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Live streaming to social platforms like Facebook Live and YouTube offers a variety of benefits to professional content creators looking to grow their brands and foster deeper relationships with fans and followers.
Regardless of technical expertise, content creators need to configure hardware and/or software components to help best realize their creativity and produce captivating social broadcasts. And given the variety of cameras, encoders, and capture devices on the market today, the breadth of technical setups can be as diverse as the content creators themselves.
So from a small single-camera setup to a much larger multi-camera live production with switching, here are the best live streaming setups you can use to broadcast to followers on your favorite social media platform.
The most basic in our list of best live streaming setups. With hardware you likely already have—such as a smartphone camera or an integrated webcam on your computer—you can live stream a single video source to Facebook Live or YouTube without additional camera, capture, and encoding equipment.
Social streaming using a smartphone is a great mobile option for vloggers on-the-go or for those streaming directly from an event. But while smartphone cameras might offer relatively high-quality sensors, these devices typically lack the extended customizability of professional HD cameras, such as interchangeable lenses, exposure settings etc. Audio quality is generally less than ideal too, especially in situations where the speaker is far away from the smartphone operator or in cases where there is lots of activity in a room or venue (concert, conference, etc). Smartphones also need to be held in the hand, resulting in a less stable viewing experience for your audience.
At this time, only Facebook Live supports mobile live streaming. To broadcast live with a smartphone, you need to download the Facebook app and create a new post using the "Live" option.
Using a webcam on your computer is another low-cost alternative to purchasing an HD camera. However—what you save financially often costs you in terms of image quality, as most (but not all!) webcams capture in lower resolutions. Webcam placement can also be challenging for professional-quality live streams. Some integrated webcams on modern laptop computers, for example, are positioned very low within the hardware, resulting in an awkward field of view for your audience.
Not the best view for a professional-looking live stream! This shot was taken using a laptop.
Note that even with<|fim_middle|> context, this means you can easily broadcast your stream to Facebook Live *and* YouTube simultaneously, if desired.
Compared to encoding software which requires the full attention of your capture computer, using designated live production hardware like Pearl-2 ensures your computer remains available for helpful purposes like monitoring your live stream and engaging your viewers on your selected social platform.
The main drawback to hardware encoders compared to other options is that hardware doesn't always come cheap—but with all the advantages of platforms like Pearl-2, we think it's definitely worth the investment as these appliances are essential to creating dynamic and engaging live streams that take your professional content creation efforts to the next level.
Do you live stream to social platforms like Facebook Live and YouTube? Which is your preferred method from our list of best live streaming setups? Let us know in the comments below.
Well elaborated for all types of content producers, Thanks to Mr.Jordan Sheldrick for the work.
We offer a large variety of video intros and outros for you to use in your videos. You can browse through our "video intros" and "video outros" albums to easily drag and drop whichever one you like directly at the beginning or end of your video. Pair it off with some personalized text or effects for impressive results! | a webcam, you'll still need encoding software to push your stream to the social platform of choice. Check out our list of the best streaming software to get some ideas.
Streaming using an HD camera is ideal for professional vloggers or video personalities looking to share topical issues, answer questions from fans, or comment on the day's events. And streaming using an HD camera is an excellent option for content creators looking to deliver the best quality broadcast possible.
There are plenty of different types of HD cameras out there on the market today that are packed with features at increasingly affordable prices. If you don't currently own a camera, take a look at our list of different types of HD cameras to get a sense of precisely what camera best suits you.
With an HD camera in hand, you need a capture device to capture the camera's signal (such as AV.io HD) and either a hardware or software encoder to encode and deliver the content to your selected social platform.
The easiest way to broadcast your content, however, is to use a designated social streaming device, like Webcaster X2. This device is designed from the ground-up to streamline the social streaming experience for content creators. To describe the process in a nutshell, you simply connect your camera to the device and enter a unique device code into a web field to begin the stream. No capture tools or encoders required.
Watch the Webcaster X2 quick start video to get an overview of how these innovative new products work.
The simplest encoder for Facebook, YouTube, and Twitch.
Webcaster X2™ is a dedicated encoder designed from the ground-up for live streaming to YouTube, Facebook, and Twitch, making streaming a breeze.
Multi-camera social broadcasts are increasingly attractive options for content creators looking to maximize their creative output through the use of custom picture-in-picture layouts, source cropping, live switching, and more.
Facilitated using powerful encoding software and hardware platforms, multi-camera streaming is a popular and versatile live production setup. Many professional content creators use multi-camera streams for broadcasting live events, video game competitions, tutorial videos, interviews, demonstrations, and much more.
At least one video capture device, such as AV.io 4K, AV.io HD, and AV.io SDI.
This kind of setup involves connecting each camera or external video source directly to each capture device to bring your video signals into your encoding software. From here you'd use the software to customize your layouts and configure encoding settings for your preferred social platform.
Read our latest How-to article for the exact steps involved in streaming a multi-camera live production using OBS.
Capture HDMI, VGA or DVI video at resolutions up to 1080p. Connect to any computer with a USB port.
As an alternative to using software to live stream multiple HD cameras and sources to social platforms, you can also use encoding hardware. Such hardware platforms are designed specifically for encoding multi-source live productions and typically offer a thorough and refined feature set to reflect this specialty.
Our Pearl-2 is an example of what I'm talking about. Pearl-2 was built as an "all-in-one" live production mixer, meaning it offers simultaneous multi-source capture (up to 4K resolution), encoding, streaming, and recording in addition to features that are specific to live productions, such as custom layouts, live switching, and more. Pearl-2's powerful multi-encoding feature lets users publish to different locations at the same time. In a social streaming | 693 |
Many people enjoy the hunt<|fim_middle|> tools from the company may not realize what he or she has.
Other vintage tools are bought and sold. Old drills, saws, and even old logging equipment may be worth money to collector. These vintage tools do not always need to be cleaned up before the buyer can sell them. Sometimes the dirty tools are worth more to a potential buyer if the tools look like they have been used well. When it comes down to it, vintage tools are a niche market that not many people use. | for vintage tools and restoring them to prime condition. Half the fun is sorting through garage sales, classifieds in the newspaper or checking out a few websites for new arrivals. Some of these vintage collectibles can be really hard to locate and it is considered to be quite a find when your search finally pays off.
Collectors are interested in vintage tools, because they are so well made and you just can't find that kind of quality these days. Many are constructed of solid wood handles used in combination with iron pieces and built for durability. Once the search is completed it's time to bring them home and clean them up to see their best possible appearance.
Fill a kitchen or work sink with plenty of warm, soapy water. A damp cloth dipped into the soapy water and scrubbed over the surface should remove most of the dirt. Dry it with a soft cloth or an old clean rag so you can see what your new vintage collectible looks like.
The metal areas may be cleaned with a stiff brush or if needed with mineral spirits. Steel wool works well for rust removal or stained areas. Tiny crevices can be cleaned out using a cotton swab. Replace missing screws and repair wood portions if necessary with wood glue. Wooden handles can be cleaned up using a bit of furniture wax. Buff all parts and sit back and enjoy the new addition to your vintage tools collection.
Vintage tools can sell for more money at a flea market or an auction than a simple used tool a person find in dusty garage or a grass-covered yard sale. The buyer simply has to know what he is looking for. A buyer cannot just get an old, rusty tool and expect to turn a profit. A rusty old tool in such an environment may just be an old, rusty tool.
Craftsman tools, if a user can find them in a used environment are particularly valuable. The vintage Craftsman tools are not often resold. A person who comes upon a set of these tools probably will keep them in his tool set. A person who sells non-powered | 409 |
Join the Lilburn Farmers Market for a special dinner benefiting our Georgia Fresh for Less Program which doubles EBT payments.
The Lilburn Farmers Market is excited to host a Farm to Market to Table Dinner on Friday, May 31st in the courtyard at Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church located at 1400<|fim_middle|> at the Lilburn Farmers Market.
A $1.50 per ticket convenience will be added to all purchases. | Killian HIll Road, Lilburn.
Come and enjoy a three course meal prepared from delicious items sourced from the market by Chef Lisa Lowe of Cooking for Caregivers. This meal will be a fun preview of all the foods available at this season's market and a great way to meet other market supporters.
Order tickets below. Your tickets will be sent electronically to you.
Chef Lisa Lowe has out done herself with this delicious locally sourced menu.
that doubles EBT benefits for eligible market attendees.
Enjoy a three course meal prepared by Chef Lisa Lowe using products found | 112 |
Welcome to Tottori Allergy & Asthma Associates, where caring is our business. We are Southern Nevada's most recognized leading experts dealing with allergic, asthma and immunologic conditions for adult and pediatric patients. Listed below you will find some of the services we offer. If you should have any questions regarding a specific service, please feel free to contact our office. We look forward to helping you.
Prick skin testing, also known as scratch testing, is one type of allergy testing. A small disposable prick device applies the allergy extract to the skin and then scratches<|fim_middle|> negative results to the test drug will then be instructed on how to complete the rest of the challenge.
Testing for medication allergies is available. Commonly tested medications are local anesthetics. Testing begins with a scratch test of a weakened dilution of the medication. Intradermals are the next level of testing, depending on the results sub cutaneous injection may be required. | or pricks the skin. Intradermal testing is also used for testing, which involves injecting the allergy extract under the skin. Common allergy extracts are grasses, weeds, trees, animals, and molds. A hive or raised bump will occur at the site of the prick. Each test site will be measured and specific allergies of the patient identified. Prick testing may be applied to the forearms or the back depending upon the age of the patient, the number of tests ordered, and the condition of the skin.
Immunotherapy (allergy shots) is a treatment of allergy to airborne allergens. It involves administering gradually increasing doses of allergens which cause the immune system to become less sensitive to the allergens. Allergy shots are effective for allergies to grass, weeds, tree pollens, molds and animal dander. Avoidance is the first line of treatment for animal related allergies. Avoidance of allergic triggers and use of medications are major components of allergy management. Allergy shots are not a cure, however symptoms may be minimized through a long-term commitment by the patient. Medications should be continued in conjunction with allergy shots and improvement may be seen as early as 6 months.
Factors that determine the need for allergy injections include: patient history, skin test reaction, and significance of the allergen to the geographical area. Allergy shots are 80-85% beneficial and require regular attendance for effective response.
Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) are noninvasive diagnostic tests that provide measurable feedback about the function of the lungs. By assessing lung volumes, capacities, rates of flow, and gas exchange, PFTs provide information that, when evaluated by your doctor, can help diagnosis certain lung disorders.
Food testing may be initially performed by scratch skin testing. If indicated, a graduated oral food challenge over a few hours can be performed in the medically safe environment of the office. Another type of testing known as a RAST or Immunocap testing involves examining specific IgE in the blood.
Venom testing checks for allergy to a group of insects known as hymenoptera. Testing to honey bee, wasp, yellow jacket, yellow hornet, white hornet and fire ant is available. Testing involves both scratch testing and intradermal testing. Venom immunotherapy (desensitization) is available to patients with positive test results who have a history of potential life threatening reactions to bee stings.
Testing for vaccine is available. Testing begins with a scratch test of a weakened dilution of the vaccine. Intradermals are the next level of testing. Depending on the results, vaccines may be administered with patients monitored for several hours or desensitization may be suggested.
Testing for drug allergies, such as antibiotics, is available. Commonly tested antibiotics are penicillins. Testing begins with a scratch test of a weakened dilution of the drug. Intradermals are the next level of testing. If skin testing is negative a final part of the testing in the office is a graduated oral challenge to the medication. Patients with | 621 |
Frances Geoghegan, Managing Director of Africa Travel, reviews Cape Town's newest<|fim_middle|>. | hot spot.
I had heard great things about this restaurant; those in the know now consider it to be the best eatery in Cape Town. Being Irish, I know about Liam Tomlin - his cookery schools, his restaurant in Sydney and his collaboration with BA on their inflight menu, not to mention his numerous accolades for his great food - but I have never tasted his food.
The small and intimate restaurant is located on the now very cool Bree Street, but you can't make a booking, you just wait your turn, and boy is it worth it. The décor is simple - wooden counters and high stools, the interior is split into two rooms, with dark wooden floors, and both are filled with shelves laden with exotic cooking ingredients, heavy saucepans and knives. The dining area has long narrow tables, and there is little room to move. Menus are printed on rice paper clipped onto sushi mats. We ordered the tapas menu, which flows over their large wooden trays. Our dishes included a heavenly-fragranced Asian duck broth with a kick of chilli; some sublime circles of barley-seared tuna with wasabi mousse; and calamari with the lightest of batter served with chorizo and a dip of fiery mayonnaise. There was crispy chicken and prawns served with the freshest creamy sweetcorn, and melt-in-your-mouth rare sirloin beef. Marinated pork with brussel sprouts was served alongside the perfect creamy pea and parmesan risotto. There was also a side of zesty smoked salmon salad which was packed with flavour. The portions are tapas-size, each bursting with deliciousness, flavours are intense and each mouthful of food is unforgettable. I declined desert, but there is lots to tempt the sweet-toothed.
There was an unusual array of alcohol options including Dragon Fiery Ginger beer, Liefmans Fruitesse, and some great Normandy cider, plus an extensive wine list. This is up there with Luke Dale Roberts' Pot Luck Club, but without the theatre. A thoroughly excellent food experience, I feel privileged to have got a table - and at £20 each including wine it's also very good value.
For more information about a holiday to Cape Town, contact our travel specialists by calling on 020 7843 3500 | 479 |
Home Installers, Integrators and Consultants Restaurant chain expands security
Restaurant chain expands security
Amthal Fire & Security : 27 November, 2015 (<|fim_middle|> to working with clients, in true partnership. Our aim is to grow with clients and become the first port of call to organise all fire and security services.
"In Hawksmoor's case, we are now asked to be involved with all areas of its operation from the planning of new site acquisitions and new site openings, through to a scheduled service and support package for the group's portfolio. We even recently travelled with Hawksmoor on its first venture outside of London, with Hawksmoor Manchester. Overall, it shows how Amthal is Hawksmoor's total security solution provider."
Independently owned, Amthal Fire & Security is dedicated to satisfying end user needs for security safety and convenience offering design, installation, service and remote monitoring of advanced electronic fire & security solutions, including intruder, Fire, Access and CCTV systems.
Amthal Fire & Security is accredited by the Security Systems and Alarm Inspection Board (SSAIB) United Kingdom Accreditation Services (UKAS) and British Approvals for Fire Equipment (BAFE.)
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As it grows its presence in the restaurant market, Hawksmoor is also growing its protection throughout the organisation with fire and security systems
Amthal is working with Hawksmoor through an ambitious growth plan throughout the UK, providing fire and security services for all new and inherited buildings.
Hawksmoor, a British steakhouse and cocktail bar, which has been described as 'flawless' by The Times restaurant critic Giles Coren, and one of the best restaurant groups in the country by Tom Parker Bowles, is on the cusp of opening its tenth restaurant in quick succession.
Growing with the company is Amthal Fire & Security; always ready to design, deliver and install security systems including smart CCTV systems alongside all fire alarms for the ultimate safety of staff and customers.
Says Alex McLauchlan, Finance Director at Hawksmoor Group: "Amthal Fire & Security has excelled in the delivery of innovative security solutions, even when the buildings we have purchased have existing systems and supply companies already in place.
"The team works seamlessly around our timetables to ensure fire and security systems are planned into the design of the restaurant, installed with minimal disruption and maintained with a 24/7 priority response. Amthal is a company on which Hawskmoor has come to rely as we grow our restaurant portfolio for the safety and security of our staff and guests."
Phil Bryant, Service Accounts Manager at Amthal Fire & Security added: " "What our long term relationship with Hawksmoor demonstrates is our preferred approach | 311 |
The Lakelse Air helicopter
Larson disarms pilot
Conrad Larson had a front-row seat when a Lakelse Air pilot started acting irrationally on July 12.
A potentially fatal incident was prevented at a small Fortune Minerals camp in the Klappan region when Conrad Larson, a Lakelse Air helicopter mechanic, disarmed a crazed 37-year-old pilot wielding a shotgun on July 12.
The pilot, who had been acting out of sorts for a couple of days, according to a source close to the incident, began firing shotgun rounds at his own helicopter around 1:3<|fim_middle|> RCMP had to wait until daylight to fly into the camp, approximately 103 km southeast of Dease Lake, according to a July 18 RCMP press release.
The pilot is scheduled to appear in a Dease Lake court Aug. 27 and is being charged with mischief with the potential to be charged with firearm related charges as well, according to the RCMP release.
"We are certainly thankful that no one was injured during this incident and thankful that others at the camp had the mindfulness to seize an opportunity and safely disarm the man," Corp. Dan Moskaluk said.
Larson also commended his colleagues.
"Everyone involved, which by morning was most of the camp, was all on the same page and did an excellent job working together to keep the situation under control. It was very impressive," Larson said.
The pilot remains under medical surveillance, but Larson said he hopes for the best as far as the estranged pilot is concerned.
"He never once threatened to harm anyone at any point during those early morning hours, but we were extremely alert due to the mental condition he was in. I was the engineer on the job, and worked with him before. He is an excellent pilot and good to work with," Larson said.
Lakelse Air officials are withholding comment about the incident until the RCMP investigation is concluded.
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Larson, 22, who grew up in the Kispiox Valley, was observing the pilot from the office tent about 300 metres away.
He also saw the pilot jump in the helicopter and attempt a hot-start, which is starting a helicopter with the throttle engaged.
"When it lit, a ball of flames came out the exhaust pipe," Larson said, adding the pilot also shot flares at a fuel container during the incident.
The pilot then mounted his ATV and started back for the main camp area, where the Dease Lake RCMP had already been notified of his actions.
Larson with his own shotgun, which is allowed for protection from bears, attempted to avoid a confrontation with the erratically-behaving pilot.
"I stepped into the office when I saw him coming down the hill back toward camp, all I could see what his headlight coming down the hill. I thought he was gonna pass by the office but unfortunately for me he turned and entered the tent I was in," Larson said.
Unknown to Larson was the fact the pilot's shotgun had been jammed when he attempted to load flares into the weapon. Larson had hid his shotgun under a table in the office tent, but another turn led to its discovery by the pilot.
"Just after he entered he slipped and landed on his back. He saw my shotgun which I hid under the table and started reaching for it. I snatched it quickly before he got it, fought his shotgun out of his hands and ran outside and stashed both shotguns in a bush behind the camp," Larson said.
Both guns were later located and hidden in another tent under guard.
The pilot's unusual behaviour continued after being disarmed, Larson said.
"He was incoherent, walking around camp, waking people up telling them that someone had messed with his helicopter," Larson said.
Eventually the on-site project manager and others were able to get the pilot settled down and in the kitchen area, where Larson visited the man shortly afterward to some surprise.
"When I decided to approach him he was glad to see me and didn't recall me taking his shotgun, which I found very confusing. We all kept making conversation with him in the kitchen to keep him calm and distracted. He told me that someone had damaged our helicopter. We went along with it, trying not to confront him until the RCMP showed up," Larson said.
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The Doorway
<|fim_middle|> | Creating a full-length production from the ground up is truly a monumental task. I am reminded of the popular phrase "it takes a village" — from the initial concepts that develop into scripts and storyboards; the preliminary drawings and sketches that become sets, lighting and costumes; and of course simple melodies that become orchestral works. And that's all before the casting, choreography, rehearsal and directing process. This Great Gatsby journey has brought a unique team of people together from around the world and right here in Pittsburgh. It has been an incredible adventure, and here we are at the opening!
I want to thank Artistic Director Terrence S. Orr and Executive Director Harris Ferris for trusting me with this production and for their unwavering support throughout the process. Composer Carl Davis and I began work on the musical score 18 months ago and it has been an honor to work with a true master. Janet Marie Groom, PBT's costumier, and her wardrobe team have passionately brought the fashion and flair of the 1920s back to life on stage. Andrew Holland took on the challenge of adapting and reimagining the great Peter Farmer sets with care and artistic innovation. My longtime lighting designer Blaine Rittinger has once again skillfully created his own industrial light and magic effects for the production and was a key player on the creative team. Caitlin Steel, my assistant and rehearsal director, has been instrumental in creating this ballet; her energy and insights are truly inspirational.
The artists of PBT have embraced this story and deeply committed themselves to the complex characters of F. Scott Fitzgerald. It has been an honor to create and choreograph with this genuine group of talented individuals, bringing the story of The Great Gatsby to life.
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre – World Premiere February 8, 2019
Original Score by Carl Davis
Lighting Design – Blaine Rittinger
Set Design – Andrew Holland
Costume adaptation – Janet Groom Campbell
Rehearsal Director – Caitlin Steel
Original set designs – Peter Farmer
Photo Credits – Aimee DiAndrea
© 2019 Jorden Morris / Digital Strategy and Web Design by Code of Arms Design Studio. | 454 |
D'Antoni And Spoelstra Share NBCA Coach Of The Year
Brandon Wentz
The National Basketball Coaches Association announced their pick(s) for their inaugural coach of the year award today: Mike D'Antoni and Eric Spoelstra.
D'Antoni and<|fim_middle|> run beginning in mid-January to make them playoff contenders.
Even before the season began, and they were off to a horrendous start, they weren't projected to do well this year. ESPN's Forecast panel projected the Heat would have a 36-46 record at the end of the regular season.
Granted, the Heat only finished 41-41, but Spoelstra had a plethora of injuries to compete with on top of losing the star talent that was "The Big 3". Spoelstra kept his composure and showed that he learned a thing or two during his four consecutive trips to the NBA Finals, and two title-winning seasons.
Goran Dragic proved he could be a reliable point guard for Miami, and Hassan Whiteside continued to blossom into a star in the league, leading the league in rebounds with 14.13 per game – again from basketball-reference.
The Heat was a tiebreaker away from making it into the playoffs this year; but instead, were beat out by the Chicago Bulls and their new shooting guard, Dwyane Wade.
Both D'Antoni and Spoelstra led their teams to exceed many people's expectations for them, and this NBCA coach of the year award being given to the two of them will make it interesting to see if the NBA's Coach of the Year voting pans out in a similar way.
Other coaches who received votes, according to The Virginian-Pilot, were Scott Brooks (Wizards), Jason Kidd (Bucks), David Fizdale (Grizzlies), Steve Kerr (Warriors), Gregg Popovich (Spurs), Doc Rivers (Clippers), and Quin Snyder (Jazz).
The NBA Coach of the Year award recipient won't be announced until June 26th at the NBA Awards Show.
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D'Antoni, in his first season coaching the Houston Rockets, led his new team in an inspired 55-win regular season and is currently battling the San Antonio Spurs in the Western Conference Semi-Finals – ascending past many low expectations for them this year. Bleacher Report, for one, projected the Rockets would only win 38 games before the season started. ESPN's Forecast panel was a bit more optimistic, but still only predicted they would win 45.
Not many people were projecting the Rockets to even break.500, let alone be going punch for punch with the Spurs in the second round of the playoffs out West.
He's done a masterful job converting James Harden, possibly the best two-guard in the league, into a point guard this season. Harden excelled under D'Antoni's tutelage, similarly to Steve Nash in his first year under D'Antoni.
Harden led the league in assists per game this year with 11.19 assists per contest, according to basketball-reference.com. If you glance further down the list, you'll find "Steve Nash" on the NBA's season assists leaders list five times beginning in 2004-05 (D'Antoni and Nash's first season together).
Keep in mind, Houston had such a spectacular season while trying to replace Dwight Howard, who'd been their starting center for the past three years.
Eric Spoelstra and the Miami Heat are familiar with losing a former All-NBA player, as this season was Spoelstra's first season as a head coach without Dwyane Wade. And Wade isn't just a former All-NBA talent, he's a three-time NBA champion and one-time Finals MVP – that's a huge void to fill, in the locker room and on the court.
The Heat had a remarkable season following an ugly 11-30 start. After they'd gotten 19 games under .500, they went on a sensational 21-4 | 452 |
Personalized medicine is becoming a very popular term heard amongst researchers and the scientific community. It is a more tailored approach to preventing disease that is based on an individual's predispositions. Whichever way you put it – personalized medicine, genomic medicine, precision medicine – it is reshaping healthcare.
Dr. Richard Kim, a scientist at Lawson Health Research Institute and clinical pharmacologist at London Health Sciences Centre (LH<|fim_middle|> and neck cancers.
Oncologists at LHSC's London Regional Cancer Program can now refer patients to get tested for their potential reaction to 5-fluorouracil to better predict if they may or may not have an adverse reaction. A blood sample will be taken and tested with genotyping, and a full report given to the recommending oncologist. If a patient's predicted to react poorly with the drug, they can follow clinical guidelines to either reduce the dose or find a method of treatment.
The team will study the outcomes of any patients referred to the program, including hospital stays, emergency department visits, and physician visits. These patients will be compared to others in the province using provincial health care data from the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). The team hopes to demonstrate the cost-effectiveness of implementing personalized medicine in a large acute-care hospital in Ontario. | SC), has received $4.4 million to study an expanded personalized medicine program at LHSC. One-third of the funding comes from the provincial government's Ontario Research Fund (ORF) while the remainder is contributions from Thermo Fisher Scientific and donor funding through London Health Sciences Foundation.
LHSC's personalized medicine program involves the full integration of research into patient care and was the first in Canada to implement personalized medicine as a clinical strategy. The practice began in 2008 through Dr. Kim's research on warfarin – a blood thinner prescribed to treat blood clots.
Adverse drug reactions in patients is a significant problem. Some drugs do not metabolize with every patient, and can even lead to toxicity. It is the fourth leading cause of death among hospitalized patients and costs the Canadian health care system over $5 billion a year.
The team's research continues to grow since inception and is providing testing for several other drugs. For example, they can now offer testing for cancer patients that have been prescribed 5-fluorouracil – a highly toxic form of chemotherapy – but is integral in treating bowel, stomach, head, | 231 |
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PU has conducted an Online Test, Group Discussion and Personal Interviews with ease. Most of the infrastructure required for HIRING was in place and the process was completed in record times.
Change can be difficult for anyone, however, PU ability to present clear opportunities in an honest and precise manner for their students has made the entire process educational and quite honestly fun.
PU is a well—connected professional institution with a broad pool of talent in form of its students, ready for the industry. PU helped facilitate the screening and interview process and collectively provided extra-ordinary support for execution.
PU has been very supportive throughout the recruitment process. The students were very motivated and passionate about their subjects- I wish PU students the best for their future prospects.
This college has a lot of capabilities. The effort that the staff takes to uplift students is excellent. Good Hospitality, Good Students, Good Staff & Facilities. Can be a great place which can give geniuses in future.
The professionals at PU career center are outstanding and always willing to go the extra mile to help place potential candidates. We will continue to utilize the services offered by the PU career center to find talented students ready for a rewarding career with us.
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PU professionals understood our need for talent acquisition. The team handled the interview, GD & PI processes with exceptional professionalism. I would recommend PU to several of my associates.
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The recruitments at PU allows us to see, talk and work with the faces of the future, thanks to the colleges reach in the business community.
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Visiting PU was a truly remarkable and unique experience. I expect we remain friends for a long time to come<|fim_middle|> Management for grooming their students, to the best industry standards which have let us recruit exorbitant talent. We would like to specially thank the Placement Team for an outstanding hospitality and for conducting the recruitment processes comfortably. | . I would also recommend HR's I know to visit PU and explore the hidden talent.
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Top Seeds Survive Scare at GFI HKFC 10s. Nate Ebner Impresses
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BGC Asia Pacific Dragons almost embarrassed by 12th seeds A-Trade Overseas Old Boys, Nate Ebner touches down for Samurai, while debutants Projecx Waterboys and King's College at UQ upset seedings to move into Cup quarters
Hong Kong; April 6, 2016: Top seeds BGC Asia Pacific Dragons survived a scare against 12th seeds A-Trade Overseas Old Boys before topping Pool A and continuing their quest to win a fourth GFI HKFC 10s title in five years.
The APDs beat Devils Own Shanghai Rugby 48-0, but then found themselves a try down against Overseas Old Boys, having been reduced to nine men early in the match following a yellow card for former All Blacks scrumhalf Jimmy Cowan.
An Apete Daveta try and Emosi Vucago conversion gave the defending champions a 7-5 lead before an Old Boys side featuring former New Zealand Sevens player Zar Lawrence almost pulled off the win with an attempted drop goal, which sailed wide.
The APDs restored their confidence in their final pool match by beating Irish Vikings 31-0 to the relief of captain Isaac Ross, one of three former All Blacks in the team along with Cowan and towering prop Carl Hayman.
"We had a champagne win in the first game against the Shanghai team, but we had a bit of a scare against the Overseas Old Boys," said the 31-year-old Ross, who earned eight caps for the All Blacks before moving to play in Japan's Top League in 2011.
BCG Asia Pacific Dragons (red) defeat Devils Own Shanghai Rugby. Photo Juan Manuel Serrano / Power Sport Images
"They came out firing and were really gunning for us. We need those sort of games to get us ready for day two. We executed well in game three and we're really proud of the way the guys bounced back."
The 2012, 2014 and 2015 champions will play seventh seeds Taikoo Place Scottish Exiles in the Cup quarter-finals, while second seeds Tradition YCAC topped Pool B and will face Old Boys, who upset eighth seeds Irish Vikings 5-0 in their Pool A opener.
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Mike Friday, head coach of USA Sevens, was among those in the stands keeping an eye on the 27-year-old, who recently took a leave of absence from the New England Patriots to pursue his Olympic dream.
"I always like to come to the 10s, just because it's a great event first and foremost. It's a phenomenally competitive tournament and it's a bit special for us this year because we've got an eye on Nate Ebner, one of our up-and-coming Eagles," Friday said.
"He's trying to make the transition from Super Bowl winner to compete in the Olympics this year and this is stage one of his rugby comeback, so to speak. He's done well, some good positional work in his defence and he's gone over for a try, so I've been pretty impressed with what Nate's done today."
Ebner scores for Samurai International (white) in win vs Natixis HKFC (blue stripes) Photo: Juan Manuel Serrano / Power Sport Images
The fourth-seeded Samurai topped Pool D after two wins and a 12-12 draw against Kir Club Pyrenees in the day's final match, while third seeds Penguins topped Pool C with three wins.
Debutants Projecx Waterboys from Scotland and King's College at The University of Queensland both upset higher-seeded opponents in their pools to reach the Cup quarters.
Projecx, seeded ninth, upset fifth seeds Pyrenees 12-7 in their opening Pool D match, while King's College beat sixth seeds UBB Gavekal 19-0 and CRFA Gladiators 31-12 in Pool C on their way to securing a place in the last eight.
Day 1 Results & Day 2 schedule: http://www.hongkongtens.com/match.php?cid=1 (also attached in Excel file)
Day 1 Pools: http://www.hongkongtens.com/match.php?cid=4
Renowned as the world's best annual 10-a-side tournament, the GFI HKFC 10s has long attracted the game's top players including seven of the New Zealand team who won the 2015 Rugby World Cup – Conrad Smith, Jerome Kaino, Ben Smith, Beauden Barrett, Nehe Milner-Skudder, Sam Cane and Charlie Faumuina.
Along with GFI, other sponsors in 2016 include Allied World, Natixis and Rugby Pass (gold sponsors), DHL, Q-Net, Swire Properties and Withers (silver), Cashmaster, CBRE, CPA Global, EY, Markel, Structure Tone and Tricor (bronze), Pure Blonde (official beer), Highland Spring (official water) and Tsunami (official apparel). Make-A-Wish Hong Kong is this year's official charity.
For more information, visit:
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Tournament Organiser: Laxton Events
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Tel: +852 3616-6453; Mob: +852 9849-1018; Email: john@laxtonevents.com
About GFI HKFC 10s
Hong Kong Football Club has hosted the 10s every year since it was first staged in 1986 to celebrate the club's 100th anniversary. Now in its 31st year, the GFI HKFC 10s is held on the Wednesday and Thursday before the world-famous Hong Kong Sevens and is also sanctioned by the Hong Kong Rugby Union (HKRU). GFI Group, a leading provider of brokerage services and trading support products, has title sponsored the event since 2006. The tournament traditionally attracts many stars of the game, including seven of the New Zealand squad that won the 2015 Rugby World Cup. In the past decade, the tournament has featured Joe Roff and Toutai Kefu (both 2006), Jonah Lomu (2007), Brian Lima and Israel Dagg (2008), Bob Skinstad (2009), Waisale Serevi, Beauden Barrett and Sam Cane (2010), George Gregan and Christian Cullen (2011), Justin Marshall (2011, 2012), Mils Muliaina (2012), Marty Holah and Nehe Milner-Skudder (2013), George Smith, Alesana Tuilagi and Rupeni Caucaunibuca (2014), Todd Clever (2012, 2013, 2015) and Rico Gear (2011, 2013, 2015). Website: www.hongkongtens.com
About GFI Group Inc.
Founded in New York in 1987 and acquired by BGC Partners in 2015, GFI Group Inc (GFI) provides competitive wholesale market brokerage services in a multitude of global over-the-counter (OTC) and exchange listed cash and derivatives markets. Over more than 25 years, GFI has expanded both organically and through acquisitions into a broad range of markets, including fixed income derivatives, cash fixed income, emerging market financial products, energy and commodity derivatives, and equities. GFI employs more than 2,100 people with additional offices in London, Paris, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Singapore, Sydney, Cape Town, Santiago, Bogota, Lima, Dubai, Dublin, Tel Aviv, Calgary, Los Angeles and Sugar Land (TX). GFI provides services and products to over 2,600 institutional clients, including leading investment and commercial banks, corporations, insurance companies and hedge funds. Its brands include GFISM, GFInet®, CreditMatch®, GFI ForexMatch®, EnergyMatch®, FENICS®, Starsupply® and Amerex®. Website: www.gfigroup.com
About Make-A-Wish Hong Kong
Make-A-Wish Hong Kong was founded in 1989. It was registered as a charity in Hong Kong in 1998 (registration number: 91/5366) and became a member of Make-A-Wish Foundation International, which has its headquarters in the USA. We are the world's largest wish-granting organization and have 39 affiliates serving over 50 countries and territories. Collectively we have realized 350,000 children's wishes worldwide since 1980, on average one wish completed every 21 minutes. Make-A-Wish Hong Kong grants one special wish to children aged between three and 17 with life-threatening medical conditions, in Hong Kong and Macau, to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy. To date, we have granted over 1,600 wishes. We are dedicated to making every eligible child's wish come true. Website: www.makeawish.org.hk; Facebook: www.facebook.com/MakeAWishHK; Instagram: www.instagram.com/makeawishhk
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Napa Valley�s only fish house located in St. Helena, announces new additions to the restaurant�s outdoor dining area and bar.
Starting May 15, the outdoor experience will include weekly acoustic contemporary and blues music every Thursday night, a flat panel television set for the bar and a misting system to keep patrons cool. For the Fourth of July holiday, Go Fish will fire up the grill on the pet-friendly patio with an all inclusive menu and blowout celebration for what promises to be an annual event in St. Helena.
From its start, Pawlcyn, the pioneering Napa Valley restaurateur who also owns the venerable Mustards Grill and Cindy�s Backstreet Kitchen, envisioned Go Fish as a classic West Coast fish house with a few twists, including a San Francisco-inspired raw bar<|fim_middle|>75). Other breakfast specialties include Eggs �Beni� � Maine lobster, baby spinach, Black Forest ham, English muffin, B�arnaise sauce and house spiced hash browns ($24) � and Banana French Toast with cinnamon, raisin, vanilla bean, maple syrup, whipped cream, Vermont butter and fresh fruit ($15).
Head Sommelier Michael Shearin oversees a comprehensive list, highlighting boutique and small-producer wines, in addition to 27 types of sake, 52 types of beer and 25 uncommon sodas. High Champagne, a decadent DJT innovation, offers a choice of five Champagnes by the glass, accompanied by a light menu.
DJT's long, sleek lines are characteristic of the 1930s, with a rich palette ranging from deep aubergine, lavender and violet to ivory, soft gray and black. At the center of the restaurant glows a gold resin column, its base wrapped with six circular banquettes. Along the walls, soft gray suede upholstery crowns mirrored columns, while the floor features an inlaid geometric pattern of hand-selected marble. The dining chairs are a vintage design with black-and-ivory peacock feather-print fabric at the back with a seat of ivory leather.
Private banquettes around the perimeter of the main dining room have a cozy, cocoon feel with deep plum fabric walls and plush velvet curtains that can close for a truly intimate dining experience. A custom crystal chandelier hangs over each table, suspended from a mirrored ceiling panel.
The private dining room, with its starburst marquetry table and violet suede walls, sequesters up to 10 diners behind grand velvet curtains.
In the restaurant�s more casual, open room, the banquettes are striped velvet with lizard-embossed seats. The walls are upholstered in the lively peacock feather print, surmounting warmly lit rosewood wainscoting.
DJT was designed by Dean Singer and Jodi Barnett of Santa Monica, Calif.-based Design 360 Unlimited; they also designed the hotel lobby.
DJT is open for Breakfast 6:30-11 a.m. and dinner 6-11 p.m. daily; the lounge is open 11 a.m.-midnight daily. Brunch is served 6:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. on Sundays only. High Champagne is held 3-7 p.m. Thursday through Sunday. For reservations, please call (702) 476-7358. | , classic sushi bar and a comfortable yet elegant outdoor watering hole that lets locals and visitors alike drink and dine alfresco in true Wine Country style.
Famed Napa Valley architect Howard Backen of Backen Gillam Architects, helped Pawlcyn and partners realize this vision by enlarging the original patio, which now features seating for 100 and one of Napa Valley�s largest outdoor restaurant bars.
Shaded by two large canvas awnings and the leafy branches of four mature mulberry trees, the patio�s teak and marble-topped tables accommodate groups of all sizes, from cozy twosomes to parties of 10 or more. The patio�s focal points include a large stone fireplace and the six-seat Carrera marble bar, which features a stainless steel back-bar, subtle lighting and oversized mirrors.
The restaurant�s crisp light and dark blue color scheme is echoed throughout the patio�s d�cor, from the long dark blue pillow-backed banquette to the light blue awning stripe and matching placemats. The Go Fish team�s enthusiasm for seasonal, local, fresh-from-the-garden ingredients extends to the outdoor dining area as well, where pots and planters are filled with an eye-catching array of edible herbs, flowers, vegetables and fruit that guests are encouraged to explore.
Like the children�s card game it�s playfully named after, Go Fish, has become a classic since its inception in 2006. From its start, Cindy Pawlcyn, the pioneering Napa Valley restaurateur who also founded the legendary Mustards Grill and Cindy�s Backstreet Kitchen, envisioned Napa Valley�s first fish restaurant as a paean to all things seafood, including a San Francisco-inspired raw bar, authentic sushi and sake bar, and classic West Coast-style fish house. Created with partners Sean Knight and Ken Tominaga, and designed by famed Napa Valley architect Howard Backen, the 220-seat restaurant delivers it all with an expansive menu that utilizes only the freshest sustainable fish and seafood that�s flown in daily, as well as farm-fresh produce that�s sourced regionally and augmented with the bounty from the restaurant�s on-site 1 1/2-acre organic garden. The restaurant�s extensive wine list includes a selection of whites lauded as the best in the bay area by the San Francisco Chronicle. Go Fish is located at 641 Main Street in St. Helena and offers indoor and outdoor dining year-round in true Wine Country style seven days a week from 11:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. For additional information visit www.gofishrestaurant.net or call 707-963-0700.
Cape Elizabeth - The eco friendly Inn by the Sea proudly announces the appointment of executive chef Mitchell Kaldrovich, who offers a fresh take on all things Maine in their new restaurant Sea Glass, opening June 6, 2008. With a culinary focus on creating the freshest fare from local and seasonal ingredients, Kaldrovich adds an international touch to Maine flavors at the Inn�s ocean view restaurant.
Whether it�s charcoal, electric, or hibachi, it�s that time of year to roll out the family BBQ for the most coveted of summer rituals. But before you do, join celebrity chefs Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger for a summer grilling extravaganza, featuring sizzling recipes sure to ignite all of your summer fiestas. And it�s the perfect Father�s Day gift for your favorite grill master!
For only $75, this demonstration-style cooking class includes a delicious, multi-course lunch at Mary Sue and Susan�s flagship restaurant Border Grill Santa Monica, as well as signature cocktails and a recipe booklet.
Menu highlights include cool and spicy Cucumber Jalape�o Margaritas and Grilled Fish Tacos with avocado, grapefruit, and toasted ancho salsa. Not to mention cumin marinated Grilled Skirt Steak and cold, creamy Tres Leches with raspberry coulis and grilled peaches.
Classes fill up fast, so call 310.451.1655 to make your reservations today!
Enjoy upscale, modern Mexican food in a vibrant setting at Border Grill, the hip, urban cantina from Chefs Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger, Food Network�s �Too Hot Tamales�. Border Grill uses organic long-grain rice, beans, and coffee.
We use seasonal, locally grown ingredients whenever possible and do not use any products containing artificial trans fat. We serve only sustainable seafood and are a member of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch Program.
As soon temperatures begin to rise, out comes the BBQ, and all the great tools we use to make cooking outdoors fantastic. Recently, I stumbled across a wonderful item to keep the grill clean that is fast and easy. The Grill Daddy helps keep good health into the mix when cleaning after dinner. There are also some great new marinade products out just in time for the 4th of July. For helpful recipe ideas visit the Book Bites section of LBN this month. We have included some wonderful publications devoted to family BBQ's. Below please find Mr. Balzer's take on the American ritual and how it has changed in the past decade. Above is an invite from the two hot tamales to stop by and learn their secrets for success at the grill.
38% of households use a grill at least once in average two week period. This has increased over 6 percentage points in the past decade.
35% of individuals consume foods prepared on a grill at least once in a two week period.
Fourth of July weekend is the top Holiday weekend* for grilling with almost 30% of individuals consuming a grilled item. Memorial Day weekend comes in second for grilling (25% of individuals consume a grilled item) followed by Labor Day weekend (23% of individuals consume a grilled item).
Grilling has grown over time, and the % of households using a grill has increased over the past ten years during all four season. While summer still accounts for the highest consumption levels of grilled food, grilling has increased the most during colder seasons.
Balzer also attributes the steady rise in grilling with the increasing number of men cooking at home. �This is the one cooking appliance men are more likely to use than any other appliance in the home.� he says.
According to NPD�s latest data, 41% of men say they always do the grilling, while only 17% of women say they always do the grilling.
Trump International Hotel & Tower Las Vegas, the city�s newest landmark, today announced the opening of its signature fine-dining restaurant, DJT, bearing the initials of Donald J. Trump, who recently launched Trump Hotel Collection, with Las Vegas the newest location for the luxury brand. Located just inside the hotel�s spectacular grand lobby, DJT�s superbly crafted menu of Modern American cuisine and chic, intimate setting ensure a sensual, sophisticated and unforgettable dining experience.
DJT showcases the culinary talents of Executive Chef Joseph Isidori, former corporate executive chef for Trump Golf Management and executive chef at the Trump-owned Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla. Isidori has also served as Mr. Trump�s personal chef, as well as chef for the Trump family.
Isidori brings modern twists on traditional dishes. Signature dishes for dinner include Chilled Sweet Pea Soup with fromage blanc, and fruit and vegetable jewels ($15); Miso-Yaki Tasmanian Sea Trout with steel-head roe, grapefruit and yuzu emulsion ($35); Sous Vide Halibut with morels, crawfish, veal sweetbreads, spring pea and harissa ($49); and Roasted California Squab with Chinese black beans, tangerine and ginger ($22).
The dinner menu also includes some of Trump�s personal favorites, like Mr. Trump�s Butter Lettuce Salad with classic wedge flavors ($16), Mr. Trump�s Butter-Whipped Potato Puree ($11), and Mr. Trump�s Ice Cream Sundae ($16).
Indulgent options roll in throughout the dining experience via the Champagne cart, caviar cart, cognac cart with absinthe, and dessert cart with petits fours.
For those eager to sample a variety of dishes at DJT, Isidori has created �The Deal,� an exquisite, eight-course tasting menu designed to be paired with select wines ($200 with wine pairings; $125 without). �The Deal� varies nightly to include new menu items and special chef creations.
DJT�s signature morning dish is Ivanka Trump�s Caviar Breakfast, an egg-white omelet with Osetra caviar, chopped egg yolk, sweet red onion, chive and whipped cr�me fra�che, with buckwheat blini-toast points and house spiced hash browns ($1 | 1,836 |
The Crow: City of Angels es una película de acción de 1996 y secuela de la cinta de culto The Crow. Fue dirigida por Tim Pope. Ninguno de los actores de la cinta original reinterpretó sus papeles en esta película.
Argumento
En una zona de Los Ángeles donde el narcotraficante Judah Earl (Richard Brooks) controla todo, el mecánico Ashe Corven (Vincent Pérez) y su hijo de ocho años de edad, Danny (Eric Acosta), accidentalmente presencian a la banda de matones de Judah asesinar a un traficante. Los hombres de Judah capturan a Ashe y Danny y tras torturarlos son atados, acribillados y sus cuerpos arrojados al fondo del mar en el muelle.
Más tarde, una joven tatuadora llamada Sarah (Mia Kirshner), quien ha estado<|fim_middle|> comparaciones con la primera película y Brandon Lee, Goyer intento en un principio hacer que el personaje de Sarah regresara como otro "Cuervo". Otra de las ideas fue ambientar la película en Inglaterra del siglo XIX. Eventualmente fue decidido que la historia estaría centrada en dos hermanos Ashe y Dany que fueron asesinados en Los Ángeles. Siendo Ashe el que es resucitado para vengar sus muertes. El guion original también intententaba regresar a dos de los villanos de la primera película, Grange y Top Dollar, revividos para combatir a Ashe. Goyer no estaba complacido con la idea de traer de vuelta a Granger y Top Dollar así que se reescribio el libreto para removerlos completamente. Alex McDowell, quien trabajó con Pope en varios videos musicales, fue contratado como Productor de Diseño para darle un aspecto característico a la película. McDowell tomo inspiración en la arquitectura de Los Ángeles de los años 1920 y 1940.
Volviendo de la anterior película se encuentran los Productores Jeff Most y Edward R. Pressman. Ambos Goyer y Pope querían crear una película completamente distinta a la primera, más trágica y que los personajes tuvieran un desarrollo más profundo. Mientras trabajaba en la película, Goyer también escribía el guion de la película Dark City que era dirigida por el anterior Director Alex Proyas. La leyenda del Punk-Rock Iggy Pop (al cual se le había ofrecido el papel de Fun Boy en la primera película) fue contratado como el villano Curve. Tori Amos rechazo el papel de Sarah mientras que Jon Bon Jovi audiciono para el papel de Ashe, que después le fue otorgado a Vincent Pérez, que fue seleccionado por su interpreatción en La Reine Margot. Thomas Jane fue seleccionado para el papel del villano Nemo. Mientras que la intención original de los Directores y el Estudio era crear una película substancialmente diferente a la primera ( por respeto a Brandon Lee), Miramax ordenó que la película fuera reeditada para parecerse lo más posible a su precuela, lo que Tim Pope rechazó y junto con David S. Goyer, desconocieron la película ya que no representaba su visión.
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El Cuervo: Ciudad de Ángeles recibió críticas negativas de los críticos, la principal crítica fue dirigida a lo que fue visto como un complot reciclados y de mala calidad, el notable crítico James Berrardinelli dio a la película dos estrellas. Sin embargo, algunos críticos alaban las actuaciones de Vicente Pérez y de Iggy Pop y el diseño de producción de Alex McDowell. Actualmente la película tiene un grado de descomposición de 13% en Rotten Tomatoes. La película ha desarrollado un culto pequeño.
El cuervo: Ciudad de Los Ángeles abrió en el número 1 en la taquilla doméstica y recaudó 9,785.111 dólares en el primer fin de semana, que representaron el 54,6% del total de su recaudación. También fue número 1 en el Reino Unido. [5] Los stands interior bruto a 17.917.287 dólares, y 7500 mil dólares en los demás países. El presupuesto era de 13.000.000 dólares [1]. Si bien la película fue un éxito menor, palideció en comparación con los ingresos nacionales de la película anterior, que fue de $ 50m. Como resultado de mediocres resultados de de la película se puso en duda el futuro de otras secuelas, El Cuervo: Ciudad de Ángeles fue puesta en video comercial.
La Ciudad de los Ángeles Cuervo Segunda Venida
El cuervo COA Segunda Venida es un abanico hecho de edición que se lanzó en DVD en diciembre de 2007, en la esperanza de que un corte de director oficial sería puesto en libertad. El DVD es 112mins largo y utiliza subtitulado animatics y reediciones de las escenas con el fin de contar la historia tal como fue concebido originalmente.
Adaptaciones
El guion de la Ciudad de los Ángeles fue adaptada en una novela de Chet Williamson, así como una serie de tres números de cómics publicada por Kitchen Sink Press, dos de ellas con el final original de la historia.
Un videojuego basado en la película también fue producida.
Secuela
Esta película tiene una secuela llamada The Crow: Salvation protagonizada por Kirsten Dunst y Eric Mabius. Se centra en Alex Corvis, un joven que después del homicidio de su novia es llevado a prisión y ejecutado injustamente y regresa para vengarse. Esta fue estrenada en el año 2000. En 1998 se creó una serie de televisión llamada The Crow: Stairway to Heaven, la cual consta de 1 temporada con 22 capítulos.
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Secuelas de películas | teniendo sueños acerca de Ashe y Danny, un día es visitada en su apartamento por un cuervo, comprendiendo que se repetirá la historia que vivió en su infancia cuando Erik Draven volvió de la tumba para vengarse de quienes lo asesinaron a él y su novia. Sarah sigue sus premoniciones hasta el muelle durante la noche del Día de Todos los Santos, y presencia la resurrección de Ashe.
Sarah lo lleva a su apartamento y le explica que ha sido resucitado para tener la oportunidad de castigar a quienes lo mataron y así vengar a Danny; posteriormente usa las pinturas de Danny para imitar la forma en que Eric Draven maquillaba su cara. Un rato después Ashe hace la primera visita a Spider-Monkey (Vicente Castellanos), en su laboratorio de drogas y lo interroga acerca de quién más estuvo involucrado en sus muertes. Posteriormente, lo asesina incendiando el lugar lleno de químicos inflamables con él dentro creando una onda expansiva que hace que los escombros formen la silueta de un cuervo.
Judah tiene a su servicio una profetisa ciega llamada Sybil (Tracey Ellis), quien ha vaticinado la presencia de Ashe y sabe que se trata de una fuerza sobrenatural que marca a sus presas con la silueta del cuervo; Curve (Iggy Pop), líder de los matones de Judah, descubre que cuervo dibujado en la explosión es idéntico a un tatuaje suyo, lo que lo asusta. Ashe va tras otro de los lacayos de Judah, un pervertido llamado Nemo (Thomas Jane), a quien localiza en un local para adultos y le arranca los ojos en castigo por filmar cómo él y su hijo eran asesinados. Posteriormente lo mata y deja en su boca un papel con el símbolo del cuervo.
Judah deduce que la artista que tatuó a Curve, Sarah, debe estar relacionada con el asesino de sus hombres y ordena que la busquen. Mientras, Ashe persigue a Curve por las calles y tras atraparlo lo asesina y arroja a un río cercano, donde las flores que la gente ha tirado al agua flotan formando el símbolo del cuervo alrededor del cadáver.
Una mujer llamada Kali (Thuy Trang) intenta emboscar a Ashe en el apartamento de Sarah, pero mientras que ambos luchan descubre que sus ataques resultan ineficaces debido a la inmortalidad de Ashe; pronto el hombre recuerda que fue Kali quien mató a Danny, por lo que la arroja por una ventana al vacío; al azotarse contra el pavimento, la sangre de Kali se desparrama en forma de un cuervo.
Sybil determina que el enlace que el Cuervo que acompaña a Ashe es la fuente de sus poderes, por ello Judah captura a Sarah para elaborar un plan contra Ashe y robarle su poder. Tal como Judah esperaba, el ave llega a su guarida para mostrar a Ashe por medio de su visión compartida que Sarah ha sido secuestrada y, mientras el joven se dirige a rescatarla, Judah captura al ave, la crucifica en una mesa y la sacrifica. Posteriormente bebe su sangre y la usa para pintar su rostro, robando así los poderes e inmortalidad de Ashe.
Sin la protección del cuervo Ashe llega al escondite del criminal, el cual es sobrevolado por centenares de cuervos. Allí ambos se enfrentan pero no es rival para Judah, quien se divierte torturándolo. Mientras, Sybil libera a Sarah y le explica que los cuervos son las almas de de los vengadores que precedieron a Ashe, llorando a las personas que han perdido y que ahora han venido por Ashe; tras esto le da a Sarah un arma y la deja ir para ayudar a Ashe.
Sarah apuñala a Judah y aunque no puede lastimarlo logra que suelte a Ashe, quien ve cómo Judah la apuñala en el estómago. En un ataque de ira Ashe empala a Judah contra una barra de metal inmovilizándolo, cosa que preocupa al criminal debido a su inmortalidad. Sin embargo Ashe ordena a la bandada de cuervos que ataquen a Judah y estos se arrojan sobre él y lo devoran.
Ashe regresa con Sarah y la sostiene en sus brazos mientras muere, luego coloca su cuerpo en el santuario de la iglesia del vecindario. Tras despedirse de ella, Ashe regresa a la muerte, para reunirse con su hijo ahora que Judah y sus secuaces han muerto.
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Tras el éxito de El Cuervo Miramax encargó una secuela, y la producción comenzó en agosto de 1995. Los Hermanos Weinstein ofrecieron la dirección a Tim Pope por su trabajo en el corto-metraje "Phone" realizado en 1991. David S. Goyer fue contratado para escribir el guion. Queriendo evitar | 1,213 |
Earth and Space Science (What to Know About Them)
By Megan Matheney
Megan Matheney
What Is the Study of Earth and Space?
Earth and Space Science studies the grand scheme of the natural universe. It tries to answer big questions like how did the universe form, are there other lifeforms out there, and what is our place in the physical world? It does this by focusing on the formation, structure, and interactions of natural bodies in space, as well as the systems of the planetary body we live on.
The Main Gist
Some main branches of study included under Earth and Space Science are physics, geosciences, astronomy, planetary science, and cosmology. Of course, there are dozens of specializations with narrower focuses on every aspect of the Earth and space. Each branch maintains a goal of relating the study to other branches to determine relationships between influential natural systems. The cycles of rock, water, carbon, and other materials have a huge influence on the sustainability of our species on Earth. And the cycles of solar systems will determine the ultimate fate of our species on Earth.
From our own planet and solar system to the Big Bang and black<|fim_middle|> government sector for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, and currently lives in Mexico City where she works as a freelancer. | holes, Earth and Space Science helps us understand our place within the big picture. Studying these connections increases our understanding of the origin of everything and how it all interacts. We can use this understanding to predict how it might continue to change over time, and adapt ourselves to the change.
Keeping an Open Mind (For Longevity's Sake)
Some of these things might seem absurdly obscure in terms of their importance for human adaptation. Why should we be worried or care about objects billions of years or light years away? We have problems here on Earth right now in need of fixing. Is this a waste of resources?
By nature, Earth and Space Science studies huge scales of physical space and time that might seem too remote and distant for our current needs. But if we wish to continue as a species for more than the blink of an eye that the dinosaurs were around, we need to extend our gaze beyond the here and now.
What Topics Does Earth and Space Science Include?
Earth and Space Science covers an extremely wide range of topics, which is reasonable considering it covers essentially everything in the grand scale of the universe.
The Earth (Surprise, Surprise)
One of the primary topics is the Earth itself. We study the Earth in such great detail because, of course, it has the greatest direct effect on us. We directly interact with and depend on the systems contained by the planet. But it is also just the easiest to access. It wasn't until the last few centuries that modern astronomy emerged, allowing us to study other planets with increasingly greater ease.
Exploring the Solar System
Looking outside the Earth, the first Space Science topic of interest is the solar system and everything it contains. Although a relatively small portion of the total universe, it is still an enormous subject containing planets, moons, a star, asteroid belts, and all their interactions. Human exploration is most promising on this scale for now, and we are increasingly sending out rovers and planning future manned missions.
Continuing outwards brings us to other clusters of planetary and gaseous bodies, forming practically endless solar systems and galaxies. Eventually, the "edge" is found, where we can't see any further because we encounter the remnants of the Big Bang. This event seems to always be a topic of discussion, with new theories and discoveries being developed all the time.
Apart from these clusters of physical things in the vastness of space being interesting, there is often an end goal in it all. And that goal is often the search for life. We want to know if we are the only ones here, or if we have neighbors somewhere out in universe. This involves looking for planets which we think might be conducive to the formation of life, as well as signals which could be radiating towards us from an already advanced civilization.
Little Details, Big Ideas
There are also more abstract topics in Earth and Space Science. Concepts such as the multiverse, other dimensions, and behavior of time around black holes are all popular areas of study. This can narrow the focus down from the scale of the universe to the scale of atoms and quarks.
What Is the Definition of Space Science?
Space Science itself focuses on the study of natural processes, phenomena, and physical bodies, specifically in space. This typically excludes the planet Earth, but includes other planetary bodies and their interactions with the Earth through space.
The main fields of study include astronomy, astrophysics, and aerospace engineering. Branches of these areas extend to specialize in each main system type existing in space. That is, stellar, planetary, galactic, and extragalactic specialties. Much of this science is done from observatories here on Earth, but over time it has started becoming a more direct science.
Previous to the last century, we could only study anything outside the planet Earth via telescope, or maybe the occasional meteor fragment. But now, we routinely send rovers and space probes out to directly test samples and conditions on other planets. Some probes, such as Hubble, even venture outside of our solar system. Eventually (presumably) we will resume sending humans out there as well.
This direct interaction with space requires that Space Science integrate with many other fields. The use of engineering, biology, chemistry, geoscience, and more is essential for continuing progress, particularly in the area of exploration.
Sending rovers to other planets requires advanced engineering technology capable of performing tests on samples without humans present. They are equipped with increasingly advanced tools to study chemical and biological characteristics of their host planetary bodies. When we send humans on missions, fields such as space medicine and space architecture will become more prevalent.
Space Science is advancing very quickly, especially in the last century when technology has hit a period of unprecedented development in all of these areas. It will continue to evolve over time as our abilities and ambitions expand even further.
What Is Earth and Space Science in High School?
Getting kids involved in Earth and Space Science early can be greatly beneficial for helping them find their ideal niche for future study and career paths. The typical high school curriculum consists of basic core subjects such as math, science, history, art, and language. But more and more often, high schools offer additional specific elective courses within these basic categories. They allow students to branch out from the core areas to explore specific areas that interest them.
Earth and Space Science may be an option for these focused electives, but is unlikely to be a requirement. Be sure to keep an eye out in the course catalogs if it is something of interest. If a conglomerate Earth and Space Science class isn't available, introductory courses in astronomy, geology, environmental science, and physics are all good places to start. They will begin to introduce students to terminology used to communicate in Earth and Space Science, as well as relevant scientific methods.
Some high schools are more likely than others to offer classes in the Earth and Space Sciences. Science and technology schools are popping up more frequently across the country for those students who know they can and are able to concentrate on more technical subjects. Earth and Space Science courses are often more commonplace in these schools.
High school Earth and Space Science courses will usually begin with a focus on the main spheres on the Earth. These include the geosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, and atmosphere. Understanding these leads to further inquiry of the Earth cycles within these spheres; the water cycle, carbon cycle, and rock cycle. Similarly, students will then explore space systems, such as the solar system or human systems of space exploration.
Where Can I Find Earth and Space Science News?
We love to hear about the otherworldly discoveries which put our own existence into perspective and make us question where we as a species are going. And scientists love sharing their discoveries with those who are as excited about it as they are.
Sure, advanced academic journals and publications are available for all things Earth and Space Science from the original source. But if you aren't an expert, you won't fully understand it. And that's okay. It's why experts are experts, and why the technicalities of their work are explained for the laypeople so we can all stay up to date.
All levels of Earth and Space Science news are available, from mildly simplified academic articles, to magazines, books, website blogs and Facebook pages.
Advanced Sources
Adults already heavily interested or involved in the field may read from an open access journal such as the American Geophysical Union's (AGU) Earth and Space Science collection. In-depth books by leading science communicators are also great resources. Some leading authors might include Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Greene, Brian Cox, and even late Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan.
Adults who specialize in other fields but like to stay up to date on new advancements might read from a website with blogs that sum up the important bits of information from those same articles. The AGU also hosts and Earth and Space science website eos.com and corresponding magazine Eos for this purpose. Other popular sources might be sciencedaily.com, space.com, or NASA's very own news blogs.
Simple Daily Doses
Younger audiences can find many resources through youth books and magazines, as well as YouTube videos and social media sources. Of course, adults can also find plenty of useful information from social media sources as well.
And they are very easy to incorporate into our daily lives, appearing alongside other items already in our news feeds. ASAP Science, NASA, National Geographic, Science News Magazine, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, and ESO Astronomy are all useful sources.
Read about recent earth science discoveries or what to do with a degree in the earth sciences.
About the author Megan Matheney
Professional technical writer specializing in material relating to Earth sciences, environmental economics, and developmental economics. Megan has a B.S. in Geophysics from the University of Texas at Austin, as well a M.S. in Environment and Sustainable Development from the University of Glasgow. She has worked in the | 1,800 |
AT&T pursues $50B DirecTV deal. Roadblock for Comcast/Time Warner?
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A DirecTV dish outside a home in the Queens borough of New York in July 2013. DirecTV and AT&T could be nearing a merger deal worth $50 billion.
Another blockbuster media deal is looming, and it could spell trouble for the mega-merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable.
AT&T is nearing a $50 billion deal to buy satellite TV provider DirecTV, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. AT&T is the second-largest mobile carrier in the United States, and the purchase, if completed, would give it control of the country's largest satellite television provider and create a formidable competitor in the TV/Internet space. It also may create an extra legal hurdle for the merger of cable TV giants Comcast and Time Warner, which is currently under review by federal regulators.
According to WSJ, a sale would give DirecTV investors a mixture of stock and cash, and a deal could be finalized in as little as two weeks. Rumors of the sale have sent DirecTV shares surging 12 percent over the past month and sent shares of both companies climbing in after-hours trading Monday evening.
Buying DirecTV would help AT&T expand its national footprint and compete in the pay-television marketplace, says Jeff Kagan, a media industry analyst based in metro Atlanta. "AT&T is a strong regional company, and if it wants to offer nationwide services this helps them do that," he says. "In general, we're seeing a trend toward consolidated nationwide companies."
Indeed, AT&T-DirecTV and Comcast-Time Warner (a deal worth $45 billion, if approved by antirtrust regulators) are just the latest among a wave of large-scale media acquisitions over the past year or so. Earlier in 2014, Time Warner bought Charter Communications, another leading cable TV provider, for $38 billion. In 2013, Comcast acquired NBC Universal in a deal worth approximately $17 billion. The result of such mergers is fewer companies with larger national footprints.
That can be a mixed bag for consumers. In general, fewer companies means less competition and the potential for one company or another to completely dominate a given market. That's something antitrust regulators looked to prevent, in fact, when they blocked a potential purchase of T-Mobile by AT&T in 2011.
The pay-TV and Internet market, however, historically has been characterized by single companies, like Comcast and Time Warner, dominating certain regional markets. In that case, Mr. Kagan argues, having even a few large companies competing for the same space might actually be an improvement. "If we as consumers have the choice for either AT&T or Verizon or CenturyLink or Comcast or whatever in the same space, that will drive innovation, and drive prices down," he says. "There is a growing level of competition that there wasn't 10 years ago."
What's still unclear, however, is what the AT&T-DirecTV deal would mean for Comcast-Time Warner's approval. It presents a complication, those familiar with the talks told WSJ, because regulators would likely have to consider both deals simultaneously, and one would inform the other. "If they approve one they have to approve both," Kagan says. "It's hard to know [AT&T's] thinking on this. It could be a way to get their deal on the same wave of regulatory approval, or it could be a way to derail the Comcast merger."
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One of my favorite design courses that I've taken as an undergrad happened to be the Pattern/Form/Surface studio under Laurie Szujewska. As a design student, it was assumed that most assignments and projects would have a defined set of rules, constraints, materials...expectations. However, Laurie's course taught me something important—that it was okay to be lost in the discovery of making. As a final project, we<|fim_middle|>, I opted to create something that could be neatly folded into smaller modules. Measuring a 36'' x 18'' layout, I was able to measure and split the grid into even spaces. As a result, the compendium would double as a booklet as well as a fold-out poster.
Using a combination of serif (Mrs. Eaves) and sans-serif (Avenir) fonts, the typographical content of the compendium worked together with the photos in visualizing my narrative of experiments and discoveries. Using the gray motif, overthinking was given less of a focus so that assumptions would dissolve as well. Ten weeks well-spent, I'd say. | were to produce a visual compendium—a concise yet comprehensive summary of our personal ideas and work process in this course.
Three hours, two times a week. It's amazing how much you learn about yourself in a quarter-long course, especially when you're often left to your own devices. With hundreds of photographs taken, the task of narrowing down these choices to just a few that vividly express your design and discovery process was no easy one.
With all of these variables in mind, I made my selection based on the intrinsic similarities that two particular projects (using metal wire and tin foil respectively) shared between each other: the color gray. Interestingly, the color gray also related back to the gray matter that I've been familiar with all my life: my brain. My tendency to overthink design decisions and edits would make projects more tedious than necessary. However, this course led me to the epiphany that less thinking and more playing was an alternate path to discovery. Thus, the narrative of my compendium was found!
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The next victim of the Overnight Kidnapper might not be so lucky, the attacker is unpredictable. To add to the fun, the Clandestine Anti-Bank Coalition has jumped on the bandwagon, threatening the banks. Both the disappearance of Di Carlo and the kidnappings are about to take a nasty turns, more trouble will follow. Montalbano will have to rise to the challenge.
Montalbano is irked by Fazio anticipating his orders, he still loves to needle Mimi Augello, the lethario, Gallo still drives like a madman, and poor loyal, Catarella, who only wants the honour of sharing a panini with his boss, as he mangles the language and confuses people's names. If anything The Overnight Kidnapper is funnier than most of the other novels in the series, that is until the serious business of murder kicks in and the tone changes. The Overnight Kidnapper is a satisfying mystery and a great read.
By happy chance Camilleri began writing the Montalbano series when he was blocked on an historical novel about nineteenth-century Sicily. The Brewer of Preston was set aside while and The Shape of Water was written, the series has since attracted acclaim, prizes and a wide readership. Camilleri is adored and revered in Italy but fated across the world these days. His creation, Montalbano, can be irascible, vain and short tempered but he is also brilliant. The Commissario, inspector, knows how to play the Commissioner and the mafia, and how to solve the most perplexing of cases. Vigata is safer for having Sicily's finest detective in charge, although for everyone's sake it would be better not to disturb his lunch. If you are new to Montalbano, aside from going back to the beginning, this would be an excellent place to start. | the long running crime series from the Grand Old Man of Italian letters, Andrea Camilleri. Very few writers manage to combine light and dark, humour and serious intent with such aplomb, and The Overnight Kidnapper is a bravura performance, stylish and funny but with real bite. In fact the last few novels, they are all set in the fictional town of Vigata in modern day Sicily, have been a real return to form, following a slight dip mid series. Camilleri has breathed new life into his character as Montalbano has aged and grown up a little, but not too much. Camilleri's writing transcends boundaries: I like dark, noirish crime fiction and oodles of gritty realism and I love Montalbano and yet he appeals to cosy crime fans too. The Overnight Kidnapper is an ideal beach read or a prefect winter evening companion. It's the light tone, the humorous relationships between the characters and the farcical situations that arise in the novels that makes them so enjoyable. Yet, Camilleri, a native of Sicily makes no secret of the deeply felt problems that afflict the island; the mafia, corruption, political incompetence and the blight of Burlesconi chief among them. Whereas a lot of Montalbano plots are adapted from life, The Overnight Kidnapper is the dastardly invention of the author and there are enough twists and red herrings to please those readers who like to solve the mystery for themselves. Once again Stephen Sartarelli's brilliant translation brings the nuances of the dialogue (Italian/Sicilian/regional accents) to life.
Unable to fault the logic Montalbano eats, then Enzo recounts the tale of his niece who was kidnapped but released unharmed. Both women work for banks, Montalbano knows something dark is afoot. The day is still young because Fazio calls the inspector to a | 393 |
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LNG to Play a Leading Role in the Energy Transition, ABS Head Tells USCG Leaders
Christopher J. Wiernicki, ABS Chairman, President and CEO (Photo: ABS)
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) will play a leading role in meeting shipping's decarbonization goals, Christopher J. Wiernicki, ABS Chairman, President and CEO, said in a keynote speech delivered to U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) leaders at the Liquefied Gas and Alternative Fuels Senior Executive Forum.
"We are going to have to begin to balance what we're facing today, which is, essentially, how do we handle energy security relative to the short-term energy security challenge and the longer-term energy transition? LNG is going to play a leading role in this. However, for such a key fuel for the energy transition, it is important to recognize it is itself a fuel in transition. And we will need it to not only evolve but to address and mitigate the risks inherent in its operation today if we are to reach our 2050 objectives," Wiernicki said.
He outlined how an LNG vessel had a decade longer in its operational lifespan than an identical traditionally fueled vessel, but methane slip represents a significant challenge and after treatment technologies are still in development. However, the great potential of LNG to contribute to decarbonization objectives in the long-term is realized through bio-LNG and carbon capture.
Wiernicki said, "Another challenge LNG has to contend with is the carbon content at its core. Here too we can expect to see significant developments. Liquefied biomethane, or bio-LNG, a carbon neutral fuel produced from sustainable biomass resources, has the potential to meet a significant portion of future shipping energy demand. Not only can bio-LNG be used as a drop-in fuel in existing LNG-fueled engines but it can also be transported, stored and bunkered in ports using the existing LNG infrastructure.
"But this is just the beginning of LNG's potential to further contribute to the energy transition. The feedstock of blue hydrogen is methane after steam reforming, when the CO2 produced in the process is captured. While we are scaling up global production of zero carbon green hydrogen, blue hydrogen and by extension LNG, will have a critical role in filling the gap."
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On the outer edges of Oddhaven lie the Oddhaven International Airport, Van Heyte Military Base, and the suburbs of Lakeshore Grove and Diesel City.
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COLDWATER - First place in the Interstate 8 Conference was on the line Friday.
But Coldwater had something else on its collective mind when it hosted Marshall - revenge.
The Cardinals avenged their only loss of the season by topping the Redhawks, 58-36, in an emotionally charged league contest.
"We have had a competitive rivalry with Marshall for a long time now," said Coldwater sophomore forward Dylan Targgart. "We gave them the first game and we were really hungry for this revenge win here."
Targgart played a big role in helping Coldwater improve to 10-1 overall and 7-1 in the conference, posting a double-double with a team-high 16 points and 10 rebounds.
"He's our leading rebounding averaging over nine per game, a lot on the offensive side," Coldwater coach Quinn Berry said of Targgart. "He does a great job of boxing out and has a nose for the ball."
The loss sent Marshall's record to 10-3 on the season and 6-2 in the Interstate 8 play.
"A lot of things can happen and there are good teams out there that can help us out, but right now we just have to focus on us," said Marshall coach Doug Riegel. "We know it's a long season. But we're licking a lot of wounds right now, so we're going to try to heal them up and get back at it at practice."
Coldwater jumped to an early lead and never surrendered it the remainder of the game. Marshall sophomore Codey Shellenberger knocked down a 3-pointer early in the second quarter that pulled the deficit to 18-15, but it would be as close as the Redhawks would get as the Cardinals maintained a double-digit lead for much of the remainder of the game.
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"Our boys came out and did a great job tonight, especially at the defensive side of the ball. I think for these guys, that's a huge win for them. That's up on our board. We wanted to get two against Marshall, and when we didn't, we knew we had to get one tonight." | with 17 points. Sophomore guard Jack Crull added eight points.
For Coldwater, junior forward Gage McGuire had 12 points, senior forward Brady Beckhusen had 11 points, senior guard Brent Smoker had seven points and five rebounds, sophomore guard Damon Beckhusen had seven assists, and freshman Spencer Rodesiler had five points and four rebounds.
"These guys play AAU together all summer, so it was a little bit of an emotional game," Berry said. "They got us up there, and we were fortunate enough to play real well tonight | 119 |
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How Punk Is Your Pinot?
Like any subculture, the wine world has its indie stars. Ray Isle looks at the insider darlings now and what gives them their cool-kid cred.
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Have you ever hear of Guiberteau? How about Brézé? Or Saumur, for that matter? If you're not in the wine business, or not obsessed with the wines of France's Loire Valley, those names won't mean much to you. But if you're a sommelier, particularly at a restaurant with any aspirations to hipness, odds are good that the Guiberteau name will make your eyes light up. Bells might even start pinging in your head, like you're some kind of crazy wine slot machine and you just hit a thousand-dollar winner.
Going backward through those names, Saumur is a wine region in the Loire Valley. Brézé is a hill in Saumur, covered in Chenin Blanc vines. As for Guiberteau, I'll let the importer's words stand in for mine: "Romain Guiberteau owns some of the best land in Brézé and makes dry Chenins of punk rock violence, yet of Bach-like logic and profoundness."
Ooh—punk rock violence. Man, doesn't that sound cool?
To be fair, the Guiberteau wines are extremely good, and their importer, Becky Wasserman, has an unerring track record as a wine talent scout. But having spent my youth near enough mosh pits, I'd say there's very little that any Chenin Blanc anywhere in the world has in common with being elbowed in the face by some sweaty aggro skinhead. The connotations are the point: "Punk" suggests outsider, break-the-rules, fight-the-power, while "violence" conjures intensity, power, surprise.
In restaurants right now, for a wine to be truly cool—and don't think there aren't cool and uncool wines—it needs to have at least a whisper of the transgressive. Call it punk, indie, alternative—whichever you want—but the music analogy is apt.
If you don't believe me, sift through the lists at wine-centric restaurants across the country. Three things will strike you. The first is linguistic: Wines that sommeliers are particularly excited about often come accompanied by adjectives like "expressive," "independent" or "experimentalist." Winemakers "subvert your expectations," "man the battlements" or look "like an indie rock dj." (I keep searching for a list with an "inexpressive," "corporate" Cabernet made by "some old white guy who still listens to REO Speedwagon," but no such luck.)
Second, the characteristics of cutting-edge wines push boundaries. High acid is excellent; reductive funk, bring it on; some fuzz tone cloudiness—a deal-breaker in a Napa Cabernet—is intriguing, a hallmark of artistic ambition.
The third thing, which is a little peculiar, is that these deeply individualistic, subversive wines pop up on wine list after wine list. It's like when your trend-chasing friends all seem to start listening to the same undiscovered band at once. The current cool-kid playlist is heavy on the Loire, Jura and Champagne in France; loves the lo-fi movement of natural wine; and embraces talent in offbeat places such as the Canary Islands or Sicily's Mount Etna (volcanoes are very in). Large-production "corporate" wine, like corporate rock, is anathema. Small importers have followings the way small record labels once did. In fact, small is good, period. Making 500 cases of something is edgy. Make 500,000, and it's Coldplay in a bottle<|fim_middle|>? I have an Overnoy allocation of two bottles of red and one of white." (He means that's what he gets per year.) Some wines never even make it to outlying markets. Consider Sandlands, the boutique label from California vineyard guru Tegan Passalacqua. Cappie Peete, who oversees wine for chef Ashley Christensen's restaurants in Raleigh, North Carolina, laughed when I mentioned it. "That's one of those coveted new wines that most of us here haven't even tried. I'd love to see one bottle come into North Carolina."
Which doesn't mean that today's hits won't be tomorrow's bargain-bin cutouts. In the late '90s in New York, Duckhorn Merlot was allocated—you couldn't touch the stuff. That's unimaginable these days. (In terms of cool, Merlot had a stake driven through its heart by the movie Sideways 13 years ago and still hasn't risen from its grave.) Paul Grieco of New York City's Terroir wine bar, whose samizdat-like wine lists have influenced uncountable young sommeliers, recalls that in the early 2000s, when he worked at Gramercy Tavern, "with one of those big-gun Australian Shirazes—I can't recall which one—I got allocated three bottles. At Gramercy! At $150 a bottle!"
Other names and places have risen up the charts and faded away, too. For a while in the mid-2000s, Austrian whites were sommelier catnip, with people vying for what few bottles they could get of, say, F.X. Pichler's latest vintage. Not long after, the vineyards of Spain's Priorat had their moment, which then waned; seven or eight years later, Spain also provided a brief Txakoli frenzy. These days, Grieco says, "Burgundy is the new Napa Valley cult wine, with Jura thrown in as the salt and pepper on top of it."
What has changed though is how wines like these become popular. For restaurant buyers, the dominance of critics like Robert Parker has largely vanished. Instead, the sommelier community itself, through social media, creates the buzz. Camille Rivière, who imports wines from Jura and southern France, says, "We're in a world where sommeliers live on Instagram and Twitter. They see other people post all these bottles, and they get excited. That's worldwide. You go to the Le Nez dans le Vert tasting in Jura, and you'll see sommeliers from around the world—French, US, but also the Danes, the Swedes, the Japanese, even the Russians." Often it only takes one influential person to start the trend. As Jason Wagner says, "There's always a 'patient zero' for these wines."
The other big shift—possibly the one most pertinent for casual wine buyers—is that the underground hits right now, the wines that sommeliers will trample one another to get, often aren't all that expensive. Because they're from up-and-coming regions or from winemakers just beginning to achieve fame, most are under $100 on a wine list. A bottle of 2015 Guiberteau's basic Saumur Blanc will run about $65 on a wine list, as will newly minted Rhône Valley star Hervé Souhaut's Ardèche Syrah. Even the Jura producer Jean-François Ganevat, whose prices have rocketed upward, is still fairly affordable. His Cuvée de l'Enfant Terrible Poulsard runs $130 or so in restaurants—not cheap, but substantially less than a premier cru Burgundy of similar quality, or even a top California Pinot Noir.
In other words, the barrier to enjoying these wines isn't paying for them, it's finding them. But there are ways. If you're a sommelier and you want to get into the Guiberteau club, sure, the line goes out the door and down the next block. But as an ordinary restaurant-goer, not someone trying to amp up their wine list, in many ways you're better off. Most people are still ordering the AOR Top 40 bottles of the world: easy-listening Chardonnays and pop-rock Pinot Grigios. Which means that hipper wines often linger…waiting for that one fan—you, perhaps—who really gets them.
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2016 G.B. Burlotto Verduno Pelaverga, $23: Pelaverga, an obscure Piedmontese grape, makes delicate reds with white-pepper notes. As Erica O'Neal at Italianne in New York City says, "I can get all the top Barolo I want, but Pelaverga I really have to fight for."
2016 Hervé Souhaut La Souteronne Gamay, $30: Gamay doesn't typically grow in France's Rhône Valley, but don't tell that to Hervé Souhaut. Effectively, this is cru Beaujolais from Syrah country, which is a cool (and completely unlikely) thing. Plus, the wine is delicious.
2016 Jolie-Laide Gamay Noir, $30:California's Scott Schultz focuses on grapes that big wineries never want to bother with—Trousseau Gris, anyone?—making minute quantities that somehow end up on wine lists everywhere. Try his aromatic, raspberry-ripe Gamay Noir.
2014 Domaine Tissot Les Bruy È Res Arbois Chardonnay, $45: When it comes to edgy restaurant wine lists, there is no region more of-the-moment than France's Jura, and Tissot is one of the best producers. This single-vineyard white is smoky and rich, lifted by an electric jolt of acidity.
2014 Guiberteau Brézé Saumur Blanc, $62: Guiberteau is the "it" wine producer right now. But uneasy lies the head that wears the crown: Next year it will undoubtedly be someone else. Either way, enjoy the crystalline focus and intensity of this Loire white.
NV Marie-Noëlle Ledru Grand Cru Brut Champagne $82: As Cappie Peete says, "There's always a Champagne everyone is fighting over, and every year it's a new one." In 2016 it was Savart; this year LeDru's vibrant cuvées are particularly hot. | .
But while digitized music isn't limited by quantity—it's not like Spotify is going to run out of your latest drone-metal discovery—sommeliers must compete for limited amounts of the same wines. As Jason Wagner of New York City's Union Square Cafe says, regarding the Jura producer Pierre Overnoy, "Are you kidding me | 70 |
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Happy Birthday Committee!
Fifty-first anniversaries are never quite as flashy as 50th anniversaries, but it's always worth remembering the opening night of The Committee on April 10, 1963! Scott Beach, Hamilton Camp, Garry Goodrow, Larry Hankin, Kathryn Ish, accompanied by Ellsworth Milburn, stage managed by Dick Stahl, and directed by Alan Myerson, took the stage at 622 Broadway in San Francisco.
(The Dick Cavett Show appearances, including the one with Janis Joplin, above, didn't come until much later.)
Since that evening, a lot of talented folks took the stage as part of The Committee, and they influenced countless others, most of whom don't even know it. Hopefully, Jamie Wright, Sam Shaw, and I will be able to change that in the next couple of years. Jamie and Sam, who do a terrific job producing the San Francisco Improv Fest every year, are producing a documentary on The Committee, and I'm working on my Committee book.
Anyone who has ever performed The Harold (or any other kind of longform improvisation), or been to the iO, UCB, Groundlings, The Annoyance, or so many other theatres and schools, or enjoyed the work of some of their alumni (including the much-in-the-news iO and Second City alum Stephen Colbert), owe an awful lot to these pioneers, and the upcoming documentary and book will tell you why.
Billy Jack Meets The Committee
It's difficult to overestimate just how popular BILLY JACK was when it was first released, but for many people, it was the first chance they had to see the now-legendary West Coast improvisational theatre, The Committee. While researching and interviewing for my book on The Committee, I heard stories about filming for Tom Laughlin, who passed away recently. He knew great comedic talent, however, and used it to great advantage for his film. This was shot in the square in downtown Santa Fe in the spring of 1970, with real passers-by in the background watching the filming. Billy Jack featured a number of Committee performers, including Howard Hesseman (who was then known as Don Sturdy), Dick Stahl, Ed Greenberg, Dan Barrows (now known as Beans Morocco) and Alan Myerson. Enjoy.
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Looking for log cabins in Scotland? From remote mountain bothies, traditional 'but an' bens', tiny houses, glamping pods, eco treehouses, luxurious wood sheds and rustic huts – the lure of getting off-grid and remote is a simple one. Read by candlelight, explore the great outdoors, enjoy the peace and quiet, or just put your feet up… here are seven log cabins in Scotland which make a perfect retreat from the world.
Gimme Shelter might only be 20 minutes from Edinburgh but this campsite is a world away from the busy city. Gimme Shelter is completely off grid – there is no electricity or water, and everything from the fireside seats & signs, the huts housing the eco-loos, camping shacks made entirely of doors, to a new glamping hut made out of a world war II bomb shelter is homemade, Gimme Shelter offers up some of the most unique log cabins in Scotland.
Choose from one of six brilliant handmade glamping huts and log cabins quietly situated across the site – my favourites are Tree Lodge which sleeps up to six and the couples only Shepherds Hut – with its perfect balcony for sundowners.
Nearby: Inverkeithing is just a 15-minute walk away for supplies and Edinburgh & the Fife coast are accessible by train. Aberdour has a pretty castle and a lovely beach and you can jump on the Fife Coastal Path. If you have a car, head out to the pretty villages of the East Neuk and sample Fife's foodie delights.
On a hillside above Loch Kirkaig in remote Assynt sits Batbox, a luxury wooden hut with incredible views. With a comfy double bed, full kitchen and luxury bathroom, this is hutting in style. Just 10 minutes from the foodie village of Lochinver, the batbox gives you total seclusion in touching distance of an excellent meal. Be warned up on the hillside there is no internet or phone signal – you are truly remote from the world here – and if you can't live without it, then the owner's other log cabin, the Lazy Bed cabin, closer to the wifi signal might be a better option.
Nearby: Lochinver is the perfect base to explore Assynt. Climb Suilven or Stac Pollaidh, two of Scotland's most iconic mountains, or just head to Achmelvich or Clachtoll Beaches to relax on perfect white sand. Batbox is also well located for those doing the North Coast 500.
Armadillo pods are popular right across Scotland, but it is rare to see one as well kitted out as Wee Haven on the Isle of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides. Sleeping up to 4 (well, in a pinch) this micro lodge has a mini kitchen complete with a welcome pack, perfectly formed shower room, double bed and beautiful views across the island. Looking to make your retreat even more relaxing? Wee Haven also offers up on site complementary therapies and yoga in a purpose-built yurt… or just relax on the terrace and watch the sun go down over the croft.
Nearby: Connected by causeways to both North and South Uist, Benbecula is a good base for exploring the Outer Hebrides Island chain. Head to Hosta beach for those incredible white sands the Western Isles are known for, jump on a horse at North Uist Riding School or ferry hop to check out beautiful Barra.
The Lazy Duck's owners (and Django the spaniel who takes his guest manager duties very seriously) have been welcoming guests to their smallholding just outside Nethy Bridge near Aviemore for the last 40 years. The Woodman's Hut is a tiny house for two made out of a 260-year-old Scots Pine, recycled from where it fell. With a little house on the prairie interior, complete with cabin bed (at a height perfect for viewing the hills), a skylight for stargazing at night, and two old, overstuffed armchairs in front of the fire – it instantly transports you back to a much simpler time. Book into the Lazy Duck's hot tub to truly relax.
Nearby: The Cairngorms National Park is literally on your doorstep. Climb the mighty Bynack More and hike up to the beautiful An Lochan Uaine. Eat at the Mountain Cafe over in Aviemore and visit the Highland Wildlife Park to see the UK's only baby polar bear, red pandas and wildcats.
'Osprey' and 'Oyster' are beautiful Scandinavian-style boat houses perched on the edge of Loch Tay. Hidden down a steep road this is seclusion at its very best – you will only have curious ducks, a greedy pheasant and my favourites, a pair of cheeky red squirrels who popped out from behind the trees for company. With your own lochside beach for a candle-lit bbq, I promise you won't want to leave. Due to the remote location, you will need a 4×4 to get down the hill and there is no internet and who needs Instagram when you have it for real in right in front of you?
Nearby: Drive up to 3000 ft in a 4×4 with Highland Safaris and then back to feed red<|fim_middle|>On the bonnie banks of Loch Lomond sits Loch Lomond Waterfront – eight five-star luxury lodges and three wooden chalets. Flanked on one side by the looming Conic Hill and on the other the endless waters of Loch Lomond, you can't get many more iconic locations for a holiday in Scotland. Whether you are looking for a romantic break or a family group trip to Loch Lomond, each lodge sleeps between two and six people, most are dog-friendly, and all have stunning views over the loch.
Nearby – the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park is right on your doorstep so you have no excuse to get out and explore. A 10-minute walk from your Loch Lomond lodge is Conic Hill. Sitting on the Highland Fault line, Conic Hill's slopes offer up one of Scotland's best views and you don't have to climb up far to see it. After your walk, pop into the Oak Tree Inn for a pint of real ale and haggis rolls! Weather not so great? drive the Scenic Route to discover more of the National Park's best views – discover Woven Sound at Falls of Falloch, The Lookout at Loch Voil, Faerie Hollow at Loch Lubnaig and An Ceann Mor at Inveruglas.
Sitting in its own acre of land, and surrounded by woodland, the Lambing Bothy at Lazy Duck comes complete with its own small herd of goat-like Soay sheep from Shetland and a group of nosy, bustling, chickens. Best described as 'off-grid plus', inside, the Lambing Bothy it is all farmhouse rustic chic – there is a comfy high box bed with stargazer skylight and even wifi if you really need it.
Time spent at the Lazy Duck is all about lighting the fire, pulling on the cosy socks, popping on the vintage radio rather than the TV, pouring a glass of wine and settling in for the night under a thick woollen blanket. You check into the Lazy Duck to check out – and settling into your wee log cabin you really do feel like you are embarking on a homesteading adventure.
Nearby – Hike up to the beautiful green An Lochan Uaine, spot the Cairngorms reindeer in their mountain wilderness, or go on a sled dog safari, learn to drive a sled, or go on a night sledding experience at the Dog Sled Centre. Just need to relax? Book into Lazy Duck's infrared sauna or the fabulous wood-fired hot tub (£10 per couple) and swim by candlelight in 32-degree pine scented waters with a view of the mountains….
In the hills just to the south of Edinburgh is the Westside Woodshed, an incredibly stylish Scandi-inspired log cabin for two hidden amongst the trees. The cottage sits in 3000 acres of the beautiful, rolling hills and valleys of the Pentland Hills Regional Park on a working free-range blackface sheep farm which has been in the Cowan family since 1850. With sleek retro style all that's left to do is swing open the patio doors, pour yourself a gin & tonic and slip into the outdoor hot tub – bliss.
Nearby: the bright lights of Edinburgh are only 20 minutes away, and history buffs will love Rosslyn Chapel and the walk around Roslin Glen. From your doorstep, you can walk up into the Pentland – hike the Kips to Scald Law, or the Capital View Walk for incredible views across to the Forth Bridges – look out for pheasants, deer, highland coos and rare black grouse on the way.
Nearby – Eagle Brae offers all the sporting estate activities a budding Highland laird could wish for – from camera stalking to husky racing and fly fishing. Visit Glen Affric and Glen Strathfarrar and Loch Ness where you can explore Urquhart Castle. Further afield is the Highland capital of Inverness – don't miss the organic pizza & beer at the Black Isle Bar. | deer. Hike up to the falls at Acharn a series of dramatic waterfalls, located about two minutes drive from the boathouse or Bag Ben Lawers (the 10th highest mountain in Scotland) and explore the Ben Lawers Nature Reserve.
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Michael Kehler is a builder. When he was younger, he and his dad constructed model planes and flew them. He's put together a 3D printer in a case that he can connect to with a smartphone. And in Grade<|fim_middle|> build two houses for economically challenged families.
"It was an amazing experience," he notes. "The families were very appreciative of us being there, because they were in a situation they couldn't control, living on a plot of sand of only about 300 sq. ft."
"We were able to connect well, despite the differences in language," he adds. "It made me feel like I was doing something useful."
Kehler's aspirations, however, are decidedly more skyward.
"I want to build something no one has built before," he says. "I can see myself pursuing an advanced aerospace education after my Master's degree, and then coming back to Manitoba to work for companies like Boeing or Magellan. And then, who knows?"
"I follow SpaceX," he says wistfully.
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"I impressed myself for doing that one," he says proudly.
A graduate of Calvin Christian School, Kehler is one of two first-year University of Manitoba students who are among the 2018 Schulich Leaders. He received a $100,000 entrance scholarship from the Schulich Foundation, and is entering the department of mechanical engineering with the goal of specializing in aerospace technology.
Which is good, because he hopes to land a job in that field some day. His "dream job" is to work for NASA in some capacity.
"I'd love to have a job like that," he says.
Kehler is almost embarrassed he was selected as a Schulich Leader.
"There were a lot of very worthy candidates," he explains. "I have no idea why they picked me, but I am very appreciative that I was selected."
His selection certainly had something to do with his academic record; he was always good in math, and excelled in physics and the sciences. "He is motivated by 'why' – which makes him a privilege to teach and an example to his peers," says Lyle Morris, Kehler's Grade 12 Physics and Pre-Calculus teacher.
Another factor in selecting Schulich Leaders is their community service, and Kehler's volunteerism speaks for itself. Even though by his own admission he is "not a social person," he has a great passion for helping others. He has been teaching English as a Second Language with refugees and newcomers to Canada. And he recently traveled to Mexico with a school group to | 341 |
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Player evaluation: Iafallo
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This season: 75 games, 9 goals, 16 assists, 25 points, 12 penalty minutes, +10 rating, 129 shots, +3.2% CF%Rel, 1.010 PDO, 15:06 time on ice
The good: While his future teammates nursed jet lags two days after returning from China, Alex Iafallo, becoming increasingly poised to claim a spot on the team, was outstanding in a preseason game at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, forechecking Nate Schmidt off the puck to set up Brooks Laich for the overtime game-winner. From that moment on, he never at any point let up on his command of a roster spot and ended up spending the better part of the next 80-plus games alongside Anze Kopitar and Dustin Brown as part of a resurgent Kings top line. Though the scouting and recruiting forces had kept close tabs on him, the summer of 2017 was really the first time John Stevens became familiar with Iafallo, and from development camp through rookie camp and then training camp, the Buffalo-area native continued to pass all the tests asked of him and quickly grew some impressive trust in the new coaching staff. Turning 24 midway through the season, Iafallo is young, even if he isn't an infant by NHL standards. Providing an immediate and sorely needed impact at bargain value, Iafallo's speed and puck pursuit allowed him to forecheck and win back pucks in the offensive zone, increasing the team's zone time and affording Kopitar and Brown additional opportunity. Less than a month into the season, Stevens noted that "if there's a third assist in hockey, [Iafallo would] have a lot of them."
Having torn the meniscus in his right knee during his final USHL season, Iafallo ultimately gained a jump in his quickness early in his tenure at Minnesota-Duluth and credited a lopsided amount of lower-body work for his improvement as a skater. "After that, juniors on, I just used my speed as my main asset for forechecking, backchecking, getting the pucks in the corners. Ever since then, everybody's been saying just to keep my speed up," he said. Combined with his excellent support, positioning and detail, his speed and pacing aided his forechecking and allowed him to serve as a tried and true puckhound who meshed well with Kopitar and Brown, even when he wasn't putting up the level of points befitting a first line left wing. "There's not a lot of learning process – it's not that," Kopitar said. "He goes in and he plays his game." His shot metrics and advanced stats, while buoyed by his play alongside traditional play-driving stalwarts, were excellent. He saw defensively-skewed zone starts against the league's best competition, and played a significant role in the top line's ability to disproportionately play in the attacking end. He spent the lion's share of his minutes alongside Kopitar and Brown, but the team actually pushed play to the attacking end to a greater degree in the scant opportunity Iafallo was away from the stellar duo. It's not particularly important, but the team actually posted significantly better possession rates when Iafallo was used apart from Kopitar, Drew Doughty, Derek Forbort and Jake Muzzin than the completely fine metrics posted when he was used alongside them. That may not come off overwhelmingly positive, but it shows that Iafallo was tugging his own share of the possession rope and wasn't simply a beneficiary of the tremendous talent he was playing alongside. It also suggests that should there be different context in his teammates and competition this year – a safe bet, considering Ilya Kovalchuk was signed to absorb a good deal of the minutes Iafallo had previously played – he should still provide a good push towards productive efforts that show up both on the scoreboard, and, perhaps more pronounced, on the spreadsheet.
Even as a six-foot, 185-pound rookie, Iafallo was right at home in the more rugged aspects of Pacific Division play. Some of his best minutes of the season were logged against Anaheim, a heavy opponent against whom he posted one goal, four points and 11 shots on goal in four games. Clearly, Iafallo is the type of player who will find a home in the new NHL as an aggressive forechecker who is hard on pucks, fights to win them back and is crafty in smaller spaces. It's not too different from the type of ability Justin Williams showed in the offensive zone, though Iafallo doesn't quite have the same degree of skill level as Williams, a former first round pick who posted 31 goals in his 24-year-old season. But even when he wasn't in the attacking zone, he was very useful as an adept backchecker and stick-lifter, which came in handy in setting up Kopitar and Brown in the other direction. He was voted by the media as the Mark Bavis Memorial Award winner as the team's best newcomer.
The bad: Nothing glaring. There's the basic question of whether there's an untapped spring of production, or if 2017-18 was essentially What You See Is What You Get. There were bouts of inconsistency, as there would be with any player making the jump straight from playing 40-plus games a year in the NCAAs to playing 80-plus in the NHL. In December, during the twilight of a nine-game stretch in which he was held without a point, Stevens spoke about the "12 feet of ice along<|fim_middle|> He was a healthy scratch for back-to-back games in early January before returning to the lineup to post two goals and five points in his first nine games back and appeared to benefit from the breather midway through his first full professional season. After dealing with an upper-body injury late in the season, he returned for the playoff opener but was ineffective. He was held out of Game 2 before returning and scoring a Game 3 goal that held up as one of the team's three playoff markers. Though his shot showed improvement (and was clearly one of his strongest assets in college), it's not yet clear if it's good enough to produce regular 15-to-20 goal seasons.
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Going forward: Having gained cult figure status early in his Kings and professional tenure, the challenge for Iafallo will be building on his 2017-18 numbers and metrics while spending more time with "middle six" players instead of Kopitar and Brown. We're still two-plus months away from sharing line combinations that hold any water, but it would appear that Kovalchuk has a welcome mat laid out in that 1LW slot. As effective as Iafallo was there, that's understandable; Kovalchuk, whose power play production the team is also banking on, should have no trouble breezing past Iafallo's 22 5×5 points should he remain healthy. Still, all metrics and most eye tests indicated that Iafallo was at worst plenty serviceable on the Kings' top line, and at times a clear, possession-maintaining boon.
So much of what was seen from Iafallo in his debut season was foretold, to some extent, by Jack Ferreira – now Paul Fenton's right-hand man in Minnesota – who stated early in training camp that the forward was going to play immediately in the NHL. But before Ferreira, there was also the familiarity and bond built between Mark Yannetti, Tony Gasparini and Teddy Belisle and Iafallo's family during his recruitment, when the Kings practically set up a scouting office in Duluth, Minnesota. Their eyes on Iafallo, their appreciation of his detail-oriented play and belief that he's "the type of young man that the Kings have had success developing into NHL players," according to Gasparini, served to provide a player who made an immediate impact, thus providing sturdier than expected lineup balance and making obsolete Michael Cammalleri, who was signed to play in the top-six before it was clear the Kings already had their own internal option there. Los Angeles benefited greatly by playing a $925,000 cap hit alongside the two weightiest forward contracts, and as someone with one year remaining on his entry-level contract, Iafallo will need to continue to provide dividends for a team bumping its head against the salary cap ceiling. With only one year of data available, there's still some range in what a season alongside players who aren't Kopitar and Brown could look like. But there's enough detail, positioning and work ethic to back up some awfully impressive data, suggesting an appropriate role in waiting as a responsible third-line winger who can contribute much-needed speed, pacing and secondary scoring — and move up the lineup if needed.
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The End of the End (of Post Communism). In Conversation with Boris Buden
Cristina Bogdan, Piotr Sikora
The New Dictionary of Old Ideas is a project whose goal is to create a network of artists and art workers from Central and Eastern Europe to reframe the vocabulary we use when describing the region and its specificity. The intention of the two curators, Piotr Sikora and Lucia Kvočáková, was to challenge concepts and terms we know and use when it comes to the issues of the semi-peripheries uncannily located in the middle between the former East and West. The necessity to work on the new dictionary was determined by constant changes we can observe, taking CEE as non-obvious case studies where an uneasy past transforms into the future that brings about both hope and anxiety.
The direct reason why the curators approached Boris Buden was his concept of the dawn of post communism and the problems of post soviet countries entering the new era after the end of history. Buden's writings – very popular in the region and promptly translated into Czech, Polish, Romanian and Bulgarian – were a source of inspiration that brought to the table terms such as the misery of catching up, the immaturity of the post soviet countries or retro utopia. Several years after the first publication of his best-known book, Zone des Übergangs: Vom Ende des Postkommunismus [Zone of Transition: The End of Post Communism], it was interesting to check how some of his concepts respond to the financial crisis from a decade ago and to the rise of populism that makes countries from the region the protagonists of an unwanted future.
This interview, conducted by Cristina Bogdan, a participant in the project, and Piotr Sikora, took place on 25th November 2018, the day before the symposium that was a crowning event for the first chapter of the project.
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Cristina Bogdan: We wanted to start directly from your paper tomorrow as part of the symposium "The New Dictionary of Old Ideas", because we have based a large part of this dictionary on concepts taken from your book, Zone des Übergangs: Vom Ende des Postkommunismus [Zone of Transition: The End of Post Communism].
Boris Buden: Actually, in my talk I will simply emphasize the subtitle rather than the title. The title was The Zone of Transition, but the subtitle was The End of Post Communism. I think that today this end is taking place, and it is also about us having awareness of this end and coming to terms with what has happened.
My point is we now need a sort of honest diagnosis: the so-called post communist transition to democracy has failed. When I am saying failed, I mean that the very historical teleology of this process, democracy as harmony between liberal democracy and neoliberal capitalism, is a failure. The time has come to declare not simply the end of post communism, but its failure.
And failure is not a statement of a general perception, in the way in which everybody knows that the Czech Republic's transition was much better than the one in Bosnia and Herzegovina; for me, former Yugoslavia is a place where the process failed before it even started. Yet even in former Yugoslavia, Slovenia is a very successful story, while until nowadays there is no solution for Bosnia, there is no solution for Serbia, etc.
But my point is that this emancipatory promise, the capacity of democracy to move forward on all levels and make something live, make it better, has been exhausted. Masses no longer believe that we have to work ten years more and then we will be like… the British or the German? This so-called Western democracy is no longer something you can take as a role model, and that is part of the problem.
C.B.: Do you see that the failure in Eastern Europe is also due to the failure in the West?
Yes, I will talk tomorrow about the following moment. During the process of transition, the notion of democracy was a sort of hub, connecting all other spheres and levels of life; say, you had a very egoistic private interest, it would go through democracy and get legitimized, or you had a fairly noble, cultural value, it would also become legitimate through democracy.
In Eastern Europe there was this feeling, "well, this is the beginning, it is a little bit difficult, but tomorrow there will be democracy". The problem is that, after a while, this word was emptied out of any content and especially of emancipatory content. You could ask yourself, where is that emancipatory energy with which people in Romania or here in Prague took to the streets and toppled down these old regimes. But this utopian energy is also completely exhausted.
C.B.: And what do you think mobilizes people now?
I always keep in mind Habermas' definition, which I think is crucial, of the so-called democratic revolutions of 1989-90 as "catching-up" revolutions. Revolutions that removed obstacles – the communist regimes, obstacles for the societies so that they can catch up with the missed historical development, catch up with democracy, with market economy, etc. I will mention tomorrow the role of this Dahrendorf story about how societies would need 60 years to become properly functioning liberal democracies, market economies, etc.
But for me the most interesting idea is this projection of people catching up: 60 years is quite a lot [laughs]. People who were hardly born or were kids at that moment were told that probably by the end of their lives they will be living in proper democracies, which is I think worse than when the apparatchik told you, "it's difficult now, you have to work, but communism is there in 60 years, one more generation and we have it!" [laughs].
P. S.: Your book was published in 2009, how do you see the actions that took place right after 2009, the crisis and protests that spread not only in Spain or in the UK and US, but also in Poland and the Czech Republic? In my view, these protests gave us another tool to fight for this sort of dream come true, the democratic system, and then they immediately were stopped by the rise of the right wing.
C.B.: Yet in Romania protests were directly anti-communist, the elites were fighting for things like the free market, so it was already rigged. There were some social claims in the beginning, but this was immediately confiscated and the status quo prevailed.
The crisis came as a confirmation of sorts. It was seen as something happening in the West, and I am coming now back to this picture of the East working hard to catch up with the West; the question that ensues is, what was happening during these 60 years in the West? Does democracy simply sit there and wait, as it is, as an eternal and perfect form?
In fact, things have been changing all that time in the West and people have been analyzing those changes – I will mention only one book that is probably very accurate in its diagnosis, Peter Mair's Ruling the Void, published in 2013. He uses the notion of the hollowing of western democracies, he talks about mutual withdrawal on both sides of the political spectrum: party politics withdrew from the people, social space, from civil society, from what is happening.
Everybody could see at that time that the parties not only moved away from the masses, from the people, but they also came close to each other – it has become extremely difficult to understand what is, for instance, in economic politics the difference between social democrats and the Christian democrats. And the paradigmatic example was actually Tony Blair, who was dubbed as the biggest success of Margaret Thatcher. He actually succeeded in having Labour implementing the neo-liberal dreams Thatcher had always had but needed a really strong party and a strong leader for that. The problem became that the classical ability of people to<|fim_middle|>ro-degradation. Anna Hulačová in conversation
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This hollowing of the democratic system in the West was taking place while the East was allegedly catching up with it. This is now where so-called populism thrives. We have the feeling that democracy is now being revived. Masses tweet together with Trump. They are thus more interested. This is suddenly called populism. But what was before populism? Empty space, totally disengaged people and the elites. This empty space is now filled up by the so-called populism.
So this is what actually happened and we cannot say if crisis now is in the East or in the West. Today, when you compare the situation in Central Europe, you have only the Slovenian government that is not right wing. If you take Italy, Austria, Croatia, Hungary – in these parts it is clearly a right-wing government. Even in Croatia it is a clerical fascism, which is something very specific, it has a long history, it has much more to do with Spanish Francoism than with classical German Nazism.
C.B.: I wanted to ask whether you think that changing the frame of reference a bit and discussing Eastern Europe in relation to other geographical and mental spaces than the West is interesting.
Problematic is the idea that the political world is divided into different areas… Take the West, the West is an area, but what sort of area? It's a normative identity block.
C.B.: But we talk of global South or global North, for example.
But the problem is how they have been created, which are the meanings and who has the power to territorialize the other, to define other spaces and areas. And the problem is the difference. This is just to remind you what Gramsci would say; every place on earth is in the same North and South, West and East. These are the notions we have used, and they are of course heavily ideologically determined; these notions and the aerial division of the world mirror the power relations.
C.B.: True, but my idea was… our generation feels that there is not much to learn from the West. It's a connection that we can have quite easily, but we don't look at it as a model. I think we are more interested to look at…
P.S.: … South East Asia, South America or Africa.
Yes, finally yesterday, Doreen Mende showed part of her project about the non-aligned countries. But this political legacy has been systematically erased; there is a huge problem to talk about former Yugoslavia. From today's perspective, it is interesting just to see the economy of the loss. Former Yugoslavia was within Europe, but part of non-aligned countries. It was politically of course, not culturally. It was something positive for Europe. I would say, Europe could have a different idea of itself if it accepted this Yugoslavian turn. The colonial legacy was already politically addressed there in a critical way, in this movement.
But today is the moment of the post communist transition, and democracy comes with the notion of the West. Suddenly, all say the West is the final destination. Which effectively means NATO membership…
Václav Havel is the perfect example of how smoothly the emancipatory promise gets involved in a sort of new military arrangement. It's not only about militarization. This is about how, at that time, the notion of the West was simply this universal answer to everything what was in the world, destroying other legacies.
C.B.: Indeed, what we are concerned with is this lack of political imagination, because this unique comparison that is defining us just doesn't work anymore.
[laughs] Actually, imagination is probably a problematic word, because what the right wing imagines is nothing new, they call it nativism. We know that nations are imagined communities.
In certain historical situations, people come to a crisis, and think that the possibility to solve problems goes only through imagining something new. It's not just repeating what it used to be [laughs] or just following the West. Where is the West now heading to? Should we follow Britain in separating from Europe, or Europe in punishing Britain, or should we follow Trump? You know, whom to follow in the West?
But this is a new experience. This is like the beginning of the 90s. It looked like this is the answer so this is why I am resisting the whole concept of transition; the whole concept of post communist transition was deeply ideological. Not only did it not prepare us for the history to come, we also believed history was over, as if the West were beyond history itself. Now history comes from the West.
Just to give you an example. We in Croatia knew it already: I have a colleague, a young sociologist, she analyzed online publications, online magazines of the right-wing Croatian movement, pro-life, etc. The point is that everything, content and design, is copy pasted from the United States. 2-3 years ago, there was a debate on religion in post communism, on national TV, and the opponent was actually a lawyer from the United States, from the Croatian former immigration, but a lawyer of the tea party, pro-life movement, where Steve Bannon is coming from, Trump, etc. The topic was how to define marriage, abortion, etc. It was in Croatia, but it was like in America. In this case, we did not need 60 years to catch up with the United States. America is everywhere here, the West at its worst.
P.S.: When it comes to catching up, I was thinking about this void as a political aspect of life somehow connected with the economic growth, with the fact that people were not so much concerned about the political aspect of their life, while the rising consumerism was the most important aspect of catching up. I often get back to the past and think about phoney Adidas and this desire to have a proper Adidas… How can we find these objects of desire, these material elements of everyday consumerism nowadays? How did this mechanism of misery change, this misery of catching up, or is it the same, maybe it doesn't have any meaning attached to it?
This logic that the market economy, liberalization will secure economic growth of GDP, or production, raise the living standard, etc. was projected onto the power almighty, the power of market economy and privatization, etc. The dialectics of growth was also in the climate change. And now this is very contested, a hot topic.
Measuring of economic data would say there is growth. At the same time, politicians in Eastern Europe, when it comes to questions of economic growth and perspectives of their societies, can see only one possibility. Either you make your labour force cheap so as to attract capital, or you protect your labour force and then capital moves somewhere else. Growth was always connected with cheap labour.
Of course, Eastern Europe is not alone now. Globalization came, it changed everything. But in Eastern Europe you have places that somehow still function like the Czech Republic, when you see what happened to Croatia, not only due to the war but the destruction of all industry and you have just one industry, which is tourism, you think what this means in the long run, it means this nation will not have any need for engineers, for chemistry, for machines, etc.
So whole spheres of knowledge that were common are threatened; shipyards are closing, not after communism, but after more than 2000 years, on the Adriatic coast, tradition of building ships ever since the Roman empire. You have sailors, captains, the education system produces something, but it's not of local use, you don't have ships. Who to produce it for? Why be an engineer in Croatia? You cannot work as an engineer there.
P.S.: And what about the state being the one who protects this kind of industry?
We still have this picture as if the United Nations had some sort of real meaning, all equal, all different. When you look closer, beyond the abstract idea of egalitarianism, you have pariah states; I would say these little Balkan states play certain roles that are given by other states.
So the international political system and how we perceive it has nothing to do with reality. You have these political elites, which are completely dependent on global financial elites, not so much on their electorates. The people who are supposed to vote for them, to decide, the big words of people's sovereignty… it's a joke.
Today, both in culture and politics on international level, we come to the point when we can probably more easily compare the situation of today to the Middle Ages than to something like the dreams of Renaissance, the eternal peace in Kant's sense, of equality, etc.
The Westphalian system that was established in the 17th century, after the 30 Years War, meant that the world had a cluster of sovereign states – this is what is also collapsing today. You know, Bosnia has a system imposed by the West, the Dayton Agreement. Richard Holbrooke said at that moment that it is a turn from the horror of war to the promise of peace… The horror of peace? [laughs] Totally dysfunctional. The problem has not been solved. Today, George Soros moves from Budapest to Berlin. The Central European University moves to Vienna, but the Open Society Institute as such moves to Berlin. And there were discussions, the so-called West-Balkan forum, and there was a question what to do, how to solve the problems…
C.B.: There is this notion now of West Balkans!?
West-Balkan Forum, yeah… This is a pragmatic concept… Bosnia is the West Balkans and Croatia is not. Because they cannot call Balkans what is already in the European Union. But everybody knows you cannot solve any problem in Bosnia and Herzegovina without Croatia [laughs]. And the only thing that drives discussion is how to solve the problem with Kosovo and Serbia. They have produced a problem and they cannot solve it. We usually forget here, the Czech Republic and Hungary are functioning states, but they are in Europe. They claim that we still have this idea that this is the Balkans, but it's not the Balkans. It is simply a space where the westernization, democratization, this whole process has totally failed, while they would say, "you Balkan people cannot deal with such complex sophisticated forms as democracy".
But I will mention tomorrow what Maria Todorova said, this is the problem of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the war is not big enough, in western terms, this is the Other, culturally inferior, historically belated Other of Europe, the Balkans. So they kill each other because they are belated. If they would be normal Europeans, of course, they would drink coffee together instead of killing each other…
The war was created by the final Europeanization of Bosnia and Herzegovina, meaning the introduction of the concept of state into a space which can, only by use of extreme force, be cut into nation states. All these war criminals were actually trying to have their nation state. But they had to kill hundreds, thousands… These unsolved problems were only forgotten, left there, until today nobody has any idea how to solve the problem. Even the system is created in such a weird way that it contradicts human rights; they cannot be applied in this system.
So just talking about this part of Europe, the divide between West and East… This is the form in which the Cold War divide survived. We believe it is only about cultural violence, about cultural differences, but now you see that with militarization and with the danger of new wars, the nightmares of the Cold War are coming back through the very logic of this division, through the very logic of implementation of democracy through transition, through catching up.
C.B.: You think the conversation is the same but take Romania for example; it still has this peripheral vibe. I'm not trying to be self-colonial here, but it feels that the conversation is not actually taking place on a very sophisticated level and that there is a lack of access to the bigger themes. It is something that we're doing to ourselves; we are not contextualizing our situation in a wider sense. I am not sure that in France people are necessarily good in contextualizing; yet it feels as if they wouldn't do it, it is being done in any case.
Their contexts are so well defined that they cannot see out of their context [laughs]. I really understand what you mean by this, I'm just thinking how much work and how much radical change in the way we think and the way we make politics and the way we imagine the future, how radical we have to be to deal with this problem, not to be simply self-Easternizing…
C.B.: Exactly. Like raising the question they're not asking, they have not even thought about.
P.S.: And what about over-identification as some sort of structure…
C.B.: Even if you go outside of over-identification in the facts, it feels a bit like you are talking too locally.
This is obviously a problem to be tackled, but there is some change within the generations that earlier believed what they want is the West and that the East was their own problem and they had to figure out how to get out of it. This was the vision.
In art, in culture, this is where this problem of self-Easternization started, the political concept of the logic or the paradigm struggle for recognition. As Axel Honneth says, this is identitarian politics where an excluded element of identity struggles to be recognized by the excluder. This is the classical paradigm of identity politics.
When the Eastern art man makes Eastern art map, you see, this is an attempt at reconstructing, imaging Eastern European history of art for itself. They are completely separated from the West, it's a radical statement, a counter position, a challenge.
C.B.: But a lot of people in my generation have left the country at one point and lived a long time abroad. They went through this first stage of over-identification and being more Eastern, more Romanian than when they had left. Then when we came back and some of us were leftists! Many came back and they wanted free market, they wanted Romania to finally become civilized. But I think many of us came back and are wondering what questions should be asked – this is why I was asking you earlier the questions of other frames of reference, is there a way of getting out of this… because it feels like this East-West is not doing it for us anymore.
Yes, but this is the problem. You cannot simply jump out of it. But I think that there are so many levels, the level of legacy, this was a non-aligned country. Simply to say, Yugoslavia was not a Balkan part of Europe, it was better connected already to the South, and this is where Europe should have learned something.
C.B.: We were also thinking that some of those coming back are in the arts and the way in which we are organizing is a good way to have a conversation, a lot of good questions are being asked in the art world, which is super tiny and insignificant and has no political power – at least not at all in Romania. So not just in terms of content, but also in terms of organization: people are thinking what kind of frameworks can we create within which we can ask the questions that we want to ask.
I think it is time for new connections and new developments. However, there is not a big difference between what happens in art and the rest of society when it comes to terms of the relation between East and West. Art still functions according to this global art system with more than a hundred and fifty biennials, with enormous sums of money, with the most powerful institutions of the art system that are Western, etc. And there is this struggle for not only East-Europeans, but generally of those who have not yet been admitted into the global Western art system.
Think of the East Art Map, not as a counter art history that challenges radically, but this map as an idea of new infrastructure that has yet to be created, connected in the East itself.
P.S.: I think this is exactly where we are heading.
The problem is that without Western institutions, without financial institutes, banks, those who are in the art market can hardly do anything.
C.B.: I believe we can, I think there is a lot of attempts. There is the precariat, people in the art world who avoid…
P.S.: … the dark matter of art.
The dark matter of art!
C.B.: People who want to avoid the system and who connect with us also. I think it's a more nuanced, understated connection to the West, because we are not rejecting it in block as if we're…
P.S.: … a second option?
But I don't think it would be possible to simply invent art institutions and an art infrastructure. Social infrastructure must be created and understood in terms of social infrastructure. Providing social services, not only art exhibitions, etc. One of the points of my book is that, in the transition to democracy, a crucial element is the destruction of society.
Peter Mair mentions the effects of individualization and globalization: this is where the void is created. I always repeat, Margaret Thatcher said, "There is no such thing as society". Yes, the destruction of society, the concept of actually existing socialism where the state was like the society itself, claimed to be a society providing social services and so on. This has failed definitely and historically.
What in former Yugoslavia could be interesting is the self-management system. This is how society can organize itself in terms of production, in terms of social services, in terms of solidarity. And this is where I see art should think, not how you connect to civil society, art institutions or a parastate, but how to embed art production into new forms of social infrastructure that fill this void. This is where you can challenge the West, because they still have in Germany for example this sort of preserved welfare state, but look what happened to Greece, to its welfare state.
P.S.: But I know two examples of this kind of practice that you can follow in the arts. One in Poland where Citizens' Forum of Contemporary Art (Obywatelskie Forum Sztuki Współczesnej) ask other art institutions to establish the minimal wage of artists. Whenever there is a solo or a group show, you have to make sure that the artists will receive the right money.
And in the Czech Republic there is a new concept called Feminist (Art) Institutions, all about enabling people who are not only beholders, but also people who work in the art institutions to feel that the art institutions care about them. From organizing corners for kids to getting a proper salary, from starting this whole discussion on how this small universe can have a bigger effect on society to just providing decent conditions for the art world.
And this can be problematized, articulated. Any sort of creation can start only if these new initiatives are aware of the major problem of what is public, what is common, which should be protected and developed in contrast to the private.
One shall start with the very question to whom water belongs… It's the starting point of the commons. Art must rearticulate itself in such terms to perceive its own activity as being a kind of social commons. But how to deal with the powerful institutions of the art market?
C.B.: In practice… I don't know why, people are so depressed about things when all around us are actually people who are trying, connecting, going to places, talking, thinking, imagining, but overall…
Overall, yeah, the political situation is getting worse and worse [laughs].
C.B.: But we all know that and yet we are surrounded by and connected to people who do amazing things, who have ideas that already transcend all of the basic things that are being discussed… somehow, I mean, it doesn't work on a global scale.
No, yeah, it cannot.
C.B.: This is funny, because we are all surrounded by people who do these things and which on a super small scale work. MeetFactory created an ecosystem that works. In Bucharest also several small initiatives have managed to create all kinds of safe spaces.
Are these supported by the state? Or a city council? I am just trying to compare it to something like the WHW initiatives in Croatia, these are private…
C.B.: By grants from the state, otherwise they wouldn't survive. There is no private money.
P.S.: Same here in Prague.
Not yet here a problem, but the cultural revolution of the rightwing… When they take the state, you will see that all this won't survive.
C.B.: In Hungary, the art scene was very well funded and now they have been boycotting state funding for years.
If I now told you the stories of how rightwing initiatives function, how they mobilize workers… The political struggle intensifies now and in the meantime, left initiatives – non-nationalistic, bottom-up grassroots, social and artistic initiatives – seem to dry out.
C.B.: So you are pessimistic?
I am very, actually, very pessimistic. When it comes to Croatia at least.
P.S.: How about Berlin?
Berlin, no… you know, Berlin is not Germany. Berlin is surrounded by Germany. Berlin is surrounded by this white supremacist AFD environment. It's a completely different world.
C.B.: When you think of this massive trend in Berlin – recall the latest show at Hamburger Bahnhof, Hello World – it seems that they are taking onto themselves this role of the good people of the world…
Berlin is now sort of a refuge. In the Balkans, young people really feel that they no longer have opportunities to develop, to do something at home, and so they leave. Now in the last 10 years, all sorts of intellectuals form Zagreb and artists have moved to Berlin – for example, one of them moved because he could no longer survive the pressure of the Catholic Church. Piotr, the Polish Catholic Church was not collaborationist during the Second World War, but in the Croatian war this was the case. They have such a deep influence that they make the survival of people impossible. It does not have to be direct in terms of censorship, but your wife cannot find a job and they tell you openly she will never get a job.
C.B.: A question that is perhaps more relevant in the case of Romania, but could be asked generally in the East European context: we decided we would erase 50 years of communism, so what are we left with returning to? In Romania at least, intellectuals are very nostalgic about the period before the war, but Romania was in fact a fascist country back then, so it doesn't feel like there's any solution to go back there. Nevertheless, there is a massive nostalgia for the king who died last year and there was a massive national funeral. I saw how on Facebook my friends, who are intellectuals, educated people, were all mourning for the king, as if Romania had lost its hope, everything that was ever good in Romania had died. And also think of Brazil or other countries that were doing such avant-garde things and now…
It then makes this idea of organizing some sort of transnational social and artistic infrastructure even more important. Because this will be obviously the infrastructure of resistance. Not like making exhibitions, also to… take a refuge from the west [laughs]. I'm reminded of the situation in Berlin… People in Croatia have been searching for a place to stay, for a job, etc. They want to stay and they stay. All this while the Croatian state has its own embassy, they have their artists, approved by the church. A completely parallel world.
The next step must be some kind of organization. Berlin provides a refuge for so many people, from gay people from Afghanistan or Turkish lesbians to Americans trying to escape Trumpism and now Brazilians will come…
C.B.: On the other hand, Germany is also currently colonizing the rest of the world, culturally through the Goethe Institutes, they are all around, in South-East Asia, South America… I was talking to some Brazilian friends who were saying, when Goethe gives us money, they give us money for Germans to come, so we cannot do things without them.
Yes. This is one of the richest, most powerful states in the world. I constantly think of Habermas. In a way, his theory corresponds to the reality of Germany, because that is the reality of a state that can protect its financial interests in Greece, so that the Greeks pay, and not German taxpayers. Someone is winning; there are not only losers.
In the 1990s there was a belief that the invisible hand of the market will solve all the problems. Nobody believes this any longer. Even those whose interest is that everything stays as it is, even they don't believe it and are thinking already how they will protect what was privatized… A historical period is over; it was a period of a very strong irrational trust. Belief in the future, in the system that works and that sooner or later will bring solutions.
P.S.: Capital optimism.
Yeah, capital optimism. This is over and the right-wing populist movements are also a symptom of the closure of this belief. This is the end of utopia. Very fast actually, historically.
P.S.: Done. Checked off the bucket list.
C.B.: But is there a radical left that you think has emerged or not?
[laughs] If you read today the Guardian articles about populism, then you'll think there's left populism, right populism… but what is left wing? You had Podemos, Syriza, yet now…
P.S.: … the leftist populism?
Yeah, leftist populism, you don't have it. It's not in power.
P.S.: Bernie Sanders?
Yes, but what does it mean to call Bernie Sanders populist? I don't know. I think that the elites invented the word populism so as to protect themselves. Because populism is turned against the elites.
C.B.: Also maybe the right, the alt-right in fact, has been able to completely reinvent the images, the media, the strategy, everything that the left hasn't done at all.
There are new media technologies that make things possible that were unimaginable 20 years ago.
C.B.: But the left didn't really get it. Which is disappointing, considering its diagnosis is closer to reality. Maybe some ideas of acting in terms of infrastructures, but there is no actual media discourse that would sustain the project, that would make it visible in the media, in the way the alt-right makes its discourse super visible. So there's an imbalance between what we have and what the other side has, or what we would need. We have theory and interesting thinking on the left, but then there is little media strategy.
It is difficult to think of a strategy, you need some subject. I have this feeling that even these words are of no use, because in these infrastructures we think we will build, who will then be a subject to create a strategy? There must be something that is not strategy, but works even better than strategy.
This is a question of institutions. Who is in possession of the institutions? Institutions are art infrastructure and they are very powerful. I think that in this precarious situation one should create one's own institutions. Parallel institutions. Because it so easily happens that state institutions betray you: they like your art now, at least a little bit, but tomorrow this little bit can disappear immediately and then it's over. This is because state functions according to a logic of distribution, who will get which part of the cake. Solidarity is not necessarily distribution. Solidarity can be articulated in a different way.
We say that the United States is a state, Germany is a state, Romania is a state, Croatia is a state, but these are different institutions with so different power relations, different ability to accumulate power and apply it, but there are obviously states which are beyond the rest… there are dependencies, like in feudal systems which we should study, and think what can emerge out of the cracks of the system and develop something new.
Today, we should also think of those who can't find themselves, who are in the cracks of the system. And the system does not function perfectly, it's full of cracks. And then what happens to these cracks? Does society hold the possibility of creating some social relation within these cracks? This is something…
C.B.: Parasitic?
Parasites… they are ok. Parasites are even better if they finally kill the system…
Artist Erick Beltrán, Verónica Lahitte, Elena Lavellés, Irmina Rusicka, Adéla Součková, Katharina Stadler, Sandro Sulaberidze, Nino Zirakashvili, Jiří Žák
Exhibition The New Dictionary of Old Ideas II
Place / venue TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art, Szczecin
Dates 18 June – 16 August 2020
Curated by Data Chigholashvili, Alba Folgado
Website trafo.art/en/
Index Adéla Součková Alba Folgado Boris Buden Cristina Bogdan Data Chigholashvili Elena Lavellés Erick Beltrán Irmina Rusicka Jiří Žák Katharina Stadler Lucia Kvočáková Meetfactory Nino Zirakashvili Piotr Sikora Sandro Sulaberidze TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art in Szczecin Verónica Lahitte
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This week marks the end of this column's thirteenth year. 2011 was a busy and eventful twelve months in Cape Region golf.
January—A steady onslaught of white stuff puts an early damper on wintertime golfing opportunities, leading to the next best thing—reading about golf. PGA Tour journeyman Mark Wilson picks up another victory, and his charitable efforts also gain notice. Other pros gain unwanted notoriety due to unusual rules situations, highlighted by eagle-eyed TV viewers.
February—Sussex County lawyers request urgent advice—about how to play Monkey in the Middle and/or Nines. A new movie about The Kings English calls to mind a favorite golf writer, P.G. Wodehouse. LPGA Pro Kris Tschetter pens a fond memoir of Ben Hogan.
March—The first invitations for the 2011 charitable golf tournament season begin to appear. Dave Inglis, a Coast Guard vet, looks forward to his first season as the new golf coach for Cape Henlopen High School. Physical conditioning is emphasized as the golf season approaches. The Vikings win their first match of the season, against Smyrna High.
April—Cape wins its second and third matches of 2011, defeating Sussex Central at Sussex Pines and Milford in a home match at Rehoboth Beach Country Club. I play my first-ever tournament of the Golf Writer's Association of America, in Pinehurst, North Carolina. Cape's golf team defeats Laurel and Polytech, but loses to Sussex Tech and Caesar Rodney. The annual golf trip south goes to the Outer Banks, in the immediate aftermath of a tornado.
May—The Vikings are on both sides of single stroke matches—a win over Delmar and a loss to Dover. Steve VanSant, longtime golf coach for Lake Forest High School, dies after an extended illness. The Vikings beat Seaford and Lake Forest, but lose to Indian River, for a season record of 10-4. The USGA and PGA of America announce their Tee It Forward campaign.
June—The Cape golf team finishes fifteenth in the state tournament, thanks in part to a scheduling snafu. Cape's Devin Medd wins the top scholarship award from the Delaware State Golf Association. Junior golfers descend upon the Cape Region for the Rehoboth Beach Junior Open. Local club tournament results start to fill my email inbox.
July–The summer heat wave provides another opportunity to discuss prevention and treatment for heat stroke and exhaustion. Playing opportunities are announced for the First Annual Eleanor Soltner Memorial Golf Outing at Shawnee Country Club. A spot of skin cancer inspires a column on prevention and treatment of the condition.
August—The passing of Tom Derrick provides an opportunity to tell a good story about him. The fall charity golf tournament season begins. An unusually strong earthquake raises a golf rules question about the little ball moving when the big ball also moves. Local golfers continue to report club tournament results.
September—Cape Region golf courses participate in the Patriot Golf Day fundraiser. A Ruling of the Day answers a nagging question about when to switch golf balls during a round. The Village Improvement Association holds its annual golf tournament September 19. Teeing It Forward will not fix a dodgy swing.
October—The competition season for Cape Region clubs begins to wind down. The Leaf Rule also begins to be invoked. The Iron Mike Distasio tournament is set for October 26, to benefit his family and the MDA/ALS Hope Foundation. The new edition of the Rules of Golf comes out. Several changes reduce the influence of those eagle-eyed TV golf watchers<|fim_middle|> of the Day reminds us that it's usually the player, not the piano.
December—Recent court decisions reveal Delaware's surprising influence in golf matters. This year's dubiously distinctive Christmas golf gifts include a golf bag aquarium and a Penn State golf towel. | .
November—Several Cape Region golfers play the Battle of the Bell Tournament, benefiting the Steve Van Sant Memorial Scholarship fund. I accept a nomination to once again become president of Shawnee CC, proving that I ain't had enough fun. A Ruling | 51 |
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Elko Club Elects Officers
The Elko Amateur Radio Club has chosen their slate of officers to guide the group during the upcoming year.
Dave Potter will assume the Presidents position, while Charles Hall will serve as the club Secretary.
Robert Palmer and Joe Sasgen will serve as members of the Board of Directors. The positions of Vice-President and Treasure will be appointed at this months meeting.
Nevada Has New Youngest Ham
Marty Simon is believed to have become the youngest Nevadan to be a licensed amateur radio operator.
Eight year old Marty is several months younger than Zorion Connell-KG7KNK who briefly held the distinction as Nevada's Youngest Ham. Zorion earned his Technician ticket in April.
Marty is a member of the Nellis Radio Amateur Club.
A third generation ham, Marty is the son of Larry Simon-KC7QJO and the grandson of Dennis Simon-KB7UTV.
Marty earned his CSCE at a special three day Memorial Day weekend license seminar held at Nellis AFB.
Connecticut Ham Uses Radio To Save Girls Life
On the evening of May 4th, Keith Mutch-KB1RBI of Torrington, CT was on Ocean Beach looking out over New London harbor when he spotted an unidentified 12 year old girl and her dog, in distress as she attempted to paddle her canoe in the rough waters and increased winds on Long Island Sound.
Mutch quickly attempted to contact the U.S. Coast Guard with his cell phone, only to find that device did not have reception. Of course, When All Else Fails.....Mutch turned to his hand held amateur radio.
Mutch, a Technician Class licensee, was able to communicate with the Coast Guard who alerted the nearby cross sound passenger ferry "John H" to be on the look out for the girl. Meanwhile the canoe in which the girl and dog were paddling had capsized.
The ferry located the girl and the crew began "Man Overboard" procedures, tossing her a life ring, which she clung to until a boat crew from Coast Guard Station New London arrived to complete her rescue.
The dog swam 3/4 of a mile back to land, where ironically, Keith Mutch spotted him. Mutch says that he chased the German Shepherd up and down the beach for more than a half hour before being able to grab the leash and calm the animal. Mutch contacted the Coast Guard and he was able to reunite the dog with the girls family.
A ceremony at New London City Hall honored those involved in the rescue. The boat crews from the ferry and the Coast Guard received commendations.
Las Vegas Newspaper Features World Of Amateur Radio
This mornings Sunday Edition of the Las Vegas Review-Journal featured a two page article in the Life Section on amateur radio. Numerous Las Vegas area hams were included in the article.
The well-written and accurate story portrays ham radio as a fun and relevant tool for communications in the modern world.
A website version of the story includes a number of pictures of amateurs having fun while operating their radios, including last weeks W1AW/7.
John Przybys from the Review-Journal goes beyond the usual, "When All Else Fails" type of story and actually digs a bit into the reasons why the hams featured came to become amateur radio operators.
CLICK HERE to read the Review-Journal story and view pics
Nevada Youngsters Tried Their Hands at W1AW/7
Ham Radio Girls Turn the Tables on Newsman At W1AW/7
Newsman Chase Stevens operates W1AW/7
Weekends are always big in Vegas. After a grueling work week there is no better way to unwind and blow off a little steam than a wild 48 hours in Sin City.
When you are a newsman for the cities only daily paper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, you know that big weekends bring big news in the entertainment capital of the world.
So what big assignment would news photographer Chase Stevens draw for Saturday? Were Hollywood celebrities mis-behaving? Was a Senator or Congressman caught partying away on the tax-payers dime? Will it be a shooting? A horrible accident? A scandal in the making?
Nope! None of these. Chase Stevens is assigned to gather photographs of the Sisterhood Of Amateur Radio's (SOAR) operation of W1AW/7 for an upcoming story about amateur radio.
Several of the SOAR W1AW/7 team
Stevens, a capable and likeable, young professional, was going about his business of capturing the images of the W1AW/7 operations when the SOAR girls suddenly reversed the roles and Stevens found himself, microphone in hand, as the voice of W1AW/7, while the SOAR ladies pointed the lenses of their cameras in his direction.
The W1AW/7 station was a special commemorative operation of the ARRL headquarters station as a part of the year long ARRL 100 Centennial Celebration. The station was on the air during Saturdays running of the 7th Call Area QSO Party. The station joined similar operations in Amargossa Valley, Carson City, Reno, and Virginia City. The Virginia City W1AW/7 operation hosted by the Comstock Memorial Station W7RN continues thru 5:00 PM Tuesday.
The upcoming feature story about amateur radio will appear in this coming Sunday's Las Vegas Review-Journal, in the Lifestyle section.
Washoe County Emergency Manager Praises Amateur Radio On KTVN Channel 2
The Washoe County Emergency Response Team held a simulated train crash exercise today in Gerlach and Washoe County Emergency Manager Aaron Kenneston had high praises for Nevada's amateur radio operators.
Channel 2's Chris Ciarlo reported on this evenings 5:30 news broadcast:
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Nevada QSO Party 2014 Mustang Round Up May 10
W7YKN's 2013 First Place Plaque
The amateur radio spotlight will be on Nevada throughout the month of May and one of the events helping to make this possible is the 2014 Mustang Round Up, also known as the Nevada QSO Party.
The contest begins at 17:00 (10:00AM) Saturday and runs until 17:00 Sunday. The purpose of the event is to promote good will between Nevada hams and radio operators throughout North America and the world.
The Nevada QSO Party has been in operation for more than 25 years, however participation by Nevada hams fell several years ago when the organizers of the 7QP contest moved their event to the first weekend in May, which had been the long running date of the Nevada QSO Party. The Nevada QSO Party was buried under the weight of the 7QP and was forced to moved to the second weekend in May, which is Mothers Day weekend.
Plaques are awarded to First Place finishers in each category. Engraved certificates are awarded for the highest score in each state, province, and DX entity. Full information can be obtained at: www.nvqsoparty.info
SUPER SATURDAY! packed Full Of Amateur Activity
Events all over Nevada will keep Silver State hams busy this Saturday, May 3rd. Nevada takes it's place as this week's host to W1AW during the year long ARRL Centennial Celebration.
Las Vegas amateurs have at least six activities taking place on Saturday. Southern Nevada hams involved in emergency comm-unications will be busy taking the Auxiliary Communications course.
The monthly Las Vegas Ham Radio Swap meet kicks off before sunrise.
Public service minded hams will be providing radio and other support activities for two major fund-raising events.
14,000+ participants are expected for the Komen Southern Nevada Race for the Cure a 5K (3.1 mile) dash and it's associated 1 mile Fun Walk.
Las Vegas area hams will also be looking after the 450 riders in the American Diabetes Association Tour de Cure bicycle ride. This event has rides of 20, 35, 60, and 100 miles.
The Las Vegas Volunteer Examiner Team will also be at work giving the monthly licensing examinations to new and upgrading amateurs.
It's also a big contest weekend with the huge 7th Area (7qp) and New England QSO Parties dominating the bands, along with the smaller Indiana QSO party. See story on Nevada's W1AW/7 stations participation.
New Amateur Radio Operator May be Youngest In Nevada
KG7KNK QSL Card
Less than a week after passing his Element 2 Technician Class exam, eight year old Zorion Connell KG7KNK is already on the air and making contacts.
Zorion (pronounced Zor-Ryan) is believed to currently be the youngest amateur radio operator in Nevada
Although he is young, KG7KNK is not a new-comer to radio. He has held GMRS license WQNZ596 since age 5 and has been attending amateur radio events for a number of years.
Zorion, the son of Dan (K7QQQ) and Roxanne Connell, is a third grader at Judith Steele Elementary School in Las Vegas, where he excels in math and science.
According to his father, "Zorion just didn't memorize the material, he actually understands and knows how to work with this kind of math which is usually introduced at the middle school or high school levels"
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U.S. Coast Guard, Liberian Tanker, and Panamanian Ham Operator Rescue 3 From Sinking Sailboat
Three people were plucked from a sinking sailboat in the waters 50 miles south of Balboa, Panama on Monday, thanks to the combined efforts of the United States Coast Guard, a Liberian tanker, and a Panamanian amateur radio operator.
Following a fire onboard, the 42 ft sailing vessel Even Star, under way from California in route to Panama, began taking on water Saturday. The boats pumps were unable to curtail the incoming sea waters.
At 4:15 AM Sunday morning the U.S. Coast Guard 11th District Rescue Coordination Center in Alameda, California detected a distress signal from a 406 Mhz Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) which was registered to the Even Star.
A check by Coast Guard personnel revealed that the tanker MT / Glenda Meryl was approximately 30 miles away from the sinking vessel. With the help of an amateur radio operator in Panama, the Coast Guard was able to guide the 600 ft Liberian flagged tanker to the area of the sailboat.
The Glenda Meryl is a 47,250 DWT oil and chemical tanker is co-owned by the Italian firms of D'Amico International Shipping and Glencore. She is a participating ship in the Coast Guard's Automatic Mutual Assistance Vessel Rescue (AMVER) program.
The tanker arrived at 5:23 PM. The ships Master, Captain Singh deployed a lifeboat and rescue party, who safely recovered the Even Star sailors, who were now adrift in a raft. All three were U.S. citizens. They were transported to Balboa, Panama where they were met by Panamanian officials.
In a U.S. Coast Guard Press Release the Chief of the 11th District Response, Captain Michael Eagle said,"The EPIRB was the key to saving these lives, we appreciate the quick response from fellow mariners and Ham radio stations in this case, but without that initial signal from the EPIRB we may never have known about this distress."
The ham radio operator credited with assisting with communications and coordination of rescue efforts has not been identified, but is reported to be a member of the Panamanian Air Force.
The Glenda Meryl has received an award from the Coast Guard for a previous rescue.
The MT/Glenda Meryl
Navy-Marine Corps M.A.R.S. appoints New Nevada Director
Jim Bassett W1RO
The Navy Marine Corps Auxillary Radio System has a new Nevada State Director.
Jim Bassett W1RO / NNNøZKQ of Las Vegas has assumed the position from Dale Yanz KJ6IX / NNNøBCF of Gardnerville.
Bassett has more than 45 years of communications experience. He served 20 years in the US Navy, retiring as a Chief Radioman. He also was employed for an additional 20 years as a Communications Specialist with Las Vegas Fire and Rescue.
Bassett joined MARS in 1979. He is a Life Member of the ARRL and is a member of Clark County ARES/RACES.
MARS is primarily composed of civilian amateur radio operators. The mission of MARS is to provide auxiliary communications for the military and to assist with emergency communications for FEMA, Homeland Security, the Red Cross, and similar disaster response groups.
In 1925 an Army program, the Auxiliary AmaService was established, with the intent of using amateur radio operators to train new radiomen for the army.
This program evolved into what would be known as the Military Affiliated Radio Service, acronym MARS.
In 1962 the Navy, Marin Corps, and Coast Guard joined the program and the Navy-Marine Corps branch was established.
In 2009 Navy MARS almost became extinct. Plans were underway to eliminate the Navy from the program. Then a Department of Defense directive breathed new life into the program, changing MARS' status from an "affiliated" organization to an "auxiliary".
This status change put MARS on an equal footing with other military auxiliaries such as the Civil Air Patrol and the Coast Guard Auxiliary.
WB6SJB Is Silent Key
Ed Wheeler- WB6SJB of Pahrump lost his fight with cancer on March 25 and passed away.
Mr. Wheeler, who was 84 years old, was a member of the Barstow Amateur Radio Club.
No funeral service information is available at this time.
Roof Is Blown Away From KC7TMC
2002 File Photo
High winds last month tore a portion of the roof away from the Nellis RAC KC7TMC repeater building atop Apex Peak. The building sustained several hundred dollars in damages. A work party is being organized to make the needed repairs.
City Of Las Vegas Corporate Challenge seeks Volunteers
On March 15th, as company logos emblazoned across the world's largest video screen canopy, the Fremont Street Experience down below, was hosting an Olympic style "Torch Relay" as a part of the opening ceremonies for the 29th City of Las Vegas Corporate Challenge
Spanning 11 weeks of competition, Corporate Challenge brings the spirit of Athens to the local level, when teams from area companies test their skills against other teams in 36 different events. These events are held at various venues throughout the Las Vegas valley.
Activities range from the mildly sedate chess and poker, up to the physically challenging Track and Field, Tug of War, and basketball. Companies are divided into one of three categories, depending on the number of employees.
Amateur radio plays an important part in these games. The Nellis Radio Amateur Club provides communications and safety during several of these events.
Their next volunteer activation is for the Bicycle Race competition on Monday April 21, held at the Las Vegas International Motor Speedway....and they could use a little help.
Dennis Simon-KB7UTV coordinates the communication and safety for this event and says that he can use up to 25 amateur operators for this event. As of this writing only 7 hams have committed to helping.
Simon states that he usually is only able to garner around 12 people to help with this event. In past events he has had to use non-ham volunteers and equipped those people with Business Band radios.
"I could use about twenty-five people for this and it would work just fine. I do currently have seven people committed to it and normally only get about a dozen at best. It has normally stretched us thin to do it." said Simon.
The Bike Race covers all areas of the Las Vegas Speedway and volunteers will get to access areas of the speedway not normally opened to the public.
Simon continues: We do have to cover the main track, bleachers area, drag strip, dirt track, test track and bull ring along with adjoining areas for this."
As volunteers are deployed to their various stations they travel the main oval. Imagine, here is an opportunity to "take a lap" on an actual NASCAR series race track.
Simon reminds us of the nature of their work, "We do have full responsibility for the safety of the riders and have full support of the track security team".
Volunteer hams meet on the infield of the main track at 4:00 PM for a Pre-Race briefing and assignments. The Starting Pistol for the race sounds at 5:00 PM.
Simon releases his crewmembers from their duties as soon as the final racer passes their station. This means that some ham volunteers are released and free to leave as early as 5:30 PM. Hams assigned to the latter stations may look forward to being relieved of duty between 6:00 and 6:30 PM.
The tactical frequency is 147.06 Mhz, with a positive offset and a 100 hz tone, (Nellis KC7TMC repeater) will be used for this event. Back-up and secondary communications will be via 445.200 Mhz simplex.
Owing to the time of the year, the early evening start time, and the short duration of the event, the Corporate Challenge Bike Race is an excellent activity for any ham looking for a couple of hours of radio fun while helping out with a worthy cause.
Interested in lending a hand? Drop an email to Dennis Simon- KB7UTV
Southern Missouri non-Profit Seeks Funds To Assist Ham Radio
The Community Foundation of the Ozarks, an organization which provides financial support for a wide array of community services in Southern Missouri has issued a Press Release soliciting equipment funding for amateur radio operators.
According to the Press Release, the Southern Missouri Emergency Communications Fund has been established by the 49 Repeater Group, an ARRL Affiliated Club, located in Willard, Missouri
Springfield radio station KTTS-FM also aired an interview with the 49 Repeater Group President Michael Blake-NØNQW.
The Press Release and KTTS interview are shown below.
Amateur radio (or HAM) operators across southwest Missouri now have a resource to help repair or replace equipment through the Southern Missouri Emergency Communications Fund, established by the 145.49 Repeater Group.
The purpose of the fund is to provide financial support for the more than 4,000 amateur radio operators in southern Missouri. Michael Blake, president of the 49 Repeater Group and a board member for the Southern Missouri Emergency Communications Fund, says the group's radio equipment is funded solely by its members, and costs can mount quickly for aged equipment.
Now the group is actively seeking private and corporate donors to support upgrades to a network of radios that help keep communities in touch and forewarned in times of bad weather and emergency.
"Most people in the community don't realize that amateur radio is a vital 'eyes and ears' on the ground for the National Weather Service, and helps keep people safe," Blake said. "NOAA weather radar doesn't see what's happening at every level of the atmosphere, particularly when the equipment is far away. Having trained weather spotters with private radio access on the ground is very important to staying informed."
Amateur radio operators also are enlisted as backup by the Department of Homeland Security in disaster areas. This use was called into action for several days following the May 22, 2011 Joplin tornado in which amateur radio was a major means of communications within the disaster zone, Blake said. Operators helped coordinate everything from search and rescue to hospital availability in cities as far away as Tulsa.
Those interested in learning more about the Southern Missouri Emergency Communications Fund are welcome to e-mail Blake at 49repeater@att.net.
If you would like to make a donation to the Southern Missouri Emergency Communications Fund, you can do so at www.cfozarks.org/donate (please type SMO Emergency Comm) in the Fund/Program field on the page) or by mailing a donation to the Community Foundation of the Ozarks at P.O. Box 8960, Springfield, MO, 65801, indicating the fund in the memo line
KTSS interview with Michael Blake-NØNQW
Full Steam Ahead For NvCon
Plans for Nevada's first ARRL State Convention are right on track with a little more than one month to the big event. Online registration has begun at the NvCON website.
The event gets under way Friday morning May 30th with the12th annual VoIP Conference in the Banquet Room of the Silverland Inn.
This is a full day event covering virtually all of the most popular Voice over IP digital communications for the amateur radio service.. Demonstrations and presentations will be made relating to D-Star, IRLP, Echo link, and other VoIP modes and equipment including Raspberry Pi applications.
Friday afternoon will see State and Local Emergency Managers join with State ARES Officials at the State Emergency Managers & State ARES Leadership Conference held at the Comstock Center.
The evening is capped off with a Bar-b-que, followed by an evening on the town, old west style in Virginia City-America's Largest National Landmark.
The day starts early on the Comstock. Tailgating and Swapmeet at 6:00AM Saturday morning on the Silverland Inn parking lot.
A full day of ham radio activity awaits you. Inside vendors galore, all day Technician License Class / HamCram, and a full day of ARES or General Interest seminars,.
Want a break from the convention? Head over to the Delta Saloon and wet your whistle. But stay clear of the "Suicide Table" least you suffer the same fate as many before. You might opt for the much tamer Bucket of Blood Saloon. Take an underground tour of one of Virginia City's legendary mines. Climb aboard the historical Virginia and Truckee Railroad for a trip back into Nevada's past.
After a day crammed full of amateur radio excitement get yourself down to Piper's Opera House. Because, Saturday night is fun night
You will start the evening out with wine tasting and socializing while enjoying the musical treat of blue-grass band Wild Horse Drive
After the social hour get ready for a delicious banquet. As you feast, your speaker for the evening will be none other than that brilliant young newspaper man from the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, Samuel Longhorne Clemens.
You may know him by his pen name "Mark Twain". Samuel Clemens will be portrayed by Mr. McAvoy Layne in his presentation "The Ghost of Mark Twain."
You will want to be on hand for Mr. Twain's final curtain, as raffle prizes will be awarded at the conclusion of the evening.
Make sure you get a good nights sleep, because the Silverland Inn will have the convention's Sunday Morning Breakfast ready at 7:30 AM.
Stick around for the ARRL Forum at 9:00 AM.......the Grand Prize Drawing will follow right afterwards.
For those hardy souls who have survived the weekend and still have a bit of energy, head over to the W7RN Comstock Memorial Station for a tour of the facilities.
W7RN has been designated as W1AW/7 as a part of this year's ARRL Centenial Celebration, WAS W1AW award program.
Click here for NvCon Registration and Information
Net Manager Dave Ruppert-KF7BNO is Silent Key
The Net Manager of the popular daily Noon Net in Reno has passed away.
David Ruppert KF7BNO expired March 9th at Renown Regional Medical Center.
Ruppert was a past Board Member of the Sierra Nevada Amateur Radio Society, a member of Reno QRP, and had served as the Secretary of the Wide Area Digital Group. Additionally, he was a member of FISTS, the North American QRP CW Club (NAQCC), and the Straight Key Century Club (SKCC).
Memorial services for David W. Ruppert will be held at 1:00 PM on Saturday March 15th at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 4751 Neil Road in Reno.
Salvation ARmy puts New EDS Satern Station "On The Air"
Jackson, MS (March 5, 2014) – The Salvation Army has announced that the FCC recently approved a new call sign for a newly crated SATERN station located in the Salvation Army's Alabama-Louisiana-Mississippi (ALM) Division's Emergency Disaster Services center.
SATERN, which is an acronym for Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network, is the volunteer amateur radio communications arm of the Salvation Army's Emergency Disaster Services (EDS).
The new station call-sign WB5ALM signifies, William Booth 5 Alabama Louisiana Mississippi (William Booth was the founder of the Salvation Army). WB5ALM was activated for the first time on March 5th during a check-in to the International SATERN Net on 20 meter phone.
The new call sign will be used for operations at the EDS center and for mobile operations from the Southern Territorial Communications Trailer and the SATERN Coordinators vehicle.
Nearly a years work went into the development of the SATERN station, which is said to be a "State of the Art" facility. The station is capable of being operated 100 percent via the internet. Ken Standard, AD5XJ, SATERN Net Manager for the Southern Territory said, "The goal is to allow for a select group of qualified, trained Net Control Operators to operate a state-of-the art SATERN station that is centrally located within the ALM Division and the Southern Territory from their home location anywhere in the Territory."
Southern Territorial SATERN Coordinator Bill Feist – WB8BZH, commented, "This new station will make it easier to recruit SATERN operators to operate the station during a disaster or emergency by reducing the need for them to be physically present at the EDS Center."
The Silver State Receives A New Section Manager
Nevada Section Manager Joe Giraudo - N7JEH of Spring Creek has announced that he will be stepping down from that position effective February 28.
Giraudo is a professional engineer and property manager for Barrick Gold Mining. New employment duties have increasingly made it necessary for Joe to be out of Nevada, and even the states, for extended periods. "This absence from the Section makes it increasingly difficult to effectively serve the membership within Nevada," said Giraudo.
Giraudo recommended that his Assistant Section Manager Gary Grant - K7VY of Reno be appointed to fill the remainder of his term which expires at the end of June, 2015.
Changing Of The Guard
--Retiring Nevada Section Manager -- Joe Giraudo N7JEH
Outgoing Nevada SM Joe Giraudo N7JEH has served as Section Manager for five years, having taken over the leadership role from Dick Flanagan-K7VC of Minden who stepped down March 1st, 2008 due to declining health. N7JEH had served as Flanagan's Assistant Section Manager.
Giraudo was the Nevada Section Emergency Coordinator from 1994-2000. He has also served the Nevada Section in numerous other positions, including District Emergency Coordinator, Official Emergency Station, Public Information Officer, Net Manager, and Volunteer Examiner.
N7JEH was a principal in the creation and operation of EmComm West. He is also a volunteer licensing instructor and has an impressive resume of volunteer service for community events.
In 2003 he was honored with the ARRL Excellence in Recruiting Award.
Newly appointed Nevada Section Manager Gary Grant K7VY
Incoming Nevada Section Manager Gary Grant-K7VY has been a licensed amateur radio operator since 1956.
Grant is retired from the University of Nevada-Reno and prior to that had a long career in broadcast engineering and commercial radio.
He has served as Assistant Section Manager for the past year and also is the Nevada Section Official Observer Coordinator.
A holder of an FCC First Class Radio Telephone License, Grant has been active with a number of radio clubs including the UNR Radio Pack, where he serves as a Director and as the List Server Administrator.
With nearly six decades of amateur radio experience, K7VY has participated in all levels of emergency communications and net controlling.
Grant is also an active Elmer to new members of the amateur radio community.
Editors note: Many thanks to Joe Giraudo for the leadership and guidance he has provided to the Nevada Section and also congratulations to Gary Grant on his appointment.
Oregon Hams Locate Missing Dementia Patient
Members of the Lane County Sheriffs Amateur Radio Operators, an ARRL Affiliated Club, are being credited with the rescue of an elderly Eugene, Oregon man.
On Sunday, the 78 year old dementia patient's wife reported that he had wandered away from his home east of the University of Oregon Campus. The Lane County Sheriff's Department has a team of ham operators who are specially trained in Radio Direction Finding (RDF) search procedures.
Dubbed Project LifeSaver, at risk individuals wear special RF bracelets. Should a person go missing, the LCSARO team members use their special tracking skills to safely locate the missing person. The missing man was one of six people in the Lane County program.
The missing man was located on the corner of Eight Avenue and Willamette Street, in downtown Eugene. He was not injured.
The mission of Project Lifesaver is to provide timely response to save lives and reduce potential injury for adults and children who wander due to Alzheimer's, autism, and other related conditions or disorders.
The team of ham radio operators reduces the need for large scale search parties, which typically involve many agencies, hundreds of police officers, and thousands of dollars in costs.
The LCSARO also provides communications in disasters and other emergency situations for the Sheriff's Department.
Yuma Hamfest Balloon Launch
Arizona Near Space Research (ANSR) is pleased to announce the flight of ANSR-80. This high altitude balloon flight will take place on Saturday, February 15, 2014 at 9:00 A.M. The launch site will be the Yuma County Fairgrounds in conjunction with the 10th Annual 2014 Yuma Hamfest and ARRL Arizona Section Convention, see http://www.yumahamfest.org/.
The balloon will be a 1600-gram weather balloon, filled with hydrogen. The expected burst altitude will be 90,000 feet or more. The flight is anticipated to last about 2.5 hours from launch to touchdown.
This flight will be a hamfest demonstration flight for Amateur Television payloads (FSTV and SSTV) and tracking beacons. Also scheduled is a WIFI communications experiment built by the Qualcomm Amateur Radio Club of San Diego, CA. This system is being developed for use on a student built CubeSat to be launched in the near future. A ground station will display live television from the payloads during the flight. ANSR will conduct a presentation about the flight and automatic APRS derived balloon tracking for ground antennas at 3:40 P.M. on Friday February 14th in the fairgrounds Fine Arts building.
APRS Beacons will transmit position information as follows:
KA7NSR-12 and KA7NSR-14 both on 445.925 MHz, KA7NSR-13 on 144.34 MHZ
The ANSR Cross-Band Repeater will operate with an input frequency of 145.56 MHz with a 162.2 Hz tone, and an output of 445.525 MHz. While contacts (especially DX) are welcome, please give priority to chase team members.
Our mobile cross band Digipeater will repeat locally the beacons' APRS data to the 144.390 MHz standard APRS frequency and subsequently will be I-GATED to the Internet for out-of-area trackers. You can track the flight using the following links:
http://aprs.fi/?call=ka7nsr-12 or -13, or -14
Be sure to check http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning for updates to this announcement prior to the flight.
Monthly Seminars Introduce New Operators to the fun of Ham RAdio
It's not unusual to find licensed amateur radio operators who passed the test, often a decade or more ago, received their callsign, and have never been on the air!
Since 9-11-01 many groups have advocated the need for their members to be licensed hams. The internet makes it easy for just about anyone to learn the question pool and get a Technician license. Even formal classes tend to only teach a person to pass the 35 question quiz. Little, if any, of this, prepares the new licensee to actually acquire and operate a radio.
The K7QQQ Repeater Club has begun a series of monthly seminars designed to introduce the new licensee to the equipment, modes, and methods to get on the air and have fun with ham radio.
The first session found sixteen newly minted hams in attendance. They eagerly soaked up information about getting that first radio, ham radio clubs, CW operations, and a variety of topics.
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The upcoming session in March will feature an introduction to Packet and other digital modes.
Participants will receive "hands-on" experience in operating in these modes.
Yaesu AND C.A.R.G. TEAM up In Support of New Amateur Radio Station at Arecibo Telescope
Arecibo Observatory/Angel Ramos Visitor Center
Yaesu and the Caribbean Amateur Radio Group have joined together in supporting the Arecibo Observatory Amateur Radio Club (KP4AO)located at the world's largest radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, USA.
During a behind the scenes tour of the facility given to ARRL Officials and guests, KP4AO's President Angel Vazquez-WP3R announced that they were establishing a new amateur radio station in the exhibition hall of the Angel Ramos Visitor Center located at the observatory. Vazquez said that their group was thrilled to be able to showcase amateur radio activities to the thousands of visitors and scientist who pass thru the visitors center each year.
ARRL President Dr. Kay Cragio-N3NK, Southeast Division Assistant Director Dr. Jose Vicens-NP4G, CARG Officer Juan Montijo-WP4OV, Director of Telescope Operations Angel Vazques-WP3R, and Yaesu Executive Vice-President Dennis Motschenbacher-K7BV (Assistant Puerto Rico Section Manager Abimael Padro-KP4RY is shown in the background)
Following the announcement of the new station, CARG officials presented a new banner to the KP4AO group for use in their new station. Newly appointed Southeast Division Assistant Director Dr. Jose Vicens-NP4G called on Dennis Motschenbacher-K7BV, Executive Vice-President of Yaesu.
On behalf of Yaesu, Motschenbacher donated a new FT-DX1200 transceiver for the KP4AO club to use in their new Visitor Center station. Construction of the station is expected to be finished in about 3 months.
Scanning the bands on the new radio
ARRL representatives, including President Kay Craigie-N3NK, CEO Dave Sumner-K1ZZ, Southeast Division Director Doug Rehman-K4AC, Southeast Division Assistant Director Jose Vicens-NP4G, Pacific Division Assistant Director John Bigley-N7UR, Puerto Rico Section Manager Rene Fonseca-NP3O, and guests were touring behind the scenes at the telescope as part of the activities of the ARRL Puerto Rico Section Convention. The ARRL visitors also presented the observatory station with a Centennial Edition of the ARRL Handbook.
The Arecibo Observatory which was completed in 1963 recently celebrated it's 50th Anniversary. KP4AO hosted a Special Event Station as a part of that celebration.
The massive radio telescope explores the deepest corners of space. It also feeds data to SETI an organization searching for life in outer space.
Deadly Tower Collapse in West Virginia-Ham RPTRS Lost
A 300 ft tall communications tower in Clarksburg, West Virginia collapsed Saturday during repairs, killing two workers, and causing the collapse of a second tower which killed a Nutter Fork Volunteer Firefighter.
The two workers that were killed were identified as 32 year old Kyle Kirkpatrick of Hulbert, Oklahoma and Terry Lee Richard Jr., age 27, from Bokoshe, Oklahoma. The pair were employed by SBA Communications, an Oklahoma firm which operates and maintains 23,000 communication towers.
Twenty eight year old Firefighter Michael Dale Garrett of Clarksburg, WV was walking from his vehicle to the scene of the first tower collapse, when guy lines attached between the two towers failed. He was struck and killed when the second tower failed.
Three amateur radio repeaters operated by the Stonewall Jackson Amateur Radio Association (SARA) were destroyed in the mishap. A VHF repeater on 147.210 Mhz, a UHF repeater on 444.175 Mhz, and a third Link repeater used to connect to the HAMLINK system were all lost. SARA had recently made expensive repairs and upgrades to all of the machines.
Reno Work Party Installs New Repeaters-Sites Are Upgraded
On Saturday a ten member work crew tackled the Mt. Davidson and Ophir repeater sites outside of Reno.
Their efforts resulted in two new machines going on the air. A 220 Mhz repeater for the CONDOR System and a 900 Mhz repeater.
Antennas and heliax were installed, along with new ground rods, and feedline cushions. A ANt-220 antenna was installed for the CONDOR machine and a DB-806 antenna was set for the 900 MHz repeater. The workers also removed a DB-408 antenna from the Ophir site and erected it on the Mt. Davidson tower in preparation for activating a D-STAR repeater/node.
The crew reports that the site is 100 per cent D-STAR ready from an RF standpoint and only requires Internet activation to have the node operational.
Pajama Party of the Air waves
Remember back to the days when all of us girls would get together at a friends house for a slumber party? Pizza, Coca-Cola, talkin' about boys, trying on make-up.....pillow fights... trying not to fall asleep.
The Las Vegas Chapter of the Sisterhood Of Amateur Radio (S.O.A.R.) will re-live those memories when we host our SECOND "Pajama Party" Special Event Station, Saturday night March 15th, 2014.
That's right ladies. Throw your favorite jammies in your overnight bag and come join us for our combination girls sleep-over/radio operating party. All girls, whether you are a teen, pre-teen, tween, or way beyond are invited to join in. If you are a YL outside of the area or an OM, we will see you on the air. Listen for the call "CQ YL Pajama Party"
The fun begins at 5:30 PM. PDT (Sunday 00:30 UTC) For details and location email Judy Carpenter-KC7ZVE msbeasly@cox.net
Home Owners Association on board with New Repeater
Las Vegas, NV – K7QQQ Amateur Radio Repeaters, Inc. has launched a new UHF amateur radio repeater located in the Enterprise Township (Southwest) portion of the Las Vegas Valley. While repeater bring-ups seem routine, this repeater has quite a unique feature in that it's located in the heart of a deed-restricted community.
The Savannah Place Homeowner's Association board of directors (SP-HOA), in an update to their CC&Rs, officially recognized the importance and essential contribution of locally licensed amateur radio operators within the Clark County ARES/RACES group, the Nye County ARES/RACES group, and the Las Vegas Regional SKYWARN group. The SP-HOA directors deemed it would be in the best interest of the community, as well as in the best interest of the public, to allow and support the installation and use of amateur radio equipment, antennas, and other radio equipment within their community as outlined under 47 CFR 97.15(b) - the FCC's rules for station antenna structures.
"We are extremely pleased to have worked with the board and put this repeater into operation, and, should need arise, to dedicate its use for emergency communications," said J. Dan Connell, a Nevada Section ARRL Technical Specialist and President of K7QQQ Amateur Radio Repeaters, Inc.
Connell, who championed the CC&R changes, went on to say, "With this installation, we hope to show the surrounding communities that Amateur Radio Operators and deed-restricted HOAs can partner in practical and cooperative ways. In our case, the radio operator gets to practice the art and science of radio communications while Savannah Place residents and the surrounding community benefit from having a local emergency communication station in time of need."
The repeater system's operational frequencies have been formally registered / coordinated through the Southern Nevada Repeater Council (SNRC) and K7QQQ notes that while the repeater is open to all licensed Amateur Radio Operators, it may be reserved for emergency traffic, scheduled nets, training, educational, and/or club functions. In order to access the repeater, radio operators should set their rigs to the following parameters: RX: 441.875 MHz TX: 446.875 MHz DCS Code: 023
Ham Equipped Balloon Floats the Night Skies
Flight path of FAST-21
(Irvine Dec-12) FAST- Flying Apple Space Technologies has successfully flown yet another near space balloon mission.
FAST-21 launched last night from Meadows Park in Irvine, California the balloon and payload swept westward over the Pacific Ocean before turning Southeast and travelling between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico. The flight squirted thru Mexico passing south of Mexacali before crossing over San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico and returning to U.S.
airspace. The flight entered the United States above the southern edge of Yuma, Arizona this morning at 02:29 AM PST. The balloon was traveling at an altitude of 82,963 ft and a speed of 65 MPH when it crossed the border.
By 6:00 AM PST the flight was directly north of Tuscon, Arizona traveling 58
MPH, bearing 91° alt 83707 ft.
The launch site at Meadow Park sits in the middle of the campus's of the Meadow Park Elementary School and the South Lake Middle School.
Balloon burst occurred 10 miles west of Albuquerque, New Mexico at an altitude of app. 115,000 ft and airspeed of 89 MPH. Touchdown was at 10:32 PST this morning, 8 miles west of South Valley, New Mexico.
Flying Apple Space Technology is under the direction of Dr. Amanda Maxham-N9VAR of the Ayn Rand Institute, along with the very capable assistance of her husband Ed Giandomenico-KE7MWY
The program offers high school and
undergraduate college students an
opportunity to study, build, and fly projects
to the edge of space.
FAST has an ongoing relationship with the Las Vegas Radio Amateur Club, the Las
Vegas Repeater Association, the University of Nevada Las Vegas Physics
Department, as well as radio and educational groups in the surrounding
LVRAC ELECTS 2014 Officers
The Las Vegas Radio Amateur Club elected a new slate of officers for the year 2014. Here is a list of the members who have stepped up to take the leadership reigns for the coming twelve months.
Jerry Sobel K0MBB President
Mark Pallans W4MDP Vice President
Gary Desler KG7CBV Secretary
Gerry Wojciechowski K9ADY Treasurer
Clayton Hughes KB7PHB Director
Dave Moss WD6CZY Director
Dennie Little KE7WOD Director
Marc Zuckerman K7MNZ Director
Steve Deveny KF7WGL Director
Red Rock Search and Rescue Pays It Forward, Hosts VE Exam Team
Although the Las Vegas based Red Rock Search and Rescue Team is a relatively new organization, their impact has already been felt by the community they serve.
What began a scant eighteen months ago as a grass roots search for a murder victim is a now a nationally certified SAR team with several activations and a 100% victim recovery rate.
Red Rock SAR has already forged many alliances with companies and organizations in Southern Nevada. One such relationship is with Amateur Radio. The group requires all of its members to obtain a current amateur radio license of Technician Class or higher to remain on the team.
The Red Rock SAR complex
Red Rock Search and Rescue has acquired the use of a complex in Northwest Las Vegas and they are already sharing that good fortune with the amateur radio community.
This past Saturday, the Las Vegas VE Team administered license exams for the first time from space donated by Red Rock SAR.
The facility proved to be easy to get to, was large and modern, and required a bare minimum of set-up prior to the session beginning.
Prior to Saturdays move, the VE Team had rented space from the All Saint Episcopal Church. The church has served as the testing location since the group lost access to the College of Southern Nevada campus in Henderson a decade ago.
The Las Vegas VE Team is led by Dan Connel-K7QQQ.
Red Rock Search and Rescue is under the leadership of Commander David Cummings-N1RRS.
Field Day Updates
"Hams On The Hill" Four Days Of Radio fun
The eight edition of the "Hams On The Hill" Field Day event promises four full days of Amateur Radio fun!.
Overly eager campers have already begun arriving at the Mt. Charleston Field Day location. Thursday and Friday have been set aside for fellowship and relaxation. On Friday evening a Fried Chicken Picnic Dinner will kick off the organized activities.
Following Saturday morning breakfast, set-up activities go into full swing, as do demonstrations of Amateur Television, Satellite Communications, and Emcom vehicles.
Operating as N7V, the first QSO will go on the air at 11:00 AM with about a dozen rigs on the air. CW, SSB, and Digital modes will be utilized. 80-10 meters HF, 6 meters-70 cm VHF/UHF.
Special Guest Announced
Both kids and grown-ups alike will be entertained by the antics of the "World's Pre-eminent Authority On Amateur Radio"
Professor Elmer Sparkgap
The good professor's appearance is scheduled to follow Saturday evenings 5:00 PM, "Homer Hog's 'All You Can Eat' Spaghetti Pig Out"
Free Door Prize Drawing Immediately following Professor Sparkgaps presentation there will be a Free drawing for door prizes. The Grand Prize will be a new Kenwood mobile transceiver.
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Reno QRP GrouP Little Power = Big Fun
The Reno QRP Group is betting that small power will equal big fun, starting at noon Friday when they begin setting up their 2014 ARRL Field Day station.
Under the watchful eye of Field Day Marshal Carl Young-K5HK the group will erect their station at the Marvin Picollo School, 900 Foothill Blvd, in Reno.
A class on computer logging and WIFI networking will begin at 9:00 AM on Saturday morning. Field Day QSO's will begin at 11:00 AM and run continuously until 11:00 AM Sunday.
The school will providing access to inside comfort stations.
Actual station operation will take place from inside a travel trailer or RV. Three rigs will be on the air, including a Ten Tec Argonaut, a Elecraft K2, and a Elecraft KX3.
Modes of operation will be CW and SSB.
A nice compliment of antennas will be erected, including a 43' vertical, a Carolina Windom, a 80m Zepp, and monoband verticals for 40 thru 10 meters.
Everyone interested in ham radio is invited to attend. A Saturday evening dinner will be sponsored by Carl Young K5HK
The Longest Morse Code Message Ever, Established Nevada As A State
Final transcribed page and cost
It was October 1864. The Civil War was winding down and Abraham Lincoln was facing re-election. The 13th Amendment to the Constitution was looming on the horizon.
Lincolns stay in the White House is being seriously threatened by the candidacies of General John Freemont, a Republican and General George McClellan, a Democrat.
The Republican party was still in it's infancy. Lincoln needed the votes from new states to ensure that he would remain in office and be able to enact his reconstruction polices for the South.
Earlier, gold and silver had been discovered on the Comstock in Virginia City. In 1861 the United States was eager to make sure this wealth did not find it's way into the coffers of the Confederacy. They lost no time in forging Nevada into a new federal territory away from the Utah Territory. Lincoln appointed James Warren Nye, a police commissioner from New York and a newly converted Republican, to be the Territorial Governor. Nye, nicknamed, "Old Grey Eagle" made sure the new territory government was well organized. An avowed supporter of civil rights, he also stamped out any attempts to become a part of the Confederacy.
With the help of Nevada votes Lincoln could win the election and Nevada could help to ratify the 13th Amendment and abolish slavery.
Having only 40,000 residents Nevada fell far short of the 60,000 people usually needed to become a state. But Lincoln needed new states and as election time drew near, three territories were tapped to become states: Nevada, Colorado, and Nebraska.
Nebraska voted against statehood and Colorado failed to pass a constitution. In Nevada things were different, the vote for statehood was 8 to 1. Nevada was heavily Republican, the votes from Nevada could ensure Lincoln a victory.
Nevada sent certified copies of their proposed Constitution overland to Congress for approval. By October 24, they had not arrived. With only days to go Nevada needed it's newly passed Constitution to arrive in Washington in order to be admitted to the Union.
Governor Nye decided to send the entire 16,543 word text of the proposed Nevada State Constitution by Morse code, via telegraph, to Washington.
On October 23, 1864 in Carson City, telegrapher James H. Guild, labored for seven hours over his key, pounding brass, until the entire 175 page document was transmitted to Salt Lake City, to be relayed to Chicago, Philadelphia, and on to the War Department in Washington, DC. Guild's work netted his company $4,303.27 in fees, roughly $60,000 in todays money.
The 1864 transmission remains to this day as the longest Morse Code message ever sent. On October 31st, just eight days after Guild's record setting message, the United States Congress admitted Nevada to the Union.
In a twist of fate, John Freemont withdrew from the Presidential race and Lincoln won easily. The votes from Nevada were not needed. Nevada also almost missed it's opportunity to ratify the 13th Amendment, when both of her Senator's failed to arrive in Washington in time to cast their votes. Congressman Henry C. Worthingham cast the lone vote from Nevada and on January 31, 1865 slavery ended in the United States.
James Guild left his mark on Nevada's history by his use of Morse Code and so can you.
The Nellis Radio Amateur Club has announced that they will be starting a code study class.
Interested in learning Morse Code? For more information, send your contact information via email to Sean Sheehan memberatlarge@nellisrac.org
Flagstaff City Council Rejects Cell Phone Ban
The Arizona Daily Sun is reporting that the City of Flagstaff will be opting out of the recently enacted Coconino County Hands-Free cell phone ordinance.
Under Arizona law Flagstaff has the option to exclude their community from the county regulation.
The new Coconino County law not only prohibits the use of cell phones in motor vehicles, but also specifically prohibited the use of two-way radios, including amateur radios, unless the operator was relaying a message between first responders in an emergency.
During a recent working session of the Flagstaff City Council, it's members rejected the county ordinance as being too broad. City officials paid particular attention to the ban on two-way radios.
The Council agreed with member Celia Barotz's assessment that the ordinance would interfere with amateur radio operators ability to provide volunteer services and with truckers who rely on CB radio as a part of their jobs.
Councilwoman Barotz suggested that the city allow the use of two-way radios and focus solely on the issue of texting while driving.
Mayor Jerry Nabours inquired if the Police Department had experienced any issues with the use of radios by their officers while patrolling. Deputy Chief of Police Walter Miller stated that he uses two-radio quite a bit in his job and is not aware of any problems from it's use.
Reno Spring Swap meet
Fifteen sellers turned out for this mornings Spring Reno Ham Swap. Sales are reported to have been good. The event was held on the Denny's parking lot in Sparks.
Three new Technicians earned their licenses and one ham received a General Class upgrade.
After paying their expenses, the organizers were able to clear $172.90 toward maintaining their repeater system.
W1AW/7 The Whole Story Tom Taormina K5RC Reports From Virginia City
CLICK HERE to read the W1AW/7 Story/Pictures
Spring Ham Swap at Denny's Restaurant Parking Lot
205 Nugget Ave, Sparks, Nevada
Saturday May 10th.
Set-up begins at 7:00 AM. Gates open to buyers at 7:30 AM
Prizes: Yaesu FT-60 and more....
Talk in: 146.610 pl 123 Plus Ham Exams
Full Details Here
Silver State Chapter 190 Quarter Century Wireless Association
Brunch and meeting.
Saturday May 10th 10:00
Carrow's Restaurant
880 E. Plumb Lane Reno (SW corner of E. Plumb and Kietzke).
Vintage 1970's ham radio videos will be shown.
W1AW/7 is now on the air from Nevada. Operations began this evening at 5:00PM. W1AW will have a temporary home for the next week in Nevada. As part of the ARRL 100 Centennial Celebration W1AW will be operating as portable seven in the Silver State.
W7RN
Primary W1AW/7 operations will be from the Comstock Memorial Station W7RN in Virginia City Highlands.
However, during next Saturdays 7th Area QSO Party, several satellite operations will also be on the air around the state.
Nevada's contributions to the W1AW event is being coordinated by Tom Taormina K5RC. Planned operations are for 160-6 meters CW,SSB, RTTY, and PSK. Operator slots are still available. Contact Tom.
You can be a part of W1AW/7 Operations in Nevada
The following County Operations will be on the air May 3rd.
W1AW/7 Nye County will be hosted by N7TP in Amargosa. Guests operators are welcome.
W1AW/7 Clark County is being hosted by the Sisterhood Of Amateur Radio (SOAR) and will be held at Amateur Electronics Supply (AES) 4640 South Polaris Avenue from 6:00 AM until Midnight. Everyone is invited to join the fun. CW, SSB, RTTY, PSK.
W1AW/7 Washoe County will be on the air from the QTH of N7TR in Reno.
W1AW/7 Carson City will be operated from the QTH of N7YQ. Guest operators are welcome.
New Yaesu Digital Repeaters Debut In Reno and Las Vegas
Brand Yaesu System Fusion DR-1 repeaters have recently appeared on the air in both Reno and Las Vegas.
Yaesu has supplied the repeaters to the Sierra Amateur Radio Society and to the Nellis Radio Amateur Club.
These new repeaters have the capability of receiving both traditional FM analog and Yaesu's new proprietary C4FM FDMA digital platform.
In addition the repeaters have the ability to automatically convert and retransmit a signal received in either mode to the other mode. For example a signal received in analog FM would be retransmitted in FM analog and digital C4FM FDMA. A received digital signal would also be retransmitted in digital and analog.
The Reno machine replaces an old GE Master II repeater.
It is operating from Mt. Davidson at an elevation of 7756 ft. The repeater is located at 444.825 Mhz, with a positive offset and a PL tone of 123.0 HZ.
Early reports and testing have been very positive for this machine.
Over on the other side of the state, the Nellis group reports that their repeater is in place atop Apex Peak and functioning as intended. The System Fusion repeater replaces a Vertex VXR-5000 machine.
The Nellis Repeater is a 2 meter machine, operating on 147.06 Mhz, positive offset, with 100hz CTCSS encode/decode.
John Byerly N7ROJ is the SNARS Technical Committee Chairman in Reno. Larry Simon KC7QJO is the NRAC Technical Committee Chairman in Las Vegas. Both teams are interested in signal reports and comments from the users of these two new repeaters.
Clark County ARES/RACES gets MCV Command Center
Southern Nevada District Emergency Coordinator Jay Peskin- KE7EGO has announced that Clark County ARES/RACES has received a fully self-contained Mobile Communications Vehicle (MWC) command center for their use.
Dubbed "Big Yellow", ownership of the vehicle was transferred from the Clark County Fire Department to the Clark County Office of Emergency Management. Clark County IT/OEM and ARES/RACES enjoy a long history of working together.
The acquisition came about due in a large part by the efforts of Andy Gagliardo N7SGV.
Although it now lacks amateur radio capability, the unit is set-up for interagency interoperability. Plans are underway to begin the purchase and installation of amateur radio equipment.
ARES/RACES volunteers staffed the vehicle for the first time during the recent "EXTREME THING" sports and music festival in Las Vegas.
ARES / RACES members are looking forward to next month when the vehicle is scheduled to participate in the Las Vegas Mobil Command Vehicle Interoperability Rodeo.
The Storey County ARES Repeater, KS7AA, is now operational for public use. 146.865 (-) PL123
ARRL Booth Returns To NAB Las Vegas Area Hams Welcome Broadcasters
Amateur radio and the ARRL will once again have a presence at the world's largest gathering of broadcasters, the NAB Show in Las Vegas.
Beginning this Sunday, the more than 100,000 attendees at the annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters will have the opportunity to attend seminars and browse the booths of nearly 1,700 exhibitors. Among these exhibitors will be the ARRL.
Staffed by the members of several Las Vegas area amateur radio clubs, the ARRL booth provides conventioneers with information on how to get involved in amateur radio, how to become an ARRL member, and how to access League services.
ARRL Pacific Division Director Bob Vallio- W6RGG will join the local hams in staffing the booth. Jim Bilan - W7UXB is coordinating the volunteers.
As in past years, John Marino - KR1O , Science and Technology Vice President for the NAB arranged for the generous donation of the booth space from the NAB.
Speaking of John Marino and NAB Technology...they will again be joining Bob Heil of Heil Sound, Broadcast Supply World, Turner Engineering, and DX Engineering in hosting the hugely popular Amateur Radio Operators Reception at the NAB.
More than 600 hams from around the world are expected to attend this annual event Wednesday evening April 9th at 6:00 PM in Ballroom B of the LVH Resort. All amateur radio operators are invited and there is no charge.
Just Announced......
Gordon West - WB6NOA will be on hand with his Comm Van at the ARRL Nevada State Convention
Don't miss it......Virginia City May 30 - June 1, 2014
Ten Thousand Plus Police Officers Entrust their Lives to Amateur Radio
More than 10,000 law enforcement personnel from around the world are assembling on Death Valley Road, in the Mojave Desert outside of Baker, California to begin this weekend's 30th annual running of what is known as "The World's Longest Police Foot Pursuit".
The Baker to Vegas Challenge Cup Relay Race, a grueling, 120 mile ordeal, has become the premier competitive event among the worlds law enforcement agencies.
The race begins outside of Baker, California at the gateway to Death Valley. Death Valley holds the record as the hottest location on earth, with an officially recorded temperature of 134.0 F (57.6C). Ground temperatures in this area can exceed 200 F. This land truly belongs to the rattlesnakes and coyotes.
The race winds through the Mojave Desert before crossing the Spring Mountains at Mountain Springs Pass (5,530 Ft Elv) and then descending into the glitter gulch, Las Vegas, Nevada, some 120 miles from the Start Line.
A look at the race course
Humans do not fare well in this extreme environment. Severe medical incidents, as well as deaths occur in this event.
There is no telephone service or medical facilities in this desolate part of the world. The event must carry in all of their own emergency medical personnel and equipment. They must also build their own communications infrastructure.
The communication system needs to cover an area of 8,100 square miles, roughly the same area as the states of Connecticut, Delaware, and Rhode Island combined.
Entering the picture is Joy Matlack-KD6FJV and her 650 amateur radio volunteers.
Matlack, the long serving Communications Director oversees a multi-tiered infra-structure of ham radio, business band, aeronautical, and public safety communication systems.
Above: Video featuring the B2V amateur radio communications
A B2V stage
Amateur radio operators build and deploy the portable repeater systems that seamlessly cover to entire 8,100 sq miles. They also build and deploy the links used by the med-evac teams
Baker to Vegas, known to those around it as the B2V is broken up into 20 race stages. It is at these stages that the teams change runners. Amateur radio operators serve as the staff for these stages.
The hams provide the timing and scoring functions, operate the public address system, staff early warning and early, early warning positions, summon medical assistance, and relay all of the routine and emergency radio traffic for the event.
Ham operators await their first runner
Although the majority of the traffic handled deals with routine logistical and operational functions of the event, the primary mission of the amateur radio operators is the protection and safety of the runners and their support vehicle staffs.
All of the roadways used during the event are still open to regular vehicle traffic. The first half of the race is on what is typically lightly traveled wilderness roads. But come race weekend these routes are covered with thousands of vehicles belonging to support staff, course volunteers, and family/friends of the runners.
The race takes a dramatic turn once it reaches Pahrump. Nevada. Pahrump which was a tiny dot on the map with B2V began 30 years ago, has now grown to be a small city of 37,000. The once quiet little route NV 160 which links Pahrump to Las Vegas is now a heavily travelled thoroughfare. NV 160 is notorious for it's large number of traffic fatalities. which primarily occur as it winds into the Las Vegas valley at Blue Diamond.
Once the race enters the Las Vegas Metro area (pop.1,951,269) the runners will spend a dozen miles on urban streets. Here they will share the pavement with thousands of motor vehicles. The average vehicle in Las Vegas travels in excess of 50 MPH!
A Canadian team passes Early Warning hams
For these reasons, a team of highly trained, motorcycle mounted, amateur radio operators, known as "Motors" patrol the entire 120 miles of the race. Most of these hams are either active duty or retired peace officers who look for hazards, rules violations, and runners in need.
Also as the road skirts Death Valley at the early stages of the race from the Start Line to Shoshone, California (pop. 31) the runners face the most severe conditions. A 2,000 ft rise in elevation, coupled with high temperatures and arid conditions cause this to be the location of most of the severe medical emergencies and deaths to runners.
Even police officers do not always make the wisest choices. Follow vehicle personnel often fail to correctly observe the deteriorating condition of their runner. In a few instances, they have replaced a sagging runner and then simply left him along side of the road. In one such case, the abandoned runner was experiencing a complete shut-down of his vital organs. Found by another team, he hovered near death in ICU for weeks.
Early AM arrival of runner at a ham's timing stage
Matlack now deploys a "Patrol Unit" team. This group consists of a coordinator and 6 specially trained amateur radio operators who patrol this section of highway observing the condition of each runner. They maintain continuous communications with the follow vehicles, medical evac, and race officials. They are empowered to take a runner off of the course, summon a medical response, and to enforce violations being committed by the runners support team. Both the Motor and Patrol Unit hams can issue a special green violation card affectionately called "Meanie Greenies" which can disqualify a team for infractions.
2014 Berlin Team displays national pride
Baker to Vegas is sponsored by the Los Angeles Police Revolver and Athletic Club.
In an attempt to keep the hugely popular event manageable, LAPRAC limits the number of entries to 270 teams.
Despite this, participation by support crews family, and friends from around the world has caused the number of direct and indirect participants to swell to more than 10,000 people.
Many of these teams also utilize their own independent crews of ham radio operators. These team specific hams provide effective logistical support for the officer-athletes on their team.
With such a huge communications network, one that bridges several radio services, equipment failures are to be expected. When they do, a special technical team of amateur radio operators spring into action. This very mobile, highly qualified, crew of specialists quickly deploy and resolve any technical issues. They are also the people who set up and take down the system of temporary repeaters and links.
One final team of amateur radio operators contribute to the overall enjoyment of this event and they are the APRS specialists. This group coordinates the real time position reporting activities of the various team follow vehicles. You can follow your favorite teams progress here: http://b2v.findu.com/
In the three decades of this rugged, isolated event. More than a quarter of a million law enforcement personnel, their families, and their friends have felt safe in the knowledge that "In this chase, Amateur Radio is on the Case".
New Nevada Section Staff Appointments Made
ARRL Nevada Section Manager Gary Grant - K7VY has announced that he has made two new appointments to the Nevada Section leadership staff.
John Bigley - N7UR of Las Vegas has been appointed as Section Public Information Coordinator and Ray Maxwell - W7TAP of Reno will serve as the Section Official Observer Coordinator.
Additionally, Grant has appointed Randall Lorenz - KG7GEU to serve as Public Information Officer for Reno ARES. Lorenz has experience working with the Alaska Legislature. He is currently upgrading to an Extra Class license and is busy studying the ARRL EmComm Level 1 and various FEMA courses.
John Bigley-New PIC
John Bigley N7UR takes over the role of Nevada Section Public Information Coordinator which has been vacant since the passing of Don Carlson KQ6FM in June of 2013.
Bigley will be responsible for organizing, training, guiding and coordinating the activities of the Public Information Officers (PIOs) within the section.
It is the job of the PIC to coordinate public relations efforts for events and activities which may involve more than one section, and provides input on matters before the League's Public Relations Committee for discussion or action.
He is responsible for counseling the SM in dealing with the media and with government officials, particularly when representing the ARRL and/or Amateur Radio in a public forum
As Section PIC, Bigley will advise the Section Manager on building and maintaining a positive public image for Amateur Radio in the section.
The PIC also keeps the SM informed of all significant events which would benefit from the SM's personal involvement and reports regularly to the SM on activities.
Bigley has been an ARRL trained PIO since 2009. He is also the Nevada Section Webmaster.
An Extra Class licensee, Bigley is an Assistant Director for the ARRL Pacific Division.
He is the President of the Frontier Amateur Radio Society and is a past-President of the Nellis Radio Amateur Club.
Bigley, who sits on the Board of Directors for several Non-Profit organizations, is an ARRL Volunteer Examiner and an ARRL Registered Instructor.
He is also the publisher of the Nevada Amateur Radio Newswire.
The first Las Vegas Hamfest which was slated for next month has been de-railed after the venue, Aliante Station Casino, withdrew the use of their location.
Event planners are working to secure another site. The organizers are hoping to offer an event this coming fall.
SNARS Has New Meeting Location
The monthly breakfast meetings of the Sierra Nevada Amateur Radio Society will now be held at the Denny's located at 205 East Nugget Avenue in Sparks. This is the corner of I-80 and McCarran Blvd.
The meeting location was changed following the recent closure of Jack's Café in South Reno. The meeting is from 7:30 to 8:30 AM beginning on April 5th.
ELKO Great Basin College SKYWARN Class Offered
A SKYWARN Class will be held Thursday, March 20, 2014 from 5:30 - 8:00 p.m. Interactive Classroom Site location will be the Elko Weather Service.
SKYWARN Storm spotters are the ranks of citizens who form the nation's first line of defense against severe weather. Their reports give communities the seconds and minutes that can help save lives. Training covers the basics of severe weather safety, thunderstorm development, fundamentals of storm structure, identifying potential severe weather features, as well as what information to report and how to report it.
Instructor will be Michael Fitzsimmons, and course fee will be $5.00. Enroll today online at www.campusce.net/gbcnv or call 1-775-753-2231
Ray Maxwell-New OOC
Ray Maxwell W7TAP has been appointed to fill the Nevada Section Official Observer Coordinator position made vacant by the appointment of former OOC Gary Grant K7VY to the position of Section Manager.
As OOC , Maxwell is an ARRL section-level leadership official, appointed for two related purposes: to supervise the maintenance monitoring work of the section Official Observers, and to coordinate special FCC Amateur Auxiliary efforts with Headquarters and the SM
The Official Observer program has operated for more than a half century. In this time, OO appointees have assisted thousands of amateurs whose signals, or operating procedures, were not in compliance with the FCC regulations.
It is the job of the OO Coordinator to recruit, supervise and direct the efforts of OOs in the section, and to report their activity monthly to the Section Manager, and Headquarters.
With the inception of the Amateur Auxiliary to the FCC, the role of the OOC is greater today than ever before. A key liaison in the Auxiliary, the OOC assists OOs in evidence gathering and conveys evidentiary materials to Headquarters for handling with the FCC.
Maxwell has served as an Official Observer in the Reno area since 2011.
He is a General Class Licensee who volunteers as an Emergency Communications Specialist for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Maxwell grew up in Fresno, California and also resided in the San Francisco Bay area. He was employed as a steam fitter in various nuclear plants, chemical plants, and refineries.
Delaware State Police And ARES Group Join Forces
The Delaware State Police have announced that they are teaming up with the Sussex County Amateur Radio Emergency Service to ensure reliable back-up communications for the State Police should their primary communications system fail.
"Delaware must always be aware of the threats of hurricanes, nor'easters, severe snow, and other disasters....." said Major Robert Hawkins, DSP Sussex County Operations Officer........."Thankfully, we don't get hit often, but when we do, communications is absolutely essential and having amateur radio operators available to fill in gaps will be a real asset".
When back-up communications are needed, the Delaware State Police will designate locations for ARES stations to set-up. ARES members will then maintain and pass traffic within this network.
The initial program will be limited to Sussex County, but may be expanded to include Delaware's other two counties of Kent and New Castle. Sussex County covers approximately one half of the state.
ARES is a branch of the American Radio Relay Leagues Field Organization. Bill Duveneck KB3KYH is ARES Emergency Coordinator for Sussex County.
PAJAMA PARTY POSTPONED
S.O.A.R. reports that this years Pajama Party Of The Airwaves, Special Event Station which was to operate on March 15th has been postponed to a later date.
"Unfortunately, a loved one of our hostess is convalescing from emergency heart surgery, and she must delay the use of her QTH", said club President Liz Bigley-KD7RIN.
A new date for the event will be set at SOAR's monthly meeting next Saturday.
Idaho Ham Seriously Injured In tower Repair Accident
Robert Galindo-KE7ADT was critically injured around noon last Thursday when the winching cable snapped while he was working on his forty foot crank-up tower.
Galindo, who goes by his middle name of BearPaw, age 52 of Athol, Idaho was trapped and dangling 20 feet up in the air when rescue crews arrived at his home, located near the entrance of Farragut State Park.
The accident which was witnessed by his wife Gail Perry-KE7ADN resulted in the loss of Galindo's right hand and several fingers on his left hand. Ms. Perry stated: "I saw his fingers fly off of his right hand," "I never want to see something like that again."
Multiple agencies responded to Ms. Perry's 911 call, with help arriving 25 minutes later. Timberlake Fire Protection District officials say that it took rescuers 20 minutes to raise the upper tower sections and to extricate Galindo.
Galindo was transported by a Life Flight helicopter crew from Sandpoint, Idaho to Kootenai Health in Coeur d' Alene. At 3:00 PM trauma surgeons began more than 4 hours of surgery to Galindo.
Galindo was listed in critical condition following the surgery and is expected to remain hospitalized for several days.
The town of Athos is unique, in that one out of every 10 residents is an amateur radio operator. The small community of 692 residents located in extreme northern Idaho boasts 69 licensed ham operators.
Yet Another Police Department has been targeted with intentional RF via Ham Radio
Police in McMinnville, Tenn have reported that for more than a month they were the subject of intentional interference to their public safety frequency by a "Pirate" broadcaster using ham radio.
A suspect has been captured, but has not been identified. No word on whether the person is a licensed amateur radio operator. The radio has been seized.
Nashville Channel 5 reports:
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Reno Hams Help to Raise $240,000 in Donations and
180,000 lbs Of Food to aid their Nevada neighbors!
Nestled against the Sierra Nevada mountains, Reno was once more being punished by Mother Nature with a blistering freeze.
The recent cold spell is only one of the worries which Nevadans have been contending with. Nevada has been the hardest hit state in the ongoing recession. The state has suffered the most home foreclosures and has had the highest unemployment
rate in the nation for most of the past decade.
Last Friday, most of Washoe County was hunkered down against the cold. But not the members of the Sierra Nevada Amateur Radio Society (SNARS), one of Nevada's two ARRL Special Service Clubs.
The cold would not stand in the way of these ham operators. They were on a mission, teaming up with the local CBS Television affiliate to raise food and money to aid their fellow Nevadans.
This is the twenty first year that KTNV has sponsored the annual "Share Your Christmas Drive-By Food Drive".
A SNARS member sorts food products for distribution to the needy
The hams were organized and led by Jim Rosima KD7DPW. This is not the first time that amateur radio operators have given their service to this cause. In past years the Wide Area Digital Group (WADG) which Rosima was President of, volunteered for the food drive. But earlier this year the small WADG club was merged into the much larger Sierra Nevada club .
Early this month Rosima brought a request to the members of SNARS to carry on the role being vacated by the dissolution of WADG.
Organizer Jim Rosima KD7DPW and Washoe County EC Bob Martin WA6MTY keeping watch over a smooth running operation.
The event was held in three locations. The Governors Mansion in Carson City, the Carson Valley Inn, in Minden, and the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno. KTNV broadcast live throughout the day.
The events unique layout allowed for people to remain in their cars and simply drive thru the lanes and make their donations. SNARS members worked accepting donations, sorting and boxing food / toys, and providing traffic control.
The efforts for the day resulted in $240,000 being raised and 180,000 lbs of food being collected, as well as toys.
SNARS Meeting<|fim_middle|>The remainder of the class schedule will be:
Tuesday March 11th, 7:00-9:00
Wednesday March 12th, 7:00-9:00
Saturday March 15th, 8:00-10:00
A licensing exam session has not yet been scheduled.
On Track- The Nevada State Convention
Just months from it's inception the new Nevada State Convention or NvCon for short is right on track for its May 2014 debut.
A cooperative effort of the Washoe and Storey County ARES groups and the Sierra Nevada Amateur Radio Society the event will have as a backdrop the historic town of Virginia City, the site of the Comstock lode.
Beginning on Friday, May 30th and running thru Sunday afternoon June 1st., the event will have a full range of amateur radio activities. Including all of the usual fare, swap-meet, forums, speakers, banquets, breakfasts, vendors, raffles/door prizes, and ARRL staff.
The Silverland Inn has been designated as the host for the event.
Virginia City offers a wide selection of family oriented activities including such things as museums. mine tours, walking tours, rides on the historic V and T Railway, souvenir shops, and dining.
A bar-b-que is planned for Friday evening, a banquet Saturday night, and a buffet breakfast Sunday morning.
A controversial young newspaper man, who is beginning to make quite a name for himself since taking up employment in Virginia City, is the scheduled speaker at Saturday evenings banquet. Samuel Clemens, who sometimes pens his articles under the moniker "Mark Twain" is said to have grown up in Hannibal, Missouri and became a Master Steamboat Pilot on the Mississippi River before making his way to the Comstock.
Click here for an early sneak peak at some of the planned activities. LET ME PEAK!
S.O.A.R. Kicks Off ARRL Centennial Celebration With Parade Appearance
The Las Vegas Chapter of SOAR, the Sisterhood Of Amateur Radio, could not wait for 2014 to begin promoting the 100th Anniversary of the ARRL.
They hit the pavement rolling on December 7th, when their group was one of the units in the 42nd Annual Santa's Electric Night Parade in Boulder City.
The theme of their entry was "Lady Radio Operators and the ARRL-100 Years of Volunteer Service".
An Artic air blast, unusual for Southern Nevada, had engulfed the area for several days. Thermometers had plunged to freezing. The SOAR ladies had originally planned to re-enact different decades of amateur radio thru the wearing of period attire and using vintage equipment. The freezing cold forced them to forgo the costumes and to bundle up in parkas and fur hats.
Affixed to their vehicle were vintage photographs showing YL's of yesteryear in action. These photos were joined by those of modern day YL Ham astronauts, scientists, and celebrities.
A section of radio tower with a UHF Yagi attached, was covered in evergreen garland and Five hundred Christmas lights. SOAR Vice-President Judy Carpenter KC7ZVE rode on the tailgate and "pounded brass" on a 1930's era Hallicrafters rig.
Club members walking in front of and behind their entry, carried brightly decorated Christmas "gifts to the community". The packages had scenes of the local YL's volunteering their communications skills. One package was emblazoned with the ARRL Centennial logo.
A sign from one of the "gifts"
The ladies report that they encountered at least six reviewing stands along the route, where they heard PA systems describing amateur radio's role in the community and thanking amateur radio operators for their commitment.
Additionally, the entire parade was broadcasted live on Las Vegas television and rebroadcasted on December 17, 21, and on Christmas Eve.
"It is with great pride that we celebrate 100 years of the ARRL and the legacy of those women before us who were truly pioneers of the electronic age......." said SOAR President Elizabeth "Liz" Bigley-KD7RIN, ".....our Centennial year is now upon us and the commitment of YL's to serve the Amateur Radio Service has never been greater."
Bigley reported that SOAR has several activities scheduled during the next year to help celebrate the beginning of the ARRL's second century.
SOAR has local chapters as well as National and International Sisters located worldwide. www.soar-yls.com
W7RN Comstock Memorial Station Active As W1AW/7
The Comstock Memorial Station has been selected to represent Nevada, operating as W1AW/7, for a week in May and another week in October.
Since we are representing the State, we invite all interested hams to come to Virginia City and spend some time on the air as "rare DX." So far, the first operation from W1AW/4 and W1AW/8 have generated huge pileups.
There are many hams across the globe chasing the ARRL Centennial QSO Party awards. http://www.arrl.org/centennial-qso-party
The Comstock Memorial Station is a not for profit foundation that exists to further the state of the art in Radiosport and to provide a venue for hams to advance their operating skills.
During the W1AW/7 events we will attempt to staff two operating positions for the entire 168 hours of each week we are on the air. We have 8 towers and stacked yagis on all bands from 80 through 10. We have other antennas for 6, 2 and 440 and hope to have those stations operable on CW and SSB.
For those new to HF pileups, we will have Elmer's on hand to coach you. If you are passionate about digital modes, we do not currently have those capabilities but would be open to you setting up digital modes and teaching us how to use them.
If you are interested in one or more operating time slots (usually 2 hours) please respond via email with the date(s), times and preferred bands and modes.
We will attempt to accommodate everyone's preferences. The only priorities will be to give our volunteers and workers first choices during the 7th District QSO Party in May and the CQ WW DX Phone contest in October.
To those who respond, I will develop an operator's mailing list and send you regular updates as the slots get filled and as we find volunteers to set up alternative modes of operation.
We would really like to set the standard of manning the station for every hour of the two weeks and, perhaps, garnering the most QSO's, putting Nevada on the map for the ARRL Centennial Operating Events.
Tom Taormina, K5RC
The Comstock Memorial Station, W7RN Storey County ARES, KS7AA Virginia City, Nevada On the Comstock
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Letter From Ten-Tech President:
I would like to take a few moments to wish our customers and Ambassadors a very Happy New Year and thank you all for another abundant year at TEN-TEC. We have seen many unique changes to the electronic industry this past year and again we continue to persevere with a comprehensive design philosophy and customer acceptance throughout the world.
So, what will happen at TEN-TEC in 2014 and what unique advantage can you expect from this American manufacturer? As of January 1st we have had a very positive changing of the guard. Jack Burchfield, has turned over his daily management responsibility to myself, Jim Wharton. Jack will still remain as CEO and majority stock holder of TEN-TEC, however his plans to begin retiring and spending more time with family will begin this year. My challenge will be to coordinate and oversee production, improve scheduling and manage our design and sales teams. In short, my goal for TEN-TEC is for more unique and affordable Ham products, speedier production time, and more innovative technology.
Will our new strategy make a difference? Without a doubt. With your help, you will see a greater presence in the Ham community, offering more affordable products plus unique new items that TEN-TEC customers have requested. Thank you again for another great year. We hope you will continue to tell others about some of the positive and innovative changes going on here at TEN-TEC.
Sincerely & 73,
Jim Wharton, President TEN-TEC, Inc.
Jim Rosima Named Bob Davis Award Winner
The Sierra Nevada Amateur Radio Society has named Jim Rosima -KD7DPW as the 2013 Bob Davis Award winner.
Rosima, of Sparks, served as the Chairman of the Wide Area Data Group which recently disbanded and merged into a new SNARS club.
He coordinates many of the races, swapmeets, and public service events which SNARS supports. Among these are: theTahoe Rim Trail , the Expedition Man race, the Reno Tahoe Gran Fondo, the Reno
5000, the Sierra Valley Grand Fondo, and the just completed "Share Your Christmas Food Drive.
The Bob Davis award is presented to the amateur radio operator who best demonstrates devotion to amateur radio thru outstanding service to the ham radio community.
Tim Hunt Retires: Las Vegas VE Has New Changes
Tim Hunt WA6TNW has retired from the position of VE Coordinator. Click and Read
NWS Stations Recognize SKYWARN
The three National Weather Services Field Offices in Nevada will be on the air for the 15th annual SKYWARN
Recognition Day. Click and Read
Invite An Airman To Thanksgiving
You can make Thanksgiving a little more enjoyable for one of Nellis AFB's 2,500 single Airmen and Airwomen.
Click and Read
Nevada Field Day Results
The Results are in. See how Nevada did in the 2012 ARRL Field Day.
Reno HamCram Class
Reno group plans one day class and license exam.
ARRL Mentor Award Given
The ARRL Mentoring Award was recently given to John Bigley-N7UR Click and Read
Search Team Locates Airman
The body of a missing Airman has been located by search team.
Tamarack Tailgaters
SNARS hosts the Reno Fall Swap-meet at Tamarack Junction.
Baking a Batch of TS-990's
Video of Kenwood
TS-990 being made.
New Hams Workshop in Reno
SNARS is offering a free workshop especially tailored for the newcomer to ham radio. Click and Read
Black Friday- Let's go Play RADio
Two things that really seem to enhance the amateur radio operating experience. Click and read
Yahoo "Who Knew"
Video Check out this video about the other Phonetic Alphabets
YL Operators On Parade
Nevada's largest YL group will showcase Ham Radio in annual parade. Click and Read
State Convention Being Planned
Several Northern Nevada groups are organizing a State Convention. Click and Read
Pahrump VE Pays It Forward
Pahrump Volunteer Examiner helps young people get into ham radio. Click and Read
Help For New Reno Hams
New hams in the Reno area can get on the air help in getting started in amateur radio.
WWII POW Is Silent Key
Former POW Dorothy Susie Davis Thompson-KF5IX is Silent Key. Click and Read
Richard Mertz-N3QJF Silent Key
Noted broadcasting engineer Richard Mertz- has succumbed to pancreatic cancer. Click and Read
W1RO Report: Black Friday Radio Day at Red Rock
Fun morning. Great sunrise. 1/2 dozen hams showed up Click and Read
Mike Lee-AA6ML Is New SE Vice Dir
Mike Lee has been named the new Vice Director of the SE Division Click and Read
Is SAROC Version 3.o Coming?
It was the largest ham gathering east of the Mississippi River. Now flyers are being handed out touting its return. Click and Read
New State Government Liaison
Nevada has a new State Government Liaison.
Cq Reno...Cq Reno..
Scout tries to contact Reno area via radio and isn't successful.
Ham Clubs Outnumber Places
There are more ham clubs in Nevada than their are towns and places.
Repeater Group Has Picnic
The Las Vegas Repeater Association held their annual picnic.
Event Volunteers Needed
Volunteer radio operators are needed for the Nurses Half-Marathon and the MS150.
QRP Group To Meet
Information about the Reno QRP Groups monthly meeting. Click and Read
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2010-2018 all rights reserved-n7ur | Site Is Closed
Jack's Restaurant, the meeting site for the Sierra Nevada Amateur Radio Society, closed their doors recently.
The sudden closure forced club officers to suspend the March Breakfast Meeting.
The Board of Directors is working to secure a suitable location for April's meeting.
An announcement will be made as soon as information is available.
Sam Case Is On The Chase
Editors note: The following is an article about young Samuel Case-KG7HBY, who it appears has been bitten by the DX bug.
Meet Sam Case (KG7HBY).
When he's not engrossed in a game of Minecraft or wrestling with his older brother, he's talking about how long it will take to earn his 'Worked All States' (WAS) certificate from the ARRL or the next time he can go to Gary Grant's shack and use his "awesome radios and talk to some guys who are super far away'.
In case you haven't guessed, talking to 'super far away guys' is 10-year-old speak for working DX and Sam is a new ham radio operator who just turned 10. He is from Sparks, Nevada.
For next year, Sam wants to earn his Extra Class license and visit Japan with his mother, who is Japanese, and meet Yoshi---an amateur operator in Japan he talked to the day he received his General Class license. In the meantime, there are a few more field trips to go on and a 'cool ham shack' that Mom and Dad will have to figure out a way to afford.
Sam likes to call CQ on 15 or 20 meters after school. If you hear him, give him a call back. You can tell him to stop fighting with his brother and to do his homework.
Written by: Sam's Dad (KD7QXO)Sparks, NV
Nevada Section has a New Website
Recently, Nevada Section leaders asked John Bigley-N7UR to create a new web-site for ARRL activities in the Silver State.
The new site went on-line a couple of weeks ago. Content and additional features are continuing to be added.
The Nevada Section is receiving this website at no cost. Production services, annual Domain Registry fees, and monthly hosting fees are being paid by Bigley
To date more than 2,500 people have visited the site: www.arrl-nevada.org
Grand Sierra Repeater-Reno
The IRLP / EchoLink Node on the GSR 147.300 is back up and running again! After a couple of days of down time it is running again at a new host.
Thanks to John, N7ROJ for hosting the node. The previous node host is moving from their location and was not able to continue to host it at this time.
Mt. Rose Repeater-Reno
The repeater link on the 147.15 MHz Mt. Rose repeater is down until further notice.
LVRAC Repeater Las Vegas
The Las Vegas Radio Amateur Club reports that their 70cm repeater on 448.500 mhz has been temporarily removed from service. Club members will be notified when it returns to the air.
Emcomm "1"
Reno Group Offers Classes
Washoe County ARES will be starting an EmComm Level 1 Class, starting the first week of February. This is a certification class on/of the ARECC EC-001 course material.
Persons interested in attending and earning the ARES EmComm Level 1 Certification should contact Doug Abramson-KA7FOO for information. Doug can be reached by email at: ka7foo@gmail.com or by phone at: 775-225-5679
Radio Classes Scheduled in Elko
People in and around Elko will be able to train to take the FCC Technician Class exam.
Classes have been scheduled for March of this year at the North-Eastern Nevada Regional Hospital.
Instructor Dale Scott-KF7MT, has scheduled the classes so that they may be completed in four 2-hour long sessions held over an 8 day period.
The first class will begin in the Conference Room at 8:00 AM on Saturday March 8th.
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If your kid has been diagnosed with respiratory allergies, there are really a handful of items you can do in your dwelling to aid minimize the symptoms. Eliminating as a great deal dust and pollen from inside the home can make a significant distinction in the severity of allergy attacks. It's not just the dust you see in the air or on desktops that causes difficulty. There is also dust hiding in carpets, furnishings and bedding.
Low back discomfort is extremely popular- from 60% to 80% of the basic population suffer from low back discomfort at some time in their lives. Most of them will recover within six weeks, but five-15% are unresponsive to remedy and have continued disability. Among those patients who recover, recurrences are very common- 22% to 62% endure an exacerbation of chronic low back pain due to various causes.
Low back discomfort can be triggered by participation in sports, motor vehicle accidents, or any type of injury, such as incorrect lifting performed with rotation, a direct mechanism of disk harm. It might be the result of faulty sitting or sleeping positions, faulty movement, repetitive movements at perform, incorrect posture, or osteoarthritis. In any of these instances individuals will present with low back pain of unique degrees of intensity, from light pain to debilitating discomfort. The most popular location is above the sacrum, with frequent radiation to the buttock and hip. In some cases individuals have pain radi<|fim_middle|> podiatrist. | ating to the knee or even to the ankle. Patients with sciatica will have excruciating pain radiating all the way down the leg.
Getting the testing done will make issues much more uncomplicated.
The nail can be filed down and trimmed cautiously, either at home or by a podiatrist. If the infection is gentle and much localized then to treat toenail fungus a medical doctor may advocate a medicated nail polish containing either Loceryl or Loprox. If the infection persists or carry on spreading then a medical professional might prescribe an oral, systemic anti-fungal medication such as Sporanox or Lamisil. The therapy may well requires about 12 weeks. Each of these drugs have some quite damaging effects that might not be suitable for some people.
I use gentle adjustment, particularly in acute conditions, ice to reduce inflammation and edema in acute circumstances. I also use EMS to relax the muscle, homeopathy to stimulate healing, and I use the Chinese instrument qua-sha for soft tissue massage that provides deep penetration. In some cases I use ultrasound and Acupuncture with no needles ( which is incredibly significant-patients appreciate it extremely a lot, simply because no one likes needles). In addition to this, I do nutrition response testing (NRT) in order to uncover out nutritional wants and supplement patients with entire meals supplements togive them a lot more nutrients, vitamins and minerals. This will assistance facilitate and speed their recovery.
The incidence rate, expense of chronicity and disability and high recurrence rate adds up to a difficulty of epidemic proportions. If a fungal infection turns into scratchy, it is sufficient to look for health-related remedy so that a medical doctor will examine the toenail and may take little samples. The nail can be scrutinized for fungi or some other infection under a microscope in the lab. Bronchitis is a single of the escalating respiratory disorders right now. Impacted men and women reside in regions exactly where higher level air pollution, normally impacted men and women who are smokers, bronchitis is a disorder which could possibly impact your day-to-day tasks. There are mostly 2 types of bronchitis which are the chronic bronchitis and acute bronchitis.
Healthy Low Fat Dinner Recipes – Chiropractic has a 95% satisfaction rate in its remedy of low back discomfort. Why? The nail can be filed down and trimmed cautiously, either at home or by a | 487 |
AVENV believes that experience is irrelevant unless it coincides with a high level of quality in performance. One indicator of successful performance is repeat business. AVENV staff has a track record of providing clients with continual service over many years. This indicator spans many contract vehicles across the US, most of which were competitively bid with past performance as a primary selection criterion.
AVENV has the capability to provide technical support and project management for both small and large-scale environmental project(s). In the past, staff members have managed such projects as the Former Stapleton International Airport Redevelopment Project, as well as King Soopers Grocery Stores and City Markets (Kroger). These projects included such services as project management, demolition oversight, industrial hygiene inspections, asbestos abatement oversight, and air monitoring. Staff members have also conducted asbestos inspections for the Colorado State Capital and the Governor's Mansion through Chevron Energy Solutions,<|fim_middle|>-affected residential structures and 100 commercial structures. Staff provided demolition oversight and project management services, as well as environmental consulting, project design and industrial hygiene services to the City of Cedar Rapids. Staff was also involved with the Paramount Theatre project in Cedar Rapids. They provided testing, inspection, surveying and environmental protocol writing for the pre-renovation, the renovation and the closeout processes.
In Kansas City, Missouri, staff members completed environmental consulting, industrial hygiene and project management services for the City of Kansas City. They participated in p rojects related to the seven blocks of the Power and Light Entertainment District, as well as the four blocks of the Sprint Center Arena. Staff members were also involved with the abatement oversight of the former BMA Tower (One Park Place). Staff members also provided disaster recovery services to the Gulf Coast States after the terrible devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. | and completed work for the City and County of Pueblo at the former Pueblo Ice House in Pueblo, CO.
Staff was also instrumental in the management of the FEMA and Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) programs for the City of Cedar Rapids. Through these projects, staff members oversaw the assessment, remediation and demolition of flood-damaged structures. They ensured that all federal, state and municipal requirements were adhered to (for both field and documentation work), and helped to administer FEMA regulations on behalf of the City. Staff members managed the assessment, remediation and demolition of approximately 1,150 severely flood | 126 |
How to Grow And Take Care of a Chinese Lantern Plant
Chinese lantern plants can brighten up your garden with their flashy orange seed covers. This article will provide you with some tips about growing this plant.
Sonia Nair
As the name rightly suggests, Chinese lantern plants produce bright orange, ribbed seed husks that resemble the traditional Chinese lanterns. Belonging to the nightshade family (Solanaceae), these plants are included in the genus Physalis, which has other members like tomatillos, cape gooseberry, etc. Chinese lantern plants (Physalis alkekengi) have alternate names, like Japanese lantern, strawberry tomato, winter cherry, and bladder cherry. These plants are grown in flower gardens for the colorful seed husks<|fim_middle|> easy to grow and require minimal care. This plant is grown from seeds, and once established, they can turn invasive. You can find newer plants growing from the horizontal rhizomes of the parent plant. So if you want to prevent these plants from spreading, you have to grow them in containers or pots buried in ground.
Choose an appropriate location with enough sunlight and well-drained soil. The plant will also thrive in places with partial shade. The soil has to be rich and moist, and not soggy. The best time to plant the seeds is late spring, after the last frost. You may also grow the seeds in seed trays indoors, 4 to 6 months before the last frost. Generally, the seeds are directly planted after the last frost.
While planting the seeds or seedlings on ground, make sure to leave a space of two to three feet in between. Mulching will prove beneficial for the plant, as this retains the soil moisture, and prevents growth of weeds to some extent. Make sure to place the mulch around the plant at a depth of about two to three inches. As these plants are invasive, they have a tendency to spread and produce new growths in the surrounding area.
Water the plants during dry weather conditions, and feeding can be done with a regular fertilizer, once in every season. Pruning should be done, as and when you notice diseased branches. Chinese lantern plants grow fast, and produce flowers during the first year itself. Before winter, harvest the lanterns, and cut down the plants. Only a few inches of the main stems must remain. Once in every five to six years, you may separate the rhizomes and plant them in different locations.
Know More About the Plant
Chinese lantern plants can grow to a height of around 60 centimeters. During mid summer, white flowers with five petals are produced by these plants. It is the basal calyx (composed of sepals) of these flowers that develop to the bright orange papery covering of the fruits. The fruits of the plant resemble cherry tomato, and contain numerous small seeds. As the berries mature, the papery orange husk transforms to a thin web-like covering that disintegrates, along with the dry seeds.
Traditionally, this plant is grown for culinary and medicinal purposes. While the ripe fruits are edible; the unripe berries and leaves are found to be poisonous. Even the ripe fruits of this plant must be consumed moderately. In some regions, this plant is used as a herbal medicine for treating fever, malaria, bed wetting, etc. It is also used as an anti-inflammatory agent, and as a remedy for cough. Some people use it for early labor. However, the fruits should be used with caution, as they may cause side effects like abdominal pain and miscarriage.
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Growing Chinese Lantern Plants
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Though public power utilities provide their customers with reliable service, severe weather conditions such as thunderstorms, high winds or snowstorms can lead to temporary service interruptions. As the seasons change it is important to be prepared for possible storm-related power outages.
These items will help you avoid potential hazards and manage a power outage or other emergency that may require you to survive on your own for several days. When preparing your kit, make sure it can<|fim_middle|> of an outage. This information can often help the utility to address an outage in a timelier manner.
In the event of a nighttime outage, use flashlights for light rather than candles, as this will reduce the chance of a fire. Ensure that you have a ready supply of extra batteries for this purpose. If an outage occurs during cold weather, use blankets and extra clothing to stay warm, rather than an open-flame heat source, as they may cause carbon monoxide accumulation.
Unplug or disconnect any major appliances and electronic devices to protect them from a power surge that may cause damage when the power comes back on.
Keep the refrigerator and freezer doors closed as much as possible to preserve food.
In addition to outages, severe weather can cause dangerous hazards such as downed power lines and electrical equipment. Downed power lines pose a serious threat and can potentially be deadly. If you spot a downed power line, call 911 and inform the appropriate emergency responders at your local electric utility company immediately.
In the event of a downed power line, never attempt to touch or move equipment or any surrounding debris, even with a stick or pole. It is very likely that downed power lines are still live, meaning they can still electrocute anything they touch. Keep at a safe distance at all times from surrounding objects such as fences, buildings and trees as they may have been energized by the fallen line. Keep away from any water near the downed line.
Do not drive over downed power lines. If a power line falls onto your vehicle, stay in the vehicle, do not touch anything and call for help. If forced to exit your vehicle (the only reason would be if there were a fire), remove any loose clothing first and then jump out of the vehicle, keeping arms and hands at your sides and landing with both feet together. Keep both feet together and shuffle away from the car. If you see someone else in this situation, do not attempt a rescue. | sustain your household for at least 72 hours and is stored in a cool, dry and safe place.
Establish an emergency plan for your household.
Fill your car with gas, but avoid traveling unless necessary.
Fully charge any electronic devices.
To keep food cold, before the storm arrives, set your refrigerator to its coldest setting.
Confirm that the smoke and carbon monoxide detectors in your house are working and add fresh batteries if needed.
Consider purchasing a generator to supply power during an outage. Ensure that you understand the manufacturer's instructions before using.
Visit your state's emergency management agency website for information regarding the nearest cooling and warming shelters.
Report any outage to your electric company immediately. Even if you cannot speak to someone directly, reporting an outage can help the utility to identify the location and extent | 159 |
A while back I gave the plant-based meal delivery program Veestro a test run for a review. I loved their company and their delicious meals. So I was excited when they came to me and asked if I wanted to collaborate on a custom Veestro meal!
During the month of June only, you can order my vegan Sweet Potato Chili directly from Veestro! It comes delivered to your doorstep, just heat, eat and sit back and relax. Info on my chili, a giveaway, promo code to try Veestro and more ahead..
I added some diced avocado on top for color and added flavor - and more healthy fats!
A Veestro box on your doorstep is a very happy thing!..
I sampled my chili as well as some juices and the new cookie pie dessert which was so good! The cookie pie is even loaded with healthy ingredients like oats and beans - and chocolate of course..
My recipe, with a few Veestro modifications, delivered to your doorstep!..
I actually didn't get a really good photo of the cookie pie, but it was SO good! Moist and tender like cookie dough, only filled with healthy ingredients.
Sweet Potato Chili. My chili recipe comes from this original recipe I posted a few years ago. I loved that recipe so much because it was a true meal in a bowl - so it was perfect as a Veestro meal! Tender sweet potatoes, hearty beans and lentils and plenty of smoky-sweet-spicy flavor. This chili is very mildly spicy, just enough to warm you up. You could always add in a few pinches of cayenne for more heat.
The Veestro version uses white sweet potatoes and chickpeas and lots of hearty lentils. It has nice chunks of bell peppers, celery, onion and corn. It has chili powder and a hint of chocolate for that rich and warming "chili" flavor. I really loved the cozy, warming flavor! Perfect for an easy lunch or light dinner. Or pair it with a Veestro salad (I loved the kale + beet) for a heartier meal<|fim_middle|>, but don't wait because it will only be offered in the month of June, which is quickly passing by!
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Facebook Live! And if you are on Facebook, be sure to tune into the Veestro Facebook Live this Friday, June 23rd, 12:30 PST. I will be cooking/blending something! I am nervous/excited because this will be my first FB Live broadcast ever. Hope you can tune in, say hi and thank you!! Any questions, ask away!
Be sure to check out the Veestro website if you are curious about a convenient way to add more plants to your life! Browse the meals and also check out my detailed review with my favorite meals.
My Veestro 21-Day review video.. | .
How to Cook the Chili: I had two frozen chilis to try and I microwaved one and used my stovetop for the other. The microwaved version was warming and delicious, but a bit more like a very thick stew than a chili because the microwave retains more moisture, so it becomes thinner in texture. But the flavor was still superb.
Cooking the next chili on my stovetop gave my chili a much thicker texture, something I crave from a chili. It all depends what you want and how much time you have. I also noticed that cooking the chili on my stovetop darkened the colors a bit more into a deeper red color, which I really liked.
Microwaved prep is a bit a thinner texture, more like a thick stew. But still so flavorful and warming.
Stovetop preparation, thick and chunky chili, loaded with veggies and legumes..
My Review. Overall I was so impressed with how Veestro turned my home-cooked recipe into a ready-to-go frozen entree, rich with hearty ingredients and so much flavor. I love that this entree is truly a complete meal because it have veggies, legumes, protein, carbs, fiber and healthy fats. I like to add fresh avocado and maybe some vegan sour cream or mayo to serve. A slice of cornbread on the side would be perfection!
The best part about Veestro is that their meals really do taste like homemade dishes because they use the freshest ingredients, do not use preservatives and the best part - Veestro owners, Mark and Monica, truly put a whole lot of love into their company and their meals show that!
So if you are curious about Veestro and want to try my Sweet Potato Chili recipe - you can order here | 362 |
Q: Does it make sense to do unit testing on Java EE applications? I have heard that Java EE unit testing is much harder than standard Java applications. The testing for my company's application stays at User Acceptance testing. We verify UI and functions behave as they are supposed to. Does it make sense to do unit testing on Java EE applications? If yes, what are some good starting points?
A: Of course it makes sense.
Let me guess: in the case of your company, when you make a minor change to a central component, I suppose that you'll repeat once and again your User Acceptance Tests. A real PITA, and overboring for a development team, in my opinion.
Unit testing allows you to develop in a consistent way the different layers of your Java EE app (i.e. view, business and model), AND, moreover, it allows you to do regression testing. The magic with regression testing is that in a long life application, this provides you a way to be sure that a new patch, code refactoring, or evolution doesn't break the current system behaviour. And it can be done automatically if you use a continuous integration tool.
So, you can write unit test for business and model layer in a direct way using, as an example, jUnit. And here comes the problem with Unit testing in Java EE apps: What do we do with the view layer?
Well, for the view layer you can use an automated test tool, say Apache jMeter, to check the expected behaviour of your Webapps, check your data validation, your system stability (programing long tests with a regular number of users) and scalability (with increasing and decreasing concurrent users), stress testing<|fim_middle|> the upper layers MOST of the time. It also means when you experience a problem, you have to first find out whether the problem is in the front end or the back end.
A: Yeah, Java EE is harder to unit-test. It's also much harder to fix it when you break something and don't notice it for two weeks because you never bothered to write unit tests.
The more complex the application is, the more you need to have a good testing regimen. And since we're talking about Java EE, it's safe to assume that your application is complex.
| , etc. (I know it's not Unit testing, but it can be used in a similar way for regression testing).
I think it's a capital part of every software project, and I invite you to apply it to some of your project, and compare by yourself the final result.
A: It always makes sense to do unit testing on the server. Java EE is not necessarily harder to unit test. A good starting point is the code and the various layers of the application. i.e. start writing unit tests for persistence, then write unit tests for the services, etc....
A: Java EE 6's CDI resource injection was practically made for unit testing; you can swap out @Inject-ed FacesContexts, database resources, and beans for @Alternative beans that have known, predictable behaviour for testing.
A: Testing at the UI level alone is dangerous, because you can have bugs in the lower layer that are either hidden by, or compensated for in, | 197 |
Praise for the Omar Yussef series: Astonishing.--Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review Matt Beynon Rees has taken a complex world of culture clash and suspicion and placed upon it humanity.--David Baldacci Omar's probe of a West Bank ruled by political intrigue, religious hatred, and militia thugs lets ex-TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Rees make the Mideast conflict personal.--Entertainment Weekly A beautifully written story. . . . [Omar Yussef's] decency is a light in the gloom. I shall not forget him.--Anne Perry Rees tells this grim story with skill, specificity and richly detailed descriptions of people and places. . . . Offers a vivid portrait of Palestinian life today.--The Washington Post The best--and the rarest--sort of mystery: exciting and compelling, but it is also a deeply moving story.--David Liss Omar Yussef is a splendid creation.--Colin Dexter Arriving to visit his son in a heavily Palestinian area of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Omar Yussef discovers the beheaded body of one of the boy's roommates<|fim_middle|>," as well as four books in the Omar Yussef series. He won the Crime Writers' Association New Blood Dagger for the first mystery in the series. | . When his son is arrested as a suspect, Omar Yussef must prove his innocence. Matt Beynon Rees was born in South Wales. He was previously the Jerusalem bureau chief for TIME magazine and has covered the Middle East as a journalist for over a decade. He is the author of Cain's Field: Faith, Fratricide, and Fear in the Middle East, as well as four books in the Omar Yussef series. He won the Crime Writers' Association New Blood Dagger for the first mystery in the series.
Matt Beynon Rees was born in South Wales. He was previously the Jerusalem bureau chief for "TIME" magazine and has covered the Middle East as a journalist for over a decade. He is the author of "Cain's Field: Faith, Fratricide, and Fear in the Middle East | 169 |
Find a Drug Treatment Program near me in Dillon, SC.
Men and women wanting drug rehab might think that all rehab facility in Dillon is identical, however it's not. Men and women searching for excellent rehab may not be aware that there are more powerful treatment choices available which have nothing to do with 12-step or even the traditional treatment models they might have been exposed to in the past. Alternative alcohol and drug treatment in Dillon, South Carolina is available in numerous inpatient and residential alcohol and drug rehabilitation facilities in Dillon, SC., that offer long-term rehab and extremely comprehensive rehabilitation plans. The advantages of being in this type of facility instead of outpatient rehab is that men and women get to really concentrate on treatment and not be distracted by anything which may jeopardize their advancement or decision to become drug free. This really is essential, because individuals who don't get to have this type of opportunity continue to have people and things within their environment which could prompt a relapse at any moment, that may be incredibly disheartening for addicted persons and their family. Such setbacks are uncommon when someone is in an inpatient or residential drug treatment center in Dillon which provides affirmation and support 24 hours a day for when things become difficult, but also to help an individual sustain their forward advancement and reach their end goal without being sabotaged.
From time to time getting someone to rehabilitation can be a challenge, even though they know that they require help. If somebody won't obtain the lifesaving help they need inside a drug and alcohol rehabilitation program in Dillon, SC., an intervention can be exactly the thing to turn things around since it isn't done to make the individual feel guilty it is done to provide them with a way out. So speak with a drug and alcohol rehab counselor at the drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility in Dillon, South Carolina which has been chosen and find out how to get the intervention process started straight away.
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Has Leafs' goaltending guru lost his touch?
By Michael Traikos, Postmedia NewsFebruary 23, 2012
Leaf goaltender James Reimer talks with goalie coach François Allaire during practice at Etobicoke's MasterCard Centre for Excellence.
Photograph by: Peter J. Thompson, National Post
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TORONTO - Of his impact on the game, there is no debate. He is credited for being the NHL's first goalie coach, for furthering the development of the butterfly style and for helping Patrick Roy become a Hall of Fame goaltender.
Brian Burke calls him a guru. His students call him the "best goalie coach in the world." But in his third season as the goaltending consultant for the Toronto Maple Leafs, with the team once again one of the worst at preventing goals, is Francois Allaire's reputation in danger?
After all, if Jonas Gustavsson (16-12-2, .905 save percentage) and James Reimer (11-8-4, .903 save percentage)<|fim_middle|> Hiller, Allaire has helped shaped the careers of several of the league's top goaltenders and has the Stanley Cup rings to prove it. But since he arrived in Toronto in 2009, the man with the Midas touch has been rendered powerless.
Seven different Leafs goaltenders have studied under Allaire. And not one of them has been able to find consistency in net. Maybe, as head coach Ron Wilson suggested the other day, this is a Toronto thing. Or maybe it is time for the team to go in a different direction.
"I don't know if it's something with Frankie," Gustavsson said. "I've been working with Francois (since) before I came over here and I tried to play that kind of game back home, too, the Swedish version of it."
Allaire's system is universal. He preaches on playing the percentages. He wants his goalies to block the puck - rather than make a highlight-reel save - by being in the right position at the right time.
When it is working to its fullest effect, Allaire's goalies appear calm and Zen-like. When it is not working, they appear stiff and non-athletic.
That was certainly how Gustavsson looked the other night, when he allowed four goals on 32 shots in a 4-3 overtime loss to the New Jersey Devils. Two goals snuck through his legs. The overtime winner was a point shot that was headed wide before bouncing past Gustavsson like a stone being skipped on rough waters.
Sitting up in the press box, all Allaire could do was watch. At some point, the goaltender has to make the save. And unfortunately for Allaire, that has not happened with much regularity since he arrived to Toronto.
When asked if he was frustrated by the progress of his goaltenders, Allaire shook his head. He knew there were going to be challenges when he was hired by the Leafs. The team he inherited did not have a clear-cut No. 1 or much in the way of blue-chip prospects, and had been ranked last in goals-against average and save percentage.
Still, he was confident he would be able to turn an average goaltender into a great one by now.
"I think if everybody pushes in the same direction, it's going to be easy," Allaire said when he was hired. "If everyone wants to be better, it's going to be easy."
So far, it has been anything but. In the last three seasons, the Leafs have ranked in the bottom five in save percentage and goals-against average.
Some suggest Allaire's style is outdated, or not compatible with how Reimer or Gustavsson play. But New York Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist, who is coached by Allaire's brother Benoit, plays a similar butterfly style with success. And even before Reimer and Gustavsson arrived in the NHL, they were playing a derivative of Allaire's system.
"Some goalies aren't born to play a butterfly or blocking style," Reimer said. "But it works perfectly for me . . . I've said it many times, if it wasn't for Frankie I definitely wouldn't be having the success that I've had."
That success is relative. But with one of the younger goaltending tandems in the league, Allaire is asking fans to be patient. Both Gustavsson and Reimer have shown promise. The challenge is getting them to play with consistency.
"The good news is right now we've got two guys who have played over .500 and their save percentage is over .900 and we're still in the playoffs," Allaire said. "So we have something going on. We know we need somebody to take the lead and after that everyone will follow. But we're not at that point right now . . .
"We're coming. But we're not at that point."
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© Copyright (c) Postmedia Network Inc. | are struggling to stop the puck, then surely their coach and his methodology also share in the blame.
"Not in my mind he doesn't," Reimer said. "If you look at his track record and the goalies he's coached, the proof is in the pudding. I think it's more on the goalies, not the coach."
Allaire's resume would seem to back up that assertion. From Roy and Jean-Sebastien Giguere, to Ilya Bryzgalov and Jonas | 101 |
- Visiting museums: Provincial Wine Museum located in the Castle of Peñafiel, House Museum of bank of Duero in Penafiel,<|fim_middle|>inerie Comenge.
- Cycling: great paths to enjoy cycling routes in the Ribera del Duero (we have tracks route through the area).
- Speed circuit Kotar: the most important sports facility Castilla y León, in Tubilla del Lago (45 km).
- Visit local wineries and wine tasting courses initiation: detailed information in wine tourism section. | County Museum of Sacred Art in Peñafiel, visit the underground cellars of the fifteenth century, train museum and ceramic museum in Aranda de Duero, Wool Museum in la Horra, Museum of flavors in Santa cruz de la Salceda.
- Archeological sites: Archaeological Hall in Roa de Duero, Archaeological Area of Pintia, town Vacceo in Peñafiel.
- Hiking: network of small trails tour of the Ribera del Duero (we have specific guidelines), Natural Park Hoces del Duratón, Natural Reserve Hoces del río Riaza, Narrow pass "la Yecla", Natural Park Cañón del río Lobos.
Birdwatching: wide variety of ecosystems (361 species of birds in Castilla y León), shore birds, moor and mountains in the area; Natural Park Hoces del Duratón, Natural Reserve Hoces del río Riaza, Narrow Pass "la Yecla", Natural Park Cañón del río Lobos.
- Canoeing: in Duero River(Quintanilla 27 km), in Natural Park Hoces del Duratón (55 km).
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Small Talk Archive: June 2016
Nettie's Dollhouse Dolls
Tagged: Doll, Dollhouse, Toy
The contents stored inside the Nettie Wells dollhouse give us a special look at the playtime of a Victorian girl. Among them is a small bisque porcelain doll, who is unfortunately missing a few of her appendages. We learned from Nettie's writings kept within the house that this doll's name was Gracie and that Nettie considered herself Gracie's mama.
It's still unclear how Gracie may have suffered some bodily losses (we've ruled out the possibility of an older brother!), but we can tell from evidence on her muslin underwear that someone tried to repair her with glue. Gracie even had a smaller doll of her own. Nettie<|fim_middle|> Play-Doh. And the decade wouldn't be complete without Matchbox cars, Erector Sets, and dolls that talked and wet, Chatty Cathy and Betsy Wetsy.
LACMA's Miniature Metropolis
Tagged: Art, Exhibit, Toy, Transportation Toys
We're obviously huge fans of kinetic sculptures that incorporate toys, hence T/m's two-story Toytisserie. Although it's not in a museum of toys or miniatures, artist Chris Burden's large installation Metropolis II has been amazing visitors to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) since 2011. Metropolis II is a fury of 1,100 matchbox cars whirring by at a scale speed of 230 miles per hour on a complex system of tracks around a futuristic miniature skyline.
Witnessing the sculpture in person in the LACMA galleries evokes feelings of wonder and awe, but with a tinge of anxiety, similar to driving on a real-life multi-lane freeway in heavy traffic (after all, toys are teaching tools for life, you know!). It took Burden and his studio team over four years of research and design to get all the components exactly right—even so, a team of attendants is on hand in case a car derails or jams up the track. The sculpture runs intermittently for four hours every day at LACMA.
Photo: Chris Burden, Metropolis II, 2010, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, courtesy of the Nicolas Berggruen Charitable Foundation, © Chris Burden Estate
A Rare Bird
Tagged: Toy, Transportation Toys
Americans have been completely enamored of the automobile since the first ones rolled off the assembly lines and onto the streets. Both adults and children were captivated by the "horseless buggy," as evidenced by this 1920s toy pedal car. Although wheeled mobility toys existed before this pedal car, Schmelzer's Red Bird definitely came with all the modern stylishness of its motorized, full-scale counterparts.
Schmelzer's Red Bird was manufactured by the Sidway Topliff Company of Washington, Pennsylvania for a department store here in Kansas City named Schmelzer's Arms Co. Some of the features on this bad boy include yellow pinstripes, a winged hood ornament, and a hand brake that operates a stop sign in the rear above the license plate. The Red Bird is on view with other classic pedal cars in our temporary exhibit Pedal to the Metal: Pedal Cars and American Car Culture through August 28, 2016. | and Gracie must have had many imaginative adventures (or misadventures) together, judging from her many accessories, which we'll peek into next time.
The Nifty Toys of the Fifties
If you build it, they will come. And what they wanted (yup, that's you, our visitors), were the toys they played with as a kid. While seeing the toys you played with behind glass may make you feel old, it is pretty awesome to see old friends again. We promise you'll pick right up where you left off. Gotta Have It! Iconic Toys from Past Decades begins with 1950s toys.
Saturday mornings in front of the television set changed advertising, allowing companies to demonstrate products and directly reach their target market: kids. And the discovery of polypropylene made plastic toys inexpensive and more interactive. Barbie came to town with Tom Corbett, Space Cadet. They were joined by failed-manufacturing-ventures-turned-toys in Silly Putty and | 208 |
Leslie Gabaldon attended The New England School of Art & Design in Boston, MA, and The Art Students League of NY. She has focused her attention in new media since 1988.Her tendencies towards alternate mediums eventually lead on to embrace photography as the foundation of her work. Her ideas breed from concepts of sociological memory, especially in female issues in the contemporary world (she often incorporates toys as elements of nostalgia). Gabaldon's curiosity for words not only as a mean to communicate ideas but as aesthetics elements appears throughout her body of work. She exquisitely merges image and text as visual poetry. Her most recent work "Ink on Roses" was successfully received in Buenos Aires, Bogota and Miami.
For Leslie Gabaldon (b. 1964, Caracas, Venezuela<|fim_middle|> her work in New York, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Italy, Panama and Shanghai. In 2007 she was awarded with the Altos de Chavón. In 2010 she was selected to be part of "Florida Contemporary," a biennial at the Naples Museum of Art, in Florida. | ) sense is quality that must be defended from oblivion and unfurled no matter time nor distance. She has shown | 24 |
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Lifelong Melvindale resident makes easy transition to nearby community
November 13, 2016 By Times-Herald Newsp<|fim_middle|> comfortable she was," Wooldridge said. "It didn't take long, because she was surrounded by a wonderful community of friendly residents and staff. They gave her so much TLC."
Back at work in California as assistant to the head of a private school, Wooldridge frequently talks with her mom by phone and gets regular updates from her brother who continues to help with grocery shopping and other needs.
"It's so nice to see that she's no longer lonely," Wooldridge said. "I think she's already gained 10 pounds since she moved in. All the things she used to enjoy are coming back. She dresses up every day, puts on jewelry, and walks more."
Rutkowski agreed that she never sits alone in her apartment. Instead, she goes to exercise class and visits or plays pinochle with her new friends. Now recruiting former neighbors, she tells them, "If you're lonesome, come here."
More recently, she told her children that it's time to sell the house. "This is home. I love it here."
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Photo courtesy of Oakwood Common. Irene Rutkowski (left) visits with her daughter, Rose Ann Wooldridge, who helped her make an easy transition to Oakwood Common.
DEARBORN – Born and raised in Melvindale and a proud graduate of Melvindale High School, Irene Rutkowski moved as a young bride with her husband Stan to Toledo.
Family ties soon brought the couple back to the Michigan community where they raised their son, John, and daughter, Rose Ann, also graduates of Melvindale High School.
Years passed, the children grew up, the neighborhood changed, and Stan passed away. The family home became empty for Irene.
"We always had wonderful neighbors," Rutkowski said. "It's just that people just don't come outside and talk like they used to. I was lonely and sitting in the house too much."
John Rutkowski, who works for Ford Motor Co. and lives in Carleton, was always the first person Irene called when she needed anything even though cousins and nephews offered to help. He was also the one called to the hospital when Irene fell this past spring.
Rose Ann Wooldridge, a California resident, quickly boarded a plane for Michigan.
"My brother was doing it all, and we both realized our mom was no longer safe in her home." said Wooldridge, who urged her brother to take a much needed vacation. "I told him that I'd somehow convince her to move. He wasn't confident she would agree."
While Rutkowski was at Beaumont Health and Rehabilitation in Dearborn, Wooldridge talked with the staff at Oakwood Common about the best way to ease her mom into a new residence in the senior living community. Prepared with more insight from the community, Woolridge began the process of slowly convincing her mom of the importance of moving to a place that offered the socialization and nutrition she needed as well as make it easier on her brother.
"The staff was so helpful and made it possible for me to move everything my mom would need from her Melvindale house to Oakwood Common within just a few days," Wooldridge said. "My brother returned from his vacation, and he couldn't believe it."
When Rutkowski was ready to leave rehabilitation in April, her children took her directly to a lovely apartment.
"It looks just like my house," said Rutkowski, who saw the familiar furnishings and photos, and agreed to stay there a few days until she got better.
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An interesting recent article in The New York Times reveals that<|fim_middle|>, and yet they were forced to basically teach to the test all year, knowing that their jobs were ostensibly on the line if children performed poorly on the assessments; however, since teachers had never been properly trained in the standards (many still are not), how could the city and state expect them to teach effectively?
Teaching is a grand and sacred profession, and most people who enter into it are charged with something much more than earning a salary. They believe in the sacred trust that comes from standing in a classroom as a professional and imparting knowledge of subjects to students. Parents appreciate this symbiotic relationship, and they cherish the opportunity for their children to learn from these dedicated professionals. Unfortunately, something nefarious comes between the parent-teacher-student relationship when teachers are forced off course by pernicious attempts to rattle their cages, which makes teaching into something less than it should be. With the albatross of these assessments hanging around teachers' necks, they are compelled to do something opposed to their inherent nature, to go against every educator's fiber to teach to a test they know is deficient and will lead to unreliable results.
Perhaps Dr. King's announcement is a glimmer of hope, or it could be a case of smoke and mirrors. Teachers and parents would do well not to ease their protests at this point. If things stand as they are, an entirely new round of ineffective assessments will be given across the board next spring. We now have an opportunity to use this opening as a chink in the armor of the state and school districts. If these changes can be made, more can follow.
The CCSS were created to bring a deeper and more meaningful education to students. There is nothing wrong with that, but there is a salient difference between teaching for rigor and relevance and teaching to the test. As long as this dynamic exists, CCSS will be viewed as negatively by many as the assessments themselves. The key is to push for a uncontested divorce, separating testing and standards and eventually advocacy for elimination of all standardized testing. This may be wishful thinking, but standardized testing does nothing but prove something to people who never step into a classroom. We send our children to school to learn deeply and meaningfully and not to be tested to death.
Common Core Wars should have never happened in the first place, but now that we are sucked into this conflict, we can only hope that voices of reason will be heard and things will change. That has started to happen in New York, and other states should take note. A bell has started to toll here in New York and its mournful sound is bound to increase across the land. For whom does the bell toll? It should be for these inadequate assessments and the politicians, state officials, and district leaders who have lauded them.
I weep for our children. Increased testing inevitably means more rote learning: the least useful form of education. A small amount of rote is required for many things, but it should be so small that it disappears in time. We all learn addition tables and multiplication tables quickly in grade school. No purpose is served by continually testing multiplication tables.
Students need to read more books. When that happens throughout the system, scores will rise naturally as a logical outgrowth of having more experience with the language. Maybe the new kindle book formats can help to make this happen on a larger scale. | New York State "will seek to ease the burden of testing." Apparently state officials, led by state education commissioner Dr. John B. King Jr., are waking up and realizing what parents, teachers, and this writer have been saying all along – the testing linked to the new Common Core State Standards is excessive and intrusive. Its very nature does nothing to enhance the educational atmosphere in schools and, in fact, inhibits best instructional practices.
Of course, don't plan to run the flag up the pole and have a celebratory parade just yet. As in all things here in New York, what King is announcing amounts to baby steps. While Dr. King says that there is "more testing than is needed" (if ever there was an understatement this is it) which prompted this decision, the assessments that are being reduced or eliminated are minimal at best. This plan includes giving students with English language struggles tests in their native languages, disabled students would take different tests than their peers in a specific grade, and a math assessment would be eliminated for some 8th grade students (those who take algebra and must also take a state Regents exam).
While this is a start, so much more needs to be done in regard to the assessments. King worded his comments carefully and said, "The amount of testing should be the minumum necessary to inform effective decision making." If you know what's happening here in New York, state officials wanted to link teacher evaluations (and ultimately retention) to these assessments. When dismal results came back regarding this year's assessments (students performed miserably across the board), parents and teachers reacted with anger and dismay. How can you evaluate teachers based on student performance on questionable assessments? How can students' academic standing be determined based on these same faulty instruments?
Everyone from Dr. King to New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg had no satisfying response for months. Of course, Bloomberg and Cuomo had grand plans to use the assessment results to rid the system of so-called "dead weight," which basically means teachers with seniority and higher salaries. This has been Bloomberg's goal for years in NYC schools, where he has repeatededly closed schools and opened smaller charter schools that do not need to follow union rules or salary scales.
State and city parents have been outraged as have been educators. Teachers were never truly prepared for the CCSS last year | 479 |
CYPHER LEARNING Responds to Schools and Universities' Needs with Major Upgrade to its 'Learning Paths' Feature for NEO LMS
Aug 1, 2017 | Technology
CYPHER LEARNING, a specialist provider of learning platforms for organizations around the world, has announced a major upgrade to the 'Learning Paths' feature of NEO, its learning management system (LMS) for schools and universities.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, August 01, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ — CYPHER LEARNING, a specialist provider of learning platforms for organizations around the world, has announced a major upgrade to the 'Learning Paths' feature of NEO, its learning management system (LMS) for schools and universities.
NEO is an LMS for schools and universities that is known for its intuitive user interface, extensive feature set, and strong return on investment. NEO provides a refreshingly new way to teach and learn that boosts student engagement and makes teaching easier.
Learning paths, usually comprised of a set of related classes, are a set of goals that a student must accomplish to master a subject or skill. Due to this, they are used by schools and universities to motivate students to achieve goals.
Learning Paths were already a powerful feature and differentiator for NEO LMS because of its innovative set of options such as gamification and automation. With automation, teachers can define actions that occur when the path is completed, such as awarding certificates, sending custom messages, and more. Gamification introduces a fun, competitive spirit that allows students to gather points and badges as they advance through the classes in learning paths.
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The Country Park covers some 100 acres of open space. The site is home to Sky Ropes and Essex's longest play trail - 1.2km - including a giant see-saw, climbing forest, tyre swings, sand pits, rope climbers, slides, forts and a water play area, making it a great place for all ages to explore. | swings, sand pits, rope climbers, slides, forts and a water play area, making it a great place for all ages to explore.
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No need to wait for a California-style drought
The Municipal Posted on June 18, 2017 by Sarah Wright June 19, 2017
Droughts, given the right collision of conditions, can take root anywhere, with sections of The Municipal's readership already having experienced varying levels of drought early on in 2017. And as the traditional saying goes, "necessity is the mother of invention" with several states, cities and residents dealing with drought addressing water conservation and launching real actions to address its impact. If any state knows about such necessity, it is California. Its Gov. Jerry Brown first declared a drought emergency in 2014 and only in April 2017 did he declare an end to that drought — the state's driest four-year period on record.
When it comes to water conservation and stewardship in the face of such conditions, California has turned out an immense number of innovative ideas that can be adapted throughout the country. Chula Vista, Calif., has a long<|fim_middle|> consider (water stewardship)."
When it comes to other cities and towns looking at water conservation and other sustainability goals, France said, "I would say we have a really nice plan that they can follow along with and modify to their needs. The overarching actions are pretty universal and they can make them personal. There is so much information to put their arms around.
Both Chula Vista's climate action plan and water stewardship plan can be viewed at www.chulavistaca.gov/departments/clean.
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No need to wait for a California-style drought — No Comments | history of sustainability efforts and first produced its climate action plan in 2000 before adding its water stewardship plan, which was approved by its city council in November 2016.
The city of Chula Vista integrates green infrastructure concepts in new development projects to reduce stormwater runoff and beautify its neighborhoods.
The city of Chula Vista's water stewardship plan engages residents, businesses and city government to manage increased water demand and protect its water resources through reuse, conservation and other key initiatives. (Photo provided)
The city of Chula Vista has replaced much of its landscaping with drought-tolerant species that significantly reduce water use and maintenance costs. (Photo provided)
The city of Chula Vista has been proactive in engaging and educating the community on water stewardship, which is an extension of the city's climate action plan. (Photo provided)
"The plan is an extension of the climate plan; it hits two stones at once with multiple actions," Lynn France, manager of Chula Vista's office of sustainability, said.
The plan was made possible with grants from the San Diego Foundation and the Bloomberg Award for Local Sustainability Matching Fund, and it brought together many partners from within the city government and its utilities in addition to citizens and local businesses. France noted the city has a history of engaging the community and, in preparation for the stewardship plan, hosted public workshops for community stakeholders.
"Not a lot came, but those who did had things to say," France said. Other citizens responded to online surveys that were sent using all of the city's mailing lists. Additionally, the city treated its two water districts as staff and received a lot of input from them.
"The community is used to us coming out there to talk to them, and they're ready to give their opinions," France said, adding, "It makes it easier for the council to adopt (policies) as everyone has already had their say."
Feedback, according to France, "ran the gamut from those who said we were not doing enough to those who said they were not going to be able to do business. We heard from them all."
Overall, France said while public outreach can be cumbersome at times, it brings good feedback to the table and they took everything into consideration. However, with the sheer amount of information and feedback, the city found itself overwhelmed when putting it all together, which is why it turned to Haley & Aldrich, an environmental and engineering consulting firm.
"Those involved were very impressed with Haley & Aldrich. They were able to put all the information together," France said, noting more than a thousand pieces of information were handed over to the consultancy.
"There was a clear level of trust that the city had established with community members," Amy Malick, sustainability strategist with Haley & Aldrich, said. "I was actually surprised with how thoughtful the responses were."
Malick said all the ideas submitted during the planning process
could have easily resulted in 200 potential actions or initiatives. "The drought made everyone very conscious," she remarked. In the end, actions had to be prioritized so they could be realistically achieved.
The end result was a multifaceted, comprehensive and holistic plan for water conservation, with five actions: raise the profile of water use and reuse performance; promote and expand water capture and reuse; improve water efficiency and reuse capacity in the built environment; encourage water-efficient landscape decisions; and promote green infrastructure. Malick said, "(The plan) is a blueprint on how the city will move forward."
"Funding is the big challenge from the city side," France said, noting the city can decrease its water use; however, it also requires a lot of turf removal and drought-resistant plants going in. As noted in the stewardship plan, irrigation made up 42 percent of the city operation's potable water use in 2015.
One method to reduce potable water use — in addition to droughttolerant landscaping — is the use of laundry-to-landscape gray water. In fact, France said, "All new homes are pre-plumbed for this (laundry to landscape)." At one point, gray water toilets were also brought up; however, France noted, "A lot of stakeholders would say 'Let's do this!' They don't get all the steps involved." Still she added, "We are looking at having more dialogue on water reuse beyond laundry to landscape."
One thought involves the soccer field where the city is considering switching to compost rather than using chemical fertilizer, which not only eliminates chemical runoff but will help the field better retain water. The end result should decrease downtimes for the soccer field, which would occur for a couple of months so the turf could recover. The city has already been grass cycling and continues to explore other types of grasses that can better hold up to salt, which is found in reclaimed water.
New water flow meters have also gone in place in the park department, which allows for staff members to control water flow from their phones. This saves workers time if there is a sprinkler head malfunctioning since they can cut the water flow — in this case, gray water — without having to drive to the location. "We don't want to waste even reused water," France said.
Buildings made up 43 percent of all potable water use in Chula Vista's city operations in 2015. To lessen that, the city is currently in midst of redoing its library's bathroom, which hadn't been revamped since it was installed in 1976. The project will place water-saving fixtures, and there will even be educational signs that highlight them. Chula Vista's city hall complex will also be receiving water conservation features while the city continues to work toward LEED certification. "We still have a good portion of the city waiting to be built," France said.
For this reason, the city is also examining the wording of its building codes to make sure they continue the city's sustainability mission. Some new builds are already on board, including an LEED community that has installed corner catch basins with flower beds to keep water from leaving the community. These catch basins have an added bonus, with France noting their aesthetic value.
The fact Chula Vista is still growing increases the necessity of a water stewardship plan, with France saying the population of the city is expected to be well over 300,000. "We have to minimize the impact of all those people."
Additionally, the city's water goal will also benefits its pockets. France said, "With our energy efficiency (efforts), water is now the most expensive utility in the city. It's another motivating factor."
"We undertook this during a major drought (in California)," Malick said, noting despite the drought easing, water conservation and stewardship should remain a priority. "You don't know how long it will be until the next one (drought). Don't wait for when you have a California-style drought to | 1,413 |
This is simply the best toy that has ever come into our home.
I love it so much I want you to have your own, too!
Below the jump you'll find the why and how<|fim_middle|> master of figuring out how expensive furniture is put together and explaining it in plain language so an amateur can build it easily and affordably with simple tools and off-the-shelf lumber. Live well for less. I love this woman. And her site.
So I went there and gathered ideas from her Farmhouse Table and Mom's Train Table, and I started putting a plan together.
I already had two plastic bins with lids and knew they were a good depth for playing – not so shallow all the sand and water end up on the ground, but not so deep that the kiddos can't reach the bottom or the greater volume of sand and water become too heavy for the frame to support. I figured out the dimensions for the wooden frame based on the size of the plastic bins.
You can download a free PDF of my plans here, complete with shopping list, cutting list, and step-by-step diagrams (for visual learners like me). Also check out Ana's Getting Started Guide if you are new to DIY.
We've had the sand and water table for a month now, and the girls have been outside playing with it almost every day. It is a joy to sit and watch my toddler splash, laugh, explore different textures, problem solve, develop gross and fine motor skills and practice sharing.
My preschooler is engrossed in her pretend play – building cities, race tracks, ocean scenes, and gourmet dinners, playing "Jonah" over and over again, practicing pouring, and learning about the properties of soil and water.
I love watching them play together.
I love that we are spending more time outside.
I love that clean up is simple – I pick up the water bin out of the frame to dump on the flowers every couple of days, the sand and water toys go in a basket, the lids go on the bins, we sweep the sand and we're done.
I love this simple, perfect toy. And I hope you and yours enjoy it, too.
Beware! Turn back now! Despair all ye who enter here!
These cake pops are so tasty, so indulgent and so darn cute, you will quickly be pulled in by their sweet siren song. They will throw you into a deadly cycle of making and eating these little treats that will only end in driving a giant batch to a friends house in a last ditch effort to avoid resembling a cake ball yourself.
Or at least that is my experience. You, on the other hand, my have a modicum of self control.
Either way, you need these in your life.
The basic idea here is that you bake a cake, crumble it up (which feels so wrong), stir in almost a whole can of icing (which feels so right), roll it into balls, chill the balls, poke in a stick and cover in chocolate. It's a little fussy, but easy and a ton of fun. Not only are all edibles better on a stick, but there are sprinkles involved AND you get to destroy a cake!!
The vanilla cake and icing combo below was cute and yummy, and my husband's favorite. My favorite, Red velvet cake with cream cheese icing and chocolate almond bark, makes for a cake pop in perfect balance - the savory-sweetness of the cream cheese icing with the mild chocolate flavor of the chocolate almond bark; the soft, creaminess of the red velvet cake with the crunch of the chocolate. Heaven.
Whatever combo you choose, just don't be tempted to use chocolate chips - they don't temper properly like the almond bark or candy melts and will never set up , dry or become crunchy. There is only sadness and pain down that road. Just so you know.
For complete instructions visit the ingenious, creative and fabulous Bakerella.
Oh my but these are cute. And yummy. And adorable. And delicious. And in no way healthy or natural. But they make me very, very happy. And round.
There are tons of cake pop variations on flavors and shapes on Bakerella's site. Like her spring chicks cake pops. I can't handle the cuteness. You could just lurk around there basking in her creative genius. Or you could buy her new book. Or you could just put a cake in the oven right now and get started on these beauties. Whatever you do, just be ware: you may be able to resist the cuteness, and you may be able to resist the yumminess, but you can't resist both.
And one cake mix makes 50 cake pops.
Oh dear. Oh my. This is very, very good.
I've been wanting to try my hand at jambalaya for a while now. When I saw Amelia Durand make her northern Louisiana family's recipe on Barefoot Contessa, I knew the time had come.
I followed her recipe pretty closely, except for only using 2 cans of chicken broth. The next time I make it, I'll probably leave out the ham - it didn't add enough to the flavor of the dish to be worth what it added in fat.
It also gave me a chance to teach you a few of my favorite kitchen tricks, like chopping veggies while the protein browns, easily and efficiently chopping peppers, onions, jalapenos and scallions, using the most brilliant pantry item ever - tomato paste in a tube, and my favorite trick: stacking my chopped herbs next to the measuring cup so I won't have to wash it. Laziness begets cleverness! Or something like that. Enjoy!
Amelia Durand's fabulous Shrimp and Sausage Jambalaya recipe can be found here. | of this project and a link to complete plans to build your own. Enjoy!
Why on earth did we build a sand and water table when there are so many commercially available?
The reason is simple: I couldn't find what I wanted at a price I could afford.
4] must be securely covered - to keep neighborhood cats and fire ants out of the sand and kiddos away from standing water.
6] must fit on my narrow front porch - so the girls are shaded and so I can supervise comfortably close by without hovering.
7] must be beautiful - not because there's anything inherently wrong with plastic, but because I believe children better appreciate and care for their toys when they are well made and beautiful. And because it's going to be on my front porch - let's be real here.
8] must be simple. The simpler a toy, the more room there is for open-ended play; for imagination. I didn't want a sand and water table with roads, bridges, ramps and ice bergs already built-in – making them is half the fun!
When I realized that no sand and water tables in my price range met these requirements, I started looking for DIY tutorials that I could do with tools we either had or could borrow.
I loved this tutorial at Our House in the Middle of Our Street, but it required a skill saw (we don't have access to one) and didn't address #3, 4 or 6 on our list. So I borrowed some brilliant ideas and headed over to my all time favorite DIY site: Ana White.
If you've ever walked through a store like Pottery Barn and thought, "that $200 bench is four pieces of wood nailed together – I bet I could make that," Ana White probably already has a knock-off plan for it! She is the | 367 |
Separate and distinct claims presented by and for various claimants in federal diversity actions may not be added together to provide the requisite $10,000 jurisdictional amount in controversy. Fed.Rule Civ.Proc. 23, as amended in 1966, did not change the scope of the statutory grant of district court jurisdiction, as the longstanding judicial interpretation of that statute cannot be changed by an amendment to the Rules, and there is no compelling reason for overturning settled judicial construction of "matter in controversy" in the light of consistent congressional reenactment of that language against a background of judicial interpretation that the phrase does not encompass the aggregation of separate and distinct claims. Pp. 394 U. S. 332-342.
No. 109, 39,0 F.2d 204, affirmed; No. 117, 389 F.2d 831, reversed.
or value of $10,000. . . ." The issue presented by these two cases is whether separate and distinct claims presented by and for various claimants in a class action may be added together to provide the $10,000 jurisdictional amount in controversy.
Each of these cases involves a single plaintiff suing on behalf of himself and "all others similarly situated." In No. 109, Mrs. Margaret E. Snyder, a shareholder of Missouri Fidelity Union Trust Life Insurance Company, brought suit against members of the company's board of directors alleging that they had sold their shares of the company's stock for an amount far in excess of its fair market value, that this excess represented payment to these particular directors to obtain complete control of the company, and that, under Missouri law, the excess should properly be distributed among all the shareholders of the company, and not merely to a few of them. The suit was brought in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, diversity of citizenship being alleged as the basis for federal jurisdiction. Since petitioner's allegations showed that she sought for herself only $8,740 in damages, respondent moved to dismiss on the grounds that the matter in controversy did not exceed $10,000. Petitioner contended, however, that her claim should be aggregated with those of the other members of her class, approximately 4,000 shareholders of the company stock. If all 4,000 potential claims were aggregated, the amount in controversy would be approximately $1,200,000. The District Court held that the claims could not thus be aggregated to meet the statutory test of jurisdiction, and the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, following a somewhat similar decision by the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Alvarez v. Pan American Life Insurance Co., 375 F.2d 992, cert. denied, 389 U.S. 827 (1967), affirmed, 390 F.2d 204 (1968).
In No. 117, Otto R. Coburn, a resident of Kansas, brought suit in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas against the Gas Service Company, a corporation marketing natural gas in Kansas. Jurisdiction was predicated upon diversity of citizenship. The complaint alleged that the Gas Service Company had billed and illegally collected a city franchise tax from Coburn and others living outside city limits. Coburn alleged damages to himself of only $7.81. Styling his complaint as a class action, however, Coburn sought relief on behalf of approximately 18,000 other Gas Service Company customers living outside of cities. The amount by which other members of the class had been overcharged was, and is, unknown, but the complaint alleged that the aggregation of all these claims would, in any event, exceed $10,000. The District Court overruled the Gas Company's motion to dismiss for failure to satisfy the jurisdictional amount and, on interlocutory appeal, the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed, holding that, because of a 1966 amendment to Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure relating to class actions, separate and distinct claims brought together in a class action could now be aggregated for the purpose of establishing the jurisdictional amount in diversity cases. 389 F.2d 831. We granted certiorari to resolve the conflict between the position of the Courts of Appeals for the Fifth and the Eighth Circuits and that of the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
nor 'common,' this action under Rule 23 before amendment would not have been classified as a 'true' class action, and aggregation of claims would not have been permitted."
389 F.2d 831, 833. The Court of Appeals held, however, that a different result was compelled now that the amendment to Rule 23 abolished the distinctions between true and spurious class actions. The court held that, because aggregation was permitted in some class actions, it must now be permitted in all class actions under the new Rule. We disagree, and conclude, as did the Courts of Appeal for the Fifth and Eighth Circuits, that the adoption of amended Rule 23 did not and could not have brought about this change in the scope of the congressionally enacted grant of jurisdiction to the district courts.
"When two or more plaintiffs, having separate and distinct demands, unite for convenience and economy in a single suit, it is essential that the demand of each be of the requisite jurisdictional amount. . . ."
parties, was applied to class actions under the then recently passed Federal Rules. In that case, numerous individuals, partnerships, and corporations joined in bringing a suit challenging the validity of a California statute which exacted fees of $15 on each automobile driven into the State. Raising the jurisdictional amount question sua sponte, this Court held that the claims of the various fee payers could not be aggregated "where there are numerous plaintiffs having no joint or common interest or title in the subject matter of the suit." 306 U.S. at 306 U. S. 588. Nothing in the amended Rule 23 changes this doctrine. The class action plaintiffs in the two cases before us argue that, since the new Rule will include in the judgment all members of the class who do not ask to be out by a certain date, the "matter in controversy" now encompasses all the claims of the entire class. But it is equally true that, where two or more plaintiffs join their claims under the joinder provisions of Rule 20, each and every joined plaintiff is bound by the judgment. And it was in joinder cases of this very kind that the doctrine that distinct claims could not be aggregated was originally enunciated. Troy Bank v. Whitehead Co., 222 U. S. 39 (1911); Pinel v. Pinel, 240 U. S. 594 (1916). The fact that judgments under class actions formerly classified as spurious may now have the same effect as claims brought under the joinder provisions is certainly no reason to treat them differently from joined actions for purposes of aggregation.
conferred by a statute." 312 U. S. 1, 312 U. S. 10 (1941). We have consistently interpreted the jurisdictional statute passed by Congress as not conferring jurisdiction where the required amount in controversy can be reached only by aggregating separate and distinct claims. The interpretation of that statute cannot be changed by a change in the Rules.
For the reasons set out above, we think that it is unmistakably clear that the 1966 changes in Rule 23 did not and could not have changed the interpretation of the statutory phrase "matter in controversy." It is urged, however, that this Court should now overrule its established statutory interpretation and hold that "matter in controversy" encompasses the aggregation of all claims that can be brought together in a single suit, regardless of whether any single plaintiff has a claim that exceeds the required jurisdictional amount. It is argued in behalf of this position that (1) the determination of whether claims are "separate and distinct" is a troublesome question that breeds uncertainty and needless litigation, and (2) the inability of parties to aggregate numerous small claims will prevent some important questions from being litigated in federal courts. And both of these factors, it is argued, will tend to undercut the attempt of the Judicial Conference to promulgate efficient and modernized class action procedures. We think that whatever the merit of these contentions, they are not sufficient to justify our abandonment of a judicial interpretation of congressional language that has stood for more than a century and a half.
placed a jurisdictional amount requirement on access to the federal courts in certain classes of cases, including diversity actions. The initial requirement was $500 and a series of increases have, as pointed out above, finally placed the amount at $10,000. Congress has thus consistently amended the amount in controversy section and reenacted the "matter in controversy" language without change of its jurisdictional effect against a background of judicial interpretation that has consistently interpreted that congressionally enacted phrase as not encompassing the aggregation of separate and distinct claims. This judicial interpretation has been uniform since at least the 1832 decision of this Court in Oliver v. Alexander, 6 Pet. 143. There are no doubt hazards and pitfalls involved in assuming that reenactment of certain language by Congress always freezes the existing judicial interpretation of the statutes involved. Here, however, the settled judicial interpretation of "amount in controversy" was implicitly taken into account by the relevant congressional committees in determining, in 1958, the extent to which the jurisdictional amount should be raised. It is quite possible, if not probable, that Congress chose the increase to $10,000, rather than the proposed increases to $7,500 or $15,000 on the basis of workload estimates which clearly relied on the settled doctrine that separate and distinct claims could not be aggregated. Where Congress has consistently reenacted its prior statutory language for more than a century and a half in the face of a settled interpretation of that language, it is perhaps not entirely realistic to designate the resulting rule a "judge-made formula."
"The policy of the statute calls for its strict construction. . . . Due regard for the rightful independence of state governments, which should actuate federal courts, requires that they scrupulously confine their own jurisdiction to the precise limits which the statute has defined."
292 U.S. 263, 292 U. S. 270.
to expand the jurisdiction of those courts, we cannot overlook the fact that the Constitution specifically vests that power in the Congress, not in the courts.
* Together with No. 117, Gas Service Co. v. Coburn, on certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, argued on January 21-22, 1969.
Section 11 of the Judiciary Act of 1789, 1 Stat. 78.
Act of March 3, 1887, 24 Stat. 552.
Act of March 3, 1911, § 24, 36 Stat. 1091.
MR. JUSTICE FORTAS, with whom MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS joins, dissenting.
The artificial, awkward, and unworkable distinctions between "joint," "common," and "several" claims and between "true," "hybrid," and "spurious" class actions which the amendment of Rule 23 sought to terminate is now reestablished in federal procedural law. Litigants, lawyers, and federal courts must now continue to be ensnared in their complexities in all cases where one or more of the co-plaintiffs have a claim of less than the jurisdictional amount, usually $10,000.
U.S.C. § 331. [Footnote 2/4] It was accepted and promulgated by this Court, [Footnote 2/5] and, with congressional acquiescence, became the law of the land on July 1, 1966. 28 U.S.C. § 2072 (1964 ed., Supp. III). Now the Court, for reasons which in my opinion will not stand analysis, defeats the purpose of the amendment as applied to cases like those before us here and insists upon a perpetuation of distinctions which the profession had hoped would become only curiosities of the past.
The Court is led to this unfortunate result by its insistence upon regarding the method of computing the amount in controversy as embodied in an Act of Congress, as unaffected by the subsequent amendment of Rule 23, and as immune from judicial reexamination because any change would be an impermissible expansion of the jurisdiction of the courts. None of these premises is correct.
Among these rules is the proposition that multiple parties cannot aggregate their "separate and distinct" claims to reach the jurisdictional amount. E.g., Troy Bank v. Whitehead & Co., 222 U. S. 39, 222 U. S. 40 (1911); Oliver v. Alexander, 6 Pet. 143, 31 U. S. 147 (1832). Applying that general principle to traditional property law concepts, the courts developed the more specialized rule that multiple parties who asserted very similar legal claims could not aggregate them to make up the jurisdictional amount if their interests, however similar in fact, were in legal theory "several," e.g., Pinel v. Pinel, 240 U. S. 594 (1916), but that such aggregation was permissible where the parties claimed undivided interests in a single "joint" right. E.g., Texas & Pacific R. Co. v. Gentry, 163 U. S. 353 (1896); Shields v. Thomas, 17 How. 3 (1855).
"hazards and pitfalls involved in assuming that reenactment of certain language by Congress always freezes the existing judicial interpretation of the statutes involved."
"'It would require very persuasive circumstances enveloping Congressional silence to debar this Court from reexamining its own doctrines.' It is, at best, treacherous to find in congressional silence alone the adoption of a controlling rule of law. . . . The silence of Congress and its inaction are as consistent with a desire to leave the problem fluid as they are with an adoption by silence of the rule of those cases. [Footnote 2/11] "
This case, far from being one in which there are "very persuasive circumstances" indicating congressional adoption of prior judicial doctrines, is one where only by the most obvious fiction can congressional reenactment of a general statute be said to manifest an intention to adopt and perpetuate an existing technical judicial doctrine designed to facilitate administration of the statute.
majority speculates that it is "possible, if not probable," that Congress "implicitly" took into account the existing aggregation doctrines as applied to class action cases when it decided to raise the jurisdictional amount to $10,000, rather than some higher or lower amount. If we are to attribute to Congress any thoughts on this highly technical and specialized matter, it seems to me far more reasonable to assume that Congress was aware that the courts had been developing the interpretation of the jurisdictional amount requirement in class actions and would continue to do so after the 1958 amendments.
I cannot find any meaningful sense in which the aggregation doctrines in class action cases should be any less subject to reevaluation in the light of new conditions because Congress in 1958 reenacted the jurisdictional amount statute to raise the dollar amount required.
Whatever the pre-1966 status of the aggregation doctrines in class action cases, the amendment of the Rules in that year permits and even requires a reexamination of the application of the doctrines to such cases. The fundamental change in the law of class actions effected by the new Rule 23 requires that prior subsidiary judicial doctrines developed for application to the old Rule be harmonized with the new procedural law. By Act of Congress, the Rules of Procedure, when promulgated according to the statutorily defined process, have the effect of law and supersede all prior laws in conflict with them. 28 U.S.C. § 2072 (1964 ed., Supp. III). Thus, even if the old aggregation doctrines were embodied in statute -- as they are not -- they could not stand if they conflicted with the new Rule.
Under the pre-1966 version of Rule 23, the very availability of the class action device depended on the "joint" or "common" "character of the right sought to be enforced." [Footnote 2/13] If the right were merely "several," only a "spurious" class action could be maintained and only those members of the class who actually appeared as parties were bound by the judgment. [Footnote 2/14] It was in this context of a law of class actions already heavily dependent on categorization of interests as "joint" or "several" that the traditional aggregation doctrines were originally applied to class actions under the Federal Rules. In such a context, those aggregation doctrines which the majority now perpetuates in the quite different context of the new Rule, whatever their other defects, were at least not anomalous and eccentric.
"In practice the terms 'joint,' 'common,' etc., which were used as the basis of the Rule 23 classification proved obscure and uncertain."
many individuals can be asserted and resolved in a single litigation.
The jurisdictional amount statutes require placing a value on the "matter in controversy" in a civil action. Once it is decided under the new Rule that an action may be maintained as a class action, it is the claim of the whole class and not the individual economic stakes of the separate members of the class which is the "matter in controversy." That this is so is perhaps most clearly indicated by the fact that the judgment in a class action, properly maintained as such, includes all members of the class.Rule 23(c)(3). This effect of the new Rule in broadening the scope of the "controversy" in a class action to include the combined interests of all the members of the class is illustrated by the facts of No. 117. That class action, if allowed to proceed, would, under the Rule, determine not merely whether the gas company wrongfully collected $7.81 for taxes from Mr. Coburn. It would also result in a judgment which, subject to the limits of due process, [Footnote 2/18] would determine -- authoritatively and not merely as a matter of precedent -- the status of the taxes collected from the 18,000 other people allegedly in the class Coburn seeks to represent. [Footnote 2/19] That being the case, it is hard to understand why the fact that the alleged claims are, in terms of the old Rule categories, "several", rather than "joint," means that the "matter in controversy" for jurisdictional amount purposes must be regarded as the $7.81 Mr. Coburn claims instead of the thousands of dollars of alleged overcharges of the whole class, the status of all of which would be determined by the judgment.
In past development of rules concerning the jurisdictional amount requirement, the courts have, properly, responded to changes in the procedural and substantive law. [Footnote 2/20] Now, confronted by an issue of the meaning of the jurisdictional amount requirement arising in the context of a new procedural law of class actions, we should continue to take account of such changes. We should not allow the judicial interpretation of the jurisdictional amount requirement to become petrified into forms which are products of, and appropriate to, another time. To do this would vitiate a significant part of the reform intended to be accomplished by the amendment of Rule 23. For the majority result will continue to make determinative of the maintainability of a class action just that obsolete conceptualism the amended Rule sought to make irrelevant. In this sense, continued adherence to the old aggregation doctrines conflicts with the new Rule and is improper under 28 U.S.C. § 2072 (1964 ed., Supp. III).
although involving "several" interests of the members of the class -- has changed the procedural context in which the subject matter jurisdiction statutes, like those referring to jurisdictional amount, are to be applied. Making judicial rules for calculating jurisdictional amount responsive to the new structure of class actions is not an extension of the jurisdiction of the federal courts, but a recognition that the procedural framework in which the courts operate has been changed by a provision having the effect of law.
In a larger sense as well, abandonment of the old aggregation rules for class actions would fulfill, rather than contradict, the command that courts adhere to the jurisdictional boundaries established by Congress. In a large number of instances, Congress has said that cases raising claims with a certain subject matter may be heard in federal courts regardless of the amount involved. However, it has also provided generally that, in the two great areas of Article III jurisdiction -- federal questions and diversity of citizenship -- any suit, regardless of specific subject matter, may be heard if "the matter in controversy exceeds the sum or value of $10,000." Just as it would be wrong for the courts to exercise a jurisdiction not properly theirs, so it would be wrong for the courts to refuse to exercise a part of the jurisdiction granted them because of a view that Congress erred in granting it.
there is authorized to be brought in the federal courts a single litigation in which, both practically and in legal theory, the thing at stake, the "matter in controversy," is the total, combined, aggregated claim of the whole class. When that happens, the courts do not obey, but violate, the jurisdictional statutes if they continue to impose ancient and artificial judicial doctrines to fragment what is in every other respect a single claim, which the courts are commanded to stand ready to hear.
For these reasons, I would measure the value of the "matter in controversy" in a class action found otherwise proper under the amended Rule 23 by the monetary value of the claim of the whole class.
On the background of the amendment to Rule 23 and its reception, see, e.g., Kaplan, Continuing Work of the Civil Committee: 1966 Amendments of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (I), 81 Harv.L.Rev. 356, 38386 (1967); Cohn, The New Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 54 Geo.L.J. 1204, 1213-1214 (1966); Note, Proposed Rule 23: Class Actions Reclassified, 51 Va.L.Rev. 629, 63636 (1965). See also 2 W. Barron & A. Holtzoff, Federal Practice and Procedure § 561 and n. 15.1 (C. Wright ed.1968 Pocket Part) (hereinafter cited as Barron & Holtzoff). Even commentators critical of the apparent breadth of the new Rule welcomed abolition of the categories of the old Rule. E. Ford, The History and Development of Old Rule 23 and the Development of Amended Rule 23, <|fim_middle|>(b)(3), to exclude themselves from the litigation, they would not be included in the judgment in the class action.
For example, the general rule is that, if suit is brought only for past installments due under an installment contract, the jurisdictional amount is in controversy only if the installments due at the time of suit exceed the jurisdictional amount. E.g., New York Life Ins. Co. v. Viglas, 297 U. S. 672 (1936). However, if, because of the structure of equitable remedies or the availability of a declaratory judgment, the action can put in issue the validity of the contract as a whole, the "matter in controversy" is not the accrued damages, but the potential value of full performance. Landers Frary & Clark v. Vischer Prods. Co., 201 F.2d 319 (C.A. 7th Cir.1953); Franklin Life Ins. Co. v. Johnson, 157 F.2d 653 (C.A. 10th Cir.1946); Davis v. American Foundry Equip. Co., 94 F.2d 441 (C.A. 7th Cir.1938). See Note, Developments in the Law, Declaratory Judgments -- 1941-1949, 62 Harv.L.Rev. 787, 801-802 (1949).
See Mississippi Pub. Corp. v. Murphree, 326 U. S. 438, 326 U. S. 445-446 (1946); Kaplan, supra, n. 1, at 399-400. Cf. Provident Tradesmens Bank & Trust Co. v. Patterson, 390 U. S. 102, 390 U. S. 116-125 (1968).
See Wright, supra, n. 15, at 19-20; Fraser, Ancillary Jurisdiction and the Joinder of Claims in the Federal Courts, 33 F.R.D. 27, 28.
It has long been established that, if the requisite diversity existed between the original parties federal jurisdiction is not ousted merely because later intervenors or members of the class represented by the original parties are citizens of the same State as an adverse party. Stewart v. Dunham, 115 U. S. 61 (1885); Supreme Tribe of Ben-Hur v. Cauble, 255 U. S. 356 (1921). The original Rule 23 provided new occasions for the assertion of this principle, with respect to both "true" class actions, Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Langer, 168 F.2d 182 (C.A. 8th Cir.1948), and those merely "spurious," Amen v. Black, 234 F.2d 12 (C.A. 10th Cir.1956), dismissed as moot, 355 U. S. 600 (1958). | 32 ABA Antitrust L.J. 254, 257-258 (1966).
The majority says broadly, "A large part of those matters involving federal questions can be brought, by way of class actions or otherwise, without regard to the amount in controversy." Ante at 394 U. S. 341. However, in at least one vitally important type of federal question case -- an action alleging that governmental action, state or federal, violates constitutional limits -- the task of demonstrating the existence of federal jurisdiction would in many instances be significantly complicated if 28 U.S.C. § 1331 were not available. There are, to be sure, a large number of specific statutory provisions conferring on the federal courts jurisdiction to hear certain types of federal question cases. No doubt many constitutional cases could ultimately be brought within one of these special provisions. However, the pitfalls of seeking to establish federal jurisdiction in a constitutional action against public officials without resort to 28 U.S.C. § 1331 are suggested by the diversity of opinions in Hague v. CIO, 307 U. S. 496 (1939). Even if 28 U.S.C. § 1343 provides a basis for jurisdiction of such an action against state officials, see Pierson v. Ray, 386 U. S. 547 (1967); Monroe v. Pape, 365 U. S. 167 (1961), that statute is no help to one challenging purely federal action. Wheeldin v. Wheeler, 373 U. S. 647, 373 U. S. 650 and n. 2 (1963). See generally Friedenthal, New Limitations on Federal Jurisdiction, 11 Stan.L.Rev. 213, 216-218 (1959).
"(b) Class Actions Maintainable. An action may be maintained as a class action if the prerequisites of subdivision (a) are satisfied, and in addition: "
"(1) the prosecution of separate actions by or against individual members of the class would create a risk of"
"(A) inconsistent or varying adjudications with respect to individual members of the class which would establish incompatible standards of conduct for the party opposing the class, or"
"(B) adjudications with respect to individual members of the class which would, as a practical matter, be dispositive of the interests of the other members not parties to the adjudications or substantially impair or impede their ability to protect their interests; or"
"(2) the party opposing the class has acted or refused to act on grounds generally applicable to the class, thereby making appropriate final injunctive relief or corresponding declaratory relief with respect to the class as a whole; or"
"(3) the court finds that the questions of law or fact common to the members of the class predominate over any questions affecting only individual members, and that a class action is superior to other available methods for the fair and efficient adjudication of the controversy. The matters pertinent to the findings include: (A) the interest of members of the class in individually controlling the prosecution or defense of separate actions; (B) the extent and nature of any litigation concerning the controversy already commenced by or against members of the class; (C) the desirability or undesirability of concentrating the litigation of the claims in the particular forum; (D) the difficulties likely to be encountered in the management of a class action."
"(c) Determination by Order Whether Class Action to be Maintained; Notice; Judgment; Actions Conducted Partially as Class Actions."
"(1) As soon as practicable after the commencement of an action brought as a class action, the court shall determine by order whether it is to be so maintained. An order under this subdivision may be conditional, and may be altered or amended before the decision on the merits."
"(2) In any class action maintained under subdivision (b)(3), the court shall direct to the members of the class the best notice practicable under the circumstances, including individual notice to all members who can be identified through reasonable effort. The notice shall advise each member that (A) the court will exclude him from the class if he so requests by a specified date; (B) the judgment, whether favorable or not, will include all members who do not request exclusion, and (C) any member who does not request exclusion may, if he desires, enter an appearance through his counsel."
"(3) The judgment in an action maintained as a class action under subdivision (b)(1) or (b)(2), whether or not favorable to the class, shall include and describe those whom the court finds to be members of the class. The judgment in an action maintained as a class action under subdivision (b)(3), whether or not favorable to the class, shall include and specify or describe those to whom the notice provided in subdivision (c)(2) was directed, and who have not requested exclusion, and whom the court finds to be members of the class."
"(4) When appropriate (A) an action may be brought or maintained as a class action with respect to particular issues, or (B) a class may be divided into subclasses and each subclass treated as a class, and the provisions of this rule shall then be construed and applied accordingly."
"(d) Orders in Conduct of Actions. In the conduct of actions to which this rule applies, the court may make appropriate orders: (1) determining the course of proceedings or prescribing measures to prevent undue repetition or complication in the presentation of evidence or argument; (2) requiring, for the protection of the members of the class or otherwise for the fair conduct of the action, that notice be given in such manner as the court may direct to some or all of the members of any step in the action, or of the proposed extent of the judgment, or of the opportunity of members to signify whether they consider the representation fair and adequate, to intervene and present claims or defenses, or otherwise to come into the action; (3) imposing conditions on the representative parties or on intervenors; (4) requiring that the pleadings be amended to eliminate therefrom allegations as to representation of absent persons, and that the action proceed accordingly; (5) dealing with similar procedural matters. The orders may be combined with an order under Rule 16, and may be altered or amended as may be desirable from time to time."
"(e) Dismissal or Compromise. A class action shall not be dismissed or compromised without the approval of the court, and notice of the proposed dismissal or compromise shall be given to all members of the class in such manner as the court directs. (As amended Feb. 28, 1966, eff. July 1, 1966.)"
1965 U.S. Judicial Conf. Proceedings Rep. 52-53. See Kaplan, supra, n. 1, at 357-358.
28 U.S.C. § 1331. Other jurisdictional statutes providing a monetary requirement include 28 U.S.C. § 1335 (interpleader); § 1346 (claims against United States); § 1445 (removal of certain actions against carriers).
See generally 1 J. Moore, Federal Practice ¦ O.90 O.99; 1 Barron & Holtzoff § 24; Ilsen & Sardell, The Monetary Minimum in Federal Court Jurisdiction: I, 29 St. John's L.Rev. 1 (1954), id. II, p. 183 (1955); Note, Federal Jurisdictional Amount: Determination of the Matter in Controversy, 73 Harv.L.Rev. 1369 (1960).
Clark v. Paul Gray, Inc., 306 U. S. 583 (1939); Buck v. Gallagher, 307 U. S. 95 (1939). See Thomson v. Gaskill, 315 U. S. 442 (1942).
For a criticism of the aggregation doctrine in another context, see Note, The Federal Jurisdictional Amount Requirement and Joinder of Parties Under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 27 Ind.L.J.199 (1952).
"[I]f judges make rules of law, it would seem that they should keep their minds open in order to exercise a continuing and helpful supervision over the manner in which their laws serve the public."
333 U.S. at 333 U. S. 453.
"I venture the suggestion that it would be shocking to members of Congress, even those who are in closest touch with [the kind of legislation involved], to be told that their 'silence' is responsible for application today of a rule which is out of step with the trend of all congressional legislation for more than the past quarter of a century. There are some fields in which congressional committees have such close liaison with agencies in regard to some matters that it is reasonable to assume an awareness of Congress with relevant judicial and administrative decisions. But I can find no ground for an assumption that Congress has known about the . . . rule [held adopted by reenactment] and deliberately left it alone because it favored such an archaic doctrine."
See Hearing on H.R. 2516 and H.R. 4497, before Subcommittee No. 3 of the House Committee on the Judiciary, 85th Cong., 1st Sess., ser. 5 (1957); H.R.Rep. No. 1706, 85th Cong., 2d Sess. (1958); S.Rep. No. 1830, 85th Cong., 2d Sess. (1958).
"secondary in the sense that the owner of a primary right refuses to enforce that right and a member of the class thereby becomes entitled to enforce it."
Stockholders' derivative actions were the most significant type of suit within this group. They are now separately dealt with under Rule 23.1 in addition. Under the former Rule 23(a)(2), if the right was "several" in character, "and the object of the action is the adjudication of claims which do or may affect specific property involved in the action," a "hybrid" class action could be maintained which would determine the interests of each member of the class in the particular property.
See, e.g., All Amer. Airways, Inc. v. Elderd, 209 F.2d 247 (C.A.2d Cir.1954). Thus, under the prior Rule, the "spurious" class action was, in effect, little more than a permissive joinder device. The pre-amendment categorization and its consequences are explicated in detail in 3A J. Moore, Federal Practice ¦¦ 23.08-23.14.
E.g., Z. Chafee, Some Problems of Equity 243-295 (1950); C. Wright, Handbook of the Law of Federal Courts 269 (1963); Kalven & Rosenfield, The Contemporary Function of the Class Suit, 8 U.Chi.L.Rev. 684 (1941). See Note, Proposed Rule 23: Class Actions Reclassified, 51 Va.L.Rev. 629, n. 3 (1965).
A notable example is Deckert v. Independence Shares Corp., 27 F.Supp. 763 (D.C.E.D.Pa.), rev'd, 108 F.2d 51 (C.A.3d Cir.1939), rev'd, 311 U. S. 282 (1940), on remand, 39 F.Supp. 592 (D.C.E.D.Pa.), rev'd sub nom. Pennsylvania Co. for Insurances on Lives v. Deckert, 123 F.2d 979 (C.A.3d Cir.1941). The views of successive courts on the proper classification of the Deckert action are discussed in Chafee, supra, n. 15, at 263-269.
See Fed.Rule Civ.Proc. 23, Advisory Comm. Note, 39 F.R.D. 98-99.
See Hansberry v. Lee, 311 U. S. 32, 311 U. S. 42-43 (1940).
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As much as they devoured her boeuf bourguignon, Julia Child's legions of spatula-wielding fans could hardly restrain their appetites for the woman herself. The phenomenon began more than 50 years ago with the publication of her first ground-breaking book, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," and reached a fever pitch when, in 1963, Child took her boisterous talents to the fledgling medium of public television.
The adoration continued for decades after her debut. She has inspired books, blogs, blogs about her books and a movie about a blog about her book. Now, those with a hunger for all things Julia have a substantial new biography by Bob Spitz to sink their teeth into. "Dear<|fim_middle|> Sorry. Deal with it," he writes. All is forgiven, though, because by the end of his book, anyone with a heart, and a stomach, probably will have a crush on her, too.
Becky Krystal is an editorial aide for The Washington Post's Food and Travel sections. | ie" clocks in at 500-plus pages, a length befitting the 6-foot-3 outsize personality that threatens to burst from between the covers.
Spitz has cherry-picked photos as well as antics. A 1939 photo of Child (then McWilliams) in her home town of Pasadena, Calif., screams va-va-voom, as "the social butterfly" reclines in a chair, her eyes seductively half-closed. In a 1944 picture from Ceylon — where she was a sort of information manager for the Office of Strategic Services — her dress is pushed up to her knees, showing off "the legs that transfixed" the man who became her friend and then her husband, Paul Child.
After wiping your drool off the page, you might wonder where Spitz uncovered such narrative gold. It can be hard to say. Sometimes he cites his source. More often, he omits the attribution. Only at the end of the book does he explain that the notes and bibliography are online due to their length. Nice to know, but nicer would be additional context in the text itself.
The extensive narrative of Child's early years as a cook and the creation of "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" with Simone Beck Fischbacher and Louisette Bertholle makes her rise to fame all the more satisfying by the time Spitz takes us there. And his detailed research into mid-century American cooking helps us understand why exactly Child was such a big deal. Where other cookbooks were vague, even untested, hers were exacting. Where previous TV chefs would instruct women to make salmon mousse with canned fish and red food coloring in a blender, she would call for fresh fish, simply dressed. While manufacturers of gadgets sold housewives on ways to save time in the kitchen, she showed that spending time on cooking could be fun and that, hey, it was okay to make it even more fun with a glass of wine.
Spitz doesn't shy away from Child's prickly side. She had a tendency to say un-PC things about gay people, vegetarians and even women. Still, the overall portrait is an affectionate one, only marginally undermined by Spitz's admission in his conclusion that he had traveled with Child for several weeks in 1992. "If I have to admit to one prejudice confronting this book, it is that I had a powerful crush on her. | 505 |
Harvard<|fim_middle|>, then it has shown the movie roughly 1,500 times over the past 28 years. Viewers have three more chances to see the spectacle, on June 23, June 30, and July 7. | Square theater to close
Landmark cinema opened its doors in 1926
Updated: 9:14 AM EDT Jun 21, 2012
The old Harvard Square theater , now known as AMC Loews Harvard Square 5, will permanently close its doors on Sunday, July 8, according to the Harvard Crimson.The theater opened in 1926 with 1,700 seats and a huge 40-foot screen. The lobby faced Mass Avenue, looking straight into the heart of Harvard Square.Ryan Noonan, the director of public relations for AMC Theatres, said in a statement that the theater will be sold as part of a continual effort to improve the quality of the AMC theater chain."We encourage AMC guests to visit our other nearby AMC locations, including AMC Boston Common 19, which is approximately 5 miles away," Noonan said in his statement.In addition to new releases, the Harvard Square theater hosted a weekly showing of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" every Saturday at midnight. This tradition has lasted since 1984, when the showings moved from the Exeter Street Theater in Boston to Cambridge.If the theater played the cult classic horror musical every Saturday night, then it has shown the movie roughly 1,500 times over the past 28 years. Viewers have three more chances to see the spectacle, on June 23, June 30, and July 7.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. —
The old Harvard Square theater , now known as AMC Loews Harvard Square 5, will permanently close its doors on Sunday, July 8, according to the Harvard Crimson.
The theater opened in 1926 with 1,700 seats and a huge 40-foot screen. The lobby faced Mass Avenue, looking straight into the heart of Harvard Square.
Ryan Noonan, the director of public relations for AMC Theatres, said in a statement that the theater will be sold as part of a continual effort to improve the quality of the AMC theater chain.
"We encourage AMC guests to visit our other nearby AMC locations, including AMC Boston Common 19, which is approximately 5 miles away," Noonan said in his statement.
In addition to new releases, the Harvard Square theater hosted a weekly showing of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" every Saturday at midnight. This tradition has lasted since 1984, when the showings moved from the Exeter Street Theater in Boston to Cambridge.
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Mega Image takes over retail chain Zanfir from Vrancea<|fim_middle|> by the end of... | county
Mega Image announces takeover of the Zanfir network in Vrancea, following approval of the acquisition by the Competition Council. The Zanfir supermarket chain is one of the largest independent local retailers, and will consolidate the presence of Mega Image in the area through this transaction, with 10 stores that will be integrated into the network and gradually transformed into Mega Image and Shop & Go stores.
"Taking over the most important player in the retail industry on the Vrancea local market is part of our strategy to develop and expand to new territories. We are strengthening our position in a potentially mature region with a mature market where we can expect to meet new customers and bring them our quality products, inspire them and give them new shopping experiences. At the same time, we congratulate the Zanfir family for the business model they have developed," says Mircea Moga, CEO of Mega Image.
Retailer Zanfir, owned by Liliana and Vasile Zanfir, has a long history on the local market, as the first supermarket was inaugurated in 2002, followed by rapid development, having gained notoriety among locals.
"We are at a milestone in developing our brand, as we have built it up to now, a moment when we feel proud of what we have achieved: a solid brand and ready to enter the portfolio of a renowned international retailer. A growing that confirms we have had the right strategy and we will continue to do so," says Liliana Zanfir, general manager and owner of Zanfir.
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The 10 stores in the Zanfir network are located in Focsani and surrounding areas, Adjud, Panciu, Darmanesti and Targu Ocna, and will be integrated in the following months by Mega Image: 8 locations will be transformed into Mega Image stores, small according to the useful area and two locations will be transformed into Shop & Go.
Founded in 1995, Mega Image is one of the largest supermarket chains in Romania with a network currently comprising 677 stores in Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Constanta, Ploiesti, Brasov, Targoviste, Timisoara and other cities in the country under the brands Mega Image, Shop & Go, Romanian Tastes. Mega Image is part of Ahold Delhaize Group, an international retailer operating on three continents.
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But that wasn't the case this week in southern West Virginia.
Deputies in Mason and Putnam counties were looking to spread holiday cheer by rewarding good drivers.
They were looking for drivers who payed attention to state laws like wearing a seatbelt, not talking on a hand-held cell phone, and using turn signals.
Some 60 good drivers got a $100 gift card, courtesy of Appalachian Railcar Services, which has offices in both counties and wanted to give back to the community.
Mason County Sheriff Greg Powers said he'll never forget that day when he and two deputies hit the road to reward drivers doing their part to keep area roads safe.
"We got a chance to play Santa Claus, and it felt great. My first one was a<|fim_middle|> traffic stops, complete with flashing lights, each one had a happy ending.
"It's just normal for anyone to be a little nervous. But in the end, when I explained that she'd been stopped for all the things she'd been doing right she started to tear up. Then she said how much the money would help for Christmas since she was a single mother," he said.
Cpl. Ronnie Spencer got a big hug from a woman who couldn't contain her happiness.
That sounded familiar to Putnam County Sheriff Steve Deweese, who said Cpls. W.O. Seanze and A.J. Craigo, had been happy to give out gift cards instead of tickets. | young woman and I noticed there was a car seat in the back, so I thought she was probably a young mother who could probably use some help," he said.
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Researchers use Twitter to track the flu in real time
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This flu is horrendous. Can't breathe, can't sleep or eat. Muscles ache, fever 102. Should have gotten the shot. Time for a movie marathon.
The above tweet looks like 140 characters of misery. But in the hands of Northeastern's Alessandro Vespignani and his colleagues, it is so much more.
An international team led by Vespignani, Sternberg Family Distinguished University Professor, has developed a unique computational model to project the spread of the seasonal flu in real time. It uses posts on Twitter in combination with key parameters of each season's epidemic, including the<|fim_middle|>ino, an assistant professor in Northeastern's Network Science Institute, has an answer.
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New York City officials recently set aside $250,000 to help women who travel from other states obtain abortions in the… | incubation period of the disease, the immunization rate, how many people an individual with the virus can infect, and the viral strains present.
Tested against official influenza surveillance systems, the model has been shown to accurately forecast the disease's evolution up to six weeks in advance—significantly earlier than other models. It will enable public health agencies to plan ahead in allocating medical resources and launching campaigns that encourage individuals to take preventative measures such as vaccination and increased hand washing.
"In the past, we had no knowledge of initial conditions for the flu," says Vespignani, who is also director of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern. The initial conditions—which show where and when an epidemic began as well as the extent of infection—function as a launching pad for forecasting the spread of any disease.
A novel model to forecast the spread of the flu developed by Northeastern's Alessandro Vespignani and colleagues received a coveted Best Paper Honorable Mention award at the 2017 International World Wide Web Conference last month.
To ascertain those conditions, the researchers incorporated Twitter into their parameter-driven model. "This kind of integration has never been done before," says Vespignani. "We were not looking for the number of people who were sick because Twitter will not tell you that. What we wanted to know was: Do we have more flu at this point in time in Texas or in New Jersey, in Seattle or in San Francisco? Twitter, which includes GPS locations, is a proxy for that. By looking at how many people were tweeting about their symptoms or how miserable they were because of the flu, we were able to get a relative weight in each of those areas of the U.S."
The paper on the novel model received a coveted Best Paper Honorable Mention award at the 2017 International World Wide Web Conference last month following its presentation. It was one of only four papers out of more than 400 presented to be selected for an award.
The researchers' work began when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the "Predict the Influenza Season Challenge" in November 2013, an invitation to external researchers to advance the science of forecasting infectious diseases. Vespignani and his team have been participating ever since, with the new paper covering their projections for the 2014-15 and 2015-16 flu seasons in the U.S., Italy, and Spain.
This is not a challenge in the sense that you want to win. This is a science challenge in which you want to learn.
Alessandro Vespignani Sternberg Family Distinguished University Professor
Over those time periods, they applied forecasting and other algorithms week by week to the key parameters informed by the Twitter data. "This gave us a large number of possible ways the disease might evolve," says Vespignani. They then matched the resulting simulations with the surveillance data generated by the CDC and clinical and personal reports of influenza-like illnesses from the three countries. "The surveillance data tells us the ground truth for the past four weeks, but it is always delayed by about one week because you need to get the report from the doctor," he says. By analyzing the evolving dynamics revealed in the past data, they were able to select the model that would most likely forecast the future.
The explicit modeling of the disease's parameters—information about the dynamics of the disease itself—set Vespignani's model apart from others in the challenge. For example, they could identify the week when the epidemic would reach its peak and the magnitude of that peak with an accuracy of 70 to 90 percent six weeks in advance of the event.
"By capturing the key parameters, we could track how serious the flu was each year compared with every other year and see what was driving the spread," says first author Qian Zhang, PhD'14. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University
"By capturing the key parameters, we could track how serious the flu was each year compared with every other year and see what was driving the spread," says first author Qian Zhang, PhD'14, associate research scientist at Northeastern. "That is what the public health agencies and the epidemiologists really care about. We are not just playing a game of numbers, which is what straightforward statistical models do."
While the paper reports results using Twitter data, the researchers note that the model can work with data from many other digital sources, too, as well as online surveys of individuals such as influenzanet, which is very popular in Europe.
"Our model is a work in progress," emphasizes Vespignani. "We plan to add new parameters, for example, school and workplace structure. This is not a challenge in the sense that you want to win. This is a science challenge in which you want to learn—to see that there is not a single model but a portfolio of models that will tell us new things."
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Alex Vespignani a.vespignani@neu.edu
Sternberg Distinguished Professor of Physics, Computer Science and Health Sciences
Ten different infectious diseases and 25 years of data later, Samuel Scarp | 1,076 |
when i was 3 years old, my family moved into a home my parents built in the suburbs of san diego. the home was on 1/4 acre of avocado trees. there were tons of things to do outside.....unfortunately, i didn't have a lot of close neighborhood friends my age to play with because all of the<|fim_middle|> home (no joke) lived an elderly woman by the name mrs. foote. i grew up with a personality that would talk to any living thing and wanted to make friends with just about anyone that would talk to me. my favorite people to talk to were adults. even though mrs. foote was mainly confined to bed and was super grouchy, my mission in life became trying to get her to smile. i remember picking avocados from our trees to bring her, picking flowers from her yard to bring to her, drawing pictures and all sorts of things i could think of along those lines. although she would mostly yell "leave me alone" anytime i arrived and the home care nurse let me in, i was persistent.
one day mrs foote's daughter came to visit. her husband was high up in the military which caused them to travel a ton and not be able to live in san diego. i suppose she was probably in her early 50's at the time, but she listened to me with these bright eyes and made me feel that my views and questions were important and i so clearly remember how she made me feel special and heard. every time her and her husband traveled around the world she would type me a letter to share her journeys and bring me home a doll from the country they had been in. (as you can imagine, i racked up quite the collection of dolls from around the world).
the other day while cleaning up some paperwork at my desk, i came across a typed note from her that she had sent when i was in college.
it struck me hard and i was brought to tears. it wasn't because she has long since passed but rather the humbling thought that i mattered to her. all of these thoughts in my head were always about how loved and special she made *me* feel. i never imagined that i had the ability to do the same for her. i am beyond grateful for having had the opportunity to have had an unlikely friend in her to learn from. as i think now, i am struck by the thought that i don't quite know where I would be and how different my life may have been had not been for her influence. i credit my love of travel to her. i wonder if had it not been for her influence would i have been brave enough to go in 6th grade to live with a family in japan? or travel the globe in college? perhaps not. i greatly admire the time she took to get to know me. we exchanged letters back and forth for almost 20 years, until the letters stopped coming and she was gone from this world. i suppose my take away from all of this is to never judge someone and to open your heart up to start a conversation and hear their story. true friends and can come to you in the most unsuspecting of forms, even as a curious 4 1/2 year old. who knows what an influence you can be in their lives and in turn in yours. i am blessed to have an amazing, growing tribe of people that are imprinting on my kiddos daily. i only hope they will be lucky enough to have something as special as i did with my friend, blythie. | homes were so spread out. the closest home to my parents was up a small hill from theirs. in this pepto bismol pink | 28 |
The incredible and unconventional Dr. Pol | Grand Central Magazine | Your Campus. Your Story.
Dr. Jan Pol, from National Geographic WILD's number one series "The Incredible Dr. Pol," spoke to Central Michigan University's Rotaract club Tuesday.
The Dutch, large-animal veterinarian discussed the unconventional methods he uses in his Beal City clinic.
Direct contact with animal fluids does not make the TV star disgusted. As seen on episodes, Pol often removes his shirt sleeves and plunges his hands into any messy task in front of him, sans gloves.
Besides his surprising approaches to handling animals, his success on TV may also be attributed to his ability to think on the spot and utilize ordinary materials to help heal animal wounds.
<|fim_middle|> comments online criticize him, saying he does not uphold the conventional values of veterinarians though there is no indication that his medical methods do not meet Doctor of Veterinary Medicine standards.
There is also the issue of the recent reduction in small animal farms.
"The family farm is disappearing very fast," Pol said.
His practice has gone from treating predominately large animals to 60 percent of the animals being small.
Pol remains positive about the future.
Because of the show, clients have come in from all over the country, including Alaska and Hawaii.
According to Charles, there will be a new season next year. They are currently filming season four for the series.
Separator image Posted in College Life, Community, Students, Students and tagged with Campus Life, Dr. Pol, Sascha Seide, Veterinarian. | Pol told the audience that he used flexible, but firm basket material to cast a horse's broken leg.
The concept of the show arose from Pol's son, Charles Pol, who had moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in producing. While working for Nickelodeon, Charles and a few friends developed the idea for the show.
The friends flew to Michigan and shot 36 hours of film. From that content, they made a four minute DVD and distributed it to networks such as Animal Planet and Discovery.
Nat Geo WILD saw potential in the show and picked it up.
Some may doubt the authenticity of the scenes on the show, but Pol assured the audience that everything shown was real. He told them that there is no way he could put a newborn calf back in the mother after it had been born.
Being honest with animal owners is paramount to Pol.
In situations where the cost of an operation might be concerning, Pol is straightforward with the animal owners.
Pol performed a non-intrusive procedure on a choking cow, but when his efforts proved to be in vain, he was honest with the owner about the cost of an operation and the likelihood of success. Pol respected the farmer's decision to put the cow down.
Pol is one of the few large-animal doctors in the Mount Pleasant area, which may feed the success of his clinic, but his clients find his honesty helpful and his confidence comforting.
Lynn Sweeney of Mount Pleasant experienced Pol's tenacity in reaching an injured animal.
When her horse became sick suddenly on a freezing winter night, Pol drove to the barn and stayed with the horse until 1 a.m. According to Sweeney, Pol saved her horse's life.
Pol continued to be Sweeney's primary veterinarian for many years.
But Pol is running into several problems within his practice.
Despite his wide fan base and viewer loyalty, Pol has critics who oppose his methodology.
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Drugo telo, Ma-No, Nova Gorica, 2007.
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Srbski dramatiki
Srbski literarni zgodovinarji | in literarni zgodovinar, * 15. oktober 1929, Beograd, † 30. november 2009, Beograd, Srbija.
Milorad Pavić je poznan predvsem kot pisec nelinearne, interaktivne proze. Je eden najbolj branih sodobnih pisateljev z Balkana, njegova dela pa so prevedena v več kot 30 jezikov. V literarni zgodovini se je ukvarjal predvsem z obdobjem med 17. in 19. stoletjem in veljal za strokovnjaka za barok in simbolizem. Prevajal je Puškina in Byrona.
Njegovo najbolj znano delo, kontroverzni roman Hazarski besednjak, je bilo v 80. letih prejšnjega stoletja ena največjih uspešnic tistega časa. Poleg tega so v slovenščino prevedena še naslednja Pavićeva dela:
Hazarski besednjak, Pomurska založba, Murska Sobota, 1985; Ma-No, Nova Gorica, 2002.
Zvezdni plašč, Ma-No, Nova Gorica, 2000.
Notranja stran vetra, Ma-No, Nova Gorica, 2002.
Skrinjica za pisanje, Ma-No, Nova Gorica, 2003.
Pokrajina, naslikana s čajem, Ma-No, Nova Gorica, 2003.
Poslednja ljubezen v Carigradu, Ma-No, Nova Gorica, 2003, 2004.
Unikat – roman delta, Ma-No, Nova Gorica, 2005.
Zgodba, ki je ubila Emilijo Knorr, Ma-No, Nova Gorica, 2006.
Ljubezenski roman v dveh zgodbah (Jasmina Mihaj | 488 |
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Here at the Art Institute of Chicago, we have taken a very long view of the current economic and cultural climate. Historically, museum attendance has increased dramatically during periods of economic stress, such as the Great Depression or the recession of the late 1980s and early 1990s. This fact tells us that museums provide solace, inspiration, and perspective during difficult times. Now more than ever, it is of paramount importance that we continue to uphold our mission as a truly civic institution. Most immediately, we are striving to remain as accessible as possible to all visitors, which we are able to do through offering more than 400 hours a year of free admission and by consciously designing our new addition, the Modern Wing, to create more civic space in the form of our bridge into Millennium Park, our sculpture terrace, and our education center. All of these new spaces are completely free and open to the public. We aim to be at the center of the cultural life of the city by offering not just exhibitions and the display of our permanent collection but also by offering musical<|fim_middle|> companies in Chicago. All of these efforts are, of course, accompanied by creative fundraising, but we are lucky that Chicago has always been—and continues to be—a city that generously supports its world-class cultural institutions. ≤
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Freshly Minted Montblanc | performances, lectures, poetry readings, and, this year, even a residency with one of the leading modern dance | 22 |
At Tribeca Film Festival® (TFF) IWC Schaffhausen celebrated the art of filmmaking and showcased its support for emerging artists at<|fim_middle|> The Infiltrator (Directed by Brad Furman, starring Bryan Cranston and Diane Kruger). Ruskin is currently in post-production on his second narrative feature, the Untitled Colin Warner Project, starring Keith Stanfield (Short Term 12) and produced by Lila Yacoub (Moonrise Kingdom). | the fourth annual "For the Love of Cinema" gala dinner. IWC CMO Franziska Gsell co-hosted the evening with Tribeca Film Festival founders Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff. The luxury watch manufacturer, and Tribeca Film Institute's Executive Director Anna Ponder, presented the IWC Filmmaker Award to this year's honoree, Matt Ruskin. He received a $50,000 film grant, as well as the official IWC Filmmaker Award trophy and an IWC timepiece.
IWC brand ambassadors Scott Eastwood and Dev Patel, and host, comedian Joel McHale, entertained the star-studded audience of over 200 at the Spring Studios Festival Hub before an exclusive performance by JOHNNYSWIM closed the evening's event.
Many acclaimed members of the film community attended, including TFF directors Katie Holmes and Michael Rappaport, Judy Greer, Jason Biggs, Michael Stratham, and actress Kate Mara. Two of the previous IWC Filmmaker Award winners were also there, Jay Dockendorf and Deb Shoval.
Matt Ruskin is a writer/director/producer. His work has been featured at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami and Institute of Contemporary Art in London. Ruskin's feature debut, The Hip Hop Project, was released nationwide by THINKFilm and aired on the Sundance Channel. While at NYU, Ruskin worked for Darren Aronofsky on Requiem for a Dream. Ruskin was a consulting producer on the Sundance documentary William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe and is developing a dramatic feature based on his life story (penned by Oscar nominated writers Jeremy Pikser and Walter Bernstein). Ruskin's narrative feature debut, Booster, received a Special Jury Prize at the 2012 SXSW Film Festival and was shortlisted for Director's Fortnight at Cannes. Ruskin has worked as a producer on a range of feature films, including The Boy (produced by Elijah Wood) and most recently | 428 |
I would like to make a Freedom of Information request relating to cyber attacks to your organisation.
By data, I am referring to any information held on your computer systems or devices.
Does your organisation keep an incident log of cyber attacks?
How many cyber attacks - attempted and successful - were recorded against your organisation in the last three financial years, year-by-year (ie 2014<|fim_middle|>3) Section 31 (Law Enforcement) Section 31(1)(a) states that information is exempt if its disclosure is likely to prejudice the prevention or detection of crime. ICO guidance states that this can be used to protect information on a public authority's systems which would make it more vulnerable to crime. This exemption can be used by a public authority that has no law enforcement function: • To protect the work of one that does • To withhold information that would make anyone, including the public authority itself, more vulnerable to crime The crime in question would be a malicious attack on the Council's computer systems. Since the disclosure of the withheld information would make the Council's systems more vulnerable to such crime, the exemption is engaged. The exemption is subject to the public interest test. There is an overwhelming public interest in keeping the Council's computer systems secure which would be served by non-disclosure. This outweighs the public interest in accountability and transparency that would be served by disclosure. Section 43 (Commercial Interests) Section 43(2) states that information is exempt if its disclosure would, or would be likely to, prejudice the commercial interests of any person (including the public authority holding it). Disclosure of information relating to ICT infrastructure and security puts the council at risk of a malicious hacking attack. This would compromise the Council's ability to provide its services and carry out 'business-as-usual' should our systems be compromised. Were our systems to be compromise, the cost of a system recovery would be detrimental to the Council's commercial interests. The exemption is subject to the public interest test. There is an overwhelming public interest in keeping the Council's computer systems secure which would be served by non-disclosure. This outweighs the public interest in accountability and transparency that would be served by disclosure. | /15, 2015/16, 2016/17)?
Where cyber attacks were successful, what kind of data and what amount of data, if any, was lost or stolen? Was it confidential?
What specific demand, if any, was made to resolve the attack? Did the organisation comply?
Please can you provide this information in Excel spreadsheet format.
Notice of Refusal Disclosure of information relating to ICT infrastructure and security constitutes a security risk as it would leave the Council's computer assets more vulnerable to a malicious hacking attack. This means that disclosure would: • Make the Council more vulnerable to crime (Section 31) • Risk harming the systems on which the day-to-day business of the Council relies (Section 4 | 154 |
The Science. Outdated approach vs a new approach.
Running has become increasingly popular around the world over the last three decades. At the same time running footwear has gone from simple shoes to a high tech product featuring advanced cushioning technologies and motion control devices. Still, it is estimated that between 40-70% of all runners suffer at least one injury per year. This has of course partly to do with the repetitive nature of running, where the runner takes approximately 1000 steps per kilometer and at each foot landing the body endure of load of 3-5 times the body weight.
Traditional foot landing analysis is in our view over simplistic and an outdated approach. Further, it is an outdated approach to select a shoe according to arch type (flat, normal or high arch).
The standard procedure of treating a runner and assigning footwear is asking a few standardized questions regarding mileage, running conditions and evaluating the current running shoes. After this a biomechanical assessment of the runner's feet is done. What most people do not realize is that there is no evidence-based research existing on recommending one particular shoe model over another for given foot type or injury history, despite what some manufacturers claim.
If the runner is visiting a more specialized clinic, a gait analysis is sometimes performed. When put on a treadmill, the runner is normally wearing traditional Running shoes and the video camera is filming foot strike from behind. In that situation the foot becomes a loose adaptor when the heel is striking the ground. Over pronation is most likely diagnosed. In an effort to control this excessive motion - Motion control shoes with a dual density midsole is prescribed.
The support of the medial foot arch has often been proposed as one of the most effective corrections of motion control. The "duo density" midsole construction was the technical solution in the last thirty years. This technology has been used more or less by all footwear companies. However, the frequency of running related injuries did not change significantly in this period of time.
It is today evident that the mechanical concept of motion control by duo density midsole technology did not meet the expectations to decrease the risk of injuries.
The problem with the outdated approach is that it does not focus on finding the root cause for the injury or preventing injuries.
Running technique or running form is traditionally ignored as means to prevent injury and improve running efficiency. However, research evidence suggests the key is, understanding that running technique, form and training patterns play a more significant role on improving ones running and at the same time reducing injuries.
It's evident that improving your running technique could enable you to run faster with less effort, but research also shows that "developing a better running stride mechanics and neuromuscular control is shown to be effective in preventing injury".
Instead of Running on the treadmill videotaping only from behind. We believe that a holistic approach is more adequate - A Full Body Running analysis™, analyzing your running technique by means of our motion capture system that records your every move with great precision. What happens at foot landing can normally derived from somewhere else and should be corrected at the source. You get visual feedback in a web based report that shows you some key-parameters in a good running technique, such as pelvic rotation, knee angle, ankle flexion, arm swing and foot contact etc. You get useful tips on things you should consider, improving you running form. We promote a holistic approach towards running and a whole body in function. Therefore, your report also includes a training program, including movability exercises and/or co-ordinations drills and/or strengthen exercises for certain muscles that will help you improve your running technique.
Below you will find a reference guide to a selection of peer reviewed research and science published in the most credible journals over the last 30 years.
1) Stance – defined as the interval in which the foot is on the ground.
2) Swing – defined as the interval in which the foot is not in contact with the ground. Below we will focus on the stance phase, when and how the foot strikes the ground.
Walking gait starts with the heel making contact with the ground in front of the body (center of mass), and then the foot rolls forward to mid stance and finally moves over to the propulsion phase where the foot leaves the ground off its toes.
A Walking gait is extremely efficient for Walking, hence the name - Walking gait. It does not involve all of the muscles we have in our body for running, like the Achilles tendon, and gluteal muscle (seat muscle).
Running gait starts with the foot striking the ground close to mid foot/ball of foot under the center of mass. Ideally with a pre-tension in the foot (see Salming Runninng Wheel). The whole foot is brought down as quickly as possible – focus is on reducing ground contact time. A minimum of energy is lost as foot strike occurs under the center of mass.
Additional benefits include full use of your body's natural cushioning and spring biomechanics.
Your body's natural cushioning anatomy includes the Arch, Achilles tendon, bent knee, s-shaped spine.
Recycling is a beautiful and timely concept and in running – your body has a built-in "energy return" system – isn't that wonderful! The Achilles tendon (biggest spring in your body) and other tendons recycle impact energy. As the foot hits the ground, impact energy is stored in the muscles and tendons. This energy is then used to spring the body forward.
The arch, Achilles tendon, bent knee and S-shaped spine are all parts of the human body's natural cushioning anatomy. The correct running form make best use of these tools as opposed to marketing hyped cushioning materials that claim to do the job for you.
In sprinting, the gait typically features a forefoot strike further up on the foot, than distance running. Sprinting gait is very energy consuming and demands a lot from your calf muscles. Therefore, Sprinting gait is normally used only for sprint distances up to 400 meters.
Running on the forefoot and maybe not even bringing the whole foot down is not recommended for long distance running as it puts to much stress on the Achilles tendon and calf muscles.
Your body recycles energy, in fact it has a built-in "energy return" system. The Achilles tendon and other tendons recycle impact energy. As the foot hits the ground, impact energy is stored in the muscles and tendons. This energy is then used to spring the body forward.
The arch is constructed as a flexible and elastic web that consist of 26 bones, 33 joints, 12 elastic tendons and 18 muscles that all tense and stretch together and functions like a spring when Running naturally. Approximately 17% of the mechanic energy when running is stored and released by this spring alone, according to Dr Lieberman.
Achilles tendon - your body's largest spring starts at the back of the heel, runs up the leg and attaches into the large calf muscles. When Running, the Achilles tendon spring stores up and releases approximately 35% of the impact energy hitting the ground – energy for free.
This springy energy is very different from the marketing hyped rebound materials that claim to make wonders for you. In fact, cushioned midsole actually steals energy from your body's natural elastic energy/recoil. The thicker the midsole the more energy lost.
It has however been found in a recent study that a lightweight running shoe with a thin midsole can be more efficient than barefoot running. It is believed that the reason for this is that the little extra weight of the lightweight shoe consumes less extra energy in comparison to the energy the body has to use when working with taking the impact forces when running barefoot.
During walking and running, pronation and supination normally occur in the foot. Pronation is important for optimal movement and shock absorption. During foot strike, the foot begins to roll inward and the arch flattens. This is called pronation. It is a normal action—one that occurs in every step in every healthy foot. The purpose of this is to loosen the foot so it can adapt to the surface, especially in uneven terrain.
Following pronation, as the foot continues through its gait, supination occurs. This results in the foot turning slightly outward then changing from a flexible foot to becoming rigid so it can propel the foot and push off from the ground. During this phase the foot inverts slightly, and the arches become higher, thus enabling the foot to properly roll over the big toe.
A number of factors can disrupt a person's normal gait. Two of the most common reasons are muscle imbalance and wearing stiff, over-supportive shoes.
The notion that some people are pronators while others are supinator is a gross oversimplification and mostly a marketing hype. Everyone pronates and supinates. The reason some people excessively pronate or supinate is more often from wearing over-supportive shoes. You need to be extra careful with children; their feet need to properly develop without shoes or wearing flexible shoes.
More importantly, the shoe industry's range of motion control shoes is an example of treating the symptom with a mechanic solution built into the footwear rather than finding the root cause of the problem. The New Approach focus on running technique and form. In Salming RunLab we perform a detailed Full Body Running Analysis™ in order to help the runner to run more efficiently and injury free. Salming Running Wheel and Salming Academy provide free instructions on how to improve your running technique and form, wearing Natural running shoes facilitate this transition.
Nobody in their right mind would wear ski gloves when typing on a keyboard. Why is it then that we should have shoes with a thick midsole when we are running? It is a myth that the feet need to be extremely carefully protected.
The ball of foot area has a lot of receptors responsible for sending communication from the foot to the brain. The brain immediately responds and the body adapts to variation in surfaces. If a too thick midsole is placed between the ground and the foot it distorts this communication. The body becomes less able to adapt the correct running technique, form and foot landing.
For example, the human body in not designed to cope with the large initial impact force created by a heel strike when running, consequently if you walk bare feet and then start to run you body will immediately adjust from the walking heel strike to mid foot strike when running. Now, if you place a really thick cushioned midsole underneath your feet you brain will not sense the initial impact force you encounter when you switch from walking to running and therefore not adjust from a heel strike to mid foot strike.
Background: Shoe manufacturers market motion control, stability, and cushioned shoes for plantar shapes defined as low, normal, and high, respectively. This assignment procedure is presumed to reduce injuries by compensating for differences in running mechanics.
Hypothesis: Assigning running shoes based on plantar shape will not reduce injury risk in Marine Corps basic training.
Conclusion: This prospective study demonstrated that assigning shoes based on the shape of the plantar foot surface had little influence on injuries even after considering other injury risk factors.
Background: The present study examines the injury status in women runners who are randomised to receive a neutral, stability or motion control running shoe.
Conclusion: The findings of this study suggest that our current approach of prescribing in-shoe pronation control systems on the basis of foot type is overly simplistic and potentially injurious.
Is your prescription of distance running shoes evidence based?
Conclusion: Motion control concepts are used for more than 20 years in running footwear. The frequency of running related injuries did not change significantly in this period of time. Remarkably even the injury distribution and location were not affected. The relative number of knee and shank injuries did no differ when comparing data reported from the same group (Clement et al. 1981, Taunton et al. 2002). One can conclude that the purely mechanical concept of motion control by duo density midsole technology did not meet the expectations to decrease the risk of injuries. The skeleton changes its path of movement for a given task only minimally and non systematic when exposed to a mechanical intervention. The locomotor system seems to choose a strategy to keep a "minimal resistance movement path" (Wilson et al. 1996). An optimal or appropriate shoe concept would affect muscle activity and muscle force potential rather than a mechanical support.
Journal of Sports Science, 1986 Winter;4(3):169-84.
One prominent pattern emerging from a review of the literature on sport shoes and biomechanics is the observation that many effects are the indirect result of shoe-induced adjustments in movement, i.e. a particular shoe characteristic elicits a kinematic adaptation which in turn has secondary consequences on kinetics and on injury and performance. For example, in addition to its variable effects on peak forces, cushioning system design has been shown to alter electromyographic patterns and to affect knee flexion during foot strike and affect indirectly the economy of running. Mediolateral stability as measured by rearfoot kinematics is strongly influenced by shoe design features such as heel lift, and sole hardness and geometry. The frictional properties of the shoe and surface interface have also been shown to affect kinematics in a way that in turn affects the recorded frictional forces themselves. Such kinematically mediated responses are the most provocative result of studies of the biomechanical effects of footwear. It is becoming apparent that the shoe can be a powerful tool for manipulating human movement. The abundance of shoe design possibilities coupled with the body's tendency to adjust in predictable ways to shoe mechanical characteristics have given us a new way to manipulate human kinematics and kinetics, as well as a convenient model for studying biomechanical adaptation.
Increased impact characteristics are often cited as a cause of running injuries. One method that has been used to reduce impact characteristics is to increase the thickness of the midsole of running footwear with the intention of attenuating greater shock from the foot-ground collision. A second method that has been suggested is to run barefoot. The purpose of this study was to compare the impact characteristics of running footwear of different midsole thickness to a barefoot condition. Three-dimensional kinematic and kinetic data were collected as participants ran at their preferred running speed and at a fixed speed. Impact characteristics (impact peak, time to impact peak and vertical loading rate) were derived from the vertical ground reaction force component. Ankle and knee joint stiffness during the loading phase of support were derived from the change in moment divided by the change in angle. The impact parameters were statistically analyzed using a two-way, repeated measures ANOVA. There were no significant speed by footwear condition interactions. For impact peak, ankle stiffness and knee stiffness, there was no difference among the shod conditions but there were significant differences between the shod and barefoot conditions. Based on their strike index, participants in this study appeared to alter their footfall pattern from a rearfoot to a midfoot pattern when changing from running shod to barefoot. It may be concluded that the change in the impact characteristics is a result of changing footfall pattern rather than midsole thickness.
Humans have engaged in endurance running for millions of years, but<|fim_middle|> There is very limited evidence specifically relating to barefoot running and walking in children. One study from Germany reported that the increased prevalence of flatfoot and hallux valgus (bunions) in modern societies may be the consequence of inadequate footwear in childhood. The German study postulated that barefoot walking represents the best condition for the development of a healthy foot. Walking and running on different types of surfaces such as grass, sand, and artificial running tracks may indeed enhance healthy foot development. However, the problem of barefoot walking on hard surfaces such as pavements may alter the biomechanics of walking and running. This may lead to potential arthritic changes and consequently a reduction in foot function. However, a study from Germany reports shows that slimmer and more flexible children's shoes do not change foot motion as much as conventional shoes and therefore should be recommended for children of all ages.
The increased prevalence for flatfoot and hallux valgus in modern societies may be the consequence of inadequate footwear in childhood. Based on the assumption that barefoot walking represents the best condition for the development of a healthy foot the objective of this study was to monitor the influence of commercial footwear on children's foot motion during walking. Furthermore, an attempt was made to reduce this influence by changing the physical properties of standard footwear. Conclusion: The present study shows that slimmer and more flexible children's shoes do not change foot motion as much as conventional shoes and therefore should be recommended not only for children in this age but for healthy children in general.
We analysed static footprints of 2300 children between the ages of four and 13 years to establish the influence of footwear on the prevalence of flat foot. The incidence among children who used footwear was 8.6% compared with 2.8% in those who did not (p < 0.001). Significant differences between the predominance in shod and unshed children were noted in all age groups, most marked in those with generalised ligament laxity. Flat foot was most common in children who wore closed-toe shoes, less common in those who wore sandals or slippers, and least in the unshod. Our findings suggest that shoe-wearing in early childhood is detrimental to the development of a normal longitudinal arch.
The foot is a complex structure with many articulations and multiple degrees of freedom that play an important role in static posture and dynamic activities. The evolutionary development of the arch of the foot was coincident with the greater demands placed on the foot as humans began to run. The movement and stability of the arch is controlled by intrinsic and extrinsic muscles. However, the intrinsic muscles are largely ignored by clinicians and researchers. As such, these muscles are seldom addressed in rehabilitation programmes. Interventions for foot-related problems are more often directed at externally supporting the foot rather than training these muscles to function as they are designed. In this paper, we propose a novel paradigm for understanding the function of the foot. We begin with an overview of the evolution of the human foot with a focus on the development of the arch. This is followed by a description of the foot intrinsic muscles and their relationship to the extrinsic muscles. We draw the parallels between the small muscles of the trunk region that make up the lumbopelvic core and the intrinsic foot muscles, introducing the concept of the foot core. We then integrate the concept of the foot core into the assessment and treatment of the foot. Finally, we call for an increased awareness of the importance of the foot core stability to normal foot and lower extremity function. | the modern running shoe was not invented until the 1970s. For most of human evolutionary history, runners were either barefoot or wore minimal footwear such as sandals or moccasins with smaller heels and little cushioning relative to modern running shoes. We wondered how runners coped with the impact caused by the foot colliding with the ground before the invention of the modern shoe. Here we show that habitually barefoot endurance runners often land on the fore-foot (fore-foot strike) before bringing down the heel, but they sometimes land with a flat foot (mid-foot strike) or, less often, on the heel (rear-foot strike). In contrast, habitually shod runners mostly rear-foot strike, facilitated by the elevated and cushioned heel of the modern running shoe. Kinematic and kinetic analyses show that even on hard surfaces, barefoot runners who fore-foot strike generate smaller collision forces than shod rear-foot strikers. This difference results primarily from a more plantarflexed foot at landing and more ankle compliance during impact, decreasing the effective mass of the body that collides with the ground. Fore-foot- and mid-foot-strike gaits were probably more common when humans ran barefoot or in minimal shoes, and may protect the feet and lower limbs from some of the impact-related injuries now experienced by a high percentage of runners.
AUTHORS: Hasegwa, Hiroshi; Yamauchi, Takeshi; Kraemer, William J.
The purpose of the present study was to document actual foot strike patterns during a half marathon in which elite international level runners, including Olympians, compete.
Conclusion: The findings of this study indicate that foot strike patterns are related to running speed. The percentage of RFS increases with the decreasing of the running speed; conversely, the percentage of MFS increases as the running speed increases. A shorter contact time and a higher frequency of inversion at the foot contact might contribute to higher running economy.
Journal of Biomech, 2000 Mar;33(3):269-78.
AUTHORS: De Wit B, De Clercq D, Aerts P. Department of Movement and Sport Sciences, University of Ghent, Belgium.
This study investigated spatio-temporal variables, ground reaction forces and sagittal and frontal plane kinematics during the stance phase of nine trained subjects running barefoot and shod at three different velocities. Therefore, it is assumed that runners adopt this different touchdown geometry in barefoot running in an attempt to limit the local pressure underneath the heel. A significantly higher leg stiffness during the stance phase was found for the barefoot condition. The sagittal kinematic adaptations between conditions were found in the same way for all subjects and at the three running velocities. However, large individual variations were observed between the runners for the rearfoot kinematics.
Metabolic cost of running barefoot versus shod: is lighter better?
Purpose: Based on mass alone, one might intuit that running barefoot would exact a lower metabolic cost than running in shoes.
Conclusion: Running barefoot offers no metabolic advantage over running in lightweight, cushioned shoes.
AUTHORS: Perl DP, Daoud AI, Lieberman DE.
Purpose: This study tests if running economy differs in minimal shoes versus standard running shoes with cushioned elevated heels and arch supports and in forefoot versus rearfoot strike gaits.
Conclusion: Minimally shod runners are modestly but significantly more economical than traditionally shod runners regardless of strike type, after controlling for shoe mass and stride frequency. The likely cause of this difference is more elastic energy storage and release in the lower extremity during minimal-shoe running.
Barefoot-shod running differences: shoe or mass effect?
International Journal of Sports Medicine, 2008 Jun;29(6):512-8.
AUTHORS: Divert C, Mornieux G, Freychat P, Baly L, Mayer F, Belli A.
The higher oxygen consumption reported when shod running is compared to barefoot running has been attributed to the additional mass of the shoe. However, it has been reported that wearing shoes also modified the running pattern. The aim of this study was to distinguish the mass and shoe effects on the mechanics and energetics when shod running. Twelve trained subjects ran on a 3-D treadmill ergometer at 3.61 m . s (-1) in six conditions: barefoot, using ultra thin diving socks unloaded, loaded with 150 g, loaded with 350 g, and two shoe conditions, one weighing 150 g and another 350 g. The results show that there was a significant mass effect but no shoe effect for oxygen consumption. Stride frequency, anterior-posterior impulse, vertical stiffness, leg stiffness, and mechanical work were significantly higher in barefoot condition compared to shod. Net efficiency, which has metabolic and mechanical components, decreased in the shod condition. The mechanical modifications of running showed that the main role of the shoe was to attenuate the foot-ground impact by adding damping material. However, these changes may lead to a decrease of the storage and restitution of elastic energy capacity which could explain the lower net efficiency reported in shod running.
Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise, 1985 Feb;17(1):158-63.
AUTHORS: Burkett LN, Kohrt WM, Buchbinder R.
The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of shoes and foot orthotics on running economy and selected frontal plane knee kinematics during the support phase of running. Results from the mechanical aspect of this study indicate that there were no significant differences among the means for linear displacement of the knee. Angular displacement of the knee during barefoot running was significantly (P less than 0.05) less than shoe and shoe-plus-orthotic conditions. There was no difference, however, between shoes and shoes plus orthotics. The economy results revealed that the aerobic cost of running increased as the amount of mass added to the foot increased.
In conclusion, it seems that most practitioners are straying from the path of helping a runner by focusing on shoes as opposed to form. The term "appropriate shoe" is a misnomer when viewed by the old paradigm of selecting a shoe according to arch type, and many are still advocating shoes this way. A running shoe should allow the foot to function as it was designed to – naturally without inhibiting motion. Adding cushioned heels and motion control mechanisms can inhibit this. By viewing shoes as the first line of treatment for most conditions, we must make sure this does not interfere with the foot's natural function.
US Army Med Dep J., 2012 Oct-Dec:25-30.
AUTHORS: Goss DL, Gross MT. US Army-Baylor University Doctoral Program in Physical Therapy, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, USA.
Context: Some runners are experimenting with barefoot or minimalist shoe running to reduce lower extremity overuse injuries. However, there has been little research to examine injury trends associated with barefoot or minimalist shoe running.
Objective: To assess the association of self-reported shoe selection with reported foot strike patterns, compare overall injury incidence associated with different shoe conditions, and identify differences in injury location between different shoe conditions. Results: Shoe selection was significantly associated with reported footstrike (χ² (4df) =143.4, P<.001). Barefoot and minimalist runners reported a more anterior footstrike than traditionally shod runners. Traditionally shod runners were 3.41 times more likely to report injuries than experienced minimalist shoe wearers (46.7% shod vs 13.7% minimalist, χ² (1df) =77.4, P<.001, n=888). Minimalist shoe wearers also reported fewer injuries at the hip, knee, lower leg, ankle, and foot than traditionally shod runners.
Conclusion: Barefoot and minimalist shoe wearers reported a more anterior footstrike than traditionally shod runners. Traditionally shod runners were more likely to report injuries of the lower extremities than runners who wear minimalist shoes. Additional longitudinal prospective research is required to examine injury incidence among various footstrike patterns and shoe preferences.
Purpose: This retrospective study tests if runners who habitually forefoot strike have different rates of injury than runners who habitually rearfoot strike. Conclusion: Competitive cross-country runners on a college team incur high injury rates, but runners who habitually rearfoot strike have significantly higher rates of repetitive stress injury than those who mostly forefoot strike. This study does not test the causal bases for this general difference. One hypothesis, which requires further research, is that the absence of a marked impact peak in the ground reaction force during a forefoot strike compared with a rearfoot strike may contribute to lower rates of injuries in habitual forefoot strikers.
Background: Anterior compartment pressures of the leg as well as kinematic and kinetic measures are significantly influenced by running technique. It is unknown whether adopting a forefoot strike technique will decrease the pain and disability associated with chronic exertional compartment syndrome (CECS) in hindfoot strike runners.
Hypothesis: For people who have CECS, adopting a forefoot strike running technique will lead to decreased pain and disability associated with this condition.
Conclusion: In 10 consecutive patients with CECS, a 6-week forefoot strike running intervention led to decreased postrunning lower leg intracompartmental pressures. Pain and disability typically associated with CECS were greatly reduced for up to 1 year after intervention. Surgical intervention was avoided for all patients.
The objective of this study was to characterize the biomechanical effects of step rate modification during running on the hip, knee, and ankle joints so as to evaluate a potential strategy to reduce lower extremity loading and risk for injury. Results: Less mechanical energy was absorbed at the knee during the +5% and +10% step rate conditions, whereas the hip absorbed less energy during the +10% condition only. All joints displayed substantially more energy absorption when preferred step rate was reduced by 10%. Step length, center of mass vertical excursion, braking impulse, and peak knee flexion angle were observed to decrease with increasing step rate. When step rate was increased 10% above preferred, peak hip adduction angle and peak hip adduction and internal rotation moments were found to decrease. We conclude that subtle increases in step rate can substantially reduce the loading to the hip and knee joints during running and may prove beneficial in the prevention and treatment of common running-related injuries.
Detailed analyses of foot kinematics and kinetics in barefoot and shod runners offer a refined understanding of bipedalism in human evolution. Conclusion: Foorfoot/Midfoot runners can take fuller advantage of of elastic energy storage in both the Achilles tendon and the longitudinal arch of the foot. FF/MF runners therefore require more calf- and footmuscle strength, but avoid uncomfortable and potentially injurious impact transients.
Results: Increased joint torques at the hip, knee, and ankle were observed with running shoes compared with running barefoot. Disproportionately large increases were observed in the hip internal rotation torque and in the knee flexion and knee varus torques. An average 54% increase in the hip internal rotation torque, a 36% increase in knee flexion torque, and a 38% increase in knee varus torque were measured when running in running shoes compared with barefoot.
Conclusion: The findings at the knee suggest relatively greater pressures at anatomical sites that are typically more prone to knee osteoarthritis, the medial and patellofemoral compartments.
AUTHORS: Edwards WB, Taylor D, Rudolphi TJ, Gillette JC, Derrick TR.
The fatigue life of bone is inversely related to strain magnitude. Decreasing stride length is a potential mechanism of strain reduction during running. If stride length is decreased, the number of loading cycles will increase for a given mileage. It is unclear if increased loading cycles are detrimental to skeletal health despite reductions in strain. Purpose: To determine the effects of stride length and running mileage on the probability of tibial stress fracture. Conclusions: Results suggest that strain magnitude plays a more important role in stress fracture development than the total number of loading cycles. Runners wishing to decrease their probability for tibial stress fracture may benefit from a 10% reduction in stride length.
AUTHORS: Vormittag, Kara; Calonje, Ronald; Briner, William W.
Playing sports barefoot has been contested since the very beginnings of athletic competition. Even today, some data suggest that shoes may limit the adaptive pronation that occurs after footstrike during running gait. This pronation likely protects runners from injury. Boardsport participants who perform their sports barefoot on the water seem to be at risk for foot and ankle injuries. The high-impact forces in gymnastics place participants at risk for foot and ankle injuries, as well. Swimming and diving have a low rate of foot and ankle injuries. The risk of ankle sprain in beach volleyball, which is played barefoot, seems to be lower than that for indoor volleyball, played wearing shoes. Martial arts place competitors at risk for injuries to the foot and ankle from torsional and impact mechanisms. Athletes who hope to return to barefoot competition after injury should perform their rehabilitation in their bare feet.
The purpose of this article is to describe for coaches and runners the theory behind the use of barefoot activity as a method of reducing running injuries. Conclusion: In summary, internal strengthening is often overlooked as a method of preventing running injuries. Key factors to consider when implementing a barefoot activity program are: (1) maintaining a running and injury journal to compare current progress and prior injury frequency; (2) gradually increasing the time spent and the variance of terrain; (3) decreasing shoe support, if desired, to more flexible and thin midsoles on a gradual and incremental basis; and (4) being consistent and persistent, because strengthened structures weaken with cessation of barefoot activity (Robbins & Hanna, 1986).
Conclusions: - Running in shoes appears to increase the risk of ankle sprains, either by decreasing awareness of foot position or by increasing the twisting torque on the ankle during a stumble. - Running in shoes appears to increase the risk of plantar fasciitis and other chronic injuries of the lower limb by modifying the transfer of shock to muscles and supporting structures. - Running in bare feet reduces oxygen consumption by a few percent. Competitive running performance should therefore improve by a similar amount, but there has been no published research comparing the effect of barefoot and shod running on simulated or real competitive running performance. - Research is needed to establish why runners choose not to run barefoot. Concern about puncture wounds, bruising, thermal injury, and overuse injury during the adaptation period are possibilities. - Running shoes play an important protective role on some courses, in extreme weather conditions, and with certain pathologies of the lower limb.
Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 130-139, 1989.
AUTHORS: Robbins, S. E., G. J. Gouw, A. M. Hanna.
Running-related injury prevention through innate impact-moderating behavior. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 130-139, 1989. The purpose of these experiments was to test the Robbins and Hanna hypothesis, which relates differences in discomfort from localized deformation at certain positions on the plantar surface to protective behavior (intrinsic foot shock absorption).
Results: These data further support the notion that plantar sensory feedback plays a central role in safe and effective locomotion.
Using a survey questionnaire design, we investigated the incidence, site, and nature of jogging injuries among all participants of a popular 16 km race. The response rate was 83.6%. Of 4,358 male joggers, 45.8% had sustained jogging injuries during the 1 year study period, 14.2% had required medical care, and 2.3% had missed work because of jogging injuries. Occurrence of jogging injuries was independently associated with higher weekly mileage (P < 0.001), history of previous running injuries (P < 0.001), and competitive training motivation (P = 0.03). Higher mileage was also associated with more frequent medical consultations due entirely to jogging-related injuries. In 33 to 44 year olds (N = 1,757), the number of years of running was inversely related to incidence of injuries (P = 0.02). Injuries were not significantly related to race running speed, training surface, characteristics of running shoes, or relative weight. Achillodynia and calf muscle symptoms were the two most common overuse injuries and occurred significantly more often among older runners with increased weekly mileage. We conclude that jogging injuries are frequent, that the number of firmly established etiologic factors is low, and that, in recommending jogging, moderation should be the watchword.
Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness, 2009 Mar;49(1):6-13.
The first aim of this study was to assess how changes in the mechanical characteristics of the foot/shoe-ground interface affect spatio-temporal variables, ground pressure distribution, sagittal plane kinematics, and running economy in 8 experienced barefoot runners. The second aim was to assess if a special lightweight shoe was effective in mimic the experience of barefoot running.
Results: Compared to the standard shod condition when running barefoot the athletes landed in more plantarflexion at the ankle. This caused reduced impact forces and changes in stride kinematics. In particular, significantly shorter stride length and contact times and higher stride frequency were observed.
Conclusions: The data of this study support the assumption that changes in the foot-ground interface led to changes in running pattern in a group of experienced barefoot runners.
Are old running shoes detrimental to your feet? A pedobarographic study.
AUTHORS: Rethnam U, Makwana N. Department of Orthopaedics, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl, UK. ulfinr@yahoo.com.
Background: Footwear characteristics have been implicated in fatigue and foot pain. The recommended time for changing running shoes is every 500 miles. The aim of our study was to assess and compare plantar peak pressures and pressure time integrals in new and old running shoes.
Conclusion: Plantar pressure measurements in general were higher in new running shoes. This could be due to the lack of flexibility in new running shoes. The risk of injury to the foot and ankle would appear to be higher if running shoes are changed frequently. We recommend breaking into new running shoes slowly using them for mild physical activity.
British Journal of Sports Med, 2009 Oct;43(10):745-9. doi: 10.1136/bjsm.2008.047761. Epub 2008 Sep 18.
Objectives: In this study, the effect of shoe degradation on running biomechanics by comparing the kinetics and kinematics of running in new and worn shoes was investigated. Three types of footwear using different cushioning technologies were compared.
Conclusions: As shoe cushioning capability decreases, runners modify their patterns to maintain constant external loads. The adaptation strategies to shoe degradation were unaffected by different cushioning technologies, suggesting runners should choose shoes for reasons other than cushioning technology.
Do you get value for money when you buy an expensive pair of running shoes?
Objective: This investigation aims to determine if more expensive running shoes provide better cushioning of plantar pressure and are more comfortable than low-cost alternatives from the same brand. Conclusions: Low- and medium-cost running shoes in each of the three brands tested provided the same (if not better) cushioning of plantar pressure as high-cost running shoes. Cushioning was comparable when walking and running on a treadmill. Comfort is a subjective sensation based on individual preferences and was not related to either the distribution of plantar pressure or cost.
Objectives: Athletic footwear are associated with frequent injury that are thought to result from repetitive impact. No scientific data suggest they protect well. Expensive athletic shoes are deceptively advertised to safeguard well through "cushioning impact", yet account for 123% greater injury frequency than the cheapest ones. This study tested the hypothesis that deceptive advertising creates a false sense of security with users of expensive athletic shoes, inducing attenuation of impact moderating behavior, increased impact, and injury.
Conclusions: These data provide a plausible mechanism explaining higher injury frequency in users of expensive athletic shoes. This is the first report to suggest: (1) deceptive advertising of protective devices may represent a public health hazard and may have to be eliminated presumably through regulation; (2) a tendency in humans to be less cautious when using new devices of unknown benefit because of overly positive attitudes associated with new technology and novel devices.
The forces and moments acting at the hip joint influence the long-term stability of the fixation of endoprostheses and the course of coxarthrosis. These loads may depend on the kind of footwear and the walking or running style. These factors were investigated in a patient with instrumented hip implants. He wore different sports shoes, normal leather shoes, hiking boots and clogs and walked barefoot with soft, normal and hard heel strikes. The loads were lowest while walking and jogging without shoes. All shoes increased the joint force and the bending moment at the implant slightly, but the torsional moment rose by up to 50%. No relation was found between the different type of shoes and the load increase, only shoes with very hard soles were clearly disadvantageous. Soft heels, soles or insoles did not offer advantages. Gait stability seems to play the most important role in increasing the joint loading and should be the criterion for the choice of footwear.
A kinetic evaluation of the effects of in vivo loading on running shoes.
The Journal of Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy, 1988;10(2):47-53.
The purpose of the study was to assess the effects of repeated in vivo loading on shock attenuation and mediolateral stability of running shoes using ground reaction force data.The results support previous findings that material properties of the systems evaluated deteriorated resulting in a loss of shock absorbing capabilities (7.3%) but the magnitudes of the losses were far less than previously reported results (23-40%). The reason for this discrepancy is presumed to be the result of the different loading and evaluation methods used in the present study. The results also suggest that these changes are not totally deleterious since foot control seems to improve as cushioning is lost and foot control accounts for at least half of running shoe related injuries.
Medical Science in Sports & Exerc., 1987 Apr;19(2):148-56.
AUTHORS: Robbins SE, Hanna AM.
A number of reports indicate an extremely low running-related injury frequency in barefoot populations in contrast to reports about shod populations. It is hypothesized that the adaptations which produce shock absorption, an inherent consequence of barefoot activity and a mechanism responsible for the low injury frequency in unshod populations, are related to deflection of the medial longitudinal arch of the foot on loading. It is also hypothesized that the known inability of this arch of the shod foot to deflect without failure (foot rigidity) is responsible for the high injury frequency in shod populations. Changes occurred in the medial longitudinal arch which allowed deflection of this arch on loading which substantiated the hypotheses. Other evidence suggests that sensory feedback largely from the glabrous epithelium of the foot is the element of barefoot activity which induced these adaptations. The sensory insulation inherent in the modern running shoe appears responsible for the high injury frequency associated with running.
Journal of Foot Ankle Res., 2011 Jan 18;4:3. doi: 10.1186/1757-1146-4-3.
AUTHORS: Wegener C, Hunt AE, Vanwanseele B, Burns J, Smith RM.
Background: The effect of footwear on the gait of children is poorly understood. This systematic review synthesises the evidence of the biomechanical effects of shoes on children during walking and running.
Conclusion: shoes affect the gait of children. With shoes, children walk faster by taking longer steps with greater ankle and knee motion and increased tibialis anterior activity. Shoes reduce foot motion and increase the support phases of the gait cycle. During running, shoes reduce swing phase leg speed, attenuate some shock and encourage a rearfoot strike pattern. The long-term effect of these changes on growth and development are currently unknown. The impact of footwear on gait should be considered when assessing the paediatric patient and evaluating the effect of shoe or in-shoe interventions.
In response to the recent debate on barefoot running and walking of children published in the New Zealand Herald we have put together an argument relating to the pros and cons based on current evidence. | 5,218 |
The Madison is a striking new building at Yonge and Eglinton<|fim_middle|> fireplace, a tiered reflecting pool and a striking metal sculpture. The Madison Condominium is an example of utilizing a holistic design approach to successfully integrate a variety of interior and exterior amenities within the overall development concept. | in midtown Toronto. An essential component of the development program for Terraplan was to design roofscape amenity spaces that are beautiful, functional and reflect the excitement of the neighbourhood. The comfortable outdoor gathering spaces that were created relate seamlessly to the adjacent indoor amenity rooms. Outdoor lounges, private gazebos with barbeques, and quiet refuges are situated within a serene setting that spans two large roof decks. An extensive, sustainable planting scheme using contained beds and raised planters defines the spaces on the deck. Hard and soft decking materials, along with lighting, combine to create a sense of warmth throughout every season. Special highlights on the deck include an outdoor | 134 |
Water feature wonders
Ready to catch the wave? Independent garden centers with a passion for aquatics share how they make the category work.
Jolene Hansen
An aquatic plant division can attract new customers, maintain current ones and cultivate a new interest they weren't privy to.
PHOTO: NATHAN PEDIGO
For some people, it's the soothing sound of a trickling fountain. For others, it's the sight of sunlight reflecting off passing fish. Whether the goal is drowning out traffic noise or creating an intricate backyard ecosystem, consumers are reconnecting with nature — and themselves — by communing with water in their own landscapes. And they're looking to IGCs for help.
Steve Albanese, owner of Albanese Garden Center, aims to give his customers backyard access to a place that blocks the stress of the world.
COURTESY OF ALBANESE GARDEN CENTER
Getting started with aquatics
Talk with long-term IGC leaders in aquatics and aquascaping, and you'll soon conclude that lasting success depends on two essentials: passion and commitment. Dan Masterson, manager at Masterson's Garden Center Inc. & Aquatic Nursery in East Aurora, New York, explains this category is not as simple as just putting some water gardening products out.
"Every customer isn't going to know what they need," Masterson says. "We say here, 'Every sale is a seminar.' You've got to know your stuff and be confident in your knowledge of how these ecosystems work before you put it on the shelf."
Water gardens have been a Masterson specialty since the IGC's founder, Dan's father Mike, started incorporating water features into the business's landscape side nearly 30 years ago. Inspired by his enjoyment of a creek near his home, he wanted to help others experience something similar. "His success far exceeded his expectations," Masterson says.
For Steve Albanese, general manager at Albanese Garden Center and Greenhouse in Wind Gap, Pennsylvania, his love of water was nurtured by aquariums, scuba diving and woodland waterfalls. Starting an aquatic division at the IGC founded by his grandfather seemed like a natural fit. "I just wanted people to have an area in their backyard where they could get away from the stress of the world," he says.
Albanese, who credits part of his success to his qualification as a Certified Aquascape Contractor (CAC), says passion for the aquatic category is critical. "If you don't have passion for it, you need someone on staff who does," he says. At Albanese, a fourth generation of the family has inherited the love of aquatic work.
Derek Johnson, owner of JVI Secret Gardens, completed his first water feature about 16 years ago. Now, water feature construction is 65% of the business.
PHOTO COURTESY OF JVI SECRET GARDENS
JVI Secret Gardens, located in Nashville, Tennessee.
Planting seeds with consumers
Helping consumers realize what a water feature can bring to their lives and homes is key to growing your aquatics or aquascaping business. Derek Johnson, owner of JVI Secret Gardens in Nashville, Tennessee, says people often don't know want they want until it's seen.
Johnson did his first water feature about 16 years ago after an Aquascape catalog image spurred his creativity on a landscape design that had left him stumped. As people passed the construction site, community interest grew. Johnson sold one job during the construction, and 10 more followed soon.
Today, water feature construction and maintenance account for about 65% of JVI Secret Gardens' total revenue. And Johnson was recently named Aquascape's CAC of the Year for 2019.
At Albanese, water-centric displays around the garden center have increased<|fim_middle|> bunch that engages in a lot of support and networking. He sees a trend of steady business growth nationwide, as consumers turn to water-focused landscapes to relax, lose themselves and calm down. By creating and caring for true ecosystems, homeowners give back to their world as well.
For IGCs considering aquatics and aquascaping, Johnson circles back to passion once again. As with Albanese and Masterson, it's clear it's more than an industry buzz word to him.
"The reason this works is because I obsess over it in the most beautiful way. It's extremely lucrative. It's a beautiful business. It's a beautiful add-on because it'll bring another cog to your business wheel," Johnson says. "But it's passion. As a horticulturist, I still love my plants, but there's just something about water."
A prehistoric park
Soaking it up | extensively over the years — and sales have grown along with them. The IGC started with one large pond and waterfall feature in 1986. Now water features from ponds to pondless waterfalls to fountainscapes comprise about one-fourth of the property's outside plantings.
"Our curb appeal is splash," Albanese says. "Water-related sales have doubled as a result." While he declined to talk specific numbers, he estimates the IGC's aquatic division conservatively accounts for 50% of overall sales.
Albanese Garden Center completed its first large pond and waterfall feature in 1986. Albanese says its water-related sales have doubled since then, and account for 50% of overall sales.
PHOTO COURTESY OF ALBANESE GARDEN CENTER AND GREENHOUSE
Growing with the aquatic category
When Albanese first started offering aquatics, he says most people thought of water features as whiskey barrels with liners. But the attraction of water is strong and interest evolved, first to plastic pre-formed pools with small waterfalls, then on to full-scale aquascapes. And, as interest grew, so did requests for products and services, such as installation and maintenance. Albanese responded to demand.
For aquatic success, Albanese says you can't hold back: "You have to jump in with both feet, love what you do and carry everything needed to fill your customers' pond needs."
Shoppers at Albanese Garden Center find an aquatic nursery devoted to water plants and "wet pets" such as koi, along with all the equipment, water treatments and other items customers need. With the right tools, Albanese says water features that get five to 10 minutes of weekly maintenance reward their owners with joy instead of stress.
Masterson's devotes a 5,000-square-foot greenhouse (about one-fifth of their space) to aquatics. The division accounts for an estimated 30% of the IGC's revenue. You'll find imported and domestic koi, aquatic marginal plants, water lilies and floating tropical plants, as well as pumps, filters, water treatments and various kinds of fish food.
The IGC no longer offers landscaping services. Masterson's brother, Brian, operates a separate company, Innovative Landscapes, which focuses almost exclusively on water features and other water-related work. A special area of interest is lake and pond restorations. This niche is growing as former city dwellers go rural and need help restoring and enhancing natural water features to complement their homes.
Masterson's Garden Center and Aquatic Nursery Manager Dan Masterson, left, with his father and founder/owner Mike Masterson
PHOTO COURTESY OF MASTERON'S GARDEN CENTER AND AQUATIC NURSERY
Cultivating consumer interest
Masterson shares that several IGCs in the region have closed their aquatic divisions. He speculates the housing market was to blame — large water projects are often tied to established homeowners. But Masterson's demand for aquatics and aquascaping has stayed remarkably consistent from year to year.
He acknowledges that the IGC staff's enthusiasm for the category has a significant positive impact on sales. Two special areas of interest are koi and natural ecosystems, and consumer interest is high in both.
In Nashville, Johnson has developed a strong YouTube presence with "reality show" videos that help consumers learn about aquascaping and get to know his team. He's also experienced a jump in business from new homeowners inheriting water features, who need a hand with education and renovation as well as new construction to make existing water features their own.
Both Albanese and Masterson have regular in-store seminars to educate consumers on pond maintenance, particularly in spring when ponds open for the season and again when they close in fall. Johnson focuses heavily on staff education but hopes to add an employee to focus on consumer education. Though seminars are helpful, Masterson says most education still happens one-on-one. "Every pond, every project is different," he says.
Albanese, who is a certified aquascape contractor, says having a passion for the aquatic category is critical.
PHOTO COURTESY OF ALBANESE GARDEN CENTER
Capitalizing on aquatic allure
With Nashville's population and economy booming, Johnson has seen sales climb steadily. His company already far exceeded his 2019 goals. But he doesn't believe interest in water features is limited to Nashville.
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Disruptive Mood: Irritability in Children and Adolescents
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Conduct and Oppositional Defiant Disorders: Epidemiology, Risk Factors, and Treatment
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Conduct Disorders: The Latest Assessment and Treatment Strategies
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Attention Deficit/hyperactivity Disorder & Conduct Disorder: Attentional Orienting, Motor Preparation, And Response Control
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Helping Children With Aggression and Conduct Problems: Best Practices for Intervention
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Helping the Noncompliant Child: Family-Based Treatment for Oppositional Behavior
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Aggression and Antisocial Behavior in Children and Adolescents: Research and Treatment
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Right now Shell is at the forefront of the oil and gas industry and, at the same time, under the microscope. The energy giant puts its trust in associate general counsel Carlos Abello
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Raising Standards for Deepwater Drilling
When news reports of a rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico hit airwaves on April 20, 2010, an entire industry came to a halt. Even though it wasn't Shell's rig, the company felt the aftershocks just as every oil producer did, and had to make major changes in order to return to business.
Carlos Abello has been providing legal counsel for Shell for 16 years.
"No one really knew whose rig that was when we woke up that morning," Carlos Abello says of Deepwater Horizon, the infamous rig contracted to work for British Petroleum (BP). "It could have been anyone's. Once we learned whose it was, it didn't change the way we felt; we felt horrible for all involved. As events unfolded, it soon became clear that this would be a game-changing event for the entire industry."
The US government put a moratorium on drilling in the area, threatening a significant impact on the future of the business. Shell had a 40-year legacy of drilling wells in the Gulf of Mexico, accounting for 55 percent of the company's oil and gas production in the United States. Now, federal approval would be required for any drilling to return to the Gulf, but this condition spurred an important collaboration between Shell's legal department and Washington. As federal regulations were coming out piecemeal, Abello and his colleagues provided formal comments. "It forced us to take a step back and explain in detail how Shell would continue to drill safely," says Abello.
The ripple effects from the BP oil spill permanently changed the way Shell would approach activities in Alaska, Brazil, and the North Sea. "After about 11 months of engaging with local stakeholders, the Department of the Interior, and members of our industry," says Abello, "we were the first company to get back to work. We've learned from it, and it's made us a safer, stronger company."
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With a natural gas renaissance occurring in America, there has never been greater demand for Shell's liquefied natural gas (LNG) technology. For the last 50 years, Shell has been transporting chilled natural gas both in the United States and overseas. Condensing the fuel for transport, heating it upon arrival, and piping it to customers has allowed Shell to power even remote areas with this cleaner, cheaper alternative to petroleum. From the legal office, Abello is managing and developing initiatives to explore and deliver natural gas in new regions.
"The discovery of shale has led to increased national security, a spike in exports, and job creation growth," says Abello. "Shell is involved in each part of the chain." There are currently seven Shell LNG operations that are either active or under construction. Nigeria holds particular promise as the fastest-growing LNG project in the world and one of the largest LNG suppliers in the Atlantic market.
In the future, Abello says LNG has the potential to replace traditional fuels such as diesel. "A lot of our efforts now," he says, "are focused on figuring out how to make natural gas commercially viable as a transportation fuel." More and more companies are now using it to power their rigs onshore. With the economic and environmental benefits already in place, infrastructure and demand need only catch up with Shell's capabilities.
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For Shell, Alaskan oil and gas represents a potentially enormous resource. The company has been committed to developing the Arctic region since 2007. Now, many of the new standards that applied in the Gulf also apply to Alaska, making it more challenging to drill in a timely fashion.
"What makes Alaska unique from an operational perspective," says Abello, "is the limited time frame to drill." From July to September, when ice is scarce, extractors like Shell are challenged to mobilize an enormous fleet of up to 25 support vessels to a remote locale. It is a vastly different operation than in the Gulf where a permanent industry is nearby. Logistics, he says, are key. With increased nongovernmental organization (NGO) scrutiny and federal regulation, drilling has provided another opportunity for Abello and his team to collaborate to keep Shell operational in stringent conditions.
"We view the federal government<|fim_middle|> encourage safe pathways to opportunity through sports, Abello coaches a baseball team. "I'll be at a meeting, and my colleagues will ask, 'don't you have a game to get to?'" says Abello of his peers, who know his coaching schedule. "Even some of my clients will come and watch the games. That type of culture makes Shell unique."
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On a global level, Shell's 700 lawyers worldwide are a group that gives back. The pro bono team in America works on wills and general representation issues in their communities for people who may not be able to afford such services. And many participate in local school playground rebuilding and home painting. But on a personal level, Carlos Abello finds in Shell an unequivocal advocate for his dedication to the Hispanic youth in Houston.
Serving on the board of Spring Spirit, a Christian youth program designed to | 166 |
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, Chicago, 8 November 1999, lot 494.
Private collection, New York (<|fim_middle|> as Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, André Derain, Albert Marquet and others who inspired the young Jean Dufy, particularly Matisse and his extraordinary use of light.
He took a job as a secretary on the ocean liner "La Savoie", crossing the ocean to New York City for nearly two years. After he completed his military service between 1910 and 1911, he settled in Paris in 1912. At this stage he painted mainly flowers in watercolour, and before long Berthe Weill showed his first watercolours in her gallery.
Shortly after the outbreak of World War I Dufy was drafted, but it did not stop him from drawing and painting on a smaller scale. On his return from the war he worked with his older brother Raoul in Paris, using his talent as a colourist on fabric designs for the famous Bianchini-Férier and the same time embarked on decorating porcelain for Théodore Haviland in Limoges, an occupation that lasted for the next thirty years.
In 1920 Jean settled in Montmartre, into an artistic community, next door to Georges Braque, who he had met previously in Le Havre. Jean Dufy recalled how much the effects of light intensified the objects he painted. Fireworks of colour and light established his future as a visual artist.
Jean Dufy was one of many artists who chose Paris and its monuments as a subject of his art, painting an impressive collection of extraordinary views in watercolour and oil over a period of thirty-five years. At the same time he visited many European countries, drawing his subject from famous views of major cities.
Because of his work connection with Haviland in Limoges he painted many lyrical canvases of the countryside in the Limousin region, moved to Preuilly-sur-Claise in Touraine, and in 1948 he bought a house in a village near the town of Boussay, where he lived until his death in 1964. | acquired at the above sale); sale, Christie's, New York, 29 September 2004, lot 79.
This painting is sold with a photo-certificate of authenticity from the Jacques Bailly Galerie, Paris. Certificate number 3737.
Jean Dufy was born into a large family, the seventh of eleven children. He spent his childhood in Le Havre and it was here that he and his brothers and sister were fortunate to be influenced by their father's passion for music, a theme that was to become prominent in his work.
After completing school, his father, an accountant in a metallurgic company, placed Jean in an import company, holding the position of "commis de dehors", a clerk. That gave him the opportunity to spend most of his time in the exhilarating atmosphere of the harbour, memorising all these sensations in his sketchbook, filling page by page with drawings of ships in all sizes loading and offloading merchandise from far away countries.
Raoul Dufy, Georges Braque and Othon Friesz, assisted by the Parisian art dealer Georges Aubry, organised an exhibition in 1906 at the Town Hall in Le Havre to encourage the people of the city to appreciate Modern Art. It was this exhibition that included masterpieces by leading artists such | 276 |
In Storms of My Grandchildren, Dr. James Hansen-the nation's leading scientist on climate issues-speaks out for the first time with the full truth about global warming: The planet is hurtling even more rapidly than previously acknowledged to a climatic point of no return. Although the threat of human-caused climate change is now widely recognized, politicians have failed to connect policy with the science, responding instead with ineffectual remedies dictated by<|fim_middle|> shows why President Obama's solution, cap-and-trade, which Al Gore has signed on to, won't work; why we must phase out all coal, and why 350 ppm of carbon dioxide is a goal we must achieve if our children and grandchildren are to avoid global meltdown and the storms of the book's title. This urgent manifesto bucks conventional wisdom (including the Kyoto Protocol) and is sure to stir controversy, but Hansen-whose climate predictions have come to pass again and again, beginning in the 1980s when he first warned Congress about global warming-is the single most credible voice on the subject worldwide. Hansen paints a devastating but all-too-realistic picture of what will happen in the near future, mere years and decades from now, if we follow the course we're on. But he is also an optimist, showing that there is still time to do what we need to save the planet. Urgent, strong action is needed, and this book, released to coincide with the Copenhagen Conference in December 2009, will be key in setting the agenda going forward to create a groundswell, a tipping point, to save humanity-and our grandchildren-from a dire fate more imminent than we had supposed.
Storms of My Grandchildren ePub (Adobe DRM) can be read on any device that can open ePub (Adobe DRM) files. | special interests. Hansen | 4 |
Two teenage girls discover that mermaids really do exist after a violent storm washes one ashore. The mermaid, a sassy creature named Aquamarine, is determined to prove to her father that real love exists, and enlists the girls' help in winning the heart of a handsome lifeguard.
A teen movie star attempts to overcome her addition to alcohol and salvage what's left of her career<|fim_middle|> who offers just the kind of unconditional support that the young girl needs to get her life – and career – back on track. | after passing out on the red carpet at her big Hollywood premiere and being sent to recover with her upbeat aunt in Indiana. Morgan Carter (Jo Jo) is only seventeen years old, but she's already on top of the world. But so much fame so early in life can yield unpredictable consequences, and when Morgan is sent to the hospital with alcohol poisoning, it's clear that she isn't ready to deal with the pressures of stardom. Whisked away to rehab as the paparazzi clamors for a picture and the press predicts her downfall, Morgan is sent by her mother and concerned manager to Indiana, far away from the temptations of Hollywood. Once there, the troubled starlet reluctantly starts to reconnect with her quirky Aunt Trudy (Valerie Bertinelli), | 157 |
The day started off with a long drive to the rural area of Bwindi, Uganda. Huge mountain ranges surround the setting. We started<|fim_middle|> hand, the immense impact one small and rural health center can have on an entire community. | with a tour of the Bwindi Community Hospital. From the pediatric center to the operation room, we learned the distinctions and disparities between the hospitals and health care in the United States, and here in rural Uganda. I found it to be remarkable how well the doctors and midwives functioned with limited technology and equipment. However, we were also informed of the many complications that do occur in these rural health centers. Many of these complications rarely arise and are easily treatable in the United States and other developed countries.
One specific aspect of the hospital that I found to be extraordinary was that no matter the distance a patient travels to reach the hospital, they are always welcomed. No patient is ever turned away and all are given equal and quality care. Also, Bwindi Community Hospital is not only accessible for those living in the town of Bwindi, but those living in the surrounding towns and villages as well. I was truly amazed to see, first | 191 |
UA pharmacy research shows prescribers miss potentially dangerous drug pairs
Published: Monday, July 13, 2009 - 14:44 in Health & Medicine
Research led by The University of Arizona College of Pharmacy has found that medication<|fim_middle|> drug pairs, more than one-third of the respondents answered that they were "not sure," and two of these drug pairs were contraindicated.
"The study found a very low rate of recognition of these particular interactions," says Malone, "and some of these interactions are very common."
Use of several of the contraindicated drug pairs could be dangerous. For example, taking sildenafil (Viagra®) and nitrates, such as isosorbide mononitrate, can be life-threatening.
According to Malone, the research indicates that health professional programs are not doing enough to teach students about potential drug-drug interactions. Consequently, patients should be sure to tell their pharmacist of all the medications they are taking.
Source: University of Arizona, College of Pharmacy
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university of arizona college of pharmacy | prescribers correctly identified fewer than half of drug pairs with potentially dangerous drug-drug interactions. These findings raise concern because of the high number of drugs Americans take: an average of 2.3 medications is prescribed during each physician office visit.
A synopsis of the research was published in May Research Activities (http://www.ahrq.gov/research/may09/0509RA4.htm), a digest of research findings intended to contribute to the national policymaking process.
The researchers, led by Daniel Malone, PhD, professor at the UA College of Pharmacy, mailed a questionnaire to 12,500 U.S. prescribers who were selected based on a history of prescribing drugs associated with known potential for drug-drug interaction. Prescribers were primarily physicians, physicians' assistants and nurse practitioners.
Recipients were asked to classify 14 drug pairs as "contraindicated," "may be used together but with monitoring" or "no interaction." Respondents could also state that they were "not sure."
For the drug pairs, one commonly prescribed medication was matched with another commonly prescribed medication.
The 950 respondents classified 42.7 percent of all drug combinations correctly.
Of the 14 drug pairs presented, four of them were contraindicated, meaning they should not be used together. A majority of prescribers correctly identified only one of the four pairs as contraindicated.
Moreover, for half of the 14 | 302 |
I wish for a life of freedom, equal opportunity, and shared responsibility for the earth we live on. I really believe that in essence this is what many of us are looking for. Why this is not a reality yet, is because we get stuck in matters that don't matter. I simplify to uncover the essence of our being and the (inter)action that follows. If we get to the essence we create space for our potential, which makes us more effective and efficient in reaching our goals and creating a better world. I believe this is valid for individuals, groups and organisations.
I start with curiosity, interest, fascination. Truly listening is like receiving gifts: the gift of someone's trust, thoughts and experience and respect. Be appreciative. My desire to make things better kicks in. An inner knowing that the answer is 'out there' makes me persevere in working towards the objective. This motivates me to fill the gaps, seek the detail, build bridges and connect the dots. To make the bigger picture emerge, keep focus on the essence and stay sensitive to my surroundings.
I have the courage to tread the unknown, do things I'm not familiar with and I'm also humble enough to retreat to make way for people that are better suited for the job (yes please!). I<|fim_middle|> 2) involves product-, business- or organisational development (key word is development); 3) is a great international opportunity; 4) involves developing and sharing entrepreneurial and leadership skills within organisations.
If my why, how and what matches with your outlook on life, I invite you to get in touch. | don't believe in competition but in co-creation. This doesn't mean I'm not selective with whom I work, I am. I use my imagination to envision possibilities and my creativity to build on solutions. I always try and sometimes fail and try again. Everyday's an experiment, go figure! My awareness that great things are only accomplished by teamwork, makes me look for everyone's strengths. I motivate with inspiration but also by mirroring back people's own potential. I always try to remember that in all situations we are both the teacher and the student.
There are many different paths and many different ways to contribute and have an impact. We all have to find out what our strengths are and what we find the most fun doing! My way is sharing ideas, supporting people working on the same goals and setting up ventures and joint-ventures to make the world I wish for a reality.
I share knowledge online about lifestyle choices that increase my happiness and effectiveness.
I connect like-minded people by organising meetups, workshops and conferences.
I set up ventures and joint-ventures to create a more sustainable and circular economy and help transition the 'old' to the 'new' world.
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The Soviet Briar: poems of Vladislav Khodasevich
June 30, 2016 June 30, 2016 martyn crucefix contemporary American poetry, contemporary British poetry, creative writing, Great War poetry, poetry, Russian poetry, translation, writing Akhmatova, Angel Classics, Boris Pasternak, David Cooke, London Grip, Mandelshtam, Michael Wachtel, Modernism, October Revolution, Peter Daniels, Pushkin, Robert Frost, Symbolism, The Kenyon Review, Tsvetayeva, Vladislav Khodasevich
In the light of recent political events in the UK, it seemed important to be thinking about wider perspectives this week – Europe, Revolutions, the role of poetry. The poems of Vladislav Kodasevich came easily to mind and I have wanted to praise Peter Daniels' translations of them for a while now.
What emerges from Peter Daniels' Vladislav Khodasevich: Selected Poems (Angel Classics, 2013) is a vivid picture of a poet who was, both by temperament and historical circumstance, very much an individual. From a Lithuanian Polish background, coming to creativity at the fag end of Symbolism, witnessing Russia's revolutionary year of 1917, going into permanent exile in 1922, Khodasevich (1886-1939) was perhaps inevitably a writer with little sense of belonging, of sure identity. It's no surprise that he plays with images of doubles, often standing outside himself, then counters such doubts with rather grandiose claims to his poetic vocation.
The consequent difficulty of pigeon-holing him as a poet is one of the reasons why he is less well-known than his more familiar contemporaries – Mandelshtam, Akhmatova, Tsvetayeva and Pasternak. He is also difficult to pin down because he is "a modernist, but with a classical temperament" (Daniels' Preface). In a period when others were tearing up rule books (poetical and political) Khodasevich harks back to the "eight little volumes" of Pushkin's works. Amongst the ruck of Symbolists, Acmeists, Futurists and Cubo-Futurists, Khodasevich's poems mostly retain traditional forms and he proudly declares: "I grafted the classic rose / to the Soviet briar bush" ('Petersburg'). Such formalism presents great challenges for the translator, of course, with Khodasevich flaunting his conservative and poetic concerns – "O may my last expiring groan / be wrapped inside an articulate ode!" – and, like many before and since, he argues such formal frameworks are paradoxically the way to find release. (Carol Rumens has discussed some formal aspects of a Daniels/Khodasevich poem for The Guardian). Curiously, his last ever poem was in praise of the iambic tetrameter, the classic metre of the Russian tradition:
Its nature is mysterious,
where spondee sleeps and paeon sings,
one law is held within it – freedom.
Freedom is the law it brings . . .
Vladislav Khodasevich
If Khodasevich uneasily straddles a variety of poetic strategies, there is a fascinating parallel to this in his views on self and society. The self is at one moment urged to "be a star that breaks away from the night" but in the next is "grunt[ing] to yourself, / looking for spectacles or keys". This "usual self" is preoccupied with tarnished spires, the tops of cars, old iron eaves, and in 'Berlin View' sits shivering and sneezing in a café, surrounded by "plate-glass" reflections of itself. A couple of years later, at what seems a Dantesque 'mid-point' in his life, Khodasevich stares hopelessly into a mirror: "Me, me, me. What a preposterous word! / Can that man there really be me?" This is the Modernist side of the poet, observing from "the gutter", watching a sordid Parisian cabaret, a dismal demi-monde of "tinselled chaos". Yet the poem quoted here – 'The Stars' – goes on to suggest our gaze may sometimes incline upwards, "from the horizon to the stars" and – at least on occasions – we are aware of a "starry universe in glory / and the primordial loveliness".
Khodasevich and Nina Berberova, Sorrento, 1926
This suggests Khodasevich was still enough of a Symbolist to see the poet's role as seeking out such "loveliness", the transcendent within the quotidian (as Michael Wachtel's Introduction defines this key Symbolist intent). This accounts for Khodasevich's repeated images of stars often unseen above us (but still there) and also of the flourishing of seeds in the earth as an image of personal and social growth. The title poem of The Way of the Seed (1920), in rhymed couplets, describes the traditional sower, with seed gleaming golden in his hand, but scattered into "the blackness of the land". There it finds "its moment for dying, and for growth". Latterly, the poem suggests this is also the path of the "soul" as well as "my native country, and her people". This nicely sums up Khodasevich – the progressive conservative, these organic and traditional images of the farmer absorbed into bold ideas of growth and change incorporating both a dying back and re-birth. A similar pattern is reflected in 'Gold' – a coin is placed into the mouth of a corpse, buried, and after many years, in the unearthed skull, the coin is found again, rattling: "the gold will flash in the midst of bones, / a tiny sun, the imprint of my soul".
Peter Daniels at Khodasevich's grave
It is in such longevity, such insightfulness that continues to be true, that Khodasevich finds reasons to celebrate the poetic vocation. Though the names of the dead who fell at the Battle of Khotin (1739) are forgotten, "the Ode upon Khotin" by Lomonosov is still recited. 'Ballad of the Heavy Lyre' opens with Khodasevich in the Soviet-run House of the Arts, surveying his life and finding it "worthless, a quagmire". But eventually verses burst from him till "a galaxy streams at my head" (those stars again) and a heavy lyre is mysteriously thrust into his hands and, in the final line, he understands this is the lyre of Orpheus. Written in 1921, this poem foreshadows Khodasevich's departure from the Soviet restrictions in the following year with hopes (one imagines) of further freedoms to be enjoyed.
I was especially interested in the seven substantial blank verse poems Khodasevich wrote in a brief period between 1918-20 (David Cooke's review of the book for London Grip makes the same observation). These in particular bring to mind the modernist-conservatism of Robert Frost (whose two first books were published in 1913 and 1914) and it's astonishing that Khodasevich did not pursue these successful experiments with a less formal verse that seems an ideal vehicle for his quiet observational voice, his sense of the mystery or beauty that lies beneath the ordinary, his observations of a provisional self often encountering an unstable, uncertain world.
'An Episode' appears to record, moment by moment, an out-of-body experience Khodasevich had in 1915 (these blank verse poems are always keen to name times, places, people). At one moment, he sits before a shelf of books, at the next he is gazing at himself as if looking at "a simple, old, old friend". The transitional moments are evoked through the marvellous image of feeling like a "diver, plunging to the deep, [hearing] / the running about on deck and the shouts / of the sailors". '2nd November' describes the aftermath of revolution – again the precision of street names, people's responses as they emerge into the smashed and bullet-scarred streets makes this read as a very contemporary poem indeed. The narrator watches a neighbour, a joiner, building a coffin and painting it: "under the brush / the boards were turning crimson". But the golden seed in black earth comes to mind again as a child is observed – a "four-year-old, chubby, in a flap-eared hat" – who manages a smile as if listening to Moscow's "beating heart, / the moving fluids, growth" though for the narrator even Pushkin's beloved works, on this occasion, fail to alleviate the shock of political change.
The unresolved tensions Khodasevich manages to hold together in these blank verse poems create a very modern impression. Another child appears in 'Midday', the narrator sitting in the most ordinary street scene, recalling a visit to Venice, fleeting glimpses of those "incandescent stars" once more. 'An Encounter' drops the star images for a more conventional image of beauty or inspiration, a "lovely English girl" glimpsed in Venice with its "black gondolas, / the fleeting shadows of pigeons, and the red / flow of the wine". The extraordinary poem 'The Monkey' replaces the stars and the girl with the bizarre image of a tame monkey in a "red skirt", led on a chain by an itinerant Serbian man (a much inferior translation of this poem by Alex Cigale can by read in The Kenyon Review). After a drink of water from a bowl, the monkey offers "her black and calloused hand" with such "nobility". It's the realism of the setting – the heat, the cock crow, the dusty lilacs – that enables Khodasevich to anthropomorphise the animal to such an extent and get away with it. It becomes another epiphanic moment in which the transcendent emerges from the quotidian. Here, a great chain of brotherhood seems implied and this makes the final line all the more devastating: "That was the day of the declaration of war".
The two most Frost-like of these blank verse poems describe respectively a derelict house and a couple of neighbours chopping wood. 'The House' leads to reflections on transience, whether for a "palace" or a "shack", the sudden advent of "war, plague, famine, or civil turmoil". Such contrasts are again viewed from an Olympian height, an aloofness which has more negative capability about it than unfeeling Modernist cynicism. An old woman appears, scraping a living, and rather than pass judgement on her or her fate, the narrator joins her in stripping useful materials from the ruined house: "in pleasant harmony / we do some of the work of time". A green moon rises ambiguously over the scene, casting light over a "tumbled" stove. Khodasevich's rich embrace and acceptance are also evident in 'The Music' as two neighbours chop wood. One suddenly claims to hear music but try as he might the other cannot hear it. In 'Mending Wall', Frost's narrator likewise teased his farmer/neighbour and drew from him an old saying: "Good fences make good neighbours". Khodasevich's poem yields only a sense of earthly work well done together, the remoteness of the sky (from which perhaps that music fell), the clouds passing onward as "feathery angels", or perhaps they are really no more than clouds.
England is Finished: Sean O'Brien's 'Hammersmith' reviewed
June 21, 2016 martyn crucefix contemporary American poetry, contemporary British poetry, creative writing, poetry, writing Aeneid, Christopher Marlowe, Cousin Coat, Dr Faustus, Hammersmith, Hercules Press, migration, Personal Identity, Robert Frost, Robert Lowell, Sean O'Brien, Virgil
In the week of the EU Referendum it seemed appropriate to review a beautiful little chapbook by one of the UK's most prominent poets, Sean O'Brien. Appropriate because it is a book exploring both personal and national identity, issues of migration and how new lives are begun in a new country. In particular it is a work always aware of the need for – and the difficulty of – pragmatism, honesty and truth in both personal and political worlds. Whether it is our own or our nation's past or future, the idealism or fundamentalism of the simplistically<|fim_middle|> recent new book, many of the poems about her childhood in Derry: short, focused, honest and managing memorable things within a very narrow linguistic palette.
Anna Robinson's new collection also works within a narrowed range of language choices. She produces strange folk-tale-like poems, which keep rubbing their eyes, not sure whether what they are seeing is contemporary London or some mythic rural past. Mysterious poetry.
I've been dipping again into The Book of Love and Loss, eds., Rosie Bailey and June Hall (Belgrave Press, Bath, 2014), in part because I am reading from it at the end of next month at Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge.
Blake Morrsion's Shingle Street is his first full collection since 1987 and while there are flashes of the poet I once admired (I thought Dark Glasseswas very good) the book is full of rather dull thoughts – nature, ageing – and language that fails to lift off the page.
Up-dated February 2015
Jonathan Edwards' Costa Poetry prize-winning first collection from Seren is as accessible and diverting as the front cover would suggest and any poet inspired to write by the Simpsons is OK with me. Whether the jokes, caricaturing, a rather sit-comy stories survive repeated reading is something I'm still debating.
Rose Auslander's minimalist gems are hewn out of the silences associated with her suffering in the ghetto in Czernowitz (and influenced by her friendship with Paul Celan). I am pleased to be reviewing this refreshed collection from Arc for a future Poetry London alongside Volker Braun'sRubble Flora – see below .
Peter Robinson's most recent Shearsman collection continues his lyric exploration of the profundities to be found just beneath the surface of the everyday.
Mario Petrucci's Crib from Enitharmon extends his experiments under the influence of Black Mountain. Poems sometimes stunning and economical, at others too self-consciously aware of language as an object (blocking the reader's view). There's certainly not much else like this around British poetry at the moment.
Emily Berry's poems don't attend much to Glyn Maxwell's concerns with the tension between black ink and white space (see:https://martyncrucefix.com/2014/08/13/the-art-of-the-line-break/). The poetry is in the connections or lack of them and therefore leans to the surreal, with some palpable hits and other dead passages.
Up-dated January 2015
Patricia McCarthy's chunky Agenda issue on The Great War is full of fascinating original poetry, translations and essays on French, German and Italian war poetry and reconsiderations of Edward Thomas, David Jones and Ivor Gurney among others.
Josh Ekroy has been appearing on prize lists all over the place recently and his debut collection from Nine Arches Press is full of engaged, disturbing poems, capable of dealing with militarism and warfare:
I've been reading George Oppen's work via Louise Gluck's admiration for him; I'm still working on it . . . .
Debra Albery, an American friend who works at Warren Wilson, recommended this book of new poems by Ellen Bryant Voigt, full of the natural scenery of Vermont and fascinatingly eschewing all punctuation (like WS Merwin) to track the little manoeuvring negotiations of mind with world:
Wislawa Szymborska's chatty, deceptively easy-listening poems in this 2010 translation make poetry writing look easy and able to encompass almost any topic:
Nathan Hamilton's big baggy collection of new poetry from Bloodaxe:
Christine Keneally's comprehensive review of contemporary ideas on the evolution of language:
Martha Kapos' powerful new collection from Enitharmon:
Brilliant selected poems from German poet Volker Braun, translated by Karen Leeder and David Constantine (Seagull Books):
Pascale Petit's powerful and strangely lit memorial to her father (Seren):
Choman Hardi: Review of 'Considering the Women'
June 15, 2016 martyn crucefix blogging, contemporary British poetry, creative writing, poetry, UK poetry magazines, writing Bloodaxe Books, Choman hardi, Considering the Women, First World War, Forward Poetry prize, Iraq War, Kurds, Life For Us, Poetry London, Wilfred Owen
In the Recent Reading section of my website I observed that Choman Hardi's "unsparing exploration of the plight and flight of the Iraqi-Kurdish people in the 1980s is poetry of witness of a high order. This is a body of work which is unique and deserves as much notice as we can give it". I also blogged about her second collection, Considering the Women, where I drew comparisons between her poem 'Gas Attack' and Wilfred Owen's well-known anti-war poem 'Dulce Et Decorum Est'. My thoughts were in part a spin-off from a review I was asked to do of the book (alongside collections by Tony Hoagland and Jan Wagner). That review has been published in Poetry London. But Hardi's book has just appeared on the Forward Prize Best Collection Shortlist and the post that now follows is the discussion of the whole book from my original review. The "delicate deliberations" alluded to in the opening line refer to Jan Wagner's work – in which I discussed his explorations of the self, definitions and re-definitions of it, through our honest encounter with the world.
The kind of horrific experiences and seismic changes to human lives that Choman Hardi writes about make some of these more delicate deliberations seem inappropriate luxuries. Hardi does not write much about herself yet the locus of her life is critical to the work. Born in Sulaimani, she lived in Iraqi-Kurdistan and Iran before seeking asylum in the UK in 1993. She has since researched women survivors of Saddam's chemical warfare against the Kurds in the late 1980s and has recently moved back to Sulaimani. Her first book (in English) Life for Us (Bloodaxe, 2004) was remarkable for its evocations of a childhood shattered by war, persecution and exile. Her new collection also contains timely poems about exile, warfare, ethnic cleansing, but goes on to reflect on the pull back to the homeland.
Hardi writes devastatingly about the Iraqi state's genocidal attacks on the Kurds, drawing directly on her research in the central 'Anfal' sequence. 'Gas Attack' offers a mother's account of "a chalky-yellow powder" settling on exposed skin, her own and her son's. The boy dies, groaning "like a calf", the mother still blinded, unable to see him or "say goodbye". Hardi's language is always sufficient to the task – plain, direct, rising to the occasional metaphor, natural enough to suggest a witnessing voice. In 'Dibs Camp, the Women's Prison', another mother who has already lost husband and daughter, holds her son in her arms as he dies suckling on a green slipper because he has asked for a cucumber and "is beyond // knowing the difference". 'The Angry Survivor' introduces a different perspective as yet another mother rails against the intrusion of journalists, officials, activists who want to probe her story, or as she puts it, "pick my wounds".
The position of the researcher is a vexed one openly considered in this collection. The 'Anfal' sequence is begun by the researcher's voice, earnest, naïve and well-meaning. It concludes with 'Researcher's Blues' in which she is now haunted permanently by the women's voices so that "all I can do is / pour with grief which has no beginning and no end". Such hyperbolic language is carefully measured to the devastating subject but the impact of such traumatic events on a non-participant is perhaps better dealt with elsewhere in the collection in more autobiographical pieces. In 'My English Years' the narrator sketches the story of a mixed marriage in decline. One of the points of contention is her research which leaves her feeling "dispossessed". The husband tires of what he sees as her obsession with "victimhood", then he also grows "fed up with me" ('Our Different Worlds').
The irony of a poem like 'Before You Leave' – flinging out imperatives demanding that language, landscape, neighbours, parents must not be forgotten in exile – is that it is precisely these things that are never really abandoned. 'Blackout' records a more ordinary scene, a woman lying on a flat roof on a hot summer night. As the electricity is cut, her husband stumbles around in the dark below in yet another of those "ruptures" that seem to be the condition
[of] life going wrong –
a house disappearing after a bomb,
a loved one not waking up from sleep,
villages being erased from a map
That such occasionally generalized images stand for a universality validated by lived and carefully researched experience means Hardi's readers may lower their critical defences. It's brave and right of her to reflect her own life's travails in these poems as it is always the individual's experience that is trampled by state power and any re-statement of its importance is a political act.
Here There Now Then – A Touch on the Remote
June 6, 2016 martyn crucefix autobiography, Chinese poetry, contemporary British poetry, creative writing, poetry, poetry in performance, translation, writing Bradford-on-Avon, Daodejing, Dawn Gorman, dementia, Enitharmon Books, identity, Laozi, Linda Saunders, loss of memory, Seamus Heaney, Tom Rawling, Words and Ears, Worple Press
There are occasions when events from the past seem to become so fully present in the moment as we live it that it's as if a gulf has been bridged between them. It's a sort of redemption – though the events themselves may need no redeeming. What is salved is the permanent vanishing of the earlier through the intensity of attention accorded it by the later, perhaps especially so if our attention is manifested in language, a poem. There is an aspect here of Seamus Heaney's idea of the redress of poetry which I ought to figure out more clearly.
But I was left with thoughts such as these last week, having read for Dawn Gorman's Words and Ears series of poetry readings in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire. We'd set it up many months ago and I had been looking forward to it especially as this is close to my home town, Trowbridge, and my mother's childhood and adolescence were spent in Bradford. I was also delighted to be reading with Linda Saunders who has just published a new collection with Worple Press, A Touch on the Remote. I'd had a few meetings with Linda many years ago (in the 1980s) when she would go up to Oxford to visit my old friend and mentor, Tom Rawling. There were several workshops at his house, I think, in that peculiarly intense summer sunshine of the past, full of hope and literary expectation. Like much of Rawling's work, the opening sequence of Saunder's new collection is composed of poems concerned with acutely observed landscape – in several cases observed with an almost visionary sense of history . . .
Linda Saunders
My mother was christened Bernice, first child of Graham and Elsie Hale in 1922. Her sister, Gwen, quickly followed. There was no immediate prospect of their leaving the White Hill house which was a one-up, one-down with attic. The two girls had to share the middle room with 'Gran' (as they called Elsie's mother, Rhoda). They walked up White Hill to school at Christ Church. They skipped down to the sweet shop, to the 'bake house', to the centre of town. On Sundays they climbed Coppice Hill to the Methodist church and Sunday School. In good weather, the two girls hooked their arms over the iron railings outside the house with Elsie in the doorway warning them not to stray far. They jumped up and down the high kerb stones, played whips and tops on the steep, quiet street. On wet days, they stared through the front window, across the roofs of the town below to the spire of Holy Trinity. Bernice was badly ill with scarlet fever when she was eight years old and for a long while afterwards was so weakened that she had to be helped everywhere in an old pushchair.
Saunders' own strong sense of history can be seen in 'Washing the Horses' where the narrator watches people who "sleek soap-lather" on their horses' wet hides. A bit later, the horses dry off on the bankside, "bays, pintos, strawberry roans, a shetland / with a foal no taller than an Eohippus. // This has been happening forever". In 'The Bridge at Iford', a couple kneel as if in a ritual act, "like pilgrims" to watch the water flow under the bridge, themselves being watched by statues of "Greco-Roman deities". Then the arrival of a newly-betrothed couple for photographs at the picturesque scene leads to thoughts of the future too – "Live happily. I think to them in passing, / ever after – the wish as ultrasonic as / the pipistrelle's twitter".
The Bridge at Iford Manor
The narrator's image of the pipistrelle bat's piercing signal could serve as one of the key images in Saunders' work. Elsewhere she jokes about the onset of deafness: "Something I say, something she said / flies past us into the wood" ('Hidden Valley'). It's these forms of strained/successful communications across time and across distance (with a son living in the USA) that also provide material for a later sequence of poems: "I see him stepping over the door sill / across a crack of time" ('Into the Blue').
We would squeeze into the Standard 10 to visit my grandparents on Winsley Road, Bradford. It was a dark, terraced house which had an immense front garden with a pleasingly straight path from the front gate to the door in the centre of the facade. This path was lined with planted borders, the earth heaping up from the lower level of the path and there were roses and vegetables elsewhere and I am sure an allotment somewhere. At the back of the house was a tiny yard containing the outdoor toilet, a fascinatingly musty dark cramped garden shed, a sweltering little green house which seemed always full of tomato plants. There was also a raised piece of grass – you could not call it a lawn – where we tried to play football or cricket but the risk of the low walls was really too great. Instead, we often played on that long front path; Corgi cars pushed to and fro as we breathed in the acrid-sweet smell of lush cushions of blooming white alyssum.
Saunders' background is in History of Art as well as literature. You can see this in 'Reserve' where she describes the processes of a painter preparing the ground for an object on the canvas, in this case an apple. The poet is interested in the absence, the vast potentiality before the object appears: "There are moments I sense // the inter-touch of me with everything – / this unselving reach". During the Words and Ears evening, I read a number of poems from my Daodejing versions which also suggest that such an "unselving" might prove a happier and more fulfilling line to take in life. With our own "unselving", the more aware we become of our surroundings, our context in both space and time.
It is Saturday tea – laid out on the living room table. There is a second front room hardly ever used which, if you open the door and peer in, feels chilled, dark, a little musty and formal and a baffling waste of space. We sit round the table and eat sandwiches, perhaps crumpets, malt loaf, Victoria sponge or the pink and yellow check of Battenberg cake which I loathe because of the marzipan covering. Nan or Mum often slice the rounded ribbed milk loaf that I have never seen anywhere else, turning it on its end and slicing horizontally, perilously.
In 'Love Portrait', Saunders describes a window on another canvas as yet "unpainted". She wonders "could this be the light that slips / past time". Because the artist has yet to define it, perhaps this is also the light that communicates between times.
We wore short trousers, of course, and I still can feel the way the thick dark tablecloth with its tasselled edges brushed my thighs making me want to scratch them. Elsie's husband, Graham, was a quiet mild man, always limping because of a shrapnel wound in the leg from the battle of the Somme. He sang in a local choir, had worked all his life at Nestle in Staverton, gardened keenly and seemed a loving husband and father though to us he was a rather remote, taciturn grandfather. Just once he exploded at us for something I have now forgotten – perhaps just making too much noise or not clearing the table of toys or drawing books quickly enough when he wanted to swing the heavy cloth across it in readiness for the meal. Given his generally gentle demeanour, his blazing, brutal anger astonished and appalled us.
The final poem of Saunders collection is 'Stepping Stones'. Another artist, a sculptor this time, makes "foot-shapes of stone": "The child found them one at a time, / spotting the next from where she stood on the last / up to her thighs in seedheads and buttercups. / Where will they go? she asked the sculptor". They lead onwards inevitably into the next moment, then the next – but to live wholly in the present, only in a language composed of present participles, is a form of dementia, a quite different and destructive form of "unselving". Our making sense of things requires our awareness and exploration of the temporal.
Martyn Crucefix – Road Across Europe
June 1, 2016 June 1, 2016 martyn crucefix contemporary British poetry Eugenio Montale
The Stare's Nest
Road across Europe
after Montale's 'Verso Vienna'
The froth and biscuit
of the baroque convent
casts shadow across our glimpse of slow water—
set tables dappled here and there
with leaves and ginger.
A bather surfaces, dripping beneath
a scribble of midges,
asking after our journey—
he talks long of his own out there beyond the border
points to the bridge before us to be crossed—
he goes on—with just a penny toll.
Then with a wave he vanishes,
one with the current . . .
And there in his place,
an outrider bouncing from beside a shed,
a cheery dachshund yapping
sole fraternal sound in this stifling heat.
Martyn Crucefix's original collections include Hurt (Enitharmon, 2010), The Time We Turned (Shearsman, 2014), A Hatfield Mass (Worple Press, 2014). He has translated Rilke's Duino Elegies (Enitharmon, 2006) – shortlisted for the 2007… | pure, clear and incontrovertible is a false god. Worship at such an altar is the old fearful yearning for security in a world that simply is both contingent and mysterious and can only possibly be faced with a sense of compromise, processes of negotiation.
Beside a photograph of his own 1952 birth certificate, Sean O'Brien's foreword to Hammersmith (Hercules Editions, 2016) ponders other people's interest in their family histories. Perhaps our ancestors "underwrite" our lives in a way we cannot do for ourselves – in ways religion might once have done. But O'Brien assures us the two cantos (of what seems to be a longer sequence of poems yet to appear) are more the "work of the imagination" than anything narrowly documentary. He alludes to Robert Lowell's dictum – "why not say what happened?" – only to dismiss it, suggesting Hammersmith aspires more to the condition of a dream or reverie.
If this is teasing, then it continues into the poem. With a neat circuitousness, O'Brien's rhyming alter ego, Ryan, wanders the streets of Hammersmith recalling his parents early days and places (days and places shared with O'Brien's own mother and father), yet his search is an endless deferral, not arriving at any clear goal, a sense of not belonging which (the Foreword has already told us) is precisely O'Brien's experience of London: "I never feel entirely present there". So the irresolvable uncertainty about one's true self is re-evoked here along with a scepticism about how far delving into ancestry can really help with it and this narrative set-up allows O'Brien to pursue the dream-like interweaving of reality and imagination which has become more familiar in his work since The Drowned Book (2007). It goes without saying that this fantasmagoric journey also takes the poet back to that post-war era that so fascinates him: "a place forever on the cusp of realising the welfare state" (from Ben Wilkinson's Guardian review of The Beautiful Librarians).
Mixing the personal, the historical and the political, most of the optimism of that earlier time has gone. Canto 1 opens dismissively: "England is finished". Initially this seems about to be cast as an epic/tragic moment as a rower in the University Boat Race catches a crab and, amidst allusions to the "fields of Hades", is compared to Palinurus, Aeneas' drowned steersman from Virgil's Aeneid Book 6. But within a few lines, the oarsman recovers and the incident ends only in petty recriminations and unsportsmanlike appeals to umpires – more comedy than tragedy, more satire than epic. The narrative voice concludes: "I'm losing my faith in this annual fiction". Like Aintree and Wembley, those great sporting occasions that at least gave the impression of a nation united, a clearer sense of self-identity and "name", the Boat Race too loses its power to inspire a faith in a certain type of Englishness, "a special and definitive order of reality" (Foreword).
Perhaps it's not wholly clear if this "order of reality" ever had any real existence and was lost, or whether the narrator lived the delusion of it briefly that was then corrected by his growing understanding of the significance of "class, the major stench of things". And perhaps this is why the poem swings from imagined images of the 1940s and 1950s Hammersmith to the wanderings of Ryan/O'Brien in more contemporary settings (another photo in the chapbook is clearly O'Brien taking a selfie reflected in an underpass mirror). Canto 1 now more securely pursues the past, describing a young woman (the future mother) as nurse, teacher, doing the "pallais glide". Such remembrance is labelled the "trap of elegy" at one moment. Ryan is caught in it and "Nor am I out of it" says another voice (O'Brien?) echoing Mephistophilis in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, that moment when he reveals the omnipresence of Hell.
What develops is a passage of a more documentary type (though no doubt the details are largely imagined) with an Irish ancestor stepping off the train at Euston, finding a room to rent: "Oh loneliness, your name is Hammersmith". But canto 1 ends with an outbreak of irregular rhyming (the poem is written in triplets throughout) which holds together, as if in successful solution, references to Aneurin Bevan and Stafford Cripps, the ill-fated groundnut scheme of the late 1940s, Caliban and Ariel and a (more personal sounding) naïve, nursery-rhyme passage about "the boy with the curly brown hair", who is perhaps the future father-to-be.
Canto 2 opens (having caught the habit of rhyme from the end of the preceding Canto) with another vision of the transience of London life, especially for migrants: "no fixed abode, where is no stay, / Not known at this address, / Or never known, or went away, // Gone where the post eventually goes". This is both the contemporary figure's fruitless search for an ancestral past as well as the post-war migrant's experience where the world the nation fought for "admits / No Blacks and no dogs and no Irish". There are passages here out of Dante, out of Yeats in which spectral figures go dancing through London streets "into Ravenscourt Park" and beyond the District Line. Once again, Ryan/O'Brien re-surfaces with a fierce thirst for Guinness which might "re-enchant / A world that is always and only prose".
The earlier allusion ("where is no stay") to Robert Frost's comment that poetry can act as a "momentary stay against confusion" is repeated again in the context of what looks like suicidal thoughts, a personal as well as political history: "Here there is nowhere. Here is no stay". It turns out the Ryan character has an engagement to read poems to an audience but the tone here is angrily dismissive ("Who gives a fuck?") and heckled abuse from an audience is deemed appropriate somehow, the only thing to make sense "of a dying art". O'Brien's casting doubt on the efficacy – the very purpose – of poetry in the context of an ambitious poetic project like this might seem perverse but is perhaps just another de-stabilising element in the whole where past and present, political idealism and cynicism and failure battle it out across the fluid fields of the poet's observation, memory and imagination (and anyway, if this is the opening of a long poem, this may not be the last word on the subject).
The poet's heart seems most passionately engaged in passages concerning the mother figure, but Canto 2 ends, as did Canto 1, with allusions to the father. Like the son, he too seems to have looked always "for a sign", for meaning in the bewildering flood and flow of the city's life. What seems to be O'Brien's pessimism again re-surfaces: "You will fail / Like your father before you". The failure will be to "name" the waters (this leaves me thinking of Keats' epitaph: one whose name was writ on water). The father's ambition apparently yielded nothing more than a "suitcase – / Poems and politics, no fixed address" and later "Madness lay in wait". Yet the narrative voice offers up the idea of witness, even if this does not lead to reassuring certainty: "You will lower your face to the water, // And through it, and open your eyes." This is reminiscent of O'Brien's poem 'Cousin Coat' with its self-urging to "Be memory, be conscience, will and rage" and to remain "cold and honest", though since those lines were written in 1987 O'Brien's range has continued to widen so that honesty in terms of documentary/historical evidence now also has to face new challenges, new types of honesty with regard to the imagination, in part those in-filling processes of personal memory, the making-up of our own past which many of us hope "underwrites" the people we have become.
What Have I Been Reading: January – March 2016
June 15, 2016 martyn crucefix contemporary American poetry, contemporary British poetry, creative writing, poetry, UK poetry magazines, writing Anvil Press, Bloodaxe Books, Choman hardi, Happenstance Press, Kim Addonizio, Robert Macfarlane, Stephen Payne, Ted Hughes, Tony Hoagland, Tracey Herd, Vasko Popa
Up-dated March 2016
Tony Hoagland's new collection from Bloodaxe introduces me to a poet I want to read more of (having missed him so far). Laugh-out-loud funny in the same breath as touching while being satirical and vividly descriptive of urban USA. Like Billy Collins, you relish the poem – then wonder how he managed to achieve it so apparently effortlessly.
I read with Tracey Herd recently at the StAnza Festival (see this post) and was impressed with the emotional honesty of her writing. This is her first book in almost 15 years and was short-listed for the Forward as well as being a PBS Choice.
In reviewing Choman Hardi's recent Considering the Women for Poetry London, I also went back to re-read her first book, Life for Us (both published by Bloodaxe). Her unsparing exploration of the plight and flight of the Iraqi-Kurdish people in the 1980s is poetry of witness of a high order. This is a body of work which is unique and deserves as much notice as we can give it.
Up-dated January/February 2016
Macfarlane's take on the significance of the loss of rural vocabulary and the danger that we will narrow our human experience as a result makes for powerful reading. Actually I found the word lists a bit dull (which I'm sure I shouldn't as a poet) but perhaps most important of all he directs readers to previously little known writers about landscape like Nan Shepherd, J A Baker and Peter Davidson.
Popa's unpunctuated, economical, elusive poems, many of them drawing on Serbo-Croat myth and legends, can be hard going. There is little sentiment or surface detail to hold on to. But reading them you hear where Ted Hughes found the idioms of Crow. Poems like little hard pebbles giving lessons to the more windy and verbose among us (I include myself of course).
Addonizio can be verbose but what she evokes is a speaking voice, a chatting voice, driven on to revelation after revelation as if across a bar table littered with empties. She is a voice in your ear with all that implies about thrilling intimacy though on occasions I felt 'give me a break'.
Stephen Payne's poems emerge partly from his job as a Professor of Human-Centric Systems. He observes what people do and he wants to discuss it. He's looking for the patterns which present themselves 'beyond chance'. If that sounds a bit cool there is something of that here but the book overall is delicate, always thoughtful and often very moving.
What Have I Been Reading: October – December 2015
June 15, 2016 martyn crucefix Chinese poetry, contemporary American poetry, contemporary British poetry, contemporary French poetry, contemporary German poetry, creative writing, German poetry, poetry, translation, UK poetry magazines, writing Agenda Magazine, Alan Brownjohn, Bertolt Brecht, Daodejing, David Constantine, Dorothy Yamamoto, Emily Grosholz, Hands and Wings, Julian of Norwich, Kate Foley, Katherine Gallagher, Maggie Butt, Penelope Shuttle, Rudolf G Wagner, Stand Magazine, Ted Hughes, Terry Gifford, Wang Bi, Yves Bonnefoy
Up-dated December 2015
Terry Gifford's Cambridge Companion to Ted Hughes is a fantastic summing up of where Hughes' reputation now is, including articles by various hands on Hughes and animals, Plath, myth, feminism (it's complicated) and a clear account of the poet's fascination with Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate.
Julian of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love – a book I've intended to read for decades and though I baulk at much of it still I love her focus on the visions taking place in "an ordinary, household light", her vivid descriptions and tentative, undogmatic prose. She also boldly talks of Christ as our mother: "Who showed you this? Love. What did he show? Love. Why did he show it to you? For love."
Few poets can travel such distances with such ease and brevity as Penelope Shuttle. I saw her read at the recent Second Light Festival in London and picked up her Templar Poetry chapbook, In the Snowy Air. It belies it's rather Xmas-y title by being rather a hymn to London (with occasional snow showers) including the Shard, the Walbrook, the British Library and even Waitrose in Balham.
Hands and Wings: Poems for Freedom for Torture has been edited by Dorothy Yamamoto in support of the Freedom from Torture charity and includes work by Gillian Allnutt, Alison Brackenbury, David Constantine, Carrie Etter, Vicki Feaver, Pippa Little and Susan Wicks.
Up-dated November 2015
With the cold weather coming, Yves Bonnefoy's 1991 Beginning and End of Snow(Bucknell University Press, 2012) is an exquisite read in Emily Grosholz's translation, including an original essay by the poet on 'Snow in French and English'.
I'm convinced Bonnefoy's response to snow is not a million miles distant from the Daoist idea of the uncarved block and Rudolph G Wagner's second magnificent volume on Wang Bi's A Chinese Reading of the Daodejing is full of insights through its literal readings of the 81 chapters. I have been comparing his readings with my own new versions before going to press in the next few weeks.
Bertolt Brecht: Love Poems (Norton, 2015) is the first instalment in David Constantine and Tom Kuhn's project to translate anew Brecht's complete poems. Ranging from the delicate, literary, erotic and plainly pornographic, here's yet more evidence (should we need it) of Brecht's breadth as a poet. The Introduction also reveals that Brecht refused to award any prizes in a poetry competition he was asked to judge – because none of the poems successfully communicated anything of any value to anybody, they were all of no use.
Maggie Butt's new collection is published by The London Magazine and contains work from the period in which she also published the themed books Ally Pally Prison Camp(Oversteps, 2011) and Sancti-Clandestini – Undercover Saints (Ward-Wood, 2012). Though miscellaneous in nature, it is time that dominates this book – historical time in a variety of European locations and personal time in several moving elegies and acts of remembrance.
KG Confidential: a festschrift for Katherine Gallagher is a wonderful tribute to one of the great movers and shakers in poetry (in London and in her native Australia and in translation from the French). These tributes of poems or prose include contributions from Liz Berry, Jane Duran, Kate Foley, Mimi Khalvati and Les Murray.
Up-dated October 2015
Alan Brownjohn's new book is full of excellent poems, several of which (a few decades ago) would have been designated 'secret narratives'. The title poem, 'A Bottle', is a strange noir thriller set in some undefined coastal region, an enigma of messages, relationships, landscape and murder. Always surprising; no let up in vigour and inventiveness.
Kate Foley's 'The Don't Touch Garden' (Arachne Press) is a treatment of adoption to rival Jackie Kay's 'The Adoption Papers'. "Mirror, mirror, on the wall" the old joke says, "I am my mother after all". But which one? Brilliantly focused and carefully sequenced, these poems provide a thrilling and moving account of the processes by which any of us – adopted or not – become who we are.
Agenda's 'Family Histories' issue has poems from Tony Curtis, Claire Crowther, Sean Street, Peter McDonald, Sheenagh Pugh, Maitreyabandhu and Danielle Hope, an interview with Robin Robertson and reviews of Abse, Hugo Williams, Sebastian Barker, Bryce, Liardet, McVety and Eilean Ni Chuilleanain.
The new issue of Stand has tributes to the late John Silkin from John Matthias and Anne Stevenson. I remember seeing Silkin selling Stand in the late 1970s on the campus at Lancaster University. This issue also has new poems from Muldoon, Mort, Valerie Jack, Sam Gardiner and (even) Martyn Crucefix.
What Have I Been Reading: July – September 2015
June 15, 2016 martyn crucefix Chinese poetry, contemporary American poetry, contemporary British poetry, contemporary French poetry, contemporary German poetry, creative writing, German poetry, poetry, translation, writing Alan Murray, Bertolt Brecht, Carolyn Forche, Claire Crowther, Colette Bryce, Daodejing, Don Paterson, John Greening, Lee Harwood, Sheenagh Pugh, sonnet, Tao te Ching, Tim Liardet, Ursula K Le Guin, Yves Bonnefoy
Up-dated September 2015
Don Paterson's 101 Sonnets is certainly a varied selection of the form (it strikes me it would be a good, coherent text for students to study). The editor is never short of an opinion, ranging from the good sense of "Academics, in particular, have talked an awful lot of rubbish on the subject of rhyme" to the much more questionable "the whole point of [a] poem – that it should lodge itself permanently in our brains"
That the novelist Ursula K Le Guin should be a fan and translator of Lao Tzu's 81 ancient poems/chapters known as the Tao Te Ching is perhaps less surprising than the fact that her translation is one of the most enjoyable around (and I've been reading plenty of them in preparation for my version's appearance next Spring).
Two chunky collecteds have been pre-occupying me in the last month or so. Lee Harwood's Collected Poems is – by the nature of his aesthetic perhaps – uneven, but almost every page turns up new ways of writing and reading poetry: an invigorating pleasure.
I have blogged on Bertolt Brecht's Poems 1913-1956 before – in more recent weeks I have been tracking him out of Germany, to Denmark and hence to the USA. Extraordinary how contemporary most of these poems feel, though already 60 plus years old.
John Greening's anthology of poems about music, Accompanied Voices (Boydell & Brewer), is a lovely thing, full of variety, full of poems to be re-acquainted with from Hill, Hughes, Longley and Porter and brand new contemporary work including Stainer, Allnutt, O'Donoghue, Reid, Rumens, Shuttle and Greening's own little gem on John Field (being walked all over by Chopin).
I tweeted a couple of weeks ago that I found Carolyn Forche's second collection, The Country Between Us (HarperPerennial, 1982) in a Highgate secondhand bookshop and having raced through the poems before going away I'm now keen to get back to them for a more reflective read.
Tim Liardet's poem-sequence of self-portraits, The World before Snow (Carcanet) is actually motivated and (to some degree evokes) an illicit trans-Atlantic affair. The poems have the density and intensity of Liardet's previous work with an even greater fertility and fluency of imagination.
On Narrowness, Claire Crowther's third collection from Shearsman is a chewy, twisting, sometimes vertiginous read; that's another way of saying I don't know what's going on half the time. But the poems are confident in themselves and leap boldly from one image to another.
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I find Yves Bonnefoy's writing unfailingly nutritious though sometimes wonder if his ideas are at least as exciting as the classically restrained lexis of his verse. Beverley Bie Brahic's 2013 translation of The Present Hour (2011) has Bonnefoy in sonnet-shaped Wordsworthian mood recalling his childhood, writing enigmatic prose pieces and a thought-provoking (because not always easy to follow) essay, 'In a Piece of Broken Mirror', once again discussing image, dream, reality and language.
Perhaps is Alan Murray's Acumen chapbook from 2013 and it quotes Nietzsche's observation that the word 'I' is the point at which our ignorance begins and several poems do press at the boundaries and mysteries of the self. Murray is a philosopher as well as poet and his colloquial, skilfully turned verse sounds Larkinesque in its precision and equivocations. Great to read poems unafraid of complex ideas.
Sheenagh Pugh's 12th book leaves Cardiff and Wales for the Shetland Islands. Wide skies, rough oceans, bright stars. But I share her obsession with the passage of time and there are some powerful poems here, though I find her historical delvings less enjoyable.
Collette Bryce's ultra-brief outing (from 2014) into her childhood growing up in Derry during the Troubles is an object lesson in how to focus a collection (just 30 poems). She writes plain, rather withdrawn poems, but this seems right for the material which is therefore allowed to speak for itself.
What Have I Been Reading: April – June 2015
June 15, 2016 martyn crucefix contemporary American poetry, contemporary British poetry, contemporary French poetry, contemporary German poetry, contemporary Swedish poetry, creative writing, German poetry, poetry, translation, writing Die Winterreise, Frances Presley, Ian Bostridge, Inger Christensen, Jaqueline Gabbitas, John Fuller, Lee Harwood, Mimi Khalvati, Robert Crawford, Schubert, Shearsman Books, Shearsman Magazine, Sue Boyle, T S Eliot, Ted Hughes, Tomas Transtromer, Wilhelm Muller
Up-dated June 2015
I've taken a while getting through the almost 500 pages of Ian Bostridge's fascinating musical, artistic, poetical, historical, political discussion of Schubert's Winter Journey.Taking Wilhelm Muller's poem sequence Die Winterreise, Schubert re-organised it (otherwise changing little) to produce his own Winterreise and, discussing this process and his own performances of the piece over many years, Bostridge touches on Kant, Goethe, Darwin, Friedrich, Alfred Hitchcock, and Aristotle'sMeteorology among others. The Muller text would make an interesting translation project.
An earlier post about the abecedary form lead several people to ask me whether I'd read Inger Christensen's 1981 sequence alphabet. Well I have now and it is just stunning. Based on the Fibonacci sequence and moving from A to N in alphabetical sequence too, Christensen writes fluid, Whitmanesque passages, laying aside 'either/or' for 'and', page after page of which reminds me of Rilke at his most passionate. This is a brilliant translation too by Susanna Nied. Christensen is a writer I need to explore more.
A few weeks ago I blogged on Lee Harwood's work which I was also discovering for the first time. Since then I have read Selected Poems published by Shearsman; and I have the Collected Poems waiting for the summer holidays too.
Sue Boyle is a poet I have followed since working with her as a tutor for the Poetry School. She has now published, Safe Passage, a first collection with Oversteps Books and I recommend it (though I confess to also being one of the blurbists on the back cover, where I quote one of her most interesting lines: "in seizing the unexpected lies the art").
Updated May 2015
I'm still working through Robert Crawford's magnificent biography of young Eliot up to The Waste Land. An almost day by day account of his youth, school and college days, Paris, Laforgue, Pound and Vivien Haigh-Wood. Particularly good on Eliot's philosophical reading and development which I'm loving.
Mimi Khalvati's The Weather Wheel consists wholly of 16-line poems – stretched sonnets or irregular ghazals – which seem able to encompass almost any mood, topic or subject matter. Particularly impressive is her desire to draw from the most ordinary of events lines which often soar to the complexly emotional and the (frankly) spiritual.
I'm also back re-reading Hughes because it looks like we'll be teaching this from September onwards – surprisingly not something I have done (except one or two isolated poems). I first read many of these poems at Lancaster University in the late 1970s and nowadays many of these early poems read like objects of nature themselves: fixed as in granite, awe-inspiring, part of the mental landscape I have lived in for years.
As my most recent blog recounts, I have been also re-reading Transtromer's work.
Up-dated April 2015
I've been reading two impressive contributions to the growing field of eco-poetics. Frances Presley's halse for hazel is a visually pleasing book from Shearsman (illustrations by Irma Irsara) and the poems encompass geographical, linguistic, political and environmental issues without strain.
Jacqueline Gabbitas' Small Grass gives grass a voice and runs with the idea with charm, cleverness and power: "From where I lie, I see man walking, / his legs sheathed in green, // I strop my edges. Soon, they'll cut through / fabric, the tissue beneath".
I've not always been an enthusiastic reader of John Fuller's work but the recent The Dice Cup is a book of prose poem sequences full of his characteristic erudition, wit and observation.
Lee Harwood is a poet who I've known of for years without really having read him much. I'd had him down as an English Ashbery/O'Hara and maybe I thought I ought to just go straight to the source. But Enitharmon's The Orchid Boat is wonderful; full of fluid, sensuous, intelligent poems that twist and turn and take the reader by surprise. Not as flip as O'Hara, not as self-regarding as Ashbery.
I confess to having a contribution in it but, apart from that, Tony Fraser's new issue of Shearsman (103/4) is full of delightful things from the likes of Zoe Skoulding , James Byrne, Rupert Loydell and Kate Miller, plus translations of Virgil, Ponge and Jansma.
What Have I Been Reading: December 2014 – March 2015
June 15, 2016 martyn crucefix contemporary American poetry, contemporary British poetry, contemporary German poetry, creative writing, poetry, teaching, translation, UK poetry magazines, writing Agenda Magazine, Anna Robinson, Blake Morrison, Colette Bryce, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Emily Berry, George Oppen, Jonathan Edwards, Josh Ekroy, Mario Petrucci, Martha Kapos, Nathan Hamilton, Pascale Petit, Peter Robinson, Rose Auslander, Sylvia Plath, Tennessee Williams, The Book of Love and Loss, Volker Braun, Wislawa Szymborska
Too little poetry-reading time recently has meant I've been thinking a lot about two texts we are using for A level coursework at the moment:
Tennessee Williams' first great success, the autobiographical The Glass Menagerie, seems to strike chords in most modern teenagers and contains one of my favourite quotes: "I know I seem dreamy", Tom says to Jim the Gentleman Caller, "but inside – well, I'm boiling!"
This is being read alongside Sylvia Plath's only completed novel, The Bell Jar. Plath divides students every time – poetry or prose – my one observation is that with repeated teaching the book thins rather than deepens.
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"Kanika, come inside and rest now, you have been out for a long time now," called Mrs. Srivastav from the window.
"Coming Ma" replied Kanika regretfully. She had been playing with two of her friends, Suparna and Anupriya in the garden outside her house. Her friends stayed nearby and all of them went to school together.
They studied in class six. Suparna was a quiet girl with long shapely eyes and she wore her hair in two long plaits which hung behind her. She was the tallest among the friends. Anupriya had short curls and was chubby and chirpy. Kanika was the most talkative of all three and even when at home; she was perpetually on the phone with one of the other two. She was quite skinny, impulsive and wanted nice things to eat all the time.
Every evening her mother saw to it that the three girls had different treats at tea which mostly took place at six thirty in the evening in the little verandah overlooking the ground where they played.
"Oh! Aunty, samosas," chirped Anupriya! I really love them, thanks! They are very tasty Aunty," spoke Suparna, eating one of them. "Baby, pass the chutney to your friends," smiled Milee, the maid who was the cook too. "Oh, Milee! How do you make such lovely samosas? I want to eat them every day!" said Kanika laughingly. "Okay, I'll make them again soon. Now try these Jam biscuits and Walnut cookies too. They are straight from the oven!"
Right then Kanika noticed a small boy of about four or five, wandering in the ground opposite their house. He looked sad, sick and hungry with tattered clothes and it seemed he had been crying too.
She got up to see more clearly while the others looked towards the boy too. Just then the boy collapsed under the big Mango tree exhausted without food or water. Kanika ran towards the boy shouting, "What's happened little boy? Tell me". Anupriya and Suparna followed too with Kanika's mom and Milee right behind.
When they all reached the tree, they saw that the little boy had fainted. Milee ran back towards the house and got water in a glass. "Move away Missy baba, let some air come", said Milee in a calm voice.
She sprinkled some drops of water on the boy's face and he stirred and opened his eyes. He stood up scared, moving away. Sarla, Kanika's mom said "No need to be scared, little boy, we won't hurt you. Come here and tell us what happened."
The boy stared at the group and started crying. Milee went up to him and pulling him close whispered "Hush boy, tell me what has made you cry?" The boy still crying glanced at her still face and held her hand saying nothing. "Are you hungry little one?" asked Milee.
The boy silently nodded his head. "Come on, let's go to the house and give him something to eat," chorused the three friends. On returning to the house, Milee took the little urchin to the tap at the far end of the garden and washed his hands and face, then made him sit under the corner tree and gave him a glass of milk first.
The boy gulped the contents of the glass in one go as if he hadn't had any nourishment since quite a few days. Milee also gave him two samosas and some cookies which he finished in no time. After the boy had eaten, Kanika went up to him and said, "Tell us your name." This time, the boy smiled and said, "My name is Bunty."
After a little coaxing by Sarla, the boy told them that he had come to this town from his village with his parents a few days back. While crossing a busy road one day, he lost his parents in an accident.
He was saved because he had run between the fast-moving traffic to the other side but his parents were not used to so many vehicles on any of the village roads and couldn't escape.
Now he had nowhere to go and nothing to eat. After listening to the boy's tale of woe, Milee burst into tears and clutching little Bunty to her heart, she exclaimed, "You don't have to feel lost anymore dear, because I'm going to look after you." She turned to her employer and wiping her tears, said "Is it ok Mem Saab? At last God has answered my prayers and sent me a son and I'm going to be a mother after so much waiting."
Milee was a widow with no children. It was Kanika who answered for her mother, who was too busy trying to calm down an overexcited Milee. "Sure Milee, you shall have a son from today who will call you mummy". Milee took Bunty in her lap and walked happily towards her little cottage at the back of the house.
Next day, Bunty came to the house and watched Kanika getting read to board the school bus. He was fascinated by her colourful school bag, plastic pink lunch box and green water bottle. He wanted to know what was inside each container and Kanika patiently explained the usage of each object to him.
Kanika's School Bus
Just then, Milee came with a glass of milk for Kanika. She took it and sat at the table, then said, "Mom, isn't Bunty going to have milk too?" "Sure dear, he will. Milee, get another glass of milk for Bunty." "Okay, Mem Saab, thank you". "Arey, what's there to thank me for Milee, milk is a necessity for growing children".
After Kanika had gone to school, her mother was in the kitchen helping Milee cut vegetables for lunch.
Suddenly she looked up from the table where she was sitting and said, "Milee, I was thinking, why don't you send Bunty to the school nearby which has classes till the eighth standard. The fee is nominal, and it has a good atmosphere where Bunty will meet children his age. He will have company, will learn reading and writing and together with getting a good education, he will also learn about friendship and sharing. You can walk him to school after Kanika's bus leaves and fetch him back before lunchtime. Isn't it a superb idea?"
"Oh Mem Saab, is this possible? I'm so happy but there is one condition. I will pay the fees." "Ok, Milee, you can do that. After all he is your son and you are his mother," said her employer laughingly. Milee had tears in her eyes and Bunty was over excited at the prospect of going to school.
"Will I have a bag, bottle, pencil box, and Tiffin too?" He asked Milee with rounded eyes. "You sure will Bunty", chorused both the smiling ladies cutting vegetables with great enthusiasm.
In the evening the happy little boy told the girls that he too will be going to school. Kanika hugged him and both her friends congratulated Bunty. The years went by and Bunty became a strapping lad of nineteen. He had started learning computers as well.
Soon he became a Computer whiz and helped Kanika and her friends from time to time. Milee was thrilled at her son's progress and could not stop talking about him to any and everyone she met. Kanika used to think of him as her brother and always tied rakhi on Bunty's wrist on Raksha Bandhan.
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Rookie quarterback Josh Allen started his red zone session with a poor short throw that fell incomplete, then heated up and finished really strong, including throwing a couple lasers over the middle for touchdowns while working with and against the third team.
Shortly after, the Bills ran an inside / forward jet sweep handoff to LeSean McCoy. Shady ran across the formation from left to right right, behind the line of scrimmage, but in front of Allen who was in shotgun, and took the handoff. A play we haven't seen from the team in the past, giving an idea of the creativity offensive coordinator Brian Daboll is bringing to the unit. Daboll continues to inject a lot of motion and a host of different formations into the offense. | Josh Allen with the third-team. However, as practice went on, all three quarterbacks worked with the starting unit, against the No. 1 defense, for at least a few plays. While all three quarterbacks had good and bad moments, there were more positive than negative results overall.
On the second play, Peterman threw a fade to Benjamin in the back-right corner of the end zone. White had him blanketed, but Benjamin was able to get his hands over his own head and come down with it. As he was falling backward out of bounds, Benjamin clicked both heels inside the pylon for a touchdown. The two players gave each other taps on the helmet as they got up together.
It wasn't just Benjamin. Whether it was Brandon Reilly, Kaelin Clay, or tight ends Charles Clay, Nick O'Leary or Khari Lee, other receivers made plays for touchdowns, as well.
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All You've Ever Wanted to Know About the Empire State Building
By Paige Breisacher
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Humans like to do amazing things just because we can. Things like landing on the moon, inventing the Cronut, and building the tallest building in the world in 14 months at the height of the Great Depression.
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The Empire State Building is one of the most recognizable landmarks in New York City, beloved for its Art Deco style and colorful lights. For 41 years it was the tallest skyscraper in the world. Although its record has long since been broken, the Empire State Building still stands on Fifth Avenue as a testament to the power of human imagination and ingenuity, and hosts millions of visitors each year.
When it Was Built
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The Empire State Building was started on March 17, 1930, and officially opened on May 1, 1931. The idea for the skyscraper came<|fim_middle|> and 23 seconds, and the men's record is held by Paul Crake, who got to the top in 9 minutes and 33 seconds. The 2017 event, held February 1, will be the event's 40th anniversary.
1 of 15 When it Was Built
2 of 15 Building and Construction
3 of 15 How Many People Died?
4 of 15 The Secret History of New York City Landmarks
5 of 15 How Tall is it?
6 of 15 OK, But How Many Stories?
7 of 15 The Observation Deck
8 of 15 The Cost of Construction
9 of 15 Who Owns the Building?
10 of 15 Sustainability Updates
11 of 15 Those Colorful Lights
12 of 15 The Empire State Building in Popular Culture
13 of 15 Its Role in "An Affair to Remember"
14 of 15 Its Role in "Sleepless in Seattle"
15 of 15 How to Take the Stairs | from Alfred E. Smith, former governor of New York, and John J. Raskob, a businessman who had supported Smith in his 1928 run for president. For the design they hired the architectural firm Shreve, Lamb, & Harmon, who based it on one of their previous designs, the Reynolds Building in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
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The construction of the building was completed in record time thanks to an assembly line style building plan. Teams of riveters built the steel framework of the building, with other laborers following right behind to complete the masonry, stonework, plumbing, and electrical work. Then the plasterers, painters, and carpenters would complete the floor as the other teams worked above them. Many of the bottom floors were complete before the steel had even been placed for the higher levels. The steel framework went up at a rate of four and a half floors per week.
How Many People Died?
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Along with the speed of construction came a lot of risk. Amazingly, official records show that only five men died, out of the more than 3,000 who worked on the building. At the time, however, there were rumors that hundreds of men died during construction.
Since the building opened, there have also been a few dozen suicide attempts, most of them successful. Fourteen people also died in an incident on a foggy morning in 1945. A B-25 Mitchell bomber on its way to Newark Airport crashed into the building when the pilot became disoriented in the haze. He, a second pilot, and one passenger, as well as eleven people in the building.
The Secret History of New York City Landmarks
How Tall is it?
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When it was completed, the Empire State Building was the tallest building in the world at 1,250 feet. It surpassed the 1,046-foot-tall Chrysler Building, which had been completed less than a year prior. Soon after the building opened, television and radio broadcasting began from antennas erected on top of the tower, but it wasn't until the early 1950s that the antenna tower was added to the building, bringing the total height to 1,454 feet.
Although it was surpassed by the Griffin Television Tower Oklahoma as the tallest structure in the world in 1954, it remained the tallest skyscraper in the world until the North Tower of the World Trade Center was completed in 1972.
Fun fact: The Empire State Building is so large that it has it's own zip code!
OK, But How Many Stories?
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The Empire State Building has 102 stories, with all floors above the 86th in the towering mast at the top of the building. Most of the floors are taken up by office space, but the 86th and 102nd floors are open to the public as observation decks.
Visitors also pass through exhibits about the history of the building on the 2nd and 80th floors as they wait in line for their elevator ride to the top. Above the enclosed upper observation deck, there is a 103rd story, which includes a narrow open-air deck. It is mostly used for maintenance, and isn't accessible to the public, but celebrities are sometimes allowed up for a photo op.
It's a commonly held belief that the mast was designed to be a mooring mast for dirigibles, and this 103rd floor is where passengers would disembark. This is likely false, although Al Smith, one of the driving forces behind the building, may have genuinely believed it to be possible. The updrafts created by the building, among other things, would have made it an impractical plan even if dirigible flight had taken off in popularity. The real purpose of the mast was more likely to ensure the building's title as the tallest in the world.
The Observation Deck
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The observation decks of the Empire State Building are open every day of the year, from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m. Visitors enter through the expansive lobby, which includes a striking marble depiction of the building, and a ceiling mural that was damaged when the building was modernized in the 1960s, and restored to its original splendor in 2009 after two years of work by artisans and historians.
On the second floor, visitors learn about the building's recent sustainability upgrades and take an elevator up to the 80th floor, where they can learn about the history of the building before taking another short ride up to the open-air observation deck. On a clear day, the views from the observation deck include not just Central Park and the Statue of Liberty, but five states: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. For an extra fee, visitors can take a manually-operated elevator up to the enclosed 102nd floor observatory for an extra-spectacular view.
The Cost of Construction
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At the time, the Empire State Building cost just under $41 million to build, including the cost of buying and demolishing the Waldorf-Astoria hotel that used to sit at the site. In today's dollars, that's more than $673 million. Because of the Great Depression, construction costs ended up being much lower than initially planned.
The Depression also made it hard for the building to find tenants, so it would be two decades before the building was profitable. These days, the building's two largest revenue streams are office space leases and observation deck tickets.
Who Owns the Building?
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When the Empire State Building was built, it was owned by Empire State, Inc., the corporation started by Raskob and Smith to oversee the construction and operation of the building. It has changed hands only a few times over the years, and is currently owned by the Empire State Realty Trust, a publicly traded company formed in 2013 by the then-owners of the building, Peter and Anthony Malkin. Anthony Malkin is still the current Chairman and CEO of the Trust.
Sustainability Updates
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In 2009, the owners of the Empire State Building completed a sustainability retrofit to reduce the energy used by the building and save money. In addition to updating the heating and cooling systems and switching to energy-efficient light bulbs, all 6,514 windows in the building were refurbished.
Each window pane was removed and brought to a refurbishment center inside the building to be updated before being replaced. This literal in-house process meant that there was very little waste, and no need for thousands of new windows to be manufactured. This work was done at a rate of 50-75 windows per day, causing minimal disruption to the building's tenants. The 2nd floor exhibit detailing the process is also available online. In 2011, the building was awarded LEED Gold certification, making it the tallest building in the country to achieve LEED certification.
Those Colorful Lights
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Although easy enough to spot during the day, the iconic tower lights make the Empire State Building really stand out after the sun sets. The first time they lit up in color was in 1976, when new lights were installed so the building could be lit up in red, white, and blue to honor the country's bicentennial.
In 2012 the lights were replaced with computer-driven LEDs, allowing for much more complex lighting schemes that can change in an instant to sixteen million different colors. The lights are changed frequently, and if you're wondering what colors will be lighting the tower tonight, you can check the building's official website or the easy-to-remember whatcoloristheempirestatebuilding.com.
The Empire State Building in Popular Culture
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If a movie or television show takes place in New York City, you can bet there will be a shot that includes the Empire State Building. Although it is often used only in establishing shots, it has also played a starring role—in more than 250 films, according the Empire State Building itself.
In 1933, just two years after the building opened, it featured in the iconic final scene of "King Kong," with Kong clinging to the top of the mooring mast and swiping at the biplanes that successfully shot him down in the end. The 2005 remake of King Kong is set in the 1930s, and features an updated version of the scene. Although the special effects and camera work of the 2005 version are modern, it copies the original quite closely.
Its Role in "An Affair to Remember"
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The 1957 film "An Affair to Remember," starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, is about a couple who fall in love and plan to meet at the top of the Empire State Building in six months, after they have ended their current relationships. The film is a near exact remake of the 1939 film "Love Affair," which was also remade in 1994 with the same name and a modern setting.
Its Role in "Sleepless in Seattle"
Nora Ephron's 1993 film calls back to "An Affair to Remember" multiple times. More than one character makes references to it, and it is the inspiration for the final meeting between the two main characters, which takes place on the 86th floor observation deck. If you've already met your special someone and you're looking for your own romantic moment high above the city, the Empire State Building hosts a contest every year to allow a few couples to get married on the observation deck on Valentine's Day.
How to Take the Stairs
Although most visitors take the elevator to the 86th floor observatory, there is one opportunity every February to take the stairs. The Empire State Building Run-Up is an important event in the sport of tower running, which is exactly what it sounds like—running very fast up a man-made structure. Competitors in the Run-Up climb 1,576 steps, rising more than a thousand feet. The current women's record for the event is held by Andrea Mayr, who made the climb in 11 minutes | 2,193 |
Town leaders and volunteers are looking to raise $2,000 to continue the 12-year traditional senior center holiday dinner.
Moira Munns, Council on Aging director, said the dinner was nearly canceled this year because East School on Oak Street, the senior center's temporary home, isn't suitable for hosting the event.
"We don't have adequate parking, adequate kitchen space or adequate storage," Munns said. "We thought we weren't going to be able to have the dinner. But there was such a response from the community. We have to have it catered, because this facility is not adequate. But it will continue."
The dinner is now scheduled for noon on Dec. 14 at the Elks Club. Normally, businesses and groups donate and cook the food while volunteers serve and clean up afterward.
The dinner started as something the senior center staff did for the seniors. What was at first a dinner for about <|fim_middle|> a little bit bigger," Munns said. "In the last five or six years, it's become a community event that we can no longer do as a gift from the staff to the seniors. It's now a gift from the community to the seniors."
Munns said because the dinner will be catered this year instead of cooked on-site, the costs have risen significantly. Because of the late start organizing the different format, the group needs $2,000 in donations in the next two weeks to feed the 165 people expected to attend.
Munns said spots are still available.
"I would like for it to stay in the same spirit as it has over the last few years," she said. "Everybody gives a little bit, and I would love to see that happen again. It's always been with the same spirit, regardless of how small or how large it's become. It's always been a gift to the seniors." | 20 guests now feeds around 150.
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Summit Stones & Adventure Musings... By DSD
I call these "Summit Stones"..... After gathering these small rocks for many years, while out on adventures, I now splash a bit of paint on them, after 'Mixing In' very special elements with the colors. Then I give these stones back... The musings here are simply about the wonders of adventure and inspiration. It's all about the importance of giving back and passing forward.....
"Profile....."
My 'Profile'...?
After being asked about this a few times in comments, I still am of the opinion that my profile is really not what this Blog is about...
I'm simply another average adventurer you might meet out on the trail, see wandering across the backcountry, maybe say hi to as we paddle towards each other, or share a few jokes at a common belay station...
Now... what seems very important... is what you perceive your 'profile' to be...
As in how you reflect on your own experiences, ponder about what things mean to you, muse again over why you are out in the wilderness and what the natural world has added to your life... Maybe, even consider what part of your 'profile', or the story of your life, might involve giving something back to that natural world of adventure...
If finding a "Summit Stone", discovering an "Adventure Muse", or reading journal entries on an older persons blog, sparks you to ponder your own 'profile' and what role you choose in your adventures, then 'my profile' is of no consequence.....
A Passing Forward Moment.....
I have just deleted what I thought was a rude comment about my approach to remaining anonymous...but it did provide pause for some pondering about those times where I have stepped out from that position...
A few summers ago, I remember...a scramble up WindTower in K-Country. This mountain is only one of many enjoyable climbs and scrambles in that beautiful area. Its views, especially of the Spray Lakes, is inspiring. The route ascends above West Wind Pass, and that day a buddy and I had seen some Prayer Flags along the route rustling in the very early morning breezes. They were set up in some trees and almost continually brushed by the winds that are funneled through the pass. There was a large group of youth who also were heading up WindTower that day. We were ahead quite a ways but could hear them with all their excitement and energy.
My friend and I were wiling away some time near the pass after summiting and as they began their own descent. Most of their group went ahead as did the trip leaders, with three of the youth catching up at the end. At the very end hiked a young man who seemed to be having a very challenging day...
My friend set out at his own pace while I shadowed these three for a while. At a short break, where I caught up, we chatted and they asked about some of the twists and turns in the trail as they weren't too sure of themselves. We decided to pace each other down the rest of the way. Them with their energy; me the slow one at the end, with the young man. He only talked a bit, kept his head down, and just kept going...even though he seemed really tired. He didn't say much about his day when asked. At the trailhead he slowed a little more, then quietly boarded the bus with his group...
I wondered what was going through his young mind at that moment...And moments are all we have... so I impulsively decided to introduce myself to one of their trip leaders. I asked about the young man and how his summit day had gone. Their leader said he had worked very, very hard...even carrying another youth's water...but he had not made the summit of WindTower...
It seemed he was the very last in his group both up and down the mountain and it might have showed on his face as it likely was his first possible summit...
This struck me as one of those opportunities where we all have to seize a tiny moment and pass something along...So I inquired with the leader if he would mind giving the youth something when they were later talking as a group about their day. I took out a Summit Stone and the note with it from my pack and explained briefly what I usually do with them...
"Would you mind passing this on to that young man", I said, and please tell him too that, "I've been climbing over twenty years and I didn't make my first summit either...", and that, "Many times those who work the hardest, are often not among the fastest, or the ones who make the top...".
Then I carried on...
I often wonder what adventure experiences this young man is out challenging himself now with...I remember how hard he worked that day...how stoic and quiet he was about his experience...I hope that he reflects on how we all have our 'own summits'...and also hope that maybe, just maybe, he will look at that Summit Stone from his WindTower day, and then pass something of his own experiences along to someone else he sees on their own journey...
There is always such a moment.....
Summit Stones & The Adventure Muse...
Just posting a note from my other Blog that describes my intentions...
I call these small rocks "Summit Stones". These 'Stones' and the 'Muse' are only usually placed when out on some adventure. I have on occasion sent off a few "Summit Stones" to folks who are doing things who 'give back'.
Over the years, after gathering many of these rocks on coastlines, islands, beaches, summits, trails, and around waterfalls, I decided to splash a bit of paint upon them and give them back. Actually someone said something to me that helped me decide to do so. Putting a bit of paint on them was just my way of expressing ideas around the elements. The "Adventure Muse" was put together with quotes and perspectives discovered on many kinds of journeys as well as to share some thoughts about what the "Summit Stone" elements might mean. The quotes reflect upon the nature of adventure experiences...
I hope folks simply accept these small gifts in the spirit they were made in. I have placed them countless times with a summit register, on a deserted beach, at a trailhead, on a rocky shoreline, or even on another adventurers' car windshield when I've finished a journey and wanted to share some of it, even just anonymously...
This is not some kind of marketing gimmick. The stones are as real as they feel; the words of the Muse are as real as each of us might make them...They are just an offering and people will make of them what they will...
My hope is that the spirit and meaning folks create for themselves out on adventures will be forever present, and maybe they just might give something back of their own to the wilderness that gives each of us so much...
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"TO STRIVE, TO SEEK, TO FIND, AND NOT TO YIELD" Tennyson
My sincere appreciation to our Fellow Adventurers for these inspirational images.....
"To muse: to ponder; reflect upon. In Greek & Roman Mythology, muses were the daughters of zeus; inspirers of effort, music & poetry"
"THE ACID TEST OF A TRUE ADVENTURER, IF PRESENTED WITH CERTAIN ANONYMITY, IS WHETHER EACH OF US WOULD STILL HAVE MADE THE JOURNEY BEYOND THE LAST BLUE MOUNTAIN..." M. Clark
"Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight... it was no more than a glimmer blending with the hem of the sky, but it spoke to them, out of memory, and old tales, of the high and distant mountains" J.Tolkien
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"A LIFE LIST, IS IN THE END, NOTHING MORE THAN A TOOL TO LOOK BACK ON OUR LIVES AND CONSIDER HOW WE SPENT OUR BRIEF MOMENTS ON EARTH. AND WHAT IF, IN THOSE FINAL BREATHS, YOU REALIZE - I NEVER GAVE ANYTHING BACK..." J.B. MACKINNON
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"Adventure does give you a chance to come to terms with yourself. What you find out about yourself just comes as a gift" D.Scott
"You went up that mountain one person, and have come down a very different being" Grandfather, Mountain Elder
"By walking out alone into the wilderness... I can after a while begin to see and to hear and to think and in the end to feel with a new and exciting accuracy" C.Fletcher
"Two voices are there; one is of the sea, one is of the mountains" Wordsworth
"The narrow ribbon between land and ocean is a perfect place to understand the mind of wisdom" Deng Ming-dao
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The Burt Lancaster Tree.
The slender shard on the right is the tree's only attachment to its roots.
There is a grumpy, gnarly old hawthorn (can you tell why I like it?) up in the hedge near the field with the highland cattle. It has stood strong, alone, against the wind (obvious by now why I like it?) all the time that I have been here. Its blossom never comes out as fully as the other trees, due to its exposed position, and it is covered in a lichen that gives it a grisly, hairy look, perhaps not endearing it too much to other onlookers. It is one of my favourite trees here though, perhaps only behind The Sentinel and the swing oak.
But is is now blossoming nonetheless!
Anyhow, a couple of months ago I thought it had finally succumbed to the wind. Walking up in the field after the gales of March I noticed it had blown over and its trunk had split, as per the picture above, only 10% or so still with any attachment to the ground, and its roots. Farewell! I sadly wished it.
Well, it is even hardier<|fim_middle|> gave it a sort of pat – it is not the kind of tree to tolerate a hug anyway!
By the way, did you know that in Serbian and Croatian folklore the stake used to kill a vampire should be made from Hawthorn. Why not in Bosnian and Macedonian folklore too? What do they use? Such a divided region!
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The Norway Historical Society, founded in 1974 and incorporated in 1977, is dedicated to preserving the long history of the town and the many great contributions of its citizens.
The Society's home, located at the corner of Main and Whitman Streets in downtown Norway, is the Mark P. Smith house. Smith was a successful businessman who established a tannery on the street that still carries that name, and a grist mill in the Steep Falls section of town, Built circa 1828 on the corner of Main and Danforth Streets, the house was moved around the corner in the 1950s to face Danforth Street. In 1977, Norway Savings Bank purchased the property in preparation for expansion, and offered the building to the Society. The house was moved to its current location in 1978, where it serves as the Society's museum and meeting facility.
The Society maintains extensive local newspaper records dating from 1850, vital statistic records, and genealogies of many local families, all of which are available to researchers. The museum houses a large collection of items and documents from all eras of Norway's history. If you visit our museum, we are happy to help you locate the information you seek. We appreciate advance notice, if possible.
If you are unable to come to the museum, we will search appropriate records for the information you seek and provide copies to you. There is no charge for the first hour of research; however, requests that take longer than an hour, or lengthy, ongoing requests will be charged a $25/hour fee after the initial hour of research. If you have questions, please send us an email.
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Pinterest is a social networking site that centres around 'pinning' images to pinboards that you create. And these boards can be as random or specific as you want.
Now you might be wondering why I'm talking<|fim_middle|> that I use it very sporatically. Not hooked...yet.
After the Madness Workshop - sign up now! | about Pinterest on a book blog. Well! I think Pinterest can be a great tool for writers and readers. And here's why.
As a writer, we often take inspiration from a number of different things. One of which can be pictures or places. Instead of clogging up your blog or twitter feeds posting pictures of things that inspire you, you can pin them to a board on Pinterest.
For example, I might want to write a story set in Paris. So I make a board dedicated to Paris and while I'm scouring the net for pictures, I can pin them into my Paris Board for a) one place all these pictures are stored and b) somewhere readers interested in knowing what inspired me can go to for these pictures.
You can pin anything with an image. Recipes. Clothes. Furniture. Decoration ideas. Tourist locations. And wherever you find the original picture, the pinned image will take you back to that website.
It's good for promotion too. Others can pin your book cover from your blog, Amazon or Goodreads, driving traffic towards your book. And who doesn't want promotion? You can use it for self promotion too. Posting pictures from your blog so when people click on it, it'll take them right to your site.
Writers can use Pinterest to post pictures of their writing life too! The computer they use to type. Their desk space. Places they go to write. Contracts. ARCs in their boxes. Which links in to readers.
Want to know what a new author is up to? Or your favourite author? If they have Pinterest you can see what motivates them, see images of things mentioned in the books, places, fashion of characters, movie actor choices etc. You can comment on these pictures and get into dialogue with other readers too!
There is so much to do with Pinterest. I think it's a great tool. Not only for writing/reading, but to be social. I've found so many great recipes I want to try! And I've found other books to read on there too.
Any questions about Pinterest? Ask in the comments and I'll try to answer. Also, if you're already on Pinterest, check me out too.
This is so great, I never considered using Pinterest for writing before! My friend got me signed up on it, but I haven't taken the time to look over it much at all!
You guys definitely should! I'm officially hooked haha.
Watch out for their guidelines, especially if you're posting completley random images you don't own (which duh, is probably the whole point). The fine print gets pretty dicey about who holds responsibility for reposting unlicensed images. Also if you own the image and post to pinterest, they now have partnership to sell it. Maybe worth reading!
I should add the licensed part doesn't matter.
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Delivering better care at end of life: The next steps
The next stage of our Choice at the End of Life programme, this report comments on issues raised at a summit on delivering high-quality, end-of-life care.
By Beccy Baird et al - 27 January 2010
Engaging patients in their health: How the NHS needs to change: Report from the Sir Roger Bannister Health Summit, Leeds Castle, 17-18 May 2007
How can we encourage patients to become more engaged in their own health care and what impact will that have on the NHS? This report presents discussions from an expert seminar.
By Anna Dixon - 23 October 2008
Improving Environments for Care at End of Life: Lessons from eight UK pilot | 987 |
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I haven't been impressed with NYC restaurant offerings of late which means apart from date night, I haven't been dining out as frequently. Narcissa is changing that.
I had dinner there a few weeks ago with my dear friend Kara. The meal was fantastic that the first thing I did when I got home was make a reservation to take S for date night.
The vegetable-forward menu was much welcome, but not surprising considering Narcissa's older sister is Dovetail, which serves one of the best vegetarian tasting menus in the city.
I ordered the beets and duck both visits. The rotisserie beets, pictured above, has already been written about. I now hope that the duck (seen in the foreground here) receives similar accolades. I foresee many more meals at Narcissa. If I go back often enough, I might even be tempted to order other things off the menu.
Greetings! Time is flying and it's now March. Yet here we are dressed in thick puffer coats and fleece tights even now as our clocks have been wound forward.
The cold can't keep us indoors even if we tried: Friday date night saw us at All'Onda, | 257 |
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The three-day event's 400 | 159 |
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