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ENTERTAINMENT Article
Disc wars
Just when you thought your dvd collection was future proof, along comes another “must have” disc format says R&B Ainslie
by Adam Smith
Whether you like it or not, in a few years time your collection of DVDs will soon be as outdated as laser discs and Betamax cassettes.
Sony and electronics giant Toshiba are currently battling it out as to who will supply the next generation of video media, much like Betamax and VHS did with the video cassette a generation earlier. The new style optical disc, visually similar to the current CD/DVD are due to hit our shelves next year and promise superior picture and audio quality while still leaving space for more interactive functionality, which will be a moot selling point for film makers in years to come.
The new discs will be able to store up to 13 hours of DVD quality video compared with 133 minutes of the current DVD. The commitment to release movies in ToshibaÂ’s HD DVD format by Paramount, NBC Universal, Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema is a blow for SonyÂ’s competing Blu-ray DVD format.
Blu-ray has the commitment of many computer and consumer electronics manufacturers, including Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Samsung, but no studio beyond SonyÂ’s own Columbia TriStar Group. Sony is in the process of acquiring MGM, while Walt Disney and 20th Century Fox havenÂ’t committed to either format yet.
With the backing of the major studios Toshiba’s HD DVD currently has a foot in the door, but as with any new disc they are worthless without a player to play them on. At the moment the average DVD player will cost you a lot less than €100 but Sony’s Blu-Ray model is currently retailing at over $2000 in the Far East market while Toshiba’s HD DVD will soon be on the shelves at a lower peg of $995.
The HD DVD movies will be priced “at a premium”, too, says Jim Cardwell, president of Warner Home Video. “The video is better. The interactivity is better. The audio is better. That should be worth a little more.” Cardwell, along with counterparts at Universal and Paramount, say the deals with HD DVD are nonexclusive.
The studios say they remain open to working with Sony. However Universal Home Video President Craig Kornblau has said “We’d like to see only one format.” Maureen Weber, spokeswoman for the Blu-ray Disc Association, isn’t giving in. “It takes more than just a disc to create a format.” She says her team has the advantage because the Blu-ray format is supported by computer and consumer electronics manufacturers.
Because of its higher resolution, the new VD format is aimed at early adopters and perfect for people with newer LCD and Plasma screens. DonÂ’t throw away your DVD collection just yet though, with the cost of the hardware combined with the greedy attitude of the American studios the new format will be slow to catch on.
Meanwhile Sony and Toshiba have promised that the current DVD discs will play on the new high definition models if you want to afford one. It could take years and lots of well-heeled consumers for the new format to take off and be as popular as the current DVD.
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What barriers can exist for some people in accessing these supports? What problems can these inequalities create in our society? Most importantly; why should we care?
Explore our website to find out more about social justice, housing & homelessness, and crime & prison. Click here to see a short introduction.
To accompany this website, and with help from the Jesuit Education Desk, we have developed a junior cycle module entitled On the Margins. This module explores issues of social justice and focuses in particular on how society responds to crime and the use of imprisonment. As part of a Religious Education (RE) or Civic, Social and Political Education (CSPE) programme this module supports students in exploring contemporary issues within a moral context. Click here for further information
Sample: Lesson 1 of On the Margins, So we all start out equal? is available here.
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This site has been created as an educational initiative by the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice - a non-profit organisation working on behalf of those suffering injustice or disadvantage in society. At the heart of our work lies the belief that every human being deserves dignity and respect. We work to achieve equality by representing the needs of some of the most marginalised people in our society, by seeking changes to governmental policy and practice and by raising public awareness on difficult social issues.
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Home » D and C and Church History Stories » A High and Glorious Place — A One Woman Play
A High and Glorious Place — A One Woman Play
Posted on May 1, 2013 in D and C and Church History Stories, One-Person Show, Plays, Women Playwrights
by Elizabeth Hansen.
(For production by Professional Groups, College/University Groups, Community Groups, LDS Church Groups)
Eliza R. Snow is one of the few Mormon women who has become a heroine. It is February 11 of 1846 and the town of Nauvoo is bustling as the Saints make ready to leave for Winter Quarters. As Eliza packs, she finds herself doubting her decision to go west. During the night, as she contemplates her life and faith, she comes to understand God’s purpose for her, which ultimately propels her into her role as the great and inspiring woman who figured so importantly in the early days of the Church. Often called “Zion’s Poetess” by the Prophet Joseph Smith, Eliza was an imperfect, yet obedient, daughter of God. One actress tells us the story of this incredible woman’s Faith. Perhaps by experiencing some of Eliza’s doubts, fears and sorrows, we can find some solace and hope in our own struggles. When adapted as a teleplay for KBYU TV it won awards and acclaim.
The play could be done as a reader’s theatre piece, breaking out characters and thoughts to different female actors.
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“We produced this as a traveling show to all 5 Wards in our Stake. Our Stake is larger than the size of Texas and we traveled over 2200 km (1367 miles) for 5 weeks from August 25th to September 29th of 2018. Wherever we traveled the Saints were astounded and pleased by our efforts and how much they learned about Eliza R. Snow.” — Ron Babin, Sudbury Ontario Ward.
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For two years running, Private Internet Access has performed the best in our network tests and remained the cheapest full-fledged VPN service we've tried. It has more than 3,000 servers worldwide, supports platforms ranging from Windows and Mac to open-source routers, and lets you customize your tunneling and encryption protocols. You can pay in bitcoin, and you don't have to provide your real name.
Free VPN services are generally subpar when compared to premium providers, or they’re posited as a ‘trial’ version of the service. Most aim to retain their customer base by getting them to upgrade to the full-fat version, but a free version is still better than browsing without one. On the other hand, lots of free users also help to give a company legitimacy; especially if they’re dropping down five star reviews like it’s going out of fashion. Offering a solid free service is a great way to get some positive attention, and the market is fairly crowded.
In addition to logging concerns, an even bigger concern is the type of VPN protocol and encryption they use (as it’s much more probable a malicious third party will try and siphon up your traffic and analyze it later than they will reverse engineer your traffic in an attempt to locate you). Considering logging, protocol, and encryption standards is a great point to transition into the next section of our guide where we shift from questions focused on our needs to questions focused on capabilities of the VPN providers.
But for a company that bills itself as "the world's fastest VPN," Hide.me was kind of mediocre, with our download speeds dropping to a third of the non-VPN baseline. Free users are limited to 2GB of monthly data and can connect to servers in only three countries; either of those limitations would be more acceptable if the network speeds were faster.
Our software and staff are relentlessly committed to security and our customers’ rights to protect their online information and activity. TorGuard’s VPN service comes with unlimited bandwidth and upload/download speed, 247/365 customer support for any setup problems or other issues you might have, and the peace of mind to enjoy the internet stress free. Our software is easy to install on any OS including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS. We also fully support VPN routers like DDWRT, Tomato and pfsense firewalls.
In an overcrowded VPN market, ExpressVPN continues to stand out from the rest and remains the top recommendation at Restore Privacy. It is based in the British Virgin Islands and offers secure, user-friendly apps for all devices. Extensive testing for the ExpressVPN review found it to be very secure, with exceptional speeds and reliability throughout the server network.
Before anything else, understand that if you want to use a VPN you should be paying for it. Free VPNs are either selling your browsing data in aggregated form to researchers and marketers, or giving you a paltry amount of data transfer every month. Either way, a basic rule of thumb is that a free VPN will not protect your privacy in any meaningful way.
IPVanish can be run on any computer and mobile devices. It is capable of simultaneously using different types of connections. Paying with Bitcoin gives users additional security features as cryptocurrency cannot be tracked unlike government currency. This is because information required when paying with bitcoin are but an email address and a password.
Servers – ExpressVPN has a large server network that spans more than 94 locations across the world. The total number of servers of ExpressVPN has crossed 2,000. You can connect to servers in available locations in a matter of mere seconds. All servers are encrypted with the AES 256 standard, ensuring the security of user traffic. With these servers, you can gain access to any website, no matter how strong a firewall has been put up to prevent user traffic from accessing it.
In such scenarios, you don’t need a beastly VPN provider with massive bandwidth to secure your email, Facebook, and web browsing activities. In fact, the same home VPN server model we highlighted in the previous section will serve you just as well as a paid solutions. The only time you might consider a paid solution is if you have high-bandwidth needs that your home connection can’t keep up with (like watching large volumes of streaming video through your VPN connection).
As a business grows, it might expand to multiple shops or offices across the country and around the world. To keep things running efficiently, the people working in those locations need a fast, secure and reliable way to share information across computer networks. In addition, traveling employees like salespeople need an equally secure and reliable way to connect to their business's computer network from remote locations.
While everything makes sense and all is good, what were the speed test results for China? Sorry for being so upfront but I have gone through a dozen or so websites to find a vpn that works in china. I have an upcoming business trip to china and a vpn would be really handy. But with complicated cyber laws in china, its hard to put a finger on anyone service. I used a free vpn service, like zenmate, when I was in Germany and it worked perfectly. What would you advise, which service is best for china? Also, can I purchase the service once I am in China or should I buy it before? Pls reply!
There’s no point to a VPN that interferes with or logs your traffic—your ISP already does that. Free VPNs, such as Facebook’s Onavo, explicitly gather traffic data to resell or use it for marketing. We looked carefully at the privacy policies and marketing claims for each company we considered. In some cases, companies we considered had sworn in court filings that requests for data were impossible to fulfill. In other cases, we asked companies about their internal security and privacy standards to gauge the trustworthiness of their statements on logging.
Pricing is quite flexible, with a three-day plan available for just $2. But for those who want to avail of the complete service and support, A basic plan of $5 per month, a solid plan of $10 a month, and dedicated plan of $25 per month are also available. These packages offer users access to Proxy.sh servers in different countries and unlimited bandwidth. Custom plans can be arranged, all one has to do is contact support.
Something pretty great about Speedify is that you can use it for free without even making an account. The moment you install and open the software, you're immediately being protected behind a VPN and can do anything a user can, like change the server, toggle encryption on and off, set monthly or daily limits, and easily connect to the fastest server.
VPNs are necessary for improving individual privacy, but there are also people for whom a VPN is essential for personal and professional safety. Some journalists and political activists rely on VPN services to circumvent government censorship and safely communicate with the outside world. Check the local laws before using a VPN in China, Russia, Turkey, or any country with with repressive internet policies.
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Midland Extend Electric Rodeo Tour With New Dates in 2019
Jason Kempin, Getty Images
Midland have extended their headlining Electric Rodeo Tour. The retro-cool county trio have announced a string of new dates that will see them on the road from February until early May.
The trio of Mark Wystrach, Cameron Duddy and Jess Carson will headline several major markets during the tour, including Los Angeles, their hometown of Austin and their first-ever headlining show at Nashville's legendary Ryman Auditorium. They'll focus on the South with dates in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Virginia and North Carolina, but there are also dates in Detroit and Grand Rapids, Mich.
Midland shot to fame with their debut single, "Drinkin' Problem," which reached No. 3 in 2017. Most recently they've released "Burn Out" as their latest single, accompanying it with an Urban Cowboy-themed video that they shot at Billy Bob's in Texas. The group are also nominated for Vocal Group of the Year, Single of the Year and New Artist of the Year in the upcoming 2018 CMA Awards.
Tickets for the 2019 leg of Midland's Electric Rodeo Tour are set to go on sale on Friday (Nov. 2) at 10AM local time. Spotify listeners in select markets will receive a special pre-sale code via email on Wednesday (Oct. 31) to receive early access to tickets, and fans who are on Midland’s mailing list will also receive a separate promo code on Wednesday morning.
Midland's 2019 Electric Rodeo Tour Dates:
Feb. 8 -- Los Angeles, Calif. @ The Novo
March 19 -- Austin, Texas @ Travis County Exposition Center
April 13 -- Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. @ Tortuga Music Festival
April 18 -- Birmingham, Ala. @ Iron City
April 19-20 -- Athens, Ga. @ Georgia Theatre
April 25 -- Richmond, Va. @ The National
April 26 -- Chattanooga, Tenn. @ The Signal
April 27 -- Asheville, N.C. @ The Orange Peel
May 2 -- Detroit, Mich. @ St. Andrew’s Hall
May 3 -- Grand Rapids, Mich. @ 20 Monroe Live
May 5 -- Nashville, Tenn. @ the Ryman Auditorium
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Source: Midland Extend Electric Rodeo Tour With New Dates in 2019
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Biggest 2019 offseason needs for all 32 NFL teams
By ESPN.com
Several NFL teams are in the process of hiring a new coach, while others need to find new quarterbacks. What do all 32 teams need most this offseason? We asked NFL Nation reporters to assess each situation.
Scan through all 32 teams by division, or click here to jump ahead to your team:
After the trade of Cordy Glenn and the retirements of Eric Wood and Richie Incognito last offseason, the Bills' once-formidable offensive line sank to 30th in Football Outsiders' rankings this season. Coach Sean McDermott already has fired offensive line coach Juan Castillo, while general manager Brandon Beane could replace as many as four starters this offseason. Center Ryan Groy, right guard John Miller and right tackle Jordan Mills are all scheduled for unrestricted free agency. -- Mike Rodak
Miami has waited seven years for Ryan Tannehill to be the guy to lead its franchise out of mediocrity, and it seems the Dolphins have finally seen enough to move in a different direction. They have been scouting quarterbacks ahead of the 2019 draft, and it's likely they will draft a QB or find a stopgap before picking one in 2020. With a new coach on his way, the Dolphins are headed toward somewhat of a rebuild. An exciting, talented quarterback will give this team legitimate promise and a certain future -- two things Miami has missed for the past decade. -- Cameron Wolfe
This could have easily been a vote for adding more explosive options for Tom Brady because that's equally important. But in the big picture, there is a one-to-four-year window for the Patriots to discover and develop the quarterback who could eventually take the reins from Brady. New England is operating with some margin for error because the 41-year-old Brady is still capable of leading a team to the Super Bowl, and he has said he's committed to playing in 2019 and beyond. The draft is the most likely avenue to fill this need, with the hope that a Jimmy Garoppolo 2.0 might be available. -- Mike Reiss
The Jets took care of the quarterback issue last offseason, but now they need someone who can lead Sam Darnold and the rest of the team back to relevancy. The losing culture must be eradicated, and it will take a strong personality to accomplish that. Ideally, they can find a coach with a history of developing quarterbacks, because Darnold is the key to the future. -- Rich Cimini
The Ravens produced 57 plays of 20 yards or more, which ranked 24th in the NFL. Baltimore has to add more explosive talent around Lamar Jackson, whether it's a young wide receiver or a dynamic running back. The Ravens can't count on marching down the field on 10- and 11-play drives. Baltimore needs someone to generate chunk plays and take pressure off its new franchise quarterback. -- Jamison Hensley
The offensive line needs an upgrade as well, but the linebacker play was among the worst in the league this season, and that showed against high-powered offenses like the Saints' and Chiefs'. The Bengals need to make drafting a linebacker a priority. It's clear that Vontaze Burfict can no longer be relied upon, and middle linebacker Preston Brown didn't get to show much due to injuries. The entire group needs to be overhauled in 2019. -- Katherine Terrell
Whether it's a run-stuffing defensive tackle -- the Browns ranked 28th in rushing defense -- to go with Larry Ogunjobi or an impact linebacker, Cleveland needs a defender who can change a game. Adding one more piece to what is already on the defense helps the team. Close second? A big-play wide receiver to give Baker Mayfield more help. -- Pat McManamon
The Steelers must decide whether to keep Brown or find a willing trade partner before his $2.5 million roster bonus is due March 18. Despite Brown's greatness, the team seems to be over his antics, making his $22.165 million salary-cap number expendable. Getting a high pick in return will be crucial in trying to replace Brown, so expect the Steelers to hold out closer to mid-March. -- Jeremy Fowler
The Texans need to make the O-line an offseason priority after third-round pick Martinas Rankin was the only significant addition to their front in 2018. Quarterback Deshaun Watson was sacked 62 times and under constant duress all season. Not all of the sacks were the fault of the offensive line, but Watson needs more time to stand in the pocket so DeAndre Hopkins and a healthy Will Fuller can make plays down the field. -- Turron Davenport
The Colts had one of the NFL's most surprising units this season, finishing 11th in total defense, and had the league's leading tackler in Darius Leonard (163) but didn't have a player reach double digits in sacks. Pairing an elite pass-rusher with Leonard and the rest of the team's young defenders will help the Colts take another step defensively next season. -- Mike Wells
The Jaguars will likely start fresh after making the decision to move on from Blake Bortles. That could be signing a free agent such as Tyrod Taylor or Ryan Fitzpatrick or potentially Nick Foles, going the aging-veteran route with Eli Manning or Joe Flacco, or drafting a quarterback in the first round. The price for Foles likely skyrocketed after the wild-card games, and the Jaguars might have to part with more than they would like if they were to try to trade up in the draft from the No. 7 spot. Execs Tom Coughlin and Dave Caldwell and head coach Doug Marrone will have to decide if they're willing to give away part of their future draft capital to end up with the quarterback they believe will get them back into the playoffs in 2019. -- Mike DiRocco
The Titans fielded one of the best league's scoring defenses this season despite registering only 39 sacks. Rookie outside linebacker Harold Landry has a promising future and will begin to see double-teams, so the Titans need to get an edge rusher who can consistently beat one-on-one matchups on the opposite side. Pro Bowl defensive lineman Jurrell Casey is an established player who needs someone to help him collapse the pocket from the interior. -- Turron Davenport
Case Keenum has just one year remaining on his contract, and the Broncos have no quarterback they drafted on their roster, so that puts them in the growing crowd of teams looking for a long-term solution. The coaching change likely means the team will line up with its fourth different playbook on offense in a four-season span. It is difficult to consistently find the right personnel if the team is constantly cycling through playcallers. -- Jeff Legwold
It's reasonable to believe that of all of the defensive backs who played for the Chiefs this season, only cornerback Kendall Fuller might remain by 2020. The Chiefs need some long-term solutions at both safety and corner, and the time to get started on that is now, with the Chiefs holding three picks in the first two rounds of the draft. -- Adam Teicher
With Denzel Perryman, Jatavis Brown and Kyzir White out for the season due to injuries, the Chargers are thin at linebacker and should look to add depth to that position group, either through the draft or free agency. The Chargers have done a nice job of making up for the lack up healthy bodies by playing safeties Adrian Phillips and Jahleel Addae at linebacker, with good results. L.A., however, needs bigger bodies at the second level for defensive coordinator Gus Bradley's Cover 3 scheme to be most effective. -- Eric D. Williams
Sure, we know the Raiders plan on playing in Las Vegas in 2020, but with no lease for a home stadium for next season, the Raiders are literally in Parts Unknown even as they have been linked to San Francisco; San Diego; Reno, Nevada; Santa Clara, California; London; and, yes, even Oakland. The NFL wants to know by early February, at the latest, where the Raiders plan to call home, and you can bet that free agents also would like to know where the Raiders will be playing this fall before signing with the franchise. Tick, tock. -- Paul Gutierrez
It's not that the Cowboys have not made an effort to play to Prescott's strengths, but can they do more? The only quarterback to win more games the past three seasons has been Tom Brady. Prescott will not challenge the passing leaders in the league, especially with Ezekiel Elliott's success on the ground, but the Cowboys can do more with Prescott on the move and getting him on the run. No team would want to expose its quarterback too many times to big hits, but Prescott knows how to take care of himself on the field. Jerry Jones has said the Cowboys need to be "Dak-friendly," but he was talking mostly about personnel. They don't need to completely change their offense, but they need to be more "Dak-friendly" in terms of using his skill set. -- Todd Archer
It's the most important position on any team, and the Giants need to set in motion a plan to succeed Eli Manning. All these weapons will mean nothing if they don't find a quarterback sooner rather than later, whether it be via the draft, free agency or trade. Manning is 38 and might not even return for 2019. Kyle Lauletta is a fourth-round pick who was buried on the depth chart as a rookie. The draft appears to be the Giants' best avenue to Manning's long-term successor. They have the No. 6 overall pick, and none of the five teams ahead of them is likely in the QB market. -- Jordan Raanan
The Eagles could use a speed receiver and a running back, but this team's strength is derived from the offensive and defensive fronts. With defensive end Brandon Graham set to become a free agent, the Eagles need to either find a way to re-sign him or sign a veteran who can help fill the void. -- Tim McManus
There's uncertainty surrounding Alex Smith's future because of the compound spiral fracture in his right leg, and it could be some time before the Redskins and Smith know if or when he might return. Washington must plan for life without him, but the question is how? Smith's contract makes it difficult because he'd count more than $40 million in dead money if cut this offseason; the Redskins have only around $20 million in cap space now. Their options include signing or trading for another veteran quarterback -- but they'll have to be creative. They could draft one to team with Colt McCoy and possibly Josh Johnson, though it's not considered a strong or deep draft class. Still, if there's a quarterback they like, they need to pounce. The Redskins expect to have nine picks after the compensatory selections are announced, so they'll have options. Coach Jay Gruden remains confident in McCoy, but the veteran backup must prove he can stay healthy and also that he can reward that confidence. -- John Keim
The Bears probably can't keep Cody Parkey -- even if they wanted to -- after he missed the game winner in Chicago's playoff loss to the Eagles. He missed 11 total kicks this season after the Bears signed him to a four-year deal that included $9 million in guaranteed money. The Bears have struggled at kicker ever since they released the franchise's all-time leading scorer, Robbie Gould, who coincidentally will be a free agent after making 82 of 85 field goals over the past three seasons for the Giants and 49ers. -- Jeff Dickerson
The Lions need better pressure against opposing quarterbacks, and with Ezekiel Ansah unlikely to return next season, this becomes their No. 1 need, much like it was a season ago, even when the team had Ansah. They'll have multiple options to fix it, either through free agency or the draft, where pass-rushers are plentiful in this class. If Detroit wants to build a stellar defense, that's the biggest hole to fill. -- Michael Rothstein
Hiring the head coach was just the first part of the solution. Now, it's up to the offense-minded LaFleur to mesh with Rodgers. LaFleur has built-in credibility working with Matt Ryan and Jared Goff, two quarterbacks whom Rodgers respects, so that should help.-- Rob Demovsky
The same storyline that haunted the Vikings throughout 2018 is one that remains the top priority this offseason. After surrendering a league-high 227 pressures, Minnesota needs to upgrade the offensive line, particularly its guard spots. It wouldn't be a surprise to see the Vikings completely overhaul the line and move on from the likes of Tom Compton, Mike Remmers (who has no guaranteed money left on his deal), Brett Jones, Danny Isidora and Rashod Hill. Minnesota has several ways it can create the cap space needed to go after a lineman or two in free agency, but it also needs to use a chunk of its draft capital in the higher rounds to begin to fix the problem. -- Courtney Cronin
The Falcons need to find a seasoned coordinator to pair with Matt Ryan, Julio Jones & Co. Former Tampa Bay coach Dirk Koetter, who previously served as Atlanta's offensive coordinator, appears to be the top choice after interviewing Saturday. Koetter knows how to play to Ryan's strengths and bring his playcalling expertise to the zone scheme head coach Dan Quinn wants to keep in place. Once the coordinator is hired, the Falcons can focus on beefing up the three spots on the offensive line outside of center and left tackle. -- Vaughn McClure
If this question had been asked in early December, an edge rusher would have been the easy answer. But with quarterback Cam Newton being shut down for the final two games because of a sore right shoulder that has limited him in practice much of the past two seasons, a backup quarterback who could replace Newton has to move to the top of the list. An edge rusher still is important; this defense thrives off pressure from the front four and it didn't get that consistently this season. But Newton's shoulder makes a reliable backup even more of a priority. -- David Newton
This was an area of need even before veteran starter Benjamin Watson announced he is retiring at the end of the season. The Saints need depth at the position, and they could especially use another reliable pass-catcher to go with receivers Michael Thomas and Ted Ginn Jr. and running back Alvin Kamara. It should be a draft priority, but it might be a big enough need to address it in free agency, especially since the Saints don't have a first- or third-round pick this year. -- Mike Triplett
In a week since firing Dirk Koetter, the Bucs interviewed four candidates: Eric Bieniemy, George Edwards, Bruce Arians and Kris Richard. Who can get Jameis Winston on the right track and best relate to the 25-year-old quarterback? Who can resuscitate a defense that showed signs of life after Mike Smith's firing but still has major work to do? Who can restore order in a locker room where, according to Jason Pierre-Paul, players "didn't keep it real with each other"?-- Jenna Laine
Update: The Bucs arefinalizing a deal to make Bruce Arians their next coach.
For a multitude of reasons, Steve Wilks didn't work out, going 3-13 in his only season with the team before getting fired Dec. 31. This time around, the Cardinals need to get it right. Not only have they missed the playoffs the past three seasons, they have seen their roster depth diminished and now have the No. 1 overall pick in the draft. They do have a young quarterback to build around in Josh Rosen. Cardinals execs said over and over during their end-of-season news conference that they were going to keep their search close to the vest. As reports of interviews trickle out, however, it's clear Arizona is focused on finding an offense-minded coach, which should immediately help Rosen blossom in Year 2. -- Josh Weinfuss
Update: The Cardinals hired former Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury on Tuesday.
The Rams added Dante Fowler Jr. in a midseason trade with the Jaguars, but he's a free agent this offseason. A solid edge rusher is crucial to the success of defensive coordinator Wade Phillips' 3-4 scheme. Before the addition of Fowler, the Rams were unable to consistently apply pressure from the edge. -- Lindsey Thiry
The 49ers have tried to add an outside complement to DeForest Buckner since Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch arrived, but they haven't had the spot in the draft to select one, and the top outside rushers haven't hit the free-agent market. An attempt to trade for Khalil Mack also came up just short. The Niners know what a top outside pass-rusher could do for their defense, and they'll explore every avenue -- especially with the No. 2 overall pick -- to make it happen. -- Nick Wagoner
The Seahawks have a handful of young building blocks and still have an All-Pro middle linebacker in Bobby Wagner, but there are holes to be filled. Seattle's No. 30 ranking in yards allowed per rush (4.95) and No. 18 ranking in yards allowed per pass attempt (7.51) highlight the needs for another run-stuffer to play alongside Jarran Reed, another edge player to complement Frank Clark and perhaps an upgrade at safety to team with Bradley McDougald, assuming Earl Thomas isn't back. The Seahawks also will need to determine how much linebacker K.J. Wright, an impending free agent, can continue to be an impact player with his troublesome knee. -- Brady Henderson
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Teenager battling cancer brings Miss New Jersey to homecoming
MANCHESTER, Pa. -- A Pennsylvania teenager will be talking about his homecoming night for a long time after landing a date a little out of his league and out of high school.
Marcus Josey is battling leukemia. He wanted to make the date special, so he reached out to Miss New Jersey, Lindsey Giannini.
She was so touched by his story and his bravery, that she accepted his invitation, sparking some jealousy from his classmates.
"Yeah, there is some jealousy, I mean, but most of my friends are excited for me though," said Marcus.
"Everyone should be jealous of me, I have a great date," said Lindsey.
The two arrived by limo at the venue in Manchester, Pennsylvania.
Josey says he initially didn't have a date, so he just decided to go out on a limb and invite Giannini.
The homecoming was a first for Giannini, because she missed her own four years ago.
Josey has been battling lymphoblastic leukemia for about six months.
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Posted in British Raj, History, India, Propaganda by Anuraag Sanghi on July 2, 2012
65 years after the loss of India, Britain tries recycling old propaganda – and selling it as cutting edge history.
James Gillray, (1756-1815), leading printmaker, lampoons Cornwallis after battlefield reverses in India in a work Title: The coming on of the monsoons, or, The retreat from Seringapatam Related Title: Retreat from Seringapatam | Published: London; on December, 6th 1791 by H. Humphrey | Click for image.
Regret and rankle?
Why does it bother a British historian, that Indian-writers write good things about India, who are largely read in India? After 30 years in the employ of an American University!
Yet it does.
Writing smoothly, in the London Book Review (LRB) Perry Anderson uses more than 15,000 words to refresh British propaganda about the British Raj in India.
Full of gaps like
When the British arrived, it was the sprawling heterogeneity of the area that allowed them, after a slow start, to gain such relatively swift and easy control of it, using one local power or population against the next, in a series of alliances and annexations that ended, more than a century after the Battle of Plassey, with the construction of an empire extending further east and south, if not north-west, than any predecessor. (via Perry Anderson · Gandhi Centre Stage · LRB 5 July 2012)
Was the British imperial expansion in India, ‘swift and easy’ over ‘more than a century after the Battle of Plassey.’
Eh … Oh … Aah
Let us look at some history.
First: If the expansion was swift and easy, the decline and departure was faster. Between Plassey (1757) and the 1857 War was a hundred years. Between the 1857 War and Indian Independence (1947) was only ninety.
Indian independence, which had a large dose of non-violent protest, was preceded by British loss of initiative and control.
Remember dates.
English are nowhere
1600 – East India Company formed.
1683 – British Crown approves new charter for EEIC; which can now wage war.
1739 – Nadir Shah’s raid on India sees British missing in action.
1746 – Chauth for Bengal & Bihar ceded to Marathas by Mughals. British are still nowhere.
1757 – Battle of Plassey – an artificial landmark in Indian history; but important to British.
1761 – Ahmad Shah Abdali defeat Marathas at Panipat. Maratha powers starts to decline.
1764 – British take advantage of Maratha /Mughal weakness; and win the minor Battle of Buxar, 22 October; which lands them the Diwani of Bengal. British loot of India begins. Regular famines become feature of the British Raj.
English Appear Somewhere
1765-1785 – British win battles against European powers (French, Dutch, Danes) but lose wars against Indian kings.
1781 – Surrender of Lord Cornwallis, October 19, at Yorktown, America.
1786 – 23 February, Cornwallis appointed for India position. Departing in May, arrived at Madras – 22 August.
1799 – Tipu Sultan’s death. British power consolidates in India.
English Are Here in India
1818 – The Third Anglo-Maratha /Pindari War ends. English power arrives in India.
1839 – Death of Ranjit Singh.
1845-1849 – The Sikh Wars in which English gained supremacy over the last outpost of Indian power.
British power in India
1857 – Combined Indian forces, led by the Mughal-Maratha alliance declare war. Major battles continue for 18 months. English win.
British Loss of Power
1916 – April 16. BG Tilak declares Swaraj is my birthright; forms Home Rule League at the Bombay Provincial Conference held at Belgaum.
1927 – Indian polity refuses to negotiate with Simon Commission.
1930 – Bhagat Singh displays disinterest in the legal outcome of his trial.
1944 – India’s leading industrialists come together (Bombay Club) and make an economic-plan document for an India which is yet to be born; for a government that was yet to be formed.
1946 – Naval Ratings raise the Indian Flag of independence.
1947 – Britain out of India
Two: A recent British ranking included Rani Lakshmi Bai as sole woman entry in the list of Top-20 foes of the British Empire. More than 200 wars, battles, mutinies, bombings, armed uprisings, spread over the 190 years, in which more than 10 million people died, was not easy.
Three: The loss of India was recurring theme in the less than 200 years of British misrule in India. The British knew their hold on India was one-step away from losing it.
Voices From The Past
Lord Curzon, probably got the tone for the Raj, till its end 50 years later. In a letter, on 31 March 1901, (some suggest March 3), to the Conservative minister AJ Balfour; Curzon predicted in 1901,
governing of India was far and away the biggest thing that the British were doing anywhere. As long as we rule India, we are the greatest power in the world. If we lose it we shall straightway drop to a third rate power. (from – Curzon in India: Achievement; books.google.co.in; David Dilks – 1970.).
In 1857, soon after the outbreak of war, reporting on Europe’s reactions, were brothers Eliakim Littell and Robert S. Littell, for their American publication, The Living Age (Volume 55 – Page 113).
In a familiar manner they said,
India is not only an English, it is a European subject; and the face of the Continental press moves that it is so. “Will England lose India or not?” is a question mooted by friends and foes, with hopes and fears according to their feelings; and from what they say of our prospects, we may judge of their future ‘conduct in the event of any serious loss to our power. On the Continent, more than in this country, it seems to be felt, and is indeed here and there loudly proclaimed, that Great Britain will lose her European supremacy if she lose India.
In fact, the loss of India would be a deathblow to her commerce and industry. (From: The living age …, Volume 55; By Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, Making of America Project.).
Further back, in 1829, writing in Gentleman’s magazine, (Volume 149), John Nichols summed up the mood in England.
It has been said that we might lose India, if, with the gospel of peace in one hand, and the code of English justice in the other, we thus legislate in a country whose superstitions are inveterate! Lose India !’ what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul!
Many Britishers said the opposite too. Churchill, the most famous of these Indian-doom predictors, thundered in the British Parliament,
In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes we are handing over to men of straw, of whom, in a few years, no trace will remain.
We now know whose predictions were right.
It can be safely said, that India was far from subdued, either easily or quickly, in the entire British Raj. A long enough search will produce one such analysis for each year where the British fear of losing India was exposed.
But the British lost power pretty fast.
India: Mangled by Western Historians (2ndlook.wordpress.com)
Death of Indian Shipbuilding (2ndlook.wordpress.com)
1857 – A Failed ‘Mutiny’? (2ndlook.wordpress.com)
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1857 – A Perspective (behind2ndlook.wordpress.com)
2000 years Of World Manufacturing History (2ndlook.wordpress.com)
Caste System: Its’ Life & Birth (2ndlook.wordpress.com)
Rare glimpse of Raj – hidden in Edinburgh shoe box (scotsman.com)
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Posted on 06/11/2017 by AQUARIANUNICORN | Leave a comment
Now that I know Soo Hyun didn’t kill Hwi Young, I’m only left with one person…. Shin Yul. The question is how did he die, and who killed him? I can’t see Hwi Young pulling the trigger on his best friend. Young Min is a possibility, but if we look at the present timeline, he’s rival is Se Ju. So, it’s not reflective of their past. That leaves soo Hyun….the question is why?
I swear, those past snippets! I knew since the beginning that there’s more to the flashbacks we were given. Who would’ve thought that a scene that made us think that Soo Hyun did kill Hwi Young was a confession scene all along? Gosh, I’m really impressed with the writing on this show. I guess it’s safe to say that a mirror in this show is that both Hwi Young in the past and Se Ju in the present both professed their feelings towards their counterparts, albeit, in a different way. It is squeal inducing nonetheless. I’m pretty sure that, after Hwi Young’s confession, that was it for that couple. Their relationship ended before it started. Hence, the reincarnation of themselves. At least, in the present time, Jeon Seol and Se Ju finally moved a step forward in regard to their relationship, and we know there’s a future there. Se Ju wasn’t lying when he said that he’s doing a service for his country with that kiss. It’s about time these two affirmed their feelings for each other.
Today is definitely Jin Oh’s episode. If you haven’t felt bad for him since he appeared in this show, and you have not felt bad at all after watching this episode until the end, you are one heartless person. Since the beginning, I knew I was rooting for his character. I knew that he will not get the girl. It was worse when I found out that he’s a ghost and realized he will never get the girl. It was episode that did me in.
Even though this episode started in heartbreak for Jin Oh after witnessing Se Ju and Jeon Seol’s kiss. It was when Jeon Seol was introduced to him even he’s invisible to her. The fact that Jeon Seol is there, and he froze to say her name, that was heart wrenching. When she was finally able to see him, well I was crying puddles.. It’s a major plus that Se Ju acknowledges him as a friend. Seeing him with his two favorite people of all time with him in the same room. Oh how happy I was for him! Then – they leave me with a cliffhanger – showing how he died. Well, that was a real shocker. Whatever impact factor the writing, and directing team wanted me to feel, I felt. I was in shock, in awe of how it just ended like that.
It still didn’t answer any questions though – who killed him, and why. I guess that’s for the next episode.
Posted in Drama Review, kdrama | Tagged Chicago Typewriter, Go Gyung Pyo, Han Se Ju, Hwi Young, Im Soo Jung, Jeon Seol, Ryu Soo Hyun, Shin Yul, Yoo Ah In, Yoo Jin Oh
Starting out with my rant. There was no need for Tae Min’s mom to be here, although it makes sense that she’s protecting Tae Min as a mother in her own sick, and twisted way. I do hope that Daddy Baek really follows through on his thoughts that he should at least try and stop her. What I want to see is that both Tae Min and his mom really get it in the end – like in the mental hospital or something. By now, some of you already know that I don’t like the idea of new characters joining in late in the show. But for progress’ sake, Jeon Seol’s mom is an exception [we only heard a voiceover] because she’s just as crucial to finding out what happened in the past. I’m sure we’ll see her again, she can’t run from her past forever. Time does catch up on a person. The other new character that showed up was Tae Min’s student[was she even a student or just sitting in the class], turns out she’s after Se Ju too because of her brother from episode 2/3. I don’t quite see where her character fits because if she’s blackmailing Tae Min, it will benefit Se Ju’s career, but if she’s also after Se Ju, doesn’t that negate her first motive? The only thing I could think of is that she’s also part of their past life, unbeknownst to everyone.
Bang Wol unintentionally burst JO’s bubble. NOOOOO!!! His heart is already broken as it is, then he gets told off about the pitfalls of being a ghost like he doesn’t know that. I hope this doesn’t deter him from actually calling out to Jeon Seol. I hope he doesn’t leave. Someone needs to tell Bang Shin she sees ghost, Stat! I couldn’t handle her crying over Jin Oh. I think that scene was unnecessary unless it’s connected in a future episode. Back to Bang Wol, I know she is protecting Bang Shin from a shaman’s fate, I can understand that, but she just caused misunderstandings that aren’t necessary. I’m not worried though, since she’s not in the know – it will get resolved somehow.
There’s not much flashbacks in this episode, but the one we have was important, because it connects Jin Oh to Tae Min and our main couple. ae Min ended up being part of their past life after all. Not surprising since Jin Oh was keen to protect Jeon Seol from him in the episode where they were typing up their contracts. I didn’t quite figure out what or why until this episode. It does look like he doesn’t remember his past or has not been triggered yet even after seeing Jin Oh’s presence. I must admit, although it wasn’t meant to be hilarious, I was laughing at how he was reacting to see Shin Yul’s ghostly antics. I guess I’m enjoying the premise of a future punishment. I think he’s about to lose it and break down. It feels like his walls are closing in and he’s starting to push back starting with Jeon Seol, the one person he wants but can’t have. I wonder if he did want her in the past too? If he ended up being her man in the past and that’s why it’s contrasting here?
Not much progress with Jin Oh today in unraveling his past. We are closer though since he did figure out how he can make his presence known to the people in his past life. Which means he just needs to call out Jeon Seol, her mom, and anyone else connected in this lifetime, and this mystery can be solved. Thing is though – there will be consequences for the parties involved in Jin Oh’s murder in this lifetime. That effect could go either way. As for our characters, they can heal and move on, whereas for our villains yet to be confirmed, when the truth does come back for them, it’s something that they can’t run away from in this time. Is that something that Jin Oh would really want in order to move on? Is that the justice he seeks to those who wronged him decades ago?
I knew it. She was going to lie to Se Ju even after he had made it clear that she needs to tell him whenever she sees her visions. I knew she was going to be the noble idiot and try to run away from Se Ju. I can’t believe that even after what her mother did to her, she still let her words get in her head. I understand that she has so many questions when everything was happening to her at the same time. It didn’t help that Bang Wol unintentionally made it worse for her – making her feel like that she will be the cause of Se Ju’s future death. Thankfully, Se Ju has a different perspective in life that this didn’t last longer than this episode. It didn’t have to take an accident for her to change her mind about staying, though but – I’ll take it. It’s natural that she’s having doubts that she wants to know how their story ends. Quite understandable, especially when your memories aren’t everything. I do hope that this is not a hint that just like the past, the story was never finished.
Se Ju is definitely the hero of the show, if not this episode. He has grown so much since episode 1. From keeping everyone behind his wall, to accepting them as part of his life, both past and present. I like his outlook on life which is the opposite of how mostly everyone thinks as a society. It’s sad that he had to experience life differently for him to have a different view in life, but his logic is still beyond his years. As far as his relationship with Jeon Seol goes, even the way he says that Jeon Seol is shameless is even gentler than when they were first getting acquainted with each other. He’s a mand of his word. We knew that from the beginning, but back then was words, this episode, I saw actions. He gave Tae Min the draft of Fate, and he’s keeping his promise that he will finish the novel no matter what.
I saw one main theme in this episode: Protection. Some were shown in Tae Min, and Bang Wol’s mom. Some were underlying – Se Ju/Jeon Seol protecting each other’s feelings bye not ending the novel. One was mentioned in the end, when Se Ju told Jeon Seol that he’s been saving [protecting] him all this time.
As far as mirrors, and contrast goes, the only thing that I could see as a mirror which was Jeon Seol’s street date with Se Ju which mirrors Se Ju’s street date with her as their form of goodybye. I guess, I could add a second one, where Tae Min is still a scoundrel, but that’s still have to be proven in the present timeline. We all see and know it, but that still has to be played out in front of Jeon Seol and the literary world.
For the contrast, fist is Jeon Seol’s belief that she’s ill fated with Se Ju [no thanks to Bang Wol adding to her worries], but he thinks she’s his savior. Although it’s not shown here but we’ve seen their past kiss before, that kiss is a contrast to their present kiss. I kept saying it before that I wasn’t convinced that he likes her. I somewhat saw it today, I still must feel it though. The feelings are there but it’s somewhat contrasting from their past. And, I think I like it. I like that Se Ju does have feelings for Jeon Seol, and it’s not an extension of his past life nor hers. I like that she just grew on him and he didn’t even know it, until he started caring for her well being. I didn’t see it before, because it was a gradual process for Se Ju breaking down his wall, and changing the sources of his motivation in life. He had to let go of his internal fears and beliefs first, before he can express his feelings to anyone around him. Contrasting that to the past, I think that with what Hwi Young had with Soo Hyun, their kiss was more passionate because it has been suppressed due to their mission, it wasn’t unrequited at all – it was just ill timed. At least, they won’t have to repeat that in this lifetime, at least I hope.
Until then.
Posted in kdrama | Tagged Chicago Typewriter, Go Gyung Pyo, Han Se Ju, Im Soo Jung, kdrama, Ryu Soo Hyun, Seo Hwi Young, Shin Yul, tvN, Yoo Ah In, Yoo Jin Oh
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Who else cried in this episode? Well, I’m sad for Jin Oh who knew that there’s nothing he can do in this lifetime to win Jeon Seol’s heart. That, and that a lot has changed since his death, that what he once knew then doesn’t exist now. But he’s wrong. There’s something that exist now: his dream of freeing Joseon to what Korea is now. Sadly, he can’t really experience it as a live human being, but being able to see the change should be consolation enough, if that was his unfinished business. It got to me when he put his arms around Jeon Seol, I was yelling see him, feel him, something!!!! What made it worse? When he didn’t even show up in the photo, not even as an orb, mist, or a glow.
There’s very little time to dislike any characters in this episode since Tae Min’s mom got burned when her plan to bring Se Ju burst into a humiliating flame. Tae Min’s dad failed to get Tae Min to his copycat crime. Tae Min looked ever determined to stay afloat. At this point, this family will go down together, either Tae Min loses what’s left of his sanity first, then mom loses it, or dad just throws everything out in the open. Either way, I cannot wait. I still have to see thought if any of these family members is part of Se Ju’s life in the past.
Se Ju had a transformation in this episode. He’s more accepting of Jeon Seol and Jin Oh. Dare I say he softened up a bit. It was touching that he finally offered Jin Oh a meal, and found a friend even though he’s in denial about it. He’s not resisting to Jin Oh’s presence and persistence like when they first met. I think as he’s re-writing his novel from 80 years ago, he’s realizing that he’s living this lifetime similar to Hwi Young and wants to change that. Although he hasn’t said it out loud. His intentions are clear though especially when it comes to Jeon Seol.
We finally meet Jeon Seol’s mom even though it’s only through Jeon Seol’s recollections. And, wow! Who knew that she’s connected to her past life. This was a new revelation through Jin Oh’s recollection as well. I sm always iffy about new characters entering shows past its halfway mark, but I welcome this one because, there’s still so much more to know about what happened in the 1930s. There’s still a lot more webs to untangle, and cords to connect to this present timeline. I wonder if Jeon Seol hasn’t recollected much of her memories that she failed to recognize her mother in her past visions. I wonder if her mom knows of her past life too. Gosh, this just opened up more doors to the past that we needed to connect the trio together.
We’re getting more information from the events of the past. That’s been something I wanted to do with the little snippets they provide us each episode. Se Ju was the leader of the resistance. Everyone else probably figured that out, but I didn’t. I thought that it was Shin Yul. I guess it makes sense that it’s Se Ju because he’s clever enough to pass coded messages through his “third rate” novels. Which brings me to the question, why did Soo Hyun delay him when Hwi Young fell off his bike? I had a bad feeling about it.
OMG if that was not the most passionate kiss I’ve watched in 2017. That was intense even if for a minute. Yes, Hwi Young delivered for his country if not the world.
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Partial $S$-goodness for partially sparse signal recovery
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2014, 4(1): 39-48. doi: 10.3934/naco.2014.4.39
Some useful inequalities via trace function method in Euclidean Jordan algebras
Yu-Lin Chang 1, and Chin-Yu Yang 1,
Department of Mathematics, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 11677, Taiwan
Received May 2013 Revised November 2013 Published December 2013
In this paper, we establish convexity of some functions associated with symmetric cones, called SC trace functions. As illustrated in the paper, these functions play a key role in the development of penalty and barrier function methods for symmetric cone programs. With trace function method we offer much simpler proofs to these useful inequalities.
Keywords: convexity, Symmetric cone, trace function., Löwner operator.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 26A27, 26B05, 26B35, 49J52, 90C3.
Citation: Yu-Lin Chang, Chin-Yu Yang. Some useful inequalities via trace function method in Euclidean Jordan algebras. Numerical Algebra, Control & Optimization, 2014, 4 (1) : 39-48. doi: 10.3934/naco.2014.4.39
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Much Of The Food On Our Tables We Owe To Mexican Mayans
Many visitors and tourists to Mexico know little both of early Mexican history as well as the effects that Mayan cultures have had on our modern cultures and diets as well. Indeed a high percentage of our cultivated crops, which form the basis of our diets, were all developed and originated within early Mayan agriculture. The ancient cultures of Mexico along with the Maya civilization compromise the larger entity known to archeologists as “Mesoamerica”. Indeed early anthropologists not geographers named and gave the margins to the area now designated as “Mesoamerica”. The designated area includes much of the great constriction that separates the masses of North and South America.
The Peoples of Mesoamerica Primary Pursuit was Agriculture:
Above all, the peoples of Mesoamerica were farmers involved in the cultivation of vegetables and other foodstuffs. Not only that but these residents and tillers of the land had been essentially isolated by geography and geographical ranges for thousands and thousands of years from the simpler cultivating societies of the American Southwest and Southeast by the desert waste of Northern Mexico itself. What are referred to essentially as the “desert wastes of Northern Mexico”, has allowed only the movement of semi-nomadic, hunting aborigines who ranged and covered this area in pre-Spanish Conquistador times. Beyond the lower southeastern borders of Mesoamerica lay the “petty chiefdoms” of lower Central America, distinguished by a high production of fine ceramics and quantities of jade or gold ornaments, lavishly heaped in the tombs of the great.
The Influence of the Mayans & Mesoamerica Ranged Far in Central & South America:
Moving down the range – further south yet, in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia was the Andean area most noted for its final glory, the immense Inca Empire. Yet having native populations as far back as the twelfth century before the Common Era B.C.E., as well as large temple constructions, even much earlier and preceding that. The Andean area and Mesoamerica were twin peaks of American Indian cultural developments, from which much else in the Western Hemisphere can well be traced back to – as having been both developed and derived from. Indeed much recent research in the Pacific Lowlands of Ecuador, the Caribbean coast of Columbia, and even to the upper reaches of the Amazon River has shown that the important criteria of “settled life” – that is agriculture, pottery and villages all came from the early Maya cultural experience, its technology and accomplishments in agriculture.
Our Culinary Habits & Kitchen Tables Owe a Debt of Gratitude to Mayan Farmers:
While many people and cooks may associate chocolate with the Mayans we owe much more of a debt to the agricultural experts of early Mesoamerica. Corn – which forms the basis of much of American food production, and as the feed of cattle of other meat bearing animals is for the most part corn based. Add in the Mayan contributions to our diets – tomatoes, black beans, sweet potatoes plus a lot more. If you are vacationing to Mexico this coming year – and think the country or perhaps areas you are visiting are “primitive” compared to back home in the USA, now you have a much better appreciation of the culinary heritage of Mexico.
Sylvia Morelos
Morelos has a wealth of information in Mexican history leading back to the Mayan empires and the Chichen Itza temple areas. Yet its the foods – information concerning the origins of the fruits and vegetables of Maya Mexico which fascinate her the most . Those lucky enough this coming tourist season to be involved with culinary travel to Mexico – visiting and sourcing out their favorite restaurants and markets – have much to look forward indeed.
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A Comprehensive Genome-Wide Map of Autonomously Replicating Sequences in a Naive Genome
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{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/849318"], "description"=>"<p>(A) Site-directed mutagenesis was used to replace trinucleotides in <i>Kl</i>ARS515. The mutant plasmids were tested for ARS activity. The mutated bases are underlined, and ARS function is indicated on the left and by the text color of the mutated nucleotides. The predicted <i>Kl</i>ACS motif is highlighted in blue. Mutants that did not affect function (+) are highlighted in black, while mutants affecting ARS function (+/− and −) are colored in red. Mutants that completely destroyed ARS function are indicated as (−), mutants that support the growth of minute colonies but contain dead cells on restreaking are indicated as (+/−) and mutants that had no effect are indicated as (+). Numbers on the right of the sequences are shown for reference. (B) Pictures of <i>K. lactis</i> transformed with mutant ARS plasmids on selective medium plates after 6 days of growth at 30°C. Plasmids with ARS activity comparable to the wild type plasmid (ARS+) are shown on the top row. Plasmids with weak ARS activity (ARS+/−) are shown in the middle row. Plasmids which show no visible ARS activity (ARS-) are on the bottom row. Numbers above the pictures correspond to mutant constructs from Figure 4A. Multiple clones of all plasmids were tested. Representative plasmids are shown. (C) ARS sequences of <i>Kl</i>ARS618, <i>Kl</i>ARS612 and <i>Kl</i>ARS524 were mutagenized to test the necessity of the predicted <i>Kl</i>ACS motif for ARS function. In all cases (6 total, see <a href=\"http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000946#pgen.1000946.s012\" target=\"_blank\">Table S1</a>) the predicted mutation destroyed <i>Kl</i>ARS function. Each of the full <i>Kl</i>ARS sequences is 451bp. (D) DNA flanking the <i>Kl</i>ACS motif was truncated and the resulting sequences were tested for ARS function. The number of shortened <i>Kl</i>ARSs that retained function is shown on the right and <a href=\"http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000946#pgen.1000946.s012\" target=\"_blank\">Table S1</a>.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["genetics and genomics", "genetics and genomics/bioinformatics", "genetics and genomics/chromosome biology", "genetics and genomics/comparative genomics", "genetics and genomics/functional genomics", "genetics and genomics/genomics", "genetics and genomics/microbial evolution and genomics"], "article_id"=>519758, "categories"=>["Genetics"], "users"=>["Ivan Liachko", "Anand Bhaskar", "Chanmi Lee", "Shau Chee Claire Chung", "Bik-Kwoon Tye", "Uri Keich"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000946.g004", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>8, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Kl_ACS_is_necessary_and_largely_sufficient_for_Kl_ARS_function_/519758", "title"=>"<i>Kl</i>ACS is necessary and largely sufficient for <i>Kl</i>ARS function.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2010-05-13 02:42:38"}
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Batya Gur • blog • Book Reviews • detective novels • Israel • Israeli fiction • Israeli-Palestinian conflict • Jewish Arts & Culture • Orly Castel-Bloom
The Brilliance of Batya Gur, Israel’s Greatest Detective Author – Tablet Magazine
Earlier than The New Yorker turned a social-media babbitt, the magazine not occasionally revealed eccentric works that documented the collision between a author’s sensibility and peculiar People. Which is to say, that reporters sought out subjects who as a result of of their circumstances or disposition have been much less self-conscious and sometimes revealed something necessary but not obvious about their time and place. Of his true-crime reportage between the late 1960s and early ’80s, Calvin Trillin wrote, in the introduction of Killings, the guide that collected the most effective of these New Yorker items from a bygone period, “the place was the context for the killing, and the killing was an opportunity to write about the place.” It was after a murder that Trillin might ask questions and see human conduct in a uncommon mild, “when someone dies suddenly [and] the shades are drawn up.”
Trillin didn’t squander the chance. But my hunch is that his understanding of the chances inherent in sure sorts of reportage did not originate with him or together with his friends, however was precipitated by William Shawn, the journal’s editor, whom J.D. Salinger once described because the “lover of the long shot.” Sustained statement of the spontaneous activation of the rituals, myths, habits, and institutions that commingled in the intervening time of somebody’s sudden dying would, because it turned out, accumulate a collection of particular and vivid native manifestations of a nation, in the early ’70s, late ’70s, early ’80s, when its own sense of itself flipped inside out.
It’s similarly that amassed investigations of demise are revealing of life in Israel, by method of the detective novels of Batya Gur, the Israeli writer who penned other novels and one work of social criticism however who made her identify on a collection of six books that followed the skilled and personal exploits of Michael Ohayon, her protagonist. The chief detective of the Jerusalem police, Ohayon was, Gur as soon as stated, “a better edition of me.” Perhaps it is this dynamic between writer and her cultivated fictional self that elevates Gur’s venture above the aircraft of Trillin’s true-crime reportage. Greater than the sensual drama of a specific era in Israel, Ohayon’s murder investigations function a narrative interrogation of the Zionist enterprise, such because it was, or as Gur saw it, in the course of the late hours of the 20th century.
In every of the six books, Gur dispatches Ohayon into a tightknit, insular group where the murder of one of their own, and with a number of of their very own someway implicated in the dying, threatens to collapse the inspiration of that group. Not in contrast to the settings of Frederick Wiseman’s documentaries, Gur’s communities are stand-ins for Israeli society writ giant, whether a kibbutz, chamber orchestra, college literature department, or a psychoanalytic educating institute.
Ohayon’s renown as a “star investigator” grows with every case, and his photograph is often splashed throughout the pages of the Jerusalem newspapers as he climbs up the ranks. Gur’s plots propel along swift, cerebral currents that mimic Ohayon’s “unusual style of detective work,” born of his deep need “to become part of the environment that he was investigating, to sense the subtle nuances of the murdered person’s world.” Tracking Ohayon’s obsessive infiltration into the “essence of things,” Gur thus makes use of the occasion of a sudden dying to scrutinize the vulnerabilities of a society laid bare by the violence and brutality of human relations.
After her first profession educating high school literature, Batya Gur’s life as an writer was an sadly brief second act, publishing her first novel on the age of 39 and dying from most cancers at the age of 57, in 2005. Raised in Tel Aviv by Polish mother and father who arrived in Israel as Holocaust survivors, Gur, a graduate of the literature master’s program at Hebrew College, once stated that she modeled Michael Ohayon, who turned to police work after abandoning a promising profession in academia, on her own experiences: “He grew like me, slowly and laboriously, until he found his place.”
Gur emerged together with her bestseller debut, in 1988, when detective fiction written in Hebrew had been all but dormant for five many years. As a shopper product for fashionable entertainment, the crime fiction of the 1930s was revealed in small books on low cost paper meant to be discarded, like a periodical, after it was read. Dismissed in their day by some critics as a frivolous abasement of the language, others supported the disposable tomes as an effective means to promote primary Hebrew literacy. The enterprise didn’t sustain itself a lot previous the decade, and save for the occasional youngsters’s e-book, readers of crime fiction had to flip to translations of English works to get their fix.
Sporadically appearing in Hebrew, the perfect of the postwar American detective fiction was typically in some type of dialogue with the charged social undercurrents shifting the larger moral order in america, pushing and pulling the overall consensus of what was still sacred and what had grow to be profane. Writing underneath the pen identify Ross Macdonald, Kenneth Millar constructed upon the style conceits and literary strategies of his forbears, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, to create his own collection of 18 novels that includes the personal eye, Lew Archer, a moody, brainy loner making an attempt to separate right from incorrect in the sandblasted tequila haze of midcentury Southern California.
Batya Gur in Jerusalem, 2001 (Photograph: Dan Porges/Getty Pictures)
There have been some minor American detective fiction writers in the 1960s who explicitly featured Jewish characters, at a time when the depth of in style information about Jewishness not often plunged deeper than the descriptions of the chosen individuals whispered into the ear of Eva Marie Saint by Paul Newman in the movie Exodus. Those books, like Harry Kemelman’s Friday the Rabbi Slept Late, trafficked primarily in first-base conflicts of Jews in America, the cultural Jews in search of faith, diaspora Jews lonely and untethered, the uncommon Jewish convert not sure of what their newfound religion amounted to in a secularized society sometimes hostile however kind of ambivalent about Judaism.
Maybe it was the lowly associations with style work that led the most effective American Jewish writers to go away the innovations in detective fiction to Ross Macdonald and his progeny while Bellow, Roth, and Ozick vigorously expanded the chances of highbrow literature with new sorts of characters talking in unusual vernaculars that helped define and form American Jewish id, assigning themselves the task of reaching past the restricted confines of a literary style’s readership, to turn out to be, for higher or worse, part of the larger American cultural conversation.
It wasn’t till the 1980s that detective fiction earnestly returned to Jewish themes and characters—first in the States after which not long afterward in Israel, and notably in each nations by the hands of feminine authors. Batya Gur was probably the most famous of the Israeli crime fiction writers, her books all bestsellers translated into English, French, Spanish, and German. Her rise coincided with a popularization in Israel of different cultural merchandise that had lengthy made money in the West, from pulp novels to shopper items to a middlebrow buffet of films and tv. Ladies picked up the mantle of critical crime fiction in Israel largely as a result of it was there for the taking: Like male fiction authors in America, their Israeli counterparts didn’t value the likelihood of genres outdoors the hallowed cannon. A lot to the credit of Gur and her cohort, they realized the potential for detective fiction to interact with the social questions of the day.
Ladies picked up the mantle of critical crime fiction in Israel largely as a result of it was there for the taking.
In contrast to Ross Macdonald’s free-floating, solitary Lew Archer, Gur’s detective, Ohayon, is an establishment man, respectful of his personal, of others, striving for promotions, deferential to leaders, sometimes sentimental, with a firm but not insoluble belief in the sanctity of a gaggle’s code of conduct and declared intentions. When a subordinate chafes at judicial procedures that sluggish up their investigation, Ohayon snaps again, “Don’t knock it. … You want to live in a place like Argentina? It’s a price we have to pay.”
Each Archer and Ohayon are protective of their independence and their time alone, and outline their id partially by how they keep the area between themselves and their surrounding communities. But where Archer sides with the drifters and outcasts, defaulting to a cynical dismissal of the inherent hypocrisy of a society failing to realize its ideals, Ohayon sees himself inexorably tied up in the widespread plight, respiration the air of shared tragedy. When he and a witness first come across a lifeless body, brutally murdered, they retreat to a bench, two strangers smoking a cigarette, the trauma of the encounter already binding them collectively, “their faces clearly reflecting the secret solidarity of people who had not yet succeeded in putting up the barrier against the feeling of fear, which was stronger than anything else.”
Arriving in Israel on the age of three, Ohayon is a Moroccan immigrant sensitively tuned to his place in the social pecking order, insecure about his relationship to the nation’s Ashkenazi population, the individuals he finds to be “full of prejudices about … people whose parents didn’t come from Europe.” As a character cast in the warmth of the Israeli-Palestinian battle as it inches ever closer to the primary intifada, Ohayon is a capable vessel, holding a set of conflicted emotions and intellectualized rationalities: the loner who loves the reassurance of the group embrace; an immigrant racing up the prejudiced social ladder, however the very specific ladder of state energy; a celebrated obsessive who should uncover the motive for murder, even when it means absorbing the thoughts and emotions of individuals broken by energy, greed, or hate. Ohayon, notably in the early books, is something of a contemporary everyman of the Center East, walking over historic stone in pursuit of a greater life for himself, and regulation and order for his adopted nation, whilst chaos rattles the streets.
Later in life Gur was an increasingly outspoken critic of an Israel she seen to be drifting rightward, too militant, too conservative—her solely nonfiction e-book made a harsh appraisal of settlers, whom she discovered to be affected by a “nearmessianic mania”—and the later Ohayon books, like Murder in Jerusalem, revealed posthumously in 2006, which delves into the murders of Egyptian prisoners in the course of the 1967 Six-Day Conflict, suffers from the didactic weight of its politics: solemn and polemical where once her arguments relied as an alternative on metaphor and her aesthetic acumen to communicate suggestively. And while the latter books exhibit Gur’s mature polish and taut structural method, the preliminary books, if at occasions shaggy, are extra gratifying company, because they’re infused with Gur’s own exuberant discovery of the likelihood of her undertaking.
This is true especially of Gur’s debut, The Saturday Morning Murder, which has Ohayon investigating the homicide of Eva Neidorf, a outstanding psychoanalyst at the Institute for the Jerusalem Psychoanalytic Society. Founded within the late 1930s by a gaggle of analysts who fled Germany when, as Ernst Hildersheimer the current chief explains to Ohayon, “it was already clear what was going to happen,” the institute turned one of Jerusalem’s main psychoanalytic educating clinics. Extremely competitive in their selection of candidates, with an extended and arduous coaching process, the institute’s members rigorously adhere to a set of skilled standards that call to mind, for Ohayon, the medieval guilds, which he’d studied as a doctoral candidate destined for Cambridge earlier than he deserted the academy for the police drive.
In service to the town’s ailing basic population, the institute helps Israelis clear up their most pressing and sophisticated issues. When it turns into obvious that the assassin is, the truth is, a member of the society, Hildersheimer informs Ohayon that they can’t proceed this very important work till the assassin is caught. “Too many people depend on us to be able to afford not to know which of us is capable of murder,” he tells Ohayon.
The core rigidity of the case, with a suspect whose life objective is to restore different individuals to full health but who can also be succesful of homicide, offers Gur, in its metaphorical potency, ample alternative to take on the larger anxieties of a society making an attempt to square its personal founding beliefs—a socialist want for peace and common refuge—towards threats from hostile populations inside and from outdoors the group’s borders. For Ohayon to unravel the murder, he methodically paperwork the historical past, bylaws, and dealing habits of the institute and its members, “to obtain a full picture, to see everything concerning human beings as part of an overall process, like a historical process possessing laws of its own.”
Rightly, Ohayon’s presence alerts something odious to the members of this esteemed group, who had once fervently believed in their very own collective dedication to assist all who sought their salubrious counsel. Overcome by the implications of the detective’s objective, one member struggles towards the “tremendous rage swelling up inside of him,” as Ohayon has “begun to represent in his eyes the breakdown of all rules.”
Gur deftly imbues the novel with the affordable paranoia of the society’s members—instigated by the worry that one of their own would need to hurt them, which suggests the longer term of the society could possibly be imperiled. For Hildersheimer and the institute’s previous guard, the notion that they might nurture a member capable of murder means the destruction of “the Institute, its inner life, the sense of belonging our people feel toward it.” Very similar to Orly Castel-Bloom’s later Human Elements, the place severe, irregular winter storms in Jerusalem turn out to be the every day atmospheric menace that parallel the fraught hazard of the second intifada, Ohayon’s investigation into what went rotten at the institute echoes a wider social misery about crumbling idealism, of what type of belonging is possible underneath the menace of some inner, self-destructive drive.
The proof mounts and Ohayon is quickly interrogating a colonel, the “military governor in the territories,” a patient of the slain analyst. With a sly sense of humor, Gur reveals that the colonel, “who looked like a TV advertisement for the Israel Defense Forces,” had sought skilled help as a result of while within the center of a passionate love affair he’d all of a sudden turn into impotent. However it’s not the morality of the affair that sabotages the seemingly highly effective man; quite, he bears witness to his own lost vitality when the problem of the territories turns into an excessive amount of. “It’s a simple question of humanity, of how far you’re prepared to play God,” he tells Ohayon. “And I’ve never been much good at that.”
Realizing that the colonel didn’t murder his analyst, Ohayon—who will later lose the fierceness of his convictions—holds tight right here to his belief in the dignity of public institutions, saying he’ll do what he can to maintain the governor’s involvement in the case quiet—not “to protect you but out of concern for the reputation of the army and the military government.”
The precise murderer is ultimately apprehended, their motives not tied as much as bigger political themes however appropriately private and egocentric. It seems potential that the analytic society will keep it up, though as one astute member realizes nicely earlier than the case is closed, it is going to by no means be the same once more. “The door, which had always been closed against the world, the door that protected what [he] privately thought of as the most protected place in the world, remained open … and through it broke things that did not belong, things that up to now had been, at most, part of the fears and fantasies of patients. Now they had come true, and nothing belonged to anything anymore.”
For Ohayon, discovering what had damaged via the door of the institute shouldn’t be in and of itself a satisfying accomplishment, there’s a “joylessness of the victory,” as he must reconcile himself to the notion that the drive isn’t overseas, or rare, or unfamiliar. Somewhat, what corrodes the institute is identical drive that unravels all of our greatest intentions, the mundane supplies of life itself.
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Sean Patrick Cooper is a author dwelling in Philadelphia.
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Charley Boudreaux
As in ‘Queen Sugar.’ Is it just me or do you also see that the character ‘Charley Bordelon West’ had no chemistry with the characters ‘Davis West’ or ‘Remy Newell’ and has no chemistry with ‘Romero.’ Seriously, the only, and I mean the only character ‘Charley Bordelon West’ has chemistry with is ‘Jacob Boudreaux.’ C’mon, tell me I’m wrong.
I love, love, love the storyline about Nova’s book exposing all the secrets that plagued her family. However, and I know this might sound strange, but I understand Nova’s reasoning for writing her book and I understand her family’s reactions to having their personal secrets revealed so publicly. In other words, this storyline was well written.
I’m starting to warm up to the character ‘Darla’ especially after her scenes at the end of episode 4, season 4. Her confrontation with ‘Nova’ then her breaking down in ‘Ralph Angel’s arms was spot on. Now if the writers can just put Jacob and Charley together romantically, or better yet, a quickie marriage. That would send tremors throughout the Landry household. Now, that’s a scene (Jacob and Charley announcing their marriage to Samuel Landry), I would enjoy watching. It’s time for Samuel Landry to receive some comeuppance.
Oh, and a Jacob and Charley offspring would send Samuel Landry to the ICU.
Oh, don’t get me started on David Alan Grier’s portrayal of ‘Jimmy Dale’. All I can say is please, bring him back. He’s one of those characters that you just love to hate. Plus, good guy Hollywood needs a bad villain to battle.
Ok, and by the way, Kofi Siriboe (Ralph Angel) is FINE to a T. Especially when he smiles which is not often, but I get it because of his storyline.
Holy shit, Ethan Hutchison’s portrayal of Blue Borderlon is worthy of an Emmy award for Outstanding Young Actor in a dramatic series. If only!
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Double heterostructure lasers with facets formed by a hybrid wet and reactive-ion-etching technique
Salzman, J. and Venkatesan, T. and Margalit, S. and Yariv, A. (1985) Double heterostructure lasers with facets formed by a hybrid wet and reactive-ion-etching technique. Journal of Applied Physics, 57 (8). pp. 2948-2950. ISSN 0021-8979. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:SALjap85
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Double heterostructure lasers were fabricated in which one of the laser facets was produced by a hybrid wet and reactive-ion-etching technique. This technique is suitable for GaAs/GaAlAs heterostructure lasers and utilizes the selectivity of the plasma in preferentially etching GaAs over GaAlAs. Lasers fabricated by this technique are compatible with optoelectronic integration and have threshold currents and quantum efficiency comparable to lasers with both mirrors formed by cleaving. The technique enables the use of relatively higher pressures of noncorrosive gases in the etch plasma resulting in smoother mirror surfaces and further eliminates the nonreproducibility inherent in the etching of GaAlAs layers.
Copyright © 1985 American Institute of Physics (Received 21 September 1984; accepted 4 December 1984) This research is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research. We would like to thank E. Kapon and Z. Rav-Noy for advice in the fabrication techniques. J. Salzman would like to acknowledge the support of the Bantrell post-doctoral fellowship.
SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; ETCHING; FABRICATION; HETEROJUNCTIONS; GALLIUM ARSENIDES; ALUMINIUM ARSENIDES; THRESHOLD CURRENT; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; LASER MIRRORS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; DH LASERS
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Challenging Conventional Wisdom About How to Build a Cloud Center of Excellence
by Philip Potloff | on 31 DEC 2018 | in Adoption, Culture and Training, Enterprise Strategy | Permalink | Share
What Success on Broadway can Teach us About Constructing Effective Teams
One of the foundational steps that enterprises take as part of their journey to the cloud is establishing a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE). The CCoE is a multi-disciplinary team that is assembled to implement the governance, best practices, training, and architecture needed for cloud adoption in a manner that provides repeatable patterns for the larger enterprise to follow. It might go without saying, but an effective CCoE requires both rock solid execution skills as well as creativity when endeavoring to create new cloud-based provisioning and delivery processes that don’t carry over the bureaucracy and limitations of their current operating model.
Given the criticality of this function it is understandable why enterprises frequently seek out guidance about the ideal composition and function of a Cloud Center of Excellence. There are two approaches to building a CCoE team that I see recommended more often than any others. The first is to assemble a new team with a wide-ranging skill-set from the constituent functional areas that have a stake in establishing a new cloud operating model. CCoE’s built with this approach typically include representatives from Infrastructure Ops, PMO, Enterprise Architecture, App Dev, Infosec, Procurement, and QA.
The second approach is to leverage an already high-performing project team and redeploy them to the CCoE. As opposed to the first approach, where the team has to form, then storm, starting with your A-team that already knows how to deliver results allows the CCoE to get off to a fast start. This second approach is more often employed by enterprises that have already established cross-functional teams for scrum or agile development.
There is agreeable logic in both of these approaches, and I have encountered anecdotal evidence of both operating effectively in the enterprise, but there is research that suggests the way we typically assemble teams like these could be diminishing the results we expect to see from our CCoE and other initiatives. Since coming across this research years ago, I have been employing its conclusions to construct innovation-focused teams (including cloud teams) with successful outcomes. The peculiar thing is that this research is a study about what made Broadway musicals successful in the better part of the last century, and how it applies more broadly to organizational design.
The researchers Brian Uzzi and Jarett Spiro studied the relationships of collaborators (composers, directors, lyricists, producers) from nearly five hundred musicals produced on Broadway between 1945 and 1989(a). Using a ratio for density of past working relationships they called Q, the researchers found that musicals with a low ratio of existing working relationships among the collaborators (low Q) were not likely to be a commercial or critical success. Maybe not surprising, but Uzzi and Spiro also discovered that so-called “A-teams” that had very strong connectivity or a track record of working together (high Q) on other musicals were not a good indicator of success either. It turns out that Broadway teams with a good mix of new and existing relationships (mid-range Q) were three times more likely to achieve box office success. Put simply, they found that most successful musicals were by teams that had a good balance of people that had worked together in the past and knew how to pull off a top production, as well as new blood that brought in a steady supply of new ideas.
If we apply these findings to the typical CCoE models that I described earlier, what challenges might they have?
Taking the first approach to building a CCoE, we have assembled all the functional areas we need to make up a cloud team with unique perspectives and skills. But these representation-focused teams usually have low Q, with little experience working together and might struggle to deliver results without a fair amount of trial and error. I have seen these teams struggle to deliver early wins, and they also require more coordination, which does not lend itself to the leaner operating model most enterprises expect to realize with the cloud.
The “A-team” CCoE approach has high Q, and while they might have the working model already in place to start delivering results quickly, their current status, position, and past successes have been based on optimizing or even manipulating the old way of doing things. They could develop a new cloud-based infrastructure provisioning process that reduces delivery time from eight weeks to four weeks, which sounds pretty good, but why not four days, or even four hours? These teams often have too much invested in their current working model and relationships to allow innovative approaches to take root.
Having already been exposed to these findings back in 2012 when we were faced with deciding who should lead the first cloud team at Edmunds, our goal was to create a new team with a varied assortment of relationships that could provide both new thinking and operational efficiency. Our infrastructure engineering team had a long list of relevant accomplishments to their credit, including a private cloud with a Chef-based infrastructure-as-code automated provisioning platform. By most measures, they were the best positioned team to lead our CCoE efforts.
However, our expectations went beyond just provisioning servers faster. We wanted to improve the way we architected and deployed applications as we moved to the cloud. These loftier expectations, combined with an understanding that a team balanced with execution capability and innovative thinking would be key components of success, required us to think more deeply about how our CCoE would be staffed.
The decision was an unconventional pairing of our infrastructure engineering leads and the senior members of our automated testing team. I have seen quite a few CCoE organizational charts from customers during my time at AWS, and I don’t recall ever seeing SDETs (software development engineers in test) having a lead role on a CCoE. But it worked for our purposes. While the infrastructure leads brought system automation experience to the group, the SDETs knew our applications better than anyone else in the company. Understanding which applications were well-architected , noisy, or had fragile dependencies allowed the combined team to work swiftly through a mapping of hundreds of on-premises applications and develop an accelerated cloud adoption plan, along with supporting tools and processes for the apps to be migrated. Edmunds successfully moved to the cloud and shut down its last datacenter back in 2016.
I have continued to consider the relationship density of teams when starting new initiatives, both for customer facing product development as well as back-end technology teams. I use a simple set of criteria for evaluating team composition:
What is the core deliverable expected, and what leaders or team members have shared experience with comparable execution? There should be just enough pre-existing working relationships to ensure that execution and delivery are not in question.
What is new or different about what we are trying to achieve, and whom can we tap to provide alternative perspectives on the challenge?
This won’t produce a tension-free environment. In fact, we are encouraging an environment where creative tension is expected in order to produce results beyond incremental change. We also aren’t just throwing random people together and expecting magic to happen. Instead, by seeding the team with execution capability, we are looking to reduce the “forming” tax typically associated with new teams that prolongs time to delivered results.
Enterprises often establish a CCoE to spearhead their cloud efforts with expectations of improved efficiency, better reliability, and faster time to delivery. It is important that the CCoE team they assemble has the right balance of working relationships, operational efficiency, and innovative thinking needed to achieve these goals.
Philip Potloff
Head of Enterprise Strategy, AWS
@philippotloff
For a full read on the research referenced above by Brian Uzzi and Jarrett Spiro: Collaboration and Creativity: The Small World Problem
(a) Uzzi, Brian, and Jarrett Spiro. “Collaboration and Creativity: The Small World Problem.” American Journal of Sociology, vol. 111, no. 2, 2005, pp. 447–504. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/432782.
TAGS: Agile, CCOE, DevOps, Lean
Philip joined AWS in 2017 and serves as the head of enterprise strategy. In this role Philip works with enterprise technology executives to share experiences and strategies for how the cloud can help them increase speed and agility while devoting more of their resources to their customers. Prior to joining AWS, Philip was the COO and CIO at Edmunds.com.
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Spatial segregation of the biological soil crust microbiome around its foundational cyanobacterium, Microcoleus vaginatus, and the formation of a nitrogen-fixing cyanosphere
Estelle Couradeau, Ana Giraldo-Silva, Francesca De Martini, Ferran Garcia-Pichel
Background: Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) are a key component of arid land ecosystems, where they render critical services such as soil surface stabilization and nutrient fertilization. The bundle-forming, filamentous, non-nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Microcoleus vaginatus is a pioneer primary producer, often the dominant member of the biocrust microbiome, and the main source of leaked organic carbon. We hypothesized that, by analogy to the rhizosphere of plant roots, M. vaginatus may shape the microbial populations of heterotrophs around it, forming a specialized cyanosphere. Results: By physically isolating bundles of M. vaginatus from biocrusts, we were able to study the composition of the microbial populations attached to it, in comparison to the bulk soil crust microbiome by means of high-throughput 16S rRNA sequencing. We did this in two M. vaginatus-dominated biocrust from distinct desert biomes. We found that a small, selected subset of OTUs was significantly enriched in close proximity to M. vaginatus. Furthermore, we also found that a majority of bacteria (corresponding to some two thirds of the reads) were significantly more abundant away from this cyanobacterium. Phylogenetic placements suggest that all typical members of the cyanosphere were copiotrophs and that many were diazotrophs (Additional file 1: Tables S2 and S3). Nitrogen fixation genes were in fact orders of magnitude more abundant in this cyanosphere than in the bulk biocrust soil as assessed by qPCR. By contrary, competition for light, CO 2, and low organic carbon concentrations defined at least a part of the OTUs segregating from the cyanobacterium. Conclusions: We showed that M. vaginatus acts as a significant spatial organizer of the biocrust microbiome. On the one hand, it possesses a compositionally differentiated cyanosphere that concentrates the nitrogen-fixing function. We propose that a mutualism based on C for N exchange between M. vaginatus and copiotrophic diazotrophs helps sustains this cyanosphere and that this consortium constitutes the true pioneer community enabling the colonization of nitrogen-poor soils. On the other hand, a large number of biocrust community members segregate away from the vicinity of M. vaginatus, potentially through competition for light or CO 2 , or because of a preference for oligotrophy.
Published - Apr 3 2019
Plant Roots
Biocrust
Cyanosphere
Diazotrophs
Microcoleus vaginatus
Microbiology (medical)
Couradeau, E., Giraldo-Silva, A., De Martini, F., & Garcia-Pichel, F. (2019). Spatial segregation of the biological soil crust microbiome around its foundational cyanobacterium, Microcoleus vaginatus, and the formation of a nitrogen-fixing cyanosphere. Microbiome, 7(1), [55]. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-019-0661-2
Spatial segregation of the biological soil crust microbiome around its foundational cyanobacterium, Microcoleus vaginatus, and the formation of a nitrogen-fixing cyanosphere. / Couradeau, Estelle; Giraldo-Silva, Ana; De Martini, Francesca; Garcia-Pichel, Ferran.
In: Microbiome, Vol. 7, No. 1, 55, 03.04.2019.
Couradeau, E, Giraldo-Silva, A, De Martini, F & Garcia-Pichel, F 2019, 'Spatial segregation of the biological soil crust microbiome around its foundational cyanobacterium, Microcoleus vaginatus, and the formation of a nitrogen-fixing cyanosphere', Microbiome, vol. 7, no. 1, 55. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-019-0661-2
Couradeau E, Giraldo-Silva A, De Martini F, Garcia-Pichel F. Spatial segregation of the biological soil crust microbiome around its foundational cyanobacterium, Microcoleus vaginatus, and the formation of a nitrogen-fixing cyanosphere. Microbiome. 2019 Apr 3;7(1). 55. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-019-0661-2
Couradeau, Estelle ; Giraldo-Silva, Ana ; De Martini, Francesca ; Garcia-Pichel, Ferran. / Spatial segregation of the biological soil crust microbiome around its foundational cyanobacterium, Microcoleus vaginatus, and the formation of a nitrogen-fixing cyanosphere. In: Microbiome. 2019 ; Vol. 7, No. 1.
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Looking for a Job in Japan
Relying on Recruiters to Find a Job in Japan or Overseas
Interview with a Internship Provider and Founder in Tokyo
Interview with a Recruiter in Japan
Recruiting Seminars in Asia and Hiring in Japan of Foreigners
Working at a Staffing Company as Haken or Temp Worker in Japan
Working for Startups in Japan
Bilingual Job Boards in Japan - Looking for Jobs based on Your Language Ability
Hiring in Tokyo for Bilingual Roles
Interview with a Recruiter in IT and Sales Covering Asia and Japan
An interview with Verena Hopp, Founder of Internship Japan, an internship NPO in Japan
English: http://www.myeyestokyo.com/13811
Japanese: http://www.myeyestokyo.jp/53330
The Internship Japan Team
https://www.internshipjapan.org
Is there a typical profile yet of interns that companies are looking for?
Well, you could say so. That magical stereotyped (and almost not existing) truly bilingual Japanese + English native is sought after tremendously. News everybody – we hardly ever have that and if we do, those people know how popular they are. The majority of internship seekers we deal with are young foreigners eager to experience Japan. Sure it depends, but their Japanese is usually not superb. They come here to learn, not to be perfect. :)
What information are companies looking for about prospective foreign interns?
If foreign companies, absolutely their language abilities. You could rate that as Number One. Next would be the nationality concerning visa regulations and the places they have lived so far representing the “market(s)” they probably know well about. This regional knowledge is sought after. Their field of studies, talents, goals and educational background is of great interest too. And not to forget – if they are interested in being hired full-time later on.
What is the biggest challenge you think companies face to set up an intern program for foreigners?
We must differentiate here. Most foreign companies in Japan take foreign interns. Most Japanese companies do not. Guess why? The language barrier, followed by the visa regulations and gray areas concerning the non-existing (not only but mainly) legal definition of an internship. To teach them about it is the mission of Internship Japan, as well as to change what is not ideal yet.
A Japanese company with an almost entirely Japanese staff or a few foreigners who have been educated IN Japan (= the Japanese way) usually does not know what an “internship” is. They either think of that years-long program authorized by the government, which has been criticized for exploitation and having little to do with education, or the few days to 2 weeks period Japanese students spend in companies pretty much just being in the way. The biggest challenge is for them to understand what a real internship – as the outer world understands it – means. Second, visa, culture and language issues. Third, compensation, insurance, legal questions.
Compared with the Japanese youth, the foreign youth is usually ready and eager to even lead projects and work rather independently. Most are still students and have to go back to their universities. Compared to that, Japanese new graduates who just entered a Japanese company are hardly doing anything independently it seems. I myself felt totally lost when I entered a Japanese company. I was told to “katte ni shinaide” – “don’t do (anything) on your own”. That meant that I had nothing to do! My colleagues did not know what they would be allowed to make me do, so I was free. That lead me to creating my own job and now I am the busy founder of an NPO born in exactly this period.
I came from Germany to Japan. We were raised to do anything independently, decide small- medium things ourselves and take the responsibility. International companies in Japan or simply those with a non-Japanese management know what internships are. They are concerned about the visa, compensation and the like, but those questions can be answered quickly and the internship process rolls forward smoothly.
What are the benefits for companies of accepting foreign interns?
Look at our website where it is beautifully defined in Japanese and English.
https://www.internshipjapan.org/en/internships-in-japan/internships-value-add
LIfe Sciences Companies in Japan : Both Foreign and Domestic
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Dordogne Prestige en Vélo
Burgundy Prestige en Vélo
The Belle France guide to the new French Regions
In January 2016 the Assemblée Nationale of France adopted 13 new administrative regions, down from the previous 22. The Parliament's aim was to reduce costs and simplify bureaucracy.
We've pulled together this infographic to help explain the changes:
Before the 13 new regions came into effect, the country was divided into 22 administrative regions. These administrative regions shouldn't be confused with the traditional historical or cultural regions which each have their own cuisine, character and traditions.
So what's changed?
6 regions have remained the as they were:
There are now 7 new regions formed of:
Alsace, Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine become Grand-Est
Aquitaine, Limousin and Poitou-Charentes become Nouvelle Aquitaine
Auvergne and Rhône-Alpes merge
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté merge
Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées become Occitanie
Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardie are combined into Hauts-de-France
Basse-Normandie and Haute-Normandie are combined into Normandie
What happens to the regional administrative centres where the regions have changed?
7 remain the same:
Rennes remains the capital of Bretagne
Ajaccio is still the capital of Corse
Orleans continues to be the Centre's capital
Île-de-France, naturally has Paris as it's administrative center
Nantes is the capital of Pays de la Loire
Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur has Marseille as it's capital
Strasbourg was made capital of the Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine region in January 2015
Yet to be ratified, are the capitals for the following regions:
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes - Lyon
Normandie - Rouen
Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie - Lille
Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes - Bordeaux
Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées - Toulouse
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté - Dijon
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Was Rolling Stones Co-Founder Brian Jones Murdered?
Roger Jackson, Central Press, Hulton Archive, Getty Images
Brian Jones' daughter has joined a slowly building chorus who are suspicious about the circumstances surrounding the Rolling Stones co-founder's death.
"I think he was murdered, and I think the police did not investigate it the way they should have," Barbara Marion recently told Sky News on the 50th anniversary of her father's death. "I would love to have them reopen [the case] and to get some answers."
Jones was fired by the band a few weeks before being found drowned in his pool on July 3, 1969. The Rolling Stones had already moved on, officially announcing the addition of Mick Taylor earlier in June. But the new guitarist's official debut, at a free concert held on July 5, 1969, at Hyde Park in London, ended up becoming a tribute to Jones.
Later, a coroner said Jones drowned while under the influence of alcohol and drugs; his official report labeled the tragedy as "death by misadventure." But others weren't so sure.
The 1994 book Brian Jones: Who Killed Christopher Robin? made the best-known earliest accusation of murder. Writer Terry Rawlings specifically accused Frank Thorogood, a contractor who was at Jones' house that night.
Tensions between Jones and his employee apparently turned violent during a shared swim, Rawlings alleged. Paint It Black: The Murder of Brian Jones, by Geoffrey Guiliano, also reported a deathbed admission from Thorogood to the Rolling Stones' former road manager Tom Keylock in 1993. "It was me that did Brian. I just finally snapped," Rawlings said Thorogood admitted.
Sussex Police declined to reopen the investigation at the time, only offering to "review Jones' death" after a treasure trove of internal documents was released in 2009.
New information – and new allegations – continued to trickle out.
Janet Lawson, Keylock's girlfriend, told journalist Scott Jones that she saw Jones and Thorogood in the pool, and that Thorogood later re-entered the house shaking badly. "When I saw Brian on the bottom of the pool and was calling for help," she later argued, "Frank initially did nothing."
Former Jones girlfriend Anna Wohlin, the third official attendee at this fatal party, wondered aloud "if Frank meant to kill Brian" during a 2013 interview with the Mirror. "Maybe it was horseplay in the pool that went wrong. But I knew all along he did not die a natural death. I'm still sure of it."
At the time, Thorogood, Lawson and Wohlin each told police that they had left the pool and retreated to separate parts of Jones' estate before he drowned. "Frank was not doing the building work properly," Lawson said, shortly before her death. "Brian had sacked him that day. There was something in the air. Frank was acting strangely, throwing his weight around a bit."
A 2014 update of Who Killed Christopher Robin? was said to have proved the late Keylock's presence at the party, via a videotaped interview. For Rawlings, that decisively established a conspiracy: Keylock had reportedly long asserted that he was away from the house on an errand for Keith Richards.
Jones "was definitely murdered and there was a cover-up," Rawlings told Mojo back then. "It's not a crackpot theory; it's what happened."
Blame for the alleged murder has also instead been placed on Keylock, both by Guiliano and in an independent investigation apparently sanctioned by Stones manager Allen Klein.
Sussex police said they continue to receive "messages or reports from journalists and other individuals about the death," in a new statement to NME. "Each is considered on its individual merits and reviewed wherever appropriate." So far, officials said "no new evidence has emerged to suggest that the coroner's original verdict of 'death by misadventure' was incorrect. The case has not been reopened, and there are no plans for that to happen."
Marion, who reportedly only discovered her father's identity in 2002, said she came to the conclusion that Jones was murdered based on her "own research."
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How to Handle Critters in Your Yard (Hint: Not with a Thermos)
Leslie Burger, Mississippi State University
I heard a local story of a man who, in his excitement to kill a rattlesnake, used the only thing he had available ? his thermos bottle. The next scene in this drama has the man in the hospital receiving anti-venom to treat a snake bite.
Encounters with wildlife are becoming more common in towns and neighborhoods as urbanization increases, and people often do not know what to do in these situations. Many species of urban wildlife, such as butterflies, bees, beetles, lizards, bats, and most birds, are benign or even beneficial, helping to control mosquitoes, pollinate flowers and trees, recycle nutrients, and provide many other hidden ecological services.
But there can be also some associated health concerns, as some species bring the risk of parasites or disease. For example, some snakes like rattlesnakes or copperheads can be venomous. Habitat loss to fragmentation, urbanization and expanding agricultural production means suburban and urban spaces will increasingly become options for wildlife searching for new homes. It is not just snakes, but also coyotes, foxes, raccoons, deer and even bears.
As a wildlife biologist and extension educator, my job is to help people more fully understand wildlife for the betterment of both people and animals. People generally enjoy wildlife. Renowned ecologist E. O. Wilson coined the term "Biophilia" (meaning "life fondness") to describe this seemingly inherent affinity humans have for natural life. Rather than being too friendly or overly fearful, people should be aware and respectful of wildlife that may be in their neighborhood.
What about those snakes?
Many people, like the thermos-wielding man in the opening story, may not realize that snakes are beneficial and that attacking them with a dangerous tool, much less a thermos, is increasing the likelihood that it will be scared and bite in self-defense. About 7,000 to 8,000 people are bitten each year by a venomous snake, but death from one is very rare.
While they might not have the charisma of a panda or polar bear, snakes serve an important role in the environment. They eat insect pests as well as rodents that can serve as vectors for parasites and infectious diseases like the plague that may be transmitted to humans. True, a venomous snake hanging around the backyard would be a situation for concern. But since only 20 of the estimated 127 species in North America are venomous, the probability of encountering a venomous snake is pretty low. Nevertheless, if a venomous snake does end up near a home, wisdom calls for keeping children and pets away until professional help arrives to remove the animal.
Not-so-adorable raccoons
Most people aren't worried about a cute raccoon eating out of the cat's outdoor food dish. However, that same animal could be a carrier for rabies, parasites, influenza, salmonella or other pathogens that are issues for people and household pets. Close proximity to people and pets is discouraged for all wildlife species, even the cute ones.
What about other critters?
If wildlife such as coyotes, deer or foxes do appear in the yard, the best option for a peaceful encounter is to give them space. When met by people, most wild animals, if not habituated to humans, will either escape the imminent danger humans pose or hunker down to hide until the coast is clear for them to leave. It is when people move in closer, whether intentionally to help or harm or accidentally through unawareness, that a wild animal will feel the need to defend itself physically. For the untrained person, it is always wisest to go inside and wait it out.
Homeowners who don't want any furry or scaly visitors should be mindful not to provide food or shelter. Secure outdoor trashcan lids, scoop up spilled seed at birdfeeders and remove outdoor pet food bowls that may attract these creatures. Stacks of firewood and piles of yard debris provide shelter to smaller critters, so if this is not your goal, consider alternatives.
In those instances where an unwanted guest does not move on, it is best for all involved to contact local wildlife experts for assistance rather than trying to handle the situation without help from those with proper training. Not only will this avert any unwanted injuries to people or animals, but it will also prevent any unintentional violations of the state and federal laws that protect most wildlife in the U.S.
What if you want some backyard wildlife?
Some folks want to create space for nature by offering the food, shelter, and water that animals are seeking. This option helps restore some of the functions and services that natural ecosystems provide. Bird feeders, pollinator plantings, (unchlorinated) water features, and native trees and shrubs can be artfully incorporated into landscaping to provide beauty and supply backyard habitats. This is supplemental support and is different from caring for wild animals as if they were domesticated. Deliberately feeding animals like squirrels, deer or raccoons can create a hazardous situation for people and wildlife, leading to increased risk of negative encounters, disease, and harm. This practice is not supported or encouraged by professional wildlife biologists.
Leslie Burger, Assistant Extension Professor of Wildlife, Fisheries & Aquaculture, Mississippi State University
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Cashless Bus Payments from Google & Equity Bank
Someone said that a matatu owner is the seventh or eighth person to get paid at the end of a busy day, only getting residual cash after the driver, turn boy, tout, tax man, council person, policeman, and sometimes the driver’s girlfriend have taken their cut. But on Tuesday, April 30, Google and Equity Bank unveiled BebaPay, a cashless way for commuters to pay for transport in buses in Kenya – and which propels owners right to the front of that queue.
The transport sector has many challenges and is known for some unpleasant habits like reckless driving, price hikes when it rains, bribing traffic police, ill-treatment of passengers, having unroadworthy vehicles etc. – but some investors who purchase the vehicles that can cost an average of Kshs. 4 million ($47,000) believe that a common thread behind these habits is the amount of liquid money that the sector generates and which is easily diverted to make many payments, even illegal ones.
BebaPay enables commuters to pay their fares by using a card, which is then tapped to a phone in the bus enabling exact payments (even small ones like Kshs 20 [~$0.25] to be deducted from the user’s card and uploaded into the owner’s accounts that are at Equity Bank.
Currently, many owners only get to know how much money they have earned at the end of the day, but with BebaPay they are able to monitor their cash receipts online or via Equity banks’ mobile phone platform – Eazzy247.
Another feature is that users who purchase & register cards will get SMS notifications each time the cards are used – and this can be useful for parents who send their kids to from school on public transport to track when and where their kids pay for transport using the card. Also, users can send money to people on buses to pay for transport, and the system will also link with M-pesa which is ubiquitous in Kenya.
Obtaining a free BebaPay card takes about 20 minutes at an Equity bank agent – this is to enable them to take down ID and Gmail details (even create a new one), and to create a BebaPay account in which a commuter inputs a password. This enables one to get an SMS notification each time the card is topped up and to monitor their card activity online.
Other Comments at the Launch
The Chairman of the Matatu Owner’s Association said he expects some resistance to the changes. He also called on the government to institute training for people who work in the sector and for legislation to eliminate cash payments for transport.
One vehicle owner said that gangs run bus stages in downtown Nairobi and have to get paid daily before a bus is allowed to stop & pick passengers.
The Equity Bank CEO said the public transport sector is the bigger consumer of notes & coins and that handling all that cash comes with costs & risks that can be eliminated with BebaPay.
The Deputy President of Kenya said cash-less payments that go directly into business people’s accounts will enable banks to lend based on cash flow, rather than collateral.
The two permanent secretaries (who currently double as acting ministers) both revealed their past unsuccessful attempts to invest in the matatu business.
The Nairobi Governor said that the government will train new traffic marshals to manage traffic at roundabouts which will create employment for the youth and free up policemen for other duties.
Every day, 1.5 million Google Android phones are activated and 1.5 million Kenyans use matatus.
Other Reading:
Bloomberg: Major banks in Sweden have stopped handling cash in many of their local branches as many people rely on credit cards, the Internet and mobile phones to make all their payments…bank notes are only used in about 20% of shop transactions.
The official Google Africa blog notes that BebaPay uses smart cards powered by Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, plus software from Google. The NFC technology means that payment can take place offline, even when there is no power or network connectivity.
Juuchini blog asks Is Kenya ready for public transport debit cards?
Quartz: It is becoming increasingly inaccurate to call Google an internet company and the free BebaPay app turns any NFC-enabled Android phone into a card reader, which means that shops, traders, and small businesses can use BebaPay to accept payments from customers, without needing expensive tills and cash registers.
Think M-Pesa: Is Google trying to replicate m-pesa?
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Huge population of YouTube copyright owners denied class action status
Class action against YouTube would create "Frankenstein monster," judge says.
Jon Brodkin - May 16, 2013 4:00 pm UTC
The same judge who handed Viacom another defeat in its copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube last month has denied class-action status to a huge population of video copyright owners whose works were posted on YouTube without their permission.
In a case running parallel to the infamous Viacom v. YouTube suit the English Premier League, French Tennis Federation, and various music publishers sued the Google-owned YouTube in 2007 "on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated," and in 2010 formally asked to be certified as a class. The proposed class would contain people or entities whose copyrighted work was posted on YouTube on or after April 15, 2005 without their permission.
To be eligible for the class victims of infringement must fall into one of two subclasses. One subclass would include victims of repeat infringers such as people who asked YouTube to take videos down but said videos either remained on the site or were taken down and then posted again. A second subclass would include just music publishers who were victims of copyright infringement on YouTube when the service "knew or should have known" about the infringement because of a notification from the copyright holder, "or because [YouTube] otherwise identified, tracked or monitored it, or could have identified it, including through tools offered to owners of sound recordings of musical compositions."
"A music publisher subclass is appropriate because of the prevalence of unlicensed copyrighted music on YouTube and defendants' knowing disregard for the rights of many music publishers," the plaintiffs said.
In a ruling yesterday (PDF) Judge Louis Stanton of US District Court in New York ripped these arguments to shreds. Stanton wrote that granting class action status to any copyright holder infringed by YouTube users would create a "Frankenstein monster posing as a class action." (Stanton borrowed the Frankenstein monster phrasing from a judge who made a similar ruling in a case involving stock traders 45 years ago.)
Each copyright case is unique, just like copyrights themselves
Stanton explained that granting class action status to such a large group of copyright holders would make the case unmanageable and that each instance of infringement is unique, making it inappropriate to treat them all as part of the same class.
"Plaintiffs offer no explanation of how the worldwide members of this proposed class are to be identified, how they are to prove copyright ownership by themselves or by their authorized agent, or how they will establish that defendants became aware of the specific video clips which allegedly infringed each of the potentially tens of thousands of musical compositions incorporated into specific videos," Stanton wrote. "Unless an exception applies, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act requires that YouTube have legal knowledge or awareness of the specific infringement, to be liable for it. Defendant YouTube does not generate infringing material: it offers a website on which others post video clips, some of which infringe material in copyrighted works."
Stanton went on to write that copyright claims are generally poor candidates for class action treatment because they have only superficial similarities. Beyond common traits like proving ownership of a copyright and that YouTube failed to remove a copyrighted work from the website, each case "must be resolved upon facts which are particular to that specific claim of infringement," he wrote.
Proving that YouTube willfully disregarded copyright requires individualized evidence that "a copyright holder gave notices containing sufficient information to permit the service provider to identify and locate the infringing material so that it would be taken down." The claims of any one plaintiff aren't typical of the claims of an entire class because "[b]y their very nature, copyrightable works of art are each unique, and what infringes one work will probably have no effect upon another." Each case must deal with questions of "title, assignment, waiver and fair use" that are better left to individual litigations.
"Thus, accumulation of all the copyright claims, and claimants into one action will not simplify or unify the process of their resolution, but multiply its difficulties over the normal one-by-one adjudications of copyright cases," Stanton wrote.
Economic need also can't justify class action status because "the availability of statutory damages is designed to give litigation value to each individual case."
Besides class action status being inappropriate, Stanton noted that he has already dealt with the issues raised by the copyright holders in his ruling in favor of YouTube in the Viacom case. "While Viacom claimed YouTube knew about specific infringing videos and failed to remove them, Viacom was unable to point to any specific examples of clips YouTube failed to remove despite knowing they were infringing," we wrote in describing that ruling.
The case involving the English Premier League and music publishers may not be over, though.
"Charles Sims, a lawyer for the plaintiffs at the law firm Proskauer Rose, said his clients were 'going to think about their options,' including asking the court for permission to appeal," Reuters reported yesterday.
The Premier League was originally joined by the National Music Publishers' Association in suing YouTube although that group settled with YouTube in 2011, Reuters noted. Plaintiffs still include music publishers such as Bourne Co, Cal IV Entertainment, Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, Edward B. Marks Music Company, Beinstock Publishing Company, Alley Music Corporation, X-Ray Dog Music, Music Force Media Group, and Sin-Drome Records.
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I like this judge.
jthillSmack-Fu Master, in training
> Each case must deal with questions of "title, assignment, waiver and fair use"
Oh, most excellent. I was worried that the unmanageability of the case was going to be enough to throw it out, but enough wasn't enough for the Judge, he marshalled _all_ the reasons.
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News: Museum of Contemporary Photography will Receive $20,000 NEA Award
June 1, 2015 at 12:00 pm by Matt Morris
by Matt Morris
June 1, 2015 May 28, 2015 Filed under:
Students from the Picture Me program with museum staff/Photo: Jacob Boll
The Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) at Columbia College Chicago will receive a $20,000 award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to aid MoCP’s Picture Me after-school photography mentorship program for high-school students. Picture Me develops Chicago teenagers as independent artists by cultivating skills to produce creativity. This aim coincides with NEA’s commitment for “advancing learning, fueling creativity, and celebrating the arts,” as Jane Chu, NEA chairman, puts it in the press release.
MoCP’s photography programs have been offered at three Chicago high schools for the past twelve years: Curie Metropolitan High School, Benito Juarez Community Academy and Nicholas Senn High School. About eighty students across these locations make up the Picture Me program, which runs approximately twenty-three weeks, Chaz Olajide, manager of marketing and communications at MoCP, explains in an email.
Students meet for five to nine hours each week where they receive “intensive instruction” and “are taught a strong foundation of technical skills,” Olajide adds. Putting instruction to practice, students have the opportunity to work independently on projects “to develop their creative voice and vision.” Picture Me is supplemented by museum visits and contact with guest artists and MoCP staff; students also look at and critique professional work. “This spring, students all created work based on photographs by seminal Chicago photographer Barbara Crane,” Olajide offers as an example. Picture Me concludes each spring with an exhibition called “Talking Back.” Held in the MoCP galleries, this exhibition features key works by program participants; students also have the opportunity to help edit and design the display of their work.
Given the variety this program offers, how will the awarded funds be allocated? Olajide says, “This funding will make it possible to more deeply enrich our students’ educational experience through visiting artists, field trips to cultural institutions, and the purchase of arts supplies and equipment, including cameras.”
MoCP’s $20,000 award is one of more than a thousand that the NEA will distribute throughout the U.S. during this funding period. According to Chu, “funding these new projects like the one from the Museum of Contemporary Photography represents an investment in both local communities and our nation’s creative vitality.” Indeed it does. “MoCP is embedded in [the] diverse cultural fabric of Chicago and adheres to values stated in the 2012 City of Chicago’s Cultural Plan: that all Chicagoans should have access to rich artistic experiences,” Olajide concludes. (Amy Haddad)
Exhibiting a Lesser-Known Pioneer of Contemporary Photography: A Review of "Picture Fiction; Kenneth Josephson and Contemporary… A survey of the pioneering, Chicago-based experimental photographer includes his work alongside the work of his peers.
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Fluid Bodies, Still Pictures: A Review of Disruptive Perspectives at the Museum of Contemporary Photography Photographs portraying touching moments of queer intimacy.
Beyond Black Panther, Artists Imagine Alternative Worlds: A Review of “In Their Own Form” at the Museum of Contemporary Photography Fourteen artists fashion images of Afrofuturism, bringing together African mythologies, science fiction, technology and mysticism together in a diverse an aesthetic and philosophical movement.
When the Personal Is Political, and Vice Versa: A Review of “The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold: Art, Identity & Politics” at the Museum… A lesser-known flaneur of mass media (and a longtime Chicagoan) makes constructions that bring personal and cultural intersections into view.
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Biologicals and bone loss
Willem F Lems1
Inflammatory joint diseases like rheumatoid arthritis (RA), as well as other rheumatic conditions such as ankylosing spondylitis and systemic lupus erythematosus, comprise a heterogeneous group of joint disorders that are all associated with extra-articular side effects, including bone involvement. Disease activity, immobility and treatment with glucocorticoids are the main factors that increase the risk of osteoporotic fractures, on top of the background fracture risk based on, amongst others, age, body mass index and gender. It is thought that the pathogenesis of both peri-articular and generalized osteoporosis and local bone erosions share common pathways. This hypothesis has been strengthened by the discovery that osteoclasts, stimulated mostly by the receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa B ligand (RANKL) pathway, play a central role in all of these processes.
Generalized bone loss has been documented in cross-sectional studies: a 2-fold increase in osteoporosis, defined as a T-score <-2.5 in females and Z-score <-1 was found in 394 postmenopausal RA-patients and 192 male RA-patients [1]. Before the introduction of biologicals, a high bone loss was also observed in a longitudinal study in early RA: -2.4% at the spine and -4.3% at the trochanter [2]. Against that background, it is relevant that we investigated whether treatment with anti-TNF-α prevents loss of bone mineral density at the spine and hip (generalized) and in the hands (local) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and during anti-TNF treatment [3]. 102 patients with active RA, who were treated with infliximab during one year, were included into this open cohort study. The BMD of the spine and hip was unchanged during treatment with infliximab, whereas BMD of the hand decreased significantly by 0.8% (p < 0.001). The BMD of the hip in patients with an EULAR good response showed a favorable change compared with patients not achieving such a response. This is a proof that the usually occurring generalized bone loss in patients with RA can be arrested by the use of aggressive antirheumatic drugs, such as anti-TNF.
Next to BMD changes upon anti-TNF, we investigated the changes in bone markers, to elucidate the underlying mechanism of the favourable effect of anti-TNF. Bone formation was measured by osteocalcin (OC) and bone resorption was determined by b-isomerized carboxy terminal telopeptide of type 1 collagen (b-CTx); osteoclast regulating proteins including the soluble receptor activator of Nfκb (s-RANKL) and osteoprotegerin (OPG) were determined in serum using an ELISA from Immun-diagnostik. Serum β-CTx and RANKL were both significantly decreased compared to baseline at all time points. The decrease in β-CTx was associated to the decrease in DAS-28 and CRP during the 0 to 14 weeks interval. No changes were observed in serum osteocalcin and OPG. These data on bone mineral density emphasizes that the arrested bone loss at the spine and hips can be described to a large extent to a decrease in disease activity.
Later on, it was also shown that bone loss could be arrested in RA-patient treated with adalimumab [4], and the favourable effects of anti-TNF on bone markers were also observed during treatment with rituximab [5].
Haugeberg G, Uhlig T, Falch JA, Halse JI, Kvien TK: Bone mineral density and frequency of osteoporosis in female patients with rheumatoid arthritis: results from 394 patients in the Oslo County Rheumatoid Arthritis register. Arthritis Rheum. 2000, 43: 522-530. 10.1002/1529-0131(200003)43:3<522::AID-ANR7>3.0.CO;2-Y.
Gough AK, Lilley J, Eyre S, Holder RL, Emery P: Generalised bone loss in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis. Lancet. 1994, 344: 23-27. 10.1016/S0140-6736(94)91049-9.
Vis M, Havaardsholm EA, Haugeberg G, Uhlig T, Voskuyl AE, van de Stadt RJ, Dijkmans BA, Woolf AD, Kvien TK, Lems WF: Evaluation of bone mineral density, bone metabolism, osteoprotegerin and receptor activator of the NFkappaB ligand serum levels during treatment with infliximab in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Ann Rheum Dis. 2006, 65: 1495-1499. 10.1136/ard.2005.044198.
Wijbrandts CA, Klaassen R, Dijkgraaf MG, Gerlag DM, van Eck-Smit BL, Tak PP: Bone mineral density in rheumatoid arthritis therapy: arrest of bone loss. Ann Rheum Dis. 2009, 68 (3): 373-6. 10.1136/ard.2008.091611.
Wheater G, Hogan VE, Teng YK, Tekstra J, Lafeber FP, Huizinga TW, Bijilsma JW, Francis RM, Tuck SP, Datta HK, van Laar JM: Suppression of bone turnover by B-cell depletion in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Osteoporos Int. 2011, 12: 3067-3072.
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Cherryade
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At a time when you thought pop music is dying, Ed Sheeran has eaten the charts and tropical house rules the airwaves, Cherryade are the pop car crash that you always dreamed of. Having met as childhood friends at a Catholic school plagued by a paedophile priest, Ella and Alex knew that they were destined for greater things. Fleeing to London, they met an array of strange men on the internet who transformed their catchy iPhone demos to massive pop masterpieces.
However, it wasn’t always smooth sailing for the pair! In fact, their first London studio session was delayed due to the producer apparently overdosing in a bath the night before. He didn’t die though, and proceeded to pester them with dick pics to try win them back again.
After dodging that bullet, they powered on through to work with the legendary Ant Whiting (M.I.A., John Newman), Lewis Gardiner (PRIDES, KLOE) and Dimitri Tikovoi (Charli XCX, MNEK) ), with their first releases racking up an abundance of support from the likes of PopJustice, CLASH, DIY Magazine, NYLON, Wonderland, BBC Radio 1, BBC Introducing and more.
Despite the success it’s still been a bumpy road for the pair, having recorded an Avicii cover version for a Coca Cola campaign and been rejected (“I had tonsillitis and the original song was shit”), and also by Charli XCX (“She was interested and then pissed off to LA and never rearranged our meeting”).
Against all odds, Cherryade are looking to break the popstar mould and be true artists in their own right. “It’s hard being frumpy and a popstar, nevermind being a quarter Chinese”, said Ella. Alex agrees: “It’s a struggle being white, middle class and ginger - I’m constantly living in the shadow of Ed Sheeran”.
With a heightened pop sensibility and hatred of the word ‘sassy’ (“Please don’t use that fucking word again”), the duo draw inspiration from socio-political issues, pop culture, astrophysics, Lil’ Kim and reruns of South Park.
“Pop’s newest troublemakers are here.” – NYLON
“Punk-edged synth pop swiftly causing a stir online.” – CLASH
“Like dropping a berocca in a can of coke… a pop explosion impossible to contain.” – DIY
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Upon arrival at the airport in Phnom Penh and pickup by the tour guide who accompanies the transfer to the reserved hotel in the center. The Cambodian capital was once one of the most beautiful cities in Southeast Asia. Notwithstanding its recent, tragic story she has yet to receive much of its colonial charm. Wide avenues, yellow-colored buildings and several streets restaurants with inviting wicker furniture reflect the glorious past. It goes to – from 1866 originating – Royal Palace with its famous Silver Pagoda. Your name goes back to the 5000 heavy, silvery panels that adorn the floor inside. But the here shown Buddha statues made of gold, silver, bronze and crystal attract the attention of visitors. Further along the route is the impressive National Museum. It houses the world’s largest collection of Khmer art from the 4th to the 13th century. On display are numerous unique pieces that reflect the power of the Cambodian god-kings. Enjoy the afternoon on a boat trip on the Tonle Sap Lake and enjoy the beautiful sunset. Overnight in Phnom Penh.
Note: The hotel room will be available from about 14 clock. You can leave in the hotel luggage beforehand.
Day 02: Phnom Penh Kampong Cham – Stung Treng (B,L)
From the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, it goes northwards to Stung Treng. The way you will lighten the relatively long distance by several eventful stopovers. In Kampong Cham province, for example, the temple of Wat Nokor is visited, which is known for its beautiful murals. After a brief foray into the provincial capital and its typical markets, it proceeds to one of the many rubber tree plantations. During a guided tour can learn more about the management and the production of viscous, white liquid. Lunch will be served at a picnic. Once Stung Treng is reached, the terms of the hotel. Overnight at Stung Treng.
Day 03: Stung Treng – Kratie / Koh Trong (B,L)
In a local, lying near a market restaurant where breakfast is served. Then a visit to the project “Mekong Blue” takes place. As a local center of silk weaving, it provides work for disadvantaged young women in this isolated area. In an interesting tour of course also leaves some of the beautiful silk purchase as a souvenir, which bears the seal “UNESCO Seal of Excellence”. Later, the journey to the south continues. On the road to Kratie, a stay in the village of Sambo is on the program, where the shrine Wat Sorsor Mouy Roy to be visited. The so-called “100 Pillars Pagoda” (100-Pillar Pagoda) is an important historical and cultural monument and to the entwines the legend of a princess and a crocodile. The local young people like to play traditional musical instruments – an art that threatened to sink into oblivion after the Pol Pot time. The children are always the western visitors to show off their talents. After lunch magnificent scenic vistas are opened up along the Mekong. Because in Kampi – the best place to observe the rare Irrawaddy dolphins, a boat is once again climbed to arrive at the preferred places of the rare animals. As soon as the first dolphin has shown the engine is stopped, so that the passengers calmly on the animals can take in – and vice versa. This exciting trip will take approximately 1 to 1.5 hours to complete. Back in Kratie (the transfer time is around 30 minutes each).Take a local boat to Koh Trong in the afternoon is free, so that you can relax at the hotel or the small city can explore on your own. Overnight in Koh Trong.
Day 04: Kratie / Koh Trong (B,L)
After breakfast at the hotel you discover Koh Trong. This island lies in the middle of the Mekong Island is particularly typical of the Cambodian rural life, in which the security of existence is dependent on the income from rice and vegetable cultivation. Of course, visitors can also find times (depending on season) attempt at a pomelo fruit, which are particularly well thrive here. Sporty active or leisurely in a coach, you can explore the island. First, it goes to the temple of the island. A local farmer here has initiated a tree-planting project to reclaim the once covered with dense forest island. Everyone can help by planting your own tree, which is then carry a sign with the name of the founder here. In this way can be – as far away from the home – leave a very positive track in Cambodia. After this physical activity, relaxation is called for in a traditional Cambodian lunch or under one of the pomelo trees next to the river. Of course, the Vietnamese floating village is visited on the southern tip of the island. The evening is at leisure. Overnight in Koh Trong
Day 05: Kratie – Chhlong – Kampong Cham – Kampong Thom (B,L)
After the participants have strengthened with the hotel’s breakfast, drive south to Kampong Thom starts. Move a stopover in Chhlong is planned. The small town is reached after about 45 minutes and boasts numerous buildings from the French colonial era, which radiate a very special magic. Upon reaching Kampong Cham by further 2.5 hours, a local restaurant will be driven to take a delicious lunch. After a brief foray into the provincial capital with its colorful-busy market we continue to Kampong Thom, which is reached after about 2 hours. The rest of the day is at leisure to relax at the swimming pool or explore the provincial capital on their own. Overnight in Kampong Thom.
Optional: Luch (Price USD10/Pax).
Day 06: Kampong Thom – Sambor Prei Kuk – Siem Reap (B,L)
Once breakfast is served, is a ward of the rarely visited archaeological field Sambor Prei Kuk on the program. This sanctuary presents itself as one of the most important pre-Angkorian sites in the country and can be found on the list of potential cultural heritage, to be proposed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Sambor Prei Kuk was built in the Chenla era during the 6th and 7th century. With the help of the guide, it goes to the most interesting of the more than 100 well-preserved, scattered in the forest temple. The three major systems are connected by small shaded paths. During a walk through the jungle arise repeatedly breathtaking sights while even supported by visiting a regional tourism project: The seven villages in the area of the ruins still practicing their ancient craftsmanship, are processed in the materials such as bamboo and rattan. The products are sold by the municipality, among others in “Isanborei Craft Hut” as souvenirs. But even those who ordered a simple, tasty meal in the picnic huts lying here, contributing to the livelihood and future viability of the residents. After lunch we continue to Siem Reap, which after about 2.5 – is achieved 3 hours. The terms of the hotel is combined with some rest. The rest of the day is at leisure. Overnight in Siem Reap.
Day 07: Siem Reap (B)
After breakfast exploring Angkor Thom is provided. It is the last capital of the great empire of the Khmer during the reign of Jayavarman VII. The city is surrounded by an eight-meter high wall, whose sides are four meters long, thus resulting in a perfect square. But the ruins should not remain the only highlight: On the back of an elephant, it goes through the ancient South Gate, which is decorated in an impressive manner with stone-carved elephants and four giant faces. From here we continue to the Bayon temple, which rises exactly in the center of the former city. The masterpiece of the 12th century is famous for its 54 towers with enigmatic faces that should symbolize the 54 provinces of the Khmer Empire. Among the most important stages of exploring include the “Terrace of the Elephants” and the “Terrace of the Leper King,” the charm with intricately designed bas-reliefs. The tour begins with Ta Prohm – between the mid-12th and the late 13th century as a famous temple. Because after this shrine was rediscovered in the jungle, it was left in its original state – that is, in the firm grip of impressive giant trees and luxuriant climbing plants. This makes Ta Prohm one of the most photographed temple ruins of Angkor. In addition to the program is a visit of Banteay Kdei – a Buddhist monastery from the late 12th century and from Srah Srang, which once served as a water reservoir for ablutions. You then return to the hotel. In the afternoon, another highlight is on the program: Angkor Wat. The main temple of the archaeological field was built during the reign of King Suryavarman II in the early 12th century. Model for this was the Temple Mount Mount Meru as “home of the gods”. The walls inside are adorned with rock paintings and bas-reliefs or designs from Hindu mythology and the wars that led to the god-king. Above all, Angkor Wat is known for its legendary Apsara dancers famous: More than 2,000 of topless Himmelsbotinnen – half human and half divine – adorn the impressive sanctuary. Particularly attractively presents the temple at sunset, which rounds off the tour in a glorious way. After returning to the hotel is the evening free. Overnight in Siem Reap.
Day 08: Siem Reap – Departure (B)
After breakfast it comes at a typical boat on the Tonle Sap, the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia. Because it acts as a storage basin of the Mekong River, it can expand in the rainy season up to four times the area. With Kampong Phluck a typical village of stilt houses visited, where the locals live on and with the waters of the huge lake. But the floating houses and flooded forests bear witness to the fascinating, amphibious life of the Tonle Sap. Then it’s the purpose of the return or onward journey to the airport. (F)
Price per person in USD (private tour) 2 persons in double room 1 person in single room[nbsp](single traveller) Single room supplement
Hotel Category First Class 1.306 2.317 338
Note: During certain dates seasonal surcharges may apply, especially during Christmas, New Year and some nights from January to March 2016. Please inquire with us to find out whether this applies for your tour.
For rates for 3 or more travellers in one booking, pleaseinquire with our team.
• accommodation incl. breakfast (B)
As this is a private tour, you can depart on the day of your choosing and alter the daily sightseeing program to suit your interests. Inquire with our team to extend this tour or to combine it with our other programmes
Phnom Penh: Double Leaf Boutique Hotel *** (Superior)
Stung Treng: Golden River Hotel ** (River View)
Koh Trong: Rajabori Villas Resort **(*) – (Deluxe Fan)
Kampong Thom: Sambor Village Hotel **(*) – (Deluxe)
Siem Reap: Claremont Angkor Boutique Hotel *** – (Superior)
Phnom Penh: Villa Lanka Hotel *** (Superior)
Siem Reap: Pavillon D’Orient Boutique Hotel ***(*) (Deluxe)
Phnom Penh: White Mansion Boutique Hotel **** – Garden View
Stung Treng: Golden River Hotel ** – River View
Koh Trong: Rajabori Villas Resort **(*) – Deluxe Fan
Kampong Thom: Sambor Village Hotel **(*) – Deluxe
Siem Reap: Angkor Village Hotel **** (Deluxe)
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Loungin' w/ Kamaiyah
Source: Mass Appeal
“Chillin with my cousins in their playhouse in this player-ass hammock.” That’s how Kamaiyah described her visit to Mass Appeal Manor. Many artists pulled up to our secret location in Austin, Texas. Many attempted to lounge in the Hip Hop Hammock. (Shout out to Ugly God!) But if you ask Kamaiyah, none of them was really doin’ it right. Sometimes it takes a true player from Oakland to show folks how to lounge the real way. “I went from ‘How Does it Feel To Be Rich' to being ‘Addicted to Ballin,’” Kamaiyah reflected, looking resplendent in her Afrocentric headband and Black College hoodie. Her inspiration to reach this far in the rap game? Tupac of course. “Everything he said to read I read," she says. "Everything he told me to do, I did. That’s why I got so much respect for myself. Cause he respected me as a black woman. Twenty years later you got Kamaiyah in a hammock because of Tupac.” Check out the latest episode of Loungin’ right now.
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s“Now fear the Lord and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”
Joshua 24:14-15
Joshua gathered all the leaders of all the people of Israel to remind and encourage them. He was a leader who modeled decision making and responsibility. He spoke plainly about the options and drew out a line in the sand. He made the decision clear. And Joshua did not leave those around him guessing where he stood.
A man who stands for everything stands for nothing. Joshua was not that man. He decisively picked a direction and took responsibility for it. Consider what spiritual stance you take in your daily life and how you model that to those around you. Inspire others to make a decision by making yours. Live your faith out in a way that leads others.
DO THIS TODAY: Model what you stand for.
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All we are asking, is give Gen Xers a chance
Bob Collins October 26, 2016, 1:49 PM Oct 26, 2016
Baby boomers were pampered and privileged and ushered toward a sure-to-be-glorious future. It didn’t work out, the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank insists. AP File
There’s nothing we don’t like more than a good indictment of the Baby Boomer generation, which the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank, age 48, provides with a spirited indictment of the leadership qualities of the generation that spawned him.
“Hopefully, when Gen X comes to power it will repudiate the boomers and the entire legacy of this style of politics and move us toward something that is more pragmatic,” a political strategist tells him in his column today.
Trust me. Been there. Done that. Got the souvenir compression socks.
Baby Boomers, the same crowd that put ABBA in the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame, thank you very much, will probably put up some sort of spirited defense. But there’s one problem with trying: Milbank has a point.
They gave us the financial collapse of 2008, the worst economy since the Great Depression, a crushing federal debt and worse inequality. They devoured fossil fuels and did little about global warming while allowing infrastructure and research to deteriorate.
They expanded entitlement programs and are now poised to bankrupt those programs. Their leadership has led to declining confidence in religion, the presidency, Congress, the Supreme Court, banks and big business, schools, the media and the police. They may leave their children (the millennials) worse off than they were.
Boomers, coddled in their youth, grew up selfish and unyielding. When they got power, they created polarization and gridlock from both sides. Though Vietnam War-protesting boomers got the attention, their peers on the right were just as ideological, creating the religious right.
Boomers are twice as likely to identify as conservative than liberal, a figure that hasn’t changed much in two decades. And Trump captures his generation’s selfishness: his multiple draft deferrals, his claim that he’s “made a lot of sacrifices” by erecting buildings, his vow to have huge tax cuts and massive military investments.
Milbank says there’s good news. Gen Xers, which he calls the cleanup crew, could take control of Congress by 2018. Then you’ll see. Because, he says, while Boomers are idealists — “same as the generations that led the United States into the Civil War and the Great Depression, Gen Xers are reactive — cynical and pragmatic.”
It’s going to be a snap. Just wait.
Baby Boomers Gen X
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YMCA to Boomers: ‘Get out’
The Worst Generation
The case against Baby Boomers
“MPR is a constant in my life. I come to work informed and ready to go for the day.” —Ginger from Stillwater, MN
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President’s Updates
Forward Thinking
Explore Blog
Success Story: Pioneering international partnership matures
Jan 30, 2019 | Intercom, Student News
Faculty and administrators from a Chinese technical school traveled to NMC for training earlier this month, another milestone in a one-of-a-kind international partnership that is now rounding the midpoint of its first stage.
NMC and the Yellow River Conservancy Technical Institute have an agreement under which NMC instructors teach construction and marine technology classes to three cohorts of Chinese students in China. The first cohort of about 50 earned their NMC degrees in spring 2018, the first time a community college had delivered a technical, applied program internationally.
The second cohort will wrap up this spring. After the third cohort completes in 2020, NMC will consider whether and how to move forward with student exchanges.
“These first three years, we’re just focusing on getting this initial delivery done, so we can build toward what it would take to have our students going there, or perhaps their students going here.” said Hans Van Sumeren, director of NMC’s Great Lakes Water Studies Institute. “This has never been done. It’s kind of like going to the moon, but we’re just orbiting the Earth a few times first.”
Key to advancing the partnership is joint professional development. On this month’s orbital pass, Yellow River instructors visited NMC’s Aero Park campus for training on marine technology and construction technology equipment.
On the marine technology side, Yellow River recently purchased the same underwater ROV that NMC owns for their campus in Kaifeng, China. NMC instructors will be able to use the ROV when they return to China in April for the fourth of six planned instructional delivery sessions.
NMC facilitated shipment of equipment within China for the previous cohort. Yellow River is also investing in sonar equipment and software. Instructors will return to Traverse City in June for additional training.
“They are really taking our support and building out a degree,” said Van Sumeren. He added that NMC’s new land surveying degree, offered beginning this fall, was informed by Yellow River. The Institute has the largest surveying program in China.
“Building an international team like this, we’re able to broaden our perspective,” Van Sumeren said. “We’re highly focused on integrating the land component into our degree to make much stronger graduates, industry-ready.”
On the construction side, the Chinese group was introduced to both hand and power tools used in basic carpentry.
“Most of their equipment all has to do with concrete,” said Dan Goodchild, Construction Technology coordinator.
Instructor Brian Sweeney will make his third trip to China this spring to teach construction courses. He says the challenge of teaching internationally has made him a better teacher at NMC.
“I go with the assumption they will not understand anything I say. Everything has to be presented visually or hands-on,” said Sweeney, who teaches in English with the support of a team of four interpreters.
That habit has translated back to his classes in Traverse City.
“I put a lot more pictures in my presentations, because that seems to be the best way to transmit information,” Sweeney said.
NMC began the partnership with Yellow River in 2012 as part of the strategic directions determined by the college Board of Trustees to prepare learners for success in a global society, establish international competencies in the area of freshwater and deliver learning through a networked workforce.
*Cancelled due to weather* Healthy Cooking Demo Feb. 12
Jan 29, 2019 | Student News
Join Oryana & NMC Student Life for an interactive cooking demo Tuesday, February 12, 5:30 p.m. at the Hawk Owl Cafe. Sample healthy ingredients & learn basic knife skills.
Sex Trivia Night Feb. 5
Join NMC Student Life & Residence Life for team trivia on Tuesday February 5 at 6 p.m. in the East Hall Basement. Bring a team, or join a team, to enjoy dinner and an interactive night of fun (and funny) trivia.
President’s Update for January 28, 2019
Jan 29, 2019 | Intercom, President's Updates
Thank you all for everything you do in pursuit of “Keeping Learning at the Center.”
Notable Accomplishments provided by Faculty and Staff
This section recognizes the good work being done and linkages to the Strategic Directions (SD) and Institutional Effectiveness Criteria (IE) are provided where possible. (more…)
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This article is about the cereal grain. For other uses, see Maize (disambiguation).
"Corn" redirects here. For other uses, see Corn (disambiguation).
In British English "corn" means any cereal.
Illustration depicting both male and female flowers of maize
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Tribe: Andropogoneae
Genus: Zea
Species: Z. mays
Subspecies: Z. mays subsp. mays
Trinomial name
Zea mays subsp. mays
Maize (/ˈmeɪz/ MAYZ; Zea mays subsp. mays, from Spanish: maíz after Taíno mahiz), known in some English-speaking countries as corn, is a large grain plant domesticated by indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica in prehistoric times. The leafy stalk produces ears which contain the grain, which are seeds called kernels. Maize kernels are used in cooking as a starch. The Olmec and Mayans cultivated it in numerous varieties throughout Mesoamerica, cooked, ground or processed through nixtamalization. Beginning about 2500 BC, the crop spread through much of the Americas.[1] The region developed a trade network based on surplus and varieties of maize crops. After European contact with the Americas in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, explorers and traders carried maize back to Europe and introduced it to other countries. Maize spread to the rest of the world because of its ability to grow in diverse climates. Sugar-rich varieties called sweet corn are usually grown for human consumption, while field corn varieties are used for animal feed and as chemical feedstocks.
Maize is the most widely grown grain crop throughout the Americas,[2] with 332 million metric tons grown annually in the United States alone. Approximately 40% of the crop — 130 million tons — is used for corn ethanol.[3] Genetically modified maize made up 85% of the maize planted in the United States in 2009.[4]
1 Words for maize
2 Structure and physiology
4 Breeding
4.1 Genetic modification
5 Origin
6.2 Quantity
7 Pests
7.1 Insects
7.2 Diseases
8.1 Human food
8.2 Alternative medicine
8.3 Chemicals
8.4 Bio-fuel
8.5 Ornamental and other uses
8.6 Fodder
8.7 Commodity
8.8 U.S. usage breakdown
9 Comparison to other staple foods
10 Hazards
10.1 Pellagra
10.2 Allergy
Words for maize
Many small male flowers make up the male inflorescence, called the tassel.
The word maize derives from the Spanish form of the indigenous Taíno word for the plant, maiz.[5] It is known by other names around the world.
Corn outside North America, Australia, and New Zealand means any cereal crop, its meaning understood to vary geographically to refer to the local staple.[6][7] In the United States,[6] Canada,[8] Australia, and New Zealand,[citation needed] corn primarily means maize; this usage started as a shortening of "Indian corn".[6] "Indian corn" primarily means maize (the staple grain of indigenous Americans), but can refer more specifically to multicolored "flint corn" used for decoration.[9]
In places outside North America, Australia, and New Zealand, corn often refers to maize in culinary contexts. The narrower meaning is usually indicated by some additional word, as in sweet corn, dent corn, corn on the cob, popcorn, corn flakes, baby corn.
In Southern Africa, maize is commonly called mielie (Afrikaans) or mealie (English).[10]
Maize is preferred in formal, scientific, and international usage because it refers specifically to this one grain, unlike corn, which has a complex variety of meanings that vary by context and geographic region.[7] Maize is used by agricultural bodies and research institutes such as the FAO and CSIRO. National agricultural and industry associations often include the word maize in their name even in English-speaking countries where the local, informal word is something other than maize; for example, the Maize Association of Australia, the Indian Maize Development Association, the Kenya Maize Consortium and Maize Breeders Network, the National Maize Association of Nigeria, the Zimbabwe Seed Maize Association. However, in commodities trading, corn consistently refers to maize and not other grains.[citation needed]
Structure and physiology
The maize plant is often 2.5 m (meters) (8 ft) in height, though some natural strains can grow 12 m (40 ft).[11] The stem has the appearance of a bamboo cane and is commonly composed of 20 internodes of 18 cm (7 in) length.[12][13] A leaf grows from each node, which is generally 9 cm (3.5 in) in width and 120 cm (4 ft) in length.
Ears develop above a few of the leaves in the midsection of the plant, between the stem and leaf sheath, elongating by[citation needed] ~ 3 mm/day, to a length of 18 cm (7 in) (60 cm/24 in being the maximum observed in the subspecies [14]). They are female inflorescences, tightly enveloped by several layers of ear leaves commonly called husks. Certain varieties of maize have been bred to produce many additional developed ears. These are the source of the "baby corn" used as a vegetable in Asian cuisine.
The apex of the stem ends in the tassel, an inflorescence of male flowers. When the tassel is mature and conditions are suitably warm and dry, anthers on the tassel dehisce and release pollen. Maize pollen is anemophilous (dispersed by wind), and because of its large settling velocity, most pollen falls within a few meters of the tassel.
Elongated stigmas, called silks, emerge from the whorl of husk leaves at the end of the ear. They are often pale yellow and 7 in (178 mm) in length, like tufts of hair in appearance. At the end of each is a carpel, which may develop into a "kernel" if fertilized by a pollen grain. The pericarp of the fruit is fused with the seed coat referred to as "caryopsis", typical of the grasses, and the entire kernel is often referred to as the "seed". The cob is close to a multiple fruit in structure, except that the individual fruits (the kernels) never fuse into a single mass. The grains are about the size of peas, and adhere in regular rows around a white, pithy substance, which forms the ear (maximum size of kernel in subspecies is reputedly 2.5 cm/1 in [15]). An ear commonly holds 600 kernels. They are of various colors: blackish, bluish-gray, purple, green, red, white and yellow. When ground into flour, maize yields more flour with much less bran than wheat does. It lacks the protein gluten of wheat and, therefore, makes baked goods with poor rising capability. A genetic variant that accumulates more sugar and less starch in the ear is consumed as a vegetable and is called sweet corn. Young ears can be consumed raw, with the cob and silk, but as the plant matures (usually during the summer months), the cob becomes tougher and the silk dries to inedibility. By the end of the growing season, the kernels dry out and become difficult to chew without cooking them tender first in boiling water.
Female inflorescence, with young silk
Stalks, ears, and silk
Male flowers
Planting density affects multiple aspects of maize. Modern farming techniques in developed countries usually rely on dense planting, which produces one ear per stalk.[16] Stands of silage maize are yet denser,[17] and achieve a lower percentage of ears and more plant matter.
Maize is a facultative long-night plant [18] and flowers in a certain number of growing degree days > 10 °C (50 °F) in the environment to which it is adapted.[19] The magnitude of the influence that long nights have on the number of days that must pass before maize flowers is genetically prescribed[20] and regulated by the phytochrome system.[21] Photoperiodicity can be eccentric in tropical cultivars such that the long days characteristic of higher latitudes allow the plants to grow so tall that they do not have enough time to produce seed before being killed by frost. These attributes, however, may prove useful in using tropical maize for biofuels.[22]
Immature maize shoots accumulate a powerful antibiotic substance, 2,4-dihydroxy-7-methoxy-1,4-benzoxazin-3-one (DIMBOA). DIMBOA is a member of a group of hydroxamic acids (also known as benzoxazinoids) that serve as a natural defense against a wide range of pests, including insects, pathogenic fungi and bacteria. DIMBOA is also found in related grasses, particularly wheat. A maize mutant (bx) lacking DIMBOA is highly susceptible to attack by aphids and fungi. DIMBOA is also responsible for the relative resistance of immature maize to the European corn borer (family Crambidae). As maize matures, DIMBOA levels and resistance to the corn borer decline.
Because of its shallow roots, maize is susceptible to droughts, intolerant of nutrient-deficient soils, and prone to be uprooted by severe winds.[23]
Maize kernels
Maize plant diagram
Ear of maize with irregular rows of seeds
Exotic varieties of maize are collected to add genetic diversity when selectively breeding new domestic strains
Variegated maize ears
Full-grown maize plants
Mature maize ear on a stalk
Zea mays "strawberry" - MHNT
Many forms of maize are used for food, sometimes classified as various subspecies related to the amount of starch each has:
Flour corn — Zea mays var. amylacea
Popcorn — Zea mays var. everta
Dent corn — Zea mays var. indentata
Flint corn — Zea mays var. indurata
Sweet corn — Zea mays var. saccharata and Zea mays var. rugosa
Waxy corn — Zea mays var. ceratina
Amylomaize — Zea mays
Pod corn — Zea mays var. tunicata Larrañaga ex A. St. Hil.
Striped maize — Zea mays var. japonica
This system has been replaced (though not entirely displaced) over the last 60 years by multivariable classifications based on ever more data. Agronomic data were supplemented by botanical traits for a robust initial classification, then genetic, cytological, protein and DNA evidence was added. Now, the categories are forms (little used), races, racial complexes, and recently branches.
Maize is a diploid with 20 chromosomes (n=10). The combined length of the chromosomes is 1500 cM. Some of the maize chromosomes have what are known as "chromosomal knobs": highly repetitive heterochromatic domains that stain darkly. Individual knobs are polymorphic among strains of both maize and teosinte.
Barbara McClintock used these knob markers to validate her transposon theory of "jumping genes", for which she won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Maize is still an important model organism for genetics and developmental biology today.[24]
The Maize Genetics Cooperation Stock Center, funded by the USDA Agricultural Research Service and located in the Department of Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is a stock center of maize mutants. The total collection has nearly 80,000 samples. The bulk of the collection consists of several hundred named genes, plus additional gene combinations and other heritable variants. There are about 1000 chromosomal aberrations (e.g., translocations and inversions) and stocks with abnormal chromosome numbers (e.g., tetraploids). Genetic data describing the maize mutant stocks as well as myriad other data about maize genetics can be accessed at MaizeGDB, the Maize Genetics and Genomics Database.[25]
In 2005, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Energy (DOE) formed a consortium to sequence the B73 maize genome. The resulting DNA sequence data was deposited immediately into GenBank, a public repository for genome-sequence data. Sequences and genome annotations have also been made available throughout the project's lifetime at the project's official site, MaizeSequence.org.
Primary sequencing of the maize genome was completed in 2008.[26] On November 20, 2009, the consortium published results of its sequencing effort in Science.[27] The genome, 85% of which is composed of transposons, was found to contain 32,540 genes (By comparison, the human genome contains about 2.9 billion bases and 26,000 genes). Much of the maize genome has been duplicated and reshuffled by helitrons - group of rolling circle transposons.[28]
Maize breeding in prehistory resulted in large plants producing large ears. Modern breeding began with individuals who selected highly productive varieties in their fields and then sold seed to other farmers. James L. Reid was one of the earliest and most successful developing Reid's Yellow Dent in the 1860s. These early efforts were based on mass selection. Later breeding efforts included ear to row selection, (C. G. Hopkins ca. 1896), hybrids made from selected inbred lines (G. H. Shull, 1909), and the highly successful double cross hybrids using 4 inbred lines (D. F. Jones ca. 1918, 1922). University supported breeding programs were especially important in developing and introducing modern hybrids. (Ref Jugenheimer Hybrid Maize Breeding and Seed Production pub. 1958) by the 1930s, companies such as Pioneer devoted to production of hybrid maize had begun to influence long term development. Internationally important seed banks such as CIMMYT and the U.S. bank at Maize Genetics Cooperation Stock Center University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign maintain germplasm important for future crop development.
Genetic modification
Main article: Transgenic maize
Genetically modified (GM) maize is one of the 25 GM crops grown commercially in 2011.[29] Grown since 1997 in the United States and Canada, 86% of the US maize crop was genetically modified in 2010[30] and 32% of the worldwide maize crop was GM in 2011.[31] As of 2011, Herbicide-tolerant maize varieties are grown in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, El Salvador, the EU, Honduras, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, the Russian Federation, Singapore, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, and USA, and insect-resistant corn is grown in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Egypt, the EU, Honduras, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Romania, Russian Federation, South Africa, Switzerland, Taiwan, USA, and Uruguay.[32]
In September 2000, up to $50 million worth of Taco Bell's shells were recalled from its restaurants as well as supermarkets. The shells contained genetically modified corn that was unfit for human consumption by the Food and Drug Administration.
See also: Origin of maize and interaction with teosintes
A Tripsacum grass (big) and a teosinte (small)
Maize is the domesticated variant of teosinte.[33] The two plants have dissimilar appearance, maize having a single tall stalk with multiple leaves and teosinte being a short, bushy plant. The difference between the two is largely controlled by differences in just two genes.[33]
Several theories had been proposed about the specific origin of maize in Mesoamerica:[34][35]
It is a direct domestication of a Mexican annual teosinte, Zea mays ssp. parviglumis, native to the Balsas River valley in south-eastern Mexico, with up to 12% of its genetic material obtained from Zea mays ssp. mexicana through introgression.
It has been derived from hybridization between a small domesticated maize (a slightly changed form of a wild maize) and a teosinte of section Luxuriantes, either Z. luxurians or Z. diploperennis.
It has undergone two or more domestications either of a wild maize or of a teosinte. (The term "teosinte" describes all species and subspecies in the genus Zea, excluding Zea mays ssp. mays.)
It has evolved from a hybridization of Z. diploperennis by Tripsacum dactyloides.
In the late 1930s, Paul Mangelsdorf suggested that domesticated maize was the result of a hybridization event between an unknown wild maize and a species of Tripsacum, a related genus. This theory about the origin of maize has been refuted by modern genetic testing, which refutes Mangelsdorf's model and the fourth listed above.[34]:40
Guila Naquitz Cave, site of one of the oldest known remains of maize
The teosinte origin theory was proposed by the Russian botanist Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov in 1931 and the later American Nobel Prize-winner George Beadle in 1932.[34]:10 It is supported experimentally and by recent studies of the plants' genomes. Teosinte and maize are able to cross-breed and produce fertile offspring. A number of questions remain concerning the species, among them:
how the immense diversity of the species of sect. Zea originated,
how the tiny archaeological specimens of 3500–2700 BC could have been selected from a teosinte, and
how domestication could have proceeded without leaving remains of teosinte or maize with teosintoid traits earlier than the earliest known until recently, dating from ca. 1100 BC.
The domestication of maize is of particular interest to researchers — archaeologists, geneticists, ethnobotanists, geographers, etc. The process is thought by some to have started 7,500 to 12,000 years ago. Research from the 1950s to 1970s originally focused on the hypothesis that maize domestication occurred in the highlands between the states of Oaxaca and Jalisco, because the oldest archaeological remains of maize known at the time were found there. Genetic studies led by John Doebley identified Zea mays ssp. parviglumis, native to the Balsas River valley in Mexico's southwestern highlands, and also known as Balsas teosinte, as being the crop wild relative teosinte genetically most similar to modern maize.[36] However, archaeobotanical studies published in 2009 now point to the lowlands of the Balsas River valley, where stone milling tools with maize residue have been found in a 8,700-years old layer of deposits.[37][38][39] A primitive corn was being grown in southern Mexico, Central America, and northern South America 7,000 years ago. Archaeological remains of early maize ears, found at Guila Naquitz Cave in the Oaxaca Valley, date back roughly 6,250 years; the oldest ears from caves near Tehuacan, Puebla, date ca. 3,450 BC.[40] Little change occurred in ear form until ca. 1100 BC when great changes appeared in ears from Mexican caves: maize diversity rapidly increased and archaeological teosinte was first deposited.
Field of maize in Liechtenstein
Corn field panorama in Aliaga, Nueva Ecija, Philippines.
Perhaps as early as 2500 BC, maize began to spread widely and rapidly. It was first cultivated in what is now the United States, at several sites in New Mexico and Arizona, about 2100 BC.[41] As it was introduced to new cultures, new uses were developed and new varieties selected to better serve in those preparations. Maize was the staple food, or a major staple (along with squash, Andean region potato, quinoa, beans, and amaranth), of most pre-Columbian North American, Mesoamerican, South American, and Caribbean cultures. The Mesoamerican civilization was strengthened upon the field crop of maize, through harvesting it, its religious and spiritual importance and how it impacted their diet. Maize formed the Mesoamerican people's identity. During the first millennium AD, maize cultivation spread from Mexico into the U.S. Southwest and during the following millennium into the U.S. Northeast and southeastern Canada, transforming the landscape as Native Americans cleared large forest and grassland areas for the new crop.[citation needed]
Centeotl, the Aztec deity of maize
It is unknown what precipitated its domestication, because the edible portion of the wild variety is too small and hard to obtain to be eaten directly, as each kernel is enclosed in a very hard bivalve shell. However, George Beadle demonstrated that the kernels of teosinte are readily "popped" for human consumption, like modern popcorn. Some have argued it would have taken too many generations of selective breeding to produce large, compressed ears for efficient cultivation. However, studies of the hybrids readily made by intercrossing teosinte and modern maize suggest this objection is not well founded.
In 2005, research by the USDA Forest Service suggested that the rise in maize cultivation 500 to 1,000 years ago in what is now the southeastern United States corresponded with a decline of freshwater mussels, which are very sensitive to environmental changes.[42]
Seedlings three weeks after sowing
Young stalks
Because it is cold-intolerant, in the temperate zones maize must be planted in the spring. Its root system is generally shallow, so the plant is dependent on soil moisture. As a C4 plant (a plant that uses C4 carbon fixation), maize is a considerably more water-efficient crop than C3 plants (plants that use C3 carbon fixation) like the small grains, alfalfa and soybeans. Maize is most sensitive to drought at the time of silk emergence, when the flowers are ready for pollination. In the United States, a good harvest was traditionally predicted if the maize were "knee-high by the Fourth of July", although modern hybrids generally exceed this growth rate. Maize used for silage is harvested while the plant is green and the fruit immature. Sweet corn is harvested in the "milk stage", after pollination but before starch has formed, between late summer and early to mid-autumn. Field maize is left in the field very late in the autumn to thoroughly dry the grain, and may, in fact, sometimes not be harvested until winter or even early spring. The importance of sufficient soil moisture is shown in many parts of Africa, where periodic drought regularly causes maize crop failure and consequent famine. Although it is grown mainly in wet, hot climates, it has been said to thrive in cold, hot, dry or wet conditions, meaning that it is an extremely versatile crop.[43]
Mature plants showing ears
Maize was planted by the Native Americans in hills, in a complex system known to some as the Three Sisters. Maize provided support for beans, and the beans provided nitrogen derived from nitrogen-fixing rhizobia bacteria which live on the roots of beans and other legumes; and squashes provided ground cover to stop weeds and inhibit evaporation by providing shade over the soil.[44] This method was replaced by single species hill planting where each hill 60–120 cm (2.0–3.9 ft) apart was planted with three or four seeds, a method still used by home gardeners. A later technique was "checked maize", where hills were placed 40 inches (1.0 metre) apart in each direction, allowing cultivators to run through the field in two directions. In more arid lands, this was altered and seeds were planted in the bottom of 10–12 cm (3.9–4.7 in) deep furrows to collect water. Modern technique plants maize in rows which allows for cultivation while the plant is young, although the hill technique is still used in the maize fields of some Native American reservations.
A maize heap at the harvest site, India
In North America, fields are often planted in a two-crop rotation with a nitrogen-fixing crop, often alfalfa in cooler climates and soybeans in regions with longer summers. Sometimes a third crop, winter wheat, is added to the rotation.
Many of the maize varieties grown in the United States and Canada are hybrids. Often the varieties have been genetically modified to tolerate glyphosate or to provide protection against natural pests. Glyphosate is an herbicide which kills all plants except those with genetic tolerance. This genetic tolerance is very rarely found in nature.
In midwestern United States, low-till or no-till farming techniques are usually used. In low-till, fields are covered once, maybe twice, with a tillage implement either ahead of crop planting or after the previous harvest. The fields are planted and fertilized. Weeds are controlled through the use of herbicides, and no cultivation tillage is done during the growing season. This technique reduces moisture evaporation from the soil, and thus provides more moisture for the crop. The technologies mentioned in the previous paragraph enable low-till and no-till farming. Weeds compete with the crop for moisture and nutrients, making them undesirable.
Mature field maize ears
Before World War II, most maize in North America was harvested by hand. This involves a large numbers of workers and associated social events (husking or shucking bees). Some one- and two-row mechanical pickers were in use, but the maize combine was not adopted until after the War. By hand or mechanical picker, the entire ear is harvested, which then requires a separate operation of a maize sheller to remove the kernels from the ear. Whole ears of maize were often stored in corn cribs, and these whole ears are a sufficient form for some livestock feeding use. Few modern farms store maize in this manner. Most harvest the grain from the field and store it in bins. The combine with a maize head (with points and snap rolls instead of a reel) does not cut the stalk; it simply pulls the stalk down. The stalk continues downward and is crumpled into a mangled pile on the ground. The ear of maize is too large to pass between slots in a plate as the snap rolls pull the stalk away, leaving only the ear and husk to enter the machinery. The combine separates out the husk and the cob, keeping only the kernels.
Worldwide maize production
Harvesting maize during the record 2009 season in Jones County, Iowa
Maize is widely cultivated throughout the world, and a greater weight of maize is produced each year than any other grain.[citation needed] The United States produces 40% of the world's harvest; other top producing countries include China, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, India, France and Argentina. Worldwide production was 817 million tonnes in 2009—more than rice (678 million tonnes) or wheat (682 million tonnes).[2] In 2009, over 159 million hectares (390 million acres) of maize were planted worldwide, with a yield of over 5 tonnes/hectare (80 bu/acre). Production can be significantly higher in certain regions of the world; 2009 forecasts for production in Iowa were 11614 kg/ha (185 bu/acre).[45][Note 1] There is conflicting evidence to support the hypothesis that maize yield potential has increased over the past few decades. This suggests that changes in yield potential are associated with leaf angle, lodging resistance, tolerance of high plant density, disease/pest tolerance, and other agronomic traits rather than increase of yield potential per individual plant.[46]
Top ten maize producers in 2012[47]
Production (tonnes)
United States 273,832,130
China 208,258,000
Brazil 71,296,478
Argentina 25,700,000
Mexico 22,069,254
India 21,060,000
Ukraine 20,961,300
Indonesia 19,377,030
France 15,614,100
South Africa 12,500,000
World 690,668,292 [A]
No symbol = official figure, A = Aggregate (may include official, semiofficial or estimates).[2]
Corn production by county in the United States, 2010
Main article: Corn production in the United States
In 2010, the maize planted area for all purposes in the US was estimated at 35 million hectares (87.9 million acres),[48] following an increasing trend since 2008.[49] About 14% of the harvested corn area is irrigated.[50] In 2011, corn production went down around 1% to about 13 billion bushels.[51] The average yield in the U.S. was estimated to be 148.1 bushels per acre, making 2011 the lowest average yield since 2005.[52] Corn production in the U.S. is expected to dramatically decline in 2012 due to widespread extreme to exceptional drought. 2012's average yield is estimated to be only 120 bushels per acre.[53]
Common armyworm (Pseudaletia unipuncta)
Common earwig (Forficula auricularia)
Corn delphacid (Peregrinus maidis)
Corn leaf aphid (Rhopalosiphum maidis)
Corn silkfly (Euxesta stigmatis)
European corn borer (Ostrinia nubilalis) (ECB)
Fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda)
Corn earworm (Helicoverpa zea)
Lesser cornstalk borer (Elasmopalpus lignosellus)
Maize weevil (Sitophilus zeamais)
Southwestern corn borer (Diatraea grandiosella)
Stalk borer (Papaipema nebris)
Western corn rootworm (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte)
The susceptibility of maize to the European corn borer, and the resulting large crop losses, led to the development of transgenics expressing the Bacillus thuringiensis toxin. "Bt maize" is widely grown in the United States and has been approved for release in Europe.
Main article: List of maize diseases
Common Rust caused by Puccinia sorghi[54]
Corn smut or common smut (Ustilago maydis): a fungal disease, known in Mexico as huitlacoche, which is prized by some as a gourmet delicacy in itself
Northern leaf blight
Southern leaf blight
Maize dwarf mosaic virus
Maize streak virus
Stewart's wilt (Pantoea stewartii)
Common rust (Puccinia sorghi)
Goss's wilt (Clavibacter michiganese)
Grey leaf spot
Mal de Río Cuarto virus (MRCV)
Stalk rot
Ear rot
Maize being roasted over an open flame in India.
Maize and cornmeal (ground dried maize) constitute a staple food in many regions of the world.
Maize is central to Mexican food. Virtually every dish in Mexican cuisine uses maize. On form of grain or cornmeal, maize is the main ingredient of tortillas, tamales, pozole, atole and all the dishes based on them, like tacos, quesadillas, chilaquiles, enchiladas, tostadas and many more. In Mexico even a fungus of maize, known as huitlacoche is considered a delicacy.
Introduced into Africa by the Portuguese in the 16th century, maize has become Africa's most important staple food crop.[55] Maize meal is made into a thick porridge in many cultures: from the polenta of Italy, the angu of Brazil, the mămăligă of Romania, to cornmeal mush in the U.S. (and hominy grits in the South) or the food called mealie pap in South Africa and sadza, nshima and ugali in other parts of Africa. Maize meal is also used as a replacement for wheat flour, to make cornbread and other baked products. Masa (cornmeal treated with limewater) is the main ingredient for tortillas, atole and many other dishes of Central American food.
Cut sweet white corn
Popcorn consists of kernels of certain varieties that explode when heated, forming fluffy pieces that are eaten as a snack. Roasted dried maize ears with semihardened kernels, coated with a seasoning mixture of fried chopped spring onions with salt added to the oil, is a popular snack food in Vietnam. Cancha, which are roasted maize chulpe kernels, are a very popular snack food in Peru, and also appears in traditional Peruvian ceviche. An unleavened bread called makki di roti is a popular bread eaten in the Punjab region of India and Pakistan.
Chicha and chicha morada (purple chicha) are drinks typically made from particular types of maize. The first one is fermented and alcoholic, the second is a soft drink commonly drunk in Peru. Corn flakes are a common breakfast cereal in North America and the United Kingdom, and found in many other countries all over the world.
Dried maize mote, also known as hominy, is used in Mexican cuisine
Maize can also be prepared as hominy, in which the kernels are soaked with lye in a process called nixtamalization; or grits, which are coarsely ground hominy. These are commonly eaten in the Southeastern United States, foods handed down from Native Americans, who called the dish sagamite.
The Brazilian dessert canjica is made by boiling maize kernels in sweetened milk. Maize can also be harvested and consumed in the unripe state, when the kernels are fully grown but still soft. Unripe maize must usually be cooked to become palatable; this may be done by simply boiling or roasting the whole ears and eating the kernels right off the cob. Sweet corn, a genetic variety that is high in sugars and low in starch, is usually consumed in the unripe state. Such corn on the cob is a common dish in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Cyprus, some parts of South America, and the Balkans, but virtually unheard of in some European countries. Corn on the cob was hawked on the streets of early 19th-century New York City by poor, barefoot "Hot Corn Girls", who were thus the precursors of hot dog carts, churro wagons, and fruit stands seen on the streets of big cities today.[56] The cooked, unripe kernels may also be shaved off the cob and served as a vegetable in side dishes, salads, garnishes, etc. Alternatively, the raw unripe kernels may also be grated off the cobs and processed into a variety of cooked dishes, such as maize purée, tamales, pamonhas, curau, cakes, ice creams, etc.
A roadside vendor selling steamed maize in India
Sweetcorn, yellow, raw
(seeds only)
Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz)
360 kJ (86 kcal)
- Starch
- Sugars
- Dietary fiber
- Tryptophan
- Threonine
- Isoleucine
- Leucine
- Lysine
- Methionine
- Cystine
- Phenylalanine
- Tyrosine
- Valine
- Arginine
- Histidine
- Alanine
- Aspartic acid
- Glutamic acid
- Glycine
- Proline
- Serine
Vitamin A equiv. 9 μg (1%)
- lutein and zeaxanthin 644 μg
Thiamine (vit. B1) 0.155 mg (13%)
Riboflavin (vit. B2) 0.055 mg (5%)
Niacin (vit. B3) 1.77 mg (12%)
Pantothenic acid (B5) 0.717 mg (14%)
Vitamin B6 0.093 mg (7%)
Folate (vit. B9) 42 μg (11%)
Vitamin C 6.8 mg (8%)
Iron 0.52 mg (4%)
Magnesium 37 mg (10%)
Manganese 0.163 mg (8%)
Phosphorus 89 mg (13%)
Potassium 270 mg (6%)
Zinc 0.46 mg (5%)
Link to USDA Database entry
One ear of medium size (6-3/4" to 7-1/2" long)
maize has 90 grams of seeds
Percentages are roughly approximated
using US recommendations for adults.
Source: USDA Nutrient Database
Maize is a major source of starch. Cornstarch (maize flour) is a major ingredient in home cooking and in many industrialized food products. Maize is also a major source of cooking oil (corn oil) and of maize gluten. Maize starch can be hydrolyzed and enzymatically treated to produce syrups, particularly high-fructose corn syrup, a sweetener; and also fermented and distilled to produce grain alcohol. Grain alcohol from maize is traditionally the source of Bourbon whiskey. Maize is sometimes used as the starch source for beer. Within the United States, the usage of maize for human consumption constitutes about 1/40th of the amount grown in the country. In the United States and Canada, maize is mostly grown to feed for livestock, as forage, silage (made by fermentation of chopped green cornstalks), or grain. Maize meal is also a significant ingredient of some commercial animal food products, such as dog food.
Maize is also used as a fish bait, called "dough balls". It is particularly popular in Europe for coarse fishing.
Stigmas from female maize flowers, popularly called corn silk, are sold as herbal supplements.
Starch from maize can also be made into plastics, fabrics, adhesives, and many other chemical products.
The corn steep liquor, a plentiful watery byproduct of maize wet milling process, is widely used in the biochemical industry and research as a culture medium to grow many kinds of microorganisms.[57]
Chrysanthemin is found in purple corn and is used as a food coloring.
Bio-fuel
See also: Corn ethanol
See also: Corn stover
"Feed maize" is being used increasingly for heating;[citation needed] specialized corn stoves (similar to wood stoves) are available and use either feed maize or wood pellets to generate heat. Maize cobs are also used as a biomass fuel source. Maize is relatively cheap and home-heating furnaces have been developed which use maize kernels as a fuel. They feature a large hopper that feeds the uniformly sized maize kernels (or wood pellets or cherry pits) into the fire.
Maize is increasingly used as a feedstock for the production of ethanol fuel.[citation needed] Ethanol is mixed with gasoline to decrease the amount of pollutants emitted when used to fuel motor vehicles. High fuel prices in mid-2007 led to higher demand for ethanol, which in turn lead to higher prices paid to farmers for maize. This led to the 2007 harvest being one of the most profitable maize crops in modern history for farmers. Because of the relationship between fuel and maize, prices paid for the crop now tend to track the price of oil.[citation needed]
The price of food is affected to a certain degree by the use of maize for biofuel production. The cost of transportation, production, and marketing are a large portion (80%) of the price of food in the United States. Higher energy costs affect these costs, especially transportation. The increase in food prices the consumer has been seeing is mainly due to the higher energy cost. The effect of biofuel production on other food crop prices is indirect. Use of maize for biofuel production increases the demand, and therefore price of maize. This, in turn, results in farm acreage being diverted from other food crops to maize production. This reduces the supply of the other food crops and increases their prices.[58][59]
Farm-based maize silage digester located near Neumünster in Germany, 2007. Green inflatable biogas holder is shown on top of the digester
Maize is widely used in Germany as a feedstock for biogas plants. Here the maize is harvested, shredded then placed in silage clamps from which it is fed into the biogas plants. This process makes use of the whole plant rather than simply using the kernels as in the production of fuel ethanol.
A biomass gasification power plant in Strem near Güssing, Burgenland, Austria, began in 2005. Research is being done to make diesel out of the biogas by the Fischer Tropsch method.
Increasingly, ethanol is being used at low concentrations (10% or less) as an additive in gasoline (gasohol) for motor fuels to increase the octane rating, lower pollutants, and reduce petroleum use (what is nowadays also known as "biofuels" and has been generating an intense debate regarding the human beings' necessity of new sources of energy, on the one hand, and the need to maintain, in regions such as Latin America, the food habits and culture which has been the essence of civilizations such as the one originated in Mesoamerica; the entry, January 2008, of maize among the commercial agreements of NAFTA has increased this debate, considering the bad labor conditions of workers in the fields, and mainly the fact that NAFTA "opened the doors to the import of maize from the United States, where the farmers who grow it receive multimillion dollar subsidies and other government supports. (...) According to OXFAM UK, after NAFTA went into effect, the price of maize in Mexico fell 70% between 1994 and 2001. The number of farm jobs dropped as well: from 8.1 million in 1993 to 6.8 million in 2002. Many of those who found themselves without work were small-scale maize growers.").[60] However, introduction in the northern latitudes of the U.S. of tropical maize for biofuels, and not for human or animal consumption, may potentially alleviate this.
As a result of the U.S. federal government announcing its production target of 35 billion US gallons (130,000,000 m3) of biofuels by 2017, ethanol production will grow to 7 billion US gallons (26,000,000 m3) by 2010, up from 4.5 billion in 2006, boosting ethanol's share of maize demand in the U.S. from 22.6 percent to 36.1 percent.[61]
Ornamental and other uses
Main article: Corn construction
Some forms of the plant are occasionally grown for ornamental use in the garden. For this purpose, variegated and colored leaf forms as well as those with colorful ears are used.
Corncobs can be hollowed out and treated to make inexpensive smoking pipes, first manufactured in the United States in 1869.
Children playing in a maize kernel box
An unusual use for maize is to create a "corn maze" (or "maize maze") as a tourist attraction. The idea of a maize maze was introduced by the American Maze Company who created a maze in Pennsylvania in 1993.[62] Traditional mazes are most commonly grown using yew hedges, but these take several years to mature. The rapid growth of a field of maize allows a maze to be laid out using GPS at the start of a growing season and for the maize to grow tall enough to obstruct a visitor's line of sight by the start of the summer. In Canada and the U.S., these are popular in many farming communities.
Maize kernels can be used in place of sand in a sandboxlike enclosure for children's play.[63]
Additionally, feed corn is sometimes used by hunters to bait animals such as deer or wild hogs.
Maize makes a greater quantity of epigeous mass than other cereal plants, so can be used for fodder. Digestibility and palatability are higher when ensiled and fermented, rather than dried.
Maize is bought and sold by investors and price speculators as a tradable commodity using corn futures contracts. These "futures" are traded on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) under ticker symbol C. They are delivered every year in March, May, July, September, and December.[64]
U.S. usage breakdown
The breakdown of usage of the 12.1 billion bushel 2008 U.S. maize crop was as follows, according to the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates Report by the USDA.[65]
5,250 million bu. - livestock feed
3,650 million bu. - ethanol production
1,850 million bu. - exports
943 million bu. - production of starch, corn oil, sweeteners (HFCS, etc.)
327 million bu. - human consumption - grits, corn flour, corn meal, beverage alcohol
Comparison to other staple foods
The following table shows the nutrient content of maize and major staple foods in a raw harvested form. Raw forms are not edible and cannot be digested. These must be sprouted, or prepared and cooked for human consumption. In sprouted or cooked form, the relative nutritional and anti-nutritional contents of each of these staples are different from that of raw form of these staples reported in the table below.
Nutrient content of major staple foods[66]
STAPLE:
Maize / Corn[A]
Rice[B]
Wheat[C]
Potato[D]
Cassava[E]
Soybean (Green)[F]
Sweet potato[G]
Sorghum[H]
Yam[Y]
Plantain[Z]
Component (per 100g portion) Amount Amount Amount Amount Amount Amount Amount Amount Amount Amount
Water (g) 10 12 13 79 60 68 77 9 70 65
Energy (kJ) 1528 1528 1369 322 670 615 360 1419 494 511
Protein (g) 9.4 7.1 12.6 2.0 1.4 13.0 1.6 11.3 1.5 1.3
Fat (g) 4.74 0.66 1.54 0.09 0.28 6.8 0.05 3.3 0.17 0.37
Carbohydrates (g) 74 80 71 17 38 11 20 75 28 32
Fiber (g) 7.3 1.3 12.2 2.2 1.8 4.2 3 6.3 4.1 2.3
Sugar (g) 0.64 0.12 0.41 0.78 1.7 0 4.18 0 0.5 15
Calcium (mg) 7 28 29 12 16 197 30 28 17 3
Iron (mg) 2.71 0.8 3.19 0.78 0.27 3.55 0.61 4.4 0.54 0.6
Magnesium (mg) 127 25 126 23 21 65 25 0 21 37
Phosphorus (mg) 210 115 288 57 27 194 47 287 55 34
Potassium (mg) 287 115 363 421 271 620 337 350 816 499
Sodium (mg) 35 5 2 6 14 15 55 6 9 4
Zinc (mg) 2.21 1.09 2.65 0.29 0.34 0.99 0.3 0 0.24 0.14
Copper (mg) 0.314 0.22 0.434 0.11 0.10 0.13 0.15 - 0.18 0.08
Manganese (mg) 0.485 1.09 3.985 0.15 0.38 0.55 0.26 - 0.40 -
Selenium (mcg) 15.5 15.1 70.7 0.3 0.7 1.5 0.6 0 0.7 1.5
Vitamin C (mg) 0 0 0 19.7 20.6 29 2.4 0 17.1 18.4
Thiamin (mg) 0.385 0.58 0.383 0.08 0.09 0.44 0.08 0.24 0.11 0.05
Riboflavin (mg) 0.201 0.05 0.115 0.03 0.05 0.18 0.06 0.14 0.03 0.05
Niacin (mg) 3.627 4.19 5.464 1.05 0.85 1.65 0.56 2.93 0.55 0.69
Pantothenic acid (mg) 0.424 1.01 0.954 0.30 0.11 0.15 0.80 - 0.31 0.26
Vitamin B6 (mg) 0.622 0.16 0.3 0.30 0.09 0.07 0.21 - 0.29 0.30
Folate Total (mcg) 19 231 38 16 27 165 11 0 23 22
Vitamin A (IU) 214 0 9 2 13 180 14187 0 138 1127
Vitamin E, alpha-tocopherol (mg) 0.49 0.11 1.01 0.01 0.19 0 0.26 0 0.39 0.14
Vitamin K (mcg) 0.3 0.1 1.9 1.9 1.9 0 1.8 0 2.6 0.7
Beta-carotene (mcg) 97 0 5 1 8 0 8509 0 83 457
Lutein+zeazanthin (mcg) 1355 0 220 8 0 0 0 0 0 30
Saturated fatty acids (g) 0.667 0.18 0.269 0.03 0.07 0.79 0.02 0.46 0.04 0.14
Monounsaturated fatty acids (g) 1.251 0.21 0.2 0.00 0.08 1.28 0.00 0.99 0.01 0.03
Polyunsaturated fatty acids (g) 2.163 0.18 0.627 0.04 0.05 3.20 0.01 1.37 0.08 0.07
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G sweet potato, raw, unprepared H sorghum, raw
Y yam, raw Z plantains, raw
Main article: Pellagra
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When maize was first introduced into farming systems other than those used by traditional native-American peoples, it was generally welcomed with enthusiasm for its productivity. However, a widespread problem of malnutrition soon arose wherever maize was introduced as a staple food. This was a mystery, since these types of malnutrition were not normally seen among the indigenous Americans, for whom maize was the principal staple food.[67]
It was eventually discovered that the indigenous Americans had learned to soak maize[citation needed] in alkali-water—made with ashes and lime (calcium oxide) by Mesoamericans and North Americans—which liberates the B-vitamin niacin, the lack of which was the underlying cause of the condition known as pellagra. This alkali process is known by its Nahuatl (Aztec)-derived name: nixtamalization. Besides the lack of niacin, pellagra was also characterized by protein deficiency, a result of the inherent lack of two key amino acids in pre-modern maize, lysine and tryptophan. Nixtamalisation was also found to increase the availability of lysine and tryptophan to some extent, but more importantly, the indigenous Americans had also learned to balance their consumption of maize with beans and other protein sources such as amaranth and chia, as well as meat and fish, to acquire the complete range of amino acids for normal protein synthesis.
Maize was introduced into the diet of nonindigenous Americans without the necessary cultural knowledge acquired over thousands of years in the Americas. In the late 19th century, pellagra reached epidemic proportions in parts of the southern U.S., as medical researchers debated two theories for its origin: the deficiency theory (which was eventually shown to be true) said that pellagra was due to a deficiency of some nutrient, and the germ theory said that pellagra was caused by a germ transmitted by stable flies. A third theory, promoted by the eugenicist Charles Davenport, held that people only contracted pellagra were susceptible to it due to certain “constitutional, inheritable” traits of the affected individual.[68] In 1914, the U.S. government officially endorsed the germ theory of pellagra, but rescinded this endorsement several years later when the evidence grew against it. By the mid-1920s, the deficiency theory of pellagra was becoming scientific consensus, and the theory was validated in 1932 when niacin deficiency was determined to be the cause of the illness.
Once alkali processing and dietary variety were understood and applied, pellagra disappeared in the developed world. The development of high lysine maize and the promotion of a more balanced diet have also contributed to its demise. Pellagra still exists today in food-poor areas and refugee camps where people survive on donated maize.[69]
Maize contains lipid transfer protein, an indigestible protein that survives cooking. This protein has been linked to a rare and understudied allergy to maize in humans.[70] The allergic reaction can cause skin rash, swelling or itching of mucous membranes, diarrhea, vomiting, asthma and, in severe cases, anaphylaxis. It is unclear how common this allergy is in the general population.
Gold maize. Moche culture 300 A.D., Larco Museum, Lima, Peru
Water tower in Rochester, Minnesota being painted as an ear of maize
Maize has been an essential crop in the Andes since the pre-Columbian Era. The Moche culture from Northern Peru made ceramics from earth, water, and fire. This pottery was a sacred substance, formed in significant shapes and used to represent important themes. Maize represented anthropomorphically as well as naturally.[71]
In the United States, maize ears along with tobacco leaves are carved into the capitals of columns in the U.S. Capitol building. Maize itself is sometimes used for temporary architectural detailing when the intent is to celebrate the fall season, local agricultural productivity and culture. Bundles of dried maize stalks are often displayed often along with pumpkins, gourds and straw in autumnal displays outside homes and businesses. A well-known example of architectural use is the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota, which uses cobs and ears of colored maize to implement a mural design that is recycled annually.
A maize stalk with two ripe ears is depicted on the reverse of the Croatian 1 lipa coin, minted since 1993.[72]
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1Then the heads of fathers’ houses of the Levites came near to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children of Israel. 2They spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, “Yahweh commanded through Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with their pasture lands for our livestock.”
3The children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, according to the commandment of Yahweh, these cities with their pasture lands. 4The lot came out for the families of the Kohathites. The children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, had thirteen cities by lot out of the tribe of Judah, out of the tribe of the Simeonites, and out of the tribe of Benjamin. 5The rest of the children of Kohath had ten cities by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh. 6The children of Gershon had thirteen cities by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, out of the tribe of Asher, out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan. 7The children of Merari according to their families had twelve cities out of the tribe of Reuben, out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun. 8The children of Israel gave these cities with their pasture lands by lot to the Levites, as Yahweh commanded by Moses. 9They gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are mentioned by name: 10and they were for the children of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi; for theirs was the first lot. 11They gave them Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (also called Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, with its pasture lands around it. 12But they gave the fields of the city and its villages to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession. 13To the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the man slayer, Libnah with its pasture lands, 14Jattir with its pasture lands, Eshtemoa with its pasture lands, 15Holon with its pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands, 16Ain with its pasture lands, Juttah with its pasture lands, and Beth Shemesh with its pasture lands: nine cities out of those two tribes. 17Out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its pasture lands, Geba with its pasture lands, 18Anathoth with its pasture lands, and Almon with its pasture lands: four cities. 19All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
20The families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, even the rest of the children of Kohath, had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim. 21They gave them Shechem with its pasture lands in the hill country of Ephraim, the city of refuge for the man slayer, and Gezer with its pasture lands, 22Kibzaim with its pasture lands, and Beth Horon with its pasture lands: four cities. 23Out of the tribe of Dan, Elteke with its pasture lands, Gibbethon with its pasture lands, 24Aijalon with its pasture lands, Gath Rimmon with its pasture lands: four cities. 25Out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with its pasture lands, and Gath Rimmon with its pasture lands: two cities. 26All the cities of the families of the rest of the children of Kohath were ten with their pasture lands.
27They gave to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the half-tribe of Manasseh Golan in Bashan with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the man slayer, and Be Eshterah with its pasture lands: two cities. 28Out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishion with its pasture lands, Daberath with its pasture lands, 29Jarmuth with its pasture lands, En Gannim with its pasture lands: four cities. 30Out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with its pasture lands, Abdon with its pasture lands, 31Helkath with its pasture lands, and Rehob with its pasture lands: four cities. 32Out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the man slayer, Hammothdor with its pasture lands, and Kartan with its pasture lands: three cities. 33All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
34To the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its pasture lands, Kartah with its pasture lands, 35Dimnah with its pasture lands, and Nahalal with its pasture lands: four cities. 36Out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its pasture lands, Jahaz with its pasture lands, 37Kedemoth with its pasture lands, and Mephaath with its pasture lands: four cities. 38Out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the man slayer, and Mahanaim with its pasture lands, 39Heshbon with its pasture lands, Jazer with its pasture lands: four cities in all. 40All these were the cities of the children of Merari according to their families, even the rest of the families of the Levites. Their lot was twelve cities.
41All the cities of the Levites among the possessions of the children of Israel were forty-eight cities with their pasture lands. 42Each of these cities included their pasture lands around them. It was this way with all these cities.
43So Yahweh gave to Israel all the land which he swore to give to their fathers. They possessed it, and lived in it. 44Yahweh gave them rest all around, according to all that he swore to their fathers. Not a man of all their enemies stood before them. Yahweh delivered all their enemies into their hand. 45Nothing failed of any good thing which Yahweh had spoken to the house of Israel. All came to pass.
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Looking up to Young People in the World
In this month’s “Totally Worth It,” we’re highlighting some technologies and stories that will remind you that young hearts and minds have the power to change the future of poverty in the world.
By: Casey Krutz Categories: Children in Poverty, Poverty 101, Sponsors and Donors
Who Is Making History in the World of Poverty?
We believe the solution to making poverty history in our world begins with our children. Invest in their development, give them the right tools, and empower them to become history makers and world changers themselves. What better way to start off 2017 than by taking a look at some stories that highlight the people and developments that are are making history in the world of poverty? From new technology, to thousands of new sponsors, to Compassion Alumni fighting corruption, here is what we think is “Totally Worth It” this month.
By: Sam Hoover Categories: About Compassion, Children in Poverty, In the News, Multimedia, Partners
They Do Know It’s Christmas
It was a perfect December day to listen to Christmas music. I was out running errands, driving in a light, winter snow. A lesser known Christmas song filled the car – “Do They Know it’s Christmas?” I’d heard the song on the radio before. But this time I paid attention to the lyrics. And what I heard stunned and saddened me.
Ghana Traditions: Culture, Customs, & Society
Until its independence, Ghana was known as the Gold Coast. It was renamed Ghana, meaning “Warrior King,” to reflect the ancient Ghana Empire that flourished in West Africa during the 10th century.
What Children Really Want to Hear From Their Sponsors
Even sponsors who have been writing for years still ask, “What should I write about?” Well, instead of us giving you ideas of what to write this month for the Second Friday Letter-Writing Club, we decided to share from a trusted source what children really want to hear from their sponsors and the importance of letter writing.
Drought in Ethiopia: A Déjà vu Famine?
Despite significant economic growth over the past decade, Ethiopia still remains one of the world’s poorest countries and is yet again threatened with food insecurity in different parts of the country due to El Niño. Beyond food relief – a noble act in itself since a hungry child does not know the word ‘tomorrow’ – what must we do today to ensure that that there is food tomorrow?
How Does the Church Offer Hope for Children in Poverty?
The challenges a church faces when serving a poverty stricken community can appear insurmountable. However, when the will of that community is to have a better future, children have the opportunity to accomplish great things.
Poverty Tourism vs. Pilgrimage
In its worst expression, poverty tourism is not just the exploitation of one group — the poor — it is the exploitation of two groups, those visited and those visiting.
African Childhood: Beauty in Simplicity
For the International Day of the African Child, take a photo journey into what African childhood can look like. One filled with the beauty of simplicity.
Water Isn’t All Africa Needs
When providing clean water to communities in Africa, the conversation can’t stop there. Sanitation education is crucial to sustainable health care.
How to Save a Life With an Egg
When one of the children or youth enrolled in our program has a medical crisis, the Compassion staff and church partners in that country will do whatever they can to help. But what about a child who isn’t enrolled in our program?
World Malaria Day: Save a Family Through Malaria Prevention
Instead of showing up to the playground for his morning soccer game, little Mamadou woke with a high fever and began to vomit. His mother, Mariam, rushed him to the doctor. Sitting on the back of the bicycle, clutching his mother’s dress tightly, Mamadou quivered throughout the 10km-long ride from their house to the public health center. His mother had only one thought: She hoped her son did not have malaria.
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1966 Pontiac LeMans Convertible GTO Tribute
Sold For $28,000 On 2/22/19$28,000 Sold
Seller: Warrenlu
Location: San Diego, California 92130
Chassis: 237676K129730
30k Indicated Miles; TMU
326ci V8
Metallic Blue w/White Soft Top
Blue Bucket Seats
GTO-Style Refurbishment in 1990s
Rally II Wheels
Headers & Dual Exhaust
PHS Documents
Private Party or Dealer: Dealer
Additional Charges From This Dealer: USD $0 Document Fee
Category: American
This 1966 Pontiac LeMans convertible was built into a GTO tribute in the early 1990s, during which time it was refinished in light blue over a refurbished blue interior. Power comes from a 326ci V8 paired with a 4-speed manual transmission. The car reportedly spent 20 years in storage in Wyoming following the refurbishment, and was recently transported to San Diego, California after service to the cooling system, driveline, brakes, and wheels. This GTO tribute is offered by the selling dealer with Pontiac Historic Services documents and a clean California title.
Originally Cameo Ivory according the cowl-mounted data plate, the body was refinished in its current metallic blue with redone chrome trim while under previous ownership. GTO-style grilles, taillights, and emblems were also added. The white soft top is shown raised in the gallery, which also details repaired sections and a tear on the right side.
15″ Pontiac Rally II wheels are fitted with polished beauty rings and mounted with Uniroyal Tiger Paw GT tires. The selling dealer states that the suspension was overhauled with replacement bushings and other components during the previous refurbishment.
The interior is trimmed in blue and features bucket seats, a full-length console, a Hurst shifter, a woodgrain dash insert, and a passenger grab bar. The heater, fuel gauge, clock, speedometer, lights, and windshield wipers are said to function as intended, while the AM radio is inoperable. The 5-digit odometer shows approximately 30k miles, with total mileage unknown.
The 326ci V8 is said to have been rebuilt and is equipped with chrome rocker covers, an Accel ignition coil, and exhaust headers. A reproduction radiator has also been installed.
Power is sent to the rear wheels through a 4-speed manual transmission, and the car is equipped with unassisted steering and brakes. Additional underbody photos in the gallery show the condition of the fender wells, exhaust system, and suspension components.
A copy of the car’s build sheet is included in the sale along with a Pontiac Historic Services registration document. A video showing a walk-around, interior tour, and engine start-up with commentary is provided below:
Winning Bid USD $28,000 by cad58Y
Auction Ended February 22, 2019 at 2:39PM PT
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Rugby Player Suspended 2 Weeks For Vicious WWE Bodyslam – BONUS: Jim Ross Call
by Paul Sacca 4 years ago
Via SBN
Rugby is an extremely violent sport, but Liam Gill took it too far on this occasion. The Queensland Reds flanker powerbombed Nic White of the Brumbies (How fantastic is that team name?) in the 47th minute of their match.
With play stopped and the Brumbies trailing 17-0, there were several players disheveled on the field. That’s when Gill fairly easily picked up White over his head and threw him to the ground that would even make WWE wrestler Batista proud. Gill was hit with a yellow card for his violent actions.
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Then on Monday, Super Rugby judicial officer Robert Stelzner suspended Gill for 2-weeks for the bodyslam. “The player conceded that the lifting and turning of his smaller opponent placed the opponent at risk of serious injury. The player stated he acted out of frustration and ‘instinctively’ in his attempts to contest for the ball,” ruled Stelzner. “The tackle was reckless, carried with it a real risk of serious injury, but at the same time was not the normal type of lifting tackling in which the player’s momentum adds to the danger.”
Gill will be allowed to return on April 3, when the Reds play the Melbourne Rebels.
With the WWE-like powerbomb, I think it’s only fair that the legendary wrestling announcer Jim Ross give his commentary on the controversial play.
[ABC.net]
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BC limits union raids to three years
Russell Hixson May 31, 2019
B.C. has passed an amendment to the province’s Labour Code, limiting construction union raiding to every three years.
The change went against B.C.’s NDP, which appointed an expert panel to review the Labour Relations Code last year. The panel recommended raiding only after a contract was three years old, but the NDP sought to make an exception for construction, arguing that many projects are shorter and seasonal, which could limit worker opportunities to switch unions.
The Christian Labour Association of Canada (CLAC) worked closely with BC Green Party Leader Andrew Weaver and the BC Liberals to explain the disruption annual raids cause its members.
“We have been working closely with Weaver and the BC Liberals helping them understand the nuances of this issue,” said Ryan Bruce, BC manager of government relations for CLAC. “This was going to create a lot of instability. People going to sites, following workers home, trying to get them to sign cards. It can be disruptive. This is now in line with other sectors.”
Bruce explained that raids, like a major political campaign or election, require a lot of time, energy and resources to defend against. At the Site C Dam Project, CLAC is one of the major unions for Peace River Hydro Partners, the main civil works contractor.
“When it came to Site C, the group raiding was given access to the camp, they were at the airport, following members home,” said Bruce. “It got to the point where members were asking when it would be over and as you can imagine you expend a lot of resources defending a raid as opposed to defending your members.”
Bruce added that CLAC believes that workers should have an opportunity to change unions but feels three years respects worker’s rights as well as creates stability on the site. He added that the building trades are preventing workers’ rights and putting a target on independent unions.
“If you look at the building trades unions, they have no-raid packs, so they have already created this structure that has stripped workers of that right to choose and that means that independent unions like CLAC become the target of everyone constantly,” said Bruce. “That is fine. We have dealt with raids, but when you are always faced with the prospect of a raid every year, it creates disruption and your focus changes.”
Bruce thanked Weaver, Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson and Liberal Labour critic John Martin for their role in passing the amendment.
The change was also praised by the Progressive Contractors Association (PCA) which, with CLAC and Canada Works, gave input on the amendment.
“We’re relieved the Horgan government has been forced to back off of its intention to wreak havoc during the busiest time of year for our industry,” said Paul de Jong, PCA president, in a media release. “We can now focus on getting key projects built, rather than the destabilizing threat of aggressive union drives each summer.”
Tom Sigurdson, executive director of the BC Building Trades, called the amendment “hugely disappointing”, arguing it ignores the cycles of construction work and prevents worker choice. He explained that independent unions have attempted to only allow raiding when work populations on the site are scarce.
“Now it’s worse,” said Sigurdson. “It goes to every three years, and that’s unfortunate. The Green Party decided to align with the Liberals and they have showed that they are taking an anti-union position on code changes.”
Sigurdson noted that it was the Green Party that also prevented the NDP from replacing balloting on union certification votes for a card-check system.
“They have clearly shown they are not supportive of workers in the construction industry and their opportunity to choose legitimate union representation,” said Sigurdson.
He explained that the building trades attempted to lobby the Green Party and explain how the construction industry raiding works but was not successful.
“We expected more from this legislation, but it didn’t happen,” said Sigurdson.
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Tag Archives: methylscape
Sticky Cancer Genes
In the previous blog I talked about Breath Biopsy — a new method that aims to detect cancers from breath samples. I noted that it could end up complementing liquid biopsies — samples of tumour cell DNA pulled out of a teaspoon of blood — both being, as near as makes no difference, non-invasive tests. Just to show that there’s no limit to the ingenuity of scientists, yet another approach to the detection problem has just been published — this from Matt Trau and his wonderful team at The University of Queensland.
This new method, like the liquid biopsy, detects DNA but, rather than the sequence of bases, it identifies an epigenetic profile — that is, the pattern of chemical tags (methyl groups) attached to bases. As we noted in Cancer GPS? cancer cells often have abnormal DNA methylation patterns — excess methylation (hypermethylation) in some regions, reduced methylation in others. Methylation acts as a kind of ‘fine tuner’, regulating whether genes are switched on or off. In the methylation landscape of cancer cells there is an overall loss of methylation but there’s an increase in regions that regulate the expression of critical genes. This shows up as clusters of methylated cytosine bases.
Rather helpfully, a little while ago in Desperately SEEKing … we talked about epigenetics and included a scheme showing how differences in methylation clusters can identify normal cells and a variety of cancers and how these were analysed in the computer program CancerLocator.
The Trau paper has an even better scheme showing how the patterns of DNA decoration differ between normal and cancer cells and how this ‘methylscape’ (methylation landscape) affects the physical behaviour of DNA.
How epigenetic changes affect DNA. Scheme shows methylation (left: addition of a methyl group to a cytosine base in DNA) in the process of epigenetic reprogramming in cancer cells. This change in the methylation landscape affects the solubility of DNA and its adsorption by gold (from Sina et al. 2018).
Critically, normal and cancer epigenomes differ in stickiness — affinity — for metal surfaces, in particular for gold. In a clever ploy this work incorporated a colour change as indicator. We don’t need to bother with the details — and the result is easy to describe. DNA, extracted from a small blood sample, is added to water containing tiny gold nanoparticles. The colour indicator makes the water pink. If the DNA is from cancer cells the water retains its original colour. If it’s normal DNA from healthy cells the different binding properties turns the water blue.
By this test the Brisbane group have been able to identify DNA from breast, prostate and colorectal cancers as well as from lymphomas.
So effective is this method that it can detect circulating free DNA from tumour cells within 10 minutes of taking a blood sample.
The aim of the game — and the reason why so much effort is being expended — is to detect cancers much earlier than current methods (mammography, etc.) can manage. The idea is that if we can do this not weeks or months but perhaps years earlier, at that stage cancers may be much more susceptible to drug treatments. Trau’s paper notes that their test is sensitive enough to detect very low levels of cancer DNA — not the same thing as early detection but suggestive none the less.
So there are now at least three non-invasive tests for cancer: liquid biopsy, Breath Biopsy and the Queensland group’s Methylscape, and in the context of epigenetics we should also bear in mind the CancerLocator analysis programme.
Matt Trau acknowledges, speaking of Methylscape, that “We certainly don’t know yet whether it’s the holy grail for all cancer diagnostics, but it looks really interesting as an incredibly simple universal marker for cancer …” We know already that liquid biopsies can give useful information about patient response to treatment but it will be a while before we can determine how far back any of these methods can push the detection frontier. In the meantime it would be surprising if these tests were not being applied to age-grouped sets of normal individuals — because one would expect the frequency of cancer indication to be lower in younger people.
From a scientific point of view it would be exciting if a significant proportion of ‘positives’ was detected in, say, 20 to 30 year olds. Such a result would, however, raise some very tricky questions in terms of what, at the moment, should be done with those findings.
Abu Ali Ibn Sina, Laura G. Carrascosa, Ziyu Liang, Yadveer S. Grewal, Andri Wardiana, Muhammad J. A. Shiddiky, Robert A. Gardiner, Hemamali Samaratunga, Maher K. Gandhi, Rodney J. Scott, Darren Korbie & Matt Trau (2018). Epigenetically reprogrammed methylation landscape drives the DNA self-assembly and serves as a universal cancer biomarker. Nature Communications 9, Article number: 4915.
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The Caring Counselor
Even Counselors Need Self-Care
Self-Care Basics
Personal Reminders
You’ll Thank Me Later
by thecrazycounselor
Do you ever stop? Like really stop? We are all so busy with our lives and work, trying to find time to catch a little TV or take a breath outside in the cool evening air. But do you ever stop? Stop thinking a million miles an hour and focusing on things that don’t really matter in the very end?
Try living in the moment. Watch the snow fall. See the bees fly around. Be amused by the neighbors fighting over whose parking spot is whose. Tell yourself, “In this moment, nothing matters. In this second, at this time, there are no bills, no appointments. nothing.” Just live. Just be. Do this. Go outside. Take a deep breath and hold it in for a second or two. Slowly exhale. Tell yourself the date and how old you are. Clear your mind and just look at the sky. Listen to trees or the traffic. Take it all in and remember this moment. You took this moment for yourself. You are alive.
This whole world moves way too fast. It’s spring. It’s summer. It’s Halloween. It’s Christmas. It’s New Year’s. Repeat. We become so wrapped up in the routine of life we never really stop to just exist. Remember being a little kid? What were your plans for the next day? Probably not a lot. The days were longer, and you enjoyed it more. You wanted to grow up so fast. You never knew this world was as fast moving as it is. Do it now, today, tomorrow, and next week. Take a moment and just be. Just exist. Count your blessings. Watch the leaves blow around on the ground. Listen to cars go by driven by people in a rush to somewhere. Take a moment. You’ll thank me later.
-KRB
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Piaget, Jean, 1896-1980
Jean Piaget (, ; ; 9 August 1896 – 16 September 1980) was a Swiss psychologist known for his work on child development. Piaget's theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called "genetic epistemology".
Piaget placed great importance on the education of children. As the Director of the International Bureau of Education, he declared in 1934 that "only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual." His theory of child development is studied in pre-service education programs. Educators continue to incorporate constructivist-based strategies.
Piaget created the International Center for Genetic Epistemology in Geneva in 1955 while on the faculty of the University of Geneva and directed the Center until his death in 1980. The number of collaborations that its founding made possible, and their impact, ultimately led to the Center being referred to in the scholarly literature as "Piaget's factory".
According to Ernst von Glasersfeld, Jean Piaget was "the great pioneer of the constructivist theory of knowing." However, his ideas did not become widely popularized until the 1960s. This then led to the emergence of the study of development as a major sub-discipline in psychology. By the end of the 20th century, Piaget was second only to B. F. Skinner as the most cited psychologist of that era. Provided by Wikipedia
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Introduction a l'épistémologie genétique
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Essity invests in sustainable fibre technology
Essity is investing €37 million in technology that will enable it to produce high quality hygiene tissue products from wheat straw. This innovative process will offer major sustainability benefits since wheat straw is an agricultural by-product and a renewable resource. The new process will come into effect in the second half of 2020 at Essity’s manufacturing plant in Mannheim, Germany, with the wheat straw being sourced from farms in and around Mannheim.
“This process will enable Essity to replace some certified fresh wood fibre with renewable wheat straw,” said Essity’s UK country manager, Kevin Starr.“This will result in an environmental benefit as the process uses significantly less water and energy. Additionally, it transforms an unused agricultural by-product into a scalable new tissue fibre source.”
Essity has signed a license for exclusive rights with US-based Sustainable Fibre Technologies (SFT) that will give Essity access to SFT’s Phoenix Process. This technology converts plant-based renewable sources to pulp suitable for manufacturing tissue products.
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Black Mirror Season 5 Trailer Released, Premiere Date Announced
By Charlie Ridgely - May 15, 2019 10:32 am EDT
Well, it's finally here. Months after Bandersnatch took the world by storm, the award-winning Black Mirror series is returning to Netflix with a batch of new episodes. We've known that the fifth installment of the twisted anthology was coming at some point, but now we have a firm release date thanks to the first official trailer for the new season. Black Mirror returns on June 5th with three chilling new stories.
The debut trailer for the new season was packed with stars like Anthony Mackie, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Miley Cyrus, and it looked as though Black Mirror will be as terrifying as ever in Season 5. See for yourself in the video above!
Fans knew that a trailer for Season 5, or at least some sort of announcement, would be imminent after a first-look photo was released on Tuesday. However, it's safe to say no one expected the early morning drop on Wednesday, which started with a cryptic tweet from the Black Mirror account.
Around 6 am ET on Wednesday, the Black Mirror account tweeted the message "Is this a bad time? You seem distracted." Before anyone had time to process what it could mean, the account shared a second tweet containing the trailer, along with the words, "You should've seen it coming."
Is this a bad time? You seem distracted.
— Black Mirror (@blackmirror) May 15, 2019
This kind of eerie advertising is exactly what fans of Black Mirror have come to expect, and it looks as though the new season certainly won't let us down. The only slightly disappointing thing about this trailer is that it confirms only three new stories are on the way. That could mean there are only three episodes in the new season, or just that there are three stories broken up into multiple episodes for the first time.
Either way, June 5th is on its way, and you should start preparing yourself for the madness of Black Mirror.
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July 4, 2013 / 9:20 PM / 6 years ago
Panasonic to close solar cell factory in Hungary: Nikkei
Panasonic Corp's logos are seen at an electronics store in Tokyo May 9, 2013. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
(Reuters) - Japan’s Panasonic Corp (6752.T) plans to shut down its sole European solar cell plant next March and dismiss about 500 workers at the factory, the Nikkei reported.
The Hungarian factory will end production in September, leaving the company with one solar cell plant each in Japan’s Osaka and Shiga prefectures and another in Malaysia, the business newspaper said.
Equipment from the Hungarian facility will be transported to the other plants, the daily said.
The European solar energy market is dominated by Chinese suppliers such as Yingli Green Energy YGE.N. The market has been shrinking due to duties imposed by the European Union on imports of Chinese solar panels.
A growing Japanese market along with a weak yen prompted Panasonic to shift production to Japan from Europe, the Nikkei said.
The company aims to sell some 675,000 kw of solar cells worldwide in the year ending March, up 25 percent from a year earlier, the Japanese daily said.
Reporting by Sagarika Jaisinghani in Bangalore; Editing by Joyjeet Das
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China factory contraction shows weak start for economy in 2014
BEIJING (Reuters) - Activity in China’s factory sector contracted in January for the first time in six months, a preliminary survey showed on Thursday, pointing to a weak start for the economy in 2014 as policymakers seek to curb high debt levels to head off financial risks.
An employee works at a steel factory in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, December 30, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer
Weighed down by weaker domestic and export demand, the flash Markit/HSBC Purchasing Managers’ Index (PM) fell to 49.6 in January from December’s final reading of 50.5, dropping below the 50 line which separates expansion of activity from contraction.
The data is the first indication of sentiment in the 56.9 trillion yuan ($9.4 trillion) economy, the world’s second-largest, for the new year.
“Such a reading highlights the deteriorating growth outlook as policymakers are tightening their monetary stance, pushing through with an austerity campaign, and withdrawing stimulus measures,” said Dariusz Kowalczyk, a senior economist and strategist for Credit Agricole CIB in Hong Kong.
“The reading points to a further slowdown in manufacturing and the entire economy in Q214. We maintain our below-consensus forecast for 2014 GDP growth of 7.2 percent.”
The Australian dollar dropped to a session low of $0.8800 from around $0.8838 just before the data. China is Australia’s single biggest export market.
Most Asian share markets extended early losses.
The CSI300 .CSI300 index of the largest Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share listings fell 0.32 percent, while Hong Kong shares .HSI tumbled 1.2 percent.
Rising money market rates and bond yields since the middle of last year indicate China’s central bank is committed to deleveraging in the economy to fend off potential risks, but it has so far refrained from tightening policy abruptly.
“The marginal contraction of January’s headline HSBC flash China manufacturing PMI was mainly dragged by cooling domestic demand conditions,” said Qu Hongbin, chief economist for China at HSBC.
“This implies softening growth momentum for manufacturing sectors, which has already weighed on employment growth. As inflation is not a concern, the policy focus should tilt towards supporting growth to avoid repeating growth deceleration seen in 1H 2013.”
The flash PMI showed a faster rate of decrease in new export orders and employment in January. The new orders index came in at 49.8, the first contraction in six months.
PMI surveys at the end of last year had confirmed slowing momentum, with the HSBC/Markit one showing a three-month low and the government’s official PMI at a four-month low. Both cited weak new export orders as one of the main reasons for the dip.
A Reuters visit to southern China’s manufacturing heartlands this month showed many factories have closed earlier than usual for the upcoming Lunar New Year, the nation’s biggest holiday, discouraged by weak orders and rising costs.
Some analysts said the holiday may have influenced the weak activity figures, but others were more cautious.
“There are no strong seasonal factors in January - sentiment has increased in every January over the past 5 years,” Kowalczyk said.
“There is, theoretically, a possibility of a Lunar New Year effect, but even in 2012, when the holiday also fell in January, the HSBC PMI rose. Hence, we assume that the weakening of mood is cyclical and reflects underlying weakening of growth momentum.”
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REBALANCING ACT
Chinese leaders have pledged to push reforms to unleash new growth drivers as the world’s second-largest economy loses steam, burdened by industrial overcapacity, piles of debt and soaring house prices.
That means reducing government intervention to allow market forces to have a bigger say in allocating resources, and promoting domestic consumption at the expense of investment and exports.
China’s annual economic growth slowed to 7.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2013 from 7.8 percent in the previous quarter, putting full-year growth at 7.7 percent, slightly ahead of the government’s target of 7.5 percent.
While the economy narrowly missed expectations for full-year growth to fall to a 14-year low in 2013, some economists say a further cooldown will be inevitable this year as officials hunker down for difficult reforms.
Still, most economists believe the slowdown will be modest and expect 2014 full-year growth will be between 7 percent and 7.5 percent.
Sources with top think-tanks have said the government likely will stick with the 7.5 percent target this year, indicating the leadership is still keen to keep the economy on an even keel as they push reforms.
Premier Li Keqiang said in a written address to the World Economic Forum in Davos that China will continue to deepen reforms and maintain steady economic growth this year, and also take more forceful measures to boost employment.
The HSBC/Markit PMI is more weighted towards smaller and private companies than the official one, which contains more large and state-owned firms.
The final HSBC/Markit manufacturing PMI for January is due on January 30 and the official manufacturing PMI is set for release on February 1.
Reporting by Jonathan Standing and Kevin Yao; Editing by Kim Coghill
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Get Your Doodle On!
Posted on March 26, 2007 by chrysti
“I have been doodling with ink and watercolor on paper all my life. It’s my way of stirring up my imagination to see what I find hidden in my head. I call the results dream pictures, fantasy sketches, and even brain-sharpening exercises.” – Maurice Sendak
For as far back as I can remember, above my mother’s kitchen table, hangs the most charming framed “sketch” that I’ve ever seen.. and she created it. I have always been madly in love with it (despite numerous attempts, pleas, and batting my baby blues — my mother will not give it up — feel free to send me an email to forward onto her, begging her to bestow this upon her devoted daughter!) A fabulous house, a darling snowman, an otherwise just beautiful winter scene .. a sky full of lines, and patterns that just pull you in.. I sat and stared at this through every meal, wanting to walk right into this world.
<sigh> Mom, if you’re reading this.. I really do want that picture, and I know what you’ll say… but I refuse to wait until you die, because quite frankly it’s not ever happening.
So Sorry.. back to what I was saying…
You see, one of my fondest memories takes me through that wondrous time of being a small child, and lovingly gazing up at my mother, or grandmother as they spoke on the phone. I sat in utter amazement as they chit-chatted away .. (which was in my eyes, at the time, a seemingly very adult thing to do) all the while their hands with the aid of a simple pen made pure magic on a notebook, a pad of paper, a napkin, whatever was within reach — as they mindlessly doodled.
It truly fascinated me, and I so, SO enjoyed the talent that they each possessed. I was convinced (and frankly still am) that my mother’s creations (paintings & sketches as well) belonged in a museum. WOW! If these two talented women could mindlessly create such interesting scenes, textures, patterns, and beautiful lists .. imagine what would be if they set their minds to it.
And boy, did i ever, want to be them. To posses their skill, their vision, and quite simply I wanted to be all grown-up too. (Oh the naivety of a child!) I began doodling everywhere, in the shower as the mist covered the stall … I attempted to doodle the lavish worlds I saw in my mind’s eye… On paper, I would scribble hoping to make some of that “magic” I saw within the two women I most admired. As i grew older, I kept notebooks filled with quotes, simple drawings, and shapes… (my bedroom walls also bore the grunt of this obsession) filled with abstract patterns and textures… and i would genuinely lose myself within the process.
I LOVED that I had no boundaries. I absolutely loved that this was something just for me, that it wasn’t something I would be judged upon. This, was freedom.
Somewhere along the line, I sadly lost that passion. Amidst all the to-do’s, responsibilities, and obligations we accumulate as adults I couldn’t justify a simple act that served no real purpose. Boy, was I ever wrong.
“For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, I’d lose the joy.” –Matthew Ashford
As 2007 rang in, I set a goal to give myself a much stronger, basic sense of sketching.. I am absolutely determined to lean how to draw. Going back to the basics, doodling, seemed the right beginning step.
I grabbed one of my gorgeous journals, dropped it into my purse, along with some Faber Castell Pitt Artist Pens, and toted it everywhere I went. Doctor’s offices, the car, a coffee house, as I watch TV, wherever I have a few moments.. I doodle. I set aside time each week to sit down and sketch a tad more formally. I can honestly say, I am slowly seeing my once very poor drawing skills turn into a very raw, basic set of skills. Thrilling!
However, it’s not the education I love, it’s the freedom that I have now reclaimed that resonates within my soul. C’mon, how often do we truly do something, that’s for ourselves, serves no purpose other then joy, and is an act that we will not be judged upon? It’s priceless. I reap the benefits anytime I create, in how I look at things, and I feel the difference internally. It’s amazing, how the simplest of acts, can free our minds so dramatically.
The photos throughout this post, are all pages within my doodle book.. I hope you enjoy them, as much as I enjoyed creating them. I can’t wait to look back at these a few years from now, and see how far I’ve come!
Now it’s your turn, find your own freedom — get your doodle on, and if you are so inclined, drop by here.. and show me what you are doing!
Did I mention, to get you going.. I’m hosting a Get your Doodle On ATC Swap?
Sign up by leaving a comment on this blog post, and I’ll email you with the pertinent info. It’ll be a 6/5 swap (host keeps one card), all originals ( NO Copies!) .. Due in my Hands no later then 5/30/07 … Any theme, But needs to be a doodle, or sketch.. all levels of skill are welcome! Use sharpies, artist pens, markers, gel pens, pencil (seal it though), anything your heart desires!
Need some Inspiration?
Doodle Online:
Trippy 3d Doodling
Blograffiti
ZeWall
Online Sketchpad
Digital Doodle
Connect With Other Doodlers:
Rate My Doodle!
Visual Inspiration:
Sketchy Moments
Doodle Gallery
Doodling Techniques
Tao of the Doodle
Doodling Groups on Flickr
My Doodling Must Haves:
Faber Castell Pitt Artist Pens (all nib styles)
Portable Journal, with Lush Paper
The Creative License Book (Eye-candy, learn to draw, inspiration!)
Learn to Draw:
Draw a Bear
Drawspace Drawing Lessons
Learn to Draw Basics
Billy Bear’s Learn to Draw
Learn to Draw.com
Have a fabulous evening! — Chrysti
Tags: ACEO, Altered Art, Animals, Art, Art Squared, Artist, Artist Trading Card, ATC, BlogDesk, Chrysti, Collage, EBSQ, Folk Art, Inchies, Mixed Media, Original Art, OSWOA, Outsider Art, Painting
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Ophelia Staton, on March 27, 2007 at 12:26:PM said:
Hi Chrysti…
I would love to join this swap….what a great challenge!!
Teri Velazquez, on March 27, 2007 at 12:32:PM said:
I’d love to join this swap as well. As a small child, my single father (and in those days – the early 1950s, that was something – and I would play a game where one of us would draw a squiggle, and the other one had to make something out of it. It was a wonderful, creative game I played with my own kids when they were young too. I’ve always doodled……….
Thanks for hosting this swap!
Teri V
Gena Lumbroso, on March 27, 2007 at 12:32:PM said:
How great to have you back! I hope you are well, missed you…
I think I would like to join in your doodle ATC! Another great idea! I also have an idea for you if you could email me, that would be great!
Sending you inspirational grist,
Jennifer, on March 27, 2007 at 1:24:PM said:
Count me in! Love your doodles and have doodled since a wee one myself! My muse is excited by the work inspired by yours!
Chelsae, on March 27, 2007 at 1:26:PM said:
ME PLEASE! I love to get my doodle on!
tina s, on March 27, 2007 at 1:35:PM said:
What an inspiring post. I cannot draw a straight line but I have also doodled forever usually the same stuff which I consider boring; swirls, rudimentary flowers etc. I don’t feel inclined to draw but I absolutely love doodles; if all levels are welcome including beginner doodlers, I would love to join in this swap; highly unusual and something I haven’t done before!
tina http://inspiredbycolor.wordpress.com
Gillian McMurray, on March 27, 2007 at 1:56:PM said:
I’m up for a doodle-a-thon if you have room. I have never been a great doodler but am up for the challenge.
chrysti, on March 27, 2007 at 1:57:PM said:
Hi everyone, thanks so much! I’m saving all your info, and will send out an email in a few days with all the info!
It’s easiest to send it out after more folks sign up!
Spread the word please! I’d love to have a diverse group of folks sign up, just link to this post… https://chrysti.wordpress.com/2007/03/26/get-your-doodle-on/
Thanks a mint! Chrysti
Norma Amador, on March 27, 2007 at 2:00:PM said:
This is such a great idea. Please sign me up. Thank you.
My youngest daughter loves to draw & doodle all the time. Even though I try to keep her art in a folder it ends up in the trash bin. But if she draws in her own journal she will take better care of her art.
Again thanks for the idea.
Norma Amador
Sissy Brooks, on March 27, 2007 at 2:45:PM said:
I would like to join. Before I retired, I would doodle all over the desk pad calendar on my desk and one of the men that worked there would walk by when I wasn’t at my desk and write on the pad, “doodling again”. I wish I had kept those calendar sheets.
Thanks, Sissy
Amy Smith, on March 27, 2007 at 2:59:PM said:
I am a doodler from way back. I love the idea of keeping a doodle book instead of an “artist’s journal.” I think I could feel far less inhibited if I knew it was just for doodling! I have to start a new moleskine!
I would love to join in the swap too!
Judy Scott, on March 27, 2007 at 3:08:PM said:
I doodle everywhere too, (even in bed when I cant sleep!!!) ~ would love to join in the fun xx judy xx
Bonny, on March 27, 2007 at 3:12:PM said:
Hi! I found your Blog through the ATC flickr! site. I love your idea of doing Doodles for ATC’s!! Please count me in, I’d love to participate!
Christy Novak, on March 27, 2007 at 3:15:PM said:
This is a fab idea, I love to doodle! I would be very interested in joining this swap, let me know if you still have room. By the way love the blog!
SK, on March 27, 2007 at 3:52:PM said:
Eee! I love doodling in my journal! And I’d love to join the swap!
susan, on March 27, 2007 at 4:23:PM said:
i’m sold, sign me up, please! thanks.
kellie, on March 27, 2007 at 4:38:PM said:
sign me up! I am addicted to doodling!
Kim Tedrow, on March 27, 2007 at 5:06:PM said:
I’m in! Thanks Chrysti!
Stephanie, on March 27, 2007 at 6:30:PM said:
I will give it a try. Count me in!
Susan Goodell, on March 27, 2007 at 7:51:PM said:
Count me in, I love doodling.
Lilia, on March 27, 2007 at 8:22:PM said:
Please include me in the exchange!!
Pat, on March 28, 2007 at 1:15:AM said:
Neat idea…..I’m game! Sign me up, please.
Pat S
altermyworld, on March 28, 2007 at 1:44:AM said:
I’m in like Flynn :)
Bev B, on March 28, 2007 at 2:32:AM said:
OK, I promised myself that I woldn’t sign up for more swaps…but this sounds like fun. I’m not a doodler but always wanted to. My Dad doodled while on the phone like your Mom and G’ma.
Bev in Canada
Krissy Chadwick, on March 28, 2007 at 5:10:AM said:
Yahoo!! Sounds like a FUN FUN FUN ATC swap!!! I have to say that your blog entry with the all to YUMMY doodles has totally inspired me to do this more as well!! I’ve started so many journals for my art, musings etc. and I think I’m gonna try to dedicate one of them to doodles and drawing. Like you I used to do this all time, esp. on the phone or to keep myself awake during classes the whole time I was in highschool. I REALLY REALLY need to get myself going in this direction again!! THANKS for inspiring me!!!
Suzie Q, on March 28, 2007 at 5:50:AM said:
Hi Chrysti, good to see you posting again and I would love to join in this swap, please (even though I’m feeling all swapped out at the minute!) – we can all doodle and I look forward to seeing lots of lovely doodles! Thanks to Judy for the nudge in the right direction! I’ll have to have many long phone calls – that’s when I’m at my doodling best! :) Be Well xXx Suze
Angela P, on March 28, 2007 at 7:58:AM said:
Hi Chrysti, I love doodlings and the psychology behind them…..althoughh its best not to dwell on some of m,ine. hee hee!! My son is a doodler too….can he join the swap with me please? (if he wants to!)
Angela (UK)
firstborn, on March 28, 2007 at 9:17:AM said:
jude sent me over here & i’m oh so glad! count me in!!! my email is follow_your_bliss07@hotmail.com.
xx mary ann
Ulrike, on March 28, 2007 at 9:52:AM said:
I doodle all the time so would love to take part.
Stephanie, on March 28, 2007 at 9:57:AM said:
I would love to take part in the swap if there is still space. I love your work it is totally awesome!!!!
Laurie Rutan, on March 28, 2007 at 10:06:AM said:
I love doodling and would love to participate in your swap…..please let me know what I need to do cause this is the first of my swaps with you.
Denise, on March 28, 2007 at 10:19:AM said:
I’m in! I doodle in class when I’m not taking notes. It’s good to keep those hands busy!!
Andie, on March 28, 2007 at 10:34:AM said:
I’ll join the doodle swap, please send me info. Thanks!
Sue, on March 28, 2007 at 10:50:AM said:
Sadly, I can’t join the swap right now, but I did want to let you know how much I’ve enjoyed reading this story about your Mom, and for the reminder to just let loose and doodle for doodling’s sake alone! Your doodle journals look wonderful, and you’ve inspired me to take one of my many blank journals that are here, and designate it doodling-thank you!
Katelyn, on March 28, 2007 at 11:04:AM said:
I’d love to join. I’m a definite doodler, especially in meetings. There’s nothing like looking up to meet the boss’s gaze as she’s staring at you doodling away on the meeting agenda…
** UPDATE! *** ** UPDATE! *** ** UPDATE! *** ** UPDATE! *** ** UPDATE!
Everyone who has signed up to date, should have received an email from me with all the pertinent info — if you did NOT receive it…please let me know, and I’ll resend..it’s sent to the email address you used signing up here!
P.S. This is still open — I’ll take as many people that are willing to play for this one:-) I just may swap some out sooner as they arrive in batches!
Chel, on March 28, 2007 at 3:31:PM said:
Oh Miss Chrysti!
I am not signing up for the swap, but I AM letting you know how beautiful your doodles are, and that you did indeed inspire me ~ so I posted about doodles on my blog today too. We are doodling in The Land of ZNE.
xo – Chel
Dot, on March 28, 2007 at 4:11:PM said:
Oooh, count me in Chrysty!! Judy Scott pointed me in your direction.
Sounds like fun!
Good to read this post.
Jonny, on March 28, 2007 at 4:16:PM said:
I love to doodle and a doodled set of ATC’s sounds terrific! Please put me down!
Carol Taylor, on March 28, 2007 at 4:21:PM said:
I love your work and i love the idea, judy scott switched me on to this, and i would love to have a go. Love Carol T
Sandi Terry, on March 28, 2007 at 7:19:PM said:
Sounds like a GREAT idea!!! I think even I can whip out 6 doodled ATC’s by the end of May!! LOL Count me in!
kim sirak, on March 28, 2007 at 11:29:PM said:
awsome doodles! I have always doodled and its nice to see it coming into it’s own. Please sign me up and my daughter Molly she’s a doodler too.
Kimber, on March 29, 2007 at 3:53:AM said:
I would love to be part of your Doodle swap. Getting my doodle on sounds like a great idea!
Darlene Koppel, on March 29, 2007 at 9:30:AM said:
Chrysti:
I’m happy that you are on the road to recovery! Thank you so much for that inspiring entry on doodling. I plan to start doing it today.
What color of Pitt Artist pens do you use?
Angie Hall Haviland, on March 29, 2007 at 9:58:AM said:
WOW Chrysti!! Even your doodles are WONDERFUL!! Thanks so much for all the links…can’t wait to check them all out!!
Elinor Stecker-Orel, on March 29, 2007 at 10:12:AM said:
I would love to be in the doodle swap even though my doodling has never been much more than swiggles and crosshatching. This should inspire me to do something more interesting. Thanks for the opportunity.
Elinor
Denise Mennella » Some Things are Just Easier Than Others, on March 29, 2007 at 1:47:PM said:
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Shari Day, on March 29, 2007 at 2:05:PM said:
I’d love to join the doodles swap :oD sounds like a really fun ATC swap
Shari Xx (chubbyville gal)
Kala, on March 29, 2007 at 4:34:PM said:
Ooh is there room for one more?
Karen x
Rashell, on March 29, 2007 at 8:59:PM said:
I would love to join also.
Sterling, on March 29, 2007 at 10:22:PM said:
I love your description of your child self admiring your mother and family chatting and doodling :) I would like to join this swap. It’s a lovely idea
lauren, on March 30, 2007 at 1:01:AM said:
whoopee-doodle doo !.. count me in please !
Cindy Creasap, on March 30, 2007 at 10:26:AM said:
What a wonderful picture you painted with your memories. I would love to join your swap. I too have always wanted to draw more than what currently looks like children’s drawings, so I too have been practicing. Thanks for all of the great links.
Charlotte Conlin, on March 30, 2007 at 3:21:PM said:
Hello there! My friend Teri V. told me about your doodle ATC swap and I thought I would ask if I could join in. I can’t draw to save my life but I have doodled for as long as I can remember. If you could email me all the pertinent info I would be most grateful! I WOULD like to get to my doodle on!!
Charlotte C.
Be Sure to check your spam folders!
Sally Craft, on March 30, 2007 at 9:33:PM said:
Yes ! Yes! Yes! Please include me in this swap. I have books and books and books of doodles I’ve done over the years. I think a swap with other doodlers would be very rewarding. Thank you for the invitation to be a part of it.
mahima, on March 31, 2007 at 8:32:AM said:
i love this post!!
and it comes t just the right time. i often try to get go and just doodle… mindlessly like you said. often my thinking gets in the way. this post and these images were very very inspiring!!
i jsut read the section on the ATC swap, i’d love to participate, could you send me the details? i sketch a lot. but like you, i’m only discovering and developing my skills.danny gregory at http://www.everydaymatters.com has a lot of inspiration for drawing everyday. you can see my sketches and drawings at my blog, WATERMARK.
i wosh you luck in exploring and drawing!!
Minnie, on March 31, 2007 at 9:11:PM said:
I would love to be part of this exchange (ATC Doodles)
Molly Jean Henson, on April 1, 2007 at 1:05:AM said:
I love to doodle too and have as long as I can remember but I believe you have out doodled me! I love your blog!
Sharon L, on April 1, 2007 at 2:51:AM said:
WOW! Did you think you’d get this many responses? I’d love to try this if there’s room. I cannot sit through a meeting without doodling on every white space I see. Like the second post, my brother and I spent many hours doodling a few lines and then switching and finishing each others picture. Although I’m the “official” artist in the family, I still think his doodles were better. You’ve inspired me to try this, if there’s room. I loved your story, too.
Sherry, on April 1, 2007 at 9:55:AM said:
I’d love to be part of this doodle ATC swap! It’s one of my favorite things to do, I have to doodle a little every day, or the day just doesn’t go right!! This will be fun!
chrysti, on April 1, 2007 at 4:32:PM said:
NOTE: Be Sure to check your spam folders!
Thanks so much! I’m thrilled at the turnout!
Jonna, on April 2, 2007 at 1:17:AM said:
Count me in. I love to doodle….please send me the information for this one.
Merrie Hogle, on April 2, 2007 at 6:13:AM said:
My virgin doodle swap :) – I discovered your work through one of the Yahoo Groups. I’m nervous as the first day of school, but very eager to try! I did a test doodle last night and hubby approved it so I’m going for it. Count me in.
Ophelia Staton, on April 3, 2007 at 4:42:AM said:
Hi Christy,
I’m sorry, but I will not be able to participate in this swap.
sstaton3@nc.rr.com
Xanthe Walker, on April 3, 2007 at 1:12:PM said:
Sounds like fun!!! I’d love to join your swap…..oodles of doodles, YEAH!
elizabeth, on April 3, 2007 at 10:05:PM said:
hi……i read your post a few days ago…..and have been doodling ever since……you have inspired me! i’m going to start a blog…..keep up my doodle journal…and ….tra la la…..join your doodle swap….thanks for hosting it…….
joyce, on April 4, 2007 at 1:48:AM said:
Wonderful post! I’d love to be in the swap….it will be my first ever trading cards…but far from the first doodle!
chrysti, on April 4, 2007 at 11:42:AM said:
Received Cards From:
Susan Buchanan
Sharon, on April 4, 2007 at 12:37:PM said:
Hi, Chrysti!
I just got back from ArtFest and I feel all inspired. If you look at all of my notes from college and meetings and school days, you’ll find little doodles all over them. A Doodled ATC swap sounds like a wonderful idea! Sign me up!
susi, on April 6, 2007 at 3:00:AM said:
hmmm, what if my doodles are just that? I doodle while on hold on the phone mostly, but they are usually really random marks and lines and patterns, i don’t anything spefic… would those count?
If so, I’love to be part of this swap… I was in one on swap bot, and we just doodled on an 8 1/2 x 11 piece of cardstock, then cut them into ATCs, and made sure we kept one for ourselves, when you put them in one sleeve, you have a great big mishmash doodle, very cool!
I got the detail, and I’ll read again to see if there is anymore info I need…
it’ll be neat to trade outside my little e-worl box, lol!
onehand0neheart@aol.com
Note that the second word one begins with a zero, not an o!
Darlene Koppel, on April 6, 2007 at 8:58:AM said:
Chrysti!:
I would like to join the doodle swap. Sounds like fun!
Carol Taylor, on April 6, 2007 at 1:04:PM said:
Hi Chrysti i want to get in on the doodle swap – I left a message already but was afraid you didn’t have my email it is @
caroltinataylor@yahoo.co.uk
Thanks Carol T
Darlene Koppel, on April 6, 2007 at 7:21:PM said:
I didn’t receive your e-mail yet so I decided to contact you again. My e-mail address is darlenekoppel@mchsi.com
Thanks, Darlene
Molly Jean Henson, on April 6, 2007 at 11:51:PM said:
Are you overwhelmed! I had no idea there would be so many takers for this swap! I would like to participate. My email is mollyjhenson@yahoo.com.
chrysti, on April 7, 2007 at 12:21:PM said:
Andie Maccowan
Merrie, on April 7, 2007 at 5:42:PM said:
My doodles are in the mail …. picked up 1:30p.m. … mail moves on Sunday …. hope they see you monday or tuesday. If not the world will continue to spin. I had a blast exploring and i’m not finished i did have to take a break from focusing on one thing to make an ATC that included embellishment. In my mind that’s where the big winnings are – embellishments.
ever in prayer,
windyangels, on April 10, 2007 at 12:34:AM said:
Hi Chrysti, I hope I’m not too late. I was being a bit overwhelmed when you first announced this but am now interested in joining. My email is gwkburton@sasktel.net.
Thanks to Jude for telling me about your swap.
Suzie Q, on April 10, 2007 at 9:17:AM said:
Hi Chrysti – I didn’t receive the email.
My email is sue.longley@tesco.net
Look forward to hearing from you soon.
Nerissa, on April 11, 2007 at 12:20:PM said:
I’d love to participate. It sounds like so much fun. I’ve always been a doodler and I’ve been working with Traci Bautista’s collage book. I’ll wait for your email.
Anastasia, on April 11, 2007 at 7:26:PM said:
id love to join in too!
im in Australia though
anyway my email
aa.christou@optusnet.com.au
Jennifer, on April 12, 2007 at 8:58:AM said:
Hi, just wondering if you’ll be posting some of the doodle atc you receive? I’d love to see what everyone comes up with…maybe a flickr photo pool?
jane powell, on April 13, 2007 at 9:27:AM said:
You are an AMAZING woman – I just found your site through ARtella and I am inspired to doodle a little more. Your blog is awesome. Thanks for inspiring me.
gracefuljourney, on April 14, 2007 at 8:42:AM said:
I would love to do this …. I have never done an ATC swap before but I have enviously sat on the sidelines and looked at what others have done. I LOVE to doodle!
My email is gracefuljourney@charter.net
Susan Reynolds, on April 14, 2007 at 3:39:PM said:
This is the most fascinating post – and the images are just wonderful. I’m inspired and my creative juices are in high gear with thoughts and ideas jumping around wildly. It’s something that I absolutely have to suggest to my friends on http://twitter.com ! Great post,
chrysti, on April 16, 2007 at 9:31:PM said:
Merrie Hogle
Katelyn Thomas
And I’ve so far managed to create a acrd for almost everyone as a surprise!
jane, on April 17, 2007 at 8:47:PM said:
I am going for it and joining in with this project. The pressure is on and that’s what I need to get me started. Send me the details.
Diana Ryman, on April 18, 2007 at 12:58:PM said:
Chrysti- I want to join the ATC Doodle swap please! I found your swap post by reading Gillian’s blog and had to immediately come see what it was about because I thought I was the only one who liked to do this crazy, mindless doodling! I have a little book I’ve been doing it in – mostly on top of gessoed pages and it has been so much fun and SOOOO relaxing! So glad to see there are others like me who like to do this! Thanks for hostessing! Please send me the info to participate.
prairiegirl, on April 20, 2007 at 6:46:PM said:
I have never joined a swap but would love to take a shot at it. My doodles are pretty ordinary but who knows, maybe they’ll look like something special to someone else. Please send me the info. Thanks
chrysti, on April 21, 2007 at 12:31:PM said:
Elinor Stecker-Orel
Susan Goodell
susi unupi
And I’ve so far managed to create a card for almost everyone as a surprise!
Merrie, on April 21, 2007 at 4:04:PM said:
Thank you, Chrysti, for your kindness and inspiring motion forward. I have been dooodle stuck since i sent in my cards – waiting perhaps to see if they will be approved of. My bad. As soon as I had doodled my last doodle i went RUNNING straight back to what i know; punching holes and using glue sticks, etc.
Hi Chrysti, I received the doodle instructions and am doodling away. I want to thank you for this opportunity to be part of a group who is willing to let us “artist wanna-be’s” into your artistic circle. I’m having fun finding my inner child, again. This opportunity to have fun came to me just when I was in the middle of a blue funk. You have lifted my spirits! Thanks!
Bonny, on April 22, 2007 at 11:30:AM said:
Hi Crysti;
I have NOT received an e-mail from you and I really don’t know exactly how this swap works.Do we getassigned a swap partner(S) that we mail out our ATC’s to? What address do we send to?
Pleasee-mail me at:
bonnyracca@shaw.ca
susi, on April 24, 2007 at 3:55:PM said:
finally i figured out where this swap came from, LOL….i am glad that my atcs arrived safely. are they good enough for swapping?
micki kelley, on April 25, 2007 at 4:23:PM said:
I would like to join too! I don’t usually doodle so this will be a new experience for me. It should be fun.
Robin Orewiler, on April 28, 2007 at 4:16:PM said:
I would like to join your ATC Doodle swap. The work in your journal is beautiful! What a great idea. Hope I can incorporate it into my busy life.
Linda Harrington, on April 29, 2007 at 6:55:AM said:
I love your doodle book pages and the Get Your Doodle On ATC Swap idea. I’m not an artist and I’ve never made an ATC so I don’t know if I’m qualified to join your swap. This is the first time I’ve visited your blog, but it won’t be the last. I love it. I have a few questions. Please email me. Thanks!
Steph Stargell, on April 29, 2007 at 11:49:AM said:
Sign me up! I am so excited – I just might spend the afternoon dodling on the deck!
You do NOT need to be a pro artist, or have any special skills for this folks..the idea, is to have fun!
Angie, on April 30, 2007 at 11:08:AM said:
Hi! I never rec’d an email.
Jennifer, on April 30, 2007 at 3:41:PM said:
Okay, okay…I’ve been lurking here for a couple of weeks thinking “she’s going to close this soon and then I”ll be sad for missing out”…my schedule has finally freed up enought to participate!!!! Yay!!!! Please send me the details and I’ll get to work. Thanks for such an awesome project! email me at jbdigi@aol.com
Dawn, on May 2, 2007 at 3:10:PM said:
Hey, Chrysti! I am authoring a book for Rockport tentatively titled 1,000 Artist Journal Pages…I need submissions. Have you submitted? I looked through what I have and didn’t see your e-mail, but I have quite a few, so I may have skipped over it…If you haven’t submitted, please go to my blog and download the submission guidelines on the left. Please let me know if you have submitted…Thanks!
chrysti, on May 3, 2007 at 12:42:PM said:
NOTE: USPS Increase will have gone into effect when i return these cards, and it’s a significant jump — Please include 1.25 in postage on your envies..thanks!
Kim Sirak, on May 7, 2007 at 6:31:PM said:
Hi there I have my ATC’s done but still don’t have the info to send them to you. could you please send it again ? please!!
rubbergal@yahoo.com
Kim Sirak
chrysti, on May 8, 2007 at 7:24:PM said:
chrysti | chrystisart@bellsouth.net | chrysti.wordpress.com | IP: 65.5.194.153
Jonna Barnett
Karen Jinks
Laurie Rutan, on May 11, 2007 at 5:41:PM said:
You should be receiving mine any time!!! What fun!!!
Jennifer, on May 14, 2007 at 4:16:PM said:
Mine are on their way to you! This was so much fun.
jane powell, on May 20, 2007 at 10:25:PM said:
I need an address and info to send these out. Help
chrysti, on May 24, 2007 at 9:31:PM said:
Hey Y’all — I just got back from my trip, and will update the cards received, answer emails, resend the info etc within the next 2 days (going away for closer to 2 weeks tends to put one behind!)
I’ll also be extending the deadline, since an overwhelming number of folks requested it… it’s the only extension though! — June 9th, 2007.
Thanks! Chrysti
jane powell, on May 25, 2007 at 10:52:AM said:
thanks for the extension, however I have misplaced the email on the original instructions such as the details for returning our swapped cards to us. Mine are ready to go and I have the address.
Tricia, on May 25, 2007 at 1:29:PM said:
Would love to join in with your swap, I live in the UK so hopefully I’ll have time to post them to you… as regards postage back to me, we do have some dollars in the house (my husband travels on business…so we usually have various currencies to hand) or would you rather I sent you something from the UK?
back track «, on May 25, 2007 at 11:21:PM said:
[…] shopping this morning, i finally got my act together & sat down & completed my atcs for chrysti’s get your doodle on swap! man, it was WICKED hard not to use any CHUNKY embellishments on these. but i did them […]
Stephanie Coop, on May 26, 2007 at 8:35:AM said:
I am going to seal and mail mine today.
chrysti, on May 26, 2007 at 12:35:PM said:
1. Robin Orewiler
2. micki kelley
3. Linda Phillips
4. Diana Ryman
5. Darlene Koppel
6. Elizabeth Beck
7. Merrie Hogle
8. Jonna Barnett
9. Cindy Creasap
10. Karen Jinks
11. Kimber
12. Elinor Stecker-Orel
13. Katelyn Thomas
14. Angie Westermann/altermyworld
15. Laurie F. Rutan
16. Andie Maccowan
17. Susan Goodell
18. susan buchannan
19. Judy Scott
20. Gillian McMurray
21. Me :-)
22. susi unupi
23 Wendy Burton-windyangels
NOTE: USPS Increase will have gone into effect when i return these cards, and it’s a significant jump — Please include 1.25 in postage on your envies..thanks! — I wish i could afford to cover all these personally, but i can’t — so please be sure to include correct amount!
Deadline extended to 6/9/07
tara, on May 27, 2007 at 1:03:PM said:
I want to participate,,,,is it too late?
Oh, I just see it extended,,,please send me info….. yipee!!
Sharon L, on May 27, 2007 at 11:02:PM said:
Hi Chrysti, My mail wouldn’t go through so I’m posting here. I’m still in. My husband had surgery on his neck (ruptured disk) so I haven’t gotten my cards in the mail yet, but they are complete. I’ll be sending them this week. Thanks.
Teresia, on May 28, 2007 at 3:15:PM said:
Another latecomer–I’d like to join this, too.
still waiting for info,,, mine are ready to go, if you accept me into your swap….????
Sharon Liebman, on May 28, 2007 at 10:16:PM said:
Hi Chrysti, I’m getting my cards in the mail Tues. a.m. Thanks again for hosting.
http://www.picturetrail.com/cre8tivearts
Tricia, on May 29, 2007 at 9:08:AM said:
Well, my cards are in the post, i had great fun doodling that I even made 9 cards instead of 6, I just forgot to stop…. if anyone is interested I’ve posted a picture of them on my blog…
Krissy Chadwick, on May 30, 2007 at 2:07:AM said:
Hey Chrysti!!
I’m putting my cards in the mail tomorrow!! Sorry that they’re going to be a bit late!! I hope it’s not a problem!!
1. Robin Orewiler
2. micki kelley
3. Linda Phillips
4. Diana Ryman
5. Darlene Koppel
6. Elizabeth Beck
7. Merrie Hogle
8. Jonna Barnett
9. Cindy Creasap
10. Karen Jinks
11. Kimber
12. Elinor Stecker-Orel
13. Katelyn Thomas
14. Angie Westermann/altermyworld
15. Laurie F. Rutan
16. Andie Maccowan
17. Susan Goodell
18. susan buchannan
19. Judy Scott
20. Gillian McMurray
21. Me
22. susi unupi
23 Wendy Burton-windyangels
24. Jonny Binkard
25.Sharon Liebman
26.jane powell
27.mary ann mckeating firstborn
28.Amy Smith
IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!NOTE: USPS Increase will have gone into effect when i return these cards, and it’s a significant jump — Please include 1.25 in postage on your envies..thanks! — I wish i could afford to cover all these personally, but i can’t — so please be sure to include correct amount!
Jennifer D., on June 1, 2007 at 9:39:AM said:
Mine are in the mail today! Thanks for getting me doodling again!
chrysti, on June 1, 2007 at 6:44:PM said:
29.tara ross
30.Xanthe Walker
31.Krissy Chadwick
32.Tricia — Patricia Elizabeth Hutchinson
It’s my Birthday Sunday (6/3) .. so I’ll be away sat, sun & mon… will update tuesday again!
kellie gedert, on June 2, 2007 at 10:18:PM said:
my cards have been ready to go, can you send me an email with your address so I can mail them! thanks!! Happy Bday young pup!!
jennifer griffin, on June 3, 2007 at 5:51:PM said:
Happy Birthday! Hope your day was wonderful.
chrysti said,
June 1, 2007 at 6:44:PM · Edit
33.Gena Lumbroso * Please Email Me Your Address, No return Envelope in package
34.Stephanie Coop * Please Email Me Your Address, No return Envelope in package
35.Jennifer Griffin
36.Tina Shoaga * Please contact me about postage, none included!
37.Kim Tedrow ( Thanks so much for the birdie pages! I Love em!)
38.Anastasia Christoum* Please Email Me Your Address, No return Envelope in package –thanks for all the goodies!
39.Nerissa Alford
Joyce, on June 8, 2007 at 3:29:AM said:
Chrysti, I think I’m still going to trade if the cost to overnight isn’t too steep…I put them on my blog and I’ve had fun making them…my first trading cards.
susi, on June 9, 2007 at 11:35:PM said:
I was wondering what was going on with the swap, I am glad I checked your blog, my questions have been answered!
Due to the increase in postage costs, would you like me to send more postage? I know it’s the deadline, but better late than never!
let me know please!
I can’t waituntil get them!
chrysti, on June 11, 2007 at 6:02:PM said:
Received Cards From:br />
37.Kim Tedrow ( Thanks so much for the birdie pages! I Love em!)br />
38.Anastasia Christoum* Please Email Me Your Address, No return Envelope in package –thanks for all the goodies!39.Nerissa Alford
40.Joyce Cole
41.Denise Smeaton
42.Jonny Binkard
43.Chelsae Youkers * Please email me your address, no addy on envelope!br />
44.Ulrike Hutchins
45.Teresia Calene
Cards On The Way but Not received yet:
1.Jennifer DiGiuseppe:
2.lauren fraser
3.Sharon Sears
4.Kira– SK :
5.Norma Amador:
6.Bonny :
I have sent emails to the remaing 20 people, to see if the cards have been sent yet, they have til friday to arrive! If you HAVE sent them already, please let me know!
And I’ve managed to create a card for almost everyone as a surprise!
Deadline is PASSED! Cards will be swapped on Friday, 6/15/07 to allow for the last few straggling in… any cards that arrive after that will be returned, or if i have enough leftover that i made, swapped out with me (if you choose).
43.Chelsae Youkers * Please email me your address, no addy on envelope!
1.Jennifer DiGiuseppe
4.Kira– SK
5.Norma Amador
6.Bonny
46.lauren fraser * Please contact me about postage, & SASE none included! LOVE the envie you sent your card sin, and the card you included – TY!
47.Kira– SK
48.Kellie Gedert * Please Email Me Your Address, No return Envelope in package
On The Way:
4.Bonny |
5.Angela P & Her Son
Jennifer D., on June 13, 2007 at 10:11:PM said:
Chrysti, I can’t believe mine aren’t there yet! I mailed them on the 1st! I sent them through the regular mail as I thought there was enough time..lesson learned I guess! Hopefully they’ll show up by Friday…if not I’d still love to have one of your’s if you have enough. Thanks for organizing such a cool swap!
Alright — Swapping day has come ( as has today’s mail) as of now… these are all the cards I have received!
The cards that have been sent, but haven’t been received — if they turn up, I will email you, and figure otu what we can do — I made a ton of extra cards ( so many drop outs — so I have them left over) … and with the others straggling in, we may be able to swap em out ok. Plus, I will check tomorrow’s mail too.
Gonna start swapping them out tonight.. with the first batch mailing out tomorrow — and will be blogging about the swpa in the next few weeks.
50.Bonny Racca
51.Norma Amador * Please contact me about postage, none included!
52.Sharon Sears
Thiose that didn’t include addresses, postage etc will be hearing form me via email so I can return the cards…
This was so much fun! P.S. — if you blogged abotu thtese, shared photos of your card setc… please let me know — comment here, or an email… so I can include the link in the post!
Oh — It will take me awhile to blog these — as i had made over 75 cards — it’ll take awhile to edit the scans of them all!
chrysti, on June 15, 2007 at 10:07:PM said:
wow… 4.5 hours later… the cards are all swapped, and almost all have been packaged & ready to go:
The following have been shipped ( well, will be picke dup tomorrow am….)
1. Robin Orewiler planbtn.blogspot.com
2. susi unupi
3. Xanthe Walker
4. Elinor Stecker-Orel FamousElinor.com |
6. Joyce Cole| drawdaily.blogspot.com
7. Jonna Barnett |jonnabarnett.blogspot.com
9. Andie Maccowan
11. Linda Phillips | http://www.art-frenzy.blogspot.com/
13. Elizabeth Beck |
14. Darlene Koppel |
15. Jennifer Griffin |
16. Sharon Liebman | picturetrail.com/cre8tivearts
17. Cindy Creasap |
18. Kellie Gedert | | bluegirlink.blogspot.com
19. jane powell | | randomartsnow.com
20. Nerissa Alford | creativerantsfromnerissa.blogspot.com
21. Katelyn Thomas| stampingmad.com
22. Kira– SK | starchildartworks.com/blog
23. Amy Smith | stores.ebay.com/Magpies-Treasure-Nest or http://amymasart.blogspot.com/
24. susan buchanan |
25. tara ross | | tararossstudios.blogspot.com
26. Kimber |
27. micki kelley |
28. Sharon Sears| | sassy-says.blogspot.com
29. Kim Tedrow | | kimtedrow.blogspot.com
30. mary ann mckeating firstborn.wordpress.com
The rest will go out in the next few days — some people i need addresses for, some i need postage from.. and international ones need some work left etc…
Tricia, on June 16, 2007 at 2:00:PM said:
Sounds like this swap has been a whole heap of work for you… thank you… I really have had fun with this doodling… I’m making a second series of doodle atcs… I posted a picture of the ones I made to send to you on my blog… several people have asked to swap 1/1… which we’ve done… one’s gone to France and one to Scotland.. so do you fancy doing a second swap! :)…
thanks again for running this swap…
I’ll be looking out for the post.. I imagine they will take about 5 days…
best wishes..
Nerissa, on June 16, 2007 at 10:39:PM said:
Thanks for all your efforts in organizing this. You have been a wonderful host. I have already posted mine on my blog and you can link back or copy the pics from my post.
http://creativerantsfromnerissa.blogspot.com/2007/06/if-you-see-me-please-tell-me-to-wait-so.html
Thank you again for everything!
PS good luck with the collage sheets & store! I’m gonna have to go shopping with you!!
Krissy Chadwick, on June 17, 2007 at 3:20:AM said:
OH Chrysti!! What a whole lot of work this swap has created for you!! But I’m so proud of you for getting so much done so quickly!!
♥Krissy
Rushing like mad here — too much to do, not enough time..
1. Robin Orewiler planbtn.blogspot.com
2. susi unupi
3. Xanthe Walker
4. Elinor Stecker-Orel FamousElinor.com |
6. Joyce Cole| drawdaily.blogspot.com
7. Jonna Barnett |jonnabarnett.blogspot.com
9. Andie Maccowan
11. Linda Phillips | http://www.art-frenzy.blogspot.com/
13. Elizabeth Beck |
14. Darlene Koppel |
15. Jennifer Griffin |
16. Sharon Liebman | picturetrail.com/cre8tivearts
17. Cindy Creasap |
18. Kellie Gedert | | bluegirlink.blogspot.com
19. jane powell | | randomartsnow.com
20. Nerissa Alford | creativerantsfromnerissa.blogspot.com
21. Katelyn Thomas| stampingmad.com
22. Kira– SK | starchildartworks.com/blog
23. Amy Smith | stores.ebay.com/Magpies-Treasure-Nest or http://amymasart.blogspot.com/
24. susan buchanan |
25. tara ross | | tararossstudios.blogspot.com
26. Kimber |
27. micki kelley |
28. Sharon Sears| | sassy-says.blogspot.com
29. Kim Tedrow | | kimtedrow.blogspot.com
30. mary ann mckeating firstborn.wordpress.com
31.Stephanie Coop bugonthegreen.blogspot.com/index.html
32.Jonny Binkard (both sets shipped together)
33.Krissy Chadwick kristinschadwickcreations.blog.com
34.Gena Lumbroso
35.Ulrike Hutchins ulrikehutchins.typepad.com
37.Tina Shoaga inspiredbycolor.wordpress.com
38.Tricia — Patricia Elizabeth Hutchinson | ttp://magicindigo.wordpress.com
39.Gillian McMurray gillianmcmurray.blogspot.com
40.Karen Jinks karenjinks.blogspot.com
41.Wendy Burton-windyangels windyangels.blogspot.com
42.Anastasia Christou anastasiaC.blogspot.com
43.Bonny Racca bonnyracca.typepad.com/bonnys_pages
About a handful left to mail back, which will probably be tomorrow or this evening — unless i’m awaiting hearing form y’all ( addies, postage)…
prairiegirl, on June 20, 2007 at 4:34:PM said:
I received my swaps today . What fun! Thanks a million for hosting this. I have never done a swap before and I think it’s wonderful so many people took part. Thanks for the the card you made as a gift. It is a hoot!!
elizabeth, on June 20, 2007 at 7:51:PM said:
hey! got my art card doodles….thanks for hosting…..i love what i got and appreciate your grand efforts…elizabeth
Sharon L, on June 21, 2007 at 12:59:AM said:
Just got my doodles. They’re wonderful! Thanks to:
Norma Amador, Jonny Binkard, Elinor Stecker-Orel, Tricia Hutchinson, Susi Unupi, and, of course Christy for your card and all your hard work. I’ve been inspired and just created a 15 x 20 giant doodle and cut it up into cards. It was so much fun! I watercolored the background and only used black sharpie. I recommend it! It was totally addicting until I filled every space. A great swap.
micki kelley, on June 23, 2007 at 12:05:AM said:
Got my doodles! It’s amazing how each one was so different than the others. Love them. Thanks for hosting and hope we can do this again sometime.
Stephanie Coop, on June 23, 2007 at 9:21:AM said:
Thank you so much for all your hard work. I got the Yellow envelope full of ATC’s yesterday. The whole experience was fun and the best part was how encouraging you were to people like myself, who feel scared to jump in. I did and it was a blessing to me!!!! I hope you have a productive day. I am going to buy a collage from your shop.
jennifer griffin, on June 23, 2007 at 10:22:PM said:
Wow! What wonderful art arrived in the mail. I spent an hour just ooogling over everyone’s doodles and all of you are most talented!
Christi – you just out did yourself and I’m so glad I participated. Thank you for your herculean effort and count me in if there is another!
Thanks for arranging this swap… my doodles have arrived… I’ll post them soon on my blog… when I’ve got the camera back.. it’s gone on a school trip!!!
Diana Ryman, on June 28, 2007 at 11:13:PM said:
Chrysti-
Am concerned – did my envelope get held up for some reason? Your blog says they mailed on 6/16, but it is 6/28, late evening and still didn’t get them. It is only 2-3 days mail from you to Ohio….any ideas?
Diana Ryman, on June 29, 2007 at 9:00:PM said:
Hooray! My envelope finally came! Postmarked June 16 and everything and it took 13 days to make it to make it ALL THE WAY from NC to OH! Who’d a ever guessed? I love my cards! Thank you so much Chrysti for hostessing this fun swap and for giving me your ATC as well! And to Jonny Binkard, Robin Orewiler, Sharon Sears, Nerissa Alford, Linda Phillips, Jennifer Griffin, Samantha Harding, Joyce Cole, Kristin Chadwick and Susi Unupi for your doodles! It’s nice to know there are others out there who are addicted to doodling like I am!
Gillian McMurray, on July 12, 2007 at 8:03:AM said:
I received my Doodle ATCs this morning in the UK. They are all lovely. I am so pleased with them. They are like mini works of abstract art and deserve to be shown off. Thanks to everyone for taking part and to Chrysti for hosting. It was great fun.
Dawn Gold, on July 13, 2007 at 4:03:PM said:
I would just like to say that I have been enthralled by your blog and doodles, I found it because it was mentioned by a lady who had been inspired by you in the Creative Cards Yahoo Group.
Amazing and wonderful the way you have expressed yourself with your doodles and recorded them in your journal
Thanks for sharing Dawn
Creative, on October 5, 2007 at 2:34:AM said:
Very captivating. Abstract form of doodling and artistic.
Jennifer D., on October 18, 2007 at 11:04:AM said:
Just wondering if my atcs ever showed up…they never made their way back to me :( Thanks for any update you might have.
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Sketchplanet, on June 3, 2008 at 3:22:AM said:
I see a flickr photo not available sign on the post.
Judy, on March 12, 2009 at 3:59:AM said:
I am looking for a doodle artist to help me create some images for my website. I have a scented candle shop named Flaming Queen. The name is cheeky and I want my homepage to reflect that. I wish I have talent to draw, but I don’t. So I am calling artists out there and see if we can work together. Please email me at chichink@mac.com.
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Hi, what blog platform is this? Is it working for you or..? I would really like it if you could answer this question! Thanks!
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The motor is powerful enough to allow you to hit up to 35kmh on a 10.4ah battery that stays alive for 50km. With the fat Kenda tires and suspension fork, the bike does not need any pedal assistance to smoothly roll on even surfaces. The PAS provides five levels of assistance and even the first level is quite powerful. The fifth level will just blow you away with speed and torque and there is no way that you can pedal fast enough to meet any resistance.
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324-WH Panasonic LiPo. The bargain ebike of this bunch. This lightweight electric bike will cost you $1,650, including shipping from Australia. This ebike builder bought 50 of these fixie bikes from China, and does the motor conversions himself. Why is it so light? For one it is a fixie bike which means no gears and limited braking in order to make it simpler and lighter. Visit the Solar Bike Website
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With mountain bikes already sporting hefty price tags, the cost of adding an electric pedal assist motor might be enough to send the value-conscious rider's head spinning. Fear not! We created a chart to help you sort through which bike has the best performance to price ratio. Bikes that fall lower and further to the right, such as the Best Buy winning Giant Trance E+ 2 Pro, represent the best value.
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Awesome ebike for the price...one issue that should be addressed is that the front wheel on the fork is facing backwards as shown on the the picture and on the video...the fork needs to be turned around so the disk break on the bike should be on the left side so as you pedal and make turns your foot does not hit the tire...for shipping purposes it was turned around so to fit in the shipping box...any reputable bike shop will correct this and also make minor tuneup and adjustments as needed as this is new out of the box and isn't tuned up like new bikes purchased at bike store...it is not safe riding the bike with the front wheel fork backwards...I luv this bike...safe rideing to you...
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This thing is also kitted out with a full SRAM groupset, RockShox Yari RC front shocks, Custom Fox Float suspension at the rear and enormously punchy SRAM disc brakes at the front and rear. Fundamentally, it's a mighty off-road machine with pro-spec kit that introduces a new style of trail riding, allowing adrenaline junkies to ride further, climb harder and descend faster than ever before.
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I rubbed my eyes in astonishment as an elderly man shot up a steep path at high speed in the forests of Kusnachtertobels, just east of Lake Zurichsee. A faint high-frequency hum revealed that he was accelerating with more than just his own muscles. Once he came to a stop, he smiled mischievously at the faces of stunned bystanders. The man on this carbon-fiber E-bike is Jean-Pierre Schiltknecht, a 74 year-old avid mountain cyclist. The wily senior assured me he has been active with mountain cycling “Since the inception of the sport!”
Nakto City Electric Bike is designed for urban commuting, it is fast, comfortable and convenient. This is a perfect utility bike; you can use it to run errands, go to the grocery store, go to work, or just a leisure ride. It is equipped with all the features you would want for riding around town, such as LED headlight, a rear cargo rack, a cargo basket and a kickstand.
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In addition to this, it is easier to transport and store. It has a foldable design and with the lightweight design, you will find it more reliable. Other than this, the bike also features the Shimano 7-speed transmission system, which makes it elementary to shift the speed. The two-mode bike can function as an assisted bike and electric bike at the same time. It provides a longer runtime due to the 36V 8Ah lithium-ion battery.
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Speaking of which, if you're used to non-electric cycles, be aware that e-bikes are heavy and capped at 25kph or 15.5mph. In many cases, that means the bike starts to feel like its actively fighting against you, if you try to push the speed higher than that by pedalling. That's especially true with heavier bikes, for obvious reasons, and can take a while to get used to.
We’ve got to give you a Haibike downhill option considering their excellent history with downhill and enduro models. Downhill models are traditionally incredibly expensive, but the DwnHll 9.0 offers a slightly lower price point for a top mountain bike. The build is incredibly slack so you can rip downhill in ideal positioning. The PW-X motor makes climbing much more enjoyable as well.
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Well done! I started using hub motor 2 years ago when snow was killing my knees I am just a baby at 49pine years old. I asked my lbs guru why my knees were getting sore and he said you need to take a few days off. That was not an option so now I comute to work every day on e-bike and can still rip it up on the weekends with mykids on specialized pitch regular pedal power.I know the day will come when I need help on weekends to.
Moreover, the E-bike has an LCD display panel for easy and quick control of the bike. With the LED headlight, you will find it excellent for cycling even at night hours. It also features the 160 disc brakes system that provides the best all-weather stopping power. It is a great bike that features the 21- speed gear to boost the hill climbing power. The electric bike also has two working modes that include the pedal assistant mode and E-bike mode.
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XB-300-SLA X-Treme Electric Mountain Bicycle is a great bike for the novice as it is easy to ride with simple steps. It is an affordable bike with high-quality features that work on a motor of 300 watts and offers a speed up to 20 MP on a single charge. It takes up to 4 hours to fully recharge the battery for the next use. The comfortable padded seat, 18-inch steel frame, 7-speed tourney gear, 24V lead acid battery, power assist system, and steel front forks are a few features that make it popular.
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250-WH of Hobby King LiPo, $3,000 spent in parts with a carbon frame (It would be $1,000 cheaper and only 2 pounds heavier with an aluminum frame). This bike was home-built by Kepler who decided to sell his modified 50mph Stealth Bomber and build this bike with the funds. Read our article on the Super Commuter and Keplers decision to go with a lightweight ebike.
One of the primary purposes of an e-bike is transferring power from the motor to the drivetrain to "support" your regular pedal stroke. All of the different motors do this in relatively the same way, although subtle differences in their power output make them all feel slightly different. It is important to note that all of these systems work impressively well; the differences between them are relatively subtle but noticeable. We tested this metric primarily based on feel, as opposed to any sort of scientific measurement, and our testers could all notice the differences between the various models. All of the e-bikes we tested have several support modes offering varying levels of pedal assist support.
None of this would matter if the VanMoof Electrified S2 (and its close relative the X2) wasn't fun to ride, but it is a blast. Like the Brompton, it pulls off the neat trick of powering you along but giving the illusion that you're doing the work, reacting quickly and cleverly to the speed of your pedalling and the difficulty of any incline you're on.
Prodeco V5 Phantom X Lite 9 Speed Folding Electric Bicycle is a lightweight and well-balanced bike that is suitable for all adventurers, campers, and sports enthusiasts. It gives an outstanding and smooth performance with a 300-watt motor. It is an eye-catching bike that looks fabulous in black color. Plus, you can carry it with you by simply folding it.
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With most ebikes the choice of motor defines aspects of the frame geometry and to a lesser degree the suspension characteristics of the bike. Not with new Rock Mountain Altitude Powerplay. With its bespoke motor Rocky has been able to design an ebike that reflects the ride quality of a highly evolved 150mm trail bike. With instant power pickup, extended battery life and streamline proportions it’s not just the handling of the Rocky that will get you charged up for riding. It’s the best bike in this test by some margin, but we had an issue with the motor momentarily cutting and raising questions over it’s reliability.
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There are many places in the U.S. where you can legally and responsibly ride e-MTB's, and take it from us; they are a heck of a lot of fun. Check with local land management agencies to find out where you are allowed to use an electric mountain bike before taking to the trails. One thing we do know, e-MTB's can be used on any trails that are legal for motorized use, so we took advantage of the wealth of OHV trails in the greater Lake Tahoe area for our testing purposes and had more fun doing it than any of us expected.
While we liked the value, component specification, and versatile all-around performance of the Trance E+ 2, it wasn't all gold stars. E-bikes are heavy, that is a given, but the Trance is a little heavier than most at 52 lbs 3 oz. This weight is one of the reasons this bike feels somewhat sluggish at times, especially in low-speed sections of trail. It also has mediocre e-bike controls. Sure, they are functional, but the all-in-one control's display in the form of small LED lights is difficult to see by the left grip and near impossible to read when riding in bright light conditions. Beyond that, we feel the Trance E+ 2 is a quality e-bike offered at a reasonable price.
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Hi @Sharonerd , Lifespan is relative to the quality of kit you buy, type of battery, how you're using it and consistent regular maintenance (like checking tire pressure, lube the chain, etc.) What's your goal for the kit? I'm a fan of conversions when you're wanting to upgrade a bike that you really like, that fits you & your lifestyle just right. For instance, one of the EBikes that I ride is a hand built folding bike, the Airnimal, with smaller 24" wheels which better fits my 5'4" height and shorter leg length. This bike has a BionX kit on it, so the final product is lighter than any ebike on the market.
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The e-bike is driven by a large capacity lithium-ion battery. This makes it suitable for long hours of the ride. It also has two working modes. The assisted bike and e-bike mode; hence when it runs out of battery, you can pedal to complete the journey. It has been built from the best quality of aluminum alloy frames to ensure that it provides years of service. The wheels are also large and provide excellent movement on all surfaces.
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Yes, financing is available for every QuietKat electric mountain bike. We’ve partnered with Klarna to offer you flexible financing options that let you pay for your purchase over time when approved. Simply add items to your cart, proceed to checkout, and after filling out your billing address and credit card information, select the Klarna Slice It option. You’ll know whether you’re approved in seconds and can then complete your purchase.
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With the multi-colors now available, every user will definitely find their favorite picks. It has fat tires, which makes it ideal for riding on all kind of terrains. It has been built from durable frames, which makes it suitable for supporting up to 260 lbs. Other than this, the bike moves at a speed of 23 MPH and with the Shimano 7-gears shifting system, you will find it great for your cycling needs. The comfortable bike has an adjustable saddle that can be adjusted to suit your height.
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There's a lot to like about the Giant Trance E+ 2 Pro starting with its reasonable price. Electric mountain bikes are expensive, and the Trance E+ 2 comes in under $5K with a nice component specification. The build is one reason why this bike performs so well on the trail, with a beefy fork, plush suspension, meaty tires, and powerful brakes that can handle the heavy weight of this rig. It's also got a nice modern geometry that helps it perform very well on the descents while still maintaining reasonable climbing abilities. It has a 504Wh battery and proved to be one of the most efficient in using that power in our distance range testing. There's no lack of power on tap when you need it, and it delivers it smoothly with little motor noise. Giant finishes it all off with nice integration of the battery and motor into the frame design for a super clean look.
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Equipped with a high performance motor, this Ancheer Power Plus electric mountain bike has won accolades for its superior performance and unmatched reliability. It is built with a solid Aluminum alloy frame to keep it strong yet lightweight enough to maneuver with easily. It is everything one would want to get through any terrain and is excellent in every way imaginable.
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Merida has done an amazing job with the EOne-Sixty 900E. It has a fun, playfully ride quality that few ebikes can match, and the price is simply unbeatable. It’s also the only sub 50lb bike in this test, and that’s without a single strand of carbon. It could be even better though. With a two degree slacker head angle and a little more power from the Shimano motor the EOne-Sixty would be able to keep up on the climbs, only to drop the competition on every descent. The biggest issue though, is actually getting hold of one.
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London-based author of children's fiction and non-fiction. Offers entertaining and informative talks for schools
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I very much enjoy visiting schools, giving talks about creative writing. I tailor my talks to the needs of individual schools, and can speak to individual classes or entire year groups, as preferred. In these illustrated PowerPoint talks I explain how I became a writer and talk about the books I've written, about the inspiration behind them and how I researched and wrote them. I talk about my experience as an author and how I go about planning, researching and writing my books. I also offer advice about plotting, character creation, dialogue, atmosphere and other tools that writers use.
I am currently touring schools helping to turn the story creation process into a live event. I am doing this in partnership with Fiction Express –https://www.fictionexpress.co.uk/ – a book platform that connects students with professional authors, encouraging reading for pleasure through the fun co-creation of stories. The workshops involve a class reading of the latest chapter, a live vote, a comprehension quiz and a Q&A, concluding with personally signed book covers or print editions of my other Fiction Express titles. Please contact me for further details, including prices.
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Can an everyday garment double as a creative canvas? Can something as simple as a T-shirt leverage Louisiana’s popular culture as a form of personal expression? In Baton Rouge, Monroe and New Orleans, creative companies are combining local artistry and contemporary graphic design with creative marketing tactics to tap into the pride Louisianans feel for their unique culture. And they’re finding an audience. The medium: A wearable, affordable billboard that is highly visible, personal and accessible to folks all across the spectrum of Louisiana life—the T-shirt.
Anyone who has taken a vacation knows that tourism and T-shirts go hand-in-hand. Since the early ‘fifties, when companies first started printing logos and other graphics on them, T-shirts have been serving as a cheap, accessible and portable means of promoting the places we’ve been and the things we believe. And as the thickets of T-shirts hanging outside souvenir shops up and down Decatur Street illustrate, New Orleans—long a destination for travelers—has taken maximum advantage of visitors’ willingness to flaunt a fleur-de-lis or a ‘Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler’ T-shirt when they get back home. But what about more subtle expressions of Louisiana’s unique culture, calibrated for the local market? For that you might go in search of a company like Dirty Coast—the brainchild of two Louisiana-proud locals whose T-shirt statements tap into deeper veins of local culture, hometown pride and post-Katrina recovery, with a healthy dose of self-deprecation to boot.
DIRTY COAST: New Orleans
Walk into Dirty Coast’s store on Magazine Street and you’ll be greeted by tiles bearing the company’s designs arrayed around the walls. Taken together they present a highly stylized celebration of New Orleans culture—both its obvious and the decidedly more obscure elements. Here are designs that fly the flag for the city’s neighborhoods, cuisine, music, weather, sports, current events, and many more. And while some of the symbols Dirty Coast designers employ will be familiar to out-of-state visitors, many more will not, and one gets the sense that appealing to bead-wearing tourists is not the most important plank in the company’s platform. Owners Patrick Brower and Blake Haney started Dirty Coast after Katrina, in response to Haney’s observation that most of the T-shirts sold in the city really didn’t have much to say about New Orleans’ hometown pride. Haney, a graphic designer who evacuated to Lafayette, printed a run of bumper stickers bearing the by-now familiar maxim to “Be a New Orleanian, Wherever You Are.” The popularity of that simple message convinced Haney and Brower that there was an audience for clever designs expressing solidarity for a beleaguered city. So with New Orleans’ deep well of local idiosyncrasies to draw from they focused their designs on unique local notions, quirks, concepts, cultural icons and current events. And they always keep an ear to the ground for topical subjects sure to capture the attention of a local audience, even at the expense of mystifying tourists. For example, it didn’t take Dirty Coast long to come out with a “The Some-Times Picayune” shirt after the paper announced that it would cease daily publication. The “New Orleans is for Pie Lovers” design won’t mean much to those unaware that the iconic Hubig’s Pie factory burned down early last summer. A classic design, “River. Lake. Uptown. Downtown” depicts not just the waterways and wards that serve as the city’s landmarks but also the idiosyncratic local habit of invoking them to explain the direction to things. The popular “New Orleans. So far behind, we’re ahead,” riffs on the classic Evolution of Man series, but ends with man having reverted to apedom … and wearing Mardi Gras beads. Sure you could read it as a self-deprecating comment on New Orleans’ laid-back pace. But as Haney explains in a post on the company’s Facebook page, there’s another angle: “[So Far Behind] has so much meaning that only a New Orleanian can truly understand. And it continues to prove itself as a truism. While the rest of the country ‘progressed’ and moved to the burbs, tore apart its historic city centers, pushed for big business, we stayed the same. And now everyone wishes for what we have... the walkability, the authenticity, the creative class.”
By not shying away from subtlety and topical subject matter, Dirty Coast’s tongue-in-cheek T-shirt designs have captured a strong following both within the city limits and further afield. In recent years the company has branched out, presenting designs that celebrate Louisiana culture beyond the city limits. There’s a ‘Keep Our Beds Fertile’ shirt for fans of the Louisiana oyster fishery (and playful innuendo); and a ‘Crawfish Pi’ shirt (a giant Pi symbol assembled out of mudbugs) that’s as relevant in French Settlement as in the French Quarter.
As Brower explained, “We have been working with local printers and creatives to create a series of designs that folks can wear proudly, while poking fun at ourselves, proclaiming our local identity, and showing some good-natured protest. We pride ourselves on that.”
COLLEGE DISTRICT: Baton Rouge
If Dirty Coast taps into public sentiment to inspire its designs, Baton Rouge’s College District is a full-blown mining operation. “Crowd-sourced collegiate apparel” is how founder Jared Loftus describes their process, which invites members of college communities (LSU and others) to submit T-shirt designs, then asks an online audience to vote for its favorites. “Someone submits a design,” Loftus explained. “We vet and curate it and post it on the Web site. People give it a grade—A through F—and tell us whether they’d buy it or not. Then, if your design gets printed, you get paid.”
This meritocratic approach came to Loftus when he was running a brick-and-mortar store selling LSU-licensed apparel near campus, which he opened in 2004. “People would come in saying ‘I’ve got an awesome idea for a shirt …’ ” Obviously there are benefits all-round: College District gets to tap into a deep pool of college-spirit-fueled design talent, and anyone with a creative design idea has a chance to present it to a huge (and hugely motivated) audience. The approach also allows College District to solicit and test different designs quickly, meaning lots of different shirts—and custom designs for individual games.
Loftus said that the company received almost a hundred design submissions relating to the LSU/Texas A&M game on October 20, so if you see anyone strutting a purple-and-gold shirt with the message “The Original A&M/Founded 1860 (accept no imitations),” you know where they got it. And it’s a safe bet that College District’s “Imagine a World without Alabama” shirt (sporting a U.S. map with an empty void where Alabama ought to be) will be selling well through November 3. “For us it’s all about being able to move fast,” explained Loftus. We chase the demand. If I had to put a word on the style, it would be ‘Timely. Whatever’s current.’” Some of the most interesting designs incorporate crossover pop-culture references, too. One submission up for voting on the company’s website—a Tiger head on a black background—departs from the usual purple-and-gold with a rainbow color scheme that mimics the legendary Apple Rainbow logo. The slogan: “Geaux Different.”
“We try to make [our shirts] a little more smart than the normal LSU shirt,” said Loftus. “We’re limited in what we can come up with ourselves, so if we open it up to everyone, just imagine what we can have to work with!”
MOJO OF LOUISIANA:
West Monroe
On the subject of thinking differently, one family-run T-shirt design company has been making a living out of homegrown creative quirk for more than twenty years. From their West Monroe studio, family members Doug Kennedy, John Kennedy, and Kim Kennedy-Bryan’s Mojo of Louisiana has attracted an international audience the old-fashioned way: They let their environment guide them. The Kennedys take their cues from a Southern country aesthetic—old-fashioned advertisements and retro elements of a small-town Louisiana upbringing—then imbue them with wry humor and a worldview widened by plenty of international travel. The result: a hip, sophisticated celebration of Southern country cool that seems somehow analogous to the alt-country music revival of recent years.
Doug Kennedy, graphic artist and the illustrator behind the Pirate Pete series of children’s books (created with sister Kim Kennedy-Bryan), hand-draws all Mojo’s T-shirt designs—a remarkably diverse catalog that ranges from highly detailed woodcuts of ducks and deer, to fake advertisements for subjects that vary from old time Gospel revivals to crop dusters. “I went to school at Louisiana Tech in graphics so long ago there weren’t any computers. So I got good at pen and ink and all those old-school graphics,” explained Doug. He and his siblings were raised in Monroe with a mom who was a painter. The family also had a country place—property in Calhoun about halfway between Monroe and Ruston. “My dad got it in ’69 or ’70,” recalled Doug. “And it’s been very important for me creatively. It’s been part of everything. When I go there it’s just fantastic to work in. That’s where I do all the hardcore thinking that goes into Mojo.”
As well as Monroe and Calhoun, the Kennedys had an uncle in New Orleans. “So we went down there a lot,” recalled Doug, “And I got into the edgier feel of New Orleans and the circus-y, voodoo element of the history there.” That interest adds a dash of wry irreverence to many of Doug’s images, and designs like “Mojo’s Cannibal Barbecue,” “Skullhead” and “Sure Cure for the Blues” all put one in mind of those nineteenth-century ads for things like Smith’s Genuine Snake Oil Elixir and other medicine show quackery. Other designs work as clever in-jokes for locals. Like Mojo’s “Airport Lounge” shirt, that recalls the upstairs bar in the Monroe Airport’s Delta terminal where all the local kids had their first under-aged drink in high school; or a “Ouachita River Party Barge” shirt depicting a barge in full-swing, all the way down to the gators, old tires and the sunken drunk on the river bottom.
Reminiscence. Authenticity. Home—These are the themes that animate Mojo’s designs. As Doug Kennedy says, “To me there’s just a romantic haunting that goes on in Louisiana. It comes up like a smell or a feeling. Then it just falls into things.”
In a world of on-demand machine printing and crowd-sourced design, Mojo remains resolutely tactile, relying on personal experience, superior artistic skills, and a hand-printed process that guarantees that no two shirts are ever exactly the same. From an old building on West Monroe’s Trenton Street that was variously a cotton exchange, hotel and whorehouse before the Kennedys started making art in it, the company screen-prints designs onto their tees by hand—unusual in an era where most T-shirts are printed on massive presses capable of churning out ten thousand shirts a day.
“It’s all about the way you handle the squeegee, with different pressure and angle on the canvas you get different effects,” explained John Kennedy. “Even if the print isn’t perfect there’s beauty in that, too. To me, nothing looks cheaper than a perfect t-shirt. There’s no love involved, it’s not a craft, nor an art. It’s just a commodity.”
In all, John estimates that Mojo produces around fifteen thousand shirts a year—a fraction of the number created by big commercial printing outfits. Many find their way outside of Louisiana; Mojo’s hand-printed shirts are stocked in boutiques around the country and internationally, too. “We send a lot of shirts to Japan,” noted John. The Japanese ‘get it.’ They love the idea of something being hand-crafted.”
Asked why he thinks shirts decorated with old fashioned cameos and ads for Mojo Swamp Juice resonate with hip kids in Chicago or Tokyo, John speculates, “I’m wondering if it’s just Louisiana being removed from what’s become such a homogenized world. In the world of design, [the designers] all become influenced by each other. They all move in the same circles. They’re in L.A., New York, but there’s not any fresh new take on things. Instead of stepping out and taking a different approach, there’s a lot of inbreeding going on. You see it in graphic design, apparel design, handbags; everywhere. But when we do something down here, we’re influenced by what’s around us. The state is poor. We know how to do a lot with a little. That bolsters the creative juices. It gives you a lot to work with.”
So Mojo’s designs might draw from a retro Louisiana aesthetic, but they’re always looking for new ways to present it. Latest project: perfume. “It’s a unisex cologne,” explained John, “created for us by a French perfumer who has done fragrances for Cartier, Armani, Burberry. But in very Mojo-style packaging. Our graphics are going to be on the packaging, and we’re not selling in traditional venues. We’ve made these leather bags—like an old medicine man would carry. We hand-sew them to carry the perfume. It’s a traveling sales kit!”
Just one more way of celebrating Louisiana’s unique culture and sharing it with the world.
Details.Details.Details
Dirty Coast
5631 Magazine Street, New Orleans
(504) 324-3475 • dirtycoast.com
College District/Tiger District
(225) 250-1100 • tigerdistrict.com • collegedistrict.com
Mojo of Louisiana
206 Trenton Street, West Monroe
(318) 387-7891 • shopmojo.com
In Baton Rouge, find Mojo T-shirts at Noelie Harmon
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Castlegar civic strike: Solidarity still strong
CASTLEGAR – Civic workers out on strike for a month say morale remains strong, despite the City’s refusal so far to restart talks.
The first-ever walkout by 34 members of CUPE Local 2262 has picket lines in place at Castlegar City Hall, the treatment plant, public works yard and rink. “We continue to reach out to the City to get back to the bargaining table,” says CUPE 2262 strike committee member Brad Ashton, adding that “the community has been very supportive and recognizes the need for city workers to stand up to the City on the outstanding issues of employee representation and job security.”
The union has been trying to get the City back to the bargaining table to reach a new agreement to replace the contract that expired in February 2013.
City Hall payroll clerk Jo Petit is a case in point. She says that after a month on the line, “we’re frustrated by the city’s refusal to talk, but we’re encouraged by the amount of community support. We get out there and people are honking and waving. We talk to people coming to City Hall and most respect our picket line – I think the secret to keeping our morale up is that we stay positive and we don’t bash, even though we have been frustrated by much of the misinformation put out by the city. ”
Petit adds that being on the line gives city workers a chance “to discuss our issues with people and remind them that we want to be back at work, especially at this time of year.”
Roads and Parks foreman Al Cawte agrees saying, “morale has been buoyed by tonnes of public support, not just in honks and waves but in friends and neighbours actually coming down to the picket lines and bringing us baked goods, coffee, soup - even firewood.” Other unions have also pitched in with donations and the Carpenters’ Union even built us a warming hut.
Public support is key, says Cawte, “because we are a public-driven workforce. It lets us know we are on the right track, even though we want to be back at work doing the jobs we are trained to do and providing the public with the levels of service they are accustomed to.”
“What has to happen, I think, is that City Council has to realize that we need to be at the bargaining table to hammer out a deal – and that continued discussion could find us a solution.” The faster we can focus on productive talks and get back to work, the faster we can start working through our issues and repairing the relationship.”
Cawte has been working for the city for close to 25 years and says he never thought there would have to be a strike. “In the past we always managed to find enough common ground to settle – this time there was no last-minute deal.”
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Municipal employees in East Broughton reach a tentative agreement
Strike vote by support employees of the Université du Québec à Montréal
First collective agreement signed at the Régie de gestion des matières résiduelles de Manicouagan
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CVS Health And Breathe California Announce Statewide Finalists In Student Film Contest On Youth Smoking
Eight PSAs chosen in first statewide contest to promote a tobacco-free generation
With $100,000 contribution from CVS Health, student PSAs helping to increase awareness and reduce youth smoking in California
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Feb. 16, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Student filmmakers from high schools and middle schools across the state received regional honors in the third annual Anti-Tobacco Video Contest for the Public Service Announcements (PSA) produced to raise awareness of the dangers of tobacco. The contest, organized by Breathe California as part of a $100,000 grant from CVS Health, invited middle- and high-school students in Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Jose and San Francisco to submit a PSA video on their vision of the first tobacco-free generation.
Statewide winners will be announced on Saturday, February 25 in Sacramento as part of the Breathe Youth Media Awards, a unique youth choice awards program that aims to engage teens in anti-tobacco initiatives, such as rating tobacco use in popular movies, and educational opportunities around the dangers of smoking and e-cigarettes.
"The PSA videos are a great way for students to have conversations about the dangers of tobacco with their teachers and peers in their own words and to imagine what the first tobacco-free generation will look like," said Kori Titus, CEO, Breathe California of Sacramento-Emigrant Trails. "We are very grateful to CVS Health for their support and leadership in helping to deliver the first tobacco-free generation."
Of the 50 entries submitted for the contest, the following middle- and high-school level PSAs were chosen as regional finalists and have been entered into the statewide Breathe Youth Media Awards:
Naveet Khaira, Jasminder Mann, Jennifer Roberts; Christian Brothers High School (Sacramento)
Matt Grossman, Josh Davis, Ben Vechter, Gabrielle Ferraro, Vincent Seyford, Derek Gale; Rio Americano High School (Sacramento)
Tasneem Imbabi, Bella Simanhadi, Juliette Lopez, Anna Gorban, Kaitlyn Valdez; Gold River Discovery Center (Gold River)
Liron Day, Manan Chopra; Dublin High School (Dublin)
Sophie Azriel; Sunnyvale Middle School (Sunnyvale)
Carlos Martinez, Elida Hernandez, Alondra Hernandez, Marvin Segovia, Mikhael Torres, Pedro Hernandez, Juliana Rodriguez, Afram Malki, Bryant Torres, Xochill Navarro, Leslie Morales, Alondra Hernande; Robert Fulton College Preparatory School (Van Nuys)
Lorcan McSharp, John Lamm, Alex Kong; Northgate High School (Walnut Creek)
Courtney Villasenor, Donovan Toney, Savanna Soto, Samantha De Alba, Alisa Moran, Logan Torosian, Angela Wesson, Nicholas Jackson, Alondra Carrillo, Esperanza Ayon, Leslie Alonso; McKee Middle School (Bakersfield)
CVS Health's support for Breathe California affiliates is part of Be The First, the company's five-year, $50 million initiative to help deliver the first tobacco-free generation and extend the company's commitment to helping people lead tobacco-free lives. With support and funding through CVS Health and the CVS Health Foundation, Be The First supports comprehensive education, advocacy, tobacco control and healthy behavior programming delivered by a group of best-in-class partner organizations.
"Tobacco use, especially among our youth, is one of the most pressing public health issues that we face today," said Eileen Howard Boone, senior vice president of Corporate Social Responsibility and Philanthropy at CVS Health. "We're proud to support Breathe California whose mission is to promote a tobacco-free generation and we look forward to continuing our work with them to harness the passion of young people to make an impact on the issues they care about."
In addition to the PSA contest, the grant provided by CVS Health will help each of the Breathe chapters expand their youth prevention training and education programming. Throughout the state, the Breathe affiliates will work to reduce the impact of lung disease through prevention, education, advocacy and patient services, as well as help to shape policies that support a healthier and safer California. To view the winning local PSAs, please visit http://bit.ly/2lQdheJ.
For more information about Be The First and CVS Health's commitment to tobacco-free living, please visit www.cvshealth.com/bethefirst.
CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) is a pharmacy innovation company helping people on their path to better health. Through its more than 9,700 retail locations, more than 1,100 walk-in medical clinics, a leading pharmacy benefits manager with nearly 90 million plan members, a dedicated senior pharmacy care business serving more than one million patients per year, expanding specialty pharmacy services, and a leading stand-alone Medicare Part D prescription drug plan, the company enables people, businesses and communities to manage health in more affordable and effective ways. This unique integrated model increases access to quality care, delivers better health outcomes and lowers overall health care costs. Find more information about how CVS Health is shaping the future of health at https://www.cvshealth.com.
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The CyberX-Files – Issue #7
Welcome to issue #7 of The CyberX-Files!
In this issue we summarize an in-depth article about NotPetya by Andy Greenberg of Wired magazine, who’ll soon be publishing a book on the Sandworm hacking team that was also behind the Ukrainian grid attacks of 2015 and 2016.
We also cover the North Korean hackers behind WannaCry; ICS zero-day vulnerabilities recently discovered by CyberX’s threat intelligence team; and DoE and DHS news related to grid security.
We’re also excited to announce that CyberX and one of our clients, the CISO of a global CPG manufacturer, will be presenting at the Palo Alto Networks IGNITE Europe conference, in a session titled “Effectively Detecting & Preventing Threats to Your ICS/SCADA Network.”
The session will describe the organizational and technological challenges of integrating IT and OT security in the corporate SOC, and how the integration of CyberX and Palo Alto Networks enables security teams to rapidly change policies and immediately block sources of malicious ICS/SCADA traffic identified by the CyberX platform.
Also, at the ICS Cyber Security Conference in Atlanta, CyberX and Palo Alto Networks will be offering a free, ½-day hands-on workshop on ICS/SCADA security.
Enjoy this issue and please drop me a line at [email protected] with any feedback!
In This Newsletter
The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History
U.S. Accuses North Korea of Plot to Hurt Economy as Spy Is Charged in Sony Hack
DOE to Vet Grid’s Ability to Reboot After a Cyberattack
Schneider Electric Modicon Vulnerability Impacts ICS Operation in Industrial Settings
The Simplest and Most Comprehensive Way to Address ICS Risk
DHS unveils National Risk Management Center
Flaws in Emerson Workstations Allow Lateral Movement
CyberX’s Upcoming Events
ICS/SCADA/OT Security News
NotPetya, the most devastating malware since the invention of the Internet, spread within hours from a Ukrainian software firm to countless machines around the world, from the British manufacturer of Lysol to a chocolate factory in Tasmania.
NotPetya was propelled by two powerful hacker exploits working in tandem: EternalBlue, which was stolen from the NSA and takes advantage of an SMB vulnerability to remotely execute code on any unpatched machine, and a password-stealing tool known as Mimikatz. Once hackers gain initial access, Mimikatz pulls its passwords out of RAM and uses them to hack into other machines with the same credentials, automatically hopping from one machine to the next.
“Almost everyone who has studied NotPetya, however, agrees on one point: that it could happen again or even reoccur on a larger scale. Global corporations are simply too interconnected, information security too complex, attack surfaces too broad to protect against state-trained hackers bent on releasing the next world-shaking worm,” says Thomas Rid, a political science professor at Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies.
US intelligence agencies have confirmed that Russia’s GRU was responsible for launching the malicious code, which resulted in financial sanctions by the US Treasury.
According to Cisco, “Anyone who thinks this was accidental is engaged in wishful thinking. This was a piece of malware designed to send a political message: If you do business in Ukraine, bad things are going to happen to you.”
Dozens of global companies like Maersk – the world’s largest shipping conglomerate, with close to a fifth of the entire world’s shipping capacity – were affected. Maersk lost $300 million when tens of thousands of trucks were turned away from its port terminals, no new bookings were made, and the company was obliged to compensate customers for sending their cargo last minute via alternative companies.
Merck, whose ability to manufacture some drugs was temporarily shut down by NotPetya, lost $870 million. FedEx, whose European subsidiary TNT Express was crippled in the attack and required months to recover some data, took a $400 million blow. French construction giant Saint-Gobain lost around the same amount. Reckitt Benckiser, the British manufacturer of Lysol and Durex condoms, lost $129 million, and Mondelēz, the owner of chocolate-maker Cadbury, took a $188 million hit. Untold numbers of victims without public shareholders counted their losses in secret.
Read the full story in Wired
The Justice Department officially charged a North Korean spy for computer fraud in a 174-page criminal complaint detailing how WannaCry caused hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of damage to the global economy and crippled Britain’s health care system.
The attackers used Dynamic DNS (DDNS) to embed IP addresses in the malware that could easily be changed for contacting command-and-control servers, compared to using hardcoded IP addresses.
The complaint describes a team of hackers from North Korea’s main intelligence agency who also attacked Sony Pictures Entertainment, and stole $81 million from the Bangladeshi central bank. The main motivation seems to be North Korea’s shortage of cash and a desire to control American corporate behavior through fear.
The attack on Sony Pictures wiped out 70% of the studio’s computer capability, erasing all the data on about half the company’s personal computers and more than half of its servers. Sony was left without voice mail, email or production systems, essentially crippling operations and leading to the resignation of the studio’s co-chairman. The crime revealed how vulnerable the United States has become to cybercriminals and how malicious actors can remotely cripple American corporations.
The DPK targeted victims with spear-phishing emails purporting to be from Facebook, Google, and recruiters.
American defense contractors such as Lockheed Martin were also targeted.
Read the full story in The New York Times
E&E News
The DoE will test the power grid’s ability to recover from outages caused by cyberattacks in a new exercise this autumn dubbed “Liberty Eclipse”.
The week-long stress test will simulate the painstaking process of re-energizing the power grid (“blackstart”) while squaring off against a simultaneous cyberattack on electric, oil and natural gas infrastructure.
Quote from grid reliability consultant: “There are obviously some cybersecurity concerns, from both sides … the natural gas is pumped up the pipeline by electric pumps. From an interdependency standpoint: Is everybody working together, and does everybody understand where the critical paths might be?”
Power companies rely on diesel generators and other blackstart sources to choreograph “cranking paths” for bringing the grid on its feet. Once enough pockets of electricity have been brought online, operators can sync up the islands with the wider grid. The process can take many hours, even in the most favorable circumstances.
A leaked administration memo this spring raised concerns that gas pipelines could be more susceptible to pipeline attacks — a theory officials said they would test with the new exercise.
During Liberty Eclipse, DOE plans to incorporate simulated cranking paths provided by DARPA, which has been developing ways to speed up grid restoration following a major cyberattack. The exercise will include replicas of substation equipment so the utility industry can rehearse how it would handle a crippling cyberattack aimed at blocking participants from restoring power.
Read the full story in E&E News
A security vulnerability discovered in Schneider Electric Modicon M221 controllers has the potential to severely disrupt industrial equipment and networks.
The vulnerability could allow unauthorized users to remotely reboot the controller using crafted programming protocol frames, preventing the devices from communicating with the ICS network, and leaving operators without means to control the industrial environment. This could result in factory downtime and further compromises of the ICS network.
Schneider Electric released a security update to resolve the flow and it can be found through their Software Update tool.
In January, researchers from FireEye revealed the existence of purpose-built ICS malware targeting Triconex SIS controllers. The Triton malware was able to tamper with emergency shutdown systems and was described as “part of a complex malware infection scenario.”
Read the full story in ZDNet
CyberX In The News
Brilliance Security Magazine
At Black Hat 2018, CyberX’s VP of Industrial Cybersecurity Phil Neray discussed the state of OT network security and how it’s changed in recent years. CyberX was a pioneer in this segment, you might say “doing IIoT before IIoT was cool.”
For many years CISOs and corporate security organizations were only responsible for corporate IT networks, while the security of production networks was overseen by operational personnel. In many organizations, this responsibility has now shifted to the corporate security department that has the expertise to address sophisticated cyberattacks like those driven by nation-states.
Industrial networks contain a complex mix of specialized protocols, including proprietary protocols developed for specific families of industrial automation devices.
Protocols were originally designed when robust security features such as authentication were not even a requirement. In those days, it was assumed that simply having connectivity to a device was sufficient authentication.
Industrial organizations have historically lacked any visibility into OT network activity and assets because IT-focused monitoring tools are typically “blind” to specialized OT protocols.
When it comes to protecting these systems, CyberX believes a new approach is required. It must be have zero impact on OT networks and devices. It must be heterogeneous and OT vendor-agnostic, with broad support for specialized ICS protocols and control system equipment from all ICS vendors. And finally, it must be integrated with existing SOC workflows and security tools, including centralized SIEMS, ticketing, firewalls, and security analytics solutions.
Read the full story in Brilliance Security Magazine
The Secretary of the DHS announced the creation of a National Risk Management Center that will “identify, assess and prioritize efforts to reduce risks to national critical functions which enable national and economic anxiety.”
Speaking at the DHS Cybersecurity Summit in New York, Nielsen said, “A Category 5 hurricane has been forecast. And now we must prepare.”
Phil Neray, VP of Industrial Cybersecurity at CyberX, praised the government for “putting more focus on coordination and information sharing,” but added, “until we define minimum security standards for critical infrastructure, we’ll continue to be vulnerable to nation-state threats.”
The center appears to go one step beyond what the FBI created back in 1996 with InfraGard, which took an independent chapter-driven approach linked to local FBI field offices.
Read more in SC Magazine
CyberX Security
Research & Technology News
Several critical and high severity vulnerabilities in Emerson DeltaV DCS Workstations were discovered by CyberX security researchers.
CVE-2018-14795 is described as an improper path validation issue that allows an attacker to replace executable files.
“We were able to analyze the protocol and issue specially crafted commands in order to achieve remote code execution using that vulnerability,” said CyberX VP of Research David Atch. “The vulnerability is a result of a coding error, which means that default Windows security mechanisms such as ASLR and DEP won’t prevent the remote code execution.”
The two other “high severity” flaws will allow attackers to move laterally within the targeted network and possibly take control of other DeltaV Workstations.
Emerson has provided patches for each of the affected DeltaV Workstation versions.
Read the full story in SecurityWeek
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Started from the bottom now he’s here
MAGGIE QUINLAN, Evergreen reporter
Growing up, the odds were stacked against Isaiah Wade but he persevered and carved out a path for himself through basketball. Wade was born and raised in Minneapolis. He became homeless in the fourth grade and he said he didn’t get to have a childhood. Wade didn’t find a way out of his situation...
Quarterback Connor Neville to transfer from WSU
DYLAN GREENE, Evergreen deputy sports editor
Redshirt sophomore quarterback Connor Neville announced in a tweet Monday that he will transfer from WSU. Neville tweeted out a photo of an email he received from the NCAA confirming that his name had been entered into the NCAA's transfer portal. In the tweet, Neville said he would be eligible to...
Baseball drops fifth straight game
ISAAC SEMMLER, Evergreen reporter
WSU baseball lost its fifth straight game 6-5 Sunday against No. 9 Arizona State in Tempe. The Cougars (6-13, 0-3) loaded the bases with one out in the ninth inning but were unable to bring the tying run across the plate as the team fell to the Sun Devils (19-0, 3-0) by one run for the second stra...
Cougars top Matadors in series opener
After being on the road for three straight weeks, Cougar baseball returned to Pullman on Friday where they picked up a 3-1 win against Cal State Northridge in their home opener. Freshman right-handed pitcher Brandon White got the nod for WSU (5-7). He’s been nothing short of phenomenal this se...
WSU welcomes Matadors to Pullman for home opener
SAM GRANT, Evergreen reporter
Cougar baseball returns home for the first time this season to host California State University, Northridge in a three-game series starting Friday. WSU (4-7) will be looking for its second series win of the season against the Matadors (7-6) after taking two out of three games from University of Nevada,...
Cougs battle Beavs in Beasley
LEXI MCGONEGLE, Evergreen reporter
WSU men’s basketball is set to finish its last game of the regular season against Oregon State on Saturday in Beasley Coliseum. The Cougars (11-19, 4-13) come into this matchup against the Beavers (17-12, 9-8) after they suffered a 72-61 loss against Oregon on Wednesday night. Currently on a...
WSU falls to Oregon in Beasley Coliseum
WSU men’s basketball dropped their fourth straight game Wednesday night when they fell to Oregon 72-61. Head Coach Ernie Kent wasn’t thrilled about the performance of his team tonight. “As a team we didn’t play really well,” Kent said. “We had too many breakdowns and it cost us. When...
Cougs look to take NCAA Title
KATIE ARCHER, Evergreen reporter
For most WSU track and field athletes, the indoor season ended at the MPSF Indoor Championships, but for two Cougars the indoor season will end this weekend at the NCAA Indoor Championships. Mile runner redshirt junior Paul Ryan and 60-meter sprinter junior Emmanuel Wells Jr. will represent WSU on...
Pac-12 men’s basketball power rankings — Week 9
SHAWN P. O'CONNOR, Evergreen columnist
Arizona State (Last: 2) In an up-and-down week for Arizona State, they fell to the Ducks before beating the Beavers and will look to defend their second seed when they play Arizona next week. Washington (Last: 1) The Huskies dropped a stunner at Cal and bar...
Cougs shine bright in NFL Combine
ALEX BIVIANO, Evergreen columnist
Three Cougs participated in the NFL combine that took place over the weekend. The record-breaking 2018 season elevated the status of all three, making this year’s NFL draft one to watch for Coug fans everywhere. Redshirt junior running back James Williams left WSU with a year of eligibility on...
WSU returns home for last time this season
WSU men’s basketball returns home to Beasley Coliseum for the final time this season to take on a tough pair of Oregon basketball teams. The Cougars are coming off two harsh losses to Stanford and Cal this past weekend. WSU was blown out by the Cardinal and also lost to the Golden Bears who have...
Cougars disappointing road trip ends with defeat to Cal
AVERY COOPER, Evergreen reporter
WSU men's basketball ran into Cal on Saturday night in Berkeley and fell 76-69 after the Golden Bears jumped out to a 14-5 lead early in the first half and did not look back. After the Golden Bears (7-22, 2-15) led by as much as 11 points, the Cougars (11-18, 4-12) were able to go on an 11-4 run...
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Room For Error: Ill Winds interviewed
July 29, 2014 Greg ClennarBerlin, Featured, Hidiotic, Ill Winds, Melbourne Leave a comment
Born in Berlin, Jack Dibben and JF (Ill Winds) have been making music together since their respective moves to Europe in 2011. Calling on sombre sounds from the Belgian coldwave fold of the early ’80s spliced with hints of the Neue Deutsche Welle, Ill Winds’ music is both uniquely electrifying and terrifyingly isolating.
Despite being largely comprised of old material, Ill Winds’ latest cassette release on Hidiotic Records represented a maturation in sound for the former duo, now trio. Adding a synth to their new recordings brought a new element to their sinister brand of post-punk and signified a willingness on songwriter Jack Dibben’s behalf to embrace electronic sounds and instruments. Now situated back in Australia after a 3-year stint abroad, Jack Dibben discusses the musical landscape of Berlin and the future of Ill Winds.
When and how did Ill Winds come about?
Ill Winds came about at the beginning of 2011. At first we were going under the moniker 3D Meat, but we changed it pretty quickly. JF and I had just moved to Berlin under completely unrelated circumstances; JF in pursuit of his studies and myself in pursuit of an Austrian woman who happened to be moving to Berlin to undertake studies. My eldest sister knew JF, twigged and sent us on a blind date. It all followed from that. Marijn (Denegaar, synth) came into the picture later.
Much like the Post-Punk and Coldwave of Belgium and Germany in the early ’80s, Ill Winds music sounds similarly sinister with analogous music arrangements. Did you find that you were better placed in Berlin/Europe musically?
Well yes and no. I found a lack of band culture in Berlin and Vienna particularly. In that sense it’s pretty different from London, Barcelona, Melbourne and Sydney. It seems like everyone in Berlin is making or listening to techno, and that’s where the vast majority of the musical energy is channelled. It’s like at some point in the ’90s most Berliners decided that actual instruments were archaic and moved into the electronic/digital realm, never to return. However Berlin is certainly much more strategically located and in that sense more conducive to playing in a band. The geography of Europe and the ease of getting to so many major cities naturally lend itself to touring and thus opportunities to play with and to different people.
Do you feel the city influenced or shaped your music in any way?
Naturally, being in Berlin shaped my music; that’s the nature of music, it’s shaped by your surroundings and state of mind. The weather, the feeling of being a part of something bigger, political tension, culture shock, living day-to-day, no security, the threat of having nowhere to turn. It also very much instilled a love of techno. I was hesitant for about two years, attending the odd CTM Festival event, trying to keep an open mind, but really just turning my nose up at a majority of what I heard; possibly based on the on the precedent that it was electronic. Just dipping my foot from time to time. Then out of nowhere; BAM. I was at Berghain every other weekend. Shirt off, cap backwards, pumping my fist and losing brain-cells.
Many artists/musicians move to Berlin to hone in on musical pursuits. What’s the city like in terms of a musical community? Could you rely on the support of other bands for gigs and such? Do you feel Berlin as a city lives up to its romantic ideals?
It’s odd. Berlin doesn’t really have a music scene like what exists here in the big Australian cities. But this Argentinian band Mueran Humanos – who, from what I could tell, were one of the only worthwhile bands based in Berlin – always encouraged us in a positive way. Our good friend, life coach and guru Olle Holmberg, who produces music as Moon Wheel, has also been closely involved in everything we have done, from putting on shows to recording. We were getting gigs from our either our label Noisekölln, other club or party nights or shows that we’d put on ourselves or through friends who just liked the band. And there was always an interesting touring act from one place or another that was mulling around looking for a show on their way through which I could pick up. Regarding romantic ideals: God no. I urge anyone with any romantic ideals regarding this place to dispel them unless they constitute any or all of the following: ubiquitous expat culture, 30¢ beers, good cheap beer, techno, 6 months of grey skies and dull weather, seasonal affective disorder, Currywurst, Käseleberkäse, scrimmaging through abandoned buildings, East German and Nazi memorabilia, “street art”, FKK (naked Germans), Schlager, etc…
It seems as though Ill Winds shows are few and far between. Do you enjoy playing live? How do you feel the recordings translate into a live context?
We love it. But it can be tricky. There’s not that many parts to the whole band, and in my mind’s eye that should make it all easy to execute, but when push comes to shove is proves exceedingly tricky at times. We all live in different cities these days as well, which doesn’t make it any easier to organise and play shows.
You’ve just released a tape on Hidiotic. Most of the songs on the tape are old songs that have been recorded a few times. Do you feel as though these tape versions are the perfected product? Have you written new material?
We released a cassette in 2012 with that Berlin label Noisekölln, which was limited to a run of 50 copies. 30 of which were sent magazines, a handful of which we got reviews from. However I feel that these latest recording are for that matter much more true to form, or moreover ideally what we’d like to sound like live. If what you’re getting at in the second part of this question is trying to ask me why are the older songs on here all I have to say is I have no idea in slightest. Stupid ain’t it? JF and I are working on new material and a new release at the moment, which will not include any of the older songs. I swear it.
There is some great synchronization between bass and drum machine, coupled with interesting guitar interplay and synth layering. What does an Ill Winds songwriting session usually consist of? Is it a solo venture or does JF weigh in too?
The thing that I’ve found with song writing is that it’s always different, so that’s almost impossible to answer. I never know where the idea is gonna come from, and rarely where it’s going to go, at least initially. I have to just go by gut instinct. But this is most definitely a band where everyone gets to contribute to the composition of a song. Everyone writes their own parts, but at the same time everyone gets their say whether those are used or not.
A lot of the songs on the tape feature a repeating lyrical phrase or motif. Is there any unifying theme/s or notions that runs throughout the lyrics in your music?
To start: hysteria, anxiety, solitude, occultism, paranoia, ideology, iconography are all themes that come to mind. We might jam and I might just chant this mantra of whatever would come to my head or notes I had made over whatever we were playing at the time. However this was an experiment for me when I started doing it or at least as experimental as I was willing to go at that time. I didn’t care so much about the actual contents of lyrics themselves, rather it was just another instrument, and that repetitive nature became a stylistic motif in what can only be called our “sound”.
Tell me about your new project ‘Subterranean Rain’. Does it provide a different outlet for you than that of Ill Winds?
Yep. And I think that it’s solely for that purpose. I tried making JF play ideas I would come up with in my own time. And it’s not like he would outright refuse. He just wouldn’t play them. Ideas I might add that that I enjoyed the idea of working on. So i just kept working on them and over time it has become a distinct project.
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Podcast: Weekend roundup for May 31-June 2
Mastodon, Fuzzstock, Candler Park Music & Food Festival, and more fun that's not to be missed
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By Will Cardwell, Jacob Chisenhall, Narah Landress, and Chad Radford Friday May 31, 2019 10:45 am EDT
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Fri., May 31
— Mastodon, Coheed & Cambria on the “Unheavenly Skye” tour at the Coca-Cola Roxy. The almighty Mastodon comes home to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Crack the Skye. History has proven the complex 2009 concept album a pivotal moment in the metal behemoth’s career. Crack the Skye marked a transition for Brann Dailor, Brent Hinds, Bill Kelliher, and Troy Sanders’ growth from a band with promise into a Grammy-winning beast with political sway, able to surmount incredible odds. Sold Out. 6:30 p.m.
— Atlanta Food and Wine Festival (through Sunday)
The Atlanta Food and Wine Festival is the go-to destination for the city’s foodies and wine aficionados. The extended weekend showcase shines a light on Southern culinary traditions through an international lens, and includes interactive cooking and cocktail classes, seminars, panel discussions, tasting tents in the Old Fourth Ward, dinners, and events around the city. Chefs, sommeliers, and culinary innovators including Josh Lee of Chicken + Beer and Miles Macquarrie of Kimball House, Eden-Marie Abramowicz of Revelator Coffee, and Deborah Vantrece of Twisted Soul Cookhouse and Pours (and many more) will be on hand talking about their respective crafts. $55- $1,800. 6 p.m.-10 p.m. Thur., May 30; noon-10:30 p.m. Fri., May 31; 10 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Sat., June 1; 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Sun., June 2. Loews Atlanta Hotel, 1065 Peachtree St. N.E.
— Candler Park Music & Food Festival
A two-day celebration of music, food, and jam band bliss, the Candler Park Music and Food Festival kicks off Friday, May 31 at 4 p.m. Celebrate the warm weather by injecting your ears with a healthy dose of funk, bluegrass, and reggae music. This year’s lineup includes Stephen Marley, Trampled by Turtles, Greensky Bluegrass, and more. Get out and feel the summer in full bloom, rain or shine. Between acts, peruse the artist and craft market for locally made artisanal goods. PRO TIP: general admission ticket includes complimentary bicycle valet. $40-$150. 4 p.m.-11 p.m. Fri., May 31; noon-11 p.m.
— Rose Hotel I Will Only Come When It’s A Yes LP release party at 529
Chick Wallace, Palm Sunday, and Sunset Pig also perform. Listen to a CL podcast with Rose Hotel's Jordan Reynolds here. $8-$10 9 p.m.
Sat., June 1
— Atlanta Great American Tiny House Show at the Infinite Energy Center
Wanting to downgrade your mortgage without downgrading your style? Or, have you ever just wanted to visit an entire indoor village of tiny houses? Well, this weekend’s Tiny House Show is the event for you. In a two day exposition with tiny house authors, builders and designers, you can see and learn about the tiny house experience all in one indoor space safe from the sun’s most recent temper tantrum. $10-$15. 9 a.m.
— The Office Trivia Bar Crawl
CALLING ALL OFFICE FANS! It’s time to put your life-sucking hours of streaming to good use with The Office Trivia Bar Crawl this weekend in Buckhead. The participating bars are Lost Dog Tavern, Dive Bar Buckhead, Kramer’s, and Red Door Tavern. Check in and receive your Dunder Mifflin ID badge and lanyard, trivia forms and pens then head off on the crawl where you’ll answer a total of 100 trivia questions broken up into sections at each bar. After your scores are counted, celebrate your win, or heck, your loss, at the after party at Lost Dog Tavern from 10 p.m. to midnight. As Michael Scott himself would say, sometimes, you just gots to get your freak on! $15-$20. 4 p.m.
— Estoriafest 2019
Dinos Boys, FRKO, the Hump Daze crew, Shantih Shantih, DARTH (Cousin Dan's new project), Challenger Deep, the Queendom, Krystal V, and more. $5. 2 p.m.
— Fuzzstock at 529
The name says it all: Abby Go Go, the Buzzards Of Fuzz,John Denver Death Plan, and Sash the Bash, Pinky Doodle Poodle, and Bast unleash an evening of fuzzed-out, psychedelic, desert rock riffage. $14-$20. 7 p.m.
— National Trails Day
Celebrate the natural beauty and splendor of the nation’s trails. Partake in a variety of outdoor activities, or just take a hike. Courtesy of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. Free. All Day.
— Thelma, Peeko, and Nadia Marie at the Bakery
Thelma is the New York-based project of Natasha Jean Jacobs, pumping out dense freak folk jams. Peeko are local indie soft rock (listen to their CL Live from the Archives performance here), Nadia Marie is a solo singer-songwriter, performing pop tunes with new romantic sentimentality. $8. 8 p.m.
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Monday July 8, 2019 02:12 pm EDT 07/08/2019 2:12 pm
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Ripple Escrow Reporting: Creative Accounting or Much Ado About Nothing?
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Blockchain analysis firm Coin Metrics points to discrepancies in Ripple’s escrow accounting. Is there a basis to the claim?
On May 16, 2019, Coin Metrics released a report detailing discrepancies in Ripple’s escrow reporting system. The Blockchain analysis firm described these discrepancies as contradictions that required some explanation.
As per usual, any story concerning Ripple is going to come in for some polarizing viewpoints, with strong opinions on both sides of the matter. On the one hand, Ripple says the discrepancies aren’t so much a financial issue as they are a timeline adjustment. Critics of the company, on the other hand, see it as a further ground for criticism of Ripple’s operations.
How Ripple escrow works
Back in mid-December 2017, Ripple published a document detailing the mechanisms by which its XRP escrow account worked. According to the report, 1 billion XRP would be released once every 55 months, with all unused XRP returned to the escrow account at the end of each month. The purpose of this process was to create a total cap of new XRP tokens introduced into circulation every month.
At the time, Ripple revealed that the escrow’s main purpose was to introduce a level of predictability to the XRP supply. The company also revealed that, moving forward, the 1 billion XRP released per month would also be used for projects aimed at improving the overall XRP ecosystem.
Coin Metrics reports on discrepancies in Ripple escrow
As previously reported by Cointelegraph, Coin Metrics discovered some inconsistencies in Ripple’s escrow reporting system. These dissimilarities, according to the blockchain analysis company, can be found by comparing Ripple’s publicly disclosed escrow management and the information recorded on the XRP ledger.
Coin Metrics distilled these findings into three key summary statements:
“Two quarterly markets reports under-reported the number of XRP released from escrow by a total of 200 million XRP ($84 million at current prices)
The ‘escrow queue’ is implemented differently than announced, leading to a faster future release of escrowed funds compared to the announced schedule
Other party/parties, potentially associated with Ripple, have released 55 million XRP from an unknown escrow address not connected to the main Ripple escrow account.”
The first issue raised by Coin Metrics lies in the variance seen in Ripple’s quarterly reports for the third quarter of 2018 and the first quarter of 2019. For both periods, the amount returned to escrow as detailed by the quarterly reports exceeded the amount recorded on the XRP ledger by 100 million XRP.
This dissimilarity means that the quarterly report for both periods underreported the number of XRP released into the market. Such a move could have a profound significance when examined from a monetary inflation and liquidity point of view.
Cointelegraph spoke to Fernando Nieto, a developer and cryptocurrency advocate, about the implications of Ripple’s underreporting. He said:
“Coin issuance schedule has an impact on market price. The greater the amount of new coins put in circulation; the more capital is required to flow into the currency every day to keep the price. Monetary inflation consumes liquidity, so currencies with high inflation will tend to be less valuable and more volatile.”
The next bit of inconsistency, as reported by Coin Metrics, comes from the manner in which Ripple implemented the return of the unused escrow amount. Per its own guidelines published in 2017, every unused XRP released from escrow on a monthly basis would be returned to the escrow account from the back of the queue.
An excerpt from the report detailing this exact point reads:
“Any additional XRP leftover each month will be placed into a new escrow to release in the first month in which no escrow currently releases.”
Two months into its operation, Ripple changed the queuing format for unused XRP, no longer returning them to the back of the queue but instead locking them in such a way as to perpetually maintain a 1 billion XRP supply schedule per month. According to Coin Metrics, this new paradigm significantly accelerates the XRP release schedule.
The third issue raised by Coin Metrics focuses on 200 million XRP not associated with Ripple’s escrow account. The Coin Metrics report traced 55 million XRP from this scheme going mostly to Bitstamp — a Luxembourg-based cryptocurrency exchange platform.
Simply a timeline issue?
Cointelegraph contacted Ripple for comments regarding the matter but was instead pointed to a Tweet by David Schwartz, the chief technology officer at Ripple:
Regarding the chatter about reporting methodology around XRP escrow in @Ripple‘s quarterly XRP Markets Reports: this is simply a timeline issue.
— David Schwartz (@JoelKatz) May 17, 2019
Schwartz went on further to point out how the altered timeline changed the company’s escrow reporting, while promising to make subsequent quarterly reports include language that would make the change more apparent, saying:
“We tweaked the timeline in 2018 to reflect transactions that happened each month of the quarter rather than linking returns to date of initial escrow release. Ex: a March escrow release returned in April is considered a Q2 event, not Q1. We plan to add some additional language in future markets reports in our continued efforts to be the most transparent in the industry.”
Schwartz’s explanation would mean that there is always a 100 million XRP unspent balance that is carried forward from the end of one quarter to the other. Thus, at the time of Ripple publishing its quarterly report, it will be 100 million XRP behind, even though the balance exists on the on-chain Ripple ledger as having already returned to the company’s escrow.
There, however, lies a problem with Schwartz’s argument, which becomes apparent when examining the total escrow reporting since Dec. 16, 2017 to the latest released quarterly report on April 24, 2019. According to Coin Metrics, the total net amount returned to escrow so far as recorded by on-chain data and the various quarterly reports differs by 200 million XRP.
Of the 17 billion XRP released from escrow since Dec. 16, 2017, on-chain data shows 12.5 billion XRP returned to escrow. Meanwhile, Ripple’s quarterly reports show 12.7 billion XRP.
If the tweaked timeline explanation is all there is, then the variance between both reports ought to be only 100 million, since the only difference would be the month-ending XRP balance not being represented in the accounting shown for the quarterly report.
Speaking to Cointelegraph on the alleged discrepancies, Joe DiPasquale, the CEO of cryptocurrency hedge fund BitBull Capital, declared:
“The alleged discrepancies in Ripple’s escrow reporting may impact XRP’s price negatively unless Ripple publicly explains them in due time. One of the pitfalls of a centralized system is a lack of transparency and Ripple’s control over XRP is an example of this. If Ripple wants XRP to gain global adoption it needs to work towards building trust and transparency is the first step towards that.”
Ripple’s monthly escrow releases supplement the total XRP market liquidity, which in turn contributes to the token price control mechanism. By controlling supply, Ripple effectively plays a great role in determining the price of XRP. The question, though, still remains about whether these discrepancies are simply a timeline issue or an example of creative accounting on behalf of the company.
Is Yet Another Escrow Project to Become a Big Deal for Investment Process?
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The concept of escrow services has been attracting investors’ attention over the last six months. Numerous startups have been promoting the idea that investing in ICOs may be protected by escrow mechanisms, which have various applications. For instance, a startup called Escroco, that ran its pre-ITO and ITO rounds in autumn 2017, offered a fund-reserve in order to grant reimbursement against losses.
Why freezing tokens?
Escroco describes itself as an escrow and insurance service that aims to connect investors with borrowers in a way that lowers risk and maximizes profits.
The team states in the project’s white paper that its coin-value architecture is targeted towards making Escroco limited in supply as well as highly needed, “thereby mitigating against inflation, mining and improving control of the currency across the market.”
The core idea of an escrow is that funds should be raised with all the risks of loss being insured. For example, a startup plans to use the frozen deposits. When a borrower wants to borrow large amounts of Bitcoin, they will have to use some Escroco token. The token will be frozen in an escrow account. But at the end of an investment package, the borrower can get Escroco back.
A referral charge is tagged to investment packages. According to the white paper, “It is to be paid by the borrower that created the package based on its patronage.” These charges are based on a percentage of investment cost. The fee is collected only when investors successfully establish a contract of investment on a particular package.
Moreover, the startup sets up a safety fund with almost one-third of its tokens. “From the token production, two mln out of 3.1 mln ESC will be in circulation, while 1.1 mln will be in a safety fund account and used for such purposes. At the same time, a very small percentage of the investors profit will go to a separate insurance account.
According to the Escroco team at Bitcointalk, the project is quite different to Bitcoinnect or any other lending coin: “Our module is new and we are closer to salt and etherlend, but we give investors the interest that paid by borrowers.”
Airdropping a new token
On Jan. 15 the Escroco team revealed on Twitter the plan on issuing and delivering a new token for its users, which is called Escroco Cash Airdrop (ESA).
The reveal states that Escroco “will be airdropping a new token that will be worth a fixed $1 (at least for the first few weeks), which our holder will get for free at the ratio 4:1- four ESC get one ESA. Only those who keep their coin on waveswallet.io will be able to get the new coin.”
So far the Escroco project has completed the first and second rounds of the ITO. The next round, ICO, is planned for Q3 2018. In January 2018 the startup has also released the platforms for borrowers and investors.
Today Escroco’s tokens may be purchased at crypto exchanges. Since Dec. 1 2017 Escroco tokens are being listed on two exchanges: livecoin.net and openledger. Both platforms offer many currency pairs, including trading ETH/ESC, BTC/ESC and BCC/ESC.
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Escrow, Explained
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What is an escrow?
An escrow is a way to control and protect financial assets.
An escrow is a legal concept where a financial instrument or an asset is held by a third party on behalf of two other parties that are in the process of completing a transaction. In other words, when you use an escrow, a third party acts as a guarantor. The funds or assets are held by an escrow agent. This party controls the whole process and makes sure the commitments are fulfilled. Therefore, nobody can use money on their own without the agreement from other participants.
One of the most used concepts is a secret splitting.
It works when you possess important information and share it with people and/or companies you trust. You can share a password, a number of a bank account, an access to securities, and more. No one can get access on their own. The only way to access it is with a mutual agreement.
But it has some weak spots. If one party loses access to the info and has no connection with other parties to make an agreement or compromises themselves and loses trust, there is no way to restore it.
What if you can’t gather or reach all the people involved? What to do? Consider a threshold scheme.
What is a threshold scheme?
A threshold scheme is an improved version of secret splitting.
The threshold scheme does not require the agreement of all parties. For example, you share info with five different parties, but any three of them can reconstruct the secret. Two parties are not enough to get access to the info. If you need to exclude someone from your escrow, you can do it without any difficulties. These parties can be divided into some groups, depending on the confidence level. Let’s assume you have six people, you completely trust three of them- group one, and the other three are less credible- group two.
You can make a scheme of data reconstruction, in case something happens. So the access is available to three people from group one and anyone from group two.
Or any two people from group one and three people from group two.
There are no restrictions in the threshold system. They can be as complex and easy as you wish.
Mathematics and cryptography prove the reliability of the escrow.
A lot of mathematicians and cryptologists have worked on the security issue and managed to develop algorithms for safe escrow. A lot of research was made to prove the security. To avoid collusion of some parties a scheme was developed when others are able to cancel the decision of others. If some party tries to cheat, there is a way to destroy its plans. If some party loses its access, there is no need to change the key.
If escrow is that good, why does not everybody use it?
Complexity of implementation discourages a lot of people.
The described models are rather complicated and weird. It’s much more difficult to understand it than it might look. You’ll most likely need an individual expert in mathematics and cryptography in the team. Moreover, incorrect implementation can be costly. You may not notice any mistake in the system at first, but it may make it vulnerable or the funds unavailable.
Don’t forget about guarantors. They put their reputation at stake. Certainly, their services will cost a lot. Together with the expert, expenses will significantly increase.
How is escrow applied in the Blockchain world?
Escrow is gaining more and more popularity in Blockchain.
A lot of companies understand the importance of guarantees for investors to prevent scams. The team may be unknown to the general public, but the Blockchain world has its authorities which reputation is indisputable. Some companies serve as a third party in different agreements. Some startups already launch their ICOs with escrow. The largest Blockchain platform, Ethereum, has already made an escrow smart contract. Escrow becomes one of the power instruments to show the seriousness of your purposes.
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>> Home / LIFESTYLE / Better Boston Beer Bureau / STRANGE BREW: A SOBER DJ KNIFE BREWS IPA AS WELL AS HIS FRESHEST MIX YET
STRANGE BREW: A SOBER DJ KNIFE BREWS IPA AS WELL AS HIS FRESHEST MIX YET
October 11, 2018 By CHRIS FARAONE
PHOTO OF DJ KNIFE (LEFT) AND DONOVAN BAILEY BY ANGEL OCASIO
As one of the most sought-after party rockers in the region, DJ Knife has no choice but to spend most of his week around club hoppers who get hammered as part of our nightlife routines. That hasn’t changed since he stopped boozing himself two years back; still, until now, Knife wasn’t sure how he would carry forth with his best-known series of mixtapes that fall under the umbrella title Strange Brew, a name that he concocted in his drinking days.
For his Strange Brew 6 outing, Knife decided to go back to beer—not personally, but commercially to push the brand. For the aspect of his plan that involved hops and alcohol, he turned to the Everett-based Down The Road Beer Co., which produced 500 exclusive cans for the effort.
With the release party this Saturday, we asked Knife, as well as Down the Road’s head brewer Donovan Bailey and creative manager Brendan Van Voris, about what they put into the mix.
Take us back to the first Strange Brew. What were you doing? Where were you living? What were you drinking?
DJK: The first Strange Brew was roughly eight years ago. I was living in Jamaica Plain, and I was probably drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Where were you DJing mostly at that time?
DJK: Pretty much split between the Milky Way and Good Life. I just wanted to do a mix with as many different genres as possible. I had been pigeonholed as a hip-hop DJ and I wanted to get out of that. I was listening to a lot of different kinds of music, and I made that first one to prove that I could do more.
Why was this the project you chose to set that new precedent?
DJK: I felt like it was a good title to represent a bunch of different things that kind of don’t belong together.
How did you launch the series at first?
DJK: There was nothing big. I kept it really small and put it out on CD. That was basically it.
PHOTO BY ANGEL OCASIO
Can you explain to our 18-to-25-year-old readers what the mix CD scene was like at the time?
DJK: This was the beginning of Soundcloud and DJs reaching a larger audience in general. I didn’t see it as a series until people liked it and I saw that. Then I did part two about a year later and people really enjoyed that one. This is my signature mixtape brand.
Music-wise, what was the maturation through the different installments?
DJK: They’re all pretty similar—they have very upbeat music up until the middle, then there is a breaking point, it’s slow, then it picks back up again. As for genres—it’s literally as many genres as I can pack in there. It’s one hour and the goal is to take as many genres as possible and mix them perfectly. … It’s punk rock, trap, footwork, indie dance, house, classic rock, afrobeat.
How much does it resemble an actual set that you would spin at a club?
DJK: Zero. But I do record it live at Good Life, and I do it over and over again.
What’s the planning like?
DJK: It’s awful, it’s painstaking. It’s like playing a video game over and over again until you beat it and get it perfect. That’s the only way I can describe it. I’ll probably practice that full hour 30 times. I’m not doing this stuff with [the music production software] Ableton, I’m doing it live. If there’s a mistake, I start over at the beginning. That’s why it takes so long to do these mixes. I start picking songs out like seven months before the mix.
What makes something a Strange Brew track?
DJK: I’ll say this—I don’t put a lot of hip-hop on them because at this point, hip-hop has such a short half-life. The songs are only popular for two weeks.
Doesn’t that make it harder since hip-hop is easier to mix than a lot of other genres?
DJK: Yes, but I’m looking for something I can put out physically. The songs have to be timeless.
When did the actual brew come into the equation?
DJK: Two years ago I did Strange Brew 5 and decided to brew my own beer.
When did you stop drinking?
DJK: Two years ago.
And yet here you are with another Strange Brew compilation.
DJK: Yes. This is the big thing where Down The Road came in. Two years ago, right before I got sober, I did Strange Brew 5, and I was still drinking heavily. I brewed my own beer at my apartment, and in order to do that you have to sample it along the way. I had barrels all over the place.
DJK: I thought it was okay. Other people tasted it, and they didn’t die. But this time, even though I stopped drinking, I wanted to take it to another level and get a local brewery behind the concept. And since I can’t sample the beer to make beer anymore, I looked around and that’s where Down The Road came in. I brought this to them in February and now it’s coming together.
You’re not drinking anymore, so what input did you have on the actual beer?
DJK: I wanted it to be an IPA because of Good Life. When people want a random beer there, IPAs sell the best.
What does it take to make a short-run beer like this actually happen?
BVV: This was a no-brainer—bringing in someone who wanted to make beer and do a release party with us. … It’s something that you would expect to be a stick in the bike spokes, but it’s really not. It runs smoothly. … This was a modification of a recipe we had—we just tweaked it for his usage. It turned out pretty damn good.
DB: It’s kind of a take on our Seventh Star IPA. The Pukwudgie is our session IPA, which leans toward the New England stuff. Seventh Star is a good balance between a fruity juicy thing and something more bitter like a West Coast IPA would be. Sometimes [doing small batches] can be a hassle—sometimes you dump a lot of beer. You have a base, then we play around with the hops and the amount of hops.
How do you describe the result in this case?
DB: A little bit of pine, a little bit juicy, some melon, a little bit of berry. Not too much tropical fruit but a little bit of citrus.
Who did the artwork?
DJK: [Jason Burke]—he’s actually a famous craft beer artist. He does artwork for beers all over the country. Ink and Lead Designs—he’s all over the place. He was doing artwork for Fresh Produce and I found him that way.
Do you have a favorite Strange Brew mix after all these years?
DJK: Number two and number five, and now number six. And I’m not just saying that.
STRANGE BREW 6 RELEASE PARTY STARTS AT DOWN THE ROAD BREWERY IN EVERETT THEN CONTINUES AT THE GOOD LIFE IN BOSTON. SAT 10.13. FOR MORE INFO CHECK OUT GOODLIFEBAR.COM AND DOWNTHEROADBREWERY.COM.
CHRIS FARAONE
Chris Faraone is the News+Features Editor of DigBoston and the Director of Editorial for the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism. He is also the author of four books including '99 Nights with the 99 Percent' and 'Heartbreak Hell.'
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RJ Cutler, the documentarian who directed the Anna Wintour documentary The September Issue and produced The War Room, has signed to direct Fabulous Nobodies, an adaptation of the book by Lee Tulloch. The film is expected to be Cutler’s first scripted feature, and he’ll oversee screenwriters Mark Fortin and Josh Miller. The film’s being produced by Julie Anne Quay, the former V Magazine exec editor, Gail Lyon (Erin Brockovich) and Cutler. The picture fits into his fashion passion. Fabulous Nobodies is social satire set in the 1980s downtown club scene of New York, where a group of people lived and breathed fashion before it took over the world. Cutler’s repped by WME and Mosaic.
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Here's What Police Knew About The Ezekiel Elliott Bar Fight Investigation
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Image via Dallas police records
On July 16, a Dallas DJ was punched in the face at Clutch, a local bar, and early reports said that Ezekiel Elliott was a part of the investigation. A TMZ report later suggested that at least two people saw the Cowboys running back throw the punch. But whoever it was that talked to TMZ, they weren’t talking on the record to police. Instead, police kept finding people who didn’t want to talk or said they didn’t see who threw the punch, according to public records released to Deadspin. Even the victim didn’t want to talk beyond an initial statement given that night. A 911 caller said he didn’t see who did it. Videos mostly show people just standing around.
Aside from a mysterious figure at the scene who, before disappearing, told a police officer that Elliott had hit someone, the closest Dallas police got was a man who, while having his blood drawn after a traffic stop for possibly driving while intoxicated, said he was at the bar where Elliott “laid out some dude.” But when police came back to him for an interview about it, he said he didn’t actually see what happened. They closed the case a few days later, citing the lack of cooperation from the victim.
Here’s how the investigation unfolded, according to police reports, 911 audio, and video released to Deadspin.
About 9:37 p.m., Kent Washington called 911. He told the dispatcher that while he didn’t see what happened, his friend had just been hit. When paramedics arrived, they found Nkemakolam “Daryl” Ibeneme in white and “bleeding from an injury to his nose,” according to the incident report. This is the full narrative.
Other officers were at the scene because they were working off-duty at the bar. Two wrote reports about what they saw, noting that when they asked what happened, nobody said anything.
As for Ibeneme, that night he told police that he had been intoxicated and didn’t see who hit him, according to two police reports and their search-warrant request. After that, the rest of the documentation goes into recording all the ways police tried—and failed—to reach Ibeneme. They went to his address but were told he had moved, according to emails. They got another address for him and possible contact information for his mother (though the reports do not say whether they ever got in touch with her). An email from Det. Kyle Kreun says that officers called him and left voicemails. They tried reaching him on Instagram, but his account was private. They tried reaching him on Facebook.
They tweeted at him.
This didn’t work either.
The other main lead police had was a matter of serendipity. Hours after Ibeneme was hit, a Dallas man was stopped and arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. While he had blood drawn, he talked about how he’d been at a club where he saw Elliott and “he started arguing with this dude about a female” and then “laid some dude out.” He told the man taking his blood, “You might see it on TMZ tomorrow.” You can watch this below.
Note that he doesn’t explicitly say that he saw Elliott hitting anyone, and that he mentions that Elliott goes around with a menacing bodyguard who will slap the phone out of a person’s hand if they try to take a picture. When police followed up with him a day later, he said he’d seen Elliott at Clutch but “did not actually see the disturbance,” according to the police report.
Police also got recordings of video from inside and around the bar; there was nothing much to see, as the punch apparently happened, per one police report, “just off frame.” The one video file labeled “fight” is about 20 minutes of people milling around, as in the clip below:
The only other substantial part of the records involves Elliott’s receipts for that night:
On July 19, the case was “suspended pending contact from the complainant.”
Perhaps Ibeneme will one day reach out to police; perhaps he won’t. Even if he does, his initial statement was that he didn’t see who hit him, so if he changes his story, he’ll have to explain the difference. Maybe Elliott threw the punch; maybe his bodyguard did; maybe someone else did. Whoever it was, anyone who saw wasn’t talking to police on the record, and appears to be in no rush to do so. In the absence of that, a lack of finality will have to do.
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Beloved political prisoner Hugo ‘Yogi Bear’ Pinell, feared and hated by guards, assassinated in Black August after 46 years in solitary
From SF Bay View:
by Dr. Willie and Mary Ratcliff
Black August adds another hero and martyr to the roll.
From December 1970 to 2014, when he finally had a contact visit with his mother, Yogi was allowed to come out from behind the thick glass in the visiting room and touch a loved one only once: When he married Shirley, they were given 15 minutes together. She later died.
By some accounts, it was his first day on the yard after 46 years in solitary confinement when Hugo Pinell, affectionately known as Yogi Bear, was assassinated Aug. 12. The news sparked a victory celebration by prison guards on social media: “May he rot in hell” and “Good riddens” (sic), they typed. Yogi was the only member of the San Quentin 6 still in prison, and his role in the events of Aug. 21, 1971, the day George Jackson was assassinated, has earned the guards’ incessant enmity ever since.
“This is revenge,” declared his close friend, fellow Black Panther veteran Kiilu Nyasha, on Hard Knock Radio Aug. 13. “They hated him as much as George Jackson. They beat him constantly, kept him totally isolated for 46 years – no window, no sunlight – but they could never break him, and that’s why they hated him.
“The only way he survived was that this man was full of love.”
Isolated in the Pelican Bay SHU from 1990 to 2014, Yogi supported his SHU comrades’ campaign to end solitary confinement. He participated in the hunger strikes and applauded the Agreement to End Hostilities, authored by 16 of his comrades, Black, Brown and White, and dated Aug. 12, 2012, three years to the day before he was killed. It has nearly erased racial violence from California prisons.
The comrades who conceived and wrote the agreement were following Yogi’s lead.
“There was a time in the prison systems throughout the United States,” according to a story headlined “The Black Panther Party and Hugo Pinell” in The Black Panther newspaper of Nov. 29, 1971, “when the prisoners themselves were divided, not only white against Black, but Latinos against Blacks. This – the result of racism in every area of U.S. society – was particularly apparent in California prisons.
This is the story from the Nov. 29, 1971, edition of The Black Panther. – Courtesy Billy X Jennings, ItsAboutTimeBPP.com
“Blacks and Latinos fought, stabbed and killed each other in the yards, cell blocks and dining halls of every prison camp from Tehachapi to Tracy. This is always the case when the racist white prison guard, under administration orders, pits one man struggling to survive against another.
“It is the easiest way for the prison to assure almost absolute control over its inmate population. After all, only an idiot would believe he could control 100 men with one man, unless the 100 were divided. Quite often men were paid to start fights between two men. …
“(B)rothers and sisters across the country inside the maximum prisons began to awaken to the fact of their oppression. They began to realize, as Comrade George Jackson would say, that they were all a part of the prisoner class.
“They began to realize that there was no way to survive that special brand of fascism particular to California prison camps except by beginning to work and struggle together. … The prisoner class, especially in California, began to understand the age-old fascist principle: If you can divide, you can conquer.
“There are two men who were chiefly responsible for bringing this idea to the forefront. They helped other comrade inmates to transform the ideas of self-hatred and division into unity and love common to all people fighting to survive and retain dignity. These two brothers not only set this example in words, but in practice.
“Comrade George Jackson and Comrade Hugo Pinell, one Black and one Latino, were the living examples of the unity that can and must exist among the prisoner class. These two men were well known to other inmates as strong defenders of their people.
“Everyone knew of their love for the people, a love that astounded especially the prison officials of the state. It astounded them so thoroughly that these pigs had to try and portray them as animals, perverts, madmen and criminals in order to justify their plans to eventually get rid of such men.
“For when Comrades George and Hugo walked and talked together, the prisoners began to get the message too well.
“In a well-planned move, the state of California and the U.S. government carried out the vicious assassination of Comrade George Jackson, field marshal of the Black Panther Party, on Aug. 21, 1971. Their plans to slaughter Hugo Pinell are now in full swing.”
What happened on New Folsom Prison’s B yard on Aug. 12, 2015?
California, the prisons are abundantly funded, but the billions of taxpayer dollars are spent in secret, as the media are prohibited from covering prisons. So the stories coming from the mainstream media about Yogi so far are based on press releases from CDCr, the Corrections Department, not from reporters who go inside to hear from prisoners.
Highly paid prison guards and their CCPOA (California Correctional Peace Officers Association) are called the most powerful lobby in the state. Guards at New Folsom, located in a suburb of Sacramento, the state capital, likely exert much of that influence. Is that why Yogi was sent there after more than 23 years at Pelican Bay?
“Once a man declares that he will retain his dignity, that he will not forfeit his manhood, then he has in essence declared war against the prison,” The Black Panther reported on Nov. 29, 1971. “He has declared war upon the guards, who operate on the smallest amount of intelligence and human understanding, and upon the prison and state officials, whose every move is planned and calculated to help in this government’s last feeble attempts to quell the desire of the people to see power returned into the hands of the people. Hugo, from the very beginning of his imprisonment, made that declaration.”
Yogi’s enemies were not his comrades in the prisoner class – though he reportedly died at the hand of one or two prisoners, said to be white, though their race is unconfirmed. He was no threat to other prisoners. It was the guards who loathed him and loath the Agreement to End Hostilities, which he exemplified and set in motion over 40 years ago.
Sitting in the sunshine on the San Quentin yard in 1976 are Khatari Gaulden and Hugo Pinell. – Photo courtesy Kiilu Nyasha
Did they have him killed to demolish the agreement, to rekindle all-out race riots? Riots are job insurance for guards.
Several of the authors of the agreement have also been transferred to New Folsom, where they have been educating other prisoners to understand and wield its power. A prisoner on the C yard, Hakim Akbar-Jones, P-85158, wrote this to the Bay View in July:
“Let this be understood: At CSP Sacramento on the C yard, the End to Hostilities Agreement is in full effect. Even though the summertime is here, there is rhythm and harmony amongst respective class members. There are diligent efforts made on all fronts to work hand to hand in solidarity to build a better future amongst the prison class. With this said, we stand fast and salute all conscious guerrilla revolutionaries whose concepts have been brought forth and come to fruition, those in solidarity who support the movement, thus bringing on and creating positive change for the oppressed.”
Does this sound like a place where Hugo Pinell, the legend, the giant amongst conscious guerrilla revolutionaries, would not be protected? Did the other prisoners even know that Yogi would be joining them on the yard on Aug. 12?
What else are the guards afraid of?
Three initiatives are underway that could empty the SHUs and empower the remaining prisoners, and the guards, fearing for their jobs, are fighting them. A reasonable assumption is that the guards expect that the assassination of Hugo Pinell will see a return of the bad old days of racial violence to “justify” filling the SHUs and guaranteeing job security and top pay for guards:
Black Guerrilla Family – According to family members of prisoners who have been negotiating the hunger strikers’ demands with CDCr administrators since the hunger strikes began in 2011, CDCr has decided to remove the Black Guerrilla Family from the list of eight prison gangs because it’s a political not a criminal organization, but reportedly the guards and their CCPOA are furiously opposed. If BGF is not a prison gang, then all the Black prisoners “validated” as BGF “gangsters” would have to be released from SHU.
George Jackson University – Abdul Olugbala Shakur (s/n James Harvey) recently settled a suit to legitimize George Jackson University, which 25,000 prisoners signed up for when he and other prisoners and outside supporters founded it years ago. Guards are adamantly opposed to the distribution and study of books that prisoners might find mentally and spiritually liberating and have prevented the prisoner-led institution from taking root. Though the settlement terms have not yet been revealed, guards are undoubtedly fearful.
Hugo Pinell in 1982
Class action lawsuit to end solitary confinement in California – Currently in settlement talks with CDCr are the attorneys for the plaintiff class of prisoners who have been held in the Pelican Bay SHU for 10 years or more. The attorneys are led by Jules Lobel, president of the very prestigious New York based Center for Constitutional Rights, the public interest law firm that also represents many of the hunger-striking prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. The New York Times is giving the case multi-media coverage, including a recent video showing some of the plaintiffs describing how they survive the torture of long term solitary confinement. If the case doesn’t settle, trial is set for December.
These initiatives, bolstered by the awakening in the court of public opinion to the evils of mass incarceration and solitary confinement, are driving efforts by California prison guards and their “union,” CCPOA, to demolish the carefully constructed Agreement to End Hostilities and revert to racial warfare that divides and conquers prisoners of all colors so that the guards can rule over them as cruelly as they want without getting their hands dirty.
We call for a full independent investigation immediately
The Bay View, joining a consensus of prisoner family members and advocates, calls for investigations into Yogi’s death at both the state and federal level. We challenge California Attorney General Kamala Harris, now a candidate for U.S. Senate, and U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to demonstrate they believe this Black life – the life of Hugo Pinell – matters. Harris, whose office acts as the attorney representing CDCr, needs to counsel her client to reign in the guards, especially the gang investigators.
We also call for the full and fair investigation of all deaths in jails and prisons, where incarcerated people are routinely abused and tortured and even killed. Begin with Sandra Bland and Hugo Pinell.
Yogi’s attorney, Keith Wattley, says his family is planning a wrongful death lawsuit.
Honor our fallen comrade
Long live Hugo Pinell, who showed us the power of the human spirit, that love can survive and overpower hell on earth.
To anyone tempted to avenge Yogi’s death against another race, remember the wisdom of the Panthers: “If you can divide, you can conquer.” Ever wonder why the Bay View calls our prison section Behind Enemy Lines? The prison system, not another prisoner, is the enemy that hopes you won’t get out alive.
Embrace Yogi’s spirit and read the words that follow from current and former prisoners who loved him back.
Dr. Willie Ratcliff is publisher and Mary Ratcliff is editor of the San Francisco Bay View. They can be reached at editor@sfbayview.com or 415-671-0789.
Yogi’s time
Written July 30, 2006 – Few of us know the name Hugo Pinell.
That’s because the last time it was in the newspapers was probably in 1971, or 1976, when he was tried as a member of the famous San Quentin 6, six young Black prisoners facing assault charges stemming from battles with prison guards at the notoriously repressive California prison.
Yet that wasn’t the beginning nor the end of things.
Hugo Pinell (known as Yogi by his friends) came to the U.S. as a 12-year-old from a small town on Nicaragua’s East Coast. If he knew then the hell he would face in America, would he have left the land of his birth? We’ll never know.
He came. And he spent the last 42 years in prison – 34 of them in solitary! He hasn’t had a write-up in 24 years.
Now, his family and lawyer are seeking his parole after a lifetime in some of the most repressive joints in America.
Why so long? Why so many years? The answer, not surprisingly, is politics. Hugo was a student and comrade of the legendary Black Panther Field Marshal, the late George Jackson, with whom he worked to organize other Black prisoners against the racist violence and prison conditions of the ‘60s and ‘70s.
Consider this: When Hugo was sent to prison, Lyndon Baines Johnson was president, bombing in the Vietnam War was intensifying and Martin Luther King Jr. was still alive!
Of his introduction to the prison system, Yogi would later write:
Of these three political prisoners, Hugo Pinell, Mumia Abu Jamal and Nuh Washington, only Mumia is now alive, and his health has been precarious lately due to the prison system’s medical neglect and abuse. – Art: Kiilu Nyasha
“I was 19 years old when I turned myself in. I pled guilty to the charge of rape with the understanding that I would be eligible for parole after six months. When I arrived at the California Department of Corrections, I was informed that I had been sentenced to three years to life.”
California’s notoriously unjust indeterminate sentencing has led in part to the present prison overcrowding that now threatens to bankrupt the system. California’s prisons are roughly 172 percent over capacity, and parole is a broken, nonfunctional agency.
That’s not just my opinion, but California State Sen. Gloria Romero, D-Los Angeles, has called the present regime a “failure,” particularly the parole system.
Despite California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 2004 promises of major reforms of the parole system, which would lead to significant prisoner population reductions, the incarceration rate has soared. Today, there are a record 168,000 people in 33 state prisons, nearly double the rated capacity.
As Hugo Pinell seeks parole, California is spending $7.9 billion – yeah, with a “b”! – in the next fiscal year, an increase of $600 million a year for a prison system that has one of the worst recidivism rates in the nation, 60 percent!
Clearly, the so-called “Correctional and Rehabilitation” Department has failed in its mission to do both.
Support parole for Hugo Pinell; 42 years is more than enough.
© Copyright 2006 Mumia Abu-Jamal. Keep updated at www.freemumia.com. His new book is “Writing on the Wall,” edited by Joanna Hernandez. For Mumia’s commentaries, visit www.prisonradio.org. Encourage the media to publish and broadcast Mumia’s commentaries and interviews. Send our brotha some love and light: Mumia Abu-Jamal, AM 8335, SCI-Mahanoy, 301 Morea Road, Frackville, PA 17932.
Hugo Pinell – Rest in Power!
by Claude Marks
Graphic courtesy Freedom Archives
We are saddened by the news of Hugo Pinell’s death. Hugo Pinell always expressed a strong spirit of resistance. He worked tirelessly as an educator and activist to build racial solidarity inside of California’s prison system.
Incarcerated in 1965, like so many others, Hugo became politicized inside the California prison system.
In addition to exploring his Nicaraguan heritage, Hugo was influenced by civil rights activists and thinkers such as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King as well as his comrades inside including George Jackson. His leadership in combating the virulent racism of the prison guards and officials made him a prime target for retribution and Hugo soon found himself confined in the San Quentin Adjustment Center.
While at San Quentin, Hugo and five other politically conscious prisoners were charged with participating in an Aug. 21, 1971, rebellion and alleged escape attempt, which resulted in the assassination of George Jackson by prison guards. Hugo Pinell, Willie Tate, Johnny Larry Spain, David Johnson, Fleeta Drumgo and Luis Talamantez became known as the San Quentin 6.
Their subsequent 16-month trial was the longest in the state’s history at the time. The San Quentin 6 became a global symbol of unyielding resistance against the prison system and its violent, racist design.
As the California prisons began to lock people up in long-term isolation and control unit facilities, Hugo was placed inside of the SHU (Security Housing Unit) in prisons including Tehachapi, Corcoran and Pelican Bay. There, despite being locked in a cell for 23 hours a day, he continued to work for racial unity and an end to the torturous conditions and racially and politically motivated placement of people into the SHU. This work included his participation in the California Prison Hunger Strikes as well as supporting the Agreement to End Racial Hostilities in 2011.
At the time of his death, Hugo had been locked behind bars for 50 years, yet his spirit was unbroken.
Claude Marks, director of Freedom Archives, 522 Valencia St., San Francisco, CA 94110, (415) 863-9977, www.Freedomarchives.org, can be reached at claude@freedomarchives.org.
Hasta Siempre Hugo (Forever Hugo)
And we are saddened
Solidarity left
You when (it) should have
Counted for something and
What your long imprisoned
Life stood for
Now all your struggles
To be free have failed
And only death
Inglorious and violent
Death has
Claimed you
At the hands of the
Cruel prison system
La Luta Continua
– Bato and the San Quentin 3: Willie “Sundiata” Tate, David Johnson and Luis “Bato” Talamantez, who can be reached at batowato@gmail.com
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20 Cringy Images of Elliot Giles
Where The Latest Doom Failed
Robert Gilliman | Tech - Sun, 15/04 - 15:03
I love Doom. I have the board game, the pewter models, I have read at least three full blown fan-fic novels, and I have one hidden-away-DeviantArt account dedicated to my adolescent Doom fanart. And I, just like everyone else, was blown the f*ck away when Doom 2016 didn’t suck. Despite being a massive fan, I was seriously worried about Doom 2016. Bethesda had overemphasised the multiplayer and were very sheepish about showing the singleplayer off to the public. Rage had solid gameplay but was written terribly and was otherwise a dud so that didn’t fill me with confidence. There were confirmed reports of huge internal difficulties regarding the making of Doom 4. And also, let’s not forget that John Carmack left Id software during this time as well.
So all-in-all, in 2016, just before Doom’s release, I was very pessimistic. But what we got was a fun game with a genuinely well-presented story. No, the game wasn’t a deep experience, but Id software demonstrated surprising narrative finesse when they gave us a Doom guy who smashed monitors out of impatience while listening to a mad-scientist monologue and went out of his way to back-up a certain AI friend just because it was the right thing to do. Doom 2016 had great gameplay, great design, great enemies, and a good plot (which really was the most surprising part).
But, the general conversation surrounding Doom has been all positive. And yet endless praise is *not* how you show love.
Not really.
Criticism and thoughtful feedback are how you genuinely show love. Because I love doom, and I want the next game to be better. I don’t want it to just… be the sameish (I’m looking at you Wolfenstein 2). I want to address what Doom 2016 did poorly. It was good, it wasn’t great, and there’s definitely room for improvement. So now I’m done fawning, and I’ve done my best to convince the internet that it shouldn’t form a lynch mob just because it disagrees with me, I want to get down to brass tacks and hurt the thing I love.
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So Doom 2016 has amazing art design. The monsters look fantastic, the guns look fantastic, the levels look fantastic. I mean you have Mars that’s yellow and brown, and then there’s hell that’s yellow and brown, and then there’s that one level where you float over lava that’s yellow and brown. And don’t forget the short section with toxic goo that’s uh… well it’s green and yellow and brown.
No seriously, I want you to think back to Half-Life or F.E.A.R or Halo or any of the great FPSes from about 1999 to 2015 (and there are plenty) and I want you to think about how game levels looked. I want you to think about the dam in Half Life, the office cubicles of F.E.A.R, the first level of Halo where you’re on the Halo in a level called Halo (huh), or the clean white lines of Portal, or the searing heat of the Savannah in Far Cry 2, or the abandoned Pripyat of Stalker (and some other game people keep telling me about).
A lot of games have more than just functional levels, they use the environment as a showpiece for beautiful and interesting locales.
Doom…? Doom kinda f*cks that up. At the core of its failures is the choice by Id to set Doom 2016 on Mars and then couple it with a very traditional view of Hell. Fire, brimstone, and dusty wastelands, don’t make for an interesting visual tour. Which is a shame because Doom is a good-looking game and it would have been nice to put that crazy new Id Tech engine to work. And it’s *really* weird when you remember that the original Doom was set on Deimos and Phobos, not Mars, and its version of hell was filled with weird organic-techno Lovecraftian adornments where you raised elevators by punching eyes sticking out of walls. So where did it go? Why is the Hell we get the most basic TvTropes-version of Hell you could imagine? I mean, I remember some floating islands and that is about it.
There is a level in Doom 2016 where you fight through the remains of a giant demon you killed thousands of years before.
I didn’t even realise that’s what the level was until I’d read the level’s description on the loading screen! That should never happen, and it should never happen in a game where the developers had the talent and time to put effort into all those great monsters. So for the next Doom? Take me to the weird parts of hell. Show me Hell swamps, Hell cities, Hell arenas, Hell jungles, and even Hell oceans. Hell in Doom is, after all, just an alternate dimension so it doesn’t have to look like the most cliched version out there. There’s a lot of room for you to go wild, so go wild.
So run with it.
Environmental Storytelling
Id gets so much right about Doom’s narrative but there’s one area where it fails.
Remember in Half-Life when those jets fly past? You remember the bit? We all do. It’s what lets us know how serious the situation has become. Environmental storytelling is when the level itself tells you about either the world the story is set in, or the story itself. It’s that moment in CoD4 when you are driven to your execution. It’s you following a trail of blood to a corpse you can loot in Fallout 4, or finding the remains of a traveller’s last stand in New Vegas.
And it’s a weak spot in Doom’s narrative. Outside of some few fleeting visuals, the levels in Doom 2016 have completely faded out of my mind. Which is a a shame because, and most people didn’t realise this, but Doom 2016 is f*cking packed with lore. It’s not as story-lite as most people might think. Geeky world-building details are pouring out of its skin like some kind of greasy film. Every bloody log and PDA entry is filled with essays on the most insanely tiny details of the world. There’s nothing wrong with that. In fact I liked it, but it raises another question.
Why not put those details in the world around you?
This is probably the only Doom 2016 level I can recall by memory alone
Did you know that Arch-Viles are more evolved imps? Did you know Pinkies are raised for cattle? Or that Hell Knights battle for the entertainment of Barons of Hell? Or that Cacodemons have dog-like intelligence and are treated like hell’s version of German Shepherds?
These details, and so many more, are all packed away in obscure PDA entries. Why can’t we interrupt an arena-fight? Or battle our way through a Pinkie-farm? Or stumble across the Cacodemon kennels? Or interrupt a Baron holding court with its subjects? Imagine the momentary second of confusion before the whole place turns into a shooting gallery. It’d be fun, it’d tell us about the world, and it could probably amount to less than 2 seconds of playtime.
It’s not like I’m asking for Doom to turn into a story-heavy experience. What I am saying is that you can place small details in the world to make it somewhere that adds to the story. Maybe instead of writing essays on how the pistol functions so that we can read it in some data log they could find a way to put that information in the world?
There are hints of this, like the UAC’s dodgy work culture and the way that the PA system talks about “demon infestations” and that tells you that UAC knows about demons and is even quite blasé about them. But it never amounts to much, and when you see just how packed with lore some of the PDA entries are you’ll probably feel disappointed that the most Doom’s environmental storytelling amounts to are some jokes about evil-science.
Where did the weird go!?
I’ve touched on this, but Doom 2016 seemed almost confused about how to approach classic Doom’s weirdness. Those old Doom-games were actually very Lovecraftian. Hell is often shown to be a living place, and the intelligences behind it are enigmatic and bizarre. Why are there cybernetic fat-men with plasma weapons fused to their arms? Why is the final enemy of Doom 2 a symbol on the wall? Why are whole lumps of the world made out of machine? Why do Cacodemons look like they were once heads that belonged to something much larger (this is especially true for Doom 3)?
Classic Doom does a surprisingly good job at merging classic hellish mythology with high-tech sci-fi futurism and the end result is really… odd. Hell has aspects of both and it appears all the more interesting because of it. Who’s the final boss of a game about demons? A cybernetic giant spider that is a fusion of an enormous brain with stumpy little arms sat on top of a massive walking platform hooked up with a chain gun!
That’s… weird.
That’s not quite Lovecraft, but it’s *weird*.
Doom 2016 has a lot going for it, but I want to see the weird come back. Don’t make the demons the product of UAC experimentation, just let Hell be the weird mish-mash of magic-futurism that made it so cool in the older games. Make it colourful, violent, frightening and, most of all, weird. It feels like some writer just couldn’t get his head around why Doom had enemies that had cybernetic enhancements when they were meant to be demons, so they made them the consequence of experimentation. But the original game was happy to just let you give your own answer.
So let’s go back and take some of the Lovecraftian-elements of the original and start bringing it back into the new games!
So in the sequel, can there be a scene where we jump off of Deimos straight into hell!?
So at its heart I think two of these are serious areas which need consideration, and the third is me hoping that the developers will take one of my favourite parts of the originals and bring it back. But the new Doom cannot just dote on all its positive feedback of the predecessor or else it’ll repeat the mistakes of the past. Doom 2016 was a good 8 or 9 out of 10. Let’s see if we can get to 10/10 and make it even better. Wolfenstein had so much promise and I liked Wolfenstein 2 but it repeated the same mistakes and had the exact same strengths. So let's try and change that for the better.
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Peter De Beauvoir Brock fonds
Personal records of Peter De Beauvoir Brock, professor of history at the University of Toronto and a pre-eminent specialist in Polish and East European history. The records include correspondence, certificates and diplomas, lecture notes, memorand...
Brock, Peter De Beauvoir
University of Toronto. Committee on Homophobia fonds
Records of the Committee on Homophobia consisting of the constitution, minutes, correspondence, memoranda, articles, notices, flyers, brochures, pamphlets, press clippings and posters.
University of Toronto. Committee on Homophobia
University of Toronto. Faculty of Information (iSchool) fonds
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University of Toronto. Faculty of Information (iSchool)
Muriel Uprichard fonds
Personal records of Muriel Uprichard, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing (1955-1965), with correspondence, student essays, publications and photographs. Includes files on the history of nursing education in Canada and abroad, the Interna...
Uprichard, Muriel
Massey Family fonds
ca. 1880-1969; predominant 1920-1959
The Massey Family records consist primarily of official and personal documents created by Vincent Massey. They reflect his distinguished diplomatic career, including his terms as Canadian ambassador to the United States during the 1920s and as Hig...
Massey Family
UTSC Photographic Services fonds
[ca.1960]-2010
The UTSC Photographic Services fonds covers the years of approximately 1964 and 1966 to 2008. The collection represents an invaluable visual history of the University of Toronto Scarborough campus and is made up almost entirely of photographic mat...
University of Toronto. Scarborough Campus. Photographic Services.
This fonds contains 85 accessions from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) and its predecessors, the Faculty of Education and the Ontario College of Education. See accession-level descriptions for more details.
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto
Personal records of the Davidson Black family, covering three generations, with particular reference to Davidson Black, the discoverer of Peking Man. Included are his diaries, extensive family correspondence and a few professional letters; files ...
Black (Davidson) Family
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This fonds contains records related to the professional activities and personal life of Dr. Ernest Mastromatteo, occupational physician. The bulk of the material in this fonds documents his roles as a medical practitioner, researcher, and occupati...
Mastromatteo, Ernest
University of Toronto Libraries fonds
This fonds for the University of Toronto Libraries contains 71 accessions of material originating from no discernible office within the University of Toronto Libraries system, or from defunct offices, and previous committees and task forces. See ...
University of Toronto. Students' Administrative Council fonds
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University of Toronto. Students' Administrative Council
Mary Mamie O'Brien fonds
Personal records of Mary Mamie O'Brien (1926-1998), philosopher and feminist scholar, Professor Emerita in the Department of Sociology in Education at OISE. Includes files on: her education; professional correspondence; extensive drafts and m...
O'Brien, Mary
This fonds contains 25 accessions from the Faculty of Nursing. See accession-level descriptions for details.
University of Toronto. (Lawrence S. Bloomberg) Faculty of Nursing
John Henry Love Watson fonds
Personal records of John H. L. Watson, relating to his education at McMaster University and the University of Toronto, with particular reference to the development at the latter of the electron microscope (1939-1943) and the subsequent evolution o...
Watson, John Henry Love
Personal records of Dr. Daniel W. Lang, professor, Department of Theory and Policy Studies, OISE/UT, and senior policy advisor to the president of the University of Toronto. Records include files relating to his activities as a senior administrat...
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Gerald Alfred Wrenshall fonds
Fonds consists of 2 accessionsB1979-0017: Experiments on insulin assay, insulin extractions and other plan experiments; minutes of meetings within the university including external organization such as the International Diabetes Foundation; admini...
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June Seel fonds
Copy of "Erindale College Library, the Early Years", a history of the Library submitted by Mrs. June Seel for the Histories of Libraries course at the Faculty of Library Science. Appendices contain original photographs and examples of pu...
Seel, June
Fonds consists of 3 accessionsB1984-0041: Papers of E. Kathleen Russell, former head of the School of Nursing, including correspondence, press clippings and publications, as well as files relating to the Florence Nightingale International Fund (2 ...
Russell, Edith Kathleen
Aron M. Rappaport fonds
Fonds consists of 2 accessions:B1992-0024: Photoprints, illustrations, slides, film and video documenting Professor Rappaport's expertise on diseases of the liver. Most were used for teaching and lectures; some of the graphic records were us...
Rappaport, Aron M.
Personal records of Frank Peers, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science. Records relate to his personal life, education and to his activities as a donor to and alumnus of the University of Toronto and University of Alberta. Incl...
Peers, Frank
Henri Nouwen fonds
CA ON00389 1
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Nouwen, Henri J.M.
This fonds consists of 57 accessions from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine. Many of the accessions are from the Office of the Dean, while others are from other administrative units and programs. See accession-level description...
University of Toronto. Faculty of Medicine
Edward W. Nuffield fonds
Correspondence, course notes as student (1941-1942), undergraduate teaching materials, research data files relating to minerals and x-ray crystallography, subject files of product catalogues by various corporations of Dr. E.W. Nuffield, Department...
Nuffield, Edward Wilfrid
Norwood Family fonds
Correspondence, curricula notes, photographs, diary, offprints of Gilbert Norwood. Some personal papers of Frances M. H. Norwood. Photographs include members of the Norwood family; men and women of the Canadian General Hospital No. 4 (University ...
Norwood Family
ca 1800-1941
Correspondence, letterbooks, notebooks for chemistry, ledgers, notes and clippings, publications, photoprints, artifacts of members of the Miller family, including William Lash Miller (former professor of chemistry at University of Toronto), Mrs F...
Miller Family
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Personal and professional correspondence, lecture notes, course notes, clippings, manuscripts of articles, addresses, publications, photographs, sketches, documenting Prof. Milnes' early education and career as professor of German, and Chairm...
Milnes, Humphrey Newton
Arthur Michell fonds
Fonds consists of 3 accessions:B1978-0030: Personal and professional correspondence, lecture notes, course notes, research materials, manuscripts of publications, diaries, photoprints, maps, posters of Prof. Arthur Michell, as a student in the Fac...
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Kenneth W. McNaught fonds
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University of Toronto. Department of History of Art/Graduate Department of Art fonds
Fonds consists of 15 accessions from the Department of History of Art/Graduate Department of Art and its predecessors .A2012-0006: Records of the Kommos excavation project, assembled primarily by Professor Joseph W. Shaw, and consisting of corresp...
University of Toronto. Department of History of Art/Graduate Department of Art
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McLennan, Janet Cumming
William Arthur Charles Harvey Dobson fonds
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Milton Israel fonds
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University of Toronto. Hart House
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University of Toronto. Strategic Communications and Marketing
Ethelbert Lincoln Hill fonds
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Charles Edward Higginbottom fonds
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John Davidson Ketchum fonds
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Windows 10: A step back by microsoft to take a giant leap ahead
After some disappointing features of Windows 8, Microsoft has now come up with its newest version of operating system, Windows 10. While reviewing the new version, it seems that the company has attempted to take a corrective action to save users from Windows 8. Let us check in detail what Windows 10 is all about and whether it offers the users what they expect.
While you may find the retention of several Windows 7 and 8 features in Windows 10, it has actually improved on some usability aspects. One of these is the introduction of Cortana, the virtual assistant that helps you search your computer for options, apps and several other interesting things.
This extension of the Start menu can take your voice commands. Being cloud-powered, it can also be downloaded on Android. It is of great use, as you may conduct virtual assistant, web and local searches with a single tool.
Windows 10 further has amazing multitasking features and also supports with the Start menu. However, it disappoints you with its new Edge browser, which is boring and messy to make your tasks even more complex to do. On the other hand, being able to draw over webpages is a great help during several tasks.
Now, you can also stream your Xbox games easily with the new Xbox app in Windows 10. The addition of game DVR further makes the app quite usable and attractive. Windows 10 also enhances its usefulness slightly on its touch-based Office apps and with its new Windows Store. Thus, there is only to gain something fresh from this new version of Windows OS.
As Windows 10 brings forth the best features of Windows 7 and 8 to you, it is worth upgrading even at a price of around $120. Some eligible users may also get lucky to be receiving free upgrades.
When we talk about the features and looks of Windows 10, it is surprisingly delightful to see that the Start menu from Windows 7 is back on its way.However, the new system is a complete redesign. Still, it retains the live tiles that were introduced in Windows 8. While some users may not like it, these tiles actually let your screen breathe with some more space now. These are organized along with the customizable Start menu where you can also pin your apps.
Talking about the theme of Windows 10, it may be quite dark for some users with a black theme. However, users may make changes in accent colors and add transparency effects to gain a lighter and brighter look. Another new feature of Windows 10 is the Task View, which shows all your open windows together on the screen. Along with such features, Windows 10 gives you helpful apps like Mail and Calendar. There is also some polishing done on the existing apps, but you will not find something strikingly different in terms of the appearance of Windows 10.
Windows 10 has improved a lot on this factor and also made its interface simpler. It offers effective and easy navigation. You can also receive app notifications in an efficient way. A new Action Center has been introduced for it. Multitasking with Windows 10 has also gone much smoother. You can drag a window to one-half of the screen and the rest of the apps are displayed nicely in the other half with the Snap feature.It can also be done wonderfully on a touchscreen with Snap and Task View features.
Windows 10 performance is also enhanced with its wonderful option for users to create virtual desktops with varied apps. Many users would welcome this introduction. While Windows 10 comes with a clunky Edge browser, it also performs smoothly and is good at loading speeds.
Windows 10 is a relief in terms of its ease of use. With the comeback of the Start menu, it is now quicker for you to change settings and do the system shutdown or restart. Jumping to your favorite apps is also easier with their nice listing.There are several new apps added to Windows 10 that makes it faster, interesting and easier to use it. All apps work well without any lag and you will hardly find a feature that troubles you through your work.
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The State of Diversity in Comics
Spencer Church gives us his opinion on the state of diversity in Marvel and DC’s comic book universes, where it’s heading, and in some cases how it’s being forced upon its audience in a negative aspect..
Posted on March 27, 2017 April 7, 2018 by Spencer ChurchIn Comic Book Articles And Events, Fast and Easy5 Minutes Read
When it comes to the topic of diversity in comics, things can get quite heated—real fast. Especially if you’re not careful on how you approach the subject. Now, with me being a white guy, it can be difficult to really wrap my head around this issue—or rather, what it means to be on the right side of this issue.
Don’t get me wrong, I think there should more diversity of race, gender, and sexual orientation in comics. It’s just that for me, it’s kind of hard to grasp the concept fully with the majority of the characters in comics being white males; I don’t know what’s it like to not be represented.
One of the main things that gets people in an uproar is when they change the race of a character; normally from white to black. This tends to happen more often in the shows and movies. But when this happens in the comics, it’s usually just a different character taking over the mantle of another, more famous character; like when the Falcon took over being Captain America for a while. Personally, I don’t generally care when stuff like this happens—as long it’s pertinent to the story.
When it comes to the TV and movie versions of the comic book character, I couldn’t care less when the race gets switch. My only requirement is that they choose the best actor for the character. I’m a huge Stephen King fan. and The Dark Tower series are some of my favorite books I’ve ever read. And if you’re familiar with this series of books, you know the main character Roland is more or less Clint Eastwood.
I bring this up because when the news broke that Idris Elba was going to play the gunslinger, there was a lot of complaining going on about the race change. But anyone who’s ever seen Elba in anything knows he has what it takes to play the character well. Now, on the flip side, I kept on hearing about the Iron Fist show and how they should cast an Asian-American actor to play the part of Danny Rand. The first thing I thought when I heard that complaint was, “Doesn’t that sound kind of racist?” Just because a character knows martial arts he should just automatically be Asian?
This seems to me like diversity being pushed in the wrong direction for the sole purpose of having a person of a different race in the role. This is doubly so considering how Marvel has the Asia Shang-Chi, The Master of Kung Fu. They could easily work him into the show if they really felt they needed to add diversity without changing the story.
Shang-Chi is pretty much Bruce Lee.
Also, considering how Iron Fist might be one of the only superheros that being white is an integral part of his origin, it doesn’t make sense to make him Asian. I mean think about it, he’s this privilege little white kid who loses his parents while flying over the mountains in his private jet. The jet crashes and then some monks take him in as a minority.
He instantly is the outsider of the community and he gets ridiculed because he’s not like everyone else there. So, he constantly has to prove himself. You don’t think that has a lot to do with him becoming a superhero? If you make him Asian, you have to get rid of this whole aspect of the origin because he wouldn’t be much of an outsider. It would be like making Luke Cage a white guy; it changes the whole character—way beyond appearance.
Nobody wants to see a white Luke Cage.
But while you still see a lack of racially diverse characters in the comic world, there is at least one positive trend taking hold. Women in comics have been on the increase; with more and more prominent female characters taking the spotlight in their own solo series. They’re treated like actual characters now with real motivation, good storytelling, and are respected just like the guys. You know they’re really trying show women in the right light when in a movie called Batman vs Superman, Wonder Woman is the most badass character.
Another big issue within comic book diversity is the representation of the LGBTQ community. As I’ve stated before, I couldn’t care less when it comes to all of this stuff as long as the story is good. I say this because a lot of times. a publisher will introduce a new character or make an existing character gay just to be gay. Like they’re just trying to make a quota or want to act like they really care about the culture. Often times it comes off as nothing more than a quick attention grab.
Another thing they like to do is go out of their way to let the reader and the other characters in the book know that a certain person is gay—repeatedly to the point that it hurts the story they’re trying to tell. To treat LGBTQ characters equally, the creators must be subtle and treat them like they’re normal—because they are.
One of the best ways I’ve see this done was a couple of years ago in DC’s Earth 2, written by James Robinson. James made Alan Scott, the Green Lantern of that earth, gay. But it was done in such a way that the character being gay wasn’t his defining characteristic.
It also made sense in the story for a couple of reasons; one of them being that the moment he becomes Green Lantern his soon to be husband is killed in an explosion—which ultimately pushes Alan Scott to become a superhero.
The other reason this fit within the story was that in the old DCU, before the new 52 reboot, Alan Scott’s son was the one that was gay. And in that universe, Alan Scott was an older man. So, it was a little harder for him to accept his gay son for a while. Then when the new 52 started, a whole new DCU, I thought it was a nice touch having him be gay instead. It almost felt like DC was letting their fans know it’s okay to be gay.
The main issue with diversity in comics is how they go about introducing it. They tend to stereotype characters or try to force feed diversity to their audience. But there’s better ways to go about it. One of the ways that can stop some of these stereotypes from happening would be by having a wider, more diverse range of people in the creating process. That way these characters can have some real depth to them because they’d be created by the people they’re representing. The good thing is, this is already going on to a degree. So, hopefully a lot of this can stop being an issue as comics continue to progress.
As the comic industry and its audience grows, so does the need for more diversity among its characters and creators. But they need to make sure they’re doing it for the right reasons—and not just doing it for money, or to gain false acclaim, or just to sell more of their product. I don’t know about you, but i read comics for the stories. And if adding diversity in these comics isn’t for the betterment of the story, what is the point?
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xmenxpert says:
On Iron Fist: Ask a Chinese-American how accepted they’ve felt when they’ve visited China. They still feel like outsiders. They arguably feel even more like outsiders than white people do, because white people are expected to know nothing, while a Chinese-American is expected to know the culture, even though they’ve never actually been a part of it. You get a third- or fourth- or fifth-generation Asian-American kid? They may not know any more about the culture(s) they come from than a white kid does, and they might not care, either. All the other stuff – the wealth and privilege and cluelessness – yep, Asian-Americans can be like that. What changes, by making Danny Rand Asian-American, is that an Asian-based culture is no longer centred on a white dude.
On queer characters: I honestly can’t think of a single example of a queer character where being gay was their only trait. I see the idea brought up so often. And yet I never see it actually happen. Most of the time, I wonder if the argument’s only brought up to justify a desire to minimize queer romance in comics.
I will agree that bringing in more diverse creators is crucial.
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Promo: Cinderella in Hollywood. English Youth Ballet. Nottingham Theatre Royal.
Posted on June 26, 2018 by philiplowe Posted in Uncategorized
CINDERELLA IN HOLLYWOOD featuring Ballet Stars of the Future
CINDERELLA IN HOLLYWOOD – will be presented at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham. A glamorous and innovative production by the award-winning English Youth Ballet.
Fri 20 July at 7.30pm and Sat 21 July at 2.30pm/7.30pm (3 performances only)
For tickets call: 0115 989 5555 or visit: www.trch.co.uk
* English Youth Ballet – 20th Anniversary Year
English Youth Ballet (EYB) was founded in 1998 to provide professional performance experience for talented young dancers. It previously won The Stage Award – for special achievement in regional theatre. EYB has built a national reputation for the quality of both its full length classical ballets and mixed bill programmes. The opportunity to watch English Youth Ballet (EYB) is a unique experience. Sell-out audiences are treated to beautiful international principal artists sharing the stage with the top up-and-coming young talent from the local area. EYB’s large cast ensures their ballets are performed with the scale and grandeur which was originally intended. The company is made up of 8 professional principals and 100 selected dancers (aged 8 – 18) from the local area. The young dancers are some of the top talents from the local area. There are now ex-EYB young performers in some of the world’s best companies – including the Royal Ballet.
* The story of CINDERELLA IN HOLLYWOOD
Set in the glamorous era of 1950s Hollywood movies, this lavish production draws its inspiration from the film star Grace Kelly who met Prince Rainier of Monaco at a press party and later married him. Cinderella is a seamstress on a film set and the Fairy Godmother is her late mother – a former movie star of the 1930s. Her wicked sisters are Hollywood starlets competing with each other for starring film roles. The Prince meets Cinderella at the press party but at midnight she flees from the scene leaving a sparkly silver pointe-shoe as the only clue to her identity.
* The choreography, design and musical score
The choreography has been created by Director Miss Janet Lewis and her team of international principal artists who coach the young dancers. The music combines Shostakovich Jazz Suites and Ballet Suites with memorable melodies from Hollywood films such as Tea for Two, Chinatown and Dancing in the Dark. The stunning new stage designs for the ballet are by Sebastian Petit and the costume designs are by Keith Bish.
* Highest calibre international principal ballet dancers
The professional principal dancers have joined EYB from some of the world’s most renowned ballet companies – including the Royal Ballet, English National Ballet, Northern Ballet Theatre, La Scala and Ballet de Toulouse. British principal dancers include Philip Tunstall, Julianne Rice-Oxley, Steven Wheeler & Oliver Speers. Monica Tapiador is a Spanish principal dancer, Brenden Bratulic is from Australia, Claire Corruble is from France and Samantha Camejo is from Brazil.
* EYB Fact File
EYB have 8 principal dancers who have danced with major ballet companies all over the world.
We have 100 young dancers (aged 8 – 18) from the local area in the cast of CINDERELLA IN HOLLYWOOD.
The cast of CINDERELLA IN HOLLYWOOD will have rehearse for 80 hours at Nottingham Girls Academy for the production
There will be a team of over 30 chaperones required to look after the young performers at the Theatre Royal
EYB worked with over 800 young dancers across the UK in 2017
Over 1500 young dancers auditioned for the opportunity to perform with EYB in 2017
Over 15,000 people watched EYB in 8 towns/cities in 2017
In 2017 EYB visited 7 Children’s Hospital wards to give special preview performance workshops for the young patients.
At the performances in 2017 EYB raised over £16,000 for Children’s Hospitals
There are approximately 260 costumes required for CINDERELLA IN HOLLYWOOD.
There are over 50 pairs of pointe shoes, 60 pairs of soft ballet shoes and 30 pairs of character shoes required in the ballet.
EYB have 6 full-length ballets in their repertory (Giselle/Swan Lake/Coppelia/Sleeping Beauty/Nutcracker/Cinderella in Hollywood)
EYB have 5 professional technical staff who tour to each theatre and ensure that the sets/costumes/lights/sound are of the highest professional calibre.
The female principals require at least 2 different pairs of pointe shoes for each performance.
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Governor proposes minimal funding increase for K-12 schools next year
Credit: flickr JWillem van Bergen
Gov. Jerry Brown introduced the 2017-18 proposed budget Tuesday.
Citing recent revenue declines and uncertainty about the future, Gov. Jerry Brown has lowered funding for schools by $500 million in the current year and is proposing little more than a cost-of-living increase in the 2017-18 budget that he presented Tuesday.
And in a press conference surprise that will likely frustrate school districts and the construction industry, Brown said that his administration would not issue any of the $7 billion bonds for K-12 school facilities that voters approved in November until the Legislature established better auditing procedures to document how the money will be spent.
Michael Cohen, the director of the state Department of Finance, said, “We must continue to have commitment to taxpayers that the money will be accounted for appropriately.”
Brown was responding to a 2016 Department of Finance report that criticized the Office of Public Construction’s failure to fix weaknesses in auditing procedures for $7 billion in school bonds that that voters authorized a decade ago. Eric Bakke, interim co-director of Los Angeles Unified’s Office of Government Relations and the district’s expert on facilities, said it could take a year to 18 months to pass corrective laws and regulations and train districts in new auditing methods.
The delay will irk school districts whose building needs have to be addressed, Bakke said. “I would hope the process (of responding to the governor) will be expedited,” he said.
Voters passed Proposition 51, the November bond initiative, with a 55 percent majority. Brown opposed it because it kept the state’s current first-come, first-served formula for allocating state building aid, which he said favors wealthy districts with full-time construction staff. He reiterated his displeasure on Tuesday, and he is expected to press hard for some revisions through regulations.
Budget analyst forecasts good year for California schools, but uncertain beyond that
Declining revenues lowered the minimum spending guarantee under the Proposition 98 funding formula by $1.8 billion over three years. The projected increase in 2017-18 would be only 2.1 percent above what the Legislature approved in June for K-12 schools and community colleges. The minimum spending guarantee under the Proposition 98 funding formula would drop by $500 million to $71.4 billion for this year and would rise next year to $73.5 billion. Cohen said that districts would not have to cut their budgets this year, however; they would just get the amount they had expected a month late at the start of next year, in July.
In November, voters approved extending the increase on income tax rates for the state’s top 2 percent of earners. But Proposition 55 will not kick in fully until 2018-19 and will not affect next year’s budget.
Brown has made it his priority to fund the transition to the new Local Control Funding Formula that provides extra money for high-needs students, including low-income students and English learners. Cohen said the state is still on target to reach full funding in 2020-21. That’s the point at which every district will receive at least the inflation-adjusted, pre-recession funding it received in 2007-08. Many districts with large percentages of high-needs students already are funded well above that level. But for next year, funding will remain where it is this year, at 96 percent of full funding, Cohen said.
In response, The Education Trust–West, an advocacy group, said in a statement, “While we understand the economic reality the state faces, we would like to see the formula fully implemented as soon as possible to accelerate the resources available for closing opportunity and achievement gaps.”
Despite record stock market earnings and continued low unemployment and a rainy day fund that will total $7.9 billion by the end of next year, Brown continued to warn of a recession that could plunge the state into debt. And he said that threats of President-elect Donald Trump and Congress to repeal the Affordable Care Act could jeopardize billions of dollars in federal Medi-Cal health care subsidies for 3.8 million Californians. “The rhetorical thrust (out of Washington) is rather extreme. Whatever happens, we’re going to deal with it,” he said, adding: “We cannot budget for what hasn’t happened.”
But Brown also acknowledged that between now and June, revenue funded by a volatile tax system based on incomes of the wealthiest wage earners could also increase by billions. The Legislative Analyst in November projected that the Prop. 98 guarantee for schools would be $1 billion higher than Brown estimated. The LAO will present its revised estimates for next year on Thursday.
Brown said that the Legislature always takes a sunnier view of revenue and there will be “civil” but vigorous “pushing and shoving” in coming months in anticipation of the May budget revision. Revenue collections in April, reflecting capital gains filings, will be a key figure.
Other budget proposals
Preschool delay: Brown is postponing planned increases in available preschool slots and reimbursement rates for providers. The 2016-17 budget agreement called for adding another 2,959 full-day preschool slots in April 2017. Those slots would still be added, but Brown wants to postpone adding another 2,950 new slots slated forApril 2018 until April 2019 during the 2018-19 budget year.
“Folks in the child care field are quite distressed,” said Erin Gabel, a deputy director of First 5 California. “Gov. Brown warns us every year that this is the last year of economic growth. We have not been able to recover from the last recession before we get to the next one.”
Child care advocates were also hoping to see a change in eligibility rules that reflect new increases in the minimum wage. But the governor made no such proposal.
“We have families currently losing care because they have two minimum wage workers in the household,” Gabel said. “It’s ridiculous.”
Teacher shortage: Brown proposes no new money to deal with the state’s teacher shortage; last year’s budget included $20 million for planning grants for colleges to combine a teacher’s credential and an undergraduate degree in four years, and $10 million to subsidize hourly school staff who want to pursue a credential. Advocates and legislators will look to the May revision to make their case for new initiatives.
Special education reform: Brown signaled in his budget summary that he wants to move forward with reforming how special education is funded. A report in November by the Public Policy Institute of California called for directly funding special education through school districts, instead of distributing money through regional intermediaries known as Special Education Local Planning Areas. Brown endorsed that recommendation and called for discussions on new approaches to begin this spring. Advocates for change had hoped the administration would take a leading role.
Reactions to the budget included praise and criticism.
Assemblyman Patrick O’Donnell, D-Long Beach, who chairs the Assembly Education Committee, said the budget proposal “reflects our shared desire for a fiscally prudent budget. However, fiscal restraint must not be shouldered by California’s students or come at the cost of their education. While the Governor’s proposal allows K-12 per pupil spending to keep pace with enrollment growth and inflation, the Legislature will want to examine proposed accounting changes to Prop. 98.” And he added, “I agree with the Governor that the school bond program needs improvements, but voters approved Proposition 51 and the state should avoid any hurdles to the allocation of these funds. These facilities impact the health and safety of students.”
James Steyer, founder and CEO of the children’s nonprofit advocacy organization Common Sense, said in a statement, “We understand the level of caution in the Governor’s proposed budget given the uncertainties we face in federal policies and volatile state revenues. But the reality is, the status quo for kids in California is absolutely unacceptable. We need to respond with fundamental change, not incremental pauses and cuts that impact health care, child care and early learning opportunities.”
Susan Frey contributed to this story.
Policy & FinanceSchool Finance2017-18 BudgetFeaturedGov. Jerry BrownSchool Construction Bonds
Ben 3 years ago3 years ago
Brown was absolutely right to hold off on issuing any more school construction bonds until there is improved oversight and auditing. There is substantial waste, fraud, and abuse in these construction programs up and down the state. The bond oversight committees often provides a false sense of security to voters - all too often these committees are stacked with school district cheerleaders, staffed by unpaid volunteers without any training in financing, school … Read More
Brown was absolutely right to hold off on issuing any more school construction bonds until there is improved oversight and auditing. There is substantial waste, fraud, and abuse in these construction programs up and down the state. The bond oversight committees often provides a false sense of security to voters – all too often these committees are stacked with school district cheerleaders, staffed by unpaid volunteers without any training in financing, school construction, etc. and have no budget or real authority to carry out their oversight function. For example, they have no budget for independent audits or an independent legal review of an issue. When school construction programs become large and complex undertakings, they cannot provide the oversight necessary to stop fraud, waste, and abuse.
Tom 3 years ago3 years ago
Ben, I'm not sure if your criticism is directed at school district personnel or bond oversight committees, or both. In regards to the school district personnel, these people DO have finance and construction expertise and are paid well to do their jobs though sometimes there are abuses and people go to jail as a result. This happens in every industry and that's why we have laws. There is a need to fix … Read More
Ben, I’m not sure if your criticism is directed at school district personnel or bond oversight committees, or both. In regards to the school district personnel, these people DO have finance and construction expertise and are paid well to do their jobs though sometimes there are abuses and people go to jail as a result. This happens in every industry and that’s why we have laws. There is a need to fix the construction contracting methods which results in many distortions of the market. Bond oversight committees are usually parents who do have some type of expertise in accounting or finance though usually not as deep as school district personnel. This is not a fatal flaw because they act only as an additional layer to involve and inform the community and that is a good thing.
I would argue that State government has been derelict in their duty and obligation to provide adequate facilities for our kids. This led to a grassroots effort to generate money for facilities and the public voted in favor of it. I find it very arrogant for the Governor to stand in the way of the will of the people and the needs of its most vulnerable and most important population – our children. At least he is consistent in showing more support of expensive boondoggles like high-speed rail than of schools.
John, As I recall, Brown threatened to cut school funds by $6 billion if proposition 55 did not pass. So now he is proposing to cut less - $500 million - even though the Prop 30 tax still in effect and is said to bring in $2-$3 billion for schools, as I recall. Is the balance going into the rainy day fund for future use when the economic downturn happens? … Read More
John, As I recall, Brown threatened to cut school funds by $6 billion if proposition 55 did not pass. So now he is proposing to cut less – $500 million – even though the Prop 30 tax still in effect and is said to bring in $2-$3 billion for schools, as I recall. Is the balance going into the rainy day fund for future use when the economic downturn happens? If so, how easy is it to direct those rainy day funds elsewhere? Please advise.
Tom: How much schools receive from the General Fund is determined by Prop 98, passed in 1988, and Brown is simply proposing to provide schools the minimum that Prop 98, a complicated formula, requires. What he is saying is that, based on General Fund revenues so far this year and in 2015-16, he and the Legislature appropriated too much when they passed the budget last July, so he is cutting school revenues by $500 million. … Read More
Tom: How much schools receive from the General Fund is determined by Prop 98, passed in 1988, and Brown is simply proposing to provide schools the minimum that Prop 98, a complicated formula, requires. What he is saying is that, based on General Fund revenues so far this year and in 2015-16, he and the Legislature appropriated too much when they passed the budget last July, so he is cutting school revenues by $500 million. Of course, if revenues come in higher in the spring, as some speculate they will, he may have to cancel that proposed cut in the May budget revision. Lowering the Prop. 98 requirement for the past two years will also lower the obligation in 2017-18, which is why schools will also be getting less next year than they expected.
Prop. 30 is widely misunderstood. Revenues from the tax flow into the General Fund and are subject to Prop. 98’s formula. As a result, Prop. 30 has helped raise more money for K-12 and higher ed. Because of the way Prop. 98 works, in the first years of Prop. 30, nearly every cent of its revenues went to education; the Prop. 98 formula says that in really good revenue years (which occurred when Prop. 30 went into effect), the Legislature must start paying schools back revenue they lost during down years. But on average, about 40 percent or Prop. 30’s revenue will go to K-12 and community colleges. When Prop. 55 replaces Prop 30, some of what remains after K-12 and community colleges get their share will go into the General Fund’s rainy day fund and some of it will go to health care for the poor.
You are correct: Brown did threaten to cut $6 billion from schools if Prop. 30 failed. Fortunately, we didn’t have to see if he would stick to his word.
Prop. 98 experts: Please jump in to expand or clarify what I have written. That includes you, Rick Simpson, if, in your retirement, you are still reading EdSource.
Jim Wilson 3 years ago3 years ago
John: I used to qualify as a Prop 98 "expert" but I retired in 2010, so my understanding of recent moves is incomplete, particularly with how Prop 30 revenues have been treated. With regard to Prop 98, it was revised by Prop 111 in June 1990 to allow the state to use a lower minimum funding amount in years when state revenues decline sufficiently. It is this "Test 3" provision that appears … Read More
John: I used to qualify as a Prop 98 “expert” but I retired in 2010, so my understanding of recent moves is incomplete, particularly with how Prop 30 revenues have been treated. With regard to Prop 98, it was revised by Prop 111 in June 1990 to allow the state to use a lower minimum funding amount in years when state revenues decline sufficiently. It is this “Test 3” provision that appears to be anticipated by the Governor here. I doubt that the Legislature “appropriated too much last year”, but rather that the Legislature appropriated (and the Governor signed) too little to meet the Prop 98 guarantee based on a higher level of state revenues. This appears to be prudent, because now that lower state revenues appear to be likely, the Prop 98 guarantee may be reduced pursuant to Test 3, and an additional $500 million of appropriations will not be required to meet the guarantee that was anticipated last June.
If state revenues come in higher than currently anticipated by the May revise, the Prop 98 guarantee for the current fiscal year (2016-17) may have to be based on a higher Test 3, or even an unreduced Test 2, and more funding may have to appropriated for 2016-17. This would also mean that the Prop 98 guarantee level for 2017-18 and later years would be increased accordingly since the 2016-17 base of appropriations would be higher.
One more point to make is that the Prop 98 guarantee in met with both state appropriations and local property tax revenues. If the property tax revenues increase faster than state revenues, under either test, then the need for state appropriations in reduced. This is why an added $500 million in appropriations this year, may require only $400 million next year if property tax revenues increase faster than the overall Prop 98 guarantee.
Thanks, Jim.
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Students with disabilities completely overlooked in LCFF and this budget. Claiming that IDEA will provide, if Trump's administration kills it, which is an option on their table, our kids will be left with no funding, no support. When LCFF was first unveiled, advocates and families of students with disabilities protested that those of most need were left out of the formula. Local school districts have put together their LCFF committees with much … Read More
Students with disabilities completely overlooked in LCFF and this budget. Claiming that IDEA will provide, if Trump’s administration kills it, which is an option on their table, our kids will be left with no funding, no support.
When LCFF was first unveiled, advocates and families of students with disabilities protested that those of most need were left out of the formula. Local school districts have put together their LCFF committees with much interference from outside organizations that have their own interests at the forefront and election of reps was mismanaged and confused in some areas of LAUSD as reported by some attending the original meetings.
LCFF does not include all students of need and leaves out those most vulnerable. These things always end up with political agendas and fail the children.
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War of the Rebellion: Serial 092 Page 0748 OPERATION SIN S. C., GA., AND FLA. Chapter LVI.
the pontoon bridge materials. Perhaps it would be well for you to send two or three officers over to examine these fascines, as they may be useful on your line. I hope every brigade commander on your front will make a most careful examination of the lines in his front, and be prepared for the work. I shall order Williams to bring to the front all of the brigade now guarding our rear, except one regiment. About one-third of his command will be held in reserve at our present line. Works have already been constructed for all his artillery, and I intend he shall use all of it for fifteen or twenty minutes before he advances his infantry. I will try to see you to-morrow or next day.
Yours, &c.,
H. W. SLOCUM,
SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, LEFT WING, ARMY OF Georgia, Numbers 208.
Before Savannah, GA., December 18, 1864.
III. First Lieutenant Stephen G. Grubb, Battery C, First Illinois Artillery, is hereby appointed ordnance officer of the corps (vice Captain George Estep, who is about to be mustered out of the service), and will report to Major Charles Houghtaling, chief of artillery, fourteenth Army Corps.
By command of Bvt. Major General J. C. Davis:
A. C. McCLURG,
Assistant Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff.
ORDERS.] HDQRS. FIRST DIVISION, 14TH ARMY CORPS,
Colonel D. Miles, commanding Third Brigade, will relieve Colonel J. H. Brigham's (Second Brigade) quietly and without attracting the notice of the enemy at daylight to-morrow morning, the 19th instant.
Colonel J. H. Brigham, upon being relieved by Colonel Miles' command, will encamp his brigade on the ground now occupied by Colonel Miles' command, withdrawing his troops cautiously.
By order of Brigadier General W. P. Carlin:
G. W. SMITH,
CIRCULAR.] HEADQUARTERS TWENTIETH CORPS,
Commanders of divisions will reconnoiter by day and night all roads and approaches to their lines from the enemy's position, using for this object of these examinations is to ascertain eery avenue to the line reports of their investigations.
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ChessBase and Correspondence chess – part 1
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3/23/2007 – ChessBase Workshop readers have requested a series of columns on the use of ChessBase in correspondence chess; Steve Lopez has been only too happy to comply. In the first installment of this series, he discusses the benefits to playing chess at coorespondence time controls as well as some legal and illegal uses of computers in correspondence play. Workshop...
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I've recently been reminded by some folks that it's been quite a while since I wrote about using ChessBase to manage your correspondence games. These folks are right and it's high time we returned to the subject. I'm going to start this series by cheating, not at postal chess, but by repeating one of my previous columns essentially verbatim (with a few minor edits). This is a pretty old column which goes back about eight and a half years, but the information is still valid and after rereading it I couldn't find a way to expand upon it (and didn't want to "do the same job twice" by rewording it). The original version of this column appeared on May 10, 1998 and predates my debut as a chessbase.com columnist, so it's not available elsewhere on this site. The only place you can find it is on a website that requires user registration to view it, so I can't "hotlink" to it; my hands are tied and I'm more or less forced to reprint it here.
Before we get into the re-presentation of this old column, please be aware that various correspondence leagues and websites have different rules regarding the use of computer chess engines as an analysis aid. Most leagues/websites still prohibit their use, except for special events or separate areas of the site which allow the use of a chess engine; ergo the comments I make below about their use are still by and large in effect.
WHY PLAY CORRESPONDENCE?
Correspondence chess has been a hot topic and subject of debate on the Internet lately, so let me be the latest to stick my hand in the hornet's nest...
I'm of the opinion that all chess players should give correspondence chess a try at least once. It's a totally different discipline from over the board chess. Obviously, you have more time to ponder your moves, which leads to a more relaxed atmosphere. At the same time, it requires a great deal more patience than OTB chess. Losing a correspondence game is somewhat less embarassing than losing one in OTB. This leads, in turn, to a desire to play more adventurous chess. Many gambits that are rarely seen in OTB play (the Cochrane Gambit is a good example) regularly appear in postal events.
With correspondence chess, you can play chess whenever you want. If a card comes in the mail and you don't feel like looking at it, you can just put it aside for a day or two until you're ready to consider your reply. And you always have the option of studying positions from your postal games while waiting for replies to come in the mail.
Correspondence chess is easier for older players. It gets tougher to visualize as one gets older; correspondence chess allows you to move the pieces around as much as you want before deciding on a move. It's also ideal for physically-challenged players who find it difficult to get to tournaments. The same thing applies to players who don't have access to OTB events due to geographical considerations. I first became involved with correspondence play when my wife was pregnant with twins. It was late in the pregnancy and I didn't have the luxury of driving two hours to play at some school or rec center that didn't have a telephone. Correspondence chess allowed me to play competitive chess in the comfort of my home while waiting for the magic words "Honey, it's time!".
It's really a liberating feeling to be presented with a knotty tactical problem and have three days to consider it, rather than the few short minutes allowed in OTB play. It's even sweeter when you find the correct continuation and end up winning the game!
There are social aspects to correspondence play as well. You'll sometimes find a letter instead of a postcard waiting for you when you open the mailbox. I carried on a lively correspondence with some of my opponents a few years ago; in fact, I spent more time writing letters than I did considering my replies! One can, however, safely disregard this aspect of play if one wishes. I'm currently in an event in which we just scribble a line or two at the bottoms of our cards; none of us really have time for lengthy letterwriting.
Correspondence chess is also a great way to improve your OTB game. Correspondence chess teaches you how to deeply analyze a position. Playing this type of chess can greatly improve your understanding of the game.
The world of correspondence chess is incredibly rich. It's the quest for that Holy Grail of chess: the perfect game. You have plenty of time to research openings, examine tactics, set and avoid traps, explore endgames. It's a wonderful form of chess, completely different from OTB or on-line chess. A chessplaying acquaintance once told me that he considers correspondence chess a form of meditation. I've never been quite that relaxed by it, but I do find it less stressful than OTB chess and I find it interesting to develop my concentration and research skills through playing chess by mail.
ChessBase and Fritz have a number of tools to help you as a correspondence player. If you have a large database of master and grandmaster games with a means of accessing it (e.g. ChessBase and Fritz), you already possess some of the important tools essential to correspondence play.
Here comes the part where I stick my head into the lion's mouth, by telling you how ChessBase can help you in your correspondence play.
Let's start by listing what types of computer use are generally legal in correspondence chess:
Using a game database to look up information;
Using a statistical tree program to combine games into a tree and give you won/loss percentages for specific moves;
Using endgame databases (Thompson, Nalimov, etc.) to look up endgame positions;
Using a computer program as a postal recorder, to keep track of moves played and time used;
Using a computer program to store your personal analysis.
Now let's list the things you generally can not use a computer to do:
Consulting a playing program to have it suggest a move;
Using a playing program to double-check your intended move for errors.
Why are some of these uses legal and not others? We'll go over the points one-by-one to examine them in-depth.
The use of database programs like ChessBase has always been the subject of contention ever since the mid-1980's when ChessBase was introduced to the market. "Old guard" players are offended by the idea that someone could use a database program to look up a game or position for use in their postal games. (A very few of these players also find the use of paper books/magazines/etc. objectionable as well, but this type of usage has generally been considered an acceptible practice for many years.)
Let's step back and look at how postal chess games were researched before the days of computer databases, particularly in the area of chess openings. A player would receive a card in the mail from his opponent. He would record the move in his notebook or log, set the position up on a board, and begin to ponder his reply. At some point, he would turn to his library and attempt to find a reference to that opening or position.
Typically (at least between the mid-1960's and the mid 1980's) this would involve consulting the Chess Informant series. The player would have to first identify his game by ECO code, then start digging through volume after volume to find any games that used the same opening sequence. He would also consult various opening manuals (like ECO or Modern Chess Openings) in an attempt to find the theoretically "best" continuation from his current board position.
Obviously, research was a very laborious, time-consuming process. Players could spend literally hours finding raw information before they even got to the stage of analyzing it!
Computers have the ability to speed this process enormously. As an example, one can use ChessBase and a large database to locate in seconds information that used to take hours to unearth.
Quite a few postal players (primarily those that didn't own computers) rebelled against this use of technology and protested to the major correspondence chess organizations. Their protests were universally shot down. The fact is that there is no difference qualitatively between consulting a chess library on paper and consulting one on disk. The same information is being accessed; one technique is just infinitely faster than the other. Thus every major postal chess organization has ruled that the use of computers for data storage and retrieval is within the rules of correspondence chess. The idea here is that consulting a book or database is not the same as consulting a stronger player; it's still up to the player to locate and evaluate the raw information for him/herself.
The same idea applies to the use of statistical tree programs. All that these programs do is merge large numbers of games into a single "tree" of variations and provide success percentages for individual moves in the tree. Again, the "old guard" protested strongly against the use of these programs, saying that they felt the computer was "suggesting moves". Again, the protests were overturned.
The rationale behind this decision goes like this: let's say that a person is given a stack of printed gamescores in which a certain position appears. That person could review those games by hand and compile a list of all of the moves that were played from the target position. By taking careful note of the end result of each of the games and assigning a numerical value to each result (White wins equalling 1.00, Black wins equalling 0.00, and draws equalling 0.50), he could average the results and assign a success rating to each of the candidate moves.
This does not necessarily guarantee that a particular move is good or bad -- the final results could depend entirely on moves played later in the games. It's merely a form of "bean counting": how many games did White win after 9.Bd3 was played in this position?
Now replace the human from our example with a computer. The computer will tabulate the results much more quickly and accurately than a human, but in theory the results will be the same (assuming no mistakes are made by the human). Thus a statistical tree program merely provides a function that the human player could perform himself (given the time and inclination).
The Ken Thompson and Eugene Nalimov Endgame database disks work under the same principle as a game database; in fact, the endgame disks are merely databases of all possible positions with a certain combination of pieces (King and Queen vs. King and Rook, for example). You just set up a board position and the computer displays all the legal moves with the eventual result of the game, assuming perfect play for both sides. These disks fall into a bit of a grey area in the minds of some players. Isn't this cheating?
It's actually not cheating, by definition. The computer is not generating a move for the player; it's merely accessing a database of stored board positions and assembling them in logical order. In theory, a human player could do the same thing "by hand", though it would be prohibitively complex and time-consuming to do so.
By now, you can see a pattern emerging here. Using a computer to generate (think up) a move is illegal. But using a computer to ease a research task that a human player could (at least in theory) perform for himself is not illegal.
In other words, you can't use Fritz to tell you what to play or to double-check the move you've decided on for tactical blunders, but you can use Fritz or ChessBase to look for databased games containing the same board position or similar positions.
There has recently [as of 1998 -- SL] been extreme backlash and harsh criticism against using computers at all in correspondence chess. I believe two factors have contributed to this attitude: more than a few players have been caught cheating by using a computer to aid them at correspondence and on-line chess (making honest players more than a bit wary of computers), and Kasparov's loss to Deep Blue last year has generated the vision (in some quarters) of the computer as the "enemy of chess".
I recently saw an interesting argument on the Internet concerning the use of computer programs as postal recorders. It's common practice among computer users to keep track of their postal games in progress as part of a computer database instead of keeping a record of a postal game in a notebook or a traditional postal log. A gentleman on the 'Net argued vehemently against the use of a chess database program as a postal recorder, opining that such usage takes much of the error factor out of the correspondence game (moves written down incorrectly, boards set up with the wrong position upon receiving an opponent's move, etc). He felt that these errors are "part of the game" and that storing a game in progress on a computer takes away the chance of these errors occurring.
This gentleman obviously has very little experience in game input on a computer. I can't tell you the number of times I was entering a game by hand into a database and made the move ...Nf6 instead of the actual move ...Nc6 (or made similar errors). These errors are hard to catch until you reach a later point in the gamescore in which some other piece tries to move to f6. Only then does the error become apparent. It would be amazingly easy to incorrectly enter a (legal) move from your opponent into your postal database or even write down a move other than what you intended to play when you fill out your postcard. Using a computer doesn't eliminate the possibility of these errors; in fact such usage creates different opportunities for similar errors.
The same considerations apply to storing your correspondence analysis in a database. I've heard complaints that such analysis can't be lost or destroyed the way analysis in a paper notebook can be. People who try to make these complaints have never heard of hard drive crashes or power outages. I once played a postal game in which I lost a day's reflection time simply because of the fact that all of my analysis was on my computer and we had a major thunderstorm the evening I received my opponent's card in the mail. I couldn't turn on my computer because of the storm, so I didn't have access to my notes and analysis.
Earlier, I listed five legal uses of computers in correspondence chess. Now let's talk about the illegalities.
It is a basic tenet of correspondence chess that players are to receive no help or advice from other players. The definition of "other players" definitely includes computer chess software. You can't open the mailbox, look at your opponent's move, feed Fritz the position, and have the program tell you what to play. It is absolutely illegal to have a computer aid you in this manner, just as it's illegal to ask the Expert or Master down at the chess club how to play the same position.
This brings up an interesting question I was once asked. If you search for the position in your database and come up with a single game, played between two computers or a computer and a human, is it all right to play the same move as the computer? In other words, if your game's position appears in your database as part of a Kasparov-Deep Blue game or a game from the 1995 World Microcomputer Championships, is it legal to play it?
Yes, absolutely. The gamescore is part of the public record of the chess event and is no different than referring to a game between two masters. To draw an analogy, it would be illegal to ask Anatoly Karpov how to play a particular position from the Caro-Kann Defense, but it's certainly legal to consult a book he wrote on the Caro-Kann and use any of his notes that you find there (predicated on the fact that such printed information is [at least theoretically] available to your opponent as well as to yourself).
In other words, it's a question of intent. You can't go to a computer program and ask for a move, but it's OK to use a pre-existing gamescore in which one of the participants was a computer. In the latter case, you're not seeking active assistance from a computer program.
The other popular method of "computer cheating" in correspondence play is "move checking". You decide what move to play in your postal game, make that move against a chess computer, and see how the computer replies in order to find out if your intended move is a mistake (in other words, "blunderchecking" the move to see if there's a tactical refutation to it).
This is extremely illegal and is looked upon in the same light as having a chess program generate a move for you. But you'd be surprised to learn that some postal players think that move-checking is an acceptible practice. While working at ChessBase full-time years ago, I personally spoke to six or eight correspondence players who told me they regularly had Fritz "blundercheck" their moves. I explained to each of them that this was illegal and my explanation was met with near-universal apathy, if not outright distain. Only one player (bless him) expressed any remorse over this practice; he'd honestly not known that he was breaking the rules against getting advice. He called his correspondence organization and asked that his rating be reset to "0" and explained what he'd done. No sanctions were placed against him, but they did wipe his rating and started him over as an unrated player.
As a correspondence player, how do you know that you're opponent isn't cheating? It's simple: you don't. So don't worry about it. Just play your normal game and have fun! The players who use playing programs to help them in postal play are surprisingly few and far between. Don't let the last paragraph dissuade you from enjoying correspondence chess. Yes, I spoke to a few players who used computers, but you have to remember that I spoke to computer-owning chessplayers all day long every day as part of my job, and the overwhelming majority of them who played correspondence were honest players.
One thing to keep in mind about computers is that they are great at short-term tactics, but terrible at long-range planning. The difference between computers and humans is even more pronounced in correspondence chess than in OTB chess -- but in favor of the human player. It's even possible for average players to outthink a computer at correspondence time controls. Correspondence Master Jon Edwards (one of the strongest postal players ever produced by the United States) once told me that he actually hopes that his opponents are using computers, as he feels that he can outplay any computer at correspondence time controls, due to the computer's lack of positional understanding..
We've set the parameters for computer usage in correspondence chess. We know what's legal and what's not. But we have yet to talk about the nuts and bolts of how to legally use computers to aid you in correspondence play. We'll look at plenty of those tips and techniques in the coming weeks here in ChessBase Workshop. Until then, have fun!
You can e-mail me with your comments on ChessBase Workshop. All responses will be read, and sending an e-mail to this address grants us permission to use it in a future column. No tech support questions, please.
© 2007, Steven A. Lopez. All rights reserved.
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The Delight of the Heart
The Book of Allah to mankind's guidance, is like the soul in relation to the body. Therefore, he who abandons its recitation and does not act in accordance to its laws is in a state of spiritual death.
By Sa'ud ibn Ibrahim ash-Shuraim
(Delivered in al-Masjid al-Haram during Ramadhan)
Praise is for Allah, the Guide to goodness. He Watches over His creation, knowing what is hidden from sight and that which they conceal in their breasts. I praise Him, the praise of a true slave who is afraid of His punishment, yet in hope of His forgiveness. I thank Him; the thanking that is obligated on a slave to his Master. I bear witness that there is no god or deity worthy of any worship except Allah alone. I bear witness that Muhammed is His slave and final Messenger.
Amma Ba'du:
I advise you and I to have Taqwa Allah; it is the provision that will be most beneficial on the final Day.
Allah (SW) says Ordering his Prophet (saaw):
"Recite (O Muhammed) what has been revealed to you of the Book (Quran), and perform as-Salah. Verily, as-Salah (prayer) prevents from al-Fahsha' (great sins of every kind) and al-Munkar (disbelief, and every wicked deed). And the Remembering (praising) of (you by) Allah (in front of the angels) is greater indeed [than your remembering (praising) Allah in prayers]. And Allah knows what you do." -- Al-'Ankabut 29:45
He (SW) also said:
"I (Muhammed) have been commanded only to worship the Lord of this city (Makkah), Him Who has sanctified it and His is everything. And I am commanded to be from among the Muslims (those who submit to Allah in Islam). And to recite the Quran." -- An-Naml 27:91,92
Allah (SW) said:
"Nay, but they, the clear Ayat [the description and the qualities of Prophet Muhammed (saaw) written like verses in the Torah and the Gospel] are preserved in the breasts of those who are have been given knowledge (from the people of the Scriptures). And none but the Zalimun (polytheists and wrong-doers) deny Our Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons and signs)." -- Al-'Ankabut 29:49
"And we have indeed made the Quran easy to understand and be remembered, then is there any that will remember (or receive admonition)!?" -- Al-Qamar 54:17
'Ibad Allah!
The month of Ramadan is known as the month of sacrifice and fasting. It is also known and recognized and known as the month of the Quran. Allah (SW) says:
"The month of Ramadan in which was revealed the Quran, a guidance for mankind and clear proofs for the guidance and the criterion (between right and wrong)." -- Al-Baqarah 2:185
Allah (SW) says:
"Verily! We have sent it down in the Night of Al-Qadr (Decree)." -- Al-Qadr 97:1
He (SW) also says:
"We sent it (this Quran) down on a blessed night [night of Qadr in the 9th month (Ramadan) of the Islamic calendar]. Verily, We are ever warning [mankind that Our Torment will reach those who disbelieve in Our Oneness of Lordship and in Our Oneness of worship]. Therein (that night is decreed every matter of ordainments." -- Ad-Dukhan 44:3
Allah revealed the Quran, a beacon of light that cannot be extinguished. A methodology and way of life that is perfect in all respect. In it is strength that cannot be equaled or repelled. It is the foundation of Iman and the spring of knowledge. Allah Willed that the Quran be what quenches the thirst for knowledge. It is the delight of the people of wisdom. The Quran is the greatest cure for all ailments. The Quran is Allah's Rope that cannot be severed. It is the Wise reminder and the truly straight path. In the Quran are the parables of those who were before us, a prophesy of that which will be after us and a criterion to judge between us. It is Truth with certainty that was revealed to us. The one who lives according to its dictation will be rewarded. The one who judges according to it will be just. The one who calls to it is on the straight path. Allah raises and lowers people with it. The Quran, on the Day of Judgment, will intercede on behalf of those who recited it.
Rasool ul Allah (saaw) said:
"The one who reads a single letter from the Book of Allah will be rewarded with one Hasana (good deed). (Kno!w that) A good deed is multiplied ten times over. I do not say Alif Lam Meem is one letter. Verily, Alif is on letter, Lam is one letter, Meem is one letter." -- Reported by at-Tirmithi and it is Sahih.
O Muslims!
The Book of Allah to mankind's guidance, is like the soul in relation to the body. Therefore, he who abandons its recitation and does not act in accordance to its laws is in a state of spiritual death. Allah (SW) says:
"Is he who was dead (without Faith by ignorance and disbelief) and We gave him life (by Knowledge and Faith) and set for him a light (of Belief) whereby he can walk amongst men, like him who is in the darkness (of disbelief, polytheism and hypocrisy) from which he can never come out?" -- Al-An'am 6:122
A person without Quran is like a person without water, air and medicine. Allah (SW) says:
"And We send down from the Quran that which is a healing and a mercy to those who believe." -- Al-Isra' 17:82
Allah (SW) also says:
"And if We had sent this as a Quran in a foreign language other that Arabic, they would have said: 'Why are not its Verses explained in detail (in our language)? What! (A Book) not in Arabic and (the Messenger) an Arab? Say: 'It is for those who believe, a guide and healing. And as for those who disbelieve, there is heaviness (deafness) in their ears, and it (the Quran) is blindness for them." -- Fussilat 41:44
The Quran is a healing for the body and soul. Whenever life becomes hard and complicated the Light of the Quran will always brighten the way. It will be a source of solace and tranquility. It will be a defender to you when you are powerless and in need. Allah (SW) says:
"And when you (Muhammed) recite the Quran, We put between you and those who believe not in the Hereafter, an invisible veil (or screen their hearts, so they hear or understand it not)."
"And We have put a barrier before them, a barrier behind them, and We have covered t!hem up, so that they cannot see." -- Ya-Sin 36:9
The Muslim recites the Quran and will feel the Sakina and tranquility in his heart and being. This causes them only to fear Allah alone and no other. Allah (SW) says:
"Those (the believers) unto whom the people (hypocrites) said, 'Verily, the people (pagans) have gathered against you (a great army), therefore, fear them." But it (only) increased them in Faith, and they said, 'Allah (alone) is Sufficient for us, and He is the Best Disposer of affairs (for us)." So they returned with Grace and Bounty from Allah. No harm touched them; and they followed the good Pleasure of Allah. And Allah is the Owner of Great Bounty. It is only Shaytan that suggests to you the fear of his Auliya [supporters and friends (polytheists, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah and in His Messenger], so fear them not, but fear Me, if you are (true) believers." -- Ali-'Imran 3:173-175
Sadly, many have taken this Quran for granted and have neglected its recitation and implementation. They sought the worldly life and neglected the Hereafter. Allah (SW) says:
"And if you obey most of those on earth, they will mislead you far away from Allah's Path. They follow nothing but conjectures, and they do nothing but lie." -- Al-An'am 6:116
"And most of them follow nothing but conjecture. Certainly, conjecture can be of no avail against the truth." -- Yunus 10:36
The people of disbelief try to cloud the beauty of the Quran by attempting to beautify their scientific endeavors and worldly possessions. Yet, Allah (SW) says:
"They know only the outside appearance of the life of the world (i.e. the matters of their livelihood, like irrigating or sowing or reaping), and they are heedless of the Hereafter." -- Ar-Rum 30:7
Tragically, there are those who will recite the Quran in its entirety and finish with little more than with what they began with in terms of contemp!lation and action. Some are so concerned with how they sound, they beautify their voice without ever listening to what is being ordered or prohibited. Truly there are many reciters of the Quran that the Quran is free from them and their evil. They recite the Quran and are oppressive to themselves and others by not following its orders or forbidding its prohibitions. Allah (SW) says:
"No doubt! The Curse of Allah is on the Zalimun (wrong-doers)." -- Hud 11:18
He (SW) says:
"Then pray and invoke (sincerely) the Curse of Allah upon those who lie." -- Ali-'Imran 3:61
Nothing is more valuable to a Muslim in his worldly life and in the Hereafter than reciting the Quran and reflecting and trying to comprehend its meaning. In doing so an individual will become acquainted with what is good and what is evil. He will see the effects of disobedience of Allah and its punishment in the parables of those who have come before us. An example of such a punishment is the flood that was sent upon the people of Nuh (AS) and others similar to it. It is a source of inspiration and strengthens one's belief in Allah. For this reason, Allah (SW) says:
"And when His (Allah's) Verses (this Quran) are recited unto them, they (Verses) increase their Faith; and they put their trust in their Lord." -- Al-Anfal 8:2
This Book was sent and revealed from above the seven Heavens so that it could be comprehended and implemented, it is not just to be recited while the heart is pre-occupied. Allah (SW) says:
"(This is) a Book (Quran) which We have sent down to you, full of blessings that they may ponder over its Verses, and that men of understanding may remember." Sad 38:29
"Have they not pondered over the Word (of Allah) or has there come to them what had not come to their fathers of old?" -- Al-Mu'minun 23:68
"Do they not then consider the Quran carefully? Had it been from other than Allah, they would s!urely have found therein much contradictions." -- An-Nisa 4:82
"Do they not think deeply in the Quran, or are their hearts locked up (from understanding it)?" -- Muhammed 47:24
The Quran is an integral part of the Muslim individual's life. Allah (SW) says:
"Has not the time come for the hearts of those who believe to be affected by Allah's Reminder (Quran)? And that which has been revealed of the truth, lest they become as those who received the Scripture before (Jews and Christians), and the term was prolonged on them and so their hearts were hardened? And many of them were Fasiqun (rebelious, disobedient to Allah)." -- Al-Hadid 57:16
What has happened to our hearts O 'Ibad Allah? Why are our hearts locked out and unresponsive to the Quran? Why do the words enter from one ear and exit out the other. Why have our hearts hardened?
Let us comprehend the Quran and implement it in our lives. Let us be from those who implement the Quran in our days and recite it during our nights.
O Allah! Make the Quran the delight of our hearts and the light of our breasts and the remover of our pain, sorrow and discomfort.
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Various Scholars
Ramadan & the Last 10 days Files
Quotes from Lectures
#Quran #Ramadan #Sa'ud ibn Ibrahim ash-Shuraim
Do You Know This Book ?
Translation of the meanings of surah Al-Baqara (2)
Quran: The Way to Salvation
The First Ten Days of Dhul Hijjah
Ahmad Musa Jibril
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Brian Lee and the Orbiters
Saturday, December 22, 2018 from 07:30 pm to 10:30 pm
Brian Lee & the Orbiters - are one of the premier bands on the Northwest blues scene. Their engaging delivery, top-flight musicianship, and great repertoire of original tunes and gems from the blues tradition has created a strong following. This is a band that's tailor made for dancing! Brian and band are serious in their musicianship, but have serious fun when they perform! The “Orbiters” name evokes the concept of the band– a “wide orbit” through the varied styles of the blues universe. Brian fronts the band with melodic vocals and superb guitar, slide guitar, and harmonica. Band members are among the finest in the region, with the amazing Mahiko Fujita on guitar, cool grooves from Brady Kish on bass, and supremely swinging drums by Russ Kammerer!
Brian and band are nominated for 2018 "Best Traditional Blues Act" and "Best Slide Guitar" by the Washington Blues Society. They have previously been honored with "BB" awards for Best Traditional Blues Act in 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2017, for Best Blues Band in 2014, and for several individual band member awards. Take in some stellar blues with the Orbiters!
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Heritability of ECG Biomarkers in the Netherlands Twin Registry Measured from Holter ECGs.
Hodkinson, Emily C and Neijts, Melanie and Sadrieh, Arash and Imtiaz, Mohammad S and Baumert, Mathias and Subbiah, Rajesh N and Hayward, Christopher S and Boomsma, Dorret and Willemsen, Gonneke and Vandenberg, Jamie I and Hill, Adam P and De Geus, Eco (2016) Heritability of ECG Biomarkers in the Netherlands Twin Registry Measured from Holter ECGs. Frontiers in Physiology, 7. p. 154. ISSN 1664-042X (OA)
Link to published document: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2016.00154
INTRODUCTION The resting ECG is the most commonly used tool to assess cardiac electrophysiology. Previous studies have estimated heritability of ECG parameters based on these snapshots of the cardiac electrical activity. In this study we set out to determine whether analysis of heart rate specific data from Holter ECGs allows more complete assessment of the heritability of ECG parameters. METHODS AND RESULTS Holter ECGs were recorded from 221 twin pairs and analyzed using a multi-parameter beat binning approach. Heart rate dependent estimates of heritability for QRS duration, QT interval, Tpeak-Tend and Theight were calculated using structural equation modeling. QRS duration is largely determined by environmental factors whereas repolarization is primarily genetically determined. Heritability estimates of both QT interval and Theight were significantly higher when measured from Holter compared to resting ECGs and the heritability estimate of each was heart rate dependent. Analysis of the genetic contribution to correlation between repolarization parameters demonstrated that covariance of individual ECG parameters at different heart rates overlap but at each specific heart rate there was relatively little overlap in the genetic determinants of the different repolarization parameters. CONCLUSIONS Here we present the first study of heritability of repolarization parameters measured from Holter ECGs. Our data demonstrate that higher heritability can be estimated from the Holter than the resting ECG and reveals rate dependence in the genetic-environmental determinants of the ECG that has not previously been tractable. Future applications include deeper dissection of the ECG of participants with inherited cardiac electrical disease.
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EPUG-UKI
The Ex Libris Products User Group, UK and Ireland
Committee and other Postholders
How to Join EPUG-UKI
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Ex Libris Products User Group (United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland)
1: NAME
1.1 The name of the group is Ex Libris Products User Group (UK and Republic of Ireland), abbreviated where appropriate to EPUG-UKI.
2: OBJECTIVES
2.1 To facilitate communication between Ex Libris Ltd and its associated companies,and the users of Ex Libris products in the UK and the Republic of Ireland.
2.2 To identify areas of common interest or concern for action by or comment from Ex Libris.
2.3 To provide a channel for user input to the development of systems by Ex Libris.
2.4 To facilitate mutual support and exchange of experience between the users of Ex Libris products.
2.5 To liase with the International Group of Ex Libris Users (IGeLU) and other relevant professional groups.
3: MEMBERSHIP
3.1 Membership shall be open to all institutions in the UK or Ireland who have a current contract with Ex Libris or one of its associated companies for the supply of any of its products.
3.2 Where an Ex Libris product is shared by a number of institutions under the terms of a single contract each participating institution is entitled to become a member of the Group by paying the annual institutional subscription; but in the case of a vote being taken by the Group at a meeting or otherwise, only one such participating institution per contract is allowed to cast a vote.
3.3 An annual institutional charge shall be levied, the level of charge to be approved by the Annual General Meeting.
3.4 Each member institution shall normally nominate one individual to be the Group contact for that institution.
3.5 The Committee has the discretionary right to agree a reduced membership rate for any individual member institution, which is then reviewed on an annual basis thereafter. Applications for reduced membership fees should be submitted to the Committee for review by the requesting member institution. Reduced membership fees will only be agreed in exceptional circumstances, and arrangements will only apply to future membership payments.
3.6 The Committee has the discretionary right to suspend temporarily the membership of a member institution in the event of subscription arrears in excess of six months
4: OFFICERS
4.1 The following officers shall comprise a national executive Committee:
Treasurer/Membership Secretary
One Ordinary member
When any post becomes vacant, an invitation shall be circulated (see 4.4 below) for names to be proposed and seconded as candidates to fill it. The proposer and the seconder may be any member of staff from a member institution who is eligible to attend meetings of the Group.
4.2 Further officers may be co-opted by the Committee.
4.3 Officers shall be elected for a term of two years, and shall serve for no more than two consecutive terms in any one office.
4.4 The Secretary shall notify the membership of the Group of all Committee vacancies as soon as they are known and at least 28 days before the meeting at which the vacancy is to be filled. If there is more than one nomination for a post, an election shall take place. The voting shall be by a secret ballot of the representatives from each institution that has full membership of the Group. Proxy votes shall be included in accordance with article 5.2.
4.5 The group shall appoint an honorary auditor to audit the annual accounts. A second honorary auditor may be appointed if agreed by the Group. Any member of staff from a member institution shall be eligible to volunteer when a vacancy arises.
4.6 Roles of the officers of the national executive Committee:
To chair Group and Committee meetings
To liaise with Ex Libris over matters pertinent to the Group
To liaise with IGeLU and other international user groups
To represent the Group on outside bodies where appropriate
To take the minutes of Group and Committee meetings
To organize these meetings
To inform members of proposed changes to the Constitution and to ensure that revisions are incorporated into the Constitution
Treasurer/Membership Secretary:
To manage the Group’s accounts
To contact the eligible institutions to invite them to join
To ensure that details of member institutions are kept up-to-date on the Group’s website
To administer the EPUG-UKI email lists
To review from time to time the contents of the Membership Pack and propose changes as appropriate
Ordinary member:
To help in the work of the executive committee, in particular:
To liaise with members on training needs
To liaise with Ex Libris on training matters
To co-ordinate organisation of training events
The roles of all members of the Committee shall include other tasks the Group agrees the Committee should carry out.
5: MEETINGS
5.1 A minimum of two business meetings shall be held each year of which one will be the Annual General Meeting.
5.2 For voting items a quorum comprising a simple majority of the institutional voting membership must be present. Proxy votes from non-attending institutional representatives or their deputies will be cast by the Chair if notified not less than 3 days before the meeting at which the vote will take place.
5.3 The Chair must convene a Special General Meeting within 28 days if requested to do so in writing by at least five institutional members or 10% of membership, whichever is the higher.
6: SUB-GROUPS
6.1 Subject to approval by a majority of voting members at any regular meeting of the Group, sub-groups may be formed from time to time. Such sub-groups should be convened by a nominated institutional contact, and will be required to report to Group meetings.
7: CHANGES TO THE CONSTITUTION
7.1 Changes to the Constitution may only be made at an Annual General Meeting or at a Special General Meeting. Member institutions must be given 28 days notice in writing of proposed changes.
7.2 Changes to the Constitution must receive a vote in favour of at least a simple majority of the institutional voting membership. Voting shall be by a show of hands for each clause to be changed.
8: DISSOLUTION
8.1 Any remaining assets on dissolution of the Group shall be distributed equally among the institutional members.
The original version of the EPUG-UKI Constitution has been archived for reference purposes.
Slides from EPUG-UKI AGM – April 2019
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Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics
Agricultural and Resource Economics Update
Research Report Series
Special Report Series
The Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics was founded in 1930 from a grant made by the Bancitaly Corporation to the University of California in tribute to its organizer and past president, Amadeo Peter Giannini of San Francisco. Members and associate members of the Giannini Foundation are University of California faculty and Cooperative Extension specialists in agricultural and resource economics on the Berkeley, Davis and Riverside campuses. The broad mission of the Foundation is to promote and support research and outreach activites in agricultural economics and rural development relevant to California.
ARE Update Volume 19, Number 5
Dinar, Ariel
Zilberman, David
Plakias, Zoe T
Goodhue, Rachael E
Martin, Philip
1. Water Pricing for a Dry Future: Pricing Policies from Abroad and Their Relevance to California
It is raining again in California. How long will it last and how effective will it be in addressing the long-term water scarcity that the state faces? We live in a water-scarce, drought-prone state and this fact has to be taken into account in shaping water conservation policy. At a recent water-pricing workshop, co-sponsored by the Giannini Foundation, leading scholars from several countries presented case studies. These illustrated how water-pricing mechanisms have been used creatively throughout the world for promotion of water conservation under water-scarce situations.
2. Growers’ Assessments of Challenges Facing the California Rice Industry: Past and Present
Rice growers in California face many challenges in 2016. In this piece, we consider current challenges cited by growers and their relationship to past challenges in the industry.
3. California Agriculture: Water, Labor, and Immigration
Farmers fear shortages of water and labor. Both have been in short supply in recent years due to drought and reduced Mexico–U.S. migration. California agriculture may be at a crossroads on both issues, facing higher costs and more uncertainty about the availability of two critical inputs.
Alston, Julian M
Fuller, Kate B
Lapsley, James T
Soleas, George
Tumber, Kabir
Goodrich*, Brittney
Goodhue, Rachael
Stevens, Andrew
Berck, Peter
Villas-Boas, Sofia Berto
1. Vinum Verum Viribus? Systematic Errors in Wine Alcohol Labels
Using international data for 18 vintages, we find systematic differences between the actual and stated alcohol content of wine. Our results suggest that rising alcohol content of wine may be a nuisance by-product of producer responses to evolving market and production environments.
2. Honey Bee Colony Strength in the California Almond Pollination Market
Honey bee colony strength is an important factor in almond pollination decisions due to increased pollination efficiency of larger colonies. Growers use contract provisions to secure a minimum level of colony strength, thus making strength an influential component of the overall colony supply and demand which has not been considered in previous economic analyses.
3. Taxing Bottled Water as an Environmental Policy
Litter from plastic water bottles is an environmental concern for cities and states throughout the country. One potential policy response to this issue is to implement a consumer tax on bottled water in hopes that the subsequent reduction in total sales translates into less litter. We explore evidence from Washington state to analyze how effective and efficient a consumer tax on bottled water is as an environmental policy.
Smith, Aaron
Anderson, Nina
Sumner, Daniel
1. Biofuel Policies: Robbing Peter to Pay Paul
Policies aimed at reducing carbon emissions from transportation have hit major obstacles in the past few years. In effect, these policies take money from petroleum producers and give it to renewable fuel producers, creating heated political and legal battles but little effect on consumers.
2. Which California Foods You Consume Makes Little Impact on Drought-Relevant Water Usage
To be relevant to California’s drought, discussions of water used to produce food items should focus on the irrigation water relevant to production in California. By that measure, drought-relevant water used to produce livestock products such as beef and milk is moderate compared to crop products such as wine and broccoli.
3. Europe's Migration Crisis
The European Union’s 28 member nations received 1.2 million applications from asylum seekers in 2015. One reason for the upsurge in asylum applicants is that German Chancellor Angela Merkel in August 2015 announced that Syrians could apply for asylum in Germany even if they passed through safe countries en route. The challenges of integrating asylum seekers are becoming clearer, prompting talk of reducing the influx, reforming EU institutions, and integrating migrants.
ARE Update Volume 19, Number2
Carman, Hoy
Havenner, Arthur
de la Torre, Adela
Zhang, Nan
1. Beer: A Poster Child of the Bioeconomy
The bioeconomy includes agricultural sectors that rely on farm inputs and biological processes to produce a wide array of products. The traditional bioeconomy relied on fermentation to produce cheese, beer, etc., while the modern bioeconomy relies on biotechnology. The history of beer used as a case study suggests that over time, the bioeconomy evolved to produce differentiated products with elaborate supply chains. Its evolution depended on investments in research and a balanced regulatory environment.
2. Investment Warning: Farming May Endanger Your Financial Health
During the last 15 years, some two-thirds of individual taxpayers with farm income have reported total net farm losses averaging over $11.1 billion annually. In addition, the U.S. Government participates in funding these losses by foregoing taxes on other sources of income from which farm losses are deducted. Persistent losses indicate that farming may have changed from an investment to a consumption good for many individual taxpayers.
3. Obesity in Mexican-Origin Children
Research results from the Ninos Sanos, Familia Sana project found that mothers have a dominant role in the weight of their children. Obese children are more prone to gain more weight, at the margin, if their mothersare overweight. Other factors are also important in explaining obesity in Mexican-origin children.
Lee, Hyunok
Matthews, William
Carter, Colin
1. What Does the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Mean for California Agriculture?
If it were implemented, the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement would lower import barriers and facilitate export for many of California's significant agricultural exports to Pacific Rim nations—most importantly in Japan. By modestly improving growth prospects, it would also help create larger markets in developing countries—most importantly Vietnam.
2. Whither U.S. Immigration?
The United States is the nation of immigration, with 20% of the world's international migrants and half of the world's unauthorized migrants. Debates over the best package of enforcement, legalization, and guest workers to deal with illegal migration continue to divide Americans and Congress.
3. National Standards for GM-Free Food Labels: A Good Idea
The USDA and U.S. Congress are working to introduce a national certification program for GM-free food labels. It would function similarly to the existing National Organic Program. Consumers would gain from these regulations if they are introduced.
Crespi, John
Saitone, Tina
Sexton, Richard J
Hooker, Brandon
Wong, Andrew
1. The Supreme Court's Decision in the ‘Raisin Case': What Does it Mean for Mandatory Marketing Programs?
In Horne et al. v. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Raisin Marketing Order's volume-control program constituted an illegal taking of private property. We discuss the rationale for theprogram, the Court's opinion, and what this decision means for volume controls enacted under marketing order provisions, as well as the other functions that marketing orders commonly perform.
2. California Farm Labor: Jobs and Workers
The combination of labor-intensive crops, tighter border controls, and new programs that may give some unauthorized foreigners a temporary legal status has increased interest in the number of farm workers and theirstability. During the 1990s, there were an average three unique farm workers or Social Security Numbers reported by California farm employers for each year-round equivalent farm job. Analysis of data for 2007 and 2012 find two workers per job, a significant increase in stability. The ratio of workers to jobs may fall further as farmers mechanize, offer higher wages and benefits to retain current workers, or turn to guest workers.
3. The Evolving Legal Organization of California Farms: Corporations and LLCs
California corporate farms continue to grow in terms of numbers, share of all farms, acreage, and product sales. The average California corporate farm is larger than the average single proprietor and partnership farm, but all three organizational forms are represented in each of the size, asset and product sales categories from smallest to largest. Many California farms now realize some corporate advantages through organization as a Limited Liability Company.
ARE Update: Special Issue-The Economics of the Drought for California Food and Agriculture
Sumner, Daniel A
Hanak, Ellen
Mount, Jeffrey
Medellín-Azuara, Josue
Lund, Jay R
Howitt, Richard E
MacEwan, Duncan
1.Putting California's Latest Drought in Context.
California's latest drought has focused attention on water management practices and policies. This article describes how the system has adapted to managing water scarcity and recurring droughts. It identifies some of the early lessons learned, including promising ways to adapt to water scarcity and areas of continued vulnerability.
2. Agricultural Irrigation in This Drought: Where Is the Water and Where Is It Going?
In the midst of its fourth year of drought, California now faces an estimated reduction in surface-water availability of 8.8 million acre-feet (maf) out of 29 maf in agricultural applied water statewide. However, groundwater, the buffer water supply during drought, is replacing about 6.2 maf of surface water via additional pumping. This increased groundwater pumping is in addition to the 1.5 maf of annual average groundwater overdraft in the Central Valley. The net reduction of 2.6 maf in the total supply in 2015 may result in about 564,000 acres fallowed statewide, or about 120,000 more acres than last year's fallowing estimates.
3. Economic Impact of the 2015 Drought on Farm Revenue and Employment
We estimate that a net water shortage of 2.6 million-acre feet could cause 564,000 acres to be fallowed and result in a loss of $850 million in crop production value. The surface water shortage of 8.8 million acre-feet will be replaced by about 6.2 million acre-feet of increased groundwater pumping, at a cost of about $600 million. We estimate the dairy and cattle industries will lose $350 million in revenues. We estimate the direct economic cost of the 2015 drought will be $1.8 billion, with a loss of 8,550 direct farm jobs. Including spillover effects, statewide losses are close to $2.7 billion in output and 18,600 full-time and part-time jobs.
4. California's Severe Drought Has Only Marginal Impacts on Food Prices
Flexibility and resourcefulness by California farmers have minimized drought-induced supply reductions for tree, vine and vegetable crops, for which California has large market shares and for which retail prices would be sensitive to California disruptions. Water is being shifted away from field crops that enter the food supply indirectly and for which California is not a dominant producer. These facts mean that even a severe drought is having only slight impacts on supplies to consumers and thus only slight impacts on consumer food prices. Of course, the longer the drought lasts, the larger the impacts.
ARE Update
Saitone, Tina L
Gabrielyan, Georgi T
1. California's egg regulations became effective January 1, 2015. Immediately, egg prices in California were nearly double those in the rest of the U.S. as producers worked through an adjustment to new regulations. The price premium for eggs in California has narrowed but is likely to remain well above prices in the rest of the U.S. due to the continued regulatory uncertainty and higher costs associated with complying with the regulations.
2. Food and beverage processing is the third largest manufacturing sector in California. In 2012 California's food and beverage processing sector contributed $82 billion in value added to the California economy, 760,000 full- and part-time jobs, $10.5 billion in federal tax revenues, and $8.2 billion in state and local tax revenues.
3. The West Coast port delays that began in the summer of 2014 and lasted until near the end of February 2015 cost California agriculture dearly. As the delays extended into the winter, citrus exports were hit while exports of storable crops to Asia also slowed. The story for wine is more complex, because California both imports and exports wine through West Coast ports.
ARE Update, Volume 18, Number 3
Fally, Thibault
Carron, Justin
Escalera, Julie
Crowley, David
Bloom, Nick
Effert, Benn
Mahajan, Aprajit
McKenzie, David
1. Per Capita Income, International Trade Puzzles, and CO2 Emissions.
2.Adoption of Water-Related Technology and Management Practices by the California Avocado Industry.
3.Does Management Matter? Evidence From India.
4. Faculty Profile: Thibault Fally
Taylor, Rebecca
Parker, Doug
1. Biofuels Policy in Limbo.
2. Contribution of University of California Cooperative Extension to Drip Irrigation.
3.Farm Labor and Immigration: Outlook for 2015.
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EP 162: Owning A Business Instead Of A Job With The Freedom Plan Author Natalie Sisson
Mindset & Identity, Operations
Why Natalie decided to pursue a personal brand under her name — and why she decided to keep The Suitcase Entrepreneur, too.
What Natalie’s personal brand looks like from the inside out — and why she’s considering a done-for-you offering as part of her services
What she learned from taking a 3-month sabbatical to figure out her next moves — and how Natalie decided to move back to her native New Zealand
How Natalie uses an “idea journal” to quickly document new project ideas before committing to them. Plus, a quick look into how she makes decisions for her life and business so that they align with her purpose, vision, and goals.
Natalie Sisson spent the better part of six years working remotely and traveling around the world. And while many of you likely know her as the Suitcase Entrepreneur, she’s set her bags down to make a home in her native New Zealand (puppy and partner included!).
Although life’s changed quite a bit for her from her working-and-traveling-the-world-days, Natalie’s still teaching business owners how to create a more sustainable and profitable business using smart systems. Her latest feat? Launching the brand new book, The Freedom Plan. Through it’s pages, Natalie teaches entrepreneurs how to reclaim their time, streamline their business, and be more profitable while living your ideal lifestyle and feeling on purpose.
Check out this episode to hear more from Natalie about shifting her work away from the Suitcase Entrepreneur and to her personal brand under her name, why implementing systems can completely change the way you do business, and so much more.
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Using a personal brand to better serve your clients
“I’m helping people create a more streamlined business that gives them freedom. I might say: hey, this is Natalie and this is how I want to help you. But it’s not about me. This is not a blog about following my journey or what I’m doing right now — although there’s an element of that that people want to learn from.” — Natalie Sisson
Even though Natalie works under her name now rather than the Suitcase Entrepreneur, it’s really not about her. “It’s about you and what you can accomplish and how I can help you accomplish that thing,” Natalie says.
The biggest difference between her personal brand and the Suitcase Entrepreneur? Now she teaches people how to implement the systems and tools that she’s used over the years to grow her business. It’s a lot less about Natalie personally and more about how she can serve her clients with what she knows.
Implementing systems and hiring to optimize the work, save time, and spend more time doing what you’re good at
“I’ve noticed that when I’m working I’m expanding my time to fit the work; I can actually do it in a lot less time than I realize because I’ve created good systems and because I’ve created a little virtual team around the world. A lot of the stuff that I do is the strategy and the content creation and the curriculum creation for the programs and offerings that I have.” — Natalie Sisson
Right now, Natalie’s challenging herself to work one single hour a week — just to see if she can based on the systems she has in place. Part of her ability to optimize her work is through developing efficient systems. She also hires out some of the work — but only did so once the systems were strongly in place. Natalie works with a part-time virtual assistant “who knows my systems and business inside and out.” Her V.A. also works on admin tasks and customer service.
Besides her V.A., Natalie also works with a handful of other self-employed creatives. She has a designer/photographer/social media contractor who helps with social media posting and content as well as WordPress design. To round out her team, Natalie works with a sales funnel and Facebook ad strategist and video editor.
Beyond her core team, who are based around the world, she works with other project-based workers including a copywriter, project manager, and videographer.
Using an ideas journal
“Anytime you have what you think is a brilliant idea in the middle of the night or during a creative session or when you’re out running or in nature, pop it into that journal and come back to it a few days later and see whether it still has the legs and the juice and the excitement that you initially had.” — Natalie Sisson
What do you do when you come up with an amazing offering or idea? Do you usually go straight into implement mode and learn as you go? Or do you simmer on it? Natalie does the latter using what she calls an ideas journal. If she has an amazing insight, she writes it down then comes back to it in a day or two to see if the original passion or excitement is still there.
In addition to her ideas journal, Natalie uses a decision matrix to ask herself a number of questions before taking action, including:
What impact is it going to have?
What effort is it going to be?
How profitable is it going to be?
Does it meet my vision?
“It gives you a really good perspective on what you have going on in your head and in your life,” Natalie says.
Listen to this episode to hear more from Natalie Sisson on the power of growing your business using systems, how to pivot from one business to a personal brand, and how to make decisions that align with your purpose.
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4th Dimension roller coaster
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'X²' (formerly 'X') was the first 4th Dimension roller coaster in the world.
First manufactured
No. of installations
Arrow Dynamics (Discontinued), S&S Worldwide, and Intamin
Riders per row
Restraint Style
Over-the-shoulder
A 4th Dimension Roller Coaster is a type of steel roller coaster whereby riders are rotated independently of the orientation of the track, generally about a horizontal axis that is perpendicular to the track. The cars do not necessarily need to be fixed to an angle.[citation needed]
2.1 Arrow Dynamics and S&S Worldwide
2.2 Intamin ZacSpin 1st generation
2.3 S&S Free Spin
2.4 Intamin ZacSpin 2nd generation
3 Inversion ambiguity
4 Installations
John F. Mares, a corporate attorney, invented the 4th Dimension roller coaster concept in 1995 and holds six US patents related to the technology of their spinning seat systems: US Patent #'s 5,791,254, 6,098,549, 6,227,121, 6,386,115, 6,477,961 & 6,606,953. The first 4th Dimension roller coaster to be built, X2, which opened at Six Flags Magic Mountain, United States in 2002, was designed and patented by Alan Schilke.[1][2] In 2007, Intamin launched a variation of the 4th Dimension roller coaster under the name ZacSpin.[citation needed]
Design[edit]
Arrow Dynamics and S&S Worldwide[edit]
A) Rotation of Seats
B) Seat on Axle
C) Rack Gear
D) Four rails
Arrow Dynamics was the first company to produce a 4th dimension roller coaster, lending its name to the ride style. The trains feature seats capable of rotating forward or backward, 360 degrees in a controlled spin. This is achieved by having four rails on the track; two acting as per normal, and two to control the spin of the seats. The two rails that control the spin of the seats, known as "X Rails", vary in height relative to the track, and spin the train using a rack and pinion gear mechanism.[citation needed]
The first installation, X²,[1][2] was a prototype and cost Arrow Dynamics and Six Flags itself a lot of money due to technical difficulties and design flaws. In 2002, the park sued Arrow Dynamics, which went into bankruptcy. Since then Arrow was bought out by S&S Worldwide and became the company's steel coaster division, S&S Arrow. In 2006, a second installation opened at Fuji-Q Highland in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Japan under the name Eejanaika.[3] A third installation opened in 2012 at China Dinosaurs Park in China under the name Dinoconda.[4]
Intamin ZacSpin 1st generation[edit]
The Intamin ZacSpin was developed in response to the Arrow Dynamics 4th dimension roller coaster. Some of the main differences between the Intamin and Arrow Dynamics/S&S Worldwide versions are the uncontrolled rotation of the seats, which produces a different ride each time, no need for an additional rail, and single cars with 2 riders back-to-back. But since these single cars don't rotate around the riders but around a common point quite far back behind their backs, this gave rise to complaints of rider discomfort. Another notable difference is the absence of any lateral movements, causing some enthusiasts to not consider the rides 4th dimension roller coasters due to the fact that all movement is restricted to a 2 dimensional plane.
Kirnu at Linnanmäki in Helsinki, Finland, opened for the 2007 season and was the first of its kind. Later that year Inferno opened at Terra Mitica in Spain with an identical compact layout. In 2009, Insane opened at Gröna Lund with a different track layout. In 2011, the first ZacSpin in the United States opened at Six Flags Magic Mountain as Green Lantern: First Flight, and is themed to the DC Comics superhero of the same name. It features the same layout as Insane.
S&S Free Spin[edit]
In late 2012, S&S Worldwide unveiled a new concept called Free Spin which features a similar ride to Intamin ZacSpin. Each vehicle features two seating rows, and each row rotates independently. Because the axis of rotation is at the center of mass of each guest, rider comfort is significantly improved. Like with ZacSpin, Seats spin freely, but during several track sections a system of magnets forces a controlled inversion.[5] The first installation of a 4D Free Spin was Batman: The Ride at Six Flags Fiesta Texas in 2015.[6]
Intamin ZacSpin 2nd generation[edit]
In 2016, Intamin announced an updated version that like Free Spin also features a vehicle with two seating rows rotating independently, and an axis of rotation at the center of mass of each guest to improve rider comfort. [7]
Inversion ambiguity[edit]
There is considerable debate within the roller coaster community as to whether or not the spinning of these coasters qualifies as an inversion for the purpose of records. Guinness World Records gave Eejanaika the record with 14 inversions. However, other more coaster-specific record bodies such as the Roller Coaster Database do not recognize this claim and instead count only track inversions, which gives the record of 14 to The Smiler.[8]
Installations[edit]
Batman: The Ride Six Flags Fiesta Texas
Six Flags Discovery Kingdom 2015
2019 S&S Worldwide 4D Free Spin Operating [9]
ARASHI Nagashima Spa Land 2017 S&S Worldwide 4D Free Spin Operating
The Joker Six Flags Great Adventure
Six Flags Over Texas
Six Flags New England 2016
2017 S&S Worldwide 4D Free Spin Operating [10]
Wonder Woman Coaster Six Flags México 2018 S&S Worldwide 4D Free Spin Operating [11]
Dinoconda China Dinosaur Park 2012 S&S Worldwide 4th Dimension Operating [12]
Eejanaika Fuji-Q Highland 2006 S&S Arrow 4th Dimension Operating [3]
Green Lantern: First Flight Six Flags Magic Mountain 2011 Intamin ZacSpin SBNO, to be removed [13]
Inferno Terra Mítica 2007 Intamin ZacSpin Operating [14]
Insane Gröna Lund 2009 Intamin ZacSpin Operating [15]
Kirnu Linnanmäki 2007 Intamin ZacSpin Operating [16]
X²
Formerly X Six Flags Magic Mountain 2002 Arrow Dynamics 4th Dimension Operating [2]
Wing Coaster - a type of ride by Bolliger & Mabillard which features similar trains to the S&S/Arrow design
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^ a b c Marden, Duane. "X2 (Six Flags Magic Mountain)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved 18 November 2010.
^ a b Marden, Duane. "Eejanaika (Fuji-Q Highland)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved 18 November 2010.
^ "4D Roller Coaster". Retrieved 24 January 2012.
^ Alvey, Robb; Rowher, Kevin (13 November 2012). "IAAPA 2012 Trade Show Coverage Part 1 - S&S Silver Dollar City Rocky Mountain Construction". Theme Park Review. YouTube. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
^ "Media". Six Flags Fiesta Texas. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
^ "Media". Youtube CoasterForce channel. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
^ Marden, Duane. "Record Holders (Inversions)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
^ Marden, Duane. "Batman: The Ride (Six Flags Fiesta Texas)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
^ Marden, Duane. "Total Mayhem (Six Flags Great America)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
^ Marden, Duane. "Wonder Woman Coaster (Six Flags México)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
^ Marden, Duane. "Dinoconda (China Dinosaur Park)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved 24 May 2012.
^ Marden, Duane. "Green Lantern (Six Flags Magic Mountain)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved 18 November 2010.
^ Marden, Duane. "Inferno (Terra Mítica)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved 18 November 2010.
^ Marden, Duane. "Insane (Gröna Lund)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved 18 November 2010.
^ Marden, Duane. "Kirnu (Linnanmäki)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved 18 November 2010.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 4th dimension roller coasters.
A list of 4th Dimension roller coasters at the Roller Coaster DataBase
Types of roller coaster
Train configuration
Side friction
Virginia Reel
Track layout
Dual-tracked
Out and Back
List of Intamin rides
Current roller coaster models
Drop Coaster
LSM Launch
Prefabricated Wooden
Polercoaster (in association with US Thrill Rides)
SurfRider
Wing Coaster
Wing Rider
ZacSpin
Discontinued roller coaster models
Space Diver
Swiss Bob
Other current rides
Flume Ride
Giant Drop
Gyro Drop
Gyro Swing
Gyro tower
Hyper Splash
Looping Starship
Mega Splash
Rapid Ride
Super Splash
Tow boat ride
Other discontinued rides
Double and triple Ferris wheels
Notable rides
Colossos
Demon Drop
Falcon's Fury
Formula Rossa
Kingda Ka
Kirnu
Millennium Force
Sky Whirl
Storm Runner
Superman: Escape from Krypton
The Giant Drop
Tower of Terror II
Volcano, The Blast Coaster
Wilderness Run
Xcelerator
Website: www.intaminworldwide.com
S&S - Sansei Technologies
Notable installations
4D Free Spin Coaster
4th Dimension Coaster
Air-Launched Coaster
El Loco Coaster
Family Inverted Coaster
Free Fly Coaster
LSM Triple Launch Coaster
Mine Train Coaster
Steeplechase Coaster
Current ride models
Combo Tower
Rotating Tower
Screamin' Swing
Space Shot
Turbo Drop
Screaming Squirrel
Discontinued ride models
Frog Hopper
Jungle Swing
Monkey Madness
Sky Sling
Sky Swat
Website: s-s.com
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4th Dimension roller coasters
Types of roller coasters
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Carmona, Cavite
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Municipality in Calabarzon, Philippines
Municipality of Carmona
Anthem: Hymo ng Carmona
Carmona Hymn
Map of Cavite with Carmona highlighted
Location within the Philippines
Coordinates: 14°19′N 121°03′E / 14.32°N 121.05°E / 14.32; 121.05Coordinates: 14°19′N 121°03′E / 14.32°N 121.05°E / 14.32; 121.05
Calabarzon (Region IV-A)
5th District
Named for
Carmona, Andalusia, Spain[citation needed]
14 (see Barangays)
• Type
Sangguniang Bayan
Roy M. Loyola
• Vice Mayor
Cesar L. Ines, Jr.
• Electorate
47,676 voters (2016)
30.92 km2 (11.94 sq mi)
Highest elevation
3,200/km2 (8,200/sq mi)
Demonyms
Carmoneño, Carmoneña, Taga-Carmona
UTC+8 (PST)
IDD : area code
+63 (0)46
Climate type
Income class
1st municipal income class
Revenue (₱)
515.7 million (2016)
carmonagov.net
Carmona, officially the Municipality of Carmona, (Tagalog: Bayan ng Carmona), is a 1st class municipality in the province of Cavite, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 97,557 people.[3]
1.1 Timeline of Carmona
1.2 Former municipal mayors
2.1 Land area
2.3 Soil properties
2.4 Mineral resources
3 Barangays
4.1 Population density
4.2 Population distribution
4.3 Language
4.4 Religion
5.2 Industry
5.3 Commercial and financial
Carmona was just a part of the big town of Silang. This is not surprising because in the early part of the Spanish regime Silang included what today are known as the municipalities of Indang: San Francisco de Malabon (now General Trias), and Maragondon. Moreover, Alfonso, Amadeo, and Mendez were mere sitios of Indang; Sta. Cruz de Malabon (now Tanza) was a part of San Francisco de Malabon or Malabon Grande; and Magallanes and Ternate were barrios of Maragondon. Furthermore, Maragondon itself had been a part of the Corregimiento of Mariveles on the opposite side of Manila Bay.
According to research conducted in 1982, by Sangguniang Bayan members Ernesto Zamora, Salvador P. Manahan, Pio Purificacion, Narciso Levardo, and Romy Laurito, assisted by Municipal Secretary Rogelio D. Paular, it was found out that the history of Carmona began during the 15th century. As related by a reliable informant, three brothers coming from the mountain of Silang were said to be the first settlers in the place which was then called “Latag”, a Tagalog word for “plain” due to the numerous hills and plains in the area. The settlement was not known to other residents of Silang until some of them also went down to the place, cleared some forest areas and established their residence.
In 1595, Silang became a town and Latag was annexed as a part since then. Latag gradually developed into a community whose residents struggled hard to make it a town. Their burning desires were filled with hopes and fulfillment in 1856 when their move for the conversion of Latag into a town was spearheaded by a leader named Tiburcio Purificacion. Finally, by virtue of a decree issued on February 20, 1857 by the King of Spain through Governor General Fernando de Norzagaray, Latag became a separate municipality with the name it bears today: Carmona, named after the town of Carmona in the province of Seville, Spain. Yet until now, it had not been known where the name originated.
During the Philippine Revolution in 1896, the gobernadorcillo of Carmona was Kapitan Damian Ermitano after the administrations of Tiburcio Purificacion, Mariano Mapanoo and Donald C. Virtucio, Augusto Manaog and Fabian Tenedero.
After the revolution and the occupation of the country by the Americans in 1901, the first local executive of Carmona was Martin Reyes who was followed next by Marcelo Reyes, Prudencio Torres, Juan Alumia, Estanislao Paular, Marciano Mapanoo, and Juan Zamora.
The mayors who assumed office after World War II were the following honorable men: Bernardo Hebron, Eulalio Reyes and Cesar Casal and Felino L. Maquinay. In 1959, the district of San Gabriel and San Jose of Barangay Kabilang Baybay was purchased by the National Government for the relocation of squatters from Metro Manila. On March 14, 1981, the relocation site, which teemed with people from almost every part of the country and was more popularly known as the resettlement area, became an independent municipality called General Mariano Alvarez.
Timeline of Carmona[edit]
1500–1600 → Carmona history started with three brothers that came to the land of Carmona that was at that time called Labac.
1595 → Silang became a town; the former Sitio Labac became Barrio Latag.
March 9, 1746 → They determined the boundaries of Silang and Biñan under a decree signed by Mayor Pedro Calderon Enriquez.
November 15, 1759 → Two years after securing the independence of Carmona, the principales requested the Governor of Cavite for the reversal of the Canon on communal lands after constructing their own public buildings and irrigation works.
1838 → The movement of the inhabitants of Latag to become a town started.
February 20, 1857 → Because of the great distance to the mother town, the principales and incumbent Cabeza de Barangay of Latag petitioned for its separation and conversion into a municipality. The new town was called Carmona, after a town of the same name in the Spanish province of Seville.
April 16, 1857 → They set the boundaries of Silang and Carmona.
September 15, 1859 → The inhabitants of Carmona returned to managing and ownership of communal lands.
January 22, 1864 → The incumbent gobernadorcillo and principales of Carmona petitioned higher authorities for the abolition of the repartimiento of the communal lands triennially.
1872 → The communal lands were sold at public auction, which was opposed two years later by Don Gaspar Espiritu in a communication to the Superior Civil Governor.
October 25, 1874 → An event of great significance to the people of Carmona was a strong typhoon, which wrought considerable damage to the public works and private property.
July 6, 1881 → Seven years later, the principales of Carmona requested the rectification of the town's boundaries.
1941 → The inhabitants of Carmona renewed the demand for "homestead" land.
1959 → The district of San Gabriel and San Jose of Barangay Cabilang Baybay was purchased by the National Government for the relocation of squatters from Metro Manila.
March 14, 1981 → The relocation site, which teemed with people from almost every part of the country and was more popularly known as resettlement area, became an independent municipality called General Mariano Alvarez.
Former municipal mayors[edit]
Mayors:
Marcelino P. Clarito
Marcelo Reyes
Martin Reyes
Prudencio Torres
Marcelo Reyes (re-elected)
Juan R. Alumia
Estanislao G. Paular (1931–1937)
Marciano Mapanoo (1938–1941)
Candido G. Hebron (1942–1943)
Juan Zamora (1943–1944)
Alfredo Anulat (1944–1945)
Arsenio Mapalad (1945–1946)
Bernardo B. Hebron (1946–1955)
Eulalio Reyes (1955–1956)
Cesar E. Casal (1956–1979)
Felino L. Maquinay (1980–1986)
Estelito Torres (OIC, 1986–1988)[4]
Felino Maquinay (1988 – February 1990)
Rolando Rosas (February 1990 – 1995)
Roy M. Loyola (1995–2004; 2007–2010; 2019–Present)
Dahlia A. Loyola (2004–2007; 2010–2019)
Carmona is located on the south-eastern part of the province of Cavite, approximately 36 kilometres (22 mi) south of Manila and 24 kilometres (15 mi)[5] from Trece Martires City, Cavite's seat of government. It is bounded on the north, east and south by the City of Biñan, Laguna, Municipality of General Mariano Alvarez (GMA) on the north-west and Silang on the south-west. The geographic coordinates of Carmona are about 14.32° latitude and 121.06° longitude.
The topography of Carmona is generally flat to strongly rolling or sloping, partly lowland and partly hill. Carmona is divided into four physiographical areas: the lowest lowland area, the lowland area, the central hilly area and the upland mountainous area.[6]
The town is also within the path of a fault line, the Valley Fault System which starts from the Sierra Madre mountains.[7][8]
Land area[edit]
With a total land area of 29,749,874 square meters, Carmona represented 2.17% of the total land area of the province. These areas are currently occupied by 14 barangays of which 7 are considered Poblacion barangays and 7 others are regular barangays. Barangay Lantic is the largest area while Barangay 2 has the smallest area.
Climate[edit]
Carmona has a Type I climate characterized by two pronounced seasons: dry from November to April and wet during rest of the year. Maximum rainfall usually occurs from June to September. The average annual rainfall is 200 millimeters with a peak of 400 millimeters in August.
The average annual temperature is 27.2 C. The highest temperature occurs during the month of May while the lowest occurs during the month of January.
The predominant wind direction comes from the south-west during the month of June to September and from the north-west during the month of October to January, while from February to April, the wind is coming from the southeast, predominantly in the month of May.
The average humidity of Carmona is 81%. This makes the municipality cooler than the Metropolitan Manila Area where the average humidity is higher.
Climate data for Carmona Cavite, Philippines
(84) 29
Source: http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=984280&refer=&units=metric
Soil properties[edit]
The eastern side of Cavite consists of Carmona clay loam with streaks of Carmona clay loam steep phase and Carmona sandy clay loam. This type of soil is granular with tuffaceous material and concretions. It is hard and compact when dry, sticky and plastic when wet. This type of soil is planted with rice with irrigation or sugarcane without irrigation. Fruit trees such as mango, avocado and citrus are also grown in this type of soil.[6]
Mineral resources[edit]
Cavite coastal areas have marl and conglomerate sedimentary rocks and some igneous rocks which are prominent in the high, mountainous regions of the western part of the province. Carmona reserves and deposits of sand, clay and gravel materials are found in Sitio Ulong Tubig, Mabuhay.[6]
Barangays[edit]
Carmona is politically subdivided into 14 barangays. Eight of the current barangays are classified as poblacion barangays and the six others are ordinary barangays or barrios.[9]
San Pablo – Poblacion 1
San Jose – Poblacion 2
J.M. Loyola – Poblacion 4
Magallanes – Poblacion 6
Rosario – Poblacion 8
Maduya
Cabilang Baybay
Mabuhay
Milagrosa
Lantic
Bancal
Population census of Carmona
±% p.a.
2,818 +0.52%
20,123 +9.36%
51,004 +20.50%
28,247 −8.00%
Source: Philippine Statistics Authority[3][10][11][12]
In the 2015 census, the population of Carmona, Cavite, was 97,557 people,[3] with a density of 3,200 inhabitants per square kilometre or 8,300 inhabitants per square mile.
In the 2010 census, Carmona had a total population of 74,986 which represented a total number of households at 14,885.[13]
Population density[edit]
The highest densities are found in the Poblacion area (Barangays 1–8) and Barangays Milagrosa and Maduya, where land areas are significantly lower than the other barangays. Barangay Lantic posted development of the Kuok Property within the Lantic area; it is expected that the density will increase within the ten-year period.[13]
Population distribution[edit]
Carmona's population is concentrated in Barangays 1–8 at the Poblacion area. Brgy. Milagrosa is the most populated barangay, which posted a total population of 15,284. Dense population is also found in Brgy. 9, the central business district of the municipality. Most population catalysts such as banks, town center, and commercial establishments are found in the Poblacion area.[13]
Language[edit]
The main language spoken is Tagalog. In some areas they speak Chabacano or Chavacano, sometimes referred to by linguists as Philippine Creole Spanish, a Spanish-based creole language spoken in the Philippines. English is considered as the second language and is widely used as medium of communication in business and higher education. Other Philippine languages spoken are Waray, Bicolano, Cebuano, Ilokano, Pangasinense, and Hiligaynon. Chinese and Spanish are also spoken by some local residents.
Religion[edit]
The majority of inhabitants are composed of Roman Catholics, Protestants and other non-denominational groups.
Cottage industries include metal works, metalcraft, footwear industries, concrete products, tricycle assembly, rattan handicrafts and bakeries. Manufacturing firms engaged in handicraft (bags and shoes), furniture making, business retailing, personal and business services, and food based enterprises contribute to the municipality's trade and commerce. Mercantile activities in the municipality are concentrated at the Poblacion area and along Governor's Drive. Carmona has been classified as a first class municipality since July 1996, brought about by industrialization, real estate development and commercial activities.
Carmona's progress accelerated after the conversion of more than fifty hectares of farmlands into industrial areas in 1998. Garment industries, steel fabrication, microchips and semi-conductors, tool fabrication, bus assembly, bulb factories, die casting and other small and medium-scale industries currently operate in the municipality. These investments continue to provide local employment, generate export earnings, increase municipal revenues and serve as vehicles for technology transfer. Foreign investments are pouring in as export-oriented industries continue to flourish.
Employment rate: Out of a potential labor force of 24,918 (members 15 years old & above who are actively seeking for work), 98.03% are employed while 1.97% are unemployed. The presence of 8 industrial estates & 2 industrial compounds contribute largely to the high employment rate of the municipality.
Agriculture[edit]
An irrigation dam in Carmona.
The economy of Carmona is generally agricultural. Almost half of its total land area is devoted to agriculture.
In 2000, the total land area devoted to agriculture was 609 or roughly 19.60% of the total land area of Carmona, which is 3,902 hectares. 230 hectares are irrigated areas all of which are currently planted with rice and vegetables, 30 hectares are upland rice areas, 122.5 hectares are for diversified trees and crops, and the other 211.5 hectares are considered pasture land.
There are 217 farmers in the Municipality engaged in planting and farming. Crops and livestock farmers are distributed among 14 barangays of Carmona.
However, with the implementation of the CALABARZON growth area, the municipality of Carmona has slowly become an industrial enclave in the province. The advent of industrialization has threatened the agricultural base of Carmona. As of April 1999, land used for rice production has gone down; sugarcane plantation has decreased considerably and those land uses for other crops and vegetables totaled 84.5 hectares during the same year.
At present, the programs and services of the Department of Agriculture (DA) are focused on five priority programs: a sustained self-sufficiency program for rice and corn, strengthening of production market linkage, an acceleration of livelihood program, aggressive assistance to organizational development of farmers, and assistance to agriculture-related priority programs of other government agencies.
The major crops produced in the municipality are lowland and upland rice and sugarcane. Other crops grown are corn, vegetables, root crops, and fruit trees.
Fruits and vegetables production
In 2000, an area covering some 23.5 hectares was planted with various crops and fruit trees. These yielded an estimated 444 metric tons of assorted products.
Livestock and poultry production
Livestock and poultry raising in the municipality are largely backyard family enterprises. Animals raised are generally for home consumption and an additional income source for the family. Total production of livestock and poultry in 1999 registered a head count of 7,907. Pigs raised both for human consumption or for breeding purposes are estimated at 1,675, while the equally popular poultry raising produced about 4,472 head. An estimated 1,013 head of cattle, 31 head of carabaos and 716 goats were also produced. Based on reports of the municipal Agricultural Officer, the total livestock and poultry production in the municipality is still below the sufficiency level for beef, pork meat and eggs.[14]
Industry[edit]
People's Technology Complex
Industrialization in the '90s accounts for the rapid growth of Carmona's business community from an otherwise quaint agricultural town in the 1950s. Brought about by huge capital from the national government, the industrial complexes bolstered the increase of the municipality's revenues and the change in the people's lifestyle.
There are eight existing industrial complexes in the towns. Its proximity to Manila and at the same time being the gateway to the Calabarzon area made Carmona a promising venue for business.[15]
On the other hand, the local government has been very supportive of the investors. There are 114 factories in eight industrial parks/complexes to date. At present there are the eight industrial complexes strewn along the Governor's Drive, in a total of 419.31 hectares, making up 13.56% of the town's land area. Ranging from 9 to 100 hectares, these industrial estates are complete with amenities, secured, and in close coordination with the municipal government through the Carmona Business Club and other agencies.
Commercial and financial[edit]
One of the biggest commercial subdivisions in town is the Macaria Business Park in Barangay Mabuhay which houses Waltermart in its 13.13 hectare lot. Recently, fastfood chains and restaurants have been opened to compete for regular patronage at the Paseo de Carmona in Barangay Maduya.
Moreover, numerous traders and retailers are housed in the bustling Carmona Public Market.
The bulk of commercial activities come from wholesale/retail enterprises, which comprise a total of 619 establishments. There are also service-related establishments: businesses, food shops and amusement operators, with 35 banks and other lending institutions. Among the major banking institutions that cater to the financial needs of businesses in Carmona and neighboring towns are Bank of Philippine Islands (BPI), Metrobank, Banco de Oro (BDO), Chinatrust Bank, China Bank, RCBC, and Union Bank.
The Pagamutang Bayan ng Carmona (lit. Carmona Town Hospital and the Rural Health Unit (RHU) are government-owned and run healthcare facilities in the town.
The main health center in the municipality is located in Barangay 4. A total of eleven barangay health centers or substations of the RHU are established in different barangays.
In addition to the rural health units and the Pagamutang Bayan, there are also eleven private clinics operating in the municipality. Eleven clinics are privately owned and one clinic is under the supervision of government health workers.[16]
The education sector in Carmona improved in many aspects of endeavor. In line with the local government's thrust of enhancing quality education, the Department of Education (DepEd), particularly the District of Carmona and Carmona National High School, with the full support of the local government unit, implemented various programs and projects that intensified the education sector in achieving its goals.
As early as 1995, various programs for the improvement of quality education started with a vision of producing competitive students from both the elementary and secondary levels. Carmona posted a literacy rate of 89%. The local government started with the computerization of all schools. Each public school was given computer units and students were provided with computer lessons. This is in consonance with the belief that modern technology and equipment are considered factors in enhancing better education. To address the increasing number of enrollees and students, the LGU conceptualized the construction of 2-story buildings in different schools in Carmona.
At present, the municipality has a substantial number of classrooms and teachers to meet the learning needs of the school age population. As of School Year 2005–2006, the municipality has 50 educational institutions, 28 of which are public schools while 17 are privately run. The public schools are categorized into 18 pre-schools, 9 elementary, 1 secondary, and 1 tertiary school. The private educational institutions are composed of 10 pre-schools, 7 elementary, 3 secondary/high school, and a computer college.[17]
^ "Municipality". Quezon City, Philippines: Department of the Interior and Local Government. Retrieved 31 May 2013.
^ "Province: Cavite". PSGC Interactive. Quezon City, Philippines: Philippine Statistics Authority. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
^ a b c d Census of Population (2015). "Region IV-A (Calabarzon)". Total Population by Province, City, Municipality and Barangay. PSA. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
^ "Municipal Mayors of Carmona". Carmona. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
^ "Yahoo Maps, showing route and distance from Trece Martires to Carmona (correcting a previous figure)". Retrieved March 31, 2014.
^ a b c "Socio-Economic Profile" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-11. Retrieved 2011-01-27.
^ http://www.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph/images/active/Hazard%20Maps/Active%20Fault%20Maps/Valley_fault_maps/metro_manila_q.pdf[permanent dead link]
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^ Census of Population and Housing (2010). "Region IV-A (Calabarzon)". Total Population by Province, City, Municipality and Barangay. NSO. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
^ Censuses of Population (1903–2007). "Region IV-A (Calabarzon)". Table 1. Population Enumerated in Various Censuses by Province/Highly Urbanized City: 1903 to 2007. NSO.
^ "Province of Cavite". Municipality Population Data. Local Water Utilities Administration Research Division. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
^ a b c Demography | Carmona Cavite, Philippines
^ Local Economy | Carmona Cavite, Philippines
^ Carmona Business Profile
^ Social Sector | Carmona Cavite, Philippines
^ Education
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Although in 2002 Taiwan brought to a close this 338-year-old industry, the unique salt field landscape of the Yun-Chia-Nan region gave birth to a portrait of salt industry culture and salt village life that has left a rich and lingering cultural heritage. The snow-white salt crystals not only flavor our food, by Taiwan custom every time a child “meets an evil spirit” at night and cries inconsolably, we fill a pouch of red cloth with grains of rice and salt in the so-called “salt and rice sprinkling” ceremony to calm the child, which also brings good luck and peace.
The Yun-Chia-Nan coastal area contains the unique sights associated with the salt industry as well as broad sandbar, lagoons and wetlands, a one-of-a-kind natural environment. In the early years along the southwest shoreline there were seven pocket islands (now sandbanks) looking like seven kun (gigantic legendary fish) swimming in the ocean so they got the name of “kunshen” (“kun bodies”). Sandbanks are thus combined with the local religious belief in “Wang Ye” and integrated with “salt” as the organizing theme, using its symbolism of good fortune over evil, to create this event and give it its name: “The Kungshen Wangye’s Salt for Peace Festival.” This event combines salt culture, religions beliefs, and ecology while incorporating the “kunshen,” “Wang Ye,” and “Salt of Peace” images of the area. The event kicks off at the “Nankunshen Daitian Temple” (the master temple for the Wang Ye belief) and the salt workers original home of “Beimen.”
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General fluff => Announcements => Topic started by: Goombert on April 15, 2016, 01:53:08 PM
Title: LateralGM 1.8.7.11
Post by: Goombert on April 15, 2016, 01:53:08 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/JmB7LSk.png)
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This release has been a long time coming and hopes to address a lot of the issues many of you have been having with the editor. LateralGM's code base has also been substantially cleaned up in the process.
You can download the new jars from the new Releases page on GitHub as well as the old Extra Packages page on the Wiki. An update to the plugin is needed for this release because the hardcoded Quantum look and feel has been removed and a sound property has been changed for clarity. I have updated the hashes for install.py so that script can also be used to fetch the latest LateralGM and plugin jars.
https://github.com/IsmAvatar/LateralGM/releases
https://enigma-dev.org/docs/Wiki/Install:Extra_Packages
ENIGMA users may experience an issue using the new LateralGM because ENIGMA.exe always passes it " " an empty string of length 1 on the command line, which LGM interprets as a file open. Originally I patched around this in LGM before realizing it is actually an ENIGMA problem. I have undone that now but ENIGMA.exe needs to be updated and a new portable ZIP made.
1.8.7 Changes
* The room editor now has a multi-selection mode (thanks egofree (Y)), where you can select several tiles or sprites. Then you can copy, cut and paste them. Also you can select a region and fill it with tiles or sprites.
* There are three new buttons in the room's toolbar, in order to switch the following modes : 'Snap to grid', 'Add on top', 'Add multiple'. Before these modes were only available with keyboard shortcuts.
* There was an overhaul of the tiles management in the rooms editor. Before it was difficult to understand how to add or modify tiles, and with the new version, it's much easier.
https://enigma-dev.org/docs/Wiki/Room_Editor
* New sprites and backgrounds are now transparent instead of white. This is what GM does and it is for obvious reasons. Most sprites want to start with a blank canvas and backgrounds are usually just loaded from a file.
https://github.com/IsmAvatar/LateralGM/commit/00600686ce195a8dc6391ab0c679ffb96f541251
* Imports fixes to the event tree from the stable branch. These issues were previously leading to exceptions and the ability to bring back deleted events.
https://github.com/IsmAvatar/LateralGM/pull/272
* Fixed an issue with the play button being enabled for Mp3's by mistake.
* Implemented /// comment feature for giving a custom description to code actions. This uses a complex regular expression pattern that Josh wrote and ignores whitespace up to the first line of code.
https://github.com/IsmAvatar/LateralGM/issues/233
* Fixed exception caused by images smaller than 5x5 pixels.
* Path editor is finally fixed and works as it did in lgm16b4. This was actually a regression introduced in the master branch by Medo42 and it went completely unnoticed. I never used the path editor and thus never realized it was broke, it should work 100% now.
* Added the missing "Alpha Tolerance" property to the sprite frame, which works the same as GM8.1 for detecting the collision mask.
* Fixed external editors so that you can save an image multiple times from the external editor. The problem was that the file handles were never being closed.
* Fixed instance id's for the GMX format.
* Fixed the room editor from constantly asking to save changes even when it is first opened. This was due to a change I made in the original 1.8.2 to increase the default room editor size, it has been changed the right way now.
* Instance and tile names are properly read and written now with the GMX format. They will be lost if you convert the project to GMK however, because that format does not save them.
* Action list selection has been fully corrected now. Dragging and dropping between two different action lists also works now. It is no longer possible to add a code action until the action list has a container (meaning a moment or event).
* Support for GM action libs is now complete and the transparency problems have been fully fixed, including the issues related to gaps when placing them in the action list.
* Undo, redo, cut, copy, and paste are now consistent across all editors. Some editors had them in a different order before, they will all be in the same order everywhere now and in context menu's.
* Fixes code formatting in a lot of places for consistency. It will no longer be mixed between the LGM style and other styles. Removed excess whitespace, lots of whitespace was on empty lines. Fixed file line endings in some places.
* Multi-monitor support has been restored now, but this means that using a non-native look and feel with decorations enabled will cover the taskbar when you maximize the frame. This is a known Swing look and feel issue.
* Adds a check to see if audio clips are open before closing them on the sound frame. This is to fix a Linux issue where the pulse audio implementation in OpenJDK does not like you calling stop if the clip was never actually opened before.
* Fixes a mistake in the action list model where one of the add() methods stored two undo's. It would lead to an exception just adding a single action and undoing twice.
* Removes swinglayout-lgm.jar from class-path in the manifest because we no longer support Java 5.
* Uses the new ICO file created by @JoshDreamland without any aliasing.
* Adds the checkered background pattern to the room editor.
* Changes default room background color to 66CCFF because that better represents the sky, what is likely to be the most common background.
* Fixes layout in the game settings frame for the author and version number/project info tab. The labels should have been trailing as they are in GM8.1.
* Adds keyboard shortcuts for Bold, Italic, and Underline to the Game Information editor.
* Cleans up the JoshEdit commits and finally moves most of the changes into JoshDreamland/JoshEdit master.
* Removes double-click expandable splitters. They were not necessary and basically overkill, even more annoying to me than the one touch expandable toolbars.
* Replaces the old color picker with a new control that allows you to enter hexadecimal color values. This should make it easier to copy and paste color values. You can still click the button to get the old color picker or enter the hex value manually.
* Adds anti-aliasing to the search bar and fixes related clipping. This search bar was a custom created control.
* Introduces a right orientation mode for those who may be left handed or prefer to work with the IDE that way because of how it saves mouse movements between toolbar clicks.
* Hides some unimplemented features such as Undo/Redo for the background and sprite editor. The controls are still there, the buttons have just been commented out from the layout.
* Removes references to the "Quantum" look and feel that I experimented with. The master branch supports various look and feels so it is possible to recreate it as a custom look and feel or using a plugin for LGM. It does not belong hardcoded into LateralGM.
* Fixes a UI issue with any JCheckBox on a JToolBar by using setOpaque(false) to allow the gradient of the toolbar to be drawn (affects Swing look and feel, was also done in lgm16b4).
* Fixes an issue with the about frame locking up with OpenJDK. It was caused by a method being called that had no effect, it was to change the cursor for hyperlinks, and it was also being passed null, which is undefined by the API, instead of Cursor.DEFAULT.
* Reduces the size of the exported jar by removing things like old splash screens from the jar description. This was a mistake I neglected to consider in earlier releases.
* Fixes property mappings in the sound editor. I had some of the keys messed up before which was making the editors save the properties wrong.
* Drag and drop importer for resource menus implemented. You can now drag a resource from the project tree over to the parent selector on an object for example. This is consistent with the way it behaves in GM: Studio.
* No longer removes the ability to edit a script when you have an external editor configured. You can use both the external editor and the built in editor. Both sets of buttons will appear, and it will behave as the sprite editor does.
* Redesigned the preferences frame with a new layout. It now looks very consistent and uses proper alignment of controls. A huge improvement over the mess that was the old layout.
* Implements community and submit issue command links to the Help menu for convenience. All are configurable from preferences as expected.
* Uses the new splash screen created by rcobra (Y)
* Adds a reset defaults button to the preferences frame This currently clears recent files too, and you have to restart the whole IDE before the frame reverts its controls too.
1.8.7.11 Changes
* Fixed handling of null resource references in the GMX writer. Before you could not delete a resource, like a sprite, that was referred to by some other resource, such as an object, without the GMX writer throwing an exception. It now behaves the same way as the GMK writer does.
* Fixes conversion of GMK sprites to GMX sprites. Because GMX does not save the transparency pixel at all, the writer will now check if a sprite has that property set and remove its background before writing it. GMS does the exact same thing on GMK import.
* GMX will now properly update the last saved time when writing a project.
* The GMX writer will also properly save the background room now from the path editor. Before it was saving the name, but GMX actually stores the id of the room. Really you can blame YoYo for this inconsistency, as it can actually lead to a bug where if you delete the room, save, and then reload it will point to the next room in the tree (but I don't think they care).
* Fixes parenting on numerous dialogs so they are properly parented to LGM's frame or their MDI subframe. This is useful if you don't always work with LGM maximized.
* Fixes clipping on the search text area for resources. I was setting the clip wrong which caused the hint text to disappear sometimes. I did not notice it until setting up ENIGMA.
* Fixes the Java version warning message, it was previously saying Java 7 was out of date. It should now only say your Java is outdated if you have a version lower than Java 7.
* This version also fixes the JoshEdit submodule and cleans up more of the code removing a lot of excess whitespace. It is now possible to clone LGM with a single command.
git clone --recursive https://github.com/IsmAvatar/LateralGM
Title: Re: LateralGM 1.8.7
Post by: Garo on April 16, 2016, 03:46:09 AM
Aw man, thank you so much.
Post by: egofree on April 16, 2016, 03:55:35 AM
It's great to see LateralGM is not dead. Thanks a lot Robert for your commitment and your work ! (Y)
Just a few remarks :
- I've seen that the global package in the download page has not been updated. Do you plan to update it also ?
- I'm using a french version of Windows, and LateralGM displays correctly the french labels. But there are still a lot of labels not translated, which are displayed in English.
- I don't want to be egocentric, but one year ago, i added the multi-selection feature (http://enigma-dev.org/docs/Wiki/Room_Editor (http://enigma-dev.org/docs/Wiki/Room_Editor)), and as there was no official release, there was not announce about it. What about adding these features also in the change log of this post ?
Post by: Goombert on April 16, 2016, 04:37:11 AM
Thanks you guys!
Now I've run into another issue setting up ENIGMA that nobody has reported before:
http://enigma-dev.org/docs/Wiki/Troubleshoot#Why_do_I_get_a_black_screen_when_opening_ENIGMA.2FLateralGM.3F
I've seen that the global package in the download page has not been updated. Do you plan to update it also ?
What global package? You mean the portable ZIP for Windows? I wasn't going to bother until now but I realized there's some issues so I guess I am going to do that this morning. I have to go remove the quantum look and feel from the plugin and fix an issue with ENIGMA.exe too. I'll post it later today and also update the hashes for install.py.
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I'm using a french version of Windows, and LateralGM displays correctly the french labels. But there are still a lot of labels not translated, which are displayed in English.
I know this will sound harsh, but if I were doing LGM I would have left the translation files up to the users to create. The reason is because once a translation file gets created it's really hard to maintain. Do you know anybody that speaks Turkish or Danish for example? I haven't seen anybody and nobody has offered to update those translations for us either. We do have you though for French translations. But the thing is that it lags (926 lines translated) far behind the English version (1576 lines). If somebody magically deleted the English translation file, I bet I would even struggle retranslate the whole English version. I mean that's a heck of a lot of typing.
Anyway I am not changing any of that now, but that is what I would have done. Regardless, feel free to finish up the French translation as you see fit egofree. There is also another issue though about translating comboboxes.
Also, I have been very on the ball with keeping the French translations up to date in the stable branch.
http://enigma-dev.org/forums/index.php?topic=2630.0
I don't want to be egocentric, but one year ago, i added the multi-selection feature (http://enigma-dev.org/docs/Wiki/Room_Editor), and as there was no official release, there was not announce about it. What about adding these features also in the change log of this post ?
Hahahaha, is the pun intended? Anyway, no that's not being egocentric, give credit where credit is due. I think the changes were released in the last version but never mentioned. I probably didn't know how to describe them because I wasn't at all paying too much attention to what was being changed. Can you give me a little bulleted list of the changes like I always make in these topics? Then I'll copy and paste it into the change log.
Quote from: Robert B Colton on April 16, 2016, 04:37:11 AM
Anyway I am not changing any of that now, but that is what I would have done.
I understand, but in this case, i think we should not propose translated version by default, as currently it's a mess. Let's propose the English version by default, and if the user wants another version, it should change some option.
By the way, i just loaded a project with the latest version LateralGM, and i saw that this resets the left resources window and sets all labels in english (you know : 'Fonts', 'Objecs', 'Rooms', etc)
I've updated the plugin now as well because some changes were needed for the new LGM version. If anyone can test install.py and let me know if I got the hashes updated properly I'd appreciate it.
I'll go ahead and update the portable ZIP once we see how well 1.8.7 works for everybody.
I understand, but in this case, i think we should not propose translated version by default, as currently it's a mess.
Actually, Java does it automatically, if it's present Java goes ahead and loads it. We would have to explicitly force it to use the English translation, which we could do with the preferences by defaulting the preference to en_US. But Java has an empty locale " " in available locales, why the preference is blank in preferences that goes to the English one. So my interpretation is that is how it was meant to be handled, but only god knows because so much behavior in Swing is undocumented. I tried looking in the Java manuals and it does not specify why there's a " " blank locale. If you find anything go ahead and let me know.
You mean the project tree? We actually can't translate that because the tree is stored in the GMK format with the English translation. I am not sure what we could do to fix it.
It looks like LGM ignores it for the GMX format though, I tried hacking a GMX but it didn't work.
Code: (XML) [Select]
<sprites name="egofree">
Edit: Actually, it looks like LGM does translate the tree and I thought I fixed it but I guess it broke again.
https://github.com/IsmAvatar/LateralGM/issues/169#issuecomment-64711825
I loaded a gmx projet, and i didn't have this problem. This bug happens with gmk files.
Hrm, I'll have to investigate then. Don't post a new ticket we'll let that existing ticket scope all of the language problems since there's only two.
Can you give me a little bulleted list of the changes like I always make in these topics? Then I'll copy and paste it into the change log.
As it was a long time ago, it's hard to remember every feature, but more or less, here is what i remember :
- In the room editor, you have now a multi-selection mode, where you can select several tiles or sprites. Then you can copy, cut and paste them. As far as i know, Game Maker studio doesn't have this feature, or it's not implemented in an easy way. Also you can select a region and fill it with tiles or sprites.
- There are three new buttons in the room's toolbar, in order to switch the following modes : 'Snap to grid', 'Add on top', 'Add multiple'. Before these modes were only available with keyboard shortcuts.
- There was an overhaul of the tiles management in the rooms editor. I don't remember of everything (c.f http://enigma-dev.org/docs/Wiki/Room_Editor), but i know that before it was difficult to understand how to add or modify tiles, and with the new version, it's much more easy.
I know that i am perhaps not objective with LateralGM, as i was involved in the project, but i think it's a really useful editor now. Everybody is talking about leaving it, and doing a new one, but as we said already, the main problem is with the plugin, not with the editor itself (Well, there is also the problem of the Java swing library which is old and outdated).
There are three zoom buttons in the tiles and sprites editors. There is one to zoom in, another one to zoom out, but what about the first one ? It doesn't seem to do anything.
Thanks, I've added the bullet points!
* The room editor now has a multi-selection mode, where you can select several tiles or sprites. Then you can copy, cut and paste them. Also you can select a region and fill it with tiles or sprites.
http://enigma-dev.org/docs/Wiki/Room_Editor
No that button is working egofree, move the mouse back over the preview area. It lets you zoom in on a specific location that you click. Left click to zoom in and right click to zoom out.
I also agree with you as well that it is extremely useful, it's the only way to downgrade GMX to GMK. A lot of the plugin problems though can actually be fixed. Most of the UI freezing errors and random exceptions are actually just problems with us updating the UI when not in the Swing Event Dispatch Thread and that's why LGM is really bad under OpenJDK (though I still do believe that OpenJDK by itself is just haunted despite poor coding in some places of LGM). The plugin issues could also be easily resolved if we had automated building, which we talked about before. If we had that we could easily ship new 32 bit and 64 bit releases of ENIGMA. I really did want to try to fix the issues with the progress bar freezing but didn't get time so I reverted my changes and decided to postpone it.
The whole thing it boils down to is that it's just a lot of work that nobody wants to do. A lot of people have lost interest in GM too, and some have gained interest as well. But GMS has a wide perception now of being extremely buggy too and having restrictive DRM to the point some people just don't want it anymore (including me). And there are design reasons why people do not like GM and find Unity superior. Specifically because entity-component is more natural for game programming than OOP. Lots of people argue too that OOP is often abused.
If I had the money right now I would just pay developers to finish these things the way we want them fixed.
Post by: rcobra on April 17, 2016, 11:23:46 AM
thanks a lot (Y)
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No problem, and I look forward to playing the next version of Croky!
Post by: LoboSandia on April 17, 2016, 07:54:46 PM
HOLY SHOOB, i really thought the project was dead, now i have motivation to make a simple game to try things out
Post by: polygone on April 18, 2016, 12:19:17 PM
Quote from: Robert B Colton on April 16, 2016, 12:04:36 PM
Josh has lots of money he could easily waste or give to me perhaps.
Post by: TheExDeus on April 18, 2016, 02:09:50 PM
I can also make a "bounty", but we need a cause.
What it turns into 50% of the time is to just do something trivial and have some body make a decision about it. A lot of our problems come down to trivial things and fixing them is just a matter of personal style.
Post by: FroggestSpirit on April 23, 2016, 12:49:22 PM
Oh snap! I happened to load up the Enigma page, and saw the headline (Was refreshing my bookmark icons, just installed Ubuntu 16.04).
So this should fix the EGM file extension errors? I've been bouncing around for different things to make my games in, but I would like to come back to Enigma if it's running better. I've always gotten the most done when using this.
Edit: also noticed that paths are 100% working. Does this mean if you turn off the extension, you can compile correctly? (older versions required the paths extension for some reason).
And great job! I'll be downloading this when I get back from work!
Thanks! But, what EGM file extension errors?
Also, I am sorry that the path editor was broke in the IDE for so long. That was not introduced by me, but was introduced after 16b4 by a pull Rusky merged. I picked up LGM on 16b4's master branch, which is why it isn't broken in 16b4. So anyway, I never noticed that the path editor was broken until now but I am really glad that issue is fixed and I wish someone had pointed it out earlier. As far as ENIGMA side though I do not know if it's possible yet to disable that extension because I know there was some debate there for some reason.
No need to apologize, I appreciate all the work everyone has done so far!
As far as the EGM extensions, I think they have just been corrupting, so ever since I've been using the GMK format, which isn't bad at all, but stuff like enigma settings don't save to that format. It's also been a while since I updated (I'll use a version that works for me for god knows how long), so there could be a chance this was already fixed before, and I didn't know.
Title: Re: LateralGM 1.8.7.11
Post by: Goombert on May 30, 2016, 11:22:48 PM
Alright everyone, here is a new release with a few minor fixes. I've updated all the links and amended the original change log.
Quote from: FroggestSpirit
Thanks, and yeah we need to do something to fix that EGM format once and for all, we'll get there hopefully.
Also, for anybody wondering about LGM being black when you open it with ENIGMA, or any other Java program, I found two separate things that fix it for me. The first was to use -Dsun.java2d.ddoffscreen=false in settings.ini and leaving OpenGL and Direct3D to their defaults in Preferences. The other that fixed it after I reverted that was to go into my graphics card and changing it to "Use application settings" for Anti-aliasing mode. I found the latter solution thanks to a Stack Overflow post.
http://stackoverflow.com/a/18069290
Post by: crxtrdude on August 02, 2016, 06:43:57 AM
So, how to update the enigma portable build in order to run the new LateralGM? (Or do I have to wait for the new one in order to update it ...)
Post by: time-killer-games on August 02, 2016, 09:54:42 PM
Quote from: crxtrdude on August 02, 2016, 06:43:57 AM
You can try downloading the new lgm and replacing the one the portable extracts with it.
I'm working using EGM as format instead of GMK and LGM always corrupts whenever I load a EGM file. It used to work on the old one BTW and I might go back and switch to the old one if this still goes on.
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Featured Cheesemonger: Shannon Berry
Shannon Berry has been at Fromagination almost three years, now its Floor & Kitchen Manager. She traveled to the West Coast, East Coast, and back to Wisconsin before becoming a cheesemonger, and settling into training other cheesemongers to showcase the Badger State’s most famous product.
“I work here because I like food, I like people and I like a job where I can move around all day and work with my hands,” Shannon said. “…it seems to be a perfect fit right now. I think I would have a very hard time in an office.”
Turns out, Shannon got a job a Fromagination the second time she applied. The first time she dropped off a resume with owner Ken Monteleone in 2012, he took the application and she never heard anything. By chance, she ended up staying in Madison and applied again four years later.
Shannon’s background
Shannon grew up in Rhinelander, in a very large family. She was the oldest girl, and often was charged with making sure her younger siblings ate. Hence, she is now a natural at customer service, and has a strong interest in food to boot.
She also comes from a formal culinary background. Shannon trained at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Portland, Oregon, and later worked at Aquavit, a well-regarded Manhattan restaurant for a year. She was “young, passionate, probably naive,” and learned in a very stressful environment that required precision, attention to detail, and a lot of energy.
“Plating was my forte at Aquavit. I used to use tweezers.” She called it “super intense, in every single aspect,” and says she learned techniques that not many restaurants would employ. “We got a Michelin star as a team, which was cool.”
“There’s a certain level of appreciation for food that I have never been around again,” Shannon said.
She returned to Wisconsin to be near her family, and landed in Madison, intending to eventually land a job in Chicago or Minneapolis. But she stayed, then working at Batch Bakehouse and Field Table restaurant before arriving at Fromagination. Since New York, her life has become more relaxed.
“I’m a very different person now,” she said.
Shannon manages the sales floor and the kitchen, which sometimes arranges Raclette dinners for Fromagination customers.
Attraction to Cheesemongery
Shannon helps train cheesemongers to work with customers to give them a pleasant experience, but also inform them about the various aspects of cheese, including Wisconsin’s best products and what goes with those products. She encourages her co-workers to learn, and to enjoy their work.
“We have to be relaxed, and get into that ‘zone’ so that our service is good,” Shannon said. “It’s a very collaborative culture [at Fromagination]. I can’t do all this by myself.”
“Reading” customers and helping them find interesting things to eat can be a group effort in retail.
“There’s a team aspect,” she said. “You get to move around and work with your hands. Every single day is different,” she said. “We’re guessing….”
Fromagination owner Ken Monteleone says Shannon’s creativity with cheese is an asset to the shop.
“At Fromagination, we are always seeking out people that compliment our skill set. Shannon is the perfect fit. A trained chef with a wonderful palette for pairing cheese with what we call ‘companions.’ She is very creative and always willing to try something new,” he said. “Her creativity inspires a food’s presentation, which is very important to the overall experience…be it making a cheese tray, a cake of cheese, merchandising the shop or working one-on-one with customers. Her passion has helped us take our business to the next level.”
Shannon arranges cakes of cheese for clients who have wedding parties or other events that incorporate wheels of artisan cheese.
Fromagination Classes
Fromagination began offering cheese classes again in February, and Shannon is an instructor.
“I have really been loving it. It’s fun because in a class I get to be a little more intimate (with customers). I get to hopefully excite people about food and pairings.” “I get to bring people together with food.” “I get to share my passion with others – food and people.”
Shannon has been teaching classes that involve pairings with beer, wine and spirits. She is very attracted to the pairing aspect of the food business.
“That creative incentive is very powerful for me, personally,” said Shannon. “That’s something I value. It’s been a learning experience too,” she said. “It’s not always easy to speak in front of people.”
A Favorite Cheese Experience
While Shannon worked as executive chef at Field Table, she was invited to the boss’s table one evening while he was hosting a French visitor. There was a cheese plate going around the table which Shannon had worked to perfect, including some baguettes and Jasper Hill’s Harbison, a soft-ripened, bloomy rind cheese. Shannon was tired and hungry, and the other guests were ignoring that cheese plate.
“All I remember is watching that cheese go around the table, and just waiting for it to come back. It blew my mind. It was warm, gooey and delicious…and I ate the whole thing,” she said.
Shannon likes many types of cheese, including blue cheeses.
Favorite Cheese
Ask Shannon about her favorite cheese and she’ll answer in types of cheese – creamy, funky, Blue or “a really good crystal-ly, aged cheese” (well-aged Cheddars develop crystals in the cheese). “Sometimes Marieke Penterman’s Overjarige is just incredible,” Shannon adds.
Find some of Shannon’s favorite things
Favorite Cheese Pairing
So what is the head cheesemonger’s favorite cheese? “It depends upon my mood,” Shannon said. Evalon, a goat cheese from LaClare Farms, is probably her favorite, served with Raspberry Rose preserves from Madison producer Quince & Apple. She favors other goat milk cheeses, too.
But she has another suggestion, too…of course.
“My boyfriend’s breakfast is the same every day: coffee, cheese, dates and pistachios. It’s a great combination,” Shannon said. So what kind of cheese does the boyfriend eat? “Ossau Iraty!” …which is a French sheep milk cheese that is buttery and semi-firm. She could keep making more suggestions, if you let her.
Featured Cheesemonger: Jeff Peterson
Jeff is a Fromagination cheesemonger as well as purchasing and inventory manager. He has extensive background in farming, food and cheesemaking. He has deep knowledge and passion about all things cheese, meats and companions.
After working for a cheese making company in Milwaukee, Jeff started working at Fromagination cutting cheese in the back of the house during the holidays. Before long Jeff was working the front of house sharing his passion and knowledge with Fromagination customers as well as helping educate his fellow cheesemongers wherever he could.
We sat down with Jeff to discuss his experiences and to tell us a little bit about himself.
How long have you been working for Fromagination?
I’ve been working for Fromagination for about four years, in various capacities. I started out working in the back of the house cutting cheese for the holidays, and now I am purchasing and inventory manager.
I work several days a week as a cheesemonger and I’m really interested in picking out new thing for the store and enhancing our staff’s knowledge on what they are and how we can offer them to our customers.
You’ve been teaching classes recently, how was that experience?
The classes have been a lot of fun. We just got done with the first series of classes that we’ve done for several years now. We’ve just rolled out a second set of classes that will begin late this spring and run through the summer.
Jeff teaching a class
What made you want to work for Fromagination?
Before I worked here, I actually worked for a cheese factory in Milwaukee. I really like that. When I was in college actually I studied food. I did a program that was about ethnobiology, which is essentially the study of how people relate to food. And I found that to be really fascinating. That’s was inspired me to go for for the cheese factory.
What I liked about Fromagination was the big variety of cheeses that we were able to carry. The cheese factory was interesting but we only carried cheeses that we made, which meant we were limited in scope. And so my favorite part about working at this store is the sheer plethora of different thing we’re able to offer our customers.
How much of what you studied have you been able to apply here?
A lot. Cheesemaking is a strange thing to most people. It involves topics that are typically unsavory conversation such as bacteria, mold, rotten milk and things like that. I do take some pleasure in learning about all that because it is widely misunderstood by most people. I like to educate people on what it actually really is, how it got that way and why people started doing this in the first place.
What would you say is the cheese that changed everything for you?
When I was working for the Clock Shadow Creamery in Milwaukee, one thing the company did was rent out cheese making space to other cheesemakers, aspiring entrepreneurs that want to gain access to cheese making facilities so that could create cheese without making a big investment of buying or building a cheese factory. So there was one company in particular, who’s products we carry here, called Landmark creamery. That specializes sheep’s milk cheeses. Seeing their take on it from a very small perspective working towards building a company that’s specializes in a product like sheep’s milk cheeses which is a product that is relatively new to Wisconsin. So some of their sheep’s milk cheeses were some of the most inspiring to me early on in my career. Such as the Anabasque, which is a washed rind Basque style cheese.
How have you seen Cheesemaking evolve in Wisconsin?
Our store is certainly focused on small batch artisan cheeses, and we’ve certainly seen a lot of growth in that by market data from the DFW. 23% of cheese made in Wisconsin is considered artisanal cheese. We’ve seen a big growth in that, which is wonderful for us because our options continue to multiply for what sorts of locally produced products can fit our esthetic in our store. That section has grown immensely in the last few years and continues to provide us with new options of interesting cheeses, which is important to our model of showing the next best thing.
What would say is your latest favorite cheese pairing?
One of my favorite new pairings is cheese with tea. We’ve begun to sell a line of cheese from Brooklyn from Bellocq. They do a whole variety of different true pure tea blends as well as herbal tea blends. One of my favorites is their Jasmine Silver Needle, which pairs really well with the Fresh Chevre from LaClare Farms.
What is it about tea that makes it such a great cheese pairing?
The pairing in mentioned for example has really complementing floral notes with the goat milk cheese and the white tea and the jasmine give it a very flowery appeal. And the creamy goats milk cheese is a really great complement to those flavors.
What are your top five picks?
Anabasque by Landmark Creamery, Marieke Overjarige 2 year Gouda, Treat Bake Shop’s Spiced Pecans, Underground Meats Goat Salami and B&E’s Trees Bourbon-barrel-aged Maple Syrup
Featured Cheesemonger: Kristi O’Brien
Fromagination’s Matriarch
Kristi is one of Fromagination’s most seasoned cheesemongers, and its matriarch.
We sat down with her and asked her to tell us a little more about herself.
How long have you worked at Fromagination?
I have worked for Fromagination for a number of years, not since the inception but shortly thereafter. I have enjoyed my work here immensely and as a result of working here for the duration that I have gotten to know a lot of loyal customers and getting to know them on a first name basis, that creates a more personable interaction with my customers.
What is it you do here?
My title is cheesemonger. In addition to advising customers on styles of cheese or helping them with their needs, I take care of the cheeses in the cases, I look for imperfections and try to elevate the standards that we have here for our cheeses and companions. I do other things here; such as compose the cheese of the month letter every month. And try to advise my fellow cheese mongers, find out what they need from me and get what I need form them.
One thing I enjoy I giving customers tips about pairing cheeses, especially when they are thinking of putting together a cheese board. I’d recommend using cheeses of different milk types or different textures, and definitely try to include a blue cheese on the board. I can’t stress enough the importance of having something salty, sweet and savory on the board. Having salty olives and sweet chocolate makes for an interesting dining experience.
Kristi with a customer
You have a culinary background, why make the shift from restaurants to a specialty cheese store?
I was at a point in time where I wanted to make a change, take an other direction. When I heard that Fromagination had just opened, I pictured myself working the front of house, as opposed to working in the back in the kitchen. It’s been wonderful in term of interacting with different kinds of customers and personalities. I’ve also learned that I actually enjoy it. This keeps me more social compared to when I work in the back.
How much has Fromagination changed in the time that you’ve been here?
Fromagination has changed immensely! We are extremely focused on locally produced items and therefore consider ourselves very fortunate to have a number of artisans here in the city that make companions to pair with cheeses. Everything from honey to preserves, to crackers, to chocolate. We are really blessed here in Madison that we have such a wide variety of artisans. I think Madison has come a long way by having these producers in the last 10 years, and frankly I look forward to the next 10 years for this industry. Fromagination has been able to centralize all these amazing products, given some of these artisans a platform, and worked together to help curate the Fromagination identity. We have researched many producers, and we have therefore chosen the best of the best that the area has to offer.
What are your top picks?
Some of my top picks would include the Pleasant Ridge Reserve, from Uplands Cheese, from Dodgeville Wi. It’s a tremendous cheese, it has won numerous awards, but this is one of my personal top cheeses. Collective Goods Rye Crackers is another item that I really enjoy, especially pairing with cheeses, it’s a thin delicate rye cracker made locally. William Marx Chocolate, also actually pairs really well with a number of cheeses. Who knew cheese and chocolate would pair so well together? Quince & Apple’s Orange marmalade with Lemon is another one of my favorites. I really like that hint of lemon that gives it that kick, it pairs well with Gouda’s, Blue Cheeses)
Kristi with Noelle and Andy
Have you noticed a change in how people eat cheese?
People are getting much more adventurous when it comes to cheese now. Above all, there has been a huge artisan cheese movement and people are willing to branch out and be more adventurous and less cautious. It really is a matter of trial and error. People are also starting to really notice that cheesemakers go to great lengths to develop wonderful flavors within the cheeses and I believe that people are just more comfortable eating more of these artisan cheeses. Much more so that in the last 10 years. It’s just wonderful to watch people’s expressions on their faces when they decided to try something they wouldn’t ordinarily and remark that it’s something very enjoyable.
What is the latest cheese pairing that has really surprised you?
Actually, trying to pair cheese with licorice for instance. Licorice is quite strong and is therefore not to be paired with something mild. The rule of thumb is to pair something strong with a strong flavor. Therefore, licorice pairs extremely well with aged gouda. In some capacities it pairs very well. Just to be clear, I’m talking about the Scandinavian style, very salty licorice. As far as I’m concerned there is only one kind of licorice. It is not for the faint of heart!
In conclusion, come on down to Fromagination if you want to discuss cheese and companions with Kristi!
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Lynn Gerrard Live Review - Darkness & Decadence
Ralph sent his roving reporter Ella Godbold-Holmes off to Nexus Arts Cafe to review the Greater Manchester Fringe debut by spoken word poet and writer Lynn Gerrard. The show is a mix of comedy and poetry from her new book Darkness and Decadence.
It's the first of a four book deal with London's Wallace Publishing, the remaining three books to be released over a four year period.
The exciting thing about Lynn Gerrard's unique work is her ability to bring her words to life in her one woman shows. Next year she intends to expand on her performances taking in some of the other Fringe Festivals throughout the country as well as working on a play and a novel!
Darkness and Decadence - A review by Ella Godbold-Holmes
On Friday 24th July, I had the pleasure of being in the audience whilst filming Lynn Gerrard's poetry reading at the Nexus Cafe. It's an art cafe located in Manchester, and was the perfect venue for this comedic yet deep genre of poetry. As I entered the setting, I was greeted with a sense of warmth and friendliness, reinforced by the fact that Lynn herself was sat in the cafe, talking to her family members and the sound technician.
As the cafe closed it's business and audience members began to file in, we realised the variety of people who had come to listen to her. Ranging from an older couple to a boy of about 13, the age difference in the audience would generally have affected the pieces read by the poet. But not with Lynn, which had not only a positive affect on the audience, but helped us view her pieces with a genuine air, as we knew it had not been censored for the audience.
Lynn with Elijah Blackmore and Ella Godbold-Holmes
Lynn Gerrard read poems from her book whilst throwing in anecdotes of her family and life, giving reasons behind the poems and comedy to relieve any dark themes in the pieces. This constant stream of audience interaction and humour made for a comfortable atmosphere during her poetry reading, something which I found unique out of the poetry readings I had been to in the past.
The first poem she read was entitled The Lovers and gave us a unique view of romance, as we listen to the relationship between Alice and Martin as it develops and eventually tumbles. The quick rhyme and sharp insults directed towards Martin give this generally angst filled theme a humorous twist, allowing us to see the comedic side of an altogether negative breakup.
Lynn carried on with this theme, of taking negative situations and giving them a comedic twist, all whilst interjecting with anecdotes of her humorous family members.
One of the most memorable poems was Filth which began with many clichés which people have come to expect from dirty poetry.
Words such as 'member', emphasised the sexual nature of this poem. As I looked around the audience, I could see the second-hand embarrassment and, in some cases, fear on the faces of some of the people there, especially for the two teenage boys sat next to me.
Therefore, it was clear to me that none of us expected the hilarious twist at the end, stating that it was not, as you'd expect, a dirty poem, but a poem about a dirty task.
The relief and humour was clear for everyone in the audience, as Lynn Gerrard once again stimulates a variety of responses from her audience, the overwhelming one being awe at this woman's writing.
The night was wrapped up perfectly as she thanked the audience for staying and listening to her, staying behind to sell and sign copies of her book and get a picture with a few of the audience members, including myself. After this evening, I think it's safe to say that I not only feel privileged for the opportunity to film this performance, but for the fact that I got to meet such a talented poet. I would definitely recommend seeing one of her shows or buying her book!
Reviewed by Ella Godbold-Holmes
Photographs by Elijah Blackmore
Posted by Fruitbatwalton at 10:44 am
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Arizona radio station removes child pornography announcement
Posted 4:59 PM, May 10, 2017, by FOX 17 News
PHOENIX (AP) — An oldies country music radio station serving a rural Arizona area that aired a public service announcement for two years telling people how to hide potential evidence in child pornography cases has stopped doing so after advertisers received threats, the station’s owner said Wednesday
KAVV-FM owner Paul Lotsof said in an interview that he does not like child pornography but created the announcement because he thinks Arizona’s 10-year minimum sentence for each image of child porn is too harsh and costly for taxpayers.
“Nobody put me up to it, and nobody paid,” he said. “My feeling is that these people don’t deserve life in prison just because they have pictures of naked juveniles.”
But recent public comment about the announcement was “99.9 percent” negative and some radio station advertisers received threats, he said. The signal of the radio station from the small southeastern Arizona city of Benson beams across a wide area that stretches toward the Mexico border.
The announcement described Arizona’s tough penalties for possession of child pornography and then provided advice on how to avoid convictions.
It said: “If you have such material, you can save yourselves and your family a ton of grief and save the taxpayers a lot of money by never storing such pictures on the hard drive of your computer. Always use an external drive and hide it where nobody will ever find it. Likewise, never keep paper pictures, tapes or films of naked juveniles where anybody else can find them.”
The announcement drew the attention of local law enforcement officials, with Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannells calling it “disgusting and unacceptable” and encouraging “evil behavior.”
But Cochise County Attorney Brian McIntyre said it was protected by the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment safeguarding free speech.
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Bladder drainage devices
Anatomy of the Chest, Abdomen, and Pelvis
Université Yale
WARNING: THESE VIDEOS CONTAIN IMAGES OF HUMAN DISSECTION. MAY BE DISTURBING TO SOME. Human structure is important to all of us as it has been for millennia. Artists, teachers, health care providers, scientists and most children try to understand the human form from stick figure drawings to electron microscopy. Learning the form of people is of great interest to us – physicians, nurses, physician assistants, emergency medical services personnel and many, many others. Learning anatomy classically involved dissection of the deceased whether directly in the laboratory or from texts, drawings, photographs or videos. There are many wonderful resources for the study of anatomy. Developing an understanding of the human form requires significant work and a wide range of resources. In this course, we have attempted to present succinct videos of human anatomy. Some will find these images to be disturbing and these images carry a need to respect the individual who decided to donate their remains to benefit our teaching and learning. All of the dissections depicted in the following videos are from individuals who gave their remains to be used in the advancement of medical education and research after death to the Yale School of Medicine. The sequence of videos is divided into classic anatomic sections. Each video has a set of learning objectives and a brief quiz at the end. Following each section there is another quiz covering the entire section in order for you to test your knowledge. We hope these videos will help you better understand the human form, make time that you may have in the laboratory more worthwhile if you have that opportunity and help you develop an appreciation of the wonderful intricacies of people. ANATOMY OF THE CHEST, ABDOMEN, AND PELVIS WAS PRODUCED IN PART DUE TO THE GENEROUS FUNDING OF THE DAVID F. SWENSEN FUND FOR INNOVATION IN TEACHING. This work was supported in part by the Kaplow Family Fund, Yale School of Medicine. COURSE CURRICULUM: ANATOMY OF THE THORAX, HEART, ABDOMEN AND PELVIS RECOMMENDED TEXT GRAY’S ANATOMY FOR STUDENTS, RICHARD L DRAKE, ELSEVIER. ONLINE AND PRINT EDITIONS ADDITIONAL RESOURCE ATLAS OF HUMAN ANATOMY, FRANK H NETTER, ELSEVIER. ONLINE AND PRINT EDITIONS. We would like to thank all of those who have contributed to the creation of this course: Charles C Duncan, MD, Producer & Director, Professor of Neurosurgery, Pediatrics and Surgery (Anatomy), Yale School of Medicine William B Stewart, PhD, Associate Producer, Narration, Anatomist, Chief Section of Human Anatomy, Department of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine Shanta E Kapadia, MBBS, Anatomist, Lecturer in Anatomy, Section of Human Anatomy, Department of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine Linda Honan, PhD, Professor, Yale School of Nursing Harry R Aslanian, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine (Gastroenterology) Yale School of Medicine Jonathan Puchalski, MD, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine (Pulmonary), Yale School of Medicine Michael K. O’Brien, MD, PhD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine Mahan Mathur, MD, Assistant Professor of Radiology and Bio-Medical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine Lei Wang, MLS & Kelly Perry, Technical, Yale Medical Library Anna Nasonova, Artist, Yale School of Architecture Rachel Hill, Artist and Technical, Yale College Philip Lapre, Technical, Section of Anatomy, Department of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine
Outstanding course and instructors. Simply the best human dissection instruction I have received throughout my academic studies. Again, well done.
It was a great course, the inclusion of applied/medical anatomy made it easy to appreciate the importance of anatomy in medicine and surgery
Pelvis and Perineum
These lectures discuss the anatomy of the male and female pelvis and perineum.
Pelvis5:48
Perineum9:13
Skeletal pelvis7:51
Bladder drainage devices7:45
Charles Duncan
Professor of Neurosurgery, Pediatrics & Surgery (Anatomy)
William B. Stewart
Associate Professor of Surgery and Chief, Section of Anatomy
Shanta Kapadia
Lecturer in Surgery (Gross Anatomy)
You are now looking at a variety of
urinary drainage systems.
The first image on the top left that you see is a condom
catheter that is used for male patients, and
the image on the top right shows that condom catheter unrolled.
Directly below that is a straight
catheter that is used by patients for home catheterizations.
Beneath that is a red rubber or
straight catheter that is used for draining the bladder.
Beneath that is a Foley catheter.
Underneath the Foley catheter is a Coude catheter, C-O-U-D-E.
You notice the tip takes a turn,
which helps to engage the prostatic urethra.
And directly below that is a catheter that is used for continuous bladder irrigation.
It has an additional port.
Below that is an example of a Coude catheter with the balloon inflated.
It's important to remember that urinary
drainage devices increase the risk of infections.
The top left and right catheters, or condom catheters,
do not carry a risk as they are external devices.
The next two catheters are straight catheters.
They will instrument the bladder one time to remove
the urine that is in the bladder, and carry a risk of infection,
but much less risk than all the catheters that are pictured below.
The catheters pictured below are indwelling catheters.
The risk, any time you have an indwelling catheter, is for
bacteria to ascend from the drainage bag up through
the catheter into the bladder, causing a urinary tract infection.
These devices account from between 68 and
84% of all hospital-acquired infections in the United States.
We are now going to demonstrate the anatomical relationship
of the urinary system to urinary catheterization.
I'm going to demonstrate a male Foley catheter insertion.
The meatus or
urinary urethra will be cleaned with a cleaning solution three separate times.
This is a sterile procedure.
You will insert your Foley catheter in through the tip of the penis
as it traverses the prostatic urethra into the bladder.
Urine will begin to drain.
It's important in a male catheterization that you advance two to three
inches past the drainage of the urine to ensure that you are in the bladder.
The penis was held perpendicular to the body during insertion, with a little
tautness to facilitate the movement of the catheter in through the canal.
One can see that as you traverse the prostatic urethra,
a straight Foley catheter would hit against
the posterior wall and potentially cause a spasm.
That's why we recommend that if you have to put a Foley catheter in a patient that
has prostatic hypertrophy, that you should use a Coude catheter.
The Coude catheter is again lubricated, inserted through the tip of the penis.
But now, one can see that as it engages the prostatic urethra,
the curvature of this catheter facilitates movement into the bladder.
It is important that the balloon is not inflated
until you are absolutely assured that it is in the bladder.
Once again, you see urine draining.
You will go to two to three inches past the urinary drainage,
and you will inflate the balloon.
The balloon stays in the neck of the bladder and allows the urine
to drain out through the holes out into a sterile urinary drainage bag.
Each catheter will have a different amount of solution that is
needed to inflate the balloon.
One can see this requires 10 CCs,
whereas the example that I used initially required 30 CCs.
The clinician must always ensure that they have the right amount of
solution to inflate the balloon before this procedure begins.
I'd like you to note that the Coude catheter has a bump on the distal end.
That bump signifies the direction
of the distal end of the catheter.
So with the bump held up, the catheter is in perfect alignment to engage
the prostatic urethra as it advances up into the bladder.
The image displays Foley catheters in a a variety of sizes.
Typically, they come from 12 to 20 French.
A French, one French is one-third of a millimeter.
The image on the far left is a 12 French catheter.
The middle catheter is a 14 French catheter, and
the end catheter or the one on the far right is a 20 French catheter.
For males, we recommend a 14 to 18 French.
It is the most commonly used.
Recall, for a male, you will need to insert the catheter
six to eight inches to access the bladder.
For a female, we recommend typically 12 to 16 French catheter.
But for a female, you will only need to advance
the catheter two to three inches to access the bladder.
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December 22, 2011 / Frank Fujimoto
For a little while, I've been following Horace Dediu's blog, asymco.com, and listening to the podcast he does with Dan Benjamin, The Critical Path. I do find that it takes me a while to digest what he says about tech markets, not because he isn't clear, but because the concepts sound simple but feel like the tip of the iceberg. I think a lot of what he's been saying is starting to click into place for me, in large because of a recent Critical Path episode. This post is different than all the others on this blog, and is pretty rambling. I still have lots of unformed thoughts about the topic, but find it fascinating enough to share, however incomplete my knowledge.
December 22, 2011 / Frank Fujimoto/
iTunes Weekly Rewind
July 06, 2009 / Frank Fujimoto
If you like expanding your musical horizons beyond what's on the radio or want to learn new connections between various songs and artists, the iTunes Weekly Rewind is a great podcast. Every week they take a look at some of the songs which have been playing on the radio, on TV, in movies, even in ad spots. But more than just giving a name and artist to a song you heard just fleetingly, they also use songs, artists, or events as springboards to not only go into depth, but to point out both what influenced an artist and whom that artist influenced. There are a lot of music geeks out there, and these guys rate right up there. As they should, since they're on the team which compiles the iTunes Essentials collections.
July 06, 2009 / Frank Fujimoto/
Listening, Music
There are many great science shows around, NPR's Science Friday being one of them. However, I find WNYC's Radiolab to be more of a must-listen because of they way they are able to find an over-arching story from seemingly disparate interview clips or even show segments, for the extra content they inject into the podcast, and how they are willing to go beyond science towards topics such as art.
Podcasts pass the time
May 03, 2009 / Frank Fujimoto
For walking to/from home or doing projects around the house, Melody and I fill our iPods with podcasts and listen. I've mentioned Coverville, Grammar Girl, and Escape Pod before, but there are several others which always make it onto my playlist. Today the standouts were an episode of Coverville and this week's Only a Game.
May 03, 2009 / Frank Fujimoto/
Podcasts - Escape Pod
November 19, 2008 / Frank Fujimoto
If you enjoy science fiction and aren't listening to Escape Pod, you really should. It's a weekly short story anthology with a wide variety of themes and styles. The host, Steve Eley, reads many of the stories in addition to providing intros and commentary, but guest readers are not uncommon. It was Steve's blog entry about going on hiatus for a few weeks which prompted me to write about Escape Pod. I noticed last week that a new story hadn't gone up, so I went to check if something was up, and indeed there is.
November 19, 2008 / Frank Fujimoto/
Listening, Reading
Podcasts - Grammar Girl
October 17, 2008 / Frank Fujimoto
I consider myself a grammar geek because I like to take at least a little time to make my writing grammatically correct while not sounding stiff. I obviously have my good days and bad days, but either way, it's something I enjoy doing. I sometimes find myself re-reading email over a half dozen times before sending, moving a phrase here, selecting another word there, going between looking at the overall structure and scrutinizing individual clauses. After doing all that and sending the message, I notice that paragraph I forgot to delete which contains just a single unfinished sentence fragment.
October 17, 2008 / Frank Fujimoto/
Podcasts - Coverville
September 28, 2008 / Frank Fujimoto
I wrote about Mac OS Ken in my work blog, kicking off entries about tech-related podcasts. As far as non-tech podcasts go, Coverville is easily one of my favorites. Brian Ibbott releases episodes several times a week chock-full of cover song goodness. Other than becoming more refined over the years, the show has stayed true to its roots. I may not always enjoy all the music, but even my least favorite shows are interesting enough for me to listen through.
September 28, 2008 / Frank Fujimoto/
Listening, Media
Copyright 2019, Frank Fujimoto
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15 Anime You Need to Watch Before You Can Call Yourself a Sports Anime Fan
Posted byArria Cross September 24, 2016 April 3, 2017
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l love sports anime! Series in this genre are some of the most inspiring. What I love the most in watching sports anime is the constant emphasis on how hard work is the sure-fire way to get you the results that you want. Of course, talent will get you there faster but hard work alone will force you to obtain the skills you need to reach your goals. I love that. How inspiring. Below is a list of sports anime that I compiled featuring 15 of the most influential sports series of all-time.
(arranged in alphabetical order)
1. Ashita no Joe (あしたのジョー)
I wasn’t even born yet when this series ran, but as a sports anime fan, you should know or even at least heard of Ashita no Joe. I remember watching some snippets of the films when I was a kid, but I’ve never really watched the entire series. I can’t really comment much about this, but its influence spreads wide to some of my favourite series such as Hajime no Ippo, another boxing series, and Bakuman, one of my most favourite series ever. Based on the manga series written by Kajiwara Ikki (梶原 一騎) and illustrated by Chiba Tetsuya (千葉 徹彌).
2. Baby Steps (ベイビーステップ)
This is relatively new compared to the other series in this list, but I think that Baby Steps is special and different in its own way. The main protagonist isn’t a genius. What I like about this series is its emphasis on hard work rather than natural-born talent. I also like how it demonstrates that it’s never too late for you to chase after your dreams. Based on the manga series by Katsuki Hikaru (勝木 光).
3. Captain Tsubasa (キャプテン翼)
Like Ashita no Joe, I wasn’t born yet when the original Captain Tsubasa ran. However, given that it’s one of the most influential sports series in the industry, there were a lot of anime reruns while I was growing up. I don’t really remember much about this series, but I can’t deny the influence it has over the sports anime that I currently love. Based on the manga series by Takahashi Yōichi (高橋 陽一).
4. Daiya no Ace (ダイヤのA / Ace of Diamond)
It’s currently one of the hottest sports series. It’s not my favourite baseball anime—that honour belongs to Major—but I’ll readily admit that I’m a fangirl of Daiya no Ace. Miyuki’s mine!!! He’s so hot! What’s more, a lot of my favourite seiyuu are here. Based on the manga series by Terajima Yūji (寺嶋 裕二).
5. Eyeshield 21 (アイシールド21)
Yahahaha!!! I remember watching this in my early teens. Loved it!!! Looking back now, there are so many outrageous scenes in this series that would make me roll my eyes if I watched it as an adult. I’m so glad I watched this as a teenager when I wasn’t as critical as I am now. Eyeshield 21 will always have a special place in my heart. Based on the manga series written by Inagaki Riichirō (稲垣 理一郎) and illustrated by Murata Yūsuke (村田 雄介).
6. Free!
Yummy! Most of you already know that I love ogling delicious bishies, so even if Free! wasn’t a swimming anime, I still would have watched this. Delicioso~ Thankfully, this anime isn’t all about perfect six-pack abs. It actually has an engaging story and characters you can sympathize with. Perfecto~ Based on the light novel written by Ōji Kōji (おおじ こうじ).
7. Haikyuu!! (ハイキュー!!)
One of my current faves!!! I freaking love this volleyball series! Oh my gosh. I can’t get enough of Haikyuu!! It’s hilarious and awesome and amazing and funny and incredible and and and and—it’s so GREAT!!! Definitely a must watch! Based on the manga series by Furudate Haruichi (古舘 春一).
8. Hajime no Ippo (はじめの一歩)
As a Filipino, I can’t help but become interested in a boxing anime such as this. It’s one of my all-time favourite sports series. I love the manga. It’s very impressive; still going strong with over 1000 chapters! I also love the first anime adaptation with its gritty animation. As for the later anime adaptations, not so much. I’m kinda dismayed by their overly smooth and bright animations. Still a great series, though. Based on the manga series by Morikawa George (森川 ジョージ).
9. Hungry Heart: Wild Striker (ハングリーハート WILD STRIKER)
I can’t be 100% sure, but I think I watched this in English dub. Very rare for someone like me. I don’t really remember much about this series because I watched it when I was a kid. But even up to now, I still come across a lot of fellow sports anime fans who cite Hungry Heart: Wild Striker as their favourite sports anime. It also doesn’t hurt that it was created by the same legendary mangaka of Captain Tsubasa. Based on the manga series by Takahashi Yōichi (高橋 陽一).
10. Kuroko no Basuke (黒子のバスケ / Kuroko’s Basketball)
It doesn’t reach the level of Slam Dunk, in my opinion, but no one can deny the ginormous buzz this latest basketball series generated while it ran. I personally enjoyed it with all those delish bishies—Akashi’s mine!!! Based on the manga series by Fujimaki Tadatoshi (藤巻 忠俊).
11. Major (メジャー)
One word: EPIC!!! Holy freaking shoot, this series is EPIIIIIIIC!!! This is probably my #1 favourite sports anime of all-time. Not a lot of sports anime series show the journey of the main protagonist as detailed as in Major, where we see a child develop into a veteran athlete. Definitely a must-watch! Based on the manga series by Mitsuda Takuya (満田拓也).
12. Prince of Tennis (テニスの王子様 / Tenisu no Oujisama)
I have so many good memories watching this series. I remember fangirling over each guy—I freaking love Tezuka and Atobe! But I also like how the main protagonist isn’t really hot in the gorgeous and mature way. Echizen is child-like but boy, he’s awesome. I like that he’s conceited and a genius. Looking back now, I don’t think that I’ll enjoy it as much now if I watch it again, but it never fails to make me nostalgic. Based on the manga series by Konomi Takeshi (許斐剛).
13. Slam Dunk (スラムダンク)
Who hasn’t heard of Slam Dunk? You can’t call yourself a full-fledged sports anime fan if you haven’t watched this series. It’s definitely a classic that has major staying power. I kinda want a reboot anime for this. Crossing my fingers. Based on the manga series by Inoue Takehiko (井上雄彦).
14. Touch (タッチ)
Same as Ashita no Joe, I wasn’t born yet when this series ran. I haven’t watched the entire series, but I saw snippets of the TV anime series and the films. I like watching Japanese variety shows, and I can tell you that this anime series is one of the most-alluded series in TV shows. Based on the manga series by Adachi Mitsuru (あだち 充).
15. Yowamushi Pedal (弱虫ペダル)
A surprise favourite. I didn’t really expect to like this series. The art style didn’t look too appealing to me at the beginning, but I found myself absorbed by its story, its outrageous characters, and of course its even more outrageous biking techniques. It’s this series’ fault that I woke up early everyday during the summer to watch Tour de France. I’ve never done that before. It even made me consider buying myself a road racer, but I made do with my dad’s old mountain bike. Based on the manga series by Watanabe Wataru (渡辺 航).
And that’s it for today’s most influential sports anime list. Do you like watching sports anime? If so, what’s your favourite? And do you agree with the titles included in this list?
That’s all for today, folks. Have a great day. Cheers!
-Arria
Baby Steps Anime Website on NHK (Japanese)
Captain Tsubasa Anime Website on TV Tokyo (Japanese)
Chiba Tetsuya Official Website – Ashita no Joe Mangaka (Japanese)
Daiya no Ace Official Anime Website (Japanese)
Eyeshield 21 Anime on TV Tokyo (Japanese)
Free! Anime Website (Japanese)
Haikyuu!! Anime Website (Japanese)
Hajime no Ippo Anime at NTV (Japanese)
Kuroko no Basuke Anime Website (Japanese)
Major Anime at NHK (Japanese)
Prince of Tennis at TV Tokyo (Japanese)
Slam Dunk Scholarship by Shueisha (Japanese)
Yowamushi Pedal Anime (Japanese)
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Posted byArria Cross September 24, 2016 April 3, 2017 Posted inListsTags: Ashita no Joe, Baby Steps, Captain Tsubasa, Daiya no Ace, Eyeshield 21, Free, Haikyuu, Hajime no Ippo, Hungry Heart Wild Striker, Kuroko no Basuke, Major, Prince of Tennis, Slam Dunk, Touch, Yowamushi Pedal
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Kat Sade says:
Hey Grimms,
Let’s travel back to Sept. 24, 2016 with Arria Cross from fujinsei.com. If you haven’t traversed her blog before you are in for a treat! She’s going to help you out this weekend figure out what to do with yourselves XD once you read her article on 15 anime you need to watch before you can call yourself a sports anime fan.
I honestly have a few more anime that I have to still watch from this list! Someof them I have never even heard of so I really appreciate this post. You’ll have to let me know in the comments below which ones you recommend and which ones you have yet to see.
I hope you all have a swell weekend. I myself will be traveling this wekend but have no fear I scheduled a post for this Saturday here on GrimmGirl. If you follow me on Twitter (Kat13Sade) or Snapchat (katrinasade) then you already know what to expect!
Chat with you all soon ❤
Man, I still have a few more anime shows to watch before I can call myself a true sports anime fan 😛 Although no matter how many sports anime I watch we all know which will remain number one in my heart ❤
Ahaha! That’s fine, Kat. You’re on the way. 😉
Of course I know. Haikyuu, right? 😀
💚💚💚💚 Always 💚💚💚💚
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Dominic Cuthbert says:
What a brilliantly comprehensive list that’s just become my own tick list 🙂
I always find it funny how un-sporty I am myself, but how much I get from watching sports anime. It just goes to show the remarkable ability of anime.
Thank you! I love sports anime, and like you I’m not very sporty. But what’s stopping us from loving these series? They’re awesome. High-five! Thanks for dropping by. Keep on enjoying sports anime. Cheers!
I’ve only watched Prince of Tennis (loved it down to every last drop of outrageousness) and I’m really interested in the genre, particularly Kuroko no Basuke. This list is a godsend.
Ahaha! I can tell just by looking at your profile image. Sports anime is like my comfort food. I can watch sports anime again and again when I don’t feel like watching other anime. Aaaw. Thank you. I appreciate it. I hope you enjoy watching some of the list here. Cheers!
NEETaku says:
There is no genre better than sports anime: PERIOD!
Also… No Cross Game? WASSUPEITDAT?!
Ahahaha! I am building another list of sports anime and Cross Game is in there, no worries. Although the list is still in-the-making so I don’t know when I’ll complete it. But thanks for dropping by. Keep on watching sports anime. Cheers!
Sports Anime 4 Lyfe, baby!
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animeuniverseweb says:
I remember thinking that sports anime couldn’t be good as a shounen battle anime (even though I really liked sports), until I’ve watched Kuroko no Basuke and then I’ve watched Haikyuu what is definitely my one of the anime’s that inspires me, also the soundtracks are amazing.
I really need to see a lot more sports anime. I have currently watched 4 of your list and started with Hajime no Ippo and Yowamushi pedal and also watching DAYS, one of the newer anime’s. DAYS is definitely a tear jerker.
Yay! I’m so glad for you. Sports anime is one of my top genre. They’re my comfort food and never fail to inspire me. I haven’t watched Days yet. Still waiting until the buzz around it dies down a bit so I won’t be too influenced by others’ opinions too much. Enjoy watching. Cheers!
TashaNight says:
I’ve only watched three of these >.< (Kuroko no Basuke, Free! and Haikyuu!!) Kuroko no Basuke and Haikyuu were quite similar but I enjoyed both shows nonetheless! And Free was just really entertaining to watch >//<
Ohohohoho ~ I totally understand your reasoning with Free. I didn’t really watch it becuase it’s a sports anime. The main reason I watched it is to ogle the hot guys. Ehehe. 😉
If you’re comfortable with with older animation, I suggest trying some of the older sports anime. They might not appeal to you, but they can be good studies when you want to know about some of the most common sports anime tropes that these older sports anime paved. Haikyuu’s awesome!
Thanks for the suggestion! I’d love to watch the others, once I’m done watching the other shows I’ve bookmarked ^^
Enjoy watching. Cheers!
HijackedCat says:
WARNING, MASSIVE WALL OF TEXT INCOMING, I’M NOT SORRY ARRIA, I’M NOT
Even tho I’m a big sports anime fan, I’ll admit I’m spoiled by the new animation, colouring and artwork from more recent titles, so going back to older ones is hard asf. They look so grainy and washed out T_T /hides
I haven’t tried any of the fighting/violence-focused anime shows because…I tend not to like it. Maybe I’m too rational, but it’s kinda dumb to voluntarily fist each other for a sports :’D
Which means I’m an heretic and haven’t seen Ashita no Joe, Hajime no Ippo
I definitely agree that Baby Steps stands out by how realistic it is when it comes to both the sport and trying to go pro!
I watched Captain Tsubasa growing up, but I can admit I’m not very fond of football/soccer shows, maybe it’s because it’s so predominant that I prefer seeing things that feel fresher. I do agree it was influential…also did the whole “as long as MC is here we can win” trope in sports that I never like xD;
GAAAAAAAAAAASP
WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT’S NOT YOUR FAVE BASEBALL ANIME, HOW CAN IT NOT BE, ARRIAAAAAAAA
WHO’S THIS MAJOR, FIGHT ME
ALSO NO, MIYUKI IS EIJUN’S, GET OUT, LEAVE
I don’t like my sports anime solely focused on comedy, so I don’t think Eyeshield 21 is for me xD;
I’m still watching Free! because while they’re very good-looking, I like my sports being less slice of life :’D
HAIKYUUUUUUUUUUUUUU <333333333
Hungry Heart sounds like a title for a survival series ehehehehe x) /hasn’t seen it yet
You can have Akashi as long as I get Kuroko <33
AT LONG LAST WE MEET, MAJOR
I’LL FIGHT YOU FOR DAIYA
TENIPURI <33
I read the manga and loved it, and agreed, Ryoma is awesome because he knows he’s good, and he’s not having any of your shit <333
I haven’t seen Slam Dunk, there’s so many episodes…and it’s grainy and old, I want a reboot to wash my eyes clean with it ;_; Tho tbh, I’m not very fond of basketball :’D
Touch is definitely on my list to either read the manga or watch (depending on the quality of it), because I’ve heard a lot about it~
YAS LOVE FOR YOWAPEDA, COME FOR THE BIKING, STAY FOR THE BAES <33
Ya can’t make me choose between my baes, you’re satanic if you tell us to only pick one T_T
Ahahahaha! You’re terrible. How can you make me laugh when I don’t even agree with what you said? Ahahahaha! (wipes tear while laughing like a lunatic)
Well, it’s understandable. Older animation styles don’t bother me because that’s how I watched anime ever since I can remember. I’ve been watching since I was too small to even remember. In fact, older animation styles give me a peaceful, nostalgic feeling. I understand that newer & smoother animation lends a more intense and better action scenes, especially in genre like sports where the movements must be emphasized. However, I think that without the older sports anime that paved the way for the genre, I don’t think that we’ll have the same quality we’re enjoying right now from the more recent series.
As for boxing series, well, my background is Filipino and Filipinos are huge, huge, huge boxing fans so series like Ippo appeal to Filipino anime fans like myself. It’s a matter of preference, I guess. I’m not a big fan of basketball or other sports either, but I still enjoy watching anime about these sports.
Yay for Baby Steps! It’s not my favourite, but it definitely is an inspiring anime that you can really try to apply in your own life if you’re aiming for something. As for Captain Tsubasa, I have to agree that I’m not too fond of it, but I can’t feeling nostalgic about it since it’s a part of my childhood. Not to mention that it’s such an influential series not only for future soccer anime but also to the sports anime genre as a whole. I don’t like to compare it to newer sports anime. I just see it as it is: as one of the series that paved the way fpr the genre. Well, without that overused trope, I don’t think we’ll enjoy other fresher ideas like equal contribution and team cooperation.
Well, honey, you haven’t seen Major yet. Daiya is highschool baseball, but Major. . .well, it’s a life journey. But I don’t think you’ll like it because it uses the genius & talented MC trope that saves that weak team. However, the character development and journey are superb. Heh~ Did I hear anything? Oh, it’s the chirping of the birds. Miyuki’s still mine.
Ehehehe. Well, given what you blog about, I’m not surprised about you watching Free based on those bishies. I also watched it for the exact same reasons. 😂
Haikyuu is one of my top favourites. Can’t wait for the next season. Anyway, what do you say is your favourite sports anime?
You mean I’m the best don’t you? xPPPP
OFC, I do agree that without the older anime we wouldn’t have the more recent quality, at all. It’s just even tho I grew with the dragonball, sailor moon, captain tsubasa, ccsakura and saint seiya, I’m too spoiled :’D
I had no idea Filipinos were huge fans of boxers! :000
Definitely agree that Baby Steps has a lot of pacing issues, plus the art style isn’t my fave oop, but do agree it’s very inspirational~
That is very true about Captain Tsubasa, it was an important milestone, I just get salty that there’s 5kg of futbol anime and 1 baseball per year, 1 volleyball per year, one biking per year :’D
HOW DARE YOU SAY DAIYA IS HIGHSCHOOL BASEBALL, IT IS A RELIGION, IT IS A LIFE ACHIEVEMENT
/just kidding xDDD
BUT MAN, you’re making me want to watch Major…I’d watch it better if there was a remake of it /whistles innocently
I do like good character development and journeys! Ugh, ARRIA STOP IT, STOOOP IT T.T I’M DEEP IN HELL, DON’T THROW ME ANOTHER IRON BALL TO MY HANDS
Well FFFF YOU, MIYUKI IS EIJUN’S
AND EIJUN IS MINE
SO THEY’RE BOTH MINE
LADADILADILADILA~!
Guilty as charged XP I still need to finish Free, but damn are those abs, muscles, back and thighs worth it :Q______
ARRIA WHAT ARE YOU DOING
HOW COULD YOU TRY TO MAKE ME PICK
ARRIAAAA T_T
Even if I go by each sport, it’s still hard ;_;
How can you try making me choose between Oofuri and Daiya for baseball? T_T
But, for now, my fave is Daiya, followed by the Tenipuri manga. Mostly because I actually read fanfiction for Daiya and I don’t bother for the others :’D
BUT I CAN’T
ARRIA
TRY TO HURT ME LESS PLS
WHY ARE YOU SO DO-S
Oh, did I mean that? (whistles) Oh well, we all have different tastes.
Yes! Filipinos are boxing fans…well, not ALL Filipinos but many of us.
I totally agree with the pacing issues of Baby Steps. Sometimes it makes the series dull, unfortunately. But overall, I think it’s more realistic than other sports anime. Although I like other of those more outrageous sports anime more.
Ahahaha! Indeed, that’s very true. But we’re getting a skating anime soon filled with hot bishies so don’t whine too much about too much soccer. Although I have a feeling it’s going to be another Free but in figure skating instead of swimming. Too bad they had to be covered in costumes and not almost naked unlike in Free. (cough cough)
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
OH. And here I thought Crimson is the only Daiya-obsessed here. The animation for Major is not that old like Captain Tsubasa or Slam Dunk. It’s a very long series though with lots of seasons.
Ehehehehe~ Oh honey, I’m sure Crim & I won’t let you have those 2 all by yourself.
😂😂😂😂 You’re so amusing. I already concluded that Daiya is you’re fave if your earlier comment is to be the basis.
What?! Who’s Do-S? SHHHHH!!! (looks around & whispers) They’re gonna know.
You…YOU! /shakes fist
Yeah, Baby Steps sometimes gets slow and boring :’D
Oh man, Yuri on Ice looks amazing /drools :Q___
IMAGINE IF THEY TRIED TO SKATE ON ICE NAKED, LIKE LOL, BURNT DICK AND BALLS EVERYWHERE BWAHAHAHAHA
I’m super Daiya obsessed, DUUUUH 😛
You and Crim can’t take me, I’ll win all the fights by showing dick pics and naked hotties and throwing them so you can go rabid after them /winks ;P
Bwahaha, I know I’m amusing (･ω<)☆
Kidding, thanks for thinking so though~!
Nothing like being masochist for a series for it to stay in the front of your mind ಠ⌣ಠ
They already know, they’re just pretending not to OHOHOHOHOHO (・ωｰ)～☆
Ahahahahaha!!! You’re hilarious. Ah, I almost want to cover my eyes reading your comment. Ahahaha!
Well, if you put it that way, I’ll concede defeat if only in that category of showing, y’know, pictures of naked anime guys. I’m so excited for Yuri on Ice.
/bows
I aim to please, milady
/does a flourish
Don’t cover your pretty little eyes and enjoy the sight OHOHOHO
NAKED ANIME GUYS YEEEES hnng, you have no idea how corrupt my tablet is XPPP
Me too, it looks gorgeous! _
Aim to please, eh? That’s a Christian Gray allusion right there. Someone’s been reading 50 Shades. Ahahaha! You always make me cover my eyes, especially on Twitter. ahahaha! You’re corrupting me. But it’s okay. My eyes are feasting on those hot bishies anyway.
Actually it was a Black Butler one, but now I know who’s read FSoG 😛
Pfft, my twitter is so pg-13 tho! Mostly… XD
Yeees, become corrupt and fall into hell with us~
Bishies make the world go round smoothly ohoho （＾＿－）≡★
Oh really? Is the English dub?
Ahaha. Oh well. I did enjoy the 50 Shades books. Don’t care what others say.
Pfffft! PG-13? I think you’re criteria for rating is too encompassing. More like X-rated. 😂
Ahahaha. That’s a good one. Bishies make the world go round.
OHOHOHO, I KNOW WHO’S KINKY NOW
/evil laugh
X-rated? OFC not, maybe a Teen/PEGI-16, but I’m far from posting actual pornography…./coughs heavily and chokes
Nothing to see here, move on already!
<-<
Okay maybe sometimes I do go down the R18/Mature route :’D But shhhhhhh
Ahahahaha! Darn it. Che! I’ve been found out.
Okay, delete that. You didn’t read that.
Well, yeah. Of course you don’t pose any actual porn. You censor the bishies’ tweety birds after all. But yeah, well, let’s just say that they’re inappropriate for younger audience. 😂
/screenshots and saves it to NEVER DELETE folder
Me? Censoring? PFFFFFTHAHAHAAHHA
/coughs intensively
Of course I censor…. :’D
Hey, if you can’t see the D, it ain’t real /innocent face
Ahahahaha! That’s so true. Besides, don’t get me wrong. I’m not complaining your lack of censorship. I’m actually grateful for it, and I’m sure your other readers are too. If they say, otherwise, screw them. Not to mention they’re big fat LIARS!!! 😉
I’m always right! /angelic face
AWWW, you’re the sweetest <333333
And you too! If they say they don’t like your stuff it’s just because they’re jelly ❤
sindyblue10 says:
Geez i call myself a sports anime fan, but I haven’t seen so many of these! ><
😉 No worries. I’m not judging. This is mainly a recommendations list, Sindy. Although I don’t think you’ll enjoy the older titles in this list as they have older animation.
Yeah I knew it’s your way to reccomend =P
I knew you were going to say that, you know me ahaha. You can probably guess around which ones I haven’t seen.
Yes. I could guess which ones you haven’t watched based on its age and animation style. 😉
I have seen Prince of Tennis though =P
Did you enjoy it?
Mostly did, i really liked the characters and i loved those episodes where they weren’t competing but taking a break.
They’re mostly fillers, but they’re enjoyable. Great to hear that you enjoyed them too.
Yeah I guessed they were fillers, but they were such fun fillers. I thought it help know the characters in between the competitions.
I agree. Unlike other anime where fans complain nonstop about fillers, I think that PoT fillers are awesome.
yess, I guess people feel fillers are a waste of time, for me I don’t like them too much because they weren’t ‘original’, but certain ones are enjoyable still.
Krystallina says:
The Prince of Tennis is worth it just for the Tenipuri Family and the other chibi episodes. Now that is how you make fillers!
High-five! I know, right? I liked the fillers in PoT. They’re so cute and funny.
Karandi says:
Nice list. I’ve watched hardly any on this list because I’m just not into sports anime but at least now I know a few more titles to suggest to others when they ask for a recommendation in that category because usually I just tell people to google it if they are after sport.
Thank you, Karandi. I’m a big sports anime fan. I just love the genre. Sports anime is like my comfort food. So you don’t watch any sports anime? At all? Yes, sure. The series in this list are the more mainstream ones. I have another sports anime list with mostly overlooked and underrated anime. Anyway, thanks for dropping by. Take care. Cheers@
I watched Prince of Stride and I’m currently watching Days. That’s about it for sport anime though I am checking out Free soonish because I am sick of people recommending it.
Those are the newer ones. Ahahaha! Well, that’s the best way to stop those people who keep on recommending Free to you, just watch it. To be honest, it’s not the best sports anime I ever watched, but I did like the hot guys. 😉
Yeah, it’s only been the last year or so that I would even consider a sports anime to watch. Before I just kind of passed them over but given I watch every other genre I’ve been dipping my toes into the pool and while I’m not ever going to be a massive sports anime fan, I can’t say they are all that bad (I’ve kind of enjoyed the very few I’ve watched).
Good for you. Well, I’ll do my best not to annoy you by recommending sports anime to you constantly. But I’m glad to know that you have an open mind to them.
I first watched Slam Dunk when it was first aired on ABC 5 (which is now TV 5) but it was only once a week every Sunday. After that I watched it everyday in GMA 7 when it was first aired on that station. Im not really a basketball fan but I liked how Hanamichi struggled to learn how to play basketball just so to impress the girl she liked in which he actually got intimate with the actual sport instead. What it funny is that I never got to see the real end in the manga since the one animated by Toei animation only covered the half of the original print. But yeah, Slam Dunk is an iconic thing in the Philippines but I dont want to watch it over and over… Please GMA 7, stop the idiocy…
Yes! I watched that. I was in the Philippines when they aired Slam Dunk on GMA in Tagalog. Don’t tell me they’re still showing it until now?
Yes, occasionally. its been on an endless rerun as far as I have observed just like with some of their other shows which are on reruns like Dragon Ball Z and Ghost Fighter (Yu Yu Hakushu). There is little to no opportunity for new shows to be aired in GMA 7 since they are more concerned on showing all the same things just to get lotsa ratings even though the viewers are already sick of it after watching the same old shows after a thousandth time. Their roster has always been like this:
Detective Conan (aka Case Closed)
Ghost Fighter
Doreamon (my most hated)
Yokai Watch (the newest addition to their wimpy list)
Oh wow. That sounds so dull. It was more than a decade ago when I watched Slam Dunk in the Philippines, and I’m quite surprised that they’re still showing it until now. I think I also watched DB and Ghost Fighter. My dad’s a big fan of those 2. I was a little confused though when my dad kept asking me now about Ghost Fighter, Ghost Fighter. I forgot that it’s Yu Yu Hakusho in the Philippines. There’s also Hajime no Ippo. I vaguely remember that it also has another title there, although I can’t remember. Do you know?
Oh wow. This roster is severely outdated. Well, ONE PIECE is awesome, so yay for GMA for showing that. Although I don’t think I’ve ever watched it in Tagalog before.
The Tagalog dub of One Piece was good during its early years. It was good until after the sky peia arc. After that the show went into hiatus in GMA 7 and then came back with some of the the actors replaced. The golden age of dubbing in the Philippines with their awesome voices and well made scripts is something I want to experience again. Right now everything is just crap. I miss the 90’s and early 2000’s.
Oh? Is that so? That sounds sad. Any good new anime that are being broadcast there now? None?
not sure if they have anything new aside from that yokai watch crap. I’ll check when I have time.
CrazyChineseFamily says:
I’d say I have watched all of the older ones/ read the manga.
Few months ago I had the rare chance to go to a bookstore here and I saw this “free”…well as a former swimmer I was first interested as it is about my old sport but you know, ain’t my kind of story 😉
Ahahaha! You’re a former swimmer? Well, I think I get why it wouldn’t appeal to you. I think Free’s target audience are fans like me who are in love with bishies. . .and abs. 😉
Thanks for dropping by. Cheers!
animeindianphilospher says:
Where is capeta?, a post of sports anime without capeta!!, man i am freaking out!!
Perhaps I’ll add it into another sports anime list. I don’t think it belongs in this list. But thanks for the reminder.
librarian25 says:
I’ve seen 9/15 I’d say I’m doing alright!
samreality says:
YES!!! Yowamushi Pedal! That’s my jam. By far one of my favorite sports to watch and participate in. I’ve heard of all these anime but I haven’t seen all of them. Hajime no Ippo is probably on the top of my list.
Well, it’s pretty obvious that you love YowaPed with that profile picture. Ehehehe~ And yes, I love Ippo too. 🙂
Haha yeah you got me there. XD
sxkurarock says:
AKASHIIIII!!!! :p
Hold up, girlfriend. Akashi’s mine, okay? 😉
hlmwilki says:
Actually I watched Eyeshield as an adult (probably a year or so ago) and I actually thought it awesome. The high point for me was when the Sena smashed Agon’s helmet into the ground with a rarely seen ferocity which was so awesome because Sena is slight and to have this passion and ferocity was cool to see.
Major sounds like an interesting anime because I like stories where you see child to adult development.
I loved most of the animes listed here, and I know I love sports anime. You hit the nail on the head that sports anime always aim to inspire and show what hard work can do, and I usually feel strong urges to play the sport after watching so many episodes! XD
Good for you. As for me, I’m just glad that I watched “Eyeshiled 21” when I was younger because I have a feeling that I won’t enjoy it very much now.
I hope that you try “Major”. It can be a bit slow, but that’s part of its charm because it’s a coming-of-age, epic story. And it’s very long with lots of OVA’s and films as well. It’s my favourite sports anime just because it touched me deeper than the other sports series that I watched.
Thanks. But it’s true, isn’t it? Sports anime are inspiring and more often than not motivates you to work hard to your goals. Love them!
P3r50n5_UnKnWn says:
I remember when Big Windup! was showing on Animax. It didn’t appeal to me partly(?) because of the fujoshi possibility (I was cringing at that during my early teens. Don’t worry. I’ve gotten over it. HAHAHAH :v), but maybe it was because how the main character was “advertised” by Animax. A general weakling, iirc.
Needless to say, I have to get some time again to watch some sports anime. It’s been a while since I’ve been wowed with the plays happening. XD
Phew! Thank goodness that you’ve gotten over it. 😉
Well, same here. I wasn’t always fond of guy-guy pairings, you know.
Oh well. I hope that you get to watch it when you have the time. Yes, the protagonist is a weakling but he gets better in time, I guess. I admit that he annoys me too, but the other characters are charismatic that I personally don’t mind him that much as I watched more episodes. Anyway, which sports anime are you planning on watching?
I’ve had Saki on my watchlist for eons. Maybe because of the cute charas. And woah the edits. Had to re-read the entire post, only to now see Saki there. LOL
I’ve been a baseball lover for the longest time now, but I have yet to watch the first 3 seasons of Major and chronologically complete the remaining 3. Along with chronologically completing One Outs. Maybe I’ll stick to manga for a while. It’s the most available resource due to my busy student schedule. XD
“Saki” is not really a favourite so I won’t encourage you to watch it as soon as you can. But it has it’s good points and I still think that it’s worth watching, especially if you want a series that you can pass the time with.
“Major”, on the other hand, is another story. GO watch it!!! It’s my favourite sports anime. It’s very long, but worth it.
As a fellow student, I know the struggles. I say to prioritize your studies first, although watching anime is a great reward after working your ass off to ace that subject. 😉
*not see Saki
wow I’ve been used to editing comments here and there. XD
Psychicpostpirate says:
y no inuazuma 11 -.-?
That show was an awesome part of my childhood xD
Ahahaha. Don’t worry. I’m currently working on another sports anime list and “Inazuma 11” will be part of it. I just don’t think that the series is part of this list. But thanks for dropping by? Do you also like sports anime?
i love anime 😀 ,i still remember those days when i get back from elementary school and eyeshield 21 would be airing followed by iniazuma 11 every weekday >.>
Oooooh. “Eyeshield 21” was also a staple of my early teen years. I don’t think that I’ll enjoy it as much now if I watch it again, but I have fond memories watching it. What other sports anime have you watched?
only new ones so far like kuroko no basuket,haikyuu,prince of stride and Yowamushi Pedal,
Oooooh. “Haikyuu!!” is my current favourite. Super funny and awesome. Oh my gosh. You just mentioned a sports anime that I’m not aware of. Gasp!
How on earth did I ever miss “Prince of Stride”. Gotta check it out now!
Prince of stride just started airing,but its basically about free running or parkour that is not very parkour parkour(that was not a typo >.>) https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BmGhIAGCMAAkfNS.png
Ooooh. I’ll check it out when I’m sure all episodes are released. I don’t really like watching airing anime, except for my fave ones like ONE PIECE.
Speaking of onepiece,just downloaded episode 727,more gear 4th for me xD
Erised Moon says:
I’m not a fan of sports anime or manga, but I did read/watch Prince of Tennis. Pleasantly surprised by how much I liked it! Probably due to the fact that the main character WAS a bit conceited like you said, which I liked, because it’s a more realistic portrayal of competitive sports imo.
Good point. You don’t join a competitive sports if you don’t have the desire to win, and in a way, are conceited enough to believe that you can win. I really enjoyed “Prince of Tennis” as well, especially since I watched it as a teenager. However, I think that there are other sports anime that are better than it in terms of character development and story.
shiroyuni says:
I suspect I am saving up sports anime for the best times to enjoy them xD So far, I have only watched the newer up and coming ones. I tried Eyeshield, but I dropped it after making through half the series because I found the characters too underdeveloped ><
Ahahaha! I can’t help but agree with your regarding “Eyeshield 21”. Like what I commented on this post, I’m glad that I watched it as a teenager when I wasn’t as critical as I am now as an adult. Now that I think about it, I don’t think that I’ll enjoy it as much as I will now if I watch it again. I hope that you find a sports anime that’ll suit your taste. There are great ones out there just waiting to be watched. Enjoy. Cheers!
Haha yeah I hope so too! It’ll be too sad if there’s no more sports anime out there that I really like >< Cheers to you too!
delaneysloane says:
Ah I only have about half of these under my belt. So far Haikyuu is my favorite of the bunch, but that might change when I get to Hajime no Ipo, Major, or one of the other sports anime I have yet to watch ;-;
“Haikyuu!!” is currently one my faves. It’s so funny! I hope that they continue to pump more seasons and to adapt the rest of the manga into anime. I really recommend “Hajime no Ippo” and “Major”. They’re some of my most favourite sports anime. I’m not sure if you’ll like them, but I hope that you do, especially “Major” which is awesome to watch especially if you like long-running series like I do. Anyway, keep on watching anime. Thanks for dropping by and sharing your opinions with me. I appreciate it. Cheers!
crimson613 says:
Hold it! Did I hear you say that miyuki is YOURS?! I think not! Miyuki belongs in my harem and belongs to my ball of sunshine, FIGHT ME lol
oh and I watched the first episode of baby steps and it’s on my Next Sports Anime list, gosh, if only Ei-chan could give me of his smarts and organizational skills I’d be set for life! And major looks ok, since I hadn’t heard of it I was afraid it was an older show, will need to check it :3
My brother has recommended eyeshield to me, says it’s awesome and I was like ok…Then at a convention they showed a snippet from it and I was like o___o what is these art and animation?!
Bring it on, Crimson. I’m officially a Minister of External Affairs now and I can now duke it out with anyone on an “international” level. XD
I’ll battle it out with you if that’s what it takes to get Miyuki for my own. XD
Well, “Baby Steps” is a good anime but not my most favourite. I’ll recommend “Haikyuu!!” more, if you haven’t watched it yet.
As for “Eyeshield 21”, well, I think it’ll be more enjoyable to a younger demographic like, say, kids to teens. It may not be as appealing to adults.
You may be Minister of External Affairs but I’m Official Stalker and that transcends all other positions ╮(╯▽╰)╭
I started watching second season for haikyuu, pretty excited :)! I read the manga and I’m so pumped to see some of the scenes that happen, especially the training camp stuff 💕
Mwa ha ha, I’m the President, and I outrank you both! And I approve of a battle! I’ll be the ref!
And the best parts of The Prince of Tennis are the silly episodes, the fillers. Like the TeniPuri family episodes.
Aw. Yes, you’re right. President Krystallina outranks us both, Crimson. But at least my position sounds nice: Minister of External Affairs. Very long, though. Ahahaha.
I agree. The fillers of Prince of Tennis are quite good. Very funny.
Takuto's Anime Cafe says:
Welp, got Free! down, check. I might hit up Haikyuu . . .
You must! It’s a current fave. So funny. I’m pretty sure you’ll like it.
mangos ♫ says:
omg free
Yay! High-five!
yayyyyy
Wow, I’m surprised that there is like 5 I didn’t watch, let alone never heard of. Guess I’ll have to check those out. Although I’d also include some non-mainstream sports anime like Hikaru no Go. Technically that is a sport.
Oh? Which ones?
Hikaru no Go, eh? I’m actually working on another sports list recommendations right now containing often overlooked sports anime. I don’t think Hikaru no Go’s in that list, but I’ll think about it. Thanks!
Cool! It seems like thinking sports always get put on the sidelines.
Thanks! Well, I’ll publish that post one of these days when I’m not feeling lazy. 😉
Denny Sinnoh says:
I would like to see a translated sub-titled “Major” if one exists.
Hmmmm. Not sure about that. You can watch (looks around and whispers) the ones by fansubs, if you really need English. I imported mine from Japan so they’re completely in Japanese.
driggerv says:
I recently finished watching Slam Dunk its such a good anime. And in my opinion s better than Kuroko No Basuke (even though I watched it before Slam Dunk). Though Kuroko No Basuke is good and enjoying on its own. A big fan of both series. Haikyuu is really good too. Love hinata and the gang 🙂
I agree with you 100%. “Slam Dunk” is legendary, in my opinion, and “Kuroko no Basuke” just doesn’t reach its level. But since I’m a fangirl who loves hot anime guys, I can’t say I didn’t enjoy Kuroko because I did. Very much. Oh my gosh. Now that you mention it, “Haikyuu!!” is one of my current faves. It’s so awesome and hilarious. Is “Slam Dunk” your favourite sports anime?
Yes it is now lol. It really is a funny and action packed anime. Too good lol. Kuroko no Basuke isn’t bad at all tho. I enjoyed it a lot too but not as much as I enjoyed Slam Dunk. Haikyuu is great I wish they just released all the episodes at once!!
Ahaha. I know how you feel. I’m actually holding myself back from watching the second season until all episodes are released. I’m taking a short break from watching anime after the holidays to rest my brain a bit. But I think that “Haikyuu!!” will be one of the first anime I’ll watch when I’ve rest my brain enough.
Yes, Haikyuu is a really good show. I guess I’ll have to go on short break too since college started I’ll have to focus on work but i know I’m going to get tempted and watch anime almost every 2 days!
Oh wow. Best of luck in college! Yeah, I know that the struggle is real. It’s quite difficult to maintain the delicate balance of watching anime without it negatively affecting the rest of your daily activities, especially if you’re a student. But good luck!
Thank You! Will be needing it 🙂 And yeah you’re right. I really do need to control my anime watching but its gonna be hard since I was of college for nearly 3 weeks.
Oh wow. Takes me back to when I first started university. You’ll get used to it soon enough and I hope that you find the routine to squeeze in some anime without it affecting your studies negatively.
Yeah, if only i was able to sleep and watch anime at the same time lol. But, a timetable or routine is really needed for me. How was you university life? I want to go to University after my two years course in college.
I’m in graduate school now actually. It’s been over 4 years since I was a freshman in university. Oh! You’re Canadian?
mirrorpurple says:
NO NO NOT FREE…
Oh no. Why not? I loved the abs. . .er, I meant the hot guys. . .uhm, what I meant was that I loved STORY.
ugh no…
Aw. That’s so sad.
still fwends?
Of course, silly. We’re still friends. 🙂
allthefujoshiunite says:
I agree to almost every comment you made on these anime (apart from Baby Steps though, I didn’t really like it); I like how the tension builds up and even though you somehow know the outcome, they still make you watch in awe, get excited and shout for them! I also enjoyed One Outs, though it wouldn’t be considered a sports anime to some. : )
I don’t know if you keep up with Haikyuu manga but oh lord, I freaked out after reading the last chapter. It’s one of my all time favorites in sports anime!
Aw. Why didn’t you like “Baby Steps”?
I enjoyed “One Outs” as well. I was just discussing this with a fellow aniblogger on his site. I’m currently working on another sports anime recommendations list consisting of often overlooked sports anime. “One Outs” will be one of them because not a lot of people are aware of it, unlike most of the titles in this list.
Oh my gosh. I keep up with “Haikyuu!!” manga. It’s one of my current faves. Love it!
Since I only watched the first couple of episodes, I can only speak in terms of those episodes but… I don’t know, something didn’t click with me, I don’t really enjoy tennis, maybe that also has a part in it.
Ooh, glad to hear it! Most people I encountered don’t consider One Outs as a sports anime, though we also have Chihayafuru and that’s also considered as a sports anime because of competitive karuta. Overall, they are really enjoyable series. ^^
After Slam Dunk, I think Haikyuu is the first sports Anime/manga that I’ve watched/read with this much anticipation and excitement. Nice to see we’re somewhat on the same page on Haikyuu! (ノ゜▽゜)
Oh, okay. That’s fine. Each of us has different preferences, anyway. Besides, life would be utterly dull if everyone of us have the same likes and dislikes, and that also applies to anime fans like us.
Really? Perhaps it’s because “One Outs” has such a dark atmosphere. Most mainstream sports anime are geared towards the shounen demographic, so maybe the people you say that don’t consider it as a sports anime are used to shounen sports anime such as “Haikyuu”, “Slam Dunk”, etc. Yes, I agree. I enjoyed “Chihayfuru” as well. I’ll be posting a list of this kind of overlooked sports anime titles one of these days, when I’m not feeling too lazy. 😉
Oh my gosh. I freaking love “Haikyuu!!”. It’s so funny. High-five!
Haha high-five! (´∀｀)人(´∀｀) You are right, it’s either a genre problem or One Outs is not as ‘sports oriented’ as the examples you gave. Hope you don’t get too lazy, it certainly would be interesting to read! v
Ahaha. We’ll see. I still haven’t reoriented myself completely out from the holiday break. Hopefully in the next week or so, I’ll be back in the game full-blast. Thanks very much. I’m glad that you know this kind of overlooked sports anime. Looking forward to discussing more of them when I do get to publish that post. Cheers!
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200 Missing After Deadly Afghan Flood
Residents of four villages in northern Afghanistan were desperately trying to find missing relatives on June 8, two days after a flash flood washed away 2,000 houses, killed scores of people, and forced thousands to flee.
Afghan officials on June 7 said they’d recovered 75 bodies from the villages in the Guzargah-e-Nur district of Baghlan Province.
More than 200 residents remain missing after the June 6 flood.
There are fears that many are buried beneath the rubble of mud houses that collapsed when water surged through the area.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s office says he ordered urgent assistance for flood-affected families in the province.
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By Dennis Thompson
MONDAY, April 29, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- They say the nose knows, but can a loss of smell signal impending death?
Possibly, researchers say.
They discovered that a poor sense of smell was associated with a nearly 50% higher risk of death within the next decade for adults older than 70.
While the study didn't prove cause and effect, that association is enough to make some experts wonder whether seniors' sense of smell should be tested alongside their other vital signs.
"I would not be surprised if someday the sense of smell was included as a simple checkup, to see if this important human sense is affected," said senior researcher Dr. Honglei Chen, a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Michigan State University.
As many as 1 in 4 aging Americans suffers a loss in their sense of smell, researchers said in background notes.
Further, research has linked the loss of an ability to smell to your risk of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and some dementias, Chen said.
But Chen and his colleagues suspected that sense of smell might have broader health implications for seniors than just a predisposition to brain conditions.
So they analyzed data from nearly 2,300 adults between the ages of 71 and 82 who were tracked as part of a larger health study.
Participants took a brief smell identification test as part of a battery of health examinations. They then were tracked for about 17 years, to see what illnesses might affect them.
It's unusual for seniors to have their sense of smell tested, said Vidyulata Kamath, an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore.
"We notice when our vision is changing. There's some evidence when our hearing is changing. But what studies have shown is there is a sizable discrepancy between people's report of their sense of smell functioning versus their actual scores on objective testing," Kamath said. "There's a sizable number of adults who have an unawareness of olfactory [sense of smell] loss."
Kamath wrote an editorial accompanying the study. Both are published April 30 in Annals of Internal Medicine.
Even worse, the new study showed that a loss of smell did indeed serve as a warning that death could be approaching.
"We found that compared to people with a good sense of smell, those with a poor sense of smell had about a 48% higher risk for death at year 10 and a 30% higher risk at year 13," Chen said. "As we are talking about an older population, this risk is not small at all."
The association was largely limited to people who reported themselves in good or excellent health at the start of the study, Chen noted.
"This suggested to us it's an early and probably sensitive marker for ongoing health conditions that may not be regularly recognized by the participants themselves," Chen said.
What's more, the researchers found that the conditions already linked to poor sense of smell only accounted for about 28% of the higher death risk. That includes 22% of the risk attributable to neurodegenerative diseases, and 6% linked to weight loss, researchers reported.
"When you lose your sense of smell, that can have downstream effects on your appetite," explained Kamath. "You may not be able to enjoy food the way you did before. You might have reduced food intake. That can potentially lead to changes in body weight and changes in your nutritional status."
But that leaves unexplained more than 70% of the higher mortality associated with poor sense of smell, Chen said.
There are some theories why poor sense of smell might be tied to these deaths, but no real answers, Chen and Kamath said.
People might die in a fire because they can't smell the smoke, or die from food poisoning because they can't smell that their meal is off, but "those events are fairly rare to begin with in the general population," Chen said.
People who eat poorly due to their lost sense of smell might also be at higher risk of developing heart disease, due to malnutrition or by eating unhealthy junk foods that have a vivid taste, Chen added. Or they might have been exposed to some toxic environmental pollution that harmed their ability to smell as well as causing other damage to their bodies.
While these findings are interesting, it's still too soon to make smell exams part of seniors' regular checkups, Chen and Kamath agreed.
"I don't think we've done the study yet to show it improves clinical practice," Kamath said.
Part of that research will involve figuring out what's behind the unexplained 70% of deaths, Chen said.
"We need to know what those health consequences are before we can make recommendations," he said.
SOURCES: Honglei Chen, M.D., Ph.D., professor, epidemiology and biostatistics, Michigan State University, East Lansing; Vidyulata Kamath, Ph.D., assistant professor, psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore; April 30, 2019,Annals of Internal Medicine
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The North Korea You Won't See on a Propaganda Tour
Ravi Somaiya
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Time Out New York's back cover this week is a glossy, upbeat travel ad for tours in... North Korea. We decided to take a look at eyewitness reports of life inside the country's brutal gulags to provide some context.
North Korea is keen to show itself as a paradise, an untouched and blessed kingdom that is merely misunderstood by the rest of the world. That, indeed, is the myth that the Dear Leader Kim Jong Il propagates to maintain some control over his people. Strictly controlled propaganda tours, under the watchful eye of party officials, have been going on for several years. This, we presume, are what Koryo Tours, the company behind the Time Out advertisement, is selling. On the glossy back cover Chris Anderson of CNN describes his tour as "an eye-opening experience," and another CNN reporter, Alyssa Kim, calls it "a holiday with a difference".
They neglect to mention the parts of the country no foreigner is ever allowed to see — gulags which might actually qualify as "Asia's best kept secret." The report on the prisons, put together by the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea in 2003, makes for haunting and horrific reading. There is no real criminal justice system. Those who displease the regime, or dare to try and escape starvation and oppression and flee to South Korea or China, are snatched and placed into enormous concentration camps in remote locations "in the valleys between high mountains, mostly, in the northern provinces." Their children and parents are also often captured and imprisoned. That practice is traced back to a statement in 1972 by Dear Leader Kim Jong Il's father, the revered Kim Il Sung: "factionalists or enemies of class, whoever they are, their seed must be eliminated through three generations."
The report estimates that 200,000 Koreans (equivalent to the population of Reno, Nevada), often viciously beaten to extract confessions, live in these forced labor camps, or kwan-li so, where they mine, cut timber or farm from 4.30am to seven or eight at night. Their quarters are infested with lice and maggots. They are deliberately semi-starved on a diet of dry corn, watery soup and grass. Many die of malnutrition. It is, of course, possible that conditions and practices have changed since the report came out. But no evidence of improvement has emerged.
The regime, according to the report, places an enormous value on genetic purity. When raids are conducted into the parts of China that border North Korea, or people are otherwise repatriated, pregnant women are particularly brutalized. According to two former detainees, births are induced with an injection, and babies are suffocated with a wet towel or a sheet of vinyl in front of their mothers. One detainee, a grandmother named only as 'Former Detainee #24' was made to act as a midwife. She reports seeing a baby born, but not suffocated. It was placed into a plastic-lined box. "When the box was full of babies, Former Detainee #24 later learned, it was taken outside and buried."
She next helped deliver a baby to a woman named Kim, who also gave birth to a healthy full-term boy. As Former Detainee #24 caressed the baby, it tried to suckle her finger. The guard again came over and yelled at her to put the baby in the box. As she stood up, the guard slapped her, chipping her tooth. The third baby she delivered was premature - the size of an ear of corn - and the fourth baby was even smaller. She gently laid those babies in the box. The next day she delivered three more very premature babies and also put them in the box. The babies in the box gave her nightmares. Two days later, the premature babies had died but the two full-term baby boys were still alive. Even though their skin had turned yellow and their mouths blue, they still blinked their eyes. The agent came by, and seeing that two of the babies in the box were not dead yet, stabbed them with forceps at a soft spot in their skulls.
The interviewer, says the report, "had difficulty finding words to describe the sadness in this grandmothers' eyes and the anguish on her face as she recounted her experience as a midwife at the detention center in South Sinuiju."
There is too much brutality and heartbreak in the report to fully summarize here. Women made to sit down and stand up until they dropped dead of exhaustion. "Punishment boxes," carefully sized so that those placed inside them cannot sit or stand, but must contort in agony. Detainees forced to beat each other, sometimes to death. On several occasions people ask to be killed by guards. For many of the 200,000, serving indeterminate sentences at the pleasure of Kim Jong Il, there is no other escape. It really is "the trip of a lifetime."
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