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Will Global Financialization and the Eurozone Debt Crisis Defeat European Cosmopolitan Democracy?
Michael A. Peters,
(Photo: William Murphy / Flickr)If finance capitalism defeats cosmopolitanism, then the democratic checks and balances on multinational capital disappear and finance capital trumps democracy. National and supranational democracy are the last bastions of public power that can counter the criminalization deeply embedded in the unregulated financial practices that have been embraced by the big banks and insurance companies many politicians see as "too big to fail." The recent LIBOR scandal is only one case in point. Some would argue that the big financial institutions which buy off state regulation, pay obscenely large executive bonuses, encourage speculative growth and engage in fraudulent practices are the true international actors, not states or international agencies like the United Nations.
European Cosmopolitanism?
How casually the idea of Europe and European cosmopolitanism has been cast to the scrap heap as the market death spiral tightens its grip on sovereign debtor nations. The largest European economies have slumped further and refinancing government debt generates unsustainable long-term interest rates of more than 10 percent in some cases, with recurrent doubts of credit worthiness when loans reach maturity. How quickly the page of history has turned. The original social democratic ideals of the European constitution, the bedrock of the Treaty, was signed in 2004 and fully ratified by 2005.
The Treaty of Lisbon replaces the Constitutional Treaty and entered into force in 2009. This was widely accepted as completing a historic process that began with the Treaty of Paris in 1951 and led to the creation of EU citizenship and the Economic and Monetary Union with the Treaty of Maastricht in 1992. With the establishment of the constitution, the EU for the first time developed a "legal personality," the laws of which trump those of national parliaments. The constitution for Europe confirmed Europe's cultural, religious and humanist inheritance and established the European Union as allegedly reflecting the will of the citizens and states of Europe to build a common future. It also upheld European values: respect for human dignity, liberty, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities, characterizing the EU by pluralism, nondiscrimination, tolerance, justice, solidarity, and equality between women and men. These lofty ideals and a set of accompanying objectives, including peace and security, sustainable development, solidarity, free and fair trade, eradication of poverty, protection of human rights, and the development of international law were enshrined in the set of fundamental principles and rights that presented a moral vision of the governance of the EU and its approach to globalization.
Europe as the home of Enlightenment cosmopolitan ideals was eternalized by Immanuel Kant in his 1795 "Perpetual Peace," which is often seen as the starting point of contemporary liberal thought. Famously, Kant argues that "The Law of World Citizenship Shall Be Limited to Conditions of Universal Hospitality," by which he simply means: "Hospitality means the right of a stranger not to be treated as an enemy when he arrives in the land of another."[1] As the cold war conflict ended and calls for new world order began in the early 1990s, Kant's cosmopolitan ideas began to receive renewed attention as a basis for a European global vision as an alternative to US hegemony.
The seeds for the Eurozone crisis were already present in wider changes that had taken place in Western capitalism under the mantle of financialization. "Financialization" is a term that describes an economic system or process that attempts to reduce all value that is exchanged into a financial instrument or a derivative of a financial instrument. Expanding from social reproductive systems including pensions, health, education and housing into natural resources – the financialization of nature – financialization has penetrated all commodity markets. As Antonio Tricarico (2012) remarks, "Just as the privatization of public assets and services served as a building block for the financialization of the economy, so the further commodification of the natural commons is the basis for the further financialization of the economy and nature<|fim_middle|>2007, is a single crisis of financialized capitalism. The Greek events are only a sequence within it. Despite the concerted efforts of the governments of the G20, the intervals of recovery have been no more than short-lived episodes; the political measures taken have proved powerless to overcome the strong depressive tendencies at work. The crisis has struck the heart of the financial system – the banks – but it is systemic, affecting every part of the economy: banks, firms, households, states (p. 15).
Clearly, global financialization combined with easy credit and high-risk practices, together with the housing subprime market bubble, fiscal policies and imbalances in international trade all played their part. The problem is made more complex because of a widely perceived flaw in the architecture of the Eurozone currency union with a central bank and common monetary policy, but no common fiscal policy. Whatever the causes, the European debt crisis has the potential to destabilize Western capitalism and to unthread the Eurozone, leading to an entrenchment of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Fears of the sovereign debt crisis intensified in 2010, when European finance ministers approved the €750 billion European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF). Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Italy and Spain all failed to generate enough growth to guarantee bond yield rates. Despite the Eurozone's policy actions so far based on imposed constraints and austerity measures, the Eurozone crisis is spreading, with a looming "fiscal cliff" and serious risks to the European banking system, the viability of the euro, and threats to the European integration process.
Perhaps most important, this protracted financial crisis – at best contained, but not yet resolved – seems to threaten the political viability of Europe and to further imperil the so-called "democratic deficit" that the constitution was shaped to address. Some are now questioning whether the original idea of transnational European cosmopolitan democracy is possible at all. Aglietta (2012) writes:
The Eurozone has arrived at a historic crossroads. A sustainable exit from the crisis will require a decisive shift in its political philosophy. When the Maastricht Treaty was signed, political leaders refused to acknowledge that in creating the euro they were changing the very nature of the European project. They thought they could make do with a currency that was incompletely constituted—that is, external to the sovereignty of the member states, yet lacking any sovereign federal body. The crisis has shattered this illusion. The euro must be constituted as a full currency, which means it must be undergirded by a sovereign power (p. 36).
European Cosmopolitan Democracy
In the midst of this disaster, Jürgen Habermas (2012) warns that the narrow economistic focus on the banking and debt crisis obscures the larger political dimension of the EU envisioned by its founders and, in particular, threatens the prospect for achieving European cosmopolitan democracy based squarely on the concept of human dignity and the realistic utopia of human rights.
In this new extended essay, Habermas (2012) is critical both of the way in which the crisis is perceived and how it has been managed. He is concerned for the lack of a future democratic perspective on European unification and for the way European governance has lapsed into executive federalism rather than taking the opportunity to realize the EU's democratic potential by evolving beyond the level of the cooperation of nation-states into a cosmopolitan community. The crisis, he suggests, has concentrated power in the hands of a few government leaders and a bureaucratic elite who have implemented administrative and technical adjustments to maintain stability in a "post-democratic" form of rule that sacrifices European ideals, imperils political integration and abandons the EU to the imperatives of markets. Yet, as Habermas reminds us, it is only through a cosmopolitan Europe that the dynamics of global capitalism can be controlled at a level beyond the nation-state.
Habermas (2003) begins his paper "Toward A Cosmopolitan Europe" with a statement from Richard Münch's (1998) work on Global Dynamics and Local Life World: "The dominant question at present is whether the ecological, social and cultural dynamics of global capitalism can be remastered beyond the nation-state, at a supranational and a global level." He goes on to remark: "No one disputes the power of markets for innovation and coordination. But markets react only to messages written in the code of price. They remain deaf to the externalities that they generate in other areas." And he concludes with the question of whether "the small set of globally influential political actors can construct a reformed world organization from a loosely connected network of transnational regimes – and, if so, in such a manner that a change of course, toward a global domestic policy without a global state" (pp. 98-9).
Habermas' alternative is to continue with the process of the democratic legal domestication of the EU, and he argues "the construction flaw of the monetary union cannot be rectified without a revision of the treaty" which needs unified electoral law for the European Parliament and the effective rebalancing and "symmetric relation" in the functions and competences of the three main bodies: the European Parliament, the European Commission and the Council of Ministers. Habermas recommends that the leaders need to forgo the advice of experts and "risk" a democratic struggle and transnationalization of the existing national publics. Habermas' remarks profile the entrenched conflicts between capitalism and democracy. "Free" markets were supposed to be one of the conditions for free societies: instead, they have eroded the power of people, substantially widened economic and social inequalities, compromised social solidarity, and dominated the political system.
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1. See the full essay at https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/kant/kant1.htm.
McKinsey's "Mapping global capital markets 2011" suggests that growth had resumed, "fueled by expansion in developing economies but also by a $4.4 trillion increase in sovereign debt." The total value of the world's financial stock has increased from $175 trillion in 2008 to $212 trillion and "MGI finds that the recovery of financial markets remains uneven across geographies and asset classes and significant risks remain. Emerging markets account for a disproportionate share of growth in capital-raising as mature economies struggle. Debt markets remain fragile in many parts of the world – the growth of government debt and of lending in China accounts for the majority of the increase in credit globally."
Michael A. Peters
Michael A. Peters is professor of education at the University of Waikato in New Zealand and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His most recent books include: 'Obama and the End of the American Dream' (2012), 'Interculturalism, Education and Dialogue' (2012) (with Tina Besley) and 'Educational Philosophy and Politics' (2012). | ."
Financialization refers to the dominance of the financial sector, the increasing significance of financial markets, and the increasing independence of the financial system with a shift away from traditional forms of banking and insurance toward speculation. The process can be seen as a postwar phenomenon that intensified after 1980. Financialization reduces any work product or service to an exchangeable financial instrument. It is an aspect of increased symbolization, mathematization and computerization of financial markets that are trends within knowledge capitalism.
Neoliberalism is an expression of the power of finance that has gathered pace with the internationalization of capital and the globalization of markets. Some scholars suggest that neoliberalism and globalization are themselves expressions of finance, closely tied to the development of derivatives markets and the evolution of an international financial system where the international rentiers have managed to significantly increase their share of national income – often on the basis of systematic fraud, corruption and widespread criminalization of financial practices. The current financial crisis is a systemic crisis of the entire capitalistic system based on interconnected global financial markets. This is a fundamental shift that represents the financialization of the reproductive sphere of life itself. Under this regime, the monopolization and privatization of knowledge and education has proceeded rapidly. In response to financialization and the economic crisis, governments have undertaken budget cuts and "austerity politics," as well as created and managed the perception of these policies as an inevitable and natural response to financial crisis and collapse. Yet cuts made across the board for public services at both the federal and state levels, with massive cuts to education in all aspects, attacks on collective bargaining, and the sacking of thousands of teachers, are neither accidental nor inevitable. They are the result of very canny propaganda campaigns conducted by the 1% under the rubric of "disaster capitalism" designed to persuade us of their necessity.
It is the first systemic and global crisis of neoliberal financial capitalism that began with the crisis of the Fordist model of accumulation and the consequent deregulation of the banking system beginning during the 1970s. Stephanie Blankenburg (2009) writing for the Cambridge Journal of Economics, suggest that, "The current financial and economic crisis that has forced the likes of Greenspan to question the coherence of dominant conceptual frameworks is unprecedented in global reach and systemic gravity," and they go on to plot the dimensions of the crisis in terms of McKinsey's "Mapping Global Financial Markets," (October 2008) which indicated global financial assets rose from US $12 trillion in 1980 to US $196 trillion in 2007. They also reference the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) 2009 Global Financial Stability Report, which provides an estimate at US $241 trillion. They continue:
As early as 1990, money managers had increased their control of US corporate equities from 8% in 1950 to 60% … Similarly, pension funds had extended their share of total business equities from less than 1% to just short of 39%, and their fraction of corporate debt from 13% to 50% … In the period from 1986 to 2006, the US financial sector as a whole increased its share of corporate profits from 10% to 30%, while its outstanding debts grew from 20% of GDP in 1980 to 116% in 2007 … According to Gillian Tett from the Financial Times, outstanding credit defaults swaps (CDS) today amount to no less than US$60 trillion, with the risk embodied after discounting mutually off-setting contracts still as high as US$14 trillion …
Blankenburg and Palma also indicate that US financial institutions have already written off US $1 trillion and are expected to write down at least another US $3–$5 trillion. Even at this stage, predictions on the basis of this financial crisis and recovery suggest that a decline – especially in the Western world – is unavoidable that will entail high and sustained levels of unemployment and rapid growth of inequalities.[2]
Tricarico (2012) suggests that the crisis of the Eurozone resulted from "a financial bubble marked by weak production, expanding bank assets, and growing household indebtedness." Financialization, according to Tricarico is responsible for the systematic transformation of both capitalist production and finance, with large corporations less dependent on banks and banks "shifting their activities toward mediating in open markets and transacting with individuals." It is a response to the ongoing crisis of accumulation that began with overproduction of the US economy in the 1960s. He sees financialization as the third major wave of privatization after the massive sell-off of discounted public assets beginning in the 1980s and the creation of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the 2000s designed to make new investments in infrastructure development for private enterprise. For Tricario, "the European debt crisis can be read as a further extraction of wealth from public finance in favor of rich private actors." He suggests that the introduction of the euro has been "a powerful accelerator of the financialization process in Europe."
Michael Aglietta (2012), the French regulationist theorist and professor of economics at the University of Paris X, Nanterre, begins his account of "The European Vortex" with the following:
Why has the Eurozone emerged as the new epicenter of the global financial crisis, when its origins – the famous subprime mortgages – were American? And why, within Europe, has Greece proved to be the weak link? The starting point for any adequate answer is the recognition that what we have been experiencing for the last five years, since the onset of the credit crunch in August | 1,200 |
New exhibition at Museum of Brands explores influential advertising
School rates are available for When Brands Take a Stand, an exhibition showcasing inspirational and debated advertising campaigns from history.
Students can take a self-guided tour of the museum, including its Time Tunnel.
When Brands Take a Stand, opening on 10th March, will<|fim_middle|> on the hunt for three new Ambassador Schools to help support the attraction in its mission to offer the best educational experiences possible.
Competition will see students' creations sold in London's Design Museum
Secondary schools are being encouraged to sign up to the Design Museum and Deutsche Bank's national design challenge, which offers young people the chance to work with industry experts. | share advertising campaigns deemed inspirational and debated, and that were designed to make a statement on themes such as diversity, the environment, health and human rights.
TV adverts, packaging and posters will feature in the exhibition, which can be accessed with a Museum of Brands general admission ticket.
Based in London's Notting Hill, the Museum of Brands conveys how brands have influenced and been influenced by culture and society in the last 150 years.
"Brands and advertising agencies have a platform to influence, and with that comes responsibility. This initiative dives into these complex relationships."
Chris Griffin, CEO at the Museum of Brands
The Museum of Brands is located on Lancaster Road in Notting Hill.
A series of monthly talks will accompany the exhibition from March to September, covering topics like social media content moderation (led by Dr Ysabel Gerrard) and marketing ethical fashion (from Chartered Marketer Susan Bishop).
Free exhibition worksheets are also available for school groups, who can see other features of the museum during a visit, including the permanent Time Tunnel exhibition.
The Time Tunnel display features magazines, toys, food packaging and more in order to tell the story of evolving consumerism over the decades.
Curriculum-based worksheets are offered to school groups on a self-led visit. There's also a new trail that allows students to step outside of the museum and visit the Portobello Road Market, ten minutes away.
The trail sheet aims to encourage pupils to identify brands that they see and how well they communicate a message.
Free worksheets are available for pupils attending the exhibition and taking a self-led tour of the museum.
Workshops at the Museum of Brands
One-hour taught workshops are offered to Early Years groups through to Higher Education students. These can look at creative graphic design, the concept of customer profiling, how packaging can be sustainable and how to brand and market a new product.
Workshop-inclusive visits begin at £180, included a taught session and museum admission. You can see what workshops are available here.
For more information about school visits, contact 0207 243 9610 or bookings@museumofbrands.com.
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Jennifer Walker (left) and Winship patient, Naomi Ziva (right) recently gave gifts to patients and staff for the holiday season.
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For more information about cancer treatment at Winship, call 888-946-7447 (888-WINSHIP) or visit www.winshipcancer.emory.edu. | EJCH) is using her creativity to cheer up other patients and take their minds off chemotherapy.
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"As bad as many of us feel during chemo sessions, when I dress up in costume, I feel it's like taking a break from having cancer," says Ziva.
"If I can bring a smile to someone's face by doing this, it makes all the difference."
Ziva was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in June 2016. After two chemotherapy infusion treatments, Naomi and her friend decided to dress up as superheroes. Since then, Naomi has shown up for almost every chemotherapy treatment as a different character and passed out flowers. She has dressed up as the lamp shade from "A Christmas Story," Slash from Guns N' Roses, a WWE wrestler, Wonder Woman, and Madonna, among many others.
"Patients really look forward to seeing Naomi and what she's going to come up with next," says Ashley Kennedy, Winship at EJCH nurse manager.
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Share this Story: Quebec's social capital deficit stumped academics long before Potter waded into the debate
Quebec's social capital deficit stumped academics long before Potter waded into the debate
Failing to address Quebec's low scores on social capital means missing out on economic gains and improved educational and health outcomes
Graeme Hamilton
Apr 03, 2017 • April 3, 2017 • 6 minute read
Buildings stand at night in the city skyline of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
MONTREAL — When Andrew Potter resigned as director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, he expressed regret for "many aspects" of the Maclean's column that made him a pariah in Quebec.
He apologized for the article's "sloppy use of anecdotes, its tone, and the way it comes across as deeply critical of the entire province." But he did not retract what arguably should have been the most disconcerting content to Quebecers. That is because, though he did not tell the whole story, he was not wrong.
Quebec's social capital deficit stumped academics long before Potter waded into the debate Back to video
In fact, over the past decade Quebecers have consistently scored below the national average on many key Statistics Canada measures of what is known as social capital. Academics blame everything from the Catholic Church's loss of influence in the province to francophones' minority status. But what they cannot explain is that, despite it all, Quebecers are among the happiest people in the world.
In 2003, recognizing that economic indicators alone could not measure Canadians' well-being, the Statistics Canada General Social Survey began collecting data on social capital and trust.
"Community involvement and social contacts give rise to the standards, values and behaviours that benefit the whole of society," Martin Turcotte explained in a 2015 Statistics Canada paper on social capital. "According to this view, one of the fundamental characteristics of communities with a high level of social capital is the tendency of citizens to trust one another — even if they do not know each other — which is referred to as 'generalized trust'."
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About 25,000 Canadians responded to the 2003 questionnaire, which included the question, "Generally speaking, would you say that most people can be trusted or that you cannot be too careful in dealing with other people?"
It did not take long for an anomaly to leap out as academics analyzed the response data. Abdie Kazemipur, a sociology professor at the University of Lethbridge, wrote in a 2006 paper that "trust levels are alarmingly low for cities in the province of Quebec." In Montreal, just 38 per cent of respondents agreed that most people could be trusted, compared with 55 per cent in Toronto and roughly 65 per cent in Calgary and Vancouver. Overall, trust levels were far lower in Quebec than in any other province.
And the situation has not changed much since. The most recent survey in 2013 found that 36 per cent of Quebecers reported that most people could be trusted, well below the national average of 54 per cent.
As Potter noted, other social-capital measures from the 2013 survey place Quebec at or near the bottom. Nationally, six per cent of people report having no close friends; in Quebec, the figure is eight per cent. On the other end of the friend spectrum, 75 per cent of Canadians report having three or more close friends, compared with just 67 per cent of Quebecers. People in Quebec were the least likely to participate in groups — 57 per cent compared with a national average of 65 per cent. They were the least trustful of their neighbours and of strangers and were the least likely to consider it likely a lost wallet or purse would be returned by a neighbour.
About one-third of Quebecers reported volunteering for an organization, compare with a national average of 44 per cent. The percentage of Quebecers donating to charity — 81 — was about even with the national average. But their average annual contribution of $264 was the lowest in the country, less than half the national average of $531.
More than 10 years after Kazemipur published his paper, social scientists continue to puzzle over Quebec's outlier status on many measures of social capital. In a 2009 master's thesis at the University of British Columbia, Mélina Longpré wrote that societies like Quebec where the Catholic Church has exerted strong power "appear to have been imprinted by low levels of trust among its members." She also said francophones "may more willingly place their trust in the state than in others."
Dietlind Stolle, a professor of political science at McGill University, said francophone Quebecers' overall minority status could partially explain the trust deficit. "Trust is usually lower in groups that have been discriminated against or abused historically speaking," she said. "That is not surprising. For example, Afro-Americans in the U.S. are much less trusting than whites. Trust is also lower in groups of lower socio-economic resources."
Although French speakers around the world report lower levels of trust, no evidence has been found yet that it is a translation issue. But Stolle said the standard trust question is vague enough that it can be interpreted differently by different cultures.
"The survey questions on this have been criticized in many ways, as the question does not specify whom people should think about when they say they trust — or do not trust — others," she said. "It turns out that people have a different radius of people in mind when they answer this question."
She said scholars disagree on the importance of social capital and the reasons it varies<|fim_middle|> take to rebuild those kinds of institutions."
Kazemipur, who wrote the 2008 book Social Capital and Diversity, noted that in the 2003 General Social Survey, Quebecers scored near the top in some social capital categories — trust in public institutions and private corporations and voter turnout.
But he said it is "absolutely necessary" for Quebec policy-makers to address the province's low scores on components relating to inter-personal and communal relationships. If they do not, they are missing out on the economic gains and improved educational and health outcomes that research shows accompany increased social capital.
In his 2000 book Bowling Alone, the pioneer in social capital scholarship Robert Putnam wrote that "honesty and trust lubricate the inevitable frictions of social life." Kazemipur said Quebec especially would benefit from getting things running more smoothly.
"Because of the almost consistently lower score that they have had, they have to pay much more attention to this than the rest of the country," he said.
• Email: ghamilton@nationalpost.com | Twitter: grayhamilton | from place to place. But she thinks Potter was off base to invoke social capital statistics to explain an incompetent government response to a blizzard.
Christopher Barrington-Leigh, an economics professor at McGill's Institute for Health and Social Policy, said social capital measures typically predict general happiness. "Higher social-capital societies are also the ones which are simply happier," he said.
But Quebec presents a paradox. Despite scoring low on trust and other social-capital measures, Quebecers have risen to the top among Canadians when asked to rate how satisfied they are with life on a scale of zero to 10. In fact, Barrington-Leigh found that when Quebec was compared with the countries of the world, its reported happiness in 2010 was second only to Denmark.
"We're doing something right in Quebec — doing a lot of things right in terms of building good lives for people — and yet we're doing that in spite of this apparent handicap," he said.
He speculated that part of the explanation for the social capital handicap goes back to the Quiet Revolution, when Quebecers largely abandoned the church.
"In Quebec, we quite suddenly lost a lot of the institutions that were the glue and physical embodiment of that social capital," he said. "People who used to have their social networks and their meeting places and so on through church, in less than a generation that disappeared. It's a question of how many generations does it | 284 |
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Usabilla allows our customers to collect feedback across multiple channels. Previously, the form's design varied across the channels (email, web, web, web, and mobile). The design of these forms was outdated and very hard to customize to our customer's needs.
The task was to create a fresh, unified new style for the Usabilla feedback form. Fit the different brands but still be Usabilla, stay consistent across four platforms, be accessible, re-design eleven different form components with ratios, not pixels to make them scaleable, completely responsive, support all different browsers, and RTL.
My design guidelines - It needs to be clear and straightforward, avoiding unnecessary movements. I aimed to make the process of leaving feedback, fun and playful but not silly. The behavior should feel human, the movements aligned with the laws of gravity and that all the interactions have the same logic. My main objective in using micro-interactions was to guide the user to the next step and to show the relationship between elements.
Usabilla's software is used globally by over 450 brands. That means our product has to work with very different browser types or digital experiences. Think Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Edge,<|fim_middle|>ed through the countless emojis out there and analyzed the range of emotions users feel about digital experiences to find the most representative smileys.
Then, I sketched different smiley options and sent out a randomized survey asking all sorts of users which smiley best represented which emotion, and which emotion best represented unique digital experiences. For example, does a bug at checkout make you sad, angry, or frustrated? Which smiley best describes that feeling?
We made sure the smileys were also globally understood as we operate in 139 countries. What looks like "angry" for one culture might be completely different in another. Once we gathered feedback on the new feedback form smileys, we were ready to tackle each challenge in unifying the design.
Style One of our design principles is playful, which is a huge part of the Usabilla brand and personality. I wanted to keep that by using micro-interactions and animation.
To achieve the perfect balance between too much animation (there is such a thing, and it can be very disruptive!) and a bland, unengaging amount of animation, I defined some guidelines and personality to the animation behavior.
The process of giving feedback should be as natural as a flow of conversation. It needs to be clear and straightforward, avoiding unnecessary movements. I aimed to make the process of leaving feedback, fun and playful but not silly. The behavior should feel human, the movements aligned with gravity laws, and all the interactions made with the same logic.
Design principles for color, font, and style.
Colors - The customer can choose different colors. I needed to have some base colors for the elements like different shades of gray that could be used for the borders and shadows that would work with various background colors.
Fonts & Sizing - To allow customers to choose their font size, I used an EM ratio that would keep a consistent relationship between the titles and the text based on their preferred base size. The input font with a fixed size to optimize readability for the end-user – that was something we couldn't compromise on.
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In synesthesia, stimulation of one sensory modality leads to a percept in another nonstimulated modality, for example, graphemes trigger an additional color percept<|fim_middle|> influence lexical search. Our data provide strong support for a bidirectional nature of grapheme-color synesthesia and, in general, may allude to the mechanisms of cross-modality interactions in the human brain. | in grapheme-color synesthesia, which encompasses the variants letter-color and digit-color synesthesia. Until recently, it was assumed that synesthesia occurs strictly unidirectional: Although the perception of a letter induces a color percept in letter-color synesthetes, they typically do not report that colors trigger the percept of a letter. Recent data on number processing in synesthesia suggest, however, that colors can implicitly elicit numerical representations in digit-color synesthetes, thereby questioning unidirectional models of synesthesia. Using a word fragment completion paradigm in 10 letter-color synesthetes, we show here for the first time that colors can implicitly | 132 |
Hybrid ferry enters service but awaits approval for hydrogen fuel cell
An innovative ferry that uses a combination of power sources in order to be more efficient and reduce emissions is now in service.
Hornblower Hybrid, a 168-foot ferry, is powered by Tier 2 diesel engines, batteries, solar panels, wind turbines and a hydrogen fuel cell.
The ferry carries passengers from Battery Park to the Statue of Liberty for the National Park Service. The 600-passenger vessel will also be used for private charters and special events. Its cruising speed is 6 to 7 knots; top speed is 12 knots.
Hornblower Hybrid is powered by diesel engines, batteries, solar panels and wind turbines. Once the fuel cell is certified, the ferry will become the first commercial vessel in the nation to run on hydrogen. (Photo courtesy Hornblower Cruises and Events)
Hornblower Hybrid is likely to be the first commercial vessel in the country to be powered by hydrogen. However, installation of the fuel cell has been delayed. Because hydrogen propulsion has not been used in a ferry before, Hornblower Cruises and Events is still working with the U.S. Coast Guard on certifying the hydrogen fuel cell aspect of the vessel, according to Cameron Clark, director of environmental affairs for Hornblower Cruises.
Clark said the decision was made to get the vessel into service with all but the hydrogen propulsion in place. He expects the hydrogen cell to be installed in the first quarter of 2012. When that happens, "it is just a matter of putting the tank and the fuel cell on the vessel," he said.
The Coast Guard does not have a timetable for approval of the hydrogen propulsion, said Lt. John Walsh, a marine inspector with Coast Guard Sector New York.
"Because it is a novel design with new technology that hasn't been used on a commercial marine vessel in the United States, there are some concerns," Walsh said. "But our goal is to ensure that the vessel is safe." Because this technology is environmentally friendly, the Coast Guard does "support Hornblower's goal toward using the hydrogen technology," he said.
The vessel has two Tier 2 Scania diesel engines that power two Baldor Reliance 700-hp variable speed generators. The vessel has an electric propulsion system consisting of two of Hornblower's power electronic systems that control Baldor Reliance 700-hp induction motors.
There are 192 Odyssey AGM batteries that augment diesel power during high instantaneous loads. The batteries are also charged by a shoreside electric power source while the vessel is at its berth.
The 20-kW solar panel was made by SunPower Corp., of<|fim_middle|> hydrogen into energy by breaking down liquid hydrogen into electricity, heat and distilled water; the electricity then runs an electric motor which charges the 192 batteries. The hydrogen is stored in a carbon-fiber tank.
"We really see this as an opportunity with hydrogen to show that it is safe, to show that it is reliable and that it has the ability to add to the overall power requirements for the vessel," Clark said.
Although the hydrogen fuel cell is a first, in Clark's view, it is the vessel's power management system that is more significant. It allows the captain to switch from one power source to another and to provide AC or DC power at any time. "The power management system on board easily allows for the plug and play of multiple power sources," he said.
But the larger issue is the better use of resources as technology changes the way vessels are powered. As one particular power source becomes outdated, that component can be removed and a new, more efficient source can be added, "as opposed to having to rip out and start over," Clark said.
Not only are conventional retrofits expensive, they are also wasteful, according to Clark.
"It's this whole concept of respecting our resources," he said. "You have this engine that still has life in it. We don't like this idea that you have to rip it out and throw it away."
So it would be possible, for example, to take a Tier 2 engine and, by combining it with other power sources, create a system that allows the vessel to meet Tier 4 emissions standards, he said. "As batteries get better and fuel cells get better, that means the diesel runs less."
Other green features include countertops built from glass and vodka bottles, LED lighting and aluminum for walls and ceilings. The use of aluminum eliminates materials such as wallpaper glue or paints that emit volatile organic compounds.
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Badgers Women's Basketball Has Sights Set on State Playoffs Following Year of Growth
PRESCOTT- The 2016-2017 season for the Prescott High School Badgers women's basketball team was a year of growth for the program, featuring only two seniors and five juniors to go along with two freshmen. Prescott High School completed the season with a 6-11 record overall while going 3-9 in region action.
"Last year was definitely a building year," Prescott High School Badgers women's basketball Head Coach Bobbi Yoder said. "I thought our record wasn't necessarily indicative of the kind of team we had. We had some close games in there that I thought we could have pulled out. That experience coming into this year is definitely going to help them win some close games."
While the result wasn't what the team was hoping for last season, the Badgers were able to learn how to play with each other and come into this season more experienced not only as basketball players but as a unit.
"Since we have the same team as last year, our team chemistry is a lot stronger than it has been before," Prescott High School Badgers senior guard Theresa Gutierrez said. "Now that we know how to play with each other, it's easier to work our offense and guide each other during our defense."
While much of the roster returns, the game plan will be different. Yoder mentioned the team spent the entire month of June at basketball camps on the weekend and leagues during the week working on a new offensive scheme.
"We put in a new offense this summer," Yoder said. "They definitely got a lot of reps with it. We're still not where we need to be but it's going in the right direction."
However, similar to last year will be the speed of the offense.
"We definitely have a lot of speed this year," Badgers sophomore forward Alisa LeBlanc said. "Our height is not as tall as we were last year but we still have a lot of height and I think our defense is very strong."
"We're looking for more reps in our offense and just really understanding the inside and outs of it," Badgers senior guard Abby Chartier added. "Just really getting up the floor and being conditioned."
The team will have plenty of time to continue building chemistry and learning the new schemes as the Badgers open with an invitational and spend the next week and a half in freedom games before the tough region action starts with squads like rival Bradshaw Mountain and the 2016 region champion Flagstaff Eagles.
"We definitely have a tough section, one of the toughest in the state," Yoder said. "What I'm looking for in these tournaments and scrimmages is to show us our weakness and the things we need to work on. Kind of build in the right direction so by the time section games roll around, we are a little closer to where we need to be."
The Badgers start the season on Friday, November 24th, at Desert Edge High School in the Scorpion Shootout against the Gila Ridge Hawks at 2 pm and the Payson Longhorns at 5 pm.
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Revolutionary War Articles from the
American Historical Review [AHR]
American Historical Review,
914 Atwater,
Compiled by Donald J. Gara, Florida, USA
""The Party of the Loyalists in the American Revolution"
Tyler, Moses Coit
Vol. 1 No. 1 (October 1895), pp. 24-45.
"The Whigs (and Tories) of Colonial New York "
Levermore, Charles H.
Vol. 1 No. 2 (January 1896), pp. 238-250.
"Diary of Richard Smith (New Jersey) in the Continental Congress I, 1775-1776"
Smith, Richard
"Diary of Richard Smith (New Jersey) in the Continental Congress II, 1775-1776"
Vol. 1 No. 3 (April 1896), pp. 493-516.
"The Battle of Bunker Hill"
Adams, Charles Francis
"The Battle of Long Island"
Vol. 1 No. 4 (July 1896), pp. 650-670.
"The surrender of Fort Charlotte, Mobile (by the British),1780 "
(to the Spanish under Don Bernardo De Galvez)
Beer, William, Editor
"The Connecticut Loyalists"
Gilbert, G.A.
"The Siege of Charleston: Journal of Peter Russell, 25 Dec. 1779 to 2 May 1780"
Russell, Peter
Vol. 4 No .3 (April 1899), pp. 478-501.
"Letters of Ebenezar Huntington, 1774-1781"
(From Boston to Yorktown with Washington's Army)
Huntington, Ebenezar
"Diary of Samuel Cooper (Patriot)," (April) 1775- (May) 1776
(During the siege of Boston)
Cooper, Samuel
Vol. 6 No. 2 (January 1901) pp. 301-341.
"A British Privateer (The Vengeance) in the American Revolution"
Howland, Henry R.
"(David) Ramsay as a Plagiarist"
(Author of "The History of the American Revolution". 2 Vol. 1811)
Libby, Orin Grant
Vol. 7 No. 4 (July 1902) pp. 697-703.
"George Rogers Clark and the Kasaskia Campaign, 1777-1778"
(From George Rogers Clark Papers- Wisconsin Historical Society)
Clark, George Rogers
Vol. 8 No. 3 (April 1903) pp. 491-506.
"St Eustatius (West Indies) in the American Revolution"
Jameson, J. Franklin
"Frederick the Great and the American Revolution"
Haworth, Paul Leland
Volume 10 - 1904-1905
"Nova Scotia and New England During the Revolution"
Weaver, Emily P.
Vol. 10 No. 1 (October 1904) pp. 52-71.
"A Continental Congressman (Connecticut)-Oliver Ellsworth, 1777-1783"
Brown, William Garrott
Vol. 10 No. 4 (July 1905) pp. 751-781.
"Intercepted Letters of Virginian Tories-1775"
Curle, H.W.R.
Vol. 12 No. 2 (January 1907) pp. 341-346.
"Soverignty in the American Revolution: A Historical Study"
Van Tyne, Claude H.
Vol. 12 No. 3 (April 1907) pp. 529-545.
"The French Objective in the American Revolution"
Corwin, Edward S.
"Ciphers of the Revolutionary Period"
Burnett, Edmund C.
Vol. 22 No.2 (January 1917) pp. 329-334.
"Letter of David Colden, Loyalist"
(Son of Cadwallen Colden, Lieutenant Governor of New York)
Jones, E. Alfred
"Letters of Robert Biddulph, (Loyalist) 1779-1783"
(Written from New York and Charleston- 27 August 1779 to 16 February 1783)
Biddulph, Violet
Vol. 29 No. 1 (October 1923) pp. 87-109.
"The Rifle in the American Revolution"
Wright, John W.
"British Secret Service and the French American Alliance"
Bemis, Samuel Flagg
"The Military Studies of George Washington"
Spaulding Jr., Oliver L.
"The Supply of Gunpowder in 1776"
Stephenson, Orlando W.
"French Aid<|fim_middle|> No.2 (January 1930) pp. 295-302.
"Responsibility for the Failure of the Burgoyne Campaign"
Clark, Jane.
"A View of Cornwallis's Surrender at Yorktown"
Adams, Randolph G.
"The Convention Troops and the Perfidy of Sir William Howe"
Clark, Jane
"Adam Smith on the American Revolution: An Unpublished Memoir"
Vol. 38 No.4 (July 1933) pp. 714-720.
"Washington's Farewell Address: A Foreign Policy of Political Independence"
"The Romantics and George Washington"
Stephenson, Nathaniel Wright
"Whig Propagandists of the American Revolution"
Davidson, Phillip G.
"Why the March to Concord"
Alden, John Richard
"The British Road to Yorktown: A Study in Divided Command"
Wilcox, William B.
Vol. 52 No.1 (October 1946) pp. 1-35.
"State or Continental Privateers?"
Morse, Sidney G.
"Rank and Status Among Massachusetts Continental Officers"
Kaplan, Sidney
"Prosecuting the Revolution (Against Loyalists)"
Haskett, Richard C.
"The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement: A Re-Evaluation"
Tolles, Frederick B.
Vol. 60 No. 1 (October 1954) pp. 1-12.
"English Migration on the Eve of the American Revolution"
Campbell, Mildred
"Charles Stedman's History of the American War"
Newmyer, R. Kent
"Nationalism and Other Loyalties in the American Revolution"
Savelle, Max
"American Historians and the Military History of the American Revolution"
Higginbotham, Don
"The Revolutionary Character of the American Revolution"
Nelson, William H.
Vol. 70 No. 4 (July 1965) pp. 998-1014.
"Barbarous Strangers: Hessian State and Society During the American Revolution"
Ingrao, Charles
Vol. 87 No. 4 (October 1982) pp. 954-976.
Volume 105 - 2000
American Historical Review Forum – Revolution in the Americas
"The American Revolution (An Analysis)"
Greene, Jack P.
Vol. 105 No. 1 (February 2000) pp. 93-102.
Sensibility and the American War for Independence"
Knott, Sarah
Vol. 109 No. 1 (February 2004) pp. 19-40.
© 2007 - Donald J. Gara | Before the Alliance of 1778"
"The American Revolution: An Interperation"
Andrews, Charles M.
"The Corps of Light Infantry in the Continental Army"
Wright John W.
Vol. 31 No.3 (April 1926) pp. 454-461.
"Lord George Germain in Office, 1775-1782"
Guttridge, George H.
"British Public Opinion of the Peace with America, 1782"
Wead, Eunice
"Aspects of Revolutionary Finance, 1775-1783"
Harlow, Ralph Volney
"Perquisites of the President of the Continental Congress"
"The Early Biographers of George Rogers Clark"
Kellogg, Louise Phelps
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This weekend from today the Alphaville Festival is under way providing a platform for digital media and art to be shown, discussed and explored across different venues in East London.
It is the<|fim_middle|> WIRED "The digital revolution is over".
The 2011 edition provides an online and live platform to explore, test and disseminate new deas, emerging trends, collaborations and groundbreaking works. Running from 22-25 September the programme presents social media and interactive art, open labs, meet-ups, talks, workshops and screenings alongside with live music, visual performances and parties. Taking place longside the London Design Festival, the 2011 edition enables a network of satellite events spreading across different London boroughs and links with other European cities such as Madrid (Twin Gallery) and Brussels & The Hague (Todays Art). Selected venues include Netil House, Rich Mix, Space Studios, Vortex Jazz Club, XOYO, Hearn Street Warehouse and Whitechapel Gallery. The festival programme also connects east and west London thorough a link with the V&A Digital Design Weekend.
There is a range of events including performances, talks and exhibitions. On Saturday 13h00 I will be giving a talk t the Innovation Space in Netil House. Networked Cities I will be discussing some of the Twitter visualisation we have created for the NCL project. This wil mainly focus on Ljubljana, Den Haag and Brussels in terms of activity, network and spatial diversity.
A map to find the different venues can be found below. Tickts can be bougt at the venues or online HERE. To get a previe HERE is and interview with PANTHA DU PRINCE who will be playing at the festival or a sound mix teaser below. | third year for this growing digital-media platform and this years theme is "Zeitgeist, from digital to post-digital. This is very much picking up on how Negroponte put it already back in 1998 in | 47 |
Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a statement in the House of Commons.
This is the Prime Minister's statement in full, and although may be long, is a fitting tribute to Prince Philip and worth spending<|fim_middle|> there is a community in the Pacific islands that venerates Prince Philip as a god, or volcano spirit – a conviction that was actually strengthened when a group came to London to have tea with him in person.
When he spoke so feelingly about the problems of overpopulation, and humanity's relentless incursion on the natural world, and the consequent destruction of habitat and species, he contrived to be at once politically incorrect and also ahead of his time.
In a quite unparalleled career of advice and encouragement and support, he provided one particular service that I believe the House will know in our hearts was the very greatest of all. In the constant love he gave to Her Majesty the Queen – as her liege man of life and limb, in the words he spoke at the Coronation – he sustained her throughout this extraordinary second Elizabethan age, now the longest reign of any monarch in our history.
It was typical of him that in wooing Her Majesty – famously not short of a jewel or two – he offered jewellery of his own design. He dispensed with the footmen in powdered wigs. He introduced television cameras, and at family picnics in Balmoral he would barbecue the sausages on a large metal contraption that all Prime Ministers must have goggled at for decades, complete with rotisserie and compartments for the sauces, that was – once again, Mr Speaker – a product of his own invention and creation.
Indeed as an advocate of skills and craft and science and technology this country has had no royal champion to match him since Prince Albert, and I know that in due course the House and the country will want to consider a suitable memorial to Prince Philip.
It is with that same spirit of innovation that as co-gerent of the Royal Family, he shaped and protected the monarchy, through all the vicissitudes of the last seven decades, and helped to modernise and continually to adapt an institution that is above politics, that incarnates our history, and that is indisputably vital to the balance and happiness of our national life.
By his unstinting service to The Queen, the Commonwealth, the armed forces, the environment, to millions of people young and not so young around the world, and to countless other causes, he gave us and he gives us all a model of selflessness, and of putting others before ourselves. And though I expect Mr Speaker, he might be embarrassed or even exasperated to receive these tributes, he made this country a better place, and for that he will be remembered with gratitude and with fondness for generations to come."
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"Mr Speaker, I beg to move:
That an Humble Address be presented to Her Majesty expressing the deepest sympathies of this House on the death of His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and the heartfelt thanks of this House and this nation for his unfailing dedication to this Country and the Commonwealth, exemplified in his distinguished service in the Royal Navy in the Second World War; his commitment to young people in setting up The Duke of Edinburgh's Award, a scheme which has touched the lives of millions across the globe; his early, passionate commitment to the environment; and his unstinting support to Your Majesty throughout his life.
Mr Speaker, it is fitting that on Saturday His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh will be conveyed to his final resting place in a Land Rover, which Prince Philip had designed himself, with a long wheel base and a capacious rear cabin, because that vehicle's unique and idiosyncratic silhouette reminds the world that he was above all a practical man, who could take something very traditional – whether a machine or indeed a great national institution – and find a way by his own ingenuity to improve it, to adapt it for the 20th or the 21st century.
That gift for innovation was apparent from his earliest career in the Navy. When he served in the second world war, he was mentioned in despatches for his "alertness and appreciation of the situation" during the Battle of Cape Matapan, and he played a crucial role in helping to sink two enemy cruisers. But it was later, during the invasion of Sicily, that he was especially remembered by his crewmates for what he did to save their own ship.
In a moment of high danger, at night, when HMS Wallace was vulnerable to being blown up by enemy planes, he improvised a floating decoy – complete with fires to make it look like a stricken British vessel – so that the Wallace was able to slip away, and the enemy took out the decoy.
He was there at Tokyo Bay in 1945, barely 200 yards away from the Japanese surrender on the deck of USS Missouri; but he wasn't content just to watch history through his binoculars. It seems that he used the lull to get on with repainting the hull of HMS Whelp; and throughout his life – a life that was by necessity wrapped from such a young age in symbol and ceremony – one can see that same instinct, to look for what was most useful, and most practical, and for what would take things forward.
He was one of the first people in this country to use a mobile phone. In the 1970s, he was driving an electric taxi on the streets of London – the fore-runner of the modern low-carbon fleet, and, again, a vehicle of his own specifications. He wasn't content just to be a carriage driver. He played a large part in pioneering and codifying the sport of competitive carriage driving.
And if it is true that carriage-driving is not a mass-participation sport – not yet – he had other novel ideas that touched the lives of millions, developed their character and confidence, their teamwork and self-reliance. It was amazing and instructive, to listen on Friday to the Cabinet's tributes to the Duke, and to hear how many were proud to say that they, or their children, had benefited from taking part in his Duke of Edinburgh Award schemes.
I will leave it to the House to speculate as to who claimed to have got a gold award, and who got a bronze. But I believe those ministers spoke for millions of people – across this country and around the world – who felt that the Duke had in some way touched their lives, people whose work he supported in the course of an astonishing 22,219 public engagements, people he encouraged, and, yes, he amused.
It is true that he occasionally drove a coach and horses through the finer points of diplomatic protocol, and he coined a new word – dontopedalogy – for the experience of putting your foot in your mouth.
And it is also true that among his more parliamentary expressions he commented adversely on the French concept of breakfast, and told a British student in Papua New Guinea that he was lucky not to be eaten, and that the people of the Cayman Islands were descended from pirates, and that he would like to go to Russia except that, as he put it, "the bastards murdered half my family".
But the world did not hold it against him, Mr Speaker. On the contrary, they overwhelmingly understood that he was trying to break the ice, to get things moving, to get people laughing and forget their nerves; and to this day | 970 |
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Magic Kingdom Update – Chilean Miners Salute, SHAG Artist signing, New Fantasyland latest construction – Photos and Video (Now in HD)
By Jeff, on February 1st, 2011
We had a fantastic day at the Magic Kingdom yesterday! The Chilean miners (below, left and right) were given a key to the Magic Kingdom in a parade and short ceremony, and they were even able to greet guests who gave them nothing short of a heroes welcome.
The Chilean miners wore matching Mickey t-shirts and construction/miner hats with Mickey ears on them (below, left) as they posed in front of the castle. The miners have been here for several days with their families. The parade made it's way down Main Street USA (below, right), with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and other Disney characters leading the procession.
Dopey (below, left) holds balloons and waves to the crowd. Mickey joins several of the miners (below, right) in a car while Goofy walks behind.
Daisy and Dale were part of the procession (below left). The Main Street Omnibus held the remaining miners as they enthusiastically waved, gave thumbs up, and greeted the crowd (below, right).
The miners were taken to in front of City Hall (below, left), where they got out of the Ominibus (below, right), as hundreds of guests were waiting to hug them and shake their hands.
Video #1 – Chilean Miners and Rescuers Magic Kingdom Walt Disney World 1/31/11 – The Chilean miners who were rescued (and their rescuers) were treated to a Walt Disney World vacation and a parade down Main Street!
Josh Agle, better known as the artist SHAG, was at the Magic Kingdom for the first time ever to sign his artwork (below, left). We were even treated to samples from the Confectionery by their wonderful cast members! (below, right)
SHAG created a beautiful 40th anniversary lithograph (below, left), and he<|fim_middle|> as it gets ready for the New Fantasyland!
Video #3 – New Fantasyland View from Dumbo, 1/31/11 Walt Disney World – The view of Fantasyland from Dumbo, Walt Disney World on January 31st, 2011. This is meant for pausing to get the best view of the buildings!
There had been rumors for quite some time about the possible Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, so we weren't too surprised when it was announced (below left and right).
The Seven Dwarfs Mine Train is supposed to be a ride that is a combination of Disneyland's Casey Jr. Circus Train and Big Thunder Mountain, but with a whole new ride system (below, left and right) that features ride vehicles that swing back and forth as they move down the track.
Beautiful, new artwork has been added to the Magic Kingdom walls, including of the Beast (below, left) and Ariel and Eric (below, right). This is a very exciting time to be a fan of Disney, with so much money and talent being pumped into both coasts!
Video #4 – New Fantasyland Wall Concept Art Magic Kingdom 1/31/11 Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, Little Mermaid – This is the concept art on the wall of the Magic Kingdom for the New Fantasyland, including the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train and the Little Mermaid ride!
For more great photos, please check out MouseSteps latest update HERE!
Whats Happening Chilean Miners and Rescuers Magic Kingdom, Chilean Miners at Walt Disney World, Dapper Dans, Magic Kingdom, New Fantasyland, New Fantasyland latest construction, New Fantasyland View from Dumbo, New Fantasyland Wall Concept Art, Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, SHAG Artist signing, SHAG JoSH AGle Walt Disney World | was so friendly to each of us as we met him (below, right). This litho is part of a full line of merchandise that will be introduced this summer.
Video #2 – SHAG – JoSH AGle Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom w/Dapper Dans "Grim Grinning Ghosts" 1/31/11 – We were in line to meet SHAG (a wonderful artist who has never been to WDW to sign before), and the Dapper Dans came and sang "Grim Grinning Ghosts".
We thought the facade currently on the back of Cinderella Castle looks amazing, it even looks like you can see inside Cinderella's Royal Table! (below left and right).
Each time we see the work going on in the upcoming New Fantasyland, it seems that much has changed from the last time (below left and right). It's harder to see with the trees in the way, but I'm really looking forward to this new land when it's finished.
There are several buildings that have been constructed, from The Little Mermaid to the Be Our Guest Tavern (below left and right). Remember that Mickey's Toontown Fair will close after February 11th | 245 |
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Exponential Growth
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Modern society is addicted to and engineered for perpetual economic growth.
Now, a fourth-grader can tell you that nothing can grow forever, especially if you have finite resources. But that simple realization is eluding today's central planners, despite multiplying evidence that growth is becoming harder and harder to come by.
This week's podcast guest is Professor Tim Jackson, sustainability advisor for the UK government, professor of sustainable development at the University of Surrey and Director of CUSP. Tim is also a full member of the Club of Rome.
He explains why the exponential growth rates of today's economies, and their associated rates of resource extraction/consumption, will not be able to continue for much longer — and why a pursuit of "prosperity" (defined much more broadly than simple consumerism) is a much healthier goal for humanity.
Anyone who thinks that exponential growth can go on forever on a finite planet is either a madman or an economist.
Those very steep lines that rise very sharply as we approach the 21st century and show us that we are exceeding our carrying capacity in all sorts of ways are quite compelling. I think people actually feel this to some extent, that having more and more 'stuff' going through the system is somehow unsustainable. And not just in environmental ways, but even in social ways.
It's the classic challenge of the irresistible force meeting the unmovable object. This pervasive idea of prosperity consisting of exponential growth, while the planet is not getting any bigger, is putting ecosystems under lots of stress. The pressures that human society puts on our environment is increasingly obvious.
This is a conversation that you can have with kids. They get it immediately.
With adults, it's different. They resist the idea. And that's despite exponential growth rates appearing, in the advanced economies at least, to be declining very specifically. And that's an issue which is not about environmental limits, it's not about results constraints. It's actually about the economic model itself.
At this point in time, the 'new normal' is an era that may just not have exponential growth in it. Fortunately, though slowly, very well established mainstream conventional economists are now beginning to recognize they may have to rethink all our assumptions about our current 'normal' idea of economic growth.
Click the play button below to listen to Chris' interview with Professor Tim Jackson (47m:24s).
Chris: Welcome everyone to this Peak Prosperity podcast. It's October 10, 2017. I am your host Chris Martenson. Well, the world is in deep trouble. Well, actually, I suppose the world itself is just fine but humans, maybe not so much. Now why do I say that? Because of our systemic and collective addition to growth; economic growth particularly. That growth is destroying ecosystems. It's burning through nonrenewable resources, and really cannot continue as it did in years and decades past. And when I say the word growth, you know I'm really talking about exponential growth: sneaky, powerful, deceptive exponential growth. This is the most important and least talked about and possibly least understand concept of our times. By becoming aware of it you can do many important things in your life, such as predict the future and alter your actions and your behaviors to become a part of the solution. Steady three percent GDP growth each year? That's exponential. Four percent more cars sold each quarter. That's exponential. Five percent increase in exports this month. Also exponential. Anything growing by some percentage over time is growing exponentially.
But we live on a finite planet, and that right there is where our story takes us today. To talk with us about this today as a guest, I'm personally very excited to finally have on the program - Professor Tim Jackson is a top sustainability advisor for the UK government and he is professor of sustainable development at the University of Surrey and Director of CUSP. He was for seven years economics commissioner on the UK Sustainable Development Commission where his work culminated in the publication of "Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet." Originally a report to the UK government, the work was subsequently translated into 17 languages worldwide. Tim is a full member of the Club of Rome. In addition to all this, he's an award-winning playwright with numerous radio writing credits for the BBC. Welcome, Professor Jackson.
Tim: Pleased to be with you.
Chris: May I call you Tim?
Tim: You may. You may indeed.
Chris: Well, you heard my intro, Tim. In your words, what's the big problem with exponential, economic and monetary systems on a finite planet? How do you summarize this for people if you have a short amount of time?
Tim: Well, I think I summarize it by saying that, as with Kenneth Boulding, that anyone thinks that exponential growth can go on forever on a finite planet, either you're a madman or an economist. And there are lots of visual tricks to see what exponential growth means. But those very steep lines that rise very sharply as we approach the 21st century and show us that we are exceeding our carrying capacity and in all sorts of ways are quite compelling. And I think people actually feel this to some extent, but this idea of having more and more, and having more and more stuff going through the system is somehow unsustainable, and not just in environmental ways, but something also even in social ways. And it's that challenge, really, it's that challenge of the irresistible force meets the immovable object. And this hugely increasing idea of what prosperity consists of in terms of exponential growth and the fact that the planets not getting any bigger, the ecosystems are all under lots of stress, the pressures that human society puts on our environment is increasingly obvious. And it's a conversation that you can have with quite young citizens of the planet, with kids almost, and they will get it immediately because it's a sort of inevitability about something getting bigger and bigger when there's no more room to play.
Chris: Well, it seems a very simple concept to grasp and, in fact, you've pointed to something I've noticed, which is sometimes the younger the person the easier it is to communicate, indicating that this, it's not an intellectual challenge, it's just basic math really. Gaining traction of this topic has been a difficult, to say the least. I would say what The Club of Rome illustrated in a set of models was some very serious ideas that really should have caused, I think, a lot of very careful thinking. My experiences that trying to educate and illuminate on this topic, this idea of limits, it feels like rolling a boulder up a hill sometimes. That's been my experience. What's yours been?
Tim: It was very interesting after the report was first published because it was a report written for the UK government, for the Prime Minister actually, with the commission reporting formally to the Prime Minister of the UK. And it reported at a fairly sensitive time because of that time, after the financial crisis, the Prime Minister had, in fact, invited the G20 leaders, it was the British turn to be leading the G20 meeting. And he invited the G20 leaders to London the same week that we launched the report, as it happened. And the whole aim of that conversation amongst the G20 leaders just after the crisis was how could we kick start growth. So you could imagine, actually, that a report from one of the government's agents advises saying maybe we should be questioning growth was probably not what the government wanted to hear at that point in time. And, if fact, they wanted to hear it so little that the report almost died that week. It got virtually no press whatsoever. There were some quite fierce reactions from our departmental sponsors, I would say.
And it was the weirdest launch of a report that I have ever encountered in my professional life, where you put all this work in, actually you think it's pretty good work, and you are aware, of course, that you're treading on some political toes, but you hope you've done all your homework. You've included all the government departments in your pre-release consultations. They've all turned up at meetings. They've seen the slide deck, they've all had a chance to comment of things, and yet we were not prepared for the degree of anxiety around that report from the government. And we were certainly not prepared to find that nothing happened initially. There was nothing. There was very little response to it whatsoever.
And then, the weird thing, I suppose, was that very slowly after that it began to pick up, a kind of online presence, almost went viral at a certain point, had this interest from publishers. And then these invitations that started flowing in. And what was extraordinary about that to me was that although I was aware that I was tackling a kind of taboo subject, what I wasn't aware was how many other people out there were interested in talking about that subject. So it is, as you say, extremely difficult in certain circles to even ask the question, but it was also fascinating that I had invitations from investment banks, from venture capital funds, from literary societies, from women's groups, from industrial companies, from groups of scientists who for forty or fifty years have been thinking about these very same issues. And an almost humbling response in a way that I had somehow put my finger on the pulse of a conversation that was just waiting to be had. And that's, I would say, over the intervening years, has been my predominant experience, that's there's more and more interest in having that conversation.
Chris: I have a similar experience. I put together something called the Crash Course, which was probably the hardest work I've done in my life, and I've got a PhD. I really bowed in and had to understand economics and I wedded that to energy and also the environmental concerns, and put it at a high-level synthesis thing, not creating anything new, but just creating dots, something that people could understand it. And it should have been a disaster, Tim. Some guy speaking over powerpoint slides for three hours is awful, but it caught on. But also very humbling for me. People spent unbelievable amounts of time translating it all into multiple languages and carrying the message.
And I have the same experience which is that – I call it open door close door. So in public I find that people who are heads of companies or politicians, they have one sort of reaction to it, and then you close the door and I get the weirdest questions from people. They say things like, so should I start a garden and what kind of chicken should I get? So they're thinking about this as if it might go very badly in business as usual. But their public face is still business as usual. Is that tide turning do you think that the business as usual is maybe on its heels a little bit in this conversation?
Tim" I think business as usual is on its heel for a very specific reason which is the idea of growth as we had come to expect it is increasingly seen as being difficult to achieve. In other words, those exponential growth rates appear, in the advanced economies at least, to be declining very specifically. And that's an issue which is not about environmental limits, it's not about results constraints, it's actually about the economic model itself. And I think that's the one factor that has changed dramatically in the years since the first report was published in the last seven-year since the crisis. And the fact that actually that at this point in time the new normal is a place that may just not have that exponential growth in it. And even quite well established, very well established mainstream, conventional economists are now beginning to recognize they have to rethink all of our assumptions about that normal idea of economic growth.
That puts the ideas of economic growth and the politics of economic growth much more on the back foot, and much more interest in the conversation that you and I would like to have about growth perhaps for other reasons. But interestingly, perhaps with even more pressure now to begin to dismantle that taboo and to say actually what is the economy of tomorrow going to look like? What are its foundations? How do we build it without reference to this idea that its continually expanding because it just may not be anymore?
Chris: Again, a fairly simple math idea to convey, but oh, so entranced. I'm intrigued by the title you came up with. I think it's perfect. "Prosperity Without Growth." And I think that in a lot of people minds growth and prosperity are conflated ideas – if you want one you need the other. How did you go about detangling those two ideas?
Tim: That was really one of the first starting points. It came, I think, from a variety of different directions. One of them was reading work on poverty actually from the 1970s. And a real understanding that, of course, at one level poverty is about income. But actually much worse things happen on the back of not having income. And they include respect and motivation and fulfillment and your access to being a decent person in a decent society. And those things go missing very fast for people when they're not there. Sometimes even when they do have an income. And it became clear, in a way, looking at it through this lens of poverty that the same thing was true of prosperity, that actually it's not and never was just about income.
It's a fairly modern conception to align prosperity with the idea of increasing income, and that actually what matters is the love of our families and the strength of our friendships and the integrity of our communities, our health, our wellbeing, our sense of meaning and purpose, of having a place in life, of participating in society. And you can have one without the other. You can have a society which has got this exponential growth built into it and yet is neglecting these fundamental aspects of prosperity.
And so, it immediately becomes a not altogether, absolutely, categorically answered question, but a really interesting question – could you decouple this idea of prosperity from the idea of exponential growth? Could you build a society which had these qualities that really mattered to people and in which their incomes were not necessarily increasing exponentially as we have come to expect them to? And that's a real, genuine inquiry. That's a point where you have to look at evidence, where you have to look at case study, where you have to explore the philosophy of what human well-being consists in and which also, of course, you have to think about the hard economics of delivering that vision of prosperity.
Chris: It almost sounds like there's a – in the growth phase of an organism you go through from birth to this rapid growth phase – you hit adulthood. And so our culture is a species, we went very hard charging through all the resources and now we're getting through adulthood and we have to figure out how we're going to be in this story. And the old story doesn't work anymore. We're not teenagers; we can't just consume endless pizzas and it's all going to work out. We're going to have to keep our room clean, we're going to have to eat well. There's a maturation going on here.
The resistance to that idea of really living within limits seems to really rub some people the wrong way. And before we circle back to prosperity, because that's the central theme of what I want to get to here, I want to turn to those Limits to Growth models and all of that, because there's been lots and lots of criticism and debate about the Limits to Growth model, their outputs. Not all have been fair. I get accused of basically being some form of Malthusian person as a show stopper all the time. But in 2016 yourself and Robin Webster wrote a review of the Limits to Growth debate titled "Limits Revisited." Before we get back to the prosperity side of this, can you set the stage for those who may be unfamiliar with the Limits to Growth? Tell us what really was it and how it came to be.
Tim: Yeah. It was a fascinating piece of work and partly because at the center of it doesn't set a set of Malthusian projections about the world coming to an end by a certain date. At the center of it sits just a very profound insight about the nature of resource consumption in a finite world. And it is basically this: that as you consume more resources, as you grow up in your very nice analogy and move beyond the teenage years, what happens first is that the quality of the available resources begins to decline because you've taken the low hanging fruit, because you've taken all those rich seams already and you've mined them. It's gone. It's blown. And now we're looking at a world in which, actually, the quality of resources is beginning to decline. And when that happens you have to dedicate more of the available resource to getting out what's left because it's harder work because there's not such rich seams, because it isn't such low hanging fruit. And so you have to essentially dedicate resources that you might have otherwise put into health and education and community and building and production, you have to dedicate that energy just to getting out the resources to make all those other things possible. And that's a downward spiral.
That's a place where you're beginning to actually have less capability to waste stuff, less capability to produce stuff and potentially less capability to be prosperous. And that was a very simple message of that report. It was a fundamental, underlying dynamic of the resource based economy. And yes, it did make some predictions for around about the middle of this century. Lots of people thought all the predictions were about the end of the millennium, but that was never the case actually. And some of those predictions appear to be coming true. And almost all of the evidence suggests that the original work done by the Limits to Growth people was fairly accurate in terms of the level of resource consumption and pollution that would come about. And so we have, in 1972, this report that nobody wanted, really, nobody wanted to hear that message. And everybody from pop scientists to journalists to the presidents of the most important countries in the world got up in public to say this is rubbish. We don't believe in limits. There are no limits to human ingenuity was Ronald Reagan's response to the Limits to Growth report, for example.
And while that may be true that there are no limits to human ingenuity, that's not the same thing as saying there are no limits to our resource basis. That was a fundamental point. It actually hasn't been refuted in the way that many people believe it has been refuted. And it's still a really important message. It's principle message, I think, is to say that limits rather than being constraints on human activity are an invitation to opportunity as Windward Berry [ph] describes it. A way of saying, actually, there's a different kind of world, there's a different kind model, there's a different kind of economy and there's different way of thinking about wellbeing and prosperity. And we're being invited, actually, into that conversation because we are really beginning to face those issues in terms of resource quality that the Limits to Growth people said. It was a really important report, a point in human history, actually, where we should have realized something that we hadn't realized up until that point. And that something is as relevant today as it was in 1972.
Chris: Really astounding, especially considering the technology they probably had computer wise in terms of both software and hardware. I'm sure my smartphone would handily beat it in many dimensions.
Tim: A wonderful story about Jay Forrester writing basically, or sketching, the World3 model, or the basis of the World3 model which is that they did the calculations on the back on an envelope on a journey home from the Club of Rome meeting in 1968/69. And that was the extend – it wasn't' the entire extent because they did have some computing power. But they didn't have the data that we have today, they didn't have the geological observation that we have today. They didn't have the sheer computing power that we have access to in any way whatsoever. And so it was an extraordinary piece of work, really, visionary.
Chris: Now, this comes up against an idea, a concept, of planetary boundaries. Could you help us understand that?
Tim: The point about the Limits to Growth work, I suppose, in those early days that it mainly focused on resource quality. It did say a little bit about pollution, because the flip side of using and abusing resources is that you spread them out into the environment and they have environmental impact. Carbon is the most obvious one. And interestingly, carbon was mentioned in the Limits to Growth report, but only in passing as a local pollutant because we hadn't, at that point, gotten down to the fact that we have the potential to create much more global damage through climate change through carbon emissions.
And towards the end of the last millennium, it began to be abundantly clear that those environmental issues were going to be driving constraints on human society as much, perhaps more than, the constraints around resources, and this idea that there are planetary boundaries was put together actually by a group of scientists based around the Stockholm Resilience Institute led by Roman Yokstrum. And they set out, for the first time in the beginning of this millennium, to define, actually, what those boundaries might be. And what's fascinating, actually, about their work when they published it, almost exactly the same time as "Property Without Grace" was published, funnily enough, was that climate change, although it is an incredibly important planetary boundary, is not the only place where we're stepping out of the mark and that actually issues biodiversity, the loss of species, the eutrophication of water sources, and the proliferation of genetic materials. These kinds of issues are places where we are already transcending the safe operating space of the planet. We're already creating too much impact on the planet. And that's a real force to think differently about our economies.
Chris: It's such a devilishly tricky thing. There was a wonderful piece of work that came out from an environmental reporter in The Denver Post talking about the Ogallala aquifer system. And all the farmers there across this six-state system that are impacted by this aquifer, they know what the problems are, and they can clearly see that it has a multi-hundred-year recharge rate, and that they're drawing it down way too fast. And they all get that. And the farmers even know that if they continue to this that the very farms that they consider their chief assets are going to be ruined. And we're doing this to basically grow corn in a desert. Well, high plains. It's a very arid area, maybe not a full desert. But it doesn't make sense. Everybody knows it doesn't make sense, and yet we persist and we continue to do this. Speaking, I think, to the idea that changing entrenched practices, even if they've only been there for a couple of generations, is really difficult to do.
Tim: It is difficult to do. But on the other hand, those practices do change and have changed<|fim_middle|> are vastly in minority in our consume-driven economy and culture, so I try to argue utility rather than some Pocahontas-song version of how we fit in the web of life.
As an example of me living my life in accordance with the newest article set on PP, I continue to shout the truth on social media. My friends' list has suffered as a consequence, but I no longer care.
My latest Facebook post:
"Just keep swimming" is actually not a very effective piece of advice. Maybe swim in a different direction, or change the speed of your swimming, or be more efficient with your strokes. Zig-zag, or dive deeper, or go to the surface. Or maybe, just maybe, no matter what you do with regard to your swimming, a predator gets you anyway. Either way, "just keep swimming" isn't always the answer. Dory's strategy only worked because it was a Disney movie, not the real biosphere.
According to reports in Germany and elsewhere, insect populations – especially the pollinators – are declining at a rapid and alarming rate, and they could disappear within a decade or two. Sea life, at the most basic level of the food chain, is dying. I know that most people don't want to hear it. Well, tough shit. It's happening, and it threatens all our children and our children's children.
I fail to understand how this does not engender a national debate or discussion. I fail to understand how "optimism" or ignoring the problem will solve this issue. I fail to understand how so many of my fellow humans can not comprehend the brink we are currently standing upon.
Well, I'm not going down without a fight, if for no other reason than the well-being of my children and your children. So I will keep shouting this from the parapets wherever and whenever I can. I no longer care if this makes me the village lunatic, because I'm beginning to see that maybe he's the only sane one in the place. But I'm not just a death-bringer. There are things that can be done:
We can stop using biocides and pesticides. NOW. Pressure politicians into banning them outright.
We can pressure our elected officials to start dealing with REAL issues rather than the political nonsense of yesterday.
We can start talking about these kinds of things instead of the crap we usually talk about in this country.
We can stop using chemical-laden detergents and soaps.
We can start buying genuinely organic food, or start growing some ourselves, without using biocides and pesticides.
We can start voting for candidates who give a shit about the next generation.
We can start moving towards a less consumption-based lifestyle by being mindful of the resources we use daily, and then finding alternatives.
Or, we can ignore it and just keep swimming.
It's not leniency
It isn't an issue of leniency, it's an issue of time delays. The thing most people miss in the Limits To Growth model is that the overshoots and undershoots in a feedback system are the result of time delays. Nature isn't cutting us any slack, we just haven't seen the full effect of the things we've already done. If we stop polluting and stop burning fossil fuels today things would still get worse before they would get better.
Or fits
No, the implication of the word "or" is that economists are just as disconnected from reality as madmen.
Melbourne study
Is the Melbourne study available online? Can you post a link to it?
Sun, Oct 29, 2017 - 2:56pm
Cornelius999
Guys caring is great but try
Guys caring is great but try not to burn yourselves out worrying – I should know, since I'm not a follower of my own advice!
Thu, Nov 02, 2017 - 12:59pm
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ezlxq1949 said:
My concern is that it is more cognitive apathy or cognitive denial. It's not that these kids (as well as others) aren't capable of connecting the dots. It's that they (consciously or unconsciously) choose not to.
Or, alternatively, there's Group Think; "my peers don't entertain this worldview, so I don't recognize this world view". This is where I think Snydeman's strategy may pay off; somebody has to be the early adopter of new world views if others are ever to consider them. | . And we're in a constant cultural flux, in a sense. Our ideas about society, our ideas about the good life, and the interactions of those ideas with the technologies that we're constantly developing is not a sort of static picture. It's never a static picture. It's always changing. And actually, that's both a worrying feature, a worrying factor, and also a very encouraging one. It's worrying because actually we've changed some of our cultural norms quite deliberately to build into society the idea of having more, the idea of consumerism. And that happened particularly after the great recession in the 1930s, the Great Depression in the 1930s, after the Second World War. This attempt to build a consumer society, we very deliberately encouraging us to be almost proficut consumers, to want more and more because we knew that the economy that we built needed to have demand in it. It needed to have more and more people demanding more and more things if we were to be able to go on employing people to produce them.
And so it was at the heart of our economy, with not just technology, it was a set of ideas about who we are and a set of ideas about who we should be that have dominated our conception of the economy and our conception of humanity over the last fifty or sixty years. And that was a shift. That itself was a cultural shift, it was a shift in the cultural norms. And what we're talking about here, I think, is actually saying, well, yes, that was a good-ish idea in the sense that it dug us out of the hole of the Great Depression and it put together a sort of social project after the second world war. And it saw us through perhaps to the last decades of the last millennium, but it is no longer the story of the 21st century. It cannot be. And it's not even a very good story about human well being because it turns out, in fact, that we're not just veracious consumers and sometimes having more is worse for us. Having less is better. And those are the things that we have to try and find out now about ourselves or rediscover about ourselves in a world in which more and more is no longer an option.
Chris: Well, absolutely, the whole quantity versus quality discussion. And I'm an example of somebody who cut his living standard in half and doubled his quality of life. And it's a message that I try to bring forward, that more is not better. And the data supports this. If we back up a few steps in my country, the United States, whether we're looking at obesity rates or imprisonment rates or job place satisfaction scores or levels of depression, psychoactive drug use in children and teens alike, we can pretty much sum it up and say yeah, we could do better. This is not a story of really obvious happiness and contentment and fulfillment here. So those sorts of things are starting to sneak in. And generationally I'm noticing that's really starting to sneak in as well with young people increasingly being, as usual, the revolutionaries who are saying, wait, wait, wait, wait. What am I buying into? I'm not sure about this. We can do better, and maybe this would serve me better.
So that's a place where I have some hope in this and I do see those stories changing. My concern, Tim, is I don't know if we're going to have time. And I have a confession. I'm one of those oil people. I know we've been ridiculed, and there's a whole marketing campaign in my country to suggest that anybody who ever believed in that was just a nut. But my data is what it is, and it shows that oil fields peak and then decline irrevocably and that we're into the source rocks and that the return on energy invested for our most recent efforts are not as stellar as they were in the past, and all of that. Where you do stand on the whole peak oil issue at this point?
Tim: Well, I think you'd be in very good company, actually, with very serious commentators from very established positions. So, for example, a report last year to HSBC Bank which would absolutely agree with that although we're not looking at the absolute depletion of oil fields, we certainly looking at the peak of many conventional oil fields. Many areas in which the exploration for new oil is slowing down, and questions of quality about the resources that are coming online that could bring back that peak oil argument much faster than we've come to expect to be likely. There was a lot of talk about it, of course, around about the time of the crisis and the price of oil peaked at $147 a barrel, which was almost inconceivable a decade before. But it peaked at that huge price during the crisis for a range of different reasons, not all of which were to do with underlying scarcity.
But the one thing that it told us was that when any kind of scarcity hits that kind of supply, the resource price implications are huge, massively disruptive. And to not take that into account, to rule that out on the basis of a short-term optimism euphoria about something like shale oil or the new alternative sources of oil is really, really shortsighted. It's kind of like a business looking at the supply chain and saying well, it seems to be coming through at the moment, not user what it'll be like next week, but we can probably find something else to create our product out of. And paying no attention at all to the fact that your supplies are saying, wait a minute, I'm not finding it that easy to get the raw materials anymore. Perhaps you should think about looking for another supplier. We don't have another supply, we're one planet Earth, this is it. And so it's almost like to be responsible even as a society we must be taking those things seriously. And I think we could be hit by, not necessarily ultimate scarcity, but by scarcity related issues in our supply chains much faster than most conventional observers are saying.
Chris: My own back of the envelope calculations put us at about 2018 to 2020. Somewhere in there. And it's just based on the fact there's 1.2 missing trillion in upstream investment in oil and gas that didn't happen. So the supply in the future that won't be there. And Tim, the tightest data set I have in all of economics, which is often noisy data sets and correlation and causation stuff, it's hard to tease apart, it's just this one – is the advance in real GDP graphed against increase in total primary energy consumption. And it's practically a perfect fit. And so you have that piece of data, right. And then you have this other piece of data that – models vary, but the one I tend to believe say that total energy output from fossil fuels peaks somewhere around 2030 – it's a decade long topping process. That's fine. But you look at the work of Ovlov Spittle who says, hey, we've done energy transitions in the past.
Two things – we've always gone from what we call a worse to a better energy source, wood to coal, that was magnificent, coals better. But those took forty or fifty years for even partial penetration, saying that energy transitions take time. So you put those three pieces of data together in my world and I say, wow, we're topping out around 2030, but for our financial system to not fall apart it needs to keep growing exponentially and it needs energy to do that. Which means that from 2030 to 2050 we basically have to replace 100 percent of total peak output of fossil fuels by other means. Now I'm not going to tell us we can't do it or anything like that, but I will say that I look at that data, Tim, and I see urgency. I'm like, wow, if we don't want this to become possibly quite dire we'd have to take that pretty seriously. Something like the Apollo times the Manhattan Project times another whole number like a hundred. Like it's has to be a point of serious thrust. Would you agree with that, and second do you see any on a policy front anywhere that comports with that outlook?
Tim: Well, we do see some of that sort of Apollo project type rhetoric. And I would call it rhetoric at the moment because it boldly sits on an idea that we can keep the existing economic system. We can keep the economic and financial system. We can keep the idea of economic growth, and we can just technologize our way out of it with some, as yet, unspecified or sometimes actually very precisely specified set of technologies which can save us. And this idea that technology can save us is probably the most prominent response to that question of time. And I'm looking at that and I'm thinking, the question is not about the technology, it's about whether we can achieve that transition in this kind of society. And so I spend quite a lot of time in the book, in "Prosperity Without Grace", looking at the kind of society that we have, the way that it's build, the economic mechanism, the social psychology of it, the way that those two things actually combine forces in an almost potentially magical way if it's all going well to ensure that we have more and more stuff. But actually when it begins to go wrong they stop us finding the solutions.
And I actually do agree with you. I do sympathize with this idea there's not much time to solve these problems. But what worries me about that is it's one of those rabbit in the headlight moments. There's a tendency, actually, to react to those time-based projections with a sense of either apathy, oh, there's nothing I can do about it, I'm not even going to try, or just despair or potentially just this haunting, paralyzation of the cornered beast not knowing what to do. I think for me it's really important to avoid that. It's really important to say you don't know about time, we don't know exactly when the shit is going to hit the fan, we don't exactly know how long we've got left. And what we really need now is this process of reflection. These technologies are great, because are we really going to make this work in the kind of society that we have or do we have to think differently about a different sense of prosperity, a different sense of society, a different sense of what it means to do well.
And if we're going to do that, then we must start building that in a very concerted way, not in a frightened way, not in a way that we're going to be run over any second by this juggernaut, this apocalypse that's coming within a few decades. We need that task, actually, to be more reflective. The only way you can really buy yourself time to do that task is to say, apocalypse come when you may. But actually with or without apocalypse there is a real virtue in building a different kind of society now, a better society; one that is more aligned with who we are as human beings which is more fitting to prosperity and which will deliver us benefits, whether or not we're going to face catastrophe in ten years or a hundred years or a thousand years. And that's, to me, that's the way I get around that time task, that time challenge, if you like, is to think of this as a project that is deep, is absolutely contemporary, and whose benefits will go on whatever happens in terms of that potential disaster coming down the track at us.
Chris: I totally agree. It's such a delicate balancing act, too. I understand the idea of not wanting to put the rabbit in the headlights and demotivate people. A lot of my listeners have taken very positive steps. They've looked at the data, they've said, well, if this is going to happen where do I want to live, how do I want to live, how can I align my actions with this date in reality, and often discovering along the way, as I did, that when you do put the garden in and when you do have a more energy efficient sort of a lifestyle that a lot of other benefits accrue, and then they get to be models and spread that out. So we have to be the change we wish to see.
Now the other side of that, I have to tell you that a force of almost darkness that I have to battle, you mentioned it once, is this faith in technology. I'm sure you're familiar with the work of Professor Tony Seba out of Stanford, who came up with a marvelous report, very detailed, that said, oh look, magic happens, and there's no more internal combustion engines by 2030. Now I don't know if he's ever run a manufacturing plant or if he understands how much lithium actually exists in the world on a minable basis, but leaving those realities aside, what I noticed was how easily that message was just spread all over the place. And my concern is that instead of igniting a debate, it provided relief to people who would email me and good look, see, you're wrong, it's done. As if it's already done. It's fixed because we've got this brilliant thirty-page powerpoint that somebody put forward and we're done.
Tim: A very similar example - the New Climate Economy Coalition of the great and the good telling us that technology can save us. And the day that was published, that report a couple of years ago, it was tweeted by Obama, it was tweeted by the president of the most powerful nation on the planet. And so that's the appeal of that message speaking loud and clear there. If we can save it all with a magic piece of kit, then for goodness sake let's do it and get on with our high consuming lifestyles. And the message that, in a sense, is a more realistic one, is a more measured one, is harder to instill at some level, of the level of having it tweeted by the president of the United States, particularly now I suppose. But it is an equally profound one it seems to me.
And my experience of it is that although it doesn't have that appeal at the level of the overarching political conversation, it has enormous appeal in terms of ordinary people's lives in terms of the quality of their lives, in terms of the way they want to think about community, in terms of the way they want to think about their kid's future. And that I think is a different kind of energy. It's not quite so sexy, it's not quite so out there, it's not a thirty-point power presentation or a tweet from Obama, but it is a kind of a cultural shift. It's a conversation, as I said at the beginning, that's waiting to happen. It's wanting to be had by a large proportion of the population, much larger than I ever imagined when I first published the report.
Chris: That is astonishing. And this gets down to the central piece of this which is around prosperity for me. It's really about shifting mindsets and belief systems. Tim, when I entered all this – I'm a scientist by training and I've got an MBA, so I like numbers and all that stuff, and I'm a data guy – so I thought, oh, here's some data. This works for me. It should work for other people. I discovered, no, that's a very small subset of people who that actually works upon. For everybody else I had to take this tour through behavioral economics and what we know about influence and psychology and all that, right, because the limbic system seems to be in charge. And the example I give is that here in the United States, if you use hot water, almost without exception, approaching 100 percent, it's heated with fossil fuels, right. And there's this really amazing technology invented in the 70s called a box on your roof and it's painted black and solar thermal works great. It turns out the sun heats stuff really well for some reason.
And so, as I travel around I'll point out that, as I fly in I'll see almost none of these on the roof of even Phoenix, Arizona, for instance. And they make economic sense. If you like local jobs and manufacturing, they make sense. If you like the environment they make sense. If you like less dependence on foreign oil it makes sense. All these reasons, they make sense. But we don't do them. And I raise that as a way of illustrating we don't need that next piece of magic technology because we already have stuff that's brilliant that we're not using. So if we're not using that how are we going to use the next one that comes along, right. And that's really the piece where I've personally been struggling with. Is how to communicate to begin to shift that culture of – it's a story. It's a narrative that we live by.
I think in my country it would go something like this. We don't have to worry about resources, we never have, so I'm not going to. And I think that's about as complex as the story gets at this point. So the real question becomes who do we team up with, who have you found that's really capable of messaging this in a very sophisticated, subtle and careful way?
Tim: I think it's partly about messaging, and there are lots of people increasingly doing that, telling this different story. And some of them in very surprising places like the conventional economists now recognized that growth may not be there, like the politicians beginning to talk about a different kind of economy. But it's also partly, I think, about building blocks. It's about foundations. So when I revisited that report for a second edition of the book last year what I really wanted to set out was what would this economy look like, what would its foundations be? And instead of starting from an empty plate, starting actually from the building blocks the economists recognize. Of enterprise, of work, of investment, of the money system itself and saying what would these need to look like in this new economy, in this economy in which we did actually choose these technologies which are less harmful, in which our desire for quality of life was not dependent on more and more material? What would enterprise, work, investment, money look like in this economy?
And in the years since that commission report was first published, one of the most striking things is how many answers I've had provided to me by the people who are making those changes in those different areas. So for example, the way in with b-corps and social enterprises approach the subject of enterprise, or the way that impact investing approaches the idea of investments. And I was just continually astounded by how many different investment actors, I suppose, from different places, institutional investors, venture capital investors, impact investors, small scale community investors would come to me with models of doing that investment differently in which it would be possible to invest in those technologies that we need, and in which it would be better for people savings vehicles over the longer term than the kind of things that led to the crisis in 2007 and 2008. Underlying each of those things, a sense, actually, of real visionary change.
So that instead of thinking about investment as we did through the crises or before the crisis as a kind of gambling casino where the winner takes all and devil take the hindmost, actually investment is a much more fundamental relationship to it. It's about our commitment to the future. Can we reframe economics was my question, I suppose, in terms of meaningful, human interrelationships? And I think if you take investment and you think about it as commitment and you look at the institutions who build that commitment and you look at all the people who are out there building it even as we speak, you get an enormous sense of the possibility of change; of a place where things not just could be different, but are already being done differently by a host of really committed people. And that I find very exciting, and it goes way beyond this sort of simple idea of substituting a magic technology for a damaging technology, and it's much more about integrating a real vision of prosperity into human society.
Chris: Tim. Very well said. And I have to just thank you so much for the work you are doing in the world, and to everyone else who is on this team trying to sort out how humans can perhaps somehow gracefully evolve into this adulthood, a steady state existence on this planet. So thank you for your time today and also how people follow you and your work more closely and which of you many works would you direct them to first?
Tim: Well, my calling card, if you like, is "Prosperity Without Grace" which as I said, had just been published in a second edition called "Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow". And I have a very privileged position in the way of having enough funding to build a research group around these ideas which was CUSP, the Center for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity. We're based in the UK, but we have partners actually all over the world and we're always really keen to have conversations with people who are interested in these issues, so please do contact us.
Chris: Will do. And Tim, again, thank you so much for your time today.
Tim: Pleasure. Thanks, Chris.
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Limits to Growth was a systems analysis
The Limits to Growth work was more than an analysis of resource limits. It was an analysis of the earth as a system, studying the interaction of population, food, industrial output, pollution and a few other things. They examined the behavior of the earth system under variations of the various parameters in the system (things like rates of pollution, birth rate, etc.).
It helps to have a background in systems theory to fully understand the implications and to fully appreciate the phenomenal job they did.
Their results have been attacked as clearly false since what they predicted did not come true. However, these assaults were blatant lies as their predictions have actually tracked quite well. Their book described the results under several sets of behavior, including making no changes and varying degrees of change in an attempt to prevent the negative outcomes.
I have reproduced their "no major change" graph below. I have added a vertical line at the year 2000 and put tic marks at 2010 and 2020.
Limits to Growth Revisited
Here is the corresponding graph from their follow on book. The curves have little qualitative change.
Tue, Oct 17, 2017 - 8:10am
Uncletommy
Surviving the trend?
I guess there are options; be they somewhat limited:
DennisC
I was Triggered
I think it may have been the charts on the wall.
Tue, Oct 17, 2017 - 4:30pm
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Limits to Cognitive Capacity?
I belong to an NGO called Sustainable Population Australia, or SPA. Its current president is an academic at the University of South Australia. He wrote this in the August eNews:
At the time of writing (Thurs 3rd Aug) I had just completed a lecture to a class of urban and regional planning students, in which I showed them the simple maths underpinning the limits to growth (my tribute to the late Al Bartlett), alerted them to the impending peak and decline of world fossil fuels, and ran through the basics of how a steady state population and economy might work as an alternative to the failed growth model. A lot for the students to take in at 9 o'clock in the morning!
In the two-hour lecture, I repeatedly drove home the point that the relationship between people and land is crucial to sustainability and planning, especially as it relates to food supply. I also explained that our inevitable transition to a steady state population will have major implications for housing and planning. And I presented a graph (from our published paper here) showing that global energy supplies are very likely to enter a decline phase within 5 years and will continue to decline for the entire duration of these students' careers.
Despite my efforts to drive home the relevance of the topic to these particular students, not a single one raised a question at the end of the lecture. [emphasis mine] The reason could be that this was simply too much to take in, but I fear that the deeper issue is that young people in general – and I would include my generation in this, not just because I am clinging to the idea that mid-30s is still "young" – are becoming increasingly detached from reality, thanks to digital media. As we spend more and more time connected to our virtual world – viewed through our various screens and devices – we seem to spend less and less time in the real world.
When I was a university student (I undertook a double-degree in Civil Engineering and Environmental Management from 2000-2004), it was pre-Facebook, pre-Twitter, in fact pre-smartphones altogether. It was also pre-VSU (voluntary student unionism) and I recall university as a much more vibrant hotbed for concerned young environmentalists. The causes for concern certainly haven't gone away; I just hope we can somehow rekindle the passion.
How else might we label this: Cognitive Dissipation? Cognitive Usurpation? Cognitive Collapse?
As an ex-town planner I'm slightly worried.
If they are waiting for magic they'd do well to remember how nature has dealt with a scarcity of resources in the past: starvation, disease and war. They generally occur in combination.
Absent an active management of the de-industrialization we are likely to encounter those three this time around as well.
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Geedard
Try again...but this time...
ezlxq1949 wrote:
At the time of writing (Thurs 3rd Aug) I had just completed a lecture to a class of urban and regional planning students, in which I showed them the simple maths underpinning the limits to growth (my tribute to the late Al Bartlett), alerted them to the impending peak and decline of world fossil fuels (emphasis by Geedard), and ran through the basics of how a steady state population and economy might work as an alternative to the failed growth model. A lot for the students to take in at 9 o'clock in the morning!
In the two-hour lecture, I repeatedly drove home the point that the relationship between people and land is crucial to sustainability and planning, especially as it relates to food supply (emphasis by Geedard). I also explained that our inevitable transition to a steady state population will have major implications for housing and planning. And I presented a graph (from our published paper here) showing that global energy supplies are very likely to enter a decline phase within 5 years and will continue to decline for the entire duration of these students' careers (emphasis by Geedard).
Despite my efforts to drive home the relevance of the topic to these particular students, not a single one raised a question at the end of the lecture. [emphasis by ezlxq1949] The reason could be that this was simply too much to take in, but I fear ….(rest of text deleted by Geedard, for the purpose of brevity)
Steve St Angelo wrote an excellently insightful report on the declining Oil Industry – that appeared in yesterday's Daily Digest 10/16 entitled:
WORLD'S LARGEST OIL COMPANIES: Deep Trouble As Profits Vaporize While Debts Skyrocket (yogmonster)
Maybe the students will be able to connect the dots more easily if they can visualise the dire trouble of this industry using Steve's clear explanation…and then realise that this industry energises everything else in the world that they eat or otherwise impacts their lives… Just an idea, although I fully realise how hard it is to briefly explain and for people to quickly catch on… Sadly.
Wed, Oct 18, 2017 - 3:01am
Trying again
Thanks, Geedard, I'll send that link to the baffled academic and see if it helps, although I suspect (and hope) that he's already aware of it.
Wed, Oct 18, 2017 - 6:26pm
Review of Limits to Growth University of Melbourn
An in depth review of the "Limits to Growth" World3 model done around 2010 ran scenarios with a variety of optomistic assumption changes. The only assumption change that avoided collapse along with global famine by 2035, was a global limit of one child per family, starting in 2011. Every other scenario resulted in collapse.
Malthusian pesimist that I am, I place sustainable global population with reasonable prosperity between 4 and 5 billion people. This puts Earth in population overshoot in the early to mid 1980s.
Environmental issues like climate change, the sixth mass extinction and the condition of global water supplies, strongly support the belief that we are well into overshoot.
The charts below were generated by the University of Melbourn sometime around 2012. They found the "no change" scenario in the first "Limits to Growth" book published in 1972 to be surprisingly accurate.
Mark_BC
Anyone who thinks that
Is "or" really the appropriate word here? Wouldn't "and" be better?
Thu, Oct 19, 2017 - 6:44am
Snydeman
I'm not sure how many more
I'm not sure how many more clues nature needs to give us, nor how much more leniency it will grant us.
robie robinson
Whether we or our politicians know it or not, nature has a longer memory and a sterner code of justice than we do. Wendell Berry
Reply to #10
Love the quote
robie robinson wrote:
I often hear my students exclaim things like "we're killing our planet!" This is true to a certain degree, but I always remind them that this ball of rock has had moon-sized things fly into it, that it used to not have an atmosphere, and that it has experienced many extinctions in its long history. I then follow up with: "We could nuke ourselves to oblivion, and in a million years some semblance of life will be back, in full force, and the planet will continue to orbit the sun. In other words, the planet will be juuussstttt fine, but our species will be long dead."
I care deeply about the environment because I care about my species' survival, not because I fear we can do lasting and permanent damage to the planet itself.
Fri, Oct 20, 2017 - 6:32pm
Snydeman wrote: I care
Snydeman wrote:
I care because of all the amazing biodiversity that is disappearing. Sure it may come back in a few million years but this is what we have now. It is the real expression of creation, whatever belief system one may hold. I care about all the animals and people that do and will suffer because of the greed of a few individuals at the top, and the billions of sheeple who blindly follow them and accept (enable) it all without question or even a murmer of disapproval.
At some point the Sun will burn the planet up and make it uninhabitable for life. I am not sure when this will happen, but I think there is still enough time for another profusion of life after we are gone.
Sat, Oct 21, 2017 - 3:45am
I care too
A dragonfly is an amazing thing, all unto itself, without any other explanation.
Insects are not icky things that need to be poisoned, but a diverse group of life that is astonishing in its complexity and awe inspiring in its beauty.
One just needs to see them for oneself, not as movies, books and other's perceptions might have portrayed them.
I carefully watched and nurtured monarch caterpillars this summer (moved them from plant to plant once they had eaten one down).
I was rewarded with finally locating a chrysalis and watched it develop until it hatched (missed that moment, unfortunately).
Check this thing out!
If you look closely you'll see the gold dots arrayed across the surface of this marvelous act of creation. For what purpose? I cannot imagine that this is somehow connected to fooling a potential predator. Why put shiny things on there if that's the purpose? Or that it's a warning…red and/or yellow serves that purpose much better.
All I can think of is that it's there because it's beautiful. "Pimp my cocoon!"
Or this beetle…if created as a work of glass by an artist we'd be amazed. Well, go ahead and be amazed by the original artist, nature.
Mon, Oct 23, 2017 - 7:20am
Don't get me wrong...
I care about the environment on a spiritual level, but I'm under no illusions as to which argument is most likely to convert most people over to environmental causes. Arguing that we should respect life because it's the "best path" or it's "spiritually fulfilling" does not allow for leveraging the average person's self-centered nature and survival instinct for both themselves and their immediate offspring as a good motivator; we kill these things and we and our children will die is a statement that can be easily understood and processed even by the zombies of the modern digital age.
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Ernst & Young – Directly from Jim Turley, "Independent regulation of the profession post-Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) has strengthened audit quality and confidence in financial reporting. We are pleased that the Court's decision provides that the PCAOB's independent oversight can continue without interruption. Although today's ruling found a flaw in a provision within SOX regarding the removal of Board members, the Court held that Sarbanes Oxley remains the law."
AICPA – Barry Melancon is as excited as everyone else, "The court's ruling is a victory for investors and for the accounting profession. The decision effectively fixes the constitutionality of the PCAOB by making board members subject to `at will' removal by the SEC and therefore the president. It sustains the continued function of both the PCAOB and Sarbanes-Oxley. As such, the court rejected a transparent attempt to undermine the post-Enron reforms that have served our financial markets well."
Center for Audit Quality – The CAQ filed an amicus brief with court and Executive Director Cindy Fornelli was happy with the result, "The CAQ is pleased that the U.S. Supreme Court's decision will allow the continued operation of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) without any changes or legislative action. This narrow decision clearly severs the PCAOB board member removal process from the rest of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and reaffirms all provisions of the law except for the power to remove the board members. The PCAOB was put in place to achieve the goals Congress embodied in SOX. As we observed in our friend-of-the-court brief, evidence demonstrates that audit quality and investor confidence have improved since the Board's creation. The decision will prevent any disruption to the key activities of the PCAOB including setting auditing standards and the public company audit oversight process, critical factors in the continued strength and stability of our capital markets."
Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley – The architects, if you will. "The PCAOB provides essential protections to the more than half of American households that invest savings in securities. It ensures the integrity of public company audits and, thereby, the accuracy of financial reporting. The PCAOB enjoys widespread support from investors as well as from the accounting profession. The decision from the Supreme Court adjusts the law in a way that allows the PCAOB to continue to ensure the integrity of public company audits. The Board's essential protections of American investors will continue."
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In case you're just joining us on this MOANday, the SCOTUS ruled this morning that "the structure of the accounting board violated constitutional separation-of-powers principles because it was too difficult for the president to remove board members."
So, pretty wonky legal stuff. The good news is that auditors will get to keep their jobs (mixed feelings, we're sure) but what's the reaction at large?
PCAOB – The PCAOB, for one, is just excited that the SCOTUS is still letting them play. Sayeth interm Chairman for life Dan Goelzer, "We are pleased that the decision allows the PCAOB to continue without interruption to carry out its important mission of overseeing public company audits in order to protect investors and promote the public interest."
SEC – Likewise, SEC Chair Mary Schapiro is fine with the decsion too, "I am pleased that the Court has determined that the Board's operations may continue and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, with the Board's tenure restrictions excised, remains fully in effect. The PCAOB is a cornerstone of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and serves a critical role in promoting investor protection and audit quality. We look forward to continuing to work with the Board in connection with its mission to oversee auditors in order to protect the interests of investors and further the public interest in the preparation of informative, accurate and independent audit reports."
Wall St. Journal – Suzanne Barlyn over at Financial Adviser writes that the small broker dealers won't get the much coveted relief on their audit fees, "Historic financial regulatory reform legislation, which may be enacted as soon as July 4, would empower the PCAOB to regulate auditors of privately held broker dealers, who would then be subject to the organization's inspections and possible enforcement actions. The potential change could mean auditing fees as high as $50,000 to $100,000 per year for certain broker dealers, instead of the $5,000 to $10,000 they typically shell out now."
And Michael Corkery at Deal Journal writes that there is disappointment out there for the über-haters, "Dashed are the hopes of some corporations who believed the Court would use this case to question the broader issues of Sarbanes-Oxley, which critics say has buried publicly traded companies in onerous regulation and paperwork."
Former SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt – Former Chairman Pitt is less thrilled, telling Bloomberg that the decision was "an unfortunate and serious blow" and that even if Congress could squeeze there regulatory fix into the current reform bill, "in the two thousand pages of the legislation…there's not a word dealing with the PCAOB That is something that will have to be fixed."
DealBook – Peter Henning of White Collar Watch is fairly unmoved, "[T]he decision in the Free Enterprise Fund case has no real impact on the operations of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board beyond removing a cloud as to its continued viability. The likelihood one of its members would be removed by the S.E.C. is virtually nonexistent, and its oversight and enforcement powers continue undisturbed. Similarly, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act remains fully in force beyond the narrow constraint on removal of a board member that is no longer operative."
The Economist – Schumpeter's Notebook is thankful that the entire law doesn't have to be rewritten in the current legislative environment, "[I]t is probably a good verdict from business's point of view. Companies have spent millions on SOX compliance, and had just about got used to the legislation. Moreover, there is no guarantee that a broad reconsideration of SOX, in the current business climate, would produce better legislation. Far from it."
Ernst & Young – Directly from Jim Turley, "Independent regulation of the profession post-Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) has strengthened audit quality and confidence in financial reporting. We are pleased that the Court's decision provides that the PCAOB's independent oversight can continue without interruption. Although today's ruling found a flaw in a provision within SOX regarding the removal of Board members, the Court held that Sarbanes Oxley remains the law."
AICPA – Barry Melancon is as excited as everyone else, "The court's ruling is a victory for investors and for the accounting profession. The decision effectively fixes the constitutionality of the PCAOB by making board members subject to `at will' removal by the SEC and therefore the president. It sustains the continued function of both the PCAOB and Sarbanes-Oxley. As such, the court rejected a transparent attempt to undermine the post-Enron reforms that have served our financial markets well."
Center for Audit Quality – The CAQ filed an amicus brief with court and Executive Director Cindy Fornelli was happy with the result, "The CAQ is pleased that the U.S. Supreme Court's decision will allow the continued operation of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) without any changes or legislative action. This narrow decision clearly severs the PCAOB board member removal process from the rest of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and reaffirms all provisions of the law except for the power to remove the board members. The PCAOB was put in place to achieve the goals Congress embodied in SOX. As we observed in our friend-of-the-court brief, evidence demonstrates that audit quality and investor confidence have improved since the Board's creation. The decision will prevent any disruption to the key activities of the PCAOB including setting auditing standards and the public company audit oversight process, critical factors in the continued strength and stability of our capital markets."
Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley – The architects, if you will. "The PCAOB provides essential protections to the more than half of American households that invest savings in securities. It ensures the integrity of public company audits and, thereby, the accuracy of financial reporting. The PCAOB enjoys widespread support from investors as well as from the accounting profession. The decision from the Supreme Court adjusts the law in a way that allows the PCAOB to continue to ensure the integrity of public company audits. The Board's essential protections of American investors will continue."
In case you're just joining us on this MOANday, the SCOTUS ruled this morning that "the structure of the accounting board violated constitutional separation-of-powers principles because it was too difficult for the president to remove board members." So, pretty wonky legal stuff. The good news is that auditors will get to keep their jobs (mixed feelings, we're sure) but what's the reaction at large?
PCAOB – The PCAOB, for one, is just excited that the SCOTUS is still letting them play. Sayeth interm Chairman for life Dan Goelzer, "We are pleased that the decision allows the PCAOB to continue without interruption to carry out its important mission of overseeing public company audits in order to protect investors and promote the public interest."
SEC – Likewise, SEC Chair Mary Schapiro is fine with the decsion too, "I am pleased that the Court has determined that the Board's operations may continue and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, with the Board's tenure restrictions excised, remains fully in effect. The PCAOB is a cornerstone of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and serves a critical role in promoting investor protection and audit quality. We look forward to continuing to work with the Board in connection with its mission to oversee auditors in order to protect the interests of investors and further the public interest in the preparation of informative, accurate and independent audit reports."
Wall St. Journal – Suzanne Barlyn over at Financial Adviser writes that the small broker dealers won't get the much coveted relief on their audit fees, "Historic financial regulatory reform legislation, which may be enacted as soon as July 4, would empower the PCAOB to regulate auditors of privately held broker dealers, who would then be subject to the organization's inspections and possible enforcement actions. The potential change could mean auditing fees as high as $50,000 to $100,000 per year for certain broker dealers, instead of the $5,000 to $10,000 they typically shell out now." And Michael Corkery at Deal Journal writes that there is disappointment out there for the über-haters, "Dashed are the hopes of some corporations who believed the Court would use this case to question the broader issues of Sarbanes-Oxley, which critics say has buried publicly traded companies in onerous regulation and paperwork."
Former SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt – Former Chairman Pitt is less thrilled, telling Bloomberg that the decision was "an unfortunate and serious blow" and that even if Congress could squeeze there regulatory fix into the current reform bill, "in the two thousand pages of the legislation…there's not a word dealing with the PCAOB That is something that will have to | 1,922 |
Sizing Up That 'Look of Love'
Thu Apr 21, 2005
By E.J. Mundell, HealthDay
THURSDAY, April 21<|fim_middle|> an internal attribution, with the viewer suspecting that the averted gaze reflects badly on the viewer.
Or he could make an external attribution, which disparages the other person, instead. In this "sour grapes" scenario, the man interprets the woman's averted gaze to mean that "'she is not a person I'd want to get to know, because she's hostile,'" Palmer said.
What is sure is that gaze matters. According to Palmer, the most charming individuals use eye contact to their advantage -- as she found out in a recent face-to-face with former President Bill Clinton.
"He was speaking here in L.A., and I had an opportunity to meet him," she said. "He makes immediate eye contact, and sustains it correctly while he is listening."
According to Palmer, that means that Clinton quickly sets his gaze on you, averting it only occasionally and at proper intervals, because holding a gaze too long can signal hostility.
The result? "He's actually 100 percent more charismatic than he comes across in any kind of media," she said. "You feel like you're the most important thing to him at that particular moment."
For more on the psychology of attraction, check out this University of California, Berkeley, page.
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What to Do When You Can't Seem to Love Yourself | (HealthDay News) -- When a woman walks into a crowded room, what her eyes do in the first few seconds may determine how attractive she is to any man meeting her gaze.
If she turns her eyes deliberately toward a particular man, he immediately rates her as more likeable and physically attractive, new research shows. If she glances at him but then turns her eyes away, that same man will rate her as considerably less sexy.
"Our impressions of others are influenced by these simple, nonverbal clues -- and we are not objective in our assessments," explained study author Malia Mason, a graduate psychology student at Dartmouth University.
That could mean that a man rates a woman as less attractive when she averts her gaze because he's feeling rejected, or, on the other hand, that he takes her disinterest in him as reflective of negative personality traits he assumes she must possess.
While the study couldn't answer that question, Mason said, "We do know that gaze is a very potent attentional cue. In fact, there's evidence that when someone looks at us, it's physiologically arousing, and there are these brain regions that get more engaged."
For meetings where sexual interest isn't an issue, gaze can simply make you focus more on the person and what he might be saying or doing. And in situations where romance is a possibility, it makes the mind race and the heart beat a bit faster.
"The clinical psychology literature shows that the No. 1 thing you can do to establish a relationship is simply look at the other person, especially when listening to them," explained Beverly Palmer, a professor of psychology at California State University, Dominguez Hills, and a noted expert in nonverbal communication.
"What researchers have usually studied is just whether you're gazing at a person or not. But the problem is that the interpretation of that gaze -- according to how long the gaze is -- can relate either to interest or hostility," she added.
The Dartmouth study, published in a recent issue of Psychological Science, may help fill in that research gap.
In the study, Mason and her colleagues had 43 college undergrads (24 women, 19 men) sit before a computer screen and view a series of faces of fashion models scanned from magazines. The images were computer-enhanced, however, so that they appeared to slowly turn their gaze toward, or away from, the viewer.
In the first experiment, the researchers asked the participants to rate the personal "likeability" of each of the women pictured.
They found that both male and female viewers rated women who averted their gaze as less likeable than women who turned their attention toward the viewer.
Gender differences emerged in a second experiment, however. In that exercise, the same participants were asked to rate the physical attractiveness of the models on their screens as they turned toward or away from them.
In this experiment -- focusing more on sexual interest -- male participants consistently rated models who averted their gaze as less beautiful, while models who turned their eyes toward them got much higher marks.
"But for female participants, ratings of attractiveness [for the models] wasn't moderated by direction of gaze," Mason said.
The study does have its critics. Dr. Doe Lang, a New York-based psychologist and author of The New Secrets of Charisma, said it's futile to focus on one piece of nonverbal communication to the exclusion of all others.
"There are many, many possible subtleties that aren't attempted at analysis or codification here," she said. "Are the eyebrows raised? Are the shoulders raised? What's the rest of the body doing? Just to have the head turn and the gaze is far too simplistic."
And Palmer said it'd be interesting to know what happens when women view males in a similar context. "Because we know, for instance, that in heterosexual relationships physical attractiveness, as a quality, is rated much more importantly by men than it is by women," she said.
She also agreed that the findings don't say much about why people are judged more harshly when their eyes communicate disinterest.
"You could say 'Oh, she doesn't like me because I'm not good-looking, I'm too short,' etc," Palmer said. This type of reaction is called | 861 |
Japanese Bridge Paintings by Claude Monet – Musée Marmottan Monet
The Japanese Bridge by Claude Monet (1918)
The Japanese Bridge by Claude Monet depicts the footbridge over the lily pond at Monet's Giverney Gardens. In 1883 Monet turned a small pond on at Giverney into an Asian-influenced water garden. Monet expanded his pond by diverting water from the Epte River.
Monet surrounded the pond with a diverse arrangement of flowers, bushes, and trees. He filled the basin with water lilies and added a Japanese-style wooden bridge in 1895.
He then started painting the pond with its gardens, water lilies, and Japanese Pond for the rest of his life.
During the period when these paintings were created, Claude Monet had serious cataract challenges with his eyes. In 1923, Monet underwent two operations to remove his cataracts.
The pictures that were created while cataracts affected his vision have a general reddish tone, which is characteristic of cataract victims' vision.
It may also be that after surgery, he was able to see specific<|fim_middle|>�); Width: 116 cm (45.6 ″)
During World War I, when his younger son Michel served, Monet painted a series of Weeping Willow trees as an homage to the French fallen soldiers.
Oscar-Claude Monet was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting "Soleil Levant" or "Impression, Sunrise," which was exhibited in 1874.
Monet adopted a method of art in which he painted the same scene many times to capture the changing of light and the passing of the seasons.
Monet is known for producing a series of paintings, in which all the versions consist of the same subject and perspective.
Examples include his series of the "Valley of the Creuse" series and his famous series of "Haystacks" and "Water Lilies" paintings.
From 1883 Monet lived in Giverny, where he developed a garden landscape that included the lily ponds that would become the subjects of his best-known works at his home.
In 1899 he began painting the water lilies, firstly with a Japanese bridge as a central feature, and later in the series of large-scale paintings, with the water lilies as the main feature. This series occupied him for the last 20 years of his life.
The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, Claude Monet
Name: Oscar-Claude Monet
Born: 1840 – Paris, France
Died: 1926 (aged 86) – Giverny, France
Nationality: French
Movement: Impressionism
Reflections of Clouds on the Water-Lily Pond
Farmyard in Normandy
The Basin at Argenteuil
A Cart on the Snowy Road at Honfleur
Water Lilies, (National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo)
Camille Monet on a Bench
The Houses of Parliament (Effect of Fog) – (MET)
"Houses of Parliament, London" (Art Institute of Chicago)
"The Houses of Parliament, Sunset" (National Gallery of Art, DC)
London, Houses of Parliament. The Sun Shining through the Fog
"Seagulls, the River Thames and the Houses of Parliament" (Pushkin Museum)
Haystacks at Scottish National Gallery
Stacks of Wheat (End of Day, Autumn) at Art Institute of Chicago
Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer) at Art Institute of Chicago
"Meules, milieu du jour" (National Gallery of Australia)
"Wheatstacks, Snow Effect, Morning" (Getty Museum)
Garden at Sainte-Adresse
Poppy Field in a Hollow near Giverny
The Gare St-Lazare (The National Gallery, London)
"La Gare Saint-Lazare" (Musée d'Orsay)
"Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare" by Claude Monet (Art Institute of Chicago)
Le Pont de Argenteuil (The Argenteuil Bridge)
Impression, Sunrise
Water Lilies by Claude Monet – Musée Marmottan Monet
Gardens at Giverny Paintings by Claude Monet – Musée Marmottan Monet
The Japanese Bridge at Giverny
Highlights of the Musée Marmottan Monet
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet
Monet's Water Lily Garden and Japanese Footbridge
A Tour of Paris Museums and Historic Sites
Musée National du Moyen Age – Thermes De Cluny (National Museum of Medieval Art)
Musée d'Orsay
Musée Marmottan Monet
The Japanese Footbridge by Claude Monet
"Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep."
– Claude Monet
Photo Credit: 1)Claude Monet [Public domain] | ultraviolet wavelengths of light that are usually excluded by the lens of the eye.
His condition may have affected the colors he perceived because, after his operations, he repainted some of these paintings.
The Japanese Bridge
Title: The Japanese Bridge
French: Le Pont Japonais
Artist: Claude Monet
Dimensions: Height: 100 cm (39.3 ″); Width: 200 cm (78.7 ″)
Accession: 5077
Museum: Musée Marmottan Monet
Le Pont Japonais (the 1920s)
Le Pont Japonais by Claude Monet in the 1920s, the Japanese Bridge, the overflows of color, and the paint's abstract dynamism suggests that the flowers are in bloom.
Monet expresses his love affair with the light, the air, and his motifs of nature. A kind of brutality marks Monet's last works in the application of colors.
His final paintings testify to the artist's altered vision due to his cataracts and poor sight.
Le Pont Japonais
Title: Le Pont Japonais
Year: 1920s
Dimensions: Height: 89 cm (35 � | 263 |
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The TESOL President's Blog
In 1988, I saw an Eddie Murphy movie called "Coming to America." At that time, I had not yet made my first trip to the United States, so I was intrigued by how people from other countries would experience America their first time there. Over the last 20 years, I've made many trips all over the United States, but as someone who has been based in Canada, in different parts of Asia, in the United Kingdom, and elsewhere for most of my life, I was excited about attending, for the first time, this year's TESOL Advocacy and Policy Summit, which took place in Washington, DC, on 21–23 June. Approximately 90 TESOL educators attended the summit, which is a reflection of how this event has grown over the years; there were also a few participants from outside the United States, including me.
Advocates check-in on the second day of the summit.
The summit included talks and activities related to language education legislation and advocacy in the United States, and culminated in a day of visits to Congressional offices on Capitol Hill, where summit participants and U.S.-based TESOL members visited the offices of more than 100 representatives and senators. For me, one of the highlights of the summit was the keynote presentation by Dr. Libby Gil, who is the assistant deputy secretary and director of the Office of English Language Acquisition at the U.S. Department of Education. It's important to note that she describes herself as a nonnative speaker of English, for whom English is a third language, so she has a lifetime of personal experience that informs her professional roles and responsibilities.
Libi Gil, Assistant Deputy Secretary and Director, Office of English Language Acquisition,
U.S. Dept of Education, delivered the keynote address. Dr. Gil provided recent data that showed how ELLs are faring in the U.S. education system.
Another highlight for me was the workshop by Dr. Diane Staehr Fenner, who presented details from her book Advocating for English Learners: A Guide for Educators (2014), which has a foreword by John Segota, TESOL's associate executive director for public policy & professional relations. Each summit attendee received a copy of the book, which is copublished by Corwin Press and TESOL Press. There were also presentations by representatives from the Office for Civil Rights and the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education at the U.S. Department of Education, as well as the Student and Exchange Visitor Program at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Advocates chat with colleagues over lunch.
It says on TESOL's website: "Affiliates have been part of the organizational structure of TESOL since 1969, when nine associations applied for and were granted affiliate status." That page also explains that we now have more than 100 affiliates, with a total membership of more than 47,000 TESOL professionals. Of those 100-plus affiliates, most are outside the United States, but around 40 are in the United States, from Alabama, Alaska, and Arizona to Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. So, for me, another major highlight was the fact that most of the US affiliates—around 30 of the 40—were represented not only by TESOL members, but members who are on the boards of those U.S. affiliates, many of whom I got to meet, and who shared with me some of their concerns about TESOL: the field and the association. These kinds of conversations, though they may be brief and in passing, are a unique source of insights and input that I value greatly and for which I am very grateful.
L-R: Rosa Aronson, TESOL Executive Director; Andy Curtis, TESOL President; John Segota, TESOL Associate Executive Director; Libi Gil, Assistant Deputy Secretary and Director, Office of English Language Acquisition, U.S. Dept of Education; Firdavs Navruzov, U.S. Dept of Education Intern
Coming from Canada, I expected to learn a lot about the U.S. education system, and especially where and how language education fits within that, which I did. As part of that learning, I realized how different the U.S. education system is, even from Canada, which is geographically, culturally, linguistically, and in many other ways more like the United States than any other country. However, in spite of those differences, I realized that many other countries, including Canada, could learn much from the way advocacy for—and in some cases by—language learners and teachers is carried out in the United States. For example, in many countries, meeting senior politicians face-to-face, one-to-one, and "in the flesh" in the nation's capital, would be unheard of. But in America, this kind of access to lawmakers is such an expectation that the fact that these kinds of meetings can happen at all may even be taken for granted by some.
Here is a 2-minute video clip we recorded during the summit:
In it, I emphasize the point that TESOL International Association is committed to advocating for English language teachers and learners worldwide. That is an incredibly ambitious goal—some would say, far too ambitious—given the fact that every country has its own unique educational history, policy, and practices. But having met and listened to some of our few but growing number of non-U.S. summit attendees this year, from Greece, Saudi Arabia, and France, I can see how the association may be able to help with—as well as learn from—advocacy efforts by and for language teachers and learners elsewhere in the world.
Andy Curtis
About Andy Curtis
From 2015–2016, Andy Curtis served as the 50th president of TESOL International Association. He has coauthored and coedited around 200 publications and worked with more than 50,00 | 1,261 |
The visiting Bath-Haverling Rams won six matches via pinfall, powering their way to a 55-30 victory over<|fim_middle|>152) all earned pinfall victories for the Rams.
Bath-Haverling's Tyler Hutcheson picked up a win in the 215 pound weight class, taking a 5-3 decision from Hornell's Zack Bacon. Matt Schlink (145) won via major decision, a 17-7 contest.
The Red Raiders earned two pinfall victories on the night.
Jordan Harrison (130) pinned Branden Dickerson in 1:25 and Dakota Lowery (160) also added a victory via the pin.
Hornell is right back in action this weekend, taking part in the Arkport Holiday Duals tonight and Saturday.
"The guys are all improving, bit by bit," said Johnson. "What they're doing in the room is beginning to show up on the mat. We improved on our performance against Bath last year. Now we're looking to pick up our first team win here over the next couple days at the Arkport Duals. | the host Hornell Red Raiders Thursday evening.
R.J. Metz (112), Brian Hojnoski (119), Kyle Andrews (125), Mitch Buckley (135), Jacob Harrison (140) and Harley Lyon ( | 54 |
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Spam rate falls below 50 per cent for first time in a decade
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Spam fell to less than 5<|fim_middle|> 20:21
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has filed a complaint against a website operator that allegedly sent spam intended to trick consumers into signing up for health insurance in advance of the rollout of the Affordable Care Act.
Snapchat's new image-based human verification system already defeated
By Lucian Constantin | 23 January, 2014 17:27
Snapchat added an image-based security challenge to its account registration process to verify that new accounts are created by humans, but the system can easily be defeated by computers, experts said.
Snapchat, Bitly and Kik Messenger targeted by spammers
By Jeremy Kirk | 16 January, 2014 05:48
You have to give spammers credit for effort: Symantec found a spam campaign that manages to abuse three Web services at the same time.
Spammers target Google hospitality listings
Spammers targeted hospitality-related business listings on Google services, modifying links in what appeared to be an attempt to drive traffic to a hotel bookings site.
‹‹ previous 1 2 next ›› | 0 per cent of all email in June, the lowest in a decade, Symantec said in its latest Intelligence Report.
Romania, Panama cutting back on spam
By Jeremy Kirk | 29 April, 2015 09:16
Romania and Panama, two of the world's notable sources of spam, now have fewer computers producing it, according to security vendor Cloudmark.
Pushdo spamming botnet gains strength again
Computers in more than 50 countries are infected with a new version of Pushdo, a spamming botnet that has been around since 2007 and survived several attempts to shut it down.
Microsoft plans monster security update for next week
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Microsoft today said it will issue 16 security updates on Tuesday, the most in more than three years, to patch Internet Explorer (IE), Windows, Office, Exchange Server and SharePoint Server.
Accused text-message spammers to pay $9 million in settlement
A group of companies that allegedly promised mobile phone users supposedly free gift cards and electronic devices in a "massive" text-messaging spam operation will pay more than US$9 million to settle complaints from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
Microsoft to resume email-based security notifications
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Microsoft has backtracked on a plan to stop sending email-based notifications about security bulletins starting this month.
Spamhaus readies new antimalware data feeds
By Jeremy Kirk | 16 June, 2014 11:06
The Spamhaus Project will soon publish two new data feeds intended to prevent people from being lured to malware-infected websites and domains.
Global operation disrupts thousands of illegal online pharmacies
By Lucian Constantin | 23 May, 2014 03:08
Law enforcement agencies in 111 countries collaborated to disrupt thousands of online pharmacies in what Interpol claims was the largest ever global operation targeting organized criminal networks that sell fake medicines.
Yahoo email anti-spoofing policy breaks mailing lists
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In an attempt to block email spoofing attacks on yahoo.com addresses, Yahoo began imposing a stricter email validation policy that unfortunately breaks the usual workflow on legitimate mailing lists.
UK mobile operators join forces to combat text spam
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U.K. mobile network operators EE, O2, Three and Vodafone have teamed up with the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) to try to stop and punish companies that are sending spam text messages.
Almost 11 days later, Google finally clears up Postini email backlog
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After about a week-and-a-half, Google finished unclogging a backlog of legitimate messages its Postini spam filter trapped by mistake at the end of February.
FTC takes action against alleged Obamacare spammer
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Accomplish what you think you can't.
Where in the world is OGR?
Who Is Old Guy Running?
I wanted to take this moment to send a final message.
From as far back as I remember, I was broken.
Parts felt missing. Always the square peg trying to fit in a round hole.
I tried my best to keep up and be " Normal", but deep down, I knew that was an impossible goal.
As my journey went on, life did it's best to throw as much as it could to beat me down. I too ,did my part to try and destroy myself through many years of addiction. I became quite successful that.
But because of the love from my 3 daughters, I was able to be strong enough to break free from the cycle of addiction that has been in my family for many generations.
But after quitting drinking, I immediately found myself in a new, weird dimension. After being a drunk for 30 years, I had zero life coping skills.
Then my daughter Sarah, convinced me to become a runner. I didn't want to, but she nagged me into it.
That first step, was the portal from this<|fim_middle|> " Magic", so I offered up these challenges here on Instagram. At that moment, Challengeville was born. You know the rest.
These past few years I have been blessed to have witnessed many many people share in the joy that challengeville had to offer.
I have received many direct messages from such wonderful people who have told me the positive influence that Challengeville has had on their lives.
This filled my heart with brilliant joy, and again , another ceiling I never knew existed vanished in mid air, and I am left with fantastic infinity .
I would like to thank my 3 daughters @sheaehresman , @emilypierce, and @sarahcpierce for their assistance , devotion,and creativity since the beginning of challengeville and especially Sarah , who as you know took over as creative director , and did a wonderful job, and took a great load off me.
I also would like to thank ALL of the Challengeville City council members , past and present for devoting so much of their time to help inspire all of the challengers all these years. I will FOREVER be in your debt . You are all wonderful people. And I KNOW that Karma will reward you 100 fold, for all of the love that you have given.
Thank you to @teamigotyaback for featuring me on your website, which helped me getting the challengeville ball rolling.
In closing, I wish to spread the message that our own insecurities build these " boxes" that confine us.
We hold the 'Key" to our "imprisonment" by realizing that these ceilings that keep us from evolving are not really there.
I hope that you continue to live out the Challengeville motto. "Accomplish what you think you can't" .
I am happy to tell you, I am no longer broken. | odd dimension that had become my lifelong reality.
I didn't know at the time , how profound that first step was for me.
Life had conditioned my self esteem to brain wash me into believing that I COULDN'T accomplish this!
It took days, but when I finally ran my first mile without stopping, I felt an inner jubilance that was unprecedented!
I broke through a ceiling that I though was made of steel, but in reality wasn't even there!
After a while, Sarah gave me a training plan for running a half marathon. I committed. I didn't think I could do it, but I never break a promise to my daughters, so I gave it a whirl.
After crossing that finish line of that half marathon, another ceiling disappeared. Another new level of my self esteem appeared triumphantly!
Like many others I vowed to do another race. And also like many others, I got the " In between race blues" .
At that time, @slambooy was pushing a 5K a day challenge. As a newbie, I didn't think had it in me to run everyday. So I asked him if I could do a different version of the challenge as long as it added up to the monthly distance of 5K a day( 93.3 miles) Sam agreed, and the Tinman challenge was born!
I was absolutely shocked when I completed this goal. Another ceiling vanished before my eyes!
It was at this time that I was starting to fully understand the word "Challenge". I Then wondered if I could keep evolving. I scribbled out a plan for 150 miles and called it" Bigfoot". Boom! Another ceiling gone! Then Madman, Cyberlex, and Traveling man! 3 more ceilings gone in a flash.
With each level accomplished, large deposits were made into my bank of self esteem!
This brand new me gave me an entirely new positive outlook on what is accomplishable in out lives.
The positive energy I was sending out to the world seem to boomerang right back at me ten fold! Whereas my previous live was loaded with roadblocks, this new world was opening up a smorgasbord of good fortune. It appears my attitude was like a magic wand. I was now starting to understand that happiness truly DOES come from within.
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"The scholarship will help me not have to take out as much for loans, which means I'll be able to pay off my debts a lot more quickly once I graduate," says Weidemann, a double major in computer science and mathematics who is originally from Carson City, Nev.
He adds, "It also helped, along with other scholarships, to allow me to go to Whitworth for my education instead of to a state college. I've really enjoyed my time here and I think I'm learning a lot more not just about computer science, but also about how I see the world."
The scholarship's recipients will be selected each year by faculty in the mathematics and computer science department. Susan Mabry, an associate professor of the math and computer science at Whitworth, was on the selection committee that chose Weidemann as this year's recipient.
"Michael is one of our top-performing computer science students in his cohort," she says. "Beyond his excellent performance in the classroom, he is intelligent, skilled, and adept at critical thinking – all of which lay the basis for exceptional problem solving and are critical for success in computer science."
Mabry says Logos has one of the most organized and impressive internship programs among the many companies with which the computer science program networks. She says Whitworth's computer science faculty were also impressed with the quality of Logos' development and technology.
After a number of successful student internships through Whitworth, Jim Straatman, director of IT at Logos Bible Software, approached the university with the idea for a scholarship. Straatman says Logos seeks top colleges and universities, both regionally and nationally, for long-term scholarship and recruiting partnerships.
"Whitworth has a top-notch computer science program and has produced some great long-term talent," says Straatman.
Weidemann is currently researching Celiac disease with Whitworth faculty and North Central High School students, through help from a $15,000 grant received last December by Empire Health Foundation. Last April, Weidemann gave a presentation at the Spokane Intercollegiate Research Conference on some of his findings, titled, "Creating a Framework to Fight Celiac Disease with Varied Machine Learning Techniques by Combining Desired Protein Traits."
Weidemann says he is planning to pursue a career related to software development, specifically game development.
"I really enjoy building and creating things, and computer science lets me do that," he says. "I especially like building things I can play with later, or that I know will give someone a lot of enjoyment and happiness."
Logos Bible Software has worked with several Whitworth student interns and has employed a number of Whitworth alumni. Logos has also published books by Whitworth President Emeritus Robert H. Mounce, Professor Emeritus of Theology F. Dale Bruner, and Professors of Theology Roger Mohrlang and James R. Edwards. This year, Logos' team will include one returning Whitworth senior and four new interns. Straatman says Logos is always looking for new employees and interns. To learn more, visit http://www.logos.com/jobs or http://www.logos.com/interns.
Weidemann says that he is very grateful to Logos for his scholarship.
"I really appreciate the work they do, and know several other students that have interned there who enjoyed it and learned a lot," he says. "I think they're really helping the computer science students of Whitworth prepare for their careers."
Founded in 1992, Logos Bible Software is the leading publisher of multilingual Bible software on Mac, Windows, and mobile platforms. Logos partners with more than 130 publishers to make nearly 17,000 electronic books available to customers in more than 180 countries. The company serves church, academic, and lay markets, bringing the best in software innovation to Christians worldwide. Logos Bible Software is headquartered in Bellingham, Wash.
Located in Spokane, Wash., Whitworth is a private liberal arts university affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA). The university, which has an enrollment of nearly 3,000 students, offers 60 undergraduate and graduate degree programs.
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My experience with FEVI was unforgettable. I chose to come to Lumbisi for five months and work in the daycare with children from 3 to 5 years old. Every day I went to the daycare at 8am and left around 12:30pm when all of the kids left and the activities for the day were done. My first few weeks were a little difficult because of the language. The three teachers sometimes spoke to me very quickly<|fim_middle|> and lots more. The Ecuadorian rose farm was very interesting because we were given a complete tour and we learned how the roses are cared for and exported to different countries, because Ecuador is known for having the best roses in the world. These weekend trips added so much to my experience here because I was able to see lots of different parts of Ecuador.
I would highly recommend FEVI´s program in Lumbisi, but my advice to potential volunteers is to take initiative and always get yourself involved, because that is how you will get the most out of your experience in Ecuador.
Excellent , amazing , thank you very much, service to humanity is service to God, May you leave to see your children children, keep it up. | and I struggled to understand. They learned to speak a bit slower to help me during the beginning weeks, which helped immensely, and whenever I misunderstood they were very kind to take a minute to explain. My goal was to become fluent in Spanish after five months, and working there was a perfect way to accomplish that because none of the teachers spoke English. The only English I ever spoke on a daily basis was to teach the children the colors, months, and days of the week, and occasionally I spoke in English with other American volunteers who came to work at the daycare for shorter lengths of time.
In my particular project working at the daycare, my daily activities always included playing, teaching, and taking care of the children. I was assigned to one classroom with 20 kids all either 4 or 5 years old. A typical day began with the morning routine and songs, and I would occasionally go over the days of the week in English with them. Then we would take them to have a little snack for breakfast in the kitchen, and then they would play outside. Lots of my time was taken up with simply playing with the kids because they were all so excited to have a new volunteer to push them on the swings and play games with. Later on I would help the teacher in my classroom prepare little worksheets for them, sometimes a picture to color, a number to trace, or things to cut out. We would call the kids inside and give them each the worksheet and I would write their names on each paper so we wouldn't mix them up. Following the activity would always be playtime again, and throughout the day we would complete about three activities. Sometimes instead of always working in the classroom the teacher would take the kids outside to play a game of soccer for their activity, which was always one of the kids` favorite activities. Apart from work inside the classroom and playing with the children during breaks, the teacher would also ask me to help out with projects such as building a little garden for the kids, painting the playground facilities, cutting the grass, or cleaning and organizing the classroom. There was always something to be done that I was eager to help with. I felt like I really did help the kids and teachers at the daycare a lot, but it was mostly due to my willingness to help. If a volunteer worked there but didn't really involve themselves and offer help and input and ideas, they would not have the same experience that I did. The key to a successful experience in my opinion is to constantly try to involve yourself.
The host family that FEVI placed me with was absolutely perfect for me. I had two host sisters 13 and 14 years old, and we became very close once they warmed up to me after the first month or so. My host mom was an amazing person and always had a story to tell me, we spent countless hours just talking and sharing stories and experiences- I was so intrigued to learn about her life in Ecuador and she was equally intrigued to hear about my life in the United States. My host dad was also an incredibly interesting person, as his job included driving tourists all around Ecuador. His stories never failed to captivate me. Needless to say, I was never bored at my house. And because they didn´t speak any English, that put me in the perfect environment to become fluent in Spanish. Any time I was confused about the meaning of a word or a phrase, my host mom was more than willing to explain it to me which helped my fluency immensely. Having come to the end of my five months, I would say that I am now fluent in Spanish, which I would not have said before coming here. My experience living with my host family was what really made this whole adventure unforgettable for me. Because I stayed for a longer amount of time, I was able to become extremely close with my whole family and we will definitely stay in contact after I leave.
Another part of my program included a few weekend trips to visit different parts of Ecuador. I was able to visit Otavalo, Papallacta, Atacames, Qutio, and an Ecuadorian rose farm. Otavalo is a largely indigenous town known most for its huge artisan market, which was a fantastic place to buy souveniers. In Papallacta there were natural hot springs where we swam as well as a small trail where we hiked and saw different kinds of unique plants. Atacames is a city on Ecuador´s coast where I spent the weekend of Carnaval, we went to the beach and had an amazing time. Quito is only about 45 minutes from Lumbisi and I was able to go there numerous times, to see Quito´s old town, the gorgeous churches, the president´s house, | 965 |
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I remember it like it was yesterday: the summer of 1996. It was the summer of Roland Emmerich's Independence Day and Peter Jackson's The Frighteners, a mixed bag of movies, that do not have the same impression on you today as they did back then. Who knew that Peter Jackson would take his fledging WETA company and produce the Lord of the Rings on the back of The Frighteners, or that it would take Emmerich 20 years to produce a sequel to ID4 and then have it flop? This brings us to the end of the summer's Escape from L.A. John Carpenter, Debra Hill, and Kurt Russell re-team to deliver a sequel to the 1981 cult classic, Escape From New York. The film thudded hard with general audiences, but the die-hards have kept it alive and it has since become a cult classic. Much to the die-hards' joy, Scream Factory has released a Collector's Edition of the film, which brings us to our review.
As I mentioned, I remember it like it was yesterday. My friends, and Mom (of all people) rented the original on VHS and sat down and reacquainted ourselves with Snake Plissken (Russell). It was a wise move since some of us hadn't seen the film in years and at least one of us had never seen it (it was not my Mom). Also, watching the original again, just mere hours before an 8 PM show, highlighted how much in step the sequel was. This is a key factor in delivering what fans want, whereas the caveat is that they also want something new.
In Escape from L.A. we find Snake Plissken is once again taken captive and moments before being thrown into another maximum-security prison, he is offered a deal by the US government. He must find the President's (Cliff Robertson) daughter, Utopia (A.J. Langer), who has stolen a device that can put entire countries into a new stone age (with an electromagnetic pulse). Again, Snake has no choice and is injected with a killer flu. He has to get in, bring back the black box, and kill Utopia. His reward is living and a full pardon.
This time around, Carpenter takes Snake into a ruined Los Angeles that was decimated by an earthquake. It is there, as in first film, that we have a unique collection of characters that provide more of a backdrop than actual set backdrops. In the first film, Carpenter had the charred remains of a burnt-out section of St. Louis to film his vision of New York City. He used several real locations but matte paintings help provide the real illusion perfectly (see Scream Factory's Collector's Edition of the original film for more details). In this film, it greatly suffers from 1996 low budget digital effects that have not aged well, a slight hurdle for non-fans or new fans that are accustomed to better graphics. Why you will be completely forgiving on that matter is because Carpenter brought together the likes of Steve Buscemi (Reservoir Dogs), Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead), Peter Fonda (Easy Rider), and Pam Grier (Jackie Brown) to deliver a modern Grind House Film before Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez made it fashionable again. It is these characters that help make Snake Plissken the quintessential anti-hero you are there to cheer for. They also provide enough gusto in their short scenes that you will be talking about them after the picture is over.
Escape From LA. still has that same impression on me today as it did then. It's a fun movie with a solid cast of fun extras. Today, I have a great appreciation of all those involved, particularly Peter Fonda and Pam Grier. As for the film itself, it does have a few eye-rolling moments that the original did not. The surf scene (though fitting for the Fonda's character), and Pipeline iare a but much as Snake rides a wave and then leaps onto a moving car. However the ending is perfect and a bit of a let down. Due to a poor box office return, a third Escape film never happened. The picture quality is great, the new interviews with Stacey Keach and Bruce Campbell are fun, and the second time around with Russell as Snake is worth the ride.
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Sun powers New Zealand island sanctuary
november 30, 2010 av ausnzfs Kommentera
New Zealand's largest off-grid solar power system has been activated on the island of Motutapu in Auckland's Hauraki Gulf – another chapter in the sanctuary's environmental success story.
Motutapu has received international recognition for its environmental conservation effort, and is now reaping the rewards with the return of species previously absent for 100 years.
Now the project will benefit further from renewable energy generation with the off-grid solar system providing up to 70% of the island's power – saving 800 litres of diesel per week.
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Now the renewable power generation system is complete, the power and water distribution networks on the island will also be upgraded. Cost savings associated with replacing the current system are estimated to be NZ$188,000 per year.
Background: Motutapu Island, Auckland
Because of its proximity to the metropolitan centre of Auckland, the Motutapu Island conservation project has provided a unique chance for the community to be involved.
Restoration has involved thousands of volunteers who have collected seeds, propagated plants in the island nursery, and planted over 350,000 native trees.
As well as restoring the natural landscape, the cultural landscape handed down by Māori, early settlers and WWII military residents is also being protected.
Earlier this year bellbirds were heard on Motutapu for the first time in 100 years. Native pateke / brown teal and kakariki / parakeet have also been spotted.
Background: 'Live at the Islands' summer concerts
The sound of New Zealand songbirds will be amplified on some island sanctuaries this summer with musical events that combine concerts and conservation.
'Live at the Islands' – a series of seven concerts running from late December 2010 through to February 2011 – will take place on the easily accessible islands of Motutapu, near Auckland, and Urupukapuka, in the Bay of Islands.
The unique outdoor settings are set to add a new element to New Zealand's mid-summer outdoor festival programme.
The 10-hour Motutapu concert (12.02.2011) will feature a range of top Kiwi artists.
The island is a 30-minute ferry ride from downtown Auckland, and water taxis will also transport visitors to and from the event.
Profits will go to the Motutapu Restoration Trust which has undertaken a major conservation project on Motutapu and Rangitoto islands.
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New Zealand's Minister of Conservation Kate Wilkinson said the move to renewable energy generation on the island meant funds previously spent on diesel, and the hours spent maintaining and running generators, would now go directly on conservation work.
Motutapu and nearby Rangitoto Island were well on their way to becoming the largest pest-free sanctuaries in the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park and power generation on the islands would now have little environmental cost, Wilkinson said.
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Power generated on Motutapu supplies a number of Department of Conservation (DOC) houses where staff and contractors live while carrying out conservation work.
It also supplies the Motutapu Outdoor Education Camp (MOEC), which hosts 12,000 guests annually, and the Motutapu Farm.
The new energy system is likely to be put to the test early next year when hundreds of visitors attend a 10-hour outdoor summer concert on the island. Concert profits will go towards conservation work.
Motutapu is the ninth DOC-managed island in New Zealand to have renewable energy solutions installed as part of an ongoing sustainability programme, which aims to boost renewable energy use and halve off-grid diesel fuel | 272 |
Australia launches federal cybercrime center as part of national plan
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Australian Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews has launched a center to bolster the country's cybercrime fighting efforts.
The AU$89 million cybercrime center forms part of Home Affairs' national plan to combat cybercrime, which was announced alongside the centre's launch on Monday morning.
The AU$89 million was provided through the AU$1.67 billion in funding for Australia's cybersecurity strategy by the federal government.
Andrews said the national plan and the Australian Federal Police's (AFP) new cybercrime centre, called Joint Policing Cybercrime Coordination Center (JPC3), would bring together the experience, powers, capabilities, and intelligence needed to build a strong, multi-faceted response.
"Using far-reaching Commonwealth legislation and high-end technical capabilities, the AFP's new cybercrime center will aggressively target cyber threats, shut them down, and bring offenders to justice," Andrews said.
"During the pandemic, cybercrime became one of the fastest-growing and most prolific forms of crime committed against Australians. The tools and the techniques used to rob or extort Australians became more effective and more freely available than ever before."
Home Affairs first announced the center was being developed back in November, at the time explaining the AFP would use the center to specifically focus on preventing cybercriminals from scamming, stealing, and defrauding Australians.
Based in the AFP's New South Wales headquarters, JPC3's operations will be led by Australian Federal Police (AFP) assistant commissioner Justine Gough, who is the AFP's first full-time executive dedicated to countering cybercrime.
Looking at the national cybercrime plan, Home Affairs envisions governments at all levels will operate under a cybercrime-fighting framework prioritizing three pillars: Preventing and protecting cybercrime; investigating, disrupting, and prosecuting cybercrime incidents; and helping recover victims from cybercrime incidents.
Alongside launching the cybercrime centre, the plan also outlines a goal of establishing a national cybercrime forum that brings representatives from Commonwealth, state and territory justice departments, law enforcement agencies and regulators — such as the Office of the eSafety Commissioner — to develop a national cybercrime action plan.
Last month, Home Affairs introduced three new Bills into Parliament, covering the federal government's ransomware action plan, critical aviation and marine cybersecurity, and mobile phone access in prisons.
The department is also pushing for a second tranche of cyber laws targeted at critical infrastructure sectors, which is currently being reviewed by a parliamentary committee, to become law.
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One Unheralded Secret to the Pittsburgh Penguins Success
Head coach Mike Sullivan found a little secret early in this NHL season. Sullivan paired three players together and found their whole was greater than the sum of their parts when he paired Teddy Blueger with Brandon Tanev and Zach Aston-Reese. The Pittsburgh Penguins stumbled upon something they could rely upon and a rock-ribbed line capable of taking the puck from the opponent's top lines.
Even as injuries forced Sullivan to juggle the lines, and ineffectiveness forced more juggling, the Aston-Reese–Blueger–Tanev trio remained intact. And they remained effective.
It could be Brandon Tanev's energy. Teddy Blueger's speed and tenacity. But the secret sauce has been Aston-Reese. The numbers with and without Aston-Reese are striking.
As a trio, the line has a slightly above average 51.15% Corsi, which means they attempt slightly more shots than their opponents. They also garnered 56% of the scoring chances and 57% of the high-danger scoring chances.
Now, bear in mind this line was often matched against the top lines of Pittsburgh Penguins opponents. Making this line's task even more complicated, they rarely get to start in the offensive zone. The Blue<|fim_middle|> go. He has fought expectations and labels from the beginning of his college hockey career. And sometimes, it seems he's still fighting them, internally.
With Aston-Reese, the Blueger line is significantly better, and opponents are significantly less effective. The puck is on Crosby's stick more often in good spaces.
And those are all good things. Who knew? Aston-Reese is a big part of the Pittsburgh Penguins secret sauce.
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Sullivan, Penguins Preparing for All Possible Scenarios, Guentzel Return | ger line began 74% of their shifts in the defensive zone or neutral zone.
So, the line begins in a bad spot and ends in a good place. That territorial twist puts the puck on Sidney Crosby's, or Evgeni Malkin's stick in the offensive zone. So, how important is a line that battles top lines (so, Crosby doesn't always have to expend the energy to do so) and puts the team in an offensive posture?
All stats according to NaturalStatTrick.com and their fabulous line tool.
But there is one twist. Without Aston-Reese, the equation fails. The line with a different left wing was no longer greater than the sum of its parts. The line didn't equally match opponents.
Nope. Without Aston-Reese, the Blueger-Tanev combo was well underwater.
Without the sometimes subtle, but physical corner work and all-round game of Aston-Reese, the line had a slightly higher Corsi (53%) but had far less scoring chances than their opponents (45%), and even less high-danger opportunities (42%). They scored three goals but allowed eight while taking 40% of their faceoffs in the offensive zone.
The line played over 200 minutes without ZAR, so it's not a small sample size.
With Aston-Reese, the above numbers hold, and the line scored 10 goals, and yielded only 10 goals, despite the disparity in competition. They did so in 422 minutes of 5v5 ice time.
But the baseline numbers may not show the significance. This season, Aston-Reese has only 13 points (6g, 7a) in 57 games. Those are paltry numbers, and Aston-Reese would be the first to admit he has more scoring punch.
If your head is spinning from the numbers, the quick recap is this: Without Aston-Reese, the line started many more shifts in the offensive zone, but proportionally gave up more goals and far more scoring chances.
We've talked with Aston-Reese a few times this season. Actually, he's one of our favorites to pull up a stool (figuratively) and have a chat. Sometimes it's not even about hockey, like the time we asked him to re-design the Penguins logo because of all the injuries (and darn it, I buried that little nugget in a bigger story, but can't find it now).
We've chatted about New York City pizza joints and him joining the media when he's all done on the ice. For the record, he wants no part of this side of the business. This summer, Aston-Reese worked out in Toronto with Penguins Director of Sports Science Andy O'Brien. But Aston-Reese can also get frustrated, too.
Aston-Reese definitely has more offensive to give. However, the player can sometimes get trapped in roles, and singularly focused on the primary task at the expense of more. The bulky Aston-Reese has far more to give than six goals, but he's also helping his team win without them.
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"Unacceptable" welfare conditions for foreign workers on U.K. farms | Business and Human Rights Officials Scrutinize Thailand
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Officials from the U.N. Working Group on Business and Human Rights are visiting Thailand on a 10-day mission to assess if the government's anti-trafficking efforts have been effective, especially in the seafood industry.
Thailand's multi billion-dollar seafood sector has been under intense international scrutiny for the past several years. Investigations revealed widespread forced labor, both on fishing vessels and at onshore processing sites. Just last year, NGO International Justice Mission found that more than a third of migrant fishermen in Thailand were victims of human trafficking.
The military government which took over Thailand in 2014 issued reforms after the European Union warned it could ban imports of Thai seafood if the country didn't clean up the abuses.
Thomson Reuters Foundation reports that some progress has been made:
Employers now often complied with new rules, such as paying fishermen a minimum wage and issuing contracts, research by the International Labour Organization (ILO) this month showed.
But the ILO also found signs of continuing forced labour despite pressure from retailers to clean up the industry, including abusive working conditions and excessive overtime, especially among migrants from Cambodia and Myanmar.
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Every Picture Tells a Story in Work that Aspires to Honor the People in Photographs and Inspire the People Who View Them
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The historic building that houses the Sandy Spring Museum is an atmospheric spot for art.
Photo credit: Larry Levine
An arborist, a physicist, a lepidopterist, a luthier: When Larry Marc Levine looks at ordinary people doing their jobs, he sees artists. And with "CreativitY: With a Capital Why?" his exhibit at Sandy Spring Museum, the Rockville photographer celebrates them.
"Everyone has a story," said Levine. "And what I love doing is capturing the photograph that tells the story I want to tell."
The story he tells in "CreativitY" never varies, whether he has trained his lens on a cookie baker, an ophthalmologist or a member of the Hubble Telescope team at the Goddard Space Flight Center. Levine said he thinks photography should honor the people in the photograph, and inspire the people who see it.
"Truly, what I wanted to do was to bring people's attention to the fact that everyone has creativity," said Levine, whose photographs are accompanied by statements by the subjects that tell their thoughts on art and creativity. Some are long, some succinct — each is as varied and interesting as the subject themselves. The camera becomes a mirror, showing artist, art and inspiration in more than 30 portraits hung around the museum.
"It's 'CreativitY with a capital WHY?' because I wanted people to be able to see themselves in the exhibit," he said. "I wanted to be inclusive, to bring about understanding — it's the 'Why?' behind it."
A portrait of the artist, photographer Larry Levine, whose CreativitY exhibit is at Sandy Spring Museum through Nov. 24. Photo credit: Sandy Levine
Levine has always been interested in the "Why?" Originally from Hartford, Connecticut, he was interested in photography even during college, earning an undergraduate degree in English from the University of Connecticut and a master's in education from the University of Massachusetts.
"I didn't want to be a classroom teacher," he said. "I wanted to learn how people learn, to get a feel for how they process information."
When Levine saw an ad for an audio-visual information specialist at Metro in Washington, D.C., he decided to apply. "I went for the job interview, and the guy who interviewed me was fabulous," he said. "He had been a former Army-Air Force helicopter pilot, and was extremely exact, but he had this incredible creative streak."
Levine got the job, doing underground and aerial photography and serving as Metro's photo archivist until his 2017 retirement. "The thing I really liked most was working with people," he said. "I'm a very curious person; I love to learn things and I really enjoyed photography, meeting people."
One of Levine's most profound experiences, he said, was meeting a bus mechanic 15 years after he'd photographed the man for Metro. "The bus mechanic approached me at a party and said, 'That photograph was the first time my family really understood what I did for a living,'" Levine recalled. "I just wanted to know what he did and how he did it."
Art student Alexis Kyei-Asare, captured mid-sketch by Larry Levine, poses with her photographic portrait.
Photo credit: Sandy Levine
As an emerging artist, Alexis Kyei-Asare has been inspired by her mother's unflagging support.
That desire is evident as ever in "CreativitY," a project Levine decided to start after retirement. "You can afford to fail at things when you retire; you can just try stuff," he said. He took drawing and painting classes, even joining a Jewish-Muslim artists' group, but ultimately decided to continue with photography
"I had always liked doing pictures; I've had pictures published around the world and stuff exhibited at VisArts and Strathmore over the years. But I worked for Metro for almost 36 years, but owned none of the pictures because I worked for a corporation. I wanted to create a cohesive body of work that was as good as, if not better than, anything I'd done previously — but my own ideas."
Levine's ideas started off with things he loved — like musical instruments — and getting to know the people behind the art. On a visit to Asheville, North Carolina, he and his wife, Sandy, watched a glass artist working behind a barrier that protected observers from the high temperatures involved in glassblowing. "I told him, 'I'm really interested in what you're doing, but I have to get behind that barrier to take the right picture of you,'" Levine said. In that moment, he realized that getting "behind the barrier" was the key to capturing artists at work.
When Levine thought of people he'd like to photograph, he found the list growing exponentially. So he applied for a grant from the county "because I realized, if I went to a (museum) and they said 'yes,' I'd have to have some pictures!"
The museum that said 'yes,' as it turned out, was Sandy Spring Museum, a place close to Levine and Sandy's hearts. "What I decided would make this exhibit different was that I would get a quotation from every person I photographed," he said. "Because getting inside someone's head is interesting.
"I wanted to concentrate on people," he said, "because regardless of what you think of the political situation right now, people are what make this country great." And rather than stick with just the people he already knew, Levine decided to expand his reach. He started with a break dancer and a graffiti artist, because he knew nothing about the genres; moved on to an artist whose first language was American Sign Language (ASL), and mined his Jewish-Muslim art group for leads about fabric painters and fiber artists.
"In some ways this is about me, but in most ways it's about them," he explained, noting that a few artists said they found further inspiration in the photographs Levine took. "I realized that artists have a way of respecting each other, so truly. it didn't matter [what] age, background, country of origin, language."
Young visitors to the Sandy Spring Museum meet dulcimer artist and teacher Karen Buglass. Photo credit: Sandy Levine
Levine took a class in ASL, found a master jeweler who introduced him to a master violin maker, went online to find a henna artist, took pictures at the Wings of Fancy butterfly exhibit at Brookside Gardens — and even fulfilled a childhood dream. "I love the space program," he said. "When I was a kid, I wanted to work at NASA; it didn't work out."
But when he decided to take pictures at NASA, Levine made it work, contacting the public relations office, corresponding with Dr. Olivia Lupie, Hubble instrument systems manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, who responded to his inquiry, and waiting about a year and a quarter without giving up hope. "I got into NASA," he said, his eyes lighting up with excitement. "The Hubble Space Telescope team — oh my God, it was one of the best days ever!"
Photographing the scientists on the Hubble team was an opportunity for Levine to show the people "behind the scenes, who do incredible work but never get recognition.
"Not that people are looking for recognition," he added, "but everyone wants to be appreciated."
The "CreativitY" exhibit offers all these artists a chance to be appreciated, with their work and philosophy captured in their own words and Levine's pictures. Thirty disparate creators of art are linked by their creativity and the book that Levine has created to accompany it.
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The Impact of Data and Informatics Technologies Throughout the Clinical Trial Journey
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Exploring the Impact of Data and Informatics Technologies Throughout the Clinical Trial Journey
The pharmaceutical industry has gradually evolved to recognize the value of leveraging external real-world data and improving internal clinical data management processes. It's not surprising given the ever-increasing pressures to fast-track development and uncover new efficiencies in today's complex trial landscape.
From early feasibility to monitoring and reporting, we explore current challenges in each area and how various data sources are being collected, aggregated and applied with the use of informatics. Learn how using comprehensive analytical capabilities that impact decision-making helps to advance clinical trial execution.
Evaluating feasibility and site selection
Accurate forecasting and benchmarking helps sponsors quantify the speed of patient enrollment and understand the impact of the enrollment criteria. Sponsors often rely on past literature or legacy protocols for defining primary efficacy parameters and estimating the number of patients required, but this is an error-prone process.
Now sponsors are broadening their information sources and taking advantage of aggregate data sources, such as the global clinical trials processed through a central laboratory repository. These proprietary sources allow sponsors to evaluate the current competitive landscape, estimate relevant patient populations, identify ideal site locations and assess the impact of eligibility criteria on recruitment and retention.
Informing decision-making and viewing performance
Once a protocol is finalized and the trial is underway, it is crucial to identify problems, actively manage risk and intervene before issues affect progress, but disparate data collection systems must work together to enable this holistic view.
Sponsors need a way to unite multiple platforms through one robust clinical trial management system that collects, validates, consolidates and integrates clinical trial data, allowing critical trial operational elements to work together. Seamless communication with the source systems help maintain a complete audit trail.
Identifying and mitigating trial risks
The latest revision of ICH GCP E6(R2) encourages the adoption of quality-by-design and quality risk management methodologies in clinical trials, but many sponsors are still hesitant on how to transition to a risk-based monitoring approach.
Creating technology-based functions like medical review, data review and statistical monitoring allows sponsors to receive a broader, more flexible view of clinical<|fim_middle|> design, planning, and conduct of clinical trials proceeds in the most informed, efficient and effective manner possible.
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Enabling stronger collaborations
Keeping up with reports from multiple partners and sharing statistics on operational performance can be a cumbersome process. Many sponsors struggle to make sure that their teams are all on the same page and informed with the latest information to make timely decisions.
Many technology solutions can enhance information exchange and provide up-to-date status reports. For example, a solution should contain a secure interactive dashboard to share project documentation and store other sensitive information and sends teams up-to-date summaries of operational data to help track a trial's progress.
Aggregating multiple data sources
Traditional clinical trial management systems fail to solve complex reporting needs in operational data management. Evaluating trial execution to track study milestones, monitor site performance and generate reports requires navigating multiple data sources and manually assembling data – a non-scalable and costly scenario.
Meeting a trial's operational and clinical objectives requires efficiently integrating disparate data sources. For example, an operational data warehouse focuses on data quality, patient safety, timeline and costs while a clinical data warehouse ensures that the collected data are "fit for purpose" and monitors drug-related safety issues.
With today's complex clinical trials, unnecessary data quality issues or delays in trial execution can lead to significant loss of revenue. Sponsors are turning to intelligent informatics-based solutions to help ensure that the | 278 |
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S Immo Hungary renovates lobby of Budapest HQ
Real estate investment company S Immo Hungary has decided to renovate the lobby of its Budapest HQ in the City Center office building, according to a press release sent to the Budapest Business Journal.
The highlighting elements of the decoration will be the Finta pencil drawings made during the design of the building. Work is expected to be completed in July 2022.
The City Center office building, which was the first rental office building in Budapest when it was opened in 1989, is located at the intersection of Bajcsy-Zsilinszky and Andrássy út, at the junction of several metro, bus, trolleybus, and tram lines. The "A" category, modern office building offers highly equipped offices on seven floors.
The building underwent a complete renovation in 2012. Most recently in 2021, the synth elevator lobbies were renewed. The main tenants of the house are Itochu, Sopron Bank, the Wallon Office of the Belgian Embassy and the real estate investment company S Immo Hungary, which owns and manages the property.
Vienna-based S Immo AG entered the Hungarian market in 2001. Over the last two decades, its Hungarian subsidiary S Immo Hungary has owned an exceptional office and hotel portfolio exceeding 140,000 sqm. Last year, S Immo Hungary took care of more than 100 tenants in Budapest.
"We are committed to realizing projects with high-quality, sustainability, well-being, innovative solutions, and services. Closely related to this is the continuous renovation of our office buildings in order to provide the highest possible quality environment for both our tenants and our employees. Renovation of the lobby is of paramount importance, as it is the first impression a person gets when entering a building. So it must reflect the quality and standard of the entire building," emphasizes Géza Barabás, managing director at S Immo Hungary.
The design of the City Center is named after József Finta, a Kossuth Prize winner and Prima Primissima Prize-winning architect, who dreamed up buildings such as the Budapest Congress Center, the Westend City Center, the Schönherz College and the BME IT building. The renewal of the lobby has been<|fim_middle|> Jan 25, 2023, 14:40
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"We wanted to create a medium worthy of and supportive of the complex architectural heritage. As an interesting detail of the plan, I would like to emphasize that we wanted to treat the mandatory decorative elements that are common in such reception areas in a more meaningful way. Thus, after the renovation, the archival drawings and sketches made by the architect József Finta will make the character of the new forecourt of the iconic office building more personal," points out Dávid Tóth, architect of Pyxis Nautica Design & Build.
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Once again we find ourselves in the midst<|fim_middle|> | of the winter holidays. For many it is a joyous time, as we decorate our homes, offices and shops and prepare for get-togethers with family and friends. Happy to recall the good times, we review the year, sometimes with the help of photographs, videos, postcards and souvenirs.
The not-so-good times we often prefer to forget. But unless we have done the healing work that allows us to move on, those challenges will continue to haunt us for a long time. If the less-than-joyous times were due to the loss of a loved one, a job or home, or a dear one moving far away, please allow yourself to acknowledge that loss. It is all right to take time out to shed a tear or two during this otherwise joyous season. And do not forget to acknowledge that through it all you have done the best you can.
During these holidays, let us try to find joy in being with our loved ones wherever we may find ourselves no matter the circumstances. With them we can enjoy sailing through calm waters and we can navigate the rough seas a little more easily before arriving at a beautiful shore. Those who stay we with us the course, along with the trust and love we bestow upon them are the real gifts of the season and the treasures in our lives.
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We had the pleasure to be able to escort the traveling Wall to Sutherlin Oregon last week. There were 110 bikes and a lot of LEO's and fire departments on the escort as well. The Wall spent 5 days on display and was very well attended by everyone. At the same time there was an area just south of town, for the field of flags that were called "the healing flags". It was very visible from I-5. There were over 1,550 flags that were displayed in a very uniform grid. There were supposed to be 1,750 flags but they ran out of room for the grid in the field. I did not get to help on the set up, but was there for the big tear down and put away on Sunday. They had to be delivered back to Grants Pass the next day, so I volunteered the use of my truck and enclosed trailer so they did not have to rent another U haul. The field of flags was also visited by a lot of people who were very proud to be able to witness such an awesome display. They were lit up with a lot of light strings at night and there were volunteers who held 24 hour vigils for attending the fuel for the generators and for security too. People were getting off the freeway to see what all the flags were about and were then told about the 'Wall" being on display in town. It was a very good community affair that brought out a lot of help from all different walks of life. We did a Patriot Guard ride to show support for Dr. McCartt'smemorial service that was held Saturday at the Wall. A big thank you goes out to all the help and community efforts for a very good patriotic event. Thank you City of Sutherlin……
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Building Public Service-Oriented Government in China
Graduate School of Public Policy
Knox, Colin; Qun, Zhang
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Purpose: Legislative hearings are a relatively new way of encouraging citizen participation in administrative law making within China. The first such hearing in Liaoning Province (Dalian City) was held in April 2005. This paper examines the detail of the hearing process and attempts to assess its effectiveness as a mechanism for engagement between citizen and the state. Methodology: The authors consider both the practicalities of running a public hearing and its influence on the legal regulations under scrutiny. More generally, and within the limits of one case study, we consider whether hearings have the potential to shift the balance of power away from the state and its officials towards a more inclusive form of decision making. Research implications: Finally, the paper examines whether citizen participation, as a means of public service-oriented government in China, has been influenced by the wider global reform process of New Public Management (NPM) and modernisation, synonymous with developed countries
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This weekend offered a full slate of UCI races, but no major international events like a World Cup. So the elite mountain bike field divided and conquered among a handful of nationally important races offering UCI points on at least two continents. Most riders were out to test their legs one last time before the World Cup coming up this weekend in Offenburg on May 26.
Team Rocky Mountain-Haywood's Max Plaxton and Marie-Helene Premont enjoyed a week off the international cross country circuit to race on Canadian home turf in a national-series event in Bromont, Quebec.
Both riders rode away from their respective fields to win. Premont now leads the Canada Cup standings for women with a perfect win record, while another Rocky Mountain-Haywood rider - Raphael Gagné - took over the pro men's lead for the series after two races.
The Bromont circuit has been around for awhile - it was the world championship circuit in 1992. The men did six laps and the women five, with both categories on the course at the same time.
Gagne bolted to the front on the first climb for the men, followed by Plaxton. Plaxton bided his time and took the lead by the top of the second climb as the race turned into singletrack. He gradually extended his lead to eventually win by 3:33 over Mat Toulouse (Maxxis).
"Last year, I started to push right away from the gun." explained Plaxton. "It's not exactly boring to be out there alone, but it is nice to back it off a bit and see how others are riding." Plaxton didn't pull out all the stops as he was clearly saving a little something for the World Cup race this weekend in Offenburg.
"I was taking it a little easy on the downhill because I crashed there yesterday (Friday) and it numbed my hand a bit ... there's some pretty important races coming up."
In the women's race, Prémont was already 30 seconds ahead by the end of the first climb, with the chase group led by Trek-Terrascape team mates Mical Dyck and Lea Davison. However, in the final lap and half, Prémont's strength began to show, as she pulled away to win by three and a half minutes. Premont won despite having to negotiate her way around the men she was catching - about half of the men's field, who started only two minutes ahead of the women. Premont holds the overall series lead.
On the downhill side, Micayala Gatto (Rocky Mountain-Haywood) and Steve Smith (Cove Factory) won the women's and men's title on a rain-soaked, muddy 2.5km course. Riders came through the finish line caked in thick brown mud after going down in one of the many corners.
For full coverage of the Canadian Cup, click here.
Meanwhile, across the pond, Belgian cyclo-cross champion Sven Nys came out on top after a heated battle with other top pros at the Benelux Cup in Apeldorn in The Netherlands this past weekend. It was the first direct confrontation between top racers Bart Brentjens and Nys.
Australian champion Chris Jongewaard set a blistering pace at the start to drag a small group with all the favorites off the front. Rudi van Houts soon attacked and gained a 30 second advantage over Dolphin teammate Brentjens and 'cross star Nys. With three laps to go, Nys closed the gap with Brentjens in tow, but van Houts was not dropped when caught; he maintained contact with the two favorites.
It seemed like Brentjens would take home victory until he was overtaken by Nys in the final corner. Nys then outsprinted Brentjens to the finish while Van Houts only trailed by a few meters.
Winner of the last round of the Benelux cup, Filip Meirhaeghe, finished fourth ahead of Hans Becking in fifth. Jongewaard ended up eighth.
Those not racing in the Benelux Cup were otherwise testing their legs at the fourth round of the six-race German Bundesliga series or at the Fort William test race on the world<|fim_middle|>3" Piranha MRC Medium Tubeless test tires fell at the latter end of that scale with an actual weight of 966g each (91g more than advertised). To Hutchinson's credit, that weight incorporates a beefy 66tpi, true UST casing with reinforced sidewalls and a polyamide belt under the tread along with medium rebound rubber for enhanced grip over more XC-specific compounds.
When mounted up on a 5" travel trail bike, we found the Piranha MRC Medium Tubeless to largely deliver on Hutchinson's cornering grip promises in hardpack and loose-over-hardpack conditions (sorry, we weren't able to try them in soft or muddy terrains). Adhesion at the limits was excellent and also reasonably forgiving in spite of the tire's decidedly square-edged profile. The distinct lack of intermediate knobs, however, made for somewhat odd transitions but we quickly adjusted to the feel nonetheless.
Cycling Australia (CA), The Bicycle Federation of Australia (BFA), Mountain Bike Australia (MTBA), and BMX Australia (BMXA) have combined to launch 4Wheels4Sean as a national charity dedicated to assisting severely injured cyclists.
The foundation's objective is "to raise funds from the public by way of donations, sponsorship, and the conduct of competitions for the sole purpose of providing financial assistance by way of the gift of money or chattels to permanent residents of Australia who the Trustees identify are in a position of financial need and are in necessitous circumstances as a result of a severe disability acquired whilst cycling."
4Wheels4Sean was launched in 2001 with a goal of providing AUS$50,000 for a specially adapted vehicle foe Sean Fitzgerald, an avid cyclist who became a quadriplegic in a mountain bike accident.
"Sean was presented with his vehicle in 2003 and the fund continued to provide for Australian cyclists in a small way for some years after," said Huw Kingston, Founder of 4Wheels4Sean and Chairman of the charity. "However in recent years the trustees of the 'old' 4Wheels4Sean just did not have the time to drive the charity forward and a decision was made to close it late in 2006. At the 11th hour Cycling Australia were in touch and suggested the charity continue."
Each involved organisation now nominates a board member to 4Wheels4Sean.
"This is a wonderful outcome for Australian cycling and what is most encouraging is that CA, MTBA, BMX, and BFA are enthusiastically working together to position 4Wheels4Sean as 'the' charity supporting cyclists injured cycling. 4Wheels4Sean complements the Amy Gillett Foundation, whose primary role is in injury prevention," said Kingston.
Involved parties were extra motivated to participate in light of the recent serious spinal injuries suffered by BMX World Silver Medalist, Renee Junga and Australian National Road Champion, Paul Crake, in late 2006.
For more information, contact info@4wheels4sean.com.au.
While most racers in the northern hemisphere have put away their snow shovels, those in Vail might want to keep theirs nearby.
The Hammer in the Hay, the first race in the 2007 Vail & Beaver Creek Mountain Bike Race Series was postponed due to snow. The race was slated to take place, Wednesday, but was postponed until May 30.
According to the Vail Daily, the race was delayed due to recent snowfall and downvalley rain causing "excessively muddy and deteriorating course conditions." The delay will let the course dry out and minimize bike impact while ensuring rider safety.
"We couldn't even drive a truck up there," said Joel Rabinowitz of the Vail Recreation District.. "So it was highly suggested we postpone the race." This Hammer in the Hay postponement will have no impact on the remaining series schedule. | championship course in Scotland. In front of enthusiastic crowds in Albstadt, Julien Absalon (Orbea) and Irina Kalentieva (Team Ergon-Topeak) took the win.
"It was a good preparation for the next World Cup (next weekend) in Offenburg," said Frenchman Absalon, who spent a good portion of the ten laps off the front before finishing 21 seconds ahead of Orbea teammate and compatriot Jean-Christophe Péraud and 24 seconds ahead of Roel Paulissen (Cannondale-Vredestein).
An impressive third-place finish was logged by American Heather Irmiger (Subaru - Gary Fisher), who's been working her way up the international ladder. She beat first World Cup winner Ren Chengyuan of China and her teammate Ying Liu.
Norwegian Gunn-Rita Dahle-Flesjå failed to start due to stomach problems.
For full coverage of the Albstadt round of the German series, click here.
Michael Rasmussen of Team Rabobank hopes to enter the 2008 Olympic mountain bike races in Peking, he said this week, according to the ANP press agency. "I will make my comeback in August" in the Danish national championships, he said.
"Rabobank thinks it is a good idea and Colnago has already made a mountain bike for me," he noted of the team and equipment agreement. "I will not ride the championship just for fun. I will be there to win it. And, afterwards, I hope that the Danish association will give me a place on the team for Peking."
Rasmussen was mountain bike world champion in 1999, and has been a road rider since 2002.
Paul Basagoitia (Kona Clump) took top honors at round three of the Qashqai Urban Challenge in Madrid, Spain, a street competition last weekend, and retained his overall lead in the series.
In the final runs, the top 12 riders were attempting new lines. Basagoitia chose the left-side line, which contained two small jumps into staircase landings. He 360'ed the first jump and tailwhipped the second. He followed those two jumps with a no-foot can over the box, walltap, and wallride into a stretched out superman on the box jump. Next, he did a no-foot can transfer from concrete block at the top of the stairs down to another staircase landing before ending with a flip up the step-up, 360 on the step-down, and a backflip table on the last jump.
From the first to the second round, riders stepped up their level, so Basagoitia thew in a tailwhip on the stair section gap. The bike made it around, but Paul did not land perfectly into the staircase and crashed on the concrete.
Round 4 continues May 25-26 in Cologne, Germany with a park style competition.
The Salzkammergut Trophy, Austria's largest marathon event, will celebrate its tenth anniversary on July 14 along with Gary Fisher, who will tackle the 110km course option.
Although Gary broke his ankle in October, he is still a favorite for his age group. But if he doesn't end up on the podium by virtue of his race performance, he'll be up there presenting the trophies to the winners of the 110 km and 209 km courses. Fisher will be on hand signing autographs and demo'ing his fleet of bikes.
The full-length 209km course will feature 7,000m of climbing. The first half will run from Altaussee to Bad Ischl and back to Bad Goisern as in recent previous editions, but instead of a second lap, the course will continue through Obertraun, Hallstatt and Gosau as it did from 1998 to 2003. Some new sections include the newly built bikeway along the east bank of Hallstätter lake as well as the passage between the Hallstätter Salzberg and Rossalm towards Gosau, which will avoid a hike-a-bike.
The course will run through the UNESCO World heritage region Hallstatt-Salzkammergut. Highlights include the Dachstein Mountain ridge and the track through "the Ewige Wand," the Eternal Wall.
The B-distance option will only cover on the new portion of the course and will last 110km. Short course options include 24 or 53km, but their routes remain unchanged for 2007.
Barb Howe and the ostriches.
The week between NMBS #2 and NMBS #3 turned out to be more eventful and busier than I had planned. This was due in part to trying to keep up with Wendy Simms and her boundless energy. Wendy sat out the cross country race due to a cold, but that didn't seem to slow her down at all during the week.
We started off Monday morning with a two hour easy spin around the Solvang area. On the way out, we stopped at Ostrich Land and checked out the ostrich wares. You can buy everything from feathers to eggs (full or empty) to ostrich oil in the gift shop. I seriously considered buying an egg (full) equal to two dozen chicken eggs. I figured the egg could feed several people for an entire day starting with a giant omlete for breakfast, a fritatta for lunch, a souffle for dinner, and angel food cake for dinner. After that, you'd have to start taking cholesterol medication.
Wendy, Jen and myself at the beach.
Since my jersey pockets are much smaller than an ostrich egg, I was spared the egg overload. On the way home from the ride we stopped again at Ostrich Land to feed the big birds. I think the birds liked Wendy's helmet as they spent much more time looking at her head than mine. I wouldn't want to be chased by ostriches, they're really big, kinda scary looking and ornery. We followed the feeding of the big birds by loading up the Honda with both of our stuff, loading up ourselves with burritos and heading south to Santa Barbara. In Santa Barbara, we met up with Bella Jen Tilley and her boyfriend Ryan for some shopping and more burritos. Wendy was on a mission to eat as much Mexican food as possible as it's not readily available all the way up in Nainamo (http://dessert.betterrecipes.com/nainamobar.html ). Ryan graciously offered Wendy and I couch space in his house, and since a comfy couch is hard to resist, we took him up on the offer.
Tuesday and Wednesday were spent logging road hours on the mountain bikes. I'm not a huge fan of the road riding on mountain bikes, it just feels so slow. Of course it helps to remember to add a bit of air to the tires, 24 psi is not ideal for riding on pavement. Jen led two great rides in the hills around Ventura, we covered over 90 miles in two days on fat knobby slow tires.
Trickle-down technology is the boon for all performance-loving (but cash-strapped) cyclists out there, and few bits in recent memory have exemplified this trend more than the latest round of SRAM's X.9 MTB transmission.
The initial X.9 generation offered up competent capabilities, but it was hardly awe-inspiring. While it included most of the same features as the top-tier X.0 (including the outstanding 1:1 cable pull ratio and thumb-thumb trigger configuration), it just didn't feel as good in use and didn't quite offer up the same reassuring tactile feel as its big brother. X.0's characteristic 'Pop! Pop!' was translated into more of a muffled 'puff puff'� as if it were being suffocated with a pillow.
That gap narrowed to virtually nil for 2007 as SRAM gave X.9 a significant functional and visual overhaul. New rear derailleur features include a decidedly more X.0-like appearance that at least seems more rigid than before, a forged aluminum B-knuckle for improved durability (original cast aluminum ones were somewhat prone to failure), and a sealed bearing lower pulley.
Much attention is paid to a plethora of bicycle components, but few can have as much of an impact on bicycle performance than tire selection. Hutchinson's latest round of off-road tires includes the intriguing Piranha, which pairs aggressively tall cornering knobs with a decidedly low-profile center tread. Hutchinson offers the Piranha in several different flavors ranging from skinny cross country widths to beefier all-mountain casings. Our 26x2. | 1,814 |
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THE REAL REEL | "20th Century Women" Is As Relevant As Ever
This film allows for a portrayal of sexuality that is both fumbling, innate, and statement-less.
Rachel Hall
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This movie evokes meaning in so many ways. All at once it strikes a political chord, a sensual and tactile aspect, and having been released a year before the omni-present #metoo movement, allows for a portrayal of sexuality that is both fumbling, innate, and statement-less. In today's climate, sexuality is separate and segmented from one's identity, it is labeled, it is named safe or unsafe, feminist or not feminist, right or wrong.
What the #metoo movement is often unable to allow room for, due to the very imminent need to inspire change around an unquestioningly misogynistic sexually repressed culture, is that outside of very clear cases of assault, women and men often don't know what they want, what is safe or exciting, what is causing a loss of self esteem, what is imitation and what is a cash-in on power and privilege. 20th Century Women does us the favor of merging sexuality with intellect, desire with confusion, boundaries with a gentle curiosity. Oh, and this movie is about so much more than sex… sex, is just portrayed as another, natural biological process that integrates with life. In this film, sex is not something that is hidden, shamed, or blamed. It just is.
The characters in this film are sturdy, without hiding their clear uncertainties. These characters are given permission to portray strong identities, while clearly searching, yearning, and experimenting. Annette Bening as the mother is just awesomely floundering, yet so steady at the same time. She has clearly had her own discursive identity experiences, being an older mother, divorced, still single, living with roommates, and raising a teenage son. Just by couching the story in the 20th century, there is no real model for this type of "family." (It's unprogressive and intolerant of me to even use quotes when typing the word family in that sentence).
Even today, a young white man being raised in a home made up of a single mother and her boarders is considered a "broken" family, unusual, and alternative at best. The best part about this little family that Bening's character has created, is her clear intentionality around its construction. These people are here on purpose. Sure she can use the money, but she could have boarded anyone. She clearly picks people she thinks will have a remarkable affect on her son, offer something she can't, make up for her single parent-ness.
The other characters in the film played by Greta Gerwig and Elle Fanning give us fairly hetero-normative portrayals of sexuality, but with a flexibility not always portrayed in popular culture. There is a scene where Fanning explains why she has casual sex with men who she knows don't know/love/ her. She is explaining this to the teen boy Jamie who is of course madly in love with her, played by Lucas Jade Zuman. Fanning tells Zuman's character that '50% of the time she regrets sleeping with these guys' and when he asks why she does it then, her response is 'because 50% of the time she doesn't regret it'. Here, the film names a concept that seems over politicized in todays climate, that of "regrettable sex."
Had this film been made in 2018 rather than 2016, the space for viewers to sit with Fanning's statement, without political regard would have been much less present. Watching this film now and analyzing this discussion about sleeping with men, regretting it, but doing it anyway, is so impossibly evocative of political debates. Even if we want to, we are unable to separate this scene from say, the Aziz Ansari incident. How can I not think of all of the grey areas of the recent sexual assault "revelations" and the messy Hollywood scandals that have gained so much attention?
Can women have regrettable sex without it being sexual assault? Of course they can. But can they separate their choice to have sex with anyone, at anytime, without the voice of "the patriarchy" in their heads, clinging and defining all of their choices? Have we removed their entire agency? Does this matter? In 20th Century women, we are frozen in a time that is both political and a-political. The women and men in this era haven't yet swallowed up all of the "liberal agenda," (that people like me hand out like candy) and are still allowed to live within the socialized confines of their gender while simultaneously pushing its boundaries. The women in this film are both accepted as they are, but also, for instance, called a lesbian when society can't quite put them in the box that "most straight women" fit themselves into.
The best part of this movie is it's compassionate, almost voyeuristic look at how feminism affects men. As an avid feminist and lover of all things gender studies, the movement towards dismantling all parts of patriarchy has clearly left some giant holes in our available, positive models of masculinity. We keep adding to what women are "allowed" to do, what spaces they are "allowed" to occupy and now women are overwhelmed with options. All these options are mostly a good thing of course and yes, I know much more work to be done here still... but there is also a palpable "overwhelmness" of freedom in the air that women breathe. The "can do it all" quickly can bleed into "should do it all" and no one wants that. Particularly my friends who have advance degrees, are mothers, and are the bread winners of their families. YAY feminism.
But men… men seem to now be waiting to be told what space they should be relegated to. Is the only positive formation of hetero-masculinity a space in which it is hardly noticed and minimized to the full extent? Maybe? And maybe that's fine. But like a diet made up of foods you are not supposed to eat…men may need a meal replacement kit. We now have heard what masculinity can't be… but the world is wondering what it can be?
20th Century Women also gives us a glimpse into some 20th century models of masculinity. These men occupy an elastic space, a world where for the most part, masculinity has yet to be lumped together with patriarchy and all of its shortcomings. It's a beautiful space to view. The men in this movie are like the men in your life…they are just people, not parodied representations of masculinity, not there to make a point. These men just want to connect, and there are no car chases, explosive devices, or elaborate stunts set in place to justify that desire for human connection. No one is welcoming them home after heroic efforts…they just want to be loved, because they are alive. Unlike today's discourse around gender, sexuality, identity, parenthood, teen-hood, ect… this film sits us in a flexible, uncertain questioning time. It doesn't try to convince us of anything. It simply gives us the opportunity to grant ourselves permission to not<|fim_middle|> Just For Lesbians
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Comer Fellows in the Field: Alice Doughty
In January, 2015, Alice M. Doughty, a Neukom Fellow at Dartmouth College, Margaret Jackson, a Ph.D. student at Dartmouth College, and James Russell, a professor at Brown University, traveled to the southern section of the Rwenzori Mountains of Uganda to study tropical glaciers and track their changes during and since the last ice age that occurred 20,000 years ago. Doughty, Jackson and Russell are working with Comer Fellow Dr. Meredith A. Kelly at Dartmouth College, who has been mapping and dating the moraines in multiple valleys of the Rwenzori. This trip was Doughty's first time to Africa, first time working at high altitude, and first time with porters.
"I had never worked at this high of altitude, I remember on the third day hiking above the elevation of Mt. Cook (New Zealand's tallest peak). I had difficulty breathing while hiking and sleeping at 4200 m above sea level. But the landscape was so beautiful, and the porters so strong, that I felt incredibly grateful to be there, on the Equator, sampling rocks the ice-age glaciers left behind."
—Alice Doughty
One goal of the trip was to sample boulders for cosmogenic dating. The changes in size of these tropical glaciers over time are related to climatic changes in the mountains, and this team wants to compare fluctuations of tropical and middle latitude glaciers. Doughty will use a computer model to simulate glacier size and infer past climate.
"I am a glacier modeler, I use modern climate and topography and impose a change in temperature to grow glaciers out to their previous extents, which are marked by moraines that Maggie will date. Think of it as a really nerdy computer game."
Lake Africa, a moraine-dammed lake in a formerly glaciated catchment of the Rwenzori Mountains.
Dr. Alice Doughty, a postdoc at Dartmouth College, investigates bedrock above the Nyamugasani Valley.
Dr. James Russell of Brown University prepares to sample a glacial erratic in the Rwenzori.
Porters watch as Dr. James Russell of Brown University drills a hole into a boulder near Lake Kopello. Margaret Jackson, to the right, is measuring shielding.
Why are you going to Uganda?
excerpted from Alice's blog December 21, 2014.
"My grandma just found out I'm headed to Uganda, and she asked me what the trip was about, so I told her I'm going to the Rwenzori Mountains near the equator in Uganda (border with the Congo) to learn about tropical glaciers and their changes during and since the last ice age (20,000 years ago). Just like in the northern and southern hemispheres, glaciers in the tropics grew to be much larger in the last ice age and we can collect samples from the boulders they transported and dropped at the glacier edge (think of the glacier as a conveyor belt and boulders melt out at the end and drop to the ground to form a ridge of rock debris that outlines where the glacier once was). We take samples from these boulders and do some fancy chemistry work to figure out how long that boulder has been sitting there, exposed to cosmogenic radiation that penetrates through the earth's atmosphere. It's important to know WHEN the glaciers advanced/were larger so then we can look at the timing of other glacier advances and climate events around the world at that time and figure out how a climate 'signal' moves around the world. For example, the ice sheets that covered Canada and Scandinavia were huge and white and reflected a lot of sunlight back into space. If our tropical glaciers did not grow until after the large northern hemisphere ice sheets grew<|fim_middle|> than local) cooling. Alternatively, the glacier advances could relate to changes in wind direction, ocean temperatures, global CO2, or changes in the gradient of cooling with elevation."
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Michael Bamberger to receive ASGCA Donald Ross Award
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Michael Bamberger – a senior writer for Sports Illustrated and author of several books on golf – has been chosen by the American Society of Golf Course Architects (ASGCA) as the 2016 recipient of the Donald Ross Award. The award, given annually since 1976, is presented to a person who has made a significant contribution to the game of golf and the profession of golf course architecture. It will be presented to Bamberger at the 2016 ASGCA Annual Meeting on April 24 in Bethesda, Maryland.
"Almost every golf fan over the past 30 years has read and been impacted by Michael's writing, in newspapers, on the pages of Sports Illustrated, on the web or in his books," said President Steve Smyers, ASGCA. "He brings his readers to the places they want to go – from major championships to traveling along on the European Tour – and shows them unique views of the golf world they might not otherwise experience. Michael's keen observations about the game provide the casual golfer a greater understanding of the art of the game.
"We're thrilled a writer of Michael's caliber is devoting his talent to keeping the game front and center among sports fans," he continued. "ASGCA respects his knowledge and perspective, and appreciates how his efforts benefit the game of golf."
Bamberger grew up in Patchogue, New York, and was introduced to golf in an eighth-grade gym class. He first played on the public courses of Suffolk County and on the Patchogue-Medford High School golf team. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania he became a newspaper reporter, working for the Vineyard Gazette, on Martha's Vineyard, and later for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Since 1995, Bamberger has been a senior writer at Sports Illustrated. He also contributes regularly to golf.com and writes a back-page column for Golf magazine.
His books on golf include "The Green Road Home" (1986), about his experiences as a caddie on the PGA Tour in 1985; "To the Linksland" (1992), about an extended honeymoon trip Bamberger and his wife, Christine, made on the European golf tour and through coastal Scotland; and "Men in Green" (2015), a then-and-now look at various golf legends from the 1970s. He is the inventor of The E-Club, a utility golf club for which he was issued a U.S. patent.
Bamberger joins an impressive list of journalists who have received the Donald Ross Award, including Herbert Warren Wind, Peter Dobereiner, Charles Price, Dick Taylor, Ron Whitten, George Peper, James Dodson and Bradley S. Klein.
Bamberger lives in Philadelphia, with his wife Christine, and their children, Ian and Alina.
The Donald Ross Award is presented by the ASGCA Awards Committee, co-chaired by ASGCA President Steve Smyers and 2013 Ross Award recipient Rees Jones, ASGCA.
Past Donald Ross Award Recipients
2015 Bradley S. Klein, golf writer
2014 Maj. Dan Rooney, founder, Folds of Honor Foundation
2013 Rees Jones, ASGCA, golf course architect
2012 Bill Kubly, golf course builder
2011 James Dodson, golf writer/editor
2010 Tim Finchem, PGA Tour Commissioner
2009 Ron Dodson, sustainable golf advocate
2008 George Peper, golf writer
2007 Dr. Michael Hurdzan, ASGCA, golf course architect
2006 Jim Awtrey, chief executive officer, PGA of America
2005 John Singleton, irrigation pioneer
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2003 Bill Campbell, president, USGA, captain, Royal & Ancient Golf Club
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1981 James Rhodes, governor of Ohio
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Many people neglect to look after their feet. However, feet need the same care as your hands and face. Life isn't always easy for your feet. Each day they take you where you are going and support your entire body weight. Keep them healthy by introducing simple and effective habits into your daily routine. A well-pedicured, callus-free, smooth looking and well moisturized foot with clipped toenails is important for both males and females. Every day, take a few minutes to care for your feet by following these simple guidelines: Wash your feet well. Use a mild soap and scrub well between and under your toes. Completely dry your feet, especially between your toes. After every bath or shower, while enjoying your favourite movie or television show, apply a moisturizing cream all over your feet, except between your toes – this area should stay dry at all times. Let the cream penetrate your feet before putting on socks or shoes. Once a week, consider pampering your feet. Prepare for treatment by soaking them in warm water for 5 - 10 minutes to soften rough areas. Eliminate calluses and dead skin using a smooth pumice stone. Slide the stone in the same direction in one continuous stroke. Do not rub back and forth. Avoid pumice stones that are made of metal or overly rough. Massage your feet to improve circulation and moisturize them with a cream designed for feet – there are a variety of choices available. Ask your pharmacist for a recommendation.
Look after your toenails regularly. To keep the corners from piercing your skin and causing pain or developing an in-grown toenail, clip them straight across and never shorter than the ends of your toes. Corners can be slightly rounded using a nail file. Even with regular foot care, your feet can become tired and overworked after a long walk, prolonged standing or a sport/exercise activity. To lessen friction and a painful burning sensation, insoles (such as transparent gel) can reduce pressure and absorb the impact to the<|fim_middle|>.
This has been a brief overview of common foot problems. Always contact a health care professional if in doubt for any foot related problem. Our feet are often taken for granted – until there is an injury or problem. Let's be pro-active by following basic daily routines to maintain healthy feet. Whenever you have any questions regarding self-treatment or prescription medication, please do not hesitate to ask your Smith Drugs and Apothecary pharmacist! | soles of your feet. However, make sure that the insole does not make your shoes too tight and create extra pressure. Always have new shoes fitted properly for length and width. It is suggested to purchase new shoes later in the day to ensure proper fit and comfort.
The following is a short list of common foot problems. Always consult a health care professional if there is any sign of infection, injury or unusual appearance.
Foot blisters are small round or oval bubbles filled with clear liquid. They are caused when skin repeatedly rubs against a shoe. To avoid blisters, break in new shoes at home and wear them gradually (no more than 2 hours) over several days. Wear socks that keep your feet dry and react quickly when you feel a burning sensation. Application of a cushioned or gel protection pad can be helpful. Do not puncture blisters because broken blisters can become infected. In case of an infection, contact a health care professional.
A bunion is an inward deviation of the big toe creating a lump on the side of the foot. Bunions tend to be hereditary and primarily affect women over 50. Excess weight and wearing narrow-toed high heel shoes can cause or aggravate this problem. Ease pain by soaking your feet for 10 minutes in warm water and Epsom salt or by applying ice to the affected area. Prevent corns from forming on the lump because they can increase pain. Orthotics (specially designed insoles) can help make your feet more comfortable and slow the deformation of the foot. Protective cushions and toe separators are available to assist in pain relief. If none of these measures relieves pain or if it is difficult to wear shoes, consult an orthopedic specialist.
The buildup of hardened skin caused by pressure and friction can cause callosity. Calluses are tough, thick skin on the heel or big toes. Severe dryness can cause skin to crack along the heel and form crevasses. Corns are small, sometimes thick lumps of hardened skin on the tip or joint of a toe or in between toes. They can be painful. Calluses look like corns, but tend to form on joints on the soles of your feet.
To prevent these conditions, daily foot care combined with the use of a ureabased moisturizing cream is effective. Use protective cushions to lessen friction and pain. Corn remover cushions and liquid preparations can dissolve corns. Before applying one of these cushions, healthy skin surrounding the corn must be protected from irritation and inflammation using a product such as clear nail polish. Consult a health care professional before using these products. If you are diabetic, do not try to remove corns yourself using sharp instruments or products containing salicylic acid. Consult a foot care specialist!
This can cause softening, whitening and peeling of the skin especially between the toes. A resulting growth of fungus and bacteria can also cause strong odour. Let your feet and shoes breathe as soon as possible at the end of the day. Remove insoles from your shoes to let them dry or wash them regularly. Avoid wearing nylons, socks or stockings. Opt instead for lycra, spandex, polyester or polypropylene – which draw away sweat. Use antiperspirant products rather than scented deodorizers. Aluminium chloride helps lessen sweating and eliminate odors, rather than masking them. Anti-odor insoles and drying powders can also be effective. Consult a health care professional if you do not see any improvement.
Check your feet daily for cuts, redness and swelling. Check between your toes and under toenails. Use of a small mirror is helpful to identify any unusual injury or discolouration.
Clip your toenails regularly with rounded scissors. If you have problems with vision or dexterity, see your foot care specialist.
Wear comfortable, properly fitted shoes to avoid blisters, corns and bunions.
Choose socks without stitches to reduce friction on your feet.
Before slipping on your shoes, check the inside for any objects or folds that could cause injury.
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HCSS Trucking software eliminates paper tickets, fraud from construction trucking
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To set up the iBeacon broadcaster you simply scan the QR code on the device with a tablet or phone, enter the truck ID and other info on the web page that pops up and you're ready to work. A piece of double sided tape can adhere the iBeacon to the dashboard, windshield or other surface inside the cab.
Josh McDonald, HCSS R&D product manager, shows the iBeacon transmitter.
HCSS is giving the iBeacon broadcasters away free and charging $3 per truck per day for the service. But you don't pay the $3 until the truck comes within range of the iBeacon receiver so your broker's trucks can move on to other jobs and keep the iBroadcaster in the cab ready for any future jobs you may call them to.
The batteries that send out the pings from the broadcaster last about two years. The receiver with its GPS and cellular functionality has an average battery life of about 80 days and costs about $1,000. The receiver batteries are rechargeable, and HCSS even has a solar charger you can connect to the device and keep it fully charged at the jobsite.
HCSS had several of its beta testers in the first session describing its trucking app to customers. The big question from the audience was what kind of response the beta testers were getting from their trucking brokers. The beta testers said pushback was minimal, especially after they told their trucking brokers to either accept the iBeacons in their trucks or lose the business.
The system also allows you notate other types of information as well. If the broker still wants to issue paper tickets, you can take a photo of the ticket and electronically upload it to the website, says Mike Bordelon, HCSS vice president of product management. "If you really don't trust the ticket writer and think he is colluding with the truck driver, make him take a picture of the truck for validation. That's how airtight this system is. You can have a picture of the truck, a picture of the ticket, longitude, latitude, time stamp and then all this other data. No broker is going to be able to argue with you on that," Bordelon says.
"Once you get to that level of transparency, the fraud just melts away," says McDonald. "Everything is out there in real time, all the time."
HCSS plans to integrate many of the information fields generated by its trucking app with HCSS Heavy Job and HCSS Aggregates programs, and scale and weighing systems later this year.
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Few processes in construction produce more paper (and sometimes fraud) than contract trucking and truck tickets. And while many construction companies rig their own trucks with GPS and telematics to monitor cycle times, fuel use and the rest, GPS is not a viable solution for contractors using brokered trucks to haul asphalt and other materials.
At its annual Users Group Meeting last week, HCSS showed attendees a new solution to the problem, a simple, low-cost software-plus-hardware system for trucks running to and from asphalt plants and other heavy-haul situations.
Called "HCSS Trucking" this system eliminates the paper ticketing process with two simple pieces of hardware and cloud-based software apps, explains Josh McDonald, R&D product manager for HCSS. "In paving operations, the vast majority of the trucking activity is brokered, so the goal of this system was to eliminate the stacks of paperwork and sometimes conflicting claims about that paperwork," he says.
The hardware consists of a Bluetooth enabled iBeacon Proximity broadcaster that's about the size off four quarters stacked together and a larger "black box" iBeacon receiver. The small iBeacon broadcasters are put in each truck and send out a ping to the receiver every two minutes. The receiver has cellular and GPS functionality and is placed near the entry/exit points for the trucks. It logs the time and identity of truck as it enters the jobsite, disconnects when the truck gets out of range and reconnects with the truck when it comes back to the site with a full load. The receiver automatically uploads this data to the cloud giving drivers and dispatchers real-time status reports. At the end of the day, instead of a bunch of paper tickets, you have a digital record of every trip every truck made to your jobsite.
The information on trucks entering and leaving the worksite is relayed via the system's Ticket Writer app to any designated mobile device, tablet or phone. The Manager app allows you to set up jobs and dump sites cost codes, materials and drivers | 419 |
With Uranus (the great disrupter) in the sign of Aries (our personal identity) making aspects with Jupiter (expansion), Saturn (structures), Venus (love<|fim_middle|> this phase, keep your heart and mind open to the universe revealing the beliefs you have that stand between you and the fulfillment of your intentions. These are at the core of every 'struggle'. Review your assets and find what within you will help you to thrive. Stay present to the commitment behind your intention and plan for action … which will be here with the Aquarius First Quarter Moon on Sunday/Monday. | ), Pluto (transformation), Mars (action) AND the Moon (emotion), the Moon reaches the Crescent Moon Phase … where through listening and deliberate actions, we integrate the new in with the old. This commonly results in the experience of a struggle and creates the opportunity for healing (transformation). AND there has never been a more opportune time to TRANSFORM … than NOW!
After projecting our intentions during a powerful Scorpio New Moon (conjunct Mercury) and into the Sagittarius Moon over the last two days, be they intentional or otherwise (for unbeknownst to many, whatever we focus our attention on and emote greatly during a new moon becomes our intention), over these next couple days as we attempt to face life with practically and ambition, given by the moon being in Capricorn, we will encounter instances of perceived breakdowns. That are doors to breakthroughs.
The challenge exists in uncovering the beliefs and letting go of attachments to anything/one that breaks away during said 'shift'. For it is when we hang on … that we suffer. Lucky for us, or maybe not so lucky, every lunar transit our beliefs manifest in our lives through the interplay between the sun (conscious) and moon (subconscious) energies. Right now the sun is in Scorpio and the moon is in Capricorn.
Remember, individually all of the energies you experience are focused through the imprint made at your birth by the presence of planets, their aspects, and the house placement within each sign … from both the sun (Scorpio) and the moon (Capricorn). The resonance of that energy is determined by your beliefs, emoted with each new moon, whether they were created intentionally, or not.
What was happening in your life at the New Year on January 9th, 2016? What were your dominant emotions? What beliefs are you encountering … right now?
These energetic influences are yours to RECREATE by who you are being in your conscious mind (Scorpio Sun – deepest desires) and your responses to unconscious perception (Capricorn Moon – your ambitions) as the moon is NOW in the sign of Capricorn. You are intentionally shaping your experience and have access to bring your energetic being into alignment with a higher state … by being conscious of the energies at play and intentionally shifting who you're being!
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Grate Expectations: Max Neuhaus – Times Square (1977)
On April 8, 2020 April 7, 2020 By 429harrowroadIn InstallationsLeave a comment
Max Neuhaus – Times Square (1977). © The Estate of Max Neuhaus. Used with the kind permission of the Estate of Max Nehaus.
It's 6am on a balmy New York morning in October 2017; Reed Hays, one half of Reed & Caroline, is leading me to a specific section of Times Square. On the way, he tells me what the area was like when he lived nearby in the late 1980s, a time when this part of the city was shorthand for a gaudy seediness, bordered by low-rent porn cinemas and XXX-rated video stores, with pickpockets and scammers taking advantage of the tourists that have congregated at the intersection between Broadway and Seventh Avenue for over 100 years.
Our destination is an unmarked, nondescript triangular grate between 45th and 46th streets, covering a ventilation shaft from the subway tracks running just below the street. Unimpressive it may be, but it is the location of what may well rank among the most frequently-visited works of art on the planet, even though the vast majority of those visiting Times Square have no idea that it's even there. This is Max Neuhaus's Times Square, originally – and appropriately – titled Underground Music(s). Neuhaus installed his most famous piece of sound art here in 1977 after four years of back and forth with New York's transit authority, and it ran continuously, 24/7, until 1992; it was restored and activated again in 2002, and has again run uninterrupted ever since*.
Neuhaus was no stranger to New York's art world in 1977, and neither was he an unknown in the field of sound. He had started out as an avant garde percussionist, realising definitive versions of pieces by Karlheinz Stockhausen's Zyklus and moving on to embrace electronics for a recording of John Cage's Fontana Mix. By the mid-60s he had moved squarely into the domain of sound art, creating pieces like Fan Music (1967) on rooftops in the Bowery, where the volume and nature of the sonic output depended entirely upon the prevailing weather, a read across to Cage's obsession with chance and the I Ching. Fan Music was the first of what Neuhaus would call his Place pieces for their physical and geographical characteristics, and it is within this series that Times Square would become his most prominent work.
"The work is an invisible block of sound," wrote Neuhaus about Times Square in 1992, just as the installation concluded its first run. "Its sonority, a rich harmonic sound resembling the after ring of large bells, is an impossibility within its context. Many who pass through it, however, can dismiss it as an unusual machinery sound from below ground." The sound is elusive, varying according to where you stand on the grate, appearing to swell and move toward the periphery of your hearing imperceptibly. With timetabled regularity a subway train interrupts the sound, distorting and confusing the otherwise smooth resonances of the piece.
The sound – a calming, ringing drone, in the manner of La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's Dream House works – is a major seventh chord made up of many tiny pulses arranged rapidly in sequence, similar to the work of fellow duration music aficionado Phill Niblock. Hays and I ponder how the sound was made, assuming that for it to have been activated in the 1970s it must have been of analogue construction, though period synths of that time needed a stable electric current to prevent them from going out of tune; precise schematics of Neuhaus's design aren't readily available, but we conclude that the subway system must have provided the constant current, which might explain the protracted delay in realising the work, alongside securing permission to use of one of transit authority's ventilation shafts.
What to make of this work? On the one hand, many critics have celebrated Neuhaus's desire to democratise art by making something like this available freely to so many; on the other hand, its lack of signage or discernible identifying markings means it remains the exclusive preserve of those in the know, thus making it both anti-elitist and elitist simultaneously; Neuhaus himself wrote about moving from the rarefied environs of Carnegie Hall to Times Square as a way of engaging with the 'culturally uninitiated', which doesn't come across as hugely democratic. He observed the piece almost daily on CCTV and volunteered ways of stopping the area's many street performers – particularly the guitar-strumming Naked Cowboy (Google at your peril) who was something of an offensive nemesis to the artist – from using the piece as a makeshift stage. Some have drawn a thematic link between Times Square and Cage's 4'33", the former being bounded by geographical detail and the latter by temporal limits; one whose sounds can never be allowed to operate among complete silence with the other unable to be anything other than hypothetically silent.
Even at 6am, perhaps the ideal time to experience Times Square, the area crackles with a grim energy and if it wasn't for the precise navigation skills of Hays, I doubt I would have even found the right grate. The billboards are illuminated, a few dispossessed people drag suitcases to or from red-eye flights, an early morning TV programme is being filmed in full view of a small gathering of people keen to catch a glimpse of whichever celebrity figure is being interviewed – but it's certainly about as quiet as this place ever gets.
Reed Hays at Times Square, October 23 2017 06:15 (Photo: Mat Smith)
Mat Smith at Times Square, October 23 2017 06:15 (Photo: Reed Hays)
Only a couple of hours later, the area will be flooded with selfie-snapping tourists and modern day scammers dressed in abysmal Sesame Street costume rip-offs, making Neuhaus's work more or less undetectable unless you happen to tune into it while fleetingly passing through.
Some six months later I found myself doing just that on my way to see Reed & Caroline<|fim_middle|> grounded, frozen-in-time atmosphere.
Speaking of time-freezing, five words that repel my synthesizer colleagues are "Check out my drone piece." Fortunately, the tracks here labelled 'Drone' are not endless tones that force the listener to wager when a musician will fall asleep and drop their instrument. They contain phrases. They move. 'Drone III – Saudade' tells an almost Schubertian tonal story. It is warm.
The final movement's 'Taps'-like melody gently lays us in a bed of reassuring Coplandic harmonies and enough plagal cadences to keep one eye on the heavens. The listener is indeed 'Staying Warm' "…and all sorts of other things."
Music For Staying Warm by Justin Wright is released by First Terrace Records on April 5 2019.
Words: Reed Hays
(c) 2019 Reed Hays for Further. | perform down on the Lower East Side. My only clue to the location of Times Square was the fact that the Naked Cowboy ceased his afternoon performance at the precise moment that I was being carried along by the crowd of awestruck tourists, their eyes raised upward toward the famous neon advertisements, blissfully unaware of the meditative sonic events taking place just beneath their feet.
Words: Mat Smith.
With thanks to Reed Hays, Pidu Russek at the Estate of Max Neuhaus, Dia Art Foundation, Neil Mason and Tin Soldiere. This unpblished piece was originally written for Electronic Sound but was not ultimately published. * At the time of writing, owing to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, Times Square is not currently operational (according to the Dia Art Foundation, who maintain the piece), concluding the second run that began in 2002. I Heart NY.
(c) 2018 – 2020 Mat Smith for Electronic Sound / Further.
First Play: Matthias – Hold Me (Matt Pop Radio Edit)
On February 25, 2020 February 23, 2020 By 429harrowroadIn Single reviewsLeave a comment
Matthias is Matt Danforth, a Canadian electronic musician known for producing upbeat music full of faithful synth sounds and brilliant, sparkling melodies; music that nods reverently in the direction of classic synth pop but without ever sounding like a pastiche.
His most recent single, 'Hold Me' features vocals from his frequent collaborator Mark Bebb (Andy Bell, Shelter, Form). The track includes one of Bebb's most impassioned vocals in a career of impassioned vocals, here set to a gripping, happy-sad mood that's the perfect complement to the vocals.
Following December's single release, 'Hold Me' has been given stunning remix treatments by Further. Favourites Circuit3, Reed & Caroline's Reed Hays with Phil Garrod (featuring a rare Moog and Hays's distinctive cello), Darwinmcd, People Theatre, Nature Of Wires, MDA/ADM and the inestimable Matt Pop.
Today we're pleased to bring you an exclusive first play of Matt Pop's brilliantly-executed, high energy Radio Edit.
Hold Me – The Remixes by Matthias is released February 28 2020.
Words: Mat Smith
Justin Wright – Music For Staying Warm
On April 4, 2019 April 4, 2019 By 429harrowroadIn Album reviews1 Comment
The first thing that popped into my head during Justin Wright's Music for Staying Warm was an interview with, believe it or not, Vangelis. In Sounds magazine in 1976, James Wynn gaped at the tone palette Vangelis conjured – not from a limitless synthesizer – but from the comparatively monochromatic Fender Rhodes piano, which produced "lyrical vibes, vibrant bass, an amazingly accurate music-box sound and all sorts of other things." Listening to Wright's work for (supposedly) string quintet, I scrambled to see who overdubbed oboe, bass clarinet, and… voices? Was there a harmoniser pedal?
Wright tastefully extracts a wide range of colors from his cello and the rest of the ensemble. Natural harmonics, bridge mutes, bow positioning, and other traditional trickery cause the listener to wonder which stringed (or non-stringed) instruments are in the band.
A major contributor to the colors of 'Warmth' is the recording studio. In 'Modular Winter' the low-register viola melody would be lost were it not for microphone placement. The solo cello in 'Improvisation' is offset by a much more reverberant violin. Panning and echo effects cradle 'In Sunlight' in wispy harmonics that waft around the ensemble like dandelion seeds.
The interplay between harmonic effects and melody also gives 'In Sunlight' the only real dissonance on the album. Everything else basks in diatonic comfort and first-inversion optimism. Any 'motion', i.e. phrase repetition, exists to reinforce the | 870 |
Edited by Ann Coxon, Briony Fer, and Maria Müller-Schareck; With essays by Brenda Danilowitz, Magdalena Droste, Nicholas Fox Weber, María Minera, Priyesh Mistry, Jennifer Reynolds-Kaye, and T'ai Smith
192 pages, 8 1/4 x 10 1/2
190 color illus.
Published in association with Tate
A long-overdue reassessment of one of the most important and influential woman artists working at midcentury
Anni Albers (1899–1994) was a German textile designer, weaver, and printmaker, and among the leading pioneers of 20th-century modernism. Although she has heavily influenced generations of artists and designers, her contribution to modernist art history has been comparatively overlooked, especially in relation to that of her husband, Josef. In this groundbreaking and beautifully illustrated volume, Albers's most important works are examined to fully explore and redefine her contribution to 20th-century art and design and highlight her significance as an artist in her own right.
Featured works—from her early activity at the Bauhaus as well as from her time at Black Mountain College, and spanning her entire fruitful career—include wall hangings, designs for commercial use, drawings and studies, jewelry, and prints. Essays by international experts focus on key works and themes, relate aspects of Albers's practice to her seminal texts On Designing and On Weaving, and identify broader contextual material, including examples of the Andean textiles that Albers collected and in which she found inspiration for her understanding of woven thread as a form of language. Illuminating Albers's skill as a weaver, her material awareness, and her deep understanding of art and design, this publication celebrates an artist of enormous importance and showcases the timeless nature of her creativity.
Ann Coxon is curator of international art at Tate, London. Briony Fer is professor of art history at University College London. Maria Müller-Schareck is curator of modern and contemporary art at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
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"[A] compelling argument that Albers is a major artist whose time has come . . . The volume itself is beautifully designed and printed. The essays and, especially, the images of weavings, show Albers as a masterful technician, as well as an artist who could turn her designs into rich and tactile works."—Adrian Higgins, Washington Post
"This catalog successfully shows Anni Albers's role in the development of 20th-century modernism . . . Thoroughly researched and with high quality images that do justice to the color and dimensionality of Albers's weavings."—Nancy J. Mactague, Library Journal
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The Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection
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Frank Lloyd Wright Buffs Gathered for a Lecture About His World Heritage Sites
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The Chicago Architecture Center talk was focused on the UNESCO designation eight of his buildings received
By Leigh Kunkel
Chicago Architecture Center president Lynn J. Osmond introduces the speakers for "Frank Lloyd Wright's World Heritage Sites," in the Center's Joan and Gary Gand Lecture Hall.
Photo: Anna Munzesheimer
Roughly 75 architecture buffs gathered at the Chicago Architecture Center last night to learn about the process by which eight of Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings were designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2019.
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"World Heritage Sites are a register of the world's most exceptional cultural and natural sites," explained Barbara Gordon, executive director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy. "The organization was created to identify and protect sites of universal value."
Of the eight buildings that were chosen, two—the Unity Temple and the Robie House—are in the Chicago area. "The Robie House is the main example of spatial continuity demonstrated by an open floor plan," Gordon said, elaborating on one of the reasons that the building was selected.
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One major area of concern for the newly designated landmarks is the balance of stewardship and access, said Justin Gunther, vice president of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy and director of Fallingwater, in response to an audience question about the challenges of the process. "We need to make sure the experience of visiting Fallingwater is valuable and authentic," he said, explaining that increased visitorship could have both positive and negative effects on the site.
Other speakers on the panel included Phyllis Ellin, architectural historian for the U.S. National Park Service's Office of International Affairs, and Heidi Ruehle, executive director of the Unity Temple Restoration Foundation in Oak Park.
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"...POOH GOES VISITING..."
Edward Bear, known to<|fim_middle|> Christopher Robin."
Christopher Robin lived at the other end of the Forest, and when he came back with Rabbit, and saw the front half of Pooh, he said, " Silly old Bear," in such a loving voice that everybody felt quite hopeful again.
"I was just beginning to think," said Bear, sniffing slightly, "that Rabbit might never be able to use his front door again. And I should hate that," he said.
"So should I." Said Rabbit.
"Use his front door again?" said Christopher Robin. "Of course he'll use his front door again."
"Good," said Rabbit.
"If we can't pull you out, Pooh, we might push you back."
Rabbit scratched his whiskers thoughtfully, and pointed out that, when once Pooh was pushed back, he was back, and of course nobody was more glad to see Pooh than he was, still there it was, some lived in trees and some lived underground, and-----
"You mean I'd never get out?" said Pooh.
"I mean," said Rabbit, "that having got so far, it seems a pity to waste."
Christopher Robin nodded.
"Then there's only one thing to be done," he said. "We shall have to wait for you to get thin again."
"How long does getting thin take?" asked Pooh anxiously.
"But I can't stay here for a week!"
"You can stay here all right, silly old bear. It's getting you out which is so difficult.
"We'll read to you," said Rabbit cheerfully. "And I hope it won't snow," he added. "And I say, old fellow, you're taking up a good deal of room in my house---do you mind if I use your back legs as a towel horse? Because, I mean, there they are-doing nothing---and it would be very convenient just to hang the towels on them."
"A week!" said Pooh gloomily. "What about meals?"
"I'm afraid no meals," said Christopher Robin, "because of getting thinner quicker. But we willread to you."
Bear began to sigh, and then found he couldn't because he was so tightly struck; and a tear rolled down his eye, as he said:
"Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness?"
So for a week Christopher Robin read that sort of book at the North end of Pooh, and Rabbit hung his washing on the South end and in between Bear felt himself getting slenderer and slenderer. And at the end of the week Christopher Robin said "Now! "
So he took hold of Pooh's front paws and Rabbit took hold of Christopher Robin, and all Rabbits friends and relations took hold of Rabbit, and they all pulled together. And for a long time Pooh only said "Ow!" And "Oh!"
And then, all of a sudden, he said "Pop!" just as if a cork were coming out of a bottle.
And Christopher Robin and Rabbit and all Rabbit's friends and relations went head-over-heals backwards and on the top of them came Winnie-the Pooh---free!
So, with a nod of thanks to his friends, he went on with his walk through the forest, humming proudly to himself. But, Christopher Robin looked after him lovingly, and said to himself, "Silly old Bear!"
The World of Pooh, by A.A. Milne, Copyright 1956 by E.P. Dutton | his friends as Winnie-the-Pooh, or Pooh for short, was walking through the forest one day, humming proudly to himself. He had made up a little hum that very morning, as he was doing his Stoutness Exercises in front of the glass: Tra-la-la, tra-la---Oh, Help! ---la, as he tried to reach his toes. After breakfast he had said it over and over to himself until he had learnt it off by heart, and now he as humming it right through, properly. It went like this:
Tra-la-la, tra la-la, Tra-la-la, tra la-la, Rum-tum-tiddle-um-tum, Tiddle-iddle, tiddle-iddle, Rum-tum-tum-tiddle-um.
Well, he was humming this hum to himself, and walking along gaily, wondering what everybody else was doing, and what it felt like, being somebody else, when suddenly he came to a sandy bank, and in the bank was a large hole.
"Aha!" said Pooh. (Rum-tum-tiddle-um-tum.) "If I know anything about anything, that hole means Rabbit," he said, "and Rabbit means Company," he said, "and Company means Food and Listening-to Me-Humming and such like. Rum-tum-tum-tiddle-um."
So he bent down, put his head into the hole, and called out:
"Is anybody home?"
There was a sudden scuffling noise from inside the whole, and then a silence.
"What I said was, Is anybody home?" called out Pooh very loudly.
"No!" said a voice; and then added, "You needn't shout so loud. I heard you quite well the first time."
"Bother!" said Pooh. "Isn't there anybody here at all?"
"Nobody."
Winnie-the-Pooh took his head out of the hole, and thought for a little, and he thought to himself, "There must be somebody there, because somebody must have said 'Nobody'." So he put his head back in the hole, and said:
"Hallo, Rabbit, isn't that you?"
"No," said Rabbit, in a different sort of voice this time.
But isn't that Rabbit's voice?"
I don't think so," said Rabbit. "It isn't meant to be."
"Oh!" said Pooh.
He took his head out of the hole, and had another think, and then he put it back, and said:
"Well, could you very kindly tell me where Rabbit is?"
"He has gone to see his friend Pooh Bear, who is a great friend of his."
"But this is Me!" said Bear, very much surprised.
"What sort of Me?"
"Pooh Bear."
"Are you sure?" said Rabbit, still more surprised.
"Quite, quite sure," said Pooh.
"Oh, well, then, come in."
Pooh pushed and pushed and pushed his way through the hole, and at last he got in.
"You were quite right," said Rabbit, looking at him all over. "It is you. Glad to see you."
"Who did you think I was?"
"Well I wasn't sure. You know how it is in the Forest. One can't have anybody coming into one's house. One has to be careful. What about a mouthful or something?"
Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o'clock in the morning, and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates and mugs; and when Rabbit said, "Honey or condensed milk with your bread?" he was so excited that he said, "Both," and then, so as not to seem greedy, he added, "But don't bother about the bread, please." And for a long time after that he said.Until at last, humming to himself in a rather sticky voice, he got up, shook Rabbit lovingly by the paw, and said that he must be going on.
"Must you?" said Rabbit politely.
"Well," said Pooh, " I could stay a little longer if it---if you.."and he tried very hard to look in the direction of the larder."
"As a matter of fact," said Rabbit, "I was going out myself directly."
"Oh, well, then, I'll be going on. Good-bye."
"Well, good-bye, if you're sure you won't have any more."
"Is there any more?" asked Pooh quickly.
Rabbit took the covers off the dishes, and said, "No, there wasn't."
"I thought not," said Pooh, nodding to himself. "Well, good-bye. I must be going on."
So he started to climb out of the hole. He pulled with his front paws, and pushed with his back paws, and in a little while his nose was out in the open again and then his ears and then his front paws and then his shoulders and then------
"Oh help!" said Pooh. "I'd better go back."
"Oh, bother!" said Pooh. "I shall have to go on."
"I can't do that either!" said Pooh. "Oh, help and bother!"
Now by this time Rabbit wanted to go for a walk too, and finding the front door full, he went out by the back door, and came round Pooh, and looked at him.
"Hallo, are you stuck?" he asked.
"N-no," said Pooh carelessly. "Just resting and thinking and humming to myself."
"Here give us a paw."
Pooh Bear stretched out a paw, and Rabbit pulled and pulled and pulled.
"Ow!" cried Pooh, "You're hurting!"
"The fact is," said Rabbit, "you're stuck."
"It all comes," said Pooh crossly, "of not having front doors big enough."
"it all comes," said Rabbit sternly, "of eating too much. I though at the time," said Rabbit, "only I didn't like to say anything," said Rabbit, "that one of was eating too much," said Rabbit, "and I knew it wasn't me," he said. "Well, well, I shall go and fetch | 1,277 |
Peter Ferenci, M.D., David Bernstein, M.D., Jacob Lalezari, M.D., Daniel Cohen, M.D., Yan Luo, M.D., Ph.D., Curtis Cooper, M.D., Edward Tam, M.D., Rui T. Marinho, M.D., Ph.D., Naoky Tsai, M.D., Anders Nyberg, M.D., Terry D. Box, M.D., Ziad Younes, M.D., Pedram Enayati, M.D., Sinikka Green, M.D., Yaacov Baruch, M.D., Bal Raj Bhandari, M.D., Florin Alexandru Caruntu, M<|fim_middle|> drugs owing to adverse events.
Serious adverse events occurred in eight patients in the genotype 1b study (four who received ribavirin and four who did not) and in four patients in the genotype 1a study (three who received ribavirin and one who did not). All patients with a serious adverse event had a sustained virologic response. Details of all serious adverse events are provided in Table S5 in the Supplementary Appendix.
Among the patients in the genotype 1a study who had a hemoglobin level within the normal range at baseline, 42.0% of patients who received the antiviral regimen with ribavirin and 3.9% of patients who received the ribavirin-free regimen had a hemoglobin level below the lower limit of the normal range at the end of treatment (P<0.001). Similarly, in the genotype 1b study, 51.2% of patients who received ribavirin had a low hemoglobin level at the end of treatment, as compared with 3.4% of patients who did not receive ribavirin (P<0.001). A hemoglobin level of less than 10 g per deciliter at any time during treatment occurred in 4.0% of patients with genotype 1a infection who received ribavirin and in 9.0% of patients with genotype 1b infection who received ribavirin but did not occur in any patients who received the ribavirin-free regimen (Table 3). The ribavirin dose was reduced in accordance with the protocol because of a decreased hemoglobin level in 6 patients with genotype 1a infection who received ribavirin (6.0%) and in 16 patients with genotype 1b infection who received ribavirin (7.6%); all these patients had a sustained virologic response. Additional data on hemoglobin levels are provided in the Supplementary Appendix.
In both studies, the proportions of patients with elevations in the serum level of bilirubin were higher in the groups that received the ribavirin-containing regimen than in the groups that received the ribavirin-free regimen (Tables S6 and S7 in the Supplementary Appendix). Elevated levels of indirect (unconjugated) bilirubin primarily accounted for the abnormalities in both studies. Mean bilirubin levels peaked 1 week after the start of study-drug treatment and stabilized or normalized thereafter; maximal observed bilirubin levels were 6.5 mg per deciliter (110 μmol per liter) in the genotype 1a study and 9.4 mg per deciliter (160 μmol per liter) in the genotype 1b study. Elevations in the bilirubin level were not associated with elevations in aminotransferase levels. Additional details on laboratory abnormalities are provided in the Supplementary Appendix.
In two phase 3 studies (PEARL-III and PEARL-IV), 90.2 to 99.5% of previously untreated patients with HCV genotype 1 infection and no cirrhosis had a sustained virologic response after 12 weeks of treatment with ABT-450/r–ombitasvir and dasabuvir with or without ribavirin. Response rates in all treatment groups were superior to the historical response rate with a peginterferon-containing telaprevir-based regimen.5 These findings suggest that in previously untreated patients with HCV infection and no cirrhosis, this 12-week regimen of three direct-acting antiviral agents is efficacious both with and without ribavirin.
We also assessed the contribution of ribavirin to the treatment response and safety profile of the regimen. The effect of ribavirin on the treatment response in patients with HCV genotype 1a infection differed from that in patients with genotype 1b infection. The inclusion of ribavirin did not significantly affect the sustained-virologic-response rate among patients with genotype 1b infection, because the rate was 99.0% in the group that did not receive ribavirin and 99.5% in the group that received it. Thus, in this patient population, the 12-week regimen of ABT-450/r–ombitasvir and dasabuvir resulted in similarly high rates of sustained virologic response with and without ribavirin, results that are consistent with those of a phase 2b study18 and phase 3 studies25,26 of this regimen. In contrast, although more than 90% of patients in each treatment group in the genotype 1a study had a sustained virologic response, the response rate in the group that that received the ribavirin-free regimen did not meet the criterion for noninferiority to the rate in the group that received the ribavirin-containing regimen owing to a higher rate of virologic failure with the ribavirin-free regimen. A total of 18 patients with genotype 1a infection had virologic failure, and only 2 of these patients received ribavirin. Hence, the use of ribavirin in this population appears to confer an additional benefit.
Regardless of whether the antiviral regimen included ribavirin, the rate of discontinuation of the study drugs owing to adverse events was low (<1%). As compared with the groups that did not receive ribavirin, the groups that did receive it had more adverse events, particularly pruritus, nausea, and insomnia — events that are known to be associated with ribavirin. In addition, laboratory abnormalities that have historically been associated with ribavirin — decreases in the hemoglobin level and increases in the total bilirubin level — were more common in the groups that received ribavirin. The pattern of bilirubin elevations across treatment regimens confirmed that the hyperbilirubinemic effect of ABT-450, an inhibitor of the bilirubin transporter OATP1B1, is enhanced by ribavirin-associated hemolysis. However, these abnormalities did not appear to affect the likelihood of treatment success and did not result in treatment discontinuation. Overall, the adverse events observed in these two phase 3 trials were consistent with those observed in past trials with these regimens.
Studies of direct-acting antiviral therapy have shown that these regimens can result in high rates of sustained virologic response. The role of and need for ribavirin in maximizing sustained-virologic-response rates in different patient populations remain incompletely characterized by clinical studies. Exploratory studies have shown sustained-virologic-response rates of 95% or higher when sofosbuvir is combined with other direct-acting antiviral agents (ledipasvir, daclatasvir, or simeprevir) with or without ribavirin, although these findings remain to be confirmed by larger trials.19,20,27,28 Although these results suggest that sufficiently efficacious ribavirin-free treatments may obviate the need for ribavirin in some patients, larger studies will be needed to determine which patient populations may require ribavirin for the greatest chance of virologic cure.
Although the two studies showed that premature discontinuation and serious adverse events were uncommon with the 12-week course of all-oral therapy that included ribavirin, as well as with the ribavirin-free regimen, some patients may benefit from a ribavirin-free treatment option, including patients with contraindications to ribavirin therapy, such as hemoglobinopathies and severe cardiac or pulmonary disease, and those with severe renal impairment. Given the known teratogenicity of ribavirin, a ribavirin-free regimen would also be preferable for some women of childbearing potential.
In conclusion, previously untreated patients with HCV genotype 1a or 1b infection and no cirrhosis who received ABT-450/r–ombitasvir and dasabuvir with or without ribavirin had high sustained-virologic-response rates that were superior to the historical response rate with peginterferon–ribavirin plus telaprevir. Although ribavirin did not improve the response in patients with genotype 1b infection, our findings suggest that ribavirin confers an additional benefit for patients with genotype 1a infection.
Drs. Ferenci and Bernstein contributed equally to this article.
We thank the trial participants, investigators, and coordinators who made these studies possible; and Douglas E. Dylla, Ph.D., of AbbVie for medical writing support.
Address reprint requests to Dr. Ferenci at the Medical University of Vienna, Univ. Klinik für Innere Medizin III, Klinische Abteilung für Gastroenterologie und Hepatologie, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, 1090 Vienna, Austria, or at peter.ferenci@meduniwien.ac.at.
The authors' affiliations are as follows: the Medical University of Vienna, Internal Medicine III, Vienna (P.F.); Hofstra North Shore–LIJ School of Medicine, Manhasset, NY (D.B.); Quest Clinical Research, San Francisco (J.L.), Kaiser Permanente, San Diego (A.N.), California Liver Institute, Los Angeles (P.E.), eStudySite, La Mesa (S.G.), and Southern California Liver Centers and Southern California Research Center, Coronado (T.H.) — all in California; AbbVie, North Chicago, IL (D.C., Y.L., W.X., M.K., T.P.); University of Ottawa, Ottawa (C.C.), and Liver and Intestinal Research Centre, Vancouver, BC (E.T.) — both in Canada; Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte, Medical School of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal (R.T.M.); the Queen's Medical Center–Liver Center, Honolulu (N.T.); Clinical Research Centers of America, Murray, UT (T.D.B.); Gastro One, Germantown, TN (Z.Y.); Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel (Y.B.); Delta Research Partners, Bastrop, LA (B.R.B.); Matei Bals National Institute for Infectious Diseases, Bucharest, Romania (F.A.C.); University Gastroenterology, Providence, RI (T.S.); Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Moscow (V.C.); ID Clinic, Mysłowice, Poland (E.J.); Ospedale Luigi Sacco, Milan (G.R.); Szent György Hospital, Székesfehérvár, Hungary (J.G.); Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas, Badalona, Spain (R.P.); Cliniques Universitaires de Bruxelles Hôpital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels (C.M.); and University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (K.R.R.). | .D., Ph.D., Thomas Sepe, M.D., Vladimir Chulanov, M.D., Ph.D., Ewa Janczewska, M.D., Ph.D., Giuliano Rizzardini, M.D., Judit Gervain, M.D., Ph.D., Ramon Planas, M.D., Christophe Moreno, M.D., Ph.D., Tarek Hassanein, M.D., Wangang Xie, Ph.D., Martin King, Ph.D., Thomas Podsadecki, M.D., and K. Rajender Reddy, M.D.
Approved treatments for HCV genotype 1 infection include peginterferon and ribavirin combined with a direct-acting antiviral agent.5-9 Peginterferon is associated with substantial adverse events, including influenza-like symptoms, depression, fatigue, and cytopenias that make it difficult for patients to adhere to treatment.10 Cure rates for genotype 1a and 1b infection may differ depending on the treatment regimen; rates are generally lower among patients with genotype 1a infection when the treatment regimen includes an NS3 protease inhibitor or an NS5A replication complex inhibitor6,8,11,12 and among patients with genotype 1b infection when the regimen includes the nucleotide analogue sofosbuvir.9 Data suggest that genotype 1a infection is more difficult to cure than genotype 1b infection owing to the development of resistance.7,13-17 Thus, careful assessment of the efficacy of individual regimens in patients with different subgenotypes of HCV infection is warranted.
Ribavirin is an important component of peginterferon-based therapy with first-generation protease inhibitors, but phase 2 clinical trials of interferon-free regimens based on direct-acting antiviral agents suggest that ribavirin may not always be required.16,18-20 Although ribavirin appears to have less toxicity in the absence of peginterferon,9,21 ribavirin is teratogenic and is associated with hemolytic anemia. Therefore, identifying patients who could be successfully treated without ribavirin is of great importance.
ABT-450, an inhibitor of the HCV nonstructural 3/4A (NS3/4A) protease, is administered with ritonavir (ABT-450/r) to increase ABT-450 plasma levels and half-life, permitting once-daily dosing.22 Ombitasvir (ABT-267) is an inhibitor of the HCV NS5A replication complex, and dasabuvir (ABT-333) is a nonnucleoside NS5B polymerase inhibitor. All three agents have potent activity against HCV genotype 1 in vitro.23 In a randomized, controlled, phase 2b study, a regimen of ABT-450/r, ombitasvir, and dasabuvir with ribavirin, administered for 12 weeks, was efficacious in previously untreated patients with HCV genotype 1 infection.18 In addition, all 25 patients with genotype 1b infection who were treated without ribavirin had undetectable HCV RNA levels 24 weeks after the end of therapy.
On the basis of these data, two separate phase 3 trials were designed to evaluate the role of ribavirin in the treatment of patients with genotype 1a or 1b infection. We assessed the efficacy and safety of a 12-week treatment regimen of coformulated ABT-450/r–ombitasvir and dasabuvir with or without ribavirin in previously untreated patients without cirrhosis who had HCV genotype 1a infection (PEARL-IV study) or genotype 1b infection (PEARL-III study). The double-blind, placebo-controlled design of these studies permitted a thorough assessment of the contribution of ribavirin to the adverse-event profile of the combination regimen.
Patients 18 to 70 years of age were eligible for enrollment if they had chronic HCV genotype 1 infection with an HCV RNA level of more than 10,000 IU per milliliter and had never received any antiviral treatment for HCV. Patients with genotype 1a infection were screened at 53 sites in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom (PEARL-IV study). Patients with genotype 1b infection were screened at 50 sites in Austria, Belgium, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, the Russian Federation, Spain, and the United States (PEARL-III study). For both studies, eligible patients had no evidence of cirrhosis as documented by means of a liver biopsy within the previous 24 months, transient elastography (FibroScan), or noninvasive assessment of serum markers (FibroTest). Patients were excluded if they had coinfection with human immunodeficiency virus or hepatitis B virus or if they had infection with any HCV genotype other than 1a (PEARL-IV study) or 1b (PEARL-III study). Detailed eligibility criteria and information on fibrosis scoring are provided in the Supplementary Appendix, available with the full text of this article at NEJM.org.
Patients in both studies were stratified according to IL28B genotype (CC vs. non-CC) and randomly assigned in a 1:2 ratio (genotype 1a study) or a 1:1 ratio (genotype 1b study) to receive either ribavirin twice daily according to body weight (1000 mg daily if the body weight was <75 kg and 1200 mg daily if the body weight was ≥75 kg) or matching placebo for 12 weeks. All the patients received open-label ABT-450/r–ombitasvir (at a once-daily dose of 150 mg of ABT-450, 100 mg of ritonavir, and 25 mg of ombitasvir) and dasabuvir (250 mg twice daily) for 12 weeks (Figure 1). Visits were scheduled at weeks 0, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 of the treatment period, and patients were followed for 48 weeks after the treatment period. The investigators, patients, and study sponsor (AbbVie) were unaware of the treatment assignments and hemoglobin or hematocrit values. If a predefined toxicity criterion for hemoglobin values was met, all hematologic laboratory data were disclosed to the site investigator to allow for appropriate patient care. Additional details on study designs are provided in the Supplementary Appendix.
The studies were conducted in accordance with the International Conference on Harmonisation guidelines, applicable regulations, and guidelines governing clinical-study conduct and ethical principles that have their origin in the Declaration of Helsinki. All the patients provided written informed consent. The studies were designed by the study sponsor. The investigators and sponsor jointly conducted the study and gathered the data. The sponsor conducted the data analyses. All the authors signed a confidentiality agreement with the sponsor. The first draft of the manuscript was written by a sponsor-employed medical writer, with input from all the authors. All the authors made the decision to submit the manuscript for publication and vouch for the completeness and accuracy of the data and analyses and for the fidelity of the studies to the protocol, available at NEJM.org.
Details of the collection of plasma samples, HCV RNA measurement, virologic-failure criteria, resistance testing, and logistic-regression analyses of response predictors are available in the Supplementary Appendix. Adverse-event assessment and clinical laboratory testing were performed at each study visit during treatment and in the follow-up period. Adverse events were reported from the time of study-treatment initiation until 30 days after the last dose. Data on serious adverse events were collected throughout the study.
The primary efficacy end point for both studies was a sustained virologic response (a plasma HCV RNA level of <25 IU per milliliter) 12 weeks after the end of treatment. The primary objective of both studies was to assess the noninferiority of the rate of sustained virologic response at post-treatment week 12 in each study group, as compared with the historical rate with telaprevir plus peginterferon–ribavirin among previously untreated patients with the corresponding HCV subgenotype. The historical rate was 72% among patients with genotype 1a infection (95% confidence interval [CI], 68 to 75) and 80% among those with genotype 1b infection (95% CI, 75 to 84) (see the Supplementary Appendix for details). Secondary efficacy objectives in each study were to assess the noninferiority of the sustained-virologic-response rate in the group that did not receive ribavirin as compared with the group that received ribavirin, the superiority of the rate at post-treatment week 12 in each group as compared with the historical rate with telaprevir plus peginterferon–ribavirin in the corresponding patient population, the percentage of patients in each group with a hemoglobin level below the lower limit of the normal range at the end of treatment, and the percentage of patients in each group with virologic failure during treatment or relapse after treatment.
Efficacy analyses were performed in the modified intention-to-treat population, defined as all randomly assigned patients who received at least one dose of a study drug. For the analysis of whether the rate of sustained virologic response with the interferon-free regimen was noninferior to the historical rate with telaprevir plus peginterferon–ribavirin, a noninferiority margin of 10.5 percentage points was used. To establish that the rate with the interferon-free regimen was noninferior to the historical rate, the lower boundary of the 95% confidence interval (based on the normal approximation to the binomial distribution) had to exceed 73% for the genotype 1b study and 65% for the genotype 1a study. Superiority could be established if the lower boundary of the confidence interval for the interferon-free regimen was greater than the upper boundary of the confidence interval for the historical rate: 84% for the genotype 1b study and 75% for the genotype 1a study. The assessment of the noninferiority of the regimen without ribavirin as compared with the regimen with ribavirin was based on a noninferiority margin of 10.5 percentage points.24 Details of the efficacy analyses, including the fixed-sequence testing plan for the primary and secondary end points, are provided in the Supplementary Appendix.
Safety analyses compared the rate of adverse events and laboratory abnormalities between treatment groups in each study with the use of Fisher's exact test. Sample-size determination is described in the Supplementary Appendix. SAS software for the UNIX operating system (SAS Institute) was used for all analyses. All statistical tests and all confidence intervals were two-sided, with a significance level of 0.05.
In the genotype 1a study, 305 of 436 screened patients underwent randomization and received at least one dose of a study drug (Figure S1 in the Supplementary Appendix). A total of 629 patients were screened for the genotype 1b study, of whom 419 underwent randomization and received at least one dose of a study drug. Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics were well balanced between the two groups in each study (Table 1) The majority of patients in the genotype 1a study were enrolled in North America, whereas the majority of patients in the genotype 1b study were enrolled in Europe. Among patients enrolled in the United States, blacks accounted for 14.2% of patients in the genotype 1a study (35 of 247 patients) and 21.1% of patients in the genotype 1b study (20 of 95 patients).
After 12 weeks of treatment with ABT-450/r–ombitasvir and dasabuvir in the genotype 1a study, 97 of 100 patients who received the antiviral regimen with ribavirin had a sustained virologic response at post-treatment week 12, for a rate of 97.0% (95% CI, 93.7 to 100); 185 of 205 patients who received the regimen without ribavirin had a sustained virologic response, for a rate of 90.2% (95% CI, 86.2 to 94.3) (Figure 2). Hence, the sustained-virologic-response rates for the regimens with and without ribavirin were both noninferior and superior to the historical rate with telaprevir plus peginterferon–ribavirin in previously untreated adults with HCV genotype 1a infection and no cirrhosis. The regimen without ribavirin did not meet the noninferiority criterion as compared with the regimen with ribavirin, because the lower boundary of the confidence interval for the difference (−6.8 percentage points [95% CI, −12.0 to −1.5]) crossed the noninferiority margin of 10.5 percentage points. In addition, the upper boundary of the confidence interval did not cross zero, indicating a significant difference between groups.
A total of 18 patients with genotype 1a infection had virologic failure, 16 of whom received the regimen without ribavirin. Of the 3 patients with genotype 1a infection who received the regimen with ribavirin and did not have a sustained virologic response, 2 had virologic failure (1 had a rebound in HCV RNA levels during treatment and 1 had a relapse after treatment), and 1 did not complete follow-up testing at post-treatment week 12. Of the 16 patients with genotype 1a infection who received the regimen without ribavirin and had virologic failure, 6 had a virologic rebound during treatment and 10 had a relapse after treatment. All the patients with a relapse received at least 11 weeks of treatment. Adherence to the dosing regimen for each study drug was greater than 95% for 16 of the 17 patients with virologic failure for whom data were available; 1 patient who received the antiviral regimen without ribavirin and had a virologic rebound took 88.5% of the planned ABT-450/r–ombitasvir doses and 90.8% of the planned dasabuvir doses. On the basis of logistic-regression analyses of baseline demographic and clinical characteristics, only IL28B CC genotype, which has historically been associated with increased rates of response to treatment for HCV infection, was associated with an increased rate of sustained virologic response among patients with genotype 1a infection (P=0.03).
At the time of virologic failure, each of the 18 patients with genotype 1a infection and a virologic failure had at least one resistance-associated variant known to be selected by one of the three direct-acting antiviral agents included in the regimen. The most frequently detected variants in patients with virologic failure were D168V in NS3, M28T and Q30R in NS5A, and S556G in NS5B.
In this study, 209 of the 210 patients who received the antiviral regimen with ribavirin had a sustained virologic response at post-treatment week 12, for a rate of 99.5% (95% CI, 98.6 to 100.0); 207 of the 209 patients who received the regimen without ribavirin had a sustained virologic response, for a rate of 99.0% (95% CI, 97.7 to 100.0). Thus, the sustained-virologic-response rates among patients who received ribavirin and those who did not were both noninferior and superior to the historical rate with telaprevir plus peginterferon–ribavirin among previously untreated adults with HCV genotype 1b infection and no cirrhosis. In addition, the sustained-virologic-response rate among patients who did not receive ribavirin was noninferior to the rate among those who received ribavirin (difference, −0.5 percentage points [95% CI, −2.1 to 1.1]).
Only one patient with genotype 1b infection had virologic failure during treatment; this patient, who received the antiviral regimen with ribavirin, had a virologic rebound during treatment. The two patients who received the regimen without ribavirin and did not have a sustained virologic response completed treatment but did not complete follow-up testing at post-treatment week 12 (Table 2). Owing to the high rates of sustained virologic response, there were no significant predictors of virologic failure.
In both studies, adverse events were more frequently reported in the groups receiving antiviral regimens that contained ribavirin than in the groups that received the ribavirin-free regimen (P=0.03 in the genotype 1a study and P=0.003 in the genotype 1b study) (Table 3). The most common adverse events reported in the two studies, headache and fatigue, did not differ significantly in either study between the group that received ribavirin and the group that did not receive it. Among other common adverse events, pruritus, nausea, and insomnia occurred at a higher frequency among patients who received ribavirin than among those who did not in one or both studies. The majority of adverse events in all treatment groups were mild; overall, two patients (both in the genotype 1a study) discontinued the study | 3,869 |
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Manuel Margot #7 of the San Diego Padres is tagged out by Max Stassi #12 of the Houston Astros in the fifth inning at Minute Maid Park on April 8, 2018 in Houston, Texas.
HOUSTON (AP) - Max Stassi hit a three-run homer, Charlie Morton continued his hot start to the season and the defending champion Houston Astros beat the San Diego Padres 4-1 on Sunday to win the three-game series.
Stassi's first home run of the year bounced off the facade behind left field, scoring Josh Reddick and Marwin Gonzalez, who led off the fifth inning with singles.
Reddick later added a solo home run, also off of Padres starter Tyson Ross (1-1), to push Houston's lead back to three runs after San Diego scored in the sixth.
Austin Hedges grounded into a fielder's choice to score Chase Headley for San Diego. Headley advanced to second on an error by Houston third baseman Alex Bregman.
Morton (2-0) allowed four hits and three walks for one unearned run while striking out seven in six innings. It was a nearly identical performance to his season debut, when he allowed three hits, two walks and no runs while striking out six in a 6-1 win over Baltimore. The right-hander got the final 12 outs in Game 7 of the World Series against the Dodgers to help secure Houston's first championship.
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HER2: A wise, funny and thoughtful piece about a difficult subject
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Published January 16, 2015 Updated May 12, 2018
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Almost 20 years ago, Maja Ardal directed a wonderful production of Two Weeks With the Queen, a rowdy-yet-poignant comedy about an Australian kid seeking a cure for his cancer-stricken brother. That show, co-produced by Young People's Theatre and Alberta Theatre Projects, had a special meaning for me: I saw it with my two young sons, one of whom was just in remission after being treated for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and we all thought it was terrific. I've always wanted to thank Ardal personally for staging it.
Fast forward to 2015 and now we have Ardal, also a playwright and actress, using her own experience with uterine cancer as a springboard for an ambitious play about women dealing with the disease. And just like me all those years ago, I suspect there will be audience members who'll want to express their gratitude to her for writing such a wise, funny and thoughtful piece about such a difficult subject.
In HER2, receiving its premiere from Nightwood Theatre at Buddies in Bad Times, Ardal gives us cancer as a great leveller. It doesn't matter if you're a professor of anthropology or a cashier at Walmart, you can still end up plugged into that inevitable intravenous drip full of brutal chemicals, trying to battle the rebellious cells laying siege to your body.
The prof and the cashier (played, respectively – and beautifully – by Chick Reid and Maria Vacratsis) are just two of seven disparate women thrown together as group participants in a clinical drug trial. The others are a widowed dairy farmer (Kyra Harper), a Korean herbalist (Brenda Kamino), an actress (Monica Dottor), a housewife (Diane D'Aquila) and a teenage waitress (Olunike Adeliyi).
All seven have been diagnosed as having HER2-positive, an especially aggressive form of breast cancer, and have signed on for a new drug being tested by Dr. Danielle Pearce (Nancy Palk). They take the drug together daily, in what the prof, Naomi, refers to drily as a "chemo klatch." Not unpredictably, despite their differences they begin to open up to one another and bond – partly thanks to a literally "touchy feely" ritual. The farmer, Frances, has the only visible tumour, on her neck, so each day the others line up to palpate it and see if it has changed in size.
Pearce stays aloof from the group, coldly referring to the women by their conditions (Daphne, the housewife, is "Metastasized Bone"). But her young assistant, Kate (a charmingly brash Bahareh Yaraghi), witnesses the bonding and, much to the doctor's annoyance, begins to theorize on the healing powers of community.
Structurally, HER2 holds few surprises. The two questions driving the plot are whether the drug will work and whether one or more of the women will be dropped from the trial because their bodies aren't responding to the treatment. The latter dread, to be "discontinued," hangs over their collective heads, since it cuts the one thin thread of hope that they still cling to.
The play's strength is in its details. Ardal's women are vibrant creations that defy easy categorization and they're played here with piquancy by a seasoned ensemble under Kim Blackwell's assured direction. Vacratsis's gleefully crass Gloria, all bonhomie and bad puns, keeps everyone's spirits up even as she privately wrestles with her oldest daughter's unwanted pregnancy. Dottor's actress Charlene, seemingly shallow and vain (she's the only woman wearing a wig to hide her hair loss), turns out to be a touchingly devoted mother. Harper's sturdy, religious Frances in fact harbours a death wish. And as the chipper but somewhat clueless Daphne, brightly clipping coupons, D'Aquila proves tragic in her simplicity.
It's Reid who almost steals the show as Naomi, Gloria's intellectual foil. She's a brittle Brit with a craving for booze and cigarettes who seems like she might take more comfort reading Christopher Hitchens's Mortality than engaging in group therapy. Then there's Palk, who is steelier than usual as the imperious doctor – at least until we witness her anxieties over her partly noble, partly self-serving effort to prove her drug's effectiveness.
Blackwell, making her Nightwood debut, pulls out all the stops. Her staging is embellished with interludes of movement, choreographed by Dottor, that include a dance with IV poles. Julia Tribe has designed a two-tiered hospital set in which microscopes are positioned on the upper level like sentinels. Denyse Karn projects magnified cells onto an upstage screen and MRI images over the bodies of the women during their examinations. The coup de théâtre is a phantasmagoric chemotherapy scene, lit by Kimberly Purtell, in which the drug coursing through the IV tube becomes a luminescent green serpent.
With HER2, Ardal hasn't written a feel-good play – that would be too naive. Call it instead a "feel-better play." It's a story about coping, in which she firmly inverts Jean-Paul Sartre's classic line: Hell isn't other people, she shows us; it's other people who help us to endure hell.
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The brewery and restaurant chain – which got its start in the German Sausage Co. building in Arcadia in 2011 and now has four locations in Scottsdale, Phoenix and Gilbert – also features a distiller in the Scottsdale Airpark that has been creating craft liquors since late-2015.
O.H.S.O now produces a dozen offerings, ranging from horseradish vodka to a peach-flavored whiskey.
The local brand showed off everything its distillers had to offer during Local First Arizona's recent Devour Week when it set up booths at the Devour Bartending Competition in Phoenix and the two-day Culinary Classic at Desert Botanical Garden.
The booths featured just about everything O.H.S.O., the distillery, has to offer, including its selection of citrus vodkas, jalapeno vodka, coffee vodka and its newest release, a one-year-aged bourbon.
Creating that catalog has been over three years in the making, said distiller Jeff Smith.
In 2013, O.H.S.O. owner Jon Lane "wanted to go the distilling route, because you can only open up so many restaurants and breweries under one company," Smith said.
Creating its own liquor also made sense from a business standpoint for O.H.S.O, because it could serve its own product in the restaurants, Smith said.
As it turns out, starting a distilling program from scratch is not the easiest thing in the world and there were some bumps in the road "to say the least," Arias said.
Those issues included making sure the distillery and retail restaurant space were located in the proper areas to meet zoning requirements and ensuring that all proper paper work was filed with the federal government.
Before it made a drop of alcohol, O.H.S.O. actually had its federal permit suspended for failing to tell the government that it was not producing any liquor.
"We were supposed to be filling out a form saying we aren't producing anything, but we are open and physically operating," Arias said.
Like some other small craft distillers, O.H.S.O. is not "grain to glass," meaning they do not distill their own base spirits directly from the source plant material.
Rather, the company sources its base spirit from a supplier and then goes to work in its small distillery in the back of the O.H.S.O. location near Hayden Road and Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard.
"We don't make the base spirit because it is very expensive and space restrictive," Arias said.
The company's output has increased steadily every year, Arias<|fim_middle|> on the part of the distillers.
In fact, Arias, who has a master's degree in chemical engineering from Arizona State University and a business card that reads "Disappointed Scientist", relied on his educational background to perfect the flavor in O.H.S.O.'s Arcadia Grapefruit Vodka.
At the beginning of the process, the flavor was "coming up flat" and the team did not want to use grapefruit extracts to add additional flavor, Smith said.
Arias said the method made sense because much of the flavor of a grapefruit actually comes from the flesh, not the peel.
"Once he figured out the exact ratios for those acids and sugars, we put it in the bottle and, bam, it came alive," Smith said.
"Once he figured that out, it opened up the door for all of the other citrus flavors," he added.
They are also experimenting with whiskey flavored in different types of barrels, including stout beer barrels and vanilla barrels. | said, and O.H.S.O. now produces about 1,000 bottles a week.
Arias said the company produced approximately 6,500 proof gallons last year.
"We're not going to do cotton candy or anything like that," Arias said, while pouring samples at the Devour Phoenix Bartending Competition.
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The connectivity service provides access to the network with a symmetric and guaranteed bidirectional capacity to the system of research networks and the Internet. The project will offer two profiles of access to the network: basic and advanced.
The basic profile, designed for schools and other entities with limited bandwidth needs, such as branch offices of research institutions, libraries and university spin-offs, provides for the creation of a fiber optic link in a single way between the site user and an aggregation sitestrong>, in turn connected to the GARP PoP. This mode will offer capacities from 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps.
The advanced profilestrong> is designed for large users of the research and education community, such as research centers and universities, characterized by high network requirements and provides for the creation of a direct fiber-optic link between the user's site and the PoP GARRstrong>. Depending on the needs of the connected site, the connections can be made in protected mode, ie by laying a pair of fibers on different routes. The capacity of the access circuits available for this type may vary, depending on the needs, from a minimum of 100Mbps up to multiples of 10Gbpsstrong>, with the possibility of easily upgrading in case of increased bandwidth requirements.
For all users of the network, the GARR NOC (Network Operations Center) service is available, which is responsible for the management and operation of the network infrastructure, handles fault management, activating new connections, collecting and publishing statistical traffic data.
L3-VPN: Level 3 virtual private networks built using IP / MPLS technology.
eduroam (Education Roaming) is a service that provides secure access to the wireless network. Users visiting roaming at an institute that joins the initiative are able to use the local wireless network (WLAN) using the same credentials (username and password) that they would use in their own institution,<|fim_middle|>ARR allows technical contacts to perform vulnerability tests on the machines of the GARR network and obtain a detailed report on the problems encountered and possible solutions.
GARR LIR (Local Internet Registry), which manages the assignment of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses to institutions in the scientific and academic community.
GARR NIC (Network Information Center), which manages the assignment of new names under the .it and .eu domains for all users of the GARR network.
GARR Mirror, about 240 TB dedicated to the distribution of the most used public software available on the net.
Through GARR-X Progress, users can use infrastructures and software in a simple, flexible and on-demand manner according to the Cloud paradigm. Access to cloud services, typically in SaaS mode, will mainly be delivered through IDEM federated identities. Some of these services, such as FileSender, are included in the access to the GARR network, while others will be charged, according to pricing models that adapt to the needs of users.
Personal Data Storage - GARRbox, intended for individual teachers and receptors, who can securely store and share files with their colleagues.
Filesender, a web application that allows users to easily and securely send large files to any recipient, obviating the limits usually imposed on e-mail.
Smart: includes only the IdP, provided in PaaS mode in the GARR cloud.
This service, obtained by combining the Virtual Server and Big Data Storage services, allows to replicate the data and applications of institutions or individual usersstrong> (such as DNS, institutional WEB, user database, Mail Server, data backup, etc.) on the Cloud platform , ensuring high redundancystrong> thanks to a configuration without single points of failure and an overabundant sizing. | without the need for further formalities at the the host institution.
IDEM (IDEntity Management for federated access) aims to provide simple and secure access to online services and content between different organizations. Thanks to the federated system, users of the institutions that subscribe can access the various resources with the same credentials through a single standard authentication procedure (single sign on), without renouncing the confidentiality of personal information and the security of resources, which only the authorized persons can access. The IDEM Federation participates in eduGAIN, the interfaederation promoted by the GÉANT project, which allows to extend the benefits of single sign on federated at European and global level.
GARR Certification Service, which issues digital certificates to people (to sign and encrypt documents) and servers (to protect links and certify the veracity of a site).
GARR Vconf, multi-conference service to put audio-video communication up to 80 locations using the most common hardware and software clients, today also in the HD version.
NRENum, which offers a public numbering space accessible via IP to institutions of the GARR community using VoIP.
CERT has the task of assisting GARR users in managing IT security incidents and carrying out preventive measures necessary to reduce their risk.
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The Privacy Rule is designed to minimize conflicts between Federal requirements and those of State law in the following ways:
- The Privacy Rule establishes a floor of Federal privacy protections and individual rights with respect to individually identifiable health information held by covered entities and their business associates. Covered entities may provide greater privacy rights to individuals and greater protections on such information. In addition, covered entities may comply with State laws that provide greater protections for individually identifiable health information and greater privacy rights for individuals.
- The Privacy Rule permits a covered entity to use or disclose protected health information if a State law requires the use or disclosure. See 45 C.F.R. 164.512(a).
- The Privacy Rule permits a covered entity to disclose protected health information to a public health authority who is authorized by law to collect such information for the purposes of preventing or controlling disease, injury, or disability, including, but not limited to, the reporting of disease, injury, vital events such as birth or death, and the conduct of public health surveillance, public health investigations, and public health interventions. (See 45 C.F.R. 164.512(b) for all of the public health disclosures permitted by the Privacy Rule.) Thus, State laws that provide for the reporting of disease or injury, child abuse, birth or death, or for the conduct of public health surveillance, investigation, or intervention, likely will not conflict with the Privacy Rule. In the unusual case where there is a conflict, the State law would stand. See 45 C.F.R. 160.203(c). Because the Administrative Simplification Rules themselves exempt such State laws from preemption, a request for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to issue a preemption exception determination is unnecessary and inappropriate.
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U.S. Department of Health & Human Services · 200 Independence Avenue, S.W. · Washington, D.C. 20201 | oversight agency for oversight activities authorized by law, such as audits and licensure activities. See 45 C.F.R. 164.512(d). Thus, State laws that provide for certain health plan reporting for the purpose of management or financial audits, program monitoring and evaluation, or the licensure or certification of facilities or individuals, likely will not conflict with the Privacy Rule. In the unusual case where there is a conflict, the State law would stand. See 45 C.F.R. 160.203(d). Because the Administrative Simplification Rules themselves exempt such State laws from preemption, a request for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to issue a preemption exception determination is unnecessary and inappropriate.
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A teaser trailer has been released for Barry, a new original series coming soon to HBO.
The series stars Bill Hader (Saturday Night Live, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs) as an assassin who discovers an interest in the art of acting while on a job in Los Angeles.
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Warner Bros.' Joker, from director Todd Phillips, promises to be a deep character study of one of the greatest Batman villains. Starring Joaquin Phoenix as the titular Clown Prince of Crime, the standalone film will be something that is separate from whatever is going on in the DC Extended Universe, and that strategy may prove to be of benefit as it will allow the studio to release darker and more mature material that do not follow the conventional rules of a comic book movie.
Now we are getting another look at the film in the form of the final trailer. Check it out along with a poster below.
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First Trailer For 'Joker' Movie Starring Joaquin Phoenix Released
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Warner Bros. has released a teaser trailer for Joker, the upcoming movie about the infamous Batman villain starring Joaquin Phoenix in the title role.
The teaser trailer for the movie was first shared during a presentation at CinemaCon yesterday, before being released to the masses this morning. In addition to the trailer, a new poster for the movie has also been released. You can find both the trailer and the poster below.
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New Trailer For HBO's Hitman Comedy 'Barry' Starring Bill Hader Released
By The Movie God | @ | February 22nd, 2018 at 9:21 pm
HBO has released a new official trailer for their upcoming hitman comedy Barry, which stars Bill Hader (Saturday Night Live, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs) in the title role. Hader, along with Alec Berg, also created, wrote, and executive produced the show.
In the series Hader is a former Marine now working as an assassin, who ends up discovering a passion for acting. Also starring is Stephen Root, Henry Winkler, Sarah Goldberg, Glenn Fleshler, and Anthony Carrigan.
You can read more about the show and check out the official trailer below.
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Health IT roadmap sets aggressive goal for data interoperability
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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology's long-awaited nationwide interoperability roadmap, released Friday, lays out ONC's vision to deliver nationwide health data sharing.
The 166-page "Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap" aims for "a majority of individuals and providers across the care continuum to send, receive, find and use a common set of electronic clinical information at the nationwide level by the end of 2017," the report states.
To get there, the roadmap introduces guiding principles the public and private sectors must observe for interoperability and accompanies an interoperability standards advisory, which will annually identify the best available industry standards to allow data to interact.
Dr. Karen DeSalvo, ONC's national coordinator, pointed to three broad areas of importance in the report: standardizing, motivating people to use the standards, and creating an environment of<|fim_middle|>ating APIs nationwide governance — as possible in this first public draft.
In the near term, Galvez said, "the goal we have set for the next three years is focused very specifically on making sure that the majority of care providers across the broad care continuum and individuals … reach a place where they electronically send, receive, find and use a specific set of critical health information."
Of course, the roadmap is a living document, and ONC is accepting public comments until April 3.
"We believe that by going forward together and holding each other accountable that we're really going to get to a place where we have the information necessary to see that we have better care, that we can have smarter spending and healthier people in the country," DeSalvo said.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Departments, Health data, Health IT, Karen DeSalvo, ONC, Tech | comfort through privacy and security.
"The time has come for us to be more explicit about standards," DeSalvo said in a call with reporters. That's where the accompanying standards advisory comes in to play, familiarizing important players in the health IT interoperability world with the best in practice standards to use and working toward semantic interoperability. It will also help federal agencies while developing and procuring new health IT systems.
But you have to motivate those people to actually use the standards, DeSalvo said.
"We have worked out what we consider to be a strong set of incentives and motivators that we can bring to the table as the federal government," she said. Those incentives, DeSalvo said, will run "in addition to programs like certification and meaningful use, also the payment programs through [the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services] and grant programs in partnership with [the Department of Veterans Affairs] and the [Defense Department]."
On the consumer side, ONC wants to build a foundation of trust, which means privacy and security are paramount to this roadmap.
"Collecting data and seeing that people are motivated to use it is all great, but we want to make sure that it's being done in a fashion that gives trust and comfort to the American people and to the provider and others," DeSalvo said.
Those are just the broad-level goals. But hoping to make the national health IT system interoperable at the lowest level, DeSalvo said the document delves into "a fair amount of specificity."
Erica Galvez, the interoperability and exchange portfolio manager, spoke similarly of interoperability, saying "the devil is in the details," which is why the roadmap goes to such great lengths to account for as many aspects of interoperability — from harmonizing information-sharing and cur | 361 |
Q: javascript onclick radio clear textbox I would like to clear a text<|fim_middle|> not adjacent to the radio button.
A: As Gerald said place your onclick="" in the <input type="radio" ... >, not in the <span>.
A: The problem is that it's the sibling input element that needs its value clearing, not the span, even though you only want it to clear when people click on the span element. So the example code below does this. You're also best off decoupling your javascript from your HTML by using event listeners (and not using the old-fashioned onclick attribute).
var clearSpanEl = document.getElementById("clear");
clearSpanEl.addEventListener("click", function(e) {
var inputEl = e.target.previousElementSibling;
inputEl.value = "";
}, false);
<input type="text" name="search" id="search" value="I can be cleared" />
<span id="clear">Clear results</span>
I've forked your JSFiddle here, so you can see it working.
| box when a radio button above the text box is selected.
I have tried this:
function clearThis(target){
target = document.getElementById(target);
target.value = "";
}
<input type="radio" name="not_req" id="clear_req" value=""
title="Click here to clear the No Auth need flag"><span id="clear" onclick = 'clearThis("claims")' >Clear
The box I would like to clear is
<input type="text" size="5" name="auth_for" id="claims" value="{$prior_auth->get_auth_for()}" title="Set the number of times no auth can be used">
Took most of this from http://jsfiddle.net/BMrUb/ but I can see that the example is clearing the adjacent text box. I would like to clear a text box | 176 |
Francesca Giardini: how do reputation and gossip bring about and sustain cooperative relationships?
How<|fim_middle|> norms in the group. People are concerned about their reputations and evidence from the lab and the field shows that when actions are visible, more prosocial choices are made. When reputations are at stake, individuals change their behaviour in domains as environmentally friendly choices, social mobilization, and donations to charities.
However, the overall efficacy of reputations in fostering prosocial behaviour is still a matter of debate. A recent example of this is the Weinstein case. In 2017, the New York Times published a story detailing more than 20 years of allegations of sexual harassment against him. It quickly emerged that he had a long-established reputation for such behaviour in the movie industry. Although this was known to many, it took a long time before his global reputation suffered for it. How did Weinstein manage his reputation in such a way that he could get away with his misdeeds without being punished?
How are reputations created and transformed through gossip, and how do people manage their own reputations?
In my research I am interested in understanding the dynamics of reputation spreading. I combine cognitive and sociological theories with the aim of understanding when individuals care about their reputations, how this can be used to motivate cooperative behaviours, and in which way gossip contributes to reputation building and destruction. Regarding the latter point, our research showed that individuals prefer to use the formulation "someone told me" when reporting false information instead of saying that they personally acquired that information. This shows sophisticated reputation management skills. In another experiment, we showed that negative reputations, even very minimal ones, expressed with a simple ranking system, affect individuals' choices. I also use computational methods to study the dynamics of gossip, in order to understand how the network structure, the consequences of gossip on individuals' payoffs, and the presence of retaliation might explain the delay with which the behaviour of Weinstein was reported.
F. (Francesca) Giardini, PhD
Francesca uses theoretical analysis, agent-based modeling and lab experiments to investigate the mechanisms of social sustainability. She is interested in gossip and reputation based governance and she is also working on risk communication and disaster resilience.
She is the co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation (2019), and she has published in different disciplinary and inter-disciplinary journals, including Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, JASSS, PLOS One, and Scientific Reports.
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Everybody has a reputation. Individuals, groups, communities, companies and also countries have reputations. Some of these shared evaluations are based on casual conversations about other people's actions, like gossip, whereas other evaluation, like in online systems, are based on the aggregation of some measurable variables. From small villages all over the world, to online marketplaces and service providers, individuals rely on knowledge about others' behaviour as a reliable and useful indication of their ability and willingness to help. The most common way to transmit information about others is gossip, which is defined as an evaluative talk about an absent third party. Notwithstanding its negative reputation, gossip has been linked to several positive functions, from social comparison to bonding, and to the enforcement of social | 159 |
The beautiful Salamander Resort and Spa tucked away in the rolling hills of picturesque Middleburg served as the backdrop for the 2016 Virginia Wine Summit.
The day long conference on April 5 brought together some of the country's leading wine experts, writers and critics with some of the best winemakers in the Commonwealth to celebrate the Virginia wine industry.
The morning kicked off with a Grand Tasting, featuring the Art of Whites. Five Virginia whites went head to head with its global counterparts in a blind tasting. The panel discussion was lead by Master of Wine Jay Youmans, who also serves at the helm of the Virginia Governor's Cup.
We tasted through Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Vermentino, Petit Manseng and Viognier. Virginia did extremely well in all the blinds, but the big take away for me was the Barb<|fim_middle|> memorable wines of the day for me was the 2010 Nebbiolo from Breaux Vineyards. Nebbiolo hails from Piedmont, Italy and produces the powerhouse wines of Barolo and Barbaresco. Breaux has been working with this grape for more than 15 years.
The nose had the immediate telltale signs of Nebbiolo with it's soft dried rose petals and rugged hints of tar. These aromas danced in my glass and mingled with notes of dried cherry, rhubarb, sweet spice, oolong tea, a touch of anise and orange zest. The velvety tannins and piercing, yet balanced acidity, had me longing for a big bowl of pasta carbonara or hearty bolognese, a hunk of bread and a bottle of this beautiful red. Can you say delicious! The 2010 vintage will be released to the public later this year.
Author of The New California Wine, Jon Bonné,served as the keynote speaker and talked about the incredible progress that Virginia has made over the past decade. He said Virginia is nearing an inflection point and that an important decision needs to be made on what Virginia wants its wine identity to be. He encouraged everyone in the room to stop comparing Virginia to Napa or Oregon or France and to celebrate Virginia for all it has to offer.
Diversity was a common thread throughout many of the panel discussions. It really is the diversity of not only varietals, but the diversity in microclimates and terroir that really make Virginia a special place to grow wine.
From learning about the different terroir and soil types of Northern and Central from six winemakers to a panel discussion on Uncommon varietals grown in the Commonwealth, the 4th Annual Wine Summit was a day packed with interesting dialogue and discussion about the depth of its wine portfolio. From light, crisp Albarino and Vermentino to Petit Manseng for the whites and the Bordelais varietals for the reds, Virginia is coming in to its own as a world class wine destination. Not to mention the beautiful landscapes surrounding our vines from the Chesapeake Bay to the Blue Ridge Mountains, it's easy to see why Virginia is for Wine Lovers.
There's no doubt Thomas Jefferson would be incredibly proud of the success of the industry he so passionately pioneered more than 200 years ago. | oursville Vermentino and the King Family Viognier. The Michael Shaps Petit Manseng never disappoints, nor does the Veritas Sauvignon Blanc, but the elegant, bright and mineral driven Vermentino from Barboursville was a real showstopper. It was tasted up against the La Spinetta Vermentino from Tuscany and was the crowd favorite for that match-up.
The Viognier fooled many in the room including myself and several of the panelists. Many of us thought the Virginia Viognier was from Condrieu, a world renowned area that produces Viognier in the Rhone Valley of France. Viognier was coined the signature grape of Virginia a few years back, but it's been challenging for many winemakers to produce a consistent style and many have removed their vines and planted more reliable grapes. Viognier can also pose a challenge due to its lack of acidity in comparison with many other whites, making it a bit more challenging to pair with food.
However, when the perfect growing season culminates with the perfect terroir and a kiss of TLC in the cellar, Viognier can be an exquisite wine, as King Family and a handful of other Virginia producers like Jefferson, Chrysalis, Michael Shaps, Horton and Barboursville have demonstrated time and time again. Fox Meadow also deserves a mention for producing a Chardonnay that many mistook for a Sonoma Chardonnay. While Virginia is finally succeeding in establishing its own identity for the special place that it is, it's certainly a great compliment to have your wine compared to some of the best wine regions in the world.
While the focus for many American winemakers has been on French varietals over the years, it's really exciting to see what Virginia is doing with Italian grapes. While Luca Paschina, winemaker at Barboursville, has led this charge, a few other properties are taking notice and producing some exceptional wine with Italian flare. One of the most | 411 |
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Jamuna Group Chairman Mr. Nurul Islam, a prominent industrialist has said that, the current government has taken the initiative to invest in one hundred economic zones that is very commendable. He also added that the need for gas connections is very necessary for industrialization. Honorable Chairman mentioned this during his visit on Friday,18th March, 2016 to the construction site of<|fim_middle|> the region of Habiganj to transform itself like Malaysia and Singapore in future and it will create employment opportunities for both local and foreigner.
Group Managing Director of Jamuna Mr. Shamim Islam, Director (Accounts and Finance) Mr. SM Abdul Wadud, Jamuna tires and rubber Industries Limited Director (Technical and Manufacturing) Mr. Salih Bin Abubakar, Jamuna Group Director (Technical) Ms. Liu Suqun, Technical Director of Shamim Spinning Mills Limited Dr. Rajkumar B. Tech, Senior GM AKM Kamal, GM (Admin) Mohammad Hossain, GM (Engineering) Md. Abul Hossain, AGM (engineering) Md. Saifur Rahman, Manager (Construction) freedom fighter Haji Badar Uddin, local UP member Haji Arzu Mia and Benu Mia was presented among others.
Marriott International Introduces JW Marriott Brand to Bangladesh with the Signing of JW Dhaka
Luxury Hospitality Brand to Open 700-Room Property, Largest in Bangladesh.
Marriott International today signed an agreement with Jamuna Builders Limited to operate the 700-room JW Marriott Hotel Dhaka. Jamuna Builders Limited is a real estate sister concern of the Jamuna Group – Bangladesh's largest diversified conglomerate. JW Marriott Hotels & Resorts is Marriott International's luxury brand that consists of 59 exceptional properties in gateway cities and distinctive resort locations around the world. JW Marriott Hotel Dhaka will be part of a mixed-use development that will also include retail and office components, and construction of the hotel is already under way.
Speaking at the signing in Dhaka Simon Cooper, Marriott International's president and managing director Asia Pacific, said: "We are delighted to be working with Jamuna Builders Limited to open this wonderful JW Marriott hotel in Dhaka. Bangladesh has a thriving economy and the country's GDP has been growing at approximately 6 percent a year for the past five years. We absolutely believe that now is the right time to bring our luxury JW Marriott brand to Bangladesh and in Jamuna Builders Limited we have an owner with a great vision and drive to make this a truly stunning hotel in a great location."
The JW Marriott Dhaka will be located in an emerging location in the middle of the city and will feature three restaurants, two bars, a spa with eight treatment rooms, and 2,280 square meters of meeting space. The hotel is expected to be a prime destination for luxury dining and will become the social centre in Dhaka, offering unforgettable travel experiences with the intuitive service, thoughtful amenities and refined design that have become synonymous with the JW Marriott brand worldwide.
Mr. Md. Nurul Islam, Jamuna Group's Chairman, said: "Considering the huge growth of international business transactions in Bangladesh, especially in Dhaka Mega City and the present economic growth, the number of existing international hotels is not enough to meet the demand.
"The existing service facilities and amenities in hotel and tourism industry cannot completely meet the total demand of business travellers and tourists. We feel that to meet the growing demand of this service industry, we should contribute and we have started developing the largest five-star hotel in Bangladesh – the JW Marriott hotel, in conjunction with Marriott International."
Mr. Md. Nurul Islam expressed his thanks to Mr. Simon Cooper, the president and managing director of Marriott International, Asia Pacific to approve his project as the JW Marriott Dhaka. He continued: "With its proposed 700 rooms, this hotel will be one of the largest JW Marriott hotels in Asia and will be a landmark of architectural beauty. The site is very close to the international airport and other important areas and institutions in Dhaka."
A large number of international retail, garment, energy and telecommunications companies, including WalMart, JC Penney, Marks & Spencer, Halliburton, CK, BP, Shell, Exxon Mobil, Motorola, Ericsson and Siemens have offices in Dhaka and are contributing to Bangladesh's fast growing and diverse economy.
Dhaka is well connected to India, the Middle East and South East Asia and more than 30 international airlines fly into Dhaka which has seen passenger traffic grow from approximately 3.2 million in 2005 to 6 million passengers in 2012.
Simon Cooper continued: "With the existing hotel market currently underserved in Dhaka and with the future growth in the infrastructure sector, the demand for quality hotel accommodation in the city is growing strongly. This will be Marriott International's second hotel in the city as we already have a Courtyard hotel under construction which we expect will open next year."
About JW Marriott
JW Marriott is part of Marriott International's luxury portfolio and consists of beautiful properties in gateway cities and distinctive resort locations around the world. These elegant hotels cater to today's sophisticated, self-assured travelers, offering them the quiet luxury they seek in a warmly authentic, relaxed atmosphere lacking in pretense. JW Marriott properties artfully provide highly crafted, anticipatory experiences that are reflective of their locale so that their guests have the time to focus on what is most important to them. Currently, there are 59 JW Marriott hotels in 23 countries; by 2015 the portfolio is expected to encompass 79 properties in 28 countries.www.marriott.com/jw-marriott/travel.mi
About Marriott International
Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE: MAR) is a leading lodging company based in Bethesda, Maryland, USA with more than 3,700 properties in 74 countries and territories and reported revenues of over $12 billion in fiscal year 2011. The company operates and franchises hotels and licenses vacation ownership resorts under 18 brands, including Marriott Hotels & Resorts, The Ritz-Carlton, JW Marriott, Bulgari, EDITION, Renaissance, Gaylord Hotels, Autograph Collection, AC Hotels by Marriott, Courtyard, Fairfield Inn & Suites, SpringHill Suites, Residence Inn, TownePlace Suites, Marriott Executive Apartments, Marriott Vacation Club, Grand Residences by Marriott, and The Ritz-Carlton Destination Club. There are approximately 300,000 employees at headquarters, managed and franchised properties. Marriott is consistently recognized as a top employer and for its superior business operations, which it conducts based on five core values: put people first, pursue excellence, embrace change, act with integrity, and serve our world. For more information or reservations, please visit our website atwww.marriott.com, and for the latest company news, visitwww.marriottnewscenter.com.
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Jamuna Group Chairman emphasized on the fact that with the introduction of industrial gas connections in the industry it will help | 48 |
Kendal Limestone Way
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<|fim_middle|> and Cumbria. The final section visits the limestone area of to the east of Morecambe Bay, the lower Kent Valley and the south-east tip of the Lake District National Park.
The main theme of the walk is limestone. Millions of years ago major earthquakes shook the northern Pennines creating massive geological faults and fractures along the southern fringe of the Yorkshire Dales National Park and the south-eastern corner of Cumbria. To the south of the main fault lines is a large area of millstone grit moorland characterised by the rounded hills of the Bowland Forest in the west and the 'Bronte' moors in the east. North of the fault line lie the porous limestone uplands of the Yorkshire Dales National Park where the hills are higher, steeper and more rugged with towering cliffs of gleaming white limestone. A limestone landscape is also present in the far south-east corner of Cumbria where precipitous limestone ridges form a barrier between the Lakeland hills and Morecambe Bay
The route taken by the Kendal Limestone Way explores this remarkable limestone landscape of northern England.
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The Kendal Limestone Way is the name given by the author to a 63 mile (101km) long linear walk starting from the market town of Skipton in North Yorkshire and ending in the south Lake District town of Kendal. The walk can broadly be divided into three sections. The greater part of the walk is through the limestone country of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The second, and shortest section, crosses the lower Lune Valley between Lancashire | 200 |
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On November 13th, the PetalMD team unveiled the amount we raised during our campaign with the philanthropic organization Centraide. The generosity of PetalMD employees has allowed us to amass $7,283, an amount that will be invested in our St- Roch neighborhood, where PetalMD's head office is located.
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Thinner top edges combine with an undercut that should successfully attract golfers of all standards. An impressive consistency of strike will help those searching to improve their game from fairway to green. Close in to the green the soft yet solid feel helps to move the ball through the air and judge distances.
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You can always rely on Mizuno to produce an attractive set of irons and these Satin-finished clubs are no let-down. They look fairly easy to hit but not bulky and hard to manipulate. The heads are Grain Flow Forged from 1035 mild carbon steel for<|fim_middle|> If you take a look at the Golf Monthly YouTube channel, you'll see his equipment videos dating back over a decade! He has also conducted 'What's In The Bag' interviews with many of the game's best players like Rory McIlroy, Dustin Johnson and Jon Rahm. Over the years, Neil has tested a vast array of products in each category and at drastically different price-points.
Neil is currently playing: Driver: TaylorMade Stealth Plus Fairway Wood: Titleist TSR2 Hybrid: Titleist TS3 Irons (4-9): Mizuno JPX 919 Forged Wedges: Titleist Vokey SM7 46˚, 50˚, 54˚, 60˚ Putter: Odyssey Triple Track Ten Ball: Titleist Pro V1X
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In his current role, Neil is responsible for testing drivers and golf balls. Having been a part of the Golf Monthly team for over 15 years and playing off a handicap of 3, he has the experience to compare performance between models, brands and generations. For 2022 he thinks the main trend in drivers is: "In a word, consistency. Whilst all the brands are talking about ball speed (and the new drivers are certainly long), my biggest finding has been how much more consistent the ball flights are. Mishits don't seem to be causing the same level of drop-off or increase in the spin numbers. This means that more shots seem to be flying the way you want them to!" As far as golf balls are concerned the biggest development is in the, "three piece, non-Tour, urethane-covered section. For regular golfers, these models offer superb performance at both ends of the bag without denting your wallet quite as much as the premium Tour-played options."
Originally working with the best coaches in the UK to produce instruction content, he is now the brand's Digital Editor and covers everything from Tour player interviews to gear reviews. In his time at Golf Monthly, he has covered equipment launches that date back well over a decade. He clearly remembers the launch of the Callaway and Nike square drivers as well as the white TaylorMade driver families, such as the RocketBallz! | 308 |
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Come one, come all to IGP's tenth annual festival, held on February 22 and 23 at, as always, the Loeb Experimental Theater. Because space is limited in the theater, the shows will be ticketed. Get your FREE tickets at the Loeb Box Office, email us at igp.show@gmail.com to reserve, or show up at the door! But fear not – the show is still very much FREE, except for the price of the paper the tickets are printed on. Well, you won't be<|fim_middle|> late this week.
Are you sure you don't mean the ART box office, as that's where tickets for Ex shows are traditionally found? | paying for that, so it's still free. I would figure that out, but I'm afraid the IGP accounting department recently fell into a fiscal black hole.
Why come? To laugh, to love, to live again in the Enchanted Forest. Or maybe just to laugh. I like laughter; laughter is good.
This year, our theme is The Enchanted Forest, which will chiefly be seen in our upcoming FESTIVAL TRAILER, to be released | 96 |
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Changi East is a mega project and I am delighted to be part of the team contributing to numerous programmes such as the development of Terminal 5, a three-runway system, and supporting infrastructure. Here at the Programme Management Office, our team develops and tracks strategies for the various programmes, as well as works closely with internal and external stakeholders to value engineer and develop ways to keep the project on track.
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Planners hear what stakeholders want, and synthesise it into a vision for the airport. Then, the planner works to turn the vision into concrete plans. Planning Terminal 5 (T5) is a challenging task, with a myriad of stakeholders and challenges that are far into the future. It is precisely these challenges, and the opportunity to work with the best people both within and outside CAG that makes planning T5 an exciting job here at CAG.
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The infections of the respiratory tract are commonly found among adults and children. There are great natural remedies that can offer relief from the common symptoms related to throat and lung problems. Thyme and honey are powerful products of nature that are helpful for relieving the symptoms due problems with the respiratory tract. Let us mention why honey and thyme are beneficial for the lungs and for our overall health, before we share a recipe for a healthy and effective homemade cough syrup made from thyme and honey.
Thyme in Latin Thymus vulgaris, has been used since ancient time due to its healing characteristics and as well as other aims. It was used by the Ancient Egyptians like an agent for embalming, the Greeks used it in the temples as an incense, and the Romans were adding it to the alcoholic drinks as aroma.
The father of modern medicine, Hypocrates, also mentioned thyme as a natural remedy for respiratory problems and as an amazing culinary herb that people can grow in their gardens.
The herbalists that are renowned, Maude Grieve and Maria Treven, have recommended the thyme as a cure for pneumonia, asthma and whooping cough, apart from other serious diseases that it can also help cure according to them.
Thyme has great antispasmod<|fim_middle|> the throat.
Honey has anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic properties, so it is great for fighting against the infections and preventing the attacks of asthma induced by allergies.
Honey is energizing and refreshing our body when we feel fatigued or ill and during strenuous physical activities because of the content of glucose, which is quickly absorbed in the bloodstream.
Honey is abundant with important minerals like selenium, magnesium, manganese, and also in amino acids and antioxidants. It immensely boosts our immune system and protects us from the damaging effects of free radicals, which can cause numerous diseases. It is also anti-bacterial and antifungal, protecting us from bacterial and fungal infections.
Below is a recipe that is very simple for a homemade cough syrup of honey and thyme for treating infections of the respiratory tract.
Make a mixture of the dried thyme and the honey in the jar, stir well and leave it in a warm place for 2 weeks. In case it seems that the mixture is thick overly, you could put distilled water (50 milliliters) in the jar. You need to stir the elixir once every day. After 2 weeks, the homemade cough syrup should be strained with gauze or strainer for tea. Consume ½ tablespoon of the homemade cough syrup twice every day for reducing problems caused by respiratory infections. | ic properties. This means that it is helpful for relieving and preventing spasms that are involuntary in the organs, which is the reason for causing aches, coughs, and cramps. It is soothing the persistent symptoms of coughs and is stopping the violent coughs, and in meanwhile it calms the nervous system and promotes the good sleep.
The antibacterial, antiviral and antiseptic and antiviral properties of thyme is due to the compounds carvacrol, thymol, camphene, and caryophyllene. They effectively fight against bacteria and viruses.
The essential oil of thyme also can be applied to wounds and sores for preventing infections.
Moreover, thyme is an expectorant, which means that it promotes the secretion of phlegm and mucus from the respiratory tract and it clears the lungs and frees the airways naturally.
Thyme is helpful for fighting against the inflammation and it is known as an antihistamine. It relieves the symptoms of coughs and asthma which appear due to allergies.
It also boosts the immune system being an excellent source of vitamin C, A, iron, manganese and fiber.
Did you know that 60 000 bees have to travel approximately 55, 000 miles and collect pollen from 2 million flowers to produce enough nectar for only one pound of honey?
Honey is one of the greatest natural healing products, as well as the most delicious. As a product of the labor of bees it is known as a symbol of blessing and richness since long time ago.
The health benefits of honey are numerous, but we will mention the ones that are relevant for our topic.
Honey is forming a layer in the throat and the mouth which is protective and eases irritation.
Children often suffer from infections of the respiratory tract, particularly in its upper area. Usually the infection's symptoms get worse during night time, and that causes terrible problems of breathing and it does not allow children to get a good night sleep. Studies have revealed that honey is a great medication for cough because of the ability to calm the membranes that are mucous and to soothe the coughing.
As it is stated in one study from the Pediatrics journal from 2012, honey (two teaspoons) could cure a cough that is stubborn. When honey, in that amount, was given to small children (at the age of 1- 5), that had cough that was 30 minutes before sleep, coughing was reduced.
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3 Common Negative Emotions That Destroy Your Life (And How To Overcome Them)
Ayodeji Awosika
Self, Health And Wellness
We're all guilty of wallowing in these emotions.
You've heard a guru or two say, "If you just want it bad enough, you'll succeed."
For the most part, they're right.
If you aspire to do something most other people can't or won't do, it takes an inordinate level of desire — but that's just the tip of the iceberg. On top of wanting to succeed, you have to stop wanting other things.
Let me explain the love affair we have with negative emotions (and how you can use positive thinking to live your best life).
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If you think about it, self-pity feels good. On the surface, feeling sorry for yourself seems like a negative emotion, but it has tons of benefits. Self-pity gives you<|fim_middle|> career, etc — you put yourself in a position to climb an uphill battle toward having it yourself.
Yet we often choose envy. Why? Because we love it.
I want to reiterate the idea of our true love for negativity over and over again. When you look at these emotions as pleasurable, you'll realize why they're so hard to shake — they're not overt poison like cyanide, rather they're like alcohol, corn syrup, and drugs that are pleasurable yet harmful.
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Sloth and Unreliability
Who doesn't love being lazy?
Some of us would prefer to lay in our cozy bed all day instead of having to wake up, pour that coffee, and tackle the day. Left to our own devices, we'll often choose the easier route. Laziness doesn't just mean watching too much Netflix or skipping a few workouts at the gym — those are minor infractions.
True laziness occurs when you avoid making the major changes you want from life because they're too hard.
Not following your dreams is a form of laziness, and it's the one we love most because it weaves all the aforementioned emotions together.
With laziness, you get the ultimate excuse — it's too hard. Who can argue with that? When it comes to following a dream, relatively speaking, it's too hard. Not only do you get an excuse, but you can a logical and extremely justifiable one.
The best thing about laziness? You can easily rationalize it and twist it into words like contentment, self-love, and being 'down to earth.'
This way of thinking is a sleight of hand we love using because you can relate to it, it's comforting, and gives you a sense of piety at the same time — but is it true?
Only you know the real answer.
If you find yourself realizing how much you love to indulge in negativity, it's on you to find a way to change those thoughts.
So how do you break out of the cycle of negativity and employ positive thoughts?
The Life-Changing Magic of Self Awareness
First, realize what's going on. Maybe you've thought of these emotions as things you dislike or want to change, but examine whether or not that's true.
Consider the fact you actually love to complain, talk down toothers, and give less effort than you're capable of. It's uncomfortable to think that way, but you might find the truth if you do.
If you've decided you are, in fact, in love with these emotions, it's time to break up.
Becoming a better version of yourself is a never-ending cycle, so you'll never get this right 100 percent of the time, but every time you catch yourself feeling these negative emotions, try to pause and think about whether or not you're reveling in it.
If you do realize you're reveling in it, focus on how perverse that is.
Consider today your dose of medicine. I partially wrote this for myself because I need it as much as you do.
As much as I believe you're wildly talented, intelligent, and useful to this world, I also think you can sell yourself short.
The people around you love complaining and moaning. When your co-workers, friends, and family members engage in it, why don't you be the one who turns the conversation positive or acts as a good example for everyone else?
That's a great first step. One good step for one day can turn into a week, which can turn into a month, which can turn into a year, which can turn into a life.
That's how personal development works.
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Ayodeji Awosika is an author who wants to help you define your own version of success and give you the strategies, insights, and tools to achieve it. Follow him on Twitter and check out his website for more ways to improve your life.
This article was originally published at Medium. Reprinted with permission from the author. | the benefit of not having to feel a perhaps more devastating notion — the truth.
The truth tells you you're just not working hard enough. Self-pity tells you you're incapable of working hard or you have some insurmountable obstacles in your way.
Blaming other people or your circumstances can also give you this weird sense of superiority — if everyone and everything is out to get you or ruin your situation, you should be applauded for holding it together at all, right?
You're busting your ass for that check that's too short. You're taking care of your family even though the government is destroying the middle class. You're surviving in spite of everything around you.
Everybody loves a pity party. We find venting to one another cathartic. We find solace and unity in complaining.
Think about it. What if you and a group of friends were all complaining about your lives and one of them halted the conversation and said, "You know what guys? I think we're just being sorry for ourselves. Maybe we should stop complaining and come up with a plan to change our situations."
Either in the back of everyone's mind — or out loud — they'd say screw you, who are you to tell me how to live?
Maybe we're defensive to that dialogue not because we hate what's being said, but rather we truly love wallowing.
If only complaining and self-pity were our lovers, maybe we'd be okay. But we lust after other negative emotions too.
Jealousy, like self-pity, gives you the high ground again. If someone's success makes you feel bad, you must tear them down. You discard their results as nothing more than luck and it makes you feel good about yourself. You're unlucky, so you're off the hook again.
The problem with envy? You can't be like someone you despise.
If you hate wealthy people, you can't be wealthy yourself. If you hate any type of success — artistic, health, academic, | 404 |
Explore Sapporo, the dynamic capital of Japan's northernmost island of Hokk<|fim_middle|>ure Garden, among others, feature progressive public art, while the open-air Historic Village of Hokkaido museum showcases the region's old-world architecture. Aside from the ubiquitous namesake beer, you'll find a thriving scene of local craft breweries to quench your thirst in summer. In winter, the annual Snow Festival is the main attraction with its snow and ice installations, and a multitude of activities! The erstwhile host to the Winter Olympics, there is plenty of winter sports to be enjoyed at Sapporo. Nearby, Mount Moiwa with its spectacular nighttime views, calls out to your inner romantic.
Mitsui Garden Hotel Sapporo is a stylish hotel towering over the city's bustling streets on Hokkaido Island in Japan. Catch a good night's sleep in the spacious ensuite rooms that feature modern design elements.
Sapporo Grand Hotel is a Western-style getaway built in 1934, situated in the heart of the city. Spread across a three-building complex with its own shopping arcade, a dedicated tunnel connects you to the JR station nearby.
Hotel Nagasaki BW Premier Collection is a swanky property in downtown Nagasaki of southwestern Japan. | aido! A year-round destination, stunning natural landscapes and distinctive seasons welcome you in this city. Built on a rectangular grid system, Sapporo offers a selection of unique attractions in its urban gardens to keep you entertained. The expansive Moerenuma Park and the Sapporo Sculpt | 58 |
HomeMan City NewsMancini: Tevez and Dzeko stay
Mancini: Tevez and Dzeko stay
It would be fair to say that there has been plenty of speculation regarding the futures of Carlos Tevez and Edin Dzeko over recent months, with both players being linked with moves away from the Etihad Stadium. However, Roberto Mancini has now come out and stated that he wants neither player to leave the club, as City will have to keep their best players if they are to progress.
There have been rumours surrounding the future of Tevez for the best part of a year<|fim_middle|> the duo. Speaking to The Sun, the Italian said, "Both will stay at City. We are a great team and we try to keep our great players. It won't be easy but they will stay here. We still lack a couple of players to reach the level of Real Madrid and Barcelona. Also our mentality has to grow season by season."
However, there is no doubt that Mancini is under pressure to trim his squad, with the UEFA Financial Fair Play regulations set to arrive in the near future. While his comments indicate that he would prefer to keep the duo, he knows that the sale of even one of these players would free up some tremendous finances for other recruits.
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Balotelli valued at £200m | now, after the former Manchester United striker went on AWOL following a huge row with Mancini last season. Even though he did come back into the reckoning and played a huge part in City's success, reports have constantly linked the 28-year-old with a move away, with AC Milan supposedly keen suitors.
Dzeko on the other hand has constantly struggled to make an impact in the City first team, despite signing for a huge £27m back in 2011. While he has managed to score a total of 25 goals during his time at the Etihad Stadium, he has always struggled for a regular run in the first team.
Following on from the above, reporters have been keen to quiz Roberto Mancini about the future of | 158 |
The water under the bridge ran violent and deep. Its slightly undulating rush seemed capable of scouring out a channel for itself through solid granite while you looked. But had it flowed through Razumov's breast, it could not have washed away the accumulated bitterness the wrecking of his life had deposited there.
A wave of wrath choked his thoughts for a moment. It even made his<|fim_middle|> was too stupid to suppose that he should be wasting his time in waiting. It was unnecessary to look round and make sure.
Razumov pushed himself with his hand away from the balustrade and, retracing his steps along the bridge, walked straight to his lodgings, where, for a few days, he led a solitary and retired existence. He neglected Peter Ivanovitch, to whom he was accredited by the Stuttgart group; he never went near the refugee revolutionists, to whom he had been introduced on his arrival. He kept out of that world altogether. And he felt that such conduct, causing surprise and arousing suspicion, contained an element of danger for himself. | body leaning over the parapet quiver; then he resumed his silent thinking, like a secret dialogue with himself. And even in that privacy, his thought had some reservations of which he was vaguely conscious.
Razumov felt a faint chill run down his spine. It was not fear. He was certain that it was not fear—not fear for himself—but it was, all the same, a sort of apprehension as if for another, for some one he knew without being able to put a name on the personality. But the recollection that the officious Englishman had a train to meet tranquillized him for a time. It | 130 |
My roommate here illustrates just how impactful sports—no matter what sport it may be or the level of competition—proves to be for fans everywhere, transcending all of the crude statistics, historic performances and coaching tactics. The power of the game lies in the fact that it's always more than a game. And the way that the ball bounces in a national semifinal or an exhibition or a high school tryout doesn't hold the most significance in the long run. For my roommate, sophomore Jonathan Safir, whom I quoted in the introduction, Syracuse University is what unites him and his dad, but there are heartfelt stories like his everywhere—and that's the ultimate point of sports.
Basketball, soccer, or whatever else it may be always mean something more than the roll of the ball, that one defensive possession, his offensive execution down the stretch. In the end, these are just minor workings in the larger purpose of athletic competition—its ability to bring together fans stands out above the rest, and the memories of togetherness that something like the Orange can produce proves the very worth of sports.
I have always tried to quantify the love for sports—a player, a team, a style of play—and it's more difficult than one would expect. While watching the Syracuse Orange take on the Michigan Wolverines this past Saturday night, the whole time I was left asking myself some very basic questions. Why exactly do we care so much about these guys running up and down the floor? Why does someone like Michael Carter-Williams or Trey Burke—two of the best collegiate players in the country, by the way—matter so much to someone like my college roommate? Why exactly does he care so much about MCW and his shot selection and his turnover rate?
And then it dawned on me. The true impact of sports—going beyond the trivial percentages and records and averages—lies in the unquantifiable and immeasurable. Something like the Orange can matter so much because there's so much that statistical analyses cannot calculate and track; something like the bond between father and son can be strengthened and eventually blossom through a shared love for sports. All of the statistics in the world can't quite quantify the beauty of that strong relationship.
Bonds. Memories. Magical moments. Sports can provide all of this and then some, regardless of winning percentages, efficiency ratings and career averages. They bring us closer together, and that's no small thing. The ability of sports to transcend the game being played certainly doesn't escape me, either. In my roommate's case, the bright orange hue of Syracuse University has united father and son for years, and will continue to do so for many more. For me, the bond between father and son was solidified by the historic green and white worn by Boston Celtics present and past. The trials and tribulations of a Boston sports franchise over the past decade brought my dad and I ever closer and closer—we had in common the competitive juices of Kevin Garnett and that sweet stroke of Ray Allen's jumpshot for numerous years, and our bond tightened and tightened with each and every evening broadcast on CSNNE. As the Celtics navigated their way through the postseason and engineered a breathtaking championship performance in June 2008, my father and I watched on our comfortable living room couch, just like we had back in October through March.
But it wasn't the winning that brought us together—or the losing, or the incredible individual performances that we witnessed along the way. None of that stuff mattered. The only thing that endured—through thick and thin, through the exciting wins and demoralizing losses, through instant classics and injuries—was the bond that formed through those nightly NBA games. It's precisely because we were together for such extended periods of time—three or four hours at once—that something so ordinary could mean so very much. Again, the unquantifiable. All of the stats and breakdowns and pregame shows couldn't<|fim_middle|> I stare right at the impending misery of an all-too-likely first round defeat—as heart and hustle and Paul Pierce just don't quite put enough points on the board—I remember those winter nights with my dad, when there was nothing else to do but watch an NBA game and listen to Tommy Heinsohn ramble on. I recall the excitement and the togetherness and the wonderful memories, understanding that these are rather different times.
And that I miss the good old times, mightily. | quite capture the valuable time that my father and I spent together.
Now, as a sophomore at Vassar College whose primary residence is the rundown, but charming, Cushing House, I watch these Boston Celtics by myself. Alone. On my computer in a creaky first floor dorm room. I watch as the proud warriors that I've grown up with limp on into the postseason without the electrifying Rajon Rondo, but with all of the same heart and hustle and confidence that doesn't just go away all at once. I watch as they steer right into the clutches of the explosive New York Knicks, who don't rely as much on heart and hustle as shooting and shooting. As | 140 |
Turn right: From the intersection, this walk follows the timber walkway gently uphill, while keeping the 'Keep dogs on leads' sign and ocean (in the distance) on your left. This walk continues through the low coastal vegetation (passing two bench seats) for about 400m to come to a concrete footpath. This walk continues along the footpath for about 50m, to a three-way intersection, with a footpath (on the left<|fim_middle|> hardened path.
This whole walk, 1.2km is clearly signposted.
A list of walks that share part of the track with the The Ken and Audrey Owens Walkway walk.
A list of walks that start near the The Ken and Audrey Owens Walkway walk.
http://new.wildwalks.com/wildwalks_custom/includes/walk_fire_danger.php?walkid=nsw-lakemacquarielga-wtbvw Each park may have its own fire ban, this rating is only valid for today and is based on information from the RFS Please check the RFS Website for more information. | ) and a 'Dog Exercise Area' sign (on the right).
Continue straight: From the intersection, this walk follows the concrete footpath gently downhill, while keeping the ocean and wetland to your left. This walk continues through coastal forest for about 130m, to find an elevated timber lookout and stone monument (on your left).
This whole walk, 1.2km is flat with no steps.
This whole walk, 1.2km follows a smooth and | 98 |
How Agents Market And Sell Multi-Million Dollar Homes
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Marketing a $27 million home, such as this estate listed by Arthur Sharif, differs largely from... [+] marketing a $270,000 home.
When real estate agents receive a home listing, they may do a few things: stage and take photos of the home; advertise the listing online; post a sign out front; and perhaps host an open house.
When a real estate agent lists a home in the multi-multi-million dollar category — a house that Sotheby's International Realty agent Arthur Sharif calls a "super-prime property" — the marketing game completely changes. An afternoon open house will no longer do.
Everything — from the photography to the text and the introduction of the property to buyers — has to be perfect, Sharif said.
Start with connections
Often the owners of $15 million-plus homes don't want everyone to know they're selling, so it's more who you know than what you do.
"I have clients say 'I don't want anyone to know the house is for sale,'" explained Sharif. "I'm forbidden to market the home, per se. That's where it becomes important you have connections, that you know who to reach. And so that people know you, so they know to pick up a phone when they have a client who is looking for a home in a certain area."
Coldwell Banker Previews International agent Jade Mills agrees.
"In the upper end a lot is done through networking," Mills said. "The creative part is trying to get to the right people. If something has a lot of privacy, we'll try to reach out to celebrities. You have to market to the person who will fit the house, and a lot of people don't do that."
This Trousdale Estates home is listed by Jade Mills.
Throw a party
These upper-end properties may not be the place for an open house, but they are perfect for a high-end, invite-only event.
From a party sponsored by luxury brands (Joyce Rey of Coldwell Banker Previews International recently held an event along with Rolls-Royce) to themed parties (such as the "Great Gatsby" event Sharif held at an English Tudor-style home) the guest list is carefully vetted and the atmosphere strictly monitored.
"Quite a few liquor companies will do it if they have a new product," Mills said. "They will sponsor a party for you, and they'll invite their guest list. And you'll invite your guest list, and you'll be successful."
But the event is never about touring the home or even making it about the home, explained Sharif.
"The<|fim_middle|> renters, real estate agents, mortgage professionals, landlords and property manag... | event is a soft sell. No one needs the home, but you want them to want it," he said. "And even if the folks don't buy the home, the buzz from the party stays around a long time."
Of course some events go a little bit over the top.
"I've seen everything here in Beverly Hills," Mills said. "I've seen animals and ducks in a pool, a tiger in a cage. I don't know if it works. I do know the ducks in the pool were not a good thing — it was a terrible mess."
Once a home hits the multi-million dollar bracket, international buyers become a large part of the marketing equation.
"It's largely attributed to the value of real estate here," explained Rey. "Compared to other [international] cities, our prices are considerably lower, so we see a much wider international audience. I am constantly traveling the world making international connections because that's an important part of our market."
Joyce Rey has the listing for this $54.5 million home.
Even if agents don't travel, they market specifically to overseas clients.
Mills specifically advertises in China with magazine inserts and updates her website to be accessible for anyone, anywhere.
"We get inquiries from all over the world online," she said.
The marketing plan for each home will be unique, Rey says, but the experience should be extraordinary.
"You need to have the panache so that what you do makes people feel like everything about the home is special," Sharif said. "It's like you can't sell a $4,000 suit at Kmart. Everything has to be just perfect because people will judge the presentation as much as the product."
Often that means inviting clients to pre-market showings or including gifts with each showing.
But ultimately, you have to stick with what works for you, Mills says.
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Gameday: Homestand sweep?
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ROCKFORD ICEHOGS (26-22-3-6) AT CHICAGO WOLVES (31-17-5-1)
Tuesday, Feb. 26 | 7 p.m. | AHLTV | Facebook Live
In the Chicago Wolves' 25-year history, the team has hosted 22 homestands of five games or more. If the Wolves can pull off the victory in today's homestand finale against the Rockford IceHogs, then this would mark the second sweep in franchise annals of such a long homestand.
John Anderson's Wolves set the standard in 2002-03 when they posted a five-game sweep March 15-26 by a combined 17-10 score over Philadelphia, Grand Rapids, Rochester, Manitoba and Houston. Heading into today's game, Rocky Thompson's crew has won four in a row by a 12-6 margin over Iowa, Texas, Grand Rapids and Texas.
That's not all the Wolves can achieve with a victory tonight. Grand Rapids holds a 70-68 edge in points over the Wolves in the Central Division standings, but the Griffins have played two more games. If the Wolves win, they'll pull even in points but take over first place as they own the tiebreaker (regulation and overtime wins) over Grand Rapids by a 31-27 count.
BUT, WAIT, THERE's more!
Today's game<|fim_middle|> scored 106 points and teammate Alexandre Giroux added 103.
356: If you've suited up for the Wolves, chances are better than 50/50 that you've also played in the National Hockey League. When recent Wolves forward Mackenzie MacEachern made his NHL debut on Jan. 10 for the St. Louis Blues, he became the 356th player (out of 619 Wolves all-time) who have competed for the Wolves and in the NHL. That 57.5 percent overall success rate is even higher among goaltenders. Of the 55 players who've tended the net for the Wolves over the years — starting with original goaltenders Ray LeBlanc and Wendell Young and continuing through current Wolves Max Lagace and Oscar Dansk — 38 boast NHL experience (69.1 percent).
THE NEXT THREE GAMES
Friday, March 1 at Texas H-E-B Center 7 p.m. Watch
Saturday, March 2 at Texas H-E-B Center 7 p.m. Watch
Tuesday, March 5 at San Antonio AT&T Center 10:30 a.m. Watch
All games are streamed on AHLTV. | also has a huge impact on the Illinois Lottery Cup's destination for the next year. The Wolves have owned the Cup for the last two years, but they need to win at least two of the final three meetings this season to keep the Cup.
The IceHogs head into tonight's game with a 5-4 edge in wins over the Wolves. The Cup goes to the team with more wins in the 12-game season series. If the teams split the 12 games, then the tiebreaker becomes total points. The IceHogs own 11 points while the Wolves have 10. Then, if that doesn't decide matters, then the Cup gets retained by the defending champion.
FAREWELL TO BRännström
Minutes before the NHL's trading deadline expired Monday afternoon, the Vegas Golden Knights acquired Ottawa Senators forward Mark Stone (28 goals and 34 assists in 59 games) in exchange for Wolves defenseman Erik Brännström, Vegas forward Oscar Lindberg and an NHL second-round pick.
The 19-year-old Brännström played a valuable role during his first professional season in North America. He was the youngest player at the 2019 AHL All-Star Classic as he and forward Daniel Carr represented the Wolves at last month's event in Springfield, Massachusetts. Brännstrom triggered the Wolves' first power-play unit and posted seven goals and 21 assists in 41 games.
Vegas also acquired Belleville Senators center Tobias Lindberg, who produced 10 goals and 13 assists in 64 games for the Wolves last season. He posted 5 goals and 7 assists in 44 games this season split between Wilkes-Barre/Scranton and Belleville. He'll wear his familiar No. 25 when he arrives.
2: As in the number of digits in 10 Wolves' goal totals. When Dylan Coghlan, Keegan Kolesar and Curtis McKenzie scored over the weekend, they became the eighth, ninth and 10th Wolves to reach the 10-goal mark this season. No other AHL team has as many players in double figures. These Wolves have some work to do to set the franchise record, though. In 2006-07, 14 Wolves produced double-digit goals for the highest-scoring team in Wolves annals.
3: The Wolves' prowess during even-strength play shows up in the league's plus/minus ratings as Chicago owns the top three spots and four of the top five. Daniel Carr continues to lead the AHL with his +34 rating while linemate Gage Quinney and rookie defensemen Zach Whitecloud share second at +32. Nic Hague ranks fifth at +26.
10: Daniel Carr's career-high 10-game point streak shares the longest active stretch in the AHL with former teammate Brandon Pirri, who rang up his streak before joining the NHL's Vegas Golden Knights for good. Teammate Curtis McKenzie owns the next-longest active streak with Bakersfield's Cooper Marody as McKenzie boasts a season-high eight-game point streak that features four goals and seven assists.
29: The Wolves and their NHL partner, the Vegas Golden Knights, have been blessed with relatively good health this season, which is signified by the fact the Wolves have needed to use just 29 players to this point in the season. By comparison, last year's team used 45 players. There's a minute chance this year's squad could break the franchise record of 30 players, which was set in 1995-96 when general manager Wendell Young ruled the nets and senior advisor Gene Ubriaco coached the team.
34: The Wolves are outscoring their opponents by 34 goals this season (186-152), which is the third-highest differential in the AHL. Most of that advantage has been piled up during the first period, when Chicago has outscored its foes 65-39. Nobody in the AHL is close to that +26 margin. The Wolves have outshot their foes by 93 in the first period, but they've been outshot by 68 after the first period.
101: AHL All-Star left wing Daniel Carr enters tonight's action with 16 points (8G, 8A) in 10 games since the All-Star break. For the season, he's averaging 1.44 points per game. If he maintains this pace over the team's final 22 games, he'll finish with 101 points this season. He would become the AHL's first 100-point producer since 2009-10, when Hershey's Keith Aucoin | 986 |
Trade credit in the form of a delay of inputs payments is an important source of financing for all types of firms. In this paper, I study the role of credit linkages for the propagation of financial shocks in a production network where firms finance their working capital requirements using bank and trade credit. To this end, I build a quantitative multisector model with endogenous credit linkages between representative firms in each sector. The endogenous adjustment in the volume and cost of trade credit captures two counteracting mechanisms: (<|fim_middle|> small number of key sectors drive the long-run forecasts of all production activities in the economy and (2) the short-run dynamics and persistence of disaggregate forecasts depend on a property of the network of links across production units. (3) We study how knowledge of the underlying network can lead to efficiency gains in aggregate forecasting. In the second part, we compare the aggregate predictive ability of multisector growth models to a set of econometric models and quantify the influence of particular sectors on both disaggregate and aggregate forecasts based on the theoretical results derived in this paper. | 1) Firms smooth interest rate shocks by substituting bank and supplier finance. (2) An increase in the interest rate that a firm charges on trade credit tightens the financing terms of its customers thereby amplifying financial shocks. Quantitatively, the model accounts for 30% of the variation in aggregate output in the US-economy. Model simulations show that the existence of the trade credit network doubled the drop in aggregate output during the 2008-2009 crisis relative to an equivalent economy with bank-finance only. Furthermore, the ratio of total outstanding payments owed by customers for already delivered goods and services to bank credit is a good proxy for the systemic importance of a sector in propagating liquidity shocks.
Financial Frictions and Regional Comovement in the US.
An extensive literature has documented the evolution of comovement of economic activity across countries over time. The importance of bilateral trade as a driver of business cycle synchronization has been highlighted repeatedly. However, the failure of quantitative models to capture the comovement observed in trade data has been dubbed the "trade-comovement puzzle". Against the back-drop of the quantitative importance of trade credit – the BIS estimates that two thirds of world trade is supported by inter-firm credit – I investigate the ability of an international multisector general equilibrium model with both trade and financial linkages within and across regions to generate comovement patterns and magnitudes as observed in the data.
In this paper, we show that information on the structure of the production network of an economy can help to: (a) produce better forecasts of both sector-level and aggregate growth rates and, (b) quantify the influence of particular sectors on both disaggregate and aggregate forecasts. In the first part of this paper, we offer three theoretical contributions: We show that (1) a | 363 |
Climate risks are risks to businesses and therefore need to be on the radar for boards of directors, David Singleton argues.
When it comes to climate change and resilience to extreme weather events, we don't need to look very far to know what out challenges are. As the poem goes, we have ample droughts and flooding plains … and heatwaves and blackouts. These events occur every year, and all indications are they will continue, strengthening in intensity and frequency.
As I looked around the globe for good and bad examples to highlight, I couldn't help but turn tothe crisis in Cape Town. If city-living Australians want to know what a worst case scenario could look like just a few years down the track, this is a fairly frightening – and close to home – example.
Cape Town is one of the most affluent cities in southern Africa and is currently operating under strict water rationing protocols as it faces the near reality of running out of water. In the near future, the water supply to properties will be turned off and residents will have to leave their house and fill a container with water from a stand pipe. For 80 per cent of the population in South Africa, this is how they already live – they don't have running water or water storage – but it's become big news as it hits the affluent cities.
At a relatively recent event in Melbourne, led by Dame Polly Courtice, she said, "Dealing with climate/carbon issues is non-negotiable," and pointed to the Cape Town crisis. In her view, it's a situation that represents the next step as to where our civilisation will likely head. I'm afraid I must agree.
As director of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) – which helps to build strategic leadership capacity in business and government to tackle critical global challenges – one of the important points Courtice made was the need to "understand your purpose as an organisation, or an enterprise or an individual". If you are clear about your purpose, then a lot of the hard decisions required of board directors shouldn't be hard.
There were many forces at play in the Cape Town situation – such as under preparation via a lack of diversification in water sources (over 95 per cent of the city's water comes from surface water dams) – and it is governments who are often blamed.
However, we also must consider the role of business and their directors, who undoubtedly have played a role and have had an impact upon the eventual outcome.
It is a timely reminder for businesses that, when it comes to climate change, we are talking about a system connecting a series of events and associated risks, which will inevitably have far reaching implications across the economy and the environment.
Climate risks are risks to businesses and therefore ought to be on the radar for boards of directors. Boards of directors ought to be paying attention to climate change and, if they are not, they are in dereliction of their responsibilities.
Businesses can make immediate, mid-term and long-range changes. Starting to look at decision-making through the climate change lens, I see several links between this approach and the Cape Town situation.
When we think about investment decisions – for example investing organisation pension funds – we can see a movement to divest from some investments and to focus on more sustainable assets. Instead of looking at investment decisions in terms of asking "where are we going to get the best bang for the buck?", we start to look at them and ask: "How do we ensure that our community is sustainable in the future?" This should result in a different set of investments.
A terrific speechwas given by chair of the UK's Environment Agency, Emma Howard Boyd, to the Westminster Energy, Environment and Transport Forum earlier this year. Her speech canvassed challenging issues without being alarmist. Boyd is an environmentalist, but she is also an investor, which in my view gives her ideas credibility.
One underlying theme of her speech was about making hard financial decisions with regard to how to address and mitigate risk – looking at these decisions as business-based assessments and also environmental-based assessments.
Boyd talked about England's 25-year environment plan and described how the environment agency has been working towards solutions for some time. Although some of the more dramatic impacts are quite frightening, she said there were things that have been done, and that are being done, and that taking a measured approach can provide real solutions.
In Australia, there have been attempts to do this sort of thing. It's not that this doesn't happen, it's just not approached with the same rigour or level of importance as in the UK.
In 2013/<|fim_middle|>They also must start to understand that climate risks are risks to business and should be a priority for boards of directors. The risks are real and will gather momentum. We must take them seriously.
David Singleton AM is an expert in sustainability and is currently Chairman of Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia and Chairman of Swinburne University's Smart Cities Research Institute Advisory Board. He undertakes a number of other roles in relation to cities and infrastructure, seeking outcomes for a better world. He is an alumni of Arup with 40plus years service).
'Big Oil' was recently schooled by Pope Francis (as reported in The Guardian). There is no such thing as a 'nice, slow, easy transition'.
The work of Christoper Wright (University of Sydney) and Daniel Nyberg (University of Newcastle) suggests corporate environmental responsibility is a 'myth'. When corporates 'capture' the solution to the problem, you know its good for business, but not necessarily for civilization. | 14 we saw the federal government sponsor a panel (on which I served and which Sam Mostyn chaired) addressing this broad topic. We developed a blue print for the sorts of actions that could be taken.
In 2015, we saw the release of the National Climate Adaptation strategy, which approached the adaptation agenda from a scientific perspective, publishing a range of material based on the work of academics across this sector.
When we consider this issue in the context of the role of business, and boards of directors, in Australia, the message is clear.
There is a need to take a more analytical and considered approach to this issue. Board of directors need to make hard choices, they must invest in sustainable approaches, yet at the same time they, and broader society, must learn to live with the ramifications of climate change – just as the residents of Venice do.
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Rooms were neat and clean and house keeping and room service were prompt.
Le Fenix Sukhumvit is a stylish newcomer to Bangkok, built in 2007. It is right next door to a couple of well known night clubs and is designed to appeal to a young hip crowd. The hotel can get a little bit noisy at the weekends because of the proximity to the nightclubs, but if<|fim_middle|> three room types: Standard Queen, Superior Queen and Standard Twin. The rooms are really nicely decorated (more seventies retro). The room sizes aren't published. Our opinion is that they are a little bit smaller than the standard room size, our best guess is 22 to 25sqm. The bathrooms are smallish also. However, for the cost of the rooms, I don't think anyone staying at Le Fenix Sukhumvit has good grounds to complain about this. This hotel is really good value for money. If you are young and enjoy a good night out, and you don't want to slum it in Khao San, then this hotel is for you. Last group of people we know who stayed there was a group of English girls in their twenties and they loved it. | you plan on joining in with the festivities then who cares? When you get a room at Le Fenix Sukhumvit you also great free entry into Bed Supperclub.
Maybe if you want a bit more peace and quiet you might want to head to the Manhattan Hotel on Soi 15 or Bel-Aire Bangkok on Soi 5.
The website describes the hotel as having a 'Futuristic design and sleek angles'. And indeed it does look good both inside and outside. Top design company SODA was brought in to model the hotel. The result is minimalist interiors with white walls broken up by colourful modern art. All room also have a distinctive 'L' shaped window. There is a bit of 'seventies retro' about the design of this hotel, which works quite well. For a hotel in this price range you don't often see this much thought having gone into the design.
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Will Zuckerberg's $25M Ebola Donation Spur More?
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By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times
Mark Zuckerberg, one of the co-founders of Facebook whose personal wealth is estimated at $32.4 billion, announced this morning that he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are donating $25 million to help fight the battle against Ebola.
In a Facebook post, Zuckerberg, 30, said "we need to get Ebola under control in the near term so that it doesn't spread further and become a long-term global health crisis that we end up fighting for decades at large scale, like HIV or polio."
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The $25 million grant, he said, will help both the CDC and experts on the front lines with creating care centers, training staff and identifying and isolating new cases.
"We believe our grant is the quickest way to empower the CDC and the experts in this field" to prevent further spread of the disease, said Zuckerberg.
Zuckerberg isn't the first billionaire to donate to the cause. Early in September the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said it was committing $50 million to support beefing up emergency efforts to contain Ebola in West Africa and stop the virus's spread. "We also want to accelerate the development of treatments, vaccines and diagnostics that can help end this epidemic and prevent future outbreaks," said Sue Desmond-Hellmann, CEO of the Gates Foundation, in a statement at the time.
Ebola cases in West Africa (Data: WHO / Chart CC BY 4.0: JV Chamary / Source: http://onforb.es/1sCVxE1)
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The United Nations said last month it would need roughly $1 billion to effectively fight the virus – which so far has killed over 4,000 people (the total number of cases is over 8,000). If the disease isn't contained the CDC has estimated there could be hundreds of thousands of Ebola cases in the next few months. While the U.S. and other nations have pledged tens of millions – for everything from medicine and protective gear to safe burials for victims – there is still a long way to go and<|fim_middle|> Mackey served as managing editor of The Fiscal Times for five years, during which time she oversaw scheduling and work flow and handled edits, writing and reporting of many features, news items, interviews and other content. In 2011 she helped The Fiscal Times win a MIN award for Best New Site. | "individual and corporate donations to support Ebola response efforts" are way behind other donations after such natural disasters as the 2010 Haiti earthquake and the 2013 typhoon in the Philippines, CNN Money reported.
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Hällas Now Lets You See "Astral Seer"
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Ian Cory Published: April 16, 2018
When I premiered Hällas's "The Astral Seer" last August, I focused on one particular element of the band's sound: the harmonized guitar riff. It was an easy focal point, in part because Hällas are remarkably adept at writing these kinds of riffs, but also because the way a harmonized melody works explains a great about the band's appeal. On paper, what the band is doing to create these passages is fairly self-evident. The ear can pick out each melody separately without much effort, but the effect of hearing them simultaneously transcends the mundane reality of how the sound is produced.<|fim_middle|> Festival.
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Hällas – "The Astral Seer" (Song Premiere) | The method is simple, but the results are magical. Hällas never hide what they're doing in trickery, and in combination their earthly sounds work together to evoke the other-wordly. The video for "The Astral Seer" literalizes this process by splicing footage of the band's live performance with images drawn from their fantastical lyrics.
Unsurprisingly, given Hällas's old-school sound, this video makes no bones about its throwback status. Everything about "The Astral Seer," from the VHS-look of the film stock to the pace of the editing, harkens back to the aesthetics of the 1970s. Instead of reading as a cheap nostalgia trip, this "out of time" look gives the video a transportive quality. The lack of fidelity makes it easier to read the forests and mountain ridges as mythical, and the warm tone to the band shots feeler truer to the song's production than a modern look would. The retro vibe also opens the door for a more distinctive editing grammar. Hällas are a band that can be kind of goofy and sincerely thrilling at the same time, so the De Palma-esque freeze frames feel just as appropriate as overlaying footage of a guitar solo with swirling lights.
Seeing a band in video can be demystifying, but Hällas doesn't lose an ounce of their magical power here. "The Astral Seer" feels like a relic from another world, and its video offers a glimpse into that world without sacrificing the band's power in our own reality.
Excerpts from a Future Past was released on October 13th, 2017 via The Sign Records. Stream the album on Bandcamp here. Hällas will be playing at this year's Roadburn | 368 |
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Keep your exercise regimen on track in our fitness center or take a swim in our indoor heated pool. Host a meeting, conference or special event in our 1,600 sq. m. of flexible event space, or celebrate your big day with a wedding reception in our beautiful garden. | 10 minutes' drive away from our Xiamen hotel, giving you easy access to the famous Gulangyu Island. We are also near the Haicang government, Haicang Investment Promotion Bureau, Haicang Taiwanese Investment Zone, and | 51 |
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This is the fifth in a series of five monthly articles providing tips for ed tech vendors to use when working with school clients to implement innovative solutions for teaching and learning. Each month we pull a leadership lesson from Life Lessons in Leadership: The Way of the Wallaby, a book I co-authored with Michael Barrett in 2016. The goal of this book is to provide leaders of all ages – "Leaders Ages 8 to 88" – with memorable strategies for leading people and processes, especially when it comes to navigating change.
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There may be times in both our professional and personal lives when we observe others' success and we think, "My, wasn't he lucky!". Quite honestly, other than winning the lottery or some other game of chance, true luck plays a very small role – if any – when it comes to success, especially when the goal is leading change and innovation.
Ed tech vendors and their school partners create their own luck or success when they work together in a highly collaborative environment to assure the success of all the students they serve. The other four "L's" covered in our previous posts: Listen, Learn, Love, Leverage, are the essentials for creating one's own luck when leading innovation in school systems.
If indeed luck does seem to be knocking at our door, it is critical that we are prepared to leverage any "lucky" happenstance when it occurs. "Do your homework" applies not to just students in school. Constant and thorough prep work is the secret sauce to maximizing opportunities. If opportunities present themselves, but we are not prepared to capitalize on them, then those opportunities will slip away.
The Merriam-Webster definition of luck refers to "a force" that can bring good or adversity. When it comes to leading innovation, that force is often one's self. Innovative leaders must be prepared to not only get the most from good efforts and results, but they must also know how to learn from adversity. Innovation by its very nature involves risk. There are times when - even with the best intentions, planning and implementation - new approaches fail to live up to their potential. It is at those times that vendors and their school partners must come together and treat an undesirable result as an opportunity to grow and learn together.
As this series ends, I would like to personally thank you, ed tech vendors and educators, for your leadership as innovators and partners in assuring that we provide all students with a quality education that truly prepares each one for success in their future roles as citizens, workers, parents & leaders.
Start at the beginning of Ann's Life Lessons in Leadership for Ed Tech Vendors. | previous four articles we addressed the critical leadership skills of listening, learning, loving (your program, product, process and/or people) and leveraging the talents of others. This month's reflections are on the topic of luck, which is the focus of Chapter 5 in Life Lessons in Leadership: The Way of the Wallaby.
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines luck as "a force that brings good fortune or adversity" and "the events or circumstances | 92 |
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Why Lori is the Best Shark in the Tank
Published January 2, 2019 Uncategorized Leave a Comment
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Shark Tank is one of my favorite TV shows. It showcases aspiring entrepreneurs as they make business presentations to an investor panel, who then choose whether to invest. It is fun to play along and try to predict how the Sharks will react to a business pitch. As a small business owner/entrepreneur, it is fun to imagine how I might do in a Shark Tank presentation. And, it was interesting to watch a college teammate of mine make a successful pitch on the show.
My inner geek came out when watching a recent episode. I got to wondering how much the need to entertain might cloud how the venture capital world is portrayed on the show. How many Shark Tank pitches actually result in successful companies? Is the success rate for Shark Tank businesses any higher than any other small company looking for growth capital? Are there any biases in the way the Shark Tanks choose to invest?
This curiosity led to a wasted work day.
Venture capital, especially at early stages, involves high risk bets. Firms may invest in 100 companies knowing full well that 80 or 90 of them will fail, but that a handful of wild successes will pay off handsomely. It isn't for the faint of heart. I found an interview with Mark Cuban where he stated he hoped that 15% of his Shark Tank investments would eventually pay off. Even that seems high. Given that he has invested about $32 million so far, that is an admission that $27.5 million of that is expected to be wasted. Gutsy.
I also was able to discover interesting things about the show that are largely hidden from the viewer:
The Sharks themselves are paid to take part. I was able to find discussions that suggested they may make as much as $100K per episode. That is a million dollars or more per season, so perhaps they are playing with house money more than they let on.
Getting on Shark Tank is statistically harder than getting into an Ivy League college. It is estimated that more than 50,000 people apply for each season with less than 1% being successful. That alone should provide some realism as to the probability of success of new businesses.
In the early seasons, an entrepreneur had to give up 2% of revenue or 5% of his/her company to the production firm just to appear on the show. That requirement was removed in later seasons because Mark Cuban refused to remain on the show if it remained.
Many of the deals you see made on the show don't end up being consummated. Forbes conducted survey research in 2016 that indicated that 43% of Shark Tank deals fell apart in the due diligence stage and 30% of the time the deal changed substantially from what is seen on TV. The deal you see on TV only came to fruition as you saw it about 1 in 4 times (27% of the time).
This makes it challenging to assess the deals and whether or not they paid off. Shark Tank companies are almost all privately-held so their revenue data is tough to come by and we can't really know for sure what the deal was.
Although we can't review business outcomes as we might like, we can look closely at the deals themselves. The data we used for this includes all deals and prospective deals from the first nine seasons of the show. So, it does not include the current season, which premiered in October 2018.
In the first nine seasons, there were 803 pitches resulting in 436 closed on-air deals (53% of pitches). Applying the Forbes data would imply that of these 436 deals, 187 of them likely feel apart, and 131 of them likely changed substantially. The net? Our projection would be that 53% of pitches result in handshakes on-air, but post-show only 37% of all original pitches close at all and only 15% of pitches will close at the terms you see on air.
Why would Shark Tank deals fail to close? There is a due diligence stage where investors get to have their accountants review the entrepreneur's books. I found some articles that indicated that some entrepreneurs got cold feet and refused the deal after the show. Also, some of the deals have contingencies which fail to occur.
It is interesting to look at deals by the gender of the entrepreneur as it shows that Shark Tank entrepreneurs skew heavily male:
Men are much more likely than women to appear as entrepreneurs on Shark Tank. Of the 803 pitches, 482 (60%) made by men, 198 (25%) by women, and 119 (15%) by mixed teams of men and women. So, 75% of the time, at least one male is involved in the pitch, and 40% of the time at least one female is involved in the pitch.
However, women (59% closed) are more likely than men (51%) to successfully close a deal on air.
There are data that imply that men and women negotiate differently:
Men initially ask for higher company valuations ($4.5 million on average) than women ($3.1 million on average).
Men also ask for more capital ($342K on average) than women ($238K on average).
Men (47%) and women (49%) receive about the same proportion of their initial valuation ask. Men (94%) and women (88%) also receive about the same proportion of cash that they initially ask for.
So, men are far more likely to appear on the show and come with bigger deals on average than women. But they receive (proportionately) about the same discount on their deals as women as they negotiate with the Sharks. If there is a difference in their negotiation skills it is that men start bigger or come to the show with more mature companies.
We can also look at individual Sharks to get a sense of how good of negotiators they are:
Mark is the most aggressive Shark. He has the most deals (132, despite not being on the<|fim_middle|> Tank. Six of the top 10 were from investments Lori made, including the top 3. Eight of the top 10 investments by revenue were made by the two female Sharks, Lori and Barbara.
Who are the worst Sharks in terms of revenue performance? My vote here would be a tie between Mark and Daymond. Mark has just 3 of the top 20 investments and Daymond has just 2. If we can assume that the goal of venture capital is to generate big wins, it is clear that Lori and Barbara are killing it and Mark and Daymond are not.
Shark Tank is a great catalyst for entrepreneurs, but because it is entertainment and not reality it can mischaracterize entrepreneurship in the real world. Sharks may invest for the entertainment value of the show and because investing boosts their personal brand as much as the product. And, it might just be the case that the amount of money they have invested is not much larger than the amount of money they have been paid to be on the show.
Almost all successful people will tell you that learning from their failures was at least as important as their successes, yet Shark Tank never revisits failed investments and it is likely that the bulk of the deals we see on TV do not end up paying off for the investor. The show does not disclose how few of its deals actually come to fruition once the cameras are no longer rolling. Just once I'd like to see an update segment show an investment that failed miserably.
Shark Tank also seems to imply that hard work and grit always triumph, when in reality knowing when to cut losses and having a little bit of luck matters a lot in business success. Grit matters for sure, but not when it's focus is blind and irrational, and it can be sad to see entrepreneurs who have sacrificed so much and it is clear their business is not going to make it.
At its best, Shark Tank stimulates people to think like an entrepreneur. At its worst, it presents too rosy a picture of small business life which influences people to invent new products and launch companies that are likely to fail, at great consequence to the entrepreneur. It certainly provides great entertainment.
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Have a thought on this? Leave a reply! Cancel reply | early seasons of the show) as well as the most invested (about $32 million).
The cheapest (or most frugal?) Sharks are Barbara and Daymond. Barbara has put forth the least amount of money (about $10 million) and her average deal valuation is $945K. Daymond has put out the second least amount of money (about $12 million) and has an average deal size of $957K. These two Sharks have likely not put much more money into their Shark investments than they have been paid to be on the show.
Mr. Wonderful seems to have a "go big or stay home" mentality. He has closed the fewest deals (64) of any Shark. But, his average deal valuation of $2.7 million is the highest of any Shark.
Lori and Kevin (31% of pitches) are the most likely to make an offer. Barbara and Daymond (22%) are least likely to make an offer.
So, Kevin make the most offers and closes the fewest deals, making him the least desirable Shark from the standpoint of the entrepreneurs.
Barbara is the most likely to invest in a female entrepreneur. She is about as likely to invest in a female entrepreneur as a male entrepreneur despite the fact that so many more men than women appear on the show. Kevin and Robert are the least likely to invest in a female entrepreneur. Mark and Daymond demonstrate no bias, as the invest in about the same proportion as appearances on the show.
Barbara Lori Mark Daymond Kevin
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So, who has been the most successful Shark? It can be hard to tell because data are scarce, but my vote would go for Lori. USA Today put out a list of the top 20 best-selling products featured on Shark | 368 |
Slugs eat lettuce. Slugs do not have arms and legs, only a body that helps them to move which is called a "foot." Slugs will dry out so they need to live under rocks and in moist places. These are just some of the facts that students will read about in The Slug. In this short book, students learn a variety of facts with cartoon illustrations to aid comprehension. It explains how even though slugs seem disgusting, their features are crucial to their survival. Additionally<|fim_middle|> images and talking animals, which is in the "fiction" category. This book is similar to The Blobfish Book by Jessica Olien. While filled with an abundance of interesting information, the book is short and engaging for a large range of readers. Younger children will feel confident when reading the simple text, while older children will appreciate the material included and learn new things about this unique creature. | , slugs are important to our environment, helping plants grow.
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California-based ImpEx Beverages was founded in 2<|fim_middle|>, and Catoctin Creek brands. | 008 as an importer of upscale, connoisseurial spirits, a space that appeared ripe with opportunity. "We saw a demand for more diverse, niche options—spirits that were emerging outside the mainstream," says ImpEx president and cofounder Sam Filmus.
ImpEx initially focused on Scotch whisky, and today the company offers a variety of sought-after Scotch labels—including Speyside single malt brand Tamdhu, whose Batch Strength 002 expression ranked No. 8 on Market Watch sister publication Whisky Advocate's Top 20 list for 2017.
The ImPex Beverages import portfolio features some of the most sought-after whisky brands in the world, including Tamdhu and Fukano, which were ranked in Whisky Advocate's 2017 Top 20.
World whiskies comprise the second key focus for ImpEx. "As we evolved, we saw opportunities to diversify the portfolio with brands that fit the ImpEx philosophy of offering unique products," Filmus says. "The first step was Japanese whisky." ImpEx offers three Japanese whiskies, led by Fukano, whose 2017 edition ranked No. 20 on the Whisky Advocate list. Fukano's success gave ImpEx two brands on the Top 20 list, a distinction shared only by Diageo, Moët Hennessy, and Beam Suntory.
Fukano, along with portfoliomate Ohishi, offers a unique flavor profile compared to more common Scotch-style Japanese blends and single malts. It is made from rice and starts off as a shochu, a Japanese spirit that uses the mold koji to convert starches to sugar before fermentation. It is then distilled a single time on a pot still and aged in barrels. Legally, Fukano and Ohishi cannot be sold as whisky or shochu in Japan, but in the U.S. they have found a niche following thanks to their fruity and savory flavor profiles. In addition to these two rice whiskies, ImpEx also imports Kurayoshi, a blended malt bottled by Matsui Shuzo in the Tottori prefecture, northwest of Kyoto.
The Japanese brands are part of a broader commitment to world whiskies, which have become a vibrant segment in the whisk(e)y space. "Appreciation of world whiskies is growing rapidly," Filmus notes. The company recently added the Tipperary Irish whiskey brand, and this spring it will become the importer of Penderyn, a single malt whisky from Wales.
ImpEx grew out of JVS, a California distributor that Filmus and his family started two decades ago, initially with a focus on Eastern European wine. With offices and warehouses in northern and southern California, JVS covers the entire state. Today it carries more than 1,200 SKUs across brandy, mezcal, vodka, Scotch, world whisky, rum, and craft spirits.
JVS distributes all the ImpEx brands, but also has its own focus on world whiskies, handling such brands as Indian single malt whisky Amrut, Stalk & Barrel whisky from Canada, The English Whisky Co., and single malt Australian label Sullivans Cove. The JVS craft lineup includes the Corsair, Colorado Gold | 671 |
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A foldable protective cage sits around a multicopter and around the package to be carried, shielding spinning propellers and ensuring safety of all people around it. When the folding cage is opened in order to either load or unload the drone, a safety mechanism ensures that the engine is cut off, meaning that safety is ensured, even with completely untrained users.
But where this drone takes a step forward is in the folding cage, ensuring that it can be easily stowed away and transported. The team took inspiration from the origami folding shelters that have been developed for space exploration and adapted them to create a chinese lantern shape, and instead of using paper, a skeletal structure is created using carbon fibre tubes and 3D printed flexible joints. The cage is opened and closed using a joint mechanism on the top and bottom and pushing apart the resulting gap – in fact, both opening and closing of the cage and be performed in just 1.2 seconds.
By adding such a cage to a multicopter, the team ensures safety for those who come into contact with the drone. The drone can be caught while it's flying, meaning that it can deliver to people caught in places where landing is hard or even impossible, such as a collapsed building during search and rescue missions, where first aid, medication, water or food may need to be delivered quickly.
Currently, the drone is able to carry 0.5 kg cargo for 2 km, and any visitors to EPFL over this summer would have noticed it being used to transport small items across campus 150 times, but it is expected that by scaling it will be able to carry as much as 2 kg over 15 km, a weight and distance that would allow for longer distance deliveries.
P.M. Kornatowski, S. Mintchev, and D. Floreano, "An origami-inspired cargo drone", in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2017.
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