seen the MRI results. Lee's left knee buckled when he was run over by first-round pick Zack Martin during a drill that was supposed to be non-contact.
NFL Media's Albert Breer reports that Lee did not suffer a multi-ligament tear, per a Cowboys source. With the injury only to his ACL, it cuts down the recovery time.
It's a devastating blow for Lee, who has missed 15 games over the last two seasons due to wrist, neck and hamstring problems. When he's fully healthy, Lee mixes great run pursuit with rangy pass coverage as well as any linebacker in the league. He was expected to anchor a Cowboys defense that looks particularly soft up the middle with holes at defensive tackle and questions next to Lee at linebacker.
The Cowboys were set to draft Ryan Shazier in the first round before the Pittsburgh Steelers took the linebacker off the board. Dallas was hoping to add a playmaker next to Lee after Bruce Carter disappointed the coaching staff one season ago.
When the Cowboys released DeMarcus Ware this offseason, the defense lost its best player of the last 20 years. Now they've lost Lee, the guy that was supposed to be their best player for the next five campaigns. The Cowboys gave Lee a huge contract extension before last season, betting that his injury history wasn't predictive of future problems. (Lee also suffered a torn right ACL in college and had a left knee injury.) We thought the Lee contract was worth the gamble for such a premier player entering his prime, but his durability continues to be an issue. A potential timetable for Lee's return is unclear, but he'll have an uphill battle to be a factor in 2014.
New defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli is trying to rebuild the Cowboys' defense after a disastrous 2013. They didn't look any better on paper even before Lee went down, and they don't look any luckier this season, either.
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Finance and practice life news
Doctors' gifts from patients this year included potatoes, rhubarb and foie gras
12 December 2016 By Iona Twaddell
Chocolates (and other edible food) and alcohol are the most popular gifts from patients to doctors, although other gifts given this year include underwear, a walking stick and a knife.
A survey of 188 doctors (of which 58 were GPs) by the MDU found that 65% of respondents received at least one gift in the year. Only seven respondents received more than 15 gifts in the last year, five of whom were GPs.
76% of these received chocolates and other edible gifts and 45% received alcohol. As well as chocolate and wine, doctors also received concert tickets, clothing, a piñata and a picture made with hair from the patient’s pet.
More unusual foodstuffs given as gifts included: eggs, a goose, an onion, samosas, rhubarb, cucumbers, fresh cod, foie gras, cheese and a coconut.
Some 18% of respondents who received a gift had concerns about the patient’s motives for giving them a present. Of these, 22% (5) accepted the gift without raising concerns with the patient, 27% (6) accepted after discussion with the patient and 18% (4) did not accept the present.
MDU medicolegal adviser Dr Ellie Mein said: ‘In the MDU’s experience of providing medico-legal advice to members, accepting gifts from patients can sometimes present ethical issues. This is particularly the case when the patient’s motive for gift giving might be unclear or misconstrued, or when the gift is expensive.’
She advises doctors to ‘ensure the patient understands their medical care would not be affected in any way by the gift’ and ‘keep a record of these conversations, any correspondence and the reasons for accepting the gift, if they did so’.
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Readers' comments (2)
doctordog. | GP Partner/Principal12 Dec 2016 8:12pm
My favourite is the DNA.
copernicus | GP Partner/Principal13 Dec 2016 10:42am
The patient has taken the trouble to buy you a small Christmas gift, wrap it, write a card and deliver it, usually just to say thanks for the human kindness you have shown then over the year. You should accept it graciously and have done with it. MDU humbug!
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Zagora: The biggest village and the one with the greatest history in Eastern Pelio, spread on a bright green and sun-drenched side of the mountain, is divided in four big quarters (Agia Paraskevi or Perahora, Agia Kyriaki, Agios Georgios, Sotira). According to one version, its name comes from the Slav "za-gora", which means "behind the mountain".
Kala Nera Pelion
KALA NERA is not only a place for summer holidays but it also provides hospitality and service all year around, especially in winter when available accommodation on Mount Pelion is limited. The little village of Kala Nera is the ideal base for excursions in the mountains.In the south-western foothills of Mount Pelion, the mountain of the Centaurs, 18 km from the city of Volos, you will find the village
Makrinitsa Pelion
Makrinitsa is a traditional settlement of the Municipality of Volos, Thessaly. Feature mansion Makrinitsas is Topali mansion built in 1844 and is now used as a folklore museum. The building is three-storey fortified residence, with battlements and defensive turret on the roof. The manor was given to the community of Makrinitsa from family Topali in 1932 to house the folklore museum, which today has
Milies Pelio
Milies, one of the most picturesque villages of the mountain of the Centaurs, starting point of the famous "Moutzouri" the little train that goes through a beautiful drive up the Upper Lechonia.The main square is the meeting point for locals and visitors, with large trees to give shade to those who choose to drink coffee or eat in traditional tavernas-cafes. Perimeter there are many important buildings
Milina Pelio
The picturesque fishing village Milina stretches out in front of the Pagasitic Bay and has a magnificent view at the blue water. The area has all the ingredients for a memorable holiday at the Pelion Peninsula.For those wild nights you can also find a disco. The nightlife of Milina is interesting, especially during the summer season. Many festivals take place with traditional Greek music and dance.
Mouresi Pelio
Another Pelion gem, 3 klm north of Tsagarada.Mouresi has a stunning view of the sea and the mountains. On a clear day one can see Halkidiki and the sunrise behind Mount Athos. Mouresi overlooks a deep valley whose great beauty is known only to the few lovers of nature, the initiates, who have sought out a guide to take them down the deep recesses of the ravine where two cascading streams
Portaria Pelion
Portaria, located on Mount Pelion, is one of the most beautiful and traditional villages of Central Greece. The beautiful natural scenery, the cool springs, traditional houses and quaint cobbled streets, make Portaria one of the few areas in the heart of Greece, where the visitor can find peace and tranquility.Portaria is ideal for holidays throughout the year. Just 13 km. From luminescent and at an
Tsagarada Pelion
The emerald of Pelion and best known village to Greeks and foreigners alike. It is located on the north-eastern side of the mountain at an elevation of 500 meters.Tsangarada is a sprawling village extending over 5 klm along the main road. Because of the lush vegetation most of the village is invisible.Tsangarada is blessed with rich history, a maze of cobbled mule-tracks, alleyways, paths and roads
Horto Pelio
The traditional coastal village of Horto, is situated on the west side of the Pelion Peninsula, overlooking the beautiful Pagasitic Gulf. Horto is just 46km from the city of Volos, and is very easy to reach, as you travel along the coast.The sea waters here are perfect, and offer a perfect place for a refreshing swim during the hot summer months. There are also several other beaches within easy reach
Hania Pelio
Hania is a magical place in winter and summer. The colors change every season and there are many who believe that it is a place blessed. They are passing the eastern Pelion overlooking the city of Volos in the western part of facing the Aegean Sea.In the old days was the respite station and refueling of merchants and travelers, who found accommodation in Chania, from where came the name of the village.Hania
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A third of self-assessment taxpayers did not pay the right amount of tax in 2016/17, resulting in an £8 billion loss to the Treasury, research claims.
A paper published by the Social Market Foundation (SMF) found that of the 10 million people a year who filed self-assessment by 31 January 2018, one in three underpaid.
The research also claimed that the majority of the unpaid £8bn is owed by only 2% of self-assessment taxpayers.
According to the most recent tax gap figures from HMRC, 5.7% of all tax due in 2016/17 was not collected, with the biggest factor being a "failure to take reasonable care".
HMRC said it is working with small businesses to help them get their tax right, and that the rollout of Making Tax Digital will also help to reduce errors.
However, the SMF said an increase in targeted audits of taxpayers would be the most effective way to tackle the issue, bringing in an estimated £10,000 to £15,000 per audit.
The thinktank said targeted audits by HMRC have fallen steadily for several years.
Dr Arun Advani, author of the paper and assistant professor at the University of Warwick, said:
"More money from the Treasury to do these valuable audits would reap significant rewards, paying for itself and bringing in additional funds.
"Cutting auditors is the hallmark of short-term thinking. It reduces current costs, while money from past audits keeps rolling in - but that is not a sustainable strategy."
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Hanoigrapevine reviews SPECULA
Specula Spectacular
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I’ve been holding off writing an opinion piece about Phi Phi Oanh’s speccy installation because I keep having new thoughts about it (all good) and keep wanting to revisit it (and it gets even better each time).
Specula (singular = speculum) are medical instruments used to open body cavities or orifices for careful inspection. They are intended to provide direct vision of area of interest and can have inbuilt illumination to make investigation easier.
Phi Phi has given the term a poetic and artistic licence and has created a long and wonderful, softly illuminated cavern that viewers can wander through and explore. The illumination is provided through a floor of thick, opaque panes of glass gridded into squares. The cavern walls are large, lushly lacquered fiber-glass panels.
As I wander through the arched corridor I am reminded of many evocative places. At times I am in Sydney or London in a passageway leading to an underground train; I’m in the cool cistern beneath the streets of Istanbul; I’m in a disused railway tunnel carved through rock walls or walled with mossy, damp bricks; I’m staring up at the curved and tessellated roof of an old mosque; I’m in an abandoned mine shaft with streaks of semi precious minerals seaming the walls; I’m in an archaeological dig, ancient, fossilized artefacts glinting among smooth rocks; I’m in the future and observing a Planet of the Apes or The Road scenario of a ruined earth as it existed before a cataclysmic devastation; I’m in the apse of a shimmering cathedral; I’m in new places each time I view the installation. It’s a cavity of fantasy and suspense.
The subtle and diffused lighting makes you wander slowly and peer carefully into the layers of lacquer for the wonders that were either deliberately imposed by the artist or that magically appeared as the layers of lacquer were applied and rubbed back.
The artist has a recent history of pushing the boundaries of lacquer painting. A couple of years ago her boxes at the Art Museum in Hanoi were stunning. This year her floor piece of lacquer on metal was the attention grabber at the opening of the Bui Gallery. And now she’s done it again, using traditional lacquer in ways that puts that medium well and truly into a modern focus.
In Copenhagen this week a group of famous, contemporary artists have installed new art works that in some way reflect on, or comment on, humans and their effect on the planet’s fragile environment. Phi Phi Oanh’s Specula would have no difficulty in holding its own there. In fact it would be a stand out. She is obviously an artist who will have a successful international future.
Specula is installed at the Hanoi City Exhibition Hall. It’s a noisy space that thunders and blarts with passing traffic and somehow this mix of fumes and noise doesn’t detract from the magic of the piece, even adding to its layers of meaning… though on one visit I wore ear plugs to imagine what it would be like installed in a deathly quiet gallery. It is such a wonderful piece of art that it would be at home in an open air place as well as indoors and I could see it re-commissioned as a permanent entrance to a theatre, a hotel feature, a restaurant. It definitely belongs on display in a world class Museum of Modern Art.
The present site is great because it is so close to the passing parade of pedestrians and it’s wonderful to lean into the shadows and watch the effect it has on casual viewers. It’s always good to have impressive art removed from the eloquent and rarified air of art galleries and museums so that the public can interact with it… and in this case through it.
Phi Phi has worked on this large architectural piece with a group of dedicated assistants ranging from structural engineers to lacquer mixers and they must all have big smiles of accomplishment on their faces as they see the results of their labour. It is the top of the pops in solo art exhibitions this year in Hanoi and is a fabulous way to visually complete the first decade of the new century.
Keep your eyes attuned to the Grapevine because I hear that Phi Phi will have a further exhibition this month of her recent work (17 Dec, Japan Foundation, details coming soon) and if she has another Open Studio before she leaves us and heads to Europe in the new year, don’t miss it. If you have the chance to purchase any of her work think of it as a real investment.
As you can see I’m one of her biggest fans and my reference to her earlier this year as a new Yoko Ono still holds fast.
Thanks to the American Embassy for being instrumental in sponsoring this massive and massively important art work.
SPECULA is glowing spectacularly until Dec 31.
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Treasure Island Opens $19M Lagoon Waterpark
by Jim Hammerand, Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal
Treasure Island Resort & Casino opened its new 40,000-square-foot Lagoon waterpark near Red Wing Tuesday.
The $19 million project has a 320-foot-long lazy river with rapids, a waterfall and an island with lounge chairs. There also are two 276-foot-long body slides, an 80-foot-long zero-depth plunge pool, an adult-only pool, two hot tubs (one indoors, one out), and the swim-up Barefoot Bar.
The full-service Wave Spa offers massages, manicures/pedicures, facials, waxing, make-up, hair and nail services. There’s also a fitness center with bikes, elliptical machines and treadmills.
The waterpark has outdoor terrace space with fire pits and areas for private parties and events. Two twelve-foot retractable glass panels will open to let fresh air in during warmer months.
The waterpark uses sphagnum moss to filter the 119,000 gallons of water in the four pools with less chemicals than a traditional filtration system.
Treasure Island, in Welch, is owned by the Prairie Island Indian Community. Tribal Council President Shelley Buck said the project created more than 80 construction jobs.
Minneapolis-based RSP Architects and Golden Valley-based Knutson Construction partnered on the waterpark. Work started in May.
Treasure Island opened its renovated Tradewinds Buffet and the new Tabo Steakhouse last year.
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Andrew Jacobson was born and raised in St. Paul, MN. He attended Eternity Bible College in Simi Valley, CA where he received his Bachelor's in Biblical & Theological Studies. After college, Andrew returned to his hometown and attended Bethlehem College and Seminary where he earned his Master of Divinity. While in Seminary, Andrew was on staff at First Evangelical Free Church of Maplewood. During his theological studies, Andrew came to embrace historic Reformed theology and transitioned into the PCA by way of a pastoral internship at Grace Presbyterian Church in Stuart, FL. It was during this internship that Andrew came into contact with Sand Harbor as he filled the pulpit while we were searching for a Pastor. The Lord, in his kind providence, saw fit to call Andrew to Sand Harbor. Andrew is blessed to be the husband of his dear wife, Ashley, and the father of four wonderful children: Calvin, Lewis, Lucy, and William.
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The last time Greg Slaughter wore the national jersey was early in
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composed of collegiate standouts.
After finishing his college career with Ateneo and going to the PBA
with Barangay Ginebra, the seven-foot center out of Virginia, USA
spoke about being invited once more to the national pool.
Slaughter: A few months ago, I was hearing I was going to get called
up for one of the windows. I thought that it was going to be the last
one where we played Australia at home, but it didn’t happen. You hear
rumors but that’s just it – hear say. But I’m just here – waiting for
that call up.
Let me just say that when I was with the original Gilas team under
Coach Rajko, it was a great time. We weren’t able to achieve much, but
that team did change the way we prepare for the national team.
When (PBA Commissioner) Willie Marcial told me that I was included in
the line-up of Coach Yeng, now I had a good reason to be happy. Just
to be invited once more in the pool is a great honor.
Watching from afar how the national team would do from Fiba Asia to
the World Cup to the Olympic Qualifiers – all their games, I always
hope for the best for them. I have some former teammates there (Japeth
Aguilar and lately, Chris Tiu who was in the Asian Games) and you
always cheer for them and everyone else.
The national team practices are just different. Everyone elevates
their game. You feel the intensity, determination, and dedication of
everyone. You have the best players scrimmage and playing. So you have
to be on their level or higher.
If I get lined up, I look forward to reacquainting myself with Iran
(the next window). I played against Hamed Haddadi, Bahrami, Kamrany. I
know some of them aren’t there, but Haddadi is still there. I like to
think I have learned a lot since the early days of the program. To
play high pressure games with Ateneo and Ginebra under great coaches
like Norman Black and Tim Cone is a great experience. I am looking
forward to putting all of that into good use if given the chance.
I know we don’t have the time to work on chemistry, but all we can do
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Home News MMA Condit vs. Alves Headlines UFC Fight Night 67
Condit vs. Alves Headlines UFC Fight Night 67
Kurt Tellez
Mar 18, 2015 at 10:18 AM PDT
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The UFC is making a stop in Brazil for Fight Night 62, and will swing back around in May. MMAFighting.com reports that Carlos Condit (29-8) will fight Thiago Alves (21-9) in the main event of Fight Night 67.
(Alves vs. Kampmann photo: Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
Thiago Alves’ (21-9) 2014 return saw a fight of the night bonus and performance of the night bonus with wins over Jordan Mein and Seth Baczynski. Much of 2012-2013 was marred for Alves due to injury, but with a return to competition he appears to be on the mend. Alves’ matchup with Condit makes a lot of logistical sense with both coming back from long layoffs from competition.
(Condit vs. Kampmann, photo: Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
Carlos Condit has been out of competition for over a year after he tore his ACL and meniscus against Tyron Woodley at UFC 171. The 2nd round TKO loss was the first Condit ever suffered in his career, bringing “The Natural Born Killer” to 1-3 in his last 4 fights. They say it about every division in the UFC, but welterweight competitors have no room for loss on the way to the top of the heap. The race for Robbie Lawler’s newly acquired title is neck and neck with every welterweight in the division.
Also announced on the night’s card is a women’s strawweight bout between Juliana Lima (7-2) and Jessica Penne (12-2). See Carlos Condit vs. Thiago Alves in the main event of UFC Fight Night 67 on May 30th. Do you think “The Natural Born Killer” will be successful against Alves after a long injury layoff? Will Alves emerge from fight night as a contender?
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Dutch Square And Christ Church Malacca
Feel the time travel back to colonial era at Dutch Square – where you can find the Melaka’s surviving parts after the war. According to the experts, Dutch Square is believed to be the oldest Dutch building ever existed in the East.
Distinguished by red classic buildings, this historical place serves as the prominent landmark in Malacca. With an elegant fountain dotted in the centre and surrounded by colourful trishaws, you will find endless tourists here every day, trying their very best to capture the best angle of Dutch Square.
This church was built by Dutch, when they took possession of the country. The most defining structure of Malacca is notable for unique design and history. A picture of a brick-red building with a huge white cross is famous all around the world.
St. Paul’s Church Malacca
St Paul’s Church is a popular tourist destiny who are interested in history and rich culture of this country.
The ruins of the ancient church are very popular among tourist and native people of Malaysia. This historic church was built in 1521 and situated at the summit of St. Paul’s Hill. Right now, this Church is a part of the Malacca Museum Complex.
Melaka River
The Melaka river divides Malacca town into few parts and goes straight through the middle of it.
So just take the river cruise and you will see the beauty of the town from the inside! During this 45 minutes ride you’ll see famous historical buildings, churches, old warehouse and villages.
Pantai Klebang
Ever wonder where to get a piece of dessert in Malaysia? You don’t have to go so far as Malacca has its own dessert at Pantai Klebang.
Klebang dessert is a reclaimed land made by Malacca developers and years of land excavation placed at the edge of Pantai Klebang resulted in this unique looking desert.
Maritime Museum & Naval Museum Malacca
The Maritime Museum is a huge Portuguese ship, which sank near the Malacca. It’s 34 meters high and this ship-museum will take you hundreds of years ago.
Menara Taming Sari
One of the unique attractions at Malacca is the Menara Taming Sari. It is the only revolving tower in Malaysia. It measures 110 meters in height and its revolving tower offers a wide and far landscape scene overlooking Malacca city.
Menara Taming Sari is located nearby Bandar Hilir at Jalan Merdeka. If you happen to be at Dataran Pahlawan Megamall and Mahkota Parade Mall it is just a short 3 minutes’ walk away.
The tower’s name is taken after a famous keris, which is a magical weapon belonging to legendary Malay Admiral named Hang Tuah.
The design of the structure of the tower takes on the shape of the weapon, while the highest point of the tower resembles its hilt.
Machap Walk
Machap Baru Street Walk is located in the small district town of Alor Gajah, Malacca. The town is located just 32km away from the city of Malacca.
Machap Walk unites all the famous dishes of Malaysia in one place. The street is filled with every race in Malaysia which shows the 1 Malaysia spirit.
Do not miss the opportunity to go to Machap Walk, open during the weekends if you happen to be in Malacca
A’Famosa Fort
This historical fort was built by the Portuguese in 1511 after they defeated the Malacca Sultanate. On 1641, it fell to the Dutch and subsequently in the early 19th century to the British.
The fort was to be destroyed in 1806, but was spared by the founder of Singapore, Sir Stamford Raffles.
The fort is just a 5 minutes’ walk from Christ Church. It is a very peaceful place away from the busy-ness of Malacca city
The Shore Sky Tower
For a near 360° bird’s eye view of Malacca city, a visit to the 43 storied Sky Tower will give you a view of 50 kilometers at all direction.
It is just a short walk away from the UNESCO World Heritage district and it’s located beside the river bank facing Morten village.
Freeport A’Famosa Outlet Village
This open air Dutch colonial era styled shopping village is the biggest shopping outlet located at Alor Gajah.
It consists of more than 70 international brands offered at superb prices.
Freeport is located just outside A’Famosa Resort Malacca and is just on your way to Malacca’s UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Melaka Straits Mosque
Built on stilts over the sea, Melaka Straits Mosque is a modern designed mosque perfectly blends with both Malaysian and Middle Eastern mosque architecture. Situated on Pulau Melaka, the was opened on 24th November 2006 whereby the opening ceremony was done by the Sultan of Malaysia at the time.
Melaka Wonderland Theme Park
Visiting this famous Park and Resort in Melaka is the best way to cool down and have great fun on a hot day in Malaysia. The highlights of this Malacca’s tourist attraction and huge multi zone park are high-speed water slides and thrill rides.
Cheng Hoon Teng Temple
The most notable landmark of Malacca situated in famous Jonker Street and was built in 1646. This old Chinese Temple considered to be the oldest Buddhist place of worship in Malaysia.
Baba Nyonya Heritage Museum
This wonderful living museum was established in 1896 and once was the family home for the Baba family.
This heritage building is a unique blend of cultures, east and west countries and illustrates the lifestyle of the Peranakan at the end of the 19th century.
The original design is influenced both by the European architecture and Eastern traditions and history.
Malacca Jonker Street
Joker Street is a center of Chinatown in Malacca you can buy everything!
With rich history, a lot of different people, goodness, history landmark , traditional , local food and souvenirs. Jonker Street in Malacca City’s Chinatown is a complete delight to walk through.
Even during busy weekends this Street is crowded with people and interesting stuff
Tan Kim Hock Product Centre
If you’re looking for special and affordable souvenirs from Malacca, head to Tan Kim Hock Product Centre in Jalan Laksamana Cheng Ho and Jalan Bendahara . They located from the city centre around 8 min .
With over 100 local food products under its roof, this is an immensely popular place for locals and tourists to shop for high-quality bites and goodies.
San Shu Gong (Jalan Hang Jebat)
San Shu Gong (三叔公) is a local delicacy shop in Jonker Street, Melaka. You can find almost all sort of local delicacies from dodol, sweetheart cakes (or wife cakes), black sesame biscuits, melon seed biscuits to rice bean cakes, chicken biscuits, pineapple tarts and much more.
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Names Not Andy: “Trifilin” is meant to hypnotize your senses
Names Not Andy delivers a unique style that bends rap and melodic singing. His music has hip-hop inspired instrumentation but goes in different directions from track to track. He...
by Staff February 8, 2019
Names Not Andy delivers a unique style that bends rap and melodic singing. His music has hip-hop inspired instrumentation but goes in different directions from track to track. He is able to blend psychedelic guitar strums to a hazy melancholic hip-hop sound. This can be heard in songs like “Battle Heart”. It takes his style in strange directions and is a great sound which he further explores and make his own on other tracks. Names Not Andy is a very diverse and eclectic artist. Listening to his album “Misunderstood” gives you fair idea of his thematic creativity, which here forges a broody stoner sound.
Not adverse to meddling with Lo-fi, Trap, Rock, Metal and even Jazz influences, NNA has 2 album releases setup for 2019. In the meantime he has dropped the single “Trifilin” which will feature on one of the albums, to be entitled, “thepits.exe”.
And it’s a different beast to the previous album, showing that Names Not Andy can switch from slow-motion drugged-out sounds to rearing his fangs and injecting venom directly into the beating heart of a record. There’s an abundance of conviction and resentment in his delivery on “Trifilin” as he spits: “The only time anyone care about me, is when I got money or weed.”
This sounds like a step in yet another direction, and an improvement, in terms of pure accessibility, from previous efforts, yet still continues to showcase Names Not Andy’s undeniable appeal. In this moment, there are few artist that manage, or probably even dare to draw from so many diverse influences. He’s obviously not afraid to pepper his influences and tastes across the body of his works to surprisingly stellar results, at least for the most part anyway.
It’s impossible to look the other way with Names Not Andy, he is one of those polarizing artists, whom you either love or hate, but you just cannot ignore. His new track, “Trifilin”, imbues most of the tropes in contemporary emo-styled trapper rap, with an omnipresent sonic fog meant to hypnotize your senses. Indeed, we’re frequently drawn into connecting with Names Not Andy emotionally, on some level, while listening to his music.
Though he is in line with the modern trap sounds, NNA isn’t attempting to follow the crowd. He wants to stand out. Hence he’s taking his music in a different direction by taking risks that should eventually pay off. One look at his back catalog, however, confirms that he has always taken risks and thinks outside the box with his art.
The production with a genuine vibe pays off. Though he successfully blends genres, on this track, he goes for a booming bassline and hissing hi-hats production and moves straight into discussing his personal struggles. The disillusioned vibe is a defining moment for the rapper on this record, in capturing listener empathy.
He keeps it real and showcases his affliction: “Nobody is liking me, why is you trifilin, all you fuckers are fake”. The result is an infectious beat and euphonic vocals, hooking listeners from beginning to end.
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Star Trek’s Holodeck: from science fiction to a new reality
Published on 30th March 2017 06:05 AM
William Riker (Jonathan Frakes) entering a Holodeck simulation
Many of the technological advances predicted in Star Trek’s fictional universe have become reality, such as the mobile communicator and hand-held tablet computers.
Others, such as tractor beams and warp drives, are still a work in progress. But what of the Holodeck?
The Holodeck first appeared in The Practical Joker, a 1974 episode of the Star Trek animated series. It was depicted as a recreation room containing a simulated, alternative version of reality. It featured heavily in The Next Generation series and in the 1996 film First Contact.
Anyone entering the Holodeck could interact with “solid” props and characters in any scenario based on whatever parameters they programmed.
These programs are not unlike the narrative-driven, cinematic videogames we have today, such as Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption or The Witcher.
The Holodeck was a narrative device that allowed Star Trek’s writers to experiment with philosophical questions in settings not available in a typical sci-fi context.
From Holodeck ‘reality’ to just an empty room with Counselor Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis, left) and William Riker (Jonathan Frakes, right).
It inspired several generations of computer scientists who spearheaded research in artificial intelligence, computer graphics and human-computer interaction.
The convergence of these research areas has given rise to other forms of reality on the path to the construction of a real Holodeck.
A real Holodeck?
In virtual reality (VR) we are fully immersed in a synthetic, “virtual” version of reality, experienced through dedicated VR headsets such as the Oculus Rift or the HTC Vive.
A typical example of VR is an immersive war game that puts a user in charge of a Roman army as Caesar, battling Vercingetorix’s Gaul troops at Alesia.
But VR has a major drawback for some applications. Being isolated from the real world, it’s not easy to engage in social interaction or physical movement in a way that feels natural to most people.
Augmented reality (AR) blends synthetic, virtual objects with the view of our physical reality. In AR, we can interact with virtual humans inhabiting our physical space or we can work with our children, for example, to build virtual LEGO houses on real tables in our own living rooms.
Headsets are available that allow us to create AR in our office or lounge rooms, such as the Microsoft Hololens or the Meta.
But AR headsets still suffer from several technical limitations, such as a reduced field of view. The software that lets the virtual and real worlds interact believably and naturally still needs work.
Sensing humans
Real-world Holodeck programs would also need the technology to sense human actions. This would provide useful information that the virtual personas inhabiting the Holodeck programs would use to anticipate our human intentions.
Progress here has been fast and constant, with great improvements in speech recognition and language translation, such as Apple’s Siri, Google’s Assistant and Microsoft’s Cortana.
We now take almost for granted the ability to search for information with speech or to command our mobiles to schedule meetings and appointments. Other devices, originally conceived for entertainment applications, can track human gestures or even their full body posture.
For example, Microsoft Kinect can track a human body, and the technology is now included in the Hololens as its gesture-recognition component.
Lots of other sensing devices are now commonplace in mobile devices, such as accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers, and temperature and pressure sensors.
The general trend is towards giving humans the ability to communicate using a combination of their body and their voice via hands-free or wearable user interfaces.
Enter the artificial intelligence
The key ingredient for Holodeck programs in the real world is the ability to equip virtual characters with sophisticated forms of artificial intelligence (AI).
Attacking the Borg on the Holodeck in Star Trek: First Contact with Lily (Alfre Woodard, left) and Captain Picard(Patrick Stewart, right).
AI and machine learning – the art of teaching a machine how to learn to perform a complex task – have seen advances in areas such as automated game playing, autonomous car driving and drone control, and deep learning.
These advances, while noteworthy, do not necessarily show strong progress towards general forms of artificial intelligence (AGI) exhibited by humans.
It has been argued that defining or providing general human intelligence may prove a very elusive problem for a long time, or indeed forever.
Fortunately, a restricted version of a Holodeck program may only require a slightly weaker, not fully general form of intelligence. This was exemplified by androids in the popular TV series reboot of Westworld.
Almost human? Close enough
The good news is that this may shorten the time needed to realise the hypothetical Holodeck programs. The bad news is that such a feat is still beyond us at this stage, although recent progress in machine learning will likely help us close the gap faster.
The question is then whether we shall ever be able to reach the level of sophistication in AR and AI needed to build a Holodeck? And if so, when?
Making predictions on such matters is not trivial, but I am inclined to think that current advances in VR and AR technologies will provide us with the required sophisticated headsets within the next five to ten years.
The question then is also whether we shall ever be able to achieve AR using alternative forms of projections that remove the need for a headset altogether.
This may be possible, eventually, but it would be irrelevant if headsets could be miniaturised and potentially implanted into human eyes, similar to what was suggested in other sci-fi classics such as Neuromancer or Snow Crash, and recently advocated by transhumanists.
The recent predictions about breakthroughs in general artificial intelligence by experts seem to converge around a date around 2040. This would put the sort of AI required for Holodeck characters somewhat earlier than that.
So I believe that one day humans will be able to experience some form of Holodeck similar to what was envisaged in Star Trek.
To paraphrase Star Trek’s infamous Borg alien race, I will say that resistance to this technological progress is futile and it will be assimilated, one day.
This article was written by Fabio Zambetta - [Senior lecturer, RMIT University]
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Georgia Governor Nathan Deal Requests EPA Waive Ethanol Mandate; Cites Severe Economic Harm in State
"It is abundantly clear that substantial evidence exists now within the existing reports of USDA regarding expected crop yields and within private sector forecasts of crop yields that current and futures pricing of corn will result in severe economic harm in the poultry and livestock sectors," wrote Georgia Governor Nathan Deal (R) in a petition sent yesterday (http://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Letter-to-Lisa-P-Jackson-Petition-for-Waiver.pdf) to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). "Georgia is experiencing severe economic harm during this crisis, and important economic sectors in the state are in serious economic jeopardy. This harm is precisely of the type, character and extent that Congress envisioned when it granted EPA authority to waive Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) applicable volumes..."
Deal becomes the fifth governor, and first Republican, to request that EPA waive the RFS, joining the governors of Maryland, Delaware, North Carolina and Arkansas.
"It can also be reasonably projected that this harm will continue well into 2013, if not beyond 2013, and that the decreasing availability of stocks of grains will only be eased when a new crop season provides an abundance of supply," Deal continued.
As Georgia's largest industry, agriculture accounts for over 15.7 percent of the state's economy in terms of sales and output and represents 11.2 percent of the state's value added production. Georgia agriculture has an annual impact of $68.9 billion on the state's economy and provides 380,000 jobs to citizens of the state. Poultry and livestock are critically important components of the state's economy, representing over 50 percent of Georgia's farm gate value, while broilers alone account for over 40 percent of farm gate value. From a national perspective, Georgia ranks first in broiler production and third in value of eggs produced. For Georgia, the poultry industry alone accounts for over $20 billion in annual economic impact, and an estimated 98,000 jobs depend on poultry directly or indirectly.
Deal's petition notes the University of Georgia has reported that the state's poultry producers are spending $1.4 million extra per day on corn due to the drought and the upward pressure on corn prices caused by the demand created by the RFS for ethanol. This translates to over $516 million per year if these market conditions continue. "These additional input costs are not sustainable, and I urge you to consider all options available to the agency to provide some relief in the coming year," Deal urged.
The National Chicken Council (NCC) voiced strong support for Governor Deal's petition and leadership on this critical issue.
"I am very pleased that Governor Deal has joined the many other voices and requests that EPA has received in recent weeks to waive the RFS for ethanol, including 14 of 15 members of Georgia's congressional delegation in Washington," said NCC President Mike Brown. "As Governor Deal noted, it is now abundantly clear that severe economic damage has occurred, and will continue, as a result of the RFS' strain on the corn supply that has been exacerbated by the worst drought in more than 50 years. Again, I call on EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to implement the law and grant a full, one-year waiver for the corn-ethanol mandate," Brown concluded.
Governor Deal's petition comes on the heels of an announcement yesterday from EPA that the agency is issuing a Federal Register notice opening a 30-day public comment period on requests from the governors of Arkansas and North Carolina to waive the RFS requirements. The statute provides the agency with 90 days in which to make a decision.
The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 updated renewable fuel volume targets. Congress has also given EPA the authority to include provisions that allow the EPA Administrator to grant a full or partial waiver if implementation would severely harm the economy or environment of a state, region, or the entire country.
More information about the comment period and Notice from EPA is available by clicking here (http://www.epa.gov/otaq/fuels/renewablefuels/notices.htm) and here (http://www.epa.gov/otaq/fuels/renewablefuels/documents/2012-rfs-waiver-request-comment.pdf).
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Two 14-year-olds among latest charged over Stanley Cup riot
John Colebourn, Postmedia News 07.23.2013
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VANCOUVER - Two 14-year-old boys are among the latest to be charged with offences dating back to the 2011 Stanley Cup riot.
Vancouver police are recommending 118 new charges against 27 suspected rioters, bringing the total number of recommended charges to 1,204 against 352 suspects — 311 men and 41 women.
“Our investigators continue to work very closely with Crown counsel, putting their best cases forward to the courts, as is evident with the number of guilty pleas that have been entered,” Supt. Dean Robinson said Tuesday.
The two 14-year-old boys could face a combined total of six counts of break and enter, two counts of mischief, one count of mischief over $5,000, and two counts of participating in a riot.
The latest batch of charges includes one against a woman who police allege was caught on videotape assaulting another woman trying to protect an unmarked police car. The Good Samaritan suffered facial and dental injuries.
Charges of participation in a riot, assault, break and enter, and breach of recognizance have also been recommended against a 24-year-old man from Langley. At the time of the riot, the accused was on recognizance and bound by conditions in relation to multiple firearms charges, including a requirement to remain inside his residence.
During the riot, the accused was allegedly captured on film assaulting an unknown man by kicking him while he was on the ground in a swarming attack in the 800-block of Granville Street.
Also, three high school friends from Victoria are facing a total of 15 criminal charges. Police allege the three were captured on video committing multiple crimes throughout the night. In addition, Daniel Amesbury, 22, from Maple Ridge, is the 14th suspect charged out of 15 identified suspects who allegedly swarmed Good Samaritan Robert Mackay.
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A “New” White Nation Within America: Thinking About the Future of White People, or, PLE Revisited
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Have you thought about what White people will do when they become a minority in America (circa 2040)? Most people haven’t. But some people have.
White people in America are becoming 3rd-class citizens, strangers in their own land. They can no longer count on government officials or government entities to protect their rights and their freedom – in fact, it’s just the opposite: governmental policies work against White people (e.g., Affirmative Action, chain-immigration laws).
Whites must learn to think outside of “the box” that they have been in for decades. Whites must begin to think tribally and racially.
Whites must learn to favor other Whites, and they must also learn to disfavor non-Whites. The Jews are a nation within America; so are the Mexicans; and so must Whites become a separate nation within America, i.e., working and acting as one unit (few Whites work together as a race today, except Klansmen and neo-Nazis).
A giant network of Whites, stretching from coast to coast, must at some point be created, a vast framework (like a big spider web) with one goal: to help and preserve the White race [1]. To function properly, the network should be secretive by nature, in order to avoid outside interference that could hinder or sabotage it. Such a network could be organized into districts (District 1, District 2, etc.). Each district could feature experts in a variety of vocational fields (medical, construction/building, home repairs, agriculture, transportation, education, family planning, etc.). These experts could be available to help other White people who need help with various things; bartering should also become commonplace within the network as an alternative to money.
The time to think about creating a new, separate, White-nation-within-America is now. Many good ideas and many capable people will be needed.
[1] granted, this idea is not exactly new: Pioneer Little Europe comes to mind. However, PLE seems to be based more on creating White communities in certain locations or regions than this idea is; this idea is not location-based per se, but is instead America-based. Pioneer Little Europe efforts have so far failed, due to a lack of enough people being involved; however, as time marches onward, more and more Whites will embrace the idea of nationalism; the old saying, “timing is everything” is true: what was impossible 20 years ago will be very possible soon
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8 Responses to “A “New” White Nation Within America: Thinking About the Future of White People, or, PLE Revisited”
Jürgen Says:
SHUN everything that is non-White…
Don’t buy from them, don’t even associate with these lesser beings
White women who have sex with black men and white men who have sex with black women should be sent to Africa with a one-way ticket
If these white men and women try to go back they will go to jail
I also have a strict policy of avoiding non-whites as much as possible, but there is another category of sleaze balls that are even more dangerous and repulsive and who I make every effort to shun – or, sever any association with.
White cuck race traitors. Such Whites make my skin crawl.
Big time – I so hear you Luke
Those morons deserve the nigging
that’s coming to them
The Red Skull Says:
A Country Where i dont have to look at. Or Live Around
Or be Influenced by
Niggers
Kikes
Zionist Media
Beaners
Wogs
Queer “rights”
The NAACP
( Niggers Apes Alligators Coons & Possums)
Splcs
Fed Bedroom Islam
King Bongo
Human ? Mystery Meat
Fake Fed Money?
Millions of Sub Humans Everywhere?
Where Do I Sign The F#ck Up????!!!!
The place we are all
Thinking and Dreaming about
And Hoping in Our Hearts For is
WHITE-TOPIA
YOU Can bet all the Beer And Ammo yall got stored up that
The Bloodsucking Zio Comm Jews who Run AMERIKWA
AND All the Entitled Gibb Me Datts !
And all the Hateful Homies wont let U RacistHatefulBigotIslamoHomoPhobes!!!
Have anything with out blood and boots on the Ground Pilgrim!!
14/88!!
fd Says:
In the 2d half of the 1970s. manufacturing facilities in upstate New York and Michigan went down causing high unemployment. Out of nowhere, a White workers network burst on the scene. A literal phenomenon. By telephone, grapevine, written word, pipeline, whatever, those boys headed to South Louisiana and the Texas coast to get high paying jobs related to the oil industry. There was a surplus of work. Southern boys and Yankees worked side by side raking in the cash. Oil companies put pressure on contractors to pay the going rate. Everybody was happy! The jobs were a minimum of 90% White.
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Letter to the Lithuanian President from Gataevs
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“Angel of Grozny” nicknamed Khadizhat Gataeva and her husband Malik Gataev who are still remain in custody in Finland, send a letter to Lithuanian top politicians about the pressure on their family in Lithuania.
To: Mrs.Dalia Gribauskaite
President of the Lithuanian Republic
Mrs.Irene Degutiene
Speaker of the Seym of the Lithuanian Republic
Mr.Andrus Kubilius
Prime Minister of the Lithuanian Republic
We, Malik and Khadizhat Gataevs, are forced to turn to you in connection with new provocations against our family that are now unfolding in Kaunas.
At present, we are not pleading for ourselves. Our appeal against the previous sentence of Kaunas District Court against us has already been considered by the Supreme Court of Lithuania. Its decision will be announced on 16 March 2010. We hope that the Lithuanian judicial system will prove its impartiality at least at this stage. We are confident that if our case had been heard without prejudice during previous stages of the trial, we would have been acquitted long ago. We are waiting for the decision on our fate in prison in Finland, a country that has proved to be the only place where we can hope for justice.
The fate of our children is our main concern now. We have learned that on 3 March 2010 one of our former foster children, Ali Lataev, and Khadizhat’s own son Murad Utsaev were detained in Kaunas. We are no longer surprised at the cunning creativity of those who wish to divert attention from the State Security Department which helped to fabricate a criminal case of so-called family despotism and money extortion against us. We stopped believing in coincidences long time ago.
The Kaunas Prosecutors’ office has opened a new criminal case against our foster children just before the announcement of the decision of the Supreme Court of Lithuania in relation to our appeal of our own conviction. It has coincided also with the decision of Finnish authorities on the issue of granting us the status of refugees. Once again, efforts are underway to divert public attention from the role of the State Security Department in the Gataev case.
Kaunas prosecutors, representative of the State Security Department, and some unscrupulous journalists have repeatedly tried to slander and intimidate many of our Lithuanian friends and members of our family. As a result, several of our adult foster children have been forced to seek asylum in other European countries.
We are also drawing your attention, Mrs. President, to the fact that it is again minor children who have fallen victims of these cynical machinations. On 3 March 2010, the Kaunas Criminal Police conducted a search in our house in Karmelava. What happened yesterday can be hardly regarded as a normal procedural measure – it was more like a raid aimed at intimidation. Agents of the Criminal Police, conducting the search, subjected our three underage children – now under the guardianship of Julia Gataeva – to severe stress.
Why was it necessary to demonstrate their guns? The children have not yet recovered from the deep shock caused by our arrest, imprisonment and forced escape to another country. And before that they had been deeply traumatized by the war in Chechnya with its shelling, bombing and death of their loved ones. Yesterday their small world was once again smashed by armed people. It goes without saying that no arms stock or other prohibited items were found in our house during the search. It could not be there. Any weapon found in our house would have to be planted there.
During the court process against us, Prosecutor Nomeda Oshkutite tried very hard to force our foster children to give false testimonies against us. Some of these “witnesses” are still conscience-stricken. They later started telling the truth. That is why panicky script-writers from among prosecutors and the State Security Department have hastily concocted another criminal case. They need to keep their face and esprit de corps clean, even if their veil of purity is all eaten up by moths of provocations.
Also, the new criminal case and subsequent arrests and police raid in our house can by no means be considered a coincidence, following several publications in various European and Russian media outlets about the attempt of the Kaunas branch of Lithuanian State Security Department to recruit me, Malik Gataev, in September 2008.
I, Malik Gataev, hereby confirm the fact of attempted recruitment by the State Security Department in September 2008 and my immediate, firm refusal to commit any subversive or other criminal acts in Russia, no matter how “useful for the common cause” they might have seemed to the State Security Department.
Dear Mrs. President, we appeal to you not only because we are hoping that you will help protect our violated rights. Lithuania is not an alien country to us. We have raised some of our children in Lithuania, and they are still growing there. We are grateful to many Lithuanians for their help, warmth and sincere involvement into the fate of these young citizens of Chechnya. Therefore, we consider it our duty to warn you and the citizens of Lithuania that the lack of control, which the State Security Department currently enjoys, and in turn the control the Security Department currently exercises over the bodies of state judiciary system, is not just a problem of stained credibility of your country in the face of her partners in the common European house. It is ultimately a security threat and a challenge to the constitutional system of Lithuania.
Malik Gataev
Khadizhat Gataeva
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EXPOSING AND CHALLENGING CHARITY-FUNDED VIVISECTION
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An experiment co-funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF)[1] and conducted at Cambridge University involved rats being confined in ‘hypoxia chambers’ for two weeks, where they were forced to breathe air that had a low concentration of oxygen.[2]
The research was investigating whether eating vegetables rich in nitrates, (such as kale and spinach) could prevent some heart patients from developing a condition in which their organs do not receive enough oxygen. Eating green vegetables is already recommended as part of a healthy diet, but there is no reason why the researchers’ theory could not have been studied on volunteer patients. As well as sparing dozens of animals the misery of invasive experiments, a study on humans would have produced results that are relevant to our own species.
Animal suffering
40 male rats were given either nitrates (the substances found in some vegetables) or a saltwater solution.
After four days, 20 of the animals were confined for 14 days in ‘hypoxia chambers’ in which the air contained just 13 per cent oxygen. This prolonged oxygen deprivation would no doubt have caused the rats terrible distress.
Additional experiments used a further 48 rats, who were given either nitrates or plain water. These tests were designed to measure the effects of different doses of nitrates, and how the rats were affected over time.
At the end of the study, the rats were killed, but the research paper describing the experiments does not mention how this was done. Common methods of killing rats in UK labs include decapitation and gassing.
Faulty science
Some heart conditions cause blood to bypass the lungs, resulting in deoxygenated blood being pumped back around the body. In response, the body produces more red blood cells, but too many of these cause the blood to thicken and prevent it flowing through some smaller veins and arteries to supply organs with oxygen.
When rats were deliberately kept in a low-oxygen environment, the researchers found that feeding them nitrates helped to prevent the blood from thickening, but there are several reasons why this result cannot be reliably translated to human patients:
The rats used in the study did not suffer from heart defects but were artificially deprived of oxygen, providing only a very crude model of the condition suffered by human patients.
The rats were fed a tightly-controlled, standardised diet, with sodium nitrate administered as an additive. This obviously bears little relation to nitrates being consumed naturally, as part of the varied diet that would be eaten by human patients.
Even if the rats had been able to ‘model’ the human condition accurately, nitrates may not have the same effect on people. Key differences between species (as expressed in anatomy, organ structure and function, metabolism, chemical absorption and genetics) mean that people and rats respond to substances in different ways, and rats and humans metabolise nitrates differently. The research also cites other species differences in nitrate and nitric oxide levels between animals and humans.[3]
The researchers themselves acknowledge that their experiments only lasted a short period of time. It is not clear whether the effects of the nitrates, even in rats, would have continued in the longer term.
The researchers’ theory could easily and ethically have been trialled on people. Heart disease patients would not have been harmed by consuming nitrate-rich vegetables, and the effect of this could easily have been analysed using minimally invasive techniques such as blood tests. In fact, the researchers reference previous, far more relevant studies on dietary nitrate in humans.[4]
Even if the researchers’ theory does turn out to be correct, it is unlikely that this would change the advice given to heart patients – and the population as a whole – which already includes consuming a wide variety of vegetables as part of a balanced diet to promote general health.
Update: Read our response to the British Heart Foundation
[1] The BHF declares that it helped fund the study at: https://www.bhf.org.uk/news-from-the-bhf/news-archive/2014/december/dietary-nitrates
[2] Ashmore T, Fernandez B, Evans C et al (2014). Suppression of erythropoiesis by dietary nitrate. The FASEB Journal article fj.14-263004
[3] Reports of the scientific committee for food: Nitrates http://ec.europa.eu/food/fs/sc/scf/reports/scf_reports_38.pdf
[4] Larsen F, Schiffer T, Borniquel S (2011). Dietary inorganic nitrate improves mitochondrial efficiency in humans. Cell Metab. 2011 Feb 2;13(2):149-59
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D’Angelo Dinero leaves TNA Wrestling
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Elijah Burke, otherwise known as D’Angelo Dinero, announced yesterday on Twitter that his contract with TNA Wrestling expired on January 1 and he did not sign a new one, effectively ending his commitments with the company.
Burke started with TNA Wrestling in May 2009, around six months after he was released from his WWE contract. He has been off TNA television since August where he was attacked by the Aces & Eights at Hardcore Justice.
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Spend your money wisely -- on something else
Hollywood isn't a cheap place to live. You've got rent that starts at around $1000/month. You've gotta get gas, and that'll cost you $1,000/month. And you've gotta bribe your way past the doorman at Area and that's another $1,000/month. So the last thing you want to spend money on is a necessity that you can get for free. Those necessities are software to make your script look right or your short film look good.
The Hollywood Temp Diaries is not turning into PC Week. But I'd like to offer you links to software that'll save you money (because they're all free). Trust me, no one will know the difference.
[Cost for Final Draft -- $200]
Sure, lemme just go out and drop a few hundred on Final Draft. And instead of eating, I'll suppress my appetite by smoking these unfinished cigarettes. Or you can download one of these. I've used both and prefer Celtx. They both have their shortcomings as neither has a setting for a 3-camera sitcom format (but you should be shot for writing one anyway). They both allow you to make the file into a pdf.
Cinergy -- http://www.mindstarprods.com/cinergy/ScriptEditor.html
Celtx -- http://www.celtx.com/
[Cost for Final Cut Express -- $200]
Macs come with iMovie, which isn't bad. PCs come with some crappy program which is...well...crappy. I'm not an editor. Truth be told, I still look at the keyboard when I type. But these programs look cool and seem to do more than either of the pre-installed software. It ain't Avid or Final Cut, but you're not George Lucas and the price is right.
Jahshaka -- http://jahshaka.org/
HyperEngine -- http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11073
Word Processor, Spreadsheet and PowerPoint
[Cost for MS Office -- $200-$600]
Your new laptop is cheap, but like the razor industry, they get you by jacking up the price on things that make it work. I use pen and paper because they don't have Internet access - thus no distractions. But for those who like them new-fangled computers (they're a fad), these are really good alternatives. Google Docs is much improved from earlier versions and you can access anywhere -- even at work (except for CAA, which blocks access). OpenOffice can be clunky. But maybe you like clunky?
Google Docs -- http://docs.google.com/
OpenOffice -- http://www.openoffice.org/
[Cost for Photoshop -- $650]
For those moments that you need a cool still for your video or reality show treatment, there's no substitute for good photo editing software. If nothing else you can graft together a picture of you with Ari Emanuel and tell your friends you met the guy from Entourage.
Splashup -- http://www.splashup.com/
Photoshop Express -- https://www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html
Use Gimp for Photo Editing. It's free and Open Source.
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"The Hollywood Temp Diaries" -- 100th episode spectacular
I know! It seems like just yesterday I was relaying stories of a Hollywood exec's bout with Irritable Bowel Syndrome. But here we are, 100 episodes into this little experiment. Let's Party!!
In deference to the scaled back Republican National Committee, which is in deference to the needs of victims of Hurricane Gustav, which is in response to their own lack of response to Hurricane Katrina, I've scaled back my own celebration.
Sorry folks. And we even had a star-studded line-up featuring Black Velvet Flag, "Chef Ron" Popeil and the Hollywood Temp Diaries Dancers. But instead of all that, we're just gonna do a rundown of my day -- an ITO (Intended Day Off) because of a 5:30 p.m. interview.
12:05 a.m. -- Went to bed after watching Letterman's opening monologue, Top 10 and some bit from the RNC. Decided to see if Nicolas Cage was an interesting guest or just a boring blow-hard. I made it about 30 seconds into his interview and he said he spent Labor Day on an airplane. No punch line. That was it. I turned it off.
5:55 a.m. -- Dog X wakes up.
5:55:01 a.m. -- Dog X wakes me up. I'm on the couch because the living room is the only place in my apartment with air conditioning. I turn on the TV, flip through all eight channels (no cable) and give up.
6:30 a.m. -- I finish Wednesday's posting "It's a Wonderful Life?" only to realize there's a code error that requires 20 minutes of repair. It's as tedious as it sounds.
8:45 a.m. -- Mid-morning nap.
10 a.m. -- Mid-morning nap concludes. Brief check of e-mail indicates no job offers.
10:41 a.m. -- Realized that 100 episodes means I can now go into syndication and make real money.
10:52 a.m. -- Gazed blankly at computer.
11:37 a.m. -- Took Dog X out. Simultaneously wondered whether dogs have better lives than Temps.
11:45 a.m. -- Found a bag of peanut M&Ms I stole from Tuesday's gig.
11:46 a.m. -- Finished eating the found bag of peanut M&Ms. Began counting down until sugar rush.
12:01 p.m. -- Dropped off an invoice for some work I did reading scripts. Realized it will pay just enough to cover 2 weeks rent.
12:32 p.m. -- Bought two used books for a combined $2.25.
12:32:03 p.m. -- Realized I have more unread books than read books.
1:12 p.m. -- Made fish tacos for lunch. Or better put -- fried up canned tuna, re-fried beans and salsa and pretended it was fish tacos.
1:38 p.m. -- Researched my 5:30 p.m. interview on Studio Systems using account info I stole from one of my previous temp assignments.
1:47 p.m. -- Decided to read a movie script that's in active production with the goal of mimicking major components of it. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
2:27 p.m. -- Actually began reading the script.
3:21 p.m. -- The phone rings. An unrecognized number. This can only be very good news or very bad news.
3:21:02 p.m. -- "Hi, this is [Name Redacted] regarding your interview today..."
3:21:04 p.m. -- Uh oh. It's gonna be bad news. The apologetic tone of voice is a dead give away.
3:21:08 p.m. -- "We found someone we want to hire. Sorry to cancel on such short notice. So...I guess that's it."
3:21:10 p.m. -- How do I know this won't be the last time something like this happens?
3:22 p.m. -- Finished today's blog.
3:30 p.m. -- Celebrated the 100th posting and drowned the pain of another canceled interview simultaneously with a shot of Jagermeister and a nap.
Ok. Maybe we can have a little celebration.
Topic: Temping/Jobs/Employment
MissNic said...
You may not have cable, but at least you have booze. I have cable, but need booze to tolerate most of it. I am out of booze.
*writing from temp job*
How little will I get paid?
Flashback to September 18, 2008
Taking the day off
The masses have spoken
The countdown is officially on
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Stars Steamroll Moose with Big Second Period, 6-1
Shots:
Stars - 33
Moose - 27
Travis Morin Tallies his 400th Career Pro Assist
WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- Brandon DeFazio’s record-setting goal was the start of a four-goal second period that propelled the Texas Stars to a 6-1 road win over the Manitoba Moose on Saturday afternoon in front of 10,203 fans in attendance at the MTS Centre.
DeFazio, Denis Gurianov, Austin Fyten and Mike McMurtry all scored for Texas (11-7-1-1) in period two to open up the game. Maxime Lagace stopped 26 of 27 shots in net to earn his ninth win of the season, and Travis Morin recorded the 400th assist of his professional career as the Stars snapped the three-game win streak of the Moose (10-8-1-1).
The Stars and the Moose close out their two-game set on Sunday at 2 p.m. CST.
With Texas leading 1-0 entering period two, DeFazio’s goal came just 11 seconds into the middle frame to set a new franchise record for Texas, and break Morin’s previous mark of 13 seconds set back in 2013-14. 28 seconds after DeFazio’s goal, Gurianov found a loose puck in the slot for this fourth of the season and a 3-0 Texas lead.
McMurtry set up Fyten at 4:25 of the second on an odd-man rush, then buried a rebound of his own at 10:47 to give the Stars a 5-0 cushion en route to the big road win. The Stars have won each of their last five meetings with Manitoba over the past two seasons.
Matt Mangene began the scoring at 6:25 of the first with a power-play goal in the left circle from Morin and Matej Stransky.
Jason Dickinson scored a rebound goal early in the third for Texas, and Manitoba’s Julian Melchiori ended Lagace’s shutout bid with 57 seconds left in the game.
The Stars went 2-for-8 on the power play and held the Moose scoreless in their five opportunities.
Manitoba goaltender Eric Comrie was chased from the game after Fyten’s goal for Texas, and replaced by Ondrej Pavelec. Comrie went 14 of 18 in net. Pavelec was 13 of 15.
Saturday was the first time Texas scored six goals in a game since Oct. 14, when they beat the Charlotte Checkers on opening night, 6-2. Lagace made his 11th consecutive appearance for the Stars in net.
Weekday home games (Monday-Thursday) are H-E-B night with the Texas Stars where fans can donate a non-perishable item at the box office and save five dollars on their ticket purchase. Every Saturday is a Texas Lottery Lucky Row Night where the first Stars player to score wins free scratch-off tickets for a lucky row of seats at H-E-B Center. Fans can also enjoy Coke Zero Family Four-Packs every Saturday with four tickets, four hot dogs and four soft drinks starting at just $16 per person.
The Texas Stars are the primary development affiliate of the NHL’s Dallas Stars, and are currently playing their eighth season at H-E-B Center at Cedar Park. Full season, 24-game, 12-game and six-game ticket packages for the 2016-17 campaign are on sale now. For more information, call (512) GO-STARS (467-8277) or visit TexasStars.com.
Three Stars:
1. Lagace (TEX)
2. DeFazio (TEX)
3. Gurianov (TEX)
Goaltenders:
W - Lagace
L - Comrie
Photo Credit: Jonathan Kozub/Manitoba Moose
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TORNADO THE SIZE THE EARTH With 300,000 MPH Winds Spotted On The Sun! AMAZINGLY AWESOME! Part Two
17TH FEBRUARY 2012.. A tremendous tornado whirling across the surface of the sun was captured by a NASA satellite recently -- an amazing wonder of the solar system that may be as big as the Earth itself. The video was recorded by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), a sun-watching satellite that has transmitted a series of stunning photos of solar flares in recent months. The new video shows darker, cooler plasma shifting back and forth above the sun's surface over the span of nearly 30 hours stretching from Feb. 7 to Feb. 8. And the giant tornado may be as large as the Earth itself, with gusts of up to 300,000 mph, explained Terry Kucera, deputy SOHO project scientist and a solar physicist with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. "It's about 15,000 degrees Fahrenheit -- relatively cool," Kucera told FoxNews.com. After all, the sun's corona is a whopping 2 million degrees, she explained. Such tornadoes (Kucera classed it a "solar prominence") have been known of for decades; the European Space Agency's SOHO spacecraft captured evidence of them as early as 1996, mainly near the Sun's north and south poles at the time. And though they resemble their cousins here on Earth, they're created entirely differently, Kucera said -- through magnetism, not pressure and temperature fluctuations. "Those motions you see, it's all just moving along the magnetic field somehow -- but we're still looking to understand what's happening with these things," Kucera said. The storm was created by competing magnetic forces, which pull the charged magnetic particles on the sun back and forth, creating a spinning mass of plasma that tracks along strands of magnetic field lines, NASA explained. The spinning top of the tornado is mesmerizing, but Kucera noted the span of the prominence as well. The long, ribbon shapes could span hundreds of thousands of miles, she said. "In total length, this could be dozens of Earths -- quite large," she said. Such detailed, high-resolution recordings of the immense tornadoes was not possible until the launch of SDO. The satellite has several cameras on board that capture solar activity in different wavelengths and frequencies, all in the name of science. "Each wavelength of light tells us something different," she said. See more HERE: The CELESTIAL Convergence http://thecelestialconvergence.blogspot.com/2012/02/solar-watch-vast-and-tremendous-planet.html AWAKENING The masses to The Divine Within Themselves!! :D SUBSCRIBE:- http://www.youtube.com/danielofdoriaa http://www.youtube.com/danielofdoria02 http://www.youtube.com/TranscensionTV http://www.youtube.com/TranscensionTV2 http://www.youtube.com/TranscensionTV3 http://www.youtube.com/TheAlienProject (Awaken To Your Multidimensional SELF) http://www.danielofdoria.com http://www.danielofdoria.whynotnews.eu BE LOVE ((((O)))) Come Join!! SHINE & RIPPLE The Wave of Love!!
Copernican Illusions
Recent data confirm what ancient astronomers had suggested: SPACE is not 3D, but wrapped, composed of "crystalline spheres", which challenge the Copernican Principle and show humans' huge illusions
Giordano Bruno Copernican illusions Newton wrapped SPACE hall of mirrors APPLE Earths magnetosphere plasma populations Atlantis FALL Primordial Substance
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Over 66 million trees dead in California (Up from 3.3 million in 2014) causing even greater fire risk
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Officials announce over 66 million trees dead in California Coordinated effort continues to remove dead trees Sacramento -
As wildfires burn across California, new estimates on the number of dead trees in California were announced, prompting continued concern for California’s forest health and wildfire danger.
Gov. Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency to help California address a bark beetle infestation that is killing tens of millions of trees.
The governor sent a letter Friday to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack seeking federal action for "the worst epidemic of tree mortality in its modern history."
The tree die-off is exacerbated by four years of extreme drought conditions, which has left trees vulnerable to the native beetles.
The United States Forest Service estimates that more than 66 million trees have already died in California.
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Brown is asking the federal government for additional funding and help for private landowners to remove dead and dying trees.
Friday's proclamation is just the latest in California's response to the drought. Today the US Forest Service released the outcome of its latest aerial surveys over California forestland, finding that over 66 million trees have now died due to drought and bark beetles since 2010.
That number is up from 29 million dead trees in 2015 and 3.3 million in 2014.
"The sheer number of dead trees is hard to imagine, but it’s real and what we have been anticipating for some time now,” said Chief Ken Pimlott, CAL FIRE director and state forester.
“We must continue our work to remove dead trees around roadways and critical infrastructure, while homeowners remove dead trees around their homes."
In October, 2015 Governor Brown signed an executive order due to the tree mortality, which created the state’s Tree Mortality Task Force.
Over 80 local, state and federal agencies, as well as utilities and various stakeholders make up the task force, whose efforts have continued to focus on the coordinated response.
The task force has been working to provide for public health and safety, as the dead trees pose a serious public safety and wildfire threat.
A coordinated effort has been underway to remove dead trees in the 10 counties identified to have the highest hazard.
The 10 counties span from Placer County down through the Central Sierra to Kern County.
While county public works crews have been removing trees along county roads, Caltrans has been hard at work focusing on state highways.
PG&E, Southern California Edison and other utility companies have been removing hazardous trees around their powerlines. All while CAL FIRE and US Forest Service crews continue building fuel breaks and assisting the counties in their efforts. Full report here
Southern California Gas report another methane leak at Porter Ranch
We live in Kern County, California and visit the Sierras often. At Bass Lake, this past weekend, crews were working long hours removing the dead trees but it won't be as easy for crews working near the higher elevations where the terrain can be very unaccessible. My observations? It appears that the die-off involves trees at the lower elevations while trees in the upper elevations aren't as affected.
Gary Walton 12 July 2016 at 20:49
Because of the cold?
Robert Walton 13 July 2016 at 02:36
Because of the Geo-Engineering Gary Walton. Aluminum, Barium and Strontium for sure in nano-particle form. Also very high UVB!
Yes intense UVB radiation caused by depletion of the ozone layer and the Toxins plus weather altering Chemtrails and HAARP are 100% at fault.
This all due to geoengineering. Wake up people!! We are being poisoned from above an all living things are dying. Its not the stupid beetle. That is a horrendous lie.
This die off is from weather manipulation by our Govt. Geo-engineering..aka..Solar radiation Mgmt. and HAARP are altering our weather...Toxic chemicals like nano aluminum, Barium, Strontium, nano smart dust and many other poisons are slow killing the planet..and all living things. Tree's are dying around the world. My trees in Santee Ca. are too from mold, insects because their immune system is being trashed.
CleverSeal Pan Americas 13 July 2016 at 19:25
I've observed many die offs that have one thing in common...planted trees without any regard to diversity. No cedars are planted with the firs. Without the auromatics the beetles thrive.
Michele Kossack 13 July 2016 at 22:38
In the Spring of 2015, a strong windstorm with rains came through the Grand Traverse area of Michigan which took out mature trees. On my property, three mature Maple trees were downed being at least 100 feet in height. When they were cut, the damage that was unseen because it was within the trunks and large branches became evident. The centers were an orange honey comb, making it remarkable that they stood at all. I was surprised to note how little was their root structure. We have been battling insects that are killing our Elm trees, and people have been warned not to move the debris from the dead trees. I pass by nurseries of pines that are dying and have heard that the Paper Birch trees are struggling to grow. People seem unaware.
Marc Turian 13 July 2016 at 23:07
No it's not the beetles, nor the Beatles. Sure, ChemTrails aren't good for man, beast nor plant, yet; a.) Trees need more water b.) It's HOT! c.) According to the Iniuit Eskimos (and my own films, the N. Pole has shifted & Earth has tilted, therefore; CA would now be ~400 mi south where Baja used to be. d.) This would explain much - such as WHY the Baja Tuna Crabs are washing up in Los Angeles. Oh, our Sun is producing (& burning) more Helium all the time from it's OWN Hydrogen (4 Hydrogen = 1 Helium), and...guess which burns hotter? Helium for 500 Alex. -AND with a totally different light spectrum. Perhaps SPF 2500? Stay alert - God Save The Trees! Thank you Gary. Marc* the Arcturian
Finally someone who knows what they are talking about , hopefully people will shut up n listen well done . Thank you for the correct answer.
Unknown 14 July 2016 at 15:40
Knows what he is talking about? anyone who MENTIONS "chemtrails" has no idea what they are talking about?
I guess the CIA Director's recent speech to the Council on Foreign Relations is included in your definitive statement of fact? You should probably get on his advisor list; you obviously know more than he does.
no the sun does not burn helium and is not a nuclear furnace. no earth has not tilted, nor has the magnetic pole shifted... earth is flat and that is that. chemtrails are quite real and causing havoc on forestry worldwide. www.carnicominstitute.org
A flat earther!
frothi 14 July 2016 at 02:58
CAZUD 14 July 2016 at 07:17
Best description yet Mark Turian.
Viewed all information you spoke of and also came to the same conclusion.
You think the physical shift is continuing? You think it's being caused by that large mass on the outer solar system?
When do you think FEMA will start rounding people up? Before or after the destruction?
Jeff B 14 July 2016 at 07:43
Climate change is altering their ability to adapt, and they cannot migrate.
no one really knows exactly what is going on for sure, instead i think the best move to take is to focuse on the things that we know for certain are not good for the trees, like for example aluminium and barium, nano particulates, weather warfare, voting with your dollar, helping whatever small way you can to counter attack corruption
I think he was talking about the "beetles!"
Cori Gunnells 14 July 2016 at 18:49
I'm very glad to see many people know and understand the causal effects of geoengineering/climate engineering, as it relates to this profound degree of tree mortality. In addition to the toxins that are altering the pH of the soil, acting as desiccants, and shredding the protective ozone layer (allowing extremely high levels of UVA, UVB and sometimes UVC in to ground level), the climate disruption (drought, deluge, warming...) and fungal proliferation are also killing trees. It's not just western USA trees. This is global, and it is affecting many species. The bark beetle spread is epidemic, but secondary in cause (attacks already weakened trees). Primary causes must be acknowledged and addressed. http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/category/tree-die-off/
Jack Jar 15 July 2016 at 04:03
Good heavens just get n touch with people like natives that know how to tap into the elements and make it rain!
What a jolly good idea!
That's a nasty-looking bug a theme song looks like that in different states
Running Bear Stean-Mann 16 July 2016 at 21:46
If they burned every 3-5 years like the We Natives did for thousands of years, it would be pristine as it was the day europeons arrived. But if you wanna place blame, it's because of Smokey the Bear!!!!
Nice-Running Bear blames Smokey the Bear!
Nice to see all the wackos out on this site.
You said it your self!
Hadon hal 1 December 2016 at 09:48
Plants are the strength of the entire life on earth and a fundamental resource for human welfare. Plants are the backbone of any garden. Great post to read
Gary Walton 1 December 2016 at 10:31
I admire you cheek and tenacity
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Kirpans and Political Correctness
Par David T. Jones le 16 octobre 2008
A kirpan is a kirpan is … a knife.
A kirpan wrapped up and under the clothing of the owner is … a concealed weapon.
And that is the essential problem. A society cannot countenance one set of laws for one group of people and another set of laws for another. It certainly cannot do so when public facilities: schools; transportation; courts; libraries; etc are involved. Bluntly, to take this approach is reverse bigotry by providing special privileges for a minority while increasing risk for the majority.
A threat of force can be explicit, re an armed soldier or a police officer. Or it can be implicit for the vulnerable (old, weak, unarmed) who know that those they will encounter are armed and not constrained by law. The legal judgments that permit Sikhs to carry kirpans when and where other Canadians cannot carry a weapon subject them to implicit threat.
The hypocrisy of judges banning kirpans in courtrooms while permitting them in schools is almost a parody of juridical insensitivity. Protect yourselves while ignoring public safety. Indeed, one wonders when a judge making such a ruling was last on a school playground? “Miss Manners” is not widely read; Marquis of Queensbury rules are unknown. Canadian schools are not “black board jungles,“ but no school is immune from violence.
And while Gurbaj Singh Multani, the original benefactor of the ruling, might have been the epitome of gentlemanly behavior, the 13 year old who threatened another student with a kirpan outside a Montreal school was not. The rationale that the threat was not made on school property reminds a cynic of Bill Clinton’s definitional exercise that “it depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is“ when testifying regarding his sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky.
Frankly, it would be beyond known human nature, even under the most civilized of circumstances, that no young Sikh would employ his kirpan for other than religious purposes. The kirpan reportedly can range from three inches to over three feet, although the standard blade length is approximately 3.5 inches, which is quite sufficient to inflict lethal injury. (The kirpan used by Multani reportedly was eight inches long.) And while the observing Sikh is enjoined not to use his kirpan aggressively, it can be used in self defense or “to protect a person in need“—certainly categories subject to considerable interpretation.
Canadians have also seen that the Human Rights Commission has permitted another Sikh to wear a kirpan while riding Canada Rail—overriding existing national rail policy prohibiting weapons without exception. Given recent bloody instances of knife assaults during travel by bus, passengers may be less sanguine over the presence of kirpan-bearing Sikhs on public transportation.
And this is not the end. Has this issue been tested for travel on Air Canada? Will security concerns override religious rights for Sikhs in Canada? Or are the memories of 9/11, when the terrorists used “box cutter” knives of kirpan dimensions (although not kirpans), the determining factor?
And while the rulings ostensibly apply only to Sikhs, who determines the “Sikh-ness,” so to speak, of an individual? Is there a Canadian religious litmus test to identify who is a Sikh? Can any individual simply profess to be a Sikh and, thereby, be exempted from weapons restrictions—at least so far as concealed carry in schools and trains is concerned?
Would you happily fly with a half dozen young males carrying kirpans?
Let us play “just suppose.” Let us suppose that the local motorcycle gang declares itself as the “Church of Harley” with apostles including Jimmy Dean and Marlon Brando. And they declare that their religious practice includes carrying machetes at all times.
Or let us suppose that a new “Christian” order begins teaching. Their most prominent outward symbol is wearing a “crucifix” that has a sharpened point and edges. You might call it a sword.
Are Canadians prepared to go down this road?
To be sure, these are exaggerations—but not beyond the realm of the legally possible if religious freedom is extrapolated along the lines Canadians have already seen.
Comparable religious beliefs conflict with U.S. security concerns. However, regarding air passengers, there is one rule; no weapons are permitted. Reportedly, in some California jurisdictions, schools require kirpans to be blunted and riveted into their sheaths; such an approach retains the religious symbolism but is impossible to use as a weapon.
The balance between freedom and security is always in play; Canadians should re-examine security before a fatal, “I told you so” event occurs.
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Web Extra: Punchline's Secret Hobby
Submitted by [email protected] on August 27, 2018
Pittsburgh band Punchline will be playing WYEP's Final Friday Concert this Friday. Before you catch the free show (along with Philly's Dave Hause & The Mermaid), the band had a confession to make.... read on!
Hi radio friends,
It is us, Punchline. The cat is out of the bag: We love to play hacky sack. Is that a crime? (It's not.) You know what? We've always loved hacky sack. We played in high school and found it a great way to kill time on our early tours.
Where do you play hacky sack?
Anywhere that is level, where there's enough space to form a little circle with your fellow players. Beware of gutters and places where the hack could slip away or land in a puddle of muck! Hacks are gorgeous. Don't let 'em fall in the muck, pal.
How do you play the game?
Serve the hacky sack, or hack, to a fellow player. Never serve to yourself. Kick the hack to each other without letting it hit the ground. Once every player touches the hacky sack once, the team gets a point or hack. The goal is to get as many hacks for your team as you can! We're sure by this point you're sold and want to know how to strive to excel at hacky sack. Let's get to it.
NOTE: We call it hacky sack, but most people call it footbag.
1) Put in the time. We have our first hack session of the day at some point during our van ride to the next show, like when we stop for gas or lunch. It's good to get loosened up early on in the day! Second hack generally comes after we've arrived at the club and loaded in our gear/soundchecked. Generally, though, the most serious hack sessions happen just before bed. We're not kidding. Once we arrive at our hotel for the night, sometimes after driving for 2-3 hours, we get a couple hacks going in the parking lot. Sometimes we hack for a full hour. How do you know when to stop? Answer: Someone will say, "Hey, let's wrap this up," which will 100% be met with "Ok, let's get a good one in first." We like to end on a good note!
2) Don't teeth the hack. If the hacky sack lands on the hood of a car, or something that is not the ground, it's still in play and can be picked up with your teeth and thrown back into the circle. Be careful though, because last time Chris teethed the hack he got very sick.
3) Strive to be like your hack idol. Every athlete strives to be like their idols. Our hack idol is Steve's neighbor, Ian. One night Ian mentioned to Steve that he had (for no real reason at all) mastered a certain skill in his youth. Upon further prodding, Ian revealed that the skill was hacky sack. Steve's mind was blown, as was Ian's when he realized he had found some of the last remaining individuals who think hacky sack is cool. Ian is good enough to play by himself. His record is 2,200 kicks in a row (without hitting the ground!). Get this— the ultimate record is 51,000!!!
Please let us know if you have any questions and come hack with us sometime.
www.punchlion.com
Photos courtesy of Punchline
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Central Election Commission expects new evidence to cancel registration of Klyuyev, Shariy
The public outcry might help to provide new data
112 Agency
The public outcry around the registration of ex-head of presidential administration of Yanukovych Andriy Klyuyev and blogger Anatoliy Shariy as a candidate for MP will allow finding new information, which allows canceling their registration, as Ukrinform reported citing Central Election Commission Secretary Natalia Bernatska.
“We even do not understand where the Supreme Court sent us by its decision; which evidence we should look for. When we made a decision on the refusal to Klyuyev and Shariy we appealed to all possible departments. Thanks to such outcry, which took place, possibly, some impetus will be given to the law enforcement bodies and we will be provided with new evidence, which was not estimated by the Supreme Court. We are a state body, and we cannot provide the refusals, which are not grounded or they will be abolished by a court in two days,” Bernatska explained.
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She reminded that earlier the Supreme Court recognized the evidence provided by the Central Election Commission that refusal for Klyuyev and Shariy were legal as insufficient. Then the commission has no other way but fulfills the decision of the court and registers the candidates.
“We are banned by the law to make such decisions, which absolutely repeat the canceled one; we need new evidence, new grounds,” she specified.
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On July 2, the Central Election Commission registered Andry Klyuyev as a candidate for MPs in Donetsk region. The commission explained by the decision of the Supreme Court.
Cassation Administrative Court as part of the Supreme Court stated it considered only the evidence provided by the Central Election Commission and it was not enough to state that Klyuyev has not been living in Ukraine for the last five years.
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Ukraine's CEC finishes registration of international observers for snap elections 15 July 2019, 18:22
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BREAKING NEWSFirefighters battling large house fire in River Oaks
woman attacked
Man seen kicking elderly woman in face on subway
THE BRONX, New York -- Police are searching for a man, caught on camera, attacking an elderly woman on a subway train in the Bronx.
Witnesses say the man in the video kicked the victim in the face and body, causing her to bleed.
The incident happened on March 10 at 3:10 a.m.
The suspect then got off the train at Nereid Avenue.
The victim stayed on the train for one more northbound stop.
She received medical attention when the train pulled into the 241st Street stop in the Wakefield section.
The suspect is described as a black man, approximately 40-years-old, 6'0", 180 lbs., with a black goatee. He was last seen wearing a black jacket, black knit cap, long black and white checkered scarf, metal framed glasses, and black pants.
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Driver arrested for DUI after crash near SFSU
By ABC7
The crash was reported just before 6 a.m. near the intersection of Lake Merced and Font boulevards.
Police said the suspected drunken driver drifted into oncoming traffic and hit another car head on. The third car then struck the second car.
Four people in the three cars, all San Francisco residents in their early 20s, were injured, according to police.
One person was hospitalized with injuries that were not life-threatening and was later released from the hospital, police said.
The driver of the first car was booked for DUI and a second person was cited for possession of what appeared to be marijuana, police said. Their names were not immediately released.
Couple fighting eviction from multi-million dollar SF home
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Texas woman sentenced to 5 years in prison for illegally voting in 2016 election
mark osborne
Mar 31, 2018, 5:19 AM ET
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Voting booths are pictured in this undated stock photo.
A trip to her local polling place may have earned a Texas woman five years behind bars.
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Crystal Mason was sentenced to five years in prison this week after she voted in the 2016 election while on parole, according to Dallas ABC affiliate WFAA. Mason was on parole after serving time for a federal tax crime, her lawyer said.
"She had a good faith belief she could vote legally and she did so," Mason's attorney Warrent St. John told WFAA.
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The 43-year-old Mason says she had no idea she was committing a crime. Mason voted in Tarrant County, just west of Dallas.
"She testified this week in court that she was never told by the federal judge she couldn't vote," St. John said. "She was never told by halfway house folks she couldn't vote."
Mason did not want to speak when reached by WFAA, but she told The Dallas Morning News she "didn't even want to vote."
Texas law states it is illegal for a felon to vote while serving their sentence, including while on parole.
"Our society is built on personal responsibility," Tarrant County District Attorney Sharen Wilson said in a statement given to WFAA. "There were multiple safeguards in place to keep Crystal Mason from breaking the law, but she still made that choice."
Mason has already appealed the conviction, WFAA reported.
Woman sentenced to 5 years in prison for illegally voting in 2016 election
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Credit where credit is due
Following concerns expressed by members of the public, eNGOs, and individuals, on the destruction of biodiversity in country paths which were being widened and covered with concrete, Environment Resources Authority (ERA) ordered Infrastructure Malta to halt the works, and issued a stop and compliance order. Furthermore, according to press reporting, ERA ordered Infrastructure Malta to reinstate the country paths to their original state.
One hopes that all country paths mismanaged by Infrastructure Malta will be reinstated to their original state. One also hopes that this is the end of an era where biodiversity is regarded as ‘ħaxix ħażin’ (good-for-nothing-vegetation) and that such mentality will be put to rest.
One cannot but applaud the stand ERA has taken and look out to more similar decisions in the near future to protect biodiversity.
The following is one of the article which appeared in the media.
Rabat country roads being reinstated after controversial widening
Recent concrete works encroached adjacent land
Keith Micallef
Country roads at Wied l-Isqof in Rabat are being reinstated to their original state. Photo: Chris Sant Fournier
Some of the concrete controversially laid on country roads in a Rabat valley is being pulled up again by Infrastructure Malta on orders from the environment watchdog, which wants the roads to be reinstated to their original footprint.
The controversy erupted last month when it transpired that a number of narrow country roads used primarily by farmers at Wied l-Isqof were being widened, as part of a government project to “reconstruct” rural roads.
Faced by this outrage, the Environment Resources Authority ordered Infrastructure Malta to halt the works, through what it called a stop and compliance order. The measure was taken because the project was resulting in “biodiversity destruction”, ERA had said.
Infrastructure Malta argued that the roads in question were not being widened beyond their original footprint – even though evidence on the ground suggested otherwise.
However, an ERA spokeswoman confirmed that Infrastructure Malta had, in fact, encroached on adjacent land. She said that concreting beyond the original footprint was being removed by the roads agency’s contractors through the use of appropriate heavy machinery.
Several truckloads of material have been removed and dispatched for appropriate disposal to enable the area’s habitat to regenerate even in the area previously concreted, she said.
An onsite visit confirmed that the roads had been narrowed, with a stretch of soil replacing the concrete along the perimeter.
In its reply, ERA said it had intervened because the roadworks were degrading the ecosystem of the area beyond the asphalted area.
Among other things, the interventions had altered the physical profile of the valley and the natural course of the freshwater stream to the detriment of the biodiversity and the natural characteristics of the site, the spokeswoman said.
Environmentalists had denounced the works, saying vegetation was being obliterated as concrete was being poured beyond the existing footprint, damaging flora and fauna on both sides of the road.
Biodiversity expert and former assistant director of the environment protection directorate at the now defunct Malta environment and planning authority, Alfred Baldacchino, had warned that turning these roads into “highways” could have a detrimental effect on farmers due to the increase in traffic.
He also criticised the project, saying the concrete was blocking the percolation of rainwater to the water table.
More biodiversity destruction with EU funds – confirmed
EU funds destroy Maltese biodiversity
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Ace Worldwide News Group 14:04 on October 16, 2018
Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Internet Explorer and Safari are all dropping support for older versions of the onlin e security protocol TLS, used in practically any encrypted exchange online. While few people or machines are using the long-unsafe TLS 1.0 and 1.1, they’re still permitted in many connections — but no t for long #AceNewsDesk reports
AceNewsDesk – Oct.16: Transport Layer Security is a community-developed standard that got its 1.0 release nearly 20 years ago: It and its close relative, 1.1, have known flaws that make them unsafe to use for any secure communications. 1.2 addressed these major flaws in 2008 and is currently used by the vast majority of clients. 1.3, released earlier this year, both improves and streamlines the standard, but as yet has only a limited presence online as many servers and services haven’t been updated to support it #AceNewsDesk reports
The messy, musical process behind the web’s new security standard
Mozilla, Google, Microsoft and WebKit all made separate but similar announcements on their blogs, essentially that the old versions, 1.0 and 1.1, will be phased out by early 2020 — March specifically for some, which we can take as a general indicator for the others.
“Two decades is a long time for a security technology to stand unmodified,” wrote Microsoft’s Kyle Pflug. “While we aren’t aware of significant vulnerabilities with our up-to-date implementations of TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1, vulnerable third-party implementations do exist. Moving to newer versions helps ensure a more secure Web for everyone.”
As a user you don’t need to do a thing. The browsers and apps you use will work just as they have before — chances are they’re all using 1.2 already. Mozilla shared a chart showing that only a smattering of connections it sees use the earlier versions:
These connections, low by proportion but still numerous, could be lots of things. Legacy machines embedded here are there; old apps for which the security stack hasn’t been updated in years; hacked devices. It’s almost certainly not you or even your parents.
The long lead time is given because of the possibility (nay, inevitability) that there are some critical systems (for example in aging municipal infrastructure) that will cease to work because of this change. People need time to do a real audit, although they probably should have done it years ago.
This move should make everyone a little safer online, though everything will continue to act exactly as it did before. That’s by design.
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Research ArticleHEALTH AND MEDICINE
High hardness in the biocompatible intermetallic compound β-Ti3Au
Eteri Svanidze1,
Tiglet Besara2,
M. Fevsi Ozaydin3,
Chandra Sekhar Tiwary4,
Jiakui K. Wang1,
Sruthi Radhakrishnan4,
Sendurai Mani5,
Yan Xin2,
Ke Han2,
Hong Liang3,
Theo Siegrist2,
Pulickel M. Ajayan4 and
E. Morosan1,4,*
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.
2National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32310, USA.
3Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
4Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.
5Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77005, USA.
↵*Corresponding author. Email: emorosan{at}rice.edu
Eteri Svanidze
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.
ORCID record for Eteri Svanidze
Tiglet Besara
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32310, USA.
ORCID record for Tiglet Besara
M. Fevsi Ozaydin
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
Chandra Sekhar Tiwary
Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.
Jiakui K. Wang
Sruthi Radhakrishnan
ORCID record for Sruthi Radhakrishnan
Sendurai Mani
Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77005, USA.
ORCID record for Sendurai Mani
Yan Xin
ORCID record for Yan Xin
Ke Han
ORCID record for Ke Han
Hong Liang
Pulickel M. Ajayan
E. Morosan
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.
For correspondence: emorosan@rice.edu
The search for new hard materials is often challenging, but strongly motivated by the vast application potential such materials hold. Ti3Au exhibits high hardness values (about four times those of pure Ti and most steel alloys), reduced coefficient of friction and wear rates, and biocompatibility, all of which are optimal traits for orthopedic, dental, and prosthetic applications. In addition, the ability of this compound to adhere to ceramic parts can reduce both the weight and the cost of medical components. The fourfold increase in the hardness of Ti3Au compared to other Ti–Au alloys and compounds can be attributed to the elevated valence electron density, the reduced bond length, and the pseudogap formation. Understanding the origin of hardness in this intermetallic compound provides an avenue toward designing superior biocompatible, hard materials.
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In addition to numerous applications in the industrial, automotive, and aerospace fields, Ti has been widely used for implant devices that replace patients’ hard tissues (1, 2). A number of in vivo and in vitro experiments with various grades of Ti concluded that commercially pure Ti is a highly biocompatible material due to the spontaneous buildup of an inert and stable oxide layer (1, 3). Additional properties that make Ti suitable for biomedical applications include its high strength-to-weight ratio (4, 5) and low ion formation levels in aqueous environments (1). Moreover, Ti is one of a few materials capable of osseointegration—the mechanical retention of the implant by the host bone tissue—which stabilizes the implant without any soft tissue layers between the two (6). These properties enable the wide use of Ti for devices, such as artificial knee and hip joints, screws and shunts for fracture fixation, bone plates, pacemakers, and cardiac valve prostheses (7, 8). Not surprisingly, the dental applications of Ti are just as common, including implants and their components, such as inlays, crowns, overdentures, and bridges (1, 9–12).
However, pure Ti is not strong enough for a number of medical devices (13, 14), thus necessitating the development of superior alloys (15–19). Although hardness can be improved by alloying Ti with another element (1), care must be taken to preserve biocompatibility. Previously, a twofold increase in hardness has been achieved by alloying Ti with Cu or Ag (19–22). The use of an alloying element with the same valence as Cu and Ag, but with higher mass density, should result in a higher valence electron density (VED), which would likely lead to higher bond strength and, consequently, enhanced hardness (23, 24). This finding suggests that Au is a suitable alloying candidate to increase the hardness in Ti binary alloys, given its nearly twofold density increase over Cu or Ag (19–22). The current wide use of Au-based implant devices (25–28) is testament to its biocompatibility and corrosion resistance (10).
Biomedical applications of both Ti-rich and Au-rich alloys have been previously explored in detail (19, 25, 29, 30). Although hardness values showed modest increase in both these regimes of the Ti–Au solution [Fig. 1, open circles, reproduced from previous studies (25, 29, 30)], the hardness was comparable to that of Ti–Ag and Ti–Cu alloys (19–22). Here, we present evidence that the hardness varies nonmonotonously in the Ti–Au alloys, and a drastic increase is registered at an intermediate composition, for the cubic compound β-Ti3Au (Fig. 1, full circles). Further evidence from wear experiments reveal that this enhanced hardness is associated with a low coefficient of friction (COF). Experimental observations and theoretical calculations point to three main factors that contribute to the high hardness in β-Ti3Au: the cubic structure with short Ti–Au bonds, the high VED, and a pseudogap evident in the electronic density of states (DOS).
Fig. 1 Hardness of Ti1−xAux and other intermetallic alloys and compounds.
Hardness as a function of x (top axis) or mass density ρ (bottom axis) in Ti1−xAux. Blue squares, medical alloys; green triangles, intermetallic compounds.
Hardness measurements of the Ti1−xAux alloys reveal a nonmonotonous change with x (Fig. 1, circles), with hardness values in the composition range 0.22 ≤ x ≤ 0.35, which are about three to four times higher than the hardness value of pure Ti. The maximum hardness of ≈800 HV (Vickers hardness) is reached for x = 0.25, for which the cubic compound Ti3Au forms, in two distinct phases, α and β, with the latter stabilized by the presence of small amounts of carbon, nitrogen, or oxygen (31). This maximum hardness value exceeds that of most biocompatible materials [and even the maximum hardness value of some structural materials, such as pearlitic steels (32, 33)] and is similar to that of both drawn pearlite and high-carbon martensitic steels (34). Although other metallic alloys and compounds, such as WC, BN, and high-carbon steels show higher hardness values (35–41), they are often not desirable for medical applications because of their high toxicity (42, 43). However, both Ti and Au are biocompatible and have high resistance to in vivo corrosion, suggesting that the resulting alloys would be suitable for biomedical applications (1, 3, 10). Not surprisingly, biocompatibility and corrosion resistance have been confirmed in the Ti1−xAux alloys for x ≤ 0.40 (Fig. 1, open circles) (44). Here, relative cell viability was examined, as described in Methods. Remarkably, the relative cell viability values 98.7% (for x = 0.25) and 95.9% (for x = 0.50) were found to be much higher than 33.8% in the case of pure Ti. The exceptional biocompatibility of these Ti1−xAux alloys makes them particularly well suited for a variety of medical applications. To compare the mechanical properties of the Ti1−xAux alloys with materials typically used for medical applications, we added a hardness–versus–mass density diagram (45) in Fig. 1 (bottom axis). Although Ti0.75Au0.25 (or Ti3Au) displays high hardness, its mass density is comparable to that of other commonly used implant materials [Fig. 1, squares (37, 46)]. Moreover, among intermetallic compounds (47–54), Ti3Au has significantly enhanced hardness while preserving its biocompatibility. The only other intermetallic compound with a similar hardness value is Ti3Ir, the biocompatible properties of which remain unknown.
Among the Ti–Au binary compounds, Ti3Au is the only cubic one, which is consistent with high mechanical stability and, therefore, high hardness. A three-dimensional bonding network (similar to that in cubic compounds) is deemed one of the most important parameters enhancing hardness (55, 56). This correlation between the crystal structure and hardness is evident from several known Ti-based compounds: Cubic Ti3Au and Ti3Ir (14-fold coordinated Ti) are the hardest, whereas cubic Ti3Sn (12-fold coordinated Ti) and hexagonal Ti3Al exhibit hardness values comparable to that of pure Ti (Fig. 1, circles). Notably, Ti3Au forms in two cubic crystal structures: α-Ti3Au (
, Cu3Au type; Fig. 2A) and β-Ti3Au (
, Cr3Si type; Fig. 2B). β-Ti3Au is expected to have higher hardness, considering the Ti coordination (14) and its Ti–Au bond length dTi–Au = 2.84 Å (57) being shorter than that of the α-Ti3Au phase [dTi–Au = 2.93 Å (31)].
Fig. 2 Structural analysis of the Ti0.75Au0.25 alloy.
(A) Crystal structure of the α-Ti3Au phase along with the cuboctahedron local environments of the Au (left inset) and Ti (right inset) atoms. (B) Crystal structure of β-Ti3Au along with the icosahedron local environment of Au (left inset) and the 14-vertex Frank-Kasper polyhedron local environment of Ti (right inset). (C) XRD pattern was fitted with the β-Ti3Au phase (blue vertical symbols). Small inclusions of α-Ti3Au and α-Ti are marked by asterisks. arb. units, arbitrary units. (D and E) HRTEM (high-resolution transmission electron microscopy) images of the Ti0.75Au0.25 sample, taken for the [111] and [100] orientations, respectively. (F and G) SAD (selected area diffraction) images of the [111] and [102] orientations, respectively.
A full theoretical understanding of hardness remains challenging because of the inherently complex relationship between elasticity and toughness that defines hardness (58). In alloys, in particular, hardness mostly depends on the underlying crystal structure, atomic bonding, and microstructure (23), making the structural analysis of paramount importance (59, 60). Powder x-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis (Fig. 2C) reveals that Ti0.75Au0.25 consists of a majority phase β-Ti3Au (
; Fig. 2B) (57) along with minute amounts of α-Ti3Au (
; Fig. 2A) (less than 0.6%) (57) and α-Ti (less than 4%). The majority phase β-Ti3Au has a lattice constant a ~5.1 Å, whereas the minority phase β-Ti3Au has a smaller lattice constant a ~4.1 Å (31). Because the formation energy of a Burgers vector (a vector denoting the magnitude and direction of the lattice distortion resulting from a dislocation) is proportional to the unit cell parameter, the compound with the larger unit cell parameter β-Ti3Au is expected to have a higher hardness. Furthermore, the two phases differ profoundly in the atomic environment types (AETs) of Au and Ti. In the α-Ti3Au phase (Fig. 2A), both Ti and Au are 12-fold coordinated with a cuboctahedron AET; Au is surrounded by 12 Ti atoms, whereas Ti is surrounded by 8 Ti and 4 Au atoms. By contrast, in the β-Ti3Au phase (Fig. 2B), the two atoms have very different AETs. Au is still 12-fold coordinated but now with an icosahedron AET formed by Ti (Fig. 2B, bottom left), which implies shorter bond lengths. However, Ti is 14-fold coordinated with a 14-vertex Frank-Kasper polyhedron composed of 4 Au and 10 Ti atoms (Fig. 2B, bottom right). As mentioned above, the key differences in the AETs of Au and Ti (coordination number, bond lengths) are consistent with the higher hardness of β-Ti3Au compared to α-Ti3Au. Often, hardness strongly depends on plastic deformation resulting from the creation and motion of dislocations and defects (23, 61). In α-Ti3Au, both atoms have the same AETs, and it is therefore reasonable to assume that this gives rise to low shear strength, stemming from the low energy needed to create and move dislocations and defects (23). In the β-Ti3Au phase, on the other hand, the different AETs of Au and Ti introduce higher energy barriers for any dislocation movement; that is, atoms cannot easily slide and break as well as reform bonds, resulting in increased hardness. One may argue further that the presence of small amounts of minority phases α-Ti3Au and α-Ti may favorably interact with β-Ti3Au to further inhibit dislocation formation and dislocation motion, thus increasing the hardness and toughness of the majority phase β-Ti3Au.
To investigate the microstructure of the Ti0.75Au0.25 sample and its consistency with the x-ray analysis, HRTEM and SAD were performed for different crystallographic orientations. The HRTEM images along [111] (Fig. 2D) and [100] (Fig. 2E), together with the SAD images for the [111] (Fig. 2F) and [102] (Fig. 2G) orientations, are shown in Fig. 2 (F and G) and reveal the atomic arrangement in both real space (HRTEM) and reciprocal space (SAD) in β-Ti3Au. Similar TEM and XRD analyses were performed on several other Ti1−xAux alloys, with the results summarized in Table 1. For all compositions, the main crystallographic phase is confirmed by both XRD and TEM data.
In addition to the crystal structure, two other factors point to the high hardness in Ti0.75Au0.25: high VED and pseudogap formation. In metallic materials, strong atomic bonding has been suggested to improve phase stability and hardness (23, 24), and this can be quantified by examining the value of the VED. The VED value for β-Ti3Au is 0.20 Å−3, which is higher than that of any other Ti–Au binary (Table 2). This is consistent with β-Ti3Au being the hardest among the Ti–Au alloys. Another possible origin of the high hardness of β-Ti3Au is the reduction in the DOS at the Fermi level EF, which has been referred to as a pseudogap (62, 63). It has been suggested that the pseudogap formation stabilizes the phase and, consequently, improves the hardness (63). Typically, to significantly affect the crystallographic phase, the pseudogap must have a width W of 0.5 to 1.5 eV and a relative height ratio H/H0 > 0.5, where H and H0 represent the DOS at the top and bottom of the pseudogap, respectively (63). β-TiAu, TiAu2, and β-Ti3Au all exhibit pseudogap-like features around the Fermi level (E = 0 in Fig. 3). The pseudogap of β-Ti3Au is the most pronounced of all the studied Ti–Au compounds (Fig. 3, inset), with W ≈ 1 eV and H/H0 ≈ 4, a result that reinforces the experimental observation of the highest hardness in β-Ti3Au.
Table 1 Composition and wear test summary for the Ti1−xAux alloys.
Table 2 Summary of crystallographic and electronic parameters of the Ti–Au phases.
Fig. 3 DOS of Ti–Au stoichiometric compounds.
DOS (solid lines) as a function of energy for β-TiAu (black), TiAu (yellow), TiAu4 (blue), and β-Ti3Au (red), with the pronounced valley around the Fermi energy in β-Ti3Au marked by a dotted line and highlighted in yellow (inset).
Together with hardness, the lifetime of a material has to be considered in determining a material’s applicability toward medical components. The lifetime of a component in vivo is determined partially by its component’s wear rate. In particular, knee and hip replacements currently only last approximately a decade, making additional component replacements necessary (45). A comparison of the time-dependent COF in Ti1−xAux (x = 0, 0.25, 0.30, and 0.50) alloys is shown in Fig. 4A. The reference sample is Ti (blue, x = 0), with an average COF close to 0.35, which persists for about 700 s. The three Ti1−xAux alloys, however, show a COF < 0.15 after an initial running-in period of up to 300 s. This indicates that the lifetime of current Ti-based medical implants could be increased by the use of β-Ti3Au (x = 0.25) in equivalent components. An added benefit of the Ti1−xAux alloys is that, when melted, they adhere to the walls of Al2O3 containers (Fig. 4A, inset), a valuable property that can be exploited to reduce both the weight and the cost of medical components by using the Ti1−xAux alloys as coating for ceramic parts. Moreover, the melting temperatures of the hardest intermetallic Ti1−xAux alloys (64) are lower than that of Ti, which would allow for the preparation of components via casting, thus eliminating machining cost (20). However, a quantitative assessment of the bonding strength or the diffusivity of the two materials is beyond the scope of this work and is left to a future study.
Fig. 4 Wear analysis of Ti1−xAux alloys against a diamond-SiC disc.
(A) COF as a function of time for x = 0, 0.25, 0.30, and 0.50. Inset: An alumina container showing that Ti1−xAux adheres to this ceramic component. (B) Wear volumes of Ti1−xAux (dashed) compared to diamond-SiC (solid).
The wear volumes of the Ti1−xAux alloys are shown in Fig. 4B, indicating that the wear in these alloys is reduced compared to that in pure Ti (blue, x = 0). These results demonstrate that the addition of Au is an effective route to reducing the friction of Ti. To identify the wear modes, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analysis was conducted, and the results are shown in Fig. 5, with the wear images of the Ti1−xAux pins (left panels) compared to those of the diamond-SiC disc (right panels). The bright and groove-like features correspond to abrasion from diamond grits, whereas the darker spots indicate adhesion wear. The Ti1−xAux alloys have some areas that seem to be worn less, corresponding to regions with elevated hardness. These features are most pronounced in the Ti0.75Au0.25 sample, consistent with its lower wear rates. The wear modes and volumes of the Ti1−xAux alloys are given in Table 1.
Fig. 5 SEM images of pin and disc wear tests.
(A, C, E, and G) Ti reference ingot (A), Ti1−xAux pins for (C) x = 0.25, (E) x = 0.30, and (G) x = 0.50. (B, D, F, and H) Corresponding wear tracks on the diamond-SiC disc. Red rectangles (right panels) identify the regions of contact between the disc and the pin. For the (E) and (F) pair, there is little wear on both surfaces, indicating the wear resistance of the Ti0.75Au0.25 sample.
The mechanical properties of the intermetallic compound β-Ti3Au suggest that this material is well suited for medical applications where Ti is already used, with some examples including replacement parts and components (both permanent and temporary), dental prosthetics, and implants. The fourfold increase in hardness, as compared with pure Ti, renders β-Ti3Au as the hardest known biocompatible intermetallic compound. The wear properties of β-Ti3Au indicate that this compound has a COF that is four times less than that of Ti, resulting in the reduction of the wear volume by 70%, which will ensure longer component lifetime and less debris accumulation. Moreover, the ability to adhere to a ceramic surface will result in reducing both the cost and the weight of these components.
The high hardness in β-Ti3Au can be attributed to three main factors: (i) the cubic crystal structure with inherently short Ti–Au bonds and high (14) Ti atomic coordination, (ii) the high VED, and (iii) the pseudogap formation. Between the two cubic Ti3Au compounds, the Ti–Au bond length is smaller for the β phase (dTi–Au = 2.84478 Å) compared to the α phase (dTi–Au = 2.93237 Å). Together with the more complex crystallographic environments of both Ti and Au in β-Ti3Au, this inhibits dislocations and results in high hardness in this particular compound. Understanding the factors that influence the hardness of β-Ti3Au provides insights for improving the existing biocompatible alloys and designing new biocompatible materials with superior mechanical properties.
Alloys of Ti1−xAux were prepared by arc melting Ti (Cerac, 99.99%) and Au (Cerac, 99.99%) in stoichiometric ratios, with mass losses of no more than 0.3%. To ensure homogeneity, the samples were remelted several times. Given that Ti alloys are frequently heat-treated to improve both hardness and ductility, annealing studies were carried out for the Ti–Au system. However, the use of different annealing cycles, similar to those used for other Ti-based alloys (65), resulted in minimal changes in the hardness compared to the as-cast samples. This might be caused by variation in microstructure homogeneity, which can mask the true annealing effects. The hardness of the arc-melted samples made it virtually impossible to grind these samples, which rendered powder XRD experiments difficult. Therefore, XRD data were collected at room temperature off the cross section (about 3 mm in diameter) of cut and polished specimens using a custom four-circle Huber diffractometer with a focusing graphite monochromator and analyzer in a nondispersive geometry, coupled to a Rigaku rotating anode source producing CuKα radiation.
HV was measured in a Tukon 2100 microhardness tester, equipped with a Vickers diamond pyramid indenter. The microhardness tests were performed on a polished sample surface of about 3 mm in diameter. Multiple tests were conducted for all samples to maintain repeatability, using a 300-g load, with a duration of 10 s.
Tribological experiments were conducted using a pin-on-disc tribometer (CSM Instruments) with a total of 40,000 cycles. The diamond-SiC disc was selected for its durability. The ingot samples of Ti1−xAux (x = 0.25, 0.3, and 0.50) were used as a pin, with a Ti ingot used as a reference. An example of the Ti0.75Au0.25 sample used for wear tests is shown in the inset of Fig. 4A. To simulate wear during walking, a linear reciprocal motion was used with a sliding speed of 3.15 cm s−1 and an applied load of 2 N. The sliding distance of wear tests was set at 4 mm per stroke, with a total of 40,000 cycles. A synthetic body fluid was used as the test medium. The total wear is presented as volume loss. Details regarding the wear of the diamond-SiC disc have been previously reported (66–68).
The MTS assay was used to assess the cytotoxicity of the samples. For the study, 293T cells were cultured in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum, penicillin, and streptomycin. Five thousand cells were seeded in a 24-well plate along with the samples. The cells with the samples were incubated at 37°C. After 3 days of incubation, 150 μl per well of MTS reagent was added. It was further incubated for an hour and then the optical density was measured using a microplate reader. The sample of pure titanium had very poor cytocompatibility. The cells were observed to be strained and rounded, whereas the alloys did not show any significant effects.
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Funding: The work at Rice University (E.M. and E.S.) and part of the work at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL) (T.B. and T.S.) were supported by the NSF (DMR-1506704). The work at the NHMFL (T.B., Y.X., K.H., and T.S.) was partially supported by the NSF Cooperative Agreement (DMR-1157490) and the State of Florida. T.B. and T.S. were partially supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division, under award DE-SC0008832. Work at the Texas A&M University (H.L. and M.F.O.) was partially sponsored by the Turbomachinery Research Laboratory. The Z-contrast facilities were supported by the Florida State University Research Foundation. Author contributions: E.M. and E.S. designed the study. E.S. prepared the samples and performed the data analysis. E.M. and E.S. wrote the manuscript with contributions from all authors. T.B. and T.S. were responsible for x-ray measurements and structural characterization. C.S.T. and P.M.A. performed HRTEM analysis. M.F.O. and H.L. carried out tribological experiments. S.R. and S.M. evaluated the cytotoxicity of the samples. Y.X. and K.H. performed HV tests. J.K.W. performed band-structure calculations. Competing interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Data and materials availability: All data needed to evaluate the conclusions in the paper are present in the paper. Additional data related to this paper may be requested from the authors.
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The Interlopers
by H.H. Munro (SAKI)
George Henry Durrie, Hunter in Winter Wood, 1860
In a forest of mixed growth somewhere on the eastern spurs of the Karpathians, a man stood one winter night watching and listening, as though he waited for some beast of the woods to come within the range of his vision, and, later, of his rifle. But the game for whose presence he kept so keen an outlook was none that figured in the sportsman's calendar as lawful and proper for the chase; Ulrich von Gradwitz patrolled the dark forest in quest of a human enemy.
The forest lands of Gradwitz were of wide extent and well stocked with game; the narrow strip of precipitous woodland that lay on its outskirt was not remarkable for the game it harboured or the shooting it afforded, but it was the most jealously guarded of all its owner's territorial possessions. A famous law suit, in the days of his grandfather, had wrested it from the illegal possession of a neighbouring family of petty landowners; the dispossessed party had never acquiesced in the judgment of the Courts, and a long series of poaching affrays and similar scandals had embittered the relationships between the families for three generations. The neighbour feud had grown into a personal one since Ulrich had come to be head of his family; if there was a man in the world whom he detested and wished ill to it was Georg Znaeym, the inheritor of the quarrel and the tireless game-snatcher and raider of the disputed border-forest. The feud might, perhaps, have died down or been compromised if the personal ill-will of the two men had not stood in the way; as boys they had thirsted for one another's blood, as men each prayed that misfortune might fall on the other, and this wind-scourged winter night Ulrich had banded together his foresters to watch the dark forest, not in quest of four-footed quarry, but to keep a look-out for the prowling thieves whom he suspected of being afoot from across the land boundary. The roebuck, which usually kept in the sheltered hollows during a storm-wind, were running like driven things to-night, and there was movement and unrest among the creatures that were wont to sleep through the dark hours. Assuredly there was a disturbing element in the forest, and Ulrich could guess the quarter from whence it came.
He strayed away by himself from the watchers whom he had placed in ambush on the crest of the hill, and wandered far down the steep slopes amid the wild tangle of undergrowth, peering through the tree trunks and listening through the whistling and skirling of the wind and the restless beating of the branches for sight and sound of the marauders. If only on this wild night, in this dark, lone spot, he might come across Georg Znaeym, man to man, with none to witness--that was the wish that was uppermost in his thoughts. And as he stepped round the trunk of a huge beech he came face to face with the man he sought.
The two enemies stood glaring at one another for a long silent moment. Each had a rifle in his hand, each had hate in his heart and murder uppermost in his mind. The chance had come to give full play to the passions of a lifetime. But a man who has been brought up under the code of a restraining civilisation cannot easily nerve himself to shoot down his neighbour in cold blood and without word spoken, except for an offence against his hearth and honour. And before the moment of hesitation had given way to action a deed of Nature's own violence overwhelmed them both. A fierce shriek of the storm had been answered by a splitting crash over their heads, and ere they could leap aside a mass of falling beech tree had thundered down on them. Ulrich von Gradwitz found himself stretched on the ground, one arm numb beneath him and the other held almost as helplessly in a tight tangle of forked branches, while both legs were pinned beneath the fallen mass. His heavy shooting- boots had saved his feet from being crushed to pieces, but if his fractures were not as serious as they might have been, at least it was evident that he could not move from his present position till some one came to release him. The descending twig had slashed the skin of his face, and he had to wink away some drops of blood from his eyelashes before he could take in a general view of the disaster. At his side, so near that under ordinary circumstances he could almost have touched him, lay Georg Znaeym, alive and struggling, but obviously as helplessly pinioned down as himself. All round them lay a thick-strewn wreckage of splintered branches and broken twigs.
Relief at being alive and exasperation at his captive plight brought a strange medley of pious thank-offerings and sharp curses to Ulrich's lips. Georg, who was early blinded with the blood which trickled across his eyes, stopped his struggling for a moment to listen, and then gave a short, snarling laugh.
"So you're not killed, as you ought to be, but you're caught, anyway," he cried; "caught fast. Ho, what a jest, Ulrich von Gradwitz snared in his stolen forest. There's real justice for you!"
And he laughed again, mockingly and savagely.
"I'm caught in my own forest-land," retorted Ulrich. "When my men come to release us you will wish, perhaps, that you were in a better plight than caught poaching on a neighbour's land, shame on you."
Georg was silent for a moment; then he answered quietly:
"Are you sure that your men will find much to release? I have men, too, in the forest to-night, close behind me, and _they_ will be here first and do the releasing. When they drag me out from under these damned branches it won't need much clumsiness on their part to roll this mass of trunk right over on the top of you. Your men will find you dead under a fallen beech tree. For form's sake I shall send my condolences to your family."
"It is a useful hint," said Ulrich fiercely. "My men had orders to follow in ten minutes time, seven of which must have gone by already, and when they get me out--I will remember the hint. Only as you will have met your death poaching on my lands I don't think I can decently send any message of condolence to your family."
"Good," snarled Georg, "good. We fight this quarrel out to the death, you and I and our foresters, with no cursed interlopers to come between us. Death and damnation to you, Ulrich von Gradwitz."
"The same to you, Georg Znaeym, forest-thief, game-snatcher."
Both men spoke with the bitterness of possible defeat before them, for each knew that it might be long before his men would seek him out or find him; it was a bare matter of chance which party would arrive first on the scene.
Both had now given up the useless struggle to free themselves from the mass of wood that held them down; Ulrich limited his endeavours to an effort to bring his one partially free arm near enough to his outer coat- pocket to draw out his wine-flask. Even when he had accomplished that operation it was long before he could manage the unscrewing of the stopper or get any of the liquid down his throat. But what a Heaven-sent draught it seemed! It was an open winter, and little snow had fallen as yet, hence the captives suffered less from the cold than might have been the case at that season of the year; nevertheless, the wine was warming and reviving to the wounded man, and he looked across with something like a throb of pity to where his enemy lay, just keeping the groans of pain and weariness from crossing his lips.
"Could you reach this flask if I threw it over to you?" asked Ulrich suddenly; "there is good wine in it, and one may as well be as comfortable as one can. Let us drink, even if to-night one of us dies."
"No, I can scarcely see anything; there is so much blood caked round my eyes," said Georg, "and in any case I don't drink wine with an enemy."
Ulrich was silent for a few minutes, and lay listening to the weary screeching of the wind. An idea was slowly forming and growing in his brain, an idea that gained strength every time that he looked across at the man who was fighting so grimly against pain and exhaustion. In the pain and languor that Ulrich himself was feeling the old fierce hatred seemed to be dying down.
"Neighbour," he said presently, "do as you please if your men come first. It was a fair compact. But as for me, I've changed my mind. If my men are the first to come you shall be the first to be helped, as though you were my guest. We have quarrelled like devils all our lives over this stupid strip of forest, where the trees can't even stand upright in a breath of wind. Lying here to-night thinking I've come to think we've been rather fools; there are better things in life than getting the better of a boundary dispute. Neighbour, if you will help me to bury the old quarrel I--I will ask you to be my friend."
Georg Znaeym was silent for so long that Ulrich thought, perhaps, he had fainted with the pain of his injuries. Then he spoke slowly and in jerks.
"How the whole region would stare and gabble if we rode into the market-square together. No one living can remember seeing a Znaeym and a von Gradwitz talking to one another in friendship. And what peace there would be among the forester folk if we ended our feud to-night. And if we choose to make peace among our people there is none other to interfere, no interlopers from outside . . . You would come and keep the Sylvester night beneath my roof, and I would come and feast on some high day at your castle . . . I would never fire a shot on your land, save when you invited me as a guest; and you should come and shoot with me down in the marshes where the wildfowl are. In all the countryside there are none that could hinder if we willed to make peace. I never thought to have wanted to do other than hate you all my life, but I think I have changed my mind about things too, this last half-hour. And you offered me your wine-flask . . . Ulrich von Gradwitz, I will be your friend."
For a space both men were silent, turning over in their minds the wonderful changes that this dramatic reconciliation would bring about. In the cold, gloomy forest, with the wind tearing in fitful gusts through the naked branches and whistling round the tree-trunks, they lay and waited for the help that would now bring release and succour to both parties. And each prayed a private prayer that his men might be the first to arrive, so that he might be the first to show honourable attention to the enemy that had become a friend.
Presently, as the wind dropped for a moment, Ulrich broke silence.
"Let's shout for help," he said; he said; "in this lull our voices may carry a little way."
"They won't carry far through the trees and undergrowth," said Georg, "but we can try. Together, then."
The two raised their voices in a prolonged hunting call.
"Together again," said Ulrich a few minutes later, after listening in vain for an answering halloo.
"I heard nothing but the pestilential wind," said Georg hoarsely.
There was silence again for some minutes, and then Ulrich gave a joyful cry.
"I can see figures coming through the wood. They are following in the way I came down the hillside."
Both men raised their voices in as loud a shout as they could muster.
"They hear us! They've stopped. Now they see us. They're running down the hill towards us," cried Ulrich.
"How many of them are there?" asked Georg.
"I can't see distinctly," said Ulrich; "nine or ten,"
"Then they are yours," said Georg; "I had only seven out with me."
"They are making all the speed they can, brave lads," said Ulrich gladly.
"Are they your men?" asked Georg. "Are they your men?" he repeated impatiently as Ulrich did not answer.
"No," said Ulrich with a laugh, the idiotic chattering laugh of a man unstrung with hideous fear.
"Who are they?" asked Georg quickly, straining his eyes to see what the other would gladly not have seen.
"Wolves."
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Once Upon a Time : There was a Vatican
February 25, 2012 February 25, 2012 J. A. Dick1 Comment
Today’s First and Second Readings:
“For those who’ve seen the place in better days, the Vatican looks deeply troubled. In the absence of strong leadership, internal tensions seem to be bursting into view. Even at the height of his powers, the pope took scant interest in governance. As he ages and becomes more limited, a sense of drift is mounting — a conviction that hard choices must await a new day, and probably a new pontiff.” (John Allen noting in a 24 February NCR aticle that the observation first made in 2004 is especially apt today.)
” ‘No one puts new wine into old wineskins,’ warns the gospel. ‘Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and so are the skins.’ The ‘new wine’ that came forth from the Second Vatican Council – the rediscovery of episcopal collegiality and shared governance between the Pope and the bishops, the aware- ness of the Church being a communio of all the baptised, the full participation of the laity in the liturgy and the mission of the Church – risks being lost because the post-conciliar Church has not been able to provide ‘new wineskins’ or new structures to sustain such a kind of Church. The skins have not yet burst, but there are signs of them springing leaks, which the men in Rome are struggling to plug.” (Robert Mickens reporting in The Tablet on 25 February)
The Homily:
As Robert Mickens from TheTablet, John Allen from NCR, and others have observed the institutional tectonic plates beneath the Vatican are shifting in a major historic way. Some observers speak of meltdown or an institutional implosion with tremendous international aftershocks….
Massimo Franco, Italian political writer for Corriere della Sera, has a new book which analyzes it all: C’era Una Volta Un Vaticano —- Once Upon a Time, There was a Vatican.
Franco, some may recall, wrote another best seller 2005 that analyzed relations between the Holy See and the United States. (Perhaps, after the 2012 US presidential elections, he can on a sequel on relations between the USCCB and the White House.) Anyway, back to the Vatican.
C’era Una Volta Un Vaticano sketches a kind of fin du régime life and spiit at the Vatican. (My sense too watching the recent consistory: everyone wrapped up in fancy party dress but not much of a party spirit.) Franco quotes Holy See diplomats who see themselves like the very last ambassadors to the Republic of Venice just before it collapsed in 1797.
Franco sees the Vatican meltdowns of the last five years as symptoms of a much deeper crisis. There are, John Allen observes, “signs of the end of an epoch, in which the Vatican represented the religious and moral sentiments of Western civilization, and the dawn of a new era in which Catholicism has become a minority subculture. Neither the Vatican nor the hierarchy more generally has figured out how to respond to this new world.”
I think my friend Robert Mickens says it best of all: “What no senior Vatican official seems willing to admit or able to grasp is that there may be something more serious going on. Certainly, there have been other moments of governing crises and lapses in the last few decades – and each time they were overcome. Each time also, as calls arose for change, the Pope would state that true church reform could only come about by ‘spiritual renewal’ and ‘internal conversion’….While Popes Paul VI and John Paul II made modest ‘reforms’ to the Roman Curia, they failed to address the lingering and deeper crisis. Quite simply, the crisis is this: the structures of the Catholic Church are no longer adequate for life in the modern world or responsive to the developments of the Church’s own ecclesiology and self-understanding.”
An implosion and a seismic shift for sure. On both sides of the Atlantic. And it is still rumbling deeply. When the air clears, perhaps we will see these days as days of grace when our institutional leaders rediscovered the church as a community of faith.
The Catholic Church and Public Morality (Some brief Reflections)
A Special Note to Readers
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phrogge says:
John, good thoughts. Disturbing. I believe the Spirit is alive and well in all this, and guiding us to something. I’m learning to be careful where to say what I really think these days. Blogs seem to be more or less safe. I posted some thoughts on tomorrow’s Gospel Story on my web page, Phrogge’s Ponderings.
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Due to the epic instrumental makeup of Mogwai’s music, their potential for soundtrack work has always be evident. After producing well-received compositions for both film and television, the band now attempt to bridge the gap between soundtrack work and studio albums. Atomic is a rework of their soundtrack to a BBC documentary that explores the realities of the nuclear age, and succeeds greatly in achieving the appropriate tone. There’s no escaping the context here: Atomic sounds like an OST as opposed to a genuine record. Whilst this isn’t necessarily a negative point — a sound as vast as this certainly warrants its own narrative — it does make the practice slightly problematic. Still, Atomic makes for an engrossing listen, and is categorically one of Mogwai’s most linear records yet. It starts with “Ether”, a heavily romanticised depiction of the planet we’re at risk of losing to the looming threat of nuclear destruction, and finishes with a complete antithesis in “Fat Man”, a sparse and lonely soundscape that appropriately envisions the deficiency of life that has resulted from the devastation.
The rest of the record mostly sounds very beautiful, yet lacks a certain character that defines it as a complete work. The nagging sensation that something important is missing is what prevents Atomic from being an outstanding work on its own terms. That said, it does extremely well to be a thoroughly gorgeous listen throughout in spite of an overwhelming mood that could have easily become strenuous. Atomic can be exhausting, but in a manner that exhilarates rather than drains. Despite my reservations regarding its final arrangement, I’ve no doubt that fans of the Mogwai will find a lot to love here, and it’s reassuring to see the band showing no signs of faulting in their efforts to create heavily-textured soundscapes that are so pleasing to listen to.
Favourite tracks // U-235
Pripyat
Fat Man
Atomic, in all its boom and rumble, is likely going to wind up being one of my favourite releases of the year. This tweaked offshoot of a documentary soundtrack — originally produced by Mogwai for a nuclear age-focused BBC programme of the same name — is an appropriately brutal exercise in escalation. Erupting from the twinkling and peaceful origins of “Ether”, what characterises most of Atomic, from “Pripyat” to “Tzar”, is sheer, bellowing, indifferent power. Laced at different points with electronica, crumbling guitars, and synthesisers, Atomic exudes an overwhelming and gorgeous cataclysmic ambience. It’s a specific range for the most part, but an understandable one given the subject matter. Mushroom clouds don’t exactly scream subtlety. That said, it should be acknowledged that softer tracks like “Are You a Dancer?” touch upon a loftier texture of sound that the work doesn’t quite reach in its entirety. There are shades of the supernova in Atomic, so to speak, but the album is missing a certain something to take it to that next level. A necessary imbalance perhaps, but a teasing one. And yet, the work is so intelligently made, so lovingly made, that you can’t help but let the sound engulf you and do its thing. When push comes to shove, what more can you really ask of a soundtrack?
Favourite tracks // Pripyat
Are You a Dancer?
Little Boy
Mogwai has created a brilliant soundtrack here, but treating it as a release in its own right without the context of what it accompanies made for an interesting discussion. The band have really created some beautiful moments in this release. With “Ether” building suspense up to a brass fanfare grandly introducing the crashing guitars that explode across the track, and “Pripyat” constructing a towering wall of sound only to pull it down and let the dust settle for the remainder of the track. More understated moments still shine through too, like the folk influences in the strings throughout “Are You A Dancer?” or the opening minutes of “Fat Man”, which take a less-is-more approach to building a tremendous atmosphere with little more than a piano, a bass drum, and some endless, cavernous delay, only to shatter it later with the eruption of a much greater sound midway through the track. Building atmosphere is a forte of Mogwai’s and Atomic makes this abundantly clear. And yet for some tracks I’m often left feeling that, with the atmosphere set, everyone begins packing up and going home. The highlights of the album are those tracks that do something with the mass of sound that’s been created, even if destroying it again is the only aim. It’s a great release and my gripes would likely be calmed if I did experience the soundtrack in the context that it was originally intended. An overwhelming, beautiful epic.
Favourite tracks // Ether
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“Atomic can be exhausting, but in a manner that exhilarates rather than drains. Despite my reservations regarding its final arrangement, I’ve no doubt that fans of the Mogwai will find a lot to love here, and it’s reassuring to see that the band are showing no signs of faulting in their efforts to create heavily-textured soundscapes that are so pleasing to listen to.”
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The 2013 Genius Awards Finalists Get Their Cakes!
The Stranger, Kelly O
And the nominees for the 2013 Genius Awards are…
Jinkx and Jerick: From ‘Rent’ to RuPaul
The Seattle Times, Melissa Davis
Fans of Seattle performer Jinkx Monsoon (aka Jerick Hoffer) cheered Monday night as the drag diva was crowned winner of Season 5 of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”
No Two Performances Will Be the Same
The Stranger, Melody Datz
A cyclist almost hits a parked car straining his neck to watch Ezra Dickinson tour jeté down Stewart Street. Dickinson is not tall, but his long arms and high balletic leaps and jumps cut through the apathetic throng of people hanging around outside of the Greyhound bus station. The loiterers perk up and watch—interested or confused or amused or all of the above. Whether they want to or not, they’ve become part of Dickinson’s stage.
New name, same theater at Seattle Center
The Seattle Times, Lynn Jacobson
The Seattle Center theater formerly known as Intiman Playhouse is now under the management of Cornish College of the Arts, and it has a new moniker: The Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center.
Composer Eric Banks Takes Audiences On Intellectual Adventures
KUOW, Amy Radil
If your concept of choral music is somewhere between the TV show “Glee” and the Kings College Choir, the music Eric Banks loves may come as a revelation.
Region’s arts groups rake in the NEA grants
SIFF, Bumbershoot, the Tony Awards…lots of nominations and announcements coming out this week. Now it’s the National Endowment for the Arts’ turn: of 817 nonprofit groups’ nationwide receiving Art Works grants, 31 are from Washington.
Seattle Jazz Musicians honored Jazz Journalists Association
The Seattle Times, Paul de Barros
Two Seattle jazz musicians were honored today with awards from the Jazz Journalists Association, based in New York. Bill Frisell was named Guitarist of the Year and trombonist Julian Priester was chosen as one of 26 “Jazz Heroes” on regional scenes around the country. Priester, 77, received the award at a ceremony Tuesday night at Tula’s nightclub. Priester recently retired from his position as instructor at Cornish College for the Arts and is a veteran of the bands of Duke Ellington, Sun Ra, Herbie Hancock and Max Roach, among others
City Land Deal Gives Green Light for a new Vancouver Art Gallery
The Globe and Mail, Marsha Lederman
Emotions broke out at Vancouver City Hall late Wednesday afternoon, after council voted unanimously to support a new Vancouver Art Gallery.
Happy 10th Anniversary, West Seattle Community Orchestras! Celebration Concert in 2 Weeks
Tuesdays are rehearsal nights for the West Seattle Community Orchestras, and tonight they are continuing to get ready for a very special event that is just two weeks away. If you haven’t seen it on the WSB West Seattle Event Calendar yet, here’s the official announcement…
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Guest: Turn STEM into STEAM with Arts Education
The Seattle Times, John Maeda
I tell people that I am a native of Seattle, but that I only knew it before it became cool. The creative economy hadn’t really happened yet — Boeing was the booming Microsoft equivalent back then; there was nascent grunge music and no coffee culture to speak of.
Guest: Arts education can transform young people
The Seattle Times, Ludovic Morlot
As music director of the Seattle Symphony, I believe in the intrinsic power of the arts to enrich our lives, and that the influence of the arts can be substantial and transformative, especially for young people.
Can Yo-Yo Ma Fix the Arts? NPR, Tom Huizenga
Describing himself as a “venture culturalist,” Yo-Yo Ma has a musical appetite as wide as the world. He’s fearless in the face of Bach, bluegrass or bossa nova, but Monday night he tried on yet another hat, delivering the Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy at Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center concert hall.
5th Avenue-ACT Partnership: A national model for theater collaboration
Crosscut, Alice Kaderlan
In a city known for its collaborative artistic spirit, the relationship between The Fifth Avenue Theatre and ACT Theatre has borne special fruit. “First Date,” the pair’s knockout, irreverent musical about a blind date ran for 10 almost entirely sold-out weeks in 2012 and is headed to Broadway this coming July. The theaters’ previous collaboration, “Vanities,” did well critically and at the box office and their current co-production of “Grey Gardens,” although plagued by a weak book and forgettable music, is drawing strong audiences.
‘The Brother from Another Planet’ launches 10th Langston Hughes film fest
The Seattle Times, John Hartl
Seattle’s Langston Hughes African American Film Festival, in its 10th year, opens April 13 with “The Brother from Another Planet” and ends April 21 with “Into the Hive.” All festival events will be held at the freshly renovated Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute.
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Change Culture, and the World
Creative Time Reports, Favianna Rodriguez
“Art has always been a tool for me to claim space, build power and speak out about the injustices that have shaped my social experience in the United States. Growing up in the age of “free trade,” amid an expansion of anti-immigrant policies, led me to develop art about these issues. For nearly a decade, most of my art directly served the immediate, short-term needs of social movement work.”
State of the Arts: Does Seattle have an arts aesthetic?
Crosscut, Andy Fife
Is there a Seattle arts aesthetic? At first blush, the topic seems better fit for a late-night barstool debate than as a point of serious conversation among civic and economic leaders. But that would mean a missed opportunity for Seattle as a whole. Defining the character and values of our arts community is not just possible, but valuable.
New acquisitions at SAM
The Seattle Art Museum has announced the acquisition of more than three dozen works of art, including a score of African sculptures from a variety of tribal cultures and some half a dozen works of contemporary art.
2013 Langston Hughes African American Film Festival features 50 films, 35 premieres
Central District News, Tom Fucoloro
The 2013 Langston Hughes African American Film Festival is getting ready to launch a week of screenings, premieres and chats with established and up-and-coming black filmmakers.
Grant workshop empowers women artists to believe in what’s possible
Regional Arts & Culture Council, S. Renee Mitchell
Spoken word poet Tarnisha Pressley came to the March 16th Grant Writing Workshop for Women of Color through a recommendation of a girlfriend. She had never written a grant before, but by the end of the three-hour workshop, she committed herself to trying.
You’re Invited: Upcoming Events
Below is a selection of events that our office has funded for the month through our smART ventures grant program. SmART ventures is a Seattle-based, flexible awards program that encourages innovative ideas, creates community impact, and provides new access for individuals and groups not served by our other programs. SmARTventures seeks to widen arts and cultural participation, particularly of diverse or underserved communities. We hope to see you at one of these great events!
Seattle Collaborative Orchestra Concert
Join the Seattle Collaborative Orchestra for its debut concert featuring the World Premier of “Spring Grove,” by local composer Angelique Poteat. Seattle Collaborative Orchestra is a multi-aged, semi-professional community orchestra with a strong educational component based in collaboration. Musicians of the Seattle Collaborative Orchestra largely consist of Seattle high schools, University of Washington music students, and members of professional music ensembles in the Seattle area (i.e. Seattle Symphony and Pacific Northwest Ballet).
Location: Roosevelt High School
Free for all ages
Suggested Donation: $15
A Colorful Musical
The Pacific Northwest Cultural Exchange Council presents the work of local Chinese American composer, Austin Huang. The music tells a unique story about an immigrant perusing his musical dream in the United States in a way that could not otherwise be achieved anywhere else. The concert features a selection of original Chinese folk music in symphonic form for the first time.
Time: 7 p.m. PM
Location: Benaroya Hall, Seattle
Seattle Women in Jazz Festival
A three-day musical event featuring jazz musicians from Seattle and beyond that are led by, and comprised of women, taking place in various venues throughout Seattle, including an all-ages concert at the Vera Project. The festival will also work to engage youth in the art of jazz and to reach out to potential audience members who may not have previously attended a jazz concert.
Dates: April 26-April 29
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50 Most Influential People in Seattle Right Now
New York has its Wall Street titans and its media elite. LA traffics in good looks and charisma. Seattle is a different matter altogether. Here the juice that puts things in motion is harder to define. The closest word is ideas. But it’s never the idea siloed in the head of one person. It’s the big idea, wet and ill formed, that leaks from one mind to another, the idea upon which entire communities feast before rising onto the national stage.
Libraries Open Doors, Data to Digital Art Displays
Library Journal, Shari Held
This January, hundreds of people attended the grand opening of an addition to the Teton County Library in Jackson Hole, WY. The big draw was “Filament Mind,” a stunning digital art installation utilizing more than five miles of fiber-optic cables, cut into 1,000 pieces, and 44 LED illuminators.
A final gift for Seattle from philanthropist Bagley Wright
KPLU 88.5, Florangela Davila
If you’re a Seattle arts and culture lover, you owe a lot to a man named Bagley Wright. The Space Needle, Benaroya Hall, Seattle Repertory Theater — Wright helped build or create all of them. Then there’s the art he’s given to the city.
Children in the region celebrate World Children’s Theatre Day – VIDEO
The Journal, David Whetstone
For young people coming to the theater for the first time, the effect is electrifying, utterly compelling. It is live in front of their eyes, the story, the spectacle, the music, the lighting, the movement, the sound, and the actors. “Such an experience can change young lives. It informs and enriches us all.”
Rite of Spring
The Stranger, Paul Constant
Ever since Northwest Book-fest hacked up a Target-branded lung and died back in 2004, hundreds of people have tried to bring a book festival back to Seattle. One notable attempt to revive the literary festival at the Columbia City Event Center in 2009 was ill-conceived and awkwardly produced, costing local booksellers and publishers a lot of money for little return.
Eyvind Kang: Prolific musician searches for spiritual sustenance
“I’m very against the grain,” says 41-year-old violist and composer Eyvind Kang, sipping homemade soup in the sunny living room of the Wallingford home he shares with his wife and sometime collaborator, vocalist Jessika Kenney.
Spring Film Calendar
The Stranger, David Schmader
Everything Happening in Film This Season.
Langston Hughes African American Film Festival
Lighting up the freshly renovated Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute for nine days straight, the 10th anniversary of the African American Film Festival opens with a 30th-anniversary screening of John Sayles’s indie sci-fi classic The Brother from Another Planet, closes with the newest work by the legendary Robert Townsend, and crams a whole bunch of good stuff in between. See langstoninstitute.org for the full schedule.
Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute, 104 17th Ave S, 684-4758, langstoninstitute.org
Concerto Barocco’: A dancer’s life’s work in one ballet Crosscut, Alice Kaderlan
“Ballet is woman,” choreographer George Balanchine is famously quoted as saying. None of his ballets embodies that sentiment more than “Concerto Barocco.”
Dollar deal: See the Rep’s ‘Good People’ for a buck
Seattle Rep, currently staging David Lindsay-Abaire’s popular play “Good People,” is offering a Dollar Store Deal for patrons. Starting Wednesday, the theater is making 25, $1 tickets available for each performance until the show ends on March 31.
Culture in South Lake Union
The Stranger, Jen Graves
On Tuesday I snuck into the gleaming construction site you see above. That’s your first glimpse when you push open the door of the charming caramel-brick storefront at 325 Westlake—a site promising to become a big, beautiful, new contemporary art exhibition and residency space in South Lake Union, going under the name Mad Art.
Chasing Shadows, Chasing Light
Howard Snyder presents a collection of landscape photographs centering on the Pacific Northwest. The work displayed will be exclusively landscape photographs using state-of-the-art digital photographic and printing equipment as well as showcasing the latest in digital photographic post-production. All of the pieces will feature the Pacific Northwest and some national parks through the eyes of a Mexican artist. The show is open to the public and free of charge. The March 10 opening reception will feature premier work of international choreographer Diana Garcia-Snyder with improvisation and choreography specifically created for the event.
Dates: March 2nd through 31st
Time: 2 to 7 p.m. daily
Location: Seattle Creative Arts Center
The Cradle Will Rock
Swimming Ophelia Ensemble presents The Cradle Will Rock, a musical by Marc Bliztein. In Steeltown, USA, the heroic Larry Foreman attempts to unionize the town’s workers and create a better city for all who suffer through the depression, but must battle the greedy and brilliant Mr. Mister, who owns all of Steeltown, including its most prominent townspeople. The play explores the true price of selling out one’s beliefs and the importance of fighting for unity in a community.
Swimming Ophelia Ensemble is a group of current and recently graduated UW Drama theatre performers, designers, and producers dedicated to creating socially relevant, not-boring theatre that is accessible to the entire community.
Dates: March 14th through 16th
Time: 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 14 and Friday, March 15 and 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 16
Location: Ethnic Cultural Theatre
A Nest in Luna
Anna Conner integrates movement, graphic content, visual design, original music, and theater in her newest work, A Nest in Luna, premiering at this month’s Boost Dance Festival. A Nest in Luna is a sample of an ongoing evening-length work involving multi-media performance. The Boost Dance Festival’s mission is to create opportunities for Seattle contemporary dance artists. A Nest in Luna is one of many works being featured at the festival. For more information, please visit: http://www.boostdancefestival.com/
Dates: March 22nd through 24th
Location: Balagan Theatre
Poetry + Motion
Poetry+Motion celebrates Women’s History Month by presenting a performance based on the theme ‘Woman’s Work’. The women’s movement of the 1970s was led predominantly by European-American women who fought to remove those barriers that kept them from working outside the home. That was a stark contrast to African American women who were always expected to work outside the home in order to support their family’s basic needs. Poetry+Motion: Woman’s Work will give African American poets and dancers (featuring jazz vocalist, Elnah Jordan) the opportunity to give voice and movement to that experience.
Dates: March 24th
Location: Downstairs at Town Hall
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Spring Arts Preview 2013: Books
Seattle Magazine, Brangien Davis
Some of the country’s best writers are reading in Seattle this season.
The invisible work of lighting design
Randall G. Chiarelli has been Pacific Northwest Ballet’s technical director and lighting designer since 1979 (except for a one-year stint with San Francisco Ballet). He has created the lighting designs for much of PNB’s repertory, including Kent Stowell’s “Swan Lake,” “Firebird,” “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet,” “Carmina Burana,” “Cinderella” and “Carmen,” and re-created the designs for PNB’s Balanchine repertory. A Seattle native, Chiarelli received painting and sculpture degrees from the University of Washington.
$100M Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences closes on schedule
Puget Sound Business Journal, Patti Payne
A $100 million dollar Seattle-based philanthropic foundation has closed its doors. The Charles and Lisa Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences is now history, having fulfilled its plan and accomplished its original mission to give away its entire principal in 10 years
STG’s Nights at the Neptune: A People’s Theatre Joint
Seattle Theatre Group, Request for Proposals
Seattle Theatre Group (STG), the non-profit arts organization which programs and manages three historic Seattle theatres (Paramount, Moore and Neptune), will make The Neptune Theatre in Seattle’s University District available free of charge to artists and community organizations who would like to create and perform a public arts event. This program is called STG’s Nights at the Neptune: A People’s Theatre Joint. Eight projects will be selected in the spring and then presented during the summer of 2013. All events will be offered at no charge to the public.
Arts and Our Civic Fabric with Kathy Hsieh
KING FM with Marta Zekan
Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs cultural partnerships & funding manager Kathy Hsieh talks about the Race and Social Justice Initiative, smART ventures and more.
Royal Alley-Barnes and the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute
Langston Institute executive director Royal Alley-Barnes talks about programs and events at the Langston Institute for the next several months, including the 10th anniversary of the Langston Hughes African American Film Festival.
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Aston Bay Holdings Ltd. (TSX-V: BAY; OTCQB: ATBHF) (“Aston Bay” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the final results of its recently completed drill program at the Buckingham Gold Project located in central Virginia, USA. Six large diameter (HQ) diamond drill...
Aston Bay Drills 62.51 g/t Au over 1.39m and 35.61 g/t Au over 2.03m at its Buckingham Gold Property in Virginia, USA
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UTA commended for completing rail lines early and under budget
At opening for Draper TRAX line, Transportation secretary calls completion an example for nation.
Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune Grand opening ceremonies took place Friday for UTA's new Draper TRAX line. U.S. Department of Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune Grand opening ceremonies took place Friday for UTA's new Draper TRAX line. U.S. Department of Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune Jones Soda with a label featuring the Draper TRAX train was served at the grand opening cerem Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune UTA General Manager, Michael Allegra, speaks at the grand opening ceremonies for the new Drap Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune Gov. Gary Herbert speaks at the grand opening ceremonies for the new Draper TRAX line.Friday, Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx has a laugh with Senator Orrin Hatch, Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune Senator Orrin Hatch gives a speech at the grand opening ceremonies for the new Draper TRAX li Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune Gov. Gary Herbert speaks at the grand opening ceremonies for the new Draper TRAX line.Friday, Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx speaks at the grand opening ceremoni Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx talks on Friday with Senator Orrin Ha Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune Senator Orrin Hatch laughs with Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker at the grand opening cerem Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune Grand opening ceremonies for UTA's new Draper TRAX line on Friday. Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx talks with Senator Orrin Hatch, at
Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune Grand opening ceremonies took place Friday for UTA's new Draper TRAX line. U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx was among dignitaries speaking. Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune Grand opening ceremonies took place Friday for UTA's new Draper TRAX line. U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx was among dignitaries speaking. Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune Jones Soda with a label featuring the Draper TRAX train was served at the grand opening ceremonies for the new Draper line. Friday, August 16, 2013. Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune UTA General Manager, Michael Allegra, speaks at the grand opening ceremonies for the new Draper TRAX line.Friday, August 16, 2013. Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune Gov. Gary Herbert speaks at the grand opening ceremonies for the new Draper TRAX line.Friday, August 16, 2013. Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx has a laugh with Senator Orrin Hatch, at the grand opening ceremonies for the new Draper TRAX line.Friday, August 16, 2013. Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune Senator Orrin Hatch gives a speech at the grand opening ceremonies for the new Draper TRAX line.Friday, August 16, 2013. Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune Gov. Gary Herbert speaks at the grand opening ceremonies for the new Draper TRAX line.Friday, August 16, 2013. Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx speaks at the grand opening ceremonies for the new Draper TRAX line.Friday, August 16, 2013. Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx talks on Friday with Senator Orrin Hatch, at the grand opening ceremonies for the new Draper TRAX line. Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune Senator Orrin Hatch laughs with Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker at the grand opening ceremonies for the new Draper TRAX line.Friday, August 16, 2013. Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune Grand opening ceremonies for UTA's new Draper TRAX line on Friday. Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx talks with Senator Orrin Hatch, at the grand opening ceremonies for the new Draper TRAX line.Friday, August 16, 2013.
By Lee Davidson The Salt Lake Tribune
· August 17, 2013 11:50 am
Draper • U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx jumped to his feet clapping starting what spread into a standing ovation by all when he heard the magic words: The Utah Transit Authority's massive $2.5 billion "Frontlines 2015" projects are now officially complete two years early and $300 million under budget.
"What you have done here is an example to the country of what transit can do to transform communities," with the feat made possible only by the entire Wasatch Front working together, Foxx said at ceremonies Friday marking completion of the projects that have doubled the rail mileage in UTA's system.
The last piece finished is a 3.8-mile extension of the Blue Line to Draper, adding three new stations at 11400 South, 11800 South and Pioneer Road. UTA projects it will carry 2,250 passengers a day. That extension cost $147 million, about $50 million under the original projection, UTA said.
In what UTA General Manager Michael Allegra called a "golden spike moment" to mark completion of the Frontline 2015 rail projects, puffs of red and blue smoke were shot from fireworks tubes along the rails as the first train officially pulled into Draper at the end of ceremonies.
Voters in 2006 approved issuing bonds and raising sales tax to accelerate the projects to be completed in 2015 instead of the once-planned 2030. They were actually finished in 2013, and for $300 million less than once planned.
Other "Frontlines 2015" projects were TRAX light rail extensions to South Jordan, West Valley City and Salt Lake City International Airport, and extending the FrontRunner commuter rail from Salt Lake City to Provo.
Foxx noted the projects were built with the help of $545 million in federal grants, including $116 million for the Draper extension, and is an example of local, state and federal officials working together.
"It means better access to jobs for hard-working families. It means less time stuck in traffic. It means that the air is cleaner and clearer. It means that this region which is already one of the fastest-growing regions in the country will be better prepared to handle more people as they make the Salt Lake City region their home," Foxx said.
Gov. Gary Herbert said, "This really is the culmination of the will of the people." He said finishing early and under budget "is the Utah way," and so is forming partnerships to accomplish it.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said it is an example of how "in Utah, we live within our means."
Wasatch Front residents have already received a big return on their investment, Allegra said. "There are $7 billion to $10 billion worth of investment that have been placed along the 2015 projects," he said. "We see that as only going up and expanding."
Greg Hughes, chairman of the UTA board who is also a state legislator from Draper, noted that Draper was once a small farming community. He said it is now home to 44,000 residents and growing companies such as eBay and Edward Life Sciences which create the need for transit there.
Draper Mayor Darrell Smith said the TRAX extension "isn't the end of the line" but "just the beginning," noting UTA has said it hopes to extend that line eventually into Utah County.
But for now, Allegra told the crowd that UTA figures it has finished its major rail projects and is entering a new phase where "we are going to focus on the customer and customer service. We need to define and refine our bus systems and bus rapid transit systems in our future."
That comes amid some criticism of the downsides of the Frontlines 2015 expansion during the recession. To afford operating new lines, UTA had to cut much of its night and weekend service, and made deep cuts in bus offerings.
State audits questioned if UTA could afford operating the new lines, and credit rating companies downgraded UTA's bond rating because of its heavy debt. Also, questions arose just this week about whether UTA achieved some of its cost savings by skirting state laws to withhold too much money from contractors to ensure work was completed properly, and did not pay normally required interest on it.
But Allegra said Frontlines 2015 has helped UTA reach its highest ridership ever, although UTA data show it has been stagnant in the past year.
"We see that doing nothing but getting better and growing. We are committed to even greater service," he said.
'Food for Fare' Saturday
P People who donate a nonperishable food item at one of the three new stations on the Draper TRAX extension will be given a pass good for use throughout the TRAX system on Saturday. Community celebrations with food and music are also planned at the three stations. After that free preview day, service will officially begin on the line on Sunday.
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Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.)
Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) Papers
Overview Correspondence of Charles J. Faulkner (1806-1884), who was a Martinsburg attorney, Virginia legislator, member of Congress, and ambassador to France during the James Buchanan administration. Subjects include national and Virginia-West Virginia politics, 1827-1876, and foreign affairs, 1868-1876. Other subjects include the French Colonization Society, the slave controversy, Maryland-Virginia boundary dispute, Virginia Revolutionary debt claims, disposal of the Harpers Ferry Armory, Chesapeake...
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) Papers
Civil War Letter Regarding Shenandoah Valley Diversionary Campaign
Overview An ALS from a Union officer "George" to his wife "Fannie" describing, in the form of a diary, a diversionary campaign into the Shenandoah Valley, 10, December - 25, December 1863. The purpose of their maneuver, which he calls "the Valley Expedition," was "to divert attention from Gen. Averill while he was making a raid up through Staunton, Virginia." The expeditionary force of about 1,600 was large enough not to fall prey to guerrillas but too small to actively engage the regular Confederate...
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Civil War Letter Regarding Shenandoah Valley Diversionary Campaign
H.E. Matheny, Collector and Compiler, Civil War Correspondence and Other Material
Scope and Contents Forty-nine letters of Ephraim W. Frost of Co J., 116th Reg, Ohio Vol Inf. Frost, who lived in Coolville, Ohio, near Parkersburg, was stationed at Moorefield, Martinsburg, near Romney, Winchester and Sleepy Creek in Morgan County, where his Reg. was guarding the B & O. The letters comment on fighting in the Shenandoah Valley in 1864 around Woodstock, mention of McNeill, Imboden, and Mosby, and contain much on camp life in the eastern panhandle area. Frost was wounded near Piedmont in May...
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / H.E. Matheny, Collector and Compiler, Civil War Correspondence and Other Material
H.E. Matheny, Collector and Compiler, Papers
Scope and Contents Published and unpublished manuscripts on episodes in West Virginia history; civil war history; hunting; and police protection in industrial plants. Letter of Gen. T.M. Harris concerning organizing and outfitting of troops, 1861; copies of newspaper articles by Gen. Harris concerning "the Sabbath question", 1876; Letters (typescript copies) of Pvt. James Z. McCausland's Brigade, 1863-1864 (7 items), on the Battle of Droop Mountain: fight at Dublin, picket duty around Warm Springs, Virginia; the...
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / H.E. Matheny, Collector and Compiler, Papers
Jacob M. Campbell Papers
Scope and Contents Military orders, telegrams, military correspondence concerning Campbell's command, lists of Confederate deserters, ordnance and quartermaster returns, additional military records, and a personal diary of Colonel Campbell, commander of the Fifty-fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers which operated along the line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between Cumberland, Maryland, and Martinsburg, West Virginia. Subjects include civilian-military relations; guerrilla activities of John D. Imboden, the...
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Jacob M. Campbell Papers
John J. Polsley Papers
Overview Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of a lieutenant colonel in the Eighth West Virginia Volunteer Infantry and later the Seventh West Virginia Regiment. The letters, most of which are addressed to Polsley's wife, pertain to military activities in central West Virginia, 1862-1863, and the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. These letters comment on the West Virginia statehood movement, camp life, guerrilla warfare, Polsley's confinement in Libby Prison, General John Imboden's raid, 1863, and the...
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / John J. Polsley Papers
Joseph C. Snider (1839-1864), Soldier, Civil War Diary
Overview Civil War diaries of Joseph C. Snider (1839-1864) of Harrison County, West Virginia, who served in Company C of the 31st Virginia Infantry Regiment from June 1861 to his death in battle on September 19, 1864. Collection consists of three diaries on microfilm that cover the periods from June 1861 to May 1862; January 1, 1863 to July 1, 1863; and March 26, 1864 to September 19, 1864. There is no explanation for the gaps in Snider's journals. Snider provides detailed descriptions of his major...
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Joseph C. Snider (1839-1864), Soldier, Civil War Diary
Joseph M. Kellogg, Compiler, Notebooks
Overview Genealogical records, compiled by Professor Joseph M. Kellogg, Lawrence, Kansas, of the Henkel, McCann, Johnson, Mitchell, and Teter families. The records include copies of many nineteenth century documents. Allied families mentioned are Apple, Eschmann, Grisemer, Hammer, Harper, Hite, Pearies, Peterson, Ruleman, Scholl, See (Zeh), Simmons, Skidmore, and Westfall-Kortrecht. Most of these families settled in the South Branch Valley and the counties of Harrison, Lewis, Randolph, Barbour, Braxton,...
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Joseph M. Kellogg, Compiler, Notebooks
Logan Osborne Family and Business Records
Overview A ledger and financial records of Logan Osborne (1836-39) also containing the will of Balamm Osborne. The ledger contains accounts of an assortment of general store goods from perishables such as food and candles to durable goods such as tools and carriages. There are Osborne family deeds, land contracts and letters about family matters and debt (1808-89). There are early nineteenth century state bank script from Louisiana, Virginia, and North Carolina. There are land indentures and legal...
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Logan Osborne Family and Business Records
Scott-Palmer Family Papers
Overview Papers of Jewett Palmer, a Union Army officer, Mayor of Marietta (Ohio), and Republican official of Washington County (Ohio). Includes correspondence, daily journals, clipping scrapbooks, military records, genealogical and autobiographical notes, and printed materials. The papers regard the activities of Company B of the 18th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (OVI) and Company G of the 36th OVI. There are also papers of Palmer's wife, Saida Scott, who taught music. Addendum of 1996/09/23 contains a...
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Scott-Palmer Family Papers
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Efficacy and safety of olokizumab in patients with rheumatoid arthritis with an inadequate response to TNF inhibitor therapy: outcomes of a randomised Phase IIb study
Clinical and epidemiological research
Extended report
Mark C Genovese1,
Roy Fleischmann2,
Daniel Furst3,
Namieta Janssen4,
John Carter5,
Bhaskar Dasgupta6,
Judy Bryson7,
Benjamin Duncan7,
Wei Zhu7,
Costantino Pitzalis8,
Patrick Durez9,
Kosmas Kretsos10
1Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, USA
2Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA
3Department of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
4Houston Institute for Clinical Research, Houston, USA
5Division of Rheumatology, University of South Florida Health, Tampa, Florida, USA
6Department of Rheumatology, Southend University Hospital, Westcliff-on-Sea, UK
7UCB Pharma, Raleigh, USA
8William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
9Service et Pôle de Rhumatologie, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
10UCB Pharma, Slough, UK
Correspondence to Dr Mark C Genovese, Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, 1000 Welch Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA; genovese{at}stanford.edu
Objectives The aim of this 12-week Phase IIb study was to assess the efficacy and safety of olokizumab (OKZ), a humanised anti-IL6 monoclonal antibody, in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with moderate-to-severe disease activity who had previously failed tumour necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitor therapy. The dose-exposure-response relationship for OKZ was also investigated.
Methods Patients were randomised to one of nine treatment arms receiving placebo (PBO) or OKZ (60, 120 or 240 mg) every 4 weeks (Q4W) or every 2 weeks (Q2W), or 8 mg/kg tocilizumab (TCZ) Q4W. The primary endpoint was change from baseline in DAS28(C-reactive protein, CRP) at Week 12. Secondary efficacy endpoints were American College of Rheumatology 20 (ACR20), ACR50 and ACR70 response rates at Week 12. Exploratory analyses included comparisons of OKZ efficacy with TCZ.
Results Across 221 randomised patients, OKZ treatment produced significantly greater reductions in DAS28(CRP) from baseline levels at Week 12, compared to PBO (p<0.001), at all the OKZ doses tested (60 mg OKZ p=0.0001, 120 and 240 mg OKZ p<0.0001). Additionally, ACR20 and ACR50 responses were numerically higher for OKZ than PBO (ACR20: PBO=17.1–29.9%, OKZ=32.5–60.7%; ACR50: PBO=1.3–4.9%, OKZ=11.5–33.2%). OKZ treatment, at several doses, demonstrated similar efficacy to TCZ across multiple endpoints. Most adverse events were mild or moderate and comparable between OKZ and TCZ treatment groups. Pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic modelling demonstrated a shallow dose/exposure response relationship in terms of percentage of patients with DAS28(CRP) <2.6.
Conclusions OKZ produced significantly greater reductions in DAS28(CRP) from baseline at Week 12 compared with PBO. Reported AEs were consistent with the safety profile expected of this class of drug, with no new safety signals identified.
Trial register number: NCT01242488.
Disease Activity
DMARDs (biologic)
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Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 3.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
IL-6 targeting compared to TNF targeting in rheumatoid arthritis: studies of olokizumab, sarilumab and sirukumab
Yoshiya Tanaka Emilio Martin Mola
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2014; 73 1595-1597 Published Online First: 15 May 2014. doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-205002
Sarilumab, a fully human monoclonal antibody against IL-6Rα in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and an inadequate response to methotrexate: efficacy and safety results from the randomised SARIL-RA-MOBILITY Part A trial
Tom W J Huizinga Roy M Fleischmann Martine Jasson Allen R Radin Janet van Adelsberg Stefano Fiore Xiaohong Huang George D Yancopoulos Neil Stahl Mark C Genovese
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2013; 73 1626-1634 Published Online First: 02 Dec 2013. doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-204405
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How to Reset Password and PIN from Windows 10 Lock Screen
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Last Updated: December 9, 2017 6:01 pm
Forgotten the login password to your Windows 10 system? Don’t worry, it has happened to the best of us and we have all spent a whole lot of time trying to remember and crack that magical combination of letters, numbers and symbols but in vain. It’s then we reach for the “forgot password” button to replace the forgotten login credentials with a new one. This is a really old functionality but has been missing from Windows 10 until the release of the Fall Creators Update. The Redmond giant has now made it super-simple to reset your password or PIN right from the lock screen if you’re using a Microsoft account. So, let’s take a look at how we can reset our login credentials on Windows 10.
Note: I tried this on my Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 Pro Fall Creators Update and it worked perfectly fine.
Reset Password From the Lock Screen
You no longer need to worry if you forget your Microsoft account’s password, you can just follow the steps underneath to reset your password:
1. On the lock screen, click on the “I forgot my password” option to start the process of resetting your Microsoft account password.
2. Now, you will see the “Recover your Account” screen, where you need to confirm the Microsoft account for which you’re changing the login password. Enter the captcha and click “Next”.
3. You’ll now have to select one of your recovery options, either the mobile, alternate e-mail id or Microsoft Authenticator app, to verify your identity. Enter the received code and click “Next” once again.
4. This is the final step, where you’re required to enter the new password you’d like to use to log into your Microsoft account.
5. Once through, go back to the log-in screen and try signing in with the new password. If you’re able to access your Windows 10 desktop in the first attempt, well and good but you may need to restart the system to apply the change.
Reset PIN From Lock Screen
If you’ve been locked out of your Windows 10 system because of an off-chance that you’re having trouble remembering the PIN you set last night, follow the step mentioned under to reset the PIN from the lock screen:
1. On the lock screen, click on the “I forgot my PIN” link under the log-in textbox where you usually enter your PIN.
2. Upon clicking the link, you’re greeted with a new screen that requires you to enter your Microsoft account password to confirm your identity. Click “Next” once you’re done.
3. You will now have to select one of your recovery options, as above, and enter the received code. Click “Next” to continue the process.
4. If the code entered is correct, you’ll be prompted to confirm whether you really want to update the PIN. Click Continue to do the same.
5. On the following screen, input the new PIN and click “OK” to save the change. You can now navigate back to the log-in screen and enter the new PIN to unlock your Windows 10 system.
If you’ve forgotten your login credentials and the option to reset the password or PIN is not available on your Windows 10 lock screen, it could be because of two cases. Either you have not updated your system to the latest Fall Creators Update or are using the system using a local account. You’ve not logged in using a Microsoft account, which is necessary to make it work.
SEE ALSO: How to Remap Keyboard in Windows 10 (Guide)
Password Resetting Made Simple with Windows 10 FCU
With building Windows 10-as-a-service, Microsoft has steadily been gathering feedback to make their operating system even more user-friendly and accessible for the masses. They are working to overcome the shortcoming of Windows 10 by being more involved with the user community. Login credentials are an important means of our privacy and security, so forgetting the passwords to access our accounts could be disastrous. Hence, a simple little addition to the lock screen goes a long way. What are your thoughts on this new feature of Windows 10 Fall Creators Update? Let us know in the comments down below.
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New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update
The Healing at Bethesda
1 After these things there was aa feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now there is in Jerusalem by athe sheep gate a pool, which is called bin 1Hebrew 2Bethesda, having five porticoes.
3 In these lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, and withered, [1waiting for the moving of the waters;
4 for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool and stirred up the water; whoever then first, after the stirring up of the water, stepped in was made well from whatever disease with which he was afflicted.]
5 A man was there who had been 1ill for thirty-eight years.
6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had already been a long time in that condition, He * said to him, “Do you wish to get well?”
7 The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when athe water is stirred up, but while I am coming, another steps down before me.”
8 Jesus * said to him, “aGet up, pick up your pallet and walk.”
9 Immediately the man became well, and picked up his pallet and began to walk.
aNow it was the Sabbath on that day.
10 So athe Jews were saying to the man who was cured, “It is the Sabbath, and bit is not permissible for you to carry your pallet.”
11 But he answered them, “He who made me well was the one who said to me, ‘Pick up your pallet and walk.’ ”
12 They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your pallet and walk’?”
13 But the man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away while there was a crowd in that place.
14 Afterward Jesus * found him in the temple and said to him, “Behold, you have become well; do not asin anymore, bso that nothing worse happens to you.”
15 The man went away, and told athe Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
16 For this reason athe Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.
17 But He answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I Myself am working.”
Jesus’ Equality with God
18 For this reason therefore athe Jews bwere seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, cmaking Himself equal with God.
19 Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, athe Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever 1the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner.
20 “aFor the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself is doing; and the Father will show Him bgreater works than these, so that you will marvel.
21 “For just as the Father raises the dead and agives them life, even so bthe Son also gives life to whom He wishes.
22 “For not even the Father judges anyone, but aHe has given all judgment to the Son,
23 so that all will honor the Son even as they honor the Father. aHe who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.
24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and abelieves Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and bdoes not come into judgment, but has cpassed out of death into life.
Two Resurrections
25 “Truly, truly, I say to you, aan hour is coming and now is, when bthe dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who chear will live.
26 “For just as the Father has life in Himself, even so He agave to the Son also to have life in Himself;
27 and He gave Him authority to aexecute judgment, because He is 1the Son of Man.
28 “Do not marvel at this; for aan hour is coming, in which ball who are in the tombs will hear His voice,
29 and will come forth; athose who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life, those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment.
30 “aI can do nothing on My own initiative. As I hear, I judge; and bMy judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but cthe will of Him who sent Me.
31 “aIf I alone testify about Myself, My testimony is not 1true.
32 “There is aanother who testifies of Me, and I know that the testimony which He gives about Me is true.
Witness of John
33 “You have sent to John, and he ahas testified to the truth.
34 “But athe testimony which I receive is not from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved.
35 “He was athe lamp that was burning and was shining and you bwere willing to rejoice for 1a while in his light.
Witness of Works
36 “But the testimony which I have is greater than the testimony of John; for athe works which the Father has given Me bto accomplish—the very works that I do—testify about Me, that the Father chas sent Me.
37 “And the Father who sent Me, aHe has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time nor seen His form.
38 “You do not have aHis word abiding in you, for you do not believe Him whom He bsent.
Witness of the Scripture
39 “1aYou search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is bthese that testify about Me;
40 and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.
41 “aI do not receive glory from men;
42 but I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves.
43 “I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; aif another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
44 “How can you believe, when you areceive 1glory from one another and you do not seek bthe 1glory that is from cthe one and only God?
45 “Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; the one who accuses you is aMoses, in whom you have set your hope.
46 “For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for ahe wrote about Me.
47 “But aif you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”
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This copy of Why England Slept offered for sale by James Cummins Bookseller for $50,000.00
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Why England Slept
By Kennedy, John F
Why England Slept is the published version of a thesis written by John F. Kennedy while in his senior year at Harvard College. Its title was an allusion to Winston Churchill's 1938 book While England Slept, which also examined the buildup of German power.
Available copies: Why England Slept By Kennedy, John F
Kennedy, John F.
New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc, 1940. First edition. xx, 252 pp. 8vo. Publisher's rose cloth. Spine faded, light wear to spine ends. First edition. xx, 252 pp. 8vo. JFK's First Book, Inscribed to Newsman Arthur Krock. The first edition of John F. Kennedy's first book, inscribed to Arthur Krock: "To Mr. Krock. Who Baptized, Christened, and was Best Man for this book - with my sincere thanks, Jack Kennedy." Arthur Krock (1886-1974), the "Dean of Washington Newsmen," was Washington correspondent and bureau chief for the New York Times and wrote the "In the Nation" column. He was a close friend and political ally of Joe Kennedy and his children. He advised John F. Kennedy with the revisions of his 1939 senior honors paper, "Appeasement in Munich," in preparation for its publication the following year. It was Krock who suggested the new title, Why England Slept, a response to Churchill's While England Slept. Krock would continue to advise the young Kennedy, who thanked him In the Preface to Profiles in Courage. Ted Kennedy wrote admiringly of Krock in his tribute volume to his father: "Mr. Krock has long been one of the most respected newsmen and columnists in Washington. He was won two Pulitzer Prizes for his work. He met Dad [Joseph Kennedy] during the New Deal years and won his deep admiration. Mr. Krock advised President Kennedy in the writing of his first book, Why England Slept, and has been a source of valued help to my brothers and myself" (Edward Kennedy, The Fruitful Bough: A Tribute to Joseph P. Kennedy, p. 112). [With:] As We Remember Joe. Edited by John F. Kennedy. Privately Printed: Cambridge, Mass, 1945. First edition, second issue. Original burgundy cloth. Fine copy. Inscribed, "For Martha and Arthur Krock, Bob Kennedy. Christmas 1965." Krock contributed a short reminiscence of Joe Kennedy from the 1940 Democratic National Convention, pp. 39-41. KENNEDY, Robert F. The Enemy Within. Harper & Brothers: New York, 1960. First edition. Publisher's cloth. Spine faded. Inscribed, "To Arthur Krock, With the thanks and admiration of his friend, Bob Kennedy." Krock wrote the foreword to The Enemy Within. The Fruitful Bough: A Tribute to Joseph P. Kennedy. Collected by Edward M. Kennedy. Privately Printed, 1965. Original blue cloth. Some scuffing to front cover. Inscribed, "To Arthur Krock, Who helped make The Fruitful Bough possible. With appreciation. Ted Kennedy. Sept 6 1965." With carbon of typescript of Krock's contribution to the volume as submitted for editing.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller
Condition: Publisher's rose cloth. Spine faded, light wear to spine ends
Why England Slept.
New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc, 1940. First edition of John F. Kennedy's first book. Octavo, bound in full blue leather, all edges gilt. The dedication copy of John F. Kennedy's first book, Why England Slept, with Rose Kennedy's embossed name on the front panel. This copy was specially bound for the author's mother, Rose Kennedy and presented to her. This copy brought $52,900 at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis sale at Sotheby's in May 1996. Housed in a full dark blue morocco clamshell box. Unique. Published the year Kennedy graduated from Harvard, Why England Slept was an expansion of his senior thesis. The title is a variation on the title of Winston Churchill's work, While England Slept, published about two years before Kennedy's. It was dedicated to John's parents, Rose and Joe Kennedy. In this work he attempts to explain why England was so poorly prepared for World War II and why England's leaders settled upon the disastrous policies of appeasement. The book served as a warning to those in our country who felt that appeasing Hitler and staying out of the war was a viable option. It became a bestseller in the United States and went through several printings in its first year. (Newcomb, 10)
Seller: Raptis Rare Books
Kennedy, John F
New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc, 1940. First edition of John F. Kennedy's first book. Octavo, original red cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Miss Brown with many thanks for her help in bringing out this book Best wishes Jack Kennedy." The recipient Mona Brown was a personal assistant and secretary to Joseph Kennedy for seven years, a period of time which included his ambassadorship to the United Kingdom. She was part of the Kennedy household's innermost circle and spent a considerable amount of time with the Kennedy children, especially young Jack and Kathleen. She transcribed Why England Slept for Jack, the basis for which was his Harvard thesis. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional association. Published the year Kennedy graduated from Harvard, Why England Slept was an expansion of his senior thesis. The title is a variation on the title of Winston Churchill's work, While England Slept, published about two years before Kennedy's. It was dedicated to John's parents, Rose and Joe Kennedy. In this work he attempts to explain why England was so poorly prepared for World War II and why England's leaders settled upon the disastrous policies of appeasement. The book served as a warning to those in our country who felt that appeasing Hitler and staying out of the war was a viable option. It became a bestseller in the United States and went through several printings in its first year. (Newcomb, 10)
New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc, 1940. First edition of John F. Kennedy's first book. Octavo, original red cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in a contemporary hand, "For Asa Bordages with best wishes Jack Kennedy." The recipient, Asa Bordages was a feature writer for the New York World-Telegram and playwright known for the 1941 play Brooklyn USA. Introduction by Henry R. Luce. Lightest of rubbing, near fine in a very good dust jacket with some small chips and wear to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Published the year Kennedy graduated from Harvard, Why England Slept was an expansion of his senior thesis. The title is a variation on the title of Winston Churchill's work, While England Slept, published about two years before Kennedy's. It was dedicated to John's parents, Rose and Joe Kennedy. In this work he attempts to explain why England was so poorly prepared for World War II and why England's leaders settled upon the disastrous policies of appeasement. The book served as a warning to those in our country who felt that appeasing Hitler and staying out of the war was a viable option. It became a bestseller in the United States and went through several printings in its first year. (Newcomb, 10)
New York: Wilfred Funk, 1940. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper sunning at the spine and touch of wear at the corners. Future president's first book.
Wilfred Funk, 1961. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy In Like Jacket New Edition (1961) First Rare Inscribed Copy by The Author "With Best Wishes John F.Kennedy." Ownership Inscription Very Rare Signed Excellent Copy. .
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB
Kennedy, John F.; Introduction by Henry R. Luce
New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc. , 1940. First Edition, First Printing of John F. Kennedy's first book. Near Fine, slight browning to end pages, topstain a bit lightened at spine end, in a Very Good dust jacket, front flap bottom corner clipped yet still showing Price $ with part of the 2 present ( see scan), light edgewear, rear wrappers soiled. Uncommon in the first edition, first printing. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: Dale Steffey Books
New York: Wilfred Funk, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 252 pp. First edition, first printing in dust jacket with publisher's price of $2.00 intact. Very Good, with patches of paper adhered to rear cover pulled from blank verso of the dust jacket. End sheets offset from binder's glue, small vintage bookseller's ticker to front free end paper. In a Very Good dust jacket with rubbing at the folds, soiling, chipping at the corners and spine ends, darkening to spine panel, and light staining which is mostly visible from the blank verso. Originally written as a thesis while JFK was still at Harvard, the book was conceived as a follow-up to Winston Churchill's While England Slept.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Wilfred Funk, New York, 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. boards a bit faded/dusty Dust Jacket chipped, spine sunned. Previous owner's book-plate. Dust jacket in mylar guard. Quantity Available: 1. Category: World War II; Great Britain. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 20726. .
Seller: ArchersBooks.com
Kennedy, John F. (Senator Edward Kennedy)
New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc, 1940. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very good/good. Octavo, xxx, 252pp, [5]. Red cloth boards, title printed in white on spine, bumped corner on front panel, edgewear at top of spine. Light toning to endpapers from dust jacket. In publishers first edition dust jacket, good condition, $2.00 price on front flap, blurb by Henry R. Luce on back panel and no mention of later printings on front panel. Chipping at edges, 2 inch closed tear along top of back panel, stain along lower section of spine, toning to spine, bright illustrations on front cover. Book is signed by Senator Edward Kennedy on bookplate affixed to front free endpaper (Newcomb, 10). This edition of Why England Slept is an expansion of John F. Kennedy's Harvard Thesis, which examined England's lack of preparedness for the rising threat of World War II.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good. Size=6.5"x9". (full book description) Easton Press, Norwalk, CT, 1992. VG+, LEATHER BOUND, DJ Not Issued. Size=6.5"x9", 252pgs. Black leather binding with 4 raised spine ribs, 2 red leather spine labels, gold stamped lettering & designs on spine & front cover, light blue moire silk endpapers, all around page end gold gilt & attached cloth page marker, owner name embossment on Half Title Page, Easton Press bookplate with owner name across from Title Page, small ink date stamp (2) inside rear endpaper, o.w. clean, bright & tight. Rest of book Like New. [] SELLING WORLDWIDE SINCE 1987. WE ALWAYS PACK WITH GREAT CARE!
Seller: Ed Conroy Bookseller
Why England Slept [Pre-Publication Issue]
Kennedy, John F. (Fitzgerals), Foreword By Henry R. Luce
New York: Wilfrid Funk, Inc., 1940. First Edition . Plain Wrappers. Very Good + Book/Good Dustjacket. 252 Pp. Probably The Earliest Published State Of The Book, Signatures Neatly Stitched With Nine Sets Of Stitching, But Unbound, Three Preliminary Blanks, Four Final Blanks. Red Pencil Note On Front Sheet, "Publication / Aug 1St /Price $2.00", (Actually Published In July According To Doris Kearns Goodwin), With Small "10", Written In Black Pencil On Verso., Possibly A Numbering For Control Of This Pre-Publication Copies. With The Unclipped Dj, With Printed Excerpt From Foreword On Rear Cover, Spine And Edges Worn And Chipped But Essentially Complete, Not Price-Clipped [$2.00], No Loss Of Lettering Or Design, Considerable Tape Reinforcement Inside, One Small Clear Tape Exterior Reinforcement. This Comes With With What May Be The Original Mailing Cardboard Reinforcement, Prestamped "U. S. Postage Paid 30 [Cents], St. Paul Minn Permit #4021, Special 4Th Class Book". A Rare Issue, As Would Be Any Advance Copies Of Presidential Books Prior To The 1970'S; These Seldom If Ever Become Available In The Trade.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books
Condition: Very Good + Book
London: Hutchinson & Co, n.d.. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Red cloth stamped in black. Very good/good +. 16mo 5" x 7." pp. [xii] xxxiii 37-25 plus 16 pp. ads. JFK's Harvard thesis as it was adroitly published through connections of his father, Joseph P. Kennedy who was serving as Ambassador to Great Britain at the time. Wear to head of spine, slightly leaning spine, edges toned, tiny closed tears to upper edges of front free end paper & half title page. In pictorial dust jacket with edge wear & chips to corners, but price intact. Personal library paste down on front end paper, no owner written in, covering name in blue ink, "L. Esconde Mondude / Winchmore Hill Rd. No. 21" Forward by Henry R. Luce. "With this new spirit alive in England my story ends. England is now awake; it had taken a great shock to bring home a realization of the enormity of the task it was facing. All the latent energy stored up in England during the last seven years is being expended in vigorous drive for victory. Industry and labour, the rich and the poor, are contributing to England's fight for survival, with the knowledge that this is a supreme test of democracy's ability to survive in this changing world." (p 217).
Seller: Montgomery Rare Books & Manuscripts
Published: n.d.
Edition: First U.K. Edition, First Printing
Hutchinson, 1940. Hardcover. Good. A first edition, first printing published by Hutchinson in 1940. The 1940 1st British edition of JFK.s first published book, his senior thesis at Harvard, analyzing England's decision to resist Hitler when it did (rather than even earlier). The book is good+ in its red cloth, with light staining and spotting at the panels and along the spine. Plus bibliography and publisher's ads. In a good+/very good unclipped wrapper with some light chipping to the spine tips and corners. Some wear and tear to the edges.
Seller: John Atkinson Books
Price: £ 475.00
($608.14)
Kennedy, John F. (Henry R. Luce, Intro)
New York, NY: Wilfred Funk, Inc., 1940. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Size=6"x8.5". (full book description) Wilfred Funk, Inc., New York, NY, 1940. 5th Printing, VG/VG-, Hard Cover, w/Dust Jacket. Size=6"x8.5", 252pgs(Biblio). 5th printing of 1940 First Edition. 1/2" DJ tear bottom rear edge, DJ nicked top/bottom edges, faint DJ stain head/foot of spine , DJ flaps glued to pastedown endpapers, ink owner on Title Page, page ends, endpaper hinges browned, o.w. clean and tight. Price unclipped. Text pages bright and in Near Fine condition. DJ is fairly bright. [John F. Kennedy; U.S. Presidents; Pre-WWII; History & Criticism; World War II; Unpreparedness; England; Collectible Books] SELLING WORLDWIDE SINCE 1987. WE ALWAYS PACK WITH GREAT CARE! 5th or later printing
New York, NY: Wilfred Funk, 1940. First edition. Octavo, pp.xxx; 252. Elegantly bound in half red oasis morocco over orginal pictorial cloth sides, raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Small ink mark to lower cover else a clean, fine copy. The published version of a thesis examining the rise of the German Reich, written by Kennedy during his senior year at Harvard University.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Rare Books
New York: Wilfred Funk, 1940. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Contemporary gift inscription, and a couple of very modest smudges on the boards, about fine lacking the dustwrapper. Future president's first book.
The Easton Press. As New with no dust jacket. 1992. Full-Leather. As New full leather edition, still in the original shrinkwrap. No names or bookplates. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 252 pages .
Seller: Elders Bookstore
Condition: As New with no dust jacket
The Easton Press. New with no dust jacket. 1992. Full Leather. New full leather hardcover edition, still in the original shrinkwrap. No names or bookplates. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
Condition: New with no dust jacket
HC, ex-library. First Ed., Stated Sixth Printing, Oct. 1940. G. No dj. Original red cloth binding. Corners & spine ends bumped & frayed. Hinges weak, but intact. Pages tanned, with light soiling. Pages firmly bound. Deckle edges.
Seller: Mid-York Library System
Condition: G
Kennedy, John F. (President)
London: Hutchinson of London, 1940. First UK edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo, red cloth, 1940 publisher's adverts. of 40 pp. JFK's first book, written as a senior thesis at Harvard. His father, Joseph P. Kennedy, influenced the publication of this as a book in England. Foreword by Henry R. Luce. Ex libris the Headmaster of Tunbridge Public School
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Edition: First UK edition
London: Hutchinson & Co, 1940. Cloth. Good. The 1940 1st British edition of JFK.s first published book, his senior thesis at Harvard, analyzing England's decision to resist Hitler when it did (rather than even earlier). Solid and G+ in its red cloth, with light staining -and spotting-- at the panels and along the spine. 12mo, 234 pgs. plus bibliography and publisher's ads.
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New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc, 1961. Reprint Edition. good, fair to good. 252, appendix, bibliography, foxing to fore-edge, DJ soiled, DJ edges worn and small tears, DJ in plastic sleeve. The original edition was published in 1940; this edition contains a new foreword by Henry R. Luce. John F. Kennedy originally wrote this book as his senior thesis at Harvard. He explores the short-term weaknesses of a democratic and capitalistic system, facing a totalitarian power, under the requirements of modern warfare.
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Condition: good, fair to good
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Praeger, 1981-10-16. Hardcover. Used:Good.
NY: Wilfred Funk, Inc.. Very Good in Good dustjacket. 1961. Hardcover. Some old damp-staining on the jacket's spine, else it is good to good+. The book is very good and clean. The dustjacket is now protected in a new, removable mylar sleeve. ; Foreword by Henry R. Luce. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" ; 252 pages .
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Condition: Very Good in Good dustjacket
Dolphin, 1962. First Edition THUS. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.First edition THUS. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Small chip missing from upper left hand corner of front cover. Binding is sound. Pages are intact and free of marks. Written in 1940, with the United States teetering on the brink of war with Germany and Japan, ""Why England Slept"" was originally written as future-President John F Kennedy's Harvard senior thesis. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
Dolphin. MASS MARKET PAPERBACK. B004N2PGO6 Condition: GOOD. (Book may have one or a combination of the following characteristics: former library book, dust jacket missing, cover wear, name written inside cover, considerable underlining/highlighting, remainder mark, binding loose, binding slants, pages tanning / curling, etc. Overall, the book is in decent shape. This is a blanket description. Please email us if you require a specific, detailed description of the book condition. We will typically respond within 24 hours). . Good.
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Greenwood Press Reprint, 1981-10-16. Hardcover. Good.
W. Funk, inc. Used - Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside.
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Why England slept [by] John F. Kennedy. 1940 [Leather Bound]
Kennedy John F. (John Fitzgerald) -.
2018. Leather Bound. New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization on request like complete leather, Golden Screen printing in Front, Color Leather, Colored book etc.) Reprinted in 2018 with the help of original edition published long back [1940]. This book is printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set, then it is only single volume. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. Lang: - eng, Pages 292. EXTRA 10 DAYS APART FROM THE NORMAL SHIPPING PERIOD WILL BE REQUIRED FOR LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. COMPLETE LEATHER WILL COST YOU EXTRA US$ 25 APART FROM THE LEATHER BOUND BOOKS.
Dolphin Books. 1962. Paperback. UsedGood. Paperback; fading and shelf wear to exterior; staining to back cover; newsp aper clipping affixed to the front end page, acompanied by a note; otherwis e in good condition with clean text and tight binding. .
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Doubleday. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Your purchase also supports literacy charities.
Doubleday. Used - Good. Good condition. Writing inside.
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New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc, 1961. Later printing. Hardcover. Fair. 1961, later printing. Hardcover, tan cloth. 252 pp. Fair, no dust jacket. Rubbing and fading to the boards; foxing to text-block; tight binding; clean interior.
Seller: Shadyside Books
Why England slept [by] John F. Kennedy. 1940 [Hardcover]
2018. Hardcover. New. Lang: - eng, Pages 292. Reprinted in 2018 with the help of original edition published long back [1940]. This book is Printed in black & white, Hardcover, sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set, then it is only single volume. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. (Any type of Customisation is possible). Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions.
Why England slept [by] John F. Kennedy. 1940
2018. Softcover. New. Lang: - eng, Pages 292. Reprinted in 2018 with the help of original edition published long back [1940]. This book is Printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Soft Cover {HARDCOVER EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE}, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set, then it is only single volume. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. (Any type of Customisation is possible). Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions.
Marine Food and Game Fishes of California
Fitch, John E. and Robert J. Lavenberg
1971. First Edition. Softcover. Fine/No dj. University of CA Press, Pub., Berkeley, CA., 1971, 1st edition, California Natural History Guides #28, Illustrations by Eric Templeton; Photographs by Daniel W. Gotshall and Charles H. Turner, fine condition, bound in illustrated paper wraps, paperback, J
TIMOTHY'S QUEST a Story for Anybody, Young or Old, Who Cares to Read it
BOSTON, MA: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO., 1891. twelfth thousand. HARDCOVER. VG.
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Stonehenge Winter Solstice Feast
Posted in Archaeologists, burial mounds, Druids, durrington walls, english culture, English Heritage, History, neolithic, prehistory, riverside project, sightseeing tours, Stonehenge, Stonehenge private tours, visit wiltshire on December 20, 2011| Leave a Comment »
A huge winter solstice feast might have taken place around Stonehenge some 4,500 years ago.
Abundant cattle and pig bones recently unearthed a few miles from the megalithic site suggest that prehistoric people celebrated the connection between the stone circle and the sky with hundreds of roasts.
According to initial research led by Mike Parker Pearson of the University of Sheffield, U.K., the animals were walked from different places and for hundreds of miles to be slaughtered immediately after arrival at Durrington Walls, a massive circular earthwork, or henge, two miles northeast of Stonehenge.
Parker Pearson’s research has shown that this site attracted people in droves as far back as Neolithic times.
“The considerable quantities of pig and cattle bones, pottery, flint arrowheads and lithic debris indicate that occupation and consumption were intense,” wrote Parker Pearson, who has was awarded a grant of £750,000 to analyse a range of materials found at the site.
So far, the archaeologist has found no evidence that Durrington was permanently inhabited. He believes that the intense human activity was linked to feasting during the solstices.
“The small quantities of stone tools other than arrowheads, the absence of grinding querns and the lack of carbonised grain indicate that this was a ‘consumer’ site. The midsummer and midwinter solstice alignments of the Durrington and Stonehenge architecture suggest seasonal occupation,” Parker Pearson said.
This year the winter solstice will be celebrated at Stonehenge on the morning of Thursday, December 22nd 2011
Stonehenge will open at 7.45 a.m. for people who brave the cold to watch the sun rise shortly after 8 a.m.
Full Article: http://news.discovery.com/
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Top 10 Ancient Origins of Christmas Traditions
Posted in British Folklore, british history, Celts, christmas, Christmas Tours, Christmas traditions, Druids, England facts, english culture, Stonehenge, Wiltshire on December 14, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The lights are up, Noddy Holder’s voice is ringing in your ears and you’ve already eaten all your advent chocolate in a gluttonous frenzy. Yes it’s Christmas; that time of year reserved for frantic last-minute shopping, burnt turkeys and half-drunk carols in the front room. It’s also the Christian celebration of Jesus’ birth, of course: and even that bears more than a passing similarity to the ancient god Mithra.
So where did some of the Christmas traditions we take for granted actually come from? The truth stretches back a lot longer than you might think. Here are ten yuletide customs born in the ancient world.
1. Christmas Trees
We might curse the fact that we’re still picking pine needles out of our toes come spring, but the idea of decorating your house with greenery at winter goes back thousands of years. King Tut may never have seen the multicoloured mess we put up with nowadays, but he would have had date palm leaves scattered around his royal abodes on the winter solstice.Evergreens were celebrated in Egypt as a reminder that, though the winter was harsh and yielded little, spring would come just as inevitably. The palm also spawned a shoot each month, meaning that by December (as it would become known) Egyptians weilded the leaves to show that the year was over. They’d have decorated with entire forests if they ever saw a European winter.
Soon Egypt’s tree-hugging tradition spread north to Italy, during the height of the Roman Empire. Palms were substituted for firs and other native species, on which tapers would be lit and burned in honour of Saturn, god of agriculture and justice, during the notoriously raucous Saturnalia festival. The custom migrated north to Germany and Scandinavia during the Middle Ages, resulting in today’s obsession.
2. Christmas Carols
Whether you enjoy strangers caterwauling on your doorstep or not, you can thank ancient pagans and their joyous celebrations of the stars. Song and dance were commonplace at the earliest stone circles of Europe: some think even Stonehenge was built with acoustics in mind.
As with the trees, special songs would be created for the winter solstice. In fact songs would be sung for each of the seasons, but the Christmas tradition stuck with the newly-created Christian faith, eager to commemorate Jesus Christ.
The first ‘proper’ Christmas carol can be dated back to ancient Rome in 129 AD, when a Roman bishop decreed that a song called ‘Angel’s Hymn’ should be sung during the Christmas service at Rome. Fast forward a few hundred years, and a Greek Orthodox Priest named Cosmas of Jerusalem (or Maiuma) wrote another famous hymn. Soon, the whole of Europe was singing at Christmas. Incidentally the tradition of singing to people whether they want to or not was invented some time around the 17th century. If someone had shown Cosmas he might not have bothered.
3. Santa
Millions of people still think Santa owes his current scarlet clobber to canny ad men at Coca-Cola. But it’s a belief that should have been consigned to the ‘urban myth’ bin many moons ago. The western world’s enduring image of a red-and-white-robed Santa owes more to his ancient ecclesiastical roots then a syrupy soft drink. Saint Nicholas was the Bishop of Myra, an Ancient Greek town of Lycia, modern Turkey, during the 4th century AD. Popular throughout the Christian world, he’s also known as ‘Nicholas the Wonderworker’ thanks to the large number of miracles attributed to him.
Nicholas’ association with the reindeer-propelled giver of gifts we all know today stems from his propensity for leaving coins in the shoes of those who gave to him (see stockings story below). This grew into a European Catholic tradition, whereby the poor would leave their shoes in church overnight. Coins would then be donated by rich patrons in a homage to Saint Nick’s generosity. Present-hungry kids also can thank Nicholas’ status as the patron saint of children when they’re maniacally tearing open a box of badly-rendered plastic rubbish.
The name ‘Santa Claus’, incidentally, didn’t come until the 19th century, as an evolution of the Dutch colloquialism Sinterklass. His name may have changed, but Santa still kept the ceremonial red robes of his ancient forebear. However many think the clothing may be an amalgam of Saint Nicholas’ and those of the Norman god of misrule, a red-robed character who would go about causing havoc during the winter solstice period. Santa didn’t always use reindeer to power him from house to house, either: many believe they are an evolution of the eight-legged grey horse of the Norse god Odin called Sleipnir, who could leap huge distances. Middle Ages children would leave out food for Sleipnir, a custom which continues to this day.
4. Yule Log
Like most things associated with Yule, a pagan festival largely attributed to the Germanic peoples of the medieval period, the yule loge can trace its roots back through some of the world’s most successful ancient civilisations. Today the burning of the yule log has become a marginalised affair, and can be carried out pretty much any time leading up to Christmas Day. Yet the log began its life as a yuletide tradition thousands of years back, in the earliest cities of Sumer and Egypt.
Egyptians believed that the winter solstice period marked the death and rebirth of their national god Horus, the god of the sky and the sun. Thus light was shed to celebrate him, and since Egypt was about 5,000 years from electricity a log would be burned for 12 days. This tradition carried into the cities of Sumer and Mesopotamia via the winter festival of Zagmuk, and would later become one of the features of the Roman celebration of Saturnalia, when a yule-style log was burned for ten days to usher in the strength of Mithra.
Saxons and Visigoths would latch onto the log as a symbol of good, or light prevailing over darkness, or evil. Ashes were prized for their supposed magical powers. Christians, most likely taking their lines from the Romans, would later adopt the log as a symbol for the light of Christ bringing the world from darkness.
5. Christmas Cards
Christmas cards may only have come into European vogue during the 15th century (thanks to the Germans, again). But their origins go back thousands of years before, to the greetings given in Ancient Egypt via ornately decorated papyrus. Related or not, the ancient Chinese are thought to be some of the greetings card’s earliest fans, exchanging simple messages to celebrate the New Year.
The invention of printing, and the west’s popularising of card-giving, wouldn’t arrive for another 1,500 years or so. You might expect the Chinese, with their longstanding obsession with fireworks (and blowing things up in general) to have invented the Christmas cracker too. Not so: desperate London sweet-seller Tom Smith invented it as an explosive panacea to his ailing bonbon trade, in 1847.
6. Mistletoe
When Tara from IT starts waving mistletoe at you from across the office with one suggestive eye on the stationery cupboard, you can thank ancient pagans for the group email the next day. Druids, to be precise: the ancient mystics saw the herb as having magical powers thanks to its evergreenness. Amongst its miraculous characteristics – curing illness, countering poison etc – mistletoe was thought to enhance virility.
Kissing under the mistletoe may date all the way back to the ancient Greeks; no strangers to free lovin’. Traditionally, kissing beneath the magical mistletoe would ensure a couple stayed happy. It was even used as a sort of natural proposal, and hung at marital ceremonies. Saxons then took on the mantle, associating the plant with Freya, goddess of love, beauty and fertility. Men could kiss any woman who found herself beneath a sprig of mistletoe, plucking a berry with each kiss. When the berries had all gone, the kissing was over. One suspects mistletoe was never in short supply at Saxon parties.
7. Presents
For retailers at least, Christmas is the biggest gift of all: whether we want to or not (boo to those in the latter category) we’ll all be trapsing the high street in search of something we can pass off as thoughtful, with more than half an eye on our wallets. Yet as much as the world hasn’t always been obsessed with Furbies, novelty ties and shaving kits, we’ve been giving and receiving gifts since the beginnings of society. Archaeologists have found evidence of personal decoration as far back as 70,000 years ago – and French anthropologist Marcel Israel Mauss establishes social bonds which establish respect and interdependence – key to social cohesion.
Fast forward a few thousand years, and gift-giving was a key part of Saturnalia, when masters would ceremoniously be ruled over by their slaves. Gifts were also seen as an important way to keep up good spirits during the long, cold winter. Of course Christians point to the Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh given to baby Jesus by the three wise men, though it’s worlds away from the capitalist scrums of today. The idea of presents being stuffed down the chimney pot may also have derived from ancient times. Germanic tribes would throw gifts onto fires as sacrifices for the gods. Thankfully my slippers stayed flame-free last year.
8. Feasting
It wouldn’t be Christmas without unholy doses of Turkey (or Goose, or nuts), bread sauce, potatoes and, of course, the only batch of Brussels sprouts you’ll eat all year. But, like most Christmas customs, feasting to see in the day has its roots in the earliest civilisations on the planet. The Mesopotamian festival of Zagmuk would traditionally involve great feasting, as the height of the winter ended, days became longer and farming could continue once more. Food was one way to usher in the sun, as was the case in Egypt with Horus – and later became part of the Saturnalia festival, a Roman middle-finger to the harsh European winter.
Goose had been used since ancient Egyptian times as the meat of choice for Winter Solsticers, a tradition which continued in Britain until the 16th century. Some credit Henry VIII with having introduced turkeys to our Christmas platters. The Spanish allegedly took on the turkey mantle from their conquered Aztec subjects, who had long domesticated the far juicier bird.
The Romans frequently ate Christmas ham, a custom still followed in many countries today, to celebrate the life of Adonis, god of rebirth and vegetation, who was killed by the tusks of a wild boar sent either by Artemis or Ares. A boar’s head is still roasted ceremonially each year at Oxford University. Though fruits, berries and spices had been used to make cakes in ancient times, the Christmas Pud we all know and love (and hate in equal measure) didn’t enter the annals of history until the 15th century.
9. Stockings
There are no steadfast stories as to the origin of the Christmas stocking, but one apocryphal tale has stood the test of time, true or not. And unsurprisingly it comes courtesy of Saint Nicholas’ legendary generosity. A poor man in Myra lost his wife, and was left to bring up his three young daughters alone. He became poor, and worried that he would not have enough money to pay any of his daughters’ dowries, as was the custom back then.
Enter Saint Nick, who, knowing the father would be too proud to accept money for his daughters, surreptitiously threw coins into his house, beside the hearth over a few nights. The family were drying their clothes by the fire at the time, so each day each daughter would wake up to receive a coin in their shoe or stockings. Some stories even say Nicholas chucked coins down the chimney; another reason why we have Santa throwing presents down the chimney nowadays.
10. The Nativity
Pushing the boundaries of ‘ancient’ somewhat, you can thank Saint Francis of Assisi for that heart-in-mouth moment you forgot your one and only line, ‘Sorry no room’, in front of over a hundred parents armed with cameras and pitiful expressions (or was that just me?). The famous Catholic deacon set up a living tableau in memory of Christ’s birth, using the accounts in the Gospels of Luke and John, in Greccio, near Rome, in 1223.
The tradition spread fast, leading to the annual humiliation of children that occurs in nearly every school in the western world, if not more. Catholics in Spain and Latin America also celebrate Las Posadas, a ritual re-enactment of the tribulations Mary and Joseph enduring before giving birth to Jesus. This can take place on any day from the 16th to the 24th of December.
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A Reading from Hyperion by John Keats
Posted in Druids, english culture, English Heritage, keats, stone circle, Stonehenge, Stonehenge private tours on December 1, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Scarce images of life, one here, one there,
Lay vast and edgeways; like a dismal cirque
Of Druid stones, upon a forlorn moor,
When the chill rain begins at shut of eve,
In dull November, and their chancel vault,
The Heaven itself, is blinded throughout night.
Each one kept shroud, nor to his neighbour gave
Or word, or look, or action of despair.
When we stand amid the columns of broken temples, gaze upon riddling hieroglyphics or trace the spiral patterns on cavern walls, we glimpse the gods of ancient times. Who or what were they? Did they really walk upon the earth? And could their weird and twisted forms possibly return to haunt our imagination?
In this extract from his poem “Hyperion,” Keats describes the Titans, the gods who ruled before the Olympians. Their power is waning. Try as they might, they cannot rouse themselves from lethargy and confusion. Soon, the charismatic Jupiter will wrest the throne from Saturn, the King of the Titans, and the names of Coeus, Gyges, Dolor, and Porphyrion will be banished forever—except perhaps to live on in poetry.
Every epoch must end, every vision of perfection replaced by another. (The Olympians will, of course, be themselves deposed by the God of the Christian era.) Take the idea of the zeitgeist. Changes in culture dictate what people believe and what they don’t believe, but where such changes spring from is remarkably tricky to pin down. They just happen to be blowing in the wind.
In a brilliant phrase, Keats compares the old gods to a “dismal cirque/ Of Druid stones,” linking the image of a stone circle with a dreary circus out of a nightmare, maybe because it goes nowhere, endlessly.
He evokes Stonehenge, whose massive blocks of granite have stood on Salisbury plain for more than 3,500 years. Was it a temple? An astronomical clock? A place for storing grain? Despite all the theories, no one has ever worked out its purpose. Even the Druids are a mystery, their way of life obliterated by the invading Romans.
Stonehenge is only one of hundreds of stone circles that dot the British countryside. West Cornwall, in particular, is full of sites such as the Merry Maidens, the Nine Maidens, the Hurlers and the Pipers. As the names suggest, there is a persistent myth that these stones were once human, whether women punished for dancing on a Sunday, or men for playing games—and it’s easy to imagine that it’s true, seeing their silent forms at dawn or dusk, on the borderline of reason and wonder.
Keats shows us the stones with the “chill rain” pattering down “at shut of eve,” as night takes hold and the light is extinguished. This is our world too, as we read the poem at the end of “dull November” and we prepare for the rigors of winter. The heavenly blue sky has turned into a “chancel vault,” enclosing the gods—and us—in a slate gray tomb. We all await our rebirth in the spring.
Beyond joy and despair, and through every season, the stones remain as an essential part of the landscape. Here are the thoughts of the artist JT Blight writing in The Gentleman’s Magazine back in 1868: “Nor is there any more impressive evidence of the mutability of human affairs than these rude, lichen-stained stones. They, themselves but the relics of once perfect structures, have yet, even in their ruined condition, outstood the downfall of cities, and have yet remained whilst palaces and the finest works of art have become mere refuse heaps, or have crumbled to dust.”
A Reading from ‘Lamia’ by John Keats
So what happens to the Titans in the poem? Do they die or do they return? It seems oddly fitting that we never discover. Keats abandoned his work halfway through, frustrated he couldn’t find a voice that was independent of Milton, author of the epic “Paradise Lost.” Keats’ decision was an act of rebellion, mirroring Jupiter’s insurrection against Saturn. Today, “Hyperion” resembles the Druid circle it describes: a magnificent, melancholy ruin, full of secrets for every reader who wanders in.
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/arts-entertainment/the-antidote-classic-poetry-for-modern-life-2-150671.html
John Keats (1795–1821) was an English Romantic poet. His most famous works include “Ode to a Nightingale,” “The Eve of St. Agnes” and “Lamia.”
Christopher Nield is a poet living in London.
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Forgive, But Remember - It Never Pays To Hold a Grudge
The saying is to "forgive and forget", but people aren't built that way. Once you feel you have been wronged, whether in a critical manner or one that is relatively trivial, it is practically impossible to erase the memory. But that doesn't mean you need to hold on to it - because for the most part, time does heal wounds, and the truth is, you never know the full story from the other person's perspective. Often, there will come a time when you will cross paths with that person again, and the next time, it just might be different.
Last month, I was asked by a well-known blogger if two of the public flare-ups we had on this site (with Mashable and Duncan Riley) had been for show, ostensibly for short-term traffic. I said that they were not contrived, but that we had come to terms quickly. Since the flare-ups, Mashable altered their editorial focuses, I've gotten to know some of the authors better, and others have moved on. Meanwhile, Duncan is a sharp guy who I often see on social networks, and bounce e-mails off of when we have ideas.
I was thinking of this again when I learned the news of Valleywag's changing of the guard today. As Owen Thomas departs, the void is set to be filled by Ryan Tate, previously the night editor at Gawker.
Eighteen months ago, I highlighted Ryan's launching of a new blog, called "The Hack", and at the time, I mentioned we had "occasionally clashed politically" more than a decade ago when we were both staff members at the Daily Californian student newspaper at UC Berkeley. He and I started working together back in 1996, both on the news authoring side, and the online publishing side. By the 1997-98 year, he was Editor In Chief at the newspaper, and by the 1998-99 year, I had moved on to work in the Silicon Valley (where I've been since).
Ryan and I had a lot of positive overlaps, as we collaborated on breaking news stories, longer investigate pieces, special sections and the online site's layout and focus. But of course, we bumped heads too. At the time, our clashes seemed critical, and now, they seem trivial. We both let those wounds heal and fade into the history, which is exactly what it was. And now, I am excited to see Ryan promoted to his new post, seeing it as another peer who emerged intact from the crucible which was the daily paper, where journalists and future bloggers were forged. One of these days, I should chase down all the names who were there when he and I shared spots on the editorial board, but they dot some of the top news media sources in the world.
I could have stayed ticked at Ryan, and he me. I could have turned my back on Duncan and Mashable too, but that's not fun, and it's not healthy. It's a small industry, and we're all working toward shared goals - to find interesting news quickly, and post with quality. Now, when the tendency is to get ticked, take things personally and go off on some rant, I know to hold my breath and pause. It's less exciting, and it doesn't get tons of traffic, but you won't see rants here, and I'm not carrying a grudge. You never know when you'll need these people again.
Congratulations, Ryan. I wish you well at your new post. But remember, if you come after me, I have 14 years of e-mail backed up. :)
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Macedonia in Europe or Belarus in the Balkans?
Democratic ConsolidationBy Bojan Marichikj November 5, 2015
At the dawn of the publication of the European Commission’s Progress Reports for 2015 the Macedonian political crisis is at its climax, while the way out of the deadlock seems distant and intangible. Since the I think establishment of the so called Przhino Agreement its implementation took more effort than anyone expected. This especially goes…
Kosovo’s SAA: sign of change in relations with EU non-recognizers?
EU IntegrationsBy Milan Nič November 3, 2015
Disagreements over Kosovo used to be among the most flagrant examples of how difficult it is to operate a common EU foreign policy. Consequently, does Kosovo signing the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) with the EU on 27 October in Strasbourg signal some shift in the respective positions of the five EU members that do…
Managing the Western Balkans Route
Democratic ConsolidationBy Branka Marijan October 30, 2015
The 17-point plan agreed upon by European representatives and key states along the Western Balkan migration route is a welcome step in managing the refugee crisis. However, it is only another step in what is likely to be a long and tiresome journey for all involved. Indeed, the plan is at best a band-aid solution.…
Sleepwalking in Brussels
Democratic ConsolidationBy Heiko Wimmen October 29, 2015
The declaration of the West Balkan Route summit makes no sense, except as part of a larger strategy to shut refugees out of Europe With several hundreds of thousands of refugees already on the move along the so-called ‘West Balkan Route’ to Central Europe, and thousands more arriving daily on the shores of Greece, any…
The Western Balkan Migration Plan: Solidarity and Burden-Sharing in a Zero-Sum World
Democratic ConsolidationBy Craig Damian Smith October 27, 2015
On Sunday evening the range of EU legislative and executive branches, UNHCR, and heads of state along the Western Balkan migration route issued a leader’s statement on a 17-point plan for tackling the migration crisis. The document reveals the basic contours of a plan for alleviating stress on Member States and the European project writ…
Protests in Podgorica: Montenegro’s spring or a battle for political points?
Democratic ConsolidationBy Jovana Marović October 20, 2015
On 17 October, early in the morning, police forces broke up a peaceful protest in front of the Montenegrin parliament. They removed tents that had been blocking traffic through the main streets of Podgorica, after their permit had expired seven days earlier. The protests of the Democratic Front, the opposition coalition in Montenegro’s parliament, were…
Small steps and (not so) great expectations. Notes from the Vienna Summit
EU IntegrationsBy Florian Bieber October 5, 2015
The Viennese Hofburg makes for a grand setting for any summit. When Western Balkan governments met with EU officials and representative from some EU member states, most notably Germany and Austria, but also Croatia, Slovenia and Italy, the planned signal was to show that EU enlargement is alive, as is regional cooperation. In comparison to…
The RS Referendum in Judges’ Hands
Democratic ConsolidationBy Stefan Graziadei August 17, 2015
Schach Matt to Dayton. An attempt to destabilize Bosnia. A political adventure with an unknown outcome. These thoughts sum up what the West and the RS opposition think of Dodik’s initiative to call a referendum on the powers of the High Representative and the BiH Court. While the confrontation between Dodik (supported by Russia) and…
Kosovo – A Country in the Making. The Case of Trade Policy
Socio-Economic TransformationBy Daniel Linotte August 12, 2015
Kosovo is not just a country in transition, it is also a new country, which means that state bodies had to be created, most often from scratch, new laws had to be adopted and enforced, and new policies had to be engineered and implemented – all in a newly established democratic environment, with competing political…
Kosovo’s Key-Assets to Address the Challenges of Transition
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Kosovo is one of the poorest countries in South Eastern Europe and, like other countries in the region, its liberal and democratic transition is de facto confronted with major challenges. However, despite transition problems, Kosovo does possess three key-assets that could be better mobilized to make the country more prosperous, namely its youth, the large…
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Yilmaz H, Sahin S, Sayar N, et al. Effects of folic acid and N-acetylcysteine on plasma homocysteine levels and endothelial function in patients with coronary artery disease. Acta Cardiol. 2007 Dec;62(6):579-85.
Treweeke AT1, Winterburn TJ, Mackenzie I, et al. N-Acetylcysteine inhibits platelet-monocyte conjugation in patients with type 2 diabetes with depleted intraplatelet glutathione: a randomised controlled trial. Diabetologia. 2012 Nov;55(11):2920-8.
Tan KS1, Lee KO, Low KC et al. Glutathione deficiency in type 2 diabetes impairs cytokine responses and control of intracellular bacteria. J Clin Invest. 2012 Jun;122(6):2289-300.
Liu J.The effects and mechanisms of mitochondrial nutrient alpha-lipoic acid on improving age-associated mitochondrial and cognitive dysfunction: an overview. Neurochem Res. 2008 Jan;33(1):194-203.
Xiang G, Pu J, Yue L, et al. α-lipoic acid can improve endothelial dysfunction in subjects with impaired fasting glucose. Metabolism. 2011 Apr;60(4):480-5.
Kamenova P. Improvement of insulin sensitivity in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus after oral administration of alpha-lipoic acid. Hormones (Athens). 2006 Oct-Dec;5(4):251-8.
Koh EH, Lee WJ, Lee SA, et al. Effects of alpha-lipoic Acid on body weight in obese subjects. Am J Med. 2011 Jan;124(1):85.e1-8.
Han T, Bai J, Liu W, et al. A systematic review and meta-analysis of α-lipoic acid in the treatment of diabetic peripheral neuropathy. Eur J Endocrinol. 2012 Oct;167(4):465-71.
Tang J, et al. Alpha-lipoic acid may improve symptomatic diabetic polyneuropathy. Neurologist. 2007 May;13(3):164-7.
Maczurek A, Hager K, Kenklies M, et al. Lipoic acid as an anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective treatment for Alzheimer's disease. Adv Drug Deliv Rev. 2008 Oct-Nov;60(13-14):1463-70.
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Think big — at least when it comes to global conservation
By Bioengineer On Feb 8, 2019
Canada and Russia have the most to lose or gain, say researchers
Credit: UBC Okanagan
According to a group of international researchers, the potential for large countries to contribute to environmental protection is being overlooked.
The researchers, spanning 13 universities and three countries, were led by UBC Okanagan’s Adam T. Ford and Liber Ero Postdoctoral Fellow Laura Coristine. They recently examined the leverage an individual country has when it comes to protecting ecosystem values. And they say it isn’t–nor should it be–a level playing field.
“Loss of habitat is currently the single biggest threat to biodiversity and is being driven by an ever-expanding human footprint,” says Ford. “Intact lands with low industrial footprint, is critical to maintaining the world’s biodiversity.”
Ford, a Canada Research Chair in Wildlife Restoration Ecology, says the researchers calculated the land mass of the world’s countries and then compared this to the availability of ecosystem values. The eight largest countries–Russia, Canada, America, China, Brazil, Australia, India and Argentina–account for 50 percent of the Earth’s land area. However, those same countries represent barely three percent of the world’s nations.
“Larger countries accumulate greater amounts of ecosystem values,” says Ford, and so, the power to make decisions that affect the world’s remaining ecosystem values is concentrated in the hands of only a few nations.
For this latest research, the team evaluated six globally significant ecosystem values for all of the world’s countries: intact lands, freshwater availability, productive marine environments, breeding habitat for migratory wildlife, soil carbon storage and the potential for range shift in the face of climate change. By closely examining these specific values, Coristine says the team revealed several overlooked opportunities for high-impact contributions to global conservation.
For example, when it comes to freshwater availability, Coristine explains that more than 75 per cent of the world’s total water supply (surface and glacier stored) is found in only three countries–China, Canada and Russia. How these countries manage and protect these water supplies matters to the world as a whole.
“For nations with a large volume of both surface and glacier-stored water, water policies and management of the ‘tap’ will have consequences not only for the global persistence of a wide variety of ecosystems,” she says, “but also for global water security.”
The same argument can be used when it comes to the continental shelves. Generally, the management of continental shelves belongs to the adjacent nation. That country’s domestic policies can have a tremendous impact on the sustainability of marine resources, with trickle-down effects to nations with much smaller contributions to the continental shelf area.
The countries that are the largest contributors to the global supply of continental shelf area are Russia, Canada, the USA and Australia. Russia and Canada top the list when it comes to intact wilderness and half of the world’s least impacted lands occur in those two countries.
Given the biogeography and variation in the area of the world’s nations, the domestic policies of a few nations, including Canada and Russia, can disproportionately influence the global supply of ecosystem values. At the same time, the national policies of these nations can have environmental repercussions for the rest of the world.
“Conservation superpowers–like Canada and Russia–have much greater leverage than we would predict based on their land mass,” says Coristine. “They have tremendous potential to impact global conservation outcomes through accumulation of ecosystem values and through policies that support conservation.”
Their research was published recently in Conservation Biology.
Nathan Skolski
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NFL Playoff Schedule 2017: Predictions, Coverage Guide for Championship Bracket
David McCracken@crackemcTwitter LogoFeatured ColumnistJanuary 18, 2017
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Championship Game Weekend is the NFL's equivalent to the Final Four. Four teams will enter, but only two will advance for a chance to hoist the Lombardi Trophy.
In the AFC, two usual suspects emerged, as the New England Patriots, led by Tom Brady, host Ben Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Playing the Patriots in New England is a tall task for any team, especially in the postseason. But the Steelers are one of the few teams in the league who have the right amount of fire power on offense to stay around in any game.
In the NFC, the Atlanta Falcons get one more chance to say farewell to their beloved Georgia Dome as they host the Green Bay Packers in the stadium's last game before the Falcons move to their new arena next season.
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But looking to spoil Atlanta's day will be the Packers, who are anchored by arguably the best quarterback in football right now. Aaron Rodgers has been on fire since the second half of the regular season began, which is a main reason why the Packers have won eight straight games heading into Sunday's matchup against the Falcons.
After knocking out the No. 1 seeded Dallas Cowboys in the NFC Divisional Round, does Green Bay have what it takes to win another road game in a hostile environment?
Before we get into any predictions, let's take a look at all the information you'll need to know about these two games.
NFC/AFC Championship Game Info
Date Teams Location Time (ET) National TV
Sunday, Jan. 22 Green Bay Packers vs. Atlanta Falcons Georgia Dome, Atlanta, GA 3:05 p.m. Fox
Sunday, Jan. 22 Pittsburgh Steelers vs. New England Patriots Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, MA 6:40 p.m. CBS
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The Falcons proved that they belong in the conversation of the NFL's elite, as did quarterback Matt Ryan, who put on another dazzling display last weekend against the Seattle Seahawks in a 36-20 win. Ryan threw for 338 yards and three touchdowns with zero interceptions.
Ryan had a field day against the Legion of Boom, proving to his critics that he can win in the playoffs and cementing his status as the front-runner for the league's MVP award.
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But the Falcons are much more than just Ryan. With the likes of Julio Jones, Mohamed Sanu, Devonta Freeman and Tevin Coleman, Atlanta possesses a variety of options on offense that can stop any defense in its tracks.
And don't sleep on Atlanta's defense either.
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On the other side of the field, the Packers have been nursing some injuries for most of the season. Having lost Eddie Lacy during the regular season and Jordy Nelson against the New York Giants in the wild-card round, Green Bay has been relying on the ability of its signal-caller and playmakers to carry them through the playoffs.
And so far, it's worked.
After defeating the Giants, the Packers went into a very hostile AT&T Stadium to take on the Cowboys and were able to outlast Dallas in the dying seconds of the game thanks to a 51-yard field goal from Mason Crosby to win 34-31.
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The Packers have made it this far, but do they have enough to beat Atlanta? I don't think so.
The Falcons just have too much firepower on offense, and its defense is very underrated, as the Seahawks found out this past weekend. The Falcons will be more motivated than ever to win their last game in their old stadium and make a Super Bowl appearance, and it's hard to imagine that the Packers have any more magic in them to pull off the upset.
Prediction: Falcons defeat the Packers, 30-27
After a convincing 34-16 victory over a frustratingly mediocre Houston Texans, the Patriots will face the complete opposite of the Texans as the dynamic Steelers offense comes into town.
Alongside Roethlisberger are the two most versatile playmakers in the NFL in Antonio Brown and Le'Veon Bell.
Bell, to no one's surprise, was the catalyst for the Steelers against the Kansas City Chiefs on a day that Pittsburgh was desperate for some big plays. While they didn't score a touchdown in their 18-16 victory in the AFC Divisional Round, the Steelers had just enough production from Bell to end Kansas City's Super Bowl hopes.
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Le'Veon Bell set a Steelers single-game postseason rush record last week with 167 Rush Yards. He beat that record tonight. https://t.co/SP8MK2dWBj
But a standout performance from Bell alone won't be enough this weekend against the Patriots, especially if Pittsburgh can't find the end zone.
The Patriots know how to neutralize a team's best players, and they did so against the Steelers back in Week 7 when they won 27-16. While Roethlisberger didn't suit up that week, the Patriots were still able to figure out a way to keep Bell and Brown out of the end zone, despite the fact that both players put up a combined 268 total yards from scrimmage (149 yards for Bell, 119 yards for Brown), according to ESPN.com.
Brady had a good but not great performance overall against the Texans as he turned the ball over twice against a stout Houston defense. It was a good thing that the Texans offense wasn't capable of moving the ball down the field, because otherwise the Patriots would've regretted those turnovers. But against the Steelers? They'll make you pay for coughing up the football.
Having said that, I feel that Brady will make sure ball security is the No. 1 priority for his offense on Sunday, as they will be able to pick apart Pittsburgh's secondary and move the ball down the field thanks to the likes of Julian Edelman and Dion Lewis out of the backfield, who burst onto the scene against the Texans with three touchdowns.
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The Steelers will be able to keep up with the Patriots until Brady gets the ball with the final possession of the game. It's difficult to imagine New England losing an AFC Championship Game at home, and it won't start this season.
Prediction: Patriots defeat the Steelers, 28-27
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Movie Review: Noah
Alan Zilberman March 28, 2014
Film & TV 05 min read
The worst thing Darren Aronofsky could have done with Noah, his big-budget biblical epic, is to make it timid. The story of Noah’s Ark is one of the oldest in Western Civilization, and while the cutesy Sunday school version is digestible for kids, the story still deals with God’s wrath and the extinction of humanity. These ideas require confident direction, and Aronofsky rises to the task with a mix of action, awe, horror, vulnerability, and intellectual depth. Unlike The Fountain, Noah does not veer toward gorgeous folly territory, although Aronofsky’s ambition does get the better of him. This is an epic with purpose, one that will challenge and frighten the devout and non-believers alike.
Clint Mansell’s haunting, jangly score establishes the tone from the get-go. Aronofsky and his co-screenwriter Ari Handel breathlessly cover the basics of Genesis with their prologue, and frightening surreal imagery accompanies their description of the Fall of Man, as well as Cain murdering Abel. We first meet Noah when he’s a boy, and his father falls victim to Cain’s wicked descendants. It follows that as a man, Noah (Russell Crowe) chooses to live far away from civilization, alongside his wife Naameh (Jennifer Connelly) and their three sons. Noah notices a minor miracle while foraging the land one day, and a subsequent nightmare implores him to go on a journey to visit his grandfather Methuselah (Anthony Hopkins). Though some hallucinogenic tea, Methuselah forces a more intense vision on Noah: the world is going to end, and he must build an ark to protect the innocent.
All the trailers for Noah show the conflict between our hero and Tubal-cain (Ray Winstone), a fearsome leader of the wicked, and they’re also hiding some important characters. They’re fallen angels, and they look like, well, gigantic rock people. These larger than life characters are ridiculous, Aronofsky knows this, yet his backstory justifies their presence in the film. The watchers are angels who chose to help mankind in defiance of God, and they take their shape because they melt/react with the earth once they land hit the ground. It’s a creepy transformation, and they’re tragic creatures since their outer ugliness betrays the divine light hiding within. The fallen angels are instrumental to the construction of the ark, as well as defending it from Tubal-cain and his hordes.
Aronofsky turns his attention away from the animals – they’re important, but wrapped up in minutes – in favor of the family dynamics. Noah’s children are acutely aware they must propagate mankind after the flood, so his adopted daughter Ila (Emma Watson) weeps since she’s barren (she lives Shem (Douglas Booth), Noah’s oldest). His middle son Ham (Logan Lerman) is more intriguing since his desire for a wife coincides with adolescence. Ham pleads his father for help, and begins questioning his wisdom once he gets cock-blocked. These sub-plots are put on hold, however, once the flood starts. The enormity of it is awesome: there’s an action sequence before Noah becomes a disaster film, as it must. The loss of humanity does not end once the ark’s door is shut. In Noah’s most haunting moment, the family sits around the fire while there are wails from the outside we see literal pile of humanity who struggles to avoid death. This is not the Noah where an elephant and giraffe make friends.
But for all its remarkable cinematography, including the primordial depiction of a decimated planet and the barbarous nature of Cain’s descendants, Aronofsky and Handel save the heavy material for the long journey aboard the ark. Tubal-cain is a stowaway, for one thing, and he poisons Ham’s mind with the idea that God’s nothing but a bully (this is a well-taken idea, although it’s abandoned once Tubal-cain is nothing but a run-of-the-mill villain). Noah, on the other hand, must deal with horrible commands from God. He intuits that He does not humanity to thrive in a post-flood world, so he handles his family with increasing hostility. This is challenging material for any actor, and Crowe’s admirably transitions from a decent man into one whose mind is warped by divine incongruity. Crowe undergoes a physical transformation during these scenes, and it’s no accident that he looks more Godlike as he enforces a heartbreaking policy.
Crowe is no stranger to historical epics, although Noah predates history, so Connelly and Watson seem more out of place. Naameh is mostly a thankless role – to Connelly’s credit, she seems otherworldly in her tender moments with Noah – but the film finds its moral center once she stands up to him. All the dialogue in Noah is simple and forceful, as if the characters only understand good and evil without nuance, so it’s telling that Connelly finds genuine rhetorical forcefulness. Watson always feels out of place, and Aronofsky uses that to his advantage. When Ila becomes a victim, she seems defenseless and meek while under Noah’s cruel gaze. The intimacy of the climax is about the clash between strength and mercy, and the physical disparity between the actors adds an extra level of suspense.
Aronofsky never depicts God in Noah, and he only refers to Him as “The Creator.” This is ultimately a wise choice: not only would Noah and others have any concept of a biblical God – none of them could read, presumably – but this also adds a level of fear between man and his Maker. Aronofsky cements this relationship in a hallucinatory sequence, one that blends photography with animation, where we see the entire creation story (this is sure to be controversial since there is literal evolution from beast toward man). Noah obeys and fears God, even when His instructions are cruel. The masterstroke of Noah, one that makes it an important film, is that Noah’s ultimate mercy coincides with God’s. By the time we see the magisterial rainbow, it’s a reward full of humility since Noah and God surprise each other through reserves of goodness they finally could not deny.
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ART TECH Exhibition: Infinite Space by Refik Anadol ARTECHOUSE 1238 Maryland Ave SW, Washington, DC 20024
19jul10:00 am10:30 pmART TECH Exhibition: Infinite Space by Refik Anadolat ARTECHOUSE10:00 am - 10:30 pm ARTECHOUSE
Step inside Infinite Space, the first major retrospective of the work of award-winning, artist Refik Anadol, and open your senses to the endless transformation
Step inside Infinite Space, the first major retrospective of the work of award-winning, artist Refik Anadol, and open your senses to the endless transformation and infinite possibilities at the intersection of man and machine.
How to perceive or imagine infinity has always been one of the central questions of representation in art. ARTECHOUSE’s Summer exhibition attempts to answer it through data sets from memories, culture and space.
The exhibition explores memories and dreams through the mind of a machine by using the tools available to twenty-first-century artists – datasets ranging from human memories, photographs of Mars, cultural archives and sea surface activity as data sculptures and paintings. As part of the exhibition visitors will get to experience Anadol’s world traveled immersive installation titled “Infinity Room” seen by more than a million people around the world, including a half million during a tour in China alone last year, three infinity boxes and a selection of multimedia works spanning his celebrated career.
Recommended Ages 6
On View June 13 – September 2 at ARTECHOUSE / Washington, DC
For Tickets & Details visit: https://www.dc.artechouse.com
Daytime Admission:
Daily // 10AM – 5PM
After Hours Admission (21 ):
Sun – Thu // 5PM – 10PM
Fri & Sat // 5:30PM – 11:30PM
(Friday) 10:00 am - 10:30 pm
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A Closer Look: OBJECTS: USA at 50 Smithsonian American Art Museum 8th and F Streets, NW, Washington, DC 20004
19jul3:00 pm6:00 pmA Closer Look: OBJECTS: USA at 503:00 pm - 6:00 pm Smithsonian American Art Museum
Join us for an afternoon symposium featuring scholars, artists, and curators who discuss the importance and legacy of the studio craft exhibition, OBJECTS: USA, which premiered at SAAM in 1969.
Join us for an afternoon symposium featuring scholars, artists, and curators who discuss the importance and legacy of the studio craft exhibition, OBJECTS: USA, which premiered at SAAM in 1969. This groundbreaking exhibition featured more than 500 artworks by 308 American craftspeople. Fifty years later, we look at the impact it had at the time and discuss how it still resonates today.
3:10 Paul Smith, co-curator of OBJECTS: USA, discusses the history of the exhibition and how it came together.
3:45 Janet Koplos, co-author of MAKERS, explores the impact of the exhibition on the studio craft movement.
4:20 Roseanne Somerson, craft furniture maker and President of the Rhode Island School of Design, talks about how the exhibition impacted her as a craftsperson and the influence of the exhibition on a generation of studio craft artists.
5:00 Glenn Adamson, independent scholar, Sarah Archer, independent craft writer, and Tanya Aguiñiga, artist, discuss the impact of OBJECTS: USA on the craft world today and how it still resonates within the studio craft movement.
5:30 Question and Answer session with all speakers.
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Hubert Henry Davies’ “The Mollusc” The Writer 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, MD 20815
19jul8:00 pmHubert Henry Davies’ “The Mollusc”Directed by Jack Sbarbor8:00 pm The Writer
“You are guaranteed to leave The Molluscwith a smile on your face and warmth in your heart,” raved DC Theatre Scene about QTC’s “spot-on” 2008 production of Davies’ Edwardian comedy
“You are guaranteed to leave The Molluscwith a smile on your face and warmth in your heart,” raved DC Theatre Scene about QTC’s “spot-on” 2008 production of Davies’ Edwardian comedy of ill manners. A decade later, QTC restages one of its most popular productions about Dulcie Baxter, the “mollusc”, who has an unusual, yet hilarious affliction. Perfect summertime entertainment.
30&UNDERs pay only $15 on ALL FRIDAYS!
Running time about 2 hours with intermission
19 (Friday) 8:00 pm
4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, MD 20815
America The Game Show. F*ck Yeah! Gala Hispanic Theatre 3333 14th St NW, Washington, DC 20010
19jul9:00 pmAmerica The Game Show. F*ck Yeah!presented by Astro Pop Events9:00 pm Gala Hispanic Theatre
Beer pong with Uncle Sam, a hula hooping drag Statue of Liberty, sexy Benjamin Franklins, naked drunk history lessons, Price is Right-style gaming, and many more UNREDACTED antics await you
Beer pong with Uncle Sam, a hula hooping drag Statue of Liberty, sexy Benjamin Franklins, naked drunk history lessons, Price is Right-style gaming, and many more UNREDACTED antics await you at AMERICA THE GAME SHOW. F*ck Yeah!
In this glitzy and outlandish production, VOLUNTEER audience contestants come on down for 8 EPIC GAMES inspired by good ‘ole American hearsay, hanky-panky, and history.
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ABOUT ASTRO POP EVENTS
Astro Pop has been bringing artists and audiences together for over a decade to create unique and off-beat entertainment. The group specializes in short-run, high-impact, event-style theater. Their credits include America The Game Show (since 2016), Elvis’ Birthday Fight Club (since 2011), and Countdown to Yuri’s Night (2008 – 2015). They have also done wacky side stuff like concocting crazy floats for DC’s Funk Parade.
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DRAG CLIMB: PULSE House of Fitness PULSE House of Fitness 1401 New York Avenue NW #100
20jul11:00 am11:30 amDRAG CLIMB: PULSE House of Fitness11:00 am - 11:30 am PULSE House of Fitness
Get ready to sashay and sweat on our VersaClimbers to the sassy choreography of our senior instructors. Expect a fun total body workout with exhilarating music and epic choreography. You
Get ready to sashay and sweat on our VersaClimbers to the sassy choreography of our senior instructors. Expect a fun total body workout with exhilarating music and epic choreography. You will incinerate calories, release endorphins and elevate your day.
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Dîner en Noir
20jul4:00 pm9:30 pmDîner en NoirWashington, DC4:00 pm - 9:30 pm Secret Location to be revealed to guests day of event
Join Dîner en Noir - Washington, DC for an elegant evening of dining, partying & communion over the love & support of the local arts & business community. Guests
Join Dîner en Noir – Washington, DC for an elegant evening of dining, partying & communion over the love & support of the local arts & business community.
Guests will enjoy a fully-curated 3-part, black-attire, themed dining experience consisting of an Aperitif Cocktail Hour, Seated Dinner and Digestif “After-Diner” Party hosted at a secret location in Washington, DC.
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The Miami Heat Advance to NBA Finals
For the second year in a row, the Miami Heat found themselves playing a pivotal Game 7 on their home floor. While most people picked Miami to defeat Indiana in the series, after Indiana’s dominance in Game 6 and their general dominance inside throughout the series, the outcome was very much in doubt. Well, that … Continue reading The Miami Heat Advance to NBA Finals
Heat Dominate Pacers in Game 3
During the first two games of this Eastern Conference Finals series, the Indiana Pacers forced the Miami Heat to read from their script. There was some question heading into Game 3 if LeBron James would continue to be a one-man show, or if he would get a lift from his teammates. Well, his teammates answered … Continue reading Heat Dominate Pacers in Game 3
The narratives have diverged quite a bit after Game 2. While much of the talk coming from both clubs seemed eerily similar after Miami's “We can’t get too high after this. We have to keep our composure. We still made some mistakes defensively, but we just have to continue to focus, and be prepared for … Continue reading Heat vs Pacers: What to Watch For in Game 3
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Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals tips off at 8:30 pm tonight at the American Airlines Arena in downtown Miami. Coming off an epic finish to Game 1, both teams will jostle for control of the series tonight. Miami, fresh off the last-second rescue by LeBron James, seeks to hold serve on their homecourt, … Continue reading Heat vs Pacers: What to Watch For In Game 2
James Rescues Heat in OT, Miami Takes Game 1
“Welcome to the Eastern Conference Finals,” Heat head coach Erik Spolestra said as he sat at the podium after the team’s 103-102 Game 1 victory. And what a welcome it was. LeBron James rescued the Heat in overtime as his running layup attempt at the buzzer sent the crowd, a moment removed from gasping and … Continue reading James Rescues Heat in OT, Miami Takes Game 1
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5 things you need to know about Wonder Woman Gal Gadot
Big reveals are the name of the game at San Diego Comic Con and Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice director Zak Snyder used the opportunity to tease fans with an early look at an official poster for his 2016 film.
The poster shows Wonder Woman, portrayed by Israeli model and actress Gal Gadot, carrying a sword instead of her iconic golden lasso. Even the costume is a deviation from the original – Gal is dressed in a leather bustier and skirt, looking more akin to Xena Warrior Princess than the character made famous by Lynda Carter in the 1970s.
But just who is Gal? And where might you know her from? Here are five interesting facts about this rising star who is set to win hearts as the iconic champion of justice:
TRAINED SOLDIER:
The 29-year-old model-actress was a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces for two years. She signed up as a Sports Trainer at age 20 and was able to continue with modelling work.
HOTELIER:
Gal and her husband, Yaron Varsano, own a hotel in the Neve Tzedek district of Tel Aviv.
CASTING COUCH:
Gal originally auditioned for the role of Camille Montes, the Bond girl in Quantum of Solace, but didn’t get the part. Instead, the casting directors hired her for Fast & Furious.
FUNNY LADY:
In Date Night, starring Tina Fey and Steve Carrel, Gal plays Natanya, Mark Wahlberg’s girlfriend who attempts to have a foursome with the married couple.
Gal married her husband, Yaron Versano, in 2008, and the couple welcomed their first baby, Alma, in late 2011.
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March 27, 2019 / 11:16 AM / 4 months ago
UPDATE 5-Southwest trims first-quarter outlook after 737 MAX groundings
Rachit Vats, Sanjana Shivdas
* Trims RASM, capacity outlook for Q1
* Raises cost forecast for current qtr
* Sees $150 mln in Q1 revenue loss (Adds analyst comment, background; updates shares)
By Rachit Vats and Sanjana Shivdas
March 27 (Reuters) - Southwest Airlines Co on Wednesday was the first major U.S. airline to formally cut its financial outlook for the year after being forced to pull its new fleet of 34 Boeing 737 MAX planes out of service.
The Dallas, Texas-based airline, which has struggled with maintenance problems and a harsh U.S. winter, estimates it will have canceled 9,400 flights between mid-February and March 31, reducing growth in its number of available seats to just 1 percent compared to a year ago.
That compared with a forecast of around 3.5 percent to 4 percent in late January. The reduction also led it to cut growth in another closely-watched measure - revenue per available seat mile (RASM) - by a full percentage point.
Overall it estimated it would lose $150 million in revenue in the quarter compared to previous expectations.
“(We) experienced softness in passenger demand and bookings related to the government shutdown, resulting in an estimated $60 million negative revenue impact in first quarter 2019,” Southwest said.
“Trends have also been negatively impacted by more winter weather disruptions than expected, unscheduled maintenance disruptions, further softness in leisure-oriented passenger demand and yields, and the MAX groundings.”
Southwest also now estimates first-quarter unit costs to increase about 10 percent, compared with its previous forecast of about 6 percent because of flight cancellations. This figure excludes fuel costs and profit-sharing expenses.
U.S. airlines and manufacturers, along with Wall Street, have been slow to estimate losses from the fallout of the Ethiopian Airlines crash on March 10, which killed 157 and led to the worldwide grounding of Boeing’s new MAX jets.
Southwest said of its expected cancellations, about 3,800 would be weather-related and about 2,800 due to unscheduled maintenance disruptions and the grounding of the 737 MAX 8.
Its larger rival, American Airlines, has so far said only that it was cancelling around 90 flights per day as a result of the grounding of its own 24 Boeing 737 MAX planes. No. 3 U.S. carrier United Airlines has 14 of the planes.
United Airlines and Air Canada had earlier warned of a hit to their business due to the groundings, with the Canadian carrier suspending its 2019 financial forecasts.
“The impacts associated with the MAX are contained to Southwest, American, and United, though are most acute for Southwest per today’s update,” Morgan Stanley analyst Rajeev Lalwani said.
Airlines shares, including those of Southwest, were up in late afternoon trading on optimism that the worst is over for the 737 MAX now that Boeing has put forward a plan for fixing the aircraft.
TOUGH APRIL FOR AIRLINES
Boeing is this week briefing airlines on software and training updates for the MAX, with more than 200 airline pilots, technical experts and regulators from around the world due to visit the Renton, Washington, facility where the 737 is assembled.
As well as approval from the Federal Aviation Administration, any MAX software fixes will need a green light from governments around the world, which could take months.
While shares of the world’s biggest plane manufacturer have fallen around 12 percent since the March 10 crash, Wall Street has been slow to predict major financial implications.
“(Our) base case is a multiple-month grounding punctuated by a manageable fix; meaning the stock can resume its move into the $400s with a path to more than $500,” analysts from U.S. bank Citi said.
Another analyst, Cai von Rumohr, said most of the immediate impact on airlines was likely to be in March and April given the leisure-oriented spring break travel period.
“We still see a tough Q1, marred by the government shutdown, weather, and MAX grounding; and Q2 will be affected through at least April, probably longer,” he said.
Boeing shares were down about 1 percent at $367.82 on Wednesday.
Reporting by Rachit Vats and Sanjana Shivdas in Bengaluru; Editing by Patrick Graham, Bernard Orr
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This is a highly collaborative role, which requires liaising closely with the PGLs and AD, while also working on a daily basis with office-based Talent Management colleagues. It is a hands-on position that requires proactive and reliable business partnering advice and service to the assigned PGLs and to the lawyers within the NATPG.
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Home News Celtic Star Explains His Parkhead Disappearance
Celtic Star Explains His Parkhead Disappearance
One Celtic player who has gone under the radar since Brendan Rodgers leaving has finally poked his head above the parapet after a turbulent month at Celtic Park.
Emilio Izaguirre came in and done a job for Celtic when Kieran Tierney went down with an injury in December and played a lot of games for the club he thought he may not have got this season.
However, after the Valencia home game, the player was dropped by Brendan Rodgers and Jonny Hayes got a run out at the Mestalla and did well. Emilio hasn’t been seen since that game and has been absent from all of Neil Lennon’s Celtic squads so far. With so much going on and Keiran Tierney returning to the team, nobody has noticed Izzy hasn’t been there. When injuries have been asked about, Lennon has spoken about Benkovic, McGregor, Ntcham, Rogic and Christie and left Emilio out of the round-up.
The Honduran defender has spoken out about what’s going on with him as he gets set to play for his country during international week.
“I played in about 15 games from November to February and was enjoying it with no problems.
“Unfortunately, I’ve injured my ankle at the start of March and have been missing since. Izzy told RecordSport “But I am back in full training now and I feel I am ready to take the next step.
“I could have called off from playing for my national team because of the injury, but I never say no to them. And it will be a help for me if I get some game time.
“I’m been representing my country for 12 years so far with enormous pride. When I was a 20-year-old, we had players in the squad who were 37 and they helped me.”
Izzy is out of contract in the summer after only signing a short term deal with the club to return last year.
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Still Trying To Catch Up With the News
Gov. Perdue vetoed the new Republican majority's anti-abortion bill, a.k.a., "Insult a Woman by Treating Her Like a Child Act of 2011." The Republicans will have to round up another vote each in both the House and the Senate to override the veto, which they probably will attempt when they come back to town in mid-July.
This evening at the Watauga County Commission meeting, the Board of Education requested the release of some $360,000 in budgeted contingency (set-aside) funds to alleviate the punishment inflicted on public education by the new Republican majority in the General Assembly. According to School Board Chair Deborah Miller, the additional money will keep the school system from being forced to fire teachers and teacher assistants. The schools will lose positions through attrition (retirements & relocations) but can shelter others from being laid off with the additional money. Commissioner Vince Gable seemed genuinely confused by this. He said that he had talked to state Sen. Dan Soucek this past weekend, and Sen. Soucek had assured him that the state's budget had not cut any teaching jobs. Mr. Gable was (once again) schooled in the nature of the pass-down cuts from the state that fall very heavily on every local school district. Mr. Gable fell silent, and the commissioners passed a motion to hand over another $360,000 to the schools that Dan Soucek keeps telling everyone couldn't possibly be needed because he hasn't got a clue (evidently) what the budget he voted for actually does to the schools.
There's no unanimity among NC observers about the impact of the New York state gay marriage law on the Dan Soucek-sponsored constitutional amendment in NC to deny equal rights to gay couples seeking marriage. Some think the Soucek tribe of troglodytes will be more impassioned and will manage to get a referendum about gay marriage on the Nov. 2012 NC ballot, thus helping sweep all bigots back into office. Others think that New York's legalizing of gay marriage sends a powerful message that this particular war on marriage equality is lost ... which it is. But don't look for Dan Soucek to get that message.
Another sign of the time RE the new Republican General Assembly's current talent at cutting the state budget while really off-loading essential programs onto local governments: Also tonight at the Watauga County Commission meeting, the Commissioners agreed to take $30,000 from the administrative contingency fund to keep alive a drug rehabilitation program that Soucek and Jonathan Jordan and their cohorts cut from the state's budget. We were treated to an assistant district attorney, serving under uber-Republican District Attorney Jerry Wilson, pleading with the commissioners to keep the program alive while its administrators seek alternative grant funding. And Commission Chair Nathan Miller, a defense attorney, had to admit that he had seen clients of his benefit from the program and get their lives on track toward becoming responsible and contributing citizens.
Let's see: In just one night, it cost Watauga County a combined $390,000 to correct just some of the societal harm inflicted by the new Republican majority in the NC General Assembly. Only a foretaste of what's to come?
Posted by J.W. Williamson at 6/28/2011 06:32:00 PM
Labels: abortion rights, Beverly Perdue, Dan Soucek, gay marriage, Nathan Miller, North Carolina budget, public education, Vince Gable, Watauga County Commission
Why is Soucek so hung up on gay people? Think about it.
You got the foretaste right...
Not Really said...
I didn't want to bring regional divisions into this, but this has been on my mind and I'm going to say it: it makes me especially mad to think that Dan Soucek moved down to my home state from New Jersey, and is now trying to turn NC into some sort of tax-free, religious-mandate paradise.
I know taxes are really, really high in NJ. Probably too high. But here, they're just not, and there's no need to sacrifice our children's education because you're absolutely unwilling to, say, pay an extra penny in sales tax for one more year. And maybe, just maybe, we should ask the most fortunate among us to contribute a little more -and I mean a little- for the future of the next generation. Where I come from, that's not asking a lot. Not sure where the NC values I grew up with have gone, but Soucek sure as h*** doesn't represent them.
Hopefully all her vetoes will be over ridden. However, if they are not, it will insure some new faces in the legislature.
Not Really, the progressives and company have been saying that, "just a little more money here, a little more tax there", for a century now, and all it has done is generate a massive government with a huge welfare bureaucracy and dependent underclass that costs us untold billions every year.
And the education field is no different. Every year, since I've been observing the county and state business, the growing education bureaucracy wants more and more money. It never has enough. They think that the more money they receive, then automatically that improves education and results in a better educated people.
Unfortunately, a better educated people has not been the case. It is far more accurate to say that we are a more indoctrinated and oppressed people who are more
dependent on government.
Furthermore, we have bankrupted ourselves by spending like drunken teenagers over the past several decades.
Jus' Sayin' said...
On behalf of drunken teenagers everywhere, I have to say I resent being compared to these tax and spend politicians!
Not really, Bush inherited the largest surplus in history and at the end of his presidency, the house of cards fell in. So, don't give us your BS.
Anonymous, and Anonymous, and any other Anonymouses who want to complain about how high tax rates are right now: please take a look at the following tables charting income tax rates over the last 90+ years:
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=213
http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html
Note that the highest rate was 70% or higher for all of the 1960s and 1970s, 50% for most of Reagan's tenure, and at 35% now. And during most the 1980s the top tax rate (50%) kicked in at just over $109,000 for a married couple while today you have to be making over $379,000 to be taxed at even 35%. Yes, I know this isn't the whole picture but a lot of people complaining about taxes are full of hot air.
And I actually agree that we need to cut bureaucracy when possible and identify and curtail unnecessary spending. But right now, all across North Carolina, teachers are losing their jobs and students are losing their teachers. That's the reality and it's a direct consequence of a budget that prioritized cuts rather than raising revenue. Watauga Co. cut Spanish out of elementary schools and German out of the HS last year. Burke Co. is cutting their foreign language and arts classes this year. Teachers that retire aren't being replaced.
Bureaucrats aren't losing jobs. Teachers are. And students will suffer for it.
brushfire said...
The liberal tax and spend policies of progressive government have given us: the interstate highways system, a public health system that has fended off lethal epidemics since 1920, a space program that enabled satellite technology, the internet, nuclear technology that is used extensively in medicine,programs such as the TVA that connected rural areas with the rest of the country, and many other important works that have allowed businesses to innovate and flourish.
i hope one day soon that his amendment plan is mocked the way he mocks ridiculous outdated laws on his twitter feed.
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Victoria Bellas Carter & Suzanne Jewellery
March 23 - September 1
The Station, Station Yard
Richmond, North Yorkshire DL10 4LD United Kingdom + Google Map
Suzanne and Victoria’s spring exhibition has become an annual event at The Station. Their love of colour once again bringing them together; Suzanne, a talented Lampwork Artist and Jewellery Designer and Victoria, specialising in creating original artwork using a tissue paper collage technique. The exhibition promises to be uplifting, displaying their stunning, unique and very …
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Manchester Academy of Fine Arts
April 4 - May 22
An exhibition of works by a number of elected Members of Manchester Academy of Fine Arts Manchester Academy Fine Arts was founded on 14th November 1859. Originally affiliated to the Royal Manchester Institution on Mosley Street, the Academy continued to be based at the building, now Manchester Art Gallery, after the Institution gifted it to …
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Characters and Characteristics of the Caribbean
Phil Goldsborough is a self taught artist based in Middleton St George. He first exhibited paintings in Darlington Library as Painter of the Month in 1975. He has since exhibited in Darlington Art Centre. This is his first major exhibition since 2010. Eileen Goldsborough is a keen amateur photographer who has had photographs published in …
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Exhibition: Aftermath: Living through the peace
February 1 @ 10:00 am - May 27 @ 5:00 pm
The Green Howards Museum, Richmond North Yorkshire DL10 4QN United Kingdom + Google Map
Friday 1 February to Monday 27 May (entrance included in your museum admission) How did soldiers returning from the First World War adapt to their new reality; a shifting political and social landscape and the continuing conflict they would have to face? They served. They survived. But were their biggest battles yet to come? Using …
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Much More Than Meets The Eye!
March 1 @ 10:30 am - April 28 @ 4:00 pm
Farfield Mill, Garsdale Road
Sedbergh, Cumbria LA10 5LW United Kingdom + Google Map
Dover Gallery hosts an exhibition by James Owen Thomas, young artist who creates his art from things other cast aside. ‘From an early age, I always preferred to see litter in bins rather than it is spoiling the countryside, parks and seashore. I later realised how some of it can be recycled and this developed …
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Forgotten Landscapes, Hidden Secrets – Andrew Burns Colwill
March 11 @ 10:30 am - May 6 @ 4:00 pm
As an artist, 'Cumbria' offers me an absolute wealth of subject matter and I have chosen to try and portray its incredible sense of age, and wealth of historic events, from the last ice age through to recent times. Cumbria and the area around Sedbergh feel to me like a spiritual playground for our ancestors, …
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BROADRAKE – 2 Day Spoon Carving Workshop
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We first ran this workshop in 2018 over both one and two days; the two days worked best with more opportunity to embed the basic axe and knife skills taught on the first day with more hands on experience on the second day under Steve's watchful eye. Steve Tomlin will guide you safely, step-by-step, through …
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Hey Minneapolis, still don’t get ranked-choice voting? Here’s a guide
Liala Helal November 1, 2013, 2:30 PM Nov 1, 2013
Listen ‘Hey Minneapolis, still don’t get ranked-choice voting? Here’s a guide
Nov, 4, 2013
Tuesday will mark the first time ranked-choice voting is used in a Minneapolis election with only non-incumbent mayoral candidates. If you’re still confused about ranked-choice, don’t worry. Here’s a guide.
How is ranked-choice voting different than other voting?
It combines the primary and the general election into one event.
Voters rank three candidates, in order of preference — first, second and third choice — on the ballot. If no candidate receives a majority of first-choice votes, bottom candidates are eliminated and that ballot’s second and third choice votes are redistributed to those candidates.
More than one candidate can be eliminated in the first round if it turns out that even if they got all the second-choice votes, they still wouldn’t rise to the level of the candidate with the next most votes above them.
How are candidates eliminated?
Does ranking two other candidates weaken my first-choice vote?
No. The second and third choice rankings are only used if your first-choice candidate does not have enough votes to continue. Your vote for a candidate stays with that candidate through all the rounds of vote counting until that candidate is defeated. Only then is your vote transferred to your second-choice and then third-choice candidate.
What happens if I still vote for the same candidate three times?
Your vote will only count once for that candidate. It would be the same as leaving the second and third choices blank. Picking your first choice candidate three times doesn’t help their chances of winning.
Does my vote still count if I leave second and third choices blank?
Yes, but you forfeit your vote for second and third choice candidates. You are not required to rank three candidates for each office, but it is an option to allow your votes to continue through all rounds.
Suppose I choose more than one candidate in each column?
That column is skipped in counting. That case is called an “overvote.” To avoid overvotes, the AutoMark ballot marker will guide voters through three columns without allowing more than one vote per column. If more than one vote still takes place per column, the electronic ballot counter will notify the voter.
How do I learn the results on election night?
The most up-to-date results will be posted on the city’s elections page or in the Minneapolis City Hall’s rotunda information center. You can also get alerts from the Minneapolis elections Twitter feed or Facebook page.
When will winners be announced?
Unofficial winners will be declared on election night if the number of candidates meet or exceed the maximum possible threshold. Elections officials hope to declare a winner in the mayor’s race on Nov. 6. Tabulation for all races is planned to be complete by Nov. 8.
What does a candidate need to win on election night in round one of the ballot counting?
One-seat race: 50 percent plus one of the number of votes for that office
Two-seat race: 33.3 percent plus one of the number of votes
Three-seat race: 25 percent plus one of the number of votes
Why is this election using ranked-choice voting?
Ranked-choice voting was passed by Minneapolis voters in 2006 as an amendment to the city charter. It was first used in the city in 2009, but that election featured an incumbent mayor running for re-election.
How will my ballot look?
Voters can look up a sample ballot here.
The Minneapolis elections website has videos, handouts, references and translated materials, along with links to the Minnesota Secretary of State website where you can track your absentee ballot, look up voter registration, find your polling place and view a sample ballot. Voter questions can be directed to Minneapolis 311 (612-673-3000) or emailed.
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Great video, really explains the voting process well. Thanks!
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Thank you! When I asked how and why ranked choice voting works at my place of voting in Minneapolis, nobody could answer my question. One woman told me that they were not allowed to discuss it! I was very put off.
Matt Schneider
what happens if all three of my choices are eliminated from the running before there is a winner with 50%+1? Is my vote still counted in the total of votes cast? in other words: if 100 people vote, you need 51 votes to win. If my vote is redistributed 3 times and is no longer “in the running”, does the total go down to 99 votes (and the required 50%+1 goes down to 50)?
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18 Sponsors Support TMH Modern 2010 Homes Tour
August 10, 2010 Blueplate PRLeave a comment
A Coalition of Media, Museums, Preservationists, and Businesses Support The Area’s Legacy of Modernist Architecture.
August 10, 2010 (RALEIGH, NC) – Triangle Modernist Houses (TMH), a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and promoting modernist residential architecture, reports 18 sponsors for the TMH Modern 2010 Homes Tour in Raleigh on September 25, representing media, historic preservation groups, architecture-related businesses, museums of art, and more. The Triangle is the third largest concentration of Modernist houses in the country.
TMH’s 14th event, the longest professionally-run architecture tour series in the region, will include eight modernist houses and one iconic office building. All of the buildings represent work by some of the finest modernist designers in the state, both past and present. And all will be available for touring through a free hop-on, hop-off bus service from a central parking area on Glenwood Avenue and Glen Eden Drive.
The TMH Modern 2010 Homes Tour media sponsors are The Downtowner Magazine, a monthly magazine covering downtown Raleigh and nearby communities, and The Independent, the Triangle’s weekly news and entertainment magazine.
Historic preservation sponsors include Preservation North Carolina, Preservation Greensboro, and Historic Charlotte. Preservation NC will offer the tour as an option to hundreds of preservationists at its annual conference in Durham that weekend.
Museums and cultural sponsors are the North Carolina Symphony, The Gregg Museum at NC State University, and the Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington NC.
Architecture-related sponsors include Tonic Design + Tonic Construction, Center Studio Architecture, the Raleigh chapter of Architecture for Humanity, and the City of Raleigh Raleigh Urban Design Center.
Business sponsors are Outdoor Images, Nowell’s Contemporary Furniture, Quail Ridge Books, Beyond Blue Interiors, Ambiente International, Eidolon Designs, and realtors Modern Home Network.com. Nowell’s will also sponsor a tour kickoff party at its Cary store on September 23.
To see the list of tour homes, parking directions, and ticket information, visit www.trianglemodernisthouses.com/2010. Advance tickets ($24.95) may also be purchased in person at Quail Ridge Books. Day-of tickets are $30.
About Triangle Modernist Houses
Triangle Modernist Houses (TMH) is a 501C3 nonprofit established in 2007 to restoring and growing modernist architecture in the Triangle. The award-winning website, now the largest educational and historical archive for modernist residential design in America, continues to catalog, preserve, and advocate for North Carolina modernism. TMH also hosts popular modernist house tours several times a year, giving the public access to the Triangle’s most exciting residential architecture, past and present. These tours raise awareness and help preserve these “works of art” for future generations. Visit the website at www.trianglemodernisthouses.com. TMH also has an active community on Facebook.
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2010 Modernist Home Tour Destinations Unveiled
June 15, 2010 June 17, 2010 Blueplate PRLeave a comment
The de Comarmond house in Cameron Village, a modernist renovation.
Triangle Modernist Houses’ Raleigh Tour features eight plus one iconic office building.
June 15, 2010 (RALEIGH, NC) – Triangle Modernist Houses today unveiled the eight architecturally remarkable homes and one commercial space that comprise the “TMH Modern 2010,” the non-profit organization’s 13th home tour, on Saturday, September 25, from 1- 430 p.m. in Raleigh.
The private homes that will be open to ticketholders are:
– The Milton Small House on Lake Boone Trail, designed by Milton Small, FAIA, and built by Frank Walser.
– The Laurent P. de Comarmond, AIA, Modernist house renovation on Graham Street in Cameron Village.
– The Parker House, designed by Carter Williams, FAIA, on Banbury Road, renovation design by Perry Cox.
– The Karmous-Edwards House, Runnymede Road, designed by Frank Harmon, FAIA.
– The Heather and Bo Taylor House, Graham Street in Cameron Village, designed and built by Will Alphin.
– The Jim Kuehn Residence, located on Fairall Street, designed by Brian Shawcroft, AIA.
– The Ron Collier House, on Manning Drive, designed by architect/owner Ron Collier, AIA.
– The Harwell Hamilton Harris, FAIA, home and office on Cox Avenue, designed by Harwell Hamilton Harris, FAIA.
As an added attraction, the TMH Modern 2010 will also include a tour of the Milton Small Office Building on Hillsborough Street, designed by Milton Small, FAIA, and built by Frank Walser. The Small Office Building is a designated Raleigh Historic Landmark and frequently studied by students at NC State’s College of Design. It is strikingly similar to Small’s house, also on the tour.
Triangle Modernist Houses offers the longest-running, professionally organized architectural tours in the region and the only tours that focus on Modernist design. TMH founder and director George Smart also notes the “green” aspect of TMH’s tours:
“By using shuttle buses instead of having hundreds of participants drive individual cars, we dramatically reduce the event’s carbon footprint,” he said. “Our tour-goers park in a central lot and leave their driving hassles behind. An air-conditioned bus from our fleet arrives at each house every nine minutes. So in just a few hours, they experience some of the area’s best architecture and construction through rare and unique access to the coolest private houses.”
Photography is allowed and encouraged inside and outside all the buildings.
Tickets to TMH Modern 2010 are $24.95 in advance or $29.95 on the day of the tour. Tickets are available now through the TMH website: www.trianglemodernisthouses.com/2010
Proceeds benefit TMH’s ongoing Modernist documentation, preservation, and promotion programs.
Sponsors for the TMH Modern 2010 include Preservation North Carolina, Beyond Blue Interiors, Modern Homes Network, the Cameron Art Museum, Tonic Design + Build, Earp & Associates, The North Carolina Symphony, Nowell’s Contemporary Furniture, Eidolon Design, Center Studio Architecture, Ambiente International, Historic Charlotte, the Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Quail Ridge Books & Music, and Architecture for Humanity. Companies can still sign on as sponsors by contacting George Smart at 919-740-8407.
For more information on Triangle Modernist Houses and more details on the fall tour, visit www.trianglemodernisthouses.com.
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Triangle Modernist Houses Announces 2010 Modernist Home Tour
Event to feature nine modernist houses in Raleigh from the 1950s to today.
May 24, 2010 (RALEIGH, NC) — What’s Raleigh’s best-kept secret? The Triangle has the third largest concentration of Modernist houses in the country, behind LA and Chicago — literally hundreds of exceptional houses — due to the Modernist influence of the NCSU College of Design’s influence over the last 61 years.
Nine of those modernist houses, plus one office space, will be open for touring during the Triangle Modernist Houses (TMH) Modernist Home Tour in Raleigh on Saturday, September 25, from 1 – 4:30 p.m.
This tour, TMH’s 12th, will feature modernist houses from mid-century 1950’s to cutting-edge new homes, all of which are defined by open interiors, abundant glass, aesthetic geometries, and sweeping lines.
TMH’s award-winning home tours, organized by TMH founder and director George Smart, are the longest-running, professionally-conducted architectural tours in the region. The past 11 tours have allowed over 2000 people from around the state to tour 21 Modernist houses.
“As with all TMH home tours, we showcase the value of exceptional architecture and construction,” Smart said. “TMH gives the public unique opportunities to go inside nine of the coolest houses in Raleigh that they would rarely be able to see otherwise. We’ve lined up some of the best. And photography is not only allowed, it is encouraged.”
Preservation North Carolina, the nonprofit statewide historic preservation organization dedicated to protecting and promoting buildings, landscapes and sites important to the state’s diverse heritage, is including the TMH Tour as part the 2010 Preservation NC Annual Conference September 23-25.
Smart, well-known for speaking on “Mayberry Modernism” across North Carolina, emphasizes the green, sustainable features of the TMH tour.
“Our free hop-on, hop-off bus system reduces the carbon footprint and assures neighborhoods are not disrupted with hundreds of cars. People don’t have to spend their day finding, driving to, and parking at each home.”
Tickets to the 2010 Tour will be available through the TMH website and various ticket outlets in the coming weeks.
Sponsors include Preservation North Carolina, Ambiente International, the NCSU Gregg Museum of Art, the Louise Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, Eidolon Designs, Center Studio Architecture, Nowell’s Contemporary Furniture, Modern Home Network, and Beyond Blue Interiors. Companies can still sign on as sponsors by contacting George Smart at 919-740-8407.
Ticket information and other details will be announced at a later date. For more information on Triangle Modernist Houses, visit www.trianglemodernisthouses.com.
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2-to-5-Lane Conversion “Road Binge” Planned for Franklin Park
By John Greenfield
The planned cross-section of Franklin Avenue.
All over the country, municipalities are reaping the safety and livability benefits of “road diets,” reducing the number of travel lanes on overly wide streets to discourage speeding and make room for bike lanes and wider sidewalks. A common tactic is the “4-to-3 conversion,” in which a four-lane road is converted to two travel lanes plus a turn lane, which studies show doesn’t cause undue congestion on streets that average 20,000 daily trips or fewer. The remix of Lawrence Avenue in Ravenswood and Lincoln Square a few years ago was a good example of this strategy.
However, northwest-suburban Franklin Park, a village of about 18,000 people located directly south of O’Hare Airport, is taking the opposite approach by implementing a “road binge.” They’re planning to balloon a 1.8-mile stretch of Franklin Avenue, from Runge street to east of Mannheim Road, from the current two lanes to five. This stretch of Franklin is located just south of Illinois Route 19, aka Irving Park Road, the four-lane divided highway that wraps around the southern border of the airport.
The project area.
“The safety of our residents and connectivity within our community are top priorities for the village,” said Franklin Park mayor Barrett Pedersen in a statement. He added that the project will “[allow] traffic to flow more smoothly.” In reality, more than doubling the capacity of the road will induce more driving and facilitate speeding. The project, which will cost $30 million in taxpayer money, mostly federal funds, is slated for construction between 2021 and 2023.
Granted, Franklin Avenue runs past an industrial area with higher-than-average truck traffic, about 20 percent of existing traffic. The project will create a new connection from I-294, the existing Interstate on the east side of O’Hare, with I-490, the new one being built on the west side of the airport. The mayor argues that, thanks to the Frank Avenue widening, “our community will enjoy new regional connectivity.”
A typical stretch of Franklin Avenue as it appears now. Image: Google Maps
The project includes new and updated traffic signals at several intersection, and improved street lighting throughout the corridor. Franklin Park officials also tout the road expansion as a win for pedestrians and cyclists because it will include a mixed-use side path in a location that currently has no sidewalks. However, it’s not clear that many people will want to bike along a five-lane road, on a stretch that doesn’t connect with any existing bikeways.
All parts of the project area currently average fewer than 14,000 trips per day (fewer than 8,000 at the eastern end), so the two-lane road is the appropriate size for the amount of traffic it currently carries. It’s true that the impending expansion of O’Hare may generate additional traffic, so perhaps adding a turn lane might be warranted in the future.
Current and projected ADT.
But officials are justifying the expansion to five lanes with projections that traffic on this stretch will increase by 36-58 percent by 2050. That’s a self-fulfilling prophesy. If Franklin Avenue is widened by 250 percent, the greatly increased capacity will encourage a heck of a lot more people to drive on it, a phenomenon called induced demand. If you build it, they will come.
But it appears that Mayor Pedersen and other Franklin Park decision-makers are proud that they’re going to enable a lot more motorists to drive a lot faster through their town.
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ardecila
I don’t get the criticism. Franklin Park is open about the fact that this is about increasing access, not about addressing existing traffic. They are using this investment to attract bigger industrial firms that will provide more jobs and tax revenue. In the shadow of the world’s busiest airport, I’m sure that if Franklin Park builds it, they really will come.
Also, from a regional standpoint it’s nice to see inner suburbs working to attract industrial jobs vs exurbs like Bolingbrook or Elwood. Franklin Park is (relatively) well-served by Metra and Pace.
planetshwoop
Yes, if you build it, they will come. That is always the issue with adding roads is the induced demand never really solves the problem.
Maybe it’s an econ development ploy but it feels more like a solution in search of a problem.
Austin Busch
Interesting, the EOWA factsheet from 2016 said that project would:
Decrease traffic on local roads by more than 16 percent during rush hour and reduce delays on local roads by 24 percent.
David P.
John, would you please either make relevant images openable (e.g. the ‘Project Area’ visual) or link to the planning document? It’s helpful to learning more about the project in question.
Tooscrapps
It pretty clear Franklin Parks focus is on industry/commercial rather than livability. It’s gotta go somewhere though.
It’s too bad because Franklin Park’s proximity to the City & jobs, and the great Metra connections could make it a very attractive place to live.
Combin8tion
But this is the anti-car, anti-big road crowd. Of course they will be offended if a municipal body decides to improve roads to facilitate combustion engine driven vehicles – in this case, primarily the truck traffic that will grow when the ramps are built to Franklin Ave. And of course we don’t know what industrial development plans might be on the horizon for this area – something the planning department in Franklin Park might be privy to.
Maybe so. But maybe municipalities shouldn’t always put the cart before the horse. Foxconn is a great example of committing to build out the infrastructure for something that might never materialize. This plan hinges on a few other projects coming to fruition, while it itself also is a few years away .
The Trib mentions that Canadian Pacific wants to increase capacity at their terminal, which will increase truck traffic. Does Franklin Park benefit from accommodating this expansion other than purely mitigating that traffic?
Because Franklin Park is spending only $1.6MM of the $32MM it’s fair everyone to scrutinize such a project when infrastructure funds are increasingly hard to come by.
johnaustingreenfield
Let me look into that.
Thanks. For instance, the images in this article are legible on my iPad, but it’s impossible to read the details on a desktop. And a link to some kind of source document can help readers learn more on their own.
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Update And Repost: ‘A Few Thoughts On Allan Bloom–The Nietzsche / Strauss Connection’
July 11, 2015 / chr1
Allan Bloom (wikipedia) wrote the Closing Of The American Mind in 1987. It is a deep book, and an interesting one. It is also, I believe, following a vein of thought that continues to affect American life…with mixed results.
There is a direct Nietzschean influence flowing through Martin Heidegger, Leo Strauss (wikipedia), and Allan Bloom…not to mention much 20th century art and existentialism. In Bloom particularly, it is guided partially by Strauss’ project of recovering and reclaiming the Greeks from Nietzsche’s assault upon Christianity.
Strauss, of course, has Nietzsche succumbing to historicism, having followed historicist logic to its nihilistic consequences (or simply continuing what was started earlier in more Continental strains of thought). Here’s Strauss on Nietzsche:
‘The theoretical analysis of life is noncommittal and fatal to commitment, but life means commitment. To avert the danger to life, Nietzsche could choose one of two ways: he could insist on the strictly esoteric character of the theoretical analysis of life–that is restore the Platonic notion of the noble delusion–or else he could deny the possibility of theory proper. and so conceive of theory as essentially subservient to, or dependent on, life or fate. If not Nietzsche himself, at any rate his successors adopted the second alternative.’
But did Strauss actually endorse Platonic idealism, not finding fault with the metaphysics of Plato, as Aristotle so obviously did, and as have most modern thinkers have done? Surely, Strauss’ esoteric approach to Plato likely has issues:
‘Allan Bloom (1930-1992), although valuable as a critic, often seems merely to be promoting the ideas of Leo Strauss (1899-1973), whose own approach strikes the editor as a very idiosyncratic version of esoteric textual hermeneutics: to argue that Plato’s Republic was not a serious political theory and that Plato and Aristotle really didn’t disagree on fundamentals perhaps nicely reaffirms the views of the Neoplatonists and early Mediaeval philosophers like al-Fârâbî, but otherwise it must seem positively perverse in its strained counter-intuitiveness.’
Any thoughts and comments are welcome. Benjamin Jowett’s translation of Plato’s Republic can be found here.
Addition: Bryan Magee’s series available on youbtube is useful: Here’s Nietzsche scholar J.P. Stern on Nietzsche’s anti-Christian, anti-secular morality (Kant, utilitarians), anti-democratic, and anti-Greek (except the “heroic” Greek) biases…
Another Addition: While I may not agree with Bloom’s formulation, I suspect that from a purely administrative standpoint, working toward “diversity” and toward a “meritocracy” only seems to satisfy the ideals of some people driving change within our universities. Despite the benefits (and there are many) such ideas seem to me more ideal, and less practical when applied to how people actually behave (self-interested, self-sacrificing for their children, forming social networks, bending toward nepotism etc.).
Adam Smith’s ‘Theory Of Moral Sentiments‘
See Also: Roger Scruton suggests keeping political and aesthetic judgements apart in the humanities: Roger Scruton In The American Spectator Via A & L Daily: Farewell To Judgment…Roger Scruton At The WSJ: ‘Memo To Hawking: There’s Still Room For God’ What alternatives are there to the postmodernists…some vague nod to Aquinas, Teresa Of Avila…Gerard Manley Hopkins…piety and religious belief distilled into fine poetry? See the comments Repost-Camille Paglia At Arion: Why Break, Blow, Burn Was Successful…
Martha Nussbaum is using Aristotle, the utilitarians, and Enlightenment ideals to broaden a platform for feminism, and is not much of a friend to religion, nor using religious belief and thought to guide laws…: From The Harvard Educational Review-A Review Of Martha Nussbaum’s ‘Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education.’… From The Reason Archives: ‘Discussing Disgust’ Julian Sanchez Interviews Martha Nussbaum.
Strauss and the Chicago School figure in modern conservative thought as well and the current libertarian resurgence: Two Monday Quotations From Keeping The Tablets…
Update And Repost- From YouTube: Leo Strauss On The Meno-More On The Fact/Value Distinction?’
Allan Bloom -Photo here from Dr Clifford Brickman
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Christine Brown Piano
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Awarded Top Pick of 2012 by MainlyPiano.com, "A Classic Christmas" is a collection of 14 piano arrangements of favorite holiday songs. When I set out to compose a Christmas album, I wanted it to be different from other holiday piano albums. While listening to my son practice classical pieces, the idea occurred to me that many of these themes would blend nicely with Christmas carols. I began composing unique versions of several classic carols by combining them with classical pieces, and also with other Christmas songs. This makes the traditional song we are used to hearing, a beautiful medley of voices, with the weaving in and out of two themes creating an intriguing, yet perfectly woven tapestry. "Joy to the World" blends perfectly with "Canon in D", while "O' Holy Night" flows in and out of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata", as if it were meant to be. Several of the songs stand alone, while others paired together nicely in their arrangement, for instance "Away in a Manger" paired with "The First Noel". This CD is filled with traditional Christmas music,but presented with a contemporary classical feel.
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Rumours swirl surrounding Kawhi Leonard's decision between Raptors, Lakers, Clippers
Rob Williams Jul 02, 2019 11:39 am 27,092
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NBA free agency opened on Sunday, and it was bananas.
Kevin Durant (4 years, $164M) and Kyrie Irving (4 years, $142M) both signed with the Brooklyn Nets. Jimmy Butler (4 years, $142M) now plays for the Miami Heat. Kemba Walker (4 years, $141M) now plays for the Boston Celtics, while D’Angelo Russell (4 years, $117M) ended up in Golden State, and Al Horford (4 years, $109M) in Philadelphia.
Add it all up, and NBA teams spent about $3 billion in free agency in one day.
But through it all, we’re still waiting for Kawhi Leonard’s highly anticipated decision.
After the Toronto Raptors and Los Angeles Clippers dominated the speculation leading up to free agency, the LA Lakers emerged as a frontrunner for some. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski has reported that while Kawhi will meet (or has met) with the Lakers and Clippers, the Raptors will get to make the final pitch to keep their superstar in Toronto.
Free agent Kawhi Leonard is expected to allow the Toronto Raptors to make the final meeting presentation among the teams visiting with him in Los Angeles next week, league sources tell ESPN. The incumbent often prefers to go last in trying to convince a player to stay with team.
Fox Sports’ Chris Broussard had Kawhi going to the Clippers or Lakers on Saturday…
Hearing Raptors chances of keeping Kawhi are fading. A return to SoCal – either team – getting more and more likely.
— Chris Broussard (@Chris_Broussard) June 29, 2019
…and narrowed it down to the Lakers by Sunday…
Kawhi is “Lakers to lose,” I’m told. Not done deal yet, but Lakers are his top choice.
The Lakers, of course, picked up LeBron James last summer and recently added Anthony Davis. Getting Kawhi too would make them the NBA’s new ‘super team.’
Ex-NBA player Kendrick Perkins is also optimistic that Kawhi will end up as a Laker:
Just heard that Kawhi is meeting with the Clippers tonight but the Lakers hold the upper hand, unless Doc work his Magic tonight it’s looking very strong that Kawhi will be in Purple and Gold!!!
— Kendrick Perkins (@KendrickPerkins) July 2, 2019
But not everyone sees Kawhi going home to SoCal.
A number of insiders have poured cold water on the Kawhi rumours on Tuesday. That doesn’t mean he’s staying with the Raptors – it just means that nobody knows anything yet.
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“There is no doubt that there is growing optimism within the Lakers that they’re going to pull this off,” said ESPN’s Brian Windhorst concerning the Kawhi to the Lakers rumours. “But that doesn’t mean that it’s real. So in this particular free agent story, I’m just preaching caution.”
FS1’s Cris Carter says Kawhi hasn’t made up his mind yet, and any reports of him being a lock for the Lakers are false.
Kawhi update: I’ve just been informed Kawhi has not made a decision. To think the Lakers are ahead of the Clippers or the Raptors would be wrong #KawhiUpdate
— Cris Carter (@criscarter80) July 2, 2019
For the last word, we turn to Wojnarowski, the most trusted insider in basketball.
“His plan all along was to allow Toronto to go last. They would get the final word with Kawhi Leonard as a courtesy to them,” Wojnarowski said.
“I’m told he very much has a willingness to play it out this week, take time to think, and that there’s a possibility that there may not be a decision until later in the week.”
Hold tight, Raptors fans. It looks like you may have a few more days left sitting on the edge of your seat.
Rob Williams
Man of the people, voice of the fan. Rob is the Sports Editor at Daily Hive, covering news in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, and Calgary.
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Elizabeth Ü is executive director of Finance for Food, a nonprofit that educates food-system entrepreneurs in the United States about the full range of financing options available to support them. Her book Raising Dough: the Complete Guide to Financing a Socially Responsible Food Business, will be released by Chelsea Green in June 2013 and is currently available for pre-order. Elizabeth previously served as manager of strategic development at RSF Social Finance, helping launch a loan fund to support high-impact, sustainable food ventures. She has served on staff at the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), and spent two years as program officer of Slow Money, then a project of Investors’ Circle. Elizabeth regularly speaks, designs and delivers workshops on the topics of impact investing, social finance, and sustainable food systems at conferences geared toward foundations, financiers, investors, philanthropists, nonprofits, and social entrepreneurs.
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Claiming A Street Named King: Revitalizing All Streets Named For Civil Rights Leaders
"Claiming A Street Named King" Project: Economic Development Honoring All Civil Rights Leaders
Terence Dicks hopes mankind will one day treat each other with compassion and love; and respect the Creator’s creation: A Progressive Democrat devoted to fighting for the rights of medium and low income people; while honoring those who have carried the civil rights mantle with a goal of equality and dignity
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Georgia Grassroots Nonprofits Unite: The Green Equity Toolkit – Standards and Strategies for Advancing Race, Gender and Economic Equity in the Green Economy, Plus Georgia’s TreutCo Training Grassroots Leaders for Green Jobs, and honoring Cora Lee Johnson
Posted on March 18, 2012 by TerenceDicks
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Terence Dicks profile as state of Georgia Coordinator for the Progressive Democrats of America:
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Augustans need to speak out if they want high-speed rail service to Atlanta: Southeast High Speed Rail (SEHSR) Corridor from Charlotte, NC to Atlanta, GA hopefully through Augusta
This would be nice in Augusta on Martin Luther King Blvd. – along with other forms of business investment
Teachers, Students: Check out Georgia’s “interesting and great” African American writers and other black literary talents profiled at the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in Athens, Georgia
Honoring Augusta Coach Jerry Hunter for caring about inner city youth: W. K. Kellogg Foundation New Tools New Visions 2 (NTNV2) sponsor a youth baseball camp at Paine College
Augusta, Georgia: Richmond County Democratic Party pays tribute to the Boston Marathon bombing victims, the community and the brave police officers as they continue road to recovery
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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You are here: Home / Blog / Energy Efficiency News / Electric Cooperative Gets New, Energy-Efficient Lighting
Electric Cooperative Gets New, Energy-Efficient Lighting
February 24, 2017 /in Energy Efficiency News /by CREA Admin
La Plata Electric Association, with offices in Pagosa Springs and Durango, works with members — both residential and commercial — to change out their lighting to new, energy efficient lamps. The cost to purchase new lighting all at once can be cost prohibitive, so the electric cooperative has been prudent with its members’ money as it too worked to change out lighting in all of its buildings.
Ray Pierotti celebrates the appearance of “daylight” in LPEA’s warehouse.
“This has been a steady process beginning in 2010,” says Ray Pierotti, LPEA’s project specialist who focuses on lighting technology. “We’ve got a number of buildings and different lighting applications, such as parking lot and exterior lights, in addition to regular office lighting. I’ve been keeping up with the technology and, as it made sense from a technology and budgeting perspective, we initiated the projects.”
LPEA’s administrative offices were steadily replaced and are now 100 percent LED. With the office light retrofits, energy-saving controls were also installed, including dimmers and motion sensors. Work lighting for office employees is greatly improved even with the energy savings.
Pierotti is perhaps most excited about the projects that replaced the lighting in the warehouses. Previously dimly lit with old technology, the warehouses now appear to be illuminated by daylight. “The difference is just amazing,” Pierotti says.
The total reduction in kilowatts with all the office space, warehouses, truck barns, exterior and other lights changed out is nearing a combined 100 kilowatts, which, according to Pierotti, saves the cooperative more than 260,000 kilowatt-hours in both locations and more than $30,000 annually going forward.
Just like all of LPEA’s commercial members who opt to change out their lighting and reduce their energy consumption, LPEA benefitted from rebates provided by its wholesale power supplier, Tri-State Generation and Transmission. Tri-State benefits by encouraging members to reduce energy consumption so the company doesn’t need to build additional generation facilities.
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Innovation Rampant in Co-op Territories Batteries are Changing How You Receive Electricity
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Interest Rates and Equity Risk
By Jack Ablin
The benchmark 10-year US Treasury yield slid to 2.2 per cent this morning, its lowest level since October 2017. The move reflects investor skittishness in an environment of trade battle uncertainties, business leader reticence and caution emanating from the Federal Reserve. Declining Treasury yields are a harbinger of rising risk. The yield differential between the 10-year note and the 3-month bill, a barometer of economic prospects, slipped into negative territory over the last few days as future growth concerns have heightened.
The recent rate moves have rattled stock investors. Blue chips have lost ground for what’s shaping up to be four consecutive weeks, as growth concerns migrated to the equity markets. The S&P 500 is off about 5 per cent from its most recent high but remains 12 per cent higher for the year. Yield spreads, the premium demanded by lenders to extend credit to lower-quality borrowers, have widened also. The yield differential between a 10-year BBB note and a similar-maturity Treasury is 2.3 per cent, up from 2.1 per cent two weeks ago. Though this trend reflects heightened credit risk, we underscore that credit conditions remain sanguine by historical standards.
The recent rate slide has not been kind to equities. On a sectoral view, over the last 50 weeks 10 of the 11 S&P 500 sectors have lost ground during the 16 weeks when the 10-year Treasury yield declined by more than .05 per cent. Economically sensitive sectors, like industrials, financials, energy and materials, have borne most of the brunt. Yield-oriented sectors, like utilities, REITs, telecom and consumer staples, have been relatively insulated. While we do not believe we’re facing an imminent recession, we sense there’s an additional 5 per cent downside risk to the markets as investors adjust to a lower growth trajectory.
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Vigilante Groups Fighting Mexican Drug Cartels
In this Sundance award-winning film, Director Matthew Heineman and Executive Producer Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) gain unprecedented, on-the-ground access to the riveting stories of two modern-day vigilante groups and their shared enemy-- the murderous Mexican drug cartels.
In the Mexican state of Michoacan, Dr. Jose Mireles, a small-town physician known as "El Doctor," leads the Autodefensas, a citizen uprising against the violent Knights Templar drug cartel. Meanwhile, in Arizona's Altar Valley - a narrow, 52-mile-long desert corridor known as Cocaine Alley - Tim "Nailer" Foley, an American veteran, heads a small paramilitary group called Arizona Border Recon, whose goal is to stop Mexico's drug wars from seeping across our border.
Nominated for Best Documentary at the Academy Awards. Winner of Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking at the Primetime Emmy Awards. Nominated for Best Documentary at the BAFTA Awards. Winner of the Cinematography and Directing Awards for Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival.
"There are scenes here unlike anything you've seen. Timely, thoughtful and supremely well-constructed, we'd be stunned if this isn't the doc to beat on Oscar night." - Tom Huddleston, Time Out
Matthew Heineman
José Manuel 'El Doctor' Mireles, Paco Valencia, Tim Nailer Foley
Social Sciences > Human Rights
Global Studies & Languages > Latin American Studies
Social Sciences > Law & Criminal Justice
Recovering Paradise - A Mexican Village Rises Up Against a Drug Cartel 73 mins In 2009, organized crime took over the Mexican community of Ostula. Murders and enforced disappearances soon became part of daily life. The entire community was…
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Los Bastardos 87 mins Award winning film about two undocumented Mexican day-laborers in L.A. Each day they stand on the corner at the home improvement store seeking employment. Today,…
Transpecos 86 mins Depicting corruption as unavoidable as the desert heat, TRANSPECOS is a tense thriller that puts the audience in the shoes of three border patrol agents…
Transpecos
Cut Snake 94 mins A tense, psychologically driven crime thriller in which one man discovers his biggest enemy to putting the past behind him may be only himself. Set…
Cut Snake
City of God: Ten Years Later - Revisiting the Stars of a Classic Brazilian Film 69 mins This documentary investigates the fate of the young actors who participated in the award-winning film City of God, showing how their lives unfolded after the…
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Welcome Nowhere - A Community of Roma People Fighting for Homes 81 mins Narrated by multi-Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke, WELCOME NOWHERE tells the true story of one community of Roma people (commonly known as Gypsies) living in…
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Putin's Way 57 mins The larger-than-life Russian leader has held power -- with one title or another -- for 15 years, and is set to reign for at least…
Putin's Way
Sunnyvale Public Library•2 months ago
I enjoyed this documentary, but the bookends seem a bit staged. It almost seem to reference Breaking Bad - a father and son, chemists, taught us. Can you just cook meth out in the open like that and then have the "best" product out there? Seems sort of staged. And if you were cooking meth ...Read more
I enjoyed this documentary, but the bookends seem a bit staged. It almost seem to reference Breaking Bad - a father and son, chemists, taught us. Can you just cook meth out in the open like that and then have the "best" product out there? Seems sort of staged. And if you were cooking meth would you wear your uniform and say that directly into the camera?
Washington County Cooperative Library Services•12 months ago
Obviously Suzanne finds it easier to use myopia rather than vision to judge a film. This documentary is 70% in spanish and takes place mostly in Mexico. It is primarily a biography of Dr. Jose Manuel Mireles and the Autodefensas movement. As a point of erudition for Suzanne, Mexico is a ...Read more
Obviously Suzanne finds it easier to use myopia rather than vision to judge a film. This documentary is 70% in spanish and takes place mostly in Mexico. It is primarily a biography of Dr. Jose Manuel Mireles and the Autodefensas movement. As a point of erudition for Suzanne, Mexico is a nation and hispanics are a culture not a race. This documentary was produced by OSCAR winner Kathryn Bigelow and is excellent. Ignore Suzanne's selective sensitivity and watch the entire fascinating story evolve.
Stanford University•8 months ago
Perhaps you're being a bit harsh on Suzanne...I don't think she was judging the film as a whole. From my perspective, it appears as if Suzanne was simply voicing her opinion on one aspect of the film. I appreciated the complexity and development of the film, but I was also left with a bit of ...Read more
Perhaps you're being a bit harsh on Suzanne...I don't think she was judging the film as a whole. From my perspective, it appears as if Suzanne was simply voicing her opinion on one aspect of the film. I appreciated the complexity and development of the film, but I was also left with a bit of a sour taste by some of the American vigilante's comments. Nonetheless, that doesn't mean I'm writing him off as this or that. I can empathize and connect with a lot of his story as well.
Fort Vancouver Regional Library District•1 year ago
Sorry, couldn't stomach the American vigilantes. The underlying sentiment of this group is racism at its worst. Not about controlling drug cartels. The man who lost his job and home during the '08 recession needs a scapegoat so he hunts brown people. The only thing that will stop the flow of ...Read more
Sorry, couldn't stomach the American vigilantes. The underlying sentiment of this group is racism at its worst. Not about controlling drug cartels. The man who lost his job and home during the '08 recession needs a scapegoat so he hunts brown people. The only thing that will stop the flow of drugs is to stop the demand for those drugs.
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Olancho - The Most Lawless Province in Honduras
Rio Breaks - Youth Surfing in Brazil
Chasing Heroin
The Seventh Fire - A Native American Gang Leader Confronts His Violent Past
Hofmann's Potion: The Pioneers Of LSD
Dirty Pictures
Es el Chapo - The Arrest of a Notorious Drug Kingpin
Charlie Minn Films
SWAT Miami - Elite SWAT Unit Tackles Drugs & Crime in Miami
Java Films
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Judges Condemned Bitcoin Ransomware Developers to Community Service
by Adriana Midrigan
The developers of the CoinVault and BitCryptor ransomware have been found guilty and sentenced to 240 hours of community service.
Thursday was the decisive day for the two developers back of the CoinVault and BitCryptor ransomware. Melvin and Dennis van de B., aged 25 and 21, have been accused of infecting with ransomware 1,259 computers in the Netherlands and other countries in Europe. In order not to publish personal data held hostage on users’ devices, the culprits were asking for Bitcoin (BTC) as a redemption. Men managed to earn 10,000 euros per person during the 2014-2015 period, reported NU.nl.
CoinVault would have blocked users’ access to the files stored on their devices and request Bitcoin (BTC) as a deliverance- worth of hundred euros at that moment. According to the reports, around 100 individuals paid the redemption fee.
After the malware has been identified, Russian cybersecurity enterprise Kaspersky Lab bent the Dutch authorities to the possible hackers. The company announced that it identified a bug in the ransomware code and could find out “one of the suspect’s first names in the pdb path“. Due to Kaspersky, 14,000 keys were decrypted for the victims.
Men acknowledged their deeds and argued they just wanted to test their technical abilities. Even so, the brothers have not been exempted from the penalty as they insisted on the ransom fee, reported NRC.nl.
The Public Prosecution Service has previously requested a prison sentence of a year for the culprits but the charges were rejected by judges who considered the brothers did not have criminal records. Yesterday, July 26, the two men were condemned in a Dutch court to 240 hours of community service.
Tags: bitcoinBitCryptorbtcCoinVaultmalwareransomwaresentence
Adriana Midrigan
Adriana Midrigan is a web content writer and editor at Brantell, Coindoo, and TheCCPress, who takes care that the articles you read are user-friendly and the subjects are among the most sought-after. She is passionate about discovering new things in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry.
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Research Pilots: the Call
The full PDF-text of the call can be downloaded here.
CLARIAH-CORE launches a call for proposals for research pilots. This call is open from Monday September 5, 2016. The total budget for this call is limited to a maximum of € 700,000. A typical budget per project is € 60,000. A higher budget is exceptionally possible (up to € 100,000), but requires specific justification.
The CLARIAH-CORE project designs, constructs and exploits the Netherlands parts of the European CLARIN and DARIAH research infrastructures. It has filled this research infrastructure with a wide variety of CLARIAH components, which include generic infrastructure services, data such as databases, textual resources and audio-visual resources, and software applications and services that can be applied to these data for searching, analysis, enrichment, conversion, combining, visualization and other purposes.
See here for an indicative list of CLARIAH components.
The aim of the research pilots is to test aspects of the infrastructure and generate suggestions for improvements, as much as to answer the substantive research questions. Research pilots therefore entail the cooperation of the groups and institutes that have built or make available the relevant part of the infrastructure.
CLARIAH-CORE has linguistics, social economic history and media studies as its core disciplines, but applications for research pilots from other disciplines in the humanities are strongly encouraged.
What is a Research Pilot?
A CLARIAH research pilot is a small project in which the CLARIAH infrastructure or particular components of it are tested by carrying out small research activities. A CLARIAH research pilot starts with one or a small number of research questions. These research questions must be operationalized in terms of desired actions (e.g. searching, analysing, enriching, converting, combining, etc.) informally formulated in the proposal in natural language. It must be specified which specific components (software tools, applications, datasets, etc.) will be used to attempt the desired actions and it must be made clear that these components are in principle appropriate to carry out the desired actions. The team that develops and maintains the relevant functionality or dataset is ideally involved in the project. Data curation can be part of the project if the research questions demand so.
In the project the desired actions are formulated precisely in term of the language and vocabularies supported by the relevant tools and datasets. It is possible and very likely that not all desired actions can be formulated exactly as desired. This should be carefully documented, and an attempt should be made to formulate the functionality that will make the desired action possible.
Ideally, the development team takes in the problems encountered, makes a specification of the necessary extensions and adaptations and implements these. After this, the original actions are carried out again and it is reported whether and/or to what extent the desired actions are possible now.
Intermediate and final results of the project are publicized widely, and the intended target users are involved in the results by means of workshops and tutorials.
What is the output of a researchpilot?
The output of a CLARIAH research pilot is:
A document that describes
the research question(s)
the CLARIAH components used,
the operationalisation of the research question(s) in terms of actions formulated using the vocabulary/languages of specific CLARIAH components used
the successes and problems encountered when applying these actions
the desired new or adapted functionality (if applicable)
A document that describes the specification of the desired changes
An updated or upgraded version of the relevant CLARIAH component with adapted documentation
A document that describes the results of the actions when applied with the updated/upgraded CLARIAH components
An article intended for publication in an academic journal that describes the results of the research carried out. It must be submitted to an appropriate academic journal. Ideally the article is actually published in an academic journal, but it will any way be made public on the CLARIAH website.
Composition of the team
The team of a CLARIAH research pilot consists of 3 partners:
The first partner and principal investigator is a humanities researcher who formulates the research question(s) and carries out the research
The second partner is the team or teams that developed and maintain the relevant CLARIAH component(s). The principle investigator determines in close cooperation with the development team(s) how to best operationalize the research question(s).
The third partner is a representative or a small team from the centre where the relevant
CLARIAH component is stored or is running.
The humanities researcher cannot be a member of the CLARIAH component developer team. The development team and centre team are allowed to coincide or overlap.
A proposal must describe a project that is compatible with the requirements described in this call; in particular, it must be a research pilot as described in this document.
Proposals for projects will furthermore be evaluated and ranked according to the following more general criteria:
Quality and Feasibility
Clarity and added value of the project proposal, in particular of the research question(s), the CLARIAH components to be used, and the initial informal operationalization of the research question(s).
Suitability of the method and plan for the problem at hand.
Feasibility of the project targets: can they be realized within the specified amount of time and with the instruments proposed?
Adequate balance between requested instruments and funds and proposed targets.
Clearly specified and realistic work plan.
The proposal must describe in detail which data are needed for the research, whether these data are available and accessible, and whether they can be used directly or require curation before they can be used.
Conformance to established standards and protocols as supported within CLARIN, DARIAH, or CLARIAH or contribute to the development of such standards and protocols.
Competence of the participating partners (including their past performance).
Balanced cooperation and task assignments within the project.
Justification of the composition of the team.
Availability of the infrastructure required for the project to be successful.
User-orientation of the project
Does the project address needs of the targeted infrastructure users (humanities researchers)?
More generic data or functionality, i.e. data or functionality that can serve multiple different research questions from the humanities will be preferred over less generic or completely idiosyncratic functionality.
Is there cooperation with or support from the targeted (future) infrastructure users?
Is the resulting updated tool / service user-friendly, i.e. will non-technical humanities researchers be able to use it?
Contribution to CLARIAH as a whole
The project must focus on one or more components of the CLARIAH infrastructure.
A list of these components is available on the CLARIAH website.
Intellectual Property Rights and Synergy
Each proposal must contain clear statements about the situation of the IPR of the data and tools/technologies used, and a detailed plan to resolve any open issues before the start of the project.
The project participants have the obligation and must therefore have the rights to incorporate any new or updated data and tools used in a project into the infrastructure (this is a sine qua non). There has to be a clear specification and justification of the use of any data or tools needed in the project that cannot be incorporated into the infrastructure.
Formal compliance
A proposal must meet the formal requirements imposed by the CLARIAH-CORE project for proposals, such as:
conformance to the prescribed format and proposal template
submission before the set deadline, using the means prescribed
conformance to the prescribed language of the proposal
The duration of the project must be justified. The maximum duration is 12 months.
Projects must be carried out between March 1, 2017 and June 30, 2018.
The project budget must be in accordance with the tasks to be carried out, and this must be justified in the project proposal. The typical budget is €60,000 and the maximally allowed budget, provided specific justification is given, is €100,000
An agreement must be in place between the owners of the original data and software and the project participants on the IPR of the adapted data and software before the submission date of a proposal if the owners of the original data and software are not identical to the project participants. If applicable, a copy of this agreement must be uploaded together with the project proposal. Otherwise ownership of the created adaptations and extensions will be with the creator(s).
The project participants have the obligation and therefore must have the rights to make available the results of the project (e.g. any new data or software, updated CLARIAH components, etc.) in the infrastructure for use by researchers having access to it. This is a sine qua non. Any proposal not satisfying this requirement or being insufficiently clear about this matter will be considered to be formally noncompliant and will be rejected on these grounds.
The project proposal should describe all issues related to IPR and present solutions for them. The relations between the partners in a project must be agreed upon in a consortium agreement before the start of the project.
On the submission and evaluation procedure regarding the CLARIAH Call for Research Pilots
The CLARIAH Call for Research Pilots is open from Monday September 5, 2016. The total budget for this call is limited to a maximum of € 700,000. This call is specifically open for proposals for CLARIAH research pilots. Only those proposals that specifically target this priority will be eligible.
Full proposals must be submitted in English and in PDF format to the CLARIAH electronic proposal submission system using the prescribed template (which can be found here on the CLARIAH website). The deadline for submitting full proposals in this call has been set for Monday November 7, 2016 13:00 hours CET.
The CLARIAH electronic proposal submission system can be accessed as of Monday September 5, 2016 via the submission page of CLARIAH website.
If the electronic proposal submission system would not work, contact the CLARIAH Office.
Applications can be submitted only by researchers from organisations that are eligible for NWO-funding. The principal investigator of the project must be a researcher from the humanities.
Applicants who are planning to submit a proposal are strongly advised to contact the CLARIAH Office for an eligibility check of their plans, or for assistance in finding suitable partners.
Personnel costs directly related to the project, in accordance with the Akkoord NWO-VSNU 2008 (and any additions to it). For amounts that are applicable, see here and more specifically the following document: Berekening vergoeding met salarispeil 01-07-2016
Material Costs
Costs for non-standard equipment, hired services, etc.
A fee of maximally €3.000 per FTE per year (or a pro rata part for less than 1 FTE per year) for covering travel and subsistence costs
Special justification is required if the requested funding exceeds €60,000.
The requested funding cannot exceed €100,000
Evaluation procedure full proposals
Each eligible proposal submitted in this call will be evaluated against the evaluation criteria of this proposal by at least two independent experts. The evaluators may formulate questions or remarks directed at the project proposers. The project proposers will get the opportunity to answer these questions and comment on the remarks. The response must have been received by the CLARIAH office before the deadline set for it (one will typically have about a week to make the response). An ad-hoc evaluation committee consisting of independent national and international experts will rank the proposals based on the evaluations by the experts and the project proposers’ response and will advise the CLARIAH Board. The CLARIAH Board will make the final decision, based on the recommendations of the evaluation committee. The CLARIAH Board may formulate a set of recommendations for improving the individual proposals and require resubmission of an adapted proposal before it is approved.
The principal investigator of each project will receive a message on the final decision. Projects should start within three months after the applicant has received the formal notification of funding and must be carried out between March 1, 2017 and June 30, 2018.
Monday July 4, 2016 CLARIAH Call pre-announced
Monday September 5, 2016 CLARIAH Call Open
Thursday September 22, 2016 (16-18 hour) CLARIAH Call Information Session
Monday November 7, 2016 13:00hrs CET Deadline Proposal Submission
Monday January 9, 2017 Feedback / Questions from experts
Sunday January 15, 2017 Response to the experts’ feedback /questions
Monday February 27, 2017 Decision by the Board
CLARIAH-CORE
The CLARIAH-CORE project is funded by NWO.
Prof. dr. Lex Heerma van Voss (Huygens ING) is the principal investigator of CLARIAH-CORE and chairs the CLARIAH Board. The project is coordinated by the Programme Director, prof. dr. J.E.J.M. Odijk (Utrecht University), who is a member of the CLARIAH Executive Board.
Annejette Landman is the interim CLARIAH project secretary.
The CLARIAH Board’s composition can be found on the CLARIAH website.
CLARIAH Helpdesk
Contact the CLARIAH Helpdesk for any technical questions related to this call, e.g. questions about specific applications, datasets, technical requirements, etc.:
At the end of this document, one will find a list of acronyms and terms for technical notions with some explanation and references.
The centres that form the backbone of the infrastructure that is being constructed by CLARIAH-CORE include
the certified CLARIN centres Meertens Institute, INL/INT, Huygens ING, MPI/TLA
DANS, IISH and NISV.
CLARIAH Office
Contact the CLARIAH office for any organizational or practical questions related to this call, e.g.
Additional clarification
Advice on eligibility of your plans
Assistance with finding experts, data or technology required
Assistance with finding project partners
Assistance with selecting a centre.
The CLARIAH office also offers other forms of help with writing a project proposal. In particular, it is wise to have the CLARIAH office carry out a sanity check on a preliminary version of the proposal, so that evidently ineligible proposals and trivial mistakes in the proposals can be avoided.
Jan Odijk
Programme Director Annejette Landman
Interim Project Secretary
Tel +31 30 253 6006 +31 20 224 6821
Address Trans 10
3512 JK Utrecht Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5
(as of October 2016:
1012 DK Amsterdam)
Acronym / Term (URL) Type Expansion Dutch expansion
CET Time zone Central European Time
CLARIAH Infrastructure projects in the Netherlands Common Lab Infrastructure for the Humanities
CLARIAH-CORE Infrastructure project Dutch main CLARIAH project
CLARIAH-SEED infrastructure project CLARIAH Seed Capital project
CLARIN infrastructure The CLARIN infrastructure
DANS organisation Data Archiving and Networked Services
DARIAH infrastructure Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities
Huygens ING organisation Huygens ING Institute Huygens ING
IISH organisation International Institute for Social History Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis
INL organisation Institute for Dutch Lexicology (future INT) Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie
INT organisation Institute for the Dutch Language (formerly INL) Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal
IPR term Intellectual Property Rights
Meertens Institute organisation Meertens Institute Meertens Institute
MPI organisation Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
NISV organisation Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid
NWO organisation Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
PDF Document format Portable Document Format
TLA organisation The Language Archive
VSNU organisation Association of Collaborating Dutch Universities Vereniging van Universiteiten
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Udacity’s Bid to “Democratize Education” Gets $35m Strong Impetus, Attracts Industry Attention with “Nanodegrees”
Eileen McNulty · September 26, 2014
Online educational startup (and one of our Top 10 big data online learning resources) Udacity has closed a financing round of $35 million with investors worldwide, such as Drive Capital leading the round.
Early patrons Andreessen Horowitz and Charles River Ventures with Peter Levine and George Zachary, also participated. Mark Kvamme, founder of Drive Capital, will join The Udacity board.
Udacity offers massive open online courses (MOOCs) focusing on vocational, technical training for professionals and prepares them for industry partners seeking skilled employees.
The Startup is collaborating with approximately 20 companies, including Google Inc., Facebook Inc., Cloudera Inc. and Salesforce Inc. which support Udacity with resources to develop and fine-tune online training and also provide credentials built and recognized by industry leaders.
In June, this year, Udacity, with AT&T and an initial funding from AT&T Aspire of more than $1.5 million, launched Nanodegrees, – “compact, flexible, and job-focused credentials that are stackable throughout your career,” explained Clarissa Shen, VP, Business Development & Partnerships, in their blog.
Vish Makhijani, the Chief Operation Officer, explains that the latest funding will be used to “double down on our work with Nanodegrees, a new type of credential for students to gain skills recognized by employers around the world.”
“In fact, today we are opening our first Nanodegree, built with AT&T, to an initial group of students. In time, the program will be open to everyone,” he added.
International media enterprise Bertelsmann in Germany, Recruit in Japan and Valor Capital in Brazil are assisting Udacity in its outreach strategy for students around the globe, Makhijani said.
(Image credit: TechCrunch)
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Media release: Insurance industry tells B.R.C disaster relief is bad for business
More than a year after the Black Saturday bushfires devastated Victoria, a submission to the Bushfires Royal Commission on behalf of the Insurance Council of Australia has complained that post-disaster assistance ‘is a potential cause of non-insurance’ and that government or community funded help ‘reduces the benefits of taking out insurance’.#
Denis Nelthorpe from the West Heidelberg Community Legal Service said that the ICA’s position was just one example of how out of touch the insurance industry is with the needs of low and lower-middle income families. In giving evidence before the Commission today, Mr Nelthorpe said the industry’s campaign to remove the fire services levy from premiums would do little to encourage Victorian families to obtain insurance.
‘I believe that the limited premium payment arrangements, unsuitability of insurance products to consumer needs, misunderstanding and negative experience of insurance products, and lack of personal history of insurance are all factors which have a greater impact on deciding whether or not to take out insurance,’ he said.
Mr Nelthorpe said the insurance industry had opportunistically used the bushfires tragedy to revive calls to scrap the fire services levy claiming that this would increase insurance take-up by reducing premiums, while ignoring the fact that most bushfire-affected homeowners already had insurance cover.
‘One of the biggest problems facing those who lost their home in the fires has been struggling to rebuild after being told their ?sum insured? policy grossly under estimated the cost of replacing their home,’ Mr Nelthorpe said.
‘If the insurance industry is serious about the under-insurance issue, it needs to move quickly to introduce full replacement policies across the board. These eliminate the possibility of under insurance and on average cost around the same as sum insured policies.’
‘In 2005, an ASIC* report on the Canberra bushfires said that home owners relied on their insurer to decide how much to insure their home for and that most homeowners ended up under-insured as a result, but to date there are only two insurance companies who offer „full replacement? policies,’ he said.
Mr Nelthorpe says the issue hasn’t received much attention in the case of the Black Saturday bushfires because those affected had often received bushfire appeal fund payments, which helped cover any shortfall.
‘It’s ironic that the insurance industry has criticised post-disaster assistance when it is taxpayers and community donations that are subsidising their profits because the consumers affected should have been covered by replacement policies in the first place – a fact the insurance industry has been well aware for some time,’ he said.
The insurance industry also knows that rebuilding costs escalate wildly after catastrophe events, like was seen after
Cyclone Tracy, Cyclone Larry, the Newcastle earthquake and the Canberra and Black Saturday bushfires. Yet the insurance industry fails to acknowledge that most sum insured policies will inevitably result in underinsurance in the event of disaster.
‘While any reduction in costs to consumers is always welcome, it is my view that if „total replacement? policies were more widely available and consumers were better informed of their features – including the difference between one off events and catastrophes – this would play a far greater role in effectively combating under-insurance than removing the fire services levy,’ Mr Nelthorpe said.
# See Dr Richard Tooth’s witness statement prepared for the Insurance Council of Australia
* Australian Securities and Investments Commission, Getting home insurance right – A report on home building underinsurance,
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DFA backs Tiffany Cabán for Queens District Attorney
April 11, 2019 - 6:55 am
Today, Democracy for America (DFA) announced its endorsement of Tiffany Cabán in the race for District Attorney in Queens, NY.
A career public defender and Queens native, Cabán has been an outspoken champion for the decriminalization of poverty, ending mass incarceration, combating racist law enforcement, and helping restore communities.
Cabán is the first endorsement DFA has made in a 2019 race for District Attorney.
Over the progressive organization’s 15-year history, DFA has supported a number of candidates dedicated to challenging structural racism in our criminal justice system, like Cook County States Attorney Kim Foxx in Illinois (2016) and Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner (2017).
In 2018, it backed a nationwide slate of Criminal Justice Reform champions including progressive Joe Gonzales who won his race for Bexar County (TX) District Attorney.
Yvette Simpson, DFA’s Chief Executive Officer, on the organization’s endorsement of Cabán for Queens DA:
“Democracy for America is excited to endorse Tiffany Cabán for Queens District Attorney because she’s already spent her career as a public defender fighting to make the criminal justice system work for the people and communities it so frequently marginalizes.
“A queer Latina born and raised in Queens, Tiffany Cabán will be a game-changing champion for justice in one of the largest, most ethnically diverse legal jurisdictions in the country. She knows that ending police brutality, mass incarceration, and systemic racism in the criminal justice system requires not just legislative action, but also a District Attorney in Queens who understands that justice in our country has never truly been blind and her office can help build a community where everyone can thrive.
“Tiffany Cabán is ready to lead the transformational District Attorney’s office that the people of Queens deserve, and we are so excited to be a part of the grassroots, people-powered movement working to get her there.” -- Yvette Simpson, CEO, Democracy for America
Queens DA Candidate Tiffany Cabán on receiving DFA’s endorsement:
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"Since 2004, Democracy for America has powered populist progressive campaigns committed to fighting corporate power, combating income inequality, and prioritizing racial, social, and economic justice.
“I am thrilled that they recognize the importance of endorsing in county-level District Attorney races and look forward to working with their members to bring transformative justice to the Queens County District Attorney's Office." -- Tiffany Cabán, Candidate for Queens District Attorney
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2015 Drama Rated R 112 Minutes
In Theaters May 22, 2015
On DVD October 13, 2015
Peter McRobbie
William Shimell
Nancy Drake
Zen McGrath
Trailer + 1 More
As we follow a mother (Jennifer Connelly) and her son (Cillian Murphy), we delve into a past marred by an accident that tears them apart.
She will become a renowned artist and healer, and he will grow into his own as a peculiar falconer who bears the marks of a double absence.
In the present, a young journalist (Melanie Laurent) will bring about an encounter between the two that puts the very meaning of life and art into question, so that we may contemplate the possibility of living life to its fullest, despite the uncertainties littering our paths.
Rated R for language and some sexuality.
Released by Sony Pictures Classics. See more credits.
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Celebrating Academic Excellence and Welcoming New Colleagues
Festivities usher 2016-17 school year for the College of Sciences
Sep 8, 2016 | Atlanta, GA
The College of Sciences held its annual summer dinner on Aug. 23, 2016. The festive occasion welcomed new faculty members and recognized excellence in research, teaching, and service.
College of Sciences Dean Paul M. Goldbart welcomed colleagues joining the College in the 2016-17 academic year: Tamara Pearson and Lorna Rivera, in CEISMC; Will Gutekunst and Henry La Pierre, in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Liang Han, Colin Harrison, and Frank Rosenzweig, in the School of Biological Sciences; Jennifer Hom, Christopher Jankowski, Lutz Warnke, and Mayya Zhilova, in the School of Mathematics; and Elisabetta Matsumoto and Colin Parker, in the School of Physics.
Goldbart also recognized J. Todd Streelman, the new chair of the School of Biological Sciences, which emerged on July 1, 2016, from the reorganization of the former School of Applied Physiology and School of Biology. Goldbart acknowledged T. Richard Nichols and Terry Snell, chairs of the former schools, for their efforts in launching the new school.
Celebrating excellence in research, teaching, and service was the evening’s center piece, beginning with the 2016 Faculty Mentor Awards to Luca Dieci, of the School of Mathematics; Facundo M. Fernandez, of the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry; and Rodney J. Weber, in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.
Carrie G. Shepler, of the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, received the 2016 Eric R. Immel Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching. The award is made possible by School of Mathematics alumnus Charles J. Crawford.
The 2016 Cullen-Peck Faculty Fellowship Awards in the College of Sciences went to Tamara Bogdanovic, of the School of Physics; Andrew V. Newman, of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences; and Frank J. Stewart and Lewis A. Wheaton, of the School of Biological Sciences. These awards are made possible by the generosity of School of Mathematics alumni couple Frank H. Cullen and Libby Peck.
Daniel Margalit was celebrated as the inaugural 2016 Leddy Family Faculty Fellow. The award is made possible by the generosity of School of Physics alumnus Jeffrey Leddy and his wife, Pamela.
“It is invigorating to start the school year by warmly welcoming new colleagues into our scholarly community and celebrating our outstanding teachers, researchers, and mentors,” Goldbart said. “We are proud to have so many exceptional faculty members, and I am especially grateful for the generosity of our thoughtful alumni, which makes it possible for the College to enable our colleagues to achieve the highest level of success in their teaching, research, and service.”
More photos from the 2016 summer dinner can be viewed at http://bit.ly/2bz1Is8.
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Paul Goldbart and Jenny Singleton
Paul Goldbart and Dan Margalit
From left: Rodney Weber, Andrew Newman, Ivy Newman, and Greg Huey
From Left: Erin Parker, Frank Stewart, and Frank Cullen
From left: Ralph Cullen, Alicia Cullen, Tevi Wheaton, Lewis Wheaton, and Libby Peck
From left: Kathleen Margalit, Pam Leddy, and Cam Tyson
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From left: Henry La Pierre, Tamara Bogdanovic, Paja Sijacic, Emily Alicea-Muñoz, John Wise, Deirdre Shoemaker, and Pablo Laguna
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Omaha, Neb. – November 10, 2015 – Proxibid (www.proxibid.com), the most trusted online Marketplace for buying and selling highly valued items, will provide online bidding for Theriault’s “Love, Shirley Temple: Take Two” auction on November 22nd at 11am Eastern at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. More than 400 lots of Shirley Temple’s personal property, including film costumes, gifts, props, toys, and playthings will cross the auction block. Bidders from anywhere in the world with an internet connection can bid live online via Proxibid during the auction. Online bidding is already available by visiting the catalog.
In July, Theriault’s, the world’s leading auction house for childhood objects, hosted the first part of the sale, which brought hundreds of buyers to the onsite auction and hundreds more online with Proxibid. The highest valued item, the red polka dot dress worn in the 1934 film “Stand Up and Cheer,” sold for $75,000 to an online buyer. This sale was not quickly forgotten, with collectors rejoicing at a second chance to own pieces of Shirley Temple’s collection.
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The Costume with Velvet Duck Bolero Worn by Shirley Temple in the Iconic 1935 Film “Curly Top”
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Costume from the Fantasy Broadway Scene of the 1941 Film “Kathleen”
Antique Carved Wooden Carousel Horse Beloved by Shirley Temple
Wedding Gown, Wedding Album, Various Ephemera Related to Marriage to John Agar
The family of Shirley Temple states “The legacy of our mother’s unique and legendary contribution to screen entertainment is embodied in these lovingly preserved artifacts of a childhood like few others in history. We believe that, just as the celluloid magic of her youth continues to captivate and enrich successive generations, these artifacts should now be shared across the world with collectors, fans and museums as tangible reminders of this child-star’s irrepressibly joyful and optimistic persona.”
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During the 1930’s and early 1940’s, Shirley Temple’s childhood rise to enduring stardom was unprecedented in Hollywood. From 1935 through 1938, in fact, Shirley Temple was indisputably the box office champion―a feat that has never been matched. Her smile, charm, and fifty-six curls are considered by many to have played an important role in lifting America from the Great Depression. As Franklin Delano Roosevelt was oft quoted saying, “As long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right.”
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Linus Torvalds is right about “reasonable resolution”
Dave Farquhar Hardware December 7, 2012 November 30, 2018 ipad, Linus Torvalds, retina
Linus Torvalds is sick of the gimmicks, and he’s really sick of laptops sporting cheap 720p displays. He wants high-resolution (2560×1600, or even 2048×1536) displays to become standard.
Having seen an Ipad with a 2048×1536 display in person recently, I agree. Read more
Linus Torvalds likes SSDs, too
Dave Farquhar Hardware October 18, 2012 excel, extra mile, Linus Torvalds, ocz, office 2010, power savings, windows 7
Linus Torvalds called hard drives evil, nasty platters of spinning rust in an interview this week, while saying he likes SSDs.
I didn’t say it. He said it. Though it’s no secret that I like SSDs too. Read more
RIP, Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore
Dave Farquhar Retro Computing April 9, 2012 August 1, 2017 1980s, apple, atari, atari st, Chuck Peddle, commodore, commodore 64, dell, IBM, jack tramiel, Linus Torvalds, motorola, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Texas Instruments, TI
Commodore founder Jack Tramiel, the orchestrator of the first line of affordable personal computers, died this weekend at the age of 83.
I don’t know exactly what to think about it, and I’m probably not alone, though it didn’t take long for tributes to pour in. Read more
The decline and fall of system administration
Dave Farquhar Servers and Networking March 3, 2011 1990s, amiga, Dave Haynie, infoworld, intel, irony, Jay Miner, Linus Torvalds, passwords, unix, windows nt
Infoworld’s Paul Venizia stirred up a controversy, asking what happened to sysadmins who can fix things, as opposed to just rebuilding machines any time something went wrong.
The definition changed, mostly. At least that’s what I think.
Linux Performance Tuning
Dave Farquhar General March 10, 2002 April 14, 2017 KDE, Linus Torvalds, Linux Journal, mac os x, os x, Windows XP
I found a very superficial Linux Journal article on performance tuning linked from LinuxToday this week. I read the article because I’m a performance junkie and I hoped to maybe find something I hadn’t heard before.
The article recommended a kernel recompile, which many people don’t consider critical anymore. It’s still something I do, especially on laptops, since a kernel tuned to a machine’s particular hardware boots up faster–often much faster. While the memory you save by compiling your own kernel isn’t huge and was much more critical back when a typical computer had 8 MB of RAM, since Linux’s memory management is good, I like to give it as much to work with as possible. Plus, I’m of the belief that a simple system is a more secure system. The probability of a remote root exploit through the parallel port driver is so low as to be laughable, but when my boss’ boss’ boss walks into my cube and asks me if I’ve closed all possible doors that are practical to close, I want to be able to look him in the eye and say yes.
The same goes for virtual consoles. If a system runs X most of the time, it doesn’t need more than about three consoles. A server needs at most three consoles, since the only time the sysadmin will be sitting at the keyboard is likely to be during setup. The memory savings isn’t always substantial, depending on what version of getty the system is running. But since Linux manages available memory well, why not give it everything you can to work with?
The best advice the article gave was to look at alternative window managers besides the ubiquitous KDE and Gnome. I’ve found the best thing I’ve ever done from a performance standpoint was to switch to IceWM. KDE and Gnome binaries will still run as long as the libraries are present. But since KDE and Gnome seem to suffer from the same feature bloat that have turned Windows XP and Mac OS X into slow pigs, using another window manager speeds things along nicely, even on high-powered machines.
I take issue with one piece of advice in the article. Partitioning, when done well, reduces fragmentation, improves reliability, and allows you to tune each filesystem for its specific needs. For example, if you had a separate partition for /usr or /bin, which hold executable files, large block sizes (the equivalent of cluster sizes in Windows) will improve performance. But for /home, you’ll want small block sizes for efficiency.
The problem is that kernel I/O is done sequentially. If a task requires reading from /usr, then /home, then back to /usr, the disk will move around a lot. A SCSI disk will reorder the requests and execute them in optimal order, but an IDE disk will not. So partitioning IDE disks can actually slow things down. So generally with an IDE disk, I’ll make the first partition a small /boot partition so I’m guaranteed not to have BIOS issues with booting. This partition can be as small as 5 megs since it only has to hold a kernel and configuration files. I usually make it 20 so I can hold several kernels. I can pay for 20 megs of disk space these days with the change under my couch cushions. Next, I’ll make a swap partition. Size varies; Linus Torvalds himself uses a gig. For people who don’t spend the bulk of their time in software development, 256-512 megs should be plenty. Then I make one big root partition out of the rest.
With a multi-drive system, /home should be on a separate disk from the rest. That way, if a drive fails, you’ve halved your recovery time because you’ll either only have to install the OS on a replacement drive, or restore your data from backups on a replacement drive. Ideally, swap should be on a separate disk from the binaries (it can be on the same disk as /home unless you deal with huge data files). The reason should be obvious: If the system is going to use swap, it will probably be while it’s loading binaries.
Still, I’m very glad I read this article. Buried in the comments for this article, I found a gem of a link I’ve never seen referenced anywhere else before: Linux Performance Tuning. This site attempts to gather all the important information about tuning Linux to specific tasks. The pros know a lot of this stuff, but this is the first time I’ve seen this much information gathered in one place. If you build Linux servers, bookmark that page. You’ll find yourself referring back to it frequently. Contributors to the site include kernel hackers Rik van Riel and Dave Jones.
Ghosts from the past…
Dave Farquhar General December 9, 2001 September 30, 2010 antivirus, atari, Bill Gates, command prompt, disk tools, Linus Torvalds, Louis County, MBR, OSS, recovery tools, Spare Parts, Steve Jobs, windows 98
Wednesday night, 6:35 PM: I was in my South St. Louis County apartment, getting ready for church, when my phone rang. I’d had at least one telemarketing call that night already, but I picked up the phone anyway.
“Hello?” I said, maybe slightly agitated.
“Dave?” a female voice asked. So much for a telemarketer. I recognized the voice but didn’t place it immediately. And obviously she knew me.
“It’s Wendy.” Ah, Wendy from church. OK.
“What’s up?” I asked. She doesn’t routinely call me–she doesn’t routinely call anyone, I don’t think–so I figured she probably needed something. That’s OK. I take care of my friends.
“What’s it mean when your computer says, ‘Bad or missing command interpreter. Enter path of a valid command interpreter, e.g. c:windowscommand.com’?”
“Oh. That means one of the files your computer needs to get started is blitzed,” I said. “What happens if you type it?”
“You’re gonna hate me,” she said as she typed the filename. “You deal with this stuff all day and now I call you wanting computer advice.”
I could never hate her. She’s too nice. Besides, guys like fixing things, especially for people they like. I probably should have told her that.
“It just repeats the same thing again,” she said.
“I see.” I had her try a couple of other locations–Microsoft OSs have always installed command.com in too many places. But no go.
“Are my other files OK?”
“Hopefully,” I said. “My computer used to do this to me once a year.”
“My whole life is on this computer, Dave,” she said, sounding a little distressed. My heart melted. I hate it when bad things happen to good people. I especially hate it when bad things happen to good people and one of Bill Gates’ or Steve Jobs’ toy operating systems is involved. But sometimes it’s just a minor inconvenience. I hoped this was one of those instances.
“I just need to boot your computer off a floppy, type a command or two, and it’ll probably come right back to life,” I said.
“Do you have time to do this? I mean, really have time to do this?” She didn’t want to inconvenience me.
“Yeah, I’m on my way to church, and you’re on the way, and it should only take me a couple of minutes,” I said as I formatted a disk and copied sys.com to it.
After assuring her again that I was sure, I told her I’d be there in about 10 minutes. I hopped in my car, disk in hand, ready to go be a hero and still make it to church on time. I rang her bell, heard her dog scream bloody murder, and she opened the door. As soon as she let me in, her Labrador warmed up to me. She led me to the computer room, where I sat down and popped in a disk. She yanked on her Lab’s leash, trying to keep her away from me. She wasn’t having much luck.
“That’s OK,” I said to Wendy. “I like dogs.” Then I turned to the dog and started scratching behind her ears. “I’ll bet the most dangerous part of you is your tail. You just like people so much you thump ’em to death, don’t you?” I turned to the computer and booted off the floppy. It didn’t work. So I restarted, and when it asked for a command interpreter, I typed “a:command.com” and got a command prompt. Meanwhile, her dog grabbed onto my hand with her paw so I wouldn’t go anywhere. Shadow, the Cocker Spaniel/Irish Setter mix I had growing up, used to do that.
I ran sys.com and rebooted, expecting to be a hero. Instead, I got the dreaded invalid media type reading drive C error.
I told Wendy I’d need the heavy artillery to fix this problem. I kicked myself for not bringing any more sophisticated tools like MBRWORK. It looked like a blitzed partition table to me.
I rebooted a couple more times to try to get symptoms. The Windows logo splashed up ever so briefly. The drive didn’t make any weird noises. That was good. That meant the boot record was intact, and that some data was intact–obviously, because it was reading the Windows logo. It looked just like the time my Pentium-75 crashed and forced me to cycle power, then didn’t come back up. I didn’t know how to fix a blitzed partition table then. But that was a long time ago.
By now, it was 7:20. “I can go get some more tools,” I offered.
“Go to church,” she said. “I’d feel really bad if you miss church. Tell Pastor John it’s my fault.”
I did my best to reassure her that I could get her data back. I told her the odds looked like about 50/50. In reality I was more confident than that, but unless I’m about 99% certain, I won’t say the chances are any better than 50/50. There’s nothing I hate more than disappointing people.
I went to church mad at myself that I hadn’t gotten her data back. I came home from church, got ready to gather up my tools, and checked my messages. It was Wendy. She said she’d gone to school to work on a paper, that we’d worry about the computer tomorrow but it wasn’t a big deal.
Maybe it wasn’t to her. But it was to me. I hate losing, especially to a computer. I have since I was in first grade and played Atari at my neighbors’ house. True, back then I got mad when I lost at Donkey Kong, but in my mind there’s no difference. Even though it’s a different game today and I lost a lot then and I rarely lose now, it doesn’t make me hate losing any less. Especially when I’m playing with other people’s stuff. Her words echoed in my mind: “My whole life is on this computer, Dave.”
I wasn’t going to let her down. I wasn’t going to let myself down by letting her down. I was going to get that data back, and I didn’t care what I had to do to get it.
I called her back, expecting her not to be there. Her mom, Debby, answered the phone. She gave me a few more clues, told me she didn’t expect Wendy home until late, said one or the other of them would be home about 3:30 the next day. I’d been at work until close to six on Wednesday and saw the possibility of having to stay that late on Thursday. I didn’t make any hard and fast promises about when I’d be there, but I started plotting how I would escape work by 4:15.
On Thursday, I loaded up floppies containing all the standard Microsoft disk tools, plus Norton Disk Doctor, plus Spinrite, plus MBRWORK and a few other partition recovery tools, along with a Windows 98 CD, and took the whole wodge of stuff to work. At 4:20, I called. Debby answered. I told her I was leaving work and I’d probably get there in about 20 minutes.
Along the way, I listened to a bunch of punk rock, really loud, and got myself pumped up. Whether it’s stepping up to the plate in the bottom of the seventh with runners on second and third and two out, or just a tricky computer problem, I get myself into the same mental place. The world fades away and I see nothing but the challenge. By the time I got to their house, I was in the zone. I was so in the zone that I walked up to the front door of the wrong house. Wendy’s Lab was in the front yard giving me the “I know you! What are you doing over there? Get over here and pet me!” look. I didn’t notice. The neighbor pointed next door. Feeling stupid, I walked over. The dog congratulated me on getting smart, Debby greeted me, and I went another round with her computer, running MBRWORK. It recovered the partition successfully, it said. I got excited. I rebooted and the computer asked me for a command interpreter again.
Cantankerous computer 2, Dave 0.
I went home, fixed myself a little something to eat, pondered the situation, and wrote my Bible study for Friday night on my company laptop. That calmed me down enough to let me think rationally again. I packed up everything I could possibly need: Norton AntiVirus, Ghost, an extra hard drive, two laptops, a couple of Linux CDs, both versions of Windows 98, utilities disks…
I booted off my disks and tried a few things. Nothing. I booted my company laptop up with the disks–that laptop doesn’t have DOS installed–and added a couple more toys. They didn’t help. Wendy got home and asked if it was a bad sign I was there. I muttered something and probably came off as rude. I was in the zone, after all. I asked her if she had any floppies she wanted me to scan for viruses. She handed me one, and I tried to boot my laptop into Windows. It showed the very same symptoms as her computer.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Virus writers, PLEASE get a life. Get interested in girls or something. Anything!
Wendy didn’t like the look on my face. I told her what happened. She said a phrase I won’t repeat here, then apologized. There was no need. I felt like saying it too. Or something worse.
For grins, I tried booting the laptop into Linux. It booted up like it was cool. Hmm. Boot sector viruses that kill Windows dead don’t even make Linux flinch. I owe Linus Torvalds a beer.
I tried mounting my main Windows partition. Linux reported NTFS errors. Visions of virus writers getting beaten to a bloody pulp danced in my mind.
Since I was now convinced we were dealing with a boot sector virus, I replaced the MBR. No joy. I booted off a Linux CD, switched over to a console, ran cfdisk, and viewed the partition table. One 4-gig partition, FAT32. No problems. Odd.
Wendy started fretting. “You’ve spent all this time and you’ve lost your laptop. I’m about to start to cry.”
I stopped what I was doing, turned to her, and looked her straight in the eye. “I take care of my friends.”
She looked back at me like she thought that was kind of cool.
“I don’t care about the laptop. I can fix that later. I can rewrite the Bible study that was on it. It took me 20 minutes to write, so it’ll take me 15 minutes to rewrite. I’m going to get your data back.”
The Bible study I lost indeed took me about 15 minutes to rewrite, and the second version was a lot better. But I didn’t get her data back that night. Eventually I gave up, pulled her drive, installed a new drive, and installed Windows and Office on it so they’d have a computer that was useful for something. Debby walked in as I was switching drives, noticed the dust inside the case, and gave it a disgusted look. She came back with a rag and Wendy started laughing at her.
“She can’t stand dust anywhere. I guess not even inside electronics,” Wendy said.
Debby lit up when she walked in the room and saw the Windows 98 screen on her computer. Later when Wendy walked back in, she let out a whoop and told her mom she was missing beautiful things in the computer room. I was pretty happy about it too. Windows 98 didn’t install easily–the intial reboot failed and installation didn’t continue until I booted it in safe mode, then rebooted. I gave the computer a lecture as I booted it, reminding it that I have enough spare parts at home to build a computer like it and would have no qualms about destroying it and replacing it with something else. I know it didn’t hear or understand a word I said, but I felt better afterward.
I felt bad about not getting the data back that night. Wendy and I talked for about 45 minutes about other things. I felt better afterward. I forgot to thank her. Around midnight, I packed up the stuff and drove home.
Wendy and I talked the next day over e-mail. I’d taken my disks to work and scanned them on a non-networked PC nobody cared about and found the Form virus. Wendy had taken some disks to school and had them scanned. They contained both Form and antiCMOS. Since antiCMOS resides in the MBR and Form resides on the primary partition, the two viruses can coexist. Form was relatively harmless on FAT16 drives, and although antiCMOS was potentially destructive in 1991, it’s much less so now that PCs autodetect hard drives at boot rather than relying on parameters stored in CMOS. My work the night before would have eliminated antiCMOS, which explained why it wasn’t present on my disks. I did a Dejanews search on Form and FAT32, to see if that would explain the apparent partition corruption. I found that the symptoms were exactly what Wendy was showing. And I found recovery methods that had a high success rate.
I haven’t put Wendy’s drive in one of my PCs yet to recover it. But I’m pretty confident I’ll get her data back. That’s a good thing. I’ve met nicer people than Wendy and Debby. But only once or twice. People like them don’t come around very often, so I’d like to do something nice for them.
Bringing their data back from oblivion would do.
Desktop Linux and the truth about forking
Dave Farquhar Linux December 1, 2001 September 30, 2010 3com, BSD, debian, KDE, Linus Torvalds, mac os x, micron, os x, red hat, sp3, SUBSYSTEM, unix, windows nt
Desktop Linux! I wanna talk a little more about how Linux runs on a Micron Transport LT. I chose Debian 2.2r3, the “Potato” release, because Debian installs almost no extras. I like that. What you need to know to run Linux on a Micron LT: the 3Com miniPCI NIC uses the 3C59x kernel module. The video chipset uses the ATI Mach64 X server (in XFree86 3.36; if you upgrade to 4.1 you’ll use plain old ATI). Older Debian releases gave this laptop trouble, but 2.2r3 runs fine.
I immediately updated parts of it to Debian Unstable, because I wanted to run Galeon and Nautilus and Evolution. I haven’t played with any GNOME apps in a long time. A couple of years ago when I did it, I wasn’t impressed. KDE was much more polished. I didn’t see any point in GNOME; I wished they’d just pour their efforts into making KDE better. I still wish that, and today KDE is still more polished as a whole, but GNOME has lots of cool apps. Nautilus has the most polish of any non-Mac app I’ve ever seen, and if other Linux apps rip off some of its code, Microsoft’s going to have problems. It’s not gaudy and overboard like Mac OS X is; it’s just plain elegant.
Galeon is the best Web browser I’ve ever seen. Use its tabs feature (go to File, New Tab) and see for yourself. It’s small and fast like Opera, compatible like Netscape, and has features I haven’t seen anywhere else. It also puts features like freezing GIF animation and disabling Java/JavaScript out where they belong: In a menu, easily accessible. And you can turn them off permanently, not just at that moment.
Evolution is a lot like Outlook. Its icons look a little nicer–not as nice as Nautilus, but nice–and its equivalent of Outlook Today displays news headlines and weather. Nice touch. And you can tell it what cities interest you and what publications’ headlines you want. As a mail reader, it’s very much like Outlook. I can’t tell you much about its PIM features, because I don’t use those heavily in Outlook either.
The first time I showed it to an Outlook user at work, her reaction was, “And when are we switching to that?”
If you need a newsreader, Pan does virtually everything Forte Agent or Microplanet Gravity will do, plus a few tricks they won’t. It’s slick, small, and free too.
In short, if I wanted to build–as those hip young whippersnappers say–a pimp-ass Internet computer, this would be it. Those apps, plus the Pan newsreader, give you better functionality than you’ll get for free on Windows or a Mac. For that matter, you could buy $400 worth of software on another platform and not get as much functionality.
Linux development explained. There seems to be some confusion over Linux, and the kernel forking, and all this other stuff. Here’s the real dope.
First off, the kernel has always had forks. Linus Torvalds has his branch, which at certain points in history is the official one. When Torvalds has a branch, Alan Cox almost always has his own branch. Even when Cox’s branch isn’t the official one, many Linux distributions derive their kernels from Cox’s branch. (They generally don’t use the official one either.) Now, Cox and Torvalds had a widely publicized spat over the virtual memory subsystem recently. For a while, the official branch and the -ac branch had different VMs. Words were exchanged, and misinterpreted. Both agreed the original 2.4 VM was broken. Cox tried to fix it. Torvalds replaced it with something else. Cox called Torvalds’ approach the unofficial kernel 2.5. But Torvalds won out in the end–the new VM worked well.
Now you can expect to see some other sub-branches. Noted kernel hackers like Andrea Archangeli occasionally do a release. Now that Marcelo Tosatti is maintaining the official 2.4 tree, you might even see a -ac release again occasionally. More likely, Cox and Torvalds will pour their efforts into 2.5, which should be considered alpha-quality code. Some people believe there will be no Linux 2.6; that 2.5 will eventually become Linux 3.0. It’s hard to know. But 2.5 is where the new and wonderful and experimental bits will go.
There’s more forking than just that going on though. The 2.0 and 2.2 kernels are still being maintained, largely for security reasons. But not long ago, someone even released a bugfix for an ancient 0.-something kernel. That way you can still keep your copy of Red Hat 5.2 secure and not risk breaking any low-level kernel module device drivers you might be loading (to support proprietary, closed hardware, for example). Kernels are generally upward compatible, but you don’t want to risk anything on a production server, and the kernel maintainers recognize and respect that.
As far as the end user is concerned, the kernel doesn’t do much. What 2.4 gave end users was better firewalling code and more filesystems and hopefully slightly better performance. As far as compatibility goes, the difference between an official kernel and an -ac kernel and an -aa kernel is minor. There’s more difference between Windows NT 4.0 SP2 and SP3 than there is between anyone’s Linux 2.4 kernel, and, for that matter, between 2.4 and any (as of Nov. 2001) 2.5 kernel. No one worries about Windows fragmenting, and when something Microsoft does breaks a some application, no one notices.
So recent events are much ado about nothing. The kernel will fragment, refragment, and reunite, just as it has always done, and eventually the best code will win. Maybe at some point a permanent fracture will happen, as happened in the BSD world. That won’t be an armageddon, even though Jesse Berst wants you to think it will be (he doesn’t have anything else to write about, after all, and he can’t be bothered with researching something non-Microsoft). OpenBSD and NetBSD are specialized distributions, and they know it. OpenBSD tries to be the most secure OS on the planet, period. Everything else is secondary. NetBSD tries to be the most portable OS on the planet, and everything else is secondary. If for some reason you need a Unix to run on an old router that’s no longer useful as a router and you’d like to turn it into a more general-purpose computer, NetBSD will probably run on it.
Linux will fragment if and when there is a need for a specialized fragment. And we’ll all be the better for it. Until someone comes up with a compelling reason to do so, history will just continue to repeat itself.
Time to talk about big, manly computers
Dave Farquhar Linux October 14, 2001 September 30, 2010 amd, DEC, IBM, IMAP, kingston, Linus Torvalds, macintosh, nvidia, Southwestern Bell
Enough of this other stuff. I actually felt like messing around with computers yesterday. I read about Eric Raymond’s new PC (IBM was nice enough to finance building an obnoxious Linux box for Mr Raymond and Linus Torvalds), which is, in short, a dual Athlon-1200 setup with two big SCSI drives. Unfortunately, he neglected to mention how much memory he put in it. I’m assuming he splurged and got a gig or two. His comment? “I tried hard to gold-plate as much of the system as possible and load on all the extras and accessories I could, and was nevertheless unable to raise the total parts bill over $7,000.”
When they made the machine more reasonable (pulling the exotic tape backup drive and 21-inch monitor and other niceties), the system still cost $4,200. One participants’ comment? “People pay more than that for crap computers all the time.” Yup. I know one guy at work who had about $10,000 left in his budget at the end of July, so he decided he needed a new Macintosh. He spent every dime of it and didn’t get half the computer Raymond described.
The true test, of course, was compiling the Linux kernel. How long did it take? Two minutes, 21 seconds. I don’t think I have a computer that can compile it in under 10 minutes. Needless to say, I’m extremely jealous.
I had lunch with one of the seminarians assigned to my church (actually, seeing as it was at 3:30, I’m not sure what you would call that meal. Well, since people tend to argue whether the afternoon meal is lunch or dinner, and whether the evening meal is dinner or supper, I guess the 3:30 meal must be dinner). He mentioned that Best Bait-n-Switch had 256-meg Kingston DIMMs on sale for $25 after rebate, so we went. I picked one up.
With that, I had enough stuff to build a PC to replace several of the boxes I have laying around. Compare my setup to Raymond’s new setup:
CPU: AMD K6-2, 350 MHz
Mobo: AOpen AX59Pro
RAM: 256 MB Kingston
NIC: Generic cheapie Macronix (DEC Tulip derivative)
SCSI adapter: Initio 9090U (it came bundled with my CD-R way back when)
Hard drives: 850 MB Seagate IDE, 2 GB Quantum SCSI
CD-ROM: Generic, flaky 24X ATAPI
Video: STB Velocity 128 (nVidia Riva 128)
Case: InWin ATX desktop, no idea the model#, $37 at Directron a few months back
Yep. Pathetic. For whatever reason the machine wouldn’t boot off the Sorcerer CD, so I ended up installing Mandrake 7 on it (I wanted something reasonably modern that didn’t use the infamous GCC 2.96 compiler). It’s going to be an experimental mail server, so it doesn’t have to be fabulous.
Getting Courier-IMAP proved difficult. Someone at Inter7.com decided he didn’t like PacBell, and Southwestern Bell by association, so he blocks access from their networks. How nice of him. I understand not liking the companies (I hate Southwestern Bell as much as anyone), but punishing their customers isn’t going to accomplish anything. I’m stuck with SWBell because I don’t want to pay for basic cable so I can get a cable modem. If I get DSL from anyone else, then I’m using Southwestern Bell plus someone else, so they can blame each other. And who knows? If I connected from someone else who’s also using SWBell’s network, would I be blocked?
He posted his complaints to PacBell, and I have to wonder if part of the reason PacBell ignores him is because of his liberal use of a phrase that contains the word “mother” and implies incest…
At any rate, there’s an easy way to get past rude people who are blocking your ISP. Use someone else’s network. Go to www.anonymizer.com, then punch in the forbidden web page. Now I’m not using Southwestern Bell’s network, but rather, Anonymizer’s network, which is then forwarding the information I requested.
Unfortunately I didn’t get the mailserver built, as Courier-IMAP is even harder to get running than it is to download, but it was kind of fun to mess around with Linux again.
If you’re interested in what I was doing, here’s the article I followed.
Hey, it’s playoffs time. And ESPN is highlighting 1986, which as far as I’m concerned, is the second-best postseason ever (no one can top my Royals’ magical 1985, of course). ESPN’s doing a “voices of 1986,” but I noticed the voice I most want to hear isn’t up there yet. They’d better not forget him. I’ll never forget the photo of young Bosox closer Calvin Schiraldi with his face buried in a towel after Game 6. Hobbling first baseman Bill Buckner was the goat, but Schiraldi took it hard.
I actually met Schiraldi three years later. He was pitching for the Cubs by then, trying to put his career back together in spite of manager Don “Gerbil” Zimmer’s best efforts to prevent it. Nice guy. All people remember now is an unreliable relief pitcher (the specifics: a 13.50 ERA in the World Series, thanks in part to a home run he gave up to Ray Knight and the three consecutive singles he gave up preceding Buckner’s error) and they forget his 1.41 ERA in the regular season, followed by his 1.50 ERA in the playoffs. I remember a tired, overworked pitcher who gave everything he had and in the end just had nothing left. Boston had four pitchers worth having that year: Bruce Hurst, the incomparable Roger Clemens, “Oil Can” Boyd, and Schiraldi. In the postseason, those four men pitched until their arms fell off, and Boyd and Schiraldi were never quite the same after that. Hurst went on to have a respectable career; Clemens of course is still pitching and is now known as one of the biggest jerks in the game. These days, Schiraldi’s a high school teacher and coach in Texas.
I went looking for stuff on Schiraldi and I found this short story: The Girl who Hated Calvin Schiraldi. Obviously I don’t see it her way.
Dave Farquhar General August 19, 2001 September 30, 2010 LFS, Linus Torvalds
I’m rested but not caught up. I semi-successfully built a Linux From Scratch box; it’s easily the fastest computer I’ve ever seen but not everything works quite right. I made the mistake of using Mandrake 8.0 as my source platform. In some regards Mandrake 8 makes sense; it has recent kernel and glibc versions. Unfortunately it also uses the infamous GCC 2.96; an unofficial release of GNU’s C compiler that’s so wretched that Linus Torvalds actually has asked people to not do any kernel development using any OS that uses it. One of the first things LFS does is build its own copy of GCC 2.95.3, but unfortunately, there’s code in my system that GCC 2.96 got its grubby mitts on and stuff doesn’t work. Notably, I can’t build another LFS system using it as the source. Crimony.
Meanwhile, I found out this afternoon that Bible study is at my place on Friday. My apartment’s always a mess and today’s no exception; it’s not as bad now as it has been at times but it is much less than presentable. So that’s my big project for the week. Hopefully I’ll get a mail server going too.
But I’ll try to check in every day.
Craig Mundie’s infamous speech
Dave Farquhar General May 7, 2001 April 18, 2017 1960s, altair, AOL, apache, cisco, compaq, DEC, dell, freebsd, IBM, IRC, Linus Torvalds, Microsoft Basic, oracle, OSS, sgi, time warner, windows 2000
I haven’t said anything about Microsoft Executive Craig Mundie’s speech yet. Everyone’s heard of it, of course, and the typical response has been something along the lines of “Now we know Microsoft’s stance on Open Source.”
No, we’ve always known Microsoft’s stance on that. They’re scared of it. Remember the stereotype of open-source programmers: college students and college dropouts writing software in their basements that a lot of people are using, with the goal of toppling an industry giant. Seem far-fetched? Friends, that’s the story of Microsoft itself. Microsoft became an underground sensation in the late 1970s with Microsoft Basic, a programming language for the Altair and other kit computers and later for CP/M. And while we’ll probably never know the entire story of how and why this happened, when IBM decided to outsource the operating system for the IBM PC, they went to Microsoft and got both an OS and the must-have Microsoft Basic. Ten years later, IBM was just another hardware maker–really big, but getting squeezed. Today, 20 years later, IBM’s still a huge force in the computing industry, but in the PC industry, aside from selling ThinkPads, IBM’s a nobody. There may be hardware enthusiasts out there who’d be surprised to hear IBM makes and sells more than just hard drives.
Ironically, Microsoft’s response to this new threat is to act more and more like the giant it toppled. Shared Source isn’t a new idea. IBM was doing that in the 1960s. If you were big enough, you could see the source code. DEC did it too. At work, we have the source code to most of the big VMS applications we depend on day-to-day. Most big operations insist on having that kind of access, so their programmers can add features and fix bugs quickly. If Windows 2000 is ever going to get beyond the small server space, they really have no choice. But they do it with strings attached and without going far enough. An operation the size of the one I work for can’t get the source and fix bugs or optimize the code for a particular application. You’re only permitted to use the source code to help you develop drivers or applications. Meet the new Microsoft: same as the old Microsoft.
Some people have read this speech and concluded that Microsoft believes open-source software killed the dot-com boom. That’s ludicrous, and I don’t see that in the text. OSS was very good for the dot-com boom. OSS lowered the cost of entry: Operating systems such as FreeBSD and Linux ran on cheap PCs, rather than proprietary hardware. The OSs themselves were free, and there was lots of great free software available, such as the Apache Web server, and scripting languages like Python and Perl. You could do all this cool stuff, the same cool stuff you could do with a Sun or SGI server, for the price of a PC. And not only was it cheaper than everybody else, it was also really reliable.
The way I read it, Microsoft didn’t blame OSS for the dot-com bust. Microsoft blamed the advertising model, valuing market share over revenue, and giving stuff away now and then trying to get people to pay later.
I agree. The dot-com boom died because companies couldn’t find ways to make money. But I’m not convinced the dot-com boom was a big mistake. It put the Internet on the map. Before 1995, when the first banner ad ran, there wasn’t much to the Internet. I remember those early days. As a college student in 1993, the Internet was a bonanza to me, even though I wasn’t using it to the extent a lot of my peers were. For me, the Internet was FTP and Gopher and e-mail. I mostly ignored Usenet and IRC. That was pretty much the extent of the Internet. You had to be really determined or really bored or really geeky to get much of anything out of it. The World Wide Web existed, but that was a great mystery to most of us. The SGI workstations on campus had Web browsers. We knew that Mosaic had been ported to Windows, but no one in the crowd I ran in knew how to get it working. When we finally got it running on some of our PCs in 1994, what we found was mostly personal homepages. “Hi, my name is Darren and this is my homepage. Here are some pictures of my cat. Here’s a listing of all the CDs I own. Here are links to all my friends who have homepages.” The running joke then was that there were only 12 pages on the Web, and the main attraction of the 12 was links to the other 11.
By 1995, we had the first signs of business. Banner ads appeared, and graduating students (or dropouts) started trying to build companies around their ideas. The big attraction of the Web was that there was all this information out there, and it was mostly free. Online newspapers and magazines sprung up. Then vendors sprung up, offering huge selections and low prices. You could go to Amazon.com and find any book in print, and you’d pay less for it than you would at Barnes & Noble. CDNow.com did the same thing for music. And their ads supported places that were giving information away. So people started buying computers so they could be part of the show. People flocked from closed services like CompuServe and Prodigy to plain-old Internet, which offered so much more and was cheaper.
Now the party’s ending as dot-coms close up shop, often with their content gone forever. To me, that’s a loss only slightly greater than the loss of the Great Library. There’s some comfort for me: Five years from now, most of that information would be obsolete anyway. But its historical value would remain. But setting sentiment aside, that bonanza of freebies was absolutely necessary. When I was selling computers in 1994, people frequently asked me what a computer was good for. In 1995, it was an easier sell. Some still asked that question, but a lot of people came in wanting “whatever I need to get to be able to get on the Internet.” Our best-selling software package, besides Myst, was Internet In A Box, which bundled dialup software, a Web browser, and access to some nationwide provider. I imagine sales were easier still in 1996 and beyond, but I was out of retail by then. Suddenly, you could buy this $2,000 computer and get all this stuff for free. A lot of companies made a lot of money off that business model. Microsoft made a killing. Dell and Gateway became behemoths. Compaq made enough to buy DEC. AOL made enough to buy Time Warner. Companies like Oracle and Cisco, who sold infrastructure, had licenses to print money. Now the party’s mostly over and these companies have massive hangovers, but what’s the answer to the Ronald Reagan question? Hangover or no hangover, yes, they’re a whole heck of a lot better off than they were four years ago.
I’m shocked that Microsoft thinks the dot-com phenomenon was a bad thing.
If, in 1995, the Web came into its own but every site had been subscription-based, this stuff wouldn’t have happened. It was hard enough to swallow $2,000 for a new PC, plus 20 bucks a month for Internet. Now I have to pay $9.95 a month to read a magazine? I could just subscribe to the paper edition and save $2,500!
The new Internet would have been the same as the old Internet, only you’d have to be more than just bored, determined, and geeky to make it happen. You’d also have to have a pretty big pile of cash.
The dot-com boom put the Internet on the map, made it the hot ticket. The dot-com bust hurt. Now that sites are dropping out of the sky or at least scaling operations way back, more than half of the Web sites I read regularly are Weblogs–today’s new and improved personal home page. People just like me. The biggest difference between 1994 and 2001? The personal home pages are better. Yeah, the pictures of the cat are still there sometimes, but at least there’s wit and wisdom and insight added. When I click on those links to the left, I usually learn something.
But there is another difference. Now we know why it would make sense to pay for a magazine on the Internet instead of paper. Information that takes a month to make it into print goes online in minutes. It’s much easier and faster to type a word into a search engine than to leaf through a magazine. We can hear any baseball game we want, whether a local radio station carries our favorite team or not. The world’s a lot smaller and faster now, and we’ve found we like it.
The pump is primed. Now we have to figure out how to make this profitable. The free ride is pretty much over. But now that we’ve seen what’s possible, we’re willing to start thinking about whipping out the credit cards again and signing up, provided the cost isn’t outrageous.
The only thing in Mundie’s speech that I can see that Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox and Dan Gillmor should take offense to is Microsoft’s suspicion of anyone giving something away for free. Sure, Microsoft gives lots of stuff away, but always with ulterior motives. Internet Explorer is free because Microsoft was afraid of Netscape. Outlook 98 was free for a while to hurt Lotus Notes. Microsoft Money was free for a while so Microsoft could get some share from Quicken. It stopped being free when Microsoft signed a deal with Intuit to bundle Internet Explorer with Quicken instead of Netscape. And there are other examples.
Microsoft knows that you can give stuff away with strings attached and make money off the residuals. What Microsoft hasn’t learned is that you can give stuff away without the strings attached and still make money off the residuals. The dot-com bust only proves that you can’t necessarily make as much as you may have thought, and that you’d better spend what you do make very wisely.
The Internet needs to be remade, yes, and it needs to find some sustainable business models (one size doesn’t fit all). But if Mundie thinks the world is chomping at the bit to have Microsoft remake the Internet their way, he’s in for a rude awakening.
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Sharks’ Comeback Bites Devils in Shootout
San Jose 4 Devils 3 — shootout
Over the past few seasons the New Jersey Devils and San Jose Sharks have played some wildly entertaining games and Friday night at the Prudential Center was no different, as the visiting Sharks rallied from two goals down and beat the Devils in a shootout after tying the game again with 33 seconds left in regulation. Johan Hedberg ended up as the hard-luck loser in this one as he was brilliant in goal for New Jersey, finishing with 37 saves. “I thought he was great,” said coach Peter DeBoer after the game, “he gave us a chance to win, to get a point.”
The Devils opened the scoring 13:53into the game when Patrik Elias scored off a perfect circle-to-circle pass from Ilya Kovalchuk, snapping a wrist shot top shelf past Sharks netminder Antti Niemi. The power play goal was the 92nd of Elias’ career, tying him with John MacLean for most in franchise history.
With 2:52left in the period, the Devils lost their second line center Jacob Josefson when he crashed hard into the boards behind the San Jose goal. The 20-year-old skated immediately to the bench and into the locker room with his right arm dangling; it was later announced he had a broken right clavicle.
Thirty-six seconds into the second period Zach Parise was awarded a penalty shot when Sharks defenseman Brent Burns pulled him down on a shorthanded breakaway. The Devils captain has become a master of sorts in penalty shots/shootout attempts lately and he continued that reputation as he increased the lead to 2-0, faking out Niemi with his forehand and slipping a backhand shot through the goalie’s five-hole.
Hedberg held the Sharks scoreless as long as he could with the shot total rising rapidly, but he was finally beaten 15:18into the second when Joe Thornton’s wrist shot slid into the net under the goalie’s pads. “I’m not sure how that went in,” Hedberg admitted, “it surprised me too; I don’t know why I didn’t stop that, I’m not sure actually.” Ryane Clowe completed the comeback and evened the score 1:03 later when the puck pin-balled off of his shin pad and found the back of the net.
San Jose continued to outshoot the Devils but the game remained even until 13:18 had elapsed and David Clarkson scored his second goal in as many games, converting a beautiful spin-o-rama feed from Mattias Tedenby. “He made a great play to me in front,” said Clarkson, “I had enough time and found the back of the net.”
Victory for New Jersey seemed certain until the final minute when with their goalie pulled for an extra-attacker, the Sharks tied the game as Joe Pavelski wired a shot through a maze of players in front of the crease. Hedberg appeared to be interfered with on the play, and he tried to plead his case but the officials didn’t see it that way and the game was tied. “We were thirty seconds away from winning the game and we still had a chance in the shootout,” said Parise afterwards. “I think we know we have to be a lot better. It wasn’t our best game tonight and we know there are going to be more of those, but we definitely need to be better for tomorrow.”
The game remained 3-3 after a five-minute overtime, sending the outcome to be decided by a shootout. Kovalchuk scored first, beating Niemi with a rising backhand and Pavelski’s attempt went wide of Hedberg’s cage. Parise was denied on his attempt, evening the score between he and Niemi. “He made a good save on it,” said Parise. Niemi didn’t want to get burned on the same move as earlier and was ready. “You can’t really cheat too much,” said the Sharks’ goalkeeper. “You just have to try and wait him out.” Michal Handzus evened the tie breaker with a shot that hit the goalpost and then went in off Hedberg’s back.
Elias attempted a wrist shot through the goalie’s five-hole and was denied and Clowe won the game when he flipped a backhand over the Moose’s glove hand. “I’ve taken a few shootouts now over the years and that’s kind of my go-to move, I usually go backhand,” said Clowe. “It’s a little easier I guess when I face Eastern Conference goalies because they don’t get to see you as much. Hedberg’s kind of a smaller goalie and I have a long stick, long reach; I try to use that when I go to my backhand. I think he was over there, but I got it up over his pad.”
Game Notes: Thornton (the Sharks captain) played in his 1000th NHL game, and had two points, giving him 42 points in 34 career games against New Jersey. Colin White played his first game against the team he spent the past 11 seasons with and the two-time Stanley Cup winner was applauded by the Devils fans when he was announced during pre-game in the San Jose starting lineup; he played 14:44, led all players with three hits, was minus-1 and had one shot on goal. Kovalchuk led all skaters in ice-time with 32:25 and Dan Boyle led the Sharks with 31:23. Pavelski, Boyle and Clowe led all players with six shots on goal, and Devils defenseman Anton Volchenkov led all players with four blocked shots. New Jersey (3-1-1) is back in action Saturday night when they play at Pittsburgh (5-2-2) and San Jose (2-3-0) will also be in action that night when they play at Boston (3-4-0).
#1 – Joe Pavelski (SJ) – goal (3), assist (1)
#2 – Johan Hedberg (NJ) – 37 saves, OT loss (3-0-1)
#3 – David Clarkson (NJ) – goal (2), assist (1)
Categories: Diablo's Doctrine . Tags: Anton Volchenkov, Antti Niemi, Brent Burns, Colin White, Dan Boyle, David Clarkson, Ilya Kovalchuk, Jacob Josefson, Joe Pavelski, Joe Thornton, Johan Hedberg, John MacLean, Mattias Tedenby, Michal Handzus, New Jersey Devils, NHL, Patrik Elias, peter DeBoer, Prudential Center, Ryane Clowe, San Jose Sharks, Stanley Cup, Zach Parise . Author: Dan Rice . Comments: Leave a comment
How the West Will Be Won
Western Conference predictions
(8) Chicago over (1) Vancouver
(7) Los Angeles over (2) San Jose
(3) Detroit over (6) Phoenix
(4) Anaheim over (5) Nashville
(8) Chicago over (3) Detroit
(4) Anaheim over (7) Los Angeles
(4) Anaheim over (8) Chicago
Vancouver (1) vs. Chicago (8)
Last Cup Win: Vancouver (never), Chicago (2010)
Why the Canucks will win: The team won the President’s Trophy (117 points), Roberto Luongo and Cory Schneider won the Jennings Trophy (185 goals-against) and Daniel Sedin won the Art Ross Trophy (104 points). This team is built to win now and this is probably the first of their two-year window of opportunity to do just that.
Why the Blackhawks will win: Their nucleus from last year’s championship is still in tact despite losing several key pieces; and Patrick Kane brought his playoff-mullet back.
Vancouver’s most important player: Whichever player replaces Manny Malhotra (eye injury) as the third-line center; his ability to win key face-offs and his lead-by-example attitude will be sorely missed.
Chicago’s most important player: Captain Jonathan Toews has led the Hawks’ playoff push in the second half and he will need to continue with that effort to help his team advance past the Canucks.
Vancouver’s biggest question mark: Can Luongo finally beat Chicago? Two years in a row the Canucks were sent packing for the summer by the ‘Hawks; if Vancouver does win the series will it be a stepping stone to bigger and brighter things?
Chicago’s biggest question mark: The Blackhawks will try for a second consecutive spring to win the Cup with a rookie goalie. Corey Crawford had a stellar season, but can he duplicate Antti Niemi’s 2010 success? If Crawford falters, Chicago can always send in Marty Turco.
Players with Stanley Cup Rings: Vancouver (Mikael Samuelsson), Chicago (Dave Bolland, Toews, Troy Brouwer, Marian Hossa, Kane, Tomas Kopecky, Patrick Sharp, Brian Campbell, Jassen Cullimore, Niklas Hjalmarsson, Duncan Keith, Brent Seabrook).
PREDICTION: HAWKS IN 6 — Luongo may be crying again after this one as the rejuvenated champs begin their defense of the Cup by eliminating the Canucks swiftly.
San Jose (2) vs. Los Angeles (7)
Last Cup Win: San Jose (never), Los Angeles (never)
Why the Sharks will win: San Jose’s players have a lot of playoff experience, just not too many winning experiences though. The additions of Antti Niemi and Ben Eager (who won the Cup with Chicago last season) should help, but will it be enough for this underachieving bunch to finally make the Finals?
Why the Kings will win: Two words — Jarret Stoll. One of the NHL’s most underrated players is very important to LA’s success. He was a key cog in the Oilers’ run to the ’06 Finals and whether it’s winning a key face-off or scoring a clutch goal, you can expect to see Stoll’s name a lot if the Kings are to do some damage this spring.
San Jose’s most important player: Dany Heatley, He had a very un-Heatley like season this year (26g-38a), but he can make that a distant memory if he’s clutch in the postseason.
Los Angeles’ most important player: Jonathan Quick, He’s made the big saves all season long and is the rock solid foundation of the Kings’ stingy defense. With the offense hurting, he will have to steal a game or two for his squad to advance.
San Jose’s biggest question mark: Niemi, yes he won the Stanley Cup in the Windy City in 2010, but the ‘Hawks defense was and is a lot better than the Sharks’ blueline.
Los Angeles’ biggest question mark: Where will the Kings’ goal scoring come from with their top two scorers (Anze Kopitar and Justin Williams) sidelined? Paging Wayne Simmonds…
Players with Stanley Cup Rings: San Jose (Dan Boyle, Eager, Kent Huskins, Niclas Wallin, Niemi), Los Angeles (Dustin Penner, Rob Scuderi, Williams)
PREDICTION: KINGS IN 7 — Quick will steal two games, including Game 7 in the Shark Tank.
Detroit (3) vs. Phoenix (6)
Last Cup Win: Detroit (2008), Phoenix (never)
Why the Wings will win: Detroit has too many savvy and talented players to lose in the first round right? Look for Todd Bertuzzi and Mike Modano to have big impacts in this opening round series.
Why the Coyotes will win: For two consecutive seasons now Phoenix has hovered around the NHL’s elite with back-to-back stellar regular seasons. Obviously this is not a fluke and captain Shane Doan just might get out of the first round for the first time in his career.
Detroit’s most important player: Johan Franzen aka ‘The Mule’ is an absolute proven playoff beast — 69 points (35g-34a) in 75 career playoff games — and if Phoenix has any hopes of surviving this series they better find a way to corral the large Swede; he also has 11 playoff game-winning goals.
Phoenix’s most important player: Ilya Bryzgalov is the backbone of the Coyotes and could be the biggest factor in knocking the Wings out. His 36 wins and seven shutouts this season place him among the NHL’s elite netminders going forward.
Detroit’s biggest question mark: How healthy is Henrik Zetterberg is the main question in the Motor City; if he is at less than 100% the Wings could be ripe for the taking against the hungry Desert Dogs. He will definitely miss Game 1 with a left leg injury.
Phoenix’s biggest question mark: Can they finally get past the big, bad Red Wings? They should be motivated and know what to do after being eliminated in seven games by Detroit in last year’s first round.
Players with Stanley Cup Rings: Detroit (Pavel Datsyuk (2), Zetterberg, Brian Rafalski (3), Franzen, Nicklas Lidstrom (4), Nicklas Kronwall, Dan Cleary, Valtteri Filppula, Tomas Holmstrom (4), Kris Draper (4), Brad Stuart, Drew Miller, Darren Helm, Chris Osgood (3), Modano), Phoenix (Bryzgalov, Ray Whitney)
PREDICTION: RED WINGS IN 7 — Experience wins out for the Wings, but they will get another scare from the gritty Coyotes.
Anaheim (4) vs. Nashville (5)
Last Cup Win: Anaheim (2007), Nashville (never)
Why the Ducks will win: Who on Nashville can stop Corey Perry? No one in the league has been able to contain the league’s leading goal scorer (50) in the 2nd half, so good luck Preds.
Why the Predators will win: Defense wins championships, and Nashville has two of the NHL’s premiere defensemen (Shea Weber, Ryan Suter) plus a Vezina Trophy candidate in Pekka Rinne.
Anaheim’s most important player: I think it will be Saku Koivu’s time to shine in the first round. With all of the defensive attention (and rightfully so) being paid to the Ducks’ top line, watch out for the Finnish dynamic duo of Koivu and Teemu Selanne to wreck havoc.
Nashville’s most important player: If Rinne can stand on his head (and get in his opponents’ head) the Ducks might be in trouble here. His numbers (2.12 GAA, 33 wins, .930 save %, six shutouts) speak for themselves, but his ability to take over a game can’t be measured in numbers. Nashville’s penalty killers (fifth overall) will be tested against Anaheim’s power play (third overall).
Anaheim’s biggest question mark: Who’s in goal for them? Is it All-Star Jonas Hiller, vagabond Dan Ellis or head case Ray Emery? If one of these tenders steps up the Ducks will be hard to eliminate and SoCal could be celebrating their second Stanley Cup in four seasons.
Nashville’s biggest question mark: Who the heck is going to score for this team? They have only two 20-goal scorers (Sergei Kostitsyn, Patric Hornqvist) and obviously rely on defense and scoring by committee. If Mike Fisher and JP Dumont find their scoring touches, the Predators could pull off the upset.
Players with Stanley Cup Rings: Anaheim (Ryan Getzlaf, George Parros, Perry, Selanne, Francois Beauchemin, Todd Marchant, Andreas Lilja), Nashville (none)
PREDICTION: DUCKS IN 5 — The Ducks will be too powerful for the gutsy Preds; the series will only go five games, but each game will probably have a 2-1 final score.
Categories: Diablo's Doctrine . Tags: 2011 playoffs, Anaheim Ducks, Andreas Lilja, Antti Niemi, Anze Kopitar, Art Ross Trophy, Ben Eager, Brad Stuart, Brent Seabrook, Brian Campbell, Brian Rafalski, Chicago Blackhawks, Chris Osgood, Corey Crawford, Corey Perry, Cory Schneider, Dan Boyle, Dan Cleary, Dan Ellis, Daniel Sedin, Dany Heatley, Darren Helm, Dave Bolland, Detroit Red Wings, Drew Miller, Duncan Keith, Dustin Penner, Francois Beauchemin, George Parros, Henrik Zetterberg, Ilya Bryzgalov, Jarret Stoll, Jassen Cullimore, Jennings Trophy, Johan Franzen, Jonas Hiller, Jonathan Quick, Jonathan Toews, JP Dumont, Justin Williams, Kent Huskins, Kris Draper, Los Angeles Kings, Manny Malhotra, Marian Hossa, Marty Turco, Mikael Samuelsson, Mike Fisher, Mike Modano, Nashville Predators, Nicklas Kronwall, Nicklas Lidstrom, Niclas Wallin, Niklas Hjalmarsson, Patric Hornqvist, Patrick Kane, Patrick Sharp, Pavel Datsyuk, Pekka Rinne, Phoenix Coyotes, President's Trophy, Ray Emery, Ray Whitney, Rob Scuderi, Roberto Luongo, Ryan Getzlaf, Ryan Suter, Saku Koivu, San Jose Sharks, Sergei Kostitsyn, Shane Doan, Shea Weber, Stanley Cup, Teemu Selanne, Todd Bertuzzi, Todd Marchant, Tomas Holmstrom, Tomas Kopecky, Troy Brouwer, Valtteri Filppula, Vancouver Canucks, Wayne Simmonds . Author: Dan Rice . Comments: Leave a comment
Kovalchuk Comes Up Clutch Again as Devils Nip Sharks
Two of the NHL’s hottest teams squared off on Friday night at the Rock as the San Jose Sharks visited the New Jersey Devils. The unstoppable force met the immovable object — San Jose is 9-0-1 in their last ten games, New Jersey is 5-0-1 over their last six contests. For the second night in a row the Devils won a game by a score of 2-1, and for the second night in a row Ilya Kovalchuk had the game-winning goal.
The game remained scorelees through two periods due to stellar and sharp netminding by the Devils’ Johan Hedberg and the Sharks’ Antti Niemi. Finally 6:08 into the third period Hedberg blinked first, surrendering Patrick Marleau’s 21st goal of the season on the 27th shot he faced in the game. Just over three minutes later Brian Rolston tied the game on a one-timer during a 4-on-3 power play, after a nice set-up pass by Kovalchuk.
Kovalchuk gave his team it’s first lead of the night with 3:59 left, firing a shot through Niemi’s arm/body after a face-off win by Travis Zajac; he now has 12 points (6g-6a) over his last nine games. The win moves the Devils only 11 points behind the 8th place Carolina Hurricanes. Kovalchuk’s goal was his sixth game-winner of the season and he now has points in seven consecutive games.
Dan’s 3 Stars of the Game:
#1 — Ilya Kovalchuk (NJ) — gw goal (19), assist (19): King Kovy strikes again.
#2 — Johan Hedberg (NJ) — 31 saves, win (9): The Moose has another solid performance.
#3 — Travis Zajac (NJ) — assist (24), 11 face-off wins: Who needs Zach Parise right Travis?
Categories: Diablo's Doctrine . Tags: Antti Niemi, Brian Rolston, Carolina Hurricanes, Ilya Kovalchuk, Johan Hedberg, New Jersey Devils, Patrick Marleau, San Jose Sharks, Travis Zajac, Zach Parise . Author: Dan Rice . Comments: Leave a comment
Late-Game Woes Haunt Devils Again
Here is my recap of the Devils 2-1 shootout loss to Chicago on Friday night:
Chicago 2 Devils 1 — shootout
Once again — for the third home game in a row — the New Jersey Devils surrendered a late, backbreaking goal before losing to the Chicago Blackhawks 2-1 in a shootout on Friday night. Goalie Martin Brodeur was 26 seconds away from win #599/shutout #109 of his career when Kris Versteeg’s desperation shot tied the game — deflecting off of Devils defenseman Mike Mottau’s leg. “We just couldn’t clear it; we had the puck on the boards there for a while, and after that in the middle of the ice,” explained Brodeur. “It just squirted loose right to Versteeg; he turned around and just shot it. Somebody was in front of me with my defenseman and it just went through.”
These late-game meltdowns are not good signs for New Jersey if they want to do any damage in the upcoming playoffs, but they still have five more games to figure it out. “I think we played well defensively and Marty played a great game,” said Devils winger Ilya Kovalchuk. “In the last minute we have to get the puck out, any way we can.”
Kovalchuk gave the Devils the lead when he one-timed a shot past ‘Hawks goalie Antti Niemi 5:49 into the game, his 40th goal of the season. “(Vladimir) Zharkov battled along the boards hard and chipped the puck to Patty (Elias), and he made a great play,” said Kovalchuk. “I was in the right time and the right place and put it in.”
Brodeur (25 saves) and Niemi (32 saves) matched each other save-for-save as the game marched on late into the third period with the Devils still leading by just one goal. With Niemi on the bench for an extra-attacker and under a minute to go in the game Chicago tied the game, proving why they sit near the top of the Western Conference. Versteeg’s wrist shot went through both Hawks’ captain Jonathan Toews and Brodeur’s legs after ricocheting off of Mottau’s leg. “The style with these games is getting tighter and tighter,” Toews said, “and there’s less room to make little pretty plays. Like you saw — we had to find a way to score an ugly one at the end there.”
After nothing was solved in the five-minute overtime, the game went to the shootout where New Jersey coach Jacques Lemaire tried to change his team’s fortunes by changing his order. “Because we haven’t had any luck going second, so let’s try to change it. Next time I’ll drink milk instead of water,” Lemaire said with a grin. Normally Brodeur will face the opposing shooter first at home, before the Devils send out their first shooter. “Don’t ask me, I was surprised as you guys,” said the goalie. “It was the first time I think, when we’ve had the decision to pick that they don’t shoot first.”
Instead Devils captain Jamie Langenbrunner shot first and his attempt never got on net, and Brodeur surrendered a goal to Toews. “He skated (in), shot it and beat me. That’s exactly what I saw,” Brodeur said. “He didn’t do anything; he just came in and fired it past me.”
In round two, Niemi stopped Zach Parise’s backhand attempt and Brodeur gloved down Patrick Kane’s shot. New Jersey’s last hope was Kovalchuk and his backhand shot sailed over the crossbar, sealing the come-from behind victory for Chicago.
Game Notes: There were no penalties called in the game, the first time that’s ever happened for New Jersey in their franchise history and the first NHL game to feature no infractions since March 28, 2001 (Toronto vs. Boston). Devils center Dainius Zubrus didn’t play due to illness. Blackhawks defenseman Duncan Keith led all skaters in ice-time with 28:51 and Mottau led New Jersey with 24:52. Kovalchuk and Langenbrunner led all players with six shots on goal apiece; Dustin Byfuglien (played defense, normally a forward) led Chicago with five. Ex-Devil John Madden led all players in face-off pct. (8-2, 80%) in his first game in New Jersey as a visitor; Devils forward Rod Pelley led all players with seven hits. New Jersey (44-26-7) plays at Carolina (33-35-10) on Saturday night and Chicago (48-22-7) returns home to play Calgary (40-29-9) on Easter Sunday.
#1 – Antti Niemi (Chi) – 32 saves, win (22-7-3)
#2 – Martin Brodeur (NJ) – 25 saves, ot loss (41-24-6)
#3 – Kris Versteeg (Chi) – goal (18)
Dan Rice covers the New Jersey Devils & NHL for NYCSportsnetwork.com, & can be reached at drdiablo321@yahoo.com.
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Title: Invariant manifolds and rate constants in driven chemical reactions
Authors: Feldmaier, Matthias
Schraft, Philippe
Bardakcioglu, Robin
Reiff, Johannes
Lober, Melissa
Tschope, Martin
Junginger, Andrej
Main, Jorg
Bartsch, Thomas
Hernandez, Rigoberto
Publisher: © American Chemical Society
Citation: FELDMAIER, M. ... et al, 2019. Invariant manifolds and rate constants in driven chemical reactions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 123 (9), pp.2070-2086.
Abstract: Reaction rates of chemical reactions under nonequilibrium conditions can be determined through the construction of the normally hyperbolic invariant manifold (NHIM) [and moving dividing surface (DS)] associated with the transition state trajectory. Here, we extend our recent methods by constructing points on the NHIM accurately even for multidimensional cases. We also advance the implementation of machine learning approaches to construct smooth versions of the NHIM from a known high-accuracy set of its points. That is, we expand on our earlier use of neural nets and introduce the use of Gaussian process regression for the determination of the NHIM. Finally, we compare and contrast all of these methods for a challenging two-dimensional model barrier case so as to illustrate their accuracy and general applicability.
Description: This paper is closed access until 7 February 2020.
Sponsor: The German portion of this collaborative work was partially supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) through Grant No. MA1639/14-1. The US portion was partially supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through Grant No. CHE 1700749. A.J. acknowledges the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, for support through a Feodor Lynen Fellowship. M.F. is grateful for support from the Landesgraduiertenförderung of the Land Baden-Württemberg. This collaboration has also benefited from support by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 734557.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b10541
Publisher Link: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b10541
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Observation of Multiphoton Process in Liquid CS2 Using Pulsed Photoacoustic Technique
Harilal, S S; Riju, C Issac; Bindhu, C V; Geetha K, Varier; Nampoori, V P N; Vallabhan, C P G (World Scientific Publishing Company, 1995)
Abstract: Pulsed photoacoustic measurements have been carried out in liquid CS2 using 532 nm radiation from a frequency doubled Nd:YAG laser. Variation of signal amplitude with laser fluence clearly indicates the role of multiphoton processes in the generation of photoacoustic effect. It is also shown that four photon induced dissociation and five photon induced ionization are likely processes in CS2 and 532 nm radiation.
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Observation of two-photon absorption in rhodamine 6G using photoacoustic technique
Sathy, P; Reji, Philip; Nampoori, V P N; Vallabhan, C P G (Elsevier, January 1, 1990)
Abstract: Two-photon absorption in Rhodamine 6G using the second harmonic of a pulsed Q-switched Nd:YAG laser has been studied by photoacoustic technique. It is observed that there is a competition between one-photon and two-photon absorption processes. At lower concentration the two-photon process is predominant over the one-photon process.
Observation of two-photon induced photoemission optogalvanic effect
Sasi Kumar, P R; Padmaja, G; Ravi Kumar, A V; Nampoori, V P N; Vallabhan, C P G (Springer, April , 1991)
Abstract: Observation of laser induced two-photon photoemission optogalvanic (TPPOG) effect from tungsten electrode in a discharge cell using 564 nm radiation obtained from a pulsed dye laser is described. The magnitude of the POG signal is studied as a function of laser energy under various discharge parameters. Competition between one-photon and two-photon processes has been observed when nitrogen gas is used in the discharge cell.
Occurrence and Distribution of a Diatom-Diazotrophic Cyanobacteria Association during a Trichodesmium Bloom in the Southeastern Arabian Sea
Hatha, A A M; Jabir, T; Dhanya, V; Jesmi, Y; Prabhakaran, M P; Saravanane, N; Gupta, G V M (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, July 12, 2013)
Abstract: Symbiotic diatom-diazotrophic cyanobacteria association (DDA) of Rhizosolenia hebetata and Rhizosolenia formosa with endosymbiotic cyanobacteria Richelia intracellularis was noticed and documented for the first time during a bloom of the cyanobacterium Trichodesmium erythraeum in the oligotrophic shelf waters along Kochi and Mangalore transects, southeastern Arabian Sea (SEAS), during spring intermonsoon (April 2012). Although the host is frequently seen, the symbiont is rarely reported in the Indian EEZ. The presence of nitrogen-fixing symbiotic association of Rhizosolenia-Richelia along with Trichodesmium erythraeum highlights the significance of DDAs on the nutrient and energy budgets of phytoplankton in the oligotrophic environments of the Arabian Sea during spring intermonsoon
Description: International Journal of Oceanography Volume 2013, Article ID 350594, 6 pages
Occurrence and ... a Diatom-Diazotrophic.pdf (2.738Mb)
Occurrence of filamentous algae and soil characteristics in the paddy fields of Kuttanad and Kole lands of Kerala
Smitha, Sebastian; Ammini, Joseph (Cochin University Of Science And Technology, May , 2015)
Abstract: The present work is the study of filamentous algae in the paddy fields of Kuttanad and Kole lands of Kerala. This investigation was initiated by sampling of filamentous algae in Kuttanad during December 2010 to February 2011. A second phase of sampling was done from November 2011 to February 2012. The sampling periodicity corresponded to the crop growth starting from field preparation through sowing, and continued till the harvest. Sampling locations were selected from the active paddy cultivation regions of the six agronomic zones of Kuttanad. The numbers of sampling locations were proportional to the area of each zone. Algae of the Kole lands were collected during from October 2011 to January 2012. It was observed that blue-green algae dominated in both Kuttanad and Kole lands. Thirty two species of blue-green algae and eight species of green algae were identified from Kuttanad. The highest number of algal species was observed from Kayal lands in Kuttanad throughout the cropping season. Among the thirty two species of blue-green algae twenty five species are nonheterocystous and seven species are heterocystous. Twenty eight species of blue-green and six species of green algae were identified from Kole lands, and highest number of species was observed in Palakkal throughout the cropping season. Among the twenty eight species of blue-green algae collected from Kole lands twenty one species are non-heterocystous, and only seven species are heterocystous filamentous algae. Blooms of Spirogyra were observed during the second phase of sampling in Kuttanad and also in the Kole lands. The results of the germination study revealed that the extract of Spirogyra sp. inhibited seed germination and reduced seedling vigour. The growth of the treated seedlings was evaluated by pot experiments. The results clearly showed that Spirogyra sp. can negatively affect the seed germination, seedling vigour, and the yield of rice.
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Octagonal Microstrip Patch Antenna For Dual Band Applications
Mridula, S; Binu, Paul; Aanandan,C K; Vasudevan, K; Mohanan, P (2005)
Abstract: A dual port dual polarized octagonal microstrip patch antenna suitable for dual band applications is discussed theoretically and experimentally. The antenna exhibits good impedance bandwidth, gain and broad radiation patterns. Parameters predicted by the Conformal Finite Difference Time Domain algorithm show good agreement with the simulated results and experimental observations
Description: Proc. XXVIII URSI General Assembly
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Octagon Shaped Microstrip Patch Antenna For Dual Band Applications
Mridula, S; Binu, Paul; Aanandan,C K; Mohanan, P (IEEE, June 16, 2002)
Abstract: The paper proposes an octagon shaped Microstrip Patch Antenna suitable for dual band applications. The striking features of this compact, planar antenna are sufficient isolation between the two operating bands and an area reduction of - 29% in comparison to a conventional circular patch antenna operating in the same band
Description: Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2002. IEEE
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OFFLINE AND ONLINE SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION/PRECONCENTRATION OF INORGANICS
Maria Starvin, A; Prasada Rao, T (CHEMICAL SCIENCES DIVISION REGIONAL RESEARCH LABORATORY (CSIR), July , 2007)
Abstract: Solid phase extraction (SPE) is a powerful technique for preconcentration/removal or separation of trace and ultra trace amounts of toxic and nutrient elements. SPE effectively simplifies the labour intensive sample preparation, increase its reliability and eliminate the clean up step by using more selective extraction procedures. The synthesis of sorbents with a simplified procedure and diminution of the risks of errors shows the interest in the areas of environmental monitoring, geochemical exploration, food, agricultural, pharmaceutical, biochemical industry and high purity metal designing, etc. There is no universal SPE method because the sample pretreatment depends strongly on the analytical demand. But there is always an increasing demand for more sensitive, selective, rapid and reliable analytical procedures. Among the various materials, chelate modified naphthalene, activated carbon and chelate functionalized highly cross linked polymers are most important. In the biological and environmental field, large numbers of samples are to be analysed within a short span of time. Hence, online flow injection methods are preferred as they allow extraction, separation, identification and quantification of many numbers of analytes. The flow injection online preconcentration flame AAS procedure developed allows the determination of as low as 0.1 µg/l of nickel in soil and cobalt in human hair samples. The developed procedure is precise and rapid and allows the analysis of 30 samples per hour with a loading time of 60 s. The online FI manifold used in the present study permits high sampling, loading rates and thus resulting in higher preconcentration/enrichment factors of -725 and 600 for cobalt and nickel respectively with a 1 min preconcentration time compared to conventional FAAS signal. These enrichment factors are far superior to hitherto developed on line preconcentration procedures for inorganics. The instrumentation adopted in the present study allows much simpler equipment and low maintenance costs compared to costlier ICP-AES or ICP-MS instruments.
URI: http://dyuthi.cusat.ac.in/purl/922
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Offline Handwritten Malayalam Character Recognition Based on Chain Code Histogram
Kannan, Balakrishnan; Pramod, K V; Jomy, John (IEEE, March 23, 2011)
Abstract: Optical Character Recognition plays an important role in Digital Image Processing and Pattern Recognition. Even though ambient study had been performed on foreign languages like Chinese and Japanese, effort on Indian script is still immature. OCR in Malayalam language is more complex as it is enriched with largest number of characters among all Indian languages. The challenge of recognition of characters is even high in handwritten domain, due to the varying writing style of each individual. In this paper we propose a system for recognition of offline handwritten Malayalam vowels. The proposed method uses Chain code and Image Centroid for the purpose of extracting features and a two layer feed forward network with scaled conjugate gradient for classification
Description: Emerging Trends in Electrical and Computer Technology (ICETECT), 2011 International Conference on
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Oligo(p-Phenylenevinylene) Derived Organogels: A Novel Class of Functional Supramolecular Materials
Subi Jacob, George; Dr. Ajayaghosh, A (Regional Research Laboratory (CSIR), October , 2004)
Abstract: The main objective of the present study is to have a detailed investigation on the gelation properties, morphology and optical properties of small π-conjugated oligomers. For this purpose we have chosen oligo(p-phenylenevinylene)s (OPVs), a class of molecules which have received considerable attention due to their unique optical and electronic properties. Though a large number of reports are available in the literature on the self-assembly properties of tailor made OPVs, none of them pertain to the design of nanostructures based on organogels. In view of this, we aimed at the creation of functional chromophoric assemblies of π-conjugated OPVs through the formation of organogels, with the objective of crafting nanoscopic assemblies of different size and shape thereby modulating their optical and electronic properties.In order to fulfill the above objectives, the design and synthesis of a variety of OPVs with appropriate structural variations were planned. The design principle involves the derivatization of OPVs with weak H-bonding hydroxymethyl end groups and with long aliphatic hydrocarbon side chains. The noncovalent interactions in these molecules were expected to lead the formation of supramolecular assembly and gels in hydrocarbon solvents. In such an event, detailed study of gelation and extensive analysis of the morphology of the gel structures were planned using advanced microscopic techniques. Since OPVs are strongly fluorescent molecules, gelation is expected to perturb the optical properties. Therefore, detailed study on the gelation induced optical properties as a way to probe the nature and stability of the selfassembly was planned. Apart from this, the potential use of the modulation of the optical properties for the purpose of light harvesting was aimed. The approach to this problem was to entrap an appropriate energy trap to the OPV gel matrix which may lead to the efficient energy transfer from the OPV gel based donor to the entrapped acceptor. The final question that we wanted to address in this investigation was the creation of helical nanostructures through proper modification of the OPV backbone With chiral handles.The present thesis is a detailed and systematic approach to the realization of the above objectives which are presented in different chapters of the thesis.
OMTAT 2005
Jayaraj, M K (Department of Physics, October 24, 2005)
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ON APPROXIMATION METHODS FOR UNBOUNDED OPERATORS
Robert Victor Edward, J; Dr.Narayanan Namboodiri, M N (Cochin University of Science & Technology, July , 2008)
Description: Department of Mathematics, Cochin University of Science and Technology
URI: http://dyuthi.cusat.ac.in/xmlui/purl/1975
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On Chaos and Fractals in General Topological Spaces
Vinod Kumar,P B; Thrivikraman,T (Department of Mathematics, September , 2001)
Abstract: The present study on chaos and fractals in general topological spaces. Chaos theory originated with the work of Edward Lorenz. The phenomenon which changes order into disorder is known as chaos. Theory of fractals has its origin with the frame work of Benoit Mandelbrot in 1977. Fractals are irregular objects. In this study different properties of topological entropy in chaos spaces are studied, which also include hyper spaces. Topological entropy is a measures to determine the complexity of the space, and compare different chaos spaces. The concept of fractals can’t be extended to general topological space fast it involves Hausdorff dimensions. The relations between hausdorff dimension and packing dimension. Regular sets in Metric spaces using packing measures, regular sets were defined in IR” using Hausdorff measures. In this study some properties of self similar sets and partial self similar sets. We can associate a directed graph to each partial selfsimilar set. Dimension properties of partial self similar sets are studied using this graph. Introduce superself similar sets as a generalization of self similar sets and also prove that chaotic self similar self are dense in hyper space. The study concludes some relationships between different kinds of dimension and fractals. By defining regular sets through packing dimension in the same way as regular sets defined by K. Falconer through Hausdorff dimension, and different properties of regular sets also.
On conduction mechanism in paramagnetic phase of Gd based manganites
Anantharaman, M R; Sagar, S (Springer, January 31, 2011)
Abstract: Materials belonging to the family of manganites are technologically important since they exhibit colossal magneto resistance. A proper understanding of the transport properties is very vital in tailoring the properties. A heavy rare earth doped manganite like Gd0·7Sr0·3MnO3 is purported to be exhibiting unusual properties because of smaller ionic radius of Gd. Gd0·7Sr0·3MnO3 is prepared by a wet solid state reaction method. The conduction mechanism in such a compound has been elucidated by subjecting the material to low temperature d.c. conductivity measurement. It has been found that the low band width material follows a variable range hopping (VRH) model followed by a small polaron hopping (SPH) model. The results are presented here
Description: Bull. Mater. Sci., Vol. 35, No. 1, February 2012, pp. 41–45.
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On Distance Energy of Graphs
Gopalapillai,Indulal; Ivan,Gutman; Vijayakumar,Ambat (Department of Mathematics, August 25, 2007)
Abstract: The D-eigenvalues of a graph G are the eigenvalues of its distance matrix D, and the D-energy ED(G) is the sum of the absolute values of its D-eigenvalues. Two graphs are said to be D-equienergetic if they have the same D-energy. In this note we obtain bounds for the distance spectral radius and D-energy of graphs of diameter 2. Pairs of equiregular D-equienergetic graphs of diameter 2, on p = 3t + 1 vertices are also constructed.
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Indulal,G; Gutmanb,Ivan; Vijayakumar,A (February 4, 2010)
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On Finite Mixture of Pareto and Beta Distnbutions
Maya T,Nair; Dr.Sankaran, P G (Cochin University of Science and Technology, February , 2007)
Description: Department of Statistics, Cochin University of Science and Technology
On Implementing Joins, Aggregates and Universal Quantifier in Temporal Databases using SQL Standards
Pramod, K V; Unnikrishnan, K (Academy Publisher, 2009)
Abstract: A feasible way of implementing a temporal database is by mapping temporal data model onto a conventional data model followed by a commercial database management system. Even though extensions were proposed to standard SQL for supporting temporal databases, such proposals have not yet come across standardization processes. This paper attempts to implement database operators such as aggregates and universal quantifier for temporal databases, implemented on top of relational database systems, using currently available SQL standards.
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On infinite graphs and related matrices
Ancykutty, Joseph; Dr.Krishnamoorthy,A; Dr.Thrivikraman, T (Cochin University of Science and Technology, 2000)
Abstract: This thesis Entitled On Infinite graphs and related matrices.ln the last two decades (iraph theory has captured wide attraction as a Mathematical model for any system involving a binary relation. The theory is intimately related to many other branches of Mathematics including Matrix Theory Group theory. Probability. Topology and Combinatorics . and has applications in many other disciplines..Any sort of study on infinite graphs naturally involves an attempt to extend the well known results on the much familiar finite graphs. A graph is completely determined by either its adjacencies or its incidences. A matrix can convey this information completely. This makes a proper labelling of the vertices. edges and any other elements considered, an inevitable process. Many types of labelling of finite graphs as Cordial labelling, Egyptian labelling, Arithmetic labeling and Magical labelling are available in the literature. The number of matrices associated with a finite graph are too many For a study ofthis type to be exhaustive. A large number of theorems have been established by various authors for finite matrices. The extension of these results to infinite matrices associated with infinite graphs is neither obvious nor always possible due to convergence problems. In this thesis our attempt is to obtain theorems of a similar nature on infinite graphs and infinite matrices. We consider the three most commonly used matrices or operators, namely, the adjacency matrix
An Online Character Recognition System to Convert Grantha Script to Malayalam
Sumam, Mary Idicula; Sreeraj, M (August 21, 2012)
Abstract: This paper presents a novel approach to recognize Grantha, an ancient script in South India and converting it to Malayalam, a prevalent language in South India using online character recognition mechanism. The motivation behind this work owes its credit to (i) developing a mechanism to recognize Grantha script in this modern world and (ii) affirming the strong connection among Grantha and Malayalam. A framework for the recognition of Grantha script using online character recognition is designed and implemented. The features extracted from the Grantha script comprises mainly of time-domain features based on writing direction and curvature. The recognized characters are mapped to corresponding Malayalam characters. The framework was tested on a bed of medium length manuscripts containing 9-12 sample lines and printed pages of a book titled Soundarya Lahari writtenin Grantha by Sri Adi Shankara to recognize the words and sentences. The manuscript recognition rates with the system are for Grantha as 92.11%, Old Malayalam 90.82% and for new Malayalam script 89.56%. The recognition rates of pages of the printed book are for Grantha as 96.16%, Old Malayalam script 95.22% and new Malayalam script as 92.32% respectively. These results show the efficiency of the developed system
Description: (IJACSA) International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, Vol. 3, No. 7, 2012
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400 kV substation arrangement designs and their reliability comparison
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400 kV substation arrangements
The dependency of secure power is increasing in the society which leads to higher demands on the availability of electric power. The availability (Willis 2000) can be defined as the fraction of time that the electric power is available in a certain point in the network during a given time interval.
Reliability comparison between different 400 kV substation designs (on photo: 400kV switch substation Robbia; credit: repower.com)
The complement to availability is called unavailability and is the fraction of time that the electric power is unavailable in a certain point in the network during a given time interval.
Most of the electric power in Sweden is transmissioned through the 400 kV substations that are parts of the main grid. Many of the 400 kV substations in the main grid are today old and needs to be modernized.
It has also in the last years occurred a number of faults in these substations that has increased the actuality of making the substations more reliable. The term reliability (Willis 2000) is closely related to the term availability and can be defined as the probability of failure-free operation of a system for a specified period of time in a specified environment.
Disconnecting circuit breaker – Left: Earthing switch in unearthed position; Right: Earthing switch in earthed position
One major difference between the reliability concept and the availability concept is that the availability can be decreased by both planned and unplanned unavailability while the reliability concept only considers the equipment ability to function correctly when it is in service.
The nuclear power stations O1, O2 and O3 in Simpevarp (OKG 2008), which are owned by the company OKG AB, produces approximately 10% of the total consumption of electricity in Sweden. O2 and O3 are directly connected to a 400 kV substation owned by Svenska Kraftnät that is built on OKG’s territory. O1 is as well connected to the 400 kV substation but through a 130 kV substation.
The 400 kV substation needs now to be replaced due to its age and due to the upgrades of active power output capability of the generators in O2 and O3.
Svenska Kraftnät has proposed a two-breaker arrangement design for the new substation and asked OKG AB to give their opinion on the suggested design. The suggested design consists of double busbars and double disconnecting circuit breakers, disconnecting circuit breakers (DCBs), which has the disconnector function integrated in the circuit breaker. The DCBs are meant to replace the conventional combination of circuit breakers and separate disconnectors.
The existing substation consists of four busbars of which one is a transfer busbar used to bypass faults in the event of fault in any of the devices in the substation. The existing substation has a relatively large flexibility to change connection by operation of circuit breakers and disconnectors.
Title: Reliability comparison between different 400 kV substation designs – Master of Science Thesis of JOHNNY VIKESJÖ at Department of Energy and Environment; Division of Electric Power Engineering; Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg
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Antibiotics: A new spanner in the works of bacterial transcription
Kristine B Arnvig ,
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A promising molecular target that is unlikely to develop antibiotic resistance has been identified in bacteria.
Bacterial infections cause over 17 million deaths globally every year (Butler and Buss, 2006; World Health Organisation, 2014). In the past 70 years, antibiotics have been critical in the fight against infectious disease, yet alarmingly, pathogenic bacteria of all categories have developed antibiotic resistance. This is rated one of the greatest threats to human health.
Alongside the rise of antibiotic resistant variants of already existing diseases, such as MDR-TB (multi-drug resistant tuberculosis) and MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), new infectious diseases are emerging every year. However, few new antibiotics have been developed over the past two decades (Chief Medical Officer’s report, 2011). The situation is further complicated by the fact that many current antibiotics have severe side effects, particularly if they are used for a long time. There is, therefore, an urgent need for novel drugs. Now, in eLife, Richard Ebright and colleagues from Rutgers University, the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, and Naicons Srl—including Yu Zhang, David Degen, and Mary Ho as joint first authors—use a combination of genetic, biochemical and structural approaches to characterise how a recently discovered compound, with very promising properties, works (Zhang et al., 2014).
Designing drugs in a rational, systematic way requires an intimate knowledge of how they interact with their target and the mechanism by which they inhibit this target’s activity. Antibiotics act by interfering with processes that are essential to cells, such as transcription (Darst, 2004), translation or cell wall synthesis. In effect, these drugs ‘throw a spanner in the works’ of the bacterial cell. One set of prime targets for antibiotics are enzymes called multisubunit RNA polymerases (RNAPs), which transcribe the cellular genomes of all life on Earth (Werner and Grohmann, 2011).
The natural genetic mutations that constantly occur in all organisms mean that although a new antibiotic may initially successfully kill bacteria, it may not remain effective for long. Mutations that stop antibiotics inhibiting bacterial RNAP emerge randomly regardless of the environment the bacteria grow in. In most cases these changes will also make the bacterium less fit. Therefore, if the bacteria are not exposed to antibiotics, the number of resistant bacteria remains low compared to the number that are sensitive to the antibiotic (Comas et al., 2012). However, if antibiotics are then targeted at these bacteria, the selective pressure of the drug treatment may increase the proportion of drug-resistant mutants in the overall population, and thus a drug resistant strain of bacteria will emerge over time. In addition, the initial loss of fitness associated with the drug-resistant mutations is often compensated for by additional mutations, and so a new and more dangerous pathogen can evolve (Comas et al., 2012).
The ideal molecular target of an antibiotic—its binding site—would present little opportunity for drug resistance to evolve. Therefore, the target should be small, and directly involved in how RNAP works as an enzyme, to reduce the likelihood of a drug resistant RNAP evolving that remains catalytically active.
The bacterium Actinomadura sp., which was originally isolated from a soil sample, produces an antimicrobial chemical called GE23077, henceforth referred to as GE (Ciciliato et al., 2004). GE is Actinomadura’s weapon in the fight for resources in its natural environment, and is used against fungi as well as Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria. Early studies demonstrated that GE was a potent inhibitor of RNAP purified from Escherichia coli. However, the compound was less effective against living cells as it is unable to cross the cellular envelope that surrounds a bacterium (Sarubbi et al., 2004). Improving GE’s properties, for example by increasing its uptake into a cell while not lowering its potency, requires the molecular basis of its activity to be thoroughly understood (Mariani et al., 2005).
RNAPs transcribe DNA by building long chains of RNA from individual nucleotides. GE, like another antibiotic called rifampin (Rif) that is used to treat tuberculosis, does not interfere with the first steps of transcription initiation. Therefore, RNAP can still find the correct start site and load the template DNA strand into its active site ready for RNA synthesis. GE inhibits the subsequent step, preventing the joining together of the first two nucleotide substrates in the RNA chain.
The X-ray crystal structures of bacterial RNAP in complex with GE solved by Ebright and colleagues provide a structural explanation for this activity (Figure 1). GE binding to RNAP interferes with the binding of the first and second RNA nucleotide substrates to the enzyme. Rif works in a similar way: as this antibiotic’s binding site is close to, but offset from GE’s, Rif allows the formation of di-and tri-nucleotides but prevents the synthesis of longer RNA chains. GE also interferes with the binding of a magnesium ion in the RNAP active site that is critical for enzyme catalysis.
The antibiotic GE23077 (GE) targets a site on bacterial RNA polymerase to inhibit the initiation of DNA transcription.
(A) The RNAP transcription initiation complex present in Thermus thermophilus bacteria. GE and Rif (as well as several other antibiotics) target the same region of the enzyme: the RNAP catalytic centre (highlighted with a red dashed circle). Zhang et al. found that the binding sites of GE and Rif are distinct, yet close to each other; this explains why the two drugs inhibit RNAP catalysis in subtly different ways. In both cases the antibiotic does not interfere with the first steps of transcription initiation, and the RNAP can still load a DNA template (teal). Instead, each antibiotic interferes with the next step: the bonding together of nucleotides to form an RNA chain. A saturation mutagenesis of a volume within 30 Å of the active site identified just 6 mutations that could give rise to GE antibiotic resistance, compared with 71 that produce Rif-resistance. (B) The RNAP active site. The GE (blue stick diagram) target site (green) identified by Zhang et al. is much smaller than Rif’s (yellow stick diagram) target site (red; image taken from Figure 6 of Zhang et al., 2014).
To assess the number of mutations at the binding site that confer GE resistance and thereby pose a threat to effective antibiotic treatment, Ebright and colleagues used a technique called saturation mutagenesis. This generates all the possible mutations at a specific site, in this case within 30 Å of the catalytic centre of E. coli RNAP. The analysis revealed a very small target-based resistance spectrum, as only a very few mutations could produce RNAPs that are both resistant to GE and still catalytically active. The GE target site is also roughly 10-fold smaller than that of Rif and is therefore superior as it presents fewer possible sites of mutation.
Since the GE and Rif binding sites are next to but distinct from each other, the two drugs do not display cross-resistance. Therefore, Rif resistant RNAPs are not resistant to GE, and vice versa. Moreover, GE and Rif can bind simultaneously to RNAPs. As the ‘icing on the cake’ of their work, Ebright and colleagues joined together GE and Rif to generate a novel two-part (bipartite) compound, Rifa-GE. While Rifa-GE is as potent as GE or Rif, it also effectively inhibits RNAP variants that are resistant to either.
Once GE-containing compounds have been modified so they are better able to enter a living bacterial cell, they are likely to become front-line drugs in the struggle against bacterial infections.
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The authors declare that no competing interests exist.
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Version of Record published: April 22, 2014 (version 1)
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Using a combination of genetic, biochemical, and structural approaches, we show that the cyclic-peptide antibiotic GE23077 (GE) binds directly to the bacterial RNA polymerase (RNAP) active-center ‘i’ and ‘i+1’ nucleotide binding sites, preventing the binding of initiating nucleotides, and thereby preventing transcription initiation. The target-based resistance spectrum for GE is unusually small, reflecting the fact that the GE binding site on RNAP includes residues of the RNAP active center that cannot be substituted without loss of RNAP activity. The GE binding site on RNAP is different from the rifamycin binding site. Accordingly, GE and rifamycins do not exhibit cross-resistance, and GE and a rifamycin can bind simultaneously to RNAP. The GE binding site on RNAP is immediately adjacent to the rifamycin binding site. Accordingly, covalent linkage of GE to a rifamycin provides a bipartite inhibitor having very high potency and very low susceptibility to target-based resistance.
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Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates—a riveting,thoughtful, and emotionally resonant exploration of foreign policy, religious extremism, and the costs of survival.
In January 2012, having covered a Somali pirate trial in Hamburg for Spiegel Online International—and funded by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting—Michael Scott Moore traveled to the Horn of Africa to write about piracy and ways to end it. In a terrible twist of fate, Moore himself was kidnapped and subsequently held captive by Somali pirates. Subjected to conditions that break even the strongest spirits—physical injury, starvation, isolation, terror—Moore’s survival is a testament to his indomitable strength of mind. In September 2014, after 977 days, he walked free when his ransom was put together by the help of several US and German institutions, friends, colleagues, and his strong-willed mother.
Yet Moore’s own struggle is only part of the story: The Desert and the Sea falls at the intersection of reportage, memoir, and history. Caught between Muslim pirates, the looming threat of Al-Shabaab, and the rise of ISIS, Moore observes the worlds that surrounded him—the economics and history of piracy; the effects of post-colonialism; the politics of hostage negotiation and ransom; while also conjuring the various faces of Islam—and places his ordeal in the context of the larger political and historical issues.
A sort of Catch-22 meets Black Hawk Down, The Desert and the Sea is written with dark humor, candor, and a journalist’s clinical distance and eye for detail. Moore offers an intimate and otherwise inaccessible view of life as we cannot fathom it, brilliantly weaving his own experience as a hostage with the social, economic, religious, and political factors creating it. The Desert and the Sea is wildly compelling and a book that will take its place next to titles like Den of Lions and Even Silence Has an End.
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Grammar schools: Budget to include funds for new free schools
Extra money for new schools in England, including free and grammar schools, will be announced by the chancellor in his Budget on Wednesday
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Philip Hammond will confirm a one-off payment of £320m for 140 new free schools on top of the 500 already pledged to be created by 2020, BBC News reports.
He will also spend £216m to rebuild and refurbish existing schools.
However, the money cannot be used to address what headteachers say is a £3bn spending shortfall in schools.
The clamour over budgetary pressures has built recently, with groups of heads lobbying MPs and the education secretary for assistance.
Headteachers have been complaining of an unfunded pay rise, extra national insurance payments and a freeze in the funding level per pupil.
The Institute of Fiscal Studies warned that schools faced a 6.5% drop in spending per pupil between 2015-16 and 2019-20 because of rising costs.
However, ministers insist schools funding is at its highest level on record. Mr Hammond said the core schools budget stood at more than £40bn this year.
“These announcements take the next steps in giving parents greater choice in finding a good school for their child, whatever their background,” he said.
Prime Minister Theresa May said a good school place remained out of reach for too many children.
“Over the last six years, we have overseen a revolution in our schools system and we have raised standards and opportunity, but there is much more to do,” she said.
She has promised to set out the next stage of the government’s schools programme in the coming months, with a schools white paper to be published “in the coming weeks”.
Writing in the Telegraph, Mrs May said the government would enable new selective free schools to be set up ‘so that the most academically gifted children get the specialist support to fulfil their potential, regardless of their family income or background’.
The £320m investment is earmarked for the free school programme but could also be used to fund new grammar schools.
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All new schools have to be free schools – set up by an organisation and funded by central government, rather than the local authority.
The government has been looking at lifting the ban on opening new selective state grammar schools.
General secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers Dr Mary Bousted said teachers and heads in the thousands of existing state schools, facing real-terms cuts, would be dismayed to see the chancellor throwing more money at free schools and grammars.
“These spending pledges are totally insufficient to tackle the schools funding crisis the government is inflicting on schools by forcing them to make over £3bn of savings by 2020,” she said.
“Not only will the funding be misdirected, but the National Audit Office found that it costs far more to create a place in a free school than it does in a mainstream school.”
Mr Hammond will also pledge to ensure children from very poor backgrounds are given an entitlement to have paid travel to selective schools.
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