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First Congregational Church
April 15, 2017
Third Sunday of Easter
“Real and Alive?"
Rev. Dinah Haag, preaching
There was once a woman who inherited an old house. The neighbors told her that iwas haunted, but she didn’t believe them. When she inspected the house, she was delighted to see that it was completely furnished. She didn’t see anything out of the ordinary, and she moved right in. On her first night in the house, she got into bed happily. She was just drifting off to sleep when she heard an odd sound, way off in the distance. It sounded like this: “Rap, rap, rap.” She tried to ignore the sound, but she couldn’t. Finally she decided to get out of bed and investigate. When she opened her bedroom door, the sound was louder: “Rap, rap, rap”. She walked down the hallway. The sound got louder: “Rap, rap, rap”. She headed downstairs. Now it was even louder! “Rap, rap, rap.” She went into the dining room. It was so loud! “Rap, rap, rap.” The sound seemed to be coming from a corner of the room. She walked in that direction. “Rap, rap, rap.” There was a chest of drawers in the corner. The sound was overwhelming now. “Rap, rap, rap.” She opened the top drawer. There was nothing there. “Rap, rap, rap.” She opened the second drawer. There was nothing there. “Rap, rap, rap.” She opened the third drawer. There was nothing there. “Rap, rap, rap.” She opened the bottom drawer - and saw ……… a roll of wrapping paper!
A photographer goes to a haunted castle determined to get a picture of a ghost on Halloween. The ghost he encounters turns out to be friendly and poses for a snapshot. The happy photographer later downloads his photos and finds that the photos are underexposed and completely blank. The moral to the story is that the spirit is willing, but the flash is weak.
I have wondered if there is anyone else who has wondered about, been confused about, tried hard to remember about the order of things that happened in Jesus resurrection. To assist you in this academic portion of today’s message, I turn your attention to the little handout that came with your bulletin this morning. The first row is how the passage begins, generally with the listing of the witnesses. The chart then goes on, putting the major events of the resurrection account in order, as to their writer. There are other details missing, but I intended this to be just an overview.
As we are still in the season of Easter, it seems like a fair exercise - to remember and realize that the earliest documents that we have, and with the latest technology, the earliest gospel, that of Mark, was written somewhere between the years 66 and 70 AD, or CE if you are in postmodern timing, which is 33-37 years after Jesus’ actually crucifixion. Matthew and Luke were written in the 80s or 90s and John was probably written in the year 110.
What did you do on April 22, 1985 or 1984 or even most any other specific day thirty years ago and beyond? Layer onto your awareness your political persuasion - if you were even old enough to have one, and the particular familial experiences you’ve had over the years and even your genetic ancestry. Perhaps it is a little clearer how our four gospels can be similar and different - all at the same time.
Going on from that resurrection day, the gospel of Luke tells us that two from the group of followers of Jesus were going to Emmaus when they encounter, but do not recognize, Jesus. They express their disappointed hope that Jesus would be the one to redeem Israel, but Jesus explains how everything that happened was necessary according to Scripture - meaning the Old Testament. The two invite Jesus to spend the night with them. During the meal, when Jesus blessed and broke the bread, their eyes were opened, and they recognized Jesus, but he vanished from their sight. They rush back to Jerusalem and report to the gathered believers what had happened and discover that Jesus had already appeared to Simon.
Luke 24:36-48 (NIV)
Jesus Appears to the Disciples
While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”
When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?” They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate it in their presence.
He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.”
Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.
Thank you, Dave. As is so often the case, there are things that stick out or catch our attention in scripture passages. On the 18th reading of that passage, since it is indeed the one that was going to be used last week, I noticed that Jesus “opened their minds so they could understand the scriptures.” Sure wish he would open my mind about complicated stuff like figuring out taxes, car repair or other useful stuff.
One of the things that also caught my attention was the idea of ghosts, Jesus even lending credibility to the idea of ghosts in his comment that ghosts don’t have flesh and bones, but that he did. We don’t hear much about the topic, but ghosts and ghost-like entities were a part of surrounding cultures long before Abraham way back in the old testament. Several ancient Near East religions promoted the offering of gifts to dead ancestors to ease the deceased’s after life - which was not so unlike their earthly life. It may seem odd to hear Jesus make reference to ghosts, but in many ways, they were as much a part of life back then as they are today - at least in a general sense.
Two weeks ago, at the Ministerial Association Meeting, we talked about this passage, and several of us mentioned the topic of broiled fish. Broiled in our culture is close heat from the top, so maybe broiled in Jesus’ day was close heat from the bottom, without grease or oil. The fisherfolk among us wondered what type of fish it was, but wondering was as far as we got.
If Jesus were alive in our modern culture, one might envision him going to the fridge, standing in front of it and asking if there was anything to eat. I wondered if the writer of this passage brought in the idea of eating fish - not just to indicate Jesus’ “realness,” in that he was hungry, but if there was some idea of the way Jesus might have held his fish, or how he might have broken it. Many of us can think of a particular person and the very specific way they eat or drink something and how that behavior is a dead giveaway to the identification of that individual.
It’s also interesting that Jesus says, “Peace be with you” in this passage, and he said it twice in the passage from two weeks ago, from the gospel of John. We can surely appreciate that statement in light of a dead man, now resurrected, standing in front of disciples. But I wonder if there is more to that statement, especially in light of what Jesus said later in this morning’s passage and again in the previous passage.
Two weeks ago, in the the gospel of John and in the locked, upper room, where the disciples were hiding in fear, Jesus appeared to all the disciples, Thomas included, and said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” 22 And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive anyone’s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”
This week, after spending a little time proving himself to the disciples, Jesus quotes the Old Testament, saying, “The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.”
It wasn’t just the duplicity regarding the mention of forgiveness from John and Luke’s passages, but thoughts from Mark G. Vitalis Hoffman, Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, PA and Stephen Garnaas Holmes that made this God-cidence of terms and topics relevant to us modern day followers of Christ.
Mark Vitalis Hoffman pointed out that, "Luke clearly wishes to demonstrate a flesh-and-bones Jesus, not a mere spiritual presence or apparition. Still, Luke, like us, has never seen a physical Jesus, so that can’t be the key (to understanding the physicality of the resurrected Jesus). The point is, in modern parlance, that Jesus is really real and truly alive! So my brain wondered, how do we know - really know - that Jesus is alive and real? None of us have seen him either, and it’s been a long time since the first century. None of us get opportunities to touch Jesus’ hands or feet or put our finger in his side, no matter how gauche any of that can seem.”
It was Stephen Garnaas Holmes who asked another question, "What do you talk about when you come back, bodily risen but still wounded, from the grave?” His answer? Forgiveness. And the rest of his poem from a couple weeks back, is just plain beautiful.
The repentance we preach is not forced on others,
it's our repentance,
turning from retribution to forgiveness,
from self-protection to self-giving.
When we forgive, we offer resurrection.
Christ is risen in the body
of those who forgive in this world.
Forgiveness is where resurrection takes form,
where wound becomes blessing,
where lives become actually new,
where people become free,
lured by astonished fishers out of graves into light.
The new self is freed from the old life;
anger no longer has dominion.
Justice rises not from the cross of retribution,
but the empty grave of grace.
Members of the crucified and risen Body of Christ
are not afraid to be wounded in offering forgiveness.
No suffering can stop us:
we have already died and gone to heaven.
We are as fearless as angels.
We are witnesses of these things.
Let us pray. Holy and Marvelous God, thank you. Thank you for giving us all of this life to live. Help each of us to lay to rest in the tomb of your grace the hurt we may have caused and the hurt we may have borne. Forgive us, when we have failed to understand our mistakes or refused to humble ourselves in bringing about the justice that is needed for others. Help us to open our eyes to see Christ, risen and restored in you, in those around us, that they may inspire us to greater authenticity of practicing our faith. Let Christ rise to new life in us, wounded but whole, radiant, forgiving and alive with your love. Create us anew; by your grace, let there be light. This is the day you are making. Let us rejoice and be glad in it, and all your people say, Amen.
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"It can be done" was the attitude of about 30 people that attended a meeting on Wednesday that discussed the possibility of turning the Webster City Movie Theater into a community and volunteer run establishment.
Webster City Chamber of Commerce Director Deb Brown welcomed attendees to the meeting, which was held at Webster City Middle School. She said that several parties are interested in purchasing the Theater, and two of those have expressed interest in purchasing the theater and handing the operations over to a volunteer group.
Brown gave examples of other small-town theaters that were shut down and were later reopened with the help of the community. Those theaters included one in Fargo, N.D., Hutchinson, Kan., and the Windsor Theatre in Hampton. All of those theaters were only reopened after the work of many volunteers.
Jim Davies, volunteer manager of the Windsor Theatre in Hampton, spoke at the meeting about how his community created a volunteer-run movie theater and answered questions from attendees.
"It took a very dedicated group of individuals to decide that they wanted to make a difference and save these old theaters," Brown said.
Jim Davies, volunteer manager of the Windsor Theatre, was also on hand to answer questions and explain how his community went through the process of creating a community-run theater.
"Your community is not alone," Davies said. "There's been a lot of other communities that have gone through the same thing and the Windsor in Hampton is only one."
Davies encouraged attendees to seek help from those theaters, who have tried many things to bring in revenue for their theaters. The Windsor Theatre was renovated following its closure, and now has an expanded stage where the community hosts plays. The theatre has also hosted weddings and other events.
Many marketing ideas, including discounts for certain age groups, special themed nights and other ideas were discussed. Davies said outside sources of money, including community foundations, can also help revitalize a theater.
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MANUEL PELLEGRINI believes Louis Van Gaal will turn Manchester United into
title challengers again this season.
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“What will happen in future we don’t know but they will be strong this year.”
Despite Van Gaal’s impressive CV, he will have a tough job matching
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The former Malaga manager scooped a double when he added the Premier League
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City have added three players to their squad already in Bacary Sagna,
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There are now two versions of the iPod touch available. The older 4th-generation model has been on sale for a while; it's getting on in age, with a slower processor and much weaker camera, but it's still a great deal ($199 for 16GB) as a do-it-all music player and game machine. The newer 5th-generation modelis a bit more expensive ($299 for 32GB), but it's a stunner, with a beautifully slim aluminum design, a gorgeous 4-inch Retina screen, and a 5-megapixel camera. It also comes with Apple's new EarPods, which sound a lot better than Apple's older bundled earbuds.
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Around a year ago, JC and I really started to see each other. Sure we met sometime at the end of January for the first time, but this was the point at which I wasn’t travelling constantly and we really got to know each other. This is also around this time last year that he started wooing me with his talent in the kitchen. He was pretty much the opposite of vegan when we met, but he found great recipes, followed them perfectly, and appreciated the ingredients.
One of the first things was this butternut squash soup with tofu cream. I sneakily took a picture with my phone in the kitchen (and I don’t think he saw me and yes, I’m a creep.) I remember being so damn impressed that he’d go out of his way to cook me dinner, I’m not sure why, because clearly – I’m pretty awesome, but nevertheless, I was impressed. Say what you will about men, hearts, and cooking, but the quickest way into my heart was/is through my stomach too.
The rest of the meal was equally awesome. Homemade garlic bread, a (veganized) cassoulet, candied walnuts, and a blueberry cheesecake from Sweets from the Earth. I remember that first bite of cassoulet in detail because it was shocking. Maybe it was just being wrapped up in the moment, but that was the best thing I had ever eaten. Ever. At least up to that point (since then, we’ve hunted down and created more deliciousness together, but the cassoulet remains a fond memory.)
It might be obvious, but lately I’ve been feeling nostalgic, and looking through some of my old food photos. I stumbled upon a dish that I almost forgot, but need to make soon (or a dish I wouldn’t mind eating again… hint hint *ahem*) This Rustic Bread Eggplant Lasagna from Vegan Yum Yum (as made by JC) was incredible. | <urn:uuid:b4206234-4ac0-4e01-afbe-5add17a58468> | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | http://meshell.ca/blog/vegan-food-and-love/ | 2018-07-23T04:06:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676594886.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20180723032237-20180723052237-00195.warc.gz | en | 0.978588 | 422 |
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(Columbia/DMZ Records 90572 As broadcast on WVIA-FM 3/24/2004)
It's a sad fact that it usually takes something from outside of the world of music for the public to become aware of some style or trend in music. More often than not it's a Hollywood film that brings to public attention a musical style that has generally been around for quite a while. An excellent example of that is the film O Brother Where Art Thou which nearly four years ago appeared with some traditional style folk music in the soundtrack. Not long thereafter, the soundtrack for the film became a huge hit, and bluegrass musicians who had been making excellent music for decades in relative obscurity suddenly found themselves part of a popular trend. Somewhat surprisingly, this has not passed like a typical fad, but has spawned what seems like a fairly widespread interest in traditional folk music. Both younger bluegrass artists like Alison Krauss and Nickel Creek and veterans like Del McCoury have suddenly found themselves with bigger audience than they had ever seen, and some commercial country music stations were actually letting a little bluegrass slip onto the air.
In addition to the public interest in folk music, increasing numbers of younger artists are turning to traditional styles, and reviving old folk songs in new versions. Natalie Merchant, John Mellencamp, David Johansen, and Dolly Parton are some of the popular artists who have been recently turning to what could be validly called folk music for influences and songs.
This week we have another good example. In this case, it's a new group drawing for the most part on old traditional material, and serving it up with a fascinating mix of influences, from traditional to contemporary. They call themselves Ollabelle, named after the great folksinger Ola Belle Reed, and the group itself bring together a rather intriguing mix of styles through the respective members' backgrounds.
Ollabelle is a New York based sextet formed as an informal collective in late 2001. Its members are Amy Helm, a Woodstock, New York, native vocalist and daughter of Levon Helm of The Band, who has been in many bands over her musical career starting in her teens. She had primarily sung in blues bands. Also serving as one of the group's vocalists is Fiona McBain, who is originally from Sydney, Australia. She came to the US and New York to pursue a career as a singer-songwriter. Brooklyn-based Byron Isaacs is the bassist and has served a similar function in various other diverse groups, and also performed as a singer-songwriter in his own right. Keyboard man Glenn Patcha is from Canada, and spent several years in New Orleans, absorbing that city's music, especially jazz, and has worked and recorded with various New Orleans jazz musicians. Rounding out the group are guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Jimi Zhivago, a long-time New York session musician and producer; and drummer Tony Leone, also from a jazz background. The group describe themselves as a collective, and indeed there is no member who is consistently the lead vocalist, and what songwriting the band does is apportioned out among the members.
Ollabelle grew out of a regular get-together at a Greenwich Village club in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. Each of the members had their own respective careers at the time, but this loose musical aggregration soon found themselves attracting bigger and bigger crowds. Guitarist Zhivago introduced the band to producer Steve Rosenthal, who decided to record the band "on speculation." The recording was brought to the attention of T-Bone Burnett, who was the music producer for the "O Brother Where Art Thou" soundtrack. Burnett became executive producer, and the CD was released on a major label.
On their eponymous debut album Ollabelle brings their own distinctive approach to the folk music revival. They do primarily traditional material, but instead of doing it either authentically or with a very modern accompaniment, serve it up with an interesting mixture of 60s Memphis soul, older folk and Gospel styles, and gutbucket blues. There are slide guitars and pump organs in the instrumentation. Gospel-style vocal choruses mingle with an old Wurlitzer electric piano, so often identified with the sound of Memphis soul. And there is some original material that sounds even older than the folk songs they dig up. The result is a pleasing album that demonstrates imagination, good musicianship, appealing vocal harmonies, and a kind of musical camaraderie that immediately stands out. Ollabelle genuinely seem to be enjoying what they are doing, which is more than can be said for records by a lot of pop performers on the scene.
The CD starts with a Gospel styled, mostly a cappella piece called Before This Time by Bessie Jones and folklorist Alan Lomax. The group's performance is spirited, and evokes the sound of traditional African American church singing. <<>>
Ollabelle perform a number of rather well-known traditional folk and blues songs. One of them is Soul of a Man, to which Ollabelle give an eclectic mix of influences from the bluesy electric guitar with pump organ. The result is first-rate. <<>>
As mentioned, Ollabelle's members do write material that sounds as if it is many decades old. Get Back Temptation by keyboard man Glenn Patcha inhabits a curious intersection of Gospel, swamp blues and soul. The result is also outstanding. <<>>
Ollabelle also takes up a Carter Family song, The Storms Are on the Ocean, to which they give a quiet introspective treatment with Fiona McBain doing the lead vocal. <<>>
The group turns to a tasteful blues setting for their version of No More My Lawd. <<>>
With all the traditional music on the album, they do include one cover tune from an unexpected source, the Rolling Stones. I Am Waiting is transformed into another near-Gospel experience. <<>>
A rather different approach is taken on another traditional song that a number of artists have been doing lately, John the Revelator, recorded years ago by Blind Willie Johnson. The band plugs in, turns it up, and delivers the song in a seven-beat rhythm, for a kind of mutant swamp blues treatment. <<>>
One of the most striking songs is another original by Glenn Patscha, I Don't Want to Be That Man. The starkly scaled back arrangement is haunting. <<>>
The generous 14-track CD ends with another traditional song, All Is Well, which the group says was inspired by some sheet music they found that was published in 1849. Here the sound is of an intimate prayer meeting. <<>>
Ollabelle the debut CD by the group of same name is another in a continuing series of new adaptations of traditional or old-style music by young bands who may not even have been born when the 1960s folk music revival was under way. The results have varied in quality, but Ollabelle is one of the best of the ilk. They have a sensitivity to the original arrangements of the songs, but are not afraid to apply their own ingredients to the mix, such as bridging the gap between the old and the contemporary by drawing on some 1960s soul and rock & roll influences. The collective nature of the group also makes it more interesting, with the various members' influences coming together in intriguing ways. The success of the group so far in attracting the attention of major record labels also was apparently a surprise to the group members, who all had their own independent musical careers. But in the wake of their release, Ollabelle has begun touring together.
Our grade for sound quality is an A minus. The mix and clarity are commendable, and the CD's sonic treatments subtly enhance the mood of the album. The dynamic range, the difference between loud and soft passages, while better than many contemporary pop releases, is still impaired somewhat by volume compression.
It's good that there is a renewed interest in the traditional folk music that was the inspiration to so much that followed it, from country to rock and roll. I think it's even better that younger performers are not only drawing on the music, but applying their own creativity to come up with new sounds, and not just another revival of old styles.
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Chris Pratt is Asking Fans to Pray for a Child Suffering from Brain Cancer
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- 2016 Jul 29
Chris Pratt, the actor best recognized for his roles in Parks and Recreation, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Jurassic World, has never been shy about expressing his faith. Over Easter, Pratt uploaded a photo to Instagram of his family installing a life-sized cross, and in an interview with GQ Magazine, he discussed how his son’s premature birth brought him closer to God. Now, Pratt is rallying his many Twitter followers to pray for a young boy with brain cancer. According to Relevant Magazine, a fan reached out to Pratt over Twitter stating,
“In response, Pratted tweeted, ‘The power of prayer saved my son. This boy Sam needs a miracle. Say a prayer for Sam. Even if you never have b4.Try.’ When asked, ‘how so?’ by another Twitter follower, Pratt tweeted, ‘Lord I pray for Sam. May you put your healing hand on him father. May his family find grace in this difficult time.’”
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COPENHAGEN – Energy Ministers, the European Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy and Heads of Delegations from 26 countries, leaders from global energy organizations, and other high-level government representatives from all around the world met today at the ninth Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM), co-hosted by Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, the Nordic Council of Ministers, and the European Commission representing the European Union, in Copenhagen. Business leaders from the energy sector and high-level representatives from the world of finance also played a key role in the meeting.
CEM member countries account for approximately 90% of global clean energy investment and 75% of global greenhouse gas emissions. CEM is therefore an important forum when it comes to advancing the global clean energy transition and the ministerial meeting carried one unifying message: expanding clean energy is a top priority globally.
CEM members launched new work in a number of different areas, including clean energy investment and finance, energy efficiency and renewable energy, as well as new initiatives aimed at cleaner electricity generation and climate change mitigation.
Underlining the importance of the CEM, the Netherlands was officially welcomed as the newest member of the forum. Poland and Argentina also attended, looking to deepen their engagement in the future.
Strong new partnerships were forged with private companies and organisations like the World Bank, European Investment Bank, Global Environment Facility, and Green Climate Fund, adding expertise, insights, and impact to the work of the CEM. Already-existing partnerships with organizations like the International Energy Agency and the International Renewable Energy Agency were strengthened through their support of the ongoing and new work of the CEM.
As the world of energy is rapidly changing, the CEM continues to reflect and support those changes. Today’s meeting confirmed the CEM’s role as a key collaborative forum on clean energy.
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I registered Disabled Thoughts as a business at my local county clerk. I intend for it to be a business for me to use for my writing and web work. Since I am majoring in psychology now (why I never did before I don’t know), I expect to possibly do counseling for the disabled at […]Read More The new “Disabled Thoughts”
What these clever little monikers mean to me.Read More Professionally skeptical and eternally academic
Personally, I am really enjoying building a bit of a network with the aid of Simbi, it is so useful! People just trade services and most people are extremely helpful there.Read More Why Simbi?
If you like to be controversial or to write about research, then I want to talk to you about collaboration.Read More Contributors wanted!
There is an interesting study out this week by two University of Kentucky researchers that the number of atheists may be twice as large as previously estimated. The number may be closer to 26 percent — an fascinating prospect given the politics surrounding faith-based initiatives and policies. As I have previously discussed, both parties have […] […]Read More This is a scary trend for the religious right, but it makes me happy
New atheism and how it spreads.Read More Glad I’m not the only nonbeliever who does this.
Atheism is derogatory, but secularism is held as honorable and just.Read More A very interesting take on militant atheism, secularism, and perception.
Why didn’t I do this before? I went as far as the Secular Student Alliance, but when that attempt at a student group at North Central Michigan College bombed I gave up on it. I’ve changed my focus to include many secular ideas and information about them, but without openly referring to them as atheist-related. […]Read More The Secular Coalition of America
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"Big Nate is funny, big time."—Jeff Kinney, author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid
For fans of the hilarious Diary of a Wimpy Kid series: Get ready to meet Big Nate! In the first novel in the New York Times bestselling series, Big Nate is in a class by himself!
Nate knows he's meant for big things. REALLY big things. But things don't always go your way just because you're awesome. Nate barely survives his dad's toxic oatmeal before rushing off to school—minus his lunch. He body slams the no-nonsense principal. He accidentally insults his least favorite teacher, the horrifying Mrs. Godfrey (aka Godzilla). And school has barely started!
Trouble always seems to find him, but Nate keeps his cool. He knows he's destined for greatness. A fortune cookie told him so.
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COVID-19 hospitalizations and positive tests skewing younger, Deaconess says
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Midway through a news conference Monday, Deaconess President Dr. James Porter offered an internal statistic intended to give the COVID-19 surge some scale. On July 23 — 17 days ago — the health system had 21 COVID-19 patients in its hospitals. The current number, 105, is exactly five times as high.
And the new crop of patients is younger than those in the early days of the pandemic, Porter said. More than 60% of coronavirus patients hospitalized at Deaconess are younger than 65.
"Even more poignantly, in the testing the vast majority of our positive tests are now in the 18-44 age group," he said. "And because there's always a lag between positive tests and hospitalizations, I think we should expect that, that average age of people in the hospital likely will continue to go down."
Things will get worse with COVID-19 before they get better, Porter said.
The warnings punctured any hope residents may have had that the current delta variant-fueled surge could be just a flare-up and that things will settle down again soon. But Porter also stressed mask-wearing and vaccination, saying those measures offer the hope that "there are things that we can do to blunt the rise of this surge."
Porter opened his news conference in a Deaconess Gateway Hospital conference room with some numbers intended to convey the shock and awe of the current surge. Deaconess' count of 105 hospitalized COVID-19 patients is the highest total since Feb. 6, he said. Of those 105, at least 91 are unvaccinated. Thirty-two are in intensive care units, 18 on ventilators.
Porter looked ahead, offering bad news and, potentially, better news.
"We know we're not at the top of this peak," he said. "Other places, these have played out over the course of several weeks, and we're in the earlier phases of it here.
"So we would anticipate that it's going to continue to get worse — and how much worse it gets will have everything to do with what we do as a community with regard to how we get vaccinated and how we use masks, especially in public spaces."
Nurses see the surge firsthand — and wonder about regrets
Porter, who joined Deaconess in 2000 as an adult and pediatric hospitalist, is one of the top executives at Deaconess. Two front line health care providers told the Courier & Press last week they are seeing the same things.
Taylor Meriweather, a student nurse and patient care technician at Deaconess, said the surge is right in front of her eyes.
"I have not seen many COVID patients on the regular floors, but on an ICU I worked on last week, there were only 17 rooms and about six or seven of those rooms were COVID patients," Meriweather said. "That was a big change. That’s kind of showing you."
Registered nurse Lynn Maserejian wonders about regret in COVID-19 patients.
"It’s disheartening to see these people come into the hospital," Maserejian said. "They’re sick. They didn’t get the vaccine, and you just wonder how many of these people feel like, ‘I wish I’d gotten the vaccine. I wouldn’t be laying here on a ventilator.'"
'Lying to people'
Pounding home the theme that vaccination is an imperative if COVID-19 is to be defeated, Porter on Monday employed some of his strongest language yet in the pandemic against anti-vaccination narratives.
"There's a lot of disinformation, a lot of people, frankly, lying to people about the vaccines out there," he said. "Clearly, the experience that we're seeing — what's been seen around the country, what's been seen other places in the world — is these vaccines work.
"Unfortunately, the vast majority of the people who we will see hospitalized and who we will see die as a result of this surge could have been vaccinated, and it could have been prevented."
Also from Monday's news conference at Deaconess:
* Deaconess has seen just one child hospitalized with COVID-19, Porter said, noting that the child was younger than the current minimum age of 12 to be vaccinated. The child did well and was discharged from care, he said. Most children don't get seriously ill with COVID-19, Porter said, but some do. "There's no other way, really, to protect (children younger than 12) other than to wear our masks," he said.
* More children probably will be hospitalized with the coronavirus in Evansville, Porter said, citing the new school year as the chief culprit. "Getting people together is absolutely one of the things that fuels this pandemic," he said. "We've seen it over and over again."
* Vaccinated patients are much less likely to get very ill, Porter said. "We've only had a couple of patients who are fully vaccinated and required ventilatory support, and they have both been able to be weaned off ventilatory support and no longer require it and are recovering well," he said.
Canceling elective surgeries? Deaconess trying hard not to go there, Porter says
In the earliest days of the pandemic last year, major local hospital systems canceled elective surgeries to keep bed space free.
Porter demurred when asked if things could get that bad again.
"I can't give you a number that says, 'If it was this, it would result in that,'" he said. "Anytime we have to start making those kinds of decisions, it's never all or none. It's always a measured response to, 'what's the best thing to do for our patients?'"
Occupying 105 hospital beds with COVID-19 patients puts pressure on already busy doctors, nurses and everyone at Deaconess, Porter said. But that's part of the job.
"We have a lot of different tricks that we use to mitigate things when we start to get full, and we're pulling all those tricks out of our bags to make sure that we stay available for the people who need our care," he said.
An appeal to the consciences of the unvaccinated
Vaccination against COVID-19 has slowed dramatically this summer despite robust ongoing availability of mobile clinics staged by the Vanderburgh County Health Department and continued vaccine availability at hospitals and pharmacies.
The local health department will be vaccinating from 8:30 a.m. until noon Tuesday at Ruler Foods at 4624 North First Avenue and from 12:30 p.m. until 3:30 p.m. at Simpson's Supermarket at 1365 Covert Avenue.
The number to watch is the seven-day average of total daily doses, which the Indiana State Department of Health defines as "the moving average (6 previous days and 1 current day) of all doses administered."
That number for Vanderburgh County was 1,046 on May 5, the day local health department launched its mobile clinic vaccination blitz. It was about two-thirds the 1,522 posted on April 12.
Sunday's number? 280, according to ISDH's statewide vaccination dashboard. It does represent an uptick. It was 174 on July 18, just three weeks ago.
In a Facebook Live appearance last week, Porter appealed to the consciences of people who haven't gotten vaccinated against COVID-19 because they perceive no danger to themselves.
The Deaconess president said he is relatively young and healthy.
“I’m not really afraid of coronavirus," he said. "The likelihood that I’m going to end up in an ICU on a ventilator at this point, especially since I’m fully vaccinated, is extremely low.
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The Terror of the Southlands
More pirates, more magic, and more adventure in the paperback of the second book in the Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates series!
Hilary Westfield is now a bona fide pirate, but when her daring, her magical know-how, and even her gargoyle can't convince the VNHLP that she's worthy of her title, the Terror of the Southlands, she sets off with her crew on a high seas adventure. But then Miss Pimm disappears, and Hilary decides to find the missing Enchantress and protect the magic of Augusta.
Caroline Carlson brings the unceasing wit, humor, and fun of the first book in the series, Magic Marks the Spot, to this epic sequel. Fans of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events and Trenton Lee Stewart's Mysterious Benedict Society will love this quirky tween series and hope to join the VNHLP just like Hilary!
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Threenager – noun \thrē-nāj-er\: 1. a three-year old who has the general attitude, angst, and mood swings of a teenager. 2. the ruler of the roost.
Little One had his birthday this week! A three-year old’s birthday is one of the best birthdays because it is the year in which they really understand the joys of their big day. The first birthday, they’re oblivious. The second birthday is fun, but still slightly clueless as to what all the fuss is about. But by the time they reach three…it’s game on. They get the concept of gifts, cake, candles, and a party all for them. And for both of my boys, three was the first time they found the fine motor ability to actually show their age in fingers.
He has been counting down the days for over a week. Despite my distaste for buying into commercial driven characters, he has developed a healthy-ish obsession with Spider-Man. Whenever asked, all he wanted for his birthday was to be drowning in everything Spider-Man related. Years ago, the naive parent in me made the declaration that I wouldn’t have kids that were into the commercial world of superheroes and princesses. But then you realize that it’s nearly impossible to say no to something that brings them so much joy. So I gave up that battle and bought him everything Spider-Man. Legos, books, t-shirt…on and on. And he has loved every single bit of it. He enjoyed a birthday full of fun new toys, a trip to the bowling alley, bubbles, and lots of chocolate cake. He was super happy.
I have a love/hate feeling for this age. On one hand, three-year olds are inquisitive, snuggly, loveable, thoughtful, and enthusiastic little people. I love the conversations I have with Little One…learning about how he thinks and talking about all of his wonders and views. There is much innocence and delightful insights in how he experiences the world. I love that when we sit down to play, it always starts with, “Ok, Mama, let’s pretend….” and then he gives me a long list of directions into his world of make-believe. In addition to the playful joys, with a newborn in the house his new-found independence and self-care abilities are also helpful for me and confidence building for him. Settling into a big brother role has introduced this once baby of the family to try on his caretaker hat and for the most part, he’s super sweet and loving. He’s really taking the job of big boy seriously most days and it is clear it makes him feel proud.
But there is a darker side to three-year olds. It seems that most days are an uphill battle for Little One (and therefore Mama, too). Without reminders to talk like a big boy, most desires are expressed through a constant state of whine. Managing the minefield of a three-year old is a delicate balance of power. It’s creatively offering choices that allows him to feel like he has power. And most days it takes a great deal of enthusiasm, creativity, and positive energy coming into each battle, which is often a challenge for me in my newborn induced sleep deprivation. If I can find the patience to present things in an upbeat manner, he responds accordingly. And then there are days when no matter how things are presented, it is all wrong. And that’s just the beauty of a threenager. Just when you think you’ve mastered the art of interacting with a three-year old, they throw you a curveball and change the game all together. Thank goodness it is all temporary. Having already traveled this road with Big Brother, I know there’s an end in sight. And in a blink of an eye, I’ll have real teenagers on my hands. | <urn:uuid:30f97122-23e3-4640-9569-afb12324d1b2> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://adventuresinteachingmyown.com/2016/05/16/the-joys-and-struggles-of-a-threenager/ | 2021-10-24T06:54:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585911.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20211024050128-20211024080128-00324.warc.gz | en | 0.975121 | 829 |
When people look at the beautiful cover of Peter Eckman‘s new book, most think that the printers have made a terrible, embarrassing mistake. They have not. In the dedication of The Compleat Acupucturist, Eckman apologises for “stealing” the title from Sir Isaak Walton’s The Compleat Angler. In 1653 Walton wrote:
in this Discourse I do not undertake to say all that is known, or may be said of it, but I undertake to acquaint the Reader with many things that are not usually known to every Angler; and I shall leave gleanings and observations enough to be made out of the experience of all that love and practise this recreation, to which I shall encourage them. For Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematicks, that it can never be fully learnt; at least not so fully but that there will still be more new experiments left for the trial of other men that succeed us.
In the following apologia (not apology) taken from the book, Eckman explains how this treatise on integrating the various disciplines of Oriental medicine into a whole coherent model, with pulse diagnosis as a common thread across different traditions, uses the same spirit of acquainting the reader with things not usually known.
The archaic language of the title is intended to convey the author’s somewhat “tongue in cheek” approach to the notion of “completeness.” It is certainly not the intention to claim that this treatise covers all or even most of what informs the practice of the art and science of acupuncture, nor that the author is asserting any special claim of mastery. Rather, the idea of “compleatness” refers to the goal of integrating various notions of Oriental medical theory and practice from such diverse sources as India, Korea, and Japan, including their interpretation by Western practitioners, into the discussion of a subject that is often tacitly limited to the Chinese tradition. As will be repeatedly emphasized in the text, the author is not arguing for the superiority of any one style of acupuncture practice, nor disparaging any of the traditions that may not receive as much attention as others in this book. It is the author’s view that, ultimately, all the teachings and traditions of Oriental medicine are aspects of the same shared perception of the nature of reality, in health and illness, and are to be honored for their part in elucidating the nature of the whole.
Another reason for choosing the word “compleat” is that it suggests, to the author at least, the archetypal symbol of the circle, with all its associations, and harkens back to the initial publication some 30 years ago of Closing the Circle,2 jointly written with Stuart Kutchins. The present treatise can be seen as the fruit of the premises first presented there, manifesting here as a practical approach to the clinical practice of acupuncture, in this case based on the art and science of pulse diagnosis.
This treatise is also an attempt to create a more unified theoretical foundation for Oriental medicine.3 Whether it will be possible for someone to discover a unifying theory that covers both Eastern and Western medicine is a subject best left for future investigators.
1 From the Greek, meaning the defense of a position against attack.
2 Eckman, P. and Kutchins, S., Closing the Circle: Lectures on the Unity of Traditional Oriental Medicine. Fairfax, CA: Shen Foundation, 1983.
3 “Most of the really great breakthroughs in science are unifications. Newton’s laws of motion unified the sky and Earth as ruled by the same physics; that was radically different from the earlier Aristotelian concept, in which the two realms were separate. Einstein’s laws of relativity unified space and time.” Owen J. Gingerich (a science historian at Harvard), quoted in Chang, K., “Quakes, Tectonic and Theoretical.” New York Times, January 15, 2011. Available at www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/weekinreview/16chang.html, accessed June 18, 2013. | <urn:uuid:8c878692-6dca-489f-8f95-a1b4aa918653> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | https://blog.singingdragon.com/tag/oriental-medicine/ | 2021-12-03T17:04:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964362891.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20211203151849-20211203181849-00095.warc.gz | en | 0.954611 | 873 |
The goal of the style guide is to try provide rules to write code that looks the same no matter what project. It is a guide and is always up for discussion by the team.
- Each file should have a completed copy of the MPL2 license block, immediately followed by an empty line.
- Each file should pass PEP8 except for line length, see below.
# Good def method(self, parameter) # Bad def method(self,parameter)
- Lines should try not to have more than 100 characters.
- Docstrings should conform to PEP0257 and should be on a single line wherever possible.
# Good def click_login(): """Clicks the login link.""" # Bad def click_login(): """ Clicks the login link. """
Where not possible, the first line should be a summary.
# Good def login(): """Logs in. Clicks the login link and then waits for the home page to load. """ # Bad def login(): """Logs in. Clicks the login link and then waits for the home page to load."""
- Indenting should be a soft tab (4 spaces) as common with in Python. Do not mix tabs and spaces!
- There should be no whitespace at the end of the file (as per PEP8).
- Comments should be on the line above. Remember to update comments when changing code so that code matches the comments.
- Class names should be in Pascal style as this is Python idiomatic.
# Good class TestThisSite: # Bad class test_this_site:
- All page objects should inherit from
- Page objects should not do asserts. This should be done within the test.
- Each page should be grouped within one module.
- If using multiple words to describe a module separate them with underscores '_'
- Timeout time should be taken from pytest-mozwebqa via
- Single quotes (') should be used instead of double (") throughout.
- Methods should have a single purpose.
- Methods should not contain logic that depends on properties of the page. The logic and expectations should be within the test, and adding this to the page object could guard your tests against genuine failures.
# Good def click_login(self) self.selenium.find_element(*self._login_locator).click() # Bad def click_login(self) if not self.is_user_logged_in: self.selenium.find_element(*self._login_locator).click() else: pass
- Locator variables should be prefixed with
_to show that it is private.
- Variables should be descriptive of the area and not clash with any properties.
- Should have a suffix of
- Accessing locators should be done through a property or method as this keeps the locator as read-only.
@property def search_term(self): return self.selenium.find_element(*self._search_box_locator).value
- We should use locators in the following order of preference (there will be exceptions):
- Class name
- CSS selector
- CSS locators should use whitespace for readability when using direct descendants.
# Good _my_locator = "css=#content > p > a" # Bad _my_locator = "css=#content>p>a"
- Use Python tuples to define locators:
# Good _my_locator = (By.ID, "content")
- Methods that perform actions on the page should indicate the action in the method name.
# Good def click_report_with_length(length) # Bad def report_length(length)
- Actions should wait for the appropriate action to complete. This could be an implicit or explicit wait. For example, clicking a login button might explicitly wait for a username field to be visible.
Advanced: Page Regions
In some circumstances, for example where a header/navigation is common across the website, we will use a page region. The page region is a child class of the base Page object, which is inherited by all page objects. This means that the navigation can be reached from any page object and herein lies the DRY!
A brief example:
class BasePage(Page): @property def header(self): return BasePage.HeaderRegion(self.testsetup) class HeaderRegion(Page): _login_link = (By.ID, "home") @def click_login(self): self.selenium.find_element(*self._login_link).click()
Referring to this page region with a property makes it very readable and concise from within the test. Clicking login during a test would be performed like this:
Another example where this might be used is on a search results page, the page region being the search results element.
- Module names should be called test_ and then behavioral areas.
- Test method signature should include mozwebqa to use pytest-mozwebqa plugin.
def test_example(self, mozwebqa):
- Test method names should always show the intent of the test case.
# Good def test_that_advanced_search_does_not_find_item(self, mozwebqa): # Bad def test_advanced_search(self, mozwebqa):
- Tests should handle the asserts -- not the page objects.
- Tests should use Python's native assert statement.
- Note that this is a change from our previous standard of using the UnittestZero package.
- When doing equivalency assertions, put the expected value first, followed by the actual value, for example:
assert 'expected' == 'actual' # good assert 'actual' == 'expected' # bad
- When doing negative equivalency, use != and put the unexpected value first, followed by the actual value, for example:
assert 'unexpected' != 'actual' # good assert 'actual' != 'unexpected' # bad
- To directly cause a test to fail raise an AssertionError with an appropriate message, for example:
- See pytest's documentation on asserts for more help.
Size of patches
To make sure that we can review your patch as quickly and efficiently as possibly we would like patches to have a single test in them and the necessary changes to the page objects. This also limits the chances of merge conflicts later.
Using new and old standards together
As we (and Selenium and automation) develop more knowledge some projects might fall behind the standards in this style guide. It can be tempting to want to fix all of the outdated style but in order to keep patches/pulls small (see above!) we are happy to have new and old standards of code sit side by side. As we regularly review and update tests the project will be brought completely up to our current standards.
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Celebrating 75 Years - Comeau
In celebration of Comeau's Sea Foods 75th anniversary, we would like to take this opportunity to thank all staff for their hard work, commitment and dedication throughout the years. This exciting milestone is made possible by a strong team as well as the continued support from our wonderful customers.
Here's to another 75 years!
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Philip says.., - 11/13/2012 Overall Rating:5 out of 5 Reviewer:Philip Product:Dymatize Meth-X
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I’m a 27 yr outdated skilled in a new relationship (four months) with a man who simply began a residency program which suggests he works about 80 hours a week, spends each 4th or fifth evening on the hospital, often can not talk through the day and is exhausted, delirious and harassed when not at work. We had a few months collectively earlier than this all began and I felt like we have been very well matched. We may speak for hours about ourselves, our lives, our concepts and that was once we actually felt shut. He mentioned he fell in love after simply a few weeks. I used to be extra busy with work than he was on the time and I used to be amazed at how attentive and excited in regards to the relationship he was…
Well, in fact, all that had modified. He has such restricted free time and such an rigid schedule that our time collectively is both sleeping, consuming or getting little issues finished. I’ve tried to be actually understanding about this transition for him and make an effort to let him have area when he wants it, help when he wants it and simply go to sleep subsequent to me when he wants it. The factor that finally ends up being sacrificed is communication. I’m going through some points that appear to all come all the way down to a lack of communication. I’m feeling like I’ve to compromise a lot for this relationship which I don’t thoughts however when an points comes up that makes me really feel unappreciated after which I can’t even speak about it with him, I really feel horrible.
For instance, we had deliberate to spend his someday off collectively however that morning he realized he needed to do a bunch of issues, wanted to fulfill a good friend and wanted a while for himself as a result of he was feeling overwhelmed so he steered we simply meet up later for dinner. That was my time without work as nicely and as an alternative of planning a enjoyable journey with mates or happening a hike I had saved it for him. So when he so simply brushed me off as a result of he had different priorities that day, I used to be actually upset – on high of it he was needing down time, he was exhausted and overwork and didn’t need to speak that day about something so not solely was a feeling upset however I couldn’t even speak about it with him which made me extra mad. It was days earlier than we may truly speak about it and by that point I had already questioned if I needed to remain in a relationship the place I felt this unhealthy. I felt disrespected, unimportant and distant from him – I do know it was simply a unhealthy day however it felt like a greater situation to me. I fear that we aren’t speaking nicely on a lot of these issues.
I need to be extra understanding of his circumstances however I additionally need to be in a wholesome snug “emotionally safe” relationship. I assumed that’s what I used to be getting myself into as a result of that’s how issues have been earlier than. This residency program is three yrs and the sacrifices that have to be made in an effort to make this work appear fairly heavy contemplating we’ve solely been collectively four months and don’t know what the long run holds. He says he desires this relationship to work and that these are simply pace bumps. He is dedicated to creating it by way of tough patches. But he admitted the opposite day that though he’s often somebody who take into consideration his relationship a lot he doesn’t have the psychological time or area to consider us through the day (ouch!).
I love him and assume that we do have one thing actually particular when we’ve the time to get pleasure from one another. Am I being overly demanding on this relationship? Do I would like to alter my wants and expectation in an effort to make this work? Is that even attainable? Are my emotions legitimate? Should I simply preserve hanging in there?
I can perceive each positions you introduced. This is a actually robust state of affairs for any relationship!
You’re with somebody who seems like is being bodily, emotionally and psychologically challenged day by day. He’s in a vortex and is probably going in survival mode as a outcome. It seems like that previous to all of this ramping up you have been each doing a good job of assembly one another’s wants and the communication was good. So – not less than you understand what he’s able to. Unfortunately, once we get in survival mode, all of that may exit the window.
You gave the instance of the someday off that didn’t go as you’d anticipated and have been upset. I get that, particularly after you hadn’t made different plans. It sounds to me like he realized that he needed to make absolutely the most of this one valuable day which to him meant not solely spending time with you however one other good friend and caring for his personal enterprise. Perhaps the subsequent time you possibly can make clear with him previous to the day that he’s certain he doesn’t produce other issues he desires to take care of – since you’d prefer to make your different plans as nicely if want be. I perceive each side of this coin. Unfortunately, he didn’t do a nice job of clearing up what had occurred and validating your emotions which in all probability would have helped. Again – if he’s in survival mode, he’s in all probability not considering with probably the most readability.
This doesn’t sound like a case of a man who’s not being respectful however somebody who’s overwhelmed and has little bandwidth to are likely to his relationship. You can select what you need right here – you possibly can stick it out and attempt to be as understanding as you could be or determine it simply doesn’t really feel good. Either one is completely affordable and finally is about how a lot you take care of this man and when you see a future with him. Can you think about what it is likely to be like after the arduous work he’s placing in now? Can you set your self forward into the long run and keep in mind the way you have been collectively – when he had the bandwidth?
If you determine to keep it up maybe you possibly can reframe your “missing him” into a possibility to attach nicely along with your girlfriends, take up new hobbies or discover a class? If you determine it’s not going to give you the results you want, give your self a break. This is a robust state of affairs.
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Google’s Fit application has been updated with support for tracking over 100 activity types, Android Wear, and a new way to track steps, as discovered by Android Police. The app is available as an APK right now, and is expected to appear on the Google Play store at some point in the near future.
The update introduces the ability to manually enter many, many new types of activity, ranging from biking to kickboxing, and even housework. Yes, you read that correctly. Google Fit can track your activity during housework.
There’s also a bug fix for situations where a smartwatch disconnects from your phone. The fix is called “experimental” in the change log, and modifies how steps are counted in the event that the two devices can’t communicate with each other.
You can grab the app now from APK Mirror or wait a while until Google pushes it out to the Play Store.
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Greg Monroe representing Pistons at 2011 Draft Lottery
Greg Monroe will represent the Pistons at the NBA lottery this week, which is ironic for two reasons. If the rest of the Pistons had shown as much professionalism as Monroe did, the team wouldn't be in the lottery. And this may be the first time all year they are actually calling Monroe's number. "I probably could count them on my hand, the plays that were called for me throughout the year," Monroe said Friday. Monroe laughed as he said it, and I doubt he is bitter about John Kuester's offensive choices. But it was ridiculous. Monroe was arguably the Pistons' best player for the last half of the season.
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The innovators who shake up industries the most do so by reimagining how things should look from the ground up. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs imagined a world where everyone owned a computer, not just the corporations that could afford an IBM mainframe. Twitter cofounder Evan Williams imagined a world where everyone could publish content on the Internet, not just the media companies who could afford expensive Web publishing programs.
Incremental innovations occur everywhere, but breakthrough innovations—the kind that leverage new technologies and business models to drive down costs, increase accessibility, and improve services—have tended to remain the province of the private sector. Returnseeking investors and entrepreneurs reap the financial rewards of changing the world by tearing down the structures of old industries.
Fortunately, that type of innovation is beginning to trickle into government as well. Leaders inside the public sector are slowly learning to pursue these major breakthroughs without the benefit of the profit motives that drive entrepreneurs elsewhere. Take, for instance, an innovation pursued in the US capitol by the District of Columbia Department of Transportation (DDOT). The agency envisioned a time when the city would no longer need traditional, coin-operated parking meters and the expensive employees required to collect the coins. In its place, DDOT would create a system in which people simply hit a “pay-my-meter” button on their Internet-connected phones. The system would be easier for drivers to use (no more carrying around bags of change) and less expensive for the city to operate. Despite these obvious benefits, the improvement would also require the city to migrate away from an established system that employed many workers and relied on existing infrastructure—the type of situation that has long made it difficult to implement innovations in the public sector. To the surprise of many, DDOT’s two-year endeavor was successful. In a sector known for special interests, unions, and a lack of competition, the agency successfully pioneered a model that embraced new technology to improve convenience for citizens and drive down costs for the city.
All too often, this kind of success has not been the outcome. Many citizens believe that the public sector is incapable of such innovation because of the absence of competitive forces, lack of incentives for employees, and excessive red tape. And ordinary citizens are not alone in their concern. Government leaders and employees are quick to point toward systemic problems such as outmoded human resources systems, a budgeting process that rewards extraordinary performance by reducing future resources, and burdensome request for proposal (RFP) systems as explanations for their lack of change.
For many reasons, this sorry state of public sector innovation cannot stand. The US economy has stagnated for nearly four years. In 2012, gross domestic product (GDP) was $15.7 trillion, having grown only 0.6 percent in inflation-adjusted terms since 2007. Similar economic conditions exist throughout much of the developed world. At the same time that public leaders struggle to find a means to spur growth, municipal and state governments hurtle toward fiscal crises of unparalleled proportions, carrying billions in unfunded debt obligations. During this time of adversity, government, a sector that accounts for 24 percent of US GDP and one-sixth of employment, needs to be a solution to our problems—not one of the sources.1
Over the past year, our research group at Harvard Business School led an effort to discover how to empower public leaders to drive out unnecessary costs where possible, freeing up capital to help spur economic growth. Our group—supported by contributions from research groups at Harvard Kennedy School, various municipalities, and the Office of Science and Technology Policy of the White House—surveyed hundreds of government initiatives, interviewed public sector innovators, collaborated with academics across the country, and convened some of the brightest minds in the field for a conference at Harvard Business School. We grounded our research in theories of causality from both the studies of microeconomics and the management sciences, such as the theory of disruption.
What we found confirmed our hypothesis: Breakthrough innovation in government is possible.
As we studied instances of successful and unsuccessful innovation in government, we identified scenarios in which leaders were able to drive out costs through the implementation of novel technologies and service models that got the job done better for constituents. As the causal theories suggested, the difference between success and failure was the ability to create or preserve most if not all of these five conditions for breakthrough innovation:
- Ability to experiment
- Ability to sunset outdated infrastructure
- Existence of feedback loops
- Existence of incentives for product or service improvement
- Existence of budget constraints for end users
For instance, by developing robust feedback loops along with the other conditions into their traditional budgeting process, the government of Hampton, Virginia, was able to survive an 8.4 percent budget gap—including program reductions ranging from 18 to 23 percent for economic vitality and neighborhoods, infrastructure, and leisure services—without experiencing a decrease in citizen satisfaction. Instead of cutting across the board, the feedback loop helped the city of Hampton cut only those programs in which the government was providing taxpayers with luxury services when they were happy to settle for more economical services. In Philadelphia the addition of experimental infrastructure for waste collection empowered the city to identify a new service model that reduced departmental operating budgets by almost 70 percent.
In this article, we illustrate how these five conditions enable breakthrough innovation in the public sector. Though our research focused on municipal service innovation, we suspect that the same principles are true at all levels of government. We will also address some of the practical barriers to creating innovative organizations—knowing what to do is only part of the answer; understanding how to create change is an integral part of the solution. To that end, we will offer recommendations on how public leaders, social entrepreneurs, and non-government organization (NGO) managers can encourage innovation in ways that will not be rejected by the system.
By documenting what empowers successful innovation, we hope to make the process repeatable and scalable. Government progress should not have to rest on the herculean efforts of lone innovators; it must be based on sound theory if it can help us to solve the pressing problems facing our society.
The Five Conditions for Innovation
In the book Seeing What’s Next,2 members of our research group introduced a framework to evaluate innovation systems. The authors suggested that two primary factors set the stage for innovation: ability and motivation. These broad categories simplify underlying economic conditions of market structure and information flow within well-functioning free markets. When both ability and motivation are present in a market, a hotbed of innovation forms—in much the same way as the Internet has led to a deluge of entrepreneurship and innovation. When ability and motivation are not present, innovation stalls.
This framework had one principal limitation, however: The scope of the analysis was limited to the private sector, where access to markets (ability) and the profit motive (motivation) are intrinsically present. In the public sector, by contrast, we cannot assume that entry and exit are as simple as incorporating and declaring bankruptcy, or that profit will serve as the primary motivation.
Our challenge was to discover what underlying conditions inherent to private sector innovation needed to be replicated in the public sector. We found that the ability to innovate is derived from the first two conditions—the ability to experiment and the ability to sunset outdated infrastructure. Fundamentally, innovation requires something new to replace the old. Often, it is difficult for incumbents with a vested interest in the status quo to participate in pushing their own obsolescence. In the public sector where startups do not naturally attack incumbents for market share, leaders must find other methods to preserve these two conditions.
The remaining three conditions—the existence of feedback loops, the existence of incentives for product or service improvement, and the existence of budget constraints for end users—all can motivate government innovators in the right direction. Whereas profit and price work together to drive private sector innovators toward optimal solutions, motivating government innovators toward socially optimal outcomes requires more thoughtful direction.
Together, the five conditions allow public sector innovators to try, test, adopt, and reject new technologies and service models. The conditions ensure that the dramatic transitions to less expensive products, which generally perform worse when compared to incumbents, occur only in situations where customers are over-served by existing solutions. These same conditions ensure that public managers do not pursue unnecessary incremental innovation when constituents do not value it. By thoughtfully creating and preserving the five conditions, public innovators can harness much of the power previously relegated to the private sector.
To illustrate how these conditions affect the innovation process, we will examine each of the five conditions and their influence on the implementation of the mobile-payment parking system in Washington, D.C. (In 2010, the municipal government contracted with the private firm Parkmobile to provide a remotely monitored parking system alongside traditional parking meters. The technology was developed and managed by Parkmobile, and the deployment parameters and budgeting decisions remained in the hands of local government.)3
Ability to experiment | Any organization that wishes to adapt to its changing environment needs a system for experimenting with new technologies and delivery models. Without the ability to develop experimental infrastructure, fundamentally new and different approaches rarely emerge. In the private sector, we see this mechanism arise in both the form of corporate innovation and new entrants in existing industries. Unfortunately, public managers often encounter structural barriers when they attempt to experiment. Instead of eliciting exuberance from voters, deployment of capital for experimental projects draws scrutiny from watchdog groups and regulators alike. Without data to validate an initiative’s existence, the public sector attacks the experimental efforts. Yet the inherent paradox is that in order to generate data, experiments are required. To overcome this dilemma, public leaders must behave like venture capitalists by placing small bets based on a theory about the future and using those bets to guide subsequent action.
In the case of Washington’s parking innovation, the DDOT created a thoughtful methodology for experimentation. In 2010, a year before a full rollout was planned and approved, the city started a pilot program for Parkmobile in a single area of the city. This experiment allowed the municipality to gauge how citizens would react to the new service. The positive reception and uptake of the Parkmobile system indicated that the service had promise and would likely be successful across the city. An important feature of the initial system was that it did not require removing the legacy infrastructure. Instead, the Parkmobile system was overlay as an alternative experimental system, minimizing the disruption to citizens’ lives.
Ability to sunset outdated infrastructure | If an experiment is successful, a new challenge is revealed—namely, phasing out the old product or service. In the private sector, when businesses fail to adopt the appropriate technologies or service models, competitors steal their customers and market forces push laggards out of the market. Most government agencies do not experience this process—just look at the difficulty the US Postal Service is having in cutting back its delivery schedule. In fact, many agencies actually lack the ability to freely remove outdated technology and business models.
Though Parkmobile has been successful as an additional layer of Washington’s transportation infrastructure, the full value of the innovation will be realized only after the old infrastructure and collection system is phased out. It was not possible to phase out the old system until the new one was in place. Thus during the rollout, traditional and mobile-payment technology were duplicated for all of the more than 17,000 parking spots. Now the city can phase out the old parking meters and begin to realize the benefits of the new system.
Existence of feedback loops | Once the experimental infrastructure is in place, it should be no surprise that strong feedback loops between the citizens and public servants are required to motivate investment into and adoption of the right innovations. In the private sector, when products and services fail to meet customer expectations, firms have a natural incentive to improve their offerings: the allure of increased market share and the pursuit of premium prices. The feedback loops offered through free market transactions also help private sector innovators identify when their offerings have exceeded customer desire: At some point customers stop paying for incremental improvements. In government, this sort of signal is often lost. Citizens can express dissatisfaction through votes, but these votes are rarely effective at critiquing the performance of specific programs. Unfortunately, without explicit feedback, it is difficult for managers running these programs to judge when to focus on improving service versus reducing cost.
For the mobile-payment rollout in Washington, D.C., a feedback loop was embedded into the experimental system itself. Municipal leaders captured and analyzed a great deal of data from Parkmobile’s online system. The behavior of people using the system led them to see the value the system created directly. After one year, transactions through the mobile-payment system increased by more than 430 percent. This aggressive adoption rate and widespread usage indicated that parkers preferred the new system, providing justification to sunset the old one. The city also learned that 74 percent of all transactions were occurring through the cell phone application, a fact that allowed the government to extrapolate which geographic areas would be more likely to embrace the system upon full implementation.
Existence of incentives for product or service improvement | Armed with the knowledge of what customers want, suppliers can improve their offerings. They must also, however, have the motivation to make improvements. In the private sector, this motivation often stems from the ability to charge higher prices or reach more customers, thereby increasing profits. Though the profit motive does not exist in the public sector, motivation can still be created. For example, decreasing their budget difficulties through access to increased revenue and reduced costs will incentivize senior managers to innovate. Similarly, individual government employees can be motivated by the mission of the work or by recognition for doing it. The difficulty in public management is not creating motivation—it is ensuring that motivation is appropriately aligned with the goals of the organization.
In Washington, D.C., the motivation to improve performance was twofold. First, municipal leaders saw the mobile payments system as a way to capture savings and increase revenue—thereby decreasing budget burdens on the city. Municipal innovators also had another meaningful motivator: being considered forward-thinking. Adrian Fenty, the mayor of Washington, D.C., at the time of the effort, was known to promote this trait in his managers. Innovators inside the government knew that they would be recognized for their innovative solutions, a public reward that provided a powerful, non-financial incentive.
Existence of budget constraints for end users | In any transaction, customer behavior is affected by budget constraints. Budgets force prioritization. For example, when a person has a limited amount of money, she will probably pay the rent on her apartment before she goes on a vacation. Not only do limited financial resources force people to prioritize, they also create incentives to cut costs. If the same person can find a less expensive apartment, she can use the savings to go on vacation. For breakthrough innovation to take hold, government leaders should ensure that budget constraints exist for end users in order to motivate the appropriate prioritization. In some situations, such as in the case of individually distributed services like postal delivery, those constraints should be placed on the customers themselves. In other situations, such as in the case of defense procurement, the constraint should be placed on the person responsible for acquisition. Regardless of where the constraint falls, it is vital that budget incentives be used to force prioritization.
In the case of Parkmobile, customer time and cash constraints naturally force prioritization. Setting up Parkmobile can be a hassle: the user needs to download an app, create an account, and register her car before she can pay for parking. Fortunately, after the initial set-up, the enhanced functionality compared to parking meters is realized: the ability to pay without quarters; receiving text messages warning that time is about to run out; and the ease of paying for more time when the driver is miles away from the car. The mobile payment story in Washington, D.C., is still unfolding, but it is undeniable that following the five conditions has allowed the city to pursue a breakthrough in a core service. And the US capitol is not an outlier. There are many other examples of municipalities successfully embedding the five conditions for successful innovation. (See “Breakthrough Innovations in Government Across the United States” below.)
The five conditions for innovation make continuous change possible. Though many of our examples highlight cities that have embraced new service models and technologies and driven unnecessary costs out of their systems, continuous change also allows for improvements in other areas of government such as transparency, performance-based funding, civic engagement, and measuring social outcomes, each of which provides an even stronger argument for enabling breakthrough innovation in the public sector.
Planning for Breakthrough Innovation
Of course, ensuring that the five conditions are properly embedded in a public service or product does not by itself guarantee successful innovation. Innovation is always an uncertain endeavor—no innovator ever enjoys a 100 percent hit rate. Therefore, ensuring that the system facilitates experimentation even in the wake of failures, identifying what is working through small-scale data gathering efforts, and then scaling up new solutions become even more important. Successful public sector innovators actively shield themselves from the scrutiny and interference that can derail their efforts. Through our study, we identified four best practices to help public leaders succeed.
Identify white space for innovation | Academics often point private sector managers toward innovation in areas lacking competition. Our colleague Mark Johnson codified this sort of thinking in his 2011 book Seizing the White Space.4 By delivering differentiated products and services in underdeveloped segments of the market, innovators can avoid profit-inhibiting competition. Though public sector innovation does not suffer the same competitive threat, the threats of special interests and existing regulation create equally compelling support for innovating in new ways. For instance, Web and mobile application development, bike sharing, and pop-up retail represent burgeoning areas of opportunity for municipal innovators. As each of these areas is relatively novel, little policy has been created that dictates how public leaders can leverage them to affect change. This white space empowers government innovators to test novel solutions to problems on top of existing structures, in some situations generating compelling evidence for how products or services can be further developed.
Minimize expenditure, embed in an existing budget | Watchful public interest groups are always on the lookout for new, unnecessary, or redundant programs that might be evidence of pork barrel spending or waste. Although transparency is generally a good thing, it can make it more difficult for government innovators to launch new programs, especially ones that might seem to replicate existing services (as the D.C. parking program did). One way to avoid such scrutiny is to stay lean, spending the least amount of money to learn the most in any experimental process. The Office of Science and Technology of the White House, for example, created a program called RFP-EZ to solicit solutions from non-traditional sources. Because RFP-EZ is restricted to projects costing below $125,000, a small amount for federal procurement, the executive branch has been able to minimize scrutiny and increase efficiency in the procurement process. Another way to protect programs is to embed them inside existing offices. Boston’s Office of New Urban Mechanics and New York City’s <ahref=”http://wagner.nyu.edu/leadership/leadership_dev/bidf.php”>Innovation Delivery Fellows have both positioned themselves inside mayoral offices in order to provide risk-tolerant spaces for innovators. By minimizing attention in these ways, innovators can ensure that they are not seen as harming so-called sacred cows before they have collected valuable data in support of their hypotheses.
Invest in constituent alignment | Nothing breaks down barriers better than making sure that the people affected by an innovation are aware of and in agreement with the change. Many of the programs and services that we have identified as shining examples of public sector innovation were led by managers who were very conscious of bringing along their various constituencies. In Philadelphia, for example, when a new trash collection system was implemented, municipal employees could have resisted efficiency improvements in fear for their jobs. The mayor’s office, however, made it clear that reductions in workforce would be achieved through natural attrition (retirement), not through layoffs. Employees no longer required by the new system would not be fired, but instead would be redirected toward services that needed additional support. By taking into account employee interests, Philadelphia could roll out its program without resistance.
Validate with data | The best case against the status quo is one grounded in scientific research. When the benefits of new services are speculative—even if supported by pundits and academics—it is easy for stakeholders to resist change. Innovators should know what they are testing for and experiment in such a way that makes their achievement irrefutable. Boston’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, for example, has done so with the Citizens Connect mobile application—what some might consider a quantum leap in 3-1-1 services. By demonstrating quantitatively how much additional geographic coverage is achieved, the group has made it difficult for stakeholders in the legacy call center to resist the city’s investment in the program.
The five conditions we have identified lie at the core of breakthrough innovation, enabling a repeatable process that can overcome the absence of competitive forces, lack of incentives for employees, and proliferation of red tape. We no longer need to think of public sector innovation as an exception to the time-tested rule; in fact, we believe the pursuit of breakthrough innovation in government can turn into a more scientific practice than the art form it resembles today.
Throughout the United States and much of the developed world, governments are on the brink of crisis. They need answers to a paradoxical challenge—how to spur economic growth while simultaneously reducing spending. This can be done only when we find novel solutions to the real problems that we have relied on government to solve. By embedding the five conditions for innovation inside new services and products, public innovators can best position their organizations for success in these trying conditions. Though there is no silver bullet for our problems, ensuring that the ability and motivation to innovate effectively exists throughout the public sector is a vital piece of any solution we develop. | <urn:uuid:f132f9f8-cfe2-487b-9285-a61c19a1112f> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | https://ssir.org/articles/entry/unleashing_breakthrough_innovation_in_government | 2017-05-22T17:36:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463605485.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170522171016-20170522191016-00098.warc.gz | en | 0.949726 | 4,546 |
Arie Harpaz Born in Romania,
raised and educated in Israel, Ari has gained significant recognition for his contributions to the field of surreal art. He began his training with a sponsorship by the City of Tel Aviv at the Fine Art School in Tel Aviv where he studied under the tutelage of Joseph Louizada before venturing into the world of Fantastic Surrealism which he mastered while studying under Antonioni Casale in Genoa, Italy.
Since his first exhibit opened in 1975, Ariís work is seen throughout the USA, Europe and Israel. Arie Harpaz also collaborates with such well known painters and sculptors as Sandu Liberman, Antoni Juan Lopez, Guy Garcia and Louis Montoya.
Of all the acclaim that Arie Harpaz has received, perhaps this letter that he recently received says it best:
Arie Harpazís work is dynamic and captivating, forcing the viewer to confront directly powers way beyond his control. His masterful charcoal renderings, oil paintings and bronze creations achieve a hyper-surreal precision, which has brought him considerable critical acclaim and public recognition. The artistís work haunts us. The images are charged with intensity and a sense of magic. His work has been received by the public and by the New York art critics. We are looking forward to many creative ventures in Israel. A serious hardworking man, deserving of our support and respect. | <urn:uuid:7b939c5e-f2ea-463b-a6fb-4b8c151f798c> | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | http://arttribes.com/artists.asp?ArtistID=92 | 2018-01-23T17:52:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084892059.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20180123171440-20180123191440-00140.warc.gz | en | 0.974896 | 292 |
Anyone who owns a MacBook Pro knows that it's a fairly reliable machine for running Apple's Mac OS X operating system, but new research shows that it's also apparently a great choice for Windows 8 users.
PC troubleshooting site Soluto published a list today of the most reliable Windows laptops, and ironically enough a non-Windows laptop, the mid-2012 13-inch MacBook Pro, made it to the very top.
Soluto collected data from 150,000 laptops beginning on January 1 of this year and analyzed each device looking for crashes, blue screens and other telltale issues.
The results showed that a MacBook Pro with Windows installed is the most reliable choice when it comes to avoiding those problems.
Getting Windows clutter-free
Soluto published its list of the most reliable Windows laptops in its April 2013 PC purchasing guide, according to PC World.
The PC service firm even offered up a possible explanation as to why the MacBook Pro is so reliable when running Windows: users who install Windows on an Apple computer are getting a vanilla version of the operating system that isn't bogged down by manufacturers' own proprietary software and applications.
That just goes to show that all those shiny extras that OEMs throw in on factory-new computers really can harm a device's efficiency.
Of course, there's work to be done to install Windows on MacBook, including buying Windows, setting up Boot Camp, then installing Windows, but if you're looking for the OS on an Apple product, we think Soluto would give the thumbs up.
Acer Aspire V3 comes in second
The second-most reliable Windows laptop proved to be the Acer Aspire E1-571, which costs a third the price of the MacBook Pro.
After that came the Dell XPS 13, though Soluto did mention that almost a third of XPS 13 users wiped their hard drives and started from scratch with a clean version of Windows, which may help explain its high ranking.
Soluto reportedly took multiple objective factors into account when determining the most reliable Windows laptops, including the number of running processes on each machine and the number of crashes each week.
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PANAMA CITY BEACH — Anthony Arico is aware just how valuable Saturday night’s victory was for the Panama City Beach Pirates.
“Man, you have no idea,” Arico said after scoring the game’s lone goal in a 1-0 victory over IMG Bradenton in a Premier Development League men’s soccer game at the Mike Gavlak Sports Complex.
“We’ve been turning this around,” Arico continued. “This gives us more confidence moving forward. We’re starting to put things together here. Now maybe we can get on a win streak in the middle of the season.
The victory was the Pirates’ first of the season as they improved to 1-3-2 with five points in the Southeast Division. IMG Bradenton, which defeated PCB 1-0 earlier in the week, fell to 2-4-1 with seven points.
PCB remains in sixth place in the division, but the result of its second consecutive meeting against IMG gave the Pirates the evidence they needed that they can make a midseason surge and climb out of a sizable hole in the division.
“We’ve been close the last couple games,” Arico said. “Things are coming together.”
Arico gave the Pirates a 1-0 lead in the 19th minute with a header from six yards out. Mike Annarumma delivered a perfect crossing pass from the right side of the 18-yard box, and Arico headed the ball into the ground and past IMG keeper Connor Sparrow.
The Pirates proceeded to piece together arguably its finest half of the season on the offensive side of the ball. PCB dominated possession for much of the first 45 minutes, keeping the ball away from Bradenton with a quick, sharp passes and the occasional deep pass over the top of the defense to open up breakaway opportunities for PCB forward Ricky Hoegg.
Hoegg was denied two scoring opportunities twice before halftime. Each time a long pass allowed him to race behind IMG’s defense, but Bradenton goalkeeper Connor Sparrow was able to throw his flailing body in front of shots to thwart Hoegg’s efforts.
Bradenton was presented with a golden opportunity just before halftime when a shot on goal pounded off of the left post right to Douglas Goodman’s feet. Goodman failed to score with an open net in front of him, however, and instead sent the ball sailing over the crossbar.
Desperate to score a tying goal late in the contest, IMG seemed to lose its composure. Bradenton defender Mario Mesen was ejected from the game in stoppage time after stepping on and seemingly digging his cleats into PCB’s Adin Kavara as he was lying on the ground.
The teams play again for a third straight time on Monday in Bradenton.
“I think they’ll come out with something to prove,” Arico said. “These two games were hard-fought, and we’ve got to keep our heads and play our game. ... We’re a possession team that feeds off of each other.”
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Until 1755 British people spoke of cacao, just like the rest of the world. So why did they change their pronunciation of this exquisite food? Is the word cocoa just a typo? How popular was chocolate really in that period? Its popularity was more widespread than you probably would expect even though no one had ever seen a chocolate bar yet. That would still take another hundred years. But chocolate as a hot drink was a well-known and exquisite delicacy among high society in the West.
SPANISH COURTING CACAO
It all started when Spanish traders brought the first official shipment of cacao beans from Veracruz to Sevilla in 1585. Dominican priests visited Prince Philip in Spain with a delegation of Mayan nobles from Alta Verapaz in Guatemala. Among the items that they brought with them was cacao. However, it was not until 1585 that cacao became a widely and steadily traded treat in Spain.
SPANISH CACAO RECIPES
The Spanish merely copied the recipe given to them by the Mayans. They first roasted and ground the beans. Then they mixed this with chilis, some other spices, and hot water to create the first hot chocolate drinks in Europe. The Spanish, however, were known for their collective sweet tooth. So they added one new ingredient: sugar.
You can read this also in the very first recipe for a chocolate drink that was ever published. In 1644 Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma made the recipe accessible to a broader audience in his book, A Curious Treatise of the Nature and Quality of Chocolate. In addition to the sugar and the beans, the chocolate drink contained much more: chilis, anise, vanilla, cinnamon, almonds or hazelnuts, annatto seeds, and something called “ear flower” (orejuela). As well as copying their recipes, the Spanish also directly copied the words for chocolate and cacao from the Aztecs and the Mayans.
According to many references, chocolate finds its origin in the Aztec word xocoatl. In the Nahuatl language (a group of languages from the Uto-Aztec language family), xocoatl was formerly pronounced as cacahuatl. This is a combination of cacahua (cacao) and atl (water). There is, however, a theory that the origin of the word “chocolate” is chikolatl. For this you can read the highly entertaining blog of Magnus Pharao Hansen.
BAN ON CHILIS
In 1755, suddenly, the British decided to stubbornly write cocoa instead of cacao. But before we look back on this year, let me describe the cacao world of 1755 back then. Maybe it was the effect of the recipe publication of Colmenero de Ledesma. But in the following one hundred years, drinking hot chocolate became very popular among high society across Europe. Chocolate houses popped up everywhere, just like coffee shops do now. The chilis, however, disappeared from the recipes. The Frenchman M. St. Disdier still mentioned them in a published recipe in 1692. He listed hot water, cacao, sugar, cinnamon, vanilla, and a tiny bit of powdered cloves and chilis as the ingredients. But in the mid-1700s, chilis were removed from future recipes.
So what happened in 1755 that change cacao into cocoa? The word cacao was widespread across the whole of Europe as the fitting word of an essential ingredient of the immensely popular hot chocolate drink. As I mentioned previously, the word cacao was also more or less copied from the Mayan and Olmec languages in Meso-America. Many languages in that area have more or less the same pronunciation for cacao: kakawa (Mazahua, proto-Zoquean, Nahuatl), or kakaw (proto-Mixean, Sayula, Tseltal, K’iche, classic Mayan). So, in their chocolate houses and coffee houses, the whole of Europe spoke of cacao, not cocoa.
Cacao was not on everybody’s lips though. The chocolate houses were mainly the domain of the elite. It was a decadent drink with the reputation of being an aphrodisiac. Were the chocolate houses an alibi for sexual promiscuity in those days? Who knows. But for sure it stimulated the good mood and the notorious gossips amongst the upper classes of Europe.
WHITE'S CHOCOLATE HOUSE
On a side note, it is great to know that the unofficial headquarters of the Tory party in London, started as a chocolate house. We are talking about White’s Chocolate House. Originally established in 1693 under the name: Mrs. White’s Chocolate House. First, it opened its doors in Chesterfield Street. In 1778 it moved to St. James Street.
SAMUEL JOHNSON'S TYPO
It all changed when Samuel Johnson published his dictionary of the English language in 1755. In his notes, he maintained the distinction between the words cacao and coco and between the cacao tree and the coco palm. But by some editorial or printing error, he combined the two words and printed it in the same dictionary as cocoa. And from that moment on, the British took the dictionary as the holy bible of the English language and based their pronunciation of the “food of gods” (as the Meso-Americans described the beans) on a mistake.
So, Is the word cocoa just a spelling mistake from 1755? Unfortunately, there is no other conclusion than that it is indeed just an ordinary error. Next time you hear somebody saying cocoa stead of cacao, gently point out that their whole cocoa life has been based on a typo. | <urn:uuid:2575344f-2228-45c2-91d2-6c7a4ce89e31> | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | https://kamkavfarm.com/blogs/news/the-word-cocoa-is-a-spelling-mistake-from-1755 | 2021-01-23T10:19:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703537796.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20210123094754-20210123124754-00732.warc.gz | en | 0.963855 | 1,217 |
For English speakers only…
Join us for an evening of Pizza, Movie, and Conversation at Martin’s place in Esentepe Mahallesi (near Gayrettepe Metro Station).
This week we will watch American Beauty (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0169547/) from an integral perspective.
Martin will give an introduction and we will discuss the movie afterwards. We will see how people at five different levels of consciousness development (Narcistic, Egocentric, Conformist, Rational, and Sensitive-Self) get into irresolvable conflicts with each other, and how an Integral person embraces them all.
Synopsis: A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter’s best friend.
We will watch this movie through an Integral lens of quadrants and levels of consciousness, while enjoying Pizza and Salad (Martin’s treat) followed by a discussion.
Zincirlidere Cd. No 92, Kat 5, D20 ·
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How to find us:
Esentepe exit, at Gayrettepe metro. Turn right from the Deniz Bank and follow the road downhill. When you’ve reached to football/soccer field turn left and continue till you see the sign “Bi Tutundurma Ajansı”. Building:92 5th floor apt:20. | <urn:uuid:88e003dc-6dbd-435d-9e92-9cd934912e8d> | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | http://integralrelationship.com/tr/15-08-2019-integral-movie-and-pizza-night/ | 2019-11-22T10:45:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496671249.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20191122092537-20191122120537-00447.warc.gz | en | 0.859963 | 306 |
Commodities of Empire is a British Academy Research Project that is a University of London-based collaboration between the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).
The mutually reinforcing relationship between ‘commodities’ and ’empires’ has long been recognised. Over the last six centuries the quest for profits has driven imperial expansion, with the global trade in commodities fuelling the ongoing industrial revolution. These ‘commodities of empire’, which became transnationally mobilised in ever larger quantities, included foodstuffs (e.g. wheat, rice, bananas); industrial crops (e.g. cotton, rubber, linseed and palm oils); stimulants (e.g. sugar, tea, coffee, cocoa, tobacco, opium); and ores (e.g. tin, copper, gold, diamonds). Their expanded production and global movements brought vast spatial, social, economic and cultural changes to both metropoles and colonies.
In the Commodities of Empire project, we explore the networks through which particular commodities circulated both within and in the spaces between empires, with particular attention to local processes originating in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America, which significantly influenced the outcome of the encounter between the world economy and regional societies. We adopt a comparative approach and explore the experiences of peoples subjected to different imperial hegemonies. | <urn:uuid:41342cef-80a5-4b04-a560-9bd6f7895afa> | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | https://commoditiesofempire.org.uk/ | 2021-01-16T04:57:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703500028.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20210116044418-20210116074418-00743.warc.gz | en | 0.901691 | 292 |
Stories about Feature from March, 2013
VOA Launches Experimental Digital Broadcasts via Shortwave
VOA Radiogram is sending digital messages across traditional shortwave frequencies. With a broadcast originating from North Carolina (USA), the transmission last week reached as far as Australia. This technology - simple and inexpensive - could be especially useful in times when the internet is not available, such as emergencies or under repressive regimes.
Building a New Media Platform to Re-imagine Bholakpur
The public image of Bholakpur in Hyderabad, India, has been constructed by the elite class of the city. Telling just one side of the story, those working in the Bholakpur informal waste economy are facing increasing violence around eviction. There is a need for a more detailed and sensitive narrative; something that can lead to more equitable outcomes...
Announcing the 2013 Microgrant Shortlisted Finalists
Rising Voices would like to thank the hundreds of applicants from more than 100 countries that submitted a proposal for consideration for the 2013 microgrants for citizen media outreach projects. We are pleased to announce the 74 shortlisted finalists, who have been invited to submit a final proposal for consideration. The winners will be announced by mid-April.
A Diversity of Sounds at the Indigenous University of Venezuela
The Indigenous University of Venezuela (UIV) is well known for its cultural diversity, bringing together students from many indigenous communities. On campus, one might hear a number of indigenous languages spoken by the students. Here are some examples of these languages uploaded to Rising Voices' Soundcloud account that were recorded during our workshops held at the UIV.
Get Online Week 2013: Europe's Digital Empowerment Campaign
This week is “Get Online Week”, a push to teach new digital skills to those with limited exposure to the Internet. The program this year tries to address Europe's rising unemployment, and especially focusing on young people, teaching and training them in new skills.
Programming Possibilities: Writing Code in Arabic
"قلب (Alb) tries to expand the digital conversation to consider more people. The fact that every modern programming language is in English is an idea that has shocked even the most veteran computer scientists. It's just not something you think about." An interview with the programmer Ramsey Nasser, creator of قلب (Alb), and a response from Tarek Amr.
Through the Lens of Students of the Indigenous University of Venezuela
Three students from the Indigenous University of Venezuela recently took part in a week-long workshop to learn how to capture and share digital images from their campus, which attracts indigenous students to take part in an intercultural and experimental higher education. These students have been using images to tell the story of this unique university.
Amigos de Januária: Citizen Journalists Expose City's Unfinished Works
Rising Voices' Project Amigos de Januária has shed light on the failure of a local Brazilian government, marred by a legacy of administrative wrongdoing and poor accountability, to complete public works projects on time.
The iLabs: Letting Context Drive Development
The iLabs recognize that a focus on local interpretation over foreign “experts” brings in local knowledge of what does and doesn't work – extending their impacts beyond the life of a single project: "We believe that the most efficient programs and technologies are developed flexibly, with a base in the active participation of the communities they serve..." | <urn:uuid:f545b150-28c9-40a2-a97c-fd246984fd77> | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | https://rising.globalvoices.org/blog/category/type/feature/?m=201303 | 2023-03-27T04:49:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296946637.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20230327025922-20230327055922-00453.warc.gz | en | 0.945062 | 714 |
Destiny of the Daleks
Doctor Who and the Destiny of the Daleks
|ISBN||0 426 20096 9|
|First Edition Cover||Alister Skilleter|
|Back cover blurb: Landing on an apparently devastated planet, the Doctor and Romana make a horrifying discovery. The planet is Skaro, home-world of the Daleks. The Daleks are excavating in order to find and revive Davros, the mad, crippled, scientific genius who first created them. They hope that he will give them the scientific superiority to break the deadlock with their Movellan enemies. Faced once more with the deadly and seemingly indestructible Daleks, the Doctor's wits and strength are stretched to their very limits...|
A very quick effort by Tim Roll-Pickering 12/1/06
A novelisation of only 104 narrative pages of large print, coming out barely two months after the story was first transmitted. A determination to get a story from the most recent season onto the shelves is admirable (indeed it even beat Season 16, with Doctor Who and the Ribos Operation not coming out until the following month) but such a rush job never bodes well. Reading through the book it is clear that both Dicks and Skilleter had no visual material available to them and so there are many details missing, most obviously Romana's costume, whilst the cover just shows the Doctor and some Daleks - hardly an indication of what makes this particular Dalek story distinctive.
Also lacking is any attempt to date the story substantially. On television the dialogue suggests it has only been centuries since the death of Davros, yet the limited state of decay and cobwebs suggests a period of at best fifty years - in complete contrast to the Daleks having by now become a massive force in the universe engaged in a substantial intergalactic war. That discrepancy is carried over into the book, which also makes no attempt to reconcile the way that Davros has been relocated to the Kaled city (do I sense a book or Big Finish audio looming that will seek to rectify this?).
What we're left with is a book that is incredibly easy to read, straightforwardly telling us the same story as on television. Without visuals we're spared some of the more embaressing moments, such as the way the Movellans collapse when their belt computers are removed or the Doctor stopping them with a dog whistle. However also missing is any decent exposition of any of the characters other than Tyssan, who is revealed to have been an engineer who is now haunted by his belief he will die on Skaro. We learn nothing further about the Movellans or the Daleks' slaves, whilst Davros' intentions to challenge the Supreme Dalek for the leadership of the Daleks, or how the ordinary Daleks on Skaro feel about this, are not elaborated upon in anyway. Were this novelisation written after the Saward Dalek stories had been transmitted then this would almost certainly have been rectified, though at the time it probably passed as a minor issue altogether.
The book is exceptionally short and there is very little substance to it. The contemporary Target practice of merely trying to get novelisations of the most recent stories onto the shelves as quickly as possible to make money may have been a good commercial move, but from an artistic point of view it produces books with little real substance, representing the nadir of the novelisations. This is a very quick effort and the result is poor. 3/10 | <urn:uuid:7c0e9689-3811-49c5-86f0-895a32f51cec> | CC-MAIN-2014-10 | http://www.pagefillers.com/dwrg/destnov.htm | 2014-03-07T19:32:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-10/segments/1393999650477/warc/CC-MAIN-20140305060730-00067-ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956906 | 720 |
Violence in Norwich’s Prince of Wales Road sparks call to limit sale of high alcohol drinks
PUBLISHED: 06:30 26 January 2014 | UPDATED: 08:40 26 January 2014
A call has been made to stop the sale of super-strength alcohol in the heart of Norwich’s clubland, after a recent spate of violence.
Green party city councillors have tabled a motion at City Hall calling for the council, police, NHS, clubs and shops to join forces to limit the sale of high alcohol lagers, beers and ciders in the Prince of Wales Road area.
The call comes after PC Lee Wilson, 42, suffered a broken leg after he was called to an incident outside a nightclub in the street earlier this month.
PC Wilson suffered a broken tibia during the incident shortly after 1am on Sunday, January 19, while a female sergeant received head injuries.
The Greens say it is time for Norwich to take a leaf out of Ipswich’s book, where two thirds of the town’s shops signed up a scheme called Reducing The Strength, which saw them stop selling super-strength beer and cider.
Police hailed the initiative for cutting anti-social behaviour.
Lesley Grahame, Green councillor for Thorpe Hamlet, will propose the motion at a city council meeting on Tuesday night.
She said: “Once again, violence on Prince of Wales Road has made headlines. The voluntary agreement in Ipswich not to sell super-strength alcohol has reduced violence and anti-social behaviour. I really hope all councillors support our motion to do the same in Norwich.
“That will send a clear message that the council wants to work with the police, clubs, shops and residents to rein in the violence that is damaging lives.
It is not a fine city if certain parts of Norwich are no-go areas where people would rather stay at home on a Saturday night than run the gauntlet of their own streets.”
Bars and clubs in Prince of Wales Road have been voluntarily closing before 4am, but police hope to make that more formal through an Early Morning Restriction Order.
• Do you think more needs to be done to tackle problems in the city’s clubland? Write, giving full contact details, to Letters Editor, Prospect House, Rouen Road, Norwich NR1 1RE. | <urn:uuid:95fd6c79-1846-431b-b561-a164418b3ccc> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/politics/violence_in_norwich_s_prince_of_wales_road_sparks_call_to_limit_sale_of_high_alcohol_drinks_1_3245128 | 2017-03-28T02:27:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189589.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00253-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957603 | 490 |
Human Trafficking & Slavery
All of our food product facilities are located in the United States and all of the main ingredients in our food products - eggs and potatoes - are sourced from the United States or Canada.
We strive to maintain long-term relationships with our ingredient and packaging suppliers. All new suppliers are approved through an internal certification process that ensures the supplier is in compliance with all applicable laws. Existing suppliers are subject to re-evaluation using the same criteria. Additionally, suppliers can be subject to increased audit or compliance requirements based on risk assessment.
To the best of our knowledge, our suppliers are complying with laws regarding slavery and human trafficking, though we do not engage in independent verification, auditing, or other accountability activities specifically in this regard. | <urn:uuid:2b835336-0687-4690-97d4-8fb7c80376fa> | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | https://michaelfoods.com/about/corporate-responsibility/legal-compliance | 2018-11-17T00:31:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039743247.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20181116235534-20181117021534-00296.warc.gz | en | 0.933742 | 154 |
This book looks at the somewhat fake life of a WAG and sports stars. The life that they lead is always geared towards what they would look like in the media and the clothes that they wear must reflect that, as el as the money that they spend on such things as weddings.
But what happens when the apparent beautiful life shatters? What part does the media play in the story and how ‘real’ is what hey tell the masses of their readers?
And of course, we do have a heroine who is hiding a secret from all except her therapist and a bot she used to know – who is hiding a secret himself. the secret that caused him to crash out of her life when they were still teeanagers.
the story does tell of the struggle it can be to overcome a traumatic event, but maybe more could have been made of it – and also it is not quite clear just exactly what happened. Similarly, the events that led up to the boy’s sudden exit could have been worth more than a brief para or two. these two things would / could, in my view, have made this a stronger story with some morality messages that would have enhanced its worth. for me, the lack of this element downgraded the book by a star.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kathryn S Rose is a mum, wife, reader, writer, traveller, and food enthusiast. Writing a book was always on her bucket list, and finally, with Beautiful Facade, it has come into fruition.
Kathryn is interested in the study of human behaviour and obtained a Bachelor of Social Science, with a focus on Community studies and Welfare Work.
Since completing her studies, she has worked in several jobs, which have enhanced her understanding of social issues, human development, relationships, and lifestyle. Some of these insights are reflected in her writing and give her inspiration.
Besides books, Kathryn has many other loves. She enjoys listening to live music, relaxing at the beach, embarking on random hiking adventures, and indulging in too much food and wine with family and friends.
When Kathryn and her family aren’t traipsing around the world, they can be found residing in Perth, Western Australia. | <urn:uuid:1c389bc4-42d7-4fc4-88d0-2a3143d98a5d> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://www.tiggerreviews.com/tag/bookreview/page/3/ | 2021-10-28T21:25:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323588526.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20211028193601-20211028223601-00141.warc.gz | en | 0.983965 | 455 |
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James Flores Represented me in a DUI case, and won the case for us. Throughout the process he kept me up to date on the status of the trial and always made himself available for me when I had general questions and concerns about the case. Very professional and motivated to get the best possible results, highly recommend James Flores.
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James took time to meet with me at a time that was convenient to me. He exceeded my expectations and his knowledge in traffic law helped me out when I got myself in trouble. Thank you James.
So if you are in trouble like I was, you need to do two things; get a lawyer, and call this guy. I was charged with a dui in June and within a couple of days I started to get many letters from other attorneys with either generic promises or scary stories of jail time and hefty fines. If you are here reading this, you know what I mean. I am glad I made the decision to ignore them by coming to this site instead; and ultimately making the decision to contact Mr. James Flores. I found him to be professional, honest, and very knowledgeable in criminal law. Based on my discussion and his prior experience with this type of criminal proceedings, I hired him.
Now I must admit I truly thought I had a no win case, I really only hired an attorney because I thought it was the best chance of hopefully receiving minimal fines/penalties. As I met with Mr. Flores though, I started to change my mind a little, he immediately began working on my case. He first explained how he would work get my license back, then how he would proceed to fight my criminal case and try to win it. He made the filing that same day to get my license back(something I thought I had lost). After going to court twice, he got my license back. No breath analyzer for my car, and no restrictions. While other attorneys in the courtroom were questioning how he did it, another attorney approached me as they were leaving and commented on what a great attorney I have. Yes, I repeat, another attorney approached me to say what a great attorney I have.
Mr. Flores is a pit bull, he does not give up in court. During the phase with my license the judge questioned his argument, Mr. Flores did not back down and continued to argue for me, with the judge finally backing me. He will go through all of the little details of your arrest, and will look at your case from all angles to give you the best possible defense. He will not back down under pressure, and he will fight for you.
On the date of my criminal trial Mr. Flores was well prepared, he had all of his arguments in order, and covered with me his final version of how he was going to question the arresting officer. During the trial, he paid very close attention to what was said so during his cross examination he was able to refute some of the testimony made by the officer. He brought a laptop with him to show video of my booking at the police station. I counted five objections that he made during my hour long trial, and only once being overruled.
To my surprise, I was found not guilty. Not guilty for something just 6 months ago I had resigned myself to losing my license, probably paying a huge fine, and/or possibly receiving jail time or going through dui education class.
Now was luck involved, yes, a little. Was a skillful attorney involved, yes, Absolutely. I truly believe the results of my case would have not been as favorable if I had another attorney.
I found the rate for my case to be affordable. I paid one fee for my case and was not charged any additional costs. I would highly recommend him if you are any type of legal trouble. | <urn:uuid:c848238b-c209-43da-9392-4390ba665780> | CC-MAIN-2015-18 | http://www.avvo.com/attorneys/60402-il-james-flores-1947346/reviews.html | 2015-04-26T16:30:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-18/segments/1429246654687.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20150417045734-00052-ip-10-235-10-82.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984673 | 1,455 |
Originally Posted by gt40fran
The 915 can be flipped or inverted....along with the 930 it is one of the easier boxes to work with.
Until the G50 boxes became more available it was THE box for mid-engine V8's.....
Mr. Hall gave you the exact answer. Yes they can. The splash oil lubes everything just fine.
The trick to a long lasting 915/930/G-50 box is this:
They don't like speed shifting. Smooth is the way. G-50s are more forgiving with their GM style synchros.
They don't like short shifter kits.
The synchros won't work well with anti friction additives.
Start an engine with no oil in the gear box and kiss the needle bearings good-bye in 60 to 90 seconds
Use limited slip gear oil with LSDs. Swepco is the best for any Porsche gear box.
Don't downshift into first unless you are under 15MPH.
Don't pop the clutch to burn off. Get off the clutch completely and then you can floor board it and burn tires to your heart's content. | <urn:uuid:423cc0a9-79e3-4048-9513-2d5983885867> | CC-MAIN-2015-32 | http://www.gt40s.com/forum/gt40-tech-powertrain-transaxles/21914-can-porsche-915-inverted.html | 2015-08-02T10:15:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-32/segments/1438042989042.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20150728002309-00174-ip-10-236-191-2.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943043 | 241 |
The former Rangers man was an integral figure as the Reds notched up a morale-boosting 4-0 win over QPR last weekend, with his rampaging runs down the left side often making him unplayable.
He capped off an impressive all-round display with an emphatically finished goal and a wonderful assist for Tyler Walker’s second goal of the game, after leaving the QPR defence in his wake with a dart of pace down the flank.
And, while he was far from the only player to win deserved praise from the manager, Warburton believes McKay is showing the kind of quality that persuaded Forest to spend £500,000 to bring him down from Scotland.
“Barrie McKay? That is the Barrie McKay that myself and David Weir know. That is how he can be. He can rip this Championship apart,” said Warburton. “He can be as good as he wants to be, Barrie McKay.
“You have to remember he is a young player who has come down from Scotland and is adapting to a new club still.
“He is adapting to the division and the demands it brings; to the expectations of the supporters, etc. But he can be a top quality player.
“He showed what he can do on more than one occasion, when you look at his pace and his awareness and the runs he makes.
“He hit a ball in the first half with the outside of his right foot and it was magnificent. He is a joy to watch. But his aim now is to maintain that on a consistent basis.”
There were four or five contenders for the man of the match award at the City Ground, with Michael Mancienne, Tyler Walker, Ben Osborn and Kieran Dowell all excellent.
But Warburton was not surprised to see Osborn shine in a slightly deeper midfield role, where he dictated the tempo of the game in the same way as David Vaughan has so often done for the Reds.
“Ben Osborn has been outstanding. He has been outstanding every single day. I cannot speak highly enough about Ben,” said Warburton. “He is a young player. Because he has played around 160 games, you forget how young he still is.
“His energy, his quality and desire – you see it every single day. I do not use those words lightly.”
Warburton also laid down a challenge to forward Walker, who stole the headlines with a well-taken double, after being handed his first Championship start of the season.
“Tyler’s job is to work hard every single day. That is it,” said Warburton. “If you are frustrated, get your head down and work harder. His attitude has been magnificent.
“He scored against us at Brentford a few years ago and has had injury problems since. He worked so hard in pre-season and over the summer before that. I am delighted for him, because he works hard every day.
“He deserved his chance and he took it. He can stay in the team, of course. We saw here how much he wants it and it is now the job of the other players to get their shirt back. I don’t mind that.
“No disrespect to his father but it is about Tyler. If he is good enough, we will pick him. If he has a dip, we won’t pick him.
“As long as we are consistent, he will be okay. We have been talking to him throughout, telling him that his chance will come.” | <urn:uuid:dcedab8d-454b-42d9-be74-2dc9db832a31> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://www.nottinghampost.com/sport/football/football-news/barrie-mckay-can-rip-championship-734510 | 2022-05-26T12:26:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662604794.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220526100301-20220526130301-00386.warc.gz | en | 0.986031 | 759 |
Sex. Obviously, I've had it. We don't have to talk about how much I've had it — I happen to have grown up in a town where your two leisure choices were having sex or entering your low-rider in a competition. But rest assured you can trust me, person you just met on the Internet, when I tell you that I am a perfectly qualified judge, and that the greatest sex I ever had was when I was pregnant.
But how can that be possible, you might ask? Weren't you the grossest, fattest version of yourself that you ever were when knocked up, and isn't that the opposite of what makes sex good? Excellent question. The answer is yes, when I was pregnant I was both the grossest and fattest I ever was (not counting the Gross-a-thon that occurred from the years 1987 to 1990).
But we all know by now that in spite of everything we've ever seen or been told, that what looks good and what feels good are often two entirely different things. At least, that's what that guy in college said who wanted me to stroke him with a piece of rabbit fur followed by a piece of metal. Sorry, dude, I get it now. Because somehow, nothing made yours truly wanna get up on a D more than when I had the least amount of control over how I looked or felt. Touche, nature. Touche.
Was it pregnancy-induced lack of inhibition? Nature's cruel game? Or the mere fact that I had hit the age — my 30s — where women are supposed to feel more comfortable with their bodies? Apparently all it took was me getting knocked up and putting on 60 pounds to become Sigourney Weaver in Ghostbusters. Post-Zuul possession, natch.
Maybe it was the thrill of new life, maybe it was a last hurrah before accepting the realities of impending parenthood. Or as my husband remembers, "What was going to happen — you were going to get more pregnant?"
Ergo, we had sex everywhere, all the time during the first trimester. It was as if we were participating in some kind of commercial audition for having sex and needed to do it a lot in a lot of different ways to exhibit range. Morning sickness remained respectfully at bay, and everything felt surging and alive. New hormones, new excitement, the same old positions but minus all the worry!
Then, suddenly, two months in and without warning, I was closed for business. Put the goods away, sir, as I am retiring for the duration, I seemed to say.
My husband refers to this middle period as "The Thing" for some reason, but I just ate like a jackal and had a lot of emergency feelings that I needed to be addressed immediately the second they occurred.
This, I believe, is what you'd refer to as a hard-off. And for the next three months, I was completely asexual, a lumbering beast hauling fluids and fetus through time and space like a slow motion, self-contained, brooding wonder — a woman in repose.
I used the time, though. This is when I learned a lot of random things about being pregnant, like that a pregnant woman's blood volume DOUBLES. And there's a thing called lactation porn and people are INTO IT and they are GROSS PEOPLE. That you're not supposed to lay flat on your back for very long after the first trimester because of the possible compression of a major vein. That pregnancy will have you driving across town in the middle of a bona fide blizzard for a coney dog from Sonic because by. God. you. will. have. your. self. a. coney. dog.
Then, in the last trimester, as if activated like some kind of sex-bot sleeper cell, nature reached into my loins and flipped her almighty switch again, and suddenly it was get-up-on-a-D-time again, Maximum Overdrive edition. The world was my Viagra, and I was a rabid she-beast who was filled with pure, insatiable desire.
There were weird, vivid sex dreams about old boyfriends, complete strangers, extremely undesirable coworkers, nurses, various functional fruit. I guess it's like what a real horny dude is like in the 8th grade or what Gene Simmons is like all the time? You tell me.
It's also the only time I've ever felt like a captive audience to arbitrary desire — as if I was experiencing some bizarro world pregnant libido version of the Clockwork Orange force-eyed aversion therapy scene. Everything was gonna seem real hot to me whether I wanted it to or not.
Luckily, I had a dude to get up on, and that dude was my husband. We'd hit the good times jackpot, and we did what any newly married and pregnant couple would do when given such a pass: we got on the highway and took this little number out for a spin.
True, she was quick to overheat, but points were frequently awarded for effort and enthusiasm. Seriously, though: in spite of being the sort of person who felt sure I'd had the self-esteem to have great sex already, this was hella different. It was consciousness-raising sex.
No longer responsible for my body's shape, size, various fluids or logistical difficulties, I was merely an incredibly turned on vessel of biology and impulse. No alcohol needed, no state of mind, no warm-up period, no gettin' in the mood. Whether it was sexy or not was beside the point. Somehow, merely being alive in these moments was beyond sexy — it was transcendent.
In simpler terms: I didn't give a pregnant shit how I looked or sounded. I just wanted to get it on. Move over, Samantha. I think THIS is having sex like a dude. Right? Amirite? Like, dudes are hilariously unselfconscious about like, everything as it is. Sex is like pathologically self-serving dude go-time.
Anywho, this visceral spree went on right up till the very end, but I never really did figure out why the pregnant woman is sometimes subjected to such a possessed craving. I know there's hormones and increased sensitivity and engorgement and all that, but what biological purpose would it actually serve?
Nature, of course, is cyclical, not to mention a saucily good keeper of her own secrets. So perhaps it's no coincidence that as the pregnancy advanced, friends, midwives and other mothers began to mention sex with a wink and a nod along with eating spicy food and long walks around the neighborhood to kick-start labor. Turns out that something in semen is said to have a ripening effect on the cervix. I guess it makes sense — after all, jizz got you into this hot biological mess in the first place. The least it can do is help warm up the car on the way out.
Tracy Moore is a writer living in Los Angeles. She's probably having sex right now.
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David Walker's Last Objective
Player, Steve, Business Finance
AFTER SERVING NEARLY TEN YEARS as our nation's chief auditor, former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker recently resigned to meet an objective the public sector had long denied him.
STEVE PLAYER INTERVIEWS DAVID M. WALKER, PRESIDENT AND CEO OF THE PETER G. PETERSON FOUNDATION.*
Steve Player: The position of Comptroller General has a 15-year term, but you stepped down to take on this new role outside of government. What was it about this new role that you found attractive?
David Walker: The primary reason I changed was that I had accomplished all of my objectives but one at GAO and that one was how to get the Congress to make a down payment on our large and growing fiscal imbalance and start dealing with some of the key sustainability challenges facing our nation. I came to the realization that I think I actually have a better chance at being successful at this as President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation than if I'd stayed on as Comptroller General.
You might ask why. Because (a) now I can advocate specific solutions - I couldn't do that before; (b) I've got the ability to build strong coalitions very overtly that I couldn't build before; and (c) I have the ability to engage in grassroots efforts to bring pressure on Washington to act sooner rather than later, which I really couldn't do before.
For those three reasons, I made the change. Of course, there was one more big reason, and this was the opportunity to work with Pete Peterson, who's a great American and who's putting his money where his mouth is.
SP: It certainly sounds like a great foundation, and I particularly like the advocacy of getting the debate going, regardless of the solution. We don't always seem to be having the conversations that we should be having ?
Walker: You can't solve a problem until the majority of the people recognize that we have a problem that needs to be solved and that we should do it sooner rather than later. So the Fiscal Wake-Up Tour and other efforts that the foundation is supporting are designed to try to help wake up the American people to the fact that we have a serious problem, and that it's growing with the passage of time.
However, we can't stop there. We need to help design solutions, build broad-based coalitions to support those solutions, and then stimulate grassroots efforts to make those solutions become a reality, because ultimately elected officials are going to have to vote. And they're going to have to be pushed. They're not going to do it by themselves.
SP: That's the tough thing about the voting, because many of the issues you talk about - particularly Social Security, for instance - these are hard nuts to crack. They are very difficult issues, and oftentimes they're issues that politicians are afraid of. How's the reaction from the political front been on your message and getting to actually step up and have that kind of conversation?
Walker: A lot of people thought that I was probably taking heat as Comptroller General in being able to talk about these issues, but actually I wasn't because I stated the facts, I spoke the truth, I never blamed any particular person or any particular political party. Frankly, while working with others, I was trying to till the ground, to prepare the way, so that they could make tough choices without losing their jobs. Actually, I got a lot of compliments but no criticisms.
We need to make sure that the next President will make fiscal responsibility and intergenerational equity a top priority. If he or she does, we can turn this thing around. If not, it's probably only a matter of time before we have a real crisis.
SP: Does the party make any difference - whichever party wins - or is it independent of that?
Walker: We're nonpartisan, nonideological, and staunchly so. I want it to stay that way. Personally, I'm an independent, and proud of it. In fact, there are more independents in America than Democrats or Republicans.
SP: It's interesting what you said, that you're not trying to fix the blame. Oftentimes I think that fixing the blame is an impediment. If you just focus on what the problem is and how you solve it, it would seem to give you a better feel for at least having a good discussion.
Walker: That's right. Personalizing something is never a positive measure unless it's a positive comment. Remember what our mothers always said: "If you've got something good to say, say it publicly. If you've got something bad to say, say it privately." You know, our mothers were smart on a lot of other things. Remember what they said about money? "Don't let money burn a hole in your pocket." Well, frankly, for the federal government, it's gone through the pocket, through the floor, and now through the planet. We're getting our money from the other side of the planet because we're not saving, but Asia and others are saving.
SP: To what degree do the mechanics of the federal reporting process really hide the truth or prevent the transparency we need?
Walker: We've had a number of reforms in federal financial reporting that were positive, but we need more. For example, the bonds that are in the so-called trust funds are not currently deemed to be liabilities by the United States government. That's wrong, and that needs to change. Second, because of the current accounting with regard to these so-called trust funds, which really ought to be called "trust the government" funds, we understate the amount of debt that we have and we understate the significance of our deficits.
Furthermore, the problem is not really our current deficits and our current debt levels, it's our off-balance-sheet, unfunded obligations. They're not liabilities but they're unfunded promises totaling over $40 trillion and growing by over $2 trillion a year. We need to do a much better job of pulling all this together into a statement reflecting intergenerational equity and fiscal sustainability. This is something I've advocated, and I know the Federal Accounting Standards advisory board is working on it.
SP: How hard is that to actually come up with, just the mechanics of how you report on that? It seems to be a gargantuan problem. How do you get a fix on it?
Walker: It's not that tough. You know, where there's a will, there's a way. In America, anything is possible.
SP: You're certainly a positive person to attack it that way. Obviously you would be or you wouldn't tackle this job. Comment, if you would, as a former official looking at fiscal issues and those kinds of things, about your view on the current governmental budgeting process. What issues do we have with that in terms of the difficulty in getting a budget resolution passed for funding the government?
Walker: The current budget and appropriations processes are badly broken and dysfunctional even. Frankly, how they've worked in the past few years has been an embarrassment, with very adverse consequences with regard to our fiscal posture. We need to think about biennial budgeting. We also need to look at more results-based budgeting. We need to look at what the shortterm and long-range costs of programs and proposals are. We also need to recognize that tax preferences cost us a trillion dollars a year in lost revenues. We can't just focus on direct spending programs, (which are about $3 trillion a year), we also have to look at the trillion dollars of forgone revenue because of tax expenditures. We need dramatic, fundamental, and systemic reform.
SP: Much of the Beyond Budgeting movement is really trying to tackle that by moving to relative targets as opposed to fixed targets and moving to rolling forecasts and dynamic resource allocation based on the demands that come on the business. Things that really have more of a matching of the decision to the forecast perspective that you look for in terms of the time horizon. How would you see these kinds of ideas playing out in the government?
Walker: I think that they have intellectual merit, and I think that they need to be part of a portfolio of ideas we look at, including things like the difference between a capital budget and an operating budget. These approaches are so far ahead of where the federal government is today. With regard to budgeting, the federal government is really still in the 19th century, much less in the 21st century.
Let's try to get them as current as we can. But we do have an opportunity to leapfrog. You don't have to go through all the stages.
SP: Some of the innovations have begun to try to make performance measurement more visible in the federal government. It brings to mind President Bush's Management Agenda, which mandated scorecarding. What's your view on the impact of that within the government?
Walker: Well, I like the idea of the President's Management Agenda, where you're taking a short list of issues to grade people on as to where they stand and on whether or not they're making progress. As part of that agenda, I think that the President's Program Assessment Rating Tool does have merit in trying to evaluate the linking of resources to results. Unfortunately, it's not used by the Congress.
In addition to that, it doesn't cover tax preferences, and looks on a program-by-program basis rather than through a whole range of programs on a particular topic. I think that it's a step in the right direction, but I think that we really need to recognize that we need to do a lot more. Congress needs to use it, because if only the executive branch uses it, but Congress has the power of appropriations under the Constitution, we're not going to get to where we need to be.
SP: You don't seem to come from a typical finance background. I know that for a while you ran the human resources practice for Arthur Andersen. For our finance community readers who are trying to figure out how they can help their organizations, tell us a little bit about your background and how you got positioned to take on this kind of audacious goal.
Walker: I started out with a bachelor's in accounting and I have had a lot of training and education since then. Next I went into public accounting. I was in public accounting with some of the biggest firms in the world: PriceWaterhouse, Coopers and Lybrand, Arthur Andersen. I also was in the human resources consulting and executive search business. I ran three major agencies in the federal government.
I recognize that my accounting background and CPA certificate are a very good foundation. However, no matter what business you're in, how you keep score and proficiency in math are important. I've used my accounting as a foundation, but I also recognize that the most valuable asset this country has - the most valuable asset that any company or entity has, including the federal government - is its people. It's all about intellectual capital.
So I moved beyond the finance area to get involved in the human capital area or the people strategy area, because that's really what's going to determine whether we're going to win over the long term, whether it's collectively or individually.
SP: You seem still pretty optimistic about this, although the challenge ahead of you looks quite daunting. What gives you the optimism to keep attacking this?
Walker: First, I'm basically an optimist by nature, but I'm also a realist. I know how to do math. I also know when people aren't telling the truth. The answer to your question is that if we look at America's history, America has faced great challenges in the past, and it's always overcome them when the first three words in the Constitution came alive. "We the people" - these are the most important and powerful words in the Constitution. My view is that we can solve this problem if we the people take it on, because the answer is going to come from outside of Washington. Yes, elected officials in Washington have to vote, but they're not going to do it. Too many people are vested in the status quo, unless and until we the people demand change.
SP: As the CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, what are the kinds of activities you're going to be engaged in?
Walker: The Foundation is focused on a number of issues, but our three top priorities are to deal with our nation's budget, savings, and balance of payment deficits; the need for entitlement reform (e.g., Social Security, Medicare, and other programs); and the need for comprehensive healthcare reform.
We're going to try to identify solutions, build strong coalitions, and stimulate grassroots efforts to accelerate change in Washington. We're going to focus disproportionately on young people, because they will pay the price and they will bear the burden if others don't act; on the business community at large; and on the media, both traditional and new. Ultimately, we want to measure success by asking the questions: Do things happen? Do we get things done? Over time, it's all about achieving results.
SP: If people are interested in that message, how can they become involved? What could they do at the grassroots level to help you with the mission?
Walker: We're going to roll out a new Peter G. Peterson Foundation Web site in mid-June: www.pgpf.org. People will be able to go onto the site and sign up. By that, I mean to show that they care about these issues, and would like to stay informed and involved. We're not going to ask for a dime. We are calling on at least one million Americans to come forward and to say that they want to be part of the solution because they know that their country's, their children's, and their grandchildren's futures are at risk.
The United States is a great country, probably the greatest in the history of mankind. But we're not as great as we think we are, and our future is at risk. We have a number of serious sustainability challenges, several of which the Peter G. Peterson Foundation is planning to address. It's important that America wake up. It's important that people become informed and involved. It's important that they help us try to achieve major reforms in Washington, and it's also important that they understand that they're going to have to assume more personal responsibility and accountability for their own financial future. When that happens, we will all be in a better position and we will be able to effectively discharge our stewardship responsibilities to this great country and to our families.
AN OUTSIDER ON THE INSIDE: Walker listens to a reporter's question while serving in his prior post as the Government Accountability Office's Comptroller General. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
Back to the Future
Our Founding Fathers believed that Congress should have a large say on governmental spending. David Walker underscores why the U.S. government's approach to budgeting needs to revisit the past before it can advance into future.
The following is an excerpt from a recent speech that Walker delivered before the Beyond Budgeting Round Table's spring conference in Dallas, Texas:
"Remember what Albert Einstein said he was a pretty smart guy: 'The most powerful force on Earth is not nuclear energy - the most powerful force on Earth is the power of compounding.' When you're an investor, compounding works for you; when you're the world's largest debtor, which the United States is, compounding works against you.
"This is how the budget has changed in the past 40 years. In 1967, 45 percent of the budget was for national defense and 2 percent was for Medicare and Medicaid. Last year, 20 percent was for defense. Social Security has now passed defense, and Medicare and Medicaid have now passed defense. Stated differently, in 1967, when Congress came to town, 68 percent of the budget was designated so-called 'discretionary spending.' Congress actually got to decide how to allocate the money every year.
"In 2007, it was down to 38 percent. Stated differently, 62 percent of the budget was on autopilot and growing faster than the discretionary part. The discretionary is getting squeezed. What you don't see - which is very interesting for those of you who are students of history and constitutional scholars, which I try to be - is that every express and enumerated responsibility for the federal government envisioned by the Founding Fathers is in that 38 percent: national defense, homeland security, federal judicial system, foreign policy, treasury, postal, Executive Office of the President, and Congress of the United States.
"Those are all the primary functions that the Founding Fathers envisioned for the federal government. Everything else under the Constitution was supposed to be reserved to the states and ultimately to the people. Sixty-two percent has nothing to do with that, and indeed includes the 9 percent which is interest on our federal debt. Remember: At the beginning of our republic, we had something called 'debtor's prisons.' Now we're addicted to debt."
*NOTE: The Peter G. Peterson Foundation was established in February 2008 by former U.S. Commerce Secretary and Blackstone Group Senior Chairman Peter G. Peterson to raise public awareness and accelerate action in connection with selected key economic and social challenges facing the United States.
STEVE PLAYER is North American Program Director, Beyond Budgeting Round Table.…
Questia, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning. www.questia.com
Publication information: Article title: David Walker's Last Objective. Contributors: Player, Steve - Author. Magazine title: Business Finance. Volume: 14. Issue: 6 Publication date: June 2008. Page number: 14+. © Penton Media, Inc. Dec 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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At the tour opener last evening, the live medley of Monkees songs used to begin the 2012 shows was not played by the backing band. Instead, a new video that features various appearances, clips from the television series and more was screened. Included in the new intro video is a scene from a recent episode of the TV show Breaking Bad that featured "Goin' Down." Another scene from Mad Men that used "Porpoise Song" was also shown. Thanks, Jim, for the report! | <urn:uuid:ae7ce499-14cf-454e-9bef-30e38b223f96> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.monkeeslivealmanac.com/blog/new-video-at-the-start-of-the-concert | 2017-06-24T05:21:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320226.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624050312-20170624070312-00396.warc.gz | en | 0.971883 | 102 |
Small-Scale U.S. Goat Operations
USDA. APHIS. Veterinary Services. National Animal Health Monitoring System.
Introduces small-scale goat operations. June 2011.
Range Sheep Production Efficiency Research
USDA. Agricultural Research Service.
Organizes USDA Range Sheep Production Efficiency Research publications and projects.
Sheep, Lamp and Mutton
USDA. Economic Research Service.
Evaluates the sheep industry in the United States including policy, trade, statistics, and foreign and domestic market outlook.
Maryland Small Ruminate Page
University of Maryland Cooperative Extension. Western Maryland Research and Education Center.
Assembles information for sheep and goat producers.
E (Kika) de la Garza American Institute for Goat Research
Langston University. Agricultural Research and Extension Programs.
Communicates the research of the E (Kika) de la Garza American Institute for Goat Research. Includes links to a library on goat production, information on particular research projects, education, and opportunities. | <urn:uuid:bb1150da-56a6-436d-ac30-2deae0210a52> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.nal.usda.gov/sheep-goats-and-small-ruminants | 2015-01-26T10:28:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422121785385.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124174945-00013-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.766438 | 207 |
It’s National S’Mores Day, and we couldn’t help jumping on the bandwagon with a twist on this beloved summer dessert. But how do you make a classic even better? Add peanut butter, obviously! (That’s our solution to a lot of things). Introducing the S’More Blitz, featuring our Flourless Blitz cookies. Read on for the perfect mix of dark chocolate, creamy peanut butter, and sweet marshmallows.
1 bag Marshmallows (we love the classic Jet Puffed Kraft Marshmallows)
2 bars Taza Deliciously Dark Chocolate
Makes 10 s’mores
Grab 2 Flourless Blitz cookies
Break off 2-3 squares of Taza Chocolate and put them on one cookie
Slide the cookies + chocolate close to the fire so they get nice and gooey while you’re raosting your mashmallow
Roast your ‘mallow over an open fire – we loved to get it nice and burned, but totally up to you :)
Sandwich that marshmallow in between the cookies + chocolate
Voila! You have a peanut buttery, rich, and luscious s’more!
If you want to make these in your kitchen, you can! Just pop the cookies + chocolate with a marshmallow on top into the microwave for a jiff. Once the marshmallow has puffed and cooked to golden perfection, top with the other cookie and indulge! | <urn:uuid:7ea62296-baaf-40a4-ad41-2ae8cef56e28> | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | https://www.kitchenmillie.com/content/smoreblitz | 2018-11-15T21:26:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039742937.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20181115203132-20181115225132-00106.warc.gz | en | 0.856184 | 307 |
Since touring and recording in the late ‘70s as a member of Pat Metheny Group, Egan’s ability to groove, perfectly complement the music in any situation and solo in highly expressive fashion has made him one of the most in-demand bass players on the international music scene. While racking up credits with the Gil Evans Orchestra, saxophonists Steve Grossman, Stan Getz, Sonny Fortune and Bill Evans, vocalist Michael Franks, guitarists Pat Martino, Larry Coryell, John McLaughlin, Alex De Grassi, John Abercrombie, Chuck Loeb and Vic Juris as well as such pop stars as Sting, Joan Osborne, Sophie B. Hawkins, Roger Daltrey and the Duran Duran off-shoot group Arcadia, Egan also went about documenting his singular fretless bass guitar voice in a series of recordings as a leader, beginning with his 1985 bass manifesto, Mosaic (which both Gottlieb and Forman appeared on). He and Gottlieb, who were schoolmates during the early ‘70s at the University of Miami, formed the group Elements in 1982. Egan continues to play with a Gil Evans Monday Night Orchestra reunion band led by keyboardist Pete Levin.
Born in Brockton, Massachusetts in 1951, Egan began his musical studies on trumpet at the age of 10, mainly through the influence of his father, who was an avid player. He continued to play the trumpet through high school in jazz bands, R&B groups and the high school orchestra before picking up the electric bass at age 16. Egan subsequently enrolled at the University of Miami School of Music as a trumpet player, under the direction of Jerry Coker and Whit Sidener, and studied privately with the late, great Jaco Pastorius, whose influence remains with him to this day. “When I heard Jaco play it made me aware of what could be acheived on the electric bass,” says Egan. “Jaco was an innovator and to be in his presence was uplifting and inspiring during those early years.” While in Florida, Mark performed with many of Miami’s talented players including the multi instrumentalist, Ira Sullivan.
In 1975 Mark formed a band with fellow University of Miami students Clifford Carter (keyboards), Hiram Bullock (guitar), Billy Bowker (drums) and Phyllis Hyman (vocals). They came to New York in 1976 and soon afterward Egan hooked up with the Pointer Sisters, Deodato and David Sanborn before joining Pat Metheny in 1977 along with drummer Danny Gottlieb. Together they recorded the influential Metheny albums Pat Metheny Group (1978) and American Garage (1980). It was through this association that Mark would later team up with Gottlieb to form the band Elements, an uncompromising, genre-bending group that has 13 recordings to date and has toured in over 27 countries.
“This is a reunion of the spirits to get back together with Danny and Mitch and record some fresh music,” says Egan of his collaborations with his colleagues on 2014’s About Now and 2015’s Direction Home. “I’ve always enjoyed that chemistry within the trio”, says the bassist-composer. “The music always flows and there’s so much creative interplay. The challenge is keeping it focused and maintaining the continuity from song to song. That process is seamless with Danny and Mitch since they’re such great musicians with creative sensibilities.”
Direction Home was released in March 2015 on Egan’s Wavetone Records label.
Events featuring Mark Egan
- The Warwick Valley Jazz Festival
- "Carousel" Interview TV Show Host Scot Albertson interviews Bassist & Composer Mark Egan - July 25th @ 9:30p.m.
- Scot Albertson - Host of "Carousel" Interview Show - Guest - Bassist Mark Egan - Second Part Interview
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Struggling to make ends meet?
Take control, build some financial stability
According to a 1recent analysis by Pew Research Center, 32 percent of people ages 18-34 are still living with their parents and just under 32 percent are living with a spouse or partner. That leaves about 36 percent on their own.
When one adds up the cost of living in major cities, 2record level amounts of college debt (more than $1.3 trillion), and the entry-level wages for those just starting out, it’s no wonder many young adults are struggling to make ends meet.
If this feels and sounds like your life, here’s where you can start to take control and build some financial stability:
- Sharpen your budgeting skills: The best way to create financial stability is to budget your money. This means giving a job to every dollar you earn, planning for “rainy days” and tracking your progress.
- Do the hustle: Get a side gig. This could be a formal second job, but doesn’t have to be. Get creative. Build or make things and sell them. Walk dogs. Shop for others.
- Split the high cost of living: Affordable rent is about 30 percent of your gross income. With rent at $1,059 for a one-bedroom in a city, you’d have to earn $42,000 per year. Not there? Find a roommate or two. Be imaginative: a professional house/pet sitter can live rent free!
Whether you need to pay off student loans or other debt, save for the future, or simply pay your rent and eat regularly, these steps can help you get there.
Shannon Doyle, CFC®, is a Certified Financial Counselor at LSS Financial Counseling, which works with Everence to provide budget and debt counseling.
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He brooded, as Lincoln.
He seduced in The Unbearable Lightness of Being. And he murdered, in There Will Be Blood.
This week, Daniel Day-Lewis — a three-time Oscar winner, and incomparable film chameleon — announced he is retiring from acting at 60.
A statement released by his spokeswoman gave no explanation, saying this is a private decision, and that Day-Lewis will have no further comment.
The actor has often taken lengthy sabbaticals between films, but this time it's apparently permanent.
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Archive: January 2014
posted by Chelsea
I posted this barn picture…
here a couple days ago. I also posted it on Facebook Monday morning. There were comments like, “beautiful!” and “breathtaking” and “gorgeous”. But one comment stood out to me. Someone said, “So lucky”. I thought about those words all the live long day… “So lucky”. You know why? Because she was right! I’m a lucky girl. While our life of agriculture has never been easy and it continues to be a lot of hard work, I know how “lucky” I am. I know it even on days like yesterday when Buck, on his way out to work on a fencing project, stuck his head in the door and said these dreaded words… “Hey, would you mind doing somethin’ for me today?” I took a deep breath knowing full well the rest of that question could be any number of day-changing, plan-altering possibilities. He doesn’t ask for “normal” things like ironing a shirt, paying a bill, or making a phone call. Fear in my eyes and worried smile on my fence, I sheepishly asked, “Sure?” Well, lucky for me…. I didn’t have to drive any tires to town! ….move any hay! …fire up any tractors! ….feed any bulls! …pull-start any machinery! …fill out any loan paperwork! He simply needed me drive up the road and water some cows! Not a problem! See… my friend was right, I AM a lucky girl!
posted by Donna ~
A year ago, you may recall, Cowgirl Clippings hosted a series called “Winter Elsewhere,” covering the travels of one couple (ok, yes, snowbirds) in north central Florida. You may recognize a few of the photos in this series. And our friend, Westy, contributed a few.
Well, we liked one of the towns
so much we left our pet gator behind
and returned for a monthlong stay this year. Please allow me to share a few more experiences with you from Carrabelle, Florida. It’s a little fishing village
on the Gulf of Mexico south of Tallahassee,
where fishermen work to supply the rest of us with our shrimp and oysters.
Florida has numerous nicknames for their 1,200 miles of coasts: the Space Coast, which houses Nasa, the Gold Coast (Ft Lauderdale), Lee Island Coast (Ft Myers), First Coast, where we toured last winter in St Augustines, America’s oldest continuously-occupied city in America, and the Nature Coast (so named for Weeki Wachee Springs State Park). Carrabelle is on the Forgotten Coast. Why? Because here progress hasn’t arrived yet. Oh, it tried in the mid 2000’s when the real estate boom occurred but even that didn’t significantly change the face of this town blessed with so many natural resources. Hurricanes did and the Gulf Oil Spill of 2010 sure did.
But to the uninformed eye, it’s easy to see why the term “forgotten” might come to mind. Even the winter “traffic” is local on U.S. Route 98, an east–west highway that runs from western Mississippi to southern Florida. It was established in 1933 as a route between Pensacola, Florida and Apalachicola, Florida, and has since been extended westward into Mississippi and eastward across the Florida Peninsula. It runs along much of the Gulf Coast between Mobile, Alabama and Crystal River, Florida, including extensive sections closely following the coast between Mobile and St. Marks, Florida. Along this stretch, there are two gas stations, an IGA grocery store, a couple of restaurants, a volunteer fire department, and no school. All ages are bussed to a large complex, home of the Franklin County Seahawks, housing K-12, about 4 miles from town, sharing it with similar small towns.
But for all the things Carrabelle doesn’t have, it makes up for with water:
One or more is everywhere you go. And water levels are often determined by the tides, even in the rivers.
and everything in between including high high tide when it’s storming, or the changes a full moon may bring (spring tides).
That phenomenon happens because of syzygy, when the sun lines up with the moon and the earth, and the tidal effect increases.
During half moons, high tides are not as high as normal, what they call “neap tides.” There’s so much involved in determining tides, it’s astounding but very complicated. If you want to know more, google “how tides are determined” or “how does a full moon affect tides” and you will be much smarter than you are now.
You can be sure tides affect them, too. And at the end of each day, as the sun sets over the Gulf of Mexico, there are boats, still.
Posted by Chelsea
We had a great weekend. It looked something like this….
On Friday afternoon we welcomed a visit from Aunt Ramona…
And Uncle Charley…
It was super fun to have them out- they picked Lucy up from school (half day, in honor of “Celebrate Aunt Ramona and Uncle Charley Day! Yay!) then we ate chili, bread, pie and shortbread. It’s so fun to have people over so you know, I can make my favorite foods :)
After Ramona and Charley came over, then the following day we welcomed in… the fog…
And the frost…
But no worries! There was still room at the inn! So we gladly welcomed in SUNSHINE…
Bright, glorious, SUNSHINE…
On top of that, we even ushered in an early calf…
Lucy and I voted to name it “Peanut” (for obvious reasons, right? Although Lucy keeps forgetting which nut we used and refers to “you know, that new calf, Almond?“) But Katelyn and Buck have yet to give up on “Teeny Weeny Little Chocolate Filling” (or something to that affect). Anyway, she’s might be little, but she’s mighty. That bucking show she’s putting on is only a few hours after delivery. I’d like to see a human do that!
Also in the weekend, I welcomed in the thrill of having a child old enough to open and close gates..
…at a run. That’s a whole lot better than Buck can get me to do!
If you’re not worn out from all that we “welcomed” in this weekend, you can also know that we made a welcome trip to town for church and a visit with “Wally World” (aka Walmart aka A Thorn In My Side) on Sunday. I went with the intention of picking up some pictures I had mounted in order to finish off my “picture wall” (2014 Projects ). I was met by a nice young “photo man” (I believe his name was Dylan) who decided he wasn’t going to let me take my pictures home with me. He apprehended them on the grounds that I didn’t have any copyright paperwork from “the photographer”. While the compliment was nice…and quite frankly I was flattered that he would think MY pictures were professional, I was highly irritated. We had been in town for several hours with a napless 1.5 year old who was extra tired from despising the nursery at church. Said 1.5 year old was flailing under the cart. Dylan not took 20 minutes to get to the photo counter but needed another 10 to find my “professional” photos. Needless to say, I was less than appreciative of his flattering accusation. On any other day I may have just basked in the glory of such a compliment from the Wally World “photo man”. At any rate, I did finally get the pictures from him, although he was reluctant and even walked out from behind the counter to watch us leave (?!). I thought about taking off at a sprint, just to mess with him, but running with a flailing child was going to require more energy than the thrill of bothering Dylan. I did finish the wall. And I did take a less than professional picture with my iPad in order to show it to you…
So that’s it… our welcome weekend in a nutshell. You are WELCOME! (ha!)
posted by Donna
Christmas is all over with.
Or is it?
Sure, the carefully (sometimes hastily) wrapped gifts have all be opened.
The tree and all its sentimental ornaments are stored away for another 11 months.
The Christmas cards were all admired one more time.
I want to suggest that God’s not through giving yet. I contend that Jesus still has gifts to dispense. I suspect that the Holy Spirit, Himself a gift, wants you to receive a few more things.
For when you receive the gift of the Father, you receive three gifts in One:
the Father, His Son, His Spirit.
How does that work, you ask?
Think of it like a child’s toy, one he or she wanted so, so bad and it came brightly wrapped with ribbons and a bow and when the child tore it open on Christmas morn,
there was the oft-dreamed of toy PLUS the batteries AND the operating manual. They got all 3.
So do we whenever we accept the Father’s gift, open it, and claim it as our own. He IS the gift. He may be wrapped in a great daily devotional
like “Jesus Calling” or He may be found by reading 5 Psalms each day for a month. He may even be opened in praise music as we sing our hearts out. He is surely packaged in kindness we show to the less fortunate and sharing our resources with someone in need, like your local food bank.
And often He’s in the holy silence as we sit quietly before Him.
gifts of the heart.
Posted by Chelsea
Please excuse my absence the last few days. I have been knee deep. While there are a lot of options around here for things I could be knee deep in, in this case I’ve been knee deep, or rather nose deep in the pages of “Lone Survivor“. I’m completely out of the movie loop, so needless to say, I didn’t know it was coming out in theatres this last weekend (?!). A friend mentioned something on Facebook about how she couldn’t put the book down. I jumped right in, started reading, and basically haven’t been able to think about anything else. My poor husband wanted to read the book too, but I’ve already told him the entire story. “Oh! I forgot to tell you one thing….” and then I tell him the climax, kicker of the story, because I don’t want to wait for him to get to the end of the book. I won’t do that to you today, in case you want to read it. You’re welcome.
So…. Lone Survivor, for those of you who are as out of the loop as I was, is about a Navy SEAL named Marcus Luttrell who was part of Operation Redwing, a special operation in 2005 that resulted in the deaths (by the Taliban) of his 3 comrades and several others in the mountains of Afghanistan. It’s a harrowing true tale told by Marcus himself. It includes his strong opinions about the role of ROEs (rules of engagement) in the fight against terror and allows the reader to see how hard our policies & procedures have made it to fight this war.
That background to say, the book opened my eyes to a lot about the war on terror and it also opened my eyes to the training and competence of our military, in this case the Navy SEALs. I mean, I always new they are the super tough elite, but holy cow, they’re stinking amazing.
I think one of the reasons this particular story stood out to me was its time frame. Marcus finished SEAL training right around 9/11. He was MIA in July 2005. I started college right after 9/11. Buck and I were celebrating our one-year wedding anniversary at Cayuse Flat when Marcus was MIA and fighting for his life. I was enjoying the freedom he was fighting to protect, as were countless others. I’m so thankful for my everyday freedoms- a warm bed, good food, abundant family and friends who we get to see on a regular basis. We do not get that freedom because we deserve it or because we were born in the USA. We continue to enjoy life liberty and the pursuit of happiness because people sacrificed and continue to sacrifice their lives for us to do so. I’ve taken that for granted most of my life. And thanks to this story, I have a new sense of thankful.
Posted by Chelsea
One of the many many things I love about our new life out here in Troy is our house. One of the many many things I love about our new house is the abundant natural, wonderful, glorious light that floods through our big windows. Big sun. Big warmth. Big light. Amen.
So… My love of tea (it happens to be the time of year when I love my tea so much that I take pictures of it!) combined with the glorious light brings you yesterday’s photo shoot of afternoon tea. AKA “Chelsea procrastinating about laundry…again”.
At Christmas the girls each picked out a new mug (“girls” including me!) Mine being the tallest green one in the back. Buck accused it of being “70s”. Whatever. I like it, 70s or not. Lucy’s has the hieroglyphs, and Kate the cute little one on the left.
More than pictures of the actual mugs themselves, I’m really fascinated first by pictures of pouring water..
Tea time. Treat time. Afternoon time. Distraction time. Warm-up time. Procrastination time. Peace time. Caffeine time. Re-group and figure out what-in-the-world-I’m-making-for-dinner time!
Posted by Chelsea
Whenever I come across a really great recipe, I try to get it on CC. In part, so y’all can try it out, but I also love to have it stored away and easily accessible should I need to make it again. This is a recipe I need to have access to on a regular basis. I love it. I could inhale it. Which, technically would cause some respiratory issues. Anyway, it’s fabulous. And delicious. And easy. And scrumptious. What more could you want in a dessert?!
The recipe is for Raspberry Pie, but you might note that those are strawberries in the picture. You can substitute the fruit/jello with just about anything you want, in this case I had strawberries so I used those!
First, the Crust:
1 1/2 cups flour
2 Tbsp sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup oil
2 Tbsp milk
Mix it all together, spread in a pie plate, bake at 375 for 15-20 minutes until light brown.
1 cup sugar
3 Tbsp cornstarch
1 cup . water
3 Tbsp jello powder (raspberry or….)
5 cups (raspberries or….)
Mix together sugar, cornstarch, and water. Bring to a boil over medium high heat. Boil until mixture is clear and thickening up. Remove from heat and stir in jello powder. Cool and stir in berries. Pour over crust. Refrigerate for a few hours… I give it at least 2 hours, more if possible. Yum!
Posted by Chelsea
I recently mentioned that we’ve had pregging on our schedule lately. The reason for pregging seems basic, but the decision about what to do with each respective pregnant or not pregnant cow can be complicated. The vet, or if we only have a few cows and a little more time on our hands, well Buck’s hands that is, he can preg a cow and tell if she’s pregnant and approximately when she’ll calve.
The most basic and general idea would be to sell cows who aren’t bred. We make a profit each year on a cow’s calf and so if she isn’t going to have a calf she is basically another mouth to feed with no return, financially speaking. BUT slow down pardner and hold your horses because it isn’t quite so simple. A young cow who didn’t get bred is hard to replace. Bred cows are expensive and replacing a young cow costs more money than you can sell her for- a lot more money. Keeping the young cow and giving her another chance, a year to put on flesh and try again, will often still pay out in the long run….particularly when calf prices are high. Her next calf will be worth the wait. Old unbred (open) cows make more sense to sell. While you can’t buy a bred cow with the money you get from selling the old cow, you can buy an open young cow for the same price that you can sell an open old cow. Thus gaining more calves in the long run, even if it’s not that year. You could potentially sell a couple of old open cows and replace with her with one young bred cow, too. That’s another option. Basically each cow needs to make the most profit she possibly can and therefore, each open cow needs to be evaluated for maximum profit. Does that make sense? Clear as mud?
Now that you know all of that, there are exceptions to every rule. Sometimes it makes sense to keep an old open cow. It makes sense when it’s The Lucy Cow….
Our #1 original heifer…who was dedicated to Lucy our unborn child at the time, who has produced twins the past two years, who isn’t being sold. We are much too sentimental for that! A summer “off” will be good for the ol’ gal.
Katelyn is pretty good at explaining the bleach marks we put on the cows to differentiate if they’re bred or not. It goes something like this, “Whale….the ones with circles on their bums aren’t bwed so we’re pwobly gonna sell ’em. ‘Cept for the Wucy Cow, we aren’t selling her because we wuv her!” Sometimes breaking the rules is the best thing to do because Katelyn’s right, we wuv The Wucy Cow.
Posted by Chelsea
Ever since he was born folks warned me it would happen. “His sisters will dress him up in all sorts of things, dresses, skirts, you name it!” Well, they were right…
…..But what nobody knew is that Mr. Cooper won’t have any part of it. As soon as they get him dressed in the perfect skirt and matching shoes he proceeds to….
take it all…
Better luck next time sisters! :)
Posted by Chelsea
I think tributes are important. You know, to honor someone or something that has meant a lot to a person. Today I need, yes need to pay tribute to an item of clothing. I don’t feel the need to do this often, in fact come to think of it, I’ve never paid public tribute to any clothing. And rest assured I won’t make a habit of it. But today…..these faithful “Aura” jeans….
…deserve to be talked about.
I bought them for $29.99 approximately eight years ago. So what? Well, I bought them for $29.99 when I was in college and we had little to no money. On a strict budget, Buck and I allocated ourselves $2 (each) per week in spending money. $2 to spend freely on whatever we wanted! No questions asked! So when I got some birthday $$ to spend and really wanted some new jeans these were the ones I found. And I felt guilty handing over nearly $30 on such an extravagant purchase. My guilt quickly vanished because I was in love with these jeans. They fit me better than any jeans I could remember owning. And so… It was then we began our journey together.
These jeans have been so patient with me….three pregnancies and three post-partums they’ve sat patiently on the closet shelf. They even suffered through being tried on only to be thrown on the floor in frustration. I even considered getting rid of them after Lucy was born. “I’ll never fit in those again!” Truth be told, I think I cried when I said that. And when I said this, “My body is not the same! It never will be!” But patiently they waited for me and after each post-partum adjustment they faithfully slipped right back on. These are the jeans, that when I look up on the shelf and see them waiting for me, I breathe a sigh of relief. Until now. They have simply worn out. Worn right through the right knee….
And the trouble is, while I could patch them, the fabric is really thin…
and one patch would lead to another and another and it just wouldn’t work, at least not for long. So for now, I wear them around the house and for doing chores and stuff. They no longer qualify for “town” jeans. They’ve retired from that line of work.
So…. I guess all good things must come to an end. This post included. I hope that wasn’t a sigh of relief I just heard coming out of your mouth! I’ll end with this….I’m thankful these jeans and I have stuck together all these years. I’m thankful I never gave them away in my post-partum frustrations. I’m thankful I have a blog to write silly tributes to my pants. Where else could my “Aura” jeans be publically commended for their hard work?
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The forward-looking ideology of the Centre Culturel Tjibaou has enabled it to engage both with new museums globally and with the political and social objectives associated with New Caledonia's independence struggles of the 1980s. I explore the features of the cultural centre: its relationship with the French government, its juggling of tradition and modernity, and the multitude of varying responses that the centre has received since its opening in 1998. I argue that the centre has itself become an important and progressive, albeit highly complicated, symbol for a territory undergoing change, and that by looking at how these discussions occur both within and in relation to the centre, we can clearly identify the role that museums play in the constitution of culture.
Opened in Nouméa in 1998, the Centre Culturel Tjibaou (CCT) provides a spectacular example of the 'new museum' that has attracted critical and popular interest over the last decade. Designed by Renzo Piano in consultation with the Agency for the Development of Kanak Culture (ADCK), the centre comprises an interconnected series of ten stylised grandes cases (chiefs' huts), which form three villages (covering an area of 6060 square metres). These huts have an exposed stainless-steel structure and are constructed of iroko, an African rot-resistant timber which has faded over time to reveal a silver patina evocative of the coconut palms that populate the coastline of New Caledonia.
The CCT draws materially and conceptually on its geopolitical environment, so that despite being situated on the outskirts of the capital city (on the main island, known as Grand Terre), it draws influence from the diverse Kanak communities residing elsewhere across the New Caledonian islands. The circling pathway that leads from the car park to the centre's entrance is lined with plants from various regions of New Caledonia. Together, these represent the myth of the creation of the first human: the founding hero, Téâ Kanaké. Signifying the collaborative design process, the path and centre are organically interconnected so it is difficult to discern any discrete edges existing between the building and gardens. Similarly, the soaring huts appear unfinished as they open outward to the sky, projecting the architect's image of Kanak culture as flexible, diasporic, progressive and resistant to containment by traditional museological spaces. Reflecting on the design process, Piano explains:
It dawned on me that one of the fundamental elements of Kanak architecture is the very construction process: 'building the House' is every bit as important as 'the finished House'. From this, I began to develop the concept of a permanent 'building work-site', or rather of a place which would suggest an unfinished house-building project.
In this essay I suggest that the centre presents an 'unfinished', transformative effect to reflect its ongoing commitment to an image of newness. This effect provides the centre with features associated with contemporary museums across the world, showing its fluency in postmodern architectural discourse as well as its ability to perform as a significant cultural actor on a global stage. While this encourages a steady flow of international visitors interested in the centre's spectacular architecture and its programs, the constant reiteration of the new is tied to the specific political objective of reconciliation between coloniser and colonised. Fundamentally connected to the CCT's founding mandate, the ideology of the new is more than dogmatic. It is used to produce convincing symbols of national identity for a state undergoing a process of political transition, and aims to evoke a real interest and investment in an evolving public culture. The CCT's desire to be new can thus be seen to accord with its role in domestic and international affairs, and as indicating, above all else, the need for a clear articulation of cultural politics in New Caledonia, as well as the inseparability of these terms.
The CCT embodies many of the key components and features that have become identified with a shift in the way that museums are conceptualised in the Western world. This movement away from a more traditional museological approach has quickly resulted in a series of differences in the ways that museums are designed, made, experienced, and understood to function. Often presented as interdisciplinary sites of postmodernity, where subjectivity is presented as contextual and contingent rather than static, new museums may also challenge the continued relevance and role of the nation-state and its boundaries in a contemporary, globalised context. This approach has been adopted to greater or lesser degrees by high profile museum projects developed in the last decade, including the Museum of Sydney (1995), the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (1998) and the National Museum of Australia (2001). These museums have conveyed similar characteristics and approaches toward exhibition-making. Key features include the incorporation of a self-conscious approach to representation, a heightened political awareness that is informed by postcolonial theories, a unique building that is designed by a high profile architect, and the desire to encourage direct community involvement in relation to the generation of ideas about culture, and the interlinked production of discussions about cultural identity. These elements contribute significantly to producing an image of newness or difference for the museum. In seeking to describe the CCT, Margaret Jolly also comments on the impact of these features:
The Tjibaou Cultural Centre is unsurpassed in the Pacific for its architectural splendour and its expensive high-tech virtuosity. It sustains a singular stress on contemporary Pacific arts rather than the curating and display of older objects ... There are about thirty older artefacts in the Bwenaado house (mainly masks, houseposts, and roof sculptures on loan from European museums), but most older Kanak artefacts are still housed in the Territorial Museum of New Caledonia in town. The emphasis in the Ngan Jila (house of riches) is rather on contemporary works by named artists in both indigenous and introduced genres. According to Emmanuel Kasarhérou, this is faithful to Tjibaou's vision of Kanak culture not as frozen in the past, but as open and lived in.
More generally, new museums are often described as physically new institutions that are dedicated to the exhibition of cultural objects, artefacts and experiences. They are often associated with large-scale publicly funded capital works projects, and may be exemplified by the Guggenheim industry in general and the associated urban renewal and infrastructure program of the previously struggling industrial region of Bilbao in particular, whereby images of the rejuvenated Spanish city present the Frank Gehry-designed Museo Guggenheim Bilbao (1997) as larger than life, overshadowing other more everyday urban spaces. They emphasise interactive and multimedia modes of display to enhance this image of newness, and highlight the technological innovation (and 'expensive high-tech virtuosity') of their architecture. They tend to combine cultural history exhibitions with contemporary arts, often inciting controversy on the basis of their apparently incongruous approaches to exhibition, or because of their perceived privileging of popular culture and entertainment over 'high' culture. They frequently function as a site for community festivals and other cultural activities. Aiming to attract a wide and diverse audience, they often deploy alternative modes of history and storytelling, non-linear and multiplicitous narratives and a postcolonial dedication to the politics of authorship, governance and authority.
In many ways, the CCT can be understood as the ideal example of this new museum model because while it conforms so closely with the principles and effects also used by many other examples worldwide, it does this for reasons that are very clearly connected to its local context, and with the conditions and reasons for its production. This means that although the architecture is breathtaking and eminently suitable for the global marketplace of postcard photography and tourist imagery, its exhibitions and programs engage both with the complexity within Kanak communities and the broader geo-political context of New Caledonia. For instance, while its main exhibition spaces include the growing permanent collection of contemporary Kanak and Oceanian art displayed in the Bérétara Hall and Jinu House, traditional objects of Kanak heritage on loan from the Musée de l'Homme in Paris are exhibited in the Bwénaado House. It also hosts temporary exhibitions such as Impressions Pacifique: Estampes contemporaines (2005) which was the result of collaboration between the CCT and the Centre Culturel Goa Ma Bwarhat in Hienghène, and which aimed to produce inter-regional partnerships. It promotes engagement by rural Kanak communities through outreach programs that include artists' workshops and ingenious 'Travelling Educational Kits' which are folded-up, suitcase-sized models of the cultural centre, its grounds and its activities. These are taken to schools and community centres to show the cultural centre and its activities, to demonstrate the relationship between Kanak architecture and Renzo Piano's stylised building, and to encourage children to participate in the visual arts. It has a well-resourced library and digital catalogue that facilitate access to, and the preservation of, Kanak cultural heritage (particularly the remaining 25 languages spoken across the islands). The CCT encourages interaction with other cultural centres and museums in the Pacific region (through agencies such as the Pacific Islands Museums Association and institutions including the Vanuatu Cultural Centre, with which it discusses issues including the preservation of intangible heritage and language), and promotes dialogue between New Caledonia and museums and other cultural institutions in France and other countries.
These programs reflect the centre's official primary purpose as expressed in its mission statement, to 'promote and preserve the Kanak archaeological, anthropological and linguistic heritage'. This shows the CCT to be concerned with creating a very particular relationship with the postcolonial politics of image-construction: a point which is significant in relation to the centre's official publicity and rhetoric, as well as for the Kanak communities that it aims principally to represent and engage with. The CCT may be seen to provide an official site for testing and holding dialogue and debate over what kinds of images and ideas may be appropriate signifiers of a renewed cultural identity for New Caledonians as the country continues to negotiate its future direction.
Before the centre opened, the ADCK stated:
The intention is not to make a static presentation of works as in a conventional museum but to make available to be seen, to be admired and, it will be said, 'to live again', objects that have become what the Elders have termed 'ambassadors of Kanak culture' throughout the world.
These objects are part of the 'dispersed Kanak heritage' that exists in museums and collections globally. Emmanuel Kasarhérou, the cultural director of the CCT, explains that an inventory was taken in the 1980s of the objects belonging to Kanak heritage that were acquired during and since the contact period by Western collectors and museums. In the consultations that followed between the Kanak Cultural, Scientific and Technical Board (the organisation that preceded the ADCK) and Kanak communities, it was decided that the centre would not actively seek the return of these objects, many of which have spent up to 150 years away from New Caledonia (and which, according to traditional beliefs, may be dangerous if the conditions of acquisition are unknown). Instead, they would be considered 'ambassadors' of Kanak culture, employed to 'let the rest of the world know that Kanaks exist'. The CCT is, however, committed to ongoing discussion about how these objects are conserved and displayed overseas. It is also involved in curatorial projects such as the exhibition of traditional Kanak art, De jade et de nacre patrimoine artistique kanak, which travelled from Nouméa to the Musée national des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie in Paris in 1990-1991 (prior to the centre's opening). Objects from Western collections also visit the CCT, housed for temporary periods in the Bwénaado House, where they are accompanied by a computer monitor that provides further information about how they relate to traditional Kanak systems of cultural heritage. Notably, the CCT also conducts exchanges with European museums that seek their advice when mounting exhibitions of Kanak work. In a recent case, the CCT sent two Kanak carvers to a regional museum in the south-west of France to show by demonstration and discussion how the sculptures in their collection had traditionally been made.
Beyond the issue of repatriation, there are other differences between traditional western-style museums and the CCT. Kasarhérou, who used to be the director of the Territorial Museum in Nouméa (a traditional, western-style ethnographic museum with rich collections of Pacific heritage), has engaged with this matter at length. In 1989 (the year President Mitterrand approved development of the CCT to be built as 'headquarters' for the ADCK) he participated in a workshop held in Papua New Guinea designed to explore the changing role of museums and cultural centres in the Pacific. At this time, he explained:
In New Caledonia many people think that a museum must keep the past but should not exhibit it. Another explanation of our difficulties in attracting Kanak visitors is their fear of entering a place where artefacts of the past are displayed. They feel as if they were entering a cemetery where devils live. The matter however must not be forced, attitudes will change gradually. The only thing to do, is to explain why it is important for the future of our cultures to have a museum. We must explain why museums did not exist in the past and why they are important nowadays ...
In this same forum, the Director of the National Museum and Art Gallery of Papua New Guinea, Soroi Eoe, similarly suggested that this may be a dominant perception amongst Pacific Island cultures, where museum collections are perceived as 'little more than odd assortments of exotic curios ... This view was and still is reinforced by the conviction that museums are only partly the emanations of an indigenous cultural personality: they do not really meet the needs of the great majority of indigenous Pacific islanders'. As one measure of the CCT's success as a social actor within the local community, it seems that both the CCT and the Territorial Museum now attract larger numbers of Kanak visitors and culture workers than was the case in the late 1980s. Expanding its own agenda from ethnography to include social history and current issues, the Territorial Museum now hosts contemporary events such as EXPO - La Violence, tu sais ce qu'on lui dit? (2005). These examples suggest that the 'new museum' paradigm might be more indebted to the practices of 'museum-like' spaces, such as the French lineage of cultural centres and eco-museums, than to traditional ethnographic museums. It also shows that by expanding their focus to include an interest in contemporary culture, new museums, cultural centres and other exhibitionary sites in New Caledonia are also playing a part in attempting to bring to fruition Tjibaou's dream that the country would one day be 'irrigated' with 'small cultural centres that would be heritage conservation centres and places for contemporary creativity'.
The focus on open configurations, representational strategies, and the general commitment to achieving a convincing, ongoing effect of newness is important for new museums at the level of novelty, as a way to keep audiences coming back and to continually attract others. In the case of the CCT, the dedication to forward-looking and non-constant images of identity and culture also emerged as a direct extension of the ideology of Jean-Marie Tjibaou, after whom the centre was named. Leader of the dominant, pro-independence Union Calédonienne party, Tjibaou was revolutionary in his belief that political strength would emerge as a by-product of cultural pride. In a widely quoted statement, he argues that '[t]he return to tradition is a myth ... No people has ever achieved that. The search for identity, for a model: I believe it lies ahead of us ... Our identity lies ahead of us'. Tjibaou rejected the idea that Kanaks must become 'black Frenchmen' in order to achieve power or authority, and he envisaged 'a peaceful resolution of the settler-native confrontation, as long as Kanaks could face France with "a firm personality", meaning a self-confident identity rooted in culture and history'. He is remembered by many for being, at least in his later years, moderate and reformist, especially in the wake of the ethnic insurgencies that had taken place throughout the 1980s. He believed that if Kanaks worked toward unified expressions of culture, identity, and a progressive version of tradition that was not at odds with contemporary culture, they would be able to achieve political power more effectively than through any policy of direct action or further violence. Tjibaou's pointed inter-implication of culture and politics was strategic and relevant, and responded to the fact that historically, culture has often been the ground on which Kanaks have been persecuted or attacked by the settler community.
Tjibaou argued that 'to show one's culture is to show that one exists ... There is no cultural phenomenon that doesn't have an institutional and therefore political impact'. Presenting itself as an actor that contributes in concrete ways to social (and possibly political) change, the CCT was designed to embody the intent to formulate a renewed national iconography that is socially progressive as well as culturally sustaining. Despite the sophistication of this objective, it has been writ large in the massive bronze statue of Tjibaou himself that is located atop a nearby hill peak. From here, Tjibaou, dressed partly in western attire and partly in chiefly garb, oversees his realm, which extends beyond the CCT to encompass the countryside around the city of Nouméa. The statue's privileged location and pose confirm that the centre was envisaged as both 'the recognition of Kanak culture and the souvenir of Jean-Marie Tjibaou'. Determinedly social realist in style, the statue reveals the potential dangers associated with the desire to produce urgently reconfigured national symbols by promoting the personality cult of Jean-Marie Tjibaou. Indeed, the specific problem here, according to Peter Brown, is that '[i]n the postmodern age of multiple identities, the search to promote a particular cultural or ethnic identity seems to be a utopian if not regressive gesture, when it is not simply rhetorical and tactical'. And yet, as Brown also notes, 'this cult is also a subtle shift in significance, as Tjibaou the politician calling for independence is replaced by the image of the promoter of his culture'. This shift in strategy, whereby the political is overlaid with the cultural, rather than positioned in opposition to it, has formed the framework for the CCT and for events contributing to its development, including the important Melanesia 2000 festival, organised by Tjibaou and held on the site of the CCT in 1975. The festival was designed to invest the culture of politics with 'the art of life', so that 'Kanak political culture' could become a more unified and effective force that had a clearer understanding of its relationship with traditional culture and custom. As 'the first great urban cultural demonstration of Kanak culture' that was held in 'Nouméa-la-Blanche' (white Nouméa), the festival 'aimed at a global representation of the Kanak world and for a unified vision, yet without eliminating the particularities of each of its constituents'. It sparked a cultural renaissance.
A key figure of support for Tjibaou's legacy throughout the period leading up to the production of the CCT was Alban Bensa. An anthropologist at the Ecole des Hautes Etrudes en Sciences Sociales and principal advisor to Renzo Piano, Bensa reiterated Tjibaou's fear that Kanaks would be relegated to the 'prehistoric' (categorised according to stereotyped historical images). He thus advocated a forward-looking ideology that avoided the depiction - and definition - of Kanaks in relation to past images only, where they can have no current agency, political or otherwise. Bensa's role as advisor to the project clearly had implications in the way it came to be realised. He argued strongly against the simple reconstitution of a traditional Kanak village, which would have been either picturesque or kitsch (with demonstrable links to the Kanak villages displayed at French colonial expositions in 1889 and 1931). He also rallied against building the centre as a theme park-like and overly saturated media-enriched environment (like the Polynesian Cultural Centre in Hawaii). In recommending against a 'regionalist replica' style of design, and in rejecting the straightforward incorporation of history into the project, Bensa argued for development of what would become a paradoxical collection of international and global features, and regional references and tensions. While this illustrates a rejection of history that is closely connected to the cult of the new in general terms (and reveals the favouring of newness that is the condition of new museums everywhere), what is unique in regard to the CCT is the relationship that this had with Tjibaou's guiding philosophy of newness and regeneration.
Renzo Piano was commissioned to design the new CCT after winning a competition that was administered by the ADCK and judged by an international panel of architects and other experts (that included the President of ADCK, Marie-Claude Tjibaou, the Head of New Zealand's Maori Affairs Department, Tia Barrett, an Australian anthropologist, Marcia Langton, and the Director of the Solomon Islands National Museum, Lawrence Foanoata). The appointment process reflects the desire to project an image of New Caledonia that is progressive and forward-looking. The choice of Piano, which was internationally lauded, provided those involved with a sense of optimism that the CCT might achieve the effect and status of a grand travaux (great work), as well as the creation of a renewed and visible concrete symbol of unification, which was regarded at the time as an urgent task. Indeed, before construction of the new CCT began, the President of France, Francois Mitterrand, decreed that it was to be one of the French state's most important undertakings. It was to be the first of an elite group of significant institutions, known collectively as 'the Great Projects of the Republic', to be invested in or built outside of France. Other 'Great Projects' in Paris include the Pyramid of the Louvre, the arch at la Défense and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The CCT benefited further from the popular 'hearts, minds and pockets' policies of the current French President Jacques Chirac in his two years as Prime Minister in the 1980s, so that the French Government not only covered the $90 million initially required for building the CCT but agreed to support substantially the ongoing administration costs of the site.
Given these rich expectations and resources, the CCT aimed to bridge the gap between the apparently conflicting aspirations of the French Government and the desire by activists to achieve a new and independent state of Kanaky. This struggle over nationhood is represented in a biographical exhibit dedicated to the life and works of Jean-Marie Tjibaou. This demonstrates the 'entanglement of Kanak and French culture, even as it documented the racism of the French and the violence of New Caledonia's colonial history'. Located in the Mâlep House (mâlep means 'to live' in the yâlayu language), the display includes photographic and textual narrative sections under the headings: 'His land, his loved ones', 'Serving others, the priesthood and community works', 'A political vision based on Kanak culture', and 'The Kanak leader opens the way to a common destiny'. Appropriate to Tjibaou's dream for Kanak culture to resist becoming caught in the past or rendered as static, very few objects are included. As objects that correspond directly to the as yet unattained future independent state, a 'Government de Kanaky - FLNKS' stamp, the flag of Kanaky, and Jean-Marie Tjibaou's case and passport are shown in one section. No text explains the significance of this arrangement (that would perhaps be obvious to New Caledonians), yet it refers to an important occasion in 1985 when Tjibaou went to Paris and introduced himself as the head of the provisional government of Kanaky.
Bensa, who saw the CCT as 'a new opportunity to carry forward the political struggle on the cultural and symbolical front where Jean-Marie Tjibaou had so wished it could also develop', also promoted these aspirations for unification under a centralised independent state. He understood that the building had to be convincing in a symbolic sense, as well as impressive and effective in terms of the contribution it could make to the more pragmatic development of cultural confidence in Kanak communities. It needed to provide Kanaks with an emblem of cultural identity that was optimistic, contemporary and open enough to be interpreted and appropriated widely. More than anything else, it needed to embody a promise for the future. Kasarhérou describes the resultant building in the following terms:
For the main part of JMTCC [CCT], Piano has incorporated the Kanak concept of a central avenue aligned with groups of grand case (Kanak chiefs' houses). However Piano has translated this form, giving it a profound new expression: the circular structures of the grand case soar up to thirty metres in height but they are not thatched nor are the walls fully clad. Reminiscent of (Kanak) houses but opening onto a dream of the future, they have a feeling of incompleteness, bringing to mind that Kanak culture itself is not static but is always open to change.
In addition to providing a physical manifestation of the ideological principles motivating development of the centre, Kasarhérou explains that Piano's building aspires to the principles of a pure architectural modernism, so that the structure appears to lift ephemerally up and away from the ground around it. Piano himself says, 'while the form of the Tjibaou Cultural Centre may have nothing to do with local constructions, it has their spirit, without denying anything of my own modernity'. Further registering a break between the traditions of Western architectural practice and the cultural practice of the Kanak communities for whom the centre was designed, it has also been reported that Kanak visitors seem to be most interested in and respond most positively to the ground area surrounding the building, where some communities maintain traditional gardens. Instead of seeking a direct relationship with its immediate landscape, however, Piano chose to centralise universalising symbols such as the atmosphere or air, and the passing breeze. His emblems of identity for the future stretch upward and away from the ground that is occupied by the participating Kanak communities. In association with the airy and expansive exhibition spaces inside the buildings, the structure manifests a beauty that challenges rather than replicates the way that the traditional (closed and exclusivist) power structures of Kanak culture have been reproduced in traditional modes of building. It supports a global image of indigenous architecture, or the revisioning of indigenous architecture according to a renewed globalised genre; and yet simultaneously rewrites the traditional pedagogical non-western style of authority. Consistently with this, the building appears to privilege a particular version of contemporary Kanak cultural practice that is connected to ideas of progress and development implicit within Piano's centralised Western position. In his critique of the building, Brown quotes from Bensa to suggest that the processes of over-inscription (of both the architectural surfaces and the ways of talking about the building) have replaced the traditionally articulated form of closure with the projected illusion of 'a non-discriminatory and "democratic" openness, in this building [that has been] commissioned and underwritten by a modern Western European state'. In appointing Piano and building the project according to an international style of modernism (which links both typologically and genealogically back to the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris), the CCT manipulates architecture 'to appropriate the spatial power base of an old [privileged Western] regime for use in the identity formation of a new one'. Furthermore, the CCT's status as a 'great project' evidences how:
the modern era of nation-states calls for multiple allegiances and alliances, often to be upheld across great distances. Especially in cases where single states encompass multiple would-be-ethnic nations, architectural and urbanistic efforts to articulate a single 'national identity' are deeply controversial ... [this reflects] the need to extend international identity through staking some new claim to noteworthy modernity ...
This brings us back to the anachronistic bronze statue of Jean-Marie Tjibaou, and to the risks associated with such overtly singular and non-compromising symbols of nationhood. The primary difficulty with Piano's building is that it appears literally to seek transcendence from its present location, while at the same time it offers to overlay an international kind of architecture into the local context. This integration provides a reinscription of the local custom and culture, not by local Kanaks, but by Piano and his advisers (that is due also, in part at least, to the limited consultation that preceded building). Brown's critique is not directed toward Piano's referencing of customary Kanak huts per se, but at his attempt to tweak the politics internal to them. He is concerned that at a symbolic level, Piano's design 'updates' the huts so they fit more comfortably within a European image of social modernity and progress (and as modelled in exemplary form by the Centre Georges Pompidou).
Piano's imprint of unified progress and optimism for the future might thus be interpreted as problematically illustrating a direct connection to the French Government's plan to reflect the ideologies and interests of the 'modern' nation-state of France as the commissioning agency and overriding authority. In this case, the modernist architecture may be understood, possibly too simplistically, as signifying a very specific political statement (keeping in mind that although Piano had won a competition held to find the best designer for the project, he already had a particular history with French institutions and government, having designed the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 1977 with Richard Rogers). Not only is the Pompidou Centre an explicit symbol of social progress and an icon of modernity, but it is also widely accepted as the prototype of the new museum model: a point made evident by the architects' intention to 'create a new kind of public forum, a non-monumental building of such infinite flexibility that it would be in constant process. The structure's interdisciplinary organisation was supposed to democratise the arts'.
Perhaps Piano's popularity was connected to this prior experience of designing 'populist' buildings that constitute 'anti-monuments'. As the most famous of these, the Pompidou Centre has become connected to, and symbolic of, Paris despite the architects' intention to provide a space that rejected the pedagogical structure and traditional hierarchies of art museums. If we compare the intention toward and effect presented by the Pompidou Centre and the CCT, we can see that not only does the CCT succeed in reflecting an image of New Caledonia that is democratic-looking and progressive in outlook, but that it appears to offer a symbolic (if not thematic) synchronicity with the ideological grandeur and impressive scale of the Pompidou Centre. By asking why it was that a self-consciously new and internationalist style of museum was selected for the purpose of representing Kanak culture, it may be possible to evaluate whether the CCT as a new museum can possibly live up to the rhetorical claims made on its behalf. In epitomising key characteristics of the new museum so effectively, the CCT may ultimately offer an internationally palatable monument for consumption by audiences from outside New Caledonia. If this is the case, it might confirm Claude Patriat's argument that 'out of all democratic countries, the French nation has taken furthest the assertion of an active political presence in the cultural field' as a way to ensure its authority.
And yet, because of the competing political and economic pressures historically at play within New Caledonia, it is simply not possible to separate the global from the local in the context of the CCT. This means that while an international audience may well have been considered primary for the centre's success, it was also the result of local political action. Specifically, the decision to construct a forward-looking cultural centre dedicated to the preservation and continued development of Kanak cultural traditions emerged out of the obligation of the Matignon (and Oudinot) Accords (1988) to work toward achieving a degree of political and economic self-autonomy for Kanaks in New Caledonia. In signing this agreement, the French Government undertook 'to provide for the expression and fulfilment of the Melanesian personality in all its forms' and 'to ensure that everyone has access to information and culture'. The accords were seen as a way of reducing tension in the area, and of also preserving the principle (and possibly the practice) of the French presence. They were followed by the Nouméa Accord (1998) which replaced a referendum on independence which was to have been held that year but was postponed for another 15-20 years as part of the new agreement. This accord formally acknowledged the trauma of colonisation for Kanaks, and all signatories recognised that 'Kanak identity' was central to a new, more autonomous territory with its own citizenship. It legislated the end of New Caledonia's previous status as a territoire d'outre-mer (overseas territory) of France, and while many felt that this implementation of an 'irreversible' process for the transfer of administrative power did not go far enough toward achieving full indépendance kanak et socialiste (Kanak socialist independence), it was generally understood as a reconciliatory gesture and precedent-setting compromise for decolonisation in a multi-ethnic state.
Central to the accords was the recognition that political progress rested on the capacity to put Kanak culture, custom, identity and experience at the centre of life in New Caledonia. As a key signatory of the Matignon Accords (in his capacity as leader of Union Calédonienne), Tjibaou lobbied for these principles until he was assassinated in 1989 by a dissenting Kanak independentist, Djubelli Wea. Despite the belief of extremists that the accords would compromise the potential for independent sovereignty, the Matignon Accords established the conditions whereby indigenous culture and rights were not to be acknowledged in a rhetorical or symbolic sense only, but were to become the basis for the political reconstruction of the new, multi-ethnic country. The close relationship that emerged between the constitution and development of the CCT and the Matignon Accords and then the Nouméa Accord (the CCT opened one day before the latter agreement was signed) was intended as a gesture of goodwill on behalf of the French Government toward Kanaks. The ADCK was established (as part of the Matignon Accords) to be the territory's principal cultural body, and was charged with promoting Kanak culture and heritage (as the key component of Tjibaou's vision for the future). The interweaving of culture and politics may, as such, have been officially recognised in the constitution of the ADCK and the CCT may have been intended to open out a space for what James Tully calls a 'post-imperial dialogue - informed by the spirit of mutual recognition and accommodation of cultural diversity'.
This approach toward representing Kanak culture continues to be legitimated within the CCT on the basis of Tjibaou's desire to create a space of possibility for the emergence of new and shifting forms of cultural identity and practice: a point which continues to be contextualised by another ongoing dialogue about the relationship between modernity and Kanak culture. And while Tjibaou's idea of a modern Kanak identity can be understood according to a postcolonial framework, whereby identity is historically and socially contingent and shifting, Caroline Graille comments that in 1998, a curator at the CCT claimed that it would be 'unthinkable' for the CCT to include work by non-Kanak artists in the centre. This has since occurred, however, and may reveal a broader and more recent attempt at constructing (through the agency of the centre as a key actor in this) a 'multicultural Caledonian identity'. She argues further that:
the project to construct 'postcoloniality' in a multicultural context as neither a Kanak national state nor a French-dominated quasi-colony is still very recent in New Caledonia ... Local artists are only just beginning to produce 'national' aesthetic icons whose symbolism will necessarily break with a very Eurocentric, essentialist vision of Kanak culture as 'traditional'/'pre-contact' (and thus colonised and dead), but also be very different from the colonialist vision of New Caledonia as a 'small France in the Pacific'.
This intent is evident in the general style of work included in the contemporary Kanak and Oceanian collection (many of which were commissioned by the CCT) that is exhibited in the Bérétara Hall. The Kanak works, such as Jean-Noël Mero's sculpture Oubliées de l'historie (Abandoned by the History) (2001) and Yolande Moto's painting Un nouveau regard sur notre passé (A New Look on our Past) (1997), often combine aspects of traditionalism with imagery that is highly narrative in style and reminiscent of the cultural renaissance of the 1970s. While this reveals the struggle to come to terms with what it means to be Kanak in a contemporary world, it also displays the attempt to represent diversity within the Kanak community, and to recognise the immigrant groups living in New Caledonia (the population today is over 215,000 people: 42.5 per cent are Kanak, and while Europeans form the majority, other ethnic groups include immigrants from Wallis and Futuna, French Polynesia, Indonesia, Vietnam, and elsewhere). Expanding the centre's focus on Kanak cultural heritage and identity has meant that it can focus on the intersections and cross-cultural dialogue that have historically occurred between communities and cultural forms in New Caledonia. This agenda is currently employed in a temporary exhibition on Louise Michel (Paris - Nouméa: Les communards en Nouvelle-Calédonie) (2005), exiled to New Caledonia for her involvement in the 1871 Paris Commune. Shown in the Komwi Hall, the exhibition uses events in Michel's life to illustrate colonial relationships and dialogues between French settlers, convicts and Kanaks. Including artefacts such as large shells engraved with images of 'European man' or 'Kanak man', the exhibition shows how each culture represented itself and each other at this time.
As the country grapples with the conceptual issues pertaining to representation in a national context and how to represent diversity, the centre has become the subject of much debate amongst New Caledonians. While many support the work it does in promoting Kanak cultural identity and representing this to the world, others have criticised it as a biased symbol that is either too focused on Kanak culture or 'not Kanak enough'. Commenting, for example, on the CCT's perceived lack of local visitors and support: 'of Kanaks, for whom the Centre was built, one hardly meets any. Of Caldoches [descendents of early French settlers ], even less', local journalist Anne Pitoiset noted that the CCT, 'established to enable and promote the cultural rebirth of the Kanaks ... has become not only an identifiable emblem of New Caledonia; but perhaps, to date, the only really internationally successful symbol'. Pitoiset argues that the CCT's lack of support by Kanaks is connected to its repudiation of history, on the basis that it risks denying the facts and experiences of colonisation. Others, she explains, see it as preaching a version of colonially constructed culture back to them ('we do not need the Centre to know our culture'). A customary chief who heads the Kanak Socialist Liberation Party, Nidoish Naisseline, has argued that it is a Kanak centre for white people, saying, 'I have the impression that ethnologists from Paris have come here to teach us about our culture'. Dissatisfaction with the CCT is not expressed only by Kanaks, and Pitoiset reports that some non-Kanaks resent the CCT as being designed 'only for Kanaks', while others wish it represented a more multi-ethnic population, so that '[w]hen one goes into the Centre, one should have an idea of New Caledonia as a whole...' This controversy about the representational responsibilities of the CCT has also continually surrounded festivals and other cultural events staged there, from the 1998 exhibition of Pacific art that accompanied its opening, to the highly political eighth Festival of Pacific Arts in 1999, which 'generated protests from radical Kanak, who called it a "folk-lorisation" of their culture'. On the other hand, though, supporters of this festival 'saw it as the Kanak reclaiming their "place in the sun" as Tjibaou put it'.
The depth of difference that characterised local receptions to the CCT has not, however, tended to be replicated by international commentary on the centre and its programs. This may be because the ADCK actively solicited international press interest during the years leading up to the centre's opening and throughout its opening festivals. While most of this focused on the much-promoted architecture emerging on the site, the reports, if making anything other than the most superficial of comments in relation to the building, frequently correlated the emergent building with a new-found peacefulness (the violent insurgencies that wracked the territory throughout the 1980s appeared suppressed to the visiting writers). Located predominantly in the 'Arts' or 'Travel' sections of major daily newspapers, the resulting columns generally expressed the belief that the CCT was designed to function as a new emblem of hope for, and belief in, cultural reconciliation. In one case, the writer says: 'Just as France has designed a model decolonisation for New Caledonia, it has bestowed a jewel of a monument on its historically troubled territory'.
These expressions of relief reflect more than just the writers' enjoyment of the new spectacle. While every country has to negotiate ongoing issues in relation to the form and content of dominant images of national identity, this process is especially fraught for New Caledonia, which continues negotiations over cultural, political and economic independence (or inter-dependence) while balancing the national, sub-national, international and individual impulses that are associated with an increasingly globalised and transnational context. And while architecture and urban design have always performed important roles in the clarification of spatial and social order, newspaper reportage of the early days of the CCT show how the media contributes to producing or promoting particular images, a point which also demonstrates the ideological processes that are present in the production of the CCT itself. As an important form of 'publicity' (as well as a useful, albeit partial, mode of gauging public reception), media sources provide a textual archive and are significant for what they reveal about the public sphere and public culture that emerged in New Caledonia in response to the CCT. In explaining the ongoing political urgency of images, whether they be manifested in print or built form, Murray Edelman says: 'Especially subtle, powerful, and common are buildings that reinforce a belief that people's ties to a historic past or a promising future are their important identities'. Accordingly, of the international responses to the centre that I surveyed, the dominant images produced by the CCT presented an idealised picture of Kanak tribal culture that is depicted as forward-focused, ongoing and part of a much greater universal continuum, but that was combined with a much more chimerical, albeit omnipresent, effect of a still-present colonial regime. This focus on the far-reaching past and future means that the inter-ethnic tensions of the interim period (or the complexity of local responses to the centre) are not highlighted.
These characteristics present an image of the CCT that is consistent with Lawrence Vale's definition of a 'mediated monument'. While taking into account the point that 'architecture and design have always performed important roles in the clarification of spatial and social order' so that the built environment can often be seen as providing a demonstration of or means to interpret national identity, Vale contends that the central point of these structures is that they function as 'monuments that are inseparable from the media campaigns conducted to construct (and constrict) their interpretation'. In these buildings, political power is often conveyed through the self-conscious construction of 'forward-reaching symbols' that have become further animated by the publicity campaigns and international press interest associated with the CCT's opening. In this case, the media has been particularly influential in shaping public interpretation internationally, and in paying attention to the parade of symbols produced by the opening celebrations and the initial exhibitions of contemporary visual culture and Pacific arts commissioned from across the region. For instance, in one example, the journalist focused on the genius of the architect to open the article:
Designed by renowned Italian architect Renzo Piano, the monument is breathtaking. It is an ensemble of villages and tree-studded areas, of different functions and different itineraries, of full and empty spaces, says Mr Piano, who this year won the prestigious Pritzker prize for his work.
Another journalist writes that:
New Caledonia's new cultural centre rises from Nouméa's tropical landscape like a prehistoric temple. The building's striking architecture gives it an almost ethereal quality and the inventiveness of this design has invited comparison with Sydney's Opera House.
Focusing thus on the synergies that appear to exist between the building and its environment in the first place, and on the relationship between the building and traditional 'prehistoric' culture in the second, arts columnists may contribute to the political neutralisation of the CCT. This reportage risks privileging a forward-looking focus that, when accompanied by a lack of critical analysis, makes only 'politically useful' links to the past. Moreover, contributing to the validity of this argument, Vale contends that '[i]n the Pacific Rim of the 1990s and beyond, we are witnessing a global war of images'.
Driving up from Nouméa to the Centre Culturel Tjibaou for the first time, noticing how the grandes cases look persistent and unforgiving about having forced their way through the natural vista, the centre's pose appeared to me to be confrontational. Despite the CCT's involvement in contemporary politics (and indeed, considering that it was the product of such politics) the real impact and urgency of these politics - cultural politics - struck me, and something James Clifford had said about Tjibaou vividly came to mind. He said that Tjibaou had insisted that the cultural centre be located in the hostile, settler city of Nouméa because, according to Clifford, 'the politics of cultural and political identity, as he saw it, always worked the boundaries'.
I had initially taken note of this because I had never really understood why the centre was located in such a hostile environment, when to my mind it would have been a more convincing gesture of reconciliation for the French Government to finance the existent Centre Culturel Goa Ma Bwarhat, designed by Tjibaou, in the (traditionally pro-independence) northern town of Hienghène. But when I saw the CCT, looming large - and looking like a series of shields (or upcast fists) that have burst through the ground and now refuse to give way - Clifford's comment about Tjibaou's statement suddenly made sense. Later I asked Emmanuel Kasarhérou for his view on this, and he reiterated Tjibaou's point, explaining that it was important that the centre be in town, as a visible symbolic reminder of the continued existence of Kanak culture (for urban Kanaks, visitors from regional tribes, and non-Kanaks). Further reading revealed it was Jean-Marie Tjibaou's idea to 'implant' the ADCK and the CCT 'in the very city in which Kanaks had hitherto been second-class citizens if not entirely excluded'. Kasarhérou also said that if the centre had been located in a rural region, it would have further ostracised Kanaks by suggesting that they are linked to tradition and the past rather than the contemporary reality and changing cultural identities of Kanaks living in the city (which more and more are doing). This would have amounted to 'putting the Tjibaou Centre out of view, in your back yard', rather than offering a contemporary and progressive symbol of national identity. Yet even more than this, the centre appears to stand over the city, holding it to account for the events of the past while also offering a progressive and spectacular symbol of identity. This image has stayed with me: of the CCT as an extremely complex case study that shows perhaps more than any others the inter-implication of culture and politics, and the high stakes that are attached to the production of new museums.
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1 From Renzo Piano's notebooks, see <http://www.adck.nc>.
2 Peter Vergo (ed.), The New Museology, Reaktion Books, London, 1988; Robert Lumley (ed.), The Museum Time Machine: Putting Cultures on Display, Routledge, London, 1988; Donald Preziosi and Claire Farago (eds), Grasping the World: The Idea of the Museum, Ashgate Publishers, Burlington, VT, 2004.
3 Dipesh Chakrabarty, 'Museums in late democracies', Humanities Review, vol. 9, no. 1, 2002, pp. 5-12; Emmanuel Kasarhérou, ' "Men of flesh and blood": The Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre in Nouméa', Art and Asia Pacific, vol. 2, no. 4, 1995, pp. 90-95; Diane Losche, 'Cultural forests and their objects in New Caledonia, the forest on Lifou', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, vol. 4, no. 1, 2003, pp. 77-91; Robert Aldrich, Vestiges of the Colonial Empire in France: Monuments, Museums and Colonial Memories, Palgrave Macmillan, Hampshire, 2005.
4 Kylie Message, 'Representing cultural diversity in a global context: The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and the National Museum of Australia', International Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 8, no. 4, 2005, pp. 465-85; Kylie Message and Chris Healy, 'A symptomatic museum: The new, the NMA and the culture wars', borderland e-journal, vol. 3, no. 3, 2004, <http://www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au/vol3no3_2004/
5 Margaret Jolly, 'On the edge? Deserts, oceans, islands', The Contemporary Pacific, vol. 13, no. 2, 2001, 417-66, p. 434.
6 Josep Maria Montaner, Museums for the 21st Century (trans. M Black), Editorial Gustavo Gili, SA, Barcelona, Spain, 2003.
7 Moira Simpson, Making Representations: Museums in the Post-Colonial Era, Routledge, London, 1996; Sharon J Macdonald, 'Museums, national, postnational and transcultural identities', museum and society, vol. 1, no. 1, 2003, pp. 1-16; Tony Bennett, The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics, Routledge, London and New York, 1995.
8 Agency for the Development of Kanak Culture (ADCK), Programme saison 2005 centre culturel Tjibaou, ADCK, Nouméa, 2005, p. 27.
9 Interview with Emmanuel Kasarhérou, Centre Culturel Tjibaou, 16 November 2005.
10 From ADCK mission statement, <http://www.adck.nc>.
12 'Courants océaniens, Pacific currents', Mwà Véé (Kanak cultural review), special edition, no. 14, October 1996, p. 44.
13 Kasarhérou interview; 'Living heritage, Kanak culture today', Mwà Véé, special edition, October 2000, p. 34.
14 Kasarhérou interview.
15 See also Kasarhérou, '"Men of flesh and blood"', pp. 90-95.
16 Emmanuel Kasarhérou, 'The New Caledonian museum', in Soroi Eoe and Pamela Swadling (eds), Museums and Cultural Centres in the Pacific, National Capital District, Papua New Guinea National Museum, Papua New Guinea, 1992, 161-8, p. 166.
17 Soroi Eoe, 'The role of museums in the Pacific: Change or die', in Eoe and Swadling, Museums and Cultural Centres in the Pacific, 1-4, p. 1; see also Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, A Pacific Plan for Strengthening Regional Cooperation and Integration (Final Draft), Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, Suva, Fiji, 2005, p. 168. For further discussion see Nick Stanley, Being Ourselves for You: Global Display of Cultures, Middlesex University Press, London, 1998; Bernice Murphy, 'Centre Culturel Tjibaou: A museum and arts centre defining New Caledonia's cultural future', Humanities Review, vol. 9, no. 1, 2002, pp. 77-90; Susan Cochrane, 'Out of the doldrums: Museums and cultural centres in Pacific Islands countries in the 1990s', in Barrie Craig, Bernie Kernot and Christopher Anderson (eds), Art and Performance in Oceania, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1999, pp. 256-66.
18 Kasarhérou interview.
19 Text from Tjibaou exhibition, Mâlep House, Centre Culturel Tjibaou.
20 In ADCK, Tjibaou Cultural Centre, (trans. Roy Beynon), Nouméa, ADCK, 1998, pp. 4-5; see also Jean-Marie Tjibaou, La Présence Kanak (ed. Alban Bensa and Eric Wittersheim), Editions Odile Jacob, Paris, 1996; Jean-Marie Tjibaou and Philippe Missotte, Kanaké - The Melanesian Way (trans. Christopher Plant), Les Editions du Pacifique, Papeete, 1978; Alain Rollat, Tjibaou le Kanak, La Manufacture, Lyon, 1989.
21 David A Chappell, 'The Nouméa accord: Decolonisation without independence in New Caledonia?', Pacific Affairs, vol. 72, no. 3, 1999, 373-91, p. 377.
22 ADCK, Tjibaou Cultural Centre.
23 Nic Maclellan and Jean Chesneaux, After Mururoa: France in the South Pacific, Ocean Press, Melbourne, 1998, p. 162.
24 In 'Living heritage, Kanak culture today', Mwà Véé, p. 8.
25 Emmanuel Kasarhérou in Jolly, 'On the edge?', p. 432.
26 Peter Brown, 'New Caledonia: Strangers in paradise, stranger than paradise', International Journal of Francophone Studies, vol. 1, no. 3, 1998, 125-39, p. 136.
27 Brown, 'New Caledonia: Strangers in paradise', p. 134.
28 Jean Chesneaux, 'Kanak political culture and French political practice', in Michael Spencer, Alan Ward and John Connell (eds), New Caledonia: Essays in Nationalism and Dependency, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1988, 56-80, p. 63.
29 'Living heritage, Kanak culture today', Mwà Véé, p. 8; Caroline Graille, 'From "primitive" to contemporary: A story of Kanak art in New Caledonia', State Society and Governance in Melanesia, discussion paper, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, no. 1, 2002, p. 9, fn. 5; Chesneaux, 'Kanak political culture', p. 62.
30 Alban Bensa, Ethnologie et Architecture: le Centre Culturel Tjibaou: une Réalisation de Renzo Piano, Adam Biro, Paris, 2000, p. 162; Mwà Véé, 'Living heritage, Kanak culture today', p. 8.
31 '1931 Des Kanak à Paris', Mwà Véé, no. 13, June 1996.
32 Bensa, Ethnologie et Architecture, p. 162.
33 Alban Bensa (ed.), La réalisation du Centre culturel Jean-Marie Tjibaou: analyses, enquêtes, documentation, Ministère de la Culture, Mission des Grands Travaux, Nouméa/Paris, 1992.
34 Graille, 'From "primitive" to contemporary', p. 6.
35 Victoria Main, 'New Caledonia takes a gamble on beauty', The Press (Christchurch), 2 December 1998, p. 9.
36 John Connell, 'An infinite pause in decolonisation?', Round Table, no. 368, 2003, 125-43, p. 128.
37 Jolly, 'On the edge?', p. 434.
38 Ouest France, 25-27 May 1985, quoted in Myriam Dornoy-Vurobaravu, Policies and Perceptions of France in the South Pacific: New Caledonia and Vanuatu, Institute of Pacific Studies and USP Complex, Vanuatu, 1994, p. 11.
39 Bensa, Ethnologie et Architecture, p. 175.
40 Emmanuel Kasarhérou in Losche, 'Cultural forests and their objects', p. 81.
41 'Living heritage, Kanak culture today', Mwà Véé, p. 11.
42 Emmanuel Kasarhérou and Cécile Mozziconacci, Centre Culturel Tjibaou, ADCK, Nouméa, 1998, p. 20; see also Emmanuel Kasarhérou and Béalo Wedoye, with Roger Boulay and Claire Merleau-Ponty, Guide to the Plants of the Kanak Path, ADCK, Nouméa, 1998.
43 Paul Memmott and Joe Reser, 'Design concepts and processes for public Aboriginal architecture', PaPER, nos. 55-56, 2000, pp. 69-86; Kim Dovey, 'Myth and media: Constructing Aboriginal architecture', Journal of Architectural Education, vol. 54, no. 1, 2000, pp. 2-6; Shaneen Fantin, 'Aboriginal identities in architecture', Architecture Australia, September-October 2003, <http://www.archmedia.com.au>.
44 Mike Austin, 'The Tjibaou Cultural Centre', Pander OS 2.0, no. 8, 1999, <http://www.thepander.co.nz/architecture/maustin8php>; Carolynne Baker, 'The Tjibaou Cultural Centre: Centring Kanak identity', in Samer Akkach (ed.), De-Placing Difference: Architecture, Culture and Imaginative Geography, Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 2002, pp. 95-104.
45 Peter Brown, 'Book review: Ethnologie et architecture: le centre culturel Tjibaou: une réalisation de Renzo Piano', Contemporary Pacific, vol. 14, no. 1, 2002, 281-84, p. 283.
46 Lawrence J Vale, 'Mediated monuments and national identity', Journal of Architecture, vol. 4, Winter 1999, 391-408, p. 393.
47 Vale, 'Mediated monuments', p. 396.
48 Brown, 'Book review: Ethnologie et architecture', p. 282; Lorenzo Veracini and Adrian Muckle, 'Reflections of Indigenous history inside the national museums of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand and outside of New Caledonia's Centre Culturel Jean-Marie Tjibaou', Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History, 2002, http://www.jcu.edu.au/aff/history/articles/veracini_
muckle.htm, fn 46.
49 For the effect of this on other parts of the islands' economy, see Leah S Horowitz, 'Toward a viable independence? The Koniambo project and the political economy of mining in New Caledonia', Contemporary Pacific, vol. 16, no. 2, 2004, pp. 287-319.
50 Victoria Newhouse, Towards a New Museum, The Monacelli Press, New York, 1998, p. 193.
51 In Jim McGuigan, Rethinking Cultural Policy (Issues in Cultural and Media Studies), Open University Press, Berkshire, England, 2004, p. 66.
52 Veracini and Muckle, 'Reflections of Indigenous history'.
53 Maclellan and Chesneaux, After Moruroa, p. 170.
54 Chappell, 'The Nouméa accord', p. 373; Nic Maclellan, 'From Eloi to Europe: Interactions with the ballot box in New Caledonia', 4 March 2004, http://www.usp.ac.fj/fileadmin/files/Institutes/piasdg/Electoral_Systems_2004
55 Dornoy-Vurobaravu, Policies and Perceptions of France, p. 10; Stephen Henningham, France and the South Pacific: A Contemporary History, Allen and Unwin, Sydney,1992.
56 'Separatists still divided on Caledonia's future', Sydney Morning Herald, 18 July 1998.
57 In Connell, 'An infinite pause in decolonisation?' p. 141.
58 James Clifford, 'Dialogue: Indigenous Articulations', Contemporary Pacific, vol. 13, no. 2, 2001, 468-90, p. 468.
59 Graille, 'From "primitive" to contemporary', p. 6.
60 ibid., p. 8.
61 Susan Cochrane, 'Pacific stories from New Caledonia', Artlink, vol. 16, no. 4, 1996, pp. 52-54.
62 'Courants océaniens, Pacific currents', Mwà Véé, p. 50; 'Living heritage, Kanak culture today', Mwà Véé, p. 34.
63 For demographic statistics for New Caledonia see The World Factbook, updated 1 November 2005, <http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/nc.html>.
64 Alban Bensa and Eric Wittersheim, 'Jean Guiart and New Caledonia: A drama of misrepresentation', Journal of Pacific History, vol. 33, no. 2, 1998, 221-25, p. 243; Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, A Pacific Plan, p. 168. See also Jean Guiart, 'Comment: A reply to A Bensa and E Wittersheim, "Jean Guiart and New Caledonia: A drama of misrepresentation"', Journal of Pacific History, vol. 36, no. 2, 2001, pp. 247-49.
65 Maclellan and Chesneaux, After Moruroa, p. 145.
66 Anne Pitoiset, 'What is the Tjibaou Centre being used for? Disappointed hopes of the CCT', L'EXPRESS.fr, 10 October 2002, <http://www.lexpress.fr/>; Graille, 'From "primitive" to contemporary', p. 7; Maclellan and Chesneaux, After Moruroa, p. 145.
67 Pitoiset, 'What is the Tjibaou Centre being used for?'.
68 In Main, 'New Caledonia takes a gamble', p. 9.
69 Pitoiset, 'What is the Tjibaou Centre being used for?'.
70 David A Chappell, 'Book review: En Pays Kanak: Ethnologie, Linguistique, Archéologie, Histoire de la Nouvelle-Calédonie', Contemporary Pacific, vol. 13, no. 2, 2001, 592-94, p. 549.
71 Reception by the international mainstream media has been overwhelmingly positive (see note 74). There has been some critique in academic contexts; see Jolly, 'On the edge?', p. 440; see also Peter Brown, 'New Caledonia: A Pacific island or an island in the Pacific? The eighth Pacific Arts Festival', International Journal of Francophone Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 2001, pp. 33-41.
72 Main, 'New Caledonia takes a gamble', p. 9.
73 Murray Edelman, From Art to Politics: How Artistic Creations Shape Political Conceptions, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1995, p. 76.
74 See for example, Ron Cerebona, 'Nouméa centre focuses on Kanak culture', Canberra Times, 15 June 1998; Robert Harley, 'Renzo Piano building a vision', Australian Financial Review, 28 November 1997; Franck Madoeuf, 'New Caledonia cultural center to express Kanak identity', Agence France Presse, 3 May 1998; Paul McGillick, 'A sublime Kanak creation', Australian Financial Review, 13 March 1999; Andrew McIntyre, 'Independence in the Pacific: France's positive approach', National Observer, Summer, 2004, pp. 12-15; Sandra McLean, 'Accent on culture', Daily Telegraph, 5 September 1998; Liza Power, 'French tropical twist', Age, 26 September 1998; Alan Riding, 'Showcasing a rise from rebellion to respectability', New York Times, 5 March 2000; Nick Venter, 'Pacific architecture puts NZ to shame - Goff', Dominion, 12 July 2000; Christopher Zinn, 'Cultural centre symbolises island's birth', Manchester Guardian Weekly, 15 November 1998.
75 Vale, 'Mediated monuments'.
76 Vale, 'Mediated monuments', p. 391.
77 Vale, 'Mediated monuments', p. 391.
78 Main, 'New Caledonia takes a gamble', p. 9.
79 Catherine Taylor, 'Temple of Kanak culture', Australian, 14 August 1998, p. 21.
80 Vale, 'Mediated monuments', p. 391.
81 Vale, 'Mediated monuments', p. 397.
82 Clifford, 'Dialogue: Indigenous articulations', p. 471.
83 Alexandre Rosada and Philippe Huneau, 'October 16, 2004: The arts centre of Hienghène celebrates its 20 years', 2004 <http://www.rosada.net/hienghene.htm>.
84 'Living heritage, Kanak culture today', Mwà Véé, p. 9.
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Three principal themes comprise the Biomedical Engineering research and educational program at CIS:
To convey the flavor and purpose of research in biomedical imaging science consider the first theme. Rapid development of imaging sensor technologies allows investigators in the physical and biological sciences to observe living systems and measure their structural and functional behavior across many scales--from global, aggregate behavior to the microscopic scale of sub-cellular structure. Combining biomedical imaging with computational modeling, we can infer, non-invasively, the structural and functional properties of complex biological systems. For example in computational neuropsychiatry researchers use these tools to study the cohorts of neuropsychiatric illnesses such as schizophrenia, depression, epilepsy, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's diseases.
Given the complexity of problems in biomedical imaging, an understanding of both mathematics and neuroscience is essential. The curriculum is designed to prepare students to utilize modern tools in both theory and application. The program includes courses in molecular, cellular and systems biology as well as advanced mathematics. If students do not elect the Year 1 medical school courses, a possible core program is a two semester sequence taught by the JHU neuroscience community called Neuroscience and Cognition. Additional neurorscience courses are selected from the BME and Neuroscience departmental offerings as well as those of other relevant departments (Psychology and Brain Sciences, Cognitive Sciences). Mathematical and engineering courses such as Applied Mathematics for Engineers, Probability, Stochastic Processes and Random Signals etc will allow students to develop new methods that can be applied in biomedical imaging. | <urn:uuid:84fb8d3f-aafe-45ab-8c63-b32f47c39b86> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://cis.jhu.edu/education/bme.php | 2017-03-28T06:21:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189680.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00054-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917146 | 309 |
The Indiana Department of Transportation’s contractor for the $12 million State Road 252 rehabilitation project in southwestern Shelby County will switch construction operations Tuesday or Wednesday — weather permitting — from the east section beyond Flat Rock River and Lewis Creek to the west section between Interstate 65 and a terminus east of County Road 700W.
This construction switch will close County Road 700W at its juncture with State Road 252 to all traffic. Also, the six miles of State Road 252 between I-65 and Flat Rock will remain closed to traffic.
Milestone, INDOT’s contractor, will begin pavement operations to widen State Road 252 east of I-65 near Edinburgh next week. In addition to pavement work, crews must realign ditches and install drainage culverts.
Meanwhile, installation of a cantilever sign structure on the infield between I-65 and the southbound on-ramp from State Road 252 will require closure of eastbound State Road 252 at the interchange next week. Flaggers will be onsite Tuesday and Wednesday —and during various times later in the week — to direct motorists around the closure. | <urn:uuid:33d34ae2-bcb6-44a1-be53-4ac5027afa85> | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | http://www.therepublic.com/2017/08/21/state_road_252_changes_loom_next_week/ | 2017-09-24T10:22:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818689975.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170924100541-20170924120541-00605.warc.gz | en | 0.924752 | 226 |
The Middle East Digest provides text and audio from the Daily Press Briefing. For the full briefings, please visit daily press briefings.
From the Daily Press Briefing of August 18, 2009
View VideoMR. KELLY:
A number of U.S. citizens of Palestinian origin who are not dual nationals have complained to the consulate in Jerusalem and to the State Department that when trying to enter Israel, they’ve been receiving stamps that say, “PA areas only,” thereby not allowing them to enter into Israel proper, in violation of the Oslo Accords. At what level was this brought up with the Israelis, and do you object to this policy of discrimination against U.S. citizens?MR. KELLY:
Well, again – yeah, it’s hard for me to give you a comment on it because I’m not really aware of the specific details of this incident, so –QUESTION:
There was a travel advisory from the State Department saying that it was happening, but didn’t get into the details of what is being done about it.MR. KELLY:
Yeah. Yeah. Let me see if I can get you more information, because I just don’t know the details of it. I’m sorry. QUESTION:
Any update on the (inaudible) three Americans arrested in Iran?MR. KELLY:
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A Digital Twin is the projection of an object, service, or project onto an online virtual platform. The term has been in existence for decades, but it is in the past 2 decades that the technology has begun to be integrated into multiple applications with much enthusiasm. It can be an automobile, a building, a wind turbine, or even an entire city. It heralds the emergence of the fourth revolution in Industry. This digital technology is becoming a reality primarily owing to the increasing dependence and comfort with other technologies such as IoT (Internet of Things), Artificial Intelligence, and 3D visualization capabilities. The seamless integration of these multiple technologies benefits both Industry and processes mutually.
Digital Twin technology has many advantages and is becoming a necessity. However, it is by no means easy. It requires considerable effort to create and maintain. In the case of a simple digital model, the physical object and its digital avatar have no automatic exchange of data. A physical change in real time does not immediately reflect on the Digital copy. Similarly, the copy has no impact on the object. A Digital Twin, on the other hand, overcomes this barrier. The complete two-way integration enables data flows and eventual impact on each other. It involves mapping and creating a simulation that can be visualized in many ways. Such a computerized model, or Avatar, mirrors its physical counterpart. As information is collected online, the Digital Twin is gradually updated and adapted. This requires continuous device connectivity online.
NASA was one of the first organizations to apply the technology to test Mission Apollo before the actual mission. They used Artificial Intelligence to simulate every possible scenario. Once the mission was perfected, the launch took place and space exploration became easier and more effective. Since then, it is being used by an increasing number of organizations such as IBM (pumps), Microsoft (environment, cities on larger cloud solutions), Philips (health care), Siemens (gas turbine maintenance), Bosch (digital supply chain), and others. Shanghai, a large city, has its own Digital Twin that helps to identify or even predict various risks.
Using Data Analytics, Digital Twin Technology allows manufacturers to detect faults, maintain processes and prevent anomalies quickly. So, how is it done?
1. Firstly, data is collected from the object and its surroundings
2. Data is then analyzed and fed into the Digital Twin or virtual avatar
3. Real-time data is applied and the Digital Twin is tested using simulations and machine learning
4. Any unfavorable component is modified in the final design
5. The physical object is further monitored virtually for risks and adjustments
Here are some of the most notable applications of Digital Twin Technology:
Retail: In E-commerce and online retail, customers have can fun with virtual avatars. With the boom in artificial intelligence and online avatars, buyers have the advantage of personalized advice on their purchases. Online shopping serves customer needs better while also increasing return on investment. Digital Twin Technology improves this experience in more ways, bringing brands and customers closer than ever with better predictions. Customers can now visualize any product, from clothes to furniture in their own reality. E-commerce giant Amazon is successfully using it to track users and their preferences. It largely cuts wastage and increases profits.
Smart Cities: The Digital Twin of any infrastructure or large building helps to identify even the slightest structural anomalies, thereby allowing a short testing cycle before physical corrections. With increasing advancements in connectivity, we now have the concept of smart cities. Smart cities can have the ability to save energy and resources through the mindful distribution of utilities. Digital Twins of highly populated cities use sensors connected to IoT devices for monitoring and further planning and development. This will in turn fasten advancements in AI algorithms by learning from the environment.
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What is there to say about this week’s episode of The Real Housewives of Atlanta? It was the same old crap: Peter and Cynthia hosted a party they couldn’t afford, Marlo and Sherayay had a disagreement, Kim yelled at Sweetie, Nene yelled at Bryson, Phaedra ogled a dead body, and Kandi made a weird face that seemed to say, “Errraaaaagggh.”
Yes, it was business as usual in Atlanta, but that’s not to say it wasn’t entertaining. The aforementioned party was Peter and Cynthia’s black tie one year anniversary party. You read that correctly: ONE year (not ten, not twenty, not fifty). ONE year party. As Lawrence noted in the episode, aren’t people supposed to just go get a damn dinner by themselves? Not Peter, who admitted that he needed to throw a lavish party to impress the people that they run with. Who are these awful people they “run with” and why would you want to “run with” anyone who would force you into poverty just for the sake of a good party?
Personally, I think there’s something sad and hideous about throwing a lavish one year anniversary party simply to prove to people that your marriage survived the first twelve months. Talk about low expectations. Is it even wise to get married if the first year is such a question mark? Then again, in this era of Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries, I suppose any reality stars that make it past a fiscal quarter deserve a parade.
Nevertheless, if one is going to invite 150 friends to a one year anniversary party, make it a semiformal cocktail party (maybe at a restaurant? Or better a yet, a BAR THAT YOU OWN). Do not, however, make it BLACK TIE. I mean, talk about a flagrant overuse of a dress code (almost none of the women were dressed appropriately, I might add). Call me old fashioned, but I tend to think black tie is reserved for galas and special occasions, not unnecessary “Eff you to the haters who didn’t believe in us” parties.
Speaking of haters, Malorie still justifiably hates Peter, and I say the more power to her. However, she was not without her flaws this episode. First we had a limo dilemma. The back story was that Peter’s friend had given him a Bentley limo to ride to the party in. That the limo never showed up was beside the fact. Like most of Peter’s investors, things just fell through I suppose.
Anyway, Peter informed his wife that he wanted to ride in the limo alone with her — no Malorie. As much as I detest Peter, I didn’t think this was an unreasonable demand. However, Mal refused to believe she wouldn’t be riding along with the happy couple. “I’M RIDING!” she announced, pathetically declaring her intention to tag along with a couple like the ultimate third wheel. Please, Mal. Have some dignity.
Well, the limo never came; so it was a non-issue. Still, Mal crossed the line again at the party by informing Cynthia that she never thought the marriage would get this far. She was shocked. SHOCKED. Adding insult to injury, the girls’ mom agreed. It was on the one hand very funny, but honestly, who says such a thing on someone’s anniversary, no matter how tacky and ridiculous said anniversary is? Poor form for Mal.
Still, Mal’s transgressions of etiquette were nothing compared to Peter’s. The asshole soon got on a microphone and publicly made fun of his sister-in-law to the guests repeatedly. This was heinous as both a host, a man, a brother-in-law, and a human being. So in other words — standard fare for Peter. It’s no wonder that Mal left the party crying. A classy affair through and through.
These idiots weren’t the only ones making a scene at the party. Sherayay, Lawrence, and Marlo had a special moment where they discussed whether or not she had used the F-word in South Africa (she had). Marlo denied ever saying anything, which was utterly hilarious because nothing is as funny as watching someone full-on lie in the face of undeniable evidence that’s been caught on camera. Anyway, she brushed off the entire thing and then waltzed back to her date, who may or may not have been pulled directly from the pages of Sugar Daddy Quarterly.
Elsewhere in Atlanta, Kim’s frustration with Sweetie continued to build. Apparently now she’s seeing what we all could see from the beginning of last season: that Sweetie is a lazy-ass assistant. Now, I don’t feel a huge amount of sympathy for Kim, who has surrounded herself with so many helpers that she’s clearly incapable of doing anything but gobble up Bugles. I mean, she even has her hair dresser printing out her kids’ school registration forms. What’s next? Will the UPS guy be doing her nails? The plumber carrying her upstairs to bed?
As for the rest of the cast, there wasn’t much going on. Phaedra was allowed to embalm a dummy (who incidentally had more brainpower than Cynthia and Peter combined), and Kandi, looking cute, popped up only at the end of the episode to chit-chat with party guests. NeNe meanwhile grabbed herself a mimosa and tried to discipline Bryson with the help of Gregg, but I can’t image that much inroads have been made. Maybe Bravo should produce a spin-off based on Bryson’s life. Of course, the downside would be that each episode would involve him sitting on a couch and staring at lint in his bellybutton.
Anyway, here’s the photocap:
“Oh look. My nightie. Or as I like to call it, my Bedtime Chick Fil-A Bib.”
Peter: “Why you gotta sneak up on me like that?”
Cynthia: “I heard you talking about the party and wanted to see what’s up!”
“Babe, you gotta trust that I’m gonna produce an amazing party within our budget.”
“And how’s that going?”
“Well, looks like I’m going to produce a terrible party wildly outside of our budget. So it’s going pretty well!”
“Wow. I am SO awful.”
“What do you mean my Chardonnay locker is empty? Brielle!! BRIELLE!!!!! Get MOMMA HER CHARDY KEG!!!”
Cynthia: “Isn’t beading fun?”
Mal: “It’s as fun as Peter is an asshole, which is to say A LOT.”
“Wow. You really can’t get through a conversation without badmouthing Peter, can you?”
“That’s not true. I can talk about something without mentioning that miserable bearded man.”
“Okay. Fine. What are your thoughts on Kony 2012?”
“Well, that warlord looks like a saint next to your asshole husband.”
“See? You just did it again!”
“I needed to highlight how big of a dick your husband is to illustrate my point. That’s all.”
“Fine. Let’s talk about that movie John Carter.”
“I heard it bombed, much like your marriage will — on account of your husband being a total asshole.”
“I also hear that movie takes place on Mars, which is probably the only place where someone like Peter might be considered a decent guy.”
“STOP TALKING ABOUT PETER.”
“Okay, okay. Give me a new topic, and you’ll see I won’t even mention that cock’s name.”
“Abortion. Yes. Well, I believe it’s every woman’s right to choose what she wants to do with her body. For instance, if I were Peter’s mom, I would have aborted the first second I felt those bristles in my uterus — because you KNOW he was born with a little powdered-sugar beard.”
“The scoring in tennis is great. If you have zero point, it’s called love, which is funny because you’re in love with a zero named Peter.”
“Just stop, Mal.”
“And if you tie up, it’s called deuce, which is really the sign I’d be waving if my husband ever treated me the way Peter does.”
“Plus, tennis involves balls, which is something Peter could learn something about.”
“You’ve failed. You can’t talk about anything without mentioning Peter.”
“That’s funny. I call failing ‘Petering.'”
“Mimosa? Check. Tits hanging out? Check. Okay, let’s teach our son some life lessons.”
Gregg: “Okay, so there’s Huey, Duey, and Louie. And then Webby, yes? And Scrooge, of course. Launchpad McQuack. And… shoot. Who was that sexy housekeeper with the curvy body? This is gonna kill me.”
“What do you mean the limo isn’t available? You realize what this means, right? Our LUDICROUS party will now only be merely RIDICULOUS.”
“Don’t get any ideas, ladies. I’m Marlo’s parole officer.”
Mal: “Your hair is so big!”
Cynthia: “That’s because it’s full of SHAME.”
“Hello my fellow countrymen! Please enjoy yourself at the party, and as you leave, remember to leave a $100 donation in the cans by the door.”
Sherayay: “Marlo, why don’t you just admit it? You said the f-word. Rhymes with maggot.”
“You mean frigate? Of course I said that. I love warships!”
“No. I mean the OTHER f-word.”
“Flag? What’s so wrong with talking about flags? I love flags! I’m a regular flag hag!!”
“Marlo. You know what you said.”
“A lady never tells.”
“BITCH YOU AIN’T NO LADY. WE ALL KNOW YOU GOT A DING DONG BETWEEN THOSE HAM HOCKS!”
Kandi: “You still watching American Idol? Yeesh.”
“Cheers to pretending we’re rich!”
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Okore - I Feel Like A Cliche
Defender Jores Okore has said that being back on the training pitch properly with the boys this pre season really makes him feel like a new signing.
Having joined us with plenty of potential last summer, the centre half unfortunately lasted only four games into our season before rupturing his anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during the game against Newcastle back in mid September and it's been a long old journey back to fitness for him, physically and mentally but the 21 year old is obviously a fighter and he'll hopefully no doubt make the most of his second attempt at the club when the season opens.
Speaking to the Official Site he explained.
'I am with the lads again now, I am really happy. I am enjoying every second of it. I feel like a new signing actually. You have to go out there and show yourself - show the lads and the manager what you can do, even if they do know a little bit about you from before. Overall, it's nice to be out there and I'm really glad to be back.'
Okore looks back during the interview to when he first sustained the interview and says how his main thought at the time was that he hoped it wasn't too serious and that it wouldn't keep him out for long, because he felt like he had adjusted to the team and was starting to show some form at the back with skipper Ron Vlaar, so it must have been gutting when the MRI was done and the ACL known about as it ended his season - although in the final weeks he did return to training only.
Clearly he's determined to make up for lost time now, and he thanks everyone at the club for helping him through it and he's now looking to his chance to really impress in this division and repay that support by turning it on for us on the pitch.
Welcome back Jores!
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This weekly program shows why finance matters to everyone, and not just to bankers or traders. In each episode, viewers will learn why one event that we've all heard about could lead to something else entirely unexpected. The Knock-On Effect: Where we start with the thing you know, and end up in a strange place.
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10 Interesting Soda Facts
Soda Facts talk about a carbonated beverage. This type of drink is very popular in the world. It is made of carbonated water, artificial flavor and a sweetener. The ingredients used by the producers to create soft drinks depend on the variants of sofa drink. It can contain coloring, fruit juice, caffeine, high fructose corn syrup, sugar, and preservatives. Let’s find out more interesting facts about soda drink below:
Soda Facts 1: the alcohol content
The soda drink is very different from the hard drink or alcoholic beverages. It may have a small amount of alcohol less than 0.5 percent from the total volume of sofa drink.
Soda Facts 2: how to serve soda drink
The people can serve the soda drink in various ways. You can keep it at the room temperature or over ice cubes before you drink it. It can be served in warm condition even though it is very rare to do. Most soft drinks are served chilled.
Soda Facts 3: the containers of soda drink
If you look at the soda drinks sold in the stores, they are available in glass bottles, cans, and plastic bottles. The size of the containers can be from a very small bottle into the big one up to two liters.
Soda Facts 4: the availability
It is very easy to get soda drink in various public areas such as convenience stores, movie theaters, bars, dining restaurants, and fast food restaurants.
Soda Facts 5: the soda fountain drinks
If you want to taste the soda fountain drinks, you will get it inside plastic disposable cups or paper cup. It will be served in glass when you order the soda drink in bars or casual dining restaurants. You can drink it through the straws.
Soda Facts 6: soda pop
The term soda pop is used to define the mixture of soda drink with other ingredients. If you are in a bar, you will be served with different kinds of mixtures. The soda drink is often blended with ice and hard liquor. Get facts about lemon here.
Soda Facts 7: the production of soda drink
The production of soda drink can be conducted at home or factory. It is produced by blending the water with fresh ingredients or dry ingredients. If you want to make soda drink at home, mix the carbonated water with syrup. It is the easier to do it.
Soda Facts 8: the brewed process
If you want to have the soda drink which uses yeast to present carbonation, you have to try root beer and ginger ale.
Soda Facts 9: the soda drink in US
Based on the law in United States, soda drink should only contain 0.5 percent of alcohol based on its volume.
Soda Facts 10: the major soda drinks producers
The major soda drink producers in North America include Coca Cola and Pepsi. Find out another drink in facts about milk.
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U.S. presence necessary for Korean security, officials say
September 17, 2010
- "To preserve our security commitment to the Republic of Korea, the United States must maintain a forward military posture..." - Wallace Aca,!A"ChipAca,!A? Gregson, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 2010 - The sinking in March of the South Korean ship Cheonan underscores the importance of U.S. troops to security in Northeast Asia and the defense of South Korea, top defense officials told Congress today.
"North Korea's torpedo attack is a somber reminder of the active threat North Korea poses to regional stability," Wallace "Chip" Gregson, assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific security affairs, said. "In such a high-threat environment, the [U.S.-South Korean] alliance mission to deter and defend takes on added significance and is our primary focus."
Speaking to the Senate Armed Service Committee, Gregson expressed his concern with North Korea's attack, which killed 46 South Korean sailors, and its continued pursuit of nuclear weapons. North Korean arms sales and continued defiance of United Nations security resolutions, he added, pose a threat not only to South Korea, but also to the entire region.
"[North Korea's] proven track record of marrying capabilities with deadly intent has resulted in unnecessary crisis, tension escalation, and as the attack on the Cheonan demonstrated, tragic loss of life," he said.
Gregson, a retired Marine Corps lieutenant general, said deterring North Korea requires a complex military solution. North Korea's conventional threat and pursuit of ballistic and nuclear capabilities causes concern in Washington and in the South Korean capital of Seoul, he said.
North Korea's military is adapted to the U.S.-South Korea conventional military partnership, Gregson said, and has developed tactics and weapons systems that may allow North Korea to avoid confronting its targets.
"In the context of [North Korean] efforts to develop a nuclear program, its ballistic missile efforts become an even greater concern," he said. "Nuclear and ballistic missiles, if developed and fielded, would pose a threat to regional peace and stability that would be orders of magnitude greater than the already heightened threat.
"North Korea may become embolden to pursue even more provocative activities than we have witnessed in recent years," he continued, "if it makes significant strides in its development of nuclear weapons and ballistic missile technology."
Gregson said he is confident the U.S.-South Korean partnership will improve peace in the region, but to sustain international peace and security, the U.S. military must remain postured in South Korea.
"To preserve our security commitment to the Republic of Korea, the United States must maintain a forward military posture," he said. "[Having] 28,500 troops stationed somewhere in the United States does not have the same deterrent effect as the same number stationed in Korea. It is our forward presence that most effectively communicates our resolve to defend our allies and preserve our vital interests in Asia. Successful deterrence relies on credibility as much, if not more than, capability."
The Strategic Alliance 2015 agreement ensures nearly 30,000 American troops will remain in South Korea until 2015. According to the 1953 armistice that established a cease-fire to the Korean War, the U.S. military would maintain operational control of combined defenses until 2012. But South Korean President Lee Myung-bak asked to extend the transition to 2015 as a result of the Cheonan attack. President Barack Obama agreed.
Army Gen. Walter L. "Skip" Sharp, commander of U.S. forces in Korea, testified with Gregson. He said he believes the Cheonan attack will not be the last by North Korea, and that the regime's pursuit of nuclear weapons and long-range capabilities suggest North Korea will continue to threaten the region.
"The conventional threat continues, but we now face an enemy capable of using a number of asymmetrical means to threaten its neighbors, while also violating past agreements, international norms and the United Nations Security Council resolution," he said.
The new alliance agreement, which Sharp introduced last week, means more joint training and exercises. The two nations have launched a series of air, land and sea exercises to better prepare South Korea defenses, he said.
Strategic Alliance 2015 synchronizes South Korean and U.S. transformation initiatives as the alliance prepares for the transfer of operational control for combined defense, Sharp said, and it demonstrates the U.S. commitment to South Korea.
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I’m excited to announce a new phase in my journey. Here is the first edition of my VLOG (video blog). I will be posting these regularly as well as written posts. As my team moves Journey Creatively to the next level of marketing and consulting, these videos will help potential clients know more about the topics and how I approach trainings.
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Here’s the spreadsheet showing the 100-plus former Dewey partners who broke the $1 million mark in terms of total 2011 and 2012 payments from the firm. Some comments:
1. Left to right, the columns are: Partner Last Name, Partner First Name, Total 2011 & 2012 Payments, and Final Contribution Amount.
2. The transcription of all data was done manually from a hard-copy document. If you see any typos or other errors, please email us or text us (646-820-8477; texts only, not a voice line).
3. Yes, the $1 million cutoff is somewhat arbitrary. As noted above, the transcription was done manually. (For various reasons, we aren’t able to upload the entire document — but giving you the top earners hits pretty much all the juicy stuff.)
4. There are two sheets to the spreadsheet. Sheet 1 lists the partners alphabetically by last name, and Sheet 2 lists the partners by compensation, from highest to lowest.
5. If you’d like to access a full version of this spreadsheet, with sortable columns, here’s a link to the Google Doc.
We hope you enjoy this voyeuristic look through the compensation of ex-partners of Dewey & LeBoeuf. Feel free to mention any juicy tidbits or fun nuggets you come across in the comments to this post. Happy hunting!
Settlement deal in Dewey bankruptcy nears end [Thomson Reuters News & Insight]
Dewey Delays: Deadline for ‘Clawback’ Settlement Extended [WSJ Law Blog]
Though Responses Lag, Dewey Advisers See Settlement Proposal Succeeding [Am Law Daily]
Earlier: Biglaw Blind Item: The $6 Million Men
Dewey Have Good Prospects for a Speedy Settlement With Former Partners?
Dewey Have a Deal With Former Partners of the Firm?
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R. 13.2 PCT defines the method for determining whether the unity requirement is satisfied in respect of a group of inventions claimed in an international application: "Where a group of inventions is claimed in one and the same international application, the requirement of unity of invention referred to in R. 13.1 PCT shall be fulfilled only when there is a technical relationship among those inventions involving one or more of the same or corresponding special technical features. The expression "special technical features" shall mean those technical features that define a contribution which each of the claimed inventions, considered as a whole, makes over the prior art" (cf. R. 44(1) EPC).
According to the case law, once such a single, i.e. common, concept was established, it was necessary to consider whether or not the same could contribute to the inventiveness of the various subject-matters claimed in the case. Nothing indicated that this concept was known or belonged to the general knowledge of the man skilled in the art. Since the search examiner did not indicate that the documents cited in the case could exclude such a contribution, it could not be assumed that this could not be the case (W 17/89; see W 6/90, OJ 1991, 438). In view of this, a single inventive concept had to be attributed to all claims linking all their subjectmatters (see W 22/91).
In W 6/90 (OJ 1991, 438; see also 5.1 above) the board noted inter alia that R. 13.1 PCT also stipulated that the single general concept had to be inventive. Even with a given single general concept there was lack of unity if the concept had no inventive character. The boards of appeal have confirmed the above decision on several occasions (see e.g. W 31/91, W 29/92, W 34/92, W 45/92, W 8/93 and W 6/97).
In W 48/90 and W 50/90 the board noted that as far as chemical compounds were concerned, unity of invention was no mere question of the respective structural features, but had to be decided taking into account the technical problem to be solved and whether or not the respective compounds contributed to the solution found.
In W 45/92 the board stated that the term "inventive" could not be interpreted as a requirement for the common part to be inventive per se and therefore claimable as such. The investigation in this respect should concentrate on whether or not all or some of such features could contribute to the later detailed consideration of the inventive steps. Only if the state of the art or common general knowledge which had already been taught showed, beyond reasonable doubt, that this was not possible in the circumstances, should non-unity be declared. It further held that the term "same or corresponding special technical features" recognised that the features should define a contribution to the invention visàvis the prior art. As the features in question were also part of the most relevant state of the art, where they were set out in an identical manner, they could not provide such a contribution. Thus, the various inventions, if any, had to lie in the unshared specific characterising features in each case. Since the claims contained no other common feature between them in the characterising part, this confirmed the conclusion of lack of unity (see W 32/92, OJ 1994, 239).
In W 38/92 the board confirmed W 6/90 (see above) and noted that the common features in the claim groups represented the "sole concept" linking the various subject-matters. The board stated that the remaining question was whether or not any of these specific features in the claim groups or their combination could make a contribution to the inventive steps relating to each claimed subject-matter; if so, this would render the said concept linking the various subject-matters inventive. The board observed that the new R. 13 PCT also required such a contribution by the suggested common "special technical features" over the prior art, i.e. that more than novelty be provided. In T 94/91 the board made it clear that the general inventive concept could not be equated with the features cited in a claim or in a particular combination of claims. What should be considered was the inventive concept as defined in the claims with due regard to the description and any drawings (see W 2/95).
In W 9/93 the board noted that the intermediate compounds were known, so that these products could not serve as a common inventive concept, and that a technical feature contained in the process claims was also known. The board pointed out that a technical feature which already formed part of the state of the art could not, by definition, make a contribution over the prior art and did not, therefore, qualify as a unifying element within the meaning of R. 13.1 PCT. According to R. 13.2 PCT, as in force from 1.7.1992, an international application could relate to a group of inventions if there was a "technical relationship" among those inventions involving one or more of the same or corresponding "special technical features", i.e. such technical features that defined a contribution which each of the claimed inventions made over the prior art. R. 13.1 PCT did not simply require some link between a group of inventions claimed in an international application, but a common inventive concept. This meant that there must be either a common technical problem or at least, if there was more than one technical problem, there must be one single technical concept behind the solutions of these different problems.
In T 957/96 the application described a number of processes which did not have any process step in common. According to the board, the decisive fact was that all the processes claimed shared a common technical feature, namely the use of the substantially pure regioisomer, which was essential for solving the technical problem addressed by the application. It was this use of the intermediate compound which formed the common "inventive" concept of all the claimed process variants. In other words, this feature constituted a special technical feature which defined the contribution that the claimed invention made over the prior art as required by R. 30(1) EPC 1973 (see now R. 44(1) EPC).
In W 11/99 (OJ 2000, 186) the board held that if, in an international application, there are claims directed to products and to a process for the manufacture thereof, it could not be assumed that there were no corresponding special technical features within the meaning of R. 13.2 PCT simply because the process could also be used to manufacture other products. The board interpreted the requirement for the presence of "corresponding special technical features" under R. 13.2 PCT in cases where a manufacturing process and products were being claimed in the same application to mean that they could usually be assumed to be present where the production process is new and actually suited to making the claimed products accessible (where appropriate in addition to further products). In such cases the board regards the process as being "specially adapted" to the manufacture of the claimed products. A narrower interpretation of the terms "specially adapted" and "corresponding special technical features" would not fulfil the legislative purpose of Art. 34(3) PCT and associated R. 13.1 PCT, which, in the board's view, was the same as that of Art. 82 EPC 1973, namely to prevent subjectmatters which were not interconnected being claimed in one and the same application. This interpretation accorded with Annex B to the PCT Administrative Instructions mentioned in the PCT Guideline III7.2 (July 1998 version), where it is stated in Part 1, item (e), that a process is specially adapted for the manufacture of a product if it inherently results in the product (see now Annex B, para. (e) PCT Administrative Instructions, as in force from 16.9.2012). If this condition was met, it was irrelevant whether other products could be obtained using the process.
In T 106/06 the board referred to the established case law of the boards of appeal according to which a manufacturing process and its resulting products are considered as unitary subject matter (e.g. W 2/95 and W 11/99). The board gave consideration to the question whether the fact that claim 1 did not relate to a manufacturing process in the usual sense which may be characterised in that the specific end products are envisaged at the outset of the process, but to a process of isolating genes which, in view of its set up, has resemblance to a screening process which, in turn, may be characterised in that the final product is not known at the outset, should have an influence on the assessment of unity. The board held that the decisive question was whether the product had actually been produced by the process and not whether it had been known at the start of it. Therefore, there was no difference in the assessment of unity between a manufacturing process and a screening process and their resulting products.
In W 18/01 the board pointed out that it followed from the definitions in the Regulations under the PCT and the PCT International Preliminary Examination Guidelines (which are binding on the EPO; see G 1/89, OJ 1991, 155, point 6 of the Reasons) that it was normally not sufficient merely to define and examine the common core of a group of inventions, for example by indicating the features which were specified in all the claims defining the inventions of the group. R. 13.2 PCT required an examination of the technical relationship among the inventions in a group. Such a relationship could exist even if the inventions did not involve the same technical features, provided they involved corresponding special technical features. The definition of "special technical features" given in R. 13.2 PCT required an analysis of the contribution which each of the claimed inventions made over the prior art. This first entailed analysing which of the features distinguished the claimed inventions from the cited prior art before their contribution could be examined in the light of the description, in particular the problems solved and the effects achieved by the claimed inventions. | <urn:uuid:fe5b9d78-9440-4c34-83e4-6206f7015a4f> | CC-MAIN-2016-30 | http://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/html/caselaw/2013/e/clr_ii_b_5_2.htm | 2016-07-26T10:23:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-30/segments/1469257824757.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20160723071024-00262-ip-10-185-27-174.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970096 | 2,085 |
On Christmas Day, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a student from Nigeria, allegedly tried to blow up a jetliner bound for Detroit. He failed due to some defect in his explosives and the quick reflexes of passengers who subdued him. As you might expect, this close call has some of us asking hard, but necessary questions:
Would full body scanners have stopped Abdulmutallab before he could bring explosives aboard the plane?
Shouldn't the fact that his father alerted U.S. officials that his son had become radicalized have flagged him as a security risk?
How can this incident be used to hurt the Democrats?
Granted, that last one may not have been high on "your" list of pressing questions, but it was obviously of vital importance to the opposition party. As a Washington Post headline put it: "Republicans see political opportunity; GOP says jet incident is more proof Democrats are weak on security." Sure enough, there followed a spate of condemnation, led by former Vice President Dick Cheney, who accused President Obama of "pretending" we are not at war.
Just as a factual matter, it's difficult to see how the GOP can carry off this argument with a straight face. If Abdulmutallab's bungled attempt to blow up a jetliner on President Obama's watch proves Democrats are soft on terrorism, it stands to reason that Richard Reid's bungled attempt to blow up a jetliner on President Bush's watch proves the same about Republicans. I'm just sayin'.
Not that the GOP has a monopoly on inappropriate questions. The near tragedy had Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano asking one of her own: How can I cover my backside?
Her solution was to suggest, on ABC's "This Week," that there was really nothing to be concerned about. "Once this incident occurred," she said, "the system worked." One can only wonder what color is the sky in her reality.
Perhaps Madame Secretary is unaware of this, but the system is supposed to "prevent" incidents; it deserves no praise for the fact that Abdulmutallab was competently taken into custody "after" a miracle saved the jetliner from the explosives he managed to smuggle through security.
Thankfully, Napolitano recanted her nonsensical blather the next day, which, as it happens, was the day before the president belatedly conceded the "human and systemic failures" that almost led to tragedy. But I submit that her initial, defensive, reaction, taken alongside the GOP's reflexive attempt to exploit the incident for political gain, speaks volumes about why Washington cannot seem to fix airline security - or, for that matter, anything else.
So polarized has our leadership become that it is incapable of seeing in any dimension beyond the political. When attempted mass murder is seen as an "opportunity" on the one side and a signal to circle the wagons on the other, one can only conclude that for some, partisanship literally matters more than life itself.
I know what you're thinking and for the record, yes: I did indeed make this same argument - repeatedly - when Democrats tried to use 9/11 to damage George W. Bush.
I renew it now with an urgency. Too often, our leaders cannot work for the greater good because they acknowledge no good greater than politics. But if that's truly our prime directive and highest imperative, God help us all.
The unacceptable fact is that, "eight years" after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was able to waltz aboard a U.S.-bound jetliner carrying explosives. And Republicans are wondering how they can turn this to their advantage? The White House point person on terrorism is wondering how she can deflect the blame?
Small wonder we have no answer for the problem of air security. Step one in getting the right answers? Start asking the right questions.
Leonard Pitts Jr., winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, is a columnist for the Miami Herald. Readers may write to him via e-mail at lpittsmiamiherald.com.
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During the last 100 days, all of our lives, across the globe, have been turned upside down. Whilst scientifically overdue and rationally unsurprising, the pandemic has shaken the foundations of our outer, and thus, inner worlds. What we came to see as normal has been curtailed or removed; what we relied on for our own sense of normality has been fractured.
Is everybody feeling more anxious?
No, but that does not make those who are wrong or ill. Some people are feeling less anxious as their ‘ordinary’ level of anxiety (which may be quite high) now have an outlet – something tangible to attach to. Think of the example of a soldier who is able to thinking function efficiently in a war zone but who, upon returning home to an ‘ordinary’ environment, struggles to function as they locate threat behind every corner.
There are also some who have a healthy relationship with their ‘anxious’ selves and are able to recognise the source of their anxiety and to use it whilst holding onto a thinking mind – such folks may feel a broader and deeper range of all their emotions at present but would not describe themselves as ‘more anxious’. This is possible for us all.
We are all going to die!
It is a fact – no way round it – we are all going to die. Though probably not from Covid-19. In fact the likelihood of death from Covid-19 is statistically very low.
I am not interested in getting into the actual mortality rates etc. for Covid as they have little to do with the anxiety I am addressing – suffice to say that Covid is real and each death is a personal tragedy – like deaths always are.
However, there is more than meets the eye in the sub-heading of this section of my blog which may shed some light on heightened anxiety levels which I shall attempt to explain.
Let’s start with the premise that human beings, generally, have a strong biological drive to live – like all other mammals.
Back to Freud
Freud posited that the majority of our decision making and therefore emotional work remained largely unconscious to us. He was right about this as has been evidenced in neuroscience experiments.
Freud also suggested that we have a profoundly unconscious fear of death linked to our consciousness of self – we know that we are alive and therefore we also know we must die and this presents a dilemma.
All anxiety is death anxiety
Anxiety is not like the other emotions. It is free floating and pervasive. We all must live with anxiety whether it dominates our experience or is just a flicker on the horizon.
All other emotions are ‘attached’ to something in that we generally know or can work out why we feel a certain way. We generally know what we feel happy or sad for example – and if we don’t the psychotherapy can uncover the reasons.
Anxiety is different in the sense that it ‘seeks to attach’ to something. So, rather than being anxious about a presentation, a flight, an exam or a date, our anxiety ‘finds’ something in our environment and then attaches to that convincing us that that thing is what is causing our anxiety.
Of course real things cause anxiety, however, on a profound (ontological) level, all anxiety stems from an unconscious but ubiquitous knowledge that we are going to die. It is therefore death anxiety.
Covid represents the perfect vehicle to which our anxiety can attach – it kills. Just not very many of us. It is not a Hollywood movie like Independence Day where the enemy will destroy us all unless we mount a global war (and towards an enemy that we can see – and is monster-like). Covid is invisible to us but nonetheless has triggered a profound death anxiety in all of us – we are primed to feel anxious in the face of death as though we are hard-wired.
What can I do?
Earlier I mentioned the term ‘a thinking mind’ and this is one I have written about before. Even though are all primed to feel more anxious when reminded of death (check our Terror Management Theory for empirical evidence of this), it does not mean we need to lose our rational minds and succumb to the anxiety and the accompanying acting out.
Your mind is capable of thinking and scanning for evidence. For example, if you are reading this piece right now, stop breathe and look around you. Look out of a window and notice that in this precise moment, you are not dying. You can use your sense to ground you:
- What can I see;
- What can I hear;
- What can I smell;
- What can a taste;
- What can I seen – my breath, my heartbeat, tension in my body etc.
I must buy toilet paper!
Much has been made of the compulsive need to purchase toilet paper as the pandemic emerged and took hold. And this seem to be a global rather than local phenomenon (though Americans seem to have a compulsive need to purchase firearms – but that adds confirmation to the theory below).
So why toilet paper? Well, when anxious humans would rather do something rather than just sit there – and what we often need to do is stop and just sit there. Particularly when we are not about to immediately die.
Toilet paper is intricately linked to a biological need that we would prefer didn’t exist. The need to defecate. The need to defecate links us to nature and to being, at least in a significant part, animal. Being linked to nature and thus being an animal means that we are mortal – something that is unconsciously unbearable for the part of us that is ‘God-like’ and able to project ourselves back into the past or forward into the future. In short, toilet paper became a manic defense against death but ensuring that we had the ability in the face of death to ‘wipe away’ any evidence of our animal nature.
Briefly returning to the questions of guns and our American friends – I posit that guns are the way Americans take responsibility for avoiding death anxiety – by protecting themselves against the enemy. Perhaps thank Hollywood for this (even though Covid-19 cannot be shot). Oh, and I am fairly sure they also stocked up on toilet paper.
Mark Vahrmeyer, UKCP Registered, BHP Co-founder is an integrative psychotherapist with a wide range of clinical experience from both the public and private sectors. He currently sees both individuals and couples, primarily for ongoing psychotherapy. Mark is available at the Lewes and Brighton & Hove Practices.
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The newly opened Westchester restaurant known as BlueBamboo is off to a great start with its wide range of menu options.
Located at 267 South 4th Avenue in Mount Vernon, BlueBamboo serves up traditional seafood options rich with Vietnamese, West Indian and Caribbean flavors.
Take your pick of protein from brown stew chicken, jerk chicken, curry goat, oxtail, stew pork, snapper, escovitch, wild salmon, curry shrimp, jerk shrimp, pepper shrimp and much more.
Traditional American options like wings, wraps, burgers, salads and sides are also available, and all of the options are reasonably priced.
Clearly targeting a millennial market, BlueBamboo’s interior is sleek, modern and inviting. Though the newly opened eatery’s online presence is still scarce, the establishment has already managed to earn a five-star rating on Google. So far, guests are satisfied with the freshness of the ingredients, the friendliness of the staff and everything in between.
“Great food and everything is made fresh. I also absolutely love the staff, very good people, so polite and friendly,” wrote Kay T. in a recent Google review.
Still not convinced? Take it from Mount Vernon Mayor Richard Thomas, who wrote about the new eatery in a recent weekly report on Medium :
“The grand opening of BlueBamboo is an affirmation that Mount Vernon’s location is the best, the economy is strong, and the quality of life is getting stronger. Dig In!”
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Event Playcare & Mobile Crèche Service
At Mini Me’s we know just how important it is organising your special event, and that your mini guests are not only involved, but are happy too! We can work with you to organise much needed adult time, giving you the ‘Time Out’ you need to entertain your guests! Every member of our team is police checked and have lots of experience working with children of all ages, helpers will be chosen to suit your family’s needs!
The activities we provide are age dependant and can vary, from simple supervision creating a fun safe environment including arts & crafts, indoor & outdoor play, face painting, a Mini Me’s disco or karaoke perhaps, to their favourite story or DVD for wind down time.
Mixture of ages? No problem we can come up with activities to suit all. Plus mum & dad are not too far away if need be.
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20 Fun Holiday Maths Challenges For Pupils In Upper Key Stage 2
Upper KS2 – Years 4 and 5
Ensure a smooth transition from Year 4 to Year 5 and from Year 5 to Year 6 with these amazing holiday maths packs!
- A fun way to keep pupils engaged with maths over the summer
- Contains a wide variety of tasks and activities
- The sheets are prepared and ready to hand out immediately
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Waiting for the Boat
The sun shimmers on the murky water
A little fish jumps
a dragonfly hovers over all
And ghosts of tigers look across the river.
The couple on the bench
Look at their watches
The boat is late, they say, annoyed.
The boat is always late.
But the sun, the fish, the dragonfly
And the tiger ghosts
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The following links feature audio clips processed through Chroma and in some cases other products for comparison purposes. To download WAV files right-click on the links and choose "Save as".
Chroma will hold its own against any preamp on the market, and due to the versatility of its analog plugin slot can even capture the vibe and texture of other popular mic preamps such that you can use it interchangeably. Some may argue it even sounds identical. In the first example, two clips - one Chroma, one API 512 - were cut in five random places and comped together in an alternating manner. In the second example, two clips - one Chroma, one RND 511 - were cut in five random places and comped together in an alternating manner. In the third example, two clips - one Chroma, one AMS-Neve 1073LB - were cut in five random places and comped together in an alternating manner. Can you hear the cuts between Chroma and the API 512, between Chroma and the RND 511, or between Chroma and the AMS-Neve 1073LB?
In the first example, the "A" Mojo Amp was used to match the tone of an API 512 set at minimum gain with no pad. In the second example I matched the tone of the RND 511 with Silk engaged and set to 12 o'clock using the "N" Mojo Amp. I installed the Rogue-Tec Air module in Chroma and set its frequency jumper to the 8k setting. The C-DRV knob was at its minimum setting and C-MIX was adjusted to match the rising high frequency curve of the RND 511. In the third example, the "N" Mojo Amp was used with the HF switch engaging the Vintage filter, which was configured internally.
Thanks to Paul Godfrey of Morcheeba for making this drum loop clip available.
The first half of this clip is an unprocessed drum mix. The second half of the clip features one Chroma used on the "A" setting on the snare, and another on the "N" setting with LF engaged (Sub frequency) on the kick drum. The two halves were RMS matched. Note how in the processed half the peak levels are less than the unprocessed section. Even though RMS was matched, the Chroma section sounds punchier and more exciting, and the perceived volume feels louder.
These clips use the same kick and snare clips from the example above, but use additional processing via the Colour slot to really make the tracks more exciting and mix-ready. The kick and snare tracks were individually processed through two Chromas and then summed ITB. Both the individual tracks and the mix are available with and without processing for comparison.
The snare track was processed by a Chroma in "A" mode with FET Filter loaded into the Colour slot. FET Filter was configured for a mid dip at 500 Hz. By driving into the FET input stage of the Colour module (C-DRV at 12 noon) more punch and was brought out of the raw snare track while simultaneously taming the peaks and increasing RMS energy. The C-MIX knob was set to 3 o'clock to clean up the tubbiness of the snare that was really robbing it of clarity. To further enhance presense, the HF switch was engaged (set internally to the Presence setting). The Chroma processed track is much more lively and balanced in the highs and mids.
The kick track was processed by a second Chroma in "N" mode with Implode loaded into the Colour slot. Implode (1176-style limiter) was set to "all-buttons-in" ratio with a medium-slow attack, and a medium fast release. The C-DRV knob was set to about 11 o'clock to bring out the explosive room sound of the kick drum. Then the dry signal was blended in to taste via C-MIX (set to about 12:30). Finally engaging both the LF (Sub) and HF (Presence) EQ gave it a larger than life, modern sound.
Check out how just a few knob tweaks on two Chromas transformed these drums from wimpy and dark, to hard-hitting and present.
Try out our gear in your studio and, if within 14 days you're not satisfied, let us know and we'll issue a refund.
To be eligible for a return, your item must be "like new" and in the same condition that you received it. It must also be in the original packaging with all original materials (power supply, power cord, product card, etc.). Please refrain from racking 19 inch rackmount gear during this trial period so that the faceplate and enclosure don't get scratched.
To complete your return, just give us a call or shoot us an email, and we'll send you instructions for packing up your unit and shipping it back. Please note that you will be responsible for return shipping costs and we ask that you insure the unit for its full retail value to protect against loss or damage. You are responsible for ensuring the products arrive safely at our shop. Once we receive and inspect the unit we will issue a refund for the purchase price less the cost of shipping. Units received in any condition other than "like new" may be subject to a restocking fee.
We ship to (just about) any address in the world via USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL Express. When you place an order, we will estimate shipping delivery times for you based on your location and the shipping option you choose. Delivery time estimates are given on the checkout page. Once payment is approved, in stock products, other than Silver Bullets will ship out from Rogue Planet Command within 2-3 business days. We ship Silver Bullets within 7-10 business days. Once an order ships you will be sent tracking information via email and/or Facebook Messenger (if selected at checkout). Please coordinate with the shipping company to have your package held for pickup if you know you will not be home when the package is expected to arrive.
Please note that the shipping rates for many items we sell are dimensional weight-based. To reflect the policies of the shipping companies we use, weights may be rounded up to the next full pound. We may substitute UPS for FedEx ground service and vice versa. We also may upgrade UPS and FedEx ground service to USPS Priority Mail if we are feeling extra nice.
Also note that international customers are required to pay all import duties and taxes required by their respective countries. When filling out customs forms we declare the actual purchase price. Please do not ask us to declare lower values.
If you reside outside of North America, we highly recommend DHL Express when ordering a Silver Bullet for the quickest delivery and with zero customs headaches. If you are in Canada we recommend selecting USPS instead of FedEx or UPS since the customs process is easier and less money.
We require a signature for all Silver Bullet orders to help ensure you safely receive the package.
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When can I expect to receive a response to my email or phone call?
Most emails or phone calls will receive a friendly reply within 24 hours, and often within just a few hours. However, sometimes we get sucked into the glorious nebula of designing and building products. Or need to do laundry, shop for groceries, or sleep. We appreciate your patience as we balance the demands of our intergalactic commitments, and try to enjoy time off on the weekends. Please don't be upset if an email you sent on Friday evening doesn't get returned until Monday or Tuesday morning.
Do you have Silver Bullets in stock?
Please check the FAQ tab on the Silver Bullet product pages for up-to-date information about stock, production status, and shipping dates.
How much will it cost to ship my order overseas?
Our shopping cart has a shipping calculator that is configured to estimate shipping to anywhere in the world. All you have to do is add a product to the cart and then click the cart icon in the upper right corner of your browser. At that point you can select your country, province, and enter your postal code. A list of available shipping options will be displayed after you click Calculate Shipping. As mentioned above, international customers are responsible for paying all import duties and taxes for their respective countries.
What shipping option do you recommend for European customers?
If you are ordering a Silver Bullet or 500 series module, we highly recommend that you select DHL Express shipping. DHL acts as the customs broker and offers exceptionally quick door-to-door service. We've been seeing packages arrive in the UK in 4-5 days. There is no hand off with local postal services like there is with USPS so you will know where your package is every minute of the day by accessing the tracking information. They will require you to pay all customs and import taxes before delivering the package to your door.
My country charges high import taxes. Can you adjust the customs value to help me out?
Sorry, but no. As a rule, we declare the actual purchase price on all customs forms. Defrauding a foreign government is not a wise business move.
Do you accept wire transfers, ACH payments, or Paypal as forms of payment?
We only accept payment through our online store using major credit and debit cards at this time.
How are you guys able to sell products of this quality level at these impossibly affordable prices?
We simply reject the notion that a middleman like a dealer or distributor needs to come between the guy that designs and builds the gear and the artist that uses it. By adopting a direct sales model we have been able to pass that savings onto our customers. Do you really want to pay 30% more for your gear? All we ask in return is that you make lots of great music and help spread the word about our company and products.
Can I have my favorite pro audio dealer get me a Silver Bullet?
Sure, if you want to pay more money for our products. See the question above. Our pricing model does not allow for typical dealer margins. Really. If you'd like to order 10 Silver Bullets we'd be happy to give you a sweet discount though.
I just bought a used unit from some dude online. Can I have the seller send it to you first to check out?
As a policy, we decline to get in the middle of third party transactions on used gear. If you receive the unit and it requires repair please contact us and we can go over service options.
What in the bloody galaxy is Void Corp?
Void Corp is a character in the Louder Than Liftoff universe. Some of our products are made as limited edition Void Corp versions with a black aesthetic. Click the link for more info.
It would be really cool if you guys had t-shirts. Can you make me one?
I have a question that you didn't answer here. Where can I get more info?
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In case you want information on the climate and weather of Kota, this article will be of help. Read on to explore Kota weather forecast.
Weather of Kota
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and the temperature may rise up to 45 'C plus. Summer months extend from
April to late in October. Winters in Kota are usually pleasant with
temperature dropping up to 9 'C the nights are usually more chilly. The
best time to visit Kota is during the months of November to the
beginning of the month of April.
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Activists Blockade NATO Conference
Anti-militarist activists today blockaded a NATO conference at a stately home in the Sussex countryside. Meanwhile, banners were hung off road bridges close to the venue to greet delegates as they arrived at Wiston House in Steyning.
Protesters succeeded in blocking the front entrance for more than an hour, leading to chaotic scenes on the A283, as cars queued to get into the estate.
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Arthur “Ray” Garcia
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Arthur “Ray” Garcia was born September 28, 1963 in Cuero to Victor Garcia and Antonia “Toni” Leal. He died Saturday June 14, 2014 at the age of 50.
Ray was a member of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Cuero.
Ray is survived by his mother, Antonia “Toni” Leal; father Victoria Garcia Sr., brothers Ruben Garcia, Ismael Garcia, Victor Garcia Jr. and Freddie Garcia. Also sister Sonia Barrera.
He is preceded in death by grandparents Juan and Maria Rodriquez, Lucio Flores and Eugenia Olguin and Juan and Victoria Garcia and also by his sisters Ida and Irene Garcia and brother Robert Garcia Sr.
A rosary will be recited at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday June 17 at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church followed by funeral mass at 2 p.m. with Father David Berger officiating. Burial will be at Hillside Cemetery.
Pallbearers are John Rodriguez, Jr., Eddy Olguin, Robert Strait, Isaac Dimas, Raul Dimas, Sammy Salinas and Rudy Liendo. Honorary Pallbearers are the Freebirds, Carlos Garibay, and Eloyd Trevino (deceased).
Words of comfort can be left at www.heritagefuneralhome.org.
Services entrusted to Heritage Funeral Home, Victoria, TX, 361-578-3611.
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Wheel-Thrown Porcelain in Miniature
A sample of my great
variety of functional wheel-thrown porcelain pots with high-fire reduction
I create wheel-thrown one-of-a-kind functional miniature porcelain vessels
under 1-1/2 inches high, finished with a myriad of decorating techniques and firing
I started making miniature pots in an attempt to recapture the sense of play
I felt my adult life was lacking. Very soon into this journey, however, I was
overcome by the amazing and unlimited potential of porcelain. Pushing the
material to perform on a micro scale fascinates me. My goal is to distill the
elements of a functioning vessel into a tiny space. I want to draw the viewer
in and offer an intense and personal experience; focusing on a such a tiny
object can block out for a few moments the larger world, and hopefully evoke
ceramics traditions of times past as well as the sense of whimsy which is the
reason I was drawn to miniature pots in the first place.
lucky to get some great press for the 2007 July 7 8 Palo Alto Clay & Glass Festival:
feature (2007 July 06) about my work on NBC11 TV (San
Jose Oakland San Francisco)!
See the Palo Alto
Weekly (2007 July 06) article
about my work.
See the San Jose
Mercury News (2007 June 30) article
about my work.
I sell my work at ceramics, craft, and miniature shows around the world. I
have cut back substantially on my show appearances. I do not plan to be at any show in 2011,
including the ACGA Palo Alto Clay & Glass Festival in July. Please note that although they are wonderful shows that
I have done for many years, I will NOT be at either the IGMA Guild Show or Philadelphia Miniaturia
in 2010 or 2011.
Since each of my
creations is handmade and unique, I sell my work only at retail shows!
San Jose State University, San Jose,
CA, independent study in the ceramic department, 1991-1993
San Francisco State University, glaze chemistry, Fall, 1991
Radcliffe Pottery Studio, Cambridge, MA, seminars in glaze chemistry and
MIT Student Art Association, Cambridge, MA, beginning and intermediate pottery
DeCordova Museum School, Lincoln, MA, jewelry/silversmithing, 1989
Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, B.S., economics, 1984
and Little: Artistry in Miniature", Toy and Miniature Museum of Kansas City, January 2001 - May 12,
Monthly International Competition" during annual conference of NCECA
(National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts), Columbus, OH,
Ceramic Competition, Kennedy-Douglass
Center for the Arts, Florence, AL,
Feb April 1999
Play: the Art of the Toy", Spruill
Center for the Arts, Atlanta, GA,
Jun Aug 1998
Clay Competition", one of 31 works at The Artery, Davis, CA,
Apr May 1998
- "Long Beach Arts 93rd National Open", Long Beach Museum
of Art, Feb Mar
du Jour", one of 18 invited to exhibit at the opening of the Northern Clay
Center, Minneapolis, MN,
Sep Nov 1997
Close Look at Miniatures" (Zoom sur les miniatures), Musee de la
Civilisation, Quebec, Canada, May 1997 - Apr 1998
and Glass: Association of California
Ceramic Artists", Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA,
Mar - Apr 1997
Objects: Contemporary Miniatures", The Stones Gallery, San Francisco, CA,
Seasonings: A Loose Interpretation", a group show of contemporary
ceramic teapots loosely inspired by Celestial Seasonings Teas, Celestial
Seasonings Gallery, Boulder, CO, Apr 1996
A holiday show of 30 artists who work small", Kohler
Sheboygan, WI, Nov Jan 1996 and 1997
Tea 95: An Exhibition of Teapots by Contemporary Artists", del Mano
Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Apr 1995
exhibition of Miniature Vessels, Gallery Mido, Clearwater, FL,
Jan 1995 and Jan 1996
California Ceramics '93, Alvin Gittins
Gallery, Salt Lake City,
UT, Sep - Oct 1993
permanent exhibition at The Southwest Museum of Miniature Arts, Dallas, TX
permanent exhibition at The Toy & Miniature Museum of Kansas City, MO since 1992
California State Fair Award of Excellence 1992
Honorable Mention, "Ceramics in Northern California", The Bedford Gallery,
Walnut Creek, CA, June-Aug 1996
Association of California Ceramic Artists: Exhibiting Member, since 1992
International Guild for Miniature Artisans: member since 1991; awarded Fellow
status in 1994
I Shrunk the Pots", San Francisco Examiner, July 11, 1997;
Cover story on the Peninsula section,
written by Debby Morse with color photos.
Porcelain", Ceramics Monthly, May, 1994, p.34; 7-page story
with cover photograph about my work including inspiration, techniques,
glaze formulae, and business practices.
Treasures", San Mateo County Times and Oakland Tribune,
July 20, 1996; Cover story on the weekend sections, written by Jolene Thym
with color photos.
Porcelain Pots", Palo Alto Weekly Weekend Edition, July 14,
1995, p.10; Full-page story written by Monica Hayde with cover photograph
and inside photos.
Fabrega", Dolls House World, April, 1996, p.16; story written
by Lynn Medhurst with several color photos.
Pots, Little Pots", Miniature Collector, Summer 1993, p.22; an
article with black & white and color photographs on the craft of
Lane, Contemporary Porcelain: Materials, Techniques and Expressions,
Chilton Book Company, Radnor,
PA, 1995; my work is
Fina, The Best of Pottery, The Best of Pottery 2, Quarry
Books, Rockport, MA, 1996, 1998; my work is pictured.
En Miniature par Andrea Fabrega", Le Magazine De La Maison De
Poupee, Winter 1994-1995, p.23; an article with black and white and
color photographs of my pots and techniques.
Perfect Pots of Andrea Fabrega", International Dolls House News,
Spring 1995, p.11; article with color photos.
Email: andrea dot fabrega at gmail dot com
Fax: +1 650 321-7791
by Andrea M. Fabrega.
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Re: William Dixon - New Bern, Craven County NC
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I have a copy of the family bible record of William Dixon of Craven County, North Carolina. Matthew is not listed.
I also have a copy of the inventory record from the Estate Sale of William Dixon. Matthew's name again is NOT listed.
I have copies of his land deeds and Matthew is NOT listed.
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Ho Rui An lives and works in Singapore. He is an artist and writer working at the intersections of contemporary art, cinema, performance and theory. Writing, talking and thinking around images, he investigates their emergence, transmission and disappearance within contexts of globalism and governance. He has presented projects at the 2nd Kochi-Muziris Biennale; Haus de Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; NUS Museum, Singapore; Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center, Manila; Serpentine Galleries, London; NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore; and Para Site, Hong Kong. He is also the Singapore desk editor for ArtAsiaPacific and has contributed to numerous publications.
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June 1, 2007 at 7:54 am
Last Saturday I weighed in at 187 and was glad I’d decided the week before to nix the weekly weigh-in entries in favor of round-ups at the beginning of each month. My weight has been all over the place in May, making me wonder if I should rename this blog every week. One week it’s “Half of Me” and the next week it’s “Over Half of Me” and then the week after that it’s “Almost Half of Me.” I practically needed rotating logos.
So I was looking at that number, wishing I was a dishonest person and could lie about my weight or perhaps “forget” to update my sidebar with the number. Then I thought about everything I’ve been saying lately about how I don’t care so much about my weight as I do about being fit and healthy and able to roll on my back and fling myself up to a standing position. I asked myself, “Self, do you really believe all that stuff?” And I realized that yes, I do really believe all that stuff. I still want the numbers to go down and not up, since weight gain will inhibit my ability to do all those things. But as long as I am able to run and frolic like a pixie it doesn’t matter if I actually look like a pixie. So I typed the number into my template and rebuilt all my pages and logged off the computer to go for a walk.
Then six days later I weighed in at 180.
Aunt Flo came early this month and like many an unwanted relative screwed with my head. You’d think after over a decade of being of a child-bearing age I would get used to the weirdness of my cycle, but no, she gets me every time. I even use My Monthly Cycles to send me e-mail reminders three days in advance, but she launched a pre-emptive strike this month. Still, seven pounds in six days is a bit wonky even for me. I’ve read there is now a form of birth control that will let you stop having periods. There’s a part of me that would really love not having to rinse my undies in cold water every month, but another part knows that I would miss these sudden drops in weight that are so much fun even if the gains drive me crazy. I also want other people to take the pill for a couple years in case it causes them to grow a second vagina. Which is funny since I have no qualms at all about dumping Splenda all over my oatmeal and strawberries even though it’s a fairly new chemical.
I can’t blame the recent weight-loss stall completely on my cycle though. The past two months have been slow for three reasons. First, I started weight lifting at the end of February and have been developing muscles. I’ve been drinking my protein shakes and eating my cottage cheese. So now when I rub my back at work I’m feeling up hard clay instead of mushy Play-Dough. I’ve definitely gained muscle and thus weight. How much? I haven’t a clue.
Secondly, I mildly injured something my inner right thigh at the beginning of May and had to stop running for 3 weeks. I replaced it with some cycling and the occasional walk to the grocery store, but nothing gets me hot and sweaty like running does, except maybe Simon Baker. I am now getting back into running, but taking it slow so I don’t re-injure myself.
The third reason: cereal. While it has been fun experimenting with new foods, this curiosity has led me to some dangerous discoveries. I started experimenting with new breakfast foods like Kashi’s Go Lean and Go Lean Crunch. I should know better because cereals are one of my binge foods, just like muffins or breads. One bowl of Go Lean will keep you lean, but two and a half are not a good idea. I also discovered the most delicious dessert – a bowl of vanilla yogurt mixed with a mango-cornflake cereal. Oh. My. God. It was ambrosia. I would eat a bowl of it and then I’d immediately eat another. Then I’d want to eat another but I’d wait until later in the day so I wouldn’t feel like a total pig. It was so good and yet so bad for me at the same time. I’ve now banned the mango cereal from my house because I cannot control myself around it. Until they start selling it in half cup portions I’m only going to buy it on special occasions.
I think I’ve made the proper course corrections and I’ll get back to losing weight, though I’m happy to have basically maintained my weight recently. I’m happier to see the 180 on the scale because it is a new low for me. Hopefully (cross my fingers) I can hit the 170’s in June (knock on wood). If I get to 172 I will have lost 200 pounds. Two hundred freakin’ pounds. Can you believe that?
And, a bit of bad news here, yesterday I lent my digital camera to my brother. So you’re going to have to be patient waiting for new progress photos. He promised to return it in a week. Untill them I could try to sketch myself for you, but I think it’ s better just to wait. I had no idea I was going to get to 180 this quickly or else I would have just taken the pics last night. | <urn:uuid:c7fd1493-0026-4e7b-81b6-aaf52f8378b5> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2007/06/weighing-in-on-may/ | 2017-03-29T13:14:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218190295.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212950-00495-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973389 | 1,191 |
By Soumya Sunder
Purity, taking the form of love,
An immortal love showered in tons.
It is the mother’s love so pleasant,
So pure – to be nurtured.
She deposits our worries in herself,
Providing lots of love as interest.
She guarantees us the best of life,
Removes evil with her sword or knife.
Her sword or knife is nothing big,
Bigger is the love she bestows upon us.
She tries to provide us with everything possible,
More than everything is her trust on us.
The person who identifies our hidden talent,
Is the person who is the reason of our lives.
Our attachment is the greatest of all,
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View Full Version : Electrofishing study in Cataloochee this weekend?
09-24-2008, 03:12 PM
I had spoke with Steve Moore, head of SMNP fisheries and planned to help in the electrofishing study scheduled for Friday and Saturday but have been unable to reach him. Does anyone know if it is still on or how to contact his department to speak with someone in his office?
09-24-2008, 07:49 PM
He has been out of the office since the 5th, i believe working on the lynn camp project. I'm not sure how you could reach anyone to let them know you would help.
09-24-2008, 10:24 PM
I have not heard anything about this, I would also love to lend a hand.
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GUEST AUTHOR: Miles Dodge
Miles was very involved with Ncompass when we first started working in Haiti. He now contributes his time and talents to our Kidstarter program as a board member.
In my Air Force line of work, I address topics of illegal discrimination and sexual harassment, which to do effectively requires me to understand several different concepts including implicit bias, institutional racism and power & privilege to name just a few. While sitting in a training with ~100 Equal Opportunity specialists from across the Department of Defense regarding these topics, the lecturer read out the slide prompt “What is privilege?”. As I rolled my eyes, I thought to myself, “of course I know what it is” and instinctively felt guilty. However, as the lesson went on I realized my lack of understanding regarding this concept. How do you define it? Initially I recalled privilege in the sense of an advantage one is granted or earned such as the privilege to win an award for a successful performance (e.g. “it’s a privilege to be honored among so many amazing performers”), or access to borrow a vehicle while in high school for good grades as an example. These are all valid, but my paradigm shifted when I saw that privilege can be unearned as well. Like it or not, each person is born with some level of unearned privilege, or in other words advantage. As we finish out this 3-month quarter focused on education and Ncompass’s international focus on youth development (see previous post), let’s take a quick dive into where power & privilege is seen and how it connects to education.
As a white American male, you bet I have privilege (unearned since I was born a white male in America) in today’s modern society considering traditional societal norms, particularly considering the industries I have worked in (e.g. military, manufacturing, corporate business). This is where the instinctive guilt came from I mentioned earlier. Now am I ashamed to be a white American male? Absolutely not, and at the same time it is ignorant for me, or anyone with a high school level understanding of U.S. History to believe I was not born into advantageous circumstances. White American males however are not the only group with privilege because unearned privilege is seen in many different places. Being born into an influential family of a neighborhood anywhere in the world or being associated with a majority religious sect in a certain region (e.g. being raised in the Catholic minority in Myanmar during the Pope’s visit in Fall 2017 was a dangerous status to claim) can also be argued as providing unearned privilege. The question is not if privilege exists, but what can we do with it? Privilege in whatever form (earned, or unearned) gives an individual and/or group power. Power is simply a tool that can be used in a positive way, or negative way. Through a mixture of earned and unearned privilege I am in a position to exert some level of power, or influence on my surroundings and so are you! Investing in areas where there is a gap in educational opportunities and resources is a clear way of how we can choose to use our power & privilege in a positive way by supporting organizations like Ncompass.
Interaction Institute for Social Change
Ncompass focuses on promoting education in Haiti where individuals are often born into a cycle void of substantial privilege. To close the gap, Ncompass acts as one set of hands among many who are pushing to move the needle toward removing the lack of privilege as an unnecessary obstacle to a brighter future for Haiti and more specifically the community of Titanyen. Am I saying the educational landscape in America is perfect? I work in education and I can respond with a big “are you kidding me? of course it’s not perfect!”. However, it is important to pick your battles and aim at one target at a time. If this is a fight you want to join, great! If you feel called elsewhere, great; there are no shortage of good causes. Whatever you do, do not be lukewarm and sit on the sidelines. You have power & privilege, use it in a positive way!
Positive thought leads to positive action.
and its Transitions Program, services and opportunities to THRIVE!
We know this program will greatly impact the youth we work with in Haiti. But we sometimes forget just how the youth in Haiti have already impacted the youth in America!
Meet Max Ely. You might assume that Max is an ordinary high school senior. Eagerly awaiting graduation, and dreaming about how he can concur the world! But Max is anything but ordinary. He has recognized his privilege and place in the world is a blessing, and one that he eagerly wants to share with others.
Max came to Haiti with us last year when he was a junior in high school. "When I was preparing to go to Haiti, I didn't think it would impact my life as much as it did. But it opened my eyes to two main things, 1) a good education is essential and 2) without education kids could never achieve what we take for granted."
We often hear travelers say that they thought they were the ones who would be helping when they go to Haiti, but it always seems to turn out that Haitians are the ones helping. Helping us see the value of relationships. Helping us see that going slow and savoring moments are essential - and good. They help us see how big and real God is, in ways we often don't grasp living in the States.
The people of Haiti, their stories, their lives, their determination taught Max a lot! He knew he wanted to do something, to stay engaged and continue supporting these people who taught him so much. But he wasn't sure how.
Now 18, and a senior in high school, Max has found his calling and wants to become a pastor. At a recent conference at his church, he got a prophetic word that encouraged his generosity, and confirmed that God would be his provider - especially when Max is generous.
"With this I realized I needed to put practice into my prophecy and after finding out Jherry needed a few sponsors I decided to become one of them!!!
I am so glad I was able to make this decision and can't wait to learn more about Jherry and share in God's truth with him!"
Thank you Max for stepping out in faith, and standing with Jherry! We believe God will use you, and Jherry to do great things!
Sponsorship creates a space for students and adults alike, to have the ability to transform a child's life, while their own is being transformed through the process.
Jherry needs two more sponsors - will you join Max and sponsor Jherry?
Find more about sponsoring Jherry or one of the other children at the Maranatha House.
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Rainy Day at Reading
Snow at the Speedway
1937 & 2008
In the Pits
Outside of Turn 2
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We would like to thank The Reading Fairgrounds Racing Historical Society and members Mike Shaub, Ken Johnson, Alan Carter and many, many others have been very supportive of our efforts here in the Vault. We encourage the fans of the Vault, and of the Reading Fairgrounds to join their great organization and support their efforts.
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Recent Additions to our Reading Fairgrounds Memories Page
Mel Bachman 09.25.14
1966 while standing in front of the of the main gate to the race way, my life was changed for ever. I was 16 met and started talking to a beautiful 15 year old named Carol,to this day we're married 46 years.
Scott Drissel 06.01.13
I happened to find your page while searching for some old time racing memories and hit the jackpot, Thank you the page is wondefull. I now at 56 years, clearly remember going every Friday night wearing my Toby Tobias sweatshirt and baby blue superdog hat, my brothers in their Bobby Gerhart and Kenny Brightbill attire. I can never forget the chopped up steak sandwiches on a bread roll, and the walking through the grandstand before leaving after the race, turning over the 7-up soda cups before stomping on them for the loud bang, I even hit the front gate purse one night for $900.00 big dollars in them days, only to find out that 10 others also had the same finishing order. Thanks again, Scott Drissel, Phila Pa
Chasity Massey 07.24.12
Those were the days when a fan could truly see a great racing show week after week
The Tobias's--The Brightbill's--The Tasnady's---The Sack's---and the list goes on & on
Lindy's FORMULA L and everything else bring back so many memories of my daddy & me going 2 the races!! Coming across this site has just made me smile "
Skip Dyrda 12.11.10
Wow...I hadn't realized this the first several times that I viewed these photos, but that top photo was taken by Ronnie G and I'll bet that I was sitting right next to him (or his sister) when he took it.....I believe that it would have been down front where Gail Silver sat (The Taz Section).
Rick Valle 08.20.10
When i was about 12, my friends and I use to spend a lot of time just hanging around the reading fairgrounds even when there was nothing going on. I remember there was this little one room building somewhere between the old farmers market and the racetrack. The door was open ,and there was the #6 of Jackie Hamilton. He seemed to be always there by himself working on his car. And always remember him driving the #6 from his shop, up the midway, behind the grandstand to the pits in his tee-shirt. Really Cool Times!!!!!!!!!
Jim Oxenreider 03.24.10
I was about 12 the first time my Dad took me to a Friday night show at the Reading Fairgrounds in 1968. I was hooked immediately, and begged rides from everyone I knew to get there every week until I could drive.
So many great memories... from the beginning of the evening watching Lindy Vicari driving the grader preparing the track all the way through to staying in the pits till long after the race. Warren Ruffner's voice getting the crowd riled up, Rudy Gaenzel down on the track starting the race, the french fries, the guy who airbrushed my awesome Toby sweatshirt, even Sammy Green in the Men's room, all of it greatly missed.
The accessibility and willingness of the drivers to sign autographs and answer questions will never be forgotten or matched for me. I used to bug Toby Tobias with engine and chassis questions every week, and he never failed to smile and answer my questions. No attitudes or egos; just guys doing what they loved and sharing it with those of us who wanted to be a part of it any way we could.
I still watch racing on TV every week, go to local short tracks, and enjoy the sport very much but my days at Reading from 1968 to 1976 will always be very special to me.
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Roy Gilbert 02.26.10
Hi, my name is Roy and, when I was 14 I fell in love with stock car races at the reading fairgrounds. A friend on mine worked for Al Gaspari, just hanging posters and handing out pamphlets for the fair, and on race days we would hand out pamphlets at the gate, I fell in love with stock car racing, my favorite driver Al Tasnady, one day we had to go to Allentown and hang Reading fair posters on the way, we had no way to Allentown, this man was in the office, he said that he would take us, I didn't know him at the time but I soon found out the man Al Tasnady, it was the thrill of my life.
I lived in reading, after that there was about 5 or 6 of us we would walk to the races every Friday and Sunday. I loved the french fries. I don't know if they smelled that way or if it was a mixture of the fries, dust, oil, but it was great. I have seen Toby Tobias and Tasnady fist fight in the pits, I seen a car flip up over the strings of red, yellow, and green lights strung accross the race track in front of the grandstand, I was at the races the night Jackie Evens crashed it was probably the worst night.
The best night, for me anyways, Daniel Boone 200, my friend and I helped keep score. I would write down the first five cars on a paper and my friend would give to the score keeper, that was the best night. I joined the army in Jan. 77, The night before I had to leave for Germany, my wife and I went to the races. I came home in 1980, the first thing I wanted to do was go to the races. My wife got me in the car and we went to what I thought was the fairgrounds, and to my surprise, there was a mall in it's place. In my mind maybe the worst thing that could have happened to this area, I just have a lot of fond memories.
Fred George 06.11.09
Being a regular at Nazareth Speedway the most exposure I had to the Reading Fairgrounds was in the AARN weekly and the monthly pictorials, several of which I still have. Well, one day my dad decided we were going to the races at Reading. With all the great racing I saw at Nazareth over the years, this one particular visit to Reading provided me with the closest, most exciting race I had ever seen.
I had heard tales of the packed houses Reading got, and this night was no disappointment. We settled into our seats under the big roof and got through the heats and consolations. During intermission we went down for some of those famous french fries to the right of the main stands, then got back to our seats for the main event. The feature event started and the crowd was starting to build into a frenzy already. Im not sure of the year, but the big rivalry on track was Chamberlain in the #76 Mustang (was it) and Brightbill in his famous #19 Pinto.
As the feature went on, both of them were working their way toward the front. The caution flew with about 10-11 laps to go, and those two made up the front row on the restart. By this time, the crowd was really wound up and getting louder. On the green, they took off from the rest of the field. Brightbill running the high line and Chamberlain hugging the fence on the inside. Lap after lap, side by side, neither one could get the advantage on the other. The crowd was standing now, no one was in their sits as we all were yelling for one or the other. One lap Kenny led, the next Gerald was in front. It went like this lap after lap after lap. The white flag was waving and they were still side by side, as the crowd was so loud you hear them all the way up in Allentown. Through turns 1-2 they were still neck and neck. Down the backstetch it was still a dead heat as they enter turn 3-4. Neck and neck through the turns, Brightbill high, Chamberlain low, coming off the 4th turn its now a drag race to the start/finish line. Brightbill, Chamberlain, Brightbill, Chamberlain as they near the checkered flag. The flag waves as they near the finish and at the line it was...............................................Kenny Brightbill by a coat of paint on his bumper. The crowd went crazy as they had just witnessed what dirt track racing and the Reading Fairgrounds were all about. This is what the Reading legends were made of. Long live the memories!!!!
My name is Fred George. I now live in Macungie, PA and I dearly miss the tracks that are now gone.
Gary Hebner 03/04/08
I was a regular at Reading from 1970-79. Even when I was in college I worked part time so I could attend Reading.
Always sat in the small bleachers off of turn four except for the Daniel Boone 200, than I spend the extra money and sat under the covered grandstand.
Saw my first USAC and sprint car race there. My favorite driver was Toby Tobias. I use to park under a big oak tree directly behind the bleachers I sat in and watched the cars being towed in and checking in at the pit gate. I was pretty cool seeing the cars on the open trailers and some guys, Chamberlain and the State Wide Team, etc. brought two cars, one on a flat bed truck the was specifically built for a racecar and that truck would pull a trailer with another car on it. They can take a lot of things away from you but they can't take the memories from Reading.
Peggy Snyder 01/31/07
Reading was the first track that I visited to see the USAC sprint cars run - actually, it was one of the first races I ever attended. It was there we met Parnelli Jones and Joe Pittman.
One story I do remember well, was the fact that I had to sit in the grandstand. Women were not allowed in the USAC pits at that time. Sitting next to me was a young lad, approx. 8 yrs. old who had many questions for his Dad. Could not help overhearing him, did not interrupt until the Fike sprinter fired up and the sound was music to my ears. The lad mentioned this to his Dad who ignored the question so I told him that it was a small block Chevy in there - not an Offy like the others ran. Golly, did Dad wake up then - told the kid that the lady did not know what she was talking about. I got the "last laugh" when the announcer mentioned the sound and that it was a Chevy engine in there. The lad laughed and said to me - "you knew what motor it was".
Got Dad more angry when I told him that we call them engines.
Tried to explain the difference but gave up when Dad told the lad to go get something to eat. Wish I would have had eyes in the back of my head when Joe Pittman, the father and chief mechanic on the race car, came to the fence and motioned for me to bring him the qualifying lap times. Dad did not talk to me the rest of the race and certainly, did not root for Parnelli. BUT, I did, loud and clear.
Hope you enjoy my "way back when" little tid-bits. Have had 2 men email regarding the Bobby Marshman story you posted on Hatfield Memories, and I thank you. Love to hear from people who remember the "old times". Am now a Tony Raines, GramaFan, not related but his methodical way of moving thru the pack and his quiet demeanor make him a favorite. Was led onto his career from some other "old time" USAC friends and fellow co-workers there.
Keep up the good job with these memory pages. Thanks again, Peggy Snyder at email@example.com - welcome all emails and/or questions and stories.
Mike Schaub 10/01/06
I missed the first race at Reading in 1955 when the RSCA first held flathead races and then hadn't missed a race until I went into the service in Aug of 1969.
Reading ran about everything you could imagine; AAA/USAC Sprints, Flatheads, which included powderpuff derbies, mechanic races and officials races, Sports cars (SCODA), Motorcycles (AMA), Go-Karts, USAC/ARDC Midgets (one being nationally televised on NBC), NASCAR Grand Nationals with Lee Petty, Cale Yarborough and other great drivers, NASCAR Drag races (on the 1/16 drag strip being the front stretch which featured Don Garlits, "TV" Tommy Ivo and Kris Karamacines, not quite sure of the spelling), Sulky races, Greyhound races, Demolition Derbies, Sportsmen, Street Stocks, Winged sprints, a scheduled snow mobile race (no snow-no race) and of course the Modifieds.
Almost all the top drivers in each division raced at Reading at one time. I believe Reading was the only track around that ran one division up until the later years.
They always averaged 8-9 thousand fans even for the flatheads. Fans would arrive early just to cheer or boo the cars as they would cross the track in turn 4. Warren Ruffner would get the fans going with "Who has the hot shoe tonight!!" and then name the different drivers. And now like so many tracks, it's just a memory.
Thanks to 3wide, with their great photo display of cars/drivers from the past, there are still those who remember what it was like to go to a race with REAL race cars and drivers that had their own personalities. If I had a dollar for every time I heard someone say that they should tear down the Fairgrounds Mall and build another track, I could've almost bought the mall and built a new track.
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5 Reasons Kate Bush Should Be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Kate Bush was first nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2018. It was a long-deserved honor for an iconoclastic and beloved U.K. artist who initially landed a record deal thanks to Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, a friend of her family.
Gilmour was floored after hearing Bush's demos and helped set the teen up in a studio to record several songs. "I think we had the [EMI] record company people down at Abbey Road in No. 3," the guitarist has said. "And I said to them, 'Do you want to hear something I’ve got?' They said sure, so we found another room and I played them 'The Man With a Child in His Eyes.' And they said, 'Yep, thank you — we’ll have it.'"
Bush connected with a wider audience right away: Her first single, 1978's "Wuthering Heights," spent four weeks at No. 1 in the U.K., kicking off a long and successful career.
Below, we outline 5 Reasons Kate Bush Should Be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
She's a Musical Multiple Threat
Bush's primary instrument is the piano, although she grew into a versatile multi-instrumentalist thanks to her family. "There were two very important things in my childhood that shaped my attitudes subsequently," she wrote in 1982. "One: My father had a piano in the house, and without that, I'd never have got round to playing music. And two: My brothers were very into traditional music." But, like Prince, Bush is also a talented studio artist. Starting with 1982's The Dreaming, she produced and wrote every song on her albums.
Her Career Has Unfolded on Her Terms
From day one, Bush made it clear she knew how best to steer her career. She insisted that "Wuthering Heights" was her first single, while her record label wanted "James and the Cold Gun." As she earned more success, she assumed more creative control. To demo and develop the smash 1985 LP Hounds of Love, she put together her studio near where she lived. "I feel much more relaxed, much freer to work in an uninhibited way," she said in 1985. "I do get quite nervous if you've got people you don't know coming in listening. In the London studio, people always coming in borrowing pieces of equipment, the phone's always ringing and it's costing you a phenomenal amount of money every hour. So, you do feel guilty if you experiment, because you feel you're just throwing money away. At home, obviously, there aren't those pressures at all." Bush also promoted on her terms: Her celebrated run of 2014 tour dates marked her first live concerts since 1979.
She Has a Fervent Following
Like Stevie Nicks, Bush has a loyal fan base that embraces her aesthetic and personality as much as her music. For example, fans around the world celebrate an annual event called "The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever," which generally involves wearing red robes and acting out the choreography of the song's iconic video.
Her Influence Transcends Genres and Scenes
Name a genre, and chances are you'll find traces of Bush's music. Over the years, artists such as Tori Amos, Placebo, Ra Ra Riot, the Futureheads, First Aid Kit and Jade Bird have covered Bush's songs. Outkast member Big Boi is a massive fan and has gushed about the lyrics and production of "Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)," while a remix of the song appeared at the end of the 2012 London Summer Olympics.
Her Music Is More Popular Than Ever
Many popular artists fail to resonate with younger generations, although bands such as Queen and the Beatles are notable exceptions. However, Bush's music is continuing to grow in popularity. Modern indie rock especially takes influence from the Fairlight-assisted sound of her '80s music with its lush production and drums. In 2020, the songwriter Meg Myers reached No. 1 on Billboard's Rock Airplay and Alternative Songs charts with a cover of "Running Up That Hill," while the songwriter Emma Ruth Rundle covered the song with members of Mastodon, Old Man Gloom and YOB. The track also enjoyed a massive boost in popularity after appearing in the fourth season of Stranger Things in 2022, reportedly earning millions in streaming royalties and reaching a new peak of No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. | <urn:uuid:41280ea7-813b-49f0-998f-3fb4204ef53d> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://ultimateclassicrock.com/kate-bush-should-be-in-the-rock-hall/ | 2024-02-29T08:49:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474795.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20240229071243-20240229101243-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.977346 | 940 |
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Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo is a poet, non-fiction writer and protest musician from the city of Kwekwe in the Republic of Zimbabwe. He is co-founder and Director of the Zimbabwe Organization for Youth In Politics (Z.O.Y.P), a grassroots non-profit youth organisation advocating for youth participation and representation in political processes and policy formulation.He is also the Senior Trainer at the Community Human Rights Defenders Academy, a human rights institution which educates human rights defenders from grassroots and remote communities in Zimbabwe.
Moyo rose to prominence through his activist art, using resistance poetry, music and non-fiction to challenge the dictatorship, government oppression and political corruption in Zimbabwe. His political anthologies and books have long been fiercely critical of the regime in Harare, placing him on a repeated collision course with the Zimbabwean authorities. He has been arrested several times, and faced repeated surveillance, raids and death threats from suspected agents of the state.
Moyo has written three books of political non-fiction entitled Robert Mugabe: From Freedom Fighter to the People’s Enemy, Zimbabwe: A Revolution Waiting to Happen and Dismantling the System of Mugabeism, which was published in 2018 with the help of Artists at Risk (AR) during his residency at AR-Safe Haven Berlin, in cooperation with SAVVY Contemporary. He has also released an album entitled Pisarema raNkosilathi (Psalms of Nkosilathi) composed of fourteen protest songs calling upon the government of Zimbabwe to respect human rights, democracy and the rule of law.
Dismantling the System of Mugabeism was heavily critical of Zimbabwe’s post-coup government and the timing of its publication in 2018 placed him squarely in the political spotlight during the brutal military crackdown that followed nationwide protests in January 2019. He was forced into hiding, and with the help of AR, relocated to Finland for a three month fellowship at AR-Safe Haven Helsinki.
Currently once more in the spotlight, Moyo has become the first resident at the newly-established AR-Residency in Accra, Ghana, which he is assisting AR in developing during his residency period. He is also working on two political anthologies: Psalms of Resistance and Fixing the Country_ Zimbabwe. His poems call for the respect of democracy, fundamental rights and constitutionalism in Zimbabwe.
Related on AR:
Welcoming Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo to Eläintarha Villa
VIDEO INTERVIEW: Artist at Risk (AR) Resident Nkosilathi Moyo/AR-Residency Berlin 2018
PRESS: NKOSILATHI EMMANUEL MOYO talks to Deutsche Welle about Zimbabwe
Book: Dismantling The System of Mugabeism by Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo (Pdf)
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Why Midsomer Murders, now starring a goofish Neil Dudgeon, keeps being re-commissioned, while the sexy, stylish Zen, which starred a smouldering Rufus Sewell, lies forgotten in the dumpster. How Masterchef's editor sticks so precisely to the same formula, second for second, on every show (4.56: cut to Gregg pulling an 'Ooh matron!' Kenneth Williams face while tasting chocolate fondue). Why Phil Spencer hasn't yet lunged for Kirstie Allsopp.
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Back in 2009 the programme showed ambition, with the King of Make 'em Cry snaring a weeping Cheryl Cole, a teary Gordon Brown and a slightly frowny Simon Cowell. However, last week, Morgan topped – or bottomed – a guest list of diminishing returns with a focus on. Bruno Tonioli. The camp chap from Strictly Come Dancing. Surely it's time to put this dying dog out of its misery? | <urn:uuid:fee20cbe-c23a-4829-b156-85c97bdf97ae> | CC-MAIN-2014-49 | http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/columnists/jane-graham/now-its-time-for-piers-to-waltz-away-29191441.html | 2014-11-21T12:24:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-49/segments/1416400372851.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20141119123252-00157-ip-10-235-23-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.889769 | 227 |
A team of US researchers recently reported in Nature Medicine having identified a panel of ten molecules whose concentration in blood could predict whether someone in the group of people studied would go on to develop signs of Alzheimer’s disease within the next two or three years or not.
Does this mean that it will soon be possible to tell people whether they will develop Alzheimer’s disease or not from a simple blood test, as some headlines in the media seem to imply? Not quite. To understand why, we need to look a bit more closely at the study, its results and limitations.
- What are the results of the study?
The researchers conducted a 5-year clinical study in which they enrolled a total of 525 healthy individuals aged 70 or older. Participants had to be free of known major psychiatric or neurological illnesses (including diagnosed Alzheimer’s disease) to enter the study. They were then followed prospectively with yearly cognitive assessments and collections of blood samples.
Since the enrollment in the study was done on a rolling basis (meaning that not all individuals were enrolled at the same time on day 1 of the study, but rather enrolled continually over time), and since there were drop-outs (people who are enrolled in the study but stop participating at some point for whatever reason), three years after the official start of the study there were 467 people who had completed the baseline assessment (first set of cognitive measures and blood test), 394 who had completed baseline and 1-year follow-up, and 202 who had completed baseline, 1-year follow-up and 2-year follow-up. The researchers had therefore at that time 202 participants at their disposal for analysis.
The team divided these 202 participants into three groups, based on the results from the cognitive assessment done at the 2-year follow-up visit:
– 53 people had either early Alzheimer’s disease (AD) or amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI, a memory impairment which often progresses to AD),
– 96 people were defined as control subjects (unimpaired cognitive function),
– 53 people did not meet the criteria for either of these two groups and were therefore not included in the following analysis.
Of the 53 people with either AD or aMCI, 35 were actually “incident” cases, meaning that although they had never been diagnosed with AD or cognitive impairment prior to enrollment in the clinical study, measurements at baseline had revealed that they in fact had either early AD or aMCI. The other 18 cases were called “converters” because they had normal results in the cognitive assessments at baseline but developed signs of aMCI or early AD during the study (detected at one of the follow-up tests).
The researchers randomly selected 53 people from the 96 normal controls (matching them to the 53 aMCI/AD cases for similar age, education level, and sex) and then analyzed molecules present in the blood of all these people (106 individuals in total), using the most recent blood samples available for the “incident” aMCI/AD group and control group and blood samples from both baseline and 2-year follow-up for the “converters” (that is, blood samples collected before and after appearance of symptoms).
Analysis of molecules present in the blood samples identified 10 lipids for which blood levels were on average lower in the 18 “converters” at baseline (when they had yet no signs of cognitive impairment) than in the control group. Those levels remained low at the 2-year follow-up (when the converters had developed signs of aMCI/AD) and were similar to the levels found in the blood of the aMCI/AD group (“incident” cases). The researchers therefore hypothesized that this set of 10 lipids may help identify people with normal cognitive function who would go on to develop signs of memory impairment within 2-3 years.
The research team then analyzed the levels of the lipids they had identified in the discovery phase in a set of 40 other individuals to see if they could confirm the results obtained in the discovery cohort.
Why only 40 individuals?
At the end of the 5th year of the study, there were a total of 525 people who had completed baseline assessments but only 295 people who had completed three consecutive visits (baseline, 1-year and 2-year follow-ups) and who had not already been included in the discovery phase analysis. Out of these 295 people,
– 124 were classified as controls,
– 21 as aMCI/AD (out of which 11 were “incident” cases and 10 “converters”),
– 150 did not meet the criteria to be classified as either control or aMCI/AD and were therefore not included in the following analysis.
As in the discovery phase, 20 individuals from the control group were selected and matched to the 20 aMCI/AD individuals analyzed (apparently one aMCI/AD case was not available for analysis) and blood lipid levels were measured. The researchers observed that the levels of the 10 lipids they had singled out in the discovery phase were lower in the converters than in the controls even before the converters showed any sign of memory impairment, and that the levels were comparable between converters before appearance of symptoms and established aMCI/AD cases.
- What can be said from these results?
To recap briefly, the researchers showed that, in their study group, there was a set of 10 lipids for which the concentration in blood differed between people who had normal cognitive function but went on to develop memory impairment within two to three years and people who had no signs of memory impairment. Using these data, the researchers built a model based on the blood levels of these 10 lipids that could effectively predict who in their study group would go on from normal cognitive function to develop aMCI/AD (memory impairment) within 2-3 years. The authors of the study report 90% sensitivity and 90% specificity for their model.
The key words one should notice here are “in their study group”. The authors of the study as well as the rest of the scientific community who commented on the study are indeed well aware that the results need to be replicated in larger and more diverse groups of people before anything remotely close to “blood test for detecting preclinical Alzheimer’s disease” can be claimed (remember all the inclusion/exclusion/classification criteria to be fulfilled at different steps in the study, and the small number of individuals who were included for analysis in the end).
Researchers have also to verify that the panel of lipids identified in this study is indeed specific for detecting early Alzheimer’s disease versus other forms of cognitive impairment. A limitation of the study is indeed that the classification of people as having early Alzheimer’s disease was based on cognitive tests and not confirmed by standard cerebrospinal fluid tests or PET imaging scans.
What then makes this study interesting, even if it’s not yet sure that its results will hold true in other clinical trials? If nothing else, it presents researchers with a list of ten molecules to look at more closely. If the results hold true in other study groups, then great, scientists will be a step closer to develop a blood test to detect preclinical Alzheimer’s disease. If they don’t, scientists will at least know what does not work, and that in itself is a gain of knowledge (though, it is true, a gain that is not as valued as positive results by academic journals and scoop-hungry general media alike).
- To sum up
Headlines in the media may have given the general impression that researchers had just developed a screening test to predict whether one would develop Alzheimer’s disease or not. After looking at the original research paper presenting the study and the data it contains, what can really be said?
– No, researchers have not just developed a blood test that can tell anyone whether they will get Alzheimer’s disease within the next few years or not.
– Yes, researchers have identified a set of ten molecules which, in their particular study group that satisfies a particular set of criteria, can distinguish between people who will develop memory cognitive impairment within 2-3 years and people without cognitive impairment.
These ten molecules are now worth investigating further as a next step on the multi-step trial-and-error process that is the search for a way to detect Alzheimer’s disease before symptoms appear and disease is already well advanced. Now, of course, whether it is desirable to be able to detect that someone will develop a certain disease in the future when there is currently no known way of preventing said disease or of curing it remains a matter of debate.
* Considering the number of news articles in the general media stating something like “A new blood test can predict Alzheimer’s disease with 90% accuracy”, and how such a statement can mislead the public as to what the true predictive power of the test would be, I have now written another post to deal with this particular issue.
Also on the topic:
Diagnosing dementia – This is not spinal tap. The Economist, March 15th 2014.
Plasma phospholipids identify antecedent memory impairment in older adults. Mapstone M, Cheema AK, Fiandaca MS, Zhong X, Mhyre TR, Macarthur LH, Hall WJ, Fisher SG, Peterson DR, Haley JM, Nazar MD, Rich SA, Berlau DJ, Peltz CB, Tan MT, Kawas CH, Federoff HJ. Nat Med. 2014 Mar 9. doi: 10.1038/nm.3466
Mapstone M, Cheema AK, Fiandaca MS, Zhong X, Mhyre TR, Macarthur LH, Hall WJ, Fisher SG, Peterson DR, Haley JM, Nazar MD, Rich SA, Berlau DJ, Peltz CB, Tan MT, Kawas CH, & Federoff HJ (2014). Plasma phospholipids identify antecedent memory impairment in older adults. Nature medicine PMID: 24608097 | <urn:uuid:a06bf70b-c100-4f1f-9b01-7b1c678da502> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | https://coffeebreakscience.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/not-yet-a-blood-test-to-detect-preclinical-alzheimers-disease/ | 2017-10-21T17:40:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187824824.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20171021171712-20171021191712-00049.warc.gz | en | 0.9648 | 2,105 |
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Choose a Health (Executive) MHA and
∙ Learn about thought leaders as Richard Bohmer, Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen
∙ Apply the best practices of international hospitals
∙ Gather the new health management principles and innovation tools
∙ Learn about actual themes such as Outcome Measures and Concentration & Distribution
∙ Launch a career in Health Information Technology & eHealth
∙ Get new insights on Public Health and Health Services
∙ Develop new approaches for improved healthcare delivery
Do you, as (future) aspiring health care leader, want to make your health education portfolio complete? Are you thinking of a Health (Executive) MHA or other Health Education Program? Contact The Decision Institute.
The Decision Institute and its partners can offer you a tailored global and leading Health MBA program with various possibilities; full time, part time, executive, minor, electives and distant learning. Furthermore, special graduate programs on Health Management, and other health management programs are developed.
The clinical management expertise of the George Washington University, the entrepreneurial spirit of St. Gallen University, the joint expertise of our European Health Initiative academic network, the business relations of IESE Business school and our affiliations with the Harvard Business School professors, guarantee you the best available program. The Decision Institute can combine the most suitable of each school and our experiences, to get you a global and leading Health (executive) MBA. Why settle for less, than the best!
The (executive) MHA and other Health Managment programs are developed for (future) aspiring healthcare leaders, who would like to develop their decision making and analytical skills. It is focused on advanced managers in healthcare and executives with a wide interest, from medical devices and biotechnology to insurance and public health.
A partial list of the programs:
∙ MHA Programs
∙ Health Management
∙ Health Services Administration Concentration
∙ PHD Programs
∙ Public Policy
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∙ Master Programs
∙ Public Health
∙ Exercise Science
∙ Health Policy
∙ Graduate Certificate Programs
The Decision Institute has an extensive expertise on Health Education:
∙ The partners of The Decision Institute founded the Nyenrode Life Sciences & Health Institute.
∙ Prof. Dr. Fred van Eenennaam teaches several health courses at the George Washington University.
∙ The Decision Institute has expertise on distant learning, live sessions and digital courses.
∙ The Decision Institute provide executive education for healthcare professionals and uses the case teaching method of the Harvard Business School (example: Clinical Management Workshop Series and in-house workshops)
∙ Mother company The Decision Group works on different Value Based Healthcare projects (example: Meetbaar Beter Project where Outcome Measures are defined around medical conditions and implemented in St. Antonius Hospital and Catharina Hospital).
2009 the Life Sciences & Healthcare Institute founded by The Decision Institute Partners, was opened by Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter and the CEO of Philips Healthcare Steve Rusckowski
The Decision Institute uses the contacts, expertise and cooperation within its international academic network with leading universities, hospitals and networks.
A partial overview of our universties and business school affiliates:
∙ Harvard Business School, Boston MA. USA
∙ IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain
∙ The George Washington University, USA
∙ St. Gallen University, Switzerland
∙ Peking University, China
∙ Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
∙ SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, India
∙ North Carolina State University, USA
∙ University of Virginia, USA
∙ Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
∙ Grenoble Ecole du Management, France
∙ Bocconi University, Italy
∙ Erasmus University, The Netherlands
A partial overview of our partners:
∙ The Cleveland Clinic, USA
∙ Childeren’s Hospital of Philadelphia, USA
∙ MD Anderson Cancer Center, Texas, USA
∙ Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston MA, USA
∙ European Health Initiative
∙ AUPHA – Association of University Programs in Health Administration
∙ HFMA – Healthcare Financial Management Association
Former The Decision Institute consultant Ir. Maarten Koomans visits Childeren’s Hospital of Philadelphia, CEO Steven M. Altschuler MD. and COO Madeline Bell
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We are a bible believing New Testament Church. We live in the heart of the great outdoors of central Idaho. Recreation is not just a vacation event, it is how many make their livings. It is where passion meets provision. Born out of a logging, homesteader ethic, our church has served the community in building relationships.
We have many visitors on any given Sunday, and if you are considering visiting us, or are searching for a church home to call your own, we would hope you fee welcome worshiping with us.
We love Jesus with all our hearts, and race to the cross for the sufficiency of His Grace.
Our church services are at 11:00 a.m. on Sunday morning.Sunday School meets at 9:30 a.m.
Year Founded: 2007
Average Attendance: 45
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