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In the December 6 issue of Nature Biotechnology, scientists from 14 different organizations around the world, including the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute, propose a new quality standard for biochemical models. MIRIAM [for Minimum information requested in the annotation of biochemical models] will help researchers to reuse, modify and combine computer models of biochemical processes to gain a fuller understanding of life at the molecular and cellular level.
Biologists are making a concerted effort to catalogue all the molecular components of living things, from the smallest molecules and ions to the genetic code. These 'parts lists' help them to build computer models that simulate living processes. By combining models of simple processes they hope to understand and faithfully represent how entire biological systems – be they cells, organs, organisms or ecological niches – work. As well as contributing to the understanding of biology, this approach has numerous applications: for example, diseases can be simulated, and treatment regimens optimised.
"The computational systems biology community has made enormous progress in improving access to models," explains the EMBL-EBI's Nicolas Le Novère, lead author of the paper. "We've begun to share programming languages for encoding them [e.g. systems biology markup language, www.sbml.org] and to build public repositories so we can share them [e.g. www.ebi.ac.uk/biomodels]. The current challenge is quality control: systems biologists won't use publicly available models if they can't search them properly, of if a model's reuse is hampered by a tiny mistake in the way that it's encoded. MIRIAM is an attempt to address these issues."
MIRIAM has two parts: [1] a set of checks that match a model to its description ['reference correspondence', often a publication in a scientific journal], and [2] a set of 'annotation schemes'. The first of these documents the model's provenance: who created it, whether it's been modified, and a stable link to its full description; the second scheme links the components of the model to relevant bioinformatics resources: for example, a model of alcohol metabolism in the liver would be annotated with links to the protein databases for all the enzymes involved in this pathway, and database links to all the relevant metabolites. The aim of these annotation schemes is to make it easier for researchers to search models on the basis of their components, to contact the creators of the model if they need more information, and to track the history of a model if it has been modified.
MIRIAM's creators include representatives of four major repositories for models [BioModels Database, CellML Model Repository, DOQCS and SigPath], all of which are now in the process of making the models in their repositories MIRIAM compliant. "By adopting MIRIAM as a voluntary code of conduct, we will be able to provide our users with a reasonable level of quality assurance, so they'll be able to get on with the business of generating and testing new hypotheses instead of recoding someone else's old hypothesis," continues Le Novère. "We also hope that journal editors will adopt MIRIAM as a quality control measure for papers that describe models. This approach has worked very well for other fields – for example the microarray community, by enabling authors, publishers and data providers to work together to improve access to meaningful biological information."
Minimum information requested in the annotation of biochemical models [MIRIAM] N. Le Novère et al. Nat. Biotechnol., 6 December 2005
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Title: Trackball
Subject: Mouse (computing), Nexus One, Tehkan World Cup, Input device, Pointing device
Collection: Computing Input Devices, History of Human–computer Interaction, Pointing Devices, Video Game Controllers
The original version of the Kensington Expert Mouse can use a standard American pool ball as a trackball
A trackball is a pointing device consisting of a ball held by a socket containing sensors to detect a rotation of the ball about two axes—like an upside-down mouse with an exposed protruding ball. The user rolls the ball with the thumb, fingers, or the palm of the hand to move a pointer.
Compared with a mouse, a trackball has no limits on effective travel; at times, a mouse can reach an edge of its working area while the operator still wishes to move the screen pointer farther. With a trackball, the operator just continues rolling, whereas a mouse would have to be lifted and re-positioned. Some trackballs, such as Logitech's optical-pickoff types, have notably low friction, as well as being dense (glass), so they can be spun to make them coast. The trackball's buttons may be situated to that of a mouse or to a unique style that suits the user.
Large trackballs are common on CAD workstations for easy precision. Before the advent of the touchpad, small trackballs were common on portable computers, where there may be no desk space on which to run a mouse. Some small thumbballs clip onto the side of the keyboard and have integral buttons with the same function as mouse buttons.
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The trackball was invented as part of a post-World War II-era radar plotting system named Comprehensive Display System (CDS) by Ralph Benjamin when working for the British Royal Navy Scientific Service.[1][2] Benjamin's project used analog computers to calculate the future position of target aircraft based on several initial input points provided by a user with a joystick. Benjamin felt that a more elegant input device was needed and invented a ball tracker[2][1] system called the roller ball[1] for this purpose in 1946.[2][1] The device was patented in 1947,[1] but only a prototype using a metal ball rolling on two rubber-coated wheels was ever built[2] and the device was kept as a military secret.[2]
The trackball was first built by Tom Cranston, Fred Longstaff and Kenyon Taylor as part of the Royal Canadian Navy's DATAR system in 1952[3] DATAR was similar in concept to Benjamin's display, but used a digital computer to calculate tracks, and sent the resulting data to other ships in a task force using pulse-code modulation radio signals. This trackball used a Canadian five-pin bowling ball.
The trackball developed by Tom Cranston, Fred Longstaff and Kenyon Taylor working on the Royal Canadian Navy's DATAR project in 1952. It used a standard Canadian five-pin bowling ball. The "chopper wheels" are visible, in black.
DATAR's trackball used four disks to pick up motion, two each for the X and Y directions. Several rollers provided mechanical support. When the ball was rolled, the pickup discs spun and contacts on their outer rim made periodic contact with wires, producing pulses of output with each movement of the ball. By counting the pulses, the physical movement of the ball could be determined.
Since 1966, the American company Orbit Instrument Corporation produced a device named X-Y Ball Tracker, a trackball, which was embedded into radar flight control desks.[4][5]
A similar trackball device at the German Bundesanstalt für Flugsicherung (de) was constructed by a team around Rainer Mallebrein of Telefunken Konstanz as part of the development for the Telefunken computer infrastructure around the main frame TR 440 (de), process computer TR 86 and video terminal SIG 100-86,[6] which began in 1965.[4] This trackball was called Rollkugel (German for "rolling ball"). Somewhat later, the idea of "reversing" this device led to the introduction of the first computer ball mouse (still named Rollkugel, model RKS 100-86), which was offered as an alternative input device to light pens and trackballs for Telefunken's computer systems since 1968.[4][7]
In later trackball models the electrical contacts were replaced by a "chopper wheel" which had small slots cut into it in the same locations as the contacts. An LED shone light through the slots to an optical sensor, As the disk rotated the slots alternately lined up and then blocked the light from the LED, causing pulses to be produced in the sensor. The operation was otherwise similar.
Mice used the same basic system for determining motion, but had the problem that the ball was in contact with the desk or mousepad. In order to<|fim_middle|>operating system), CyanogenMod, Qualcomm
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Usb, Mouse (computing), Graphics tablet, Apple Inc., Wii | provide smooth motion the balls were often covered with an anti-slip surface treatment, which was, by design, sticky. Rolling the mouse tended to pick up any dirt and drag it into the system where it would clog the chopper wheels, demanding cleanup. In contrast the trackball is in contact only with the user's hand, which tends to be cleaner.
The late 1990s replacement of mouseballs by direct optical tracking put trackballs at a disadvantage and forced them to retreat into niches where their distinctive merits remained more important. Most trackballs now have direct optical tracking which follows dots on the ball.
As with modern mice, most trackballs now have an auxiliary device primarily intended for scrolling. Some have a scroll wheel like most mice, but the most common type is a "scroll ring" which is spun around the ball. Kensington's SlimBlade Trackball similarly tracks the ball itself in three dimensions for scrolling.
As of 2013 two major companies produce consumer trackballs, Logitech and Kensington, although Logitech has narrowed its product line to two models. Other smaller companies occasionally offer a trackball in their product line. Microsoft was a major producer, including a product for kids called EasyBall, but has since discontinued all of its products. The Microsoft Trackball Explorer continues to be popular.
Logitech Wireless Trackman
An Apple Pippin Gamepad with a trackball
Large trackballs are sometimes seen on computerized special-purpose workstations, such as the radar consoles in an air-traffic control room or sonar equipment on a ship or submarine. Modern installations of such equipment may use mice instead, since most people now already know how to use one. However, military mobile anti-aircraft radars and submarine sonars tend to continue using trackballs, since they can be made more durable and more fit for fast emergency use. Large and well made ones allow easier high precision work, for which reason they may still be used in these applications (where they are often called "tracker balls") and in computer-aided design.
Trackballs have appeared in computer and video games, particularly early arcade games (see a List of trackball arcade games) notably Atari's Centipede and Missile Command – though Atari spelled it "trak-ball". Football, by Atari, released in 1978, is commonly misunderstood to be the first arcade game to use a trackball, but in The Ultimate History of Video Games by Steven L. Kent the designer of Football, Dave Stubben, claims they copied the design from a Japanese soccer game by Taito. Console trackballs, now fairly rare, were common in the early 1980s: the Atari 2600 and 5200 consoles, as well as the competing ColecoVision console, though using a joystick as their standard controller, each had one as an optional peripheral. The Apple Pippin, a console introduced in 1995 had a trackball built into its gamepad as standard. Trackballs were occasionally used in e-sports prior to the mainstreaming of optical mice in the early 2000s because they were more reliable than ball mice, but now they are extremely rare because optical mice offer superior speed and precision. A trackball requires no mousepad and enables the player to aim swiftly (in first person shooters). Trackballs remain in use in pub golf machines (such as Golden Tee) to simulate swinging the club.
Computer gamers have been able to successfully use trackballs in most modern computer games, including FPS, RPG, and RTS genres, with any slight loss of speed compensated for with an increase in precision. Many trackball gamers are competent at "throwing" their cursor rapidly across the screen, by spinning the trackball, enabling (with practice) much faster motion than can be achieved with a ball-less mouse and arm motion . However, many gamers are deterred by the time it takes to 'get used to' the different style of hand control that a trackball requires. Trackballs have also been regarded as excellent complements to analog joysticks, as pioneered by the Assassin 3D 1996 trackball with joystick pass-through capability. This combination provides for two-hand aiming and a high accuracy and consistency replacement for the traditional mouse and keyboard combo generally used on first-person shooter games. Many such games natively support joysticks and analog player movement, like Valve's Half-Life and id Software's Quake series.
Trackballs are provided as the pointing device in some public internet access terminals. Unlike a mouse, a trackball can easily be built into a console, and cannot be ripped away or easily vandalised. Two examples are the Internet browsing consoles provided in some UK McDonald's outlets, and the BT Broadband Internet public phone boxes. This simplicity and ruggedness also makes them ideal for use in industrial computers.
Because trackballs for personal computers are stationary, they may require less space for operation than a mouse, and may simplify use in confined or cluttered areas such as a small desk or a rack-mounted terminal. They are generally preferred in laboratory setting for the same reason.
An advantage of the trackball is that it takes less space to move than mouse. A trackball was often included in laptop computers, but since the late 1990s these have switched to track pads. Track balls can still be used as separate input devices with standard desktop computers.
Logitech TrackMan
People with a mobility impairment use trackballs as an assistive technology input device. Access to an alternative pointing device has become even more important for them with the dominance of graphically-oriented operating systems. There are many alternative systems to be considered. The control surface of a trackball is easier to manipulate and the buttons can be activated without affecting the pointer position.[8]
Trackball users also often state that they are not limited to using the device on a flat desk surface. Trackballs can be used whilst browsing a laptop in bed, or wirelessly from an armchair to a PC playing a movie. They are also useful for computing on boats or other unstable platforms where a rolling deck could produce undesirable input.
Trackballs are generally either thumb-operated, with a ball about an inch in diameter or smaller moved by one digit (almost always the thumb) and the buttons clicked by others, or finger-operated, with a ball over two inches in diameter operated by the middle fingers and the buttons by the thumb and little finger. Users favour one format or another for reasons of comfort, mobility, precision, or because it reduces strain on one part of the hand/wrist. Most, but not all,[9] finger-operated designs are symmetrical in design, making them usable by both hands, while thumb-operated designs are by their nature asymmetric or "handed," allowing the smallest examples to be held in the air. Thumb-operated trackballs are not generally available in left-handed configurations, due to small demand.
Some computer users prefer a trackball over the more common mouse for ergonomic reasons. There seems to be no conclusive evidence from studies performed to determine which type of pointing device works best for most applications. Application users are encouraged to test different devices, and to maintain proper posture and scheduled breaks for comfort. Some disabled users find trackballs easier since they only have to move their thumb relative to their hand, instead of moving the whole hand, while others incur unacceptable fatigue of the thumb. Elderly people sometimes have difficulty holding a mouse still while double-clicking; the trackball allows them to let go of the ball while using the button.
At times when a user is browsing menus or websites rather than typing, it is also possible to hold a trackball in the right hand like a television remote control, operating the ball with the right thumb and pressing the buttons with the left thumb, thus giving the fingers a rest.[10]
Some mobile phones have trackballs, including those in the BlackBerry range, the T-Mobile Sidekick 3, and many early HTC smartphones. These miniature trackballs are made to fit within the thickness of a mobile device, and are controlled by the tip of a finger or thumb.
On mice
In lieu of a scroll wheel, some mice include a tiny trackball sometimes called a scroll ball. A popular example is Apple's Mighty Mouse.
^ a b c d e Hill, Peter C. J. (2005-09-16). "RALPH BENJAMIN: An Interview Conducted by Peter C. J. Hill" (Interview). Interview #465. IEEE History Center, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. Retrieved 2013-07-18.
^ a b c d e Copping, Jasper (2013-07-11). "'"Briton: 'I invented the computer mouse 20 years before the Americans.
^ Vardalas, John (1994). "From DATAR To The FP-6000 Computer: Technological Change In A Canadian Industrial Context". IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. No. 2. Vol. 16. IEEE. Retrieved 2007-10-15.
^ a b c "Auf den Spuren der deutschen Computermaus" [In the footsteps of the German computer mouse] (in German). Heise Verlag. 2009-04-28. Retrieved 2013-01-07.
^ "ORBIT X-Y Ball Tracker". oldmouse.com. Retrieved 2013-08-03.
^ "SIG-100 video terminal and mouse".
^ "'"Telefunken's 'Rollkugel. oldmouse.com.
^ Dennis van der Heijden (2006-03-15). "Alternative Pointing Systems for Mobility Impaired People". Axistive.
^ For example, the Logitech Cordless Optical Trackman is finger-operated but asymmetric.
^ Center for Disease Control web page about computer ergonomics
This article is based on material taken from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing prior to 1 November 2008 and incorporated under the "relicensing" terms of the GFDL, version 1.3 or later.
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The old batteries just southwest of the Golden Gate Bridge offer few real hiding places, but hide and seekers can disappear beneath steps, under an overhang or above or below another level. While other tourists milled about, I listened for familiar voices<|fim_middle|>1900, its three guns were mounted in 1901 and removed in 1917. Now Battery Boutelle is open for exploring, enjoying the view or playing hide and seek.
To access the battery from the North, take the first right immediately after crossing the Golden Gate Bridge and the second right into the dirt parking lot. For information on the trails that pass by Battery Boutelle, check out the book, "The Best Easy Day Hikes San Francisco" by Tracy Salcedo-Chourre. | and scouted the uneven corners and crevices where tufts of grass and weeds added color to the gray blocks of concrete. I found my family beneath an alcove and squeezed in, my heart pounding, holding my breath, just moments before our hiding place was found by the one whom would soon be it.
We laughed at how we must look to the tourists enjoying the view, and we walked down the trail where wild irises bloomed. The girls climbed a tree while the boys ran ahead. We watched the waves crashing several feet below; the bridge almost close enough to touch.
Battery Boutelle is one of several old batteries in San Francisco. Built between 1898 and | 140 |
January and February have brought Sundays of worshipful praise through the Chancel Choir's music. The<|fim_middle|>ancel Choir is also involved in preparing the repertoire for our Carnegie Hall Concert. We're planning for our New York trip with excitement, but also with a deep appreciation for the donations that have allowed our choir members to participate in this once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Appreciation is extended to those who have made our worship services meaningful through their being our Worship Leaders. Warm thank-you's go to: Francis Buroker, Gary Dean, Andrew Hirsch, Ivy Hirsch, Janie Irvin, Debbie Johnson, Terrie Jolliffe, Louise Lashley, Woody Lashley, Charlotte McComas, Mike Mehaffey, Cathy Tricquet, Michele Witherow, and Vicky Zehring.
As Psalm 66 reminds us, we sing praises with loving thankfulness for all that our Lord continually does in our lives! | variety of the music has included contemporary, gospel, ballad and traditional. We have enjoyed preparing and presenting our music and pray that our Messages in Music have been meaningful to you as well. From the congregation's reaction, Sing and Shout Together, Children by Mary McDonald and A Great Day in Gloryland by Patti Drennan were gospel favorites!
We now are looking ahead to the Lenten season, Palm Sunday and Easter. We feel our new anthems will be most special. A few of our anthems contain more familiar tunes, and they are always loved.
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Chris '2Slick' Kongo felt his experience in the ring with Chris Eubank Jr was crucial as he won his fifth<|fim_middle|> out again early September. | successive professional fight at the weekend.
Bermondsey's Kongo went the distance against Lancashire's William Warburton, who also took him all the way in his second fight as a professional.
Kongo, 24, had the benefit of sparring with Eubank Jr, who defended his IBO super-middleweight title with a points win over veteran Arthur Abraham on Saturday night.
Chris Eubank Sr was in the ring overseeing the recent sparring session, and Kongo revealed the former middleweight and super-middleweight world champion was impressed with what he saw.
"Getting the benefit of that experience is priceless," Kongo said. "He gave me some good advice and things to work on. Apart from that he said my boxing skills were beautiful and I should keep it up.
Kongo had to wait almost six hours to step into the ring at Wembley Arena, with no slot opening up between bouts due to no knockouts on the undercard.
That meant he went on after the Eubank Jr-Abraham main event.
"It was quite a long day but we got the win and that's the main thing," Kongo told the News.
"There weren't really nerves, but I had to wait and everyone went the distance. I was ready from five o'clock but I didn't end up boxing until 11.30.
"I was warming up and then I had to stop, and I had to warm up again. I took my boxing kit off, then got ready to go again. I ended up warming up about three or four times.
"It was my second fight that went the distance and it was the same opponent, who has had about 150 fights.
"I went there and everything I had learned in the gym I just put it together in the ring.
"I'm used to boxing anywhere now, big or small arenas, it doesn't bother me. I'm going to have a couple of days off and then back in the gym. I'm hoping to be | 408 |
Chicken and doughnuts, together at last at Paulette's Original Donuts and Chicken
By Signe Langford | May 31, 2012
By Signe Langford | 05/31/2012
Devin Connell (Delica Kitchen) was torn between two loves: a really good, artisanal doughnut and super-crunchy fried chicken. "I knew I wanted to open a place that focused on one thing, did one thing only, and did it really well, but I couldn't decide," she told us. "Then, one night I woke up and thought, 'I don't have to choose! Why not do both?'" And so, with Paulette's Original Donuts and Chicken, Connell—of the Ace Bakery Connells—along with brother Luke and chef Graham Bower (Pangaea, Globe, Delica), is bringing her idea of a very happy meal to Leslieville. "We don't shy away from what our food is: it's not healthy food. It's happy food. And it's made with wholesome ingredients."
Food is also what made Connell's grandmother Paulette, the take-out joint's namesake, happy. "She was from Belgium and came here after the Second World War to marry my grandfather, a Canadian soldier," she said. "Every day we spent with her was an eat-a-thon and her philosophy was 'more butter and butter on everything!' She's my inspiration for this place… and she lived to be 95." Sure, the low-fat police will not be pleased with this shrine to deep-frying, but Connell is betting the neighbourhood won't be able to resist the aromas of Korean-style fried chicken wafting from the kitchen's exhaust system. Just like its Southern cousin, Korean fried chicken is served in quarters, but the corn starch and rice flour batter is much lighter and the bird is twice-fried, like a Belgian frite, making it crispier than the norm. "The coating is so crispy, it just shatters in the mouth!"
Back from a fact-finding—i.e. doughnut- and fried chicken–eating—mission in New York City's Korean joints and cutting edge doughnut shops, the trio are deep into the recipe-testing phase of what Connell calls the "Canadian version of chicken and waffles." So far, she's keeping mum on the flavours they're experimenting with for their chicken dipping sauces, flavoured salts, flavoured sugars and doughnut batters and glazes. Laments Connell, "We have doughnut shops on every corner, but no one is making really good, cake-style, artisanal doughnuts in exotic flavours." And certainly, no one's selling them with Korean fried chicken.
Paulette's Original Donuts and Chicken, 913 Queen St. E., paulettesoriginal.com
Topics: chicken Delica Kitchen Devin Connell doughnuts Graham Bower Luke Connell Paulette's Toronto
16<|fim_middle|> Had it today, actually. So obviously will support this. Good luck.
Bobby G says:
Fact finding in NYC, eh? Well if his cake doughnuts are half as good as The Donut Plant I'm there every week!
Frank F says:
Yesssss! My dreams are coming true.
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyy!
alexd says:
Bahahaha! "artisanal donuts" is the most pretentiously yuppie thing I have ever heard of in my entire life… Even before they are open I will give them a 5 star rating for marketing hype. Sounds like the perfect food for the over-mortgaged new Leslievillian to line up for.
Ill take an made from scratch donut over a pre-frozen artificially flavoured piece of fried dough any day!! I'll be there opening day.
I prefer my donuts free range, gluten free, and play classical music to them as they are deep frying in oil. They are massaged into shape by skilled artisans who have been making such donuts for like 2 weeks, they are not extruded from some donut making machine by minimum wage kitchen help, but rather carefully shaped with love, and only during certain phases of the moon.
Deanna says:
Just admit that this is a rip off of Federal Donuts in Philly. Already.
Chris Macdonald says:
What a thoughtful combination. I never imagined following deepfried chicken with deepfried donuts. Here's hoping deepfried salad greens are available so as to maintain my nutritional balance. See you there!
East Ender says:
Wash it all down with deep fried Coke.
I think Federal copied Happy Donuts/ Lousiana Fried chicken in San Francisco and Pasadena. tough to be original these days. Let's hope it stacks up.
What the east end needs is a Stockyards.
Henry Corbusier says:
Is this for the "line-up for food made in trucks" crowd? A new by-law is about to be reviewed wich would require all purveyors of trash-can food to move to the edge of the city. Let's hope our good friend Mayor Ford votes it through.
Davee says:
What the east side REALLY needs is a FRESH! a place like that would make an absolute killing.
I grew up in Leslieville and lunch at The Duke of connaught was always better when I had Chick-N-Joy. I tried Paulettes and it was not what fried chicken should aspire to be. It was greasy and unaffordable at $8. No thanks, it was really disappointing. | thoughts on "Chicken and doughnuts, together at last at Paulette's Original Donuts and Chicken"
grimey says:
DEEP FRY ALL THE THINGS!
CM says:
Love Delica. | 43 |
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This patient was able to achieve her treatment goals through 2 steps. First, she received in-office ZOOM whitening in order to whiten and brighten her smile overall. Next, she elected to have cosmetic crowns placed on her 2 upper front teeth to give her an overall beautiful, natural smile. The previous crown that was removed was made of metal underneath porcelain which was the black line that displayed at the gumline. Cosmetic crowns are made of porcelain which gives the color and translucency of natural teeth. She was so pleased with her outcome that she indicated that she wished she had done this "years ago."
This future attorney was unhappy with the spacing and gaps of his smile. He never had braces as an adolescent and his teeth were worn and misshapen after years of malocclusion. He wanted to close the gaps in his teeth and to improve the shape of his teeth to a more youthful-looking smile. He didn't want to have traditional metal braces and wanted to avoid veneers if possible.
This patient's smile makeover was completed with minimally invasive dentistry. He received Invisalign treatment with clear aligner trays. Although the trays are almost invisible, he liked the fact that he could take the Invisalign trays out if he had an important meeting or was going to be in photographs that he didn't want the trays to be displayed. After completing Invisalign, enamaloplasty was completed to reshape his teeth after years of wear. This helped renew the shape and harmony of a youthful smile. All of our Invisalign patients receive complimentary whitening which also noticeably brightened and whitened his smile.
This former football player had braces in high school but did not wear his retainers to maintain the position of his teeth. Over the years, his teeth have drifted and he developed gaps and drifting of several teeth. He was interested in Invisalign because he regularly gives presentations and wanted the option to take out the Invisalign trays as needed.
This fantastic smile was achieved with Invisalign accompanied with whitening. It is truly amazing that this took only 3 months of treatment. Dr. Mitchell prefers Invisalign clear aligners because they have over 20 years of research, over 900 patents, and have treated over 5 million smiles.
When a tooth is lost, an excellent way to replace it is with a dental implant. A dental implant has the same basic shape as a normal front tooth and root. Dental implants require a minimum amount of space between the roots of the adjacent teeth in order to be placed. If there is not enough room, orthodontics is an option to move the roots and allow enough space for the dental implant. For those that don't want to go through orthodontics, another great option to replace a missing tooth is a dental bridge.
This Oklahoma City pastor wanted to replace a missing tooth. We discussed replacing the tooth with a dental implant or a dental bridge. He decided that a dental bridge was the best choice for him. Because he was traveling on mission trips and time was extremely valuable to him, he wanted the quickest treatment option. The | 1,035 |
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COVINGTON — Newton County commissioners on Tuesday approved a contract with Paladin Wireless for<|fim_middle|> looking for ways to improve broadband access for several months. Commissioners heard a presentation from Paladin Wireless owner Steve Fortmann in October and then decided to issue a Request for Proposals for broadband service. Paladin, based in Royston, was the only company to submit a bid.
Under the terms of the 30-year contract approved Tuesday, Paladin will lease a UHF spectrum owned by the county to provide service in Newton County and beyond. Paladin will pay the county $7.50 per month per subscriber for use of the spectrum. The fee will be reviewed every five years and adjusted based on the Consumer Price Index.
A portion of the spectrum will be reserved for county use for emergency services.
Fortmann told commissioners in October that he has created broadband systems in several underserved North Georgia cities and counties using Nokia radio transmitter/receivers that are installed on top of water towers and other municipal structures. Fortmann said that, using Newton County's UHF spectrum, he could potentially reach 20,000 subscribers in 21 counties. | a project designed to improve broadband internet access in underserved areas of the county.
District 1 Commissioner Stan Edwards, who spearheaded the project, made the motion to approve the contract "with pleasure." Edwards joked later that he would offer his neighborhood as a beta test site for the new service. Edwards represents some of the more rural areas of the county.
With Edwards' encouragement, the county has been | 80 |
Growth Investment Group, a top-tier commercial real estate investment brokerage in Los Angeles, announced today the sale of the Crestmont office building located at 2600 Mission Street, San Marino, California. The asking price was $7 million, representing a cap rate of approximately 3.78 percent.
Growth Investment Group Vice President Donald La represented the seller, Unison Investment Co., LLC, and spearheaded this transaction. The buyer was Chen Corp, an investment group based in Pennsylvania.
The Crestmont is located in prime downtown San Marino and offers 6 offices, 9 executive suites, and 2 phone towers. Built in 1980 and renovated in 2017, this modern office building is comprised of: ADA compliant underground parking, elevator, fire sprinkler, HVAC system, and an attractive lounge area for guests. The parking lot offers ample space with a total capacity of 40 cars.
Aside from the prime location, this commercial property benefits from an affluent and upscale resident demographic. In 2014, Forbes Magazine ranked San Marino as the 48th most expensive area to live in the United States and in 2017, Bloomberg ranked it 78th. Household income estimates in a one mile radius show an average of $152,466 in 2017.
The property is approximately<|fim_middle|> Tan La is Vice President of the Growth Investment Group, a premier commercial real estate investment firm that specializes in San Gabriel Valley and Los Angeles County. Prior to GIG, Donald worked for KW Commercial, Coldwell Banker Commercial, and Sperry Commercial. He specializes in multi-family investment properties and office buildings in San Gabriel Valley where he was born and raised. Donald holds a Business Administration degree from the USC Marshall School of Business and is a member of the AIR Commercial Real Estate Association, Arcadia Association of Realtors, Commercial and Education Committee, and is a Certified Forms Trainer with the California Association of Realtors (C.A.R).
Growth Investment Group helps clients maximize their capital through commercial real estate investments. GIG boasts a proven track record of exceeding clients' expectations and delivering exceptional results. Utilizing a complete marketing system and extensive database of active investors, GIG can sell listings at premium prices. GIG is located in San Gabriel Valley and specializes in all types of commercial real estate investment properties in SGV and Los Angeles County. | 16,907 square feet and is situated on a hard corner of historic Mission Street and Los Robles Ave, boasting two sides of frontage and high street visibility.
Donald Tan La, a top commercial real estate broker in San Gabriel Valley, has sold multiple properties in San Marino and surrounding areas and specializes in office buildings and multi-family properties.
Donald | 73 |
Hard and Soft Skills: The Right Mix for the Right Position
by Diane Faulkner ACC SPHR
There's an old saying in HR: "Hard skills get you in the door; soft skills get you in the chair." It's as true today as it ever was. But when you start looking at skill sets to determine if you have found the right mix in a candidate, it gets a bit more complicated.
Establish a Baseline
The best place to start when looking at candidates' hard and soft skills is their resume. But not all resumes are crafted to account for soft skills, hence, "hard skills get you in the door." So when you're sifting through the foot-deep pile of resumes you've downloaded over the past few days, pay attention first to the hard skills. From your job description, you know that for anyone to succeed in the position, the basic skills — actual or transferable — need to match.
Soft skills, after all, don't do the work. They facilitate it.
Once you have ordered those resumes, go back over them and look for key descriptors that say things like the following:
Built reputation for problem-solving with previously unhappy members (effective communicator)
Became go-to person for explaining legalese in easy-too-comprehend language to customers of diverse backgrounds (team-oriented, flexible)
Wrote and edited web site content, board minutes and policy manual (versatility, multitasking)
You're looking to analyze these descriptors to identify associated soft skills the candidate possesses that make their hard skills possible.
Advertise What You Need (But Also What You Want)
When creating a job description, it is vital to relay the type of supplementary soft skills that will be necessary for the position, as well. For example, an accounting manager needs to be great with numbers and detail-oriented, which are both skills that can be tested empirically. But the "manager" aspect of the position needs someone who will communicate well, build team camaraderie and manage multiple priorities.
Not the easiest skills to test for when screening.
Soft skills can be further sussed out during a phone screen. Beyond asking for further explication about accomplishments and accolades, it is behavioral questions like the following that can be especially revealing:
At X Corporation, you were the lead on the Z project. Tell me about the biggest challenge you faced as the team lead.
Tell me about a time your superior asked you to do something that violated your morals, and how you reacted.
You will obtain critical intelligence from a phone screen, but once you get a candidate in the door, you can really determine whether your instincts and screening have produced a quality<|fim_middle|> understanding how to determine whether a candidate has the requisite temperament to match should ensure you're bringing in the person with the right mix for your organization.
Tags: Recruiting and Hiring Small Business Midsize Business Large Business Multinational Research & Insights Articles HR | candidate. You should be able to further assess their soft skills by the manner in which a candidate answers both behavioral and practical questions. This process reveals not only communication style, but other intangibles such as confidence and grace under pressure. For example, whether the position you're recruiting is for one of leadership or not, figuring out if a candidate speaks and behaves confidently is the type of soft skill that will always pay dividends.
Team Considerations
Once you've revealed all the hard and soft skills you're able to during the phone screen and in-person interviews, it's time to look at the actual team that is already in place. You want to ensure that the mix of skills that are already there are enhanced by what your candidate brings. You also want to ensure that the team's skills will enhance those of the candidate.
Finally, consider the field for which you're hiring. Science, for example, needs people heavy with the hard skills because they know what very few others know and are difficult to replace. Positions in accounting and law need a balance of hard and soft skills. There's a lot of hard knowledge needed there, but a need for successful interaction, as well.
There is no right or wrong mix of hard and soft skills. But knowing what skills you absolutely must have for the position and | 261 |
I just experienced one of the most beautiful moments of my life.
I put Lennox down to sleep around 8 and he woke up around 10 (which rarely happens these days) Usually if he wakes up we wait a bit and let him put himself back to sleep. This time I didn't hesitate to get up and check on him. His room was stinky. I picked him up and poor thing was stinky to. So I decided to change him in the dark. As soon as I got his diaper off I could smell the stomach acid – diaper rash I called to Evan to bring in the diaper rash cream. As soon as Lennox saw him – his arms flew up. All cleaned up Evan picked him up and I stood up to kiss his head when he reached out and pulled me close and held my shoulder. I stood there for a moment then moved to leave. He freaked out. So back I came and again he reached out, pulled me close. So I put<|fim_middle|> day! | one arm around him and one around Evan and pressed my check to his head. There in the dark the three of us stood swaying as Evan hummed along with ocean sounds crashing softly around us. It really felt like a family and that Lennox understood what that meant. I'm overwhelmed with love for he and Evan as I go to sleep tonight. What a good | 74 |
CORTON-CHARLEMAGNE GRAND CRU
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Burgundy's soil is clay-limestone based, yet it varies considerably from village to village. This renders the winemaker's role all the more important when selecting the grapes.
This GrandCru appellation exists only in white and covers a surface area of 71.87 ha of which 48.57 ha of vines are located in Aloxe-Corton, 17.25 ha in Pernand-Vergelesses and 6.5 ha in Ladoix-Serrigny. The emperor Charlemagne gave these vines to the collegiate church of Saint-Adoche in Saulieu in 775 to whom they belonged for the next thousand years. With a name that still celebrates the memory of the emperor, Corton-Charlemagne includes the Charlemagne and En Charlemagne vineyards as well as few neighbouring single vineyards The Grand Cru AOC dates back to 31 July 1937.
100% Chardonnay.
Vinified in oak barrels under the action natural grape yeasts, our Corton Charlemagne is then raised for 18 months on fine lees. He will pass then several weeks in stainless steel tanks in order to best combine the different barrels before being bottled.
When young, Corton-Charlemagne is pale gold in colour with green highlights. As it ages, the colour shifts towards yellow or amber. The bouquet, delicate in the extreme, features buttery notes of baked apple, citrus fruits, pineapple, lime, bracken, juniper, cinnamon, and flint. Honeyed notes are frequently present. Both<|fim_middle|> terms of richness, power, concentration, distinction and balance. Rarely do we see such a perfect synthesis between grape variety and terroir.
The manner in which Corton-Charlemagne achieves a perfect balance in the mouth between its remarkable acidity and its rounded opulence demands refined and delicate dishes which nonetheless possess real aromatic power. The natural candidates would include foie gras, whose bitterness would be supported by the wine's forceful minerality, as well as more conventional classics such as good-quality crustaceans (lobster, crawfish, crab) whose strong but delicate flesh harmonizes with the wine in a spectacular fashion. Poultry or veal in white sauces would also do the wine justice, as would blue cheeses.
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25 years or more. | the glass and the palate are filled with its powerful exhalations. Corton- Charlemagne is an astonishing demonstration of what the Chardonnay grape is capable of in | 36 |
ANN ARBOR, MI - As clouds of smoke billowed above a crowd of thousands of marijuana advocates, a loud battle cry echoed throughout the University of Michigan's Central Campus Diag in Ann Arbor.
That came just<|fim_middle|> over the crowd and away from the Diag, were symbols of peace and unity, and their release was symbolic as the fight for legal freedom for people to use marijuana continues.
"We have to unite, and we have to unite now," Hank told the cheering crowd, including many people openly smoking joints as campus police watched.
"So these doves ... they represent us in our cage, our cage that after today, spiritually, mentally, physically, we shall no longer be in."
Jim Powers, co-founder of Michigan Parents for Compassion, and his young son, Ryan, a pediatric cannabis patient, joined Hank on stage for the release.
Watch the video below to see Hank's remarks and the releasing of the doves during the rally on the Diag. | moments after Jeffrey Hank, a marijuana legalization activist and civil rights attorney from Lansing, released a pair of white doves from a cage to commemorate the 46th annual Hash Bash on Saturday, April 1.
Hank said the doves, which flew out | 53 |
Soft Power? China Has Plenty
Features | Society | East Asia
China has little attractive power – in the West. But then not everyone is watching China through Western eyes.
By Trefor Moss for The Diplomat
China is a failure when it comes to soft power – or so we're told.
A giant in the hard-power leagues of money and military strength, China is often portrayed as a minnow swimming against the global tide of ideas and perceptions. Unloved and misunderstood, the country can only get things done through the use of carrots and sticks, not by capitalizing on the warm sentiments of others. Foreigners, in the end, pay heed to China only because they have to, not because they want to.
No-one has been more skeptical about Chinese soft power than Joseph Nye, the man who first coined the phrase twenty years ago. In particular, Nye has criticized Beijing's efforts to acquire soft power through centralized schemes, like the spread of Confucius Institutes or the establishment at the end of last year of the China Public Diplomacy Association. Despite "spending billions of dollars to increase its soft power … China has had a limited return on its investment," he recently argued. This is because soft power mainly accrues when civil society actors – whom the Chinese government tends to squash – make or do things with global appeal, according to Nye, not through top-down schemes which foreigners are likely to interpret as propaganda.
Nye rightly doubts whether all of China's soft-power investments are paying off. However, we should not be too quick to write off China as an attractive force in global affairs simply because Beijing has fired a few blanks. In fact, Chinese soft power does exist. You just have to look for it in the right places.
The basics of soft power
What Nye first hit upon in his seminal article "Soft Power" is the fact that there is more to international power than plain coercion – that hard power has a flipside, a passive form of power whereby others gladly do what you want, without your having to twist their arm. Tidy definitions of soft power like "cultural diplomacy" or "national marketing" don't seem to capture it, and maybe no single phrase can. Instead, it may be better to consider soft power's essential features:
1. Soft power is the result of being liked, respected, trusted, or admired. It's a kind of magnetism: countries are attractive when they have it, and repellent when they don't.
2. Soft power is all in the mind, unlike hard power, which is all about tangible assets. Country A possesses soft power if people in Country B have positive ideas about it – if they regard Country A as likeable, respectable, trustworthy or admirable. Since likeability is all in the eye of the beholder, no country can acquire soft power directly, or force people or states to like it. But a state can make itself more likeable and more comprehensible through its behavior.
3. Context is king. Soft power only accrues when the conditions are right. Efforts to make yourself more likeable may succeed in one country and fail in another, as dictated by the many cultural, political and historical factors in play.
It's also important to ask what soft power is to China. If we say that China has soft power, that means states and individuals do things China wants without any compulsion or inducement. So what is it that China wants them to do? We can safely assume that China's soft-power aims including being given face on the international stage: being shown respect, and being treated like a great country. It wants its policies and actions to be viewed sympathetically, and to conduct its affairs without foreign interference. It wants to draw less criticism and suspicion than it tends to today, and to attract more friendly support on issues it cares about. It wants less bad press. And, of course, it wants to open up overseas markets for Chinese products and have freer access to commercial opportunities abroad.
Broadly speaking, it might be anything that feeds into the Chinese government's own concept of Comprehensive National Power, according to Rogier Creemers, a research officer at the University of Oxford's Centre for Socio-legal Studies, who notes that soft power has been an important buzzword in Beijing ever since Hu Jintao identified it as a policy priority in 2007 (one wonders if part of Hu's soft-power strategy was to have himself replaced with the far more genial Xi Jinping). "Soft power is conceived as government PR," Creemers argues, adding that Beijing thinks "it's up to the government to decide what China is and then market it abroad." This concerted marketing push was seen as necessary because of the international weakness of Chinese brands and cultural exports, which are the best soft-power assets of countries<|fim_middle|> surely provides the best vantage point.
China's involvement in Africa is often interpreted as a cynical resource-grab – but mainly by Westerners. In fact, Chinese involvement in Africa – which has mainly taken the form of co-operative development, rather than aid – is much older and more constructive than many people realize. It goes back to the 1950s, long before the advent of Confucius Institutes or the launch of Hu Jintao's soft-power agenda.
China's activities in Africa and local attitudes to them have been well documented by Deborah Brautigam in her 2009 book The Dragon's Gift. Brautigam demonstrates that Africans are generally receptive to China's developmental approach: they observe with approval one developing country helping another, "the poor helping the poor"; they value the longstanding connections built over decades with their Chinese partners; and they feel that China shows them far more respect than paternalistic Westerners.
The newly published China's Aid and Soft Power in Africa by Kenneth King, an emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh, focuses more narrowly on China's educational programs in Africa and finds similar levels of approval among local beneficiaries. King not only documents the teaching of Chinese language in Africa on an increasingly grand scale, but also the thousands of scholarships which send Africans to study at Chinese universities, and the professional seminars which bring thousands of African businesspeople to China for sought-after learning experiences. Once again, these educational efforts are packaged respectfully – they are an attempt to show Africans how China does things, not a means of lecturing Africans about how they should do things.
Are these soft power initiatives on China's part? "That is surely the intention," says King in an interview with The Diplomat. But whether they are or not, soft power is what China appears to be accruing from these educational projects. "African students are very positive about their exposure to China and the Chinese culture of learning and hard work," King says. "People are saying: 'This has changed the way I think about work.' And it's the sheer number of Africans who are going to China."
China inspiring Africans: Isn't that soft power in a nutshell?
Education is not, of course, China's only concern in Africa. According to Aid Data, China has committed $74 billion to African projects since 2000, and has delivered $49 billion so far. Fifty out of 54 African states have benefited. Grandiose gestures include the $200 million African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa (one of many African cities which China has helped modernize and reshape). China also pays Africa the kind of high-level diplomatic attention that it seldom attracts from elsewhere. "Chinese leaders are a bit like swallows," observes King, "they set off for Africa at the start of every year." Sure enough, Xi Jinping visited three African states in March right after becoming president. "He even went to Congo-Brazzaville," notes King. "Who else goes to Congo-Brazzaville?"
China's growing influence is inevitably causing some discomfort in Africa itself, with Lamido Sanusi, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, recently arguing that China's "win-win" approach now involves too much "win" for the Chinese, and too much "lose" for the Africans. However, even Sanusi's critique acknowledged China's enduring soft power. "A romantic view of China is quite common among African imaginations," he observed, adding that "this African love of China is founded on a vision of the country as a saviour, a partner, a model." Sanusi's message was that Chinese soft power in Africa will evaporate if China pursues a hard-power path along which it simply buys influence and resources without benefitting the Africans themselves – but that for the time being it still has formidable soft-power reserves.
The patchiness of Chinese power
Africa is not the only place from which China looks appealing. Its soft power also draws people in Latin America, Eastern Europe and parts of Asia, where the popular impression of China might contrast favorably with the general perception of the West, or where Beijing might be seen as a welcome partner in tough financial times, or as a trusted long-time ally.
Western commentators tend to overlook this, noticing only China's lack of soft power in North America, Western Europe and those parts of Asia that fear or dislike China. In these places, the bad news about China – everything from its smoggy air, to its venal politics, to its repression of dissidents, to its apparent strangeness – drowns out any soft-power messages that Beijing might be trying to send. But elsewhere the good news drowns out the bad.
So Nye's criticisms are half-right. In many states, China probably is wasting its time and resources when it tries to get people to watch CCTV, piles newsstands with English versions of China Daily, or part-funds its Confucius Institutes. These initiatives are doomed to fail in certain contexts. But these same activities can work beautifully elsewhere.
Even in the China-bashing West, China's marketing messages are finding an audience. The U.S., for example, hosts more Confucius Institutes than any other country (70 at the latest count). If they convince even a few Americans that China is somehow likeable, respectable, trustworthy or admirable, then Beijing's efforts won't have gone entirely to waste.
Trefor Moss
Destined To Fail: China's Soft Power Push
Beijing is expanding efforts to enhance its soft power. Events at home illustrate why such moves are headed for trouble.
China's Non-state Universities: What It Takes to Succeed
By Olivia A. Halsall
What happens when a local Chinese tycoon establishes a non-state university with private funds?
Halal Tourism on the Rise in Asia, Just Not in China
By Betsy Joles
As Beijing connects to the world's largest Muslim markets, its attention to halal tourism lags behind Taiwan's efforts.
How Chinese Veterans Could Derail President Xi's Plans
By Eugene K. Chow
Can Beijing really care for 57 million former members of the People's Liberation Army? | like the U.S., the UK, or South Korea.
Locating China's soft power
The debate about Chinese soft power tends to focus on what China is doing, and on China's motives for doing it.
These things matter. But if soft power is all in the eye of the beholder, we can only really understand whether China has it by seeing Chinese activities and motives through the eyes of the countries it interacts with. What is their idea of China? Is it something attractive, which they might wish to emulate or freely engage with? Or is something repellent, which they might choose to reject and oppose?
The obvious conclusion is that China looks very different depending on which part of the world you're observing it from. And if you want to see China in an attractive light, Africa | 159 |
Magellan and Tellurian finalise merger
Published by David Rowlands, Editor
LNG Industry, Friday, 10 February 2017 14:30
Tellurian Inc. (Tellurian), which was formerly known as Magellan Petroleum Corp., has announced that it has closed its merger with Tellurian Investments Inc.
Tellurian's common stock will continue to trade on the NASDAQ under the new ticket symbol 'TELL'. As part of the finalisation of the merger, Antoine Lafargue, the<|fim_middle|> a new chapter in the long history of the company can commence. From William F. Buckley Sr. to the new leadership team at Tellurian, unique vision and exceptional execution will continue to drive value for shareholders."
Read the article online at: https://www.lngindustry.com/liquefaction/10022017/magellan-and-tellurian-finalise-merger/
US LNG news | former CEO of Magellan, has been appointed as CFO.
The President and CEO of Tellurian, Meg Gentle, said: "We look forward to creating value for our shareholders by delivering clean, low-cost, and reliable LNG to the global market. We are developing large scale energy infrastructure on the US Gulf Coast, including the 26 million tpy Driftwood LNG facility in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, which is scheduled to begin construction in 2018. We expect our next major milestone to be filing our formal permit application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for Driftwood LNG. We appreciate the local, state and federal support for this project and anticipate an efficient regulatory review of the application."
Lafargue added: "With the closing of this transaction, the efforts of the board of directors of Magellan Petroleum Corp. conclude and | 174 |
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UKids - Presidents Circle Student Child Care Program, is committed to providing quality early education options for the children of student families. The<|fim_middle|> premier summer day camp for kids in Salt Lake City. During the eleven weeks of summer camp fun, campers will see the University of Utah in a way that only Club U insiders get to experience. The kids will explore the beautiful Wasatch Front and discover what the wilderness has to offer. Best of all, campers will make new friends while doing activities that are unique and exciting! Sign up for all eleven weeks, or for a few of your favorites. One thing is for sure, it's going to be awesome! | center maintains a welcoming and supportive environment with staff that attends to the developmental well-being of each child. An atmosphere of trust that encourages a child's natural curiosity and desire to learn forms the basis of our curriculum. We encourage parent involvement in all aspects of our program.
BioKids provides a nurturing environment where children are encouraged to develop into caring, self-sufficient individuals. BioKids is a play-based program where children's individuality is honored; we believe that children learn skills and social consciousness through play. Our classrooms provide developmentally appropriate activities where each child can feel safe, challenged and valued. We expect and encourage children to respect each other and the world in which we live.
In a collaborative effort with the Family & Consumer Studies Department, the Child and Family Development Center (CFDC) is an NAEYC accredited Montessori preschool located on President's circle that provides quality learning experiences for families and hands-on training to university students. Divided into three classrooms, CFDC is open to the community and serves ages one through six. The design of the CFDC program and physical structure of the classrooms facilitate parent, student, and teacher education. It also provides research opportunities for University faculty interested in studying young children and families.
Our primary mission is to provide quality care to children in a safe, healthy, and nurturing environment. We provide a happy environment with a pleasant and comfortable atmosphere where children can build trust with the adults who care for them. They feel secure in the knowledge that they are loved and wanted, and they receive the appreciation, respect, and acceptance they need.
UKids-Guardsman Way caters primarily to the employees and students of the University. Our full-day private kindergarten, however, is open to other community members, when space is available. We feature an exciting curriculum where children can explore all aspects of their lives in a nurturing positive way. With the Creative Curriculum and Teaching Strategies GOLD, children grow physically, intellectually, emotionally and socially using play as the primary means of discovery and exploration. We place health and safety as our top priority, followed closely by education and learning. We are nationally accredited with NAEYC and the majority of our teachers have degrees in early childhood education.
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JNI and Sydney Writers' Festival release new podcast
Events • Published on 29 July 2020
The first episode of the 'Stories Worth Telling' podcast, a new series created by the Judith Neilson Institute and Sydney Writers' Festival, has been released today. The podcast celebrates outstanding long-form, non-fiction writing and Indigenous reporting around the world, and provides a global outlook on the history, possibilities and future of journalism. The first episode features Anishinaabe and Polish Canadian journalist Tanya Talaga in conversation with The Sydney Morning Herald's Indigenous Affairs reporter Ella Archib<|fim_middle|> light on how racism and intergenerational trauma have produced a global crisis underscored by alarmingly high youth suicide rates.
Tanya speaks with Kamilaroi woman and journalist Ella Archibald-Binge about her powerful call for action, justice and a more equitable world for Indigenous peoples.
This conversation was scheduled to be part of the Sydney Writers' Festival's 2020 live program. Instead, Tanya and Ella are speaking from their homes, on opposite sides of the world.
Tanya Talaga
Tanya Talaga is Anishinaabe and Polish Canadian, her maternal family is from Fort William First Nation and her father was Polish. Tanya is a journalist and head of Makwa Creative Inc. an Indigenous media company. She joins the Globe and Mail as a columnist in September. Tanya is the author of two national bestsellers. Her first book, Seven Fallen Feathers, was the winner of the RBC Taylor Prize, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, and the First Nation Communities Read Award: Young Adult/Adult. Her second book, All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward, was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Non-Fiction. Talaga's first podcast series Seven Truths, will be out this October.
Ella Archibald-Binge
Ella Archibald-Binge is a proud descendant of the Kamilaroi people from north-western NSW. She began her journalism career in regional newspapers, before spending almost six years reporting for NITV and SBS. Now reporting Indigenous affairs for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, Ella is spearheading The Dalarinji Project, documenting the lives of First Nations people through a series of news, features and multimedia, with the support of the Judith Neilson Institute
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From Canada and Brazil to Norway and Australia, the Indigenous experience in colonised nations holds startling — and deeply disturbing — similarities. In her bestselling book 'All Our Relations: Indigenous Trauma in the Shadow of Colonialism', Tanya Talaga skilfully folds together reportage and storytelling to shine a | 64 |
Little Rule Changes
The NHL will<|fim_middle|> this playing to the tune of a comprehensive news outlet all for the New Jersey Devils. The NJ Devils News Center, located at www.njdevilsnews.com, scours the internet all during the day, and then downloads and posts news stories pertaining to your New Jersey Devils.
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Author DevilBoyPosted on September 18, 2008 November 9, 2008 Categories Rants & RavesLeave a comment on Njdevils.info Site Notes | implement some minor rule changes for the start of the 2008-09 season. The idea behind these makes logical sense – most of them. This post is based on an article from The Hockey News: http://www.thehockeynews.com/articles/18040-THNcom-Blog-NHL-hopes-to-prevent-injuries-with-new-icing-rule.html
First, players cannot go at someone full tilt when racing down an iced puck. Some background here: if the Devils ice the puck, if they touch it first in the offensive zone, the icing is called off. But if their opponents touch it, icing is called and the faceoff is brought in to the Devils end. Previously, when racing down to negate an icing, incidental contact (and sometimes intentional contact) could cause someone to fall and strike the boards so hard it could (and has) cause an injury. Now a penalty can be called if that occurs, up to 5 minutes if the player is injured. The referees also have the discretion of calling a "hitting from behind" penalty which comes with its own game misconduct.
My take: Good call guys. That is a really stupid injury to get when racing to an icing. Now if only you guys can also catch the high sticks, chargings, and cross checks too…
Next, also dealing with icings, you all remember how an icing call would prevent the offending team from making a line change. However if this occurred when a TV timeout was also scheduled to take place, the players would get a nice two minute rest, pretty much negating any effect of penalizing the offending team of no line change. Now TV timeouts will not take place but instead occur on the next stoppage in play.
My take: Again, good call. Although I don't agree with the rule 100%, it was stupid to have a TV break when you're trying to penalize the team that just delayed the game in the first place.
If a shot to the net hit a crossbar or post and ricocheted out of play, the faceoff was brought out in to the neutral zone. This has also been changed and now the faceoff will take place in to the defending zone.
My take: Was this really an issue? It's not a bad rule, and probably won't affect the Devils all that much since they barely get shots further than 10 feet away on net, but why not just have the faceoff take place in the area of where the shot was made? Oh well, not a bad call… just doesn't seem to be necessary.
Lastly, if a player gets a penalty, regardless of the location of the puck or the player, the next faceoff will take place in the offending team's zone.
My take: Okay, this one I just think is stupid. First, you are already taking a player off the ice so regardless of where the penalty and ensuing faceoff takes place, the offending team is at a disadvantage. In addition, the team with the power play will have a whole two minutes to get down the ice, and if they are too incompetent to accomplish that, than they shouldn't be rewarded with having an automatic ice advantage. Lastly, take the human factor into consideration. I hate it when refs blow a call, but you know what? I make mistakes to, and they too have bad results. We're all human. But now in addition to a blown call, we have to rub salt in to the wound and reward the opposing team with 125 feet of ice? How about this, a one on one situation occurs and the defending player gets tripped up on his own stick in close proximity to the forward or, and I know the NHL says this never occurs anymore, may even take a dive. And lets say the ref is on the opposite side of the ice, and it looks like the rushing forward with puck caused this to occur. Now not only are we going to penalize someone who shouldn't get a penalty, but also bring the play all the way back to the other end of the ice? Sorry guys, but this is a bad rule in my book.
Note: I am not sure how this rule works if coincidental minors take place.
I guess 2.5 out of 4 ain't bad. I can only pray that during my lifetime I will see the Anti-Brodeur Act of 2006 be repealed and the removal of the instigator rule (come on NHL, even Doc says this is a bad one).
Author DevilBoyPosted on September 24, 2008 November 10, 2008 Categories News, Rants & RavesLeave a comment on Little Rule Changes
Devils Fall Early to Flyers
After a very brief training camp, the Devils hit the ice Monday night to tangle with the Philadelphia Flyers. Kevin Weekes started in net for the Devils, and in typical pre-season fashion, was replaced by Scott Clemmensen after 30 minutes of play.
There wasn't too much to note in this game. The top line of Brian Rolston, Patrik Elias, and Brian Gionta couldn't form any type of scoring opportunities, but it's a new line so let's give it a few days to develop.
Devils Coach Brent Sutter also spoke up after the game, unhappy about 19 of his 20 players' ability on the ice. He praised Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond (whose jersey must be hell to sew the last name on) who dropped the gloves twice to try and spark something in the team.
"We hadn't worked on it at all the last two days," Devils coach Brent Sutter said. "You rely on the experience of individuals on the ice. Certain guys who needed to play well did. Certain guys you thought would (play well), didn't."
Now normally I stick up for Sutter, as he has a very tough job in getting a defensive team to score. But come on, you gave the team two days of practice, and you are upset they didn't play well? Not to mention that you have a grand number of wee-Devils and some new faces to the ice from last year – you need to give them a little time to form to each other.
Now of course this last comment is going to bite me in the rear come November when they still aren't playing well…
In any case, I would like to thank the Philadelphia Flyers for broadcasting the game on their website – I just have one recommendation: if you don't have announcers at the game, just plug the radio guys in to the video feed. It's much better than silent hockey.
Some quick notes: watch for Leblond. He is not above fighting his way to an NHL spot, literally. He has a physical presence and hopefully can play enforcer without needing to drop the gloves every night. And don't expect Sutter to keep the REG line together for very long. If there's one thing I learned about Sutter last year, he will tweak the lines even after you have lost complete faith in him as a coach.
Author DevilBoyPosted on September 23, 2008 November 9, 2008 Categories GameDay, Rants & Raves, The TeamLeave a comment on Devils Fall Early to Flyers
End of an Off-Season, Devils and Flyers Meet on Monday
The time is approaching, that start of the regular season is only a couple of weeks away, and Devils training camp is coming to a close, as the Devils prepare to take on the Philadelphia Flyers on Monday.
As of right now, the roster consists of many guys from the Lowell Devils, in addition to New Jersey's core players. Some familiar names you may recognize include:
Forwards:
David Clarkson
Brian Gionta
Bobby Holik
Jamie Langenbrunner
Jay Pandolfo
Zach Parise
Rod Pelley
Brian Rolston
Michael Rupp
Barry Tallackson
Travis Zajac
Dainius Zubrus
Sheldon Brookbank
Mike Mottau
John Oduya
Bryce Salvador
Colin White
Some names you may notice missing include Sergei Brylin and Vitali Vishnevski. Sarge was let go as the last remaining skater who has won all three cups with the Devils. Martin Brodeur is now the only one left to make that claim. The breakup was supposedly mutual, but Brylin was only offered a one year deal which he took to mean his career with the Devils was winding down.
Vitaly Vishnevski was also left out, clearing waivers to leave to US and play in Russia. You may remember Vishnevski as laying out some great hits typically once in every game. You may also remember that was the only time you heard or saw of Vishnevski in every game.
Other acquisition news includes the signing of Scott Clemmensen as a free agent, the trade of minor leaguer Sean Zimmerman for minor leaguer Kevin Cormier (Left Wing), and the reacquiring of Bobby Holik and Brian Rolston.
Also in the news, Brian Rolston apparently has a no-trade clause in his contact. He agrees that this doesn't mean much, but it give Rolston some control over his future if the Devils want to get rid of him. Barry Tallackson, who has a legit shot at making the big leagues, had a minor heart scare on Friday. He claims it was something minor as the team conducting further tests the past few days. He was slated to be back on the ice this past Saturday.
Author DevilBoyPosted on September 21, 2008 November 10, 2008 Categories News, The TeamLeave a comment on End of an Off-Season, Devils and Flyers Meet on Monday
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Home News Research & Innovation News Examining cell stress for better health or better beer?
Understanding cell stress could help develop effective treatment and could potentially even help to brew better beer.
Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have constructed a new method to study how single biological cells react to stressful situations. Gaining better understanding of these responses could help develop more effective drugs for serious diseases and optimise cell production in products such as beer and bread.
Us humans are not the only ones who suffer from stress – even microorganisms can be affected.
All living<|fim_middle|> was a sugar, glycerol. And, were able to measure the exact rate and amount of glycerol produced by different cells under various stress conditions.
Daniel Midtvedt, researcher in biological physics at Chalmers, and lead writer of the scientific paper explains: "Yeast and bacteria have very similar systems when it comes to response to stress, meaning the results are very interesting from a medical point of view.
Developing a variant of holographic microscopy to study the cells in three dimensions, the researchers used a particular method which is built upon an interference imaging approach, splitting a laser beam into two light paths.
One passes through a cell sample, and one does not. The two beams are then recombined at a slight offset angle. This makes it possible to read changes in the cell's properties through the variations in beam phase offsets.
So, can this lead to the development of new drugs?
As well as the benefit to medical researchers, improved knowledge of the impact of cell stress on yeast cells could be valuable for the food and drink industry – not least, when it comes to brewing better beer.
"Yeast is essential for both food and drink preparation, for example in baking bread and brewing beer. This knowledge of yeast cells' physical characteristics could be invaluable. We could optimise the products exactly as we want them." concludes Midtvedt. | organisms can experience stress during challenging situations. Cells and microorganisms have complex systems to govern how they adapt to new conditions. They can alter their own structure by incorporating or releasing many different substances into the surroundings.
Due to the complexity of these molecular processes, understanding these systems is a difficult task.
Researchers investigated how individual yeast cells react to changes in the local environment – in this case an increased osmolarity, or concentration of salt. Moreover, they identified and monitored the change of compounds within the yeast cells, one of which | 104 |
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Pre-Order Books Available 2/10/14 & some 2/3/14 Awesome Books.
Okay, I am behind and should have listed Pre-Order available 2/3 earlier. So I will list a few books I recommend coming out in 3 days before I give you the great books coming 2/10/14.
Here are 2 must reads! Seriously, I can't say tell you how much I want you to read these books. One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories and Prince of Shadows: A Novel of<|fim_middle|>, recommended books | Romeo and Juliet . Must Reads, Must Buy!
One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories by B.J. Novak. Available February 4, 2014.
One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American fiction.
A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes—only to discover that claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins—turning for help to the famed motivator himself. A new arrival in Heaven, overwhelmed with options, procrastinates over a long-ago promise to visit his grandmother. We meet Sophia, the first artificially intelligent being capable of love, who falls for a man who might not be ready for it himself; a vengeance-minded hare, obsessed with scoring a rematch against the tortoise who ruined his life; and post-college friends who try to figure out how to host an intervention in the era of Facebook. Along the way, we learn why wearing a red T-shirt every day is the key to finding love, how February got its name, and why the stock market is sometimes just down.
Prince of Shadows: A Novel of Romeo and Juliet by Rachel Caine. Available February 4, 2014.
In the Houses of Montague and Capulet, there is only one goal: power. The boys are born to fight and die for honor and—if they survive—marry for influence and money, not love. The girls are assets, to be spent wisely. Their wishes are of no import. Their fates are written on the day they are born.
Benvolio Montague, cousin to Romeo, knows all this. He expects to die for his cousin, for his house, but a spark of rebellion still lives inside him. At night, he is the Prince of Shadows, the greatest thief in Verona—and he risks all as he steals from House Capulet. In doing so, he sets eyes on convent-bound Rosaline, and a terrible curse begins that will claim the lives of many in Verona and will rewrite all their fates, forever.
Everyone needs to heal their heart.
You Can Heal Your Heart: Finding Peace After a Breakup, Divorce, or Death by Louise L. Hay and David Kessler. Available February 4, 2014.
In You Can Heal Your Heart, self-help luminary Louise Hay and renowned grief and loss expert David Kessler, the protégé of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, have come together to start a conversation on healing grief.
This remarkable book discusses the emotions that occur when a relationship leaves you brokenhearted, a marriage ends in divorce, or a loved one dies. It will also foster awareness and compassion, providing you with the courage to face many other types of losses and challenges, such as saying good-bye to a beloved pet, losing your job, coming to terms with a life-threatening illness or disease, and much more.
With a perfect blend of Louise's teachings and affirmations on personal growth and transformation and David's many years of working with those in grief, this empowering book will inspire an extraordinary new way of thinking, bringing hope and fresh insights into your life and even your current and future relationships. You will not only learn how to help heal your grief, but you will also discover that, yes, you can heal your heart.
And now Pre-order new releases available the week of February 10, 2014.
And do LOVE Jennifer McMahon.
The Winter People: A Novel by Jennifer McMahon. Available February 11, 2014.
The bestselling author of Promise Not to Tell and Don't Breathe a Word returns with a simmering literary thriller about ghostly secrets, dark choices, and the unbreakable bond between mothers and daughters – sometimes too unbreakable.
West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter, Gertie. Now, in present day, nineteen-year-old Ruthie lives in Sara's farmhouse with her mother, Alice, and her younger sister, Fawn. Alice has always insisted that they live off the grid, a decision that suddenly proves perilous when Ruthie wakes up one morning to find that Alice has vanished without a trace. Searching for clues, she is startled to find a copy of Sara Harrison Shea's diary hidden beneath the floorboards of her mother's bedroom. As Ruthie gets sucked deeper into the mystery of Sara's fate, she discovers that she's not the only person who's desperately looking for someone that they've lost. But she may be the only one who can stop history from repeating itself.
The Good Luck of Right Now by Matthew Quick. Available February 11, 2014.
The author of The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel , comes The Good Luck of Right Now . Now, a funny and tender story about family, friendship, grief, acceptance, and Richard Gere—an entertaining and inspiring tale that will leave you pondering the rhythms of the universe and marveling at the power of kindness and love.
For thirty-eight years, Bartholomew Neil has lived with his mother. When she gets sick and dies, he has no idea how to be on his own. His redheaded grief counselor, Wendy, says he needs to find his flock and leave the nest. But how does a man whose whole life has been grounded in his mom, Saturday mass, and the library learn how to fly?
Bartholomew thinks he's found a clue when he discovers a "Free Tibet" letter from Richard Gere hidden in his mother's underwear drawer. In her final days, mom called him Richard—there must be a cosmic connection. Believing that the actor is meant to help him, Bartholomew awkwardly starts his new life, writing Richard Gere a series of highly intimate letters. Jung and the Dalai Lama, philosophy and faith, alien abduction and cat telepathy, the Catholic Church and the mystery of women are all explored in his soul-baring epistles. But mostly the letters reveal one man's heartbreakingly earnest attempt to assemble a family of his own.
Stink and the Shark Sleepover (Book #9) by Megan McDonald and illustrator Peter Reynolds. Available February 11, 2014.
Shark-tastic! Stink gets to sleep with the fishes after his parents win an aquarium sleepover. But wait — what's that lurking beyond the KEEP OUT sign?
When Stink's parents win tickets for the whole family to sleep over at the aquarium (along with Stink's two best friends), it sounds like a science freak's dream come true. Stink loves the sea-creature scavenger hunt (Bat ray! Brain coral!), the jellyfish light show, and the shiver of sand tiger sharks with razor-sharp teeth. And of course Stink is nuts about gross stuff, but after some spooky stories around the virtual campfire, can he manage to fall asleep thinking about the eating habits of the vampire squid? Especially Bloody Mary, the mutant, glowing Frankensquid that's supposed to be on the prowl?
After I'm Gone: A Novel by Laura Lippman. Available February 11, 2014.
Bestselling author of The Most Dangerous Thing , I'd Know You Anywhere: A Novel
and What the Dead Know , returns with an addictive story that explores how one man's disappearance echoes through the lives of the wife, mistress, and daughters he left behind.
When Felix Brewer meets Bernadette "Bambi" Gottschalk at a Valentine's Dance in 1959, he charms her with wild promises, some of which he actually keeps. Thanks to his lucrative—if not all legal—businesses, she and their three little girls live in luxury. But on the Fourth of July, 1976, Bambi's comfortable world implodes when Felix, newly convicted and facing prison, mysteriously vanishes.
Though Bambi has no idea where her husband—or his money—might be, she suspects one woman does: his mistress, Julie. When Julie disappears ten years to the day that Felix went on the lam, everyone assumes she's left to join her old lover—until her remains are eventually found.Now, twenty-six years after Julie went missing, Roberto "Sandy" Sanchez, a retired Baltimore detective working cold cases for some extra cash, is investigating her murder. What he discovers is a tangled web stretching over three decades that connects five intriguing women. And at the center is the missing man Felix Brewer.
Somewhere between the secrets and lies connecting past and present, Sandy will find the truth. And when he does, no one will ever be the same.
For my friends of Faith, I haven't read these books yet but they are on my wish list. HarperCollins Christian Publishing and Sheila Walsh have released a new book and study guide. Available February 11, 2014.
We can feel a storm brewing, we are in the middle of a storm, or we are facing the aftermath of a storm. But don't be afraid because it is possible to grow through turbulent times.Storms show you what's really going on inside, reveal what you really believe, and actually make you stronger. In this powerful book Sheila will help you:
Redefine your failures as a new beginning instead of an end.
Replace the words always and never in your life with positive declarations of hope.
Know with confidence how to help a friend in chaos or crisis.
The Study Guide has stories of women from the Bible who faced seemingly insurmountable problems–regret, shame, insecurity, and heartbreak. Sessions include:
Heartbreak to Strength (Hannah)
Disappointment to Hope (Woman with Issue of Blood)
Fear to Joy (Mary Magdalene)
Shame to Love (Samaritan Woman)
Regret to Rest (Rahab)
Insecurity to Family (Ruth)
Insignificance to Courage (Esther)
Despair to Faith (Sarah)
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Obituary of Howard Andrew Robb
We lost our family patriarch on December 24, 2021, age 89 at Ross Memorial Hospital, Lindsay. Predeceased by his beloved wife Claire (nee Whitworth) of 64 years. Loving father of David (Marilyn), Stephen (Carrie) and Brenda (Brent Morreau). Devoted grandfather of Brandon, Kevin and Andrew. Howard was the middle son of Hamilton and Alice (nee Hamilton) Robb. Predeceased by his brothers Jack and Warren. Howard was born and spent his early years in Calgary, Alberta before moving to Pointe Claire, Quebec where he met Claire and they began their family life together in 1955.
When the children were young the family spent many summers camping first in tents graduating to a tent trailer and then a travel trailer. Their favourite spot being Fish Creek Pond in Saranac Lake, New York. In later years Howard and Claire owned several motorhomes enjoying their winters on the gulf coast of Florida and trips across western Canada and the U.S. Howard and Claire were gracious hosts of many family and friend gatherings where Howard would entertain with his gifted story telling abilities. Howard's sense of humour was enjoyed by many family, friends, neighbours, and the Bobcaygeon Alzheimer's social group.
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New imaging system reads clearly through closed books
Posted on October 3, 2016 by Kristen Perrone
MIT research team uses terahertz radiation to see images through stacks of papers
Researchers at MIT have designed a prototype of an imaging system that can read closed books. An MIT press release reveals that the research team tested their prototype on a stack of papers that each had one letter on it. The new system successfully identified the first nine sheets' letters, validating MIT's decade-old research that terahertz radiation could be used to read<|fim_middle|>-type Li-ion battery for wearables
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Barnak Heshmat, an MIT Media lab scientist and author of the study, explains that the system could have multifunctional uses: "The Metropolitan Museum in New York showed a lot of interest in this because they want to, for example, look into some antique books that they don't even want to touch." Other potential practices include analyzing thinly layered materials that are coated onto surfaces like machines.
Georgia Tech researchers also contributed to the study, creating the algorithm required for interpreting any distorted images as actual letters — the images become unintelligible because words from other pages still show through paper. The algorithm is ultimately powerful enough to disregard websites' letter certification systems (known as captchas) that determine if a human is really using the site. At the same time, MIT scientists worked on developing the algorithms that gather images from individual papers.
Terahertz radiation, which the page-reading system is based on, is the band of electromagnetic radiation between microwaves and infrared light. Researchers have previously explored the use of terahertz radiation in security screenings because different chemicals absorb different frequencies of the radiation to various degrees. These differences create unique, various frequency signatures. In the case of this prototype, terahertz frequency profiles can distinguish between ink and blank paper, which X-ray waves cannot do. Other advantages of terahertz radiation include its ability to provide much better depth resolution than ultrasound waves do.
The system works partially because air pockets about 20 micrometers deep are concentrated between book pages. There's a significant enough difference in refractive index (the degree to which they bend light) between the air pockets and paper that their boundary will deliver terahertz radiation back to a detector. Researchers' proposed system includes a standard terahertz camera that emits ultrashort radiation bursts, which lets off a reflection that the camera's built-in sensor detects. By observing the reflections' time of arrival, the system's algorithm can determine the distance to the book's individual pages.
Having an estimate of the page's distances helps the algorithm focus on terahertz signals whose arrival times hint at them being true reflections. After studying two different measures of the reflections' energy, researchers can make a conclusion about the chemical properties of the reflecting surfaces.
The current version of the algorithm can correctly deduce the distance from the camera to the top 20 pages in a stack of paper. However, the energy of the reflected signal past a depth of nine pages is so low that the differences between frequency signatures are swamped by "noise," or a background hum. Fixing the noise and improving the accuracy of detectors and power of radiation sources are high priorities for researchers as they continue exploring terahertz's abilities.
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At the Women's March, Jan. 21, 2017
Posted on January 23, 2017 by Nutco
I went to the Women's March in Washington, DC, and was quickly separated from my wife and party and spent two house standing shoulder-to-shoulder with strangers. While I never heard nor saw the speeches, there was plenty of activity among the thousands jammed onto the National Mall.
I decided to only bring my Canon PowerShot A590 point-and-shoot and Zoom H1 audio recorder with me, both of which fit into one jacket pocket. They proved up to the task of capturing a few of the magic moments from this historic day.
And is Youtube being sexist by choosing a man for the video's thumbnail image? I could change it, but it's a dramatic shot of a colorful fella. (I guess I'm still part of the problem…)
R.I.P., Mickey Toperzer
Posted on January 3, 2017 by Nutco
(NOTE: Reposting this by request. The original post, itself a repost from a Washington City Paper piece I wrote in 1994, got lost in the Great WordPress Upgrade Disaster of '13)
Frank "Mickey" Toperzer passed away on Oct. 12. He was the owner of Drums Unlimited on St. Elmo Avenue in Bethesda, when Bethesda was a place where you could open a small shop selling only drums.
Below is the article I wrote about him for Washington City Paper, almost 20 years ago. I was still fairly new at the journalism game and I started the interview with some question that did not meet Mickey's approval. "Stop. Turn of the recorder," he said sternly. Startled, I did as he ordered. He then informed me that my question was so foolishly broad and uninformed that it was impossible to answer and that it would only make me seem foolish. Then he told me the question I was really trying to ask and we started again.
I've been told that Mickey kept a copy of the article in his shop, framed a bit sideways–because he felt it would catch people's eyes better if it was off-kilter and then they'd stop and read it. A perfect example of how how Mickey's mind worked.
The reason I wrote the article is that I worked at Drums Unlimited right after high school and knew Mickey to be an entertaining raconteur, among other things. It was a great experience and Mickey taught me many lessons that I didn't know I was learning until years later.
Drums Unlimited made much of its money renting equipment, any and everything for a band, school, and orchestra. For a symphony gig at the Kennedy Center, the store came up short for seats. So Mickey gave me the keys to his house and told me to grab the bar stools from the basement. And I was also to pack up his son's drum set. He'd rented that, too.
When Burt Bacharach was playing the Kennedy Center, his drummer complained that the cymbal stand he'd rented from Drums Unlimited wasn't tall enough. Highly annoyed by this affront to common sense, Mickey cobbled together a frankenstand that was probably 12 feet tall. I got in the van and drove it down to the KenCen. Because I was a clueless teen with no perspective, I just burst into the rehearsal room, interrupting the musicians, and walked the ridiculous piece of hardware right to the drummer. There were some laughs and a confused, then stern look from Burt. I don't know who the drummer was–he could have been one of the Wrecking Crew who played on many of the original Bacharach-David songs. I hope I didn't get him fired.
Much of my time was spent delivering equipment to and picking it up from the newly-opened Kennedy Center. In fact, Drums Unlimited rented several tympani and a large bass drum to the National Symphony for Leonard Bernstein's "Mass," which officially opened the Center. Even though Jackie Kennedy was just one floor above me, I remember being annoyed that the ovation went on and on and on, making me wait so long to pick up the gear.
That was the real treat of the job — wandering around the still half-completed building, underneath the public spaces. One day I poked through a door and found myself standing on the stage in the empty Opera House. I took in the grandeur, took a bow, and snuck out quickly.
In exchange for the keys to the van, I had to wear overalls with a Drums Unlimited logo. One day after a delivery I was heading to the vending machines by the dressing rooms when I spotted a tall man with long but well-coiffed hair who was wearing platform shoes and carrying a purse. Well, it looked like a purse. It was probably a standard messenger bag, but in the early 1970s guys did not carry bags, nor wear platform shoes. At least none of my high school pals did.
But, because I watched The Tonight Show religiously, I recognized Robert Klein, who was appearing in a play. As he passed, I smartly called out, "Robert Klein." He gave me and my overalls a snooty once-over and replied, "Drums Unlimited," and continued on his way. I never much cared for him after that.
Also, when I tried to score points by bragging to my friends that I had seen Robert Klein, nobody knew who he was. Rubes.
Then there was the time I was hauling a couple of tympani drums back to the van, I got snagged trying to lug one down the stairs, tripped, and fell head-over-tympani. Bang, crash, boom, indeed.
Another time, I peeled out from the light at Wisconsin and Bradley on my way to the KenCen. At the next light, a driver frantically caught my attention — the 28-inch bass drum had fallen out the unlocked back door and rolled down the road.
I believe I was making $1.35 an hour — minimum wage at the time. After a while, tired of Mickey calling me at home at night to give me instructions on where I had to be the next morning, I asked for a raise — to $1.65 an<|fim_middle|> more or less, the agent stands by his client, more or less.)
All of the interviews are both casual and insightful. As in his books, Sacks draws out his subjects on the finer details of crafting comedy. Especially fascinating is Sacks' lengthy interview with David Sedaris, which seems almost like we're eavesdropping — partly because the audio sounds like it was recorded surreptitiously. But that doesn't matter. As Sacks likes to bring advice to aspiring humor writers, here's some advice for future podcasters, based on Sacks' show: don't worry about sound and gear. Much of Doin' It is phone conversations, and some of the connections are downright lousy. Even Sacks' intros feature a plethora of plosives, generally anathema in professional broadcasting. But as always, content in king. That Bill Hader had low bars for his chat doesn't matter; he said interesting things.
Sacks grew up in Montgomery County and, as in his written humor, local listeners will find many shouts-outs on the podcast: Hammerjacks, Hagerstown, and Rockville, Md., among them. I suspect some character names may be personal friends.
So subscribe on iTunes, like him on Facebook, hashtag on Instagram, whatever the hell one does nowadays. But do tune in because Doin' It With Mike Sacks is a great way to get through the week.
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The Sound of Our Town
Posted on May 31, 2016 by Nutco
C&O Canal
Eric Brace & Peter Cooper
Red Beet Records
Hometown tunes from the 1970s and '80s are the unifying theme of Eric Brace and Peter Cooper's heartfelt and nostalgic new album, C&O Canal. A love letter to the musicians who inspired the D.C.-raised duo, C&O Canal is a set of cover tunes penned the likes of the Seldom Scene's John Starling, Emmylou Harris, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Joe Triplett, Karl Straub, and more; it's an ode to a particularly fecund era for the local music scene.
The liner notes connect the many dots tying these D.C.-area musicians together, and hearing the songs filtered through the mesmerizing harmonies of Brace's mournful baritone and Cooper's high-lonesome tenor reveals the depth of craftsmanship and artistry this area has produced. "Washington history is as rich with genius-level roots music as it is tricky politics," Brace writes, correctly. The album is dedicated to, among lots of inspirations, many of the D.C. clubs that hosted live music every week: The Birchmere where the Scene had its residency for so many years, Bethesda's Red Fox Inn, where Emmylou started (pictured; I played there, too!), Gallagher's on Connecticut Ave., where Carpenter hosted an open mic (pretty sure I played there in the late '60s when it was called Sam's Place), the fabled Cellar Door (so many nights there; so much magic).
Almost every week in the '70s, you could hear the Rossyln Mountain Boys' Joe Triplett sing his lament, "Been Awhile." B&C bring it back with just enough reverence, while putting their own stamp on the song.
Likewise, if Cooper's plaintive version of "Boulder to Birmingham" won't make you forget either Emmylou's definitive original or the nearly-definitive version by co-writer Bill Danoff's Starland Vocal Band, he acquits himself well.
I'd somehow missed Carpenter's "John Wilkes Booth," and so thought at first that the song was taken from some 1870s tract. But this recitation of historical perfidy manages to be both haunting and jaunty. Jauntily haunting? Is that a thing? On this album, yes.
From the opening title track, John Starling's "C&O Canal," B&C establish a consistent tone and mood, a celebration not only of this particular town, but of honest music made by and about real people. In this age of individual downloads, C&O Canal is one of those too-rare releases that work as a unified whole. The result is a listening experience to be savored at length, even on shuffle-repeat.
Brace and Cooper bring their Americana goodness to Jammin Java on Friday, June 3, for the official record release party.
Posted in Music, Nuttycombe Archives
All the News That Fills
Posted on April 29, 2016 by Nutco
Filler ad from the Unicorn Times.
The best job I ever had, certainly the best job title, was Filler Editor for the Unicorn Times. Whenever an ad fell out, which was often — and often on deadline — I was tasked with filling the space. Which I gleefully did with the help of some spiffy clip art and the photo archives of '70s rock bands.
The Unicorn Times was a monthly arts and entertainment tabloid that published from the early 1970s into the early 1980s, when the much better organized Washington City Paper came to town and finally squeezed it out of business. Unicorn was the brainchild of a jovial Irishman who started the paper largely as a way to get free drinks. In exchange, he offered to print the entertainment schedule of various nightclubs and when he had enough bars lined up, voila, a newspaper.
Unicorn grew into much more than that, launching some actual journalists. I never wrote for the paper. I was nominally the production manager, in charge of pasting up the ads, though I also delivered the papers once they came back from the printer in West Virginia. (Once, I got to deliver the "boards" as they were called to Morgantown, which was an exciting day trip.)
Many of the fake ads were blatant come-ons for ridiculous products and included what I thought was the obvious gag of demanding money for a "free" catalog. And the address was always my father's post office box: Box 602, Rockville, Md. Dad was a traveling salesman and I guess he thought he needed a PO Box as the mark of a serious businessman. I was fascinated by the idea and used it as my address for the comic books I subscribed to.
Some of my jokes were apparently too subtle. I created a fake record company whose entire catalog was devoted to songs of the humpback whales, which was a thing at the time. Such supposedly spurious titles as Reggae Songs of the Humpback Whales, featuring Bob Marley and John Denver did not seem at all insane to the Library of Congress, a representative of which wrote a letter asking that I send over my catalog.
The above filler ad is but one example of my publishing outrage recently unearthed from the Nuttycombe Archives. The rest are on my Tumblr site. Enjoy.
Batman v Superman v Bullshit
The film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was so scorned by critics (a lousy 28% on Rotten Tomatoes) that the Warner Bros. marketing team has been reduced to dredging up what positive quotes they can find from the most random people on social media: a guy from Pakistan, an Irish dude who mostly tweets about football (i.e., soccer), and even a grandmother on Facebook.
In the time-honored movie-marketing ploy of plucking a few words out of context from a review to suggest that the critic actually enjoyed the movie, the Warners team has been posting the following graphics to Twitter. To be fair, the fans seem to have actually enjoyed the movie (the Rotten Tomatoes audience score is an inexplicable 69%). But is the opinion of someone with less than 200 followers on Twitter of any use? Yeah, yeah, democratization of the Internet, end of the gatekeepers, blah blah. But seriously, Twitter user @ceepascual's money quote, "Literally every scene with @galgadot in it took my breath away," is just a guy ogling a pretty lady. Progress!
I have been retweeting these desperate memes right back at Warners, with snarky comments, to no effect.
There is an entire wing of the Nuttycombe Archives filled with Silver Age Superman and Batman comic books, a treasure trove that I adore. I was such a Batman purist that when I watched the Adam West Batman show on TV in the '60s, I despised it. Why so unserious? As a kid, I did not understand camp. I've evolved.
But the approach to adapting comic book characters for film and television (and, indeed, in comic books) has swung so far in the other direction that I was about to write my own screed against this current climate of morose, sociopathic superhero movies, filled with what Wesley Morris in the New York Times termed "lugubrious solemnity and generic philosophizing." But here's the Austin American-Statesman's Joe Gross summing up better than I the problem with BvSDoJ. Spoiler alert: He compares it, unfavorably, to a garbage fire.
Here are some of the film studio's sad attempts to lure you into the theater, and the new social media cineastes who inspired them:
Source: https://instagram.com/nic_ferazzoli
Source: https://instagram.com/gabrielqueirox
Source: http://twitter.com/ceepascual
Source: https://www.facebook.com/SuniyehNabeel
"@ohsnapitsgingee" seems to have disappeared from Twitter.
Source: https://twitter.com/JohnnyCrua
Source: https://instagram.com/kms_fotografie
Source: https://www.facebook.com/kathy.gummere.1
Source: https://twitter.com/TriangleSpidey
Source: https://twitter.com/Themysciran
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Bang the Drum Profitably
It's been 32 years since Frank "Mickey" Topics hung the small sign over the door of his shop on St. Elmo Avenue in Bethesda. For any business to last three decades is a feat; it's especially remarkable for one with as narrow a product line as Toperzer's. The blue-on-white letters on his modest marquee read "Drums Unlimited."
Perhaps the "Unlimited" part of the sign explains it best. The wee retail store is but the tip of the drumstick in an almost sprawling empire that includes a rehearsal space, a mail order and instrument manufacturing business, and a musical-equipment rental service.
All of which arose from the typical drummer's complaint; having to lug carloads of equipment for the same paycheck as a less-burdened flute or guitar player. "I'm a musician, not a truck driver," Toperzer scoffs.
In the '50s, Toperzer was one of the busiest drummers in town, working hotel one-nighters with dance bands and orchestras nearly every evening—this after putting in a full shift as a public-school music teacher. The grind took a toll. "I don't show up three hours early and leave three hours late for the same money as somebody who walks in with a fiddle, or a piano player who walks in with nothing," declares the drummer, a trace of aggravation in his voice even now.
So Toperzer had the audacity to demand that promoters not only pay him for showing up, but shell out an additional rental fee for his station wagon full of gear. Surprisingly, it worked—to the point where Toperzer was soon contracting out equipment for other musicians. He quickly found himself with a house full of musical tools and a burgeoning rental business. He opened the retail shop partly to store his clattering collection. Eventually, he quit teaching, believing that he could have more impact providing materials to educators than teaching tots where the one-beat is.
Still, Toperzer retains something of a professorial air. Offering advice, criticism, support, and strong opinion in his lilting Boston brogue, he clearly enjoys engaging all who enter his store in hardy debate—and not merely about percussion. You may think you just stopped in to pick up a new pair of drumsticks, but if he senses you're a bright student, Toperzer will hit you with a pop quiz. (Example: What's the difference between a piano and an organ? You play a piano, you operate an organ.)
As philosophical as Toperzer can become, he is surprisingly dispassionate when discussing the mainstay of his business. "A drum is a drum is a drum," he says with indifference. "It goes boom boom. If it doesn't, you're in trouble. If it does and you can't play it, you're in trouble. Otherwise, it goes boom boom boom."
Of course, Toperzer is not entirely without sentiment. He points out an old red bass drum. "I bought that for $5 in 1945. At that time, it was about 40 years old. It was built by George Stone," he says. Stone is one of the seminal figures in modern percussion, a drum maker and teacher whose books are still in use. "It's a wonderful, wonderful drum," he says affectionately. "The drum next to it is almost 100 years old," he continues, indicating a scruffy wooden bass drum. "And they're still working. I got my five bucks back a couple of times."
Toperzer speculates that his old-time beater might have been used in John Philip Sousa's band. "And of course that music is still played and that drum sounds like the drum should sound."
Toperzer dispenses these heresies and verities from the Kensington warehouse/headquarters of Rehearsal Spaces and Professional Rental Services, the Drums Unlimited subsidiary run by his son, Michael. Conversation vies with the constant sound of musical instruments being tested and loaded onto one of five trucks that deliver them to such disparate places as Georgia theme parks, Atlantic City casinos, and the stages of Wolf Trap and the Kennedy Center. The clanging concerto of chimes, drums, bass, piano, and electric drills and sanders provides a suitably percussive background.
But we don't spend much time talking the usual drum talk—Buddy vs. Gene, Ludwig vs. Yamaha, blah blah blah. We talk of history, discipline, and the cycles of nature. In explaining the complexities of sending musical instruments around the world, Toperzer mentions the half-dozen sets of tuned automobile horns that he supplies to orchestras intent on correctly playing Gershwin's "An American in Paris."
But to fully explain how one tunes automobile horns, Toperzer must first go back to the 1890s and the celeste, which, he points out, did not exist until Tchaikovsky heard it in his head and thought it might be nice for "The Nutcracker Suite." "Somebody had to invent what he heard," Toperzer says, beginning a story about the composer traveling to France to find a man who could build his imaginary device. "George Gershwin heard these taxi horns in Paris and found a guy in Germany who made things like foghorns and sirens." He pauses slightly, knowing he has a good punch line. "And that man still makes them," he says, before adding with a grin: "He's hard to find."
Not content to pick up the usual catalogs and order the usual soundmaking machinery, Toperzer acquired some of his inventory by roaming through Europe "finding lots of these fellows"—ancient artisans including "the man who tunes cowbells. And the man who makes the cowbells that the other man tunes," he says. "The cowbells are made on an island in Bavaria. And a man 200 miles away goes to this island and goes through bins of these Swiss cowbells, and finds things that are close to a note. And he collects these and he puts them in his van and he goes back to Germany. And they have a little shop there and stroboscopes, and they bring these into tune by cutting them and reshaping them and so forth and so on."
Simple. But Toperzer's Indiana Jones-style adventures cover the percussive gamut. Though the more reliable plastic drum head has been the norm since the late '50s, there are, says Toperzer, "purists out there who want calfskin or goatskin or monkey skin or snakeskin—or sturgeon skin even, which the Egyptians use—on different kinds of ethnic drums. And so we've had to find sources for these things."
"It's not just a primitive catch-as-catch-can," he asserts, maintaining that there is a skill and an art to both the making
and the buying of musical exotica. He adds, almost sadly, "I never did find a safe source for fish skin that wasn't rotten."
In an age of digital sampling, where anybody can be an "artist" with the push of a button, this sort of insistence upon authenticity is refreshing. It also goes a long way toward explaining why that small sign in Bethesda is still beckoning after all these years. Another example: When Modern Drummer magazine published a list of "The 25 Best Drum Books," all 25 could be found on Toperzer's shelves, a fact the former educator is proud to announce.
These days, the globe-trotting is left mostly to his inventory. And as he has backed up the likes of Billy Eckstine, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Peggy Lee, and Julie Andrews, you won't find this sixtysomething stickman pounding out a fox trot at some wedding. But the lure of the traps remains.
Toperzer mentions a recent party where he ascended to the drum throne. "A number of wonderful players were there," he says, including Ray Bryant and bassist Keter Betts. His face brightens as he remembers the fun. "Except Keter and I were exhausted. There were three piano players. They each played an hour nonstop, showing everything they could do. And we played for all of them." He laughs softy. "That kind of thing is wonderful for me."
Of course, he still had to set up all those drums himself. —DAVE NUTTYCOMBE
From Washington City Paper, Sept. 23, 1994
Posted in Drums, Music
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Son of God Goes to Medical School
I am fascinated by this song: Doctor Jesus, recorded by Ken Mellons; written by Tony Stampley and Justin Bolin.
And this version:
And this might be my favorite:
The Wonder of It All
Posted on August 5, 2016 by Nutco
Firstly, this is not an anti-Wonder Woman rant. I like Wonder Woman just fine. Nor an anti-feminist rant. "I'm With Her," and all that. Oh, it is a rant, to be sure. A rant about bullshit marketing. Which, I know, too easy, but still…
As the picture above indicates, this is a rant about the movie Batman v Superman, which I am on record here as despising. As crass and inhuman as that film is, not surprisingly, so, too, is the marketing a cynical ploy. Which, again, a redundant and easy complaint about marketing, but fight we must.
My ire is raised because for some reason Wonder Woman is given front-and-center position on the Blu-ray and on the store rack. Remember, the movie is titled (foolishly) Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, not Wonder Woman and Batman and Superman: Some Kind of Insane Three-Way. Of course, that movie I would watch, at least for a while. Wonder Woman, portrayed with universally-praised panache by Gal Gadot, was only in the two-and-a-half hour slogfest for a total of seven minutes. Seven minutes! A credit to the actress that she can command such reviews from so little screen time. And a discredit to the rest of the film that a bit player can steal the show, which remember features two of the most iconic characters in the history of the world.
The reason Wonder Woman was in the film, and the only reason she is heavily featured on all the packaging and posters, is that Warner Bros. is also making a Wonder Woman film. Probably several. It's cross-promotion, don't you know.
But it's so blatant, so in-your-face, so shameless, that it just defeats its own purpose. What the campaign is saying is, "Hey, you didn't really like this movie, but you did like this one character, so here you go, she's in the movie, remember? Please buy this disc because there might be more of her on the DVD extras."
Sticking your IP into everything just because you can is a filthy business.
If this is your best play, Warner Bros., why not go all the way. Warners is also making another Ben Affleck film, The Accountant. Let's add Wonder Woman to that. Here's the synopsis, wherein Affleck plays
"a math savant with more affinity for numbers than people. Behind the cover of a small-town CPA office, he works as a freelance accountant for some of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations. With the Treasury Department's Crime Enforcement Division, run by Ray King (J.K. Simmons), starting to close in, Christian takes on a legitimate client: a state-of-the-art robotics company where an accounting clerk (Anna Kendrick) has discovered a discrepancy involving millions of dollars. But as Christian uncooks the books and gets closer to the truth, it is the body count that starts to rise."
Could probably use Diana Prince and her invisible plane, right?
But why stop there? Let's add Wonder Woman (or Batman, or Superman, or the Flash, or…) to other upcoming Warner Bros. features!
Warners is making a new Tomb Raider. Another Scooby Doo. Another Jungle Book. Another King Kong movie, Kong: Skull Island. Yet another Godzilla movie, and a King Kong vs Godzilla movie!
Wonder Woman vs. Lara Croft on Skull Island: Dawn of Mowgli. A Scooby Doo Adventure!
Jeez. I take it all back. Warner Bros. should just stop making movies.
Posted in Movies, Rant
Mike Sacks Is Doin' It
Posted on July 16, 2016 by Nutco
The story goes that in the '90s a TV reporter in Los Angeles took to the street and asked random people, "How's your screenplay going?" And almost everyone was ready with the answer that, yes, their screenplays were going just fine, thank you.
Today, of course, the question would be, "How's your podcast going?"
Doin it with Mike Sacks
One of the latest to jump onto the podwagon is Mike Sacks, host of Doin' It With Mike Sacks. Despite the title, this is not a smarmy guide to the porn industry. While there is occasional smarm and even some light smuttiness, Doin' It is at heart something of a literary variety show for the ears. Which is as it should be, as Sacks is himself an author, of two indispensable volumes of interviews with comedy writers, And Here's the Kicker and Poking a Dead Frog, as well as the extremely witty collection of original humor, Your Wildest Dreams, Within Reason. (My review of the latter is here.)
And so Sacks brings an authorial seriousness to the task of hosting, with a dry, low-key delivery, reminiscent of Jean Shepherd or maybe Jack Paar. But seriousness is not really on the menu. Instead, Sacks, a former college DJ, offers a pastiche of found-sound oddities and music from his collection and scripted comedy interludes. Some of the interludes are taken from Your Wildest Dreams, others are original for the podcast. (Like the series Gettin' In Touch With Old Girlfriends, and the horrifyingly vivid NPR Fan Fiction, which totally should become a thing — or more of a thing, or maybe stop being a thing.) I'm guessing one impulse to start a podcast was to give audio voice to some of his written bits. (Who reads anymore?) It's adult conversation, with a bit of childish foolishness.
But the crux of each episode is an interview with a notable from the comedy world. Guests so far have included Bill Hader, sitcom writer and author of Science…For Her! Megan Amram, Dan Powell, executive producer of Inside Amy Schumer, Beth Newell of Reductress, and Neal Pollack. Sacks even interviewed his own agent, who is also the agent for the infamous Twitter joke thief @FatJew. (To his credit, | 3,158 |
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Foraged & Found | Our Autumn Windows by Fox & Thorn
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Echoing our seasonal theme of Rewilding, Paula Ellis of Fox & Thorn has created expressive, sculptural installations for our shop windows using an array of fascinating plants. The London-based floral designer focused on flowers that have been used by people for hundreds of years, for adding flavours to teas and soups, or as medicines or dyes. Some other plants were added for their textural qualities.
"The installations are rooted in the idea of Foraged & Found," Paula says. "I focused on specimens that have multiple purposes". The windows celebrate the wealth of uses plants can provide, hidden in each petal, leaf, stem and root. Some of the flowers are housed in repurposed glass bottles, while other plants are placed directly into the surrounding soil and slate, reflecting the natural environments where they thrive.
The installations feature angelica (Angelica atropurpurea) which has been cultivated as a medicinal plant since the 10th century, alongside yarrow (Achillea millefolium), known as herba militaris as it was used to stanch the flow of blood from wounds in ancient times. There is also wild fennel (Foeniculum vulgare), which was prized by the ancient Greeks and Romans as a medicine, food, and insect repellent, and echinacea (Echinacea purpurea), which is used in tinctures or medicines. Paula advises caution if you are trying to identify plants out in the wild, as some species can look very similar, and recommends further research.
Accompanying the displays is a series of illustrations by Sarah Jane Humphrey of Botanical Atelier, with the plants used in the installations represented in watercolour. Sarah worked directly from specimens to create her illustrations. "I am<|fim_middle|> to have begun when a Swiss herbal supplement maker was told that Echinacea was used for cold prevention by Indigenous peoples who lived in the area of South Dakota. The Kiowa people used it for coughs and sore throats, the Cheyenne for sore throats, the Pawnee for headaches, and the Lakota used it as a pain medication. The leaves and flower petals are edible, and all parts of the plant have been used in tinctures or medicines.
Wild Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)
Fennel was prized by the ancient Greeks and Romans who used it as medicine, food, and insect repellent. A fennel tea was believed to give courage to the warriors prior to battle. According to Greek mythology, Prometheus used a giant stalk of fennel to carry fire from Mount Olympus to Earth. The plant is also thought to help strengthen eyesight, as mentioned in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1842 poem 'The Goblet of Life'.
Words by Alice Simkins.
Illustrations by Sarah Jane Humphrey.
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Bringing people together through growing in unused spaces. | incredibly fortunate to live in a beautiful part of the country where wildflowers grow in abundance," she says. "When the brief arrived from TOAST, I immediately knew where I could source each one of these plants. I also have a fairly extensive library of my own photographs to work from, which is particularly useful if a flower is coming towards the end of its season." Sarah is also inspired by historical botanical drawings, seeing the compositions as an invaluable source of reference. "I find illustrations by Ernst Haeckel and Joseph Banks absolutely exquisite, as well as those by Pierre-Joseph Redouté," she says.
Her studio is located at her coastal home in Cornwall, with a dramatic view of the sea. "The landscape is spectacular," Sarah says. "You will see pine trees that meet the edges of a cliff and wild coastal flowers that drift down to the edge of the sea". Filled with towers of reference books and nature journals, it's flooded with light and scattered with artefacts from past projects, such as seed pods and dried seaweed. For the illustrations, she used honey-based watercolours. "They have a distinct smoothness and radiance to their pigments and are made using traditional methods, which sits beautifully with how I like to work."
Ox-Eye Daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare)
The Latin name leucanthemum is said to have originated from the ancient Greek word leucos, meaning white. The plant was used in traditional medicines to treat various health problems, such as coughs and asthma. The flower heads have also been used to make tea. The flower was often used in romantic predictions in France, and this is echoed today by the modern game of 'he loves me, he loves me not'. The young spring shoots can be finely chopped and added to salads and soups, the root can be consumed raw and the flowers can be tossed into a salad.
Teasel (Dipsacus)
The dried flower heads of teasel were widely used in textile processing, providing a natural comb for cleaning, aligning and raising the nap on fabrics, particularly wool. They were attached to spindles, wheels, or cylinders, sometimes called teasel frames, to tease the fibres on the surface of fabrics. The young leaves are edible and can be added to salads or cooked, while the root can also be used in teas.
Echinacea (Echinacea purpurea)
Echinacea was widely used by Indigenous peoples in North America as a folk medicine. Its modern use for the common cold is thought | 522 |
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ShokzStar Lauren Perry's Mount Taylor 50K Experience
Hola from New Mexico, AfterShokz family! This was my second year running the Mount Taylor 50K in Grants, New Mexico, and I am so excited to tell you about it.
First, for those of you who aren't familiar with ultra running, anything over the standard 26.2 marathon distance is technically an ultra. Out here in New Mexico, we have a particularly wonderful group of trail ultras and a phenomenally supportive ultra-running community. The Mount Taylor 50K has been going on for eight years, and is a not-for-profit event put on by an extremely hard-working group of runners led by Ken and Margaret Gordon. The race course runs over the continental divide, up to the summit of Mount Taylor at 11,305 feet. The entire course takes place at over 9,000-feet elevation with over 7,000 feet of climbing over the 50 miles. To put it lightly, it is an INTENSE course. Last year was my first year running Mount Taylor and, honestly, I didn't quite know what was in store. This year, I was more prepared, but that doesn't mean everything was sunshine and rainbows!
The tradition among the running community and my friends is to camp at the starting line of the 50K. It is high up in the forest on Mount Taylor, but there is plenty of room in the tree clearings to park and camp. We rolled up to the start the night before, made camp, and went to bed as soon as it got dark. It was very chilly! At around 5 am, headlights from people arriving from town started to shine into our tents and cars. I woke up in my CRV and thought to myself, "Do I really need to do this today?" The answer was apparently "yes," because soon enough, I was up, getting dressed in my leggings and layers, putting my cloth bib number on my tights, and making sure my hydration pack was prepared with everything I needed. I typically carry a lot of water on ultras, along with chews, waffles, my inhaler, sunscreen, Chapstick, and my AfterShokz! The course is supported by well-stocked aid stations with all kinds of food and drink, but there are some significant gaps and, for an ultra, nutrition along the course is key.
The starting line was a buzz of runners' headlamps and commotion at the line for the porta potties. Ken, our fearless director, ushered everyone behind the giant timing clock. In the dark and chilly morning, right at 6:30 am, we were off! The first few miles is a challenging climb, but once up there, you get to witness a beautiful sunrise over La Mos<|fim_middle|> year, they place signs with inspiring and funny quotes throughout the course. This year, my favorite sign was a quote from The Princess Bride, which is one of my favorite films. "Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something." I agree. No wonder Mount Taylor is a nonprofit race. You cannot buy an experience,views, or company like this. What a beautiful race! I hope you will all join me for the climb next year.
What is your favorite long-distance race? Tell us on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter! | ca Lookout. This was my second time getting to see this magnificent sunrise, and it was so worth it! The climb to the summit of Mount Taylor doesn't come until more than halfway through the race. Runners have already navigated thousands of feet of technical climbing over 17 miles, and then must reclimb that elevation to the summit. This climb is brutal. One particular section is called Gooseberry Hill. This is my least favorite part of the course, but I am happy to say that this year I took the hill on with a pretty good speed and a good mind-set. At the top, I felt such relief at having conquered that climb! It felt great. My friend Laura and I summited together, and then we began the gradual descent of the last part of the race. There is one particularly brutal climb back up Water Canyon, which is about 1,000 feet of vertical over very few miles, and it is right at the end. Climbing is the last thing you want to do after 27 miles. Nevertheless, we did it and we ran over the finish line together! Laura is one of my best friends and this was her first time running Mount Taylor, so it was an honor to run it with her.
At the finish, we got our beautiful medals. We also received bracelets handcrafted by Margaret Gordon and other artists. Mount Taylor is a sacred Navajo mountain, so the completion of this race also feels very momentous and like a true turning of the season. I am so grateful to have been able to run this course again. It took us eight hours, but that was eight hours well spent in the sunshine, trees, and beauty of the mountain.
The aspen trees over the entirety of the course were rivaled in beauty only by the sublime New Mexican views. It is truly the most beautiful race. I also love the tradition that, every | 386 |
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Interview With Heather Edwards (The Dog and Dragon) on Her Kingdom Hearts Oil Painting
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At San Diego Comic Con 2022, I came across an oil painting that featured Sora, Riku, Donald, Goofy, Mickey, and an unfinished Kairi. Determined to know more I spoke with Alexander Edwards who is the husband of the artist, Heather Edwards and we set up an interview at D23 Expo 2022 along with the CEO of Disney Fine Arts, Michael Young.
Here is a transcription of the interview of Heather and Michael!
– How did the inspiration for this piece come to you?
Heather: Well, the inspiration came from multiple angles actually. I know what I'm passionate about. I know other people are really passionate about what they love. My husband and his daughter are really passionate about Kingdom Hearts and I've watched them play and I've seen that passion in the midst of it and well… okay to be honest and funny at the same time when I play video games, I'm one those people that would end up on a youtube video because they're making fun of me cause my character is going in circles and running into walls. Like my thumbs turn into lumps. So gaming is not my forte, this is more of my forte. But I've watched them and I've enjoyed watching that camaraderie that happens both with them playing and what is happening on the screen.
What I love about Kingdom Hearts was that what inspired me from the Kingdom Hearts is watching this friendship, this fight for light and good<|fim_middle|> get that. I can do that thing." So as I watch them being passionate about what they love I'm like I can take that and do something they love and create something meaningful to me as well and hopefully other people who else enjoy the game and the same concept.
– What would you name this piece?
Heather: This piece is titled "Introduction of a Hero" which has reasons for that too. You can see each one of all these characters and as you play the game you realize there's more than one hero, it's not just a single player. It's all of these other characters that come in and so you have Donald over here who ya know "Yeah I'm the hero." You have Riku who's looking at him going "Uh huh, sure. Maybe it's me." You have Mickey over here, "I have something to bring to this group. I have value, I can help you be that hero. I can be that hero too." Goofy of course is like "I dunno, who's the hero?". Sora here, he's just like "Dude, I'm here. I'm here for you. I'll be that hero. I'll let you be that hero. Of course Kairi is back here, I think she's a little understated in the game, who knows maybe she is the hero and looking forward to the new game coming out. Maybe she'll have that opportunity.
Sora if you look at him, he's actually looking at the viewer inviting us as a viewer to be a hero who is actually that hero. They're not announcing which one of them is but we all can be a hero to somebody and that to me is like what I love to share. We all have the capacity to be a hero.
– When and where will this art be displayed?
Heather: After today, of course it'll be here at D23. It will eventually follow me, I'll be taking it to FanX in Salt Lake City in a couple of weeks. From there you can find it online. We'll have it on our social media and any of the shows I attend until at least somebody snags it, and then we'll have products that will be available anywhere where you can find Disney stuff. Perhaps eventually in the parks, if they approve of the product will be there they can find it at the parks as well.
Michael: Certainly on your site than our site.
Heather: Absolutely, like either one of our websites it'll be available as well.
– How did you get into Kingdom Hearts?
Heather: That was entirely my husband. He would share it all the time. In fact, when we started dating, he would play the music in the car and he was- like all the time. I had no context for it. I'm like "I don't know what this is". So I don't know why it's so meaningful, albeit being beautiful music, so then when I started watching the intro and it has the music at the beginning and I'm like "Ohhh, now I get it." Now I get the reason why there's so much excitement about it and so much passion towards the game and the music. That was my introduction to Kingdom Hearts because prior to that I hadn't heard it. I never heard of it before. Except for maybe off Alexander but that was really watching them and watching them enjoy it.
– Would you say that's your favorite experience with Kingdom Hearts since you don't really play games just watching them?
Heather: Absolutely and that applies to pretty much anything that I know I'm not particularly good at is watching other people excel at things and be passionate about I enjoy watching other people be passionate about cause I know what it feels like to be passionate about something so watching other be passionate is exciting for me although I delved a little into it and gotten to play some of it and be a part of that game a little bit but yes like I said, my thumbs turn into lumps and run into walls. So playing is less the passion than watching people really truly enjoy it and do it right.
– As for the painting, are there any easter eggs you might have put into it?
Heather: Yes actually, there's things hidden from the game itself. So I took all five of the trinity hearts and I snuck them in the painting. I can point them out or can keep them secret cause that would be like a spoiler. I can point one out. And they're hidden around the painting.
– Maybe you'll give fans a chance to try to find them all.
Heather: You'll have to sneak out all the rest. We have a couple things from what's meaningful to me; my husband and I came together to create a business called "The Dog and Dragon". And so as a part of that I'm like "Maybe I can sneak something in there" which is both meaningful to the game and the game community as well as meaningful to myself which is a dog and a dragon. So I snuck in a pongo right there. Over here everyone asks "What is Kairi looking at?" as she's walking towards cause she's looking like she sees something and if you follow her line of sight, there is Maleficent as the dragon over here. So there's the dog and the dragon, that balance each other and it's part of the storyline and the game and it all fits together like a puzzle.
– I was going to say how did you come up with the name "The Dog and the Dragon?"
Heather: That's exactly it. It's interesting, if we're talking about the zodiac signs, I'm a dragon and he's a dog so that's how it partly came all together.
– Are you on social media so people can find you?
Heather: We are. Everything The Dog and Dragon. So thedoganddragon.com is our website, we have thedoganddragon_ig is our instagram, and The Dog and Dragon on Facebook. All of those are linked together. We also have a Collector's Edition on Disney Fine Art.
Michael: DisneyFineArt.com is our site, look we're excited, this is a little outside of our character realm that we've done in the past but not Heather's and it fits beautifully with her portfolio. This is about bringing Kingdom Hearts to life and I don't think anyone else can do this piece but Heather. I'll tell you, Disney approvals are tough, and her work is the most unique I've ever seen and the studio and the folks who approve it absolutely love her work. I don't think we've ever seen more than a few tweaks and it's incredibly different the style in how she brings characters to life. It is purely her soul and if I ever think of someone that's tied into their artwork that is the same, Heather. It is absolutely the most identifiable, grasping, captivating art purely from the heart and I'm super happy to be part of this franchise, people talk about it, and I'm like "Kingdom Hearts" and I'm an old Disney guy and I've never partake in it. We got a few projects that've been incredibly successful, this is going to be really cool, really hot. We're gonna have about 4 different additions so probably in the next month or two we'll have some cool stuff.
– How did you get in touch with Heather?
Michael: I met Heather at a D23 show in like 2011, something like that. She was doing her fine art and her interpolation of Disney Princesses. We have met and linked since then. I call her one of my kids. I love it, I can't wait, she's got a lot of passion in her fantasy, in her art and Disney art, we just wait for the next project. They are incredibly detailed oil paintings, they take time, they're not digital. It's all by hand, so it's original are few far between which is why it's so special for us. Her art team is embrace less, couldn't wait to bring this here today. Thank you for bringing it, this is a super big joy for us.
–Thank you guys. When I saw this at [San Diego] Comic Con I was like "This is amazing. I got to know more." Thank you so much!
Heather: Well, thank you.
Michael: Can't wait to bring it to all of your homes.
– Alright, thank you!
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Nice interview. The painting is also very solid. I especially like the cathedral like background the characters are in
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Really nice pieces of work! While I found Sora and Riku's more realistic faces jarring, I thought the rest of it was spectacularly done! The church setting they're in (or what I assume to be one) is very appropriate.
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Of course the one character who would be both unfinished and in the background would be Kairi.
TrinianDR
Actually, Kairi is staring down Maleficent and one of the key reasons this painting was even made. (If you don't see Maleficent, then look at the pillars in the upper left corner of the painting).
The piece is titled "Introduction of a Hero." Donald is sure that he is the hero being introduced. Goofy isn't so sure. Mickey is giving a subtle reminder about Aqua. Riku is looking at Sora and thinking, "Of course we know it will be Sora." The artist then presents two heroes.
The first hero introduced is Kairi. She is looking directly at Maleficent, keeping her eye on the danger and darkness that her friends seem oblivious too. Maleficent is hard to see as you have to look at the lines and flows of the pillar to see her.
The second hero introduced is ... the person that Sora is looking at.
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Xagzan
I'm looking as hard as I can and I can't see any Maleficent dragon...
Churro said:
"Of course Kairi is back here, I think she's a little understated in the game, who knows maybe she is the hero and looking forward to the new game coming out. Maybe she'll have that opportunity."
Lol oh we been barking up that tree for years, Heather
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It's a nice work with a charming story behind it. I think the backdrop is really fitting for the KH characters. | and one another and that to me resonates.That type of thing is what I stand for, what I love and what I put into my art.
And so as I'm watching the gameplay go through, I'm like "I | 46 |
Saturday morning Rob and I got up early, dropped Drew off for his hiking trip, and got to the Atlanta airport. Everything went really smoothly, parking the car, checking our luggage, going through security, so we had time to grab some<|fim_middle|> it was. | breakfast. We decided crepes at Freshens. Really yummy!
We flew Spirit Airlines out of Atlanta to DFW. So much was running through my mind when we got on the plane, so I just ended up closing my eyes and sleeping most of the flight. Dad called me once we got off the plane and were waiting for the rental car bus. He said he was getting in the shower and hoped to be out by the time we got there with directions of how to get in. I was a bit surprised he was still in there nearly 40 minutes later. When he came out in his bathrobe, I was a bit taken aback by how thin he had gotten just since July when we last saw him.
We enjoyed several hours of chatting and catching up before he suggested El Chico for dinner. While he was getting dressed he wanted me to look at his back to see if really appeared that thin. It didn't look that bad, but I could see how exposed his spine was. Watching him struggle to just put his shirt on just broke my heart a little more. He used a cane to help him walk into the restaurant. I was amazed at how he ate everything on his plate and then when I handed over the dessert he proceeded to finish that off as well. I've never seen my dad devour a plate of food quite like this before.
As we ate our dinner, we discussed such enjoyable topics from who gets what when he dies and the fact he's going to be cremated. I was actually proud of myself for handling everything without breaking out in tears. I think it helped that my Dad is handling so much of this so light-heartedly.
After dinner his friend, Crystal, came by and we got to meet her. Although they're just platonic friends, they have a close bond and she's really been there to help him through the last 3 weeks that has brought drastic change in his body and his ability to do many things. She even drove him all the way out to Colorado. My Dad's health insurance is in Colorado, so he had to go there to see the neurologist.
Sun., Nov. 17th – got an email from my Dad asking me if we were planning to come to DFW for the holidays? I responded back saying no, yadda yadda yadda. He responded saying that we'd touch base soon.
At that point, I was a little excited, because I thought that maybe he was thinking of coming to spend Christmas with us in Auburn. Boy, was I in for a shocker when I did talk to him.
Tuesday, Nov. 19 – Dad had called while I was at work, so I decided to call him back during my dinner break. It turned out I was meeting Rob, the boys, and my BIL at Country's BBQ for dinner, so I called my Dad back as soon as I hit the door while walking to my car. He didn't sound great and proceeded to say his health had been declining. He was slowly easing me into what was actually going on. After he told me he had ALS, he proceeded to tell me that he didn't want me to say anything on Facebook, because he didn't want his brothers to know. He's had falling out and wanted to be able to tell them himself. He told me he had another test on Thursday and another test Wednesday before Thanksgiving. He said he thought he had anywhere from 1 year to 1 month to live, just based on understanding what had gone with his body in the last few months and especially the last couple of weeks.
Thursday, Nov. 21 – He texted me to let me know the diagnosis was made that he did for sure have ALS and that no other test would be needed. I decided to call him to get the facts and to understand what the plan was. When I called he said he didn't have a plan. He could take a pill that would prolong his life by a couple of months, but truly he's suffering and didn't want to do anything to prolong life. No tubes, no breathing tubes, no feeding tubes, no meds. Just pain pills. He told me he really didn't think he'd live into the new year. I became really upset when I thought more and more about what he said, He was having a hard time breathing, saying 3-4 words then taking a deep breath, so he could say 3 or 4 more words and then repeat. He also said he was having a really hard time just walking to the bathroom and that the left side of his body is much weaker. He's unable to lift his left arm above his head.
That night at work I chatted on Facebook with my friend, Michelle, who's Dad died from ALS. I talked to her about my Dad's test results and about what the last things were to happen to him before he passed. She recommended that I go see him even though I had it in my mind that I didn't need to see him again since we had such a great visit in July. So then I sat at work and started looking at flights to DFW. I also wrote the The saddest post I've ever had to write.
Friday I told Rob I wanted to fly out to DFW that weekend. At lunch we decided and arranged for the boys to be with my BIL while we were gone, since he could stay at our house and they could still do their weekend activities. I asked Dad if it was ok for us to come visit for the weekend. His response, "Absolutely!" Made me so happy. We booked our flight and reserved a rental car.
Ok, so now back to details of the trip. Saturday night we ended up staying till 8pm or so and then decided we better head over to Granny's since my Mom was waiting on me. We enjoyed some cookies and milk with Granny and chatted with my Mom for an hour or so, then headed to bed.
Sunday morning we had planned to go to church with Granny, but when we woke up, she said she had been coughing and plus the weather wasn't that great. We went ahead and got up. We went to a nearby bakery and then went over to Dad's, bringing him some kolaches and a Dr. Pepper. We visited, continuing to hear stories about Crystal and his work and his brothers and Jason and other stuff. Rob and I had discussed at breakfast that this was the day I needed to say anything that I wanted to make sure my Dad heard before he dies. I had a really hard time swallowing that. I think this entire weekend, I was in a bit of a fog and really wasn't thinking that clearly. It's not everyday that we prepare for a loved one to only have a short time to live and to know what we need to say to them before it happens.
My Dad wanted us to drive an old truck he had recently bought. The night before he asked if we needed a truck, in which my response was that we could always use vehicles, especially with the impending birthday of our teenage boy. So we drove the truck to Kroger to get him some milk. We got back and told him that we liked the truck and could definitely use it. We talked more about his funeral, that he was going to be cremated and that he wants to be 'set free' in the Florida Keys. I joked that I was all over a trip to the Keys! I expressed that I'd like for him to have a visitation before he's cremated. We discussed more details of his declining health. I also told him about the fact that I had shared the news with most everyone we know in Auburn and that so many people are praying for him. This is when we both broke down in tears, but only for a quick moment.
Rob took some pics of us together. This is my fav.
Saying goodbye that evening was just so hard, so, so hard. We hugged so tight and I just didn't want to let go. He walked us to the back door and I hugged him again. He told me to take care of 'those boys' and that he was proud of me. In my upset state, I told him I was proud of him too and that I loved him. I guess that wasn't as stupid as it sounded. I am proud of him for so many reasons. He's never had an easy life, but that's a whole nother post!
I continue to pray for your family as you walk this path. My husband's grandfather died of ALS before I knew him, but he talks of how hard | 1,759 |
It's a beautiful day, the sun is shining, tank tops are welcome, and I am…sick! You'd think that with teaching for several years, I would have a brag-worthy immune system, but alas…it has failed me. The worst part? I have been sick for over a week now! Thankfully, Aaron was able to work from home for a day (when my sickness was at its worst and was a full-blown fever,) but a nasty lingering cough and cold has stayed by my side, and has even tagged along with little Hadley! We shall persevere though…we've got this! A rookie mom mistake: life doesn't pause when you're sick and have two small children to nurture and take care of. 🙂 (A happy sidenote: My sister brought these pretty tulips and yummy frozen yogurt to cheer me up, love her!) Since finishing up Hadley's room (future post to follow,) we have been putting our decorating energy into our downstairs. Our home came with two living rooms, one with the purpose of being a "sitting room" and the other being the "living room." I was initially not interested in have a total of three regions with sofas, (because we have a bonus room upstairs) but time has gotten the best of me. The front room began as a dining room, but became a true waste of space. In losing our guest room/office upon finishing Hadley's new room, we have been slowly turning the front room into an office/study. Somehow in the midst of planning, I realized how done I was with the white sofas in our living room. With a dog, a toddler, an infant, and a decent amount of friends that visit regularly, the white sofas are getting far more use than I can keep up with. I'd begin to have a little panic attack every time someone would have a chocolate-chip cookie while sitting on my sofa! "No I don't want to have to bleach, iron, and reassemble that cushion cover!" Yes, that is something I have either thought or said aloud regarding the white sofas. Instead of going through the trouble of selling them, we simply swapped them with our upstairs living room sofas. They will be used significantly less now. The ones we swapped them with are leather, much larger, and made the living room far darker than I was prepared for…but I am getting used to it! With a new rug, rearranging of our lamps, side-tables, and art, our living room is actually becoming quite inviting! I still need to find some cute throw pillows, but this is a peek at the result so far: (I only took one photo, as the other half of the living room currently has a toddler-kitchen situation happening) 😉 After several days of being too sick and tired to cook, I re-ignited the flame (pun totally intended) and asked Aaron if there was anything he felt like having for dinner. He sent me this recipe (for a slow-cooker chicken tortilla soup) and I gave it a try. Let me tell you, it was so easy, pretty healthy (as long as you don't go too crazy with the tortilla chip and cheese toppings,) and so delicious! I am a sucker for anything that involves the slow cooker, and anything that I can top with avocados…put them together, and magic! (The only changes I made: I added some cayenne, and used a whole lime instead of just a tablespoon of the juice.) The girls have been such troopers through my less-than-energetic days over the past week. I still try to get Hadley out every day to the nearby park, the library, or even Target (that counts as a field trip, right?) 😉 Aaron has been so helpful and kind, giving me foot rubs and even surprising me with a new water bottle! Yes, water bottles make me happy…he knows me so well. As for the littlest: Sadie has been my little "backpack baby"—this girl gets worn 95% of the time we go out, and she doesn't seem to mind one bit. She gets snuggles with me, and a nice little nap. I get the bonus of having both of my hands free for Hadley, and knowing Sadie is nice and cloes to me. I can guarantee that within a few minutes of me wrapping her<|fim_middle|>o, she is out like a light. This is what she typically looks like when we are done with an adventure in babywearing: Here's to hoping that by the time I write another post, I will have shaken off this cold. I hope you have a happy Friday, and a great beginning to your weekend!
Feel better Christie. Your home is lovely. I was wondering how long the white sofa would last. It wouldn't last 1 hour in my house. Take care. | up in my sling or strapping her into the Erg | 11 |
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Effects of the minimum wage on employment and automation - LPC publishes new commissioned research
Posted by: Joe Cooper, Posted on: 1 February 2019 - Categories: Evidence and Consultation, National Living Wage
Every year the LPC commissions research projects to help evaluate the effects of the minimum wage rates we have recommended. The reports summarised below informed our 2018 Report. The two ongoing projects (ISER and IES) will continue to add to our knowledge and help us with our 2019 Report.
Low Pay Commissioner Professor Sarah Brown said:
The research we commission is vital for our understanding of the effects of the minimum wage rates we recommend. Over the last 20 years our commissioned research has helped us to successfully fulfil our remit of raising pay for the lowest-paid without causing unemployment. We are very grateful to the passion and commitment of academics from the UK and beyond who have put time and effort into what is a vital area of research, with a real impact on people's lives.
The Impact of the Introduction of the National Living Wage on Employment, Hours and Wages, Andrew Aitken, Peter Dolton, and Rebecca Riley, National Institute of Economic and Social Research
The National Institute of Economic and Social Research investigated the impact of the introduction of the NLW in April 2016 and its subsequent uprating in April 2017, assessing the effects on pay and employment.
The authors concluded that the NLW had been a significant intervention in the labour market, raising the wages of the lowest paid, but that it had so far had little adverse impact on employment retention overall. Using Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings data, they found no robust effect on general employment retention or hours worked, but did find some tentative evidence of negative effects on employment retention in the retail industry and among women working part-time.
Minimum wage and the propensity to automate or offshore, Grace Lordan, London School of Economics
The main aim of this research project from the London School<|fim_middle|> transitioning out of low pay. They will investigate this further this year and also examine the impact on pay differentials.
The impact of the minimum wage on employment and hours – interim report, Stella Capuano, James Cockett, and Helen Gray, Institute for Employment Studies
This Institute for Employment Studies project is an extended 18-month study investigating the impact of the NMW and NLW on employment and hours, including on young people. The interim report published today presents early findings from the analysis using the Labour Force Survey. This analysis found no significant effects on employment or hours as a result of NMW and NLW increases. Future analysis will focus on subgroups, such as women working part-time, and replicating the analysis using the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. The final research will be presented in time for our 2019 Report.
2019 research programme
The Low Pay Commission will shortly be launching its Invitation to Tender for research for the 2019 Report and beyond. This call will include research that investigates: the impact on businesses, particularly prices, productivity, profits, investment, and business creation (start-ups) and destruction (failures); the impact of the minimum wage on employment and hours, focussing on any substitution of workers by age; the impact of the minimum wage on pay settlements and pay structures; and employer responses to the NLW.
Research into one-sided flexibility
Low Pay Commission visits 2019 – why we need your help
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Using the UK Labour Force Survey, the key findings were that minimum wage increases were followed by decreases in the share of employment in occupations defined as offshorable or automatable. However, these effects were modest – much smaller than in the US study – and were slightly stronger for automatable employment than offshorable. There were larger effects in manufacturing, particularly on automation. Here, a £1 increase in the minimum wage led to a 0.58 percentage point decline in the share of automatable jobs. The effects were largest for low-skilled men and older workers.
The study concluded by speculating about the future of jobs, suggesting that some low-skilled jobs were expected to continue (such as those in social care, childcare and hairdressing) while others were more likely to disappear completely (such as delivery drivers and security guards).
The NMW/NLW and progression out of minimum wage jobs in the UK – interim report, Silvia Avram and Susan Harkness, Institute for Social and Economic Research
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In With The Old At New Year Day Antiques Show
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To those who aren't serious about antiquing, New Year's Day may seem like a strange time to have an antiques show, but, as anyone passionate about antiques can attest, it is the perfect day to hold a show, and Bob Barrows' 32nd annual Glastonbury Antiques & Collectibles New Year's Show drew big crowds, as it does every year.
"Good crowd" was a common refrain heard from many dealers, who several hours into the show, were still busy selling as the show's ample aisles were still clogged with buyers and most every booth still had at least three to four shoppers perusing merchandise. By noon, there was still a line of a dozen people at the ticket booth, and the traffic in and out of the show showed little sign of abating.
The show, run by Barrows Show Promotional, Ltd, and benefiting<|fim_middle|>lastonbury, Conn., and the dealers were also happy to report the sale of a propeller-style egg beater with glass bowl. Other kitchen tools could be found hanging from blue painted shutters in the booth of Ryan's Antiques, Harwinton, Conn.
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A "man's booth" (as one buyer happily proclaimed aloud) was that of Carole and Richard Pleines. Though their Killingworth, Conn., business is named Old Hickory Furniture of Connecticut, they had a good selection of knives on display, which piqued the interest of many male buyers in attendance.
Beverly Dutton, West Hartford, Conn., had already sold some Waterford and large print an hour into the show. "This is a very good show," she said.
Fine examples of Americana could be found throughout the show, from a folky blanket box, circa 1820, with three pots of tulips on the front, at W.S. Korzick Antiques, New Haven, Conn., to a large two-door cupboard with five shelves at Hirsh Antiques, Pleasant Valley, Conn., where Christmas ornaments were selling "like hotcakes" in the morning, along with treen. The dealer had not sold any furniture yet when we visited but had gotten much interest in the cupboard.
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Sugar Princess, Montville. N.J., always has an eclectic booth, and interesting pieces this time included early football items, a Beware Of Dog sign and a rooster weathervane.
Early sales at Nook-n-Cranny Antiques, Chicopee, Mass., included some painted boxes, a miniature blanket chest, and a Windsor chair. Skip and Elaine Antiques, East Haddam, Conn., had sold mostly painted items by midmorning as well as a Royal Doulton figure and a cutlery box.
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"Many developed nations cannot afford to care for all the elders in the baby boomer generation. So, they'll continue to need to find solutions that allow people to age in place, either with mechanical support or support from other people mediated by, and possibly monitored and reimbursed by, software technologies." – Victoria Belloti, Research Fellow, Innovation Services Group
Robots in the lab
"I think in 2018 we'll see more biology laboratories starting to move into the cloud, leverage robot technology. The impact could be immense, as technology can eventually re-produce the procedures of scientific experiments without humans, helping with reproducibility challenges, and reducing the cost of checking and reviewing scientific experiments." – Soichiro Iga, Innovation Services Group, Japan
Rapid consumerization of healthcare
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"Cryptocurrencies can be seen as the next technological iteration of value tracking in our civilization. While they face challenges with scalability, energy efficiency, security, we can expect those to be resolved in a horizon of next decade. The cryptocurrency whose community is able to resolve these challenges fastest will become the value-holding currency and dominate 80% of the market. Bitcoin has a head-start and we could see it reach $60,000 per coin and $1 trillion market capitalization in 2018." – Filip Dvorak, Researcher, System Sciences Lab
Sensing, computation and blockchain
"I see two significant emerging trends for 2018 and beyond. The first has to do with the confluence of sensing and computation that is providing data at increasingly finer spatial and temporal resolutions and sensitivities, yet at the same time with increasingly high-level autonomous extraction of meaning and development of contextual knowledge. The second is the maturation of blockchain-related technologies, which together with the first trend, will create and incentivize a globally-distributed, decentralized knowledge network and marketplace that rewards contribution and therefore continually refines its understanding of the physical world. When combined with a capacity for actuation, this will usher in the era of automation." – Alex Hegyi, Research Scientist, Electronic Materials and Devices Laboratory
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By Vincent Chu, Senior Content Marketing Manager, PARC
For the new year, we asked 18 of our researchers and staff members from around PARC to share some of their technology predictions for 2018 and beyond. Here's what they said:
More learning from less data
"Deep learning and deep reinforcement learning has revolutionized data analytics, but the amount of data required is still relatively huge. It's also not how humans learn – typically a few examples are enough to form a mental model. I think this is going to change as research shifts from feasibility and accuracy to scalability and transparency. There's already some work in this area of slow learning, including from PARC, and this will only get more prominent." – Raj Minhas, VP, Director of Interaction and Analytics Lab
Age-responsive design
"Responsive design is about adapting an experience for a user. So why are websites still one size fits all? Just as digital advertising tailors content to the specific interests and demographics of its users, I think we'll start seeing websites adapting their content to different ages, from children to the elderly." – Cristina Gaitán, UX Designer and Researcher, Innovation Services Group
18 tech predictions for 2018 from Silicon Valley researchers.
"Electronics will continue to be 'freed from the box' in exciting ways. Advancements in form and shape, integrating micro and macro, flexible hybrid circuitry, printed batteries. Electronics manufacturing will become more accessible, on-demand and personalized, and the privileges of large companies will now be available on a desktop or at the corner shop. We'll also see higher levels of complexity, with computation doubling alongside microelectronics in exponential ways." – Janos Veres, Program Manager, Novel and Printed Electronics
"IoT will continue to change every industry that touches it, but rather than providing simple telemetry and control of existing business processes it will shift into determining business strategy as prescriptive AIs identify emergent organizational opportunities and threats and plan alternative strategies. In contrast, people will increasingly have to develop everyday AI literacy as systems built to exploit human cognitive biases become more sophisticated and prevalent." – Mike Kuniavsky, Principal UX Designer and Researcher, Innovation Services Group
Electrification of thermal processes
"We'll begin to see electrification of thermal processes. An example is hot water heaters, which use natural gas (thermal) to heat water. Replacing these with electrical water heaters gives a "knob" to turn to control electricity demand. This is important for grid stability: with increasing penetration of renewables and extreme weather events, we need to be able to control when loads turn on and off to ensure supply meets demand. PARC has several projects converting thermal processes to electrical." – Jessy Rivest, Area Manager, Energy Materials & Systems
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"As autonomous systems become more competent, the need for interacting with machines will only increase. This will happen on both ends of the spectrum: in building smarter machines and in working with smarter machines. While general AI is still far away, there will be a trend towards "teaching by showing." This theme involves a number of challenging angles like trust, transparency, and collaboration and is also an area where PARC is doing some interesting work." – Kyle Dent, Research Manager, Interaction and Analytics Lab
"I think we'll see significant progress in transfer learning, for example in other domains like healthcare and social sciences, making use of the typical machine learning use cases to solve some of their "low-hanging fruit" problems such as classification and regression. Also, traditionally, machine learning algorithms have been applied to predictive analytics problems in the industry. We'll see a lot more generative applications this year." – Kalai Ramea, Researcher, Interaction and Analytics Lab
Industry 4.0 coming of age
"In 2018, we're going to see clear impact from Industry 4.0, or the fourth industrial revolution. There's an enormous digital opportunity for traditional industry that's ripe for incumbents and startups alike and I predict that we're going to see several large industrial firms making major announcements and new product introductions in the intersection of physical industrial infrastructure and digital services." – Markus Larsson, VP of Global Business Development
Connecting digital and physical design
"In recent years, how we design services have been defined by and limited to digital screens. As a result, people spend more time interacting via device than in person. I think this will begin to shift due to growing angst about "screen addiction" and core technology components being increasingly embedded in different environments. My guess is we'll see digital brands place greater emphasis on physical presence and soon we'll find it harder to separate digital and physical design, they'll be one and the same." – Frances Yan, UX Designer and Researcher
Automation for the people
"The continued commodification of key automation components is enabling a whole generation of applications — cars driving themselves, plants being monitored and pruned in agricultural fields, knots being tied in surgery. While this is wildly exciting, it's highly disruptive and will restructure our economy from top to bottom. More thinking will go toward harnessing this productive power in a way that society can widely accept and benefit from." – Bob Price, Researcher, Machine Learning
Better batteries
"The continued advancement of batteries in terms of cost, energy storage and charge times will only propel electric car adoption further in 2018. My guess? Electric cars will reach more than 5% market share in 2018, up from around 2% today." – Dan Davies, Researcher, Interaction and Analytics Laboratory
AI in healthcare
"The implementation of different AI and machine-learning techniques in healthcare will only continue to grow. We'll see the impact of AI and systems engineering in diagnosis, pharmacy, a doctor's performance analysis, workflow improvements. I believe we'll also see more virtual and augmented reality in healthcare in 2018." – Marzieh Nabi, Director of Business Strategy, Global Business Development
The radar era
"To date, lidar and camera have reigned the automotive sensor space for autonomous driving. The | 1,468 |
Hello, my friend, I hope you are having a wonderful Friday. The sun has finally come out again after some pretty gray days. I am grateful for the sun coming this weekend but not the humidity. I mean really, we are a little over a week from the first day of fall and I really want to put away my shorts.
My whining aside, my thoughts are still with the devastating storm that has now settled in on the Carolinas. Most of the people don't have flood insurance so it will be a long road to recovery once this storm moves on.
On a happy note, I just now confirmed that I will be spending some much needed time with my crafty crew this Saturday. I think it was last spring since I have seen some of them so I am way overdue. Not sure what I will bring to play with while catching up but I am sure I will bring too much. It's funny how excited I get when I know we will all get together. I have known these women, for so many years and it never gets old. So I will update you on my girlfriend time next week. Today I included a couple of photos of a completed coloring page I colored this summer. As many of you may know, I started playing around more seriously with my colored pencils after the new year and have been having a blast. I took the summer off from work so my Copics collected a little dust!
The cool thing about this page is that I pushed through my perfectionist ways to complete it<|fim_middle|> following along trying to re-create her magic in my book. I am using my Prismacolor pencils and working through the stages of layering colors and then I will add stars. I will be sure to share the completed page when I finish. Update on last weeks' craft project – the watercolored postcard. I finished it and still haven't mailed it off to my friend. I am pleased with it and will definitely be using the Inktense to color more of those postcards. You can see the finished postcard below. I like how vibrant the colors became once activated. I am pleased to say there was no warping or bleeding through so the postcard is perfectly useable. Ok, I am off to continue on this night sky and then to peek at your desks. Last week, I saw so many pretty and inspiring art. Thank you for sharing. | . I didn't want to sit paralyzed trying to select the perfect colors. Instead, I just picked colors and went for it. I even added some Wink of Stella to the bubbles so they sparkle a bit. This is one of my newer coloring books from a German artist, Rita Berman.
I have recently acquired a very lovely fall themed coloring book that I can't wait to crack open. So I will share pages as I work and complete them.
I hope you all have a blessed weekend and please put others in need in your prayers.
My desk is looking a bit similar to last week. I couldn't shake the allergy symptoms which made for poor sleep and lousy congestion that made my ears feel like I just got off a long flight and they haven't decompressed. Unfortunately, I was quite cranky and unproductive for much of the remainder of the week.
However, Saturday morning I rose from my fitful slumber to watch the Royal Wedding and I decided to bring along the coloring book and my pencils. I made some tea and some breakfast and sat and watched all the guests arrive and managed to finish coloring this page from last week before the start of the actual wedding. Once the ceremony started my eyes were glued to the screen. It is hard to convey the awe and pride I had watching this ceremony. As an African American, I felt so proud. Living in a country that is currently undergoing some major turmoil and division in our governmental infrastructure as well as race relations, I find I am desperately seeking to find the light again. This wedding gave me a moment to rest my head from the daily stress of our current chaos and enjoy a beautiful and symbolic union of Prince Harry and Meghan Markel. II have a dear friend that is blessed with the opportunities to go to Disney World. She knows my favorite princess is Tiana, which is the only African American princess created by Disney. I have collected a few of her dolls and other items. But my point that I am going for is that now I have a real African American princess to adore. But I digress. Let's stop the gushing and talk about my desk. Check it out! I have the completed page I started last week. Ha…I actually finished it to share! I think WOYWW helps on the accountability pressure!! Other items are this beautiful tea themed dies set I bought from my girlfriend over a year ago. Actually maybe longer. I hardly used it to so I was thinking I need to play with it. I am still loving my little tray to hold the colored pencils I use for a page. Lately, I leave my big case on the shelf once I have selected my colors and it makes for less clutter on my desk while I color. On the left is the edge of my bullet journal (it's turquoise). I just started using it this year instead of a planner. I am really loving the full flexibility and I am not at all upset that I fit half a year in this one so I ordered another, same color to finish off the second half of the year. I also journal in it which I believe led to more space needed but I like having everything in one place and I keep it simple so it's fun to return to rather than a chore.
Ok, I am going to stop babbling and end this post. I will stop by to visit you all tomorrow because today I am loaded down with appointments and work.
Good morning my crafty WOYWW friends! For those of you that aren't familiar with WOYWW (What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday), head on over to Julia's Stamping Ground and you will find desks from all around the world for What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday.
This morning I am working on a new coloring book that I bought a few months ago. It is a lovely Korean coloring book called, "Romantic Country: Cocot–The Land of Beautiful Towering Castles by Eriy. I have found a bunch of wonderful international coloring books that I have added to my wish list. This one is so pretty. I found a colorist on YouTube that created a night sky on this page so I am | 843 |
Making kindness the new normal
Over the past few years, Mary Portas has thought long and hard about the heady days when she was busy building her retail career. Her winning formula meant abiding by what she calls "alpha codes" in a predominately masculine culture which rewarded individualism rather than collaboration, and where she suppressed her more feminine attributes - kindness, compassion and vulnerability – in case they reminded her colleagues that she was fallible.
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Hard-wired to be kind
Actually, this shouldn't come a surprise to anyone. Whoever said "we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give" had it about right. As humans, we're hard-wired to be kind, to be supportive and sympathetic to the people around us. Darwin spotted the evolutionary advantage of communal support, and more recently we've understood that our bodies and brains power the supportive imperative too.
Recent research into the 'helper's high' and the 'giver's glow' shows that acting selflessly gives rise to feelings of elation and exhilaration, followed by a satisfying calm, just like the effects of tough physical exercise. And there are similar health effects too – the release of dopamine, followed by oxytocin is a hormonal cocktail which helps to boost our mood, lower blood pressure and protect the heart.
No-strings generosity
There are examples of no-strings generosity around the world and throughout history. The Haida Nation, located in southern, Alaska still practise a historic 'potlatch' or 'give-away' ceremony. The native American community takes this opportunity to come together to reaffirm family, clan and the relationship with the supernatural world. By giving away valued and valuable possessions they're making a meaningful, heartfelt sacrifice. The act honours the item and its new owner and giving away something so important brings about a release and the possibility of personal growth in the future.
"It's important to seek kindness as a thread that runs through our whole life."
We don't have to take part in an elaborate ceremony to be kind. In our daily lives it's about doing the small stuff well – and treating everyone, including ourselves with friendliness and generosity. Jaime Thurston, author of The Kindness Journal says: "I think it's important to see kindness as a thread that runs through our whole life rather than little acts of kindness".
When kindness is shared, it grows
Everyone responds well to kindness, and the complex web of positivity opens up to everyone around. Simply witnessing acts of kindness – however small – has similar health benefits, and encourages others to copy that behaviour. At a time when contagion is a dirty word, let's celebrate our ability to pass kindness on.
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Cy Palmer
A celebration of life service is scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 27, at Faith Baptist Church for Cy James Palmer of Artesia.
Palmer, 7, passed away Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017, in Artesia.
Paul Dunbar and Robby Ballew will officiate the services, with interment to follow at Woodbine Cemetery. A rosary will be recited at 6 p.m. today at St. Anthony's Catholic Church.
Cy was born at 10:27 a.m. Oct. 15, 2<|fim_middle|>urn, and Jerry Tidwell. He was the paternal great-grandson of Duane and Loretta Palmer, Connie Martinez, Raul Torrez, and Uncle Doug Palmer.
Cy also had numerous aunts and uncles, and a boatload of cousins.
Arrangements are under the direction of Terpening & Son Mortuary. Condolences may be expressed online at www.artesiafunerals.com. | 010, in Roswell to Chelsea Orona and Joshua Palmer. He was blessed to have a bonus dad, Robert Orona Jr., and bonus mom, Tieler Palmer, who played major roles in his life with great care and love.
Cy was the coolest brother to London, Chase, Robbie, Patrick, Jonah and honorary cousin/brother Bryson, all of whom looked up to him.
He was one special Bean to his aunt Krista "Ta" Matthews. His other aunts include Nykole Cauhape, Danielle Taylor and Candice Barley. He had amazing uncles named Seth Tidwell, Steve Vargas, Ryan, Jacob and Jordan Orona, Nick and Chris Archibeque, and Eric Kaiser.
He is the maternal grandson of Sandi "Nan" and Don "Pa" Tidwell and paternal grandson of Cecil "Grandma" and Jim "Papa Jim" Palmer. He was also blessed to have bonus grandparents: Janelle "G-ma" and David "Papa" Archibeque, and Amy "Hun" and Glen "Grandad" Kaiser.
He was the maternal great-grandson of Ronnie and Barbara Matthews, Karen Matthews, Pat Clab | 252 |
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All sales final: Roberts Shoes going out of business after 77 years
By Debra Keefer Ramage (Southside Pride) | September 3, 2014
Any time you see a Going Out of Business Sale sign, you know some lives are changing, as an institution is coming to its end. But what if that business has been in the same location, in the same family, and with only two owners, since 1937? That's the story at the corner of Chicago and Lake, where the familiar green signs "Roberts Shoes" and "Hardly A Foot We Can't Fit" are now eclipsed by huge going-out-of-business sale signs. That's the main story, but there are scores of other stories, too.
The stories about people: Nathan Roberts was the original owner. In 1937 he was an employee at Kaplans, when it was on Franklin Avenue. A chain store called Minneapolis Shoe Company was going bankrupt, and Roberts had the idea to buy one of their stores, at the corner of Chicago and Lake. The Sears department store and warehouse had just gone in a few years earlier, and two streetcars passed by the corner, so he figured it would be a good location. He was obviously right! Roberts worked in the store until his death in the late 1990s at age 89. There are a few old-timers still working there who sold shoes with Roberts years before Mark Simon, the current owner. At 62, Simon says he is one of the younger members of staff. Several are well past retirement age, but apparently shoe salesmen never want to retire. Or maybe they were just inspired by Roberts' example.
In 1982, Nate Roberts recruited his son-in-law Mark Simon to work in the store, with the view to taking it over. Simon found he liked retail sales as much as his father-in-law, so he stayed on and then he and his wife bought the business in 2000. Simon is the owner of both of the business he is closing down and the building that will remain. He is also a commercial realtor and will continue in that business, seeking a new tenant for the Roberts Shoes space after the business closes.
The story about the neighborhood: The Sears store was struggling at the end of the '80s, and closed in 1994, leaving a derelict building on a corner where blight and crime were coming in fast. Simon was and remains a very involved business owner, attending community and Lake Street Council meetings, and steering the neighborhood into more prosperous times. This activism paid off in a major way when the Sears building was converted to the Midtown Global Market and Allina Health complex in 2004. Roberts Shoes had a good rebound in business at first, but this was followed by recession in 2008.
The story about the business models: Roberts Shoes had a really good business model to start with. They are still known for hard-to-fit sizes, and these are the customers most distressed at their closing. Through the years, changes in the retail environment challenged both Roberts and Simon, who reacted to each of<|fim_middle|> St. Paul! But the store opened for business the next morning, out on the sidewalk, selling shoes. The other great story may be apocryphal; I can't confirm it, but it's a great story. According to Simon, Robert Pirsig penned his best-known work, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," in a studio above Roberts Shoes that he was subletting from a small publisher. I really hope that's true.
According to Minneapolis licensing rules, the store has 90 days to hold its closing sale. They can apply for an extension, but best be safe and don't put it off too long. Get yourself some shoes for a bargain, and a piece of history for free.
Luce Guillen-Givins | them with a plan. Roberts Shoes, at Simon's urging when Nate Roberts was still the owner, branched into athletic shoes just in time. Simon was an early adopter of the tactic of having a "web presence." More recently, they added a line of athletic clothing. Roberts has seen many other independent shoe stores fall victim to mall-based chains and internet sales, and each one has meant a small uptick in their own business. But in the end, the tide is turning, and Simon is closing now when, as he said in an interview with the Star-Tribune, he can do it on his own terms, not under pressure from anybody.
I talked to Mark Simon in the store and asked him to tell me the best stories. One, the Tornado Story, happened in 1981, the year before he started working there. The tornado tore through the Twin Cities on a Sunday in June, from west to east. At Roberts Shoes, the windows were all blown out, and the roof was taken off of the building. The inventory was scattered; there were even tales of Roberts' shoes landing in | 228 |
Warmer sea surface temperatures imperil the survival of juvenile albatross: Study
by Mongabay.com on 21 June 2018 |
New research finds that increased sea surface temperatures can affect the survival of juvenile albatross during their first year at sea and lead to reduced population growth rates.
Ecologists in the US and France examined how climate change and functional traits — attributes like body size and foraging habits that define a species' role in the broader ecosystem — impact population dynamics of the black‐browed albatross (Thalassarche melanophris) by studying 200 breeding pairs of the long‐lived, migratory seabirds at Kerguelen Island in the southern Indian Ocean.
Changes in sea<|fim_middle|> Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in the US and France's National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) examined how climate change and functional traits — attributes like body size and foraging habits that define a species' role in the broader ecosystem — impact population dynamics of the black‐browed albatross (Thalassarche melanophris) by studying 200 breeding pairs of the long‐lived, migratory seabirds at Kerguelen Island in the southern Indian Ocean. Their results were published this week in the Journal of Animal Ecology.
"The effects of climatic conditions on seabirds generally occur indirectly. They operate primarily through effects on the availability of prey and breeding habitats potentially causing changes in transportation costs, timing of breeding and body conditions of seabirds," the researchers write in the study. That means that phenology (the timing of life events like breeding or migration), body conditions, and foraging behaviors are some of the key functional traits through which seabirds like the black-browed albatross might respond to climate change. These responses, in turn, can have consequences for demographic trends and population dynamics.
"Sea surface temperature is widely used as an indicator of food availability for marine predators because warmer temperatures usually result in lower primary productivity in marine ecosystems, ultimately reducing the availability of prey," Stéphanie Jenouvrier, a seabird ecologist at WHOI and lead author of the study, explained in a statement. "As our oceans are projected to warm, fewer juvenile albatrosses will manage to survive and populations are expected to decline at a faster rate."
Black-browed albatrosses. Photo Credit: Stephanie Jenouvrier, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
The researchers also determined that adult black-browed albatross adapt to changes in climate conditions during the winter by altering their migratory schedule, as opposed to their at-sea foraging activities, but that this alteration didn't have a big impact on population growth rates. Among functional traits, adult's foraging activity during the pre-breeding period had the biggest effect.
Jenouvrier and her co-authors write in the study that their results "suggest that the population dynamics of [black-browed albatross] are driven by the combined effects of climate over various seasons, multiple functional traits and demographic processes across the full life cycle." The researchers particularly underscore the importance of studying the bird's entire life cycle, since black‐browed albatross population dynamics are driven "by processes occurring during multiple seasons (the wintering, pre‐breeding and breeding season) through carry‐over effects, whereby climate or functional traits that affect an individual in one season also affect its demographic rates during a subsequent season."
For instance, winter climate conditions and foraging activity of adult albatross during the pre-breeding season can have large carry-over effects on breeding success during the next breeding season, the researchers found. They conclude that "Carry‐over effects have potentially large impacts on populations, and it is thus very difficult to draw general conclusions about which season of the life cycle is the most critical for population dynamics without analyses integrating the complete life cycle."
Christophe Barbraud of CNRS, a study co-author, said that understanding how seabirds like black-browed albatross respond to global warming and changing climatic conditions could help us better anticipate impacts on marine ecosystems as a whole.
"Albatrosses and other seabirds are long-lived predators that fly very long distances to forage at sea and nest on land," Barbraud said in a statement. "As a key indicator of ecosystem health, studying how seabirds fare in the face of climate change can help us predict the ecological impacts on the entire marine food web."
Black-browed albatross preening its newborn. Photo via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
• Jenouvrier, S., Desprez, M., Fay, R., Barbraud, C., et al. (2018). Climate change and functional traits affect population dynamics of a long-lived seabird. Journal of Animal Ecology. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.12827
Animals, Birds, Climate Change, Ecology, Environment, Impact Of Climate Change, Population, Research, Seabirds, Wildlife | surface temperature during the breeding season were found to have little impact on black-browed albatross population growth rates, but higher sea surface temperatures in late winter did have a significant impact because of their effect on the survival of juveniles, according to the study.
Ecologists with the | 57 |
Just next door to The Beach House is the Portobello Sailing and Kayaking Club. A charity, PSKC is a friendly and active club on the shores of the Firth of Forth. We organise regular sessions for all three sports from the beach. Every summer the club runs dinghy sailing<|fim_middle|>) and dinghy racing. PSKC is also home to 'Rowporty'- except on the very wildest of days the 5 person St Ayles Rowing Skiffs are out on the water. Throughout the summer the skiffs go to regattas across Scotland. On the 10th June, Rowporty will be holding its own regatta on the beach in front of the boatyard.
Members - with appropriate qualifications and experience - can use our sailing dinghies, kayaks and rowing skiffs. We also offer storage for members' boats - no powered craft are permitted.
Lack of experience or equipment is no barrier to joining. We are a charity offering training and facilities to encourage people to participate in watersports. Members are encouraged to play an active role in the running of the club and its activities. | and kayaking courses for children. On Sunday afternoons there is sailing with rescue boat cover (weather permitting | 22 |
Sturgeon Class Attack Submarine: Laid down, 8 February 1965, at Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp, Pascagoula, MS.: Launched, 30 March 1968; Commissioned, USS Puffer (SSN-652), 9 August 1969; Decommission<|fim_middle|>.
60k Commemorative postal cover issued on the occasion of the Puffer (SSN-652), surfacing at the North Pole, 27 April 1993. Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory).
75k The Puffer (SSN-652) on her way to celebrate Halloween at Guam in 1994. Photo by Jason M. Atkin & submitted by Bill Gonyo.
5.17k Twenty page Inactivization Welcome Aboard PDF for the Puffer (SSN-652), 8 September 1995. USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | ed and simultaneously struck from the Naval Register, 12 July 1996; Final Disposition, disposed of through the NPSSRP (Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program) at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA., 28 March 1997.
736k Puffer (SSN-652) sliding down the launching ways at the Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi, 30 March 1968. Courtesy of Ingalls Shipbuilding via Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com.
1.30k Puffer (SSN-652) on trial, 15 July 1969. USN photo # NPC 1140314 courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com.
1.24k Puffer (SSN-652) parts port in Pascagoula. Ingallis company photo courtesy of Dale Hargrave.
264k Puffer (SSN-652) on trial, 15 July 1969. USN photo # NPC 1140317 courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com.
201k Puffer (SSN-652) ports Pacific at Pearl on 28 September 1971. USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com.
1.46k Two eight page Welcome Aboard PDF's for the Puffer (SSN-652), circa early / mid 1970's. USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com.
104k Capt. Howard W. Habermeyer was the commanding officer of the Puffer (SSN-652) from 7 February 1980 to 3 June 1983. He was the Commandant of Midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy from 1987 to 1988. Courtesy of Bill Gonyo.
2.91k Ten photo PDF of the Puffer (SSN-652) over the years. USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com.
319k A port view of the nuclear-powered attack submarine Puffer (SSN-652) underway as it nears San Diego, 12 November 1989. USN photo # DN-SC-90-07283, courtesy PH3 Hogan, of dodmedia.osd.mil, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.
23k Pointed upward like an arrow, the Puffer (SSN-652) breaks through the Polar ice in 1990. USN photo courtesy of US Navy Arctic Submarine Laboratory & csp.navy.mil | 629 |
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Secondary literature sources for CENPB
The following references were automatically generated.
Fujii Y, Shimizu T, Kusumoto M, Kyogoku Y, Taniguchi T, Hakoshima T
Crystal structure of an IRF-DNA complex reveals novel DNA recognition and cooperative binding to a tandem repeat of core sequences.
EMBO J. 1999; 18: 5028-41
There has been growing interest in the role of the IRF (interferon regulatory factor) family of transcription factors in the regulation of immune responses, cytokine signaling, and oncogenesis. These members are characterized by their well-conserved DNA binding domains at the N-terminal regions. Here we report the 2.2 A resolution crystal structure of the DNA binding domain of one such family member, IRF-2, bound to DNA. The structure reveals its recognition sequence, AANNGAAA (here, recognized bases are underlined and in bold, and N indicates any base), and its cooperative binding to a tandem repeat of the GAAA core sequence induced by DNA structure distortions. These facts explain well the diverse binding properties of the IRF family members, which bind to both single and tandemly repeated sequences. Furthermore, we also identified the 'helix-hairpin-strand motif' at the C terminus of the recognition helix as a metal binding site that is commonly found in certain classes of DNA-interactive proteins. Our results provide new insights into the structure and function of this family of transcription factors.
Chernov BK, Chinenov IV, Golova IB, Gurskii IG, Leinsoo TA, Gurskii GV
[Design, synthesis, and expression of a gene coding for a protein with two DNA-binding motifs]
Mol Biol (Mosk). 1999; 33: 779-90
Sunnerhagen M, Nilges M, Otting G, Carey J
Solution structure of the DNA-binding domain and model for the complex of multifunctional hexameric arginine repressor with DNA.
Nat Struct Biol. 1997; 4: 819-26
The structure of the monomeric DNA-binding domain of the Escherichia coli arginine repressor, ArgR, determined by NMR spectroscopy, shows structural homology to the winged helix-turn-helix (wHTH) family, a motif found in a diverse class of proteins including both gene regulators and gene organizers from prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Biochemical data on DNA binding by intact ArgR are used as constraints to position the domain on its DNA target and to derive a model for the hexamer-DNA complex using the known structure of the L-arginine-binding domain. The structural independence of the wHTH fold may be important for multimeric DNA-binding proteins that contact extended DNA regions with imperfect match to consensus sequences, a feature of many wHTH-domain proteins.
Suck D
Common fold, common function, common origin?
Travers A
DNA-protein interactions: IHF--the master bender.
Curr Biol. 1997; 7: 2524-2524
The crystal structure of Escherichia coli integration host factor complexed with DNA reveals how the sequence-specificity of DNA binding can be determined almost entirely by the structural features of the DNA itself and not by direct readout of the base sequence. There are lessons to be drawn for other DNA-binding motifs.
Suzuki M, Suckow J, Kisters-Woike B, Aramaki H, Makino K
Multi-helical DNA-binding domains: their structures and modes of DNA-binding.
Adv Biophys. 1996; 32: 31-52
Long EC, Eason PD, Liang Q
Synthetic metallopeptides as probes of protein-DNA interactions.
Met Ions Biol Syst. 1996; 33: 427-52
Zilliacus J, Wright AP, Carlstedt-Duke J, Gustafsson JA
Structural determinants of DNA-binding specificity by steroid receptors.
Mol Endocrinol. 1995; 9: 389-400
Toth M, Grimsby J, Buzsaki G, Donovan GP
Epileptic seizures caused by inactivation of a novel gene, jerky, related to centromere binding protein-B in transgenic mice.
Nat Genet. 1995; 11: 71-5
Epidemiological data and genetic studies indicate that certain forms of human epilepsy are inherited. Based on the similarity between the human and mouse genomes, mouse models of epilepsy could facilitate the discovery of genes associated with epilepsy syndromes. Here, we report an insertional murine mutation that inactivates a novel gene and results in whole body jerks, generalized clonic seizures, and epileptic brain activity in transgenic mice. The gene, named jerky, encodes a putative 41.7 kD protein displaying homology to a number of nuclear regulatory proteins, suggesting that perhaps the jerky protein is able to bind DNA.
Lam E
Domain analysis of the plant DNA-binding protein GT1a: requirement of four putative alpha-helices for DNA binding and identification of a novel oligomerization region.
Mol Cell Biol. 1995; 15: 1014-20
Light is an important environmental signal that can influence diverse developmental processes in plants. Many plant nuclear genes respond to light at the level of transcription initiation. GT-1 and GT2 are nuclear factors which interact with DNA sequences in many light-responsive gene promoters. cDNA clones which encode proteins with sequence binding specificities similar to those of these two factors have been isolated. They show significant amino acid sequence similarities within three closely spaced, putative alpha-helices that were predicted by secondary structure analysis but do not show significant homologies with any other reported DNA-binding protein. In this work, N- and C-terminal deletions of tobacco GT1a were generated by in vitro transcription and translation, and their DNA-binding activities and subunit structures were studied. The results suggest that the C-terminal domain of GT1a is critical for protein oligomerization, while a region predicted to contain four closely spaced alpha-helices is required for DNA binding. Direct chemical cross-linking and gel filtration analyses of full-length and truncated derivatives of GT1a suggest that this factor can exist in solution as a homotetramer and that oligomerization is independent of DNA binding. This study thus establishes two independent functional domains in this class of eukaryotic trans-acting factors. Possible implications of the multimeric nature of GT1a in relation to the known characteristics of light-responsive promoter architecture are discussed.
Haaf T, Ward DC
Rabl orientation of CENP-B box sequences in Tupaia belangeri fibroblasts.
Cytogenet Cell Genet. 1995; 70: 258-62
The chromosomes of the tree shrew Tupaia belangeri exhibit highly localized CENP-B box sequences in the centromeric regions of most chromosomes. Telomeric sequences are present at the ends of all chromosomes and, in addition, at specific interstitial chromosomal sites that likely represent remnants of ancestral telomeres. This suggests that Robertsonian and tandem chromosome fusion events have occurred in the karyotypic evolution of Tupaiidae. In Tupaia skin fibroblasts CENP-B boxes are almost always clustered together at one pole of the interphase nucleus, whereas the telomeric domains are relatively evenly distributed throughout the whole nuclear volume. The observed orientation of the centromeres is reminiscent of the Rabl polarization of chromosomes; this is the first mammalian cell substrate in which such an higher-order chromosomal organization has been observed. CENP-B box sequences are found in several other mammalian species. The implications for recent parallel evolution of CENP-B binding motifs and concerted evolution of these sequences are discussed.
Yang W, Steitz TA
Crystal structure of the site-specific recombinase gamma delta resolvase complexed with a 34 bp cleavage site.
Cell. 1995; 82: 193-207
The structure of gamma delta resolvase complexed with a 34 bp substrate DNA has been determined at 3.0 A resolution. The DNA is sharply bent by 60 degrees toward the major groove and away from the resolvase catalytic domains at the recombination crossover point. The C-terminal one third of resolvase, which was disordered in the absence of DNA, forms an arm and a 3-helix DNA-binding domain on the opposite side of the DNA from the N-terminal domain. The arms wrap around the minor groove of the central 16 bp, and the DNA-binding domains interact with the major grooves near the outer boundaries of the binding site. The resolvase dimer is asymmetric, particularly in the arm region, implying a conformational adaptability that may be important for resolvase binding to different DNA sites in the synaptosome. It also raises the possibility of a sequential single-strand cleavage mechanism.
Phillips SE
Built by association: structure and function of helix-loop-helix DNA-binding proteins.
Structure. 1994; 2: 1-4
Sugimoto K, Furukawa K, Himeno M
Functional cloning of centromere protein B (CENP-B) box-enriched alphoid DNA repeats utilizing the sequence-specific DNA binding activity of human CENP-B in vitro.
Chromosome Res. 1994; 2: 453-9
The centromere is a distinctive portion of the chromosome consisting of 'centromere DNA' and 'centromere proteins'. Recently, a direct molecular interaction was discovered between human centromere protein B (CENP-B) and human centromeric alphoid repeats. This enabled us to isolate the CENP-B-targeted centromeric DNA sequences by positively utilizing the biologic activity of CENP-B in vitro. In the previous model experiment, we found that oligonucleotides covering the CENP-B binding sequences were enriched by the DNA immunoprecipitation procedure. Here we apply the same technique to the direct isolation of a functional part of human centromeric DNA from a genomic DNA library. Restriction digestion of two isolated clones showed the typical repeating pattern of an alphoid family that is known to localize at the centromeric region of all human chromosomes. Sequence analysis showed that these two clones frequently contain the authentic CENP-B binding motif, CTTCGTTGGAAACGGGA, or a new one with one base replaced, CTTCGTTGGAAACGGGT. The frequent distribution of these motifs suggests that the isolated sequences are directly involved in the organization of centromeric heterochromatin at the primary constriction in conjunction with CENP-B.
Freire R, Salas M, Hermoso JM
A new protein domain for binding to DNA through the minor groove.
Protein p6 of the Bacillus subtilis phage phi 29 binds with low sequence specificity to DNA through the minor groove, forming a multimeric nucleoprotein complex that activates the initiation of phi 29 DNA replication. Deletion analysis suggested that the N-terminal part of protein p6, predicted to form an amphipathic alpha-helix, is involved in DNA binding. We have constructed site-directed mutants at the polar side of the putative alpha-helix. DNA binding and activation of initiation of phi 29 DNA replication were impaired in most of the mutant proteins obtained. A 19 amino acid peptide comprising the N-terminus of protein p6 interacted with a DNA fragment containing high-affinity signals for protein p6 binding with approximately 50-fold higher affinity than the peptide corresponding to an inactive mutant. Both wild-type peptide and protein p6 recognized the same sequences in this DNA fragment. This result, together with distamycin competition experiments, suggested that the wild-type peptide also binds to DNA through the minor groove. In addition, CD spectra of the wild-type peptide showed an increase in the alpha-helical content when bound to DNA. All these results indicate that an alpha-helical structure located in the N-terminal region of protein p6 is involved in DNA binding through the minor groove.
Ogata K et al.
Solution structure of a specific DNA complex of the Myb DNA-binding domain with cooperative recognition helices.
The DNA-binding region of Myb consists of three imperfect tandem repeats (R1, R2, and R3). We have determined the solution structure of a specific DNA complex of the minimum DNA-binding domain (R2R3) by heteronuclear multidimensional NMR. Both R2 and R3 contain three helices, and the third helix in each is found to be a recognition helix. R2 and R3 are closely packed in the major groove, so that the two recognition helices contact each other directly to bind to the specific base sequence, AACNG cooperatively; this is a significant arrangement of recognition helices. The three key base pairs in this sequence are specifically recognized by Asn-183 (R3), Lys-182 (R3), and Lys-128 (R2). In contrast, R1 has no specific interactions with DNA from our NMR study of the DNA complex of the full DNA-binding domain (R1R2R3).
Kornberg TB
Understanding the homeodomain.
Landsman D, Bustin M
A signature for the HMG-1 box DNA-binding proteins.
Bioessays. 1993; 15: 539-46
A diverse group of DNA-binding regulatory proteins share a common structural domain which is homologous to the sequence of a highly conserved and abundant chromosomal protein, HMG-1. Proteins containing this HMG-1 box regulate various cellular functions involving DNA binding, suggesting that the target DNA sequences share a common structural element. Members of this protein family exhibit a dual DNA-binding specificity: each recognizes a unique sequence as well as a common DNA conformation. The highly conserved HMG-1/-2 proteins may modulate the binding of other HMG-1 box proteins to bent DNA. We examine the structural and functional relationships between the proteins, identify their signature and describe common features of their target DNA elements.
Yoda K, Kitagawa K, Masumoto H, Muro Y, Okazaki T
A human centromere protein, CENP-B, has a DNA binding domain containing four potential alpha helices at the NH2 terminus, which is separable from dimerizing activity.
J Cell Biol. 1992; 119: 1413-27
The alphoid DNA-CENP-B (centromere protein B) complex is the first sequence-specific DNA/protein complex detected in the centromeric region of human chromosomes. In the reaction, CENP-B recognizes a 17-bp sequence (CENP-B box) and assembles two alphoid DNA molecules into a complex, which is designated complex A (Muro, Y., H. Masumoto, K. Yoda, N. Nozaki, M. Ohashi, and T. Okazaki. 1992. J. Cell Biol. 116:585-596). Since CENP-B gene is conserved in mammalian species and CENP-B boxes are found also in mouse centromere satellite DNA (minor satellite), this sequence-specific DNA-protein interaction may be important for some kind of common centromere function. In this study we have characterized the structure of CENP-B and CENP-B-alphoid DNA complex. We have shown by chemical cross-linking that CENP-B formed a dimer, and have estimated by molecular weight determination the composition of complex A to be a CENP-B dimer and two molecules of alphoid DNA. The DNA binding domain has been delimited within the NH2-terminal 125-amino acid region containing four potential alpha-helices using truncated CENP-B made in Escherichia coli cells. We have shown that CENP-B had sites highly sensitive to proteases and that the DNA binding domain was separable from the dimerizing activity by the proteolytic cleavage at 20 kD from the COOH terminus of the molecule. Thus, CENP-B may organize a higher order structure in the centromere by juxtaposing two CENP-B boxes in the alphoid DNA repeat through both the DNA-protein and protein-protein interactions.
Sugimoto K, Muro Y, Himeno M
Anti-helix-loop-helix domain antibodies: discovery of autoantibodies that inhibit DNA binding activity of human centromere protein B (CENP-B).
J Biochem (Tokyo). 1992; 111: 478-83
Centromere protein B (CENP-B) is one of the centromere DNA binding proteins constituting centromeric heterochromatin of human chromosomes. This protein was originally identified as the target antigen in autoimmune disease patients (often with scleroderma). In this study, we cloned a human CENP-B cDNA which was longer than the previously isolated one and expressed functional recombinant CENP-B in Escherichia coli. The DNA binding domain was finely located within the N-terminal 134-amino-acid residues covering a predicted helix-loop-helix (HLH) structure, by using a set of recombinant products with stepwise deletions from the C-<|fim_middle|> vector, were incubated with the crude CENP-B extract. DNA-protein complexes formed in vitro were immunologically precipitated utilizing the beta-galactosidase moiety as a tagged antigen. The effectiveness of repeating cycles of immunoprecipitation was demonstrated by the color selection method designed for pUC-derived plasmids, after introducing the precipitated plasmids into Escherichia coli. After three cycles of DNA immunoprecipitation, only a few kinds of sequences constituted the majority. By repeating two more cycles, the most predominant sequence was finally enriched until homogeneous, indicating the enrichment of the binding sequences in a hierarchical order. Further application to human genomic DNA showed that two EcoRI DNA fragments, 0.49 and 0.78 kb in size, were exclusively identified. This procedure can be applied to the systematic analysis of binding sequences for any other DNA binding proteins without production of any specific antibodies or further purification.
Pluta AF, Saitoh N, Goldberg I, Earnshaw WC
Identification of a subdomain of CENP-B that is necessary and sufficient for localization to the human centromere.
We have combined in vivo and in vitro approaches to investigate the function of CENP-B, a major protein of human centromeric heterochromatin. Expression of epitope-tagged deletion derivatives of CENP-B in HeLa cells revealed that a single domain less than 158 residues from the amino terminus of the protein is sufficient to localize CENP-B to centromeres. Centromere localization was abolished if as few as 28 amino acids were removed from the amino terminus of CENP-B. The centromere localization signal of CENP-B can function in an autonomous fashion, relocating a fused bacterial enzyme to centromeres. The centromere localization domain of CENP-B specifically binds in vitro to a subset of alpha-satellite DNA monomers. These results suggest that the primary mechanism for localization of CENP-B to centromeres involves the recognition of a DNA sequence found at centromeres. Analysis of the distribution of this sequence in alpha-satellite DNA suggests that CENP-B binding may have profound effects on chromatin structure at centromeres.
Reidhaar-Olson JF et al.
Random mutagenesis of protein sequences using oligonucleotide cassettes.
Methods Enzymol. 1991; 208: 564-86
Affolter M et al.
Similarities between the homeodomain and the Hin recombinase DNA-binding domain.
Dervan PB
Characterization of protein-DNA complexes by affinity cleaving.
Laughon A
DNA binding specificity of homeodomains.
Biochemistry. 1991; 30: 11357-67
Wistow G
Cold shock and DNA binding.
Nature. 1990; 344: 823-4
Travers AA
DNA conformation and protein binding.
Annu Rev Biochem. 1989; 58: 427-52
Kano Y
[Structure and function of HU protein]
Tanpakushitsu Kakusan Koso. 1988; 33: 239-51 | terminus. From the analysis of their reactivity to anti-centromere sera from autoimmune disease patients, four epitopes were mapped on CENP-B antigen. In addition to two epitopes at the C-terminus, two were found on the HLH region at the N-terminus. In the analysis of the interaction between the antigen and autoantibodies, we found that the DNA binding activity of CENP-B was distorted by the attack of the anti-HLH domain antibodies in in vitro binding reactions. Our results suggest that the direct inhibition of the DNA binding activity by the autoantibodies might be involved in patients' autoimmune reactions in vivo.
Imamoto F, Goshima N, Kohno K, Kano Y
[Function of E. coli chromosomal protein HU]
Tanpakushitsu Kakusan Koso. 1992; 37: 1469-80
Sugimoto K, Wakisaka E, Himeno M
Cycled DNA immunoprecipitation procedure to enrich the target sequences for DNA binding proteins with the fold purification monitored.
Anal Biochem. 1992; 207: 114-20
Using centromere DNA binding protein (CENP-B) expressed as a fusion to beta-galactosidase in Escherichia coli, we established a cycled DNA immunoprecipitation procedure for enriching CENP-B binding sequences and monitoring the enrichment process. Degenerated synthetic oligonucleotides for an authentic CENP-B binding sequence, inserted into a pUC-derived | 337 |
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Pál első levele a thesszalonikaiakhoz a Biblia újszövetségi részének egyik irata.
A tesszalonikaiakhoz írt első levél nagy valószínűség szerint Pál apostol levelei közül az első, amelyet Kr.u. 50-52 körül írt, ami által sokak szerint a legrégibb fennmaradt keresztény dokumentum. Pál apostol a levelet Korinthoszban írta, miután missziós társa, Timóteus visszatért Macedóniából, és elbeszélte a tesszalonikai egyházközösség körülményeit (ApCsel 18,1-5; 1Tessz 3,6). A levél legnagyobb része személyes természetű, a két utolsó fejezet kivételével, ahol mintegy mellékesen egy vitatott tanítást fejt ki. A levél fő üzenete: A keresztény örömhírnek hittel való elfogadása a megtértek életének teljes átalakulásához vezetett, ami egyben a zsidók és a pogányok értetlenségét, elutasítását és az üldözést is kiváltotta. Ez olyan helyzet azonban, amely lényegileg hozzátartozik a keresztény élethez. A Krisztus által elnyert szabadulás<|fim_middle|>kül a küszöbön álló parúziára alapította életét. Szerintük Pál szavai ("mi, akik élünk, és megmaradunk az Úr eljöveteléig" 4,15) azt mutatják, hogy azt tanította: Krisztus még az ő életében el fog jönni. Az 1. század keresztény "dogmafejlődését", főleg a krisztológia és az egyháztan alakulását, az elmaradt parúzia okozta csalódásra próbálták visszavezetni. Ez arra is vezetett, hogy néhányan feltegyék a kérdést, hogy ha Pál tévedett abban, hogy Krisztus mikor fog eljönni, akkor hogyan lehet az Újszövetség sugalmazott, azaz tévedhetetlen? 1915-ben a katolikus egyházban a Pápai Biblikus Bizottság azt a döntést hozta (amit XV. Benedek pápa erősített meg), hogy a katolikus szentírás-magyarázók nem állíthatják, hogy a páli levelekben tévedés van, valamint, hogy a 4,15-17-ben a közeli parúziáról van szó Ezt a véleményt aztán több bibliatudós is megerősítette. Szerintük a jelzett szakasz nyilvánvalóan a tesszalonikai hívek kérdésére felel. A felelet feltételezi a kérdést, amelyet azok feltettek, de az nem maradt ránk. Hogy a feleletet megértsük, ahhoz először is a kérdést kell rekonstruálni. Mivel valószínűsíthető, hogy a hívek nem egy absztrakt kérdést tettek fel, hanem azt a valós helyzet szülte, azaz valóban elhunytak némelyek Pál ottléte után, s nem tudták, hogy ők vajon osztoznak-e a parúzia örömében. A kérdés tehát így hangozhatott el: "Ha most a közeljövőben az Úr eljönne, vajon azok, akik elhaláloztak, ugyanúgy részesednének-e a parúzia boldogságában, mint mi, akik még életben vagyunk?" Pál tehát a kérdést úgy kezeli, ahogy feltették. Amikor azt mondja: "mi, akik életben vagyunk" (hémeis zóntes), nem azt jelenti ki, hogy saját maga a parúziáig életben marad, hanem megismétli a kérdésfeltevés szövegét. Ezért is fontos, hogy hangsúlyozza azt, amit az evangéliumokban a Jézus-hagyomány ősi rétegeihez tartozik: a parúzia idejét senki nem tudja! Pál más levelei világosan vallják, hogy saját halálával reális módon számol és szembenéz, tehát a parúziáig való életben maradását sosem látta biztosítva. A kérdés eldöntésében jelentős az is, hogy Pál második levelét a tesszalonikaiakhoz hitelesnek tartja-e vagy pedig egy páli tanítvány szerzőségét vallja a század végén. Ugyanis ez a levél tisztázza azt a félreértést, miszerint Krisztus várható időn belül visszatér.
Hivatkozások
Források
C. I. Scofield D. D.: Magyarázó jegyzetek a Bibliához. Evangéliumi Kiadó, 1993.
Collins, Raymond F.: "Első levél a tesszalonikieknek" in: Jeromos Bibliakommentár II. Az Újszövetség könyveinek magyarázata (szerk. R. E. Brown – J. A. Fitzmyer – R. E. Murphy). Szent Jeromos Katolikus Bibliatársulat, Budapest, 2003.
Dér Katalin – Horváth Pál: Bibliaismeret. Műszaki Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 1999.
Ehrman, Bart D.: The New Testament. A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings. New York, Oxford University Press, 2000.
Farkasfalvy Dénes: Bevezetés az újszövetségi szentírás könyveihez. Szent István Társulat, Budapest, 1995. (Letölthető a Pázmány Péter Elektronikus Könyvtárból.)
Haag, Herbert: Bibliai lexikon. Szent István Társulat, Budapest, 1989.
Knoch, Otto: 1. és 2. Tesszaloniki levél. (Stuttgarti kiskommentár – Újszövetség 12.) Szent Jeromos Bibliatársulat, Budapest, 1993. (Letölthető a Pázmány Péter Elektronikus Könyvtárból.)
Takács Gyula: Az Újszövetség irodalma II. Levelek – Jelenések könyve. Paulus Hungarus – Kairosz, 2000.
Tarjányi Béla: Újszövetségi alapismeretek I. Az Ősegyház élete. Szent Jeromos Bibliatársulat, Budapest, 1998. ő
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Pál apostol | örömhíre nem más, mint Isten Szava, mely bizalmat, reményt, megszentelődést, új és igaz életmódot, testvériséget és szeretetet eredményez, és részesít a Feltámadott életéből. A keresztények tehát nyugodt bizalommal várhatják Krisztus eljövetelét és az eljövendő életet.
A levél megírásának körülményei
A szerző, a megírás helye és ideje
Az egyházatyák a legkorábbi időktől kezdve használták, valamint egyöntetűen Pál apostolnak tulajdonították a levelet.
A modern bibliakritika kétségbe vonta a Pál-i szerzőséget, illetve a levél egységét. A 19. század végén az úgynevezett tübingeni iskola (Ferdinand Christian Baur, G. Volkmar, C. F. Holsten), és R. Scott teljességgel tagadta a levél autenticitását, de jelenleg ezek a kételyek eloszlottak a bibliatudósok körében. Mások (pl. K.-G. Eckart, W. Schmithals, H.-M. Schenke, Rudolf Pesch) a levél egységével, vagy sértetlenségével nem értettek egyet, akik nézeteire W. G. Kümmel (1965) fogalmazott meg komoly ellenvetéseket. Ma általában csak a német területeken tartják magukat ezekhez a nézetekhez. Olyan kutatói vélemények is vannak, hogy a 2,13-16 - mivel erősen zsidóellenes hangvételű - egy későbbi betoldás eredménye. J. Coppens és G. E. Okeke világított rá arra, hogy ezen nézetek mögött elsősorban teológiai vagy ideológiai érvek állnak, mintsem történelmi vagy irodalmi értékűek. A levél autenticitása tehát a 20. század második harmadától kezdve már nem vitatott, így szerzőjének Pál apostol tartható, amit mind belső, mind külső érvek megfelelően alátámasztanak.
A címzésben Pál mellett Szilvánusz és Timóteus nevei is olvasható, és Lukács evangélista elbeszélése szerint is ez a három személy prédikált Tesszalonikában (ApCsel 17,4. 14). Azonban a fő szerző Pál, amit már az 1Tessz 2,18 sejtet, mert a többes számból itt egy félmondatra egyes szám lesz: "el akartunk menni hozzátok, én Pál ismételten is". Pár sorral tovább aztán a "tulajdonképpeni szerző" azonossága egészen világossá válik, mert bár a többes számú alany megmarad, Timóteust nem zárja magába, hanem egyedül Pálra vonatkozik: "Ezért, mivel nem bírtuk tovább, elhatároztuk, hogy egyedül maradunk Athénben és elküldtük hozzátok Timóteus testvérünket." Itt Pál érdekes módon úgy próbál a missziós "team" nevében, tehát "kollektív" módon beszélni, hogy közben világos: ő a missziós munkának egyszemélyes feje, és a levélben kifejeződő tekintély is személyéhez kapcsolódik.
A levél adataiból megállapítható, hogy Pál apostol Korinthoszban írta a levelet, közvetlenül azután, hogy megérkezett második missziós útja során a városba, azaz Kr. u. 50-ben vagy 51-ben, esetleg 52-ben.
Általános helyzetkép
Kr. u. 51-ben a Római Birodalom császára Claudius volt, aki 41-től 54-ig uralkodott. Császársága alatt a birodalom a 'Pax Romana'-t élvezte, bár a kezdetben tiszteletben tartott köztársasági intézményeket egyre jobban a tekintélyelvűség váltotta fel, mint hatalmi elv. A gazdasági élet, különösen a kereskedelem virágzott birodalom szerte. Szinte mindenütt hatalmas építkezések folytak, templomok, színházak és agórák születtek.
Átfogó, direkt módon történő keresztényüldözés ez idő tájt még nem volt. Elsősorban a zsidóság részéről keletkeztek keresztény-ellenes támadások, amik főleg Palesztinában történtek. Kr. u. 44-ben tudunk egy jelentősebb üldözésről, amelyet a jeruzsálemi zsidó vezetők szítottak Krisztus első követői ellen, és a hagyomány tud még különböző üldöztetésekről, amelyeket azonban már a római hatóságok vezettek. Róma a keresztényeket egy felforgató, illegális mozgalomnak (szektának) tekintette, de túlzottan nem akart beleavatkozni ebbe a 'zsidó ügybe', hiszen a judaizmus egyik ágát látta benne. A zsidóság azonban már a kezdetektől, a 30-as évektől ellenségesen viseltetett a keresztényekkel szemben.
A keresztény egyház ebben az időben főleg Júdeában, Szamariában és Antióchia városában tevékenykedett. A hívők száma még csak pár ezer fő lehetett. Pál második missziós útjának kezdete előtt, melynek során Tesszalonikában is járt, Kr. u. 49-ben tartották meg a jeruzsálemi zsinatot, melyben végre tisztázták a pogánykeresztények helyzetét az Egyházban és kimondták a körülmetélés szükségtelenségét is. Itt hagyták jóvá Szent Pál működését is a pogányok között, és ismerték el mint apostolt.
A címzettek
Tesszalonika
Az Égei-tenger partjain fekvő Tesszalonika (Thesszaloniki, Szaloniki) Macedónia tartomány székhelye volt. A város virágzó kereskedelemmel és forgalmas kikötővel rendelkezett. A Via Egnatia átvezetett a városon, ami az Adriai-tengert kötötte össze az ázsiai területekkel. Lakossága pár százezer lehetett. Őslakossága macedón görög volt, de az itt talált feliratok sokféle nemzetet említenek. Nagy számban lehettek itt zsidók is, akik zsinagógával rendelkeztek.
A várost a macedónok alapították Kr.e. 315-ben. Augustus császártól nyerte el a szabad városi (civitas libera) privilégiumot. A városnak szenátusa és népgyűlése is volt (ApCsel 17, 5.), magisztrátusait politarcháknak hívták (ApCsel 17, 8.). Ezen privilégiumok miatt minden bizonnyal hálásak voltak a római hatóságnak; tisztelték Róma istennőt és az isteni Augustust, valamint a szentélyek maradványaiból ítélve a keleti istenségeket is.
A közösség
Az Apostolok cselekedetei tanúsága szerint a városban a zsidók közül nem sokan tértek keresztény hitre, a Pál által alapított közösség csaknem kizárólag görög, azaz pogánykeresztény volt. Ezt a levél is alátámasztja, ahol a zsidókeresztény elem egyáltalán nem játszik szerepet, viszont a pogányságból való megtérést általánosnak veszi a címzetteknél. A levélből kiderül (2,14), hogy a fiatal keresztény közösséggel szemben a pogányok is elfogultak voltak. A keresztény igehirdetőket minden bizonnyal a számos korabeli pogány vándortanító közé sorolták. Ezek a tanítók, akik híveket toboroztak egy-egy új vallásnak, saját tekintélyükért és hasznukért fáradtak, ezért az emberek sarlatánoknak, szófacsaróknak, haszonlesőknek, csalóknak tartották őket. A régi szomszédok, ismerősök és barátok szerették volna betapasztani a repedést, amely a közösségben támadt barátaik, rokonaik, ismerőseik megtérése által. Pál a tesszaloniki és a jeruzsálemi keresztények sorsának összehasonlításával szemmel láthatóan feltételezi, hogy a jeruzsálemi zsidó vezetők a Római Birodalom egész területén arra ösztönzik a zsinagógai közösségek felelős vezetőit, hogy akadályozzák meg a keresztény misszionáriusok tevékenységét, állítsák meg a kereszténység térhódítását.
A keresztény közösség vezetőiről a levél címzésében nem esik szó (ellentétben Pál későbbi leveleivel), de az 5,12 alapján ("becsüljétek meg azokat, akik fáradoznak közöttetek, akik elöljáróitok az Úrban") biztos, hogy már itt is vezetőket bízott meg Pál a közösség irányítására.
A levél megírásának körülményei és céljai
Pál apostol második missziós útján jutott el Filippi érintésével Tesszalonikába. Az ApCsel 17,1-17 szerint az apostol három szombaton át beszélt a zsinagógában, bizonyítva az írásokból, hogy Jézus a Messiás. Pálnak azonban a zsinagógában nem volt sikere. Igehirdetése elsősorban az ún. "istenfélőkre", azaz a zsidó vallással szimpatizáló pogányokra volt hatással, akiknek sereges megtérése a zsidókban féltékenységet keltett. Csakhamar Pál és társai ellen szervezett tüntetés tört ki, és Pál szállásadóját, Jázont a városi vezetőség elé állították; Jázonnak gondoskodnia kellett, hogy Pál és munkatársa, Szilás elhagyja a várost.
Az Apostolok Cselekedeteinek ezen leírása azonban ellentmondásban áll Pál saját beszámolójával. Pál nem említi a zsinagógát a levelében, és nem említi a zsidókat sem a keresztény hitre áttértek, sem az ellenfelei között a városban. Azt írja, hogy a város keresztényei korábban pogányok voltak, akiket ő győzőtt meg, hogy forduljanak el a "bálványoktól Istenhez, hogy az élő és igaz Istennek" szolgáljanak (1Thessz 1:9). Tehát az áttértek nem zsidók és nem "istenfélők" voltak. Az Apostolok Cselekedeteivel való ellentmondásra magyarázat lehet, hogy Lukács tudott Pál thesszalonikai tartózkodásáról, de nem tudta sem azt, hogy hol prédikált Pál, sem azt, hogy kiknek.
A levél röviddel, talán csak néhány hónappal, Pál ottani működése után kelt. Az apostol a levélben maga is elmondja, hogy miután Tesszalonikából eltávozott, Athénbe ment, ahonnan visszaküldte Timóteust, a későbbi efezusi püspököt, hogy hírt kapjon általa a tesszalonikai közösség helyzetéről (1Tessz 3,2). Timóteus később az apostol után ment, aki időközben Korinthoszba ért, és beszámolt az ott történtekről, a hívők hitéről, buzgóságáról és hűségéről, valamint néhány problémáról is. Pál azonnal tisztázni akarta a helyzetet, de mivel személyesen nem tudott visszamenni a városba, Timóteusra bízott egy levelet, hogy vigye el nekik. Az apostol nyilvánvalóan azért küldi levelét, hogy a tesszalonikai híveket a zaklatások közepette megerősítse a hitben, és személyes kapcsolatát velük még szorosabbra fűzze, s hogy általában kifejezze azt a mély és maradéktalan örömet, amit a városban kialakult keresztény csoport hűsége és jósága táplál benne. Az első fejezetek mutatják, hogy ez az első apostoli levél mindenképpen Pál jelenlétét akarja pótolni. Pál ezenkívül egy neki - akár szóban, akár írásban - feltett kérdésre is válaszol. A 4,13-18 rövid feleletben válaszol azok aggodalmaskodására, akik attól tartanak, hogy az elhunyt testvérek - akik a földön nem érik meg az Úr második eljövetelét, a parúziát - nem jutnak be az örök dicsőségre. A páli szöveg túl rövid ahhoz, hogy pontosan lássuk, mi adott okot Pál prédikációjában erre a félreértésre.
Timóteus felolvasta a levelet Tesszalonikában az istentiszteleten. Mivel megőrizték a közösség irattárában, és másolatokat is készítettek róla más keresztény közösségek részére, fennmaradt az utókor számára, tanúsítva azt a tevékenységet, amelyet Pál apostol és munkatársai fejtettek ki, hogy megvessék az európai kereszténység alapjait.
A levél felépítése és tartalma
Szerkezet
Üdvözlés és hálaadás (1,1-3,13)
Az első hálaadás. Az evangélium gyümölcsei Tesszalonikában. A zsidók rágalmainak cáfolata. Pál és kísérőinek gyengéd szeretete a hívekhez. (1,2-2,12)
A második hálaadás. Az üdvösség gyümölcsei miatt érik őket az üldözések. A zsidók akadályozzák az evangelizációt. Emiatt Pál nem tud visszatérni a közösséghez, de Timóteus elküldte, aki jó hírekkel tért vissza. (2,13-3,13)
Buzdítás (4,1-12)
Tisztaságra (4,1-8)
Szeretetre (4,9-12)
A végső dolgok (4,13-5,11)
Az apokaliptikus titok első része: Krisztus eljövetele, az elhunytak sorsa. (4,13-18)
Az apokaliptikus titok második része: Krisztus eljövetelének várása. Éberség, egység, az Egyház építése. (5,1-11)
További tanácsok a közösségi életre (5,12-22)
Felhívás a rendre, és a vezetők iránti tiszteletre (5,12-13)
Felhívás különféle feladatokra (5,14-22)
Befejező kívánságok és üdvözletek (5,23-28)
Irodalmi sajátosságok
Pál apostol mindegyik levelének két fő része van: a terjedelmes tanító rész, és viszonylag gazdag buzdító rész. E két fő rész megtalálható már az 1. Tesszaloniki levélben is, bár itt a későbbi levelekhez képest aránylag sok helyet foglal el a visszatekintés a levél megírásának előzményeire. Itt a tanítás csekély terjedelmű, inkább a személyes közlemények és a buzdítások, intelmek foglalják el a legtöbb helyet. A rövid tanító részben sem bontakozik még ki Pál apostol igazi stílusa: néhány tekintélyi közlést, rövid kifejtést találunk, és hiányoznak a képek, a hasonlatok, a terjedelmes és részletes logikai és ószövetségi igazolás. Mindezek miatt, elsősorban a német biblikus irodalomban, sokan nem tekintik a levelet irodalmi alkotásnak (legalábbis különös művészi gonddal készült alkotások értelmében nem), hanem levélként csak "a keresztény irodalmi alkotásnak egy kísérlete", és kívánatosabb lenne nem "nyílt levélnek", azaz "episztolának", hanem a személyes magánlevél egy fajtájának tekinteni, ami a levelezés egy lényegében ad hoc megnyilvánulása. Ezzel szemben mások valódi apostoli levélnek tekintik, csak a kevés elméleti rész hiánya miatt nem tanító, hanem inkább buzdító levélnek (A. J. Malherbe). Ugyanis a személyes közlemények nem puszta adatok, hanem ezeknek is apostoli, tanító, buzdító célja van. Miközben Pál visszaemlékezik a közösen átélt eseményekre, arra törekszik, hogy ezzel is megerősítse a híveket a hitben, és a közöttük fennálló jó kapcsolatot is tovább mélyítse. Tehát tekintélyi közléseket, tekintélyi tanítást és buzdítást tartalmaz egy általa megtérített keresztény közösségnek, de a lehető legszemélyesebben szól, és ismételten saját egyéni érzéseit fejezi ki. A behatóbb vizsgálatok általában arra a következtetésre jutnak, hogy a magán és nyílt levél között éles határvonal meghúzása a páli levelek esetében többnyire lehetetlen.
A levél jelentősége
Egyháztörténeti emlék
Az első tesszalonikai levél korai időpontjának köszönhetően, amelyet minden bibliatudós elismer, kiemelkedő jelentőségű tanúbizonyságot szolgáltat a korai keresztény közösségek életéről, illetve Pál apostolról, akiknek életéből, tevékenységéről, környezetéről máshol meg nem található információkat tartalmaz. Közvetve közelebbről megismerhető belőle Pál apostol gazdag, sokrétű egyénisége, hogy az apostol tudatosan személyes kapcsolatokra, érzésekre is épített; ezt is felhasználta a kereszténység terjedésének előmozdítása érdekében.
Értesülünk a levélből arról is, hogy már kezdetektől állandó ellenségeskedés, gáncsoskodás kísérte Pál apostol működését, s hogy a zsidók Damaszkusztól kezdve (ApCsel 9,23) mindvégig azon voltak, hogy megöljék, de legalábbis ellehetetlenítsék tevékenységét. A vádjaik személyeskedő jellegűek voltak: önzéssel és kapzsisággal vádolták, hogy emiatt szerez magának híveket. Támadások érték a tesszalonikai híveket is, akiket viszont a nem-keresztény pogányok zaklattak. Azonban az, hogy miből állt ez a zaklatás, nem derül ki Pál leveléből.
A levél és az Apostolok cselekedetei
Néhány bibliakutató szerint a levél arra ad bizonyságot, hogy az Apostolok cselekedetei nem ad teljes vagy pontos történeti leírást Pál apostol tesszalonikai működéséről. Szerintük hihetetlen Lukács elbeszélése, hogy Pál apostol három hetes működése alatt olyan intenzitású szeretetkapcsolat alakult volna ki, mint amilyenre a levélből következtethetünk. Emellett azt mondják, hogy Pál levele nem támasztja alá azt a nézetet, hogy Jézus a Messiás állt prédikációjának a középpontjában. Más kutatók (pl. Farkasfalvy Dénes) rávilágítanak arra, hogy akik a Messiás témát az első tesszalonikai levélben hiába keresik és ezért Lukács "sematikus" vagy "stilizált" elbeszélését hibáztatják, téves feltételezésből indulnak ki. Pál zsinagógai beszéde Tesszalonikában sikertelen volt. A "szenvedő Messiásról" itt beszélt. Azonban akikhez a levél szól, nem a zsinagógában előadott beszéde alapján tértek meg, hanem csak azok utáni működésével ért el eredményt, éspedig elsősorban nem-zsidók körében. Lukács csak azt mondja, hogy a zsinagógában három szombaton keresztül prédikált, de rögtön hozzáteszi, hogy az "istenfélő görögök" alkották a megtért keresztények nagy részét. Tehát a zsinagógai beszédei közben és után még a pogányok között lehetett. Egy másik különbségként szokták említeni, hogy az ApCsel 17,10-15 szerint Pál Tesszalonikából Bereába, onnan Athénbe ment, de Szilvánuszt és Timóteust Bereában hagyta, míg Pál úgy tűnik azt írja, hogy Timóteust Athénból küldte vissza (1Tessz 3,1-2).
Teológiatörténeti és bibliakritikai jelentőség
A hagyományok átvétele
Pál apostol már legelső levelében hagyományos anyagot használ fel, különösen a hitvallási formulák tekintetében. Pál levele a legrégebbi bizonyítékául szolgál annak, hogy az első keresztények számára Krisztus keresztje és feltámadása alapvetően fontos. Pál szerint: "hisszük, hogy meghalt és föltámadt" (4,14), - ez a hitvallások nyelve, Pál itt idéz, tehát hitvallási "formulát" használ. Kr. u. 50-ben, kevesebb mint 20 évvel Jézus felfeszítése után, ez a keresztény hit megfogalmazása dióhéjban (vö. még 1,9-10; 5,10).
Pál az eszkatologikus témát az "Úr tanítására" alapozza. Itt a legszembetűnőbb párhuzamokat Máté eszkatologikus beszéde (Mt 24-25) szolgáltatja.
Az "Úr tanításának" Mt 24-re való vonatkoztatása nem újkeletű. Akik azonban Máté evangéliumának eredetét (azért, hogy Márktól és az úgynevezett Q forrástól függjön) a század utolsó 15 évére teszik, ebben nem tudnak egyet érteni. A fenti anyag önmagában nem elégséges annak bizonyítására, hogy a Máté evangélium akárcsak részleteiben is, már írásban Pál rendelkezésére állt volna, annyi azonban állítható, hogy Pál hiteles forrásokból szerezte a Jézus-hagyomány anyagát, s ezt hűségesen átadta híveinek. A fenti párhuzamok azt is mutatják, hogy Pál az "Úr tanításáról" behatóan prédikált, hiszen most, amikor hívei egy részletkérdésre visszakérdeznek, emlékezteti őket arra, amit tanított, vázlatosan összefoglalva a parúziáról szóló jézusi tanítást.
A parúziáról szóló tanítás
A 20. században a legtöbb vita a levél kapcsán a végidőről szóló eszkatologikus szakaszokról folyt (4,13-18; 5,1-11). Egyrészről a fundamentalista bibliamagyarázók szó szerinti értelmezése, illetve az apokaliptikus nyelvezetet figyelembevevő, s ezért a szakaszt szimbolikusan értelmező bibliatudósok között támadt polémia. Másrészt a liberális bibliakritika ezekre a szakaszokra építette fel azt a felfogást, hogy az első keresztény nemzedék történelmi távlat nél | 7,404 |
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6. Over The Edge
7. Undertow
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Chuze Fitness Sets Record as First to Offer 7 HydroMassage® Beds
Chuze Fitness in Garden Grove, CA has the designation as the first fitness club worldwide to have seven HydroMassage® beds.
The newest Chuze club, Garden Grove opened their doors in October with four HydroMassage beds. However, high demand from new members required fifth and sixth units to be added shortly thereafter, and an additional (seventh) bed was shipped in December<|fim_middle|> to offer seven beds. They've always been at the forefront in regards to HydroMassage® adoption. Plus, they've been absolutely first class to work with over the years, and I know they do things the right way when it comes to building and operating high-quality clubs. I'm really pleased to see them doing well."
Chuze Fitness, Garden Grove, CA has 7 HydroMassage Beds | .
Cory Brightwell, Chuze Fitness co-owner noted, "The response we're seeing in our newest location is pretty amazing, even for us. And I say that because we have 3-4 beds in all 12 of our clubs, so HydroMassage isn't new for us. But we definitely haven't seen member demand like this in the past."
Chuze Fitness was one of the first fitness club companies to fully embrace HydroMassage beds as a tool to drive upgrades to premium level memberships.
And while it's no longer uncommon to walk into a gym with two, three, or four units, Chuze was the first to surpass the six unit hurdle.
"Talking to other owners, I know HydroMassage® is more popular now than when we began using them," commented Brightwell. "But we keep raising the bar because member awareness is much higher than we've ever seen. People love them, and they're perfect for our Premium Membership."
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If you want your website to be popular, you need to Deep Crawl your way to higher search engine rankings.
As a website owner, one thing many webmasters are not aware of is that problems lurk in your pages. Many sites are left running with errors suffering with poor performance, bad SEO, duplicate content, broken links, and a whole lot more. What should be done regularly, is to give your site a content audit.
This kind of work can be very taxing, long and laborious. If you have a huge website with lots of pages in it, the bigger it is, the more brutal it is going to be. Fortunately, there are automated tools that can do this sort of job. The one I am going to discuss here is a Service As A Platform (Saas) called Deep Crawl.
In less than 5 minutes, I created a new project to spider this website with the easy to use entry screens. Clicked the button to crawl and had a comprehensive report generated.
All of this was done through Deep Crawl's impressive dashboard which I immediately noticed to be so streamlined and well thought out it made me completely appreciated what I was staring at. Very well done and totally polished, professional looking.
Now it was only a few months ago that I tore down this website and started all over from scratch. I was using Drupal 6 all these years and pretty much got tired of having to backup and deal with the upgrade process that I didn't like. So I switched to my favorite, WordPress, and got a nice theme and eased my way into what it is today.
Fifty six posts and eight pages later, I decided that this site needed a crawl report to find out if there are any problems lurking. Boy was I in for a surprise.
After setting up a project, I ran Deep Crawl for the first time. It took less than 5 minutes to crawl my site and generate an audit report. Deep Crawl presented the final report in a nice layout that looks super in my wide screen desktop monitor. Since the report is way too big to show here in full screen size, I have broken it up in parts to give you a taste of what it offers.
This screen shows the number of problems and categorizes them. You can drill down to find out more.
A cool pie chart breakdown of the different page types.
A count of how many pages are HTTP based and HTTPS based.
A super chart showing the different category of pages and their depths.
Now that I had my report in hand, I was off for the next three days cleaning this website up.
First thing I had to do was get rid of all the canonical url errors. I did a little research and even penned an article on the subject just to remember what I learned – Understanding SEO: The Canonical Url. Since this is a WordPress website, I decided to install the Yoast SEO plugin. Turns out, canonical urls are automatically generated for every post and page so I had to do nothing at all! The result of that effort got<|fim_middle|>. Not wanting to have to reinvent the wheel, I searched around in the WordPress plugin directory and found Multi-column tag map. Its a perfect solution to my needs as all I did was create a page and put in a short code in it. This way, I can offer it up as part of my main menu navigation with the label "Explore" and let visitors search based on tag name.
Overall, using Deep Crawl to audit your website is something you should do at least once a week. It is better to find problems early on before they become an even bigger problem later. If you really want to rank high in Google, you need to use this tool. Highly recommended! | rid of a slew of duplicate content and title errors too.
When you run Deep Crawl, it keeps track of the changes that were made. This is crucial so that you can track what you did with the outcome of the audit. If what you did made things worse, you'll know right away and can roll back those changes.
Meta descriptions help search engines like Google insert information about what your web page is about in their search results. To fix these problems, I used Yoast SEO. For posts and pages, I supplied and excerpt and used the %%exerpt_only%%% parameter in the settings. Category and tags by default do not get meta descriptions. So I used %%tag_description%% and %%category_description%% in the taxonomies section.
One thing you will find that can be annoying is having your sub pages crawled and indexed in the search engines. The problem that I see in this is that they are not static in nature and are always changing as new posts, pages, or tags are added. Pretty much they are worthless to a visit and at most times, the contents are out dated. To avoid having these archive pages indexed, I choose to use the Yoast SEO feature of noindex on subpages of archives.
This prevents duplication of meta description errors from coming up.
In the body of some of my tag pages, Deep Crawl flagged them as duplicate content. After studying the pages, it was pretty much a false positive. Regardless, I tried to update the description in all the tags thinking that would clear it but it didn't. There must be some sort of criteria that Deep Crawl uses to base duplication or similar content on. It goes to show though, that it is not in your control, but in the crawlers decision. Sometimes they can be wrong.
I later found the duplication precision setting that seems to be a sensitivity parameter. I changed it from 3 to 5 and that fixed the problem.
Disallowed JS/CSS files were another false positive that came up. Deep Crawl reported that both of my Google font references were being restricted. That wasn't the case.
This flag comes up when you have way too many anchor tag links in a page. For my site, some of these pages flagged were due to the tag cloud widget placed in the side bar. For every post and page on my site this existed and I decided it was not a good idea to put it there.
Instead, I came up with a better idea, one of which I did on a custom WordPress Theme I developed many years ago | 513 |
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The<|fim_middle|> cool." They can reflect this persona and retain cultural relevance across all the content they share on their social platforms.
Content strategy: Whether it's Snapchat, Twitter or Instagram, Taco Bell creates memorable, share-worthy experiences and story-driven branded content. Their content is like a mini-TV show – it tells a story.
Snapchat: As one of the first brands to embrace Snapchat, Taco Bell uses the platform to test new ideas, connecting with its community through humor and storytelling. By calling for Snapbacks, it provides co-creation avenues for fans and an opportunity to engage directly in a conversation with its community.
Instagram: Taco Bell is selling the persona that it is fun, hip and cool. It does this by making sure that new food items are Instagram and FOMO worthy. By focusing on the needs of its Gen Z customer, it also fuels innovation and helps Taco Bell stay abreast of current trends and generational sensibilities (Taylor, 2017).
Twitter: Taco Bell leverages platform application programming interfaces (API) to create engaging experiences that make its community look cool. Its #Tacogram hashtag generated a fun Twitter Card to share with friends.
Why it works: The Snapchat campaign is all about treating Gen Z like personal friends, not consumers.
Make me look good: Taco Bell knows that Gen Z carries smartphones with cameras and its food will end up on Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram. It worked with its food team to get the perfect formula for stringy cheese so that fans who Instagram their food had FOMO-worthy photos (Taylor, 2017). Every single time.
Tell me a story: Taco Bell uses social media and embraces elements of storytelling to weave together a narrative that is often funny, irreverent, collaborative and shareable.
"The Gen Z Frequency: How Brands Tune in and Build Credibility" is available now at fine booksellers and can be purchased via StartupNation.com.
Article originally published in startupnation.com | Gen Z Frequency: Content Strategies and Marketing Tips
Words by Gregg Witt
The following is excerpted from "The Gen Z Frequency: How Brands Tune in and Build Credibility" by Gregg Witt. First published in the U.S. in 2018 by Kogan Page Limited. All rights reserved.
Perhaps the most important content goals, when marketing to Gen Z, is to attract and keep their attention, and help them look cool, especially to their peers. They demand instant gratification, "likes," social post views and personal expression.
In a time when they are being overwhelmed by information, and their screens are being filled with images of perfection and curated reality, Gen Z is also seeking interaction that feels real and authentic. In the age of social media, provide them with a way to help build their personal brand and they will embrace your brand.
There's a reason why Gen Z loves Instagram and Snapchat: both brands offer tools (filters, digital/AR stickers, fonts) that provide them with social validation and self-esteem and make them look cool to their friends. In the case of Instagram, the secret sauce is the easy-to-use filters and digital stickers that transform an ordinary smartphone photograph into a masterpiece. A quick double tap of the screen gives them what they crave most: instant feedback and validation.
There are lots of ways to convey your voice and brand authenticity to your tween community, but no matter what you do, make sure to create content that serves the community's social needs – content that will make them look cool if they share it with their friends, or that will make them feel as if they have added a layer to their identity.
Any brand seeking to connect with young people must have a mobile-first video strategy. No exceptions.
Research conducted by Adobe in 2017 found that 76 percent of Gen Z inherently choose a mobile device to watch video, livestream, play games and video chat.
A survey conducted by Gen Z media platform AwesomenessTV found that 71 percent of Gen Z's typical video consumption is streaming, and one-third is viewed from a mobile device (AwesomenessTV, 2017).
If you want to connect, present content in a format that is current and has social value. Finally, understand that social platforms also offer an opportunity for "seeded serendipity," where your audience can feel as though they "discovered" fresh content that they can share with their peers via their favorite hubs – thus earning social capital in their circle of friends.
Creating a memorable brand voice
A consistent and memorable social voice is key to building relationships with youth audiences. Your followers and community should be able to recognize your content, even when they don't see any branding, because the voice becomes as familiar as their real-life friends. Voice should always remain the same, but tone can change depending on the context. You're always the same person, but your expressions and language should adapt to the social platform.
For teen and younger audiences, an aspirational voice is often recommended. Gen Z wants to be liked – rather than a persona too far out of reach, such as the celebrities and influencers they idolize.
When creating content that appeals to Gen Z, it's vital that you develop and fine-tune your brand persona, voice and tone across social media.
An excellent example of this is The Walt Disney Company. A brand that once had a reputation as a staid stalwart of old media, Disney found a new formula for success by discovering and embracing a unique voice that resonated with Gen Z audiences. The next step in its transformation was creating and sharing content that reflected this shift in tone. Existing content was reimagined into new formats such as GIFs and Musical.ly videos
A case study: learning how to embrace the fans
Brand voice and tone: Taco Bell presents Gen Z with the opportunity to align themselves with a brand that is "young, adventurous and | 798 |
The 2009 Food System Summit intends to use a new methodology known as the adoption-d<|fim_middle|> | iffusion theory to identify steps that can be taken to affect change among "early adopters," also called opinion leaders, according to a news report.
The research will analyze consumers' current understanding and beliefs about the contemporary food system as well as information and messages that will increase their trust and confidence. This would lead to an identification of what appeals to the early adopters and what can further be done to bring a positive change in the market, Jan Wilson, president of Gestalt Inc., the market research firm conducting the research, was quoted as saying.
The summit will also review three years of data on broad consumer attitudes that reflect trends in consumer trust in critical areas such as food safety, animal welfare and sustainability.
The summit is sponsored by the Center for Food Integrity and the National Council of Chain Restaurants. Theme for the event is "The New Normal – Building Consumer Trust during Unprecedented Market Volatility." The event will be held October 6-7 at the Airport Hilton in Kansas City, Mo.
Registration information is available at www.foodintegrity.org. | 211 |
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How Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson Made "Good Hearted Woman" Iconic | Jessi Colter In a Romantic Duet of "Suspicious Minds"
Classic, Country Music
Country music legend Waylon Jennings took an eager crowd by storm when a southern beauty suddenly joined him onstage for a special performance of Elvis Presley's hit "Suspicious Minds."
Performing for a jam-packed venue, Jennings stood before a makeshift saloon when the doors swiftly opened, and a country icon made her way to Jennings. It's none other than his wife, Jessi Colter.
"We're caught in a trap. I can't walk out because I love you too much, baby," Jennings sings. "Why can't you see what you're doing to me when you don't believe a word I say?" Colter answers.
There's no doubt about it, Jennings and Colter were madly in love. This was so evident every time they shared the stage. The talented couple exchanged heartwarming smiles and playful emotions, and the audience can't help but erupt into striking applause.
Jennings and Colter first recorded "Suspicious Minds" in 1970 – just a year after they were married – and it peaked at No. 25 on the Billboard country chart of that year. The couple's version was released once again six years later off the ground-breaking album Wanted! The Outlaws, peaking at No. 2. Their version was then nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.
The Song That Revived Elvis Presley's Career
Written by Mark James, "Suspicious Minds" is about a dysfunctional relationship and various feelings of distrust within it – of loving someone so much only to feel being trapped because of suspicions. The couple then needed to move on in order to survive.
James once said that late one night, while he was fooling around on his Fender guitar and using his Hammond organ pedals for a bass line, he came up with what he thought was a catchy melody.
During that time, James was still married to his first wife but revealed that he still had feelings for his childhood sweetheart, who has since been married too. His wife is starting to get suspicious of his feelings for the other woman, and James felt it was a tricky time as all three were "caught in this trap that they could not walk out of."
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\section*{Introduction and conclusion}
In \cite{paper1,paper2,paper3} a complete classification of the
rigid symmetries of bosonic D-string actions was given and several
examples were worked out explicitly, both in flat and curved
backgrounds. In particular it was shown that each rigid symmetry
is contained in a family of infinitely many rigid symmetries.
All these families together form a loop (or loop-like) symmetry algebra.
Two important examples were those of a D-string in the near
horizon geometries of D3 and D1+D5 branes \cite{paper3}.
The near horizon metrics involve
$AdS$ factors whose isometry groups are $SO(2,4)$ and
$SO(2,2)$ respectively,
and thus
the symmetries of
the D-string action in these backgrounds contain an infinite
loop generalization of these conformal symmetries.
In this paper we show that the above structures extend to supersymmetric
and, in particular, to kappa-invariant D-string actions.
Hence, these actions have actually infinitely many supersymmetries,
forming infinite dimensional loop-generalizations of the familiar
supersymmetry algebras (in flat or curved backgrounds).
As in the purely bosonic case, the infinite symmetry structure
is a direct consequence of the presence of the Born-Infeld gauge field
$A_\mu$. This will become particularly clear from the way in which we shall
derive the result. Namely we shall use a simple general
argument which neither makes use of the particular form of the
action nor of any specific properties of the target space or its symmetries.
Rather, the argument uses solely that the Lagrangian depends on $A_\mu$
only via the field strength
$F_{\mu\nu}=\partial_\mu A_\nu-\partial_\nu A_\mu$, and that the
world-volume is two-dimensional.
Our result is thus not restricted to D-string actions of the
Born-Infeld type but applies actually to a much larger class
of two dimensional
actions containing a $U(1)$ gauge field. Moreover, if such an action
contains several $U(1)$ gauge fields only via their field strengths,
then the argument applies to each of these gauge fields separately,
yielding an even larger symmetry structure.
In particular this applies to the manifestly $SL(2,Z)$-covariant D-string
actions constructed in \cite{PKT,CT} which contain two $U(1)$ gauge fields.
Furthermore we shall show that<|fim_middle|>(\varphi)(1-\varphi^{-2})A_\mu +
\frac{d\lambda(\varphi)}{d\varphi}
\{2(\varphi+\varphi^{-1})A_\mu
& \nonumber \\
& -\sqrt{-{\cal G}(1+\varphi^2)}\,\epsilon_{\mu\nu}
{\cal G}^{\nu\varrho}\Pi^n_\varrho \eta_{nm}
[x^m -\frac{1}{2}\bar \theta\Gamma^m
\theta]\}. &
\end{eqnarray}
\section*{The general argument in higher dimensions}
The argument given in the two-dimensional case can
be easily generalized to higher dimensions. Consider
a $(p+1)$-dimensional action $S= \int d^{p+1} \sigma L$
which depends on a $p$-form gauge field $A_{\mu_1 \ldots
\mu_p}$ only through its field strength
$F_{\mu_1\mu_2 \ldots \mu_{p+1}} = (p+1)\partial_{[ \mu_1}
A_{\mu_2 \ldots \mu_{p+1} ]}$ and derivatives thereof.
Again we denote by
$\{Z^M\}$ all other fields in the action. Similarly
to the two-dimensional case, the Euler-Lagrange derivatives
of $L$ with respect to $A_{(p)}$ are then
\begin{equation}
\frac{\hat\partial L}{\hat\partial A_{\mu_1 \ldots \mu_p}} =
\epsilon^{\mu_1 \ldots \mu_p\nu} \, \partial_\nu\varphi\ .
\label{GGA1}
\end{equation}
Note that in this case we have used that $F_{\mu_1 \ldots \mu_{p+1}}$
is proportional to $\epsilon_{\mu_1 \ldots \mu_{p+1}}$, since we
are considering a $(p+1)$-dimensional theory.
In order to show that any rigid symmetry of $S$ is
contained in a family of infinitely many rigid symmetries,
we proceed along the lines of the two-dimensional case.
Thus, let $\Delta Z^M$ and $\Delta A_{\mu_1 \ldots \mu_p}$
be infinitesimal transformations which generate a symmetry
of $S$. This means that
\begin{equation}
(\Delta Z^M)\,\frac{\hat\partial L}{\hat\partial Z^M}+
(\Delta A_{\mu_1 \ldots \mu_p})\,\frac{\hat\partial L}{\hat\partial
A_{\mu_1 \ldots \mu_p} }
\, =\,\partial_\mu j^\mu_\Delta\ .
\label{GGA2}
\end{equation}
If this is so, then the transformations
\begin{eqnarray}
\tilde\Delta Z^M&=& \lambda(\varphi)\, \Delta Z^M \\
\tilde\Delta A_{\mu_1 \ldots \mu_p} &=& \lambda(\varphi)\,
\Delta A_{\mu_1 \ldots \mu_p} \\
&&- \frac{1}{p!} \,
\frac{d\lambda(\varphi)}{d \varphi}\,
\epsilon_{\mu_1 \ldots \mu_p \nu} j^\nu_\Delta
\end{eqnarray}
where $\lambda(\varphi)$ is an arbitrary function of the quantity
$\varphi$ that appears in Eq. (\ref{GGA1}), also generate
rigid symmetries of the action (we have used
$\epsilon^{01 \ldots p} = -\epsilon_{01 \ldots p} = 1$).
Indeed, making use of Eqs.
(\ref{GGA1}) and (\ref{GGA2}) it is easily checked that
\begin{equation}
(\tilde\Delta Z^M)\,\frac{\hat\partial L}{\hat\partial Z^M}+
(\tilde\Delta A_{\mu_1 \ldots \mu_p})\,\frac{\hat\partial L}{\hat\partial
A_{\mu_1 \ldots \mu_p} }
\, =\,\partial_\mu [ \lambda(\varphi) \, j^\mu_\Delta ]
\end{equation}
This shows that $\tilde\Delta$ generates a symmetry of the action,
and also that the associated Noether current is simply
$j^\mu_{\tilde\Delta}= \lambda(\varphi) \, j^\mu_\Delta$.
\section*{Examples: D-Branes and M-Branes}
The previous argument for the occurrence of infinite families
of rigid symmetries for $(p+1)$-dimensional actions depending
on $p$-form gauge potentials $A_{(p)}$ only through their
field strengths $G_{(p+1)}= dA_{(p)}$ applies readily to different brane
actions. We will consider (super)D-branes and (super)M-branes.
Both types of objects can be described by Lagrangian
densities in which the tension of the brane
is generated dynamically as an integration constant
of the field equations for the $p$-form gauge potential.
Their form is \cite{BT,BST}, see also \cite{CW},
\begin{equation}
L = \frac{1}{2v} \, \left[ L^2_K + (*G_{(p+1)})^2 \right]
\label{EX1}
\end{equation}
where $v$ is an indepependent worldvolume density and $*$
denotes the worldvolume Hodge dual. For instance, for a
Dp-brane in a general $D=10$ supergravity background
one has \cite{BST}
\begin{eqnarray}
L^2_K &=& e^{-2 \phi} \, \det (g_{\mu\nu} + \cal{F}_{\mu\nu}) \\
{\cal{F}}&=& dV - B \\
G_{(p+1)}&=& d A_{(p)} - C \, e^{\cal{F}},\quad
C=\oplus_k C_k
\end{eqnarray}
where $g$ is the induced metric, $V$ is the Born-Infeld
gauge field, $B$ is the pull-back of the NS-NS two-form
and $C_k$ are the pull-backs of the R-R gauge potentials.
The corresponding expressions for the M2-brane and the M5-brane
in a $D=11$ supergravity background
can be found in \cite{BLT} and \cite{BST} respectively.
In all these cases (for $p>1$) the `source' of an infinite
number of symmetries of the action is the worldvolume
$p$-form gauge potential $A_{(p)}$. The quantity $\varphi$
occurring in Eq. (\ref{GGA1}) in these cases takes the form
\begin{equation}
\varphi \propto \frac{*G_{(p+1)}}{v}\ .
\end{equation}
For every rigid symmetry $\Delta$ of these actions, the
construction explained in the previous section yields
an infinite family $\{\tilde\Delta\}$ of symmetries in
which the original one is included.
For instance, this applies to all (super)isometries
of the supergravity background, which were
shown in \cite{BT,BST} to yield
rigid symmetries of the corresponding
brane action.
It also applies to space-time scale transformations
under which (\ref{EX1}) in a flat background is invariant.
For the particular case of Dp-branes they take the form
\footnote{For p-branes, this set of
transformations has already been written in ~\cite{BLT}.}:
\begin{eqnarray}
& x^m \; \longrightarrow \; k \, x^m & \nonumber \\
& \theta \; \longrightarrow \; k^{1/2} \, \theta & \nonumber \\
& V \; \longrightarrow \; k^2 \, V & \nonumber \\
& A_{(p)} \; \longrightarrow \; k^{p+1} \, A_{(p)} & \nonumber \\
& v \; \longrightarrow \; k^{2(p+1)} \, v &
\end{eqnarray}
The corresponding transformations for the M5-brane are obtained
from the previous ones by setting $p=5$ and replacing the abelian one
form gauge potential $V$ by a self-dual two form $V_{(2)}^+$
that transforms with weight three, i.e.
$V_{(2)}^+ \; \rightarrow \; k^3 \, V_{(2)}^+$.
The above discussion does not imply
that the actions for these branes in their `usual' form, i.e.,
without the fields $v$ and $A_{(p)}$,
have infinitely many rigid symmetries too.
The reason is that $A_{(p)}$ cannot be eliminated
algebraically from the action. Rather, one eliminates it
by solving
its field equation through an integration constant%
\footnote{Therefore the `usual' actions do not
arise from the Lagrangian (\ref{EX1}) simply
by substituting a solution to the field equations of $A_{(p)}$.
Rather, before doing so, a term proportional to
$*dA_{(p)}$ must be added to the Lagrangian (see \cite{PKT2}).}.
Hence, $\varphi$ turns into a constant once $A_{(p)}$ has been
eliminated in this manner. Accordingly, after eliminating
$A_{(p)}$, $\Delta$ and $\tilde\Delta$
are not independent symmetries anymore, but
simply proportional to one another (so are the corresponding
Noether currents). In contrast, in
the two-dimensional (D-string) case
the `source' of the infinite number of
symmetries is the Born-Infeld gauge field itself%
\footnote{Note that in the case of the $SL(2,Z)$-covariant
formulation \cite{PKT,CT} of the IIB superstring,
both sources of infinite symmetry are present,
since the action contains two $U(1)$ gauge fields, one of
which can be considered as auxiliary and the other
one as the Born-Infeld field.}.
Of course, the argument above does not disprove
the existence of an infinite set of symmetries for
D$p$-branes ($p>1$) and M-branes. This is an issue
which remains open.
\vspace{10mm}
{\em Acknowledgements.}
This work was supported in part by
AEN95-0590 (CICYT), GRQ93-1047 (CIRIT) and
by the Commission of European Communities CHRX93-0362(04).
F.B. was supported by the Deut\-sche For\-schungs\-ge\-mein\-schaft.
D.M. is supported by a fellowship from
Comissionat per a Universitats i Recerca de la Generalitat de
Catalunya.
| the argument is actually not restricted to
two-dimensional actions. Rather, it extends analogously to
$d$-dimensional actions containing $(d-1)$-form gauge potentials
only via their (abelian) field strengths. In the context of branes,
such actions have been discussed in \cite{PKT,CT,PKT2,BLT,CW,BT,BST}
where the $(d-1)$-form gauge potentials serve to implement the brane
tension dynamically (as an integration constant).
The two-dimensional
case appears to be somewhat special in the context of D-branes, as only
in this case the Born-Infeld gauge field itself
serves as a $(d-1)$-form gauge potential.
Therefore the paper focusses mainly on the existence and construction
of infinite families of symmetries of D-string actions.
We do not provide a complete characterization of all these families
of symmetries. From the
results in the bosonic case, we expect that such a characterization
can be given in terms of generalized super-Killing vector equations.
Here we just remark that the families of symmetries of D-string actions do not
necessarily correspond one-to-one to the target space (super-) isometries.
For instance, in the bosonic case there are backgrounds which
admit the presence of dilatational symmetries in addition to families of
symmetries arising from the target space isometries
\cite{paper1,paper2,paper3}. We shall provide a supersymmetric
version of these dilatational symmetries in a flat background
which however does not seem to extend (at least not straightforwardly)
to the kappa-invariant case
as the Wess-Zumino term breaks these dilatational symmetries.
One interesting case would be that of the kappa-invariant
D-string action in a D1+D5 supersymmetric background, which
could be constructed along the lines of \cite{kallosh,Met.Tsey}.
It follows from our results that such an action should contain
among its rigid symmetries an infinite loop generalization
of the background isometry supergroup
$SU(1,1\mid 2) \times SU(1,1\mid 2)$.
Finally, we wish to stress that the nature of the
infinite symmetry structure
described here differs from the infinite conformal symmetry
of gauge fixed two dimensional sigma models discussed
in \cite{hull,WN}.
Namely, these conformal symmetries of sigma models are a mixture of
finitely many target space symmetries and infinitely many (conformal)
world-sheet symmetries which arise as residual symmetries
from world-sheet diffeomorphisms in appropriate gauges of the latter.
In contrast, the infinitely many symmetries
of D-string actions discussed here exist in addition to
the world-sheet diffeomorphisms and are thus present even before
gauge fixing the latter.
\section*{The general argument in the two-dimensional case}
We consider a two-dimensional action
$S=\int d^2\sigma L$ with a Lagrangian $L$ which depends
on the gauge field $A_\mu$ only via its field strength
$F_{\mu\nu}=\partial_\mu A_\nu-\partial_\nu A_\mu$ and, possibly,
derivatives thereof (or which
can be brought into such a form by means of a partial integration).
We shall denote by $\{Z^M\}$ all the other fields which occur in the action.
For instance, in the case of standard bosonic D-string actions
$\{Z^M\}$ contains only the target space
coordinates $x^m$, while it contains in addition the fermionic fields
$\theta^\alpha$ in the supersymmetric or kappa-invariant case.
If the action contains additional abelian gauge fields (as, e.g., in
\cite{PKT,CT}), the latter count also among the $Z^M$, and $A_\mu$
can be any of those gauge fields which enter the action only via
their field strengths.
As $L$ depends by assumption on $A_\mu$ only via $F_{\mu\nu}$ and
derivatives thereof,
its Euler Lagrange derivative ${\hat\partial L}/{\hat\partial A_\mu}$ with
respect to $A_\mu$ takes the form
\begin{equation}
\frac{\hat\partial L}{\hat\partial A_\mu}=
\epsilon^{\mu\nu}\partial_\nu \varphi
\label{GA1}
\end{equation}
where $\varphi=\epsilon_{\nu\mu} \,
\partial L/\partial F_{\mu\nu}$
(using $\epsilon^{01}=\epsilon_{10}=1$).
Note that we have used here that we are dealing with a two
dimensional theory, as we took advantage of the fact that
$F_{\mu\nu}$ is proportional to $\epsilon_{\mu\nu}$.
We shall now show that any rigid symmetry of $S$ is actually contained
in a family of infinitely many rigid symmetries. Let us therefore
assume that there are infinitesimal transformations $\Delta Z^M$
and $\Delta A_\mu$ which generate a symmetry of the action,
i.e., by assumption the $\Delta$-variation of the Lagrangian
is a total derivative, $\Delta L=\partial_\mu k^\mu$.
This invariance property is equivalent to
\begin{equation}
(\Delta Z^M)\,\frac{\hat\partial L}{\hat\partial Z^M}+
(\Delta A_\mu)\,\frac{\hat\partial L}{\hat\partial A_\mu}
=\partial_\mu j^\mu_\Delta\ .
\label{GA3}
\end{equation}
Here $j^\mu_\Delta$ is of course nothing but the Noether current
associated with $\Delta$. We claim that the
following transformations $\tilde \Delta$ generate further
rigid symmetries of the action,
\begin{eqnarray}
\tilde\Delta Z^M&=& \lambda(\varphi)\, \Delta Z^M
\label{GA4}\\
\tilde\Delta A_\mu &=& \lambda(\varphi)\, \Delta A_\mu
-\frac{d\lambda(\varphi)}{d \varphi}\,
\epsilon_{\mu\nu} j^\nu_\Delta
\label{GA5}
\end{eqnarray}
where $\lambda(\varphi)$ is an arbitrary function of the quantity
$\varphi$ occurring in Eq.\ (\ref{GA1}).
Indeed, using Eqs.\ (\ref{GA1}) and (\ref{GA3}) one easily verifies that
\begin{equation}
(\tilde\Delta Z^M)\,\frac{\hat\partial L}{\hat\partial Z^M}+
(\tilde\Delta A_\mu)\,\frac{\hat\partial L}{\hat\partial A_\mu}
=\partial_\mu \left[\lambda(\varphi)\, j^\mu_\Delta\right]\ .
\label{GA6}
\end{equation}
This implies $\tilde\Delta L=\partial_\mu \tilde k^\mu$ and thus
$\tilde\Delta$ generates a symmetry of the action.
Furthermore Eq.\ (\ref{GA6}) shows that the Noether current
associated with $\tilde\Delta$ arises from the one associated
with $\Delta$ simply through multiplication with $\lambda(\varphi)$,
\begin{equation}
j^\mu_{\tilde\Delta}=\lambda(\varphi)\, j^\mu_\Delta\ .
\label{GA7}
\end{equation}
Hence, given a symmetry $\Delta$ of the action, any choice
$\lambda(\varphi)$ yields another symmetry $\tilde\Delta$,
and thus gives indeed rise to a family of infinitely many symmetries.
Notice that if $\Delta$ is a linear combination of a set of
independent rigid symmetries, $\Delta = \epsilon^i \Delta_i$, each
of the symmetries $\Delta_i$ yields a corresponding family
of symmetries $\tilde \Delta_i$
through functions $\lambda^i(\varphi)$.
\section*{Kappa invariant D-string}
As a first example of the above statement, we consider the
kappa-invariant D-string action in a flat ten-dimensional background
with two target space Majorana-Weyl fermions
$\theta_1^\alpha,\theta_2^\alpha$ of the same chirality
(type IIB case). Using the notation and
conventions of \cite{schwarz,kiyoshi} (in particular
$\theta=\theta_1+\theta_2$ with
$\theta_1=\frac 12(1+\tau_3)\theta$
and $\theta_2=\frac 12(1-\tau_3)\theta$), the action reads
\begin{eqnarray}
S & = & -T\int d^2\sigma\,
\sqrt{-\det({\cal G}_{\mu\nu} + {\cal F}_{\mu\nu})} +
T\int \Omega_{(2)}(\tau_1)
\label{action}
\end{eqnarray}
where
\begin{eqnarray}
& {\cal G}_{\mu\nu}= \Pi^m_{\mu}\Pi^n_{\nu}\eta_{mn} \quad , \quad
\Pi^m_{\mu} = \partial_{\mu}X^m - \bar \theta\Gamma^m\partial_{\mu}\theta &
\nonumber \\
& {\cal F} = d\,A - \Omega_{(2)}(\tau_3) &
\nonumber \\
& \Omega_{(2)}(\tau_i) = -\bar \theta\Gamma_m\tau_id\,\theta(
d\,x^m + \frac{1}{2}\bar \theta\Gamma^md\,\theta). &
\label{def1}
\end{eqnarray}
The above action is known to be invariant up to a total derivative
under super-Poincar\'e transformations
$a^m \Delta_m + \frac{1}{2}a^{mn}\Delta_{mn}
+ \epsilon^{\alpha}\Delta_\alpha$,
where $a^m$, $a^{mn}=-a^{nm}$ and $\epsilon^{\alpha}
=\epsilon_1^{\alpha}+\epsilon_2^{\alpha}$
are constant infinitesimal parameters associated with Poincar\'e and
supersymmetry transformations,
respectively, while $\Delta_m$, $\Delta_{mn}$, $\Delta_\alpha$
are the corresponding generators. They act as follows
\begin{eqnarray}
& \Delta_n x^m = \delta^m_n \quad , \quad \Delta_n \theta^\alpha=
\Delta_n A_\mu = 0 & \label{traf0a}\\
& \Delta_{pq} x^m = (\delta^m_p \eta_{qr} - \delta^m_q \eta_{pr})x^r
\ , \ \Delta_{pq}\theta^\alpha = \frac{1}{2}
(\Gamma_{pq}\theta)^\alpha & \nonumber \\
& \Delta_{pq} A_\mu = 0 & \label{traf0b}\\
& \Delta_\beta x^m = (\bar \theta\Gamma^m)_\beta \quad , \quad
\Delta_\beta \theta^\alpha = \delta^\alpha_\beta & \nonumber \\
& \Delta_\alpha A_\mu = (\bar \theta\tau_3\Gamma_m)_\alpha\partial_\mu x^m &
\nonumber \\
& - \frac{1}{6}\left[
(\bar \theta\tau_3\Gamma_m)_\alpha\bar \theta\Gamma^m \partial_\mu\theta +
(\bar \theta\Gamma_m)_\alpha
\bar \theta\tau_3\Gamma^m \partial_\mu\theta)\right] &
\label{traf0}
\end{eqnarray}
Up to the irrelevant factor $T$, (\ref{GA1}) yields
in this case
\begin{equation}
\varphi = \frac{\bar \varphi}{\sqrt{1 - \bar \varphi^2}}
\quad , \quad
\bar \varphi =
\frac{\epsilon^{\mu\nu}{\cal F}_{\mu\nu}}{2\sqrt{-{\cal G}}}
\label{scalar}
\end{equation}
where ${\cal G}=\det({\cal G}_{\mu\nu})$.
It is now straightforward to apply Eqs.\ (\ref{GA4},\ref{GA5})
to any $\Delta \in \{\Delta_m\, , \Delta_{mn}\, , \Delta_\alpha\}$,
using (\ref{traf0a}--\ref{traf0}) and the corresponding
Noether currents. The latter are given by
\begin{eqnarray}
j^\mu_{\Delta_m} &=& \hat\Pi^\mu_m
-\epsilon^{\mu\nu}\bar\theta\hat\Gamma_m\partial_\nu\theta \\
j^\mu_{\Delta_{mn}} &=&
\hat\Pi^\mu_p(2\delta^p_{[m}\eta_{n]q}x^q
-\frac 12\bar\theta\Gamma^p\Gamma_{mn}\theta)
\nonumber\\
& &-\epsilon^{\mu\nu}\bar\theta\hat\Gamma_p\partial_\nu\theta
(2\delta^p_{[m}\eta_{n]q}x^q
-\frac 14\bar\theta\Gamma^p\Gamma_{mn}\theta)
\nonumber\\
& &+\frac 12\epsilon^{\mu\nu}\bar\theta\hat\Gamma_p\Gamma_{mn}\theta
(\partial_\nu x^p-\frac 12\bar\theta\Gamma^p\partial_\nu\theta)
\\
j^\mu_{\Delta_{\alpha}} &=&
(\bar\theta\Gamma^m)_\alpha(2\hat\Pi^\mu_m
-\frac 43\epsilon^{\mu\nu}\bar\theta\hat\Gamma_m\partial_\nu\theta)
\nonumber\\
& &
-\epsilon^{\mu\nu}(\bar\theta\hat\Gamma_m)_\alpha
(2\partial_\nu x^m-\frac 23\bar\theta\Gamma^m\partial_\nu\theta)
\label{traf1}
\end{eqnarray}
where
\begin{eqnarray}
\hat\Pi^\mu_m &=& \sqrt{-{\cal G}(1+\varphi^2)}\,{\cal G}^{\mu\nu}
\eta_{mn}\Pi^n_\nu
\\
\hat\Gamma_m&=&\Gamma_m(\varphi\tau_3-\tau_1).
\end{eqnarray}
Notice that each $\Delta$ has its corresponding arbitrary function
$\lambda(\varphi)$, which can be expanded in an appropiate basis
(e.g.\ in powers of $\varphi$)
to get the loop version of the corresponding super-Poincar\'e
algebra, cf.\ \cite{paper1,paper3}.
\section*{Purely supersymmetric D-string}
By purely supersymmetric D-string, we mean a supersymmetric
D-string
with no coupling to the RR-potentials and
NS-NS two form. Again we consider an action in a flat background,
\begin{equation}
S= -T\int d^2\sigma \,\sqrt{-\det({\cal G}_{\mu\nu} + F_{\mu\nu})}
\end{equation}
with ${\cal G}_{\mu\nu}$ as in (\ref{def1}) and
$F_{\mu\nu}=\partial_\mu A_\nu-\partial_\nu A_\mu$.
This example illustrates that Born-Infeld
type actions can have more symmetries than those associated
with background (super-) isometries, as was already pointed out
in~\cite{paper1,paper3}. Namely, in addition to the
super-Poincar\'e symmetries%
\footnote{In this case, the gauge field does not transform at all under
the super-Poincar\'e transformations due to the non-appearance of the
NS-NS two form (in particular, $\Delta_\alpha A_\mu = 0$).
Furthermore, in contrast to the kappa symmetric case,
the Lagrangian itself is exactly supersymmetric,
not just up to a total derivative.},
the action has a dilatational invariance generated by
\begin{eqnarray}
& \Delta_d \,x^m = x^m \quad , \quad \Delta_d \,\theta = \frac{1}{2}\,
\theta & \\
& \Delta_d \,A_\mu = 2 (1-\varphi^{-2})A_\mu &
\end{eqnarray}
where
\begin{equation}
\varphi = \frac{\bar \varphi}{\sqrt{1 - \bar \varphi^2}}
\quad , \quad
\bar\varphi= \frac{\epsilon^{\mu\nu} F_{\mu\nu}}
{2\sqrt{-{\cal G}}}\ .
\end{equation}
Indeed, the Lagrangian is invariant under $\Delta_d$
up to a total derivative,
\begin{equation}
\Delta_d\, L=\partial_\mu (4\varphi^{-1}A_\nu \epsilon^{\nu\mu}).
\end{equation}
The
corresponding symmetries (\ref{GA4},\ref{GA5}) read as follows
\begin{eqnarray}
& \tilde\Delta_d\, x^m = \lambda(\varphi)\,x^m \quad, \quad
\tilde\Delta_d\, \theta =
\frac 12\, \lambda(\varphi)\,
\theta & \\
& \tilde\Delta_d A_\mu = 2\lambda | 4,010 |
Looking to transform<|fim_middle|>. It's not about checking up on what people are doing but making sure there is consistency and collaboration between teams and individuals. | your old-school sales department?
Don't have a sales department and need some tools implemented to help?
Well here's the rundown of what you need to have in your sales department in 2019.
Intelligence tools are specifically for finding and giving insight into your prospects. The types of sales intelligence tools vary wildly, but that's due to every industry having wildly different needs. Long gone are the days of having a rolodex or simply a CRM populated with company name, telephone number and contact name. We're now looking, from vast datasets, for buying signals – and want to be informed by the tool when the best time to contact potential clients would be.
Automation can be complex, but once set up it will provide you with invaluable data about your prospects. Who is visiting your website? Who is opening your salespersons' emails? Who is repeat-visiting your website? Which content is being read the most, and which content is converting web visitors to calls the best? Marketing automation is also closely related to content marketing (if done correctly).
If you don't have a CRM, then everyone will have no idea what is going on in your sales teams. People will be treading on each other's toes, prospective clients will be getting numerous calls from different people and management will have no way to project sales. Quite simply, having a decent CRM is a must.
Social selling is such a big part of sales. So, make sure you're managing it correctly – scheduling posts to multiple social networks from multiple accounts. This can be very time consuming. Some of these tools will help you find new content, and some have excellent analytics as well. A good social media management tool should increase your efficiency, but it should also increase your early-stage leads.
Keep organised, keep on top of everything and never miss a deadline. If you can get buy-in from all your team you'll be able to maximise efficiency in the sales and marketing departments using a workflow management tool | 397 |
I'm thinking Least- greenish/olive coloring on the back, nice eyering, and short primaries.
Thanks, akiley. My first thought was Acadian, but then I started to have doubts. Least would be rare (and a lifer) so a second would be appreciated.
I found it in some bushes beside a gravel road. It was hunting from various perches about 3 feet from the ground. I would describe it's flight as shorter and much less vigorous than an Eastern Phoebe. I did not hear it call.
That's funny, I don't see any of that. It looks pretty gray, the eyering looks rather weak, and the primaries look like a medium length to me. My impression was Traill's.
My impression was Trail's as well.
At second glance I think I can see Traill's here. I still think the overall coloring looks fine for Least, but I agree what you're saying about the eyering and primary projection. The bill doesn't look that small either.
Assuming it is a Traill's, it's more likely an Alder in my opinion: overall coloring, eyering, bright white wingbars, overall<|fim_middle|>ill's, Alder, and Willow, the latter two identified by call) with an Alder at almost that exact location (Sam has pics on eBird) and a Traill's type nearby the previous year (pics also on eBird).
Thanks, Liam. Maybe if it sticks around we can locate it again.
The Alder's I had found a couple years ago did stick around a couple days and was seen by a handful of birders.
I'd go look after work tomorrow, but my attention is on hurricane birds! I want a Jaeger!
Understood! Throw in a gannet and I might join you!
Thanks, TooFly, that's interesting. I hope to look for the bird again. It would be a lifer so I'd like to hear it. Better photos would be nice, too. | structure and flat-headed look would work better for Alder than Willow. But we obviously can't make that call without an excellent array of photos or a recording.
Traill's is a distinct possibility. I've had four at Phinizy (two Tra | 51 |
Laura Groeseneken Has Chosen The Song For Belgium
The first artist to be announced for Eurovision 2018 was Belgium's Laura Groeseneken. Since then speculation regarding the song has arisen. No official title has been given, however with an interview given to OGAE Belgium recetly, she revealed a few more details in regards to her entry.
The young talented artist has revealed that she has chosen the entry, but is still working on the creative process of the song. Of the song, it is one that she wrote and composed herself. When Laura spoke of it she described it as the right entry, and one that she fell in love with.
No name was given for the song, however she revealed that it would be, "a pop song, but not a typical one. Not even for the Eurovision Song Contest. It is a bit mysterious". This has left many fans more eager than ever to hear it. With Belgium's recent success at the competition it may be a cert to do well. The talented singer even said of her entry, "outsiders can win". In the interview to OGAE Belgium, she even said that the outfit had also been chosen.
Of accepting the offer to represent Belgium, the singer was not coy in admitting that she did not plan to sing at the contest, however she only accepted the offer because it was a once in a life time offer<|fim_middle|> when Sandra Kim took the crown.
Are you excited for the song? What do you think of her chances? Please tell us in the comments below. | . "I am going to do my very best for Belgium...I will go to the Eurovision Song Contest to win. This is not something silly for me".
Not so long ago she performed Salvador Sobrel's winning entry, giving many fans a glimpse at her powerful voice. Check it out below. She has revealed it is a pop song. This combined with her voice could bring Belgium its first victory since 1986 | 87 |
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I never imagined my 13-year-old daughter's headaches would lead to a brain cancer diagnosis. My daughter started suffering from headaches with increasing intensity over a three and a half week period. During that time, I sought advice from a friend in the medical field, my daughter was examined by her Texas Children's pediatrician and a Texas Children's neurologist, and she was treated with an all-day outpatient IV medication at Texas Children's West Campus in an attempt to break the headache cycle. Yet, the headaches continued and she was admitted to Texas Children's Hospital for MRIs. While I was intent on relieving my daughter's pain and getting to the root of the problem, never once did it cross my mind she was seriously ill. Just weeks before, my daughter was the picture of perfect health – doing well in 8th grade, playing sports, attending camp and vacationing with family.
And so it was as I waited that Friday afternoon for my daughter to complete the MRIs, I was approached by three doctors who sat me in a room to inform me "your daughter has a brain tumor." They must have said more, but that is all I remember. And then, the MRI technician brought my daughter out. I knew my face could not conceal what I had just learned moments before and so I walked behind as an attendant wheeled her back to the hospital room. It was on that walk that my husband was able to meet<|fim_middle|>urgery team was able to resect all of the tumor! We were grateful and much relieved!
On Wednesday, the neuro-oncologist, Dr. Murali Chintagumpala, came to our daughter's room and told us that while the tumor had been removed and there was no evidence of metastasis in the spinal fluid, the tumor was cancerous and it was important that our daughter undergo radiation and chemotherapy to target any unknown remaining cancer cells to prevent recurrence. Texas Children's standard treatment protocol for this would start several weeks after recovery from surgery and would be physically grueling and include harvesting her own stem cells, six weeks of daily radiation to the brain and spine, and four rounds of high dose chemotherapy with stem cell rescue after each round over the course of four months. Proton radiation therapy was recommended as it is thought to be less damaging to surrounding organs and tissue. The hope was in eight months' time, my daughter's treatment would be completed. Because my daughter's immune system would be compromised, she would not be able to attend school her 8th grade year.
So it would be - one step at a time. While we were provided the treatment plan, we didn't fully comprehend what it entailed. But, with each step, the amazing doctors, physician's assistants, nurses, Child Life specialists, and other staff at Texas Children's were there to help and encourage us along the journey. Texas Children's has some of the finest medical staff in the world, but the fact that Texas Children's is focused on the care of children is an important distinction that cannot be diminished. Texas Children's cared for my daughter during her diagnosis and treatment, and Dr. Chintagumpala of Texas Children's Cancer Center and a host of specialty doctors in the Clinical Care Tower will continue to care for my daughter for years to come to help her cope with the side effects from this intense treatment. The fact that all these doctors are housed together and confer with each other on a day-to-day basis truly does make a difference in patient care!
Our daughter has been cancer free since her diagnosis over three years ago! We feel very fortunate to live in Houston and to have an excellent pediatrician, Dr. Richard Thaller of Texas Children's Pediatrics, who led our daughter to being treated by a world class team. We will always remember all the doctors and physician's assistants who patiently answered all of our many questions along the way. Every person we have met has had a love-filled heart and a kind, positive disposition. The individuals that work at Texas Children's are there because they want to treat and work with children and their families, and that is abundantly apparent. One such person was a particularly amazing nurse on the West Tower 8th floor, Frenae, whose compassion for my daughter made the high dose chemotherapy treatments tolerable because of her commitment to my daughter to managing her nausea and pain and her doing an incredible job administering anti-nausea medications on a strict schedule in coordination with the chemotherapy drugs so as to keep my daughter's nausea in check. Her compassion compelled her to stop in her busy schedule and look by daughter directly in the eye and tell her with genuine conviction "you can do this – you are strong". When I witnessed this powerful act of kindness, I knew I would be strong for my daughter and do whatever I could to help her "do this" chemotherapy.
Amazing things are happening at Texas Children's Cancer Center! We have benefitted from the doctors, research, patients and families that have enrolled in studies and benefactors that came before us, and we want to build on this strong foundation. With gratitude and knowing there will always be much work to be done, I have chosen to become involved with the SALE, a unique, two-day shopping event featuring 50 of Houston's premier boutiques all at one location with dramatically discounted merchandise with all proceeds benefitting pediatric cancer research. Our third annual event, the SALE 2017, is benefitting Texas Children's Cancer Center and will be held January 7-8, 2017 at Bayou City Event Center. General admission Saturday is from 12-5 p.m. and Sunday 12 -4 p.m. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit our website, thesalehouston.com. You will be making your contribution to pediatric cancer research and ensuring children battling cancer have the best care possible. Thank you for your support!
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Several hours later, my husband and I met with a team of doctors, one of whom would introduce himself as a neurosurgeon. He would inform us the tumor should be removed immediately. I wonder now what my husband and I talked about with my daughter in those interim hours between learning of the tumor and this meeting and what my daughter must have felt when her father and I left her all alone in that hospital room to learn about next steps. At age 13, our daughter was old enough and mature enough to understand more than a much younger child and to surely have questions of her own and be searching for answers herself.
Everything was happening so fast and, at the same time, we were confined to the hospital room to wait. While in the hospital room with my daughter, my husband spent the weekend researching the team to ensure it was the best we could find. We were blessed to have friends whose children had been treated at Texas Children's and who now spoke to us of the excellent care they had and were receiving and confirmed for us that Texas Children's was indeed the right place for our daughter to receive care. Even so, as surgery approached, we had so many unanswered questions. We had only met the neurosurgeon assigned to perform my daughter's brain surgery on Friday afternoon.. So it was on Sunday that my husband contacted the surgeon with our concerns and he offered to meet with us again in person that evening to answer our questions and assure us that he was the neurosurgeon with whom we should entrust our daughter. That extra care and attention was so crucial at that difficult time. The surgery went well– the neuros | 358 |
First I would like to express my thanks to my predecessor, Liz Adams, for her leadership of the Society over the past 4 years. During her time in office the Society introduced the policy of making grants to replace stiles by gates at a number of footpaths throughout the county, and in particular those on the d'Arcy Dalton Way and the Oxfordshire Way. In this activity the Society is furthering one of its principal objectives which are to improve the rights of way and access to open spaces in the County.
The Society also embarked on detailed surveys of the d'Arcy Dalton Way and the circular walks associated with it. This information has been passed on to the Countryside Access Service of the County Council and it has been pleasing to note that improvements to the path infrastructure have been made to remedy the problems which the survey identified.
The Society was saddened by the<|fim_middle|> of the campaign in the late 1940s and early 1950s when existing footpaths needed to be identified and given the legal protection of being shown on the definitive maps of public rights of way.
The Executive Committee considered who should replace Jack and the name of Sir Hugo Brunner, former Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire, was its unanimous choice. The Committee is delighted that Sir Hugo was pleased to accept the Presidency and in that capacity he came to introduce himself and to give a send-off at the start of the first Jack Ibbott Memorial Walk on June 29th.
Last year the Society took an exhibition stall at the Wychwood Country Show. This was deemed to be a very successful event as it gave an opportunity for us to talk to many interested members of the public, most of whom had neither heard of the Society nor knew of its work. This year the Society has taken stalls at four events: the Abingdon Air Show, Burford Fair, the Vale of White Horse show at Uffington and Wychwood County Fair and I am very grateful for those members who man the stalls.
We welcome three new members of the Committee - Mike Wykes who takes over from John Eyre as the Society's Treasurer, Lesley Fraser and Janice Ure. I welcome the contribution they are going to make to the future management of the Society. | death of its long serving President and former Chairman, Jack Ibbott, in December. Jack had been a doughty fighter on behalf of walkers in the countryside. He was in the forefront | 39 |
SAN DIEGO -- A pulmonary artery clot extractor was able to improve right ventricular (RV) function without the need for thrombolytics, according to researchers here.
In the prospective FLARE study, 106 intermediate-risk patients presenting with acute pulmonary embolism (PE) had RV/LV (left ventricular) ratios fall from 1.53 to 1.15 at 48 hours after mechanical thrombectomy with the FlowTriever (P<0.0001), reported Thomas Tu, MD, of Baptist Health Louisville in Kentucky, and colleagues.
This improvement held strong even in the 101 patients who did not receive lytics, he said in a presentation at the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions annual meeting.
The FlowTriever device enters the pulmonary artery via a large-bore guide catheter, and macerates large thrombi, before an aspiration guide catheter retracts the device and thrombus together during the retrieval process. The idea is that with the clot removed, the resulting increase in lumen size leads to reduced<|fim_middle|> by this study and prior comparable studies of other PE devices: namely, in what clinical scenarios is the risk/benefit of this device (or for that matter, any advanced therapy for PE) clearly favorable?" Giri said.
The right patients for FlowTriever therapy may be the high-risk individuals ill-suited for surgery who have bleeding contraindications, he suggested, since they have "exceedingly high mortality rates" and are in need of new aggressive options for improving short-term RV function. However, he noted that this group was not the population actually studied in the current study.
"For the field at large, studies with control groups are desperately needed in order to help clinicians target the right therapy to the right patient at the right time," Giri stated.
Russell Rosenberg, MD, and Vikas Aggarwal, MD, MPH, both of the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University in Philadelphia, likewise said that the field of PE research as a whole is lacking in appropriately-powered randomized trials.
For now, the FlowTriever appears promising and "adds another arrow in the quiver" of therapies for PE patients, but clinicians should still exercise caution and clinical judgment while taking care of them, said Rosenberg and Aggarwal.
Tu, Rosenberg, and Aggarwal disclosed no relevant relationships with industry.
Giri disclosed a relevant relationships with the PERT Consortium.
Source Reference: Tu T "A prospective, single-arm, multicenter trial of catheter-directed mechanical thrombectomy for intermediate-risk acute pulmonary embolism: the FLARE study" SCAI 2018. | pulmonary artery pressure and RV strain, Tu said.
Thrombectomy took 94 minutes on average and there were no device-related complications. However, Tu's group observed one death and a 3.8% rate of major adverse events, as four patients experienced a range of events including cardiogenic shock, pulmonary infarction, and respiratory arrest.
Catheter-directed mechanical thrombectomy without the use of thrombolytics, they maintained, appears "safe and effective" in patients with intermediate-risk PE. Up next will be a randomized trial to prove just that.
"The outcomes that we saw in this trial are extremely favorable because the improvement in the size and function of the RV was comparable to previous results we've seen with thrombolytic therapy," Tu said in a statement. "Our study paves the way for this novel treatment option for patients with PE and shows that we can decrease their risk of bleeding complications while potentially being just as safe and effective."
An ICU stay lasted a median of 1 day after the procedure; 44 patients didn't require an ICU stay, while there were 21 who stayed ≥3 days.
Patients were eligible for inclusion in FLARE if they had acute submassive PE with RV/LV ratios of 0.9 or higher on chest CT.
"The results of this study tell me that I can say to a symptomatic intermediate-risk PE patient with a fair amount of confidence 'You will feel better faster with the use of this device than with anticoagulation alone.' This is because the primary study endpoint has been shown to be a fairly useful surrogate for short-term symptomatic improvement," commented Jay Giri, MD, MPH, of Penn Medicine in Philadelphia, who was not involved with FLARE.
Nonetheless, it remains to be seen how FlowTriever efficacy plays out over the long term, especially when it comes to mortality and the development of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, Giri told MedPage Today. He added that the modest size of FLARE lends it to unanswered questions regarding safety outcomes like major bleeding, pulmonary hemorrhage, and procedural cardiopulmonary decompensation.
"While I think the current study provides some useful information on a novel therapy that expands our toolbox for interventional treatment of PE, the most important question remains unanswered both | 468 |
<|fim_middle|> Quarter for its operations.
Yelp, founded in 2004, said its review sites have more than 100 million unique visitors. As of the end of the second quarter, Yelp users have written 135 million local reviews on everything from restaurants, to mechanics and dentists.
Yelp has more than 32,000 employees worldwide.
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WASHINGTON — Online reviews site Yelp will open its newest East Coast office in the District, and says it will create 500 new jobs over five years.
Yelp pledged to hire D.C. residents for at least half of those new positions.
Mayor Muriel Bowser, whose administration remains committed to bringing more jobs to the city, made the announcement Friday morning.
San Francisco-based Yelp has other locations in New York City, Chicago, London, Hamburg and Scottsdale, Ariz.
Yelp said it chose Washington, D.C. for its newest office because of the city's thriving technology community, talented workforce and its proximity to other East Coast cities.
"Washington, D.C. is a natural place for Yelp's next office, offering a vibrant local community and access to top-tier talent," said Stoppelman, Yelp CEO and co-founder.
"The city's burgeoning technology sector is a welcoming setting for Yelp as we focus on building the best technical products to connect people with great local businesses."
Yelp has leased 52,000 square feet in Terrell Place, at 575 7th St., NW, next to the Verizon Center in Penn | 282 |
This article was submitted by Cora Wigger, a graduate student in public policy at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College of Education.
The 2014-2015 school year was the first where all schools in the state fully implemented the Kentucky Professional Growth and Effectiveness System (PGES), and beginning in 2015-2016 all schools and districts will be required by the state to use the results of PGES evaluations<|fim_middle|> And by basing the final SGP score on percentiles instead of raw scores, the TPGES model necessitates that there will always be students with a low SGP and a high SGP, even if all students do better (or worse) than would have been predicted.
The SGP approach also limits the years and subjects for which an assessment-based growth score can be calculated, because it requires consecutive years of test data in the same subject, greatly reducing the number of teachers able to receive a score from the pool of teachers who teach tested subjects. It also averages scores over three years, when available, which is statistically great, but for new teachers it makes each year hold more weight than for those with more experience. Overall, the use of SGP's for student growth measurement is a potentially invalid and unreliable statistical tool that doesn't utilize much of the available test data for determining teacher contribution to student growth.
However, it may not much matter. Kentucky allows districts to determine the weight that MSGP scores receive, theoretically allowing this score to make up as little as 5% of the overall student growth score for a teacher. So while it may not be as statistically sound or reliable as is ideal, districts have the ability to nearly completely leave it out of teachers' final effectiveness scores. However, this then places all of the weight (for untested teachers) and nearly all of the weight (for tested teachers in districts that place little importance on MSGP) on student growth goals, which I have already demonstrated may be a flawed source for teacher evaluation.
The theory behind having an effective teacher evaluation model is that you will improve students' education by improving the teachers – either by changing which teachers are in the work force or by identifying areas of weakness and tailoring professional development around those areas and for those teachers. But I will not be surprised if we come to see that TPGES isn't so great at the identification of strong and weak teachers and areas of practice, given its not so strong measurement tools. However, if done well, the use of student growth goals accompanying TPGES may directly improve the education our students receive by giving teachers a powerful tool for offering individualized education to every student. And ultimately, that's the purpose of any teacher evaluation system. I would be wary, however, to overuse TPGES in more high-stakes decisions that impact teachers, like pay scales or dismissals, as the system may not be up to snuff to be able to give us that kind of reliable information.
Morgan, C., Lacireno-Paquet, N. (2013) Overview of Student Learning Objectives (SLOs): Review of the Literature. Regional Education Laboratory at EDC.
For more on Student Learning Objectives and how they may impact teacher performance and student outcomes, see an analysis of Denver's ProComp System.
For more on some of the challenges of VAM alluded to in Wigger's analysis, see Some Inconvenient Facts About VAM.
Kentucky Education Report | Another Bad Move from Bevin on Unanimous! | for decision-making for professional development and retention plans. Now is a particularly critical time for the state to be evaluating both the structure and rollout of PGES in order to make any final changes before stakes are officially attached to the system.
If you follow teacher evaluation systems in other states or in the national conversation, you've probably come across the terms "Value Added Models" (VAM) (a calculation of student test scores that attributes to the teacher the growth of a student beyond what would have been predicted) and "Student Learning Objectives" (SLO's) (individualized learning goals developed and assessed for each of a teacher's students). Kentucky uses both of these in the Student Growth portion of their teacher evaluation system (TPGES), but refrains from using the often politicized terms. Smart, since not all VAMs and SLOs are created equal.
Kentucky's Student Growth Goals, a take on SLO's, are a strong pedagogical tool, and Kentucky's push to use this strategy statewide is ambitious and forward-thinking, because they're not easy to implement and monitor. Available research generally supports the idea that SLO's have a positive effect on student learning, and the individualized nature of goal-development promotes teacher buy-in for the evaluation system. However, there is little evidence that SLO's are a valid or reliable tool for measuring teacher effectiveness for evaluation (see Morgan & Lacireno, 2013). While the process of creating and using these student growth goals may be beneficial for both teacher practice and student learning, their use in TPGES for determining a teacher effectiveness score and subsequent teacher development and retention needs may not end up being a responsible or accurate measurement approach.
The second component of a teacher's student growth score uses a student's change in test scores as compared to their academic peers to determine the teacher's contribution to that student's academic growth. Kentucky's approach here maximizes teacher buy-in by limiting the application of test score data to teachers who actually taught the students being tested in a given year (as compared to some systems that hold all teachers in a school accountable for students' test scores, even those teaching untested subjects). Student Growth Percentiles (SGP) are determined for each tested student in at least their second year of consecutive testing by comparing each students' current year scores to other students state-wide with the same scores on the previous year's test. SGP is determined based on what percentile each student falls in according to their current test score compared to other students with the same test score from the year before. A teacher's Median Student Growth Percentile (MSGP) is determined from the median of all of that teacher's students' SGPs. As complicated an explanation as that may be, compared to other Value Added Models, Kentucky's is extremely simple. Some VAMs, for instance, take student background or teacher experience into account. | 586 |
The Company has focused on building a bilingual talent pool for competency at the global level, and believes that the success of the learning initiatives ultimately rests on the employees.
Continuous learning and knowledge sharing can go a long way in empowering employees even while driving organisational goals. Fujitsu Consulting India, a global delivery centre for Japanese firm, Fujitsu Group, has focussed on its learning and development initiatives to stay relevant in the business.
With an employee base of more than 4,400 across five cities, the organisation has ensured that the learning curve of its workforce keeps moving up as the employees adapt and implement new technologies. The Company fosters a culture of learning to ensure long-term employability as employees are eager to learn and experiment with new technology.
The learning journey of the employees starts from the first day. Interestingly, it has designed a programme called 'Yokoso' that resembles a gamification-based module on pre-engagement, to induct new employees into the Fujitsu family and familiarise them with the Company's culture.
With the help of an employee ID, the employees can log in through the app that functions as a tour guide offering a glimpse into Fujitsu India's global delivery centres, besides other trends. It also provides the employees an opportunity to find buddies who can help them get acquainted with the new system. The employees have to complete the questionnaire within a period of two weeks to two months. On completion, employees are awarded with a 'Yokoso' certificate. The engaging application helps the employees become aware of the organisational structure, processes and functions.
The Company has a knowledge-sharing portal that allows employees to share insights of the industry through documents and contributions. Employees can rate the information and contributors, following which the top-rated contributors are promoted on the homepage.
This portal also works as a 'crowdsourcing platform'— a practice group on technologies. Some of these ideas are further discussed with the technology team or subject-matter experts who evaluate the feasibility of adopting the same within the company.
The platform has motivated employees to speak their minds, and in the process, understand their interests and strengths.
"We allow people to experiment with their ideas through the platform and try to help them build on their ideas. This is a way of recognising people for their initiative," says Sumit Sabharwal, head-HR, Fujitsu Consulting India.
Through a session called Techno-Tuesday, employees are encouraged to learn new technologies and share the same with their colleagues. A trainer-reward programme creates an empowering environment for employees who are given the opportunity to attend seminars and workshops and share the knowledge acquired with the team. The programme has witnessed 200 technology trainers being added to the network, where trainers are rewarded for their contribution to endorsing the culture of learning.
Almost 20,000 courses on technical and behavioural subjects, including customised bite-sized modules, are available in<|fim_middle|> from elementary to proficient — categorised as N5 to N1.
To ease the process of learning such a difficult language, it has also designed an educational series to bring employees closer to Japanese culture and make the process more fun and engaging. Employees get a sneak peek into the Japanese work culture, which helps them empathise and collaborate better with the parent company.
The Company is focused on building a bilingual pool in India keeping in mind the Company's off-shore centres. From the employees' perspective, it is an added advantage coupled with their expertise in technology. There is increased emphasis on digital simulation, where trainings are imparted via virtual labs.
"The technology and the language complement the capability of employees in various projects translating to more business for the company, a higher customer satisfaction score and also employer satisfaction," says Sabharwal. | the learning management system.
Being a Japanese firm, it has started a Japanese language academy to build language capability among employees at various levels — | 27 |
SAA launches mobile applications for passengers
by biztellers · April 12, 2013
JOHANESBURG: SOUTH African Airways (SAA) has launched two new mobile applications (Apps) that give customers access to comprehensive travel and airline information on the go.
According to the airline, using the convenience of their iOs or android mobile phones and tablets, the passengers can now view their booking information, check-in for a flight, find the status of their checked-in luggage, and view information on lounges, flights and destinations.
The Head of Global Sales Development and Alliance, Marc Cavaliere, said that: "This new service will go a long way in giving travellers easier and instant access to information whilst in transit or away from a computer.
"The new functionalities are also helpful especially for passengers who are always on the go such as business travellers. This is another way of ensuring convenient travelling for our valued customers", he added.
With this mobile functionality, SAA noted that information such as flight arrivals and departures would now be available at passengers' fingertips.
It stated that passengers can also search for information on special fares, view voyager status and miles, use a currency converter, or even get an<|fim_middle|>: CBN recovers N6bn from fraudulent banks
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Travellers can download the newly developed mobile applications for their iOs or android smartphones and tablets from the Apple App Store and Google play stores respectively, it stated.
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The Summer House<|fim_middle|> | @ The Gate Theatre
The Summer House is an engaging and amusing conflation of Nordic mythology and a disastrous stag-do.
The main focus is on the experiences of three men attempting to execute the traditional, or perhaps clichéd, wild stag party weekend away. Scenes of Nordic Gods and honourable Vikings are interwoven between the chaotic moments of the stag party to reflect and consequently punctuate whatever manly issue is being addressed by the trio. It is this acknowledgement of the conundrums surrounding social
status and perceived masculinity that rescues The Summer House from descending into an overtly masculine farce reminiscent of a Nordic 'Hangover'. These glimmers of substance and amusing juxtapositions of the quandaries of the stags, with portrayals of the equally flawed and insecure Norse Gods make The Summer House astute, as well as chuckle inducing.
Neil Haigh's performance as troubled Neil, whose summer house the men are staying in, is understated and convincing. Similarly, Matthew Steer's depiction of the meticulously organised, anxious Best Man Matthew is also thoroughly entertaining and believable, and at points quite subtle. The stag, Will, played by Will Adamsdale, was perhaps the least palatable as his character was almost excessively slapstick. Also, at points Adamsdale's performance felt like a semi-professional actor (with a contrived booming semi-professional actor voice)playing Will, rather than Will Adamsdale being Will.
The set and use of props were clever – though quite typical of many contemporary plays – with a sparse set design (the stage was on two levels and contained a sofa and three chairs) and a creative use of everyday objects. One of the cleverest uses of the banal was cling film as it is used to depict; cloaks, mountains, water and a hot tub cover…! However, the most inspired element of the stage and prop design was a miniature version of the summerhouse that the men are staying in: literally, a tiny wooden summer house. The diminutive representation is positioned at the front of the stage and whatever is occurring on the actual stage is echoed, only smaller. It is brilliant. It provides comedic value but also enhances some scenes of the play that are more challenging to convey on a limited set. The use of sound supports the visual aspect of the production almost to the extent of being pedantic, with each splosh of the hot tub, but nevertheless adds authenticity and comedy which are the main merits of the performance.
The script, a collaboration by Adamsdale, Haigh and Steer is realistic and amusing. This is aside of course from the scenes based in Scandinavian history to which alas, my expertise in masculine lexical choices does not extend.
In short, this production is worth watching as a comedy with a self-conscious centre as it rigorously and humorously examines man.
Holly Darling Freeman
This entry was posted on March 13, 2012 by verbalparoxysm. It was filed under Theatre and was tagged with Gate theatre, play, review, The Summer House. | 618 |
Men's roster brings the heat to Cozumel
By Chelsea White on 30/09/15 at 4:16 pm
The World Triathlon Series may be over, but the triathlon season is still in full swing with lots of action yet to come, with the elites headed for the sunshine at the 2015 Cozumel ITU World Cup.
The men's race is loaded with talent, which will make for one heated race that has nothing to do with the hot Mexican temperatures. Tackling the sprint distance, athletes can look forward to a technical one-lap 750 metre swim, four-lap 20 kilometre bike and two-lap 10 kilometre run course.
Richard Murray (RSA) tops the start list still buzzing with euphoria after earning the bronze medal in the WTS Chicago Grand Final earlier this month. Finishing fourth overall in the Columbia Threadneedle rankings and qualifying for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games after his bronze in the Rio Test Event, 2015 is proving to be the standout year for the South African.
Murray strives in the World Cup circuit as well. While Cozumel will only be his second World Cup of the season, he added a victory in New Plymouth—the one race he did contend in, marking him as the sure favourite heading into the race on Sunday.
But vying for the chance to strip the title from Murray will be compatriots Crisanto Grajales and Irving Perez, both eager to catch a win on Mexican home soil.
Grajales has had a spectacular season so far. He has stamped four top-ten finishes to his WTS passport, two of which were in the top-five, including the most recent finish when he took fourth place in the Chicago Grand Final. He also won the gold medal at the Toronto Pan American Games<|fim_middle|> can expect him to bring the heat.
Already gaining home country glory this year is Perez, who won the Huatulco World Cup. He also joined Grajales on the Pan American podium, when he earned the bronze medal. Pride is sure to be a motivational factor for Perez, since winning in front of a Mexican crowd for a second time would be nothing short of phenomenal for himself and his country.
Last year in Cozumel, the Americans held the majority on the podium after Jarrod Shoemaker and Joe Maloy took home the silver and bronze. Both USA men are returning this year to reclaim their spots on the grandstand, but this time will also have the company of compatriot Kevin McDowell to vie for a placement. McDowell claimed the silver medal at the Toronto Pan American Games and has one World Cup podium in the books after taking home the bronze in Chengdu.
Hungary's Gabor Faldum and South Africa's Wian Sullwald are also toeing the Mexican line. Faldum had a good performance in Tiszaujvaros by winning his semi-final round and then finishing the final with the silver medal.
Sullwald tallied some local victories in Africa, but also showed promise in the WTS and World Cup circuits. He is one to watch for on the rise in the elite triathlon world.
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richard murray | crisanto grajales | kevin mcdowell | cozumel world cup | irving perez | 2015 world cup | in July, which guaranteed Mexico a spot in the Rio next summer. His running legs have shown their strength this year, so Cozumel | 29 |
Run to Remember
This morning I was honoured to participate in my second National Peace Officers' Memorial Run. The ceremony takes place at the Police Monument at Queen's Park and is the launch to a 460 km, three-day relay run to Ottawa. My friends Laurie and Matt are a big part of this run and it feels good to be able to support them and remember those who have lost their lives in the line of duty.
Below are some photos from the morning and some information about the run from the National Peace Officers' Memorial 'Run to Remember' website.
About the Memorial 'Run to Remember':
From the National Peace Officers' Memorial Run website: "The primary objective of the National Peace Officers' Memorial 'Run to Remember' is to raise awareness and focus attention on the annual Police and Peace Officers' Memorial Service. The annual Service is held on the last Sunday of September in Ottawa with the run occurring over a three day period immediately preceding it.
The 'Run to Remember' is a 460 km relay that makes it's way through many communities between the start at the Ontario Police Memorial site in Toronto to the end at the National Memorial on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Not only does the run raise awareness about the Memorial Service it also gives peace officers and citizens along the route the opportunity to participate in some small way if they are unable to attend the actual Memorial Service.
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Past ambassadorships: | that participate in the three day relay it is their way of fulfilling that pledge, that promise, that they will not forget those who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service of their community, their province and indeed their country. The long and sometimes gruelling hours of running allow the participants the opportunity to reflect on the sacrifices of those brave officers whose names are etched on the Memorial Wall in Ottawa and their families who have had to endure the pain of their loss.
Besides raising awareness of the Memorial Service in Ottawa the run's other objective is to raise funds for the following:
Trust funds established for the family of officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty
Donations towards the construction of any Memorial being built in memory of fallen peace officers
Donations to the National Police and Memorial Officers memorial Fund to assist with the funding of the annual Memorial Service
Donations to help fund any annual Provincial Memorial Service established to recognize fallen peace officers in their Province."
Check out the group! #RunToRemember #HeroesInLife @460km pic.twitter.com/8Vl4l1g400
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Washburn's defensive line shape the game
Pile it on The Wash<|fim_middle|>an-Johnson. "Especially if he doesn't see it coming."
Whether it is sacking the quarterback or just doing the little things to fill assignments, the defensive linemen are always ready to fight their way to help the Ichabod football team be successful. | burn Ichabods defensive linemen come together to bring down a rival opponent of the Missouri Western State University Griffons. Washburn's defense has been a key in their 7-1.
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When one thinks to defensive superstars in professional football today, typically names of linebackers and defensive backs will be brought up. However, not many names of defensive linemen would be.
On the contrary, the "men in the trenches" represent the tough drawn out battles that go on during a football game. They are extremely important to the football team.
"Our job is to fill gaps for our assignments, put pressure on the quarterback during passes and stopping the runs that come our way," said senior Dakota Palan-Johnson.
Palan-Johnson is one of the starting defensive ends for the Washburn football team.
The ends are lined up on the outside part of the line while the tackles are in the middle. All together, they are considered the defensive line.
The defensive line has many obligations. The linemen can force pressure on the quarterback just by being in the right spot and mess everything up.
"Whether we sack the quarterback to force a punt or strip the ball and recover a fumble, we can change the game in a heartbeat," said Palan-Johnson.
However, this is not as easy as it sounds. Imagine a 300 pound man trying to get in the way of everything Palan-Johnson does. This is grueling and exhausting process that takes mental and physical preparation leading up to the games. For Palan-Johnson, he has his own routine of working out to prepare.
"I lift three times a week," said Palan-Johnson. "Tuesday is a heavy lift, Thursday is a medium and Sunday is just to relax after the games."
The mental preparation takes just as much effect on the game as the physical side. When the adrenaline is kicked in and the play is about to start, this can be an anxious time for the defensive linemen.
"The hardest thing is trying to stay perfect on your assignments," said Palan-Johnson. "It's so easy to mess up an assignment when the only thing on your mind is beating the man in front of you.
They do have fun, though. There are certain opportunities throughout the game to make the "big play" that can change the momentum of the game entirely. The more they prepare, the more opportunities there are.
"I love the opportunity to punish the ball quarterback for a sack," said Pal | 516 |
And there goes Stu.
Stu was a friend of mine, though in retrospect I never knew much about him. He didn't often talk about himself, and anyway, what do you really know about anyone in high school? He went to a different school, and he was more Leon's friend than mine, but when Leon and I started hanging around together in high school, Stu was usually there, too.
He was a big guy, loud and brash, who always had a fart joke and often a fart to go with it. He made many wisecracks about sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll, but he didn't know much about such things. He never had a girlfriend and rarely a date while I knew him, and I knew him for almost twenty years. He never medicated with more than occasional marijuana. His connection to rock'n'roll was turning up the car radio when "Duke of Earl" came on the oldies station.
At a fast-food place with self-serve condiments, he bombed us with pickle chips, one chip at a time, which was hilarious for us, but probably not so funny for the people who worked there. Then he slipped on a pickle chip and went down, cracking a bone in his wrist.
Stu liked movies, but only went with Leon and me if we were seeing a blow-things-up movie. He never wanted to bother with movies where things didn't blow up, and he was especially uninterested in movies where characters kissed. Which sounds cute if a 7<|fim_middle|>. I didn't see Stu, though. Nobody sees Stu.
Leon told me that Stu had gotten married, had two children, but it wasn't a happy marriage. One night after an argument with his wife, Stu had stormed out of their house, and never returned.
He's been gone for six years. The cops don't know his whereabouts, his wife and kids don't know, Leon doesn't know, nobody knows. There have been no post cards, no phone calls. If he's working anywhere under his real name he'd be easy to find, and I don't think Stu has the underground expertise to get a false identity, so he's probably dead.
Maybe he accidentally drove over a cliff and into the water, and the wreck has never been discovered. Maybe he was murdered, and the bad guys disposed of the corpus delicti. Maybe Stu committed suicide, and somehow his body has never been found.
When I didn't like my life, I ran away, moved to California and started over, and I could understand if Stu did something similar. There were years when my family didn't know where I was, didn't know whether I was alive or dead.
I was single when I left, though. I did not abandon a wife and kids. I could even understand dumping the wife, but not the children. That's simply a scumbag thing to do, and it would be unforgivable, so, yeah, I prefer to think that Stu is dead.
Fart jokes and pickle chips forever, my old friend.
Scott F. August 17, 2021 at 10:39 AM
What he did on the ferry was assault.
Doug Holland August 18, 2021 at 5:00 AM
I am not a lawyer. It was a jackass thing to do, though. | -year-old says it, but Stu was 17 when he made that announcement.
We went to a porno theater once, though. He didn't object to that, but then again, nobody on-screen did much kissing.
We went to baseball games, and Stu taunted the players on the other team so loudly and relentlessly, me and Leon moved a few rows away, until other fans of the local team asked him to lower the volume a few notches.
He wanted to excel at sports, but he couldn't make the football, baseball, or wrestling teams in high school. He ran cross-country, and earned a letterman's jacket. I knew Stu until he was 35, and he always wore that letterman's jacket.
My most vivid memory of Stu was when our church group went on a field trip somewhere, which involved a ferry ride across Puget Sound. In Washington, the ferries are huge, carrying hundreds of cars, thousands of people. Puget Sound is an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, and it's huge, too — the view while crossing can be awe-inspiring.
As this ferry was steaming along in the middle of the water, a pretty girl was standing on the deck with her hands on the railing, admiring the view of water and, far in the distance, shore. This girl was in our church group, so we knew her but not well, and Stu wanted to make an impression. Did he sparkle her with witty conversation? Did he tell a joke? No, he snuck up behind her, grabbed her by the ankles and lifted her legs high over his head, so she was looking almost directly into the water as the ferry cruised at 30 knots per hour.
She was wearing pants, so she wasn't exposed or anything, and yet she was not charmed. She gripped the rail as if her life depended on it, because it did, and she screamed in terror. Stu sheepishly put the girl's feet back on the deck, and she called him names in furious Spanish as she ran away, crying. Stu had lifted this girl over the ocean, without warning or permission, and been one hiccup from accidentally dumping her into the water — and he told me afterward that he didn't understand why she didn't think it was funny.
Usually, though, Stu wasn't an ass. He was just a big galoot who tended to say and do the wrong things. Bull in a china shop, so they say, but he was only an awkward bull, never an angry one.
When we were out of high school and beginning to be adults, all three of us mostly talked about shallow stuff — sports, music, the Swedish Bikini Team, etc. With Leon, though, if the conversation went somewhere unexpected, he'd go there too, so Leon & I occasionally talked about politics and religion and the lack of meaning of life. Whenever we talked about such things, though, Stu had nothing to say. He'd sit quietly, maybe nod, until the topic came back to football or hamburgers.
We went camping for a week at a time, several times. We took a long driving vacation through Oregon and California. We had season tickets to the basketball team, so I sat next to Stu through 41 games a year, and never once did he offer an opinion on anything beyond sports and dames and what's for dinner.
In his 20s, he worked as a cab driver, but not for long. After three fender-benders in three months, he moved on to driving a tow truck. When that job didn't work out, he worked in roofing for a while, which always worried me, because Stu was clumsy, so walking around on sloping roofs seemed like a bad idea — and he did slip a few times, but he never tumbled over the edge. Later he poured cement, cleaned city parks, and drove a delivery truck for a bakery. When I left in the early 1990s, he was sweeping up at a museum.
Last time I visited Seattle, a few summers back, I spent time with Leon, catching up on all my years away | 859 |
What can Be expected during the dental cleaning?
You can expect your first dental cleaning to last around 90 minutes. X-rays are usually done during this time period as well. Typically, a trained hygienist will do the cleaning, and the dentist will come in for an exam at the end. Most people find that dental cleanings are painless, and do not cause any discomfort.
The first step is scaling the teeth, whereby the hygienist will remove the plaque and tartar from the tooth surfaces. This can be performed by hand or with electric scalers depending on the hygienists preference. Typically, the hygienist will also evaluate the pockets of the gums and remove any plaque buildup there.
The second step is polishing to remove any final plaque and buff the teeth.
Why is it important to get cleanings twice a year?
Routine dental cleanings are important to maintaining good oral hygiene. Professional cleaning by a hygienist can remove mineralized plaque that may develop even with careful brushing and floss<|fim_middle|> reach.
It is recommended you go in for a cleaning once every six months. | ing, particularly in areas that are difficult to | 9 |
The heartbeat of the Passion Movement is God's<|fim_middle|> story Jesus is writing for your life and the great opportunity you have to be a part of something bigger than yourself—building His kingdom! | glory, and God is most glorified in us when we live lives that are fully satisfied in Him. But what does that actually look like?
Simple Pursuit contains 365 daily devotionals written by a collective of 18–25-year-olds from the Passion Movement for their peers. Each day of this yearlong journey will inspire you to perfect the pause, allowing God to break through the noise of this world with the truth of His Word. The overflow of your daily pursuit will lead you on to be winsome—living an irresistible life focused on the central purpose and mission of Jesus.
With introductions by Louie Giglio, Chris Tomlin, David Crowder, and Matt Redman, Simple Pursuit was built on the declaration from Isaiah 26:8: "Yes Lord, walking in the way of your truth, we wait eagerly for you; for your name and your renown are the desire of our souls." Through each day's Scripture, reflection, and prayer, you will begin to see the big | 209 |
These Teen Dancers Just Proved Girls Still Run the World in the Most Badass Way Possible
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Larsen Thompson is the new face of Betsey Johnson for Capezio.
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Betsey Johnson is lauded for her quirky sense of style, and her affinity for cartwheeling down the runway at fashion week. Now, thanks to a very successful stint on Dancing with the Stars, she's just as well-known for her love of dance. So, it comes as no surprise that the designer is collaborating with famous dance wear company, Capezio, for the [second year in a row] (http://www.teenvogue.com/gallery/betsey-johnson-capezio-collection-maddie-ziegler).
Their campaign stars 15 year-old YouTube star Larsen Thompson (who you may recognize from this viral video) and it has Betsey's colorful personality written all over it. From patterned leotards to sparkly tutus, the collection is punk-rock ballerina with a girly twist. "I have been dancing forever and my costumes were a constant inspiration," Betsey tells Teen Vogue. "The sequins, sparkle and colors were always so magical to me."
One of the reasons Betsey and Larsen initially clicked was their shared desire to dance like no one's watching. "Dance is a part of me, where I channel my passion and energy through motion," says Larsen. Betsey echoes her sentiments. Dance today is, "super creative and "do-your-own-thing-ish," she says. That same attitude is reflected in the versatility of the line.
In one of the images, Larsen is wearing a graphic pink and black leotard that's perfect if you want to stand out in the dance studio. But it can just as easily be worn on the street with a pair of jeans. The other image finds Larsen in a pink tutu and combat boots for an edgy look that's still feminine.
For Larsen, this experience is more than an opportunity to star in a major fashion campaign; it's a chance to gain priceless wisdom from Betsey's 30+ years in the business. "One thing I've learned from Betsey Johnson," she notes, "is you have to take risks in life in order to have a successful and lasting career. After meeting her in person, she has amazing style and [she's] innovative while being very humble and down to earth." Betsey's formula for success? "You have to work hard, be talented and love what you are doing. And a little luck doesn't hurt either!"
Check out the full Betsey Johnson for Capezio collection, available online at [capezio.com] (http://www.capezio.com/).
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When was the Sigma Pool formed, and what was its original purpose?
Our customers are found worldwide, and in the early nineties we were<|fim_middle|> Michigan, last June and two the following month in Chennai and Mumbai, India. The remaining event this year will be held Oct. 29-30 in Sao Paulo at Liebherr Brasil Ltda.
This is something we plan to continue and build upon, but our approach will remain the same: to share our combined knowledge with gearing professionals worldwide. We do feel that, the more our audience knows about new technologies and processes, the more likely they'll be to consider purchasing Liebherr and Klingelnberg equipment, of course. But the most important point we wish to convey is that we are here as an information resource, and we want to benefit the industry as a whole by raising the level of awareness of new gear-manufacturing technologies.
MORE INFORMATION: Call (734) 429-7225, send e-mail to info.lgt@liebherr.com, or go online to [www.liebherr.com]. Also visit [www.klingelnberg.com] or [www.sigma-pool.com]. To register contact Andreas Montag at amontag@klingelnberg.com. | looking for a more economical way to service their needs, so we started considering other companies that it would make sense for us to partner with in reaching out to them, both from a marketing as well as a service standpoint. We soon realized that we shared certain similarities with Klingelnberg, that there was very little overlap, and that we had many of the same clients.
That's when we decided to join forces in order to form the Sigma Pool, which has evolved from marketing and service activities to having a training and educational component as well. One thing I'd like to point out is that Liebherr and Klingelnberg entered into a gentlemen's agreement in forming Sigma Pool, and we're proud that this relationship is based on good intentions and a handshake.
Tell us about the Sigma Pool Gear Seminar Series. How did this come into being?
Forming Sigma Pool allowed Liebherr and Klingelnberg to exhibit at tradeshows together, and we soon realized two things. One is that gear manufacturers were just as interested in learning about processes and technologies as they were the features of a new piece of equipment, and that conversations of that nature would require more time and concentration than such environments provide. That's when we decided to take advantage of the Sigma Pool sites that we had already established around the world in order to make educational presentations focusing on new technologies. This began about seven years ago.
Our customers need information to help them reach their own goals, not to listen to us talk about how we plan to reach ours. So we developed an educational program meant to address subjects of interest to gear manufacturers, including processes that can be performed on any machine, not just those available from Liebherr and Klingelnberg. We don't really talk about specific machines so much as how to use any gear machine better. While the seminars are held at Sigma Pool sites around the world, they are open to anyone, not just existing customers, and we tailor the contents of each two-day event to the country and market in which they are located.
For the one held in Italy last year we knew attendees would be interested in job-shopping concerns, so that's what we focused on. At the event held in Michigan earlier this summer we concentrated on cutting gears for the wind-power industry, since we realize many U.S. gear makers are considering entering that market. And then in places such as China and India we may hold more than one event, due to the sheer size of those countries. We want these seminars to have meaning to each individual audience.
Who teaches these seminars, and what topics are generally covered?
The presentations are made by members of the Liebherr Technical Group, such as myself, and the Klingelnberg Group, including a "state of the industry" keynote address by Mr. Jan Klingelnberg. The first day usually involves members of Klingelnberg's technical team discussing different aspects of bevel gear technology, and then the Liebherr team will take over on the second day to cover parallel axis gear technology. That's the general structure we've maintained during the three seminars we've already held this year, with one at the Liebherr Gear Technology facility in Saline, | 639 |
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I also enjoyed a subsequent passage in which Kazan is described as a "cocksman of note." And no, that is not referring to his rowing prowess … I didn't know that Kazan, errr, "dated" Marilyn Monroe. Kazan: noted cocksman, former Communist turned namer-of-names, multiple Academy Award winner, actor, mentor to Tennessee Williams and Marlon Brando, Monroe flame, Actor's Studio founder … love him or hate him, he<|fim_middle|>. From the moment Kazan bounded on stage, the very able and attractive Tone and Sidney disappeared. It's been seven decades but I still remember his remarkable impact. He was the little engine that could. There was something fierce about that performance. It wasn't theatrical. It was organic. He was wound up from the inside.
This article has a brief mention of Elia Kazan '31.
Director Elia Kazan, who named names to the House Un-American Activities Committee in the '50s, had been persona non grata in Hollywood for decades when the Academy decided to present him an honorary Oscar in 1999; despite masterpieces like A Tree Grows In Brooklyn and On the Waterfront, the American Film Institute had refused to approve a proposal to similarly honor Kazan some ten years earlier.
There is a great senior thesis to be written about Kazan and his decision to name some names.
EphBlog is powered by WordPress and delivered to you in 0.838 seconds using 29 queries.. | is the original most interesting man in the world.
A Greek born in Turkey, and coming to the US as a child, the son of a traditional rug dealer, Kazan was the quintessential outsider. At fashionable Williams College he was the unattractive little guy who paid his way by waiting on tables and doing odd jobs. The aristocratic Williams student body was unaware of his existence. They had no idea that within that unassuming human being so invisible to them was a little dynamo ready to move in and take over. He was like a secret agent placed in the midst of an unsuspecting organisation. He didn't even go out for dramatic activities. It wasn't until he got to the Yale drama school, where he met his wife, the aristocratic Molly Day Thacher, that his dramatic instincts were aroused.
Considered not good-looking enough to make it as an actor, he eagerly took on any subservient theatre job that came along. At the Group Theatre's summer camp, he mostly did the volunteer small chores that kept the community going. Kazan was like a hidden time bomb set to wait its time and then explode. No one had thought of him as an actor – actors looked like Franchot Tone – but I'll never forget seeing him in Irwin Shaw's The Gentle People with Tone and Sylvia Sidney | 268 |
You are<|fim_middle|> looks like utter chaos but in the best way possible. The Stuff team are all major fans of Worms so we're excited to be able to play this around the office (ignore that last sentence, Brett).
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Worms Rumble open beta starts 6 November, takes franchise in… weird… direction
By Brad Lang on 12th Oct 2020 Gaming News, News
At some point every South African has come into contact with the Worms franchise. Mainly because it was in every single Spur and/or Wimpy and everyone had at least one friend with one of the games. The classic turn-based combat game has made a name for itself by just being a whole load of fun and it's been a while since the series really added much to the established formula. Which isn't a bad thing. Don't fix what isn't broken, right? Well, clearly Team 17 was growing a little tired with Worms and have done something a little different to their norm…
Worms Rumble is the classic Worms experience… except it's actually not because it's a true-blue battle royale, like every other major franchise. Truth be told, a battle royale mode for Worms isn't a terrible idea since the whole premise of the original game is to be the one with the last worm(s) standing. It's just that Worms Rumble is doing more than just changing up the game's main form of competition…
Worms Rumble launches on PS4, PS5 and Steam this December!
Get ready for launch with our cross-platform open beta starting November 6th and fight to be the Last Worm Standing.
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Is this real time, or is this just fantasy?
The biggest change comes in the form of real-time combat replacing the turn-based action Worms is known for. It makes sense given the speed and dexterity needed in a battle royale setting; with many players going head-to-head. Turn-based combat could take hours. How real-time chaos combat works in practise… that's something we don't know.
What we do know about Worms Rumble right now is that it is launching on PS4, PS5 and Steam and will offer full cross play functionality so you can play with friends that might have it on a different platform. The game will feature that much lauded battle royale mode (which includes a solos and squads option) and a standard deathmatch. We also know that the open beta for the game starts on 6 November, just under a month before the game launches on 1 December, 2020.
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EXCLUSIVE: Pat Simmons Jr., Son of a Rock & Roll Legend, Is Not Your Typical Show Biz Kid
Pat Simmons, Jr. and his trusty ukelele
You know what some people say about the children of celebrities: They're spoiled. Ungrateful. Lazy. Offspring of the rich and famous, especially rock stars, are selfish and clueless, right? Steely Dan's Donald Fagen once noted that show biz kids "Don't give a f**k about anybody else."
But absolutely none of that applies to Pat Simmons Jr. (left), with whom I recently enjoyed a very interesting and enlightening talk.
Simmons, 24, is one of the more chill, positive and grateful spirits I've encountered. A respected ecologist, social activist and organic farmer, Pat is a smart, good-natured, mellow soul who works with children and is a cancer survivor. And he just happens to be the son of a rock music legend.
If you've been anywhere near a radio in the past 43 years, you know that Pat's dad, Patrick Simmons, a founding member of the Doobie Brothers, is a bonafide rock star and gifted singer-songwriter who<|fim_middle|>
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Nice write-up. I was looking for Pat Simmons info (we grew up in the same area) and enjoyed more reading about his son (I lived on the Big Island for 8 years) even more than about Pat (we played the same coffeehouses in the Los Gatos area).
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Pat Jr., who moved with his family from the Redwood country of Northern California to the North Shore of Maui when he was six, has traveled in a bus with his dad on Doobie Brothers tours just about every year of his young life. Why? Because dad wanted his kid to come along. And the kid loved every minute of it.
"I learned how to walk on a tour bus," says Pat, who's the opening act on the Doobies' current national tour, which stops at Humphrey's in San Diego on Wednesday night (June 3). "I was raised on a tour bus, and from hotel to hotel," Pat says. "Every single summer of my life."
But when Pat steps off that magic bus, his life couldn't be any more different. Earning a degree in Ecology from Evergreen State College in 2012, Pat is now an outspoken and respected environmental activist in Hawaii.
Pat Simmons Jr. at charity benefit
He cares deeply about the natural world and saving his beautiful island paradise from menacing chemical companies like Monsanto and other corporate invaders. A courageous survivor of testicular cancer, Pat, who's now cancer-free, is fighting to stop the proliferation of Genetically Modified Food (GMO) in Hawaii.
Sadly, he says, the state and local governments of Hawaii are not as opposed to the idea as they could and should be.
Pat also staunchly supports the current fight by Hawaii's indigenous people to halt the construction of the largest telescope in the world atop Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano on the big island of Hawaii that at 14,000 feet is the highest point in all of the Islands.
There are already more than a dozen telescopes on Mauna Kea, but the site of the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope is a sacred place where Hawaiians have gone to pray and meditate for centuries. Astronomers say this is the most ideal spot in the entire world for a telescope to study the moon, the planets and the stars. But Pat says enough is enough.
"I'm absolutely opposed to it. Building this telescope on this spot would be a breach of spiritual protocol," Pat says. "The Hawaiian people go there to pray. Hawaii came from the volcano, it is a very sacred place for them. Building this enormous telescope, many here say, would be the ultimate desecration."
Some scientists actually respect what Pat and others are saying. Adam Burgasser, an astronomer from the University of California San Diego who has lived in Hawaii, recently told the San Diego Union-Tribune, "The astronomer in me wants to see it built, but I also recognize that this is sacred land. Consider the outcry if we built the Thirty Meter Telescope on the Dome of the Rock or the Sistine Chapel."
A Career in Music?
Not surprisingly, protecting the earth isn't the only thing for which the young Simmons has passion. He loves to sing, has a natural ability to tell poignant stories that connect with people, and he plays a bunch of musical instruments, including acoustic guitar, metal and wooden flutes, harmonica, djembe, drums, didgeridoo, mandolin, banjo, dobro and thumb piano, and ukelele, which is the first instrument he learned.
Pat Simmons. Jr. (left), Elvis Costello, & Patrick Simmons
And the father could not be more proud of the son.
"Pat's music and his activism go hand in hand," says Patrick Simmons, the elder (left). "The things he sings about are the things he is passionate about. I've watched him grow as a musician, and a songwriter, and I can honestly say I'm very proud of his accomplishments."
Simmons, the father, continues, "Naturally I'm happy to see him evolve in his attachment to music, but I never forced him to make this choice. Rather it was a natural inclination on his own part, and I support him 100 percent, if he wants to explore a musical path. Wherever it leads him will be a place of discovery and growth. As far as I'm concerned that's what we're all here to do. There's nothing better than sharing music with my son. Something I love, with someone I love. It's the best!"
Pat the son is taking the musical side of his life a little more seriously these days. He writes beautiful, earnest songs, mostly about the land he loves. His songwriting influences include everyone from Jack Johnson to Cat Stevens, and there's a strong reggae vibe in much of what he does. His greatest musical inspiration he says is Bob Marley. His music also has touches of folk, blues and the classic rock for which his dad is known.
Pat has been immersed in music all his life. He's been given the rare opportunity to open for and jam and share the stage with such artists as Jack Johnson, The Wailers, Boz Scaggs, Chicago, Willie Nelson, Dave Mason, Buddy Guy, The Turtles, Little Feat, Kenny Loggins, Los Lobos, War, Tower of Power and Xavier Rudd.
Growing up and playing in a band with Willie Nelson's two sons, his Maui neighbors, Pat says they all felt some pressure to be successful in the music biz because of their parents. But they let go of that soon enough. Hawaii just has a way of chilling you out.
"I just stay present in the moment now," he says. "Life is so short. I find happiness in just being a human on this earth, taking care of the land and each other and sending good messages."
But he does plan to record an album. And he loves playing for people. Usually barefoot. And like just about everything in his life, Pat says, the music gigs happened organically. When he opens for the Doobies now, he performs six or seven songs. He's clearly gaining more confidence in his vocals and honing his performance chops. He loves telling stories about the songs he sings, and his sincere but laid-back stage persona instantly appeals to audiences.
"I invite my dad up on the last song," Pat explains. "We do 'Ventura Highway' [by America] a lot, and people love it. We did a Maui show last autumn with [former Doobie Brother] Michael McDonald, it was a benefit show for the Pacific Cancer Foundation in Maui. Michael did 'How Long,' the Ace song."
Despite the fact that the music business is often very corrupt, Pat says, making music is a great way to make a living. "I just want to do it honestly," he says. "The music industry is crazy and not conducive to my healthy lifestyle. I'm doing it so I can spread positive messages. Maui is a big deal to me, and I am honored to be able to use music as a vehicle for change in the world. Each song I write is a true story about my life. I'm glad that people enjoy it."
Fellow Cancer Warriors
Pat and I talked for quite a while about what it means to be a cancer survivor. He doesn't take anything for granted anymore. Like me, he endured chemotherapy and is just very happy to be alive. And we also agree that emotions definitely affect your immune system, both positively and negatively.
"I don't know what the cancer is from," he said. "I was in a serious depression for a while, and I never was depressed. I went through that first breakup. I was never a sad person, I am really stoked most of the time. But I was stuck in that sadness for month or two."
Pat started chemo in the autumn of 2013 and completed it in January 2014. He's been cancer free ever since. "I feel good," he says. "And I am really conscious of what I put in my body. I've had a lot of good mentors in my life, people who have taught me about plant medicine. I have a Chinese herbalist. And I keep my physical body in shape with hiking and surfing."
Pat seems to have an old soul but a youthful heart. He knows how lucky he is to have seen so much of the world at a young age. The real key to Pat's success, I believe, is his natural talent and appeal, of course, combined with the fact that he clearly has such good parents. He is loved, and his dad is a demonstrably positive force in his life.
Being a rock star is often antithetical to being a good parent. But Pat's parents did a great job. Pat's mom, Cristine Sommer-Simmons, is a globally respected motorcycle enthusiast and journalist. "My mom and dad met in 1989," Pat says. "She started the magazine Harley Women. She went to cover a Doobies concert during the big motorcycle event in Sturgis."
Enjoying the Ride
Pat is clearly enjoying the ride. He recently sent out this endearing message to his growing number of fans:
"Giving thanks for the land of my ancestors welcoming me and guiding my journey along the way, it's been a wonderful opportunity to share the message of Aloha 'Āina with the south east of America, may the sacred waters of this land flow clean & clear with love, may the forests & creatures of this land be in peace. mahalo nui especially to my dad & the Doobie family for supporting my work. I'll be back out in June for the west coast tour! See you then! Bless all the mothers out there! Especially our great grandmother Earth, she has given us so much. Mahalo ke akua, aloha, a hui hou, mālama pono."
He says he's looking forward to his upcoming gig at Humphrey's, the marina-side San Diego resort and outdoor concert venue where he'll be jamming with his old man Wednesday night.
"My dad's band plays there every single summer," Pat says. "I have great memories of the place, especially the swimming pool. It's where I learned how to swim."
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Environment Planet Earth
12 Temperate Rainforests Around the World
Catie Leary
Writer and Photographer
Catie Leary writes and curates visual stories about science, animals, the arts, travel, and the natural world.
The cold, rugged rainforest that carpets New Zealand's Fiordland region is one of the wettest places on the planet.
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Temperate rainforests, like their tropical counterparts, are damp, dense forests that te<|fim_middle|> fourth-tallest mountain on any island in the world. Though the park only covers 3% of Taiwan by area, more than half of the native plant species in the country can be found there.
Eastern Australian Temperate Forest
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While Australia is famously known for its extensive desert, the east coast of the country is home to a lush, green temperate rainforest that stretches south from New South Wales to the island of Tasmania. Rainforests cover just 2.7% of Australia's landmass, but provide habitat for 60% of the country's plant species and 40% of its bird species.
Though most of Australia's wooded areas are dominated by eucalyptus, a genus of more than 700 tree species native to Australia, the temperate rainforests have a different composition. Trees like coachwood, Antarctic birch, and Huon pine are more prevalent. In total, 63% of the country's rainforests are protected as reserves by the government.
Knysna-Amatole Rainforests
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Despite its massive size, the continent of Africa has only two enclaves of temperate rainforest—the Knysna and Amatole forests in South Africa. Though they are often referred to in conjunction, the two are distinct forests. The Knysna extends along the the southern coast, while the Amatole is further inland on the slopes of the Amatole mountain range. The forests receive about 20 to 60 inches of rainfall per year, and are often cloaked in fog that rolls in from the Indian Ocean. The forest canopy is not dominated by one species, but a variety of trees including ironwood, alder, and, and Cape beech. Though the forests support a range of endemic species, logging and other development have largely caused the disappearance of large mammal species, like elephants and buffalo.
Caspian Hyrcanian Mixed Forests
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The Caspian Hyrcanian Mixed Forest, found along the southern shore of the Caspian Sea in Iran and Azerbaijan, stands out as one of the only forests in the Middle East. Hemmed in by the sea and the Alborz Mountains, the tallest mountain range in the region, the forest is the recipient of moist air from the sea that turns to rain when it hits the high peaks. Alder, oak, and beech trees form the forest canopy. Notably, the Caspian Hyrcanian is entirely without conifers, though some similar evergreen species such as juniper and cypress are present. The forest serves as vital habitat for the Persian leopard, a subspecies of leopard that is considered endangered.
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10 Countries and Territories With the Most Protected Land | em with life. These forests are found in isolated pockets around the world, on every continent except for Antarctica.
What Are Temperate Rainforests?
Temperate rainforests are forests in the mid-latitudes that are cool and wet due to marine influence and heavy rainfall. They have dense canopy cover and an understory of mosses and lichens.
Most temperate rainforests are close to large bodies of water and tall mountain ranges. They are most common in coastal areas, though inland mountain ranges can support temperate rainforests in some cases, due to the unique weather patterns created by large changes in elevation.
Though some temperate rainforests are expansive, most are relatively small, due partly to the relative scarcity of temperate areas that receive heavy rainfall, and partly to the effects of agriculture and development. These forests often produce large, tall trees, and have therefore been subjected to widespread logging campaigns throughout the centuries.
Today, temperate rainforests are recognized for their ecological importance, and most are protected as national parks or reserves. They serve as important habitats for a wide variety of native plants and animals, including endangered species.
Here are 12 examples of pristine temperate rainforests found across the world.
Pacific Coast Range
Hoh Rain Forest in Olympic National Park, Washington.
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Stretching along the west coast of North America from northern California to Alaska, the forests found along the Pacific Coast Range are the largest expanse of temperate rainforest in the world. In California, the forests are home to the coast redwood, the world's tallest trees. Further north, coniferous species like sitka spruce, western red cedar, and western hemlock dominate the landscape. Across the region, the forest understory is damp and densely vegetated by ferns, mosses, and broadleaf trees. The Pacific rainforests are so productive that even dead trees contribute to the landscape. Fungi and seedlings can sprout directly from fallen logs known as "nurse logs" that harbor nutrients and rich soil as they decompose.
Taiheiyo Evergreen Forests
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The Taiheiyo Evergreen Forests, found in southern Japan, are temperate rainforests made up of evergreen broadleaf trees. Due to Japan's maritime climate, the forests can receive more than 100 inches of rain every year. Japanese cedar and Japanese stone oak are the dominant tree species, while moso bamboo and a wide diversity of mosses and lichens comprise the understory. Japan was not affected by glaciation during the last ice age, and the temperate rainforests here serve as refugia—isolated places where once-dominant species still thrive—for species that succumbed to glacial movement in other landscapes.
The extent of the Taiheiyo forests has been reduced due to development and agriculture. Today, 17% of the remaining forest is protected by national parks and other reserves.
Appalachian Temperate Rainforest
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Stretching from northern Georgia to western North Carolina, the Appalachian temperate rainforest is perched atop one of the oldest mountain ranges in the world. Warm air from the Gulf of Mexico leads to precipitation when it reaches the mountainous landscape, and the Appalachian forests average more than 60 inches of rainfall per year. Red spruce and Fraser fir are the dominant tree species, with an understory of many broadleaf trees, shrubs, mosses, and fungi. Much of the forest is protected or public land. The most-visited national park in the United States, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, protects 520,000 acres of the forest.
Atlantic Oakwood Forest
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The Atlantic Oakwood Forest covers the wettest parts of the United Kingdom, including parts of Ireland and Scotland. As the name suggests, a species of oak tree called sessile oak dominates the landscape. Unlike other temperate forests, these forests tend to have an open understory of grasses and heather, though mosses, lichens, and liverworts are also common. Much of the historical range of the forest has given to agriculture and other development, though that has changed in recent decades. Today, much of the forest is protected, and land managers are removing invasive conifers planted for timber to allow native species to reclaim the landscape.
Valdivian Temperate Rainforest
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The Valdivian temperate rainforest is found on the west coast of Chile and Argentina, on the wet, western slopes of the Andes mountain range. After the Pacific rainforests in North America, it's the second-largest temperate rainforest in the world. Isolated by the coastline to the west, the imposing peaks of the Andes to the east, and the Atacama Desert to the north, the region functions as an inland island of sorts that supports a number of plant and animal species found nowhere else in the world. Uniquely, the forest is dominated not by conifers, but by evergreen flowering trees like tineo and tiaca, which are native to Chile and little known outside the region.
Fiordland and Westland Temperate Rainforests
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The South Island of New Zealand is home to two connected temperate forests known respectively as the Fiordland and Westland forests. Both are on the west coast of the island, where mountain topography creates a rain shadow effect. Some parts of the region see as much as 433 inches of precipitation annually. The Westland forest, which is further north, is bordered by the Southern Alps, the tallest mountains in New Zealand. In contrast, Fiordland has smaller mountains, but even more punishing terrain. As the name implies, it's a landscape of isolated fjords and heavily forested peaks, with almost no road access.
The forests in Westland are dominated by native species like rata and kamahi, while several species of beech are more prevalent in the colder climate of Fiordland. Both areas are important ecosystems for native species like kiwi birds, and much of the landscape is protected by national park designation.
Baekdu Mountain Range
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The Baekdu Mountain Range, stretching across the spine of the Korean Peninsula, is carpeted by a temperate rainforest of conifer and broadleaf trees. The most common trees include red pine, Japanese Maple, and sawtooth oak. At lower elevations, much of the forest is evergreen, but at higher elevations trees will drop their leaves in the fall.
The forest spans South Korea, North Korea, as well as a corner of China near the North Korean border. In South Korea, it also covers many islands off the southern coast of the peninsula. With far less development than mainland Korea, these islands are some of the best examples of the forest in an undisturbed state.
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Situated in northwestern Spain, the Fragas do Eume is a small stretch of temperate rainforest that straddles the Eume River. European oak is the dominant species, though alder, chestnut, birch, and ash trees thrive as well. The dense forest canopy, combined with its proximity to the Atlantic Ocean, creates a dark, humid environment on the forest floor that supports 20 fern species and about 200 lichen species. The forest is preserved as a 22,000-acre natural park.
Taiwan Mountain Rainforests
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Despite its small size, the island nation of Taiwan supports a diverse forest ecosystem due to its mountainous terrain. At low elevations, the forests are warm and wet and considered a subtropical region. The mountain forests, however, are an example of temperate rainforest, dominated by Taiwan cypress, hemlock, and camphorwood. One of the best examples of Taiwan's old-growth temperate forest is protected in the Yushan National Park. The park also encompasses Yu Shan (also known as Jade Mountain), the tallest peak in Taiwan and the | 1,685 |
Club hockey lack of depth leads to loss
Matthew McKay
When the Augustana men's hockey team took the ice at the River's Edge in Davenport on Saturday afternoon, they had only six forwards and three defensemen.
Head coach Perry Jacobs pointed out that the Vikings were exhausted towards the end of their 9-4 loss to Eastern Kentucky University.
"We fell apart in the third because guys were tired and we stopped doing everything that we were doing well before that. We quit playing the hard basic hockey and tried to get fancy," said Jacobs.
The Vikings fell behind after a goal by Eastern Kentucky with eight minutes left in the first.
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The Vikings had a chance on a power play with six minutes left, but could only get two shots on goal.
After coming out of the locker room to start the second period, the freshly Zambonied ice did not work out in the Vikings favor as a neutral zone turnover led to an easy breakaway and an Eastern Kentucky goal to put them up 3-0.
Eastern Kentucky added another goal to bring the score to 4-0 with 15:53 left in the second.
The Vikings scoring started with a wrist shot from defenseman Brandon Maize just 35 seconds after Eastern Kentucky scored.
Maize said the time between the periods was good for the teams to recompose.
"We took the intermission to regroup and got a quick goal that propelled us through the rest of the period," said Maize.
Augustana struck again after a slap shot by forward Sam Spector, who scored at the end and beginning of third to put the Vikings down by one goal.
The Vikings took advantage of a power play with 12 minutes left in the period and tied the game.
However, the Vikings lack of depth, with only one junior on the team and no seniors, caught up to them as Eastern Kentucky scored five straight goals to finish the game.
After the game, Jacobs was encouraged about the changes in his team's play.
"We played a more basic style of hockey: get the puck on net, make their defensemen turn around, get the puck deep in the zone and pressure them," Jacobs said. "We did those things well in the first two periods and the game was much closer. When we got away from that they pulled away,"
The Vikings' next game will be against Midland at 7 p.m. Midland is one of the team's Division I opponents.
Men's Hockey
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Potłumek trwałowieczek (Weissia longifolia Mitt.) – gatunek mchu należący do rodziny płoniwowatych (Pottiaceae Schimp.). Mech niewielkich rozmiarów, rozpowszechniony na półkuli północnej.
Rozmieszczenie geograficzne
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Morfologia
Gametofit Tworzy luźne, często ciemnozielone darnie. Łodyżki stojące, zazwyczaj pojedyncze, wysokości do 5 mm. Listki wąskolancetowate do podłużnie lancetowatych, często stłoczone przy szczytach łodyżek, silnie poskręcane w stanie suchym, rozpostarte, gdy wilgotne. Powyżej podstawy listka brzegi blaszki silnie podwinięte. Żebro dość grube.
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Systematyka i nazewnictwo
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What a Funny Name for a Great Venue – Maxwell's Plum
It was at Maxwell's Plum, on First Avenue at 64th Street that I had my first banana daiquiri at age 16. It was a flashy restaurant and singles bar which opened in April 1966.
Different from other venues of its kind in its day, the hangout epitomized the food and sex revolutions commencing in the 1960s. Warner LeRoy, the owner, was the son of famed<|fim_middle|> twilight, having lunch there with my childhood friend is the best memory one could have. | Hollywood film producer Mervyn LeRoy. He was no less theatrical than his restaurant and served more than 1200 customers a day. However, despite its popularity, Maxwell Plum's closed abruptly in 1988.
Outlandish Art Nouveau decor was featured throughout the venue. Tiffany kaleidoscopic stained-glass ceilings were featured in the dining room along with a menagerie of ceramic animals.
The menu included everything from chilli con carne to Iranian caviar and stuffed squab. However, it was the hamburgers and, Maxwell's good wine list that became an instant hit.
LeRoy claimed that the elite could come here, "And if they don't want to eat fancy food, they can have a hamburger. Whatever."
By the early 1970's, Maxwell's Plum received 4-stars, the NY Times's highest rating, from food critic Craig Claiborne. I never went there at night because of the 'swinging singles' reputation but instead dine here on quiet Saturday afternoons. It was the place to be in its time. Although too young to visit during the darkest stage of | 234 |
by William Gibson
Let's face it, science fiction books are not famous for their
memorable opening lines. You might hear the person next to
you on the subway remark: "It was the best of times; it was the
worst of times." But how often do you run into someone
muttering: "In the week before their departure to Arrakis, an
old crone came to visit the mother of the boy, Paul"? And yes
we know, by now, that "Happy families are all alike, but every
unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." But how many of
us have memorized: "His name was Gaal Dornick and he was
just a country boy who had never seen Trantor before"?
Ah, William Gibson broke the rule with his 1984 classic
Neuromancer. The particular ambiance of the book was
captured in its oft-quoted opening line: "The sky above the
port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." Of
course, this was an old-school tube television, where the dead
channels were much more poetic
than the prosaic blankness of my
current big-screen, satellite
contraption. No, the technology
was not always futuristic in this
book. Everybody has the raddest
gear in Neuromancer, yet they
still need to use pay phones
because the cell phone is not
part of the envisioned environment. Still, fans of this book—
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all in the interest of adding an arsenal of bionic weapons and
cool spy tools to her flesh and blood. Another helper, McCoy
Pauley—known as the Dixie Flatline—has no flesh and blood.
He is a former hacker genius, a "console cowboy" in Gibson's
evocative terminology, now relegated to read-only memory.
The Flatline, living up to his name, could easily be a flat
character—after all, how much charisma can a download of a
dead man possess? But Gibson realizes that the type of techno-
anomie he is trying to convey requires characters with a large
dose of sleazy panache, and he delivers the goods again and
again in Neuromancer.
Today this book is acknowledged as a classic, and rightly so.
Who can't recognize the modern-day Internet world in
passages such as the following: "Cyberspace. A consensual
hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate
operators, in every nation, by children being taught
mathematical concepts....A graphic representation of data
abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human
system. Unthinkable complexity." But the literary world, circa
1984, was not ready to accept this book as a serious work of
Two decades later, Time magazine would pick Neuromancer as
one of the 100 best English-language novels published since
1923. Yet Time, and almost everyone else, was late to the
game. A decade would elapse after its publication before the
New York Times would even bother to notice that
Neuromancer existed—although it had won the Hugo, the
Nebula and Philip K. Dick Award on its first appearance, sort of
a sci-fi equivalent of the Triple Crown. The judges on the
awards panels got this one right, even if the highbrows missed
out for many years.
This book is now on its second and third generation of readers,
and its reputation is secure. Yet I fear that too much of the buzz
surrounding this novel still treats it as a sociological
phenomenon. Gibson is given credit for making a prediction
that proved to be uncannily accurate. His book is thus put on
the shelf next to "Moore's Law" and other formidable
hypotheses that anticipated our current-day high tech lives.
But this pigeonholing misses the main reasons to read
Neuromancer today, now that cyberspace is as blasé as a
transistor radio, at least from a conceptual standpoint.
Neuromancer still earns its readership through the sweep of its
prose, the intensity of its vision, and the provocative nature of
its characters and plots. And those virtues run no risk of
technological obsolescence.
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overlook such tiny oversights: by any reasonable standard of
forecasting, Gibson's novel stands out as one of the most
prescient of its era.
When Neuromancer was published, only around 1% of
Americans owned a computer, and the World Wide Web was
just a glimmer in Al Gore's eyes. Yet Gibson not only conceived
of a plausible evolution of virtual reality, but had already
envisioned the kind of hacker culture that
would emerge as the dark side of the web.
To grasp the future of the technology
would have been a stunning achievement
in its own right, but Gibson also had a hold
on the attitudes and slang, the very anthro-
pology of cyberspace. The formula was so
distinctive and persuasive that Neuro-
mancer was seen by many as more than a
fine book. It heralded a new movement, a
variant of sci-fi that came to be known as
cyberpunk.
The key here was not Gibson's dark vision
of the future—many earlier sci-fi writers had used genre
conventions to paint a bleak future. But for Orwell and
Atwood, Huxley and Bradbury, the ugliness invariably came
from the government and ruling social institutions, while the
"common people" were viewed as victims, almost Rousseauian
in their innocence. Gibson, in contrast, is more the Thomas
Hobbes of sci-fi. The nastiness is not just institutionalized, but
pervasive, in his world view, and separating the heroes from
the villains is murky business at best.
The protagonist of Neuromancer, Henry Dorsett Case, makes
this moral ambiguity clear from the start. A hustler, drug
addict and master hacker, Case was caught stealing from a
previous employer, who punished him with a toxin that
seriously damaged his central nervous system and restricted
his predatory computer activities. He is promised a cure by a
mysterious figure named Armitage, who wants Case's help in a
dangerous hacking scheme. Yes, it's hard to figure out who is
the bad guy, when all the key players are manipulating and
extorting each other.
Along the way, Case enlists the assistance of Molly, who has
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Gledališče je področje igralskih umetnosti, ki se ukvarja z igranjem zgodb pred občinstvom s pomočjo govora, giba, glasbe, plesa, zvoka in z razkošno predstavo oziroma z enim ali več elementi drugih igralskih umetnosti. Poleg standardnega pogovornega sloga se lahko gledališče izvaja tudi v drugačnih oblikah, kot so opera, balet, mimika, kabuki, kitajska opera, lutkovno gledališče, glumaška igra, improvizacijsko gledališče, kabaret ali pantomima.
Gledališče je predvsem kraj predstave, praznovanja, rituala, a hkrati tradicija in šola o tem, kako prenašati ideje, pripovedi in izročilo množičnem občinstvu.
Zgodnje tradicije gledališča
Zgodnje izročilo se prenaša preko besed in podob. Besedilo se pomni preko rim ali ritmičnega pripovedovanja, pomagajo si tudi s podobami. Magičnost razlage sveta je ključna, zato je interpret sveta polverska figura, vrač. Besedila so praviloma predvsem izročilo. Tako se prenaša besedilo Homerja, Vede, sumerski Ep o Gilgamešu. Tudi tehnološke najdbe se ohranjajo z zvestim ohranjanjem nekdanjih dosežkov. Predstave verskega značaja so tako namenjene ohranjanju obstoječega in tako se prepletajo tako z znanostjo, vero in zdravljenjem. Primer so Hopi Indijanci, kjer so bičali plesalce plemena in jih tako zdravili revme in podobnim obolenj staranja.
Obstajajo bogati viri predstav plesa in predstav za gledalce v Majski kulturi, ki so predstavljali ljudska izročila. Predstave so bile interaktivne, plesalca in igralca sta uprizorila legendo ob ritmu in glasbi, občinstvo pa ju je spremljalo s plesom in ploskanjem in tako pomagalo pri izvedbi. Podobni razvoj pridobijo nemi igralci mimiki v 4.stoletju.
Podobne elemente imajo maškarade, prebivalstvo se preobleče, spremeni videz in tako prevara smrt ali zimo. Ko uprizarjanje besedil in dogajanja postane tudi dejanska predstava, govorimo o rojstvu gledališča. V Egiptu tako gledališče ponuja predstave v imenu boga Ozirisa, Grki izvajajo predstave za bogova Dioniza, Apolona, ali celo za cel Olimpus. Pomemben del prebujanja gledališča so bila pisne kulture, ki so omogočale prenos prej ustnih izročil v besedila na voljo vsem, tudi brez avtoritarne razlage, a v čaščenje bogov. Besedila je pripovedovala ena sama oseba, kasneje v dialogu z zborom, nato pa so sledili pogovori med igralci samimi in zborom. Tu se razvijajo tudi gledališki festivali in razlikovanje med komedijo in tragedijo.
Antično gledališče je nastalo s preučevanjem akustike in glasu, prvič so napravljeni tudi prostori namenjeni prav predstavi. Gledališča so bila mnogokrat prizorišča spektakla ali prostor javne razprave. Če so vladarji imeli v lasti prizorišče, so bila lahko celo ekskluzivno prizorišče in zato politično podrejena.
Dvorno gledališče
Z uvedbo rimskega cesarstva poznamo gledališča, ki postanejo uradno cesarska in tako prebijejo svojo ulično ali versko dimenzijo. Posledično je tudi igralec in njegov poklic predmet vsaj delnega prestiža, kar je bilo doseženo vsaj deloma z gledališkimi festivali, ki so bili vsaj deloma antični dogodek enakovreden Olimpijskim igram. V Rimskih časih postane igralec tisti del spektakla, ki ni pogrešljiv. Rim tako gradi objekte namenjene gledališki dejavnosti in so tudi namenjeni označevanju posebno spoštovanja vrednim ljudem. Visoko se ceni pantomima. Zaradi raznolikega spektakla iger in bojev v katerih je vladar kot organizator bil pomemben del čaščenja in celo bog, je ob Konstantinovem prehodu v krščanstvo teater bil prenešen v cerkve, nasilje pa minimizirano. Kolosej in podobni objekti so bili proti koncu cesarstva vedno manj uporabni.
Indija je poznala v tem času kate, pripovedi, epe, resnične zgodbe ali anekdote z moralo, naukom ali premislekom. Te zgodbe iz sanskrta so bile pripovedovane in razlagane v velikem obsegu, mnoge so izhajale iz Ved in podobnih virov, lahko pa so bile tudi prilagojene, skrajšane in spremenjene za potrebe poslušalstva. Čas namenjen poslušanju teh pripovedi je bil pomemben del vzgoje, zaradi različnih kast pa so bile Vede tudi pomemben del državljanske vzgoje. Natjasastra je pomemben enciklopedični vir tradicije gledališča v Indiji, praviloma so igre amaterske, igralci nosijo maske in pripovedujejo tekste. Kasneje iste igre odigravajo za kralja v templjih, gre za zaprte zgradbe, pomemben del igre pa so opombe in razlage med samo igro. Občinstvo tako dobi kratko obnovo in zgodovino lika, njegova reakcije in celo objasnila v lokalnem jeziku. Vedno bolj so dovoljena odstopanja od teksta zaradi lažje manj naporne razlage. Ker so bile predstave za kralja, so pomembno razvoj gledališča spreminjale razlage o tem, kaj je lepo in koristno za samo gledališče.
Kitajsko gledališče je podobno kot japonsko razvijalo umetnost v pomembno tradicijo v zgodnjem obdobju. Gledališče je bilo sredstvo pogovora z vladajočimi in obvladovanimi, tematike pa so bile raznovrstne, podpiranje dogodivščin, sodne drame, nadnaravne bitke, banditi v sporu s pokvarjenimi uradniki. Japonsko zgodnje gledališče se naslanja na šintoizem.
Nekatere gledališke tradicije prvič premešajo spolne identitete med vloge in igralce, kar še posebej velja za japonsko tradicijo. Z uporabo mask in zapletenih vlog so sprva odločali, da vse vloge, ženske ali moške odigrajo moški. Kasneje pa so spremenili ideje in so moški lahko igrali ženske in obratno ženske igrale moške. Podobno velja za zgodnje antično gledališče kot tudi za zgodnje renesančno gledališče.
Srednjeveško gledališče
Ob slabi pismenosti prebivalstva in latinskih spisih relativne zahtevnosti so uprizarjali igre v latinščini za prebivalstvo, ki je poznalo zgodbe, tu pa so lahko ponotranjili te zgodbe. Podobno so bile odigrane zgodbe o nekaterih bibličnih osebah ali svetnikih. Izvajale so se tudi procesije in božične igre, ki so bile povezane z zimskim počitkom. Srednjeveško muslimansko gledališče se je v nekaterih primerih razvilo v spominsko odigravanje vojn, bitk in mučeništva.
Običajno so bili odigrani pasijoni, po celem svetu pa se razvija močna želja po upodobitveni umetnosti besedil predvsem v podobi pisemske umetnosti ali kaligrafije. Spektakel v cerkvenem obredju se je pokazal predvsem v arhitekturi, okrasju in glasbi, tu še posebej v zborovskem petju. Besedila so se tako brala in pri tem je bralec uzrl besedilo posebej okrašeno in prvobitno. Taka tradicija je bila še posebej vidna v muslimanskem in krščanskem svetu srednjega veka, azijski del je gledališke tradicije tedaj še izrazito ohranil nedotaknjene.
Poklicno gledališče Evrope
Ob izumu tiska in renesansi se prične eksplozivno širjenje idej in tehnologij. Obujanje antičnih tradicij gledališča pa tudi rimskih tradicij je pomenilo veliko kvaliteto za zabave željne prebivalce. Tako se razvije v Italiji Commedia dell' arte, v Angliji renesančno gledališče Williama Shakespeara, obe vrste gledališč so bile svojstvene, predvsem commedia pa je izhaja iz jezikovne enotnosti izobraženega prebivalstva, ki so vsi poznali latinščino na visoki ravni. Tako se razvije 12 članska gledališka skupina z jasno določenimi vlogami in maskami in razponom. Skupina odigrava omejen razpon iger, kjer uporabljajo izkrivljen jezik in praviloma popačene namene igralcev za primerni vir komedije. Le redko se ukvarjajo z zgodovino, a praviloma je zgodovina vir komedije. Vsi liki so tipski in se ne spreminjajo med potovanjem.
Dotedaj je bilo gledališče v mnogočem amatersko, občasno in namenjeno določenem praznovanju ali dogodku. Le redko se je zanj plačevalo ali ga ocenjevalo, commedia dell' arte pa je prvič gledališče, ki je plačljivo in izrazito neustvarjalno, saj je temeljilo na omejenem številu likov in zapletov. Ob uspehu gledaliških skupin se tako išče gledališke pisce, ustvarjalce. Izstopajo tako Lope de Rueda, Thomas Kyd, Lope Felix de Vega y Carpio, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare. Pisci sami sicer niso bili pomembne osebnosti, plačljivo občinstvo pa je bilo glasen in pomemben kritik za gledališko skupino, ki je morala zapolniti stole. Špansko renesančno gledališče izstopa v tem času predvsem po inovacije gradnje teh gledališč. Gledališča so razmeroma poceni z malo udobja in slabo varnostjo, a ob visoki gledanosti razmeroma uspešen poslovni model renesančnega podjetnika. Kmalu postane skupina tudi višje cenjena zaradi sponzorstva dvora. Pisci še vedno cenijo improvizacijo, a zaradi mehanike in tehnoloških inovacij morajo igralci vedno bolj poznati besede dosledno, saj so le tako zagotovili, da so v zaodrju pravilno odreagirali z efekti in vzvodi.
Evropski prostor tako vedno bolj oblikujejo raznolike zgodbe in zgodovinski teksti, kralji pa vedno bolj podpirajo te kulturne dejavnosti, da bi pridobili na svojo stran prebivalstvo ob vedno bolj uspešnem meščanstvu, trgovcih in plemstvu. Podobno kot v Indiji postane pomembno izhodišče za igro teorija gledališča in estetike. Igre so bile lahko dolge in bogate, izpostavljenost takim zgodbam pa je imela tudi stranske učinke.
Italija je prvič pričela z gledališko kritiko, Francija pa je ob kritiki El Cida pričela dejansko s kaznovanjem iger, ki so kršile določene norme in tako dejansko pričela z gledališko kritiko kot političnim pritiskom. Gledališče vedno bolj uporablja tudi scene kot likovno ozadje, naslikana perspektiva tako nadomešča siceršnje ozadje. V zgodnji dobi renesančnega gledališča so igralci igrali na odprtem prostoru in izrabljali dejanske gradove in obzidja za videz graščin in dvora. Vedno bolj se je štelo, da so obiskovalci gledališč predvsem gledalci in komajda poslušalci. Renesančno gledališče ponovno praviloma igrajo moški igralci, tudi ženske vloge, zato postaja vedno bolj pomembno, da se s podobo gledalci prepoznajo.
Držav<|fim_middle|> pri predstavljanju tradicionalnih pripovedi in gledaliških tehnik. Gledališča bi tako predstavljala kot samostojne projekte tako kibuki, italijansko opero, broadwayski muzikal ali angleško melodramo. Večina držav še vedno ohranja tako nacionalne kulturne hiše, opere in gledališča, ki praviloma poslujejo zelo uspešno.
Tradicija teatra v Sloveniji
»Začetki slovenskega gledališča segajo v čas baroka, ko so na več mestih na področju današnje Slovenije igrali predstave z nabožno vsebino.« (Čopič in Tomc, 1997:165) V slovenskem prostoru je predvsem v obdobju po prvi svetovni vojni ustanovljenih precej gledališč, nekatera veljajo tudi za nacionalno gledališče. Ker gre za gledališče z relativno mlado tradicijo, je pomen igre in tradicije zelo pomemben del same gledališke kulture. Brez odzivanja na odigrano je gledališče mrtvo, okostenelo in brez duše. Mnogi se tako opirajo na gledališko kritiko kot odziv, a v mnogočem je gledališče predalo tradicijo in umetnost televiziji in množičnim občilom, ki gledališče v veliki meri tudi prepušča osami in zapuščenim tradicijam. Zaradi nizkih stroškov in preprosto odigrane izvedbe se razvija v Sloveniji tudi ulično gledališče s svojim poletnim festivalom.
Ljubiteljska kultura ima sicer daljšo tradicijo. Zgodovina enega najstarejših še delujočih ljubiteljskih gledališč v Evropi se je začela leta 1921. V gostilni Pri Lozarju v predelu okrog ljubljanske cerkve sv. Jakoba so takrat odigrali nekaj komičnih točk s petjem in glasbo. Ustanovljen je bil dramatski odsek kulturnega društva za Šentjakobski okraj. Prvi Šentjakobski oder je zaživel v hiši na Gornjem trgu. Izraz Šentjakob je sčasoma izgubil krajevni pomen in je postal sinonim za Šentjakobsko gledališče. Leto po ustanovitvi je mesto režiserja prevzel Milan Skrbinšek, njegovo obdobje pa se je leta 1929 končalo, ker je moral zaradi nerazumevanja takratnega vodstva Narodnega gledališča odpovedati sodelovanje. V sezoni 1932/33 se je oder preselil v Mestni dom, kjer domuje še danes. V času druge svetovne vojne so italijanski okupatorji porušili oder in ostale prostore spremenili v spalnice za svoje vojake. Po vojni so oder obnovili in gledališče je dobilo polpoklicni status.
Začelo se je z Županovo Micko
Za prvi mejnik v zgodovini našega gledališča se šteje 28.december 1789, ko je bila uprizorjena Županova Micka, avtorja Antona Tomaža Linharta. Komedija z elementi razsvetljenstva pa tudi elementi ljudske komedije se vidno naslanja tudi na Figarovo svatbo. Kasneje se začne razcvet čitalniškega gibanja, ki podpira kulturno sodelovanje, zborovsko petje, igre in branje med prebivalstvom. S tem gibanjem je slovensko meščanstvo prišlo do svoje družbene podobe, v drugi vrsti pa vsaj do delne kulturne in zasilno tudi do gledališke podobe. Pomen čitalnic je bil v ponujanju kvalitetnih kulturnih vsebin, ki so jih izvedli v slovenskem jeziku.
Začetek profesionalizacije gledališča
Drugi mejnik je ustanovitev Dramatičnega društva v Ljubljani leta 1867. To je prvi poskus priti do temeljev za slovensko poklicno dramsko gledališče, lahko rečemo, da je to začetek profesionalizacije gledališča. Čas med letoma 1867 in 1941 (45) lahko označimo za čas postopne in načrtne institucionalizacije in profesionalizacije v Ljubljani, Mariboru in Trstu. Fran Levstik je Dramatično društvo organiziral v nekakšen gledališki inštitut s tremi bistvenimi elementi: dramaturški oddelek, igralska šola in stalni gledališki oder.
Leto 1892 ugoden čas za slovensko gledališče
Za naslednji mejnik štejemo leto 1892, ko je prišlo do sorazmerno primernih možnosti za uprizarjanje slovenskih predstav. Ignacij Borštnik je tega leta tekstovno priredil in zrežiral Jurčičevo Veroniko Deseniško. Nato so odprli Deželno gledališče v Ljubljani, kjer je današnja stavba Opere in Baleta, pod umetniškim vodstvom Ignacija Borštnika. Pred prvo svetovno vojno pa je bil ravnatelj, tedaj že Slovenskega narodnega gledališča, Oton Župančič. Po letu 1919 se začne tudi ambiciozno delovanje Drame Slovenskega narodnega gledališča v Mariboru, leta 1920 pa se podržavi Slovensko narodno gledališče v Ljubljani. Leta 1907 se sprejme tudi sklep, da se v Trstu ustanovi »redno slovensko gledališče na umetniški podlagi« z imenom Slovensko stalno gledališče. Ob tem se širijo gledališke predstave tudi v večje vasi, gre za obdobje izrazite amaterizacije kulturnih društev, ki so jih tedaj imenovali "gledališki diletanti". Kot aktiven promotor gledališke aktivnosti šteje France Koblar.
Med 1920 in 1945 zaradi oblasti molk gledališč
Med letoma 1920 in 1945 so gledališča umolknila po ukazu fašističnih in nacističnih oblasti, po letu 1945 pa se je nadaljevalo bogato izročilo gledališke dejavnosti. Ob porastu zahtevnejšega gledališča gledališče obiskujejo predvsem študenti, gledališče doživlja precejšnjo krizo ob gospodarski krizi, a društva ohranjajo tako diletantsko gledališko kulturo kot tudi poklicna društva, kjer za mesta ohranjajo razmeroma zahteven gledališki repetoar.
Leta 1952 še sedem stalnih gledališč
Okrog leta 1952 je bilo v skladu z vizijo ustanovljenih še 7 stalnih poklicnih gledališč (v Ljubljani – Mestno gledališče ljubljansko, Slovensko mladinsko gledališče je sprva namenjeno zgolj mladim; v Celju Slovensko ljudsko gledališče; v Kranju Prešernovo gledališče; Gledališče slovenskega Primorja s prvotnim sedežem v Postojni, kasneje v Kopru; Primorsko narodno gledališče v Novi Gorici in okrajno gledališče na Ptuju). Pomembno je omeniti tudi ustanovitev Lutkovnega gledališča Ljubljana, ki pričenja lutkarsko tradicijo gledališča v Sloveniji na organizirani ravni.
Začetek neodvisnih gledališč v 50ih in 60ih letih 20.stoletja
V petdesetih in šestdesetih letih 20. stoletja so se začela pojavljati prva neodvisna, eksperimentalna gledališča z bolj drznimi in manj akademskimi uprizoritvami (EG Glej, Oder 57), v katerih so sodelovali igralci iz poklicnih gledališč. Pomembno je omeniti tudi Gledališče Ane Monro kot eno prvih začetnikov improvizacije in uličnega gledališča v Sloveniji.
Komercialno gledališče
Leta 1997 pa se pojavi tudi zasebno-komercialno gledališče Špas teater v Kulturnem domu Mengeš. Urška Alič je orala ledino pri uveljavljanju tovrstnega gledališča. Po vidnem uspehu tega komercialnega gledališča je sledil val gledališč, ki delujejo po podobnem principu (SiTi Teater-BTC itd.). V Ljubljani in Mariboru razvijejo festival uličnega gledališča Ana Desetnica.
Vir:
Čopič Vesna in Tomc Gregor (1997) Kulturna politika v Sloveniji. Ljubljana: FDV/ Teorija in praksa
AGRFT, ur. Barbara Sušec, Blaž Lukan, Maja Šorli: Dinamika sprememb v slovenskem gledališču 20.stoletja (2010), Ljubljana, Maska
Cesare Molinari: Istorija pozorišta (1972), Beograd, Vuk Karadžić
Phyllis Hartnoll: The Theatre, A Concise History (revised edition) (1989), Thames and Hudson
Brockett and Hildy (1968; 10th ed. 2010), History of the Theater
Opombe
Glej tudi
Književnost in gledališče 60. let
Grško gledališče
Ambientalno gledališče
Scenografija
Gledališče (zgradba)
seznam slovenskih igralcev
seznam slovenskih režiserjev
seznam slovenskih dramaturgov in teatrologov
Zunanje povezave
Gledališče.org - Napovednik dogodkov v slovenskih gledališčih
SiGledal.org - Gledališki portal s članki in kolumnami o slovenskem gledališču | no gledališče
Francoska nagnjenost k cenzuri gledaliških podjetij se je začela s kardinalom Richeliujem, ki se je sprl s Francosko akademijo v zvezi z izpravnostjo Corneillejevega El Cida, a zaostrila s cenzuro kralja Ludvika XIV, sicer ljubitelja gledališča. Sam je namreč podprl tedaj ustanavljajočo Pariško Opero in okoli 5 gledaliških skupin, a je na drugi strani cenzuriral Molierovo komedijo Tartuffe. Ob vedno manjšem občinstvu in državnih cenzurah so tekmovale mnoge skupine za naziv kraljevske gledališke skupine, a le redke so preživele velike stroške in vedno upajoče iskali sponzorstvo krone, saj niso imeli v lasti ne gledališča, občinstvo pa se je močno naslanjalo na politiko krone.
Razvoj trgovine je na Japonskem pomenilo razvoj kibuki gledališča, kjer je gledališče bilo kraj plesa, igre in glasbe pa tudi satirične in smele šale. Ob sicer skorajda vojaški ureditvi samurajev in kmetijskih fevdalnih vasi je bilo gledališče kraj, kjer so bili zaposleni spolni delavci obeh spolov (gejša in podobni nazivi), pa tudi mnogi plesalci. Gledališče se je ohranjalo zaradi ocene, da to pomeni mir in manjši kriminal ob siceršnji gospodarski rasti. Samuraji so se bali predvsem izgube časti ob pripovedi o samuraju, ki je izgubil čast zaradi zveze s kibuki spolnim delavcev ali delavko. Kibuki gledališče je tako šogunat reguliral z omejitvijo zaposlenih v kibuki gledališču, takšni igralci so morali biti stari moški, v javnosti so morali biti oblečeni bolj preprosto. Kasneje so jim celo določili kje lahko prebivajo. Gledališče je sicer imelo visok status, ki ga pa je zlahka izgubil s škandalom neprimernega vedenja igralcev.
V Veliki Britaniji je profesionalno gledališče, nekaj časa celo pod sponzorstvom Krone, postalo od leta 1642 za časa puritanske vlade celo prepovedano, nato uvedejo celo kraljevski monopol nad gledališkim ustvarjalnim delom.
Neoklasične norme estetike in francoski absolutizem je podredil gledališče morali. Jean Racine in tragedije so zaznamovale francoski absolutizem, cenzorji in podpora kraljevine različnim gledališkim skupinam je omogočila nadzor kralja nad določenimi projekti in državno sponzorirano umetnost. Ulična karnivalna umetnost postaja pomembno nasprotje kraljevi oblastni poziciji, kar izpostavi Moliera, komediografa, ki je sramotil poleg avtoritarnih meščanskih in družinskih pozicij tudi strokovnjake na področju medicine, kar pa je ogrožalo strokovnost oblastnega poklica.
Spektakularno gledališče in nacionalizem
Sentimentalno gledališče porajajočega meščanstva in melodrame ob obstoječi cenzuri ponujajo le vedno bolj čustvene nastope igralcev in vedno manj hladnokrvno razumevanje življenja in okolice. Igralec je tako vedno bolj zvezda, oseba vredna pozornosti in premisleka zaradi lastne karizme in nastopa in je zato sama po sebi pomembna. Ker so gledališča podprta od države, pomembno pa obiskana in družbeno pomembna inštitucija, so tudi igralci postali del družbenega dogajanja. Njihova zmožnost nastopa in dramatičnega zanosa je postala izrazita, saj so posli in delovanje bili manj dramatični po sami naravi. Nacionalistična prizadevanja vsaj deloma to razrahljajo z zanosi revolucij in družbenih gibanj. Sentimentalno gledališče nasprotuje literaturi ljudske modrosti in srednjeveških dobrih nasvetov, ki preplavlja tisk v istem času, na primer Benjamin Franklin je kot tiskar z velikim uspehom tiskal in pisal predvsem takšno pisanje pred revolucijo.
Podobno sentimentalno vlogo igrajo tudi romantično pisci, skladatelji in igralci, ki se postavljajo celo za mislece gibanja ali pa jih kot take postavljajo drugi. Igre se tako podrejajo izključno klasičnim zahtevam po enotnem kraju, času in dogajanju, ki obsega največ 24 ur, kar je predpisal Aristotel in je naslavljal v kritiki kardinal Richelieu, a igralce poganja predvsem želja po idealu, slavni preteklosti, upanju na sanje, ljubezni in se obnašajo izrazito čustveno. Igre so tudi vedno manj komedije in tragedije, temveč drame ali melodrame, nastopajo meščani, ki so pretirano razčustvovani, kar zbuja ali smeh ali žalost občinstva. Vse bolj gledališča investirajo v operne dvorane, tehniko, scenografijo, eksponate in posebne efekte za višjo dodatno vrednost gledališča. Gledališče postane celo izhodišče za politična in družbena gibanja.
Gledališče za množice
V poznem 19.stoletju postane izrazito zanimivo gledališče idej, kjer izstopata Henrik Ibsen, Čehov in Strindberg. Gledališče počistijo nepotrebnih idej, kostumov, predmetov in eksponatov. Dogodki na odru zagotavljajo jasno obrazloženo idejo ali vsaj jasen in obrazložljiv zaplet, ki bi morebiti sicer bil psihološko zapletena situacija.
Pomembno se razvija tudi teorija igre, kjer se izpostavi šolo Stanislavskega, igralec skrbi za psihološki realizem in tako poskrbi za gledalca, da izkusi kar se da resnično izkušnjo čustev igralca.
Po prvi svetovni vojni se gledališče izrazito spremeni v prostor revščine in pomanjkanja. Posebni efekti in izum elektrike pomenijo velike spremembe pri ozvočenju in lučeh, igralci lahko pridobijo večjo pozornost občinstva. Kultura zvezdništva se vedno bolj razvija in nadomešča kulturno avtentičnost s komercializacijo. Gledališče uporablja vse vrste virov in navdihov za svoje delovanje, opira se na tuje tradicije in vedno bolj uporablja elemente drugih umetnosti za svoje delovanje. Ob izumu filma se prenos znanja drugih umetnosti prenese tudi v filmsko umetnost.
Socialni realizem, pripovedi o vsakdanjih zgodbah, prizadevanje in igralske tehnike namenjene avtentičnosti igralca zaznamujejo pomemben del teatra na obeh straneh Hladne vojne. Predvsem v ZDA se gledališče pričenja ukvarjati tudi s fantazijo, muzikali in drugo tradicijo izpred druge svetovne vojne. Na področju Evrope gledališče raziskuje absurd, nesmisel, eksistencialne teme, improvizacijsko gledališče in ostalo tradicijo.
V nekaterih državah postaja gledališče nišno trženo in nima več nacionalnih teženj. Tako naslavlja partikularne interese in nima prave želje po nacionalnem pomenu. V nekaterih državah raziskujejo pomen kolonialnih vplivov na lastno kulturo gledališča in tako izprašujejo identiteto, a mnoge države prisegajo na globalizem pri gledališču, kar pomeni sposojanje iz vseh tradicij pri gledališkem ustvarjanju in neobremenjenost | 2,390 |
The British singer joined Queen B on-stage to reveal a folk version of Bey<|fim_middle|> folk tones that anyhow still leads us to dance. No matter what she does, Queen B keeps reigning. | once's hit.
We noticed it with her last song Runnin' (Lose It All) featuring EDM producer Naughty Boy: Beyoncé is always full of surprises. Her songs are known worldwide, but the diva still manages to amaze her audience by always adding a creative twist to her prestigious repertoire. Case in point with this cover of Drunk in Love during the Global Citizen Festival in New York for which the singer collaborated with Ed Sheeran.
Accompanied by her talented guest, the 34-year-old superstar offered an unexpected and exclusive version of her steamy hit Drunk in Love.
British singer Ed Sheeran walked up on stage with his usual modesty and acoustic guitar. It's actually with just this instrument that the duo performed a softer, sweeter version of Drunk in Love. If the original spirit of the song vanishes slightly in this version, we are seduced by the | 185 |
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CONAMA RESOLUTION 302, March, 20, 2002
Published in Official Gazette 90 on May 13, 2002, pages 67-68
· Complements CONAMA Resolution 303/02
Establishes the parameters, definitions and boundaries of Permanent Preservation Areas with artificial reservoirs and regulates the use of their grounds.
THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL – CONAMA, in accordance with the power bestowed upon the Council by Law 6.938, from August 31, 1981, regulated through Decree 99.274, from June 6, 1990, and considering the provisions of Laws 4.771, from September 15, 1965, and 9.433, from January 8, 1997, and its Internal Regulations, and
Considering that the socio-environmental function of property foreseen in articles 5, item XXIII, 170, item VI, 182, § 2, 186, item II and 225 of the Constitution, the principles of prevention, caution and pollution-compensation;
Considering the need to regulate art. 2 of Law 4.771, from 1965, in respect to Permanent Preservation Areas and the grounds of artificial reservoirs
Considering that Brazil is committed to responsibilities related to the Convention on Biodiversity held in 1992, the Ramsar Convention held in 1971 and the Washington Convention held in 1940 as well as the commitments assumed during the Rio de Janeiro Declaration in 1992;
Considering that Permanent Preservation Areas and other protected territorial areas, as tools for the preservation of the environment, are an integral part of sustainable development and an objective of current and future generations;
Considering the environmental importance of Permanent Preservation Areas for the preservation of water resources, landscapes, soil protection and the safeguarding of the wellbeing of human populations, decides:
Art. 1 It is the objective of the current Resolution to establish the parameters, definitions and boundaries of Permanent Preservation Areas with artificial reservoirs, the establishment of a mandatory environmental conservation plan and regulate the use of the respective grounds.
Art. 2 The following definitions are hereby adopted for the purpose of this Resolution:
I – Artificial Reservoir: Non-natural water accumulation for any purpose.
II – Permanent Preservation Area: The area surrounding the artificial reservoir and its islands created in order to preserve water resources, the landscape, the geological stability, biodiversity, the natural flow of fauna and flora, the protection of the soil and to safeguard the wellbeing of human populations;
III – Environmental Conservation Plan and Use of Artificial Reservoir Grounds: is a group of directives and proposals for conservation regulation, recuperation, usage and occupation of the grounds of artificial reservoirs, according to the parameters established by this Resolution and in other applicable standards;
IV – Maximum Normal Level: is the maximum quota for the operation of the reservoir;
V – Consolidated Urban Area: is an area that complies with the following demands:
a) legal definition by public organs;
b) existence of a minimum of four of the following urban infra-structures:
1. road network including the canalization of rain water;
2. water-supply system;
3. sewer system;
4. electric energy supply and public lighting;
5. collection of solid urban wastes;
6. treatment of solid urban wastes; and
c) demographic density over five thousand inhabitants by square kilometer.
Art 3 A Permanent Preservation Area is an area with a minimum width, in a horizontal projection, surrounding artificial reservoirs and measured according to the maximum normal level of:
I – thirty meters for artificial reservoirs located within consolidated urban areas and one hundred meters for reservoirs located in urban areas;
II – a minimum of fifteen meters for artificial reservoirs that generate electric energy with up to 10 hectares, without prejudice to environmental compensation;
III – a minimum of fifteen meters for artificial reservoirs that are not used for public supply or to generate electric energy, with up to twenty hectares and located in rural areas;
§ 1 The boundaries of Permanent Preservation Areas foreseen in item I can be increased or reduced , while observing the minimum standard of thirty meters, according to environmental licenses and the plan for water resources in the area of the reservoir, if applicable
§ 2 The boundaries of Permanent Preservation Areas, foreseen in item II, can only be increased according to the provisions of environmental licenses and, if applicable, according to the water resource plan for the basin where the reservoir is located.
§ 3 The reduction of the boundary of the Permanent reservation Area, foreseen in § 1 of this article is not applicable to areas with a dense original ombrophylous forest – amazon region, including Cerrado and artificial reservoirs used for public supply purposes.
§ 4 The increase or reduction of the boundaries of Permanent Preservation Areas referred to by § 1, will be established according to the minimum following criteria:
I – environmental aspects of the hydrographic basin;
II –geology, geomorphology, hydrogeology and physiography of the hydrographic basin;
III – vegetal typology;
IV – ecological representation of the area in the biome present within the hydrographic basin, notably the existence of species threatened with extinction and the importance of the area as a biodiversity corridor;
V – purpose of water usage;
VI – usage and occupation of the soil within the grounds;
VII – environmental impact caused by the creation of the reservoir and on the grounds of the Permanent reservation Area with an area of<|fim_middle|> the reference terms issued by the respective environmental organ.
§ 1 It is the duty of the competent environmental organ to approve the environmental conservation plan and the use of the grounds of artificial reservoirs in relation to the water resource plan for the area, when existent, without prejudice to the procedures related to the granting of environmental licenses.
§ 2 The approval of the environmental preservation plan and of the use of the grounds of the artificial reservoirs must be preceded by a public consultation, the lack of which will lead to the annulment of the administrative act, according to the provisions of CONAMA Resolution 9 from December 3, 1987, when
applicable, and the Public Ministry must be informed within thirty days of the respective date.
§ 3 The assessment of the environmental preservation plan and use of the grounds must include the opinion of the respective hydrographic basin committee, when applicable.
§ 4 The usage and preservation plan can include specifications for the creation of tourism and leisure activities on the grounds of the artificial reservoir not exceeding an area of ten percent of the total area of the grounds.
§ 5 The occupation of the areas foreseen in the previous paragraph are conditioned to compliance with municipal, state and federal legislation and to the granting of a license by the respective environmental organ of competence.
Art. 5 Enterprises that are the subject of privatization processes up to the date of this publication are subjected to current environmental demands valid during the time of the privatization, including the minimum specification of one hundred meters for Permanent Preservation Areas.
Single paragraph. Enterprises that hold operation licenses are subjected to obligations included in the respective licenses.
Art. 6 This Resolution shall enter into effect on the date of its publication and applies to proceeding environmental licensing processes
JOSÉ CARLOS CARVALHO – Council President
This text does not substitute the text published in the Official Gazette on May 13, 2002. | up to one hundred meters.
§ 5 In cases related to reductions, human occupation of the soil, even if through allotment or subdivision in equal parts, or any other forms, the reduction cannot exceed ten percent of the total area, apart from existing
benefits of the consolidated urban area granted previously to the request for the environmental license.
§ 6 The provisions of this article do not apply to artificial water accumulations inferior to five hectares as long as they do not lead to the hindrance of damming of water courses that are not part of the Permanent
Protection Area, except those that are meant for public water supply
Art. 4 The entrepreneur that requests an environmental license, for artificial reservoirs aimed at the generation of energy and public supply, must present an environmental preservation plan for the use of the grounds of the artificial reservoir according to | 171 |
Redmond, WA – (December 24, 2016) – Calliope Games proudly marches its Titan Series into New York City to take over the game ais<|fim_middle|> lifetime: the relationships, camaraderie, and laughter that is shared. Like the muse for whom the company is named, Calliope Games strives to inspire positive experiences. To discover more about Calliope's wide range of games, visit the company website and get all of the most up-to-date, immediate information by interacting with the company on its social media channels: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and YouTube. | les at the 2017 American International Toy Fair, held at the Jacob Javits Convention Center, February 18-21.
Calliope's Titan Series is the company's new collection of gateway games created by the some of the industry's best game designers. The Titan games bridge the gap of traditional gameplay to introduce modern gameplay elements in a welcoming manner.
Running with the Bulls (MSRP $40 for 2-6 players ages 8+). Designed by Paul Peterson, players get ready to embark on the craziest vacation ever! Running of the Bulls is a unique twist on dice games, where a herd of mischievous bulls has taken over the quaint town of El Toro, and players must outrun and outwit them in order to get to the fabulous destinations on the coast! Played over three rounds, called days, players will play action cards and roll dice to guide their Runners to the most lucrative destinations at the bottom of the board—all while trying to avoid irate bulls!
Hive Mind (MSRP $30 for 3-12 players ages 8+). Designed by Richard Garfield (Magic: The Gathering), this is the greatest trivia party game ever that doesn't use any trivia at all! In Hive Mind, players are the bees and each turn, the Queen Bee asks a question with an answer based on opinion or experience, such as "Name 2 amusement park rides.". The more answers that bees have in common, the more points they get! The bees with the lowest point totals move closer to the hive door. Once a bee leaves the hive, everyone else wins!
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"Our first three Titans will forge the mainstream modern gaming revolution. We will add more and more original Titans to the Calliope library in 2017 and beyond," Wehrs added.
About Calliope Games: Calliope Games, based in Redmond, Washington, USA, was founded in 2009, as a family-run company publishing fun, affordable, quality tabletop games meeting the time constraints of our busy 21st century lifestyles. The company's mission is to facilitate experiences people will remember for a | 611 |
Closing the Evaluation Gap: 3ie One Year On (Are Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Improving Human Capital?)
Katherine Douglas
This is a joint post with William Savedoff.
Policymakers, researchers, and development experts gathered at CGD on May 4 to discuss the implications of existing research on conditional cash transfers (CCTs) and recommend ways for the development community to improve impact evaluations of interventions, like CCTs, in the future. The workshop, entitled Closing the Evaluation Gap: 3ie<|fim_middle|> of all disbursements by bilateral and multilateral agencies, has still not come to fruition.
3ie executive director Howard White also discussed 3ie's successes, but concentrated his remarks on what it takes to conduct quality impact evaluations. He also mentioned the capacity for mistakes to occur when researchers fail to consider how projects are being implemented or investigate anomalies that are heard in the field.
In the event's final session, a group of panelists—moderated by former president of the Global Development Network Lyn Squire —discussed how researchers can more effectively bring evidence-based results into the policy process. Ruth Levine, director of evaluation, policy analysis and learning at USAID, emphasized the importance of identifying and creating long-term "durable" incentives for health and education-promoting behaviors if programs are to have lasting impact. Levine also recommended that researchers ascribe to an strategy dubbed "The 3Ps"—Predicting likely problems to inform research, Prescribing clear core messages, and drawing Pictures (such as GIS maps)—to provide compelling visual demonstrations of information. Miguel Szekely, former undersecretary of education in Mexico, and Squire stressed that "bridging the gap" between research and policy will require radical thinking, underscoring the importance of devising incentives for policymakers themselves to demand good evidence for developing more effective programs.
This final topic—bridging the gap between researchers and policymakers—is one of our central concerns as we move forward. To follow our progress and be part of the debate, please sign up to receive CGD's Evaluation Gap newsletter. | One Year On (Are Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Improving Human Capital?), was jointly hosted by CGD and the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), and included a series of presentations and high-level panel discussions focused on the effect of CCT programs on outcomes such as educational attainment, grade progression, birth weight, and access to family planning methods.
Nancy Birdsall
Senior Fellow, President Emeritus
Ruth Levine
Non-Resident Fellow
William Savedoff
Former Senior Fellow
In a recent blog post, Evaluation Gap Working Group co-chair and CGD senior fellow William Savedoff explained the motivation for the workshop, highlighting the heightened need to address the ways in which evidence and policymaking interact, as well as the importance of continued improvements in evaluation systems in determining the efficacy of social interventions. We were thrilled with the positive responses from the workshop's participants and audience members, and invigorated by the discussion and recommendations that arose as a result of the event.
The importance of well-designed and delivered research on individual social programs was a central theme of the day-long seminar. 3ie deputy director Marie Gaarder called for researchers to evaluate the overall causal chain for CCTs and health outcomes, and introduced a special issue of the newly-launched Journal of Development Effectiveness that focuses on CCT programs. Exploring ways in which researchers seek to "open the black box" by going beyond measurement of average effects, Gaarder noted the importance of analyzing heterogeneity (for example, how contraceptive use changed more among extremely poor women than among those who were better off) and distinguishing mechanisms (for example, assessing whether birth weight was higher for program participants because of higher income, better nutrition, or empowerment).
The seminar outlined the different channels through which financial incentives can influence changes in behavior, and the capacity for these incentives (especially when conditioned) to have a profound effect on indicators such as the utilization of health and education services by the poor. Participants also discussed the limitations of CCT programs, noting that emerging evidence suggests that these interventions may have little effect on overall health and education outcomes such as coverage of basic health interventions and school achievement among urban children. Speakers and panelists emphasized the need for a deeper understanding of the relative cost-effectiveness of investing in the supply versus the demand-side within the health and education systems, as well as the potential negative implications of encouraging utilization of services without a corresponding effort to increase the quality of these services.
Over lunch, CGD president Nancy Birdsall recognized the successes of 3ie's first year of operation, and congratulated the organizations that have supported it. She highlighted the importance of 3ie's role as a provider of public goods that should be financed by all major actors, going on to challenge participants from institutions like the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank to ask why their organizations have not yet joined. She reminded those present that the initial idea of financing 3ie with a small levy, perhaps 0.05% | 596 |
When we abruptly started homeschooling three weeks into the second semester of Amber's fourth grade year, we had no concept of how to schedule a school year. We honestly took the schedule for the parochial school Amber had just left and adopted it for our homeschool.
We quickly determined we needed fewer hours per day as well as fewer days than the parochial school to achieve the required instruction time. By the beginning of fifth grade I was experimenting with schedules, trying to find the best fit for our life style.
Each summer between parochial school grades we encouraged Amber to continue learning so there was less slide between the grades. We had plenty of time to work on lessons indoors given the extreme summer heat in our region. Once we transitioned to homeschooling, it was natural to continue a few things over the summer. However, it wasn't until after fifth grade that we made it formal year-round school.
Why do we school year-round?
Keeps both of our brains active and the information at the fore-front of our thoughts.
We don't rush to finish books or topics by the magical end-of-school date. We start new books and topics when we are ready. Each subject flows seamlessly throughout the year.
Models a learning life style. We don't take breaks from learning in our life and refuse to acquire information because of the season.
Logistically, it allows us to take days or weeks off throughout the year when it suits our needs.
Summer is HOT and HUMID in our region. We spend a good deal of time indoors over the summer and learning is a good way to ward off the summer boredom.
Amber's health. We have many sick days or partial sick<|fim_middle|>. So much so, we are implementing the same plan for eighth grade. There are no days off in our outline for the year, except a vague plan to take an extended break at Christmas.
The remainder of the school year is scheduled as we go along. Because we are diligent, responsible and know we will not need a full 12 months to earn our required school hours, we don't worry about the number of days we take off during the year.
In the end, it's not just year-round homeschooling but life-long learning we are embracing.
We homeschool year round, too. We get a lot of work done in the summer when it's so hot here so we can relax a bit more in the fall when the kids are busy with extracurricular activities.
It really does make it easier to not stress out on days when we don't accomplish much, or sick days, field trips days, etc. | days throughout the year (similar to #4). Additionally, even when she's having a bad day the lessons help her to focus on something besides a flare in one of her conditions.
Fun times without the school guilt!
The mechanics of year-round schooling are not as straight-forward for us as simply having school every available day of the year.
We still set official start and end dates of our school year. Those dates mark when we expect school days to be actual full days devoted to learning. Of course we take our vacation and rest days, but a school day is a full day of learning during those periods. Plus, we want the fun of first & last day pictures.
We don't always finish one level of a subject within the confines of a school year. A topic is not completed simply because we've hit the arbitrary end of school year date, nor must we wait for the official first day of school to start a new subject.
For example: Amber's math schedule does not line up with our school year because of her chronic illness. She may spend the majority of a school year on one math level, but we only switch when she is ready. She began Algebra 1 in December of 7th grade, and will start Algebra 2 in September of 8th grade.
Some summer days we entirely skip lessons for no reason other than we had a better offer. During the summer, many of Amber's friends are off of school entirely and she wants to spend time with them. I do not require school work to be completed in order to have fun. Our summer school is much more relaxed than the official school year.
We restrict summer school to only two subjects per day. This gives Amber plenty of time to relax and feel she had an extended break without the listlessness that occurs when she is given weeks of unstructured time. (Yes, we tried that over Christmas break and she begged to go back to school.) This doesn't mean we only work on two subjects all summer. It is simply two subjects per day. In a week Amber may study math, science, writing, history, and literature. She keeps all of her subjects going throughout the summer using only partial days of school.
Summer Learning - When it's too hot outside, or stuck on a long car ride.
Most years I've set a break schedule for the entire year during my summer planning. We've tried four day school weeks, 6 weeks on school / 1 week off, and 5 weeks on / 1 week off. Each method worked great until Christmas when it all fell apart. I will say, the five weeks on school followed by one week off school was the most successful set schedule..
The last semester of seventh grade we opted to un-schedule the remainder of the year, and decided along the way when we needed a break. Good communication between the child and parent is necessary for this method, but it worked well for us | 590 |
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Automatic trading systems are often ambiguously discussed. One group argues against the use, because this kind of action is far too inflexible. Others think it is the only true solution to earn money on the stock market. In addition, there is another group that sells and offers trading strategies, but only earns money through them and not through the trades of the trading systems.
An automated trading system is a set of rules that automatically creates, manages and terminates trades with a broker. This can be intraday, i.e. on the same day, or, a few days later, through so-called swing trading systems.
I like to differentiate between full and partial automation. The former results from the introductory description. The user uses a part of a software, e.g. an Expert Advisor at MetaTrader or a script at NinjaTrader<|fim_middle|> curve should also look beautiful and profitable, but other components are more important. I like to test back over longer periods of time, which can sometimes be 20 years. With intraday approaches, 2008 often reaches me to the big crash. This way I try to trick the flexibility a little, because as many market phases as possible should be included in the back test.
Nevertheless, it is not easy to act according to a rigid set of rules, so that I often had to switch off systems myself because they were too strongly optimized and only generated losses. The use of fully or semi-automated trading strategies is more difficult than many people think. Unfortunately, the fairy tale of fast money does not exist here. | . These platforms are used to start the systems and execute trades. The chart is ticking and you can see the individual trades in real time and follow them. If there is a maintenance interval at the data provider or if you want to restart the computer or the platform, the trading strategy is stopped. After restarting, this process starts again.
Semi-automated trading strategies are mainly used in the end-of-day area. To do this, you start the system manually and receive trading instructions that are not executed automatically. The entry or exit orders serve as a signal, which is to be deposited manually with the broker. Once a day, before the market opens, this process will usually take place. For week-based systems, only once a week. Despite the partial automation, the same trading and backtesting software can be used, which is also used for full automation. Only the system type is different.
In my opinion, both types of trading strategies have their reason for being. Depending on the trading approach, it must be decided whether full automation is necessary at all, because this involves further tasks.
Unfortunately, it's not that easy, or else everyone would do it. Each trader has different experiences, different temporal conceptions of the acting and also usually a different capital equipment. This means that not everyone can use the same trading strategy, even if it would make money successfully. The process of finding a suitable trading strategy can therefore take a very long time.
Once a suitable strategy has been found, brokers and data feed providers must be connected and, if necessary, a server must be rented on the Internet. http://peer-server.com/vps-for-forex-trading/ is a helpful page for that purpose. Who wants to run an automatic trading strategy on their laptop or computer from home when they are on the road? Besides the Internet connection, the data feed can also cause problems, the computer itself can break down (e.g. the hard disk), the trading software can no longer function and many other problems can arise. Against some of these incidents, which all cost money, a rented server in the net can provide remedy. Against other items from the list, you have to develop a plan yourself.
I would like to point out here that you have to manage every trading system. While programming errors or changes to the code are the fault of yourself, you should not ignore other technical conditions. After all, who would want the electricity to be out of the house at the next big profit of all things? A server on the Internet and management of the systems should therefore be a basic requirement for using an automatic trading strategy.
I try as often as possible to view and maintain my strategies on the rented server. I pay particular attention to whether the data feed is still active and the trades have been executed correctly. You should only intervene in extreme situations. But a simple connection to the server usually helps to see if everything works. This can also be done via mobile phone or tablet while on the move.
As described above, I would like to briefly reiterate the different views of automatic trading systems. The advantage of this type of system is certainly its simple and uncomplicated use, as no feelings or emotions are involved. The system acts according to specially programmed rules, no more and no less. Unless you look at the chart every minute and frequently switch the system on and off, you only have a look at the final daily result. This should be compared exactly with the back test results in order to be able to detect differences in the course execution or even errors at an early stage.
On the other hand, the greatest disadvantage must certainly be assumed to be the inflexibility of trading systems. The rigid rules are often too rigid to adapt to new market conditions. As a result, many systems will no longer function after some time. This can be seen from the high drawdown, often much higher than in the back test or very many loss trades in succession, which in turn exceeds the number of loss trades in the previous test. To prevent this, you can reconfigure the parameters at times, or alternatively test the trading system back to many market phases in the past. However, it is impossible to say exactly how long automation will continue to produce good results.
To take a brief look at the third group of system considerations, it is best to imagine an equity curve from the bottom left, to the top right, without major setbacks, i.e. without any noteworthy drawdown. This system logic is often found on the Internet and is often regarded as the Holy Grail, which, in my view, does not exist. Often it was optimized too much, on historical data or there are 90% profit trades and only a few very big losers. Sooner or later, this type of system will collapse and destroy money. Unfortunately, this is often also clear to system developers, who nevertheless try to sell their strategies.
In the group of views, I usually try to find myself in the middle of the views. Of course, my equity | 1,011 |
\section{Introduction}
In recent years, the effects of electron-electron interaction on the conductance of low-dimensional ballistic contacts have attracted a considerable interest. This is mainly due to the attempts to explain the conductance plateaus at $0.7(2e^2/h)$ in quantum point contacts\cite{Thomas} and $0.5(2e^2/h)$ in quantum wires\cite{Reilly}. Usually these effects are explained by an existence of a localized state in the contact\cite{Flambaum, Spivak}. The mechanism of localization is not fully understood, and different scenarios of formation of such a state\cite{Wingreen, Wang, Rejec} were proposed. One of them involves electron backscattering from the oscillations of the electron density in quantum point contacts\cite{Sablikov}.
This mechanism is inherent to any constriction, and the oscillations of electron density are actually observed in experiments\cite{Topinka}.
The formation of the plateaus in the gate-voltage dependence of the conductance is not the only possible effect of electron scattering by the Friedel oscillations in 2D systems. Recently, it was shown that scattering by Friedel oscillations in a two-dimensional conductor with impurities results in a strong temperature dependence of the conductivity\cite{Zala, Rudin}. It was also predicted that this scattering may give rise to a zero-bias anomaly of tunneling into the edge of a 2D electron gas\cite{Shekhtman95}.
Most of theoretical papers\cite{Flambaum, Wingreen, Wang, Rejec, Sablikov} dealt with interaction effects in the narrowest part of quantum point contacts (Fig. \ref{fig1}) by considering them as 1D channels and took into account only a few lowest transverse quantum modes. Therefore it is not clear how the transition to the continuum of quantum modes in the electrodes takes place and whether the interaction effects in the transition region outside the constriction play a role. Meanwhile it is well known that Friedel oscillations in a 2D electron gas fall down with distance $x$ from a planar barrier according to the law $x^{-3/2}$, i.e. they penetrate deep into the electrodes. Hence their contribution to the conductance may be significant.
\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics[width=0.6\linewidth]{figure1}
\caption{\label{fig1} Sketch of a realistic quantum point contact. The blue triangles show the gates that form the constriction, and the red arrows show the direction of motion of electrons.
}
\end{figure}
Recently, we considered contacts much wider than the Fermi wavelength and obtained the temperature-dependent contribution to the conductance\cite{Nagaev08}, positive weak-field magnetoresistance\cite{Nagaev10}, and the shot noise\cite{Nagaev11} due to electron-electron interaction in the semiclassical approximation. The theoretically predicted $G(T)$ and $G(H)$ dependencies\cite{Nagaev08, Nagaev10} are in a good agreement with the experiments\cite{Renard, Khrapai}. However the linear in temperature contribution to the conductance persists even for contacts of the width approaching the Fermi wavelength\cite{Khrapai}, where the scattering by quantum oscillations of electron density should be considerable.
Therefore it is of interest to compare the contribution from this quantum effect with the semiclassical one.
To this end, we calculate the temperature-dependent correction to the conductance for the case of small contact size $a \ll \lambda_F$ and consider the interplay between the single-slit diffraction and the interaction. As we assume the interaction to be weak, the formation of a localized state in the contact is irrelevant to our problem.
We do not address here the physics related with the 0.7-anomaly and focus on the low-conductance regime.
The electron scattering by the Friedel oscillations results in a cusp in the probability of transmission through the contact at the Fermi surface, which leads to a linear temperature dependence of the conductance similarly to the semiclassical case. However the sign of this linear correction depends on the the competition between a negative contribution from the direct interaction and a positive contribution from the exchange interaction. The dependence of the absolute and relative corrections to the conductance on the contact size is also different from the semiclassical one.
The paper is organized as follows. In Section II, we present the model and describe our general formalism. Section III addresses the case of noninteracting electrons, and Section IV describes the perturbation theory. Sections V and VI present the results for a point-like interaction and a generalization for an interaction of a finite range, and Section VII contains the discussion of the results.
\section{General approach}
We consider the effects of electron-electron interaction on the conductance of a narrow short contact at non-zero temperature. We assume that electron-electron interaction is weak so that it can be treated perturbatively.
As the Friedel oscillations die out at a large distance $v_F/T$ from an obstacle, we are mainly interested in scattering processes that occur in the regions outside the contact in the leads and do not focus on the exact dynamics of an electron in the narrowest part of the constriction.
Therefore we consider an extremely short contact, namely, we use typical single-slit diffraction model - a gap of width $2a \ll\lambda_F$ in an one-dimensional barrier separating two half-planes of 2DEG (Fig. \ref{fig2})\cite{Kawabata}. This model geometry allows us to avoid dealing with an infinite number of discrete transverse modes and to use instead the continuous representation.
Note that Friedel oscillations far from the barrier do not depend on the exact shape of the confinement potential because they are formed by electrons near the Fermi level with almost normal incidence on the barrier. Hence a smooth barrier potential should result only in a shift of their phase, which would not essentially change the correction to the conductance (see Appendix B).
We obtain the conductance by using a classical Landauer approach\cite{Landauer} and write the conductance as a sum of transmission coefficients
\be
G = g_s \frac{e^2}{\hbar} \int{\frac{d\eps}{2\pi}} \left(-\frac{\partial f}{\partial \eps}\right) \, \sum\limits_{\bk, \bq} |t(\bk, \bq)|^2.
\label{G}
\ee
Here $g_s$ is a spin degeneracy and $t(\bk, \bq)$ is the transmission amplitude from mode with the wave-vector $\bk$ in the left half-plane to the mode with the wave-vector $\bq$ to the right half-plane.
First of all we calculate $t = t_0$ and $G = G_0$ for noninteracting electrons.
A weak electron-electron interaction results in a scattering of electrons by the Friedel oscillations caused by the contact boundaries. We consider the oscillations arising from the barrier as one-dimensional and neglect their distortion by the gap because this effect is of higher order in the contact size. The incident electron is scattered by the Friedel oscillations before and after passing through the contact, which results in a correction to the transmission coefficient of the contact $t(\bk, \bq) = t_0(\bk, \bq) + \delta t(\bk, \bq)$. The correction to the transmission coefficient may be obtained by expanding the perturbation of the wave function $\delta \psi$ in plane waves. To calculate this perturbation, we solve a Schr\"odinger-type equation
\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics[width=0.6\linewidth]{figure2}
\caption{\label{fig2} The model of quantum point contact used in our calculations. Red line shows a process of
electron scattering by the Friedel oscillations that affects the conductance.
}
\end{figure}
\be
\left[-\frac{\hbar^2}{2m}\nabla^2 + V_{eff}(\br)\right]\psi(\br) = \eps\, \psi(\br)
\label{schrodinger}
\ee
in an iterative way\cite{Landau2} and obtain $\delta \psi(\br)$ in the lowest order in the interaction.
Now we discuss the interaction potential induced by the Friedel oscillations. It is a sum of a direct term and an exchange one\cite{Kittel} $V_{eff}(\br) = V_H(\br) - V_F(\br)$, where
\be
V_H (\br) = g_s \int{d\br_1 \, U_{ee}(\br - \br_1) \, n(\br_1, \br_1)},
\label{V_H = U n()}
\ee
\be
V_F (\br) \, \psi(\br) = \int{d\br_1 \, U_{ee}(\br - \br_1) \, n(\br, \br_1) \, \psi(\br_1)},
\label{V_F = U n()}
\ee
where
$
n({\bf r}, {\bf r_1}) = \langle \hat\psi^{+}(\br_1)\,\hat\psi(\br)\rangle,
$
$\hat\psi^{+}$ and $\hat\psi$ are electron creation and annihilation operators, and $U_{ee}(\br - \br_1)$ is the potential of the electron-electron interaction. Typically, it is the Coulomb interaction screened by the two-dimensional electrons and by the gate.
The coefficient of spin degeneracy $g_s$ appears only in the direct term because it involves interactions between electrons with both spin directions while the exchange interaction is possible only for electrons with the same spin.
Equations (\ref{V_H = U n()}) and (\ref{V_F = U n()}) result in a correction to the wave function in the form $\delta \psi = \delta \psi_H - \delta \psi_F$ and, accordingly, in a correction to the conductance
\be
\delta G = \delta G_H - \delta G_F.
\ee
The negative sign in the exchange term is explicitly shown here.
\section{Non-interacting electrons}
In the absence of electron-electron interaction the conductance calculation reduces to the standard problem of diffraction by a narrow gap of width $a \ll \lambda_F$. For the three-dimensional case it was considered many times\cite{Landau} and the conductance of a small three-dimensional ballistic contact\cite{Itskovich} was found to be proportional to the sixth power of the contact size $G \propto (k_Fa)^6$.
To the best of our knowledge, the two-dimensional problem in the limit of $a \ll \lambda_F $ was considered only once for a specifically designed model of the contact\cite{Zagoskin}.
In the limit of $k_F a \ll 1 $, these authors obtained $G \propto 1/\ln^2(k_Fa)$, which is unphysical. Therefore we recalculate this quantity using the solution of the problem of diffraction from a narrow slit obtained many decades ago in optics\cite{Sommerfeld}.
We use an approach similar to Sommerfeld\cite{Sommerfeld} and reduce the solution of the Schr\"odinger equation (\ref{schrodinger}) with
$V_{eff}=0$ to a boundary-value problem. The total wave function may be presented in the form
\be
\begin{cases}
\psi(\br') = \psi_0(\br') + \psi_t(\br'),& x' < 0 \\
\psi(\br') = \psi_t(\br'),& x' > 0,
\end{cases}
\label{psi = psi_0 + psi_t}
\ee
where $\psi_0$ is the wave function in the absence of the gap and $\psi_t$ is the lowest-order correction in the gap size. The zero-order wave function $\psi_0$ obeys zero boundary conditions both at the barrier and the gap, while the correction $\psi_t$ obeys the zero boundary condition at the barrier and a nonzero boundary condition at the gap
\be
\left\{
\begin{aligned}
&(\nabla^2 + k^2)\,\psi_t(x, y) = 0 \\
&\psi_t(x, y)|_{x = 0, \, y\in(-a, a)} = \chi(0, y),
\end{aligned}
\right.
\label{chi-system}
\ee
where $k^2 = 2m\eps$.
We assume that the incoming plane wave $\psi_i(\br) = \sqrt{m/k_x}\,e^{i (k_x x + k_y y)}$ with $k_x^2 + k_y^2 = k^2$ falls on the contact from the left in the $x$ direction and find the boundary condition $\chi(y)$ self-consistently using the continuity of the derivative of the total wave function at the gap (see Appendix A). Expanding the transmitted wave function in plane waves allows us to obtain transmission coefficient for noninteracting electrons
\be
t_0(\bk, \bq) = -\frac{i\pi}{2}a^2 \, \sqrt{k_x q_x}.
\label{t0}
\ee
We substitute it in Eq.(\ref{G}) and obtain
\be
G_0 = g_s \frac{e^2}{\hbar} \frac{\pi}{128} \, k_F^4 a^4 + {\cal O}\!\left(\frac{T^2}{E_F^2}\right).
\label{G0}
\ee
This contact-size dependence is more physically plausible than that of Ref. \onlinecite{Zagoskin} because it corresponds to the two-dimensional analog of the Rayleigh scattering of light by small particles\cite{Landau}. Indeed, the conductance is proportional to the square of the two-dimensional particle volume.
\section{Perturbation theory}
Now we take into account a weak electron-electron interaction. This interaction leads to a scattering of electrons by the Friedel oscillations induced by the barrier and results in a correction $\delta t(\bk, \bq)$ to the transmission coefficient. We substitute it in Landauer formula (\ref{G}) and obtain the correction to the conductance in the case of weak interaction
\begin{multline}
\delta G = -2g_s \frac{e^2}{\hbar} \int{\frac{d\eps}{2\pi}} \left(-\frac{\partial f}{\partial \eps}\right)
\\{}\times
\sum\limits_{\bk, \bq} |t_0(\bk, \bq)| \,{\rm Im}\,\delta t(\bk, \bq).
\label{delta G = 2 t_0 delta t}
\end{multline}
Here we take into account the fact that $t_0$ (\ref{t0}) is an imaginary quantity.
The correction to the transmission coefficient is conveniently expressed in terms of the correction to the wave function by expanding it in plane waves. The wave function is found by solving the Schr\"odinger equation (\ref{schrodinger}) in the lowest order in the interaction. To this end, we isolate the term with $V_{eff}$ in the right-hand side and substitute the unperturbed wave function into it. The solution is given by
\be
\delta \psi(\br) = \int{d\br' \, g(\br, \br') \, V_{eff}(\br') \, \psi(\br')}.
\label{delta psi = g V_eff psi}
\ee
Here $V_{eff}(\br')$ is the scattering potential produced by the Friedel oscillations, $g(\br, \br')$ and $\psi(\br')$ are the single-electron Green function and the total wave function for noninteracting electrons. We assume that the electrons are incident on the contact from the left and we measure the total current on the right, where $x > 0$. We are interested in the entire range of values of $ x' \in (- \infty, \infty)$ because we consider the scattering by the Friedel oscillations on both sides of the contact. Similarly to the wave function (\ref{psi = psi_0 + psi_t}), the one-electron Green function may be written in the form
\be
\begin{cases}
g(\br, \br') = g_t(\br, \br'), & x' < 0 \\
g(\br, \br') = g_0(\br, \br') + g_t(\br, \br'), & x' > 0,
\end{cases}
\label{g = g_0 + gt}
\ee
where $g_0$ is the Green function in the<|fim_middle|>1-02-12094-ofi-m-2011, by the program of Russian Academy of Sciences, the Dynasty Foundation, and by the Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation, contract No 16.513.11.3066.
\end{acknowledgments}
| absence of the gap, and $g_t \propto a^2$ is the second-order correction in the gap size. We calculate $g_t$ similarly to $\psi_t$ (see Appendix A) by solving the system
\be
\left\{
\begin{aligned}
&\frac{\hbar^2}{2m} \, (\nabla^2 + k^2)\, g(\br, \br') = \delta(\br - \br') \\
&g(\br, \br')|_{x = 0, \, y\in(-a, a)} = \chi(0, y, x', y').
\end{aligned}
\label{g-eq}
\right.
\ee
We substitute (\ref{psi = psi_0 + psi_t}) and (\ref{g = g_0 + gt}) into (\ref{delta psi = g V_eff psi}) and obtain in the lowest order in the contact size
\be
\delta \psi(\br) = \int\limits_{x' < 0}{d\br' \, g_t(\br, \br') \, V_{eff}(\br') \, \psi_0(\br')}
\nonumber\\ +
\int\limits_{x' > 0}{d\br' \, g_0(\br, \br') \, V_{eff}(\br') \, \psi_t(\br')}.
\label{delta psi = psi_0 g_t + g_0 psi_t}
\ee
The first term corresponds to electron scattering by Friedel oscillations in front of the contact, and the second one - behind it.
We substitute the expressions for the interaction potential in the Hartree-Fock approximation (\ref{V_H = U n()}) and (\ref{V_F = U n()}) into (\ref{delta psi = psi_0 g_t + g_0 psi_t}) and obtain the conductance as a sum of direct and exchange terms $\delta G = \delta G_H - \delta G_F$.
Then we substitute $\psi_0$, $\psi_t$, $g_0$, and $g_t$ into the resulting expression and after some simplifications obtain the conductance for an arbitrary interaction potential in the form
\begin{multline}
\delta G_H = - g_s^2 \frac{e^2}{\hbar} \frac{m}{\hbar^2} \frac{1}{16} a^4 \int{d\eps}
\left(-\frac{\partial f}{\partial \eps}\right)k^2
\int\limits_{-\infty}^{\infty}{dy_1}
\int\limits_{0}^{\infty}{dx_1}
\\
\times
\int\limits_{0}^{\infty}{dx'}\, U_{ee}(x' - x_1, - y_1)\,n(x_1)
\int\limits_{-\infty}^{\infty}{dq_y}\,
\sin(2 q_x x')
\label{delta G_H}
\end{multline}
\begin{multline}
\delta G_F = - g_s \frac{e^2}{\hbar} \frac{m}{\hbar^2}\frac{1}{8} a^4
\int{d\eps} \left(-\frac{\partial f}{\partial \eps}\right)k^2
\int\limits_{-\infty}^{\infty}{dy_1 }
\\
\times
\int\limits_{0}^{\infty}{dx_1}
\int\limits_{0}^{\infty}{dx'}\, U_{ee}(x' - x_1, - y_1)\,
n(\br', x_1, y_1 + y')
\\
\times
\int\limits_{-\infty}^{\infty}{dq_y}\,
\sin(q_x x')\,\cos(q_y y_1)\,\cos(q_x x_1)
\label{delta G_F}
\end{multline}
We use the coordinate transform $y_1 \to y_1 + y'$ to make the interaction potential independent of $y'$ and then integrate over $y'$. This transform results in the independence of the Friedel oscillations of density on $y'$ because we obtain the corrections in the lowest approximation in the contact size and use the unperturbed wave functions in the absence of the gap to calculate $n$ (see Appendix B).
\begin{multline}
n(\br', x_1, y_1 + y') = \frac{1}{2\pi}\int\limits_{0}^{\infty}{dp \left(-\frac{\partial f(p)}{\partial p}\right) p}
\\
\times
\left[\frac{J_1(p\sqrt{(x' - x_1)^2 + y_1^2})}{\sqrt{(x' - x_1)^2 + y_1^2}} - \frac{J_1(p\sqrt{(x' + x_1)^2 + y_1^2})}{\sqrt{(x' + x_1)^2 + y_1^2}}\right]
\label{friedel}
\end{multline}
By setting $x' = x_1$ and $y_1 = 0$ in this expression, it is easy to obtain the electron density $n(x_1) = n(\br_1, \br_1)$ , which is responsible for the direct interaction term and depends only on one coordinate
\be
n(x_1) = \frac{k_F^2}{4\pi} - \frac{1}{2\pi}\int\limits_{0}^{\infty}dp \left(-\frac{\partial f}{\partial p}\right)
p\,
\frac{J_1(2px_1)}{2x_1}.
\label{n(x_1)}
\ee
The first term here presents a uniform charge density, and the second one describes its oscillations with a period
$(2k_F)^{-1}$ at large distances from the barrier that decay according to the law $x^{-3/2}$ at zero temperature. At nonzero temperature, they exponentially decay at a characteristic length $v_F/T$.
\section{Point-like interaction potential}
Consider now the case of a point-like interaction potential $U_{ee}(x' - x_1, - y_1) = U_p\,\delta(x' - x_1)\,\delta(y_1)$. A comparison of Eqs. (\ref{delta G_H}) and (\ref{delta G_F}) shows that $\delta G_H = g_s\, \delta G_F$. Therefore $\delta G = (g_s - 1)\, \delta G_F$. Upon an integration over $x_1$, $y_1$ and $q_y$, one obtains the correction in the form
\begin{multline}
\delta G = [1 - g_s]\,g_s \frac{e^2}{\hbar}\, \frac{m}{\hbar^2}\,\frac{\pi}{16}\, a^4 U_p
\\
\times
\int{d\eps} \left(-\frac{\partial f}{\partial \eps}\right)k^3
\int\limits_{0}^{\infty}{dx'}\, n(x')\, J_1(2kx').
\end{multline}
With $n(x')$ from (\ref{n(x_1)}) substituted into this expression, it is easily seen that the main contribution to it is given by values $x' \sim v_F/T$, i. e. by the "tail" of the Friedel oscillations far from the barrier. We integrate over $x'$ and $p$ and calculate the total transmission coefficient $\delta T(\eps)$. It is a sum of two parts $\delta T_{const}(\eps) + \delta T_{osc}(\eps)$ formed by the constant and the oscillating part of the electron density (\ref{n(x_1)}), respectively. The term $\delta T_{const}(\eps)$ is a smooth function without singularities, whereas $\delta T_{osc}(\eps)$ has a cusp at the Fermi surface of the form
\be
\delta T_{osc}(\eps)
\propto
\frac{\eps}{E_F}
\left[
\frac{\eps}{E_F} - \frac{T}{E_F}\,\ln\!\left({1 + e^{\frac{\eps - E_F}{T}}}\right)
\right].
\ee
At $T/E_F \ll 1$, the derivative of the last term with respect to $\eps/E_F$ tends to 2 at $\eps = E_F - 0$ and to 1 at
$\eps = E_F + 0$.
This cusp (see Fig. \ref{fig3}) results in a linear temperature dependence of conductance
\be
\delta G = \frac{[1 - g_s]\,g_s}{128}\,
\frac{e^2}{\hbar}\, \frac{m}{\hbar^2}\, k_F^4 a^4 U_p
\frac{T}{E_F}.
\label{delta G point result}
\ee
Alternatively, this temperature dependence may be attributed to the temperature-dependent cut-off length of the Friedel oscillations (see Fig. 1).
\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics[width=0.6\linewidth]{figure3}
\caption{\label{fig3} Cusp in the transmission coefficient.
}
\end{figure}
\section{Arbitrary interaction potential}
\subsection{Direct interaction}
An isotropic finite-range interaction potential is conveniently described by its Fourier components $U_p(p)$, which depend only on the absolute value of $\bp$.
Similarly to the case of a point interaction potential, the substitution of the two terms in (\ref{n(x_1)}) that correspond to the constant and the oscillating parts of the charge density into (\ref{delta G_H}) results in a sum of two terms $\delta G_H = \delta G_{H, const} + \delta G_{H, osc}$. The first term is easily calculated and equals
\begin{multline}
\delta G_{H, const} = - g_s^2 \frac{e^2}{\hbar} \frac{m}{\hbar^2} \frac{1}{128} k_F^4 a^4 U_p(0)
\\
+ {\cal O}\!
\left(e^{-E_F/T}\right)
\label{delta G_H_const_result}
\end{multline}
Here $U_p (0)$ is the Fourier transform of the interaction potential. After some simplifications, the second term may be brought to the form
\be
\delta G_{H, osc}= g_s^2\, \frac{e^2}{\hbar}\, \frac{m}{\hbar^2}\, \frac{1}{128\pi}\, a^4
\int{dk}\left(-\frac{\partial f}{\partial k}\right)k^3
\nonumber\\
\times
\int\limits_{0}^{\infty}dp \left(-\frac{\partial f}{\partial p}\right)p
\int{dp_{1}}\,
U_p(p_1)\,I_1(k, p, p_1),
\label{dG_H_osc}
\ee
where
we have introduced the notation
\begin{multline}
I_1 (p > k) =
\frac{\theta(-p_1 + 2k)}{4kp}\left[\sqrt{4p^2 - p_1^2} + \frac{p_1^2}{\sqrt{4k^2 - p_1^2}}\right]
\\
-
\frac{ \theta(-p_1 + 2p)\,\theta(p_1 - 2k) }{p_1 + \sqrt{p_1^2 - 4k^2}}\,
\frac{k}{p}\,\sqrt{ \frac{{4p^2 - p_1^2}}{{p_1^2 - 4k^2}} },
\end{multline}
\begin{multline}
I_1(p < k) =
\frac{\theta(-p_1 + 2p)}{4kp}\left[\sqrt{4p^2 - p_1^2} + \frac{p_1^2}{\sqrt{4k^2 - p_1^2}}\right]
\\
+
\frac{ \theta(p_1 - 2p)\,\theta(-p_1 + 2k) }
{ k \sqrt{4k^2 - p_1^2} }\,
\frac{ p\, p_1}{p_1 + \sqrt{p_1^2 - 4p^2}}.
\end{multline}
The quantity $I_1(k, p, p_1)$ has singularities at $p_1 = 2k$ and $p_1=2p$,
and the derivatives of the distribution function in (\ref{dG_H_osc}) cut out narrow intervals of $k$ and $p$ of width $\sim k_F T/E_F$ near $k_F$. As we assume the potential $U_p$ to be a smooth function of $p$ at the scale $T/v_F$, we can isolate the singular part of the integrand and substitute $U_p(p_1)=U_p(2k_F)$ in it, while setting $I_1(k, p, p_1) = I_1(k = k_F, p = k_F, p_1)$ in its regular part
\be
U_p(p_1)\,I_1(k, p, p_1) \approx U_p(2k_F)\,I_1(k, p, p_1)
+ \nonumber\\ +
[U_p(p_1) - U_p(2k_F)]\,I_1(k = k_F, p = k_F, p_1).
\ee
We calculate both terms and obtain the correction due to the direct interaction in the form
\be
\delta G_{H} =
- g_s^2\, \frac{e^2}{\hbar}\, \frac{m}{\hbar^2}\, \frac{1}{128}\, k_F^4 a^4\, U_p(2k_F)\,\frac{T}{E_F}
\nonumber\\ +
g_s^2\, \frac{e^2}{\hbar}\, \frac{m}{\hbar^2}\, \frac{1}{64 \pi}\, k_F^4 a^4
\int\limits_{0}^{2k_F}{dp_1}
\frac{U_p(p_1) - U_p(0)}{\sqrt{4k_F^2 - p_1^2}}.
\label{delta G_H result}
\ee
The first term here presents the contribution linear in temperature and is proportional to the Fourier component of the interaction potential at $2k_F$ while the second one presents the temperature-independent contribution and vanishes if $U_p(p)$ is a constant.
\subsection{Exchange interaction}
The substitution of the two terms of (\ref{friedel}) into (\ref{delta G_F}) gives the exchange contribution to the conductance in a form $\delta G_F = \delta G_{F, const} + \delta G_{F, osc}$ in analogy with $\delta G_H$.
The first term is easily calculated and equals
\begin{multline}
\delta G_{F, const} = - g_s \frac{e^2}{\hbar}\, \frac{m}{\hbar^2}\,\frac{1}{64\pi}\, k_F^2 a^4
\\
\times
\int\limits_{0}^{2k_F}{dp_1}\,U_p(p_1)\,p_1\, \arccos\!\left(\frac{p_1}{2 k_F}\right)
+
{\cal O}\left(e^{-{E_F}/{T}}\right).
\label{delta G_F const result}
\end{multline}
After a simple rearrangement, the second term may be brought to the form
\begin{multline}
\delta G_{F,osc} = g_s \frac{e^2}{\hbar}\, \frac{m}{\hbar^2}\,\frac{1}{32 \pi^2}\, a^4
\int{dk \left(-\frac{\partial f}{\partial k} \right)k^2 }
\\ \times
\int\limits_{0}^{\infty}{dp \left(-\frac{\partial f}{\partial p}\right) }
\int\limits_{0}^{p}{dp_y}
\int\limits_{0}^{k}{dq_y}\,
U_p(p_y - q_y)\,
\ln\!\left|\frac{q_x + p_x}{q_x - p_x}\right|.
\label{delta_G_F_osc-1}
\end{multline}
This term has a singularity at $p_x = q_x$ because the backscattering of electrons is most efficient if the $x$ component of the electron momentum $q_x$ coincides with the wave vector $p_x$ of the Friedel oscillations. We write the integrand as a sum of two terms, one of which has a singularity at $p_x = q_x$ and the second one is a regular function, so that one may set $k = p = k_F$ in it to obtain
\be
U_p(p_y - q_y)\,\ln\left|\frac{q_x + p_x}{q_x - p_x}\right| \approx
U_p(0)\, \ln\left|\frac{q_x + p_x}{q_x - p_x}\right| \nonumber\\
+ \left.
[U_p(p_y - q_y) - U_p(0)]\,\ln\left|\frac{q_x + p_x}{q_x - p_x}\right|\right|_{p = k = k_F}.
\ee
We perform the integration in (\ref{delta_G_F_osc-1}), sum the result with (\ref{delta G_F const result}) and obtain the correction due to an exchange interaction in the form
\be
\delta G_{F} =
- g_s\, \frac{e^2}{\hbar}\, \frac{m}{\hbar^2}\,\frac{1}{128}\, k_F^4 a^4\, U_p(0)\, \frac{T}{E_F}
+ \delta G_{F, T=0},
\label{delta G_F result}
\ee
where $\delta G_{F, T=0}$ is a temperature-independent quantity given by an integral
\begin{multline}
\delta G_{F, T=0} = g_s\, \frac{e^2}{\hbar} \frac{m}{\hbar^2}\frac{1}{32\pi^2} k_F^3 a^4
\int\limits_{0}^{2k_F}{dp_1}\,U_{ee}(p_1)
\\
\times
\Biggl[
K\left(\sqrt{1 - \frac{p^2_1}{4k_F^2}}\right) - E\left(\sqrt{1 - \frac{p^2_1}{4k_F^2}}\right)
\\
- {\pi}\,\frac{p_1}{2k_F}\,\arccos\!\left(\frac{p_1}{2 k_F}\right)
\Biggr]
\label{dG_T=0_exch}
\end{multline}
where $K$ and $E$ are full elliptic integrals of the first and second kind. The temperature-dependent correction to the conductance in (\ref{delta G_F result}) is determined by the long-wavelength component of the interaction potential, which is typical for the exchange interaction\cite{Altshuler,Zala}. However $\delta G_{F, T=0}$ is determined by all components of $U_p$ from 0 to $2k_F$. Long-wavelength components contribute to (\ref{dG_T=0_exch}) with a positive sign and short-wavelength components contribute to it with negative sign, so that the integral is zero if $U_p$ is constant.
\section{Discussion}
The summation of (\ref{G0}), (\ref{delta G_H result}) and (\ref{delta G_F result}) gives the full conductance $G = G_0 + \delta G_H - \delta G_F$ in the form
\be
G = g_s\, \frac{e^2}{\hbar}\, \frac{\pi}{128} \, k_F^4 a^4 + \delta G_{T = 0}
\nonumber\\ +
g_s\, \frac{e^2}{\hbar}\, \frac{m}{\hbar^2}\, \frac{1}{128}\, k_F^4 a^4\, [U_p(0) - g_s U_p(2k_F)]\,\frac{T}{E_F}.
\label{G_0+G_H-G_F}
\ee
Here $\delta G_{T = 0}$ is the temperature-independent contribution that results from a small interaction-induced change in the Fermi level.
To calculate the relative correction from the interaction, $\delta G_H - \delta G_F$ should be divided by (\ref{G0}) (we are interested only in the temperature-dependent term and $g_s=2$) to give
\be
\frac{\delta G_{T}}{G_0} = \nu_2\,[U_p(0) - 2 U_p(2k_F)]\,\frac{T}{E_F},
\ee
where $\nu_2 = {m}/({\pi \hbar^2})$ is the spinful density of states.
The relative correction linearly depends on temperature and is much larger than the standard Fermi-liquid $T^2$ corrections. It is a consequence of the cusp in a transmission coefficient (Fig. \ref{fig3}). This is essentially the same temperature dependence that was obtained previously for the correction to the conductance of wide ballistic contacts and was due to the collisions of the injected and incident electrons in the leads\cite{Nagaev08}.
The absolute value of the temperature-dependent correction to the conductance is proportional to the fourth power of the contact size $\delta G \propto (k_F a)^4$ and the relative one $\delta G/G_0$ does not depend on $a$. This is in contrast with the correction for wide contacts $\delta G_{semi}$, which is proportional to
$(k_F a)^2\ln(l_c/a)$, where
$l_c \gg a$ is a large cutoff length due to a scattering by impurities or a finite size of the sample, so that $\delta G/G_0|_{semi}$ is roughly proportional to $G_0$. Should this correction be extrapolated to narrow contacts,
it would be proportional to $G_0^2$ because both the number of injected and incident electrons is proportional to $G_0$. Hence the correction from Friedel oscillations must dominate at small contact widths.
The quantum correction from the Friedel oscillations is more sensitive to the shape of interaction potential than
the semiclassical one.
In particular, its sign is determined by the factor $[U_p(0) - 2 U_p(2k_F)]$, which is due to a competition between a positive contribution from the exchange interaction and a negative contribution from the direct interaction. This factor arises in several theories of scattering by Friedel oscillations\cite{Zala, Rudin, Sablikov} and is positive for long-range and negative for short-range interactions.
\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics[width=0.6\linewidth]{figure4}
\caption{\label{fig4} The sign of the correction resulting from Friedel oscillations vs. $k_F d$ and
$\kappa_2 d$. The grey region corresponds to positive sign, and the blue, to negative.
}
\end{figure}
Consider the most typical case of the Coulomb potential
statically screened by a metallic gate parallel to the 2D
electron gas and the electrons in the gas itself. If the
distance between the gate is $d$ and the dielectric constant
of environment is $\varepsilon_d$, the interaction potential between the
electrons in the gas is given by (see Appendix C)
\be
U(q) = \frac{4 \pi e^2}{\varepsilon_d (\coth|qd| + 1) |q| + 4\pi e^2 \nu_2},
\ee
which leads to the correction of the form
\begin{multline}
\frac{\delta G_{T}}{G_0} = \frac{T}{E_F}\,\Biggl[\frac{2\kappa_2 d}{1 + 2\kappa_2 d}
\\
- \frac{2\kappa_2}{k_F[\coth(2k_F d) + 1] + \kappa_2}\Biggr],
\label{dG/G_0-2}
\end{multline}
where $\kappa_2$ is the inverse screening length. Figure 4 shows the regions in
the $(k_F d,\kappa_2 d)$ plane where the correction is positive or negative.
Unfortunately, we are unaware of detailed measurements of the temperature dependence of the contact conductance near pinch-off.
The estimation for realistic values of distance to the gate $d = 100 \, {\rm nm}$, the inverse screening length $\kappa_2 = 2\pi e^2 \nu_2 / \varepsilon_d = 1.93 \times 10^6 \, {\rm cm}^{-1}$ and electron density $n_s = 10^{-10} \, {\rm cm}^{-2}$ for $T = 1K$ results in $\delta G_T/G_0 = - 15\%$.
Measurements of conductance in the region of the 0.7-anomaly, indeed, reveal a negative slope of $G(T)$ dependence\cite{Cronenwett}. However a quantitative comparison with our predictions is not possible.
In the multichannel regime, this negative correction should be suppressed by the positive one from the scattering of oppositely moving electrons\cite{Nagaev08}, and one should observe a change in the sign of the slope of its temperature dependence.
However if the actual $\kappa_2$ is smaller due to the low electron concentration, the sign of the correction from the electron-electron interaction may remain positive for all contact sizes. Therefore one may estimate the actual screening length from the sign and slope of the temperature dependence of conductance for narrow contacts.
Though our results were obtained for a sharp potential in a form of an infinitely narrow and very high barrier, they should also survive for reasonably smooth potentials. It is easily seen that the smoothness of potential results only in a phase shift of the Friedel oscillations and preserves the $x^{-3/2}$ dependence of their amplitude far from the barrier (see Appendix B). That's why the linear temperature dependence and change of sign of slope of $G(T)$ should be robust with respect to the exact shape of the barrier.
In summary, we calculated the conductance of a narrow and short quantum point contact at nonzero temperature taking into account the electron-electron interaction. The conductance linearly depends on temperature and is proportional to the fourth power of the contact size, and the relative correction does not depend on the contact size. The sign of the linear temperature-dependent term depends on the competition between direct and exchange interaction. Measurements of the slope of its temperature dependence allow one to determine the parameters of electron-electron interaction.
\begin{acknowledgments}
This work was supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research, grants 10-02-00814-a and 1 | 6,219 |
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