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Available through One Fine Stay. | love and slight obsession for One Fine Stay is no big secret! I LOVE gauking at all these beautiful places and getting inspiration from them. This one in France in a neighborhood of Paris, in the 17th arrondissement of the city.A great place to stay if you are looking for somewhere away from the main tourists attractions and prices that usually go with! Batignolles has recently become a trendy district for young artists looking for inexpensive working spaces.To me it is the real Paris. Lots of indepedant boutiques, trendy cafes (Visit Le Bal Cafe for some of the best coffee in Paris, it is located in a cool cultural center that has regular photo exhibits). And last but not least, there is a big organic market well worth the visit especially if you are self catering (and a foodie like me!). The house is simply but beautifully furnitured with white walls, wood floors, mismatched furniture, a totally awesome internal window giving the whole place a relaxed scand | 201 |
After attending a party, we found ourselves near the house we lived in when we were first married. Both being so sentimental, we drove past it.
And I felt excited she said this, because it was one of those times when someone articulates something in my head that I thought unarticulatable or simply too unformed or silly to say.
Sometimes it's an unbearable thought, all the houses I ever lived in still existing in their own ways, inhabited by someone else who now has more claim on them than me. But it's less unbearable than the thought of the houses no longer existing, of their being chewed up by bulldozers and a different buildilng existing in the same space. On a long enough timescale, I suppose this is the fate of all the houses I ever lived in. If I could imagine a future for them or for the Earth one million, one billion years hence. But in human timescale, at least one of them will, in all likelihood, outlast me.
The two families that merged to form me – the Winnings and the Hobbys – are wanderers. My parents each lived in maybe ten houses over their childhood. Perhaps this made them want stability when they had their own children; and thus I lived at Lot 105 Railway Parade in Allanson for thirteen years.
In my dreams, this house is always home. I haven't lived in it since 1996, but I keep returning to it. It sits at the top of a hill on three acres with a gravel driveway which seemed so very long as a child. The brown donkey shed, the rainwater tank, the trees which I knew so well. But usually it's the inside of it I dream about. I wonder how I know<|fim_middle|>, returning to the wandering roots of my family tree. Now I'm exiled from each one; I can only hope to drive past and see what it has become from the outside. And being so pathologically fearful of what people might think, hating to think of them saying, 'What's that car doing out there,' I'm scared to stop.
My wife's family is good at staying put; I visited the house her mum grew up in a few years ago, still in the family. I could feel all the memories and family history in that house, it was the pantina of so many decades.
I felt sad hearing this year that, just weeks after its sale, the new owners demolished it. Such disregard for the beauty of a house, the years of life poured into each one.
What about you? Do you long to own all the houses you ever lived in? Do you drive past when you find yourself in the area?
If you haven't already come across it, you may enjoy Gaston Bachelard's _The Poetics of Space_.
Alas, I hadn't even heard of it! I'll look it up. What's the gist of the piece?
I too have fond memories of the 20 or so places I have lived in. I'm not sure I'd want to but them though. I remember when my mum proudly announced they had ripped up the deep cast iron bath in our bath room (a bathroom that was no longer used by anyone apart from guests wahing their hands) and replaced it with some shallow plastic thing, I was horrified. That was the straw that broke the camels back the house I had grown up in had changed too much. I'm sure many of the other houses are like this too.
Good point – the houses we lived in aren't even our houses any longer, I guess. That sounds like a travesty, taking out the deep cast iron bath! The last vestige of home removed.
You have been remarkably grounded since the wanderings of your twenties! | that it's this house when I wake up? Perhaps I see the orange kitchen. (A childhood friend, reading my novel The Fur remarked that she noticed the kitchen she remembered so well too.) But it's more than colours or a physical geography, it's a spiritual knowledge that it's the same house.
I once started a writing project where I intended to decribe, exhaustively, each room of that house and the memories associated with them. I started with the laundry, of all places, and its first aid cabinet full of icecream containers of aging treatments, expired ointments.
Since that house, I have lived in fourteen houses | 129 |
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Lacey N. Wiest, 41, of Henrietta Mountain Road Martinsburg, passed away on January 2, 2022 at UPMC Altoona Hospital. She was born on May 31, 1980 in Roaring Spring; daughter of Charles and Susan (Fisher) Rhodes. On July 2, 1999 in Winchester, VA; she was united in marriage to Brian Wiest, who survives. Lacey was a Class of 1998 graduate of Tussey Mountain High School. She was a member of the Faith Assembly of God Church in Roaring Spring where she was actively involved with children ministries. Lacey enjoyed camping, horses, sitting outside on the swing around the fire, and most of all, spending time and making memories with her family.
Lacey was preceded in death by her father-in-law, Willard K. Wiest, Sr.. Surviving is her husband, Brian; son, Austin Brightbill (Erica) of Roaring Spring; son, Daniel at home; daughter, Brianna Wiest (Westley) of Woodbury; daughters, Carrie, Rachel, Rebekah, and Lindsay at home; parents, Charles and Susan Rhodes; brother, Dustin Rhodes (Liz); mother-in-law Ethel Wiest; as well as numerous nieces and nephews.
Friends will be received on Thursday, | 297 |
Membra Jesu Nostri
St Bede's Church, Carlisle
Having recently moved to Carlisle, life is full of new discoveries; new places, new friends and new music. I can, with hand on heart, say that the introduction to the Wordsworth Singers has been a highlight amongst the newness.
I was fortunate enough to be amongst the audience at a performance of Buxtehude's Membra Jesu nostri, a work new to me, in the resonant and movingly appropriate setting of St Bede's Church, Wigton Road. The work, written in 1680 to Latin poetry ascribed to Arnulf of Louvain (d.1250) is in seven contrasting movements or cantatas, each addresses a part of Christ's body and begins with a biblical quotation. The colourful paintings behind the altar depicting scenes from Christ's life were therefore the perfect backdrop to 'a very personal meditation on the suffering of Christ and a very public profession of Faith and confidence<|fim_middle|>urrexit' was heightened by the restrained opening section. An exuberant Regina caeli by Navarro contrasted with the slow harmonic rhythm of In passione positus, after which Gordon Ferries gave the singers a well deserved break with his flawless playing of Spanish baroque guitar music. Earlier in the programme he had contributed a set of French Renaissance pieces.
Conductor Mark Hindley is to be congratulated on resurrecting so much unjustly neglected music and for eliciting from the choir performances of which many professional ensembles would be proud.
Jeremy Suter
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110416 Child of Joy, Greystoke | in the salvation of mankind'.*
The piece, often called the first Lutheran oratorio, is exquisitely engaging in the perfect marriage of text with the vocal and instrumental writing. Each cantata has an instrumental introduction which the voices join seamlessly. There is much variety in the vocal and instrumental settings. At its full complement in Cantata VI the instrumentation is for a five part Consort of Viols and Continuo. We hear exposed writing for one or three voices and full choral settings of up to 5 parts. We hear wonderfully complex rhythms and spine tingling dissonances and resolutions.
This piece was given by musicians who were completely committed to it and who expressed themselves in myriad instrumental and vocal colours. The instrumental playing was enthralling throughout, especially the dialogue between the two violinists, Anna Östberg and Katie-Bethan Holmes. The solos and ensemble singing were at times moving in their elegant beauty and at other times affecting in their strength. Particularly touching for me was the singing of Julie Leavett and Fiona Weakley in Cantata VI To the heart - You have wounded my heart, my sister, my bride, you have wounded my heart. From Song of Songs, the pathos was expressed through sensitive and refined singing.
Within the finely balanced full choir, the many textures and colours were executed with carefully judged energy. There were memorable moments of the most glorious sound from the women's voices alone and within the most complex polyphony from the men and women were clear and rich lines. This full sound which was at the same time delicate was shown to full effect in VII To the face - Let your face shine upon your servant, save me in your mercy, where appropriately enough, the sound from the sopranos was wonderfully shiny. The joyful final Amen was luscious, and exciting with its 'outrageous cross rhythms'.*
Mark Hindley led both singers and instrumentalists from the chamber organ, with a fine, understated subtlety. An organ solo by Sweelinck played in each half of the concert by Mark gave space to meditate on the music and surroundings, bringing the singing into relief.
Generous applause showed the depth of the audience's appreciation for a wonderful evening of music making. I left light of step, having experienced a first which will definitely not be a last.
* from Mark Hindley's programme notes
Charlotte Jackson
Baltic Amber
Victoria Hall, Grange-over-Sands
The task of putting together a programme which has a strong theme and plenty of variety requires skill and imagination and the Wordsworth Singers' concert conducted by Mark Hindley at the Victoria Hall, Grange-over-Sands, was an exceptional achievement in this respect. "Baltic Amber" was the evocatively titled programme which contained music by composers from the Baltic States.
The concert opened with the Cherubic Hymn by Glinka and the wonderfully sustained sonorous chords at the outset and lively and radiant final Alleluias showed that this choir, which I have known for many years, has never been on better form. Arvo Pärt's Magnificat maintained this excellent standard – here special mention must be made of Fiona Weakley's clear and confident sustained notes, which did much to ensure security of pitch in spite of a couple of small tuning lapses within the choir.
Buxtehude's Missa Brevis took us back to the 17th century and here the singers showed precision, rhythmic energy as well as lively elegance. The beautifully controlled ending was particularly impressive.
Kristina Vasiliauskaite's Jeremiah Song brought us back to the 21st century and the singers revelled in its approachable harmonic style and rich textures. The first half closed with Hugo Alfvén's Aftonen (Evening) and the lush harmonies evoked a calm evening sunset with the chorus humming being particularly effective.
The second half continued to delight with more controlled and expressive singing. Three motets by Peter Lange-Müller were notable for their elegant dance-like rhythms and some diligent work had been done on Danish pronunciation. For me the highlight was Long Road by Eriks Esenvalds; here, there were rich, beautifully tuned harmonies and most effective juxtaposition of main chorus and semichorus. The addition of pipes and gentle bells in the final bars was absolutely magical.
The concert ended with Górecki's Totus Tuus, written for the third return visit of Pope John Paul II to his native Poland in 1987. This was an impassioned performance with the singers coping effortlessly with the long sustained passages and challenging key-changes.
It was an inspired idea to involve the pianist Sam Hutchings and his well chosen Russian pieces provided an effective contrast in each half of the concert.
We departed feeling very happy that we had braved the snowy conditions to enjoy what was one of the best choral concerts heard in this area for a very long time.
St Andrew's Church, Penrith
In the fifteen years since their formation The Wordsworth Singers have established a considerable reputation as a chamber choir, both in the quality of their performances and in the imaginative content of their programmes.
"Baltic Amber", presented in St. Andrew's Church, Penrith on an evening of appropriately Baltic winter temperature, showed ample evidence of both. The music chosen represented each of the nine states which have a coastline on the Baltic Sea. As well as giving a flavour of the music of each of these countries, it gave the audience a chance to savour music of different periods from the rich 17th century polyphony of Buxtehude's beautifully phrased Missa
Brevis to the sumptuous harmonies and novel effects of Erik Esenvalds' Long Road, written as recently as 2010.
The opening piece, Glinka's Cherubic Hymn with its mystical opening, adventurous chromatic writing and joyful Alleluia was followed by Arvo Pärt's Magnificat, in which the composer uses endlessly ingenious combinations of voices and dissonances around a central held note to create some innovative and unique sounds. The choir, under the skilled direction of Mark Hindley, showed excellent control of phrasing, tuning and dynamics throughout this deeply felt and intensely personal work.
Both Kristina Vasiliauskaite's Jeremiah Song and Hugo Alfvén's The Evening offered mesmerising and lush harmonies while Einojuhani Rautavaara's Departure offered an intriguing background sound of horse's hooves from men and women's voices in turn.
Undoubtedly one of the highlights of the evening was the final work, Henryk Gorecki's Totus Tuus, the resplendent chordal opening and the ensuing spacious harmonies leading to a prayerful ending, in which the gradually subsiding dynamics were controlled with the utmost sensitivity.
Russian piano music by Borodin, Glinka and Tchaikovsky, played by Sam Hutchings, made an effective contribution
to an evening in which The Wordsworth Singers' reputation as an outstanding chamber choir was stylishly maintained.
Colin Marston
The Glory of Spain
Austin Friars St. Monica's School, Carlisle
Few people I suspect know much Spanish sacred music other than that of Tomas Luis de Victoria, whose monumental Magnificat Primi Toni and resplendent Salve Regina constituted the finale of a fascinating journey through two centuries of rich musical tradition.
The rawness of a rousing 14th century Virelai gave way to the quasi-plainsong O virgo splendens in which the Wordsworth Singers' unanimity of pitch and blend enabled the round's striking dissonances to be keenly felt despite the chapel's generous acoustic. Likewise there was commendable clarity in the densely packed vocal lines of two pieces for lower voices by Penalosa.
The return of the sopranos heralded a heightening of emotional intensity in Morales' O sacrum convivium, whilst the stark simplicity of Parce mihi Domine tested the singers' ability to maintain perfect intonation without rhythmic stimulus. If there was a hint of tiredness in Ceballos' slow moving Hortus conclusus, an energetic performance of O Virgo benedicta more than made amends.
Guerrero's 12 part Duo seraphim provided a stunning start to the second half, and in the six part Maria Magdalena a thrilling climax at the word 's | 1,736 |
Liberal democracy's answer | Inquirer Opinion
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Liberal democracy's answer
By: Coco Alcuaz - @inquirerdotnet
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 09:06 AM May 11, 2019
Every three years, we say "this is the most important election in a long time." So I won't say that about Monday. History will decide that.
What we can say is what we say every time: Vote.
You may be tempted not to, because there are so many things wrong and imperfect about every democracy. You may be tempted not to, because your candidates are having a tough time. But nothing is perfect. And your candidates showed up for 90 days. You just need to show up once.
If indeed your candidates lose, don't give up on them or the cause. Things may look bleak, but it is always up to you whether you let a setback sap you or make you smarter for the next time; whether you let loss lead you to surrender or, as loss often does, realize the value of what you lost and what you'll give to get it back.
If your candidates win, don't let go of them either. Help them use power with wisdom and compassion.
We all know about the populist, sometimes authoritarian wave that has swept the world in the last few years. Many attribute it to the failure of liberal democracy and the economic powers-that-be to address<|fim_middle|> But, in fact, liberal democrats do. It is to work equally on policy and governance, as on direct "gut" issues and programs, as on talking with the people about these. It is to work on these even if they are out of power, even with the people in power.
Liberal democrats even have an ally in the economy, which continues to grow strongly, reducing poverty. Because as more and more people feel physically and economically secure, they will want their liberal democracy back.
Coco Alcuaz is executive director of the Makati Business Club.
Business Matters is a project of the Makati Business Club ([email protected]).
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Fearless views on the news | physical and economic insecurities and hardships. Or address them fast enough. Especially as income gaps widened, fueling resentment.
In the United States, it was the relative poverty in Middle America, cynically coupled with the fear that nonwhites would take away jobs, that led to Trump. In the United Kingdom, it was lies that European Union membership was costly and fears about its immigration rules that led to Brexit. In the Philippines, it was, in my opinion, a belief that successive administrations didn't make much difference to daily lives that made a campaign of mostly unspecified change successful.
Two years in, where is this administration perceived to be delivering? The Social Weather Stations says the government's helping-the-poor rating is 81 percent (March 2019). Pulse Asia says the government's fighting-criminality rating is 83 percent (September 2018). These correspond with President Duterte's overall satisfaction rating, which means respondents cared little for the other issues. By contrast, President Aquino's last ratings on these were 43 percent (April 2016) and 25 percent (December 2015). For the business sector, President Duterte has signed many long-pursued bills into law.
For many Filipinos, these are worth the war on drugs, the intimidation of the press, the questions about China.
Back in March, in an op-ed titled "The strongmen strike back," historian Robert Kagan said liberal democracy may be "losing" in part because liberal democrats mistakenly thought communism was the competition and, once it was vanquished, liberal democracy would spread and deepen—nationalist and jihadist wars aside—because all men wanted more freedom.
But, said Kagan, instead of short-lived communism, the real competition is authoritarianism, which stretches back through most of human history, whether via warlords, kings, even popes. And there's good reason why authoritarianism prevailed for so long, and enjoys periods of resurgence:
"Humans do not yearn only for freedom. They also seek security. Often, people welcome a strong, charismatic leader who can provide that kind of protection. Liberalism has no particular answer to these needs. Liberalism's main purpose was never to provide the kind of security that people find in tribe or family. It has been concerned with the security of the individual and with treating all individuals equally."
The op-ed's subtitle said "we have no idea how to confront" the authoritarian challenge. | 507 |
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We harrow the pastures a few times per season, first in the spring when we want to get rid of dead grass and till the grassland – it gives great growing power and the grass really gets off to a good start. Then we level out the dung piles in the fields in autumn as well. Then we use the tine option for average cultivation, at 45° (we attach the draw bar to the end opposite to the one for aggressive cultivation).
After a digging job in one of the fields, we used the harrow mat to level out the topsoil before we sowed new grass, in the early spring we harrowed the snow on the paddock so it would thaw faster when the sun got at it, and we also use it a lot on the courtyard and in front of the stable," says Elisabeth Nordberg, who has 6 horses | 314 |
\section{Introduction}
The persisting discrepancy between theory and experiment for
positronium width \cite{Westbrook} is a chalenge for QED. At the moment
the hope is on taking into account corrections of relative order
$\alpha^{2}$ \cite{Lepage,Khriplovich}. In the circumstances the
question of self-consistency of the calculations, in particular,
of gauge invariance of the result is of prime concern.
The modern way to calculate parameters of two-particle
atom-like bound states is to extract them from corresponding
four-fermion QED Green function (see, for example, \cite{Lepage78,%
Remiddi,Steinman} and this paper below). Thus, to check the gauge
independence of the calculated bound state parameters, one should carry
the gauge parameter through all the extraction procedure.
(An example of this see in \cite{Adkins} where the gauge independence
of the correction to the positronium width of relative
order $\alpha$ was checked.) The extraction procedure
gets more and more complicated with an increase in order
of radiative corrections and direct order by order check of
gauge invariance becomes impractical as a check of self-consistency
of the calculations. Instead, one would like to exploit gauge invariance
choosing a most convenient gauge and switching from one gauge to another
in the process of the calculations. In view of these complications,
it seems pertinent to make a step out of the concrete practice of
bound-state calculations and to study first the gauge dependence of the
four-fermion QED Green function itself without taking into account
the complications of the bound-state parameter calculations.
In the present paper we derive a relation between four-fermion QED
Green functions of different values of gauge-fixing parameter
(we consider the covariant gauges only). The relation completely
defines the evolution of the Green function in the gauge-fixing
parameter. Our derivation does not use perturbation theory.
Next, we use our relation to check gauge invariance of the extraction
procedure of atom-like bound-state parameters. The result is
negative. It turns out that the existing procedure provides
gauge-dependent answers for binding energies. We find a
flaw in the procedure which is responsible for the gauge-dependence
of the result and point the way to its correction.
Next section contains a derivation of the evolution in the gauge-fixing
parameter; section 3 comprises a brief recall of the extraction procedure
and an utilization of the general evolution formula from section 2
for an analysis of gauge-dependence of the extraction;
in the last, fourth, section we point out the reason for the gauge
dependence and the way to the correct procedure.
\section{Evolution in Gauge-Fixing Parameter}
Let us consider the four-fermion QED Green function
\begin{equation}
\label{Gf}
G_{\beta}(x_{f},\overline{x}_{f},x_{i},\overline{x}_{i})\equiv
i\int D\psi DA\, \exp\left(iS_{QED}(\beta)\right)
(\overline{\psi}(\overline{x}_{f}) \psi(x_{f}))
(\overline{\psi}({x}_{i}) \psi(\overline{x}_{i}))\, ,
\end{equation}
where $x_{f}(\overline{x}_{f})$ is a coordinate of outgoing
particle (antiparticle) and $x_{i}(\overline{x}_{i})$ is the
same for ingoing pair. The definition of
gauge fixing parameter $\beta$ is given by corresponding photon
propagator:
\begin{equation}
\label{gfix}
D_{\mu \nu}(\beta,x) = \int\frac{dk}{(2\pi)^{4}}
\left(-g_{\mu \nu} + \beta\frac{k_{\mu}k_{\nu}}{k^{2}}\right)
\frac{i}{k^{2}}e^{ikx}.
\end{equation}
Our aim is to study the dependence of $G_{\beta}$ on $\beta$.
To this end, it is useful to consider a Green function
in external photon field, $G(A)$, which is a
result of integration over the fermion field in the rhs of (\ref{Gf}).
{}From the one hand, it is simply connected to the Green function
\cite{Vass}:
\begin{equation}
\label{connection}
G_{\beta} = (e^{L_{\beta}}G(A))_{A=0}\,,\;
L_{\beta}\equiv\frac{1}{2}\frac{\delta}{\delta A_{\mu}}D_{\mu \nu}(\beta)
\frac{\delta}{\delta A_{\nu}}.
\end{equation}
(In this formula each $L_{\beta}$ generates a photon propagator;
the dependence
on the coordinates of ingoing and outgoing particles is suppressed
for brevity.)
{}From the other hand, $G(A)$ is siply connected to a gauge invariant object
$G_{inv}(A)$:
\begin{equation}
\label{coninv}
G(A) = G_{inv}(A) \exp\left(ie\int^{x_{f}}_{\overline{x}_{f}}A_{\mu}dx^{\mu}
-ie\int^{x_{i}}_{\overline{x}_{i}}A_{\mu}dx^{\mu}
\right).
\end{equation}
The gauge invariance of $G_{inv}$ means that it is independent of
the longitudinal component of $A$:
\begin{equation}
\label{gi}
\partial_{\mu}\frac{\delta}{\delta A_{\mu}}G_{inv}(A) = 0
\end{equation}
and is a consequence of gauge invariance of the combination
\begin{equation}
\overline\psi(x)\exp\left(ie\int^{x}_{y}A_{\mu}dz^{\mu}
\right)\psi(y).
\end{equation}
A substitution of (\ref{coninv}) into (\ref{connection}) yields
\begin{equation}
\label{hot}
G_{\beta} = \left (e^{L_{\beta}}G_{inv}(A)
\exp\left(ie\int^{x_{f}}_{\overline{x}_{f}}A_{\mu}dx^{\mu}
-ie\int^{x_{i}}_{\overline{x}_{i}}A_{\mu}dx^{\mu}\right)\right)_{A=0}.
\end{equation}
Let us take a $\beta$-derivative of both sides of this equation:
\begin{equation}
\label{almost eq}
\frac{\partial}{\partial\beta}G_{\beta} =
\left (e^{L_{\beta}}(\partial_{\beta}L_{\beta})G_{inv}(A)
\exp\left(ie\int^{x_{f}}_{\overline{x}_{f}}A_{\mu}dx^{\mu}
-ie\int^{x_{i}}_{\overline{x}_{i}}A_{\mu}dx^{\mu}\right)\right )_{A=0} .
\end{equation}
To get an evolution equation, one needs to express the rhs of
this equation in terms of $G_{\beta}$. It is possible because
$(\partial_{\beta}L_{\beta})$ commutes with $G_{inv}(A)$ and gives a
$c$-factor when acts on the consequent exponential. So, (\ref{almost eq})
transforms itself into
\begin{equation}
\label{equation}
\frac{\partial}{\partial\beta}
G_{\beta}(x_{f},\overline{x}_{f},x_{i},\overline{x}_{i}) =
F(x_{f},\overline{x}_{f},x_{i},\overline{x}_{i})
G_{\beta}(x_{f},\overline{x}_{f},x_{i},\overline{x}_{i}),
\end{equation}
where we have restored the $x$-dependence
and used $F$ to denote the action of
$(\partial_{\beta}L_{\beta})$ on the exponential:
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{F-def}
\lefteqn{(\partial_{\beta}L_{\beta})
\exp\left(ie\int^{x_{f}}_{\overline{x}_{f}}A_{\mu}dx^{\mu}
-ie\int^{x_{i}}_{\overline{x}_{i}}A_{\mu}dx^{\mu}
\right) \equiv}\nonumber \\
& & F(x_{f},\overline{x}_{f},x_{i},\overline{x}_{i})
\exp\left(ie\int^{x_{f}}_{\overline{x}_{f}}A_{\mu}dx^{\mu}
-ie\int^{x_{i}}_{\overline{x}_{i}}A_{\mu}dx^{\mu}
\right).
\end{eqnarray}
An explanation is in order: In deriving (\ref{equation}) we
have used a commutativity of $(\partial_{\beta}L_{\beta})$
and $G_{inv}(A)$; it is a direct consequence of gauge invariance
of $G_{inv}$ (see (\ref{gi})) and the fact that
$(\partial_{\beta}L_{\beta})$ contains only derivatives in
longitudinal components of $A$ (see (\ref{connection}) for a
definition of $L_{\beta}$ and (\ref{gfix}) for $\beta$-dependence
of $D_{\mu \nu}$).
The solution of eq.(\ref{equation}) for $\beta$-evolution is
\begin{equation}
\label{solution}
G_{\beta}(x_{f},\overline{x}_{f},x_{i},\overline{x}_{i}) =
\exp\left((\beta-\beta_{0})
F(x_{f},\overline{x}_{f},x_{i},\overline{x}_{i})
\right)
G_{\beta_{0}}(x_{f},\overline{x}_{f},x_{i},\overline{x}_{i}).
\end{equation}
To get the final answer one needs an explicite view of $F$
from (\ref{solution}). It is easily deduced from the $F$-definition
(\ref{F-def}) and the following representation for the longitudinal
part of the photon propagator:
\begin{equation}
\label{representation}
\partial_{\beta}D_{\mu \nu}(\beta,x) =
-\frac{1}{16\pi^{2}}\partial_{\mu}\partial_{\nu}
\ln((x^{2}-i\varepsilon)m^{2}),
\end{equation}
where $m$ is an arbitrary mass scale which is fixed, for
defineteness, on the fermion mass. Then, up to an additive
constant,
\begin{equation}
\label{repres}
F = \frac{\alpha}{4\pi}\left(
\ln\frac{1}{m^{4}(x_{f}-\overline{x}_{f})^{2}(x_{i}-\overline{x}_{i})^{2}}
+\ln\frac{(x_{f}-x_{i})^{2}(\overline{x}_{f}-\overline{x}_{i})^{2}}
{(x_{f}-\overline{x}_{i})^{2}(\overline{x}_{f}-x_{i})^{2}}
\right).
\end{equation}
Substituting (\ref{repres}) into (\ref{solution}), we get
our final aswer for $\beta$-evolution:
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{answer}
G_{\beta}(x_{f},\overline{x}_{f},x_{i},\overline{x}_{i})&=&
\left[
\frac{Z(x_{f}-x_{i})^{2}(\overline{x}_{f}-\overline{x}_{i})^{2}}
{m^{4}(x_{f}-\overline{x}_{f})^{2}(x_{i}-\overline{x}_{i})^{2}
(x_{f}-\overline{x}_{i})^{2}(\overline{x}_{f}-x_{i})^{2}}
\right]^{\frac{\alpha}{4\pi}(\beta-\beta_{0})} \times\nonumber\\
&&G_{\beta_{0}}(x_{f},\overline{x}_{f},x_{i},\overline{x}_{i}) .
\end{eqnarray}
The normalization $Z$ is infinite before the ultraviolet
renormalization. After the renormalization it is scheme-dependent
and calculable order by order in perturbation theory. We
will not need its value in what follows.
\section{The Bound State Parameters And The Four-Fermion QED
Green Function}
The four-fermion QED Green function contains too much
information for one who just going to calculate bound-sate parameters.
Ona can throw away unnessesary information by putting
senter of mass space-time coordinate of ingoing pair
and relative times of both ingoing and outgoing pairs to zero:
\begin{equation}
\label{eqtimes}
G_{(et) \beta}(t,{\bf x},{\bf r'},{\bf r})\equiv
G_{\beta}\left(x_{f}(t,{\bf x},{\bf r'}),
\overline{x}_{f}(t,{\bf x},{\bf r'}),
x_{i}({\bf r'}),
\overline{x}_{i}({\bf r'})
\right),
\end{equation}
where the space-time coordinates depend on a space-time
coordinate of the center of mass of the outgoing pair $(t,{\bf x})$ and
a relative space coordinate of outgoing $(\bf r')$ and ingoing $(\bf r)$
pair. In the case of equal masses
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{def r}
x_{f}=(t,{\bf x}+\frac{{\bf r'}}{2}),&\;&
\overline{x}_{f}=(t,{\bf x}-\frac{{\bf r'}}{2}),\nonumber \\
x_{i}=(0,\frac{{\bf r}}{2}),&\;&
\overline{x}_{i}=(0,-\frac{{\bf r}}{2}).
\end{eqnarray}
$G_{(et)\beta}$ still contains an unnecessary piece of
information --- the dependence on the center of mass
space coordinate. The natural way to remove it is
to go over to momentum representation and put the
center of mass momentum to zero. In coordinate representation,
which is more convenient for gauge invariance check, we define
the propagator $D_{\beta}$ of the fermion pair:
\begin{equation}
\label{propDef}
G_{(et)\beta}(t,{\bf x},{\bf r'},{\bf r}) \equiv
D_{\beta}(t,{\bf r'},{\bf r})\delta({\bf x}) + \ldots,
\end{equation}
where dots denote terms with derivatives of $\delta({\bf x})$.
It is natural to consider $D_{\beta}$ as a time dependent kernel
of an operator acting on wave-functions of relative coordinate.
In what follows we will not make difference between a kernel
and the corresponding operator. The naturalness of the
above definition of the propagator is apparent in the
nonrelativistic approximation:
\begin{equation}
\label{NR}
{e^{i2mt}}D_{\beta}(t) \approx
\sum_{E_{0}} \theta(t)e^{-iE_{0}t} P(E_{0}),
\end{equation}
where the summation runs over the spectrum of nonrelativistic
Coulomb problem and $P(E_{0})$ are the projectors onto corresponding
subspaces of the nonrelativistic state space. One can obtain
(\ref{NR}) keeping leading term in $\alpha$-expansion of
the lhs if one will keep $t\propto 1/\alpha^{2}$ and
${\bf r'},{\bf r}\propto 1/\alpha$ (see \cite{Steinman,Pivovarov}).
The subscript on $E_{0}$ is to denote that it will get
radiative corrections (see below). The exponential in the lhs
is to make a natural shift in energy zero.
In what follows we will
include the energy shift in the definition of $
D_{\beta}(t)$.
The next step in calculation of radiative corrections to the energy
levels is a crucial one: one should make an assumption about
the general form of a deformation of the $t$-dependence of
the rhs of (\ref{NR}) caused by relativistic corrections.
A naturall guess and the one which leads to the generally accepted
rules of calculation of the relativistic corrections to the energy
eigenvalues (see, for example \cite{Lepage78}) is to suppose that one can
contrive oscillating part of the exact propagator $D_{\beta}$
from the rhs of (\ref{NR}) just shifting energy levels and
modifying the operator coefficiens $P(E_{0})$:
\begin{equation}
\label{guess}
D_{\beta}(t) = \sum_{E_{0}+\Delta_{E_{0}}} \theta(t)
e^{-i\left(E_{0}+\Delta_{E_{0}}\right)t}
P_{\beta}(E_{0}+\Delta_{E_{0}}) + \ldots,
\end{equation}
where dots denote terms which are slowly-varying in time
(the natural time-scale here is $1/E_{0}$). The additional
subscript $\beta$ on $P_{\beta}$ is to denote that
oscillating part of $D_{\beta}(t)$ can acquire a gauge parameter
dependence from relativistic corrections.
Let us see how one can use eq.(\ref{guess}) in energy level
calculations. It is quite sufficient to consider $D_{\beta}(t)$
on relatively short times when $\Delta_{E_{0}}<|fim_middle|>arepsilon)^{-(k+1)}$.)
To come nerer to the level shift values, useful objects are
\begin{equation}
\label{A}
A^{(k)}_{\beta} \equiv \sum_{E_{0}}A^{(k)}_{\beta}(E_{0})i^{k}k!.
\end{equation}
Namely, as notations of (\ref{AE}) suggest, eigenvalues
of $A^{(0)}_{\beta}$ should be equal to normalizations of bound state
wave functions which are driven from unit by relativistic
corrections while the eigenvalues of $A^{(k)}_{\beta}$ should
be energy shifts to the $k$-th power times corresponding normalizations.
Thus, the eigenvalues of
\begin{equation}
\label{Skdef}
S^{(k)}_{\beta} \equiv \frac{\left[A^{(0)}_{\beta}\right]^{-1}A^{(k)}_{\beta}
+ A^{(k)}_{\beta}\left[A^{(0)}_{\beta}\right]^{-1}}{2}
\end{equation}
should be just energy shifts to the $k$-th power. Thus, we define
\begin{equation}
\label{Sdef}
S_{\beta} \equiv S_{\beta}^{(0)}
\end{equation}
to be the energy shift operator: its eigenvalues are the energy
level shifts caused by relativistic corrections.
Our aim is now to check $\beta$-independence of $S_{\beta}$
eigenvalues.
Some notes are in order: If the conjecture (\ref{guess})
is true, $A^{(0)}_{\beta}$ should commute with $S^{(k)}_{\beta}$
and the following relation should hold:
\begin{equation}
\label{powerrel}
S^{(k)}_{\beta} = \left[S_{\beta}\right]^{k}
\end{equation}
This relation was suggested as a check of the
cojecture (\ref{guess}) in \cite{Steinman} and, to
our knowlege, has never been checked. Another thing to note is
that relativistic corrections affects the form
of the scalar product of wave functions and, thus, one
shoud add a definition of operator products to
the formal expressions (\ref{Skdef}),(\ref{powerrel}).
But the level of accuracy to which we will operate
permits us not to go into this complication and use
the operator products as they are in the nonrelativistic
approximation --- i.e. as the convolution
of the corresponding kernels.
The way to the gauge invariance check of the energy shift calculations
is clear now: Using the gauge evolution relation (\ref{answer})
one should find the $\beta$-dependence of $S_{\beta}$ and then
of its eigenvalues. As $S_{\beta}$ is defined
in (\ref{Sdef}),(\ref{Skdef}) through $A^{(k)}_{\beta}$'s which are,
in turn, defined in (\ref{simple})
through the propagator $D_{\beta}$, the first step is to simplify
(\ref{answer}) to the reduced case of zero relative time and
total momentum of the fermion pair:
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{reduced}
D_{\beta}(t,{\bf r'},{\bf r})&=&\left[
\frac{\left(1-({\bf r'}-{\bf r})^{2}/(4t^{2})
\right)}
{\left(1-(({\bf r'}+{\bf r})^{2}/(4t^{2})
\right)}
\right]^
{\frac{\alpha}{2\pi}(\beta-\beta_{0})}\times\nonumber \\
& &\left[
\frac{Z}
{m^{2}{\bf r'}^{2}m^{2}{\bf r}^{2}}
\right]^{\frac{\alpha}{4\pi}(\beta-\beta_{0})}
D_{\beta_{0}}(t,{\bf r'},{\bf r}).
\end{eqnarray}
The factor in the square brackets of the second line is time-independent
and futher factorizible on factors depending on either ingoing or outgoing
pair parameters. This reduce the influence of this factor to a change
in the normalization of states. Being interested in
gauge invariance of energy shifts, we omit this factor in what follows.
Let us turn to the analysis of the influence of the factor in the first
line of (\ref{reduced}).
This factor is close to unit in the atomic scale
${\bf r'},{\bf r}\sim 1/\alpha,\,t\sim1/\alpha^{2}$.
We will use its approximate form:
\begin{equation}
\label{approx}
Factor \approx 1 + \frac{\alpha}{2\pi}(\beta-\beta_{0})
\frac{{\bf r'}{\bf r}}{t^2} + O(\alpha^{5}).
\end{equation}
One can read the dependence of $A^{(k)}_{\beta}$
on $\beta$ from (\ref{simple}),(\ref{reduced}),(\ref{approx})
as
\begin{equation}
\label{betadep}
A^{(k)}_{\beta} \approx A^{(k)}_{\beta_{0}} -
\frac{\alpha}{2\pi}\frac{(\beta-\beta_{0})}{(k+1)(k+2)}
{\bf r}A^{(k+2)}_{\beta_{0}}{\bf r},
\end{equation}
where $\bf r$ is the vector operator of relative position
of interacting particles.
The mixing of different $A^{(k)}_{\beta}$'s with a change in
the gauge parameter is due to the presence of $1/t^{2}$ in
the rhs of (\ref{approx}).
Finally, using the definition
(\ref{Sdef}), relations (\ref{powerrel}) and the fact that
\begin{equation}
\label{unit}
A^{(0)} \approx 1
\end{equation}
in the nonrelativistic approximation one can derive the
following $\beta$-dependence of $S_{\beta}$:
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{Sanswer}
S_{\beta}&\approx&S_{\beta_{0}} -\nonumber \\
& &\frac{\alpha}{2\pi}(\beta-\beta_{0})
\left(\frac{1}{6}{\bf r}S_{\beta_{0}}^{3}{\bf r} -
\frac{1}{4}S_{\beta_{0}}{\bf r}S_{\beta_{0}}^{2}{\bf r} -
\frac{1}{4}{\bf r}S_{\beta_{0}}^{2}{\bf r}S_{\beta_{0}}
\right).
\end{eqnarray}
Treating the term in the last line of the rhs of the above relation
as a perturbation, one can get an approximate
value of the $\beta$-dependent
piece of the energy shift just averaging the perturbation
with respect to the corresponding eigenstate of $S_{\beta_{0}}$.
Thus, we get for the leading order of $\beta $-derivative of
an energy shift the following representation:
\begin{equation}
\label{leading}
\left(\frac{\partial}{\partial\beta}\Delta_{\beta}\right)_{L}=
-\frac{\alpha}{2\pi}
\left(\frac{1}{6}\left\langle
{\bf r}S_{L}^{3}{\bf r}\right\rangle -
\frac{1}{4}\left\langle S_{L}{\bf r}S_{L}^{2}{\bf r}\right\rangle -
\frac{1}{4}\left\langle{\bf r}S_{L}^{2}{\bf r}S_{L}\right\rangle
\right),
\end{equation}
where $\langle\ldots\rangle$ means averaging with respect to
the corresponding nonrelativistic eigenstate and the subscript
$L$ means the leading order in $\alpha$-expansion.
Eq.(\ref{leading}) is sufficient to define an order in
$\alpha$ in which the energy shifts become gauge dependent:
\begin{equation}
\label{order}
\left(\frac{\partial}{\partial\beta}\Delta_{\beta}\right)_{L}
\sim \alpha^{11}.
\end{equation}
Here we have taken into account that ${\bf r}\sim1/\alpha$
and $S_{L}\sim\alpha^{4}$.
To have a gauge dependence in any observable is clearly
unacceptable. In the next section we will see how one
should correct the above procedure of energy shift
extraction from the QED Green function to get rid of
the gauge dependence of energy shifts.
\section{A Way Out}
The procedure recalled in the previous section
is based on the conjecture (\ref{guess}).
A consequence of this conjecture is the
gauge dependence of energy shifts of (\ref{leading}).
One can conclude that the conjecture is wrong.
In particular, as one can infer from eq.(\ref{reduced}),
the operator coefficients near the oscillating exponentials
in (\ref{guess}) shoud get a time dependence from relativistic
corrections. Even if in some gauge they are time independent,
the gauge parameter evolution should generate a dependence
which in the leading order in $\alpha$ reduce itself to
the following replacement in (\ref{guess}):
\begin{equation}
\label{replacement}
P_{\beta}(E_{0}+\Delta_{E_{0}})\rightarrow
P_{\beta}(E_{0}+\Delta_{E_{0}}) + \frac{\Sigma_{\beta}(E_{0})}{t^{2}}.
\end{equation}
That $\Sigma_{\beta}(E_{0})$ has nothing to do with
energy shifts but will give contributions
to $A^{(k)}_{\beta}(E_{0})$'s from eq.(\ref{simple}).
Being gauge dependent these contributions lead to the
gauge dependence of energy shifts.
The way to the correct procedure is to through away
terms like $\Sigma_{\beta}(E_{0})/t^{2}$ prior to the definition of
the energy shift operator. Thus, a necessary step
in the process of extracting energy shifts from
the QED Green function (and the one
which necessity is not recognized in the stanard procedure)
is to calculate and subtract contributions like the last
term in the rhs of (\ref{replacement}) from the propagator
of the fermion pair.
Below we report on a calculation of $\Sigma_{\beta}(E_{0})$ from
(\ref{replacement}). The most economical way to calculate it
is to note that the energy dependence
of the Fourier transform of the corresponding
contribution to the propagator is
\begin{equation}
\label{fourier}
(E-E_{0})\ln(-(E-E_{0}+i\varepsilon))
\end{equation}
and that it comes from diagrams describing radiation
and subsequent absorption of a soft photon with no change
in the level $E_{0}$ of the radiating and absorbing bound state.
Similar contributions (with another power of energy before the $log$)
are well known for the propagator of a charged fermion \cite{Lifshits}
The first step in our calculation is to
present the pair propagator in the following form:
\begin{equation}
\label{soft}
D_{\beta}(t)\approx\left(e^{L_{s}}e^{ie{\bf rA}(t)}D_{inv}(t,A)
e^{-ie{\bf rA}(0)}
\right)_{A=0},
\end{equation}
where $L_{s}$ is the same as in (\ref{connection}) except a
restriction on the momentum of photon propagator ---
the range of its variation is restricted to the soft
region which border is of order of atomic
binding energies; the exponentials with
gauge potential are originated from
the ones in (\ref{hot}); $D_{inv}$ is a descendant of $G_{inv}$
from (\ref{hot}): to go over from $G_{inv}$ to $D_{inv}$
one should make all pairing of non-soft photons in $G_{inv}$
and all the reductions of space-time coordinats which was involved
in going over from the $G_{\beta}$ of (\ref{Gf}) to the $D_{\beta}$
of (\ref{propDef}); at last, all gauge potentials in (\ref{soft})
are taken at zero of space coordinate in accord with the
$\delta({\bf x})$ of eq.(\ref{propDef}). The difference
between the lhs and the rhs of eq.(\ref{soft}) does not conribute
to the term under the calculation.
The leading in the nonrelativistic approximation contribution to
$D_{inv}$ is the same as for $D_{\beta}$ --- it is just
the propagator of the nonrelativistic Coulomb problem. We explicitly
calculate the leading contribution
to the dependence of $D_{inv}(t,A)$ on the gauge potential
in its expansion over soft momenta of the external photons.
Not surprisingly, the dipole interaction of the pair with
the external photon field arise in this approximation:
\begin{equation}
\label{Adef}
D_{inv}(t,A) \approx \left(i\frac{\partial}{\partial t} - H_{c}
+ e{\bf r}{\cal E}(t)
\right)^{-1},
\end{equation}
where $H_{c}$ is the hamiltonian of the nonrelativistic
Coulomb problem and $\cal E$ is the strength of the electric field:
\begin{equation}
\label{Edef}
{\cal E}(t)\equiv -\dot{{\bf A}}(t) + \nabla A_{0}(t).
\end{equation}
Substituting (\ref{Adef}) in (\ref{soft}) and keeping terms
with only one soft photon propagator we get
expressions which sum contains the term under calculation:
\begin{equation}
\label{r1}
e^{2}\left(L_{s}
{\bf rA}(t)D_{nr}(t){\bf rA}(0)\right)_{A=0},
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
\label{r2}
e^{2}\left(L_{s}
\int d\tau_{1}d\tau_{2}\,
D_{nr}(t-\tau_{1}){\bf r}{\cal E}(\tau_{1})
D_{nr}(\tau_{1}-\tau_{2}){\bf r}{\cal E}(\tau_{2})
D_{nr}(\tau_{2})\right)_{A=0} ,
\end{equation}
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{r3}
ie^{2}\biggl(L_{s}
\int d\tau\,\bigl(
D_{nr}(t-\tau){\bf r}{\cal E}(\tau)D_{nr}(\tau){\bf rA}(0)&-&
\\
& & {\bf rA}(t)D_{nr}(t-\tau){\bf r}{\cal E}(\tau)D_{nr}(\tau)
\bigr)
\biggr)_{A=0},\nonumber
\end{eqnarray}
where $D_{nr}(t)$ is the propagator of the nonrelativistic Coulomb
problem from the rhs of eq.(\ref{NR}).
The next step is to pick out a contribution of a level $E_{0}$
in (\ref{r1}),(\ref{r2}),(\ref{r3}). That is achievable by the
replacement
\begin{equation}
\label{repl}
D_{nr}(t)\rightarrow e^{-iE_{0}t}\theta(t)P(E_{0}).
\end{equation}
The last ingredient that one needs to calculate
(\ref{r1}),(\ref{r2}),(\ref{r3}) is the time dependence of the soft
photon propagators. It can be deduced from (\ref{gfix})
as
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{time}
\left(L_{s}A_{i}(t_{1})A_{j}(t_{2})\right)&=&
\theta\left((t_{1}-t_{2})^{2}>t_{c}^{2}\right)
\frac{\delta_{ij}\left(-1+\frac{\beta}{2}\right)}{4\pi^{2}(t_{1}-t_{2})^{2}},
\nonumber \\
\left(L_{s}A_{i}(t_{1}){\cal E}_{j}(t_{2})\right)&=&
\theta\left((t_{1}-t_{2})^{2}>t_{c}^{2}\right)
\frac{\delta_{ij}}{2\pi^{2}(t_{1}-t_{2})^{3}},\nonumber \\
\left(L_{s}{\cal E}_{i}(t_{1}){\cal E}_{j}(t_{2})\right)&=&
\theta\left((t_{1}-t_{2})^{2}>t_{c}^{2}\right)
\frac{\delta_{ij}}{\pi^{2}(t_{1}-t_{2})^{4}}.
\end{eqnarray}
Here the $\theta$-functions are to account for the softness of
the participating photons ($t_{c}\sim 1/E_{0}$).
Taking (\ref{time}) into account we get the
following contributions from
(\ref{r1}),(\ref{r2}),(\ref{r3}):
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{contr}
(\ref{r1})&\rightarrow& \frac{1}{t^{2}}\theta(t)e^{-iE_{0}t}
\frac{\alpha}{\pi}\left(-1+\frac{\beta}{2}\right)
{\bf r}P(E_{0}){\bf r},\nonumber \\
(\ref{r2})&\rightarrow& \frac{1}{t^{2}}\theta(t)e^{-iE_{0}t}
\frac{\alpha}{\pi}\frac{2}{3}P(E_{0}){\bf r}P(E_{0}){\bf r}P(E_{0}),
\nonumber \\
(\ref{r3})&\rightarrow& \frac{1}{t^{2}}\theta(t)e^{-iE_{0}t}
\frac{\alpha}{\pi}i\left(P(E_{0}){\bf r}P(E_{0}){\bf r} -
{\bf r}P(E_{0}){\bf r}P(E_{0})\right).
\end{eqnarray}
The sum of the above terms yields the result of our calculation:
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{sigmansw}
\Sigma_{\beta}(E_{0})&=&\frac{\alpha}{\pi}
\biggl( \frac{2}{3}P(E_{0}){\bf r}P(E_{0}){\bf r}P(E_{0}) +
(-1+\frac{\beta}{2}){\bf r}P(E_{0}){\bf r} +\nonumber\\
& & i(P(E_{0}){\bf r}P(E_{0}){\bf r} - {\bf r}P(E_{0}){\bf r}P(E_{0}))
\biggr) .
\end{eqnarray}
One can explicitly check that $\beta$-dependence of $\Sigma_{\beta}(E_{0})$
is the right one --- i.e. if one subtracts the $\Sigma$-term
from the propagator before the definition of the energy shift
operator, the latter becomes gauge independent. Another observation
is that the $\Sigma$-term cannot be killed by any choice
of the gauge (in contrast to the case of charged fermion propagator
where an analogous term is equal to zero in the Yennie gauge).
Summing up, in this paper we derived a relation between QED
Green functions of different gauges. We used it to check
the gauge invariance of the energy shift operator. It turns out
to be gauge dependent. This fact forced us to recognize
that energy shifts are not one, and the only one, source for
the positive powers of time near the oscillating exponentials
in the propagator of the pair. We found a particular
additional source of the positive powers of time which is
responsible for the gauge dependence of the naive
energy shift operator. We conclude by an observation
that at the moment we have not a clear
definition of the energy shift operator --- to get
it one needs a criterion for picking out contributions
to the positive powers of time originating from the energy
shifts.
The author is grateful to A.~Kataev, E.~Kuraev, V.~Kuzmin, A.~Kuznetsov,
S.~Larin, Kh.~Nirov,
V.~Rubakov, D.~Son, P.~Tinyakov
for helpful discussions. This work was supported in
part by The Fund for Fundamental Research of Russia
under grant 94-02-14428.
| t\ll 1,\, E_{0}t\sim 1$.
For such times one can approximate $D_{\beta}$
expanding the rhs of eq.(\ref{guess}) over $\Delta_{E_{0}}t$:
\begin{equation}
\label{simple}
D_{\beta}(t) \approx \sum_{E_{0}} \theta(t)e^{-iE_{0}t}
\sum_{k}t^{k}A^{(k)}_{\beta}(E_{0}),
\end{equation}
where
\begin{equation}
\label{AE}
A^{(k)}_{\beta}(E_{0}) = \sum_{\Delta_{E_{0}}}
\frac{(-i\Delta_{E_{0}})^{k}}{k!}P_{\beta}(E_{0}+\Delta_{E_{0}}).
\end{equation}
An extraction of these objects from the perturbation
theory is an interim step in the level shift calculations.
(Here we should mention that in calculational practice
$A^{(k)}_{\beta}(E_{0})$ are
exracted in momentum representation --- i.e. not as coefficients
near the powers of time but as the ones near the propagator-like
singularities $(E-E_{0}+i\v | 294 |
The "Bully" Pulpit; Remembering Tyler Long
December 3, 2014 by David Carroll · Leave a Comment
Note: Oct. 17, 2014 marked the fifth anniversary of Tyler Long's death.
Not a day goes by. Sometimes it's a man in line at Burger King<|fim_middle|> and that bass sounding better than ever. It was raining on the outside, but inside my car it was sunny, and I was a few decades younger. If you were on Dayton Boulevard around 10 a.m., yes that was me straining to hit those high notes. It's always fun trying, but nobody can do it like Pat Upton.
"I love you more to-day….than yes-ter-day…but only half as much…as too-morrr-owwwww."
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It's the 'Principal' of the Thing
For twenty years now, I've been the "School Patrol" guy on Channel 3.
In all honesty, I don't remember the date I was assigned to that beat. But believe me, it's somewhere around 20 years. The first few years I worked at the station, I covered a little of everything, mostly lighter stories, which was fine by me. One day the boss called me in and said, "We want you to specialize in something, you know, your own beat." I agreed, with one condition. "Look," I said. "I'm not a confrontational kind of guy. Could you give me something with no politics, no controversy, no violence?"
They said, "How about schools?" Little did I know….
But to coin a phrase, it's been educational. Most of the time, I've loved it. I go into more schools than the milk delivery guy. Twenty different counties and school districts, more than 100 schools every year. The rich ones, the poor ones, the new ones, the crumbling ones. I've attended the groundbreakings and dedication ceremonies for just about every new school that's opened in the past 20 years, and that's always fun.
While reminiscing about School Patrol, I thought about a lot of principals. I've known hundreds of them. Some of them like me, others not so much.
Most of them understand my role. If their school has great test scores, or wins a big award, I should cover it. But if their school is vandalized, or a teacher gets in trouble, I should cover that too. Early on, a few principals hit me with this painful accusation: "You only come here when it's something bad." Sadly, too often they were right. I pledged to visit them when something good was going on too, to give them positive coverage. It's still my goal, yet try as I might, I fail far too often.
As you might expect, being a TV news guy, I get plenty of parental complaints. They used to arrive by letter, a few still come by phone, and now they're most often by e-mail or Facebook. Many of the complaints are about bus drivers, quite a few are about teachers, and the majority are about principals. I look into each one. Most are the result of poor communication, and when the two sides actually talk, the problem resolves itself. However, some of them are valid complaints which turn into news stories. If I do my job well, the problem either gets solved, or becomes a story in which the public is informed about an issue that could affect them.
There are a few red flags. When I see a complaint about a "principle," I sigh and keep on reading. In this era of spell check, I seem to sigh a lot. And besides, I've had a few complaints about principals myself. Some principals I've known were sure that I was out to get them. There have been a few cases in which my news coverage may have played a role in a principal being demoted, transferred, or even dismissed. I can remember another situation or two when a stubborn superintendent would resist moving a sub-par principal, just to avoid admitting a mistake. No doubt about it: there are unqualified, poor performing principals, just as there are poor performers in every occupation you can name, even news reporters. Still, I sympathize with principals, particularly those in public schools who feel like they're wearing huge targets on their backs.
The best principals are the ones who understand what I believe to be the three most important parts of their job. I tell them they should spend 40% of their time on academics, 40% on discipline and 40% on public/parent relations. Yes, that adds up to 120%, but any principal will tell you they have to put in that extra time. Especially the high school principals; the money is good, absolutely. But who among us wants to unlock the door at 6:00 a.m., be responsible for the safety of 1500 or more teenagers in this post-Columbine, Facebook-frenzied world, and attend every athletic event, PTA meeting, dance and fundraiser? Folks, they earn their money.
I've known some duds. There's the guy who threw me out of a high school during my KZ-106 radio days. Some cheerleaders invited me to give away prizes at a pep rally, and I was happy to do so. I no sooner got on stage when the secretary tapped me on the shoulder and said "Mr So-and-So wants to see you." Assuming that he wanted to thank me for generously bringing a box of Journey albums, I strolled down to his office, expecting the red carpet treatment. He promptly yelled, "What do you think you're doing? Are you trying to take over my school?" As I started mumbling something about my cheerleader pals, his neck turned beet red and he bellowed, "You'd better get out of here!" I thought that was good advice. A few days later, one of the lovely cheerleaders called and said, "What happened to you? You left before the pep rally even started!" I guess the kindly old principal just let the matter drop. I wish I could. To this day, when I see his scowling face on the school's wall of principal portraits, I growl at him.
Oh, I've been tossed out of schools since then, but you never forget your first.
I'm glad to say though, that most principals I've dealt with have been terrific. Some, past and present are among my best friends. Most of them know they're the face of their school, and the good ones know how to set the right tone for their particular campus. One of my favorites is at a rural high school. Walking down the hall with him one day, he spotted a 9th grader out of dress code. "Boy, you get that shirt tail in, or I'll whup your ass," he said in a stern tone of voice. He could tell I was a bit startled by his colorful choice of words. "Aw, that's nothing," he said. "I grew up with that boy's daddy. That's the only language he understands. And he knows I'm not really gonna whup his ass. I'd let his daddy handle that."
Such is the life of a high school principal. Middle school principals deal with raging hormones. Elementary principals get a lot of hugs, but have to wave off clingy parents. Above all, my School Patrol experience has taught me this: I'd rather report on principals than be one.
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Motorcyclists: Let's Make a Deal
June 26, 2014 by David Carroll · Leave a Comment
Signs like this have popped up on freeways across the nation. A few days ago, I saw one on I-24 in Chattanooga with this overhead message: "Please drive safely. Look twice for motorcycles." A few moments later, a motorcycle came out of nowhere, zooming to my right at more than 100 mph, weaving in and out of each lane, and then taking off into the distance. The next day as I was driving westbound on I-24, about to merge on to Highway 27 north into downtown, traffic was a bit heavy. I was behind an ambulance in the right lane. The ambulance was not on an emergency trip, everyone was traveling at average speed. Again, a motorcycle suddenly appeared a few feet from my bumper in a big hurry. He was unable to pass, so he whizzed by on the shoulder, going around the ambulance and beyond, soon to terrorize other motorists. I remember thinking, "I'll probably read this guy's name on the news tonight." As you know, motorcycle fatalities are a regular part of newscasts in Chattanooga and beyond.
I thought again about that sign. I really do look for motorcycles. But if you're zooming up behind me at 100 mph or more, and you're switching lanes every second or so, I can't see you. If you're on my tail, and I have to brake suddenly, nothing good will come from it.
I love motorcycles. My wife will tell you, I wish I still had one. In my teens and twenties, I had the basic Honda 350, capable of going about 60-70 mph comfortably, or 75-80 on the freeway if needed. I worked seven days a week back then, and had little time for recreational riding, but I loved every minute I was on that bike. Well, except when it was cold or rainy. When we got married, my wife had no interest in riding, so I sold it. It was a great 15-year hobby for me, and I still miss the wind, the freedom, and frankly the gas mileage.
I can't understand why motorcycles (or any vehicle for that matter) that can accelerate to 160 mph or beyond are legal to drive on our highways. The so-called "crotch-rockets" are the ones involved in most of the motorcycle fatalities, according to my police officer friends who work those accidents. Oh, the stories they tell. Like the one about the recent crash victim who bet a friend that he could make a round trip from Chattanooga to Atlanta in two hours. That would involve an average speed of 120. He made it down to Atlanta on I-75, turned around and headed north. He didn't make it back home.
They tell me about the riders with no helmets. The riders who lose their lives due to a combination of speed, reckless driving and impairment (drugs, booze or both). The ones wearing t-shirts, shorts and flip-flops, with absolutely no protection from what they can run into at high speeds. And they tell me about the families of riders who either die, or are permanently disabled. Someone has to break the news to them. They always ask "Why did it have to happen?"
The cops tell me there are two kinds of riders. The majority of course are responsible. You don't notice them because they observe the speed limit and obey the laws. They're just going to school or work, saving some cash in the process. Then there are the thrill-seekers. No amount of overhead signs, public service campaigns or cautious car and truck drivers can save them. "There's nothing we can do about them," an officer said. "You can't get their tag numbers, they're too small. We can't chase them, a high-speed pursuit would be even more dangerous. Besides, we can't go that fast, we're basically driving taxi cabs with blue lights. The only way we catch them is when they kill themselves. We just hope they don't take anyone else down with them."
He continued, "The state wants you to believe that car and truck drivers are responsible for most motorcycle fatalities, because they don't look for bikes when they're entering the highway or even changing lanes. That absolutely does happen, but I can tell you that most bike fatalities are caused by the riders themselves. They just don't have the right mindset. They think they're indestructible, but from what I've had to clean up on the highway, I can tell you they're not," he said. "They don't have air bags, seat belts, or a few hundred pounds of sheet metal protecting them. Often it's them vs. an 18-wheeler, and they'll lose that battle every time."
Another officer who specializes in reconstructing accidents placed some of the blame on YouTube. "We've had some guys who either try to copy the stunts they see, or are trying to shoot video to put on the Internet," he said. "There are some loose-knit groups here in Chattanooga who try to out-do each other, and then act surprised when one of their members loses his life. It's not just kids either, some of these people are old enough to know better."
Again, the majority of motorcyclists are responsible, good drivers. I know this. I also know that some car and truck drivers are just as irresponsible, fast and reckless. Their weapons of choice are larger and more dangerous to others, although they have more protection for themselves.
So yes, as the sign says, I want to drive safely, and look twice at least, for my motorcycle friends. I had some close calls myself back in the day. So as much as anyone, when I'm entering a highway, I'm not just checking to see if a car is coming, I'm looking for motorcycles too. I hope everyone does that. But when I see those signs telling me to look for motorcycles, I want to tell my two-wheel friends, "Let's make a deal. I'll look twice for you, if you slow down so I can see you coming." I really don't want to read your name on the news tonight.
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I Feel Good; I Knew That I Would
Not too long ago, I walked out of my allergist's office, and realized, "I feel good." Now, why waste valuable Internet space on my (knock on wood) good health? Because I've made four lifestyle changes that have made me feel better than I did years ago. Who knows, there may be someone reading this who wants to feel better, and maybe I can help. I'm no doctor, but I have stayed in a Holiday Inn Express, and my first two initials are D.R. Close enough.
1) I finally went to the allergist. Ever since I was in my twenties, I sneezed a lot. I have vivid memories of spring softball games, with my beloved KZ-106 Foul Tips, sneezing my brains out. My wife Cindy would suggest I see someone about it, but in typical male fashion, I'd blow it off (pun intended). I remember telling her, "It's no big deal, I sneeze every day of the year."
True, but it got to the point that I was miserable, just downright sick every May. The tree and grass pollen overwhelmed me. Then in October the leaves would fall, and my misery level would rise again. Twice a year, for several weeks at a time, I'd trudge on to work, on radio and TV, stuffed up and sore-throated. It was just part of life, I thought. About four years ago, I had the "scratch test" done, the allergies were identified, and the weekly shots in the arm began. Soon they were bi-weekly, and now they're monthly. Easily the best doctor's visit I ever made. Relief was immediate. This was a life-changer.
2) I finally went to the dermatologist. Being of fair skin and English/Irish descent, the sun is not my friend. No one told me this when I was a teen, sunbathing constantly in a futile effort to look as good as my bronzed friends. No one said anything about it when I was playing softball on blistering weekend afternoons, with no "protection." I kept thinking that painful beet-red burn would magically peel into a skin tone somewhere between Bob Barker and George Hamilton. No such luck. The only thing it turns into is melanoma. About ten years ago, a good dermatologist looked first into my family history, then deeply into my skin and laid down the law. "Hey Knucklehead," he may well have said. "You shouldn't even get the mail without smearing SPF 55 sunscreen over your exposed skin." Done! Much of the damage was inflicted long ago, and it never goes away. But at least I've fended off any new damage in recent years.
3) I finally started getting an annual physical exam. A good friend and former boss of mine scared me to death when he was about 40, and I was in my 20s. He was telling the tale of the prostate exam portion of getting a physical, and made it sound like torture.
I never forgot that, and adopted (again) the stubborn male philosophy of, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." My dad was among many who would say, "If you go to the doctor when you're not sick, they'll find something wrong with you anyway." So unless I was deathly ill with a stomach virus or something, I stayed out of doctors' offices. Finally, I gave in to spousal pressure, and made the annual date with the doctor. No excuses. That uncomfortable little exam I had so dreaded wasn't so bad after all. It only lasts a few seconds. And the good doctor has monitored my once-high cholesterol levels, and introduced me to the wonderful world of colonoscopies.
(That reminds me of a story. My first colonoscopy was about 7 years ago. During one of my many visits to the bathroom the night before the procedure, I looked at the bottle of liquid laxative I was chugging. It was called "GoLitely." On the floor was a bottle of bathroom cleanser, labeled "KaBoom." I remember thinking "KaBoom" would have been a more appropriate name for the laxative.)
4) I finally visited a sleep center. Throughout our marriage, Cindy often expressed amazement I was still alive each morning, after enduring sleepless nights of my high-decibel snoring, the rattle frequently interrupted by me gasping for breath. Of course, I had no idea this was happening. All I knew was, I would awaken bone-tired, like I had worked in a cotton field all night. I would often lumber out of the bed wondering why I was so achy and exhausted. Eventually I'd snap out of it, but mornings were not pleasant. I endured a sleep test, with all the sticky electrodes and uncomfortable gear making it darn near impossible to sleep. But evidently, the doctor acquired enough data and video evidence to prove that I had sleep apnea. The solution: that lovely C-PAP device that covers your nose, keeping your airways open.
(My kids nicknamed the device "Nixon." I have no idea why, but the name stuck. A salute to our 37th president.) The happy ending: almost immediately, I slept better, stopped snoring, and have since felt great when I wake up each day. Another life-changer!
Nothing I've written here is revolutionary, or considered a recent medical breakthrough. Certainly, I've been blessed to work for a good employer with a health insurance plan that allows me to make regular doctor visits and undergo these treatments. I wish everyone could do the same with no hassle or financial worries. But if anyone reads this, and is able and willing to get their allergies under control, regular physical exams (and if appropriate, colonoscopies), skin cancer screening or sleep apnea testing, it might make their life better too. As for me, 20-30 years ago, there was no TV news guy on the Internet passing along these little self-improvement tips. If there had been, I would've been singing this song a long time ago:
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Colonoscopy is all Behind Me Now
May 22, 2014 by David Carroll · Leave a Comment
My latest colonoscopy is behind me now (sorry) and I wanted to share the best part of the adventure with you. I'll chat briefly about the prep and procedure, but I want to begin with a celebratory photo of the much-anticipated "First Meal After."
Due to some family history, I'm in the "every five years" category, which is better than some folks have it, but not as good as others. As you may know, colorectal cancer — cancer of the colon or rectum — is the second-leading killer in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Removing precancerous growths spotted during a colonoscopy can cut the risk of dying from colon cancer in half. More than 95% of tumors are detected during a colonoscopy. Quite honestly, had my family doctor not made the first appointment for me about ten years ago, I would have never gone to the trouble. Sure, I'd seen the Katie Couric procedure on live TV, and I'd read the ominous headlines, but you know what I was thinking: "Oh, that happens to other people, not me."
As I've shared a few Facebook comments, Tweets and face-to-face chats with folks about my colonoscopy, I've been surprised by the number of my friends who are squeamish about it. Although it is strongly recommended for adults 50 and over (and younger folks with a family history of colon cancer), people hear the horror stories about an all-nighter on the john, the nasty liquid mixture you have to guzzle, and being probed from behind by total strangers. So they just say no. Or they say, "I'll get around to it, someday."
The definitive humor column on colonoscopies was written by Dave Barry in 2008, and nothing I could write will top that. So I'll just list a few random observations that may be helpful should you decide to take the plunge (there I go again).
1) If your procedure is scheduled for say, Thursday morning, start tapering off on your meals around Monday. Lighten up on your portions a little bit. Let's just say by Wednesday night, the more is not the merrier. You'll thank me later.
2) The "nasty liquid mixture" you've been hearing about is so, 2000-ish. Most docs now prescribe a clean-out potion that isn't all that bad. You can either mix it with clear Gatorade, or take tablets as I did (with LOTS of clear liquid), with no taste at all. The end result is the same (I never stop, do I?) but getting there isn't as bad as you've heard. Just don't stray too far from the bathroom for a few hours. If you go out to get the mail, you might soon be running in with an express delivery.
3) Schedule your appointment first thing in the morning. You do the dirty work starting at 5:00 p.m. the evening before, sleep from about 12:30 to 5:30 a.m. and they do the deed around 7:00. The anesthesiologist works his magic, you drift off into dreamland, and the next thing you know you're sipping a cold drink and they send you on your way. You never feel a thing. You're home by 8:30. You sleep it off for a few hours, and it's chow time. What can you eat? Anything you wish.
My lovely wife warmed up the goodies you see above for my post-colonoscopy homecoming. It had served as dinner for her and my son while I was otherwise occupied the night before. It was the forbidden feast while I was on the all-liquid, in-and-out diet. I was most envious at the time, but I looked at it as my eventual reward for not whining about it.
By the way, I'm happy to report a successful outcome (that's enough). When the doc inserted that thin, flexible colonoscope up into its intended target area, the tiny camera sent images back to Earth that showed no polyps, no problems, not even that piece of gum I swallowed when I was in 2nd grade. I got to hear those magic words: "We'll see you back here in five years. Now go get something to eat!"
So if you're among those who've been putting it off, give me a call and I'll talk you into it. I enjoy having you around to read my blogs and watch my newscasts. The folks who perform these colonoscopies are saving lives every day, and yours could be one of them!
Filed Under: That Guy on TV and Radio · Tagged: chattanooga news, colonoscopy, david carroll, wrcb | . The next time it's a woman in the mall. Most often it's an e-mail. "I saw you in that Bully movie," they'll say. "Thanks for trying to help."
I never thought I'd be in the movies. In fact, when you see me in that film, while you're looking at me, ending up on a big screen was the furthest thing from my mind.
Some background: I had met Tina and David Long at their home in Chatsworth, Georgia in October 2009, just days after their son Tyler had hanged himself in his bedroom. He was 17. He had a form of autism called Asperger's Syndrome. His parents described his affliction as one in which his social skills were often misunderstood or mocked by his peers. He might laugh at inappropriate times, or not understand when someone was making a joke. They told me he was mocked and taunted throughout middle school, and into his high school years. They had complained early and often to Murray County school officials, they said, to no avail. I tried to get the school district's side of the story, but they would not comment. Not even, "We're trying, we're doing what we can."
Tyler Long
I had been introduced to the Longs by a family member, who surprised me with an unusual request: the Longs wanted to do a TV interview about their son's suicide. That's generally a taboo topic on the news, for two reasons. First, most families don't want to talk about it. There's a definite stigma attached. And second, many news organizations are reluctant to "glamorize" suicide, fearing others, particularly teens might get ideas. I've never felt that way. I know this tragedy happens far more than it is reported. Certainly every death by suicide doesn't need to be identified as such, but the root causes such as depression and yes, bullying need not be swept under the rug.
I did the interview, the story ran, and the response was surprisingly sudden and vocal. Other media outlets joined in as well. With each day, I would hear new stories of bullying, many from Murray County. Each time, I attempted to contact the Superintendent. The results were always the same. No response.
It seemed like someone should say something. If bullying was rampant in Murray County schools, let's get it out in the open. Or if the charges were overblown, and the school district was taking the right steps to combat the problems, we should let everyone know that too. So I hatched a plan. Let's hold a town meeting on bullying, right there in Chatsworth, and air it out. Invite everyone. If folks wanted to complain, give them a forum to do so. And if school officials had a response, or a plan, what better way to get their message out to the public?
The date was set: December 1st, a Tuesday. Two weeks before the event, the invitations went out to every School Board member, the Superintendent and the principals. Included in that message, we urged them to include any school district employee. I envisioned a well-moderated meeting, in which parents or students who had concerns, could voice them. In turn, school district folks could show they care, take notes, and pledge to find solutions.
I reached fifty percent of my goal. The parents and students showed up, a healthy number of them. They had stories to tell, of kids being terrorized on the bus, humiliated in bathrooms or pushed around in the cafeteria. Yes, they had complained through the proper channels, and were too often told, "Oh well, boys will be boys."
Although I'd heard rumors that no school district employees would show up, I discounted them. Surely, I thought, the Superintendent, the principals, the teachers would want to tell their side of the story. I knew they couldn't address specific complaints for legal reasons, especially the Long case, and I would shield them from that. But I thought they, or a representative would be on hand just to say, "Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We will take the necessary steps to ensure this type of behavior does not continue."
It turned out the rumors were true. One school employee said to me in confidence, "We were told not to go, that it would be a mob scene against the school system." Although I had pledged to not let that happen, that was their story, and they stuck with it.
Tina and David Long, with filmmaker Lee Hirsch
That's why I'm in the "Bully" film. Documentary producer Lee Hirsch attended the town meeting. The Longs had told me he was working on a bullying film, and was traveling the country interviewing families and kids who had been victimized in various ways. Since I was in charge of the Chatsworth meeting, the Longs wanted to make sure it was okay for Hirsch to capture the event on video.
Frankly, if anyone from Murray County schools had shown up, we would have had a more productive meeting, and the "Bully" film would have been quite different. I certainly would have had very little to complain about, wouldn't I? Murray County school officials would have saved face, and not been the subject of scorn from moviegoers and DVD renters nationwide.
The resulting film got great reviews when it hit theaters in March 2012, and greatly increased its audience when the DVD was released several months later. I think it should be required viewing in every middle school. The content is disturbing, and some of the language is rough, although nothing middle schoolers haven't heard. The film isn't easy to watch. The emotions are raw. When the credits roll, you realize you've seen something that will stick with you for a while, as any good documentary should. It is, to use a well-worn phrase, a call to action. It has already done some good. Tina and David Long, and others involved in the film, have spoken at the White House, in New York City, Los Angeles, and many points in between, sharing their story. They've appeared on "Ellen," CNN and Fox News to name a few, taking their crusade to an audience of millions. They headlined a local public affairs show, "The Bully Battle," which has been awarded multiple times.
It's a battle worth fighting, and I'm proud to be in that film.
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11 Years Ago 2 of My Favorites Left Us (Part 2 Johnny Cash)
September 29, 2014 by David Carroll · Leave a Comment
Flashing back to that sad morning of September 12, 2003, NBC's "Today Show" and the other network programs had to scramble their lineups, and in a hurry. John Ritter had died the night before, and then came word that Johnny Cash had passed away in the wee hours of the morning.
Most major news operations have an "obit piece" nearby when a famous person dies. You can bet that NBC, USA Today, the New York Times and the other big media outlets have someone responsible for making sure they can react quickly when a celebrity passes away. If that person is elderly, or has been ailing, those pieces are prepared with some urgency. It might be needed at any moment. I'd venture a guess that when Anna Nicole Smith, Farrah Fawcett, Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson died, their obituary stories were ready to run. All had either been ill, or known to have personal problems that could adversely affect their chances for a long life. I'd say obit pieces for Billy Graham, Nelson Mandela and Muhammad Ali are within easy reach. All have been in poor health for years. There's no reason for good journalists to be caught by surprise when that call comes.
Occasionally, you get a shocker: Princess Diana. James Gandolfini. The young star of "Glee," Cory Monteith. Going back a few years, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and John Lennon. The causes of death are various, but all left us too soon, and in some cases, surprisingly sudden.
Johnny Cash's death was somewhat expected. He had been in failing health for a number of years. He hadn't toured since 1997 due to complications from diabetes and a neurodegenerative disease that robbed him of his strong voice and sure hands. His wife of 35 years, June Carter Cash had helped care for him, and according to family, watched over him like a mother hen. While Johnny was recording his late career "American" albums, it was June who made sure that her ailing husband wasn't overdoing it. He needed something to do, but not more than he could physically handle.
That's why the real shocker involving the Cash family occurred on May 15, 2003. June was in the hospital for heart-valve replacement surgery. With Johnny's health problems getting so much attention, June's condition had received little or no press. There were complications, and June died following surgery. Press reports say Johnny was in a wheelchair at his wife's funeral, "looking somber and composed." It's generally believed Johnny was fading quickly anyway, but June's sudden death may have accelerated Johnny's decline. He died four months later.
I always felt that Johnny had a connection to the Chattanooga area. He even recorded a song called "Chattanooga City Limit Sign." He was famously arrested for drug possession in Walker County Georgia in November 1967, while reportedly in a drunken/drugged stupor, looking for Civil War relics, eventually knocking on strangers' doors. Sheriff Ralph Jones had a long talk with his prisoner, who later credited him for "turning my life around." Around the same time, he was said to have driven to Nickajack Cave in Marion County, Tennessee where he intended to commit suicide. The incident was captured in song by Gary Allan in "Nickajack Cave."
As much as I enjoyed Johnny Cash from his Sun Records days in the 1950s, to his Columbia hits of the early 1960s, his "Folsom Prison"/"Boy Named Sue" rebirth and TV show of the late 60s, and the Highwaymen supergroup of legends in the 1980s, the most lingering image will always be the song and video that capped his career: "Hurt," written and recorded years earlier by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. The Cash version isn't easy to watch, even to this day, but is it ever powerful!
Considered by some to be among the best music videos ever made, it was filmed in Cash's Hendersonville home in October 2002. By this time, the Man In Black was unable to walk, and legally blind. You see the once-strapping man in all his trembling frailty, contrasted with photos and videos from his hell-raising younger days. When it was released in February 2003, the scene that choked me up was when June was looking at her sick husband, with a mixture of love and concern. When she died in May of that year, the video took on added poignancy. As is often the case in life, the caretaker did not survive the patient. In September, Johnny's heart gave out too.
Johnny's exit from this life was somewhat gradual, even prolonged by some standards. But the emotional jolt of this song, this video, and the sad series of events that followed seemed to happen quite rapidly. It's hard to believe that ten years have passed since we saw the last of Johnny Cash. According to interviews shortly before his death, he was proud of his final work. I think he knew he left us something special to remember him by.
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11 Years Ago: Two of My Favorites Left (Part 1, John Ritter)
On the morning of September 12, 2003, I got up to help get the boys off to school. Chris was a junior, Vince an 8th grader. Like every day, I went back and forth a few times trying to rouse them from that deep teenage-boy sleep, and during the moments in between, I sat down at the computer, signed on, and waited for five minutes of pre-broadband eternity for the home page to pop up on the screen. On most days, the MSNBC site would feature whatever happened overnight in Washington or some foreign capital. That unforgettable morning delivered a double whammy though: not one celebrity death, but two. Johnny Cash and John Ritter. Cash's death, while very sad, was not terribly unexpected. He was in his 70s, and had been quite ill for a number of years. But John Ritter? He wasn't even 55. He was still active and vibrant. He was starring in the ABC sitcom "8 Simple Rules," which seemed headed for a long run. Then suddenly, shockingly, he was gone.
He had been working on the second season's fourth episode, and reportedly did not feel well that day. He was taken to a nearby hospital and died of an aortic dissection, described as an abnormal separation of tissues within the walls of the aorta, the large blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the rest of the body. The weakened blood vessel may burst, which usually results in death if not treated immediately. Evidently that's what happened.
Occasionally a TV star becomes ill, or is involved in an accident, which leads us to wonder, "What would happen to (name a hit show) if (name a big star) died suddenly? It hasn't happened often. Freddie Prinze of "Chico and the Man" committed suicide in 1977, and the show couldn't recover without its beloved title character. In the original "Dallas," the family patriarch "Jock Ewing," (Jim Davis) died. In the 2012 update, son "JR" Larry Hagman died. In both cases, the show went on, with tributes and new plot lines about the deceased stars. Same with Tony Soprano's mother (played by Nancy Marchand), who was a major figure in the early years of HBO's "The Sopranos." In the upcoming season, "Glee" will deal with the recent death of young star Cory Monteith. Other supporting cast members and soap stars have died during the production of their series, but few hit us as hard as the death of John Ritter.
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The Best Elvis Song Elvis Never Recorded
August 28, 2014 by David Carroll · Leave a Comment
We have some terrific oldies radio stations in Chattanooga. A couple of them specialize in hits from the 1960s-80s era, and a few others feature classic top-40 songs as well. This morning one of them played Queen's "Crazy Little Thing Called Love," which according to legend, lead singer Freddie Mercury wrote in the bathtub. (I've had million dollar ideas in the shower too, but they seem to swirl down the drain). His bandmates say it took him all of ten minutes. He had to dry off quickly, grab his guitar and get the notes down before he forgot them.
It became a huge hit in England in late 1979, and a few months later some US stations got a hold of it, forcing Queen's record company to release it here in the states. By that time, the band had become famous here for intricate harmonies, multi-layered vocal tracks and bizarre lyrics, so its management was concerned that Queen fans in America would be turned off by the song's retro sound.
But within weeks, the song zoomed to number one on the charts (the band's first ever), and it was one of my most requested songs on the KZ-106 morning shift. Then, and now, some people think it's an Elvis Presley song. In 1980, some people swore to me that Queen had re-recorded one of Elvis' old songs. Remember this was pre-Internet, you couldn't look this stuff up. I'd say, I know a lot of Elvis songs, and I've never heard this one. "Oh it wasn't a hit," they'd say, "but Freddie Mercury must have found it on an old Elvis album."
Truth is, Queen recorded it in the style of Elvis' early rockabilly days, and even filmed a video that most of us never saw; MTV wouldn't come along until a year or two later. Elvis and his fellow 1950s Sun Records artists (Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash) influenced many young British musicians of the 60s and 70s, and this was Freddie Mercury's way of paying tribute to the masters. In the last years of Elvis' life, most of his recordings were ballads and country-flavored songs, and the closest he came to his old rockin' sound was "Burning Love" in 1972, five years before his death. We'll never know how the King would have sounded performing "Crazy Little Thing Called Love," but I've always believed he would have nailed it, in his prime anyway. So sit back and enjoy this video. I think it's one of the best-produced, best-performed records of the rock-and-roll era, and despite the band's fears, it actually expanded their fan base worldwide. Ready Freddie?
Filed Under: That Guy on TV and Radio, Uncategorized · Tagged: chattanooga tv, crazy little thing called love, david carroll, elvis, freddie mercury, queen, wrcb
It All Started With a McDonald's Commercial
Last year, I celebrated my 30th anniversary in the TV business, which is a total surprise to me. If you had asked the teenage me, "What will you be doing in the year 2014?" I would have said, "Hopefully I'll be running a business and finding some time to be on the radio too."
Radio was my first love. I often get laughs when I tell people that I became a part-time disc jockey when I was a teen, "because I figured out that I could play rock 'n roll songs and talk to girls on the phone, and get paid to do it." Except I'm not kidding. It seemed like a really sweet deal. Yet my dad, and my brain told me that it was at best, a hobby. Dad ran a successful business, and I was sort of getting the hang of it. I liked people, and I was good with numbers. So in my perfect world, I'd do a "real job" during the week, and play the hits on weekends.
Of course, it didn't work out that way. The more time I spent at the microphone, the more I loved it. Slowly but surely, I began to make a living at it. After a few years, I even met my wife, also a fellow radio kid, right there in the KZ-106 studio. Certainly I had made the right career choice. My radio buds and I would go to lunch occasionally and notice the guys at the next table, all wearing ties. "Man we're lucky," we would say. "We don't have to wear ties!"
Then this happened:
Yes, my career and life took an unexpected turn in the spring of 1983. Someone from Channel 9 called, I can't remember who, and asked if I'd be interested in doing a series of car giveaway commercials for McDonald's, to be taped on six consecutive Saturdays in their studio in the Golden Gateway. They didn't allow their newscasters to do commercials, and their only salesperson with on-air experience, Jerry Lingerfelt was already obligated to Capital Toyota ("we're open around the clock, until Saturday midnight!" he would exclaim, waving his arms clockwise). So they reached out to the radio world, recruiting a shaggy-haired, bearded morning DJ. I'd be giving away a classic car each week to one of six people who had registered at area McDonald's. They set me up with a snazzy red McDonald's jacket and paid me a much-appreciated fifty bucks a week. Six Saturdays in March and April went by, the commercials ran, and I had a new jacket, $300, and six minutes of television experience under my belt. That was the end of that.
A few weeks later, I got another call out of the blue, this time from Channel 12. The program director, Doris Ellis asked me to go to lunch. I didn't ask what it was about, I mean why rock the boat when you're offered a free lunch at the Mount Vernon restaurant? I showed up with visions of peanut butter pie dancing in my head, and was greeted by Doris and her boss Gary Bolton, the station manager. Hmmm, I thought, what is this about?
"We'd like you to host the Morning Show," Doris said. "We saw you on those McDonald's commercials, and we think you could do a good job." "Sure," I said, "I'll try anything once. What day would you like me to do it?" It was a daily, 90-minute, totally unscripted live show, and I figured I had enough material (jokes, comments and the like) to fill in for a day.
"No, you don't understand," Gary said. "We mean, we'd like you to host it, every day, from now on." The show had been founded by Harry Thornton, who had hosted it for 13 years. He had been tough to replace. The two guys after him lasted a combined nine months, and the Channel 12 people were kind of desperate.
By this time Cindy and I were engaged to be married later that year, and my job at KZ-106 was seemingly secure. What to do? Stay with the tried and true, or take a chance on TV: I'd always loved watching it, but never once considered being on it. And yes, I'd have to wear a stinkin' tie each day. In fact I'd have to learn to tie one.
I did what any sane person would have done. I took an afternoon to go to my favorite spot, the waterfall trail at Cloudland Canyon State Park in Dade County, Georgia. Halfway down, there's a huge rock. There wasn't another soul in sight. I planted there on that rock, and thought it over. I took my time, weighing the pros and cons. Ultimately I decided: I'm going to give this TV thing a try. If it doesn't work out, I thought, I could always go back to radio.
Thirty years later, I'm still here. The Channel 12 gig lasted about four years, and lucky for me Channel 3 soon came calling. I made my last appearance on Channel 12 one day at noon, and began anchoring at Channel 3 the same day at 5:30 p.m.
Thanks to all of you who have watched my newscasts, and to my employers for keeping me on the payroll. And as you may have noticed, I'm still wearing a tie each day. Never mind how long it took me to learn how to tie one.
Filed Under: That Guy on TV and Radio · Tagged: channel 3, david carroll, news channel 9, wdef, wrbc
"I Don't Remember What Day it Was"
July 24, 2014 by David Carroll · Leave a Comment
"I….don't remember what day it was…"
First, it's the brass section. Those horns sound great! Then, it's that pounding bass…thump, thump, thump. Those dynamite drums. Finally, there it is: that voice. The voice of AM radio. Sunshine, summertime 1969.
"I…didn't notice what time it was…."
We didn't know what stereo sounded like on a transistor radio all those years ago, and FM stations only played elevator music. But this was as good as it gets on AM. We heard it blast out of that little speaker right after some cool jingle: "W-F-L-I!" they would sing. Or "Super-GO" they would shout. If it was late at night, we'd pick up a faraway top-40 powerhouse: "The Best Music, Eighty-Nine, W-L-S, in Chicago!" And boom, there was that song, from under the pillow. Don't wake up the parents…
"All…I…know..is that I fell in love with you…"
Some of us thought it was Stevie Wonder. He too, had a high-pitched voice (he was just a teen, and had already recorded a bunch of big hits). Others thought it was a girl singer. Not many guys could hit those high notes. No AutoTune here. It's the real thing.
"And if all my dreams come true, I'll be spending time with yooooouuuu"
Did you see the footwork of that bass player? Not only does he rock the world's greatest mustache, but the dude can dance! Some radio station did a survey a few years ago, and listeners proclaimed "More Today Than Yesterday" their favorite oldie of all-time. As Kanye West would say, "THE BEST OF ALL TIME!" Not a Beatles song. Not an Elvis tune. Not even Motown! It's by…the Spiral Starecase. The group of Air Force buddies formed in Sacramento, California and called themselves the Fydallions. They played the clubs and Las Vegas for a few years, and got the attention of Columbia Records. The record execs said, "You sound good, but you've gotta change that name." They chose the title of a 1945 movie, changed the spelling of "staircase" just for fun, and lead singer Pat Upton set out to write some songs.
"Every day's a new day….in love with you.."
Pat Upton is, a guy. A nice guy whose soaring voice you hear quite frequently in that wonderful three-minute dose of aural sunshine. In 1969, it blended beautifully with the Grassroots, who would "wait a million years, just to have you near me," and Marvin Gaye, who was so busy thinkin' about his baby that he "ain't got time for nothin' else." Pat's song only got up to #12 on the Billboard charts, but sold a million anyway. It was a perfect fit between the fading bubblegum sound and the futuristic "Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin. Yes, long ago Pat was tagged with that dreaded label, "one-hit wonder." Like so many radio bands of the 1960s, there were management problems and when the band couldn't come up with another hit, they soon went their separate ways. Pat played with other musicians and eventually opened his own club in Guntersville, Alabama.
"With each day comes a new way…of loving you…"
In 1991, with oldies fever in full swing, Pat played the Riverbend Festival in Chattanooga a part of an all-star 60s and 70s group, made up of several guys who had scored a hit or two. I told him how his song made me smile every time it came on the radio…when it was fresh and new, and even decades later. I thanked him for writing and singing such a happy love song, in an era dominated by psychedelia, a bad moon rising and suspicious minds. It sure was a nice counterpoint to creepy stuff like "In the Year 2525," which (ugh) was the #1 song that summer. When that song got me down, Pat's song brought me back up.
"Every time I kiss your lips, my mind starts to wander…."
He was genuinely appreciative of my compliment, although I'm sure he'd heard it a few thousand times before. I'm sure it was too often followed by, "You're so great! Why didn't you have more hit records?" As if they were that easy to pull out of thin air.
"And if all my dreams come true, I'll be spending time with yooouuu.."
He seemed especially pleased to learn that my kids loved his song. At the time they were 4 and 1. I told him that a few weeks earlier, as a surprise to my wife, I had the boys lip-synch "More Today Than Yesterday," while I recorded it on the clunky old video camera. It's a masterpiece of amateur clumsy-dad filmmaking, but my wife loved it. Even today, it appears on our TV to embarrass my young adult sons when girlfriends are in our house. (It has not yet shown up on YouTube, but don't dare me).
"Ohhhh…I love you more to-day…than yes-ter-day…(horns!) …but not as much…as too-morrr-ooowww"
I sent Pat a copy of the video a few days later, and his wife called to tell me how much they enjoyed it. A few years later, I found a video of Pat from 1999, thirty years after his big hit, performing it solo in front of his musician friends on a show called "Rock 'n Roll Graffiti." It was minus the big Columbia Records production team, but The Voice still sounded great.
I thought about this song in the middle of another endless rainy day during this damp 4th of July holiday week. Wrecks everywhere, fireworks shows cancelled, celebrations postponed. I've seen a lot of frowny faces this week, even in the mirror. But on the way to work today, guess what came on the radio? And for the thousandth time, conservatively speaking, it made me smile. Now it was in crystal-clear stereo, with every word understandable, every instrument shining, | 6,352 |
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The art of self-reflection
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One of my favorite moments after golfing, the course was so peaceful and it reminded me of how much golf means to me and how much I need it. Photo by Kinley Freese
Kinley Freese, Staff Writer
As 2022 is nearing a close, I have recently been reflecting on my year in more depth than I usually do. Along the way, I have learned how I can improve for an even better year in 2023.
The art of self-reflection transpires through honesty with yourself and your surroundings. My memories from this year are flooded with highs,<|fim_middle|> on a bad note when you have been playing so well all-day. I was also upset because I let my emotions get to me, and I reacted out of emotion through frustration on that hole. Poor control of my emotions was my mistake, but ever since then, I have truly learned to keep my emotions better in check. I also had another hard moment when I did not play in the State tournament that I qualified for. I went to watch both days of the girls' State tournament in Brookings to not only support my teammates but to support some of my best friends that played for other schools. It was so hard to watch everyone I love and support play because I wanted to be out there with them. The feeling of wanting to be out there and playing too was undoubtedly the most difficult feeling of my season.
My summer was filled with working 40-plus hour weeks lifeguarding at Laurel Oaks Family Aquatic Center. Along with lifeguarding, I somehow managed to squeeze time in for golf. I spent a total of six hours a week with my swing coach spread out over three days each week. I don't know how my coach dealt with me but he did. I also babysat and volunteered at golf tournaments when I could. My weeks were always jammed packed, and I felt incredibly burnt out because of it, but it was worth it at the end of the summer when I had that extra money, and of course, the gorgeous tan that comes with lifeguarding. It felt like sometimes I didn't have enough time to breathe. I was always bouncing around from one thing to another. Looking back, it was an unhealthy amount of busy. I was not present enough for my friends and family, and it still affects me almost four months after the summer ended. At the same time, the people I worked with became family, and the people I golfed with all summer became my biggest motivators and best friends. I would have never imagined how my summer would have unraveled, but I learned that for next year, I am going to try and take it easy on myself.
As school started and the summer tan started to fade, life began to slow down. My days became so much less disorderly. I went and golfed after school until sunset most days, and I missed the sense of calm and comfort I found on the golf course. The stresses of school and homecoming piled up quickly, but I found my place of comfort out on the golf course where I was able to push the anxiety and stress away for awhile.
In November I went to Dallas, Texas for a life changing opportunity provided through the First Tee. I submitted an application in August for a national participant opportunity called "The Innovators Forum" which was a leadership-based camp that would take place in November. Over 350 people in the country get selected to submit an application while only 28 get selected to attend. So, on Sept. 1st in the middle of the Scooter's drive-thru when I opened my email and read the words "Congratulations," I screamed at the top of my lungs. I was filled with pure excitement and joy. I attended the forum, and it was by far the most eye-opening and challenging couple of days. I developed a service project to bring back into my community. I met the most genuine souls and had an absolute blast while there.
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Kinley Freese is a sophomore and a first year staff member for the Statesman. She is a member of LHS Student Council, a basketball manager and plays girls... | and lows but there is no better feeling than improving from those highs and lows. Life is not always pretty, and sometimes it really does hit you like a truck but at the same time, the events you go through can prepare you for what is going to come next.
The beginning months of my year could be labeled as quite chaotic with managing the LHS girls basketball team. With the challenging task of helping the team, I learned the dedication behind being a part of the team while not actually participating in the sport and what being on the sidelines is like instead. My role on the team as a manager was not always the most fun, especially when we lost, but the rewards when we won were indescribable. Being able to go to state and see the team pour their everything into getting there and the preparations for the exciting stage of the state tournament was an experience I didn't think I would ever get. One of the greatest influences I learned from was our JV coach Blake Bradfield who is now the head coach for the RHS girl's basketball team. He treated us managers like we really were a part of the team. He was always a smiling face and an amazing coach to be around. Something that always stood out to me about coach Bradfield was his outstanding persona and how he was always willing to help me out in whatever I was doing. He always thanked us managers after every game win or loss, and for that, I am forever grateful. Thank you LHS girls basketball, and Blake Bradfield; you guys are truly the best and left me with everlasting memories.
After basketball season ended, it was full-swing golf season for me. This was my second year on the LHS girl's golf team and definitely a challenging year in many aspects. The weather played a big part in the outcome of my season. There were a lot of days when I think my hands froze while swinging my golf club but somehow I survived. I won JV tournaments and made many top-five finishes, which was a testament to the amount of work I put in during the off-season. I was a leader on our JV team and a big sister to the underclassmen. That was most definitely the highlight of my season, creating and improving relationships with my many teammates has created such strong bonds and friendships. I had quite a humbling moment while playing, specifically the 10 I took on the last hole of my round which was a par four; while playing my first varsity tournament that season. You would have thought my whole world was crashing down on me by how upset I was with myself after that last hole but in reality, it was not that at all. Now reflecting on that moment, I realize that I was upset because It was my last hole and it is hard to end | 559 |
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Declarations of Interest PDF 42 KB
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To conform the attached Minutes of the meeting of the Committee held on 8 April 2014.
The Minutes of the meeting held on 8 April 2014 were approved as a correct record and signed by the Chairman.
Local Government Pension Scheme 2014 PDF 61 KB
To consider the report (to follow) of the Director of Governance.
163892 - LGPS Discretion Statement - clean copy , item 5. PDF 67 KB
The Director of Governance presented his report on the Local Government Pension Scheme 2014 to the Committee for its consideration. Members' approval was sought for the Pensions Discretion Policy Statement which was required under the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 2013 (the 'Regulations').
On 1 April 2014 the new Local Government Pension Scheme 2014 (LGPS) was introduced requiring all scheme employers to review their existing pension policy statements and publish new policy statements in line with the Regulations. Under Regulation 60 of the LGPS 20<|fim_middle|> final salary pension scheme to a career average scheme;
· Existing rights of current scheme members would be protected;
· Flexible retirement – would allow flexible retirement from age 55;
· Discretion to 'switch on' of 85 Year Rule for 55 – 60 year olds;
· A named adjudicator must be appointed.
Requests under the new scheme would be considered by the Director of Governance, together with the Director of Finance, Housing and Community, in consultation with the Head of EK Human Resources. Any application by a Chief Officer of the Council or a contentious application by an employee would be referred to General Purposes Committee for a decision.
RESOLVED: That the Pension Discretion Policy Statement be approved; and
(a) That the Chief Executive be appointed as the adjudicator for the purposes of Regulation 74 of the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 2013;
(b) That the Director of Governance be authorised to make any necessary minor changes to the Pensions Discretion Policy Statement. | 13, the Council was required to publish and keep under review a written policy statement on how it would apply the discretionary powers in relation to certain provisions of the scheme.
Members were referred to the new policy statement within the report and advised by the Director of Governance of some of the main changes to the scheme:
· The pension scheme would change from | 69 |
". . . your stories drawn from life material must be about more than just the circle of personal experience. "
We are entering an era in our country when responsibility and contribution to the community are taking center stage. Gone are the days of self-absorption. This shift in reality will make its way deeply into the publishing industry, both in terms of the kinds of stories we write (content), and the way in which we tell those stories (style). As writers of Narrative Nonfiction we need to be ready to meet this challenge.
What that means in practical terms is that your stories drawn from life material must be about more than just the circle of personal experience. To reach an audience they must throw out a line and bind private memory and insight with worldly concerns.
Maybe you are writing about your journey to find yourself after a divorce, but during that same period you volunteered at a food pantry. You can weave details of that service into the fabric of your story, linking personal experience to the universal experience of human struggle. In this way you not only write a story that helps make sense of a chaotic period in your life, but you tell a layered story that opens readers' eyes to new ideas.
"By writing about this experience you bring order to the past and assign meaning to those difficult days."
Or perhaps you are writing about the years you helped an aging parent with Alzheimer's. Your memories may be tangled in muddied emotions of confusion and helplessness watching a loved one slip away. By writing about this experience you bring order to the past and assign meaning to those difficult days. But maybe the story can be more, too. By directing<|fim_middle|> lives, but as the market shifts to reflect the Zeitgeist, we would be wise to follow that trend.
Lisa Dale Norton is a regular Authorlink columnist. She is nationally recognized as a writing instructor with a passion for story. Read more about Lisa. | a clear eye toward the realities of medical care or nursing home support and including that in the story, you can help others also walking this path.
"Our stories help us sort out our experience and make sense of our lives."
The bottom line is: Think outside yourself.
We writers of Narrative Nonfiction come to the genre because we are interested in the personal. Our stories help us sort out our experience and make sense of our | 84 |
An imperfect but pleasant introduction to the world of shells
MORE THAN A HOME
by Melissa Stewart ; illustrated by Sarah S. Brannen ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 2, 2019
What is a seashell?
"Every day, seashells wash up on beaches all over Earth, like treasures from a secret world beneath the waves." But how are they alike, and how are they different? How do shells work? What can they do? Accessible and detailed watercolors accompany general, simile-heavy statements elaborated with brief, factual paragraphs and charts of interesting informational tidbits. They explain some of the variations seen in attributes of seashells, including their buoyancy, how they open and close, and some of the different ways that they act as camouflage. The text doesn't provide explicit information about what a mollusk is until the final pages, and the general statements use the word "seashell" interchangeably to describe both the outer shell and the creature within, which sometimes results in inaccuracy. Seashells don't "send out warnings like the signal from a lighthouse," for example; it's the mollusks inside them that do. Still, curious youngsters will find food for thought and have much to ponder and observe as they examine the pages, and they'll have new things to look for the next time they return to the beach.
An imperfect but pleasant introduction to the world of shells . (Informational picture book. 5-8)
Review Posted Online: Jan. 28, 2019
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2019
Categories: CHILDREN'S ANIMALS | CHILDREN'S SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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FOURTEEN MONKEYS
by Melissa Stewart ; illustrated by Steve Jenkins
ICK!
by Melissa Stewart
PIPSQUEAKS, SLOWPOKES, AND STINKERS
by Melissa Stewart ; illustrated by Stephanie Laberis
An unpalatable mess left half-baked by an ill-conceived gimmick.
THERE WAS A BLACK HOLE THAT SWALLOWED THE UNIVERSE
by Chris Ferrie ; illustrated by Susan Batori ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 3, 2019
Modeling a classic nursery song, a black hole does what a black hole does.
Ferrie reverses<|fim_middle|> of further facts arranged as an acrostic.
Phoned-in illustrations keep this quick overview firmly planted on the launch pad. (Informational picture book. 6-8)
Publisher: Tiger Tales
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 2019
Categories: CHILDREN'S SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY | CHILDREN'S TRANSPORTATION
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ONCE UPON A STAR
by James Carter ; illustrated by Mar Hernández | the song's customary little-to-large order and shows frequent disregard for such niceties as actual rhymes and regular metrics. Also playing fast and loose with internal logic, she tracks a black hole as it cumulatively chows down, Pac-Man–style, on the entire universe, then galaxies ("It left quite a cavity after swallowing that galaxy"), stars, planets, cells, molecules, atoms, neutrons, and finally the ultimate: "There was a black hole that swallowed a quark. / That's all there was. / And now it's dark." Then, in a twist that limits the audience for this feature to aging hippies and collectors of psychedelic posters, the author enjoins viewers to turn a black light (not supplied) onto the pages and flip back through for "an entirely different story." What that might be, or even whether a filtered light source would work as well as a UV bulb, is left to anybody's guess. The black hole and most of its victims sport roly-poly bodies and comically dismayed expressions in Batori's cartoon illustrations—the universe in its entirety goes undepicted, unsurprisingly, and the quark never does appear, in the visible spectrum at least. This anthropomorphization adds a slapstick element that does nothing to pull the physics and the premise together.
An unpalatable mess left half-baked by an ill-conceived gimmick. (Picture book. 6-8)
Publisher: Sourcebooks eXplore
Review Posted Online: July 28, 2019
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 2019
Categories: CHILDREN'S SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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by Chris Ferrie
PRANKLAB
by Wade David Fairclough & Chris Ferrie & Byrne LaGinestra ; illustrated by Wade David Fairclough
GERM THEORY FOR BABIES
by Chris Ferrie & Neal Goldstein & Joanna Suder ; illustrated by Chris Ferrie
Phoned-in illustrations keep this quick overview firmly planted on the launch pad.
THE BIG BEYOND
THE STORY OF SPACE TRAVEL
by James Carter ; illustrated by Aaron Cushley ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, 2019
A capsule history of space exploration, from early stargazing to probes roaming the surface of Mars.
In loosely rhymed couplets Carter's high-speed account zooms past the inventions of constellations, telescopes, and flying machines to the launches of Sputnik I, the "Saturn Five" (spelled out, probably, to facilitate the rhyme) that put men on the moon, and later probes. He caps it all with an enticing suggestion: "We'll need an astronaut (or two)— / so what do you think? Could it be YOU?" Cushley lines up a notably diverse array of prospective young space travelers for this finish, but anachronistic earlier views of a dark-skinned astronaut floating in orbit opposite poetic references to the dogs, cats, and other animals sent into space in the 1950s and a model of the space shuttle on a shelf next to a line of viewers watching the televised moon landing in 1969 show no great regard for verisimilitude. Also, his full-page opening picture of the Challenger, its ports painted to look like a smiley face, just moments before it blew up is a decidedly odd choice to illustrate the poem's opening countdown. As with his cosmological lyric Once upon a Star (2018, illustrated by Mar Hernández), the poet closes with a page | 747 |
BUCKET Warehouse have completed the relocation to their new Milton Keynes premises, as part of their plans to service both local, national and international business.
The new European headquarters in Milton Keynes boasts two large fully stocked warehouses with hundreds of ready-made attachments available for next-day delivery, as well as an increased factory facility with new plasma cutting tables and welding equipment to cater for custom requirements.
General manager Hugo Jolliffe said: 'The move into our new premises has helped hugely by increasing productivity and shortening lead times. We are focusing our efforts in 2017, to grow our level of ready-made stock, in order to offer customers<|fim_middle|> a part of an international group based in both the UK and Norway. | the shortest-possible delivery times.
The company is also currently in the process of recruiting MIG welders to join the team in Milton Keynes, most of whom will handle the larger custom-made projects, including many of the popular 20-tonne-plus rock buckets exported to Norway each year.
Hardlife (UK) Ltd, who trade as Bucket Warehouse in the UK, are | 76 |
The mobile monetization firm Button announced Wednesday it had raised a $20 million Series B round, led by Norwest Venture Partners.
The investment, which brings Button's total funding to $36.5 million<|fim_middle|> among Button's network. | , will go largely toward expanding Button's headcount as the startup looks to tack on new products in fledgling verticals like travel booking and media companies.
Button facilitates deep-linking to generate inventory for mobile publishers. For instance, it powers Foursquare's ability to funnel users to Uber. Button also helps publishers like Huffington Post and Condé Nast Traveler sell deep-link buttons to Jet.com or Hotels.com if that person or piece of content shows any relevant intent.
Norwest's investment portfolio includes Walmart's Jet.com (already a Button partner), coupon distribution network RetailMeNot, programmatic travel marketing shop Sojern and the DSP Turn.
As Button adds more partners, it will have to refine its instant analysis to determines how best to render inventory.
"There's a big investment in the machine learning behind that product," said Button co-founder and CEO Michael Jaconi.
Button will also try to fix the "metasearch" process. This issue – a bugbear of the travel vertical – is that users often do multiple searches between looking for a flight or hotel and actually booking, which can lead to lost buyers or rival services poaching the customer.
Button also plans to begin working on auction dynamics so partners in its marketplace don't need to hammer out integrations and could supplement performance commissions with revenue from inventory or user bids | 269 |
"Of course, I am mainly here because of the Floral Hall", says Claudia Hoffmann, smiling, with a bouquet of flowers in her hand. She is the 200,000th visitor to the International Green Week 2018, and although she now<|fim_middle|> latest edition of the organic magazine "BioErleben". | works as a dental technician, "my first profession was that of florist." The bouquet is beautiful, and the fair organisers are pleased to receive some professional praise. Of course, as she admits, she is also here because of the food. She happily poses for a photograph with Felix Prince of Löwenstein, chairman of the Association of the Ecological Food Industry. Finally she also received a box of gifts from the National Ecological Cultivation Programme (BÖLN), containing Hofpfisterei bread, spelt noodles, a red wine by the name "Chefsache", a red sparkling wine and also beer, Kalahari salt and tomato juice. As reading matter there was a guide to ecological camping sites and the | 147 |
12 Appold Street provides an opportunity to acquire a high quality fitted out floor in the heart of EC2. The office benefits from an abundance of natural light, through the floor to ceiling glazing along one side of the office. A meeting room and private office, currently in situ, benefit the large open plan office which offers an efficient floor plate to cater for a variety of occupiers.
A wealth of breakout space is provided through the large kitchen, isolated from the office floor.
12 Appold Street benefits from its close proximity to Liverpool Street station and Broadgate Circle which offers a wide array of dining and leisure amenities in the immediate vicinity.
Transport links are excellent, with Liverpool Street<|fim_middle|> national rail services and the Central line. | less than a minute walk away, offering national rail services and extensive underground links including the Central, Circle, Hammersmith and City and Metropolitan Line. Moorgate station is under a 10 minute walk away providing | 44 |
U.S. Department of Education Announces New Pay for Success Grant Competition for Preschool
Contact: Press Office, (202) 401-1576, press@ed.gov
The U.S. Department of Education announced today the availability of $2.8 million for a Preschool Pay for Success grant competition for state, local and tribal governments interested in exploring the feasibility of Pay for Success to expand and improve early learning. The feasibility studies will determine if this model is an effective strategy to implement preschool programs that are high-quality and yield meaningful results.
"We have made great strides in improving the quality of early learning and expanding access through investments like the Preschool Development Grants and the Race to the Top—Early Learning Challenge grants," U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. said. "Yet, we need to build on these efforts and do more for our nation's youngest learners. These new grants are one way to answer the question of how we can do a better job to make sure we provide access to high-quality preschool and ensure it's available to our kids most at risk. It also provides an opportunity to focus on long-term evidence of effectiveness and to bring in our state and local partners, along with private and philanthropic investments, to test new ideas, develop new solutions, improve the quality of early learning and further improve outcomes for our most vulnerable children."
Goals of the Pilot
The grant program supports initiatives which are based on evidence; focus on outcomes; and improve early, elementary, secondary and postsecondary education, while generating savings for taxpayers. The studies will identify a broad range of measures designed to demonstrate improved student outcomes; potential cost savings to school districts, local governments and states; and general benefits to society.
Potential outcome measures may include:
Later improved social and emotional skills
Improved executive functioning
Reduction in grade retention and in the need for later special education
Reduction in discipline referrals, and interactions with law enforcement
Increases in high school graduation.
The ultimate aim of the pilot is to improve early learning outcomes through a future high-quality Pay for Success project by providing grants for feasibility<|fim_middle|>, 2016, and applications are due on Oct. 6, 2016. Grants will be awarded before Dec. 31, 2016.
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Find By Month | studies. However, the pilot does not fund the implementation of preschool services. Preschool programs that are the focus of these feasibility studies must be inclusive of children with disabilities and the Pilot will also establish safeguards to protect the rights of children with disabilities to ensure that they receive the services they need.
The completed studies will be shared publicly to help other communities interested in pursuing this work to decide if it is right for them.
What is Pay for Success?
Across the country, interest continues to grow in the Pay for Success model for preschool financing. The model leverages philanthropic and private dollars—through innovative contracting and financing—that seek to test and advance promising and proven interventions, while paying only for successful impacts and outcomes for families, children, and communities.
Through a Pay for Success project, a government or other entity enters into a contract to pay a service provider for the achievement of concrete, measurable outcomes for specific people or communities. Service providers deliver interventions to achieve these outcomes and payments are made only if the interventions achieve those outcomes agreed upon in advance.
Communities where it is difficult or not possible to secure new or additional government resources may choose to pursue a preschool Pay for Success project as a short-term strategy to finance the immediate costs of providing preschool services or as one strategy to promote more effective investments of public dollars. A feasibility study is an important first step to establish whether Pay for Success is a viable opportunity that will provide benefits to the community.
However, while these innovative strategies are important, they are not a substitute for local, state and federal support for large-scale expansion of early education.
Funding for Pay for Success
The pilot is funded through FY16 Preschool Development Grant program, which is jointly administered with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. There will be between 7 and 14 grantees, with awards ranging from $200,000 to $400,000.
Invest in the future
Expanding access to high-quality early education is among the smartest investments that we can make as a country. That's why over the last three years, President Obama has called upon Congress to expand access to high-quality preschool for every child in America, proposing investments that support a continuum of early learning opportunities, beginning at birth and continuing to age five. His 2017 budget proposal includes expanding high-quality early learning programs through two key programs:
$350 million for Preschool Development Grants, an increase of $100 million over the FY 2016 funding level, to help states lay the foundation for universal public preschool.
$75 billion over 10 years for the Preschool for All proposal to provide universal high-quality preschool programs for all 4-year-olds from low- and moderate-income families.
High-quality preschool is a critical means of expanding educational equity and opportunity by giving every child a strong start. Studies show that attending high-quality early education can result in children building a solid foundation for achieving the academic, health and social outcomes that are of benefit to individual families and to the country as a whole. Children who attend these programs are more likely to do well in school, find good jobs and succeed in their careers than those who don't. And they are less likely to drop out of high school, have interactions with the criminal justice system or experience teen pregnancy. Research has shown that taxpayers receive a high average return on investments in high-quality early childhood education relative to a number of other interventions—particularly those made later in a child's development—with savings in areas like improved educational outcomes, increased labor productivity and a reduction in crime.
The Notice Inviting Applications for the pilot is available in the Federal Register. The deadline for submitting an intent to apply notice is Sept. 12 | 758 |
Lower School (equivalent to Years 7 and 8)
Lower School is very much a 'school within a school'. We appreciate that the move from primary school to secondary school can be a bit daunting so we make sure our Lower School retains a small, friendly feel to it where every boy is known - right from the outset.
There are around 65 boys in each year and Lower School has its own character, environment and atmosphere. The new houseroom has proved a tremendous success with a games room and study hall solely for the use of first and second year boys.
Heading up the Lower School is Adam Jenkins, the Lower School Housemaster. Adam was himself a pupil at Abingdon - a few years ago now! - joining from a small primary school, so he understands very well what the move to secondary school feels like for the boys.
There are three tutor groups in each year group and the boys see their tutor every day, meaning that the tutors get to know every boy in their care very quickly and are always there for any questions or queries they may have over their first two years at Abingdon. The boys spend most academic lessons with their tutor group so they also get to know each other quickly.
Two induction days are organised for boys joining the first year before the start of term in September, giving them the chance to explore the campus, meet their Housemaster and tutor, and start developing new friendships.
To further help the settling in process, each first year boy is paired up with a second year 'mentor' who he meets up with on a regular basis. There are also a group of lower sixth formers appointed to be Lower School Assistants who organise activities for the first years. These older pupils are ideally placed to provide the boys with any help they need as they get to know the school.
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Take a virtual tour of the Lower School Houseroom
The Lower School curriculum
Be the best you can be programme
The Baker Award
Other Half activities
Lower School Housemaster
Adam Jenkins
Adam was a pupil at Abingdon from 1986-1993, having previously attended a local village primary school. After studying for a Classics degree at Bristol University, he returned to Abingdon as a Classics teacher in 1999, becoming Lower School Housemaster in 2001. As well as organising Other Half activities for Lower School boys and the School's bellringing club, Adam runs The Moldova Project which sees groups of sixth formers visiting Eastern Europe each summer to run camps for disadvantaged children. He enjoys singing and bellringing and is also somewhat obsessed with Star Wars! He is currently Chair of Governors at Carswell Primary School in Abingdon.
email: adam.jenkins@abingdon.org.uk
Lower School Tutors
2G: Mr Peter Moore 2M: Mrs Su McRae 2P: Mr Hugh Price
1C: Mrs Samantha Coull 1H: Dr Rebecca Howe 1J: Mr Andrew Jamison
Lower School Parental Feedback
What our parents say:
"Our son has absolutely flourished in his first year at Abingdon. Having joined from a village primary school, the wealth of new experiences offered, both academically and through the Other Half activities, has seen his confidence shoot through the roof."
"When our son visited Abingdon for the first time he described it as 'warmer' than anywhere else he had visited, and we are delighted to have found that to be true."
"Our son has thoroughly enjoyed his time in Lower School. He's been nurtured and encouraged by kind and supportive staff and is now ready for the next step."
"My son has thrived in his first year at Abingdon and has loved the entire experience."
"Both our sons have successively loved every minute of their lower school life, and we could not be more delighted with the care and devotion given by all teachers."
"With an unrivalled deftness, Mr Jenkins settles the boys and their parents into their new school environment. His swift, orderly thought and care quells all and every query and anxiety. He is the jewel in the crown of Lower School."
"The boys are given a huge amount of support to help them to settle into life at Abingdon."
"My son regularly comes home buzzing about his day after having the opportunity to hear an inspirational speaker, "be your best programme" or after having tried a new sport or just after having enjoyed interesting stimulating lessons." | about Lower School or would like to know more, please contact Adam Jenkins adam.jenkins@abing | 20 |
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(b) although having such a reasonable suspicion or acting in the course of a bona fide inquiry, they go beyond providing an opportunity and induce the commission of an offence.
The law of entrapment in Canada is intended to<|fim_middle|> reasonable suspicion. The inquiry must consider the constellation of objectively discernable facts that are said to give the investigating officer reasonable cause to suspect that an individual is involved in the type of criminal activity under investigation. This inquiry must be fact-based, flexible, and grounded in common sense and practical, everyday experience. A police officer's grounds for reasonable suspicion can't be assessed in isolation. | prevent the police from attracting someone who is not already involved in criminal activity into committing a crime by offering an opportunity to commit a criminal act. This is known as random virtue-testing. When determining whether the police engaged in random virtue-testing, the police conduct must be assessed for its reasonableness.
Reasonable suspicion is a low standard to meet and requires proof that the individual targeted is possibly engaged in criminal activity. It is something more than a mere suspicion and something less than a belief based on reasonable and probably grounds. The facts must support the suspicion and allow for an independent judicial assessment. It is important to consider the totality of circumstances when assessing the existence of | 132 |
Chaos Theory/
At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity /
At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
Author: Stuart Kauffman
Publication Date: Sep 7, 1995
Formats: PDF,Hardcover,Kindle,Paperback
Publisher: American Psychological Association / Oxford University Press
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A major scientific revolution has begun, a new paradigm that
rivals Darwin's theory in importance. At its heart is the discovery of
the order that lies deep within the most complex of systems, from the
origin of life, to the workings of giant corporations, to the rise and
fall of great civilizations. And more than anyone else, this revolution
is the work of one man, Stuart Kauffman, a MacArthur Fellow and
visionary pioneer of the new science of complexity. Now, in At Home
in the Universe, Kauffman brilliantly weaves together the
excitement of intellectual discovery and a fertile mix of insights to
give the general reader a fascinating look at this new science--and at
the forces for order that lie at the edge of chaos.
We all know of
instances of spontaneous order in nature--an oil droplet in water forms a
sphere, snowflakes have a six-fold symmetry. What we are only now
discovering, Kauffman says, is that the range of spontaneous order is
enormously greater than we had supposed. Indeed, self-organization is a
great undiscovered principle of nature. But how does this spontaneous
order arise? Kauffman contends that complexity itself triggers
self-organization, or what he calls "order for free," that if enough
different molecules pass a certain threshold of complexity, they begin
to self-organize into a new entity--a living cell. Kauffman uses the
analogy of a thousand buttons on a rug--join two buttons randomly with
thread, then another two, and so on. At first, you have isolated pairs;
later, small clusters; but suddenly at around the 500th repetition, a
remarkable transformation occurs--much like the phase transition when
water abruptly turns to ice--and the buttons link up in one giant
network. Likewise, life may have originated when the mix of different
molecules in the primordial soup passed a certain level of complexity
and self-organized into living entities (if so, then life is not a
highly improbable chance event, but almost inevitable). Kauffman uses
the basic insight of "order for free" to illuminate a staggering range
of phenomena. We see how a single-celled embryo can grow to a highly
complex organism with over two hundred different cell types. We learn
how the science of complexity extends Darwin's theory of evolution by
natural selection: that self-organization, selection, and chance are the<|fim_middle|>, economic
systems, and even cultural systems may all evolve according to similar
general laws, that tissues and terra cotta evolve in similar ways. And
finally, there is a profoundly spiritual element to Kauffman's thought.
If, as he argues, life were bound to arise, not as an incalculably
improbable accident, but as an expected fulfillment of the natural
order, then we truly are at home in the universe.
Kauffman's earlier
volume, The Origins of Order, written for specialists,
received lavish praise. Stephen Jay Gould called it "a landmark and a
classic." And Nobel Laureate Philip Anderson wrote that "there are few
people in this world who ever ask the right questions of science, and
they are the ones who affect its future most profoundly. Stuart Kauffman
is one of these." In At Home in the Universe, this visionary
thinker takes you along as he explores new insights into the nature of
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If you own a slow cooker and happen to have some plain yogurt hiding in the back of your fridge along with some milk, you're in luck! You can take<|fim_middle|> only takes up three chunks of time throughout the day (2 1/2 hours, 3 hours, 8 hours). I love being able to eliminate two items off my monthly grocery list – sour cream AND yogurt. My brood loves yogurt and typically consumes about 12-24 ounces a day. I could easily spend more than $20/month on flavored yogurt, so it's a blessing that I can make it from scratch for a fraction of the price and still have yummy flavored yogurt.
8 C. (half-gallon) of whole milk or 2%- pasteurized and homogenized is fine, but do NOT use ultra-pasteurized.
Step 1Pour milk into slow cookerPour 8 C. milk into the slow cooker and heat on low setting for 2 1/2 hours.
Step 2Unplug slow cookerUnplug the slow cooker, leave the cover on, and let sit for 3 hours.
Step 3After 3 hours have passedAfter 3 hours have passed, scoop out 2 C. of the warm milk and pour into a bowl. Whisk in 1/2 C. live/active culture plain yogurt along with the 1/2 C. powdered milk. After combined, dump back into the crockpot and stir to combine with the rest of the milk.
Step 4Wrap with towelReplace lid (leaving unplugged!) and wrap a heavy bath towel all the way around the slow cooker for insulation. Let set for 8 hours.
Step 5Strain out wheyTo make either Greek yogurt or Yo-cheese, pour the finished yogurt into a strainer lined with cheese cloth or a thin linen napkin/towel that is placed over a large bowel to catch the whey. Place inside the refrigerator until enough whey has been strained off to reach the consistency you desire.
Step 6Blend with flavorsBlend with your favorite fruit flavors for fruit yogurts or add spices to your Yo-cheese and spread on crackers for a yummy snack.
Step 7Store in refrigeratorStore in containers in the refrigerator for 7-10 days. Set aside 1/2 C. in a separate container to use as your starter for your next batch of yogurt. | the dwindling remains of your yogurt and multiply it into a fresh batch of plain yogurt to be further changed into Greek yogurt, sour cream or a variation of cream cheese (aka Yo-cheese). The health benefits are substantial and the ways to use homemade yogurt are only limited by your lack of imagination.
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Church trades worship for service in 'Doing Good Friday'
For churches in many denominations, Good Friday services are often the most dramatic, the most meaningful – and the least-attended.
So for their first "Doing Good Friday," parishioners at Winfield Grace UMC spent March 30 making improvements to their church, neighborhood and city<|fim_middle|> the church's pastor. "We were trying to decide how to go a different way to go about it."
About 60 church members – about triple the attendance for last year's Good Friday services, Andrews said – fanned out throughout the south central Kansas community. Some cleaned yards, some delivered the cookie supply for the rest of the year to the elementary school the church sponsors. Some cleaned along the trail by Southwestern College, Grace UMC's neighbor.
Others stayed at the church, painting the front steps or cleaning up in the Sensory Garden on the church grounds.
Many Southwestern students were among the volunteers, with generations working together on projects.
"This is a reflection of the local church, so to do that is always our goal," Andrews said. "Any time we can bring SC in, it's important."
One of those Southwestern students was Rebeca Dominguez, a freshman who worked in the Sensory Garden.
"It's a good opportunity to serve and do something for the community," said Dominguez, a graduate of Lydia Patterson Institute in El Paso, Texas.
"Sometimes as a student you only focus on your grades, your assignments, your friends. This seems like a really good experience."
The college students were among those working with different generations, including Lynne Hunter, who said the six-year-old Sensory Garden – built on the site of a former parsonage and including nature-based play area for preschoolers – got some much-needed upkeep.
"This is wonderful," Hunter said. "I love the concept of 'Doing Good Friday,' and I'm really thankful for these college students. They've been great."
Andrews said "Doing Good Friday" would likely be continued for a second year, given the growing enthusiasm about the project.
"It gives us a chance to focus on Christ and his invitation for us to serve others," she said. "That's the gift of the local church."
Contact David Burke, communications coordinator, at dburke@greatplainsumc.org. | .
"We all know those midweek services are not exactly thriving," said the Rev. Lora Andrews, in her fourth year as | 26 |
Could Facebook Messenger Be The Next Trading Platform?
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Facebook announced in April that is going all in on chatbots as a tool to engage consumers and give businesses new tools to reach them. Its chatbot platform, it hopes, will spawn an ecosystem of developers who will find a variety of use cases to make bots better and then develop apps for the Apple and Android ecosystems. Essentially, what this means is that Facebook has opened up Messenger with a set of tools for any developer that wants to build itself a chatbot.
The overall goal is to enable companies to better connect consumers to their platforms, which is where AJ Bell's trading service would come into the mix. Huckle explained in the interview that the | 159 |
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A Narrative Future for Healthcare: Conference Report by Deborah Bowman, Trisha Greenhalgh and Jonathon Tomlinson
Published by medh on June 26, 2013 June 26, 2013
This conference report was invited by editors of the Centre for Medical Humanities blog in order to share with a wider audience the ideas and discussions prompted by one of the major international conferences in our field. It was written by Deborah Bowman Professor of Bioethics, Clinical Ethics and Medical Law at St George's Medical School, in collaboration with Trisha Greenhalgh, Professor of Primary Health Care and Co-Director, Global Health, Policy and Innovation Unit at the Blizzard Institute (and co-editor of the seminal text Narrative Based Medicine) and Jonathon Tomlinson, NHS GP. By tweeting highlights, provocations and insights from the conference live via twitter, Deborah, Tricia and Jonathon have already started a dialogue about this important meeting (captured in this storify) which we hope, by inviting comments on this fantastic conference report, to continue here…
A Narrative Future for Healthcare: Conference Report
Last week, several hundred people gathered at Kings College, London for a conference entitled A Narrative Future for Healthcare. The co-organisers, Rita Charon of Columbia University and Brian Hurwitz of Kings College, are leaders in the field and it was under their stewardship that the conference took place. It was a meeting that also marked the launch of an International Network for those working or interested in, narrative and healthcare.
The programme was wide-ranging and delegates were offered an extensive menu of parallel sessions including workshops, poetry readings and performances as well as the more traditional conference fare of papers and presentations. The break-out sessions were punctuated with plenary and keynote addresses, mostly from the 'big names' in narrative medicine, but occasionally (and often most successfully) by those outside the academic<|fim_middle|> was little opportunity built into the structure for conversation and co-creation of new ( and perhaps "better") stories . If our consultations , teams, and organisations are to become more "narrative" we need to ensure that we allow everyone the option to engage. This conference predominately reproduced the academic meta-narrative and I felt that the "real" conference or conversation was only just beginning at the end of the break out sessions …( workshops exempted ) ….Lets be brave, take risks and see what happens on a the "edge of chaos" – there are some different models out there ( Open Space, Appreciative Inquiry , story walls etc ) that might enable interesting things to happen…. Next conference ( and there will I am sure be a next one….) lets co-create a new meta-narrative of the way we can do conferencing.
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On Knowledge in the Medical Humanities: Reflections from the Association of Medical Humanities Conference in Sofia, Bulgaria (27-29 June, 2018)
Maryam Golafshani writes: Last week I attended the Association of Medical Humanities' annual conference. The conference was hosted at the Medical University of Sofia, Bulgaria with the theme of 'Shadows and Ashes' derived from the Read more… | ivory towers – such as the multiple prize-winning illustrator and artist, David Small, who said of his dark, graphic memoir Stitches "by making the story silent I wanted the reader to do the work that I had to do". He was the first, but not the only speaker to quote from The Gospel of Thomas, "If you bring forth what is within you, what you have will save you. If you do not bring it forth, what you do not have within you will kill you." Peter Carey engaged the audience with a witty, sharp and thought-provoking insight into how he creates, or more accurately perhaps, discovers, loses and then rediscovers the narratives of his novels.
The parallel sessions offered an exceptionally broad menu of papers covering the various forms in which narratives are constructed, shared and interpreted, philosophical considerations of narrative medicine, practices and tools for incorporating narrative into healthcare education and practice and experiential workshops particularly in writing, reading and the visual arts. Each day, faculty members from Columbia University offered opportunities for participants to experience their particular approach to close reading and narrative writing. These sessions, whilst short, were rich and memorable, due in no small part to the skilful facilitation and small group size.
In the workshop I (Deborah) attended, led by Craig Irvine, we studied the poem A Green Crab's Shell by Mark Doty. After demonstrating and practising a close reading method, we explored the poem as a group before using one of the lines in the text as a prompt for our own writing. This was free writing i.e. unpolished, instinctive, time-limited and raw. Yet, as we shared our work with each other, unique perspectives, unexpected richness and memorable phrases filled the room. With sensitive facilitation from Craig, it felt like an extraordinary experience; all the more so for happening in an airless breakout room after a long day of unforgiving conference scheduling had taken its toll.
The plenary sessions were where the notion of narrative was most rigorously considered and distilled. Catherine Belling interrogated claims of authority, authenticity and the body's narration offering a thoughtful perspective on the parallels between torture and healthcare relationships and experiences by way of Hamlet, the Fox television series '24' and perceptions of hypochondria. In a memorable phrase, Belling proposed that meaningful therapeutic relationships and effective clinical practice depend on both 'the rule book' and 'the story book': 'the story book is to the rule book what autonomy is to bureaucracy.'
Havi Carel offered a carefully reasoned and eloquently articulated analysis of epistemic injustice and illness, demonstrating the ways in which illness and its interpretation changes and marginalises people. Carel described (drawing on the work of Miranda Fricker) four types of epistemic injustice, namely: i) Testimonial; ii) Hermeneutic; iii) Participatory Prejudice and iv) Informational Prejudice demonstrating, with examples, the ways in which organisations, social structures and individuals can all, consciously or not, disregard or diminish someone's testimony and experience. Thus it is, argued Carel, that patients become the object of healthcare rather than participants in their own care, whilst epistemic privilege is afforded to, and enacted by, healthcare professionals who choose which accounts and interpretations are most persuasive. As Havi spoke, I was reminded of a notorious example of epistemic injustice courtesy of Humpty Dumpty's exchange with Alice in Alice Through the Looking Glass in which she suggests "the question is…whether you can make words mean so many different things.". In response, Humpty Dumpty counters,"the question is . . .which is to be master—that's all." Havi Carel concluded by explaining the possibilities of a phenomenological toolkit to support discussions about and choices in healthcare.
Ann Jurecic began the final day of the conference with a presentation that, probably, scored highest on the audience clap-o-meter; and deservedly so. Her contribution was scholarly, personal, analytical, applied and communicated with enormous warmth and humility. Ann began the session by proposing that narrative-informed practice provides space, be it physical, intellectual, emotional or otherwise, to contemplate, to learn, to be surprised and to nurture new connections. It was at this point that the importance of listening and learning was given proper attention. Until Ann spoke, there had been much about constructing, discerning and sharing stories, but little explicit consideration of listening as inherent to meaningful narrative practice. And, it is not only the act of listening, but also the intent of the listener, that matters in narrative practice, she argued. Thus she distinguished narrative from the critical disposition of literary analysis. Reading by the narrative scholar is conducted in a spirit of openness, care and curiosity rather than as a 'suspicious' exercise in which the text is interrogated, deconstructed and often found wanting. That is not to say that Ann Jureicic's approach lacks rigour. On the contrary, it is careful, even painstaking, requiring effort, close attention and thoughtfulness. She bought to the audience' attention the transformative potential of writing by example of Foucault's notebooks. It is, she concluded, a life-long endeavour and requires commitment and habits of mind that inform and enhance not only narrative practice but clinical work too.
By the final day, a more reflective and questioning mood took hold. Whilst, much of what had been presented was inspiring, there had been, on occasion, a fevered belief in what some described as the 'narrative movement' that was reminiscent of evangelism. Claims sometimes appeared to be made on the basis of faith and, as is common with faith-based claims, they were occasionally exaggerated and difficult to challenge. Conversations with scholars of literature, history and semiotics over coffee hinted at another potential difficulty: might medicine, traditionally so magpie-like in its selection of theory, ideas, knowledge and skills, be embarked on a well-intentioned, but perhaps naïve colonisation exercise lacking depth and misrepresenting vast swathes of academic work by generations of scholars who have been immersed in 'narrative' for centuries?
The other striking absence at the conference was narrative itself. It seemed that there was, amongst the majority of presenters, a curious paucity of trust in the power of narrative to speak for itself, unembellished, without analysis, interpretation or interrogation. Although, John Launer and then Arthur Frank warned us not to undermine others capacity to know themselves. A lot of people were talking about and talking up the concept of narrative, but aside from the poets, no one seemed ready to put narrative itself centre-stage. Unwittingly perhaps, but the conference appeared to be at risk of replicating that which the prevailing rhetoric most abhorred, namely representing and analysing a narrative without allowing the text and story to speak for themselves. So when Phil Thomas stood up in a parallel session entitled 'Narrative and the Future of Psychiatry' and read us the story of 'The Little Red Alpha', it was more than welcome and served as a lesson, more eloquent than any academic discussion, of the unique capacity of narrative to bear witness, capture multiple meanings and forge connections.
The closing session, probably understandably, was a rallying call by a giant in the world of narrative: Art Frank. In an emotional and impassioned presentation, he explored the history of narrative in healthcare, his fundamental belief in its unique value and argued that not only are stories integral to the future of healthcare, but stories are what create the future for us all. He bought our attention to the importance of 'amplification and connection' – our moral duties, captured by the word 'témoignage' used by the emergency medical aid charity founded by journalists and doctors, Medecins Sans Frontieres. Temoinage means bearing witness and speaking out.
It was a message that touched many and several pockets of the room rose to their feet in a standing ovation. Thus it was that the conference ended on a note of resounding optimism and avowed commitment to the cause.
Several days after the conference has ended, we have all reflected on the experience. I (Deborah) found much of immense value in the sessions I attended, but I confess that I do feel somewhat discomforted by the unquestioning belief and occasional proselytising that seeped out from a number of the claims made for narrative medicine. Whilst I celebrate the diversity and intersectional nature of a field that draws on many disciplines, I wonder if many of the concepts and ideas could as readily be viewed through other academic lenses.
For example, much of the character-based traits described as inherent to narrative practice, could have been conceptualised as virtue ethics. (Though is virtue ethics closely related to narrative ethics?) I have questions too about the predominantly positive claims made for narrative. The predominant narrative of suffering and vulnerability that was evident in most sessions can be constraining, myopic and diminishing. Fortunately, Terry Tracy was one of the more provocative presenters, announcing her political motives at the beginning of her presentation and getting a cheer from the floor for quoting provocateur Angela Woods. She convincingly challenged the dominant illness narrative of suffering and becoming with a disability narrative of survival and being. On more than one occasion, people became visibly upset or emotional in sessions and the presenter or facilitator appeared unsure how to respond and, in one case, reacted by making an ill-judged 'joke'. If we are to invite people to share their stories, we have to be sure we honour those stories sensitively. The capacity for unintentional, but nonetheless painful, damage seemed to me to be considerable. Secondly, the socio-political context of health and illness was rarely mentioned. Whilst the systemic influences on how healthcare is experienced and delivered were often offered as a reason for why it is difficult to take a narrative approach with individual patients, the meta-narratives of the healthcare system and the medical profession were not considered in sessions I attended.
Finally, it would be a shame if narrative medicine were to become dominated by the medical perspective. The diversity of backgrounds and the range of interests of delegates were the conference's greatest asset: namely, literary theorists, artists, poets and discourse analysts were welcome grist in the medical mill. It is vital that diversity is nurtured and to do so may require some humility. It was also inspiring to see a strong showing of Masters and PhD students, some of whom were giving their first presentations. Their work was at varying stages of progression but was consistently imaginative, thorough and carefully presented. To be open to the limits as well as the possibilities of narrative, to listen to, and learn from, the scholars who have been working with narrative their whole careers, to be careful and to resist the temptation to claim that this is concept or 'movement' is a universal panacea for all that ails medicine. Narrative is too interesting, too exciting, too complex and too nuanced to style itself prematurely as the hero of its own story.
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abetternhs · June 26, 2013 at 9:56 am
Storify link to my tweets from the conference: http://storify.com/mellojonny/a-narrative-future-for-healthcare
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Sarah Divall · June 29, 2013 at 8:37 am
It was a fantastic conference and a good start to a Narrative Future but I agree there | 2,374 |
Gibbs Street Gallery at VisArts Presents Heather Harvey Feynman's Sister and Other Space Weather Hazards
By Editorial Team on October 16, 2015
Wed, 14 October 2015 - Sun, 15 November 2015
Photo courtesy of VisArts.
Opening Reception: Friday, October 16 from 7pm to 9pm
The playful poetics of Harvey's exhibition in the Gibbs Street Gallery at VisArts combines a youthful exuberance for scientific discovery, with the sober ordering intelligence of a well-trained scientist, undergirded with an ethical inquiry into invisible and often coercive social and familial infrastructures. The installation is informed by the life and research of astrophysicist Joan Feynman who is the younger sister of Nobel Prize winning, Richard. Both siblings exhibited an early facility for science, but Joan's life trajectory was more circuitous than her brother's and markedly constrained by her gender. She nevertheless succeeded in making substantial contributions to our understanding of solar weather and its impact on earth, including the Aurora Phenomenon.
Allusions to Joan Feynman's research and life wend their way through the installation. For example, Harvey includes the original edition of Astronomy the college textbook 14 year-old Joan studied (this text was a birthday gift from her ever-encouraging college-aged brother). Also incorporated is the life-changing illustration by female scientist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. A young Joan stumbled onto this graphic, which for her signaled that women could indeed be successful scientists despite what she had been told. The installation is a playfully explosive though systematically ordered collection of found objects that Harvey gleans during her daily walking art practice. It is marked both by resilient jouissance in response to the sheer beauty and complexity of the physical world, yet measured and mitigated by the inescapable limitations meted out to each of us through the particularities of birthright and fate.
The exhibition title alludes to Virginia Woolf's fictional character, Judith, in A Room of One's Own. Woolf meditates on the fate of "Shakespeare's Sister" who had all of the brilliance but none of the social support that her brother enjoyed.
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Greg Koch of Stone Brewing Co.
By: Jay Brooks
Greg Koch at Stone's Berlin location.
As the one-day "Sensory Evaluation of Beer" class began, students filed into the UC Davis classroom. Homebrewer Steve Wagner, who'd spent the better part of the 1980s playing music, primarily with the I.R.S. Records-signed band "The Balancing Act," looked around the room and thought he recognized someone. Wagner walked up to the familiar face and asked him, "Aren't you Greg Koch from Downtown Rehearsal?"
That was the early 90s, and by 1996, the two musicians opened Stone Brewing Co. in San Diego County, which today is the eighth-largest craft brewery in America, based on sales volume, and the 14th biggest brewery of any kind. Stone operates two breweries in the<|fim_middle|>ifties-style movie poster was created showing a woman screaming in terror with the tagline: "The Night Ketchup Attacked."
During the same period, Stone Brewing added a warehouse, and expanded their own distribution into the LA area. They also opened a restaurant and pub in the San Diego airport, in Terminal 2 (2013), a dedicated space on the fifth floor of Petco Park between Sections 307 and 309 (2014), and Stone Farms (2010), a 19-acre farm, which grows hops and organic produce and offers live music periodically during the warmer season.
In 2011, Greg authored two books, the first, "The Craft of Stone Brewing Co.: Liquid Lore, Epic Recipes, and Unabashed Arrogance," was about his brewery and was co-written with business partner Steve Wagner. The second, "The Brewer's Apprentice: An Insider's Guide to the Art and Craft of Beer Brewing, Taught by the Masters," was co-written with freelance beer writer Matt Allyn, and was more of a collection of advice from luminaries of the beer industry teaching readers how to brew and open a brewery.
Greg Koch had always been relatively clean-cut, with short hair and a goatee, or at least some degree of facial hair. But then came "The Beard." It wasn't intentional apparently. Like many people forced to shave for work on a daily basis, Greg let his beard grow out over the winter holidays. He'd done it before, but usually shaved it off before returning to work. It was, at least in part, a protest beard, after some lengthy and difficult business negotiations that took place shortly before Christmas of that year. And this time, over the winter of 2011, he simply found that he liked it … a lot. He let his hair grow out as well, and the new look was complete.
After the holidays, rumors began to circulate about sightings of a new, almost unrecognizable, Greg Koch. But during the 2012 Craft Brewers Conference in San Diego, the new Greg Koch emerged, making his debut in a conference marketing session, performing with The Gourdians, a musical group consisting of Marty Jones, David Buhler and Steve Beauchesne.
The beautiful grounds of Stone's World Bistro & Gardens.
Liberty Station
Less than three years ago, Stone Brewing opened a second Stone World Bistro & Gardens, this one in the historic Liberty Station, which was originally a Naval Training Center, which opened in the waterfront neighborhood of Point Loma in the 1920s. Stone Brewing transformed their portion of the site – over 23,500 square feet – into a restaurant with outdoor dining, bars and gardens, including a bocce ball court and outdoor cinema.
Beginning in February of 2014, Greg Koch went dark. Disappeared. Went on a walkabout. He was burned out with the 24/7 pace of running a brewery and needed a break. And so he went on a "communications sabbatical," and for four months went off the grid, disconnecting or locking himself out of all social media, e-mail and work. He and his paramour, Sara, traveled for the entire third of a year, starting in Hawaii on the island of Maui after finishing some business there. From there it was on to New Zealand, Australia, Southeast Asia, northern Italy and then Eastern Europe, before ending the trip in Berlin, Germany.
Road Trip to Berlin
His first two weeks back to work after his self-imposed vacation were working on the project to open a Stone brewery in Germany, which had first been announced in 2009. After looking at close to 130 sites worldwide, in nine countries, it was narrowed down to just a few before the final decision to pick Berlin was made. It's located in a neighborhood called Mariendorf, in south central Berlin, in a historic warehouse that boasts plenty of room to spread out and expand. There's space for a restaurant, gardens and, of course, 10 HL and 100 HL brewhouses.
The European Stone Brewing is expected to open in March of 2016, which will likely make Stone the first American craft brewer to open and operate their own brewery in the EU. As for how they'll approach traditional German brewing, Koch says simply: "To heck with the Reinheitsgebot." Some of their beers will adhere to its standards, but many will not, and they're not worried about it in the least. In fact, they'll be hosting a "media brew day," where local media will take part in brewing Xocoveza, a rich spiced mocha stout made with coffee from a local roaster. The brew is made to show that beers can be made today using a variety of non-traditional ingredients and afterwards Koch believes the question "tell us exactly how we're making this worse" will answer itself.
Stone's Berlin brewery is slated to open in March 2016.
Virginia is for Brewers
Just one month after opening the German facility, Stone Brewing's Richmond, Virginia brewery should open as well. It too will include a restaurant (which is slated to open a few years later), packaging hall, and offices for the East Coast. Like Berlin, Koch and Steve Wagner visited over forty sites up and down the eastern seaboard before choosing the Virginia location.
In September of this year, Koch announced that he would be stepping down as CEO and transitioning into a newly created position, executive chairman, which will allow him to focus on long-term strategic planning instead of the day-to-day operations of Stone Brewing. The search for a replacement began as a solo effort, but he has more recently hired a search firm to help find the right individual. Until then, Greg Koch remains in control.
The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
Of course, in the near future, what's in store for Greg Koch and Stone Brewing is somewhat obvious. The brewery in Berlin should open in March of 2016, with the Richmond, Virginia one coming online shortly thereafter, hopefully in April. After that it's anybody's guess. With Greg freed up from the day-to-day and looking instead to where to take the brewery next, he'll be ready to rock out.
From California to Ohio and back again to LA and San Diego, the original goal of being a rock star has come true, just not in the way he expected, nor in any way Greg would admit to. But with what he's achieved in the beer world, he's made a name for himself among the elite craft breweries of the modern era.
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Although Koch is a native of Southern California, when he was four his family moved to central Ohio, and he grew up in the tiny town of Pataskala, located twenty miles east of Columbus.
Koch started out renting venues for local San Diego bands at Downtown Rehearsal before starting Stone with Steve Wagner.
After two years attending Ohio State, he felt the pull of the Golden State, and moved to Hollywood to attend the Guitar Institute of Technology. It was a one-year program, but he failed sight-reading and the bossa nova. Afterwards, as planned, he transferred to USC and finished college, getting a degree in business.
Koch loved being in California, and never returned to Ohio, preferring the state of his birth. Because he had more business savvy from his degree, he started managing a friend's band that he had met at the Guitar Institute. That band's bass player had a father who worked in an office complex, and they allowed the band to use an empty office where they could leave their instruments and make as much noise as they wanted, without complaints, after normal business hours.
But the bass player quit abruptly, and Greg had to find another lockout studio, which is what they call a dedicated rehearsal space for musicians. In searching available spaces, he found them to often be underground operations, usually in bad neighborhoods and falling apart, and he had a thought. What if there were decent-quality, above-board lockouts for a reasonable price? So he founded Downtown Rehearsal and began renting space to local bands, including the one he managed. Some of the bands that used his lockouts included Fishbone, Blind Melon, The Melvins and, of course, The Balancing Act, Steve Wagner's group.
Downtown Rehearsal – still owned by Koch – is going strong today and has expanded several times since opening in 1989. Today it boasts hundreds of individual lockout studios.
After running into one another at the sensory class at UC Davis, it became obvious that they both had the same goal of opening a brewery. The pair hit it off right away. Nothing was spoken yet, but they later learned that both of them were thinking that the other might make a good partner if things panned out.
Steve Wagner had become interested in homebrewing, and went to UC Davis to explore his post-music options. Greg had become fascinated by the idea of microbrewing, and wanted a "deeper dive," discovering that UC Davis was where one dove into it. As Wagner and Koch talked, Greg realized that although their backgrounds were pretty different, they seemed complementary. Steve had become a fairly experienced homebrewer already, and had even brought a peach beer he'd made to the sensory class. Even though Greg has never been a fan of fruit beers, he remembers even now that it was good; really good.
Afterwards, they casually began talking about working together on the project that would eventually become Stone Brewing. The following year, they both attended the weeklong "Introduction to Practical Brewing," better known as "the short course," at UC Davis.
Rolling Stone Down to San Diego
Discussions turned more serious, though it remained just an idea with no real timetable. They went back and forth on if it should be a brewpub or a production brewery. Both initially thought it would be around Los Angeles, since they both lived there, but they were open to anywhere in Southern California. The location decision was helped along when a friend from Koch's years in Ohio moved to Solana Beach, in San Diego County. During a visit to see him, he had an inspiration, and called Wagner, who was spending some time in Oregon. "What about north county San Diego?" He asked him.
Greg moved to Solana Beach with his friend from Ohio in May of 1995 and began searching for a suitable location for a brewery. It was also in that Solana Beach condo that Greg made his first batch of homebrew, and also where he and Steve Wagner brewed their first beer together.
Koch started to get to know the area, and visited countless potential locations, most of which weren't right or fell through for one reason or another. But then one of those came back on the market. The previous business still had its name stenciled on the door, the vaguely generic-sounding "A & J Magnetic Products," but it became Stone Brewing's first home when they took possession of it on February 2, 1996. They bought a brand new 30-bbl brewhouse, built by AAA Metal Fabrication in Beaverton, Oregon to Steve Wagner's specifications.
Koch and Stone started out with a 30-bbl brewhouse in 1996, and by 2005 they had upped production to 120-bbl.
The Stone Name
While given the music ties to Stone Brewing's co-founders, you could be tempted to think that the name likewise came from a music reference. It didn't. Once they started planning and knew they'd be opening a brewery, Steve started working on recipes, and he and Greg started trying to come up with names for both their beers and the brewery itself. They bandied names back and forth for years, and they always turned out to be taken, or not quite right for some reason. None of them quite hit the right note, and usually were dismissed immediately.
But then Greg was given a forgettable demo CD for a band called "Stone Mind," and he thought, "Hmmm, Stone Brewing?" It was solid, natural, represented their desire to have a no-bells-and-whistles approach and had no pre-existing association with beer. Plus, he really just liked the name. But perhaps most importantly, Steve didn't say no right away.
Opening in San Marcos
For the first ten months, Stone Brewing made draft-only beer, finally offering their flagship Stone Pale Ale in 22-ounce bottles in June of 1997. By October, they'd added Stone IPA and their Smoked Porter, and the following month saw the debut of their iconic Arrogant Bastard.
The now-famous "you're not worthy" slogan and aggressive text on the bottle was a collaborative effort. Greg wrote pointed barbs at specific competitors and Steve acted as editor, pulling out the specifics and making it more timeless as it went through countless iterations fueled by the high-octane beer itself. The text served to cement their identity and create a reputation for being different.
Early Struggles
Initially they couldn't find a distributor who would carry their beer, and out of necessity began self-distributing with an eye toward building enough demand to get a distributor interested in picking up Stone beers. But by late 1997, they were bleeding money, losing around $30,000 each month.
After every distributor in town said no, finally Mesa Distributing said they'd take on their brand in San Diego County. But in mid-November, they claimed to be too busy with the holidays and put off the launch until after the holidays. In January, the Super Bowl forced Mesa to put it off for another thirty days.
When February rolled around, they'd changed their minds altogether. No matter what the words they used to tell Koch that, what he heard was "we're going to let your company die." When he got off that phone call, Steve Wagner told him looked as if he'd seen a ghost.
Turning Things Around
In March, however, they had a break-even month, perhaps even turning a profit of a few hundred dollars. Things had finally started to turn around. A Miller distributor (which has since changed hands) took them on in Arizona. A friend in San Francisco in the wine business took them on for the San Francisco Bay Area market, until a few years later they were picked up by local beer distributors.
Koch became aggressive about selling his beer, wanting to make it available as widely as possible. He believed that their "job was to make and sell beer." He went on long road trips to meet with wholesalers, or anyone who would meet with them. He started leapfrogging the country, going wherever anyone was interested in Stone beer.
Horse Brass owner Don Younger worked hard to get them into Portland and Oregon, and introduced them to Amber River Distributing. They opened Washington, and then Massachusetts. He discovered Alaska was bootlegging his beer, and went to the Last Frontier to find proper distribution for the state. They opened Colorado, New York and his boyhood home of Ohio too.
On March 13, 2003, the Blind Tiger beer bar in New York City, did a tap takeover of Stone beers, putting all of their beer on at one time. Greg watched as 35 beer geeks came to sample his beers in the middle of the day, and as far as he knows it was the first tap takeover anywhere.
Stone opened its World Bistro & Gardens in 2006... without the necessary amount of ketchup.
World Bistro
By the mid-2000s it became clear that they needed a bigger brewery, and found a spot nearby in the north county town of Escondido. The new 120-bbl brewhouse was up and running by the end of 2005 (with a second added in 2013), and the following year saw the opening of the Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens, which included a restaurant and, naturally, a one-acre garden.
The first challenge to operating a restaurant came swiftly, and without warning. They didn't serve any ketchup, preferring to leave the dishes in the capable hands of the chef's designs. But people love their ketchup, and for a few months Greg was inundated with hate mail. After almost three months he finally relented, and a F | 2,111 |
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We have deep puzzle on our hands: God promised David victory over the Philistines, yet David still had to fight. What is puzzling about this is that the most natural way of explaining God's promises make David's actions seem superfluous, and<|fim_middle|> in New Jersey. The barometer predicts that it will rain in New Jersey. But it is still true that had those dark clouds taken a very different path, a path that avoids New Jersey, it would not have rained. God's knowledge of the future is very much like the barometer. They both perfectly predict what will happen, but neither necessitate what will happen. God knew that David was going to win the battle. No doubt, this ensured that David was going to win, but this does not mean that, no matter how things could have gone, David would have won. Indeed, there are ways things could have gone where David did not win. Things could have gone like this: God says to David, "David, you are not going to win." In that situation, David would not have won. This means that even though God knew that David was going to win, David was not going to win regardless of what he did.
These responses pave the way for how we can reconcile the idea that (a) God's promises must always hold, and the idea that (b) David's actions were essential to his victory. First, we learned that there were many circumstances outside of David's control that God took care of. Then we learned that God knew exactly how David was going to respond to those circumstances. He knew that David would respond in a way that resulted in his victory.
God knew exactly how David would respond in any given circumstance. God knew that had He put this particular Philistine on this part of the battle field, then that Philistine would have stepped out with his left foot first and ran after David and swung his axe way to hard at David. By swinging too hard, the Philistine would lean too far forward and have trouble getting upright again. And God knew that this would put David in a perfect position to smack that Philistine in the jaw. And God knew that David would take the opportunity. This is only a small part of the whole battle. But the basic idea is there: God orchestrated all the circumstances that David could not control in such a way that, given how God knew David would respond to them, victory would be guaranteed. Put more simply, God's promise of victory was conditional on what He knew David would do. It is this that resolves the tension between (a) and (b). God's promises hold because he takes care of the things that David cannot and works things out so that David's responses yield victory; David's actions still matter because they play a role in bringing about victory.
All the same goes for many of God's promises to us. God's promise to defeat the enemy, Satan, is conditional on what He knows his children will do to stop him. God's promise to sanctify you, to bring the good work he started in you to completion, is conditional on what He knows that you will do. But the key thing to see is that God wants to partner with us, just as He partnered with David.
Indeed, all of life—I repeat, all of life—is a battle that rages over our own souls and the souls of others. For us to win is for our souls along with everyone else's to be in submission to our Lord. This means that when you are studying for a test, playing a video game, reading a book, serving at your Church, going to sleep early, or whatever, God wants to work with you to draw you (and others) nearer to Himself. Indeed, God wants partner with you in every aspect of your life.
All this philosophy stuff has actually given rise to worry in me. I do not think I have ever been worried about the philosophical implications of something, except until I thought through my solution to this puzzle. Honestly, the solution to this puzzle scared me. The fear is this: how can I possibly know the things that God knows I must do in order for me to gain victory? I might be faced with a decision to do X or not-X, where, as far as I can tell, it does not matter whether I do X or not. But then the worry arises. Well, maybe doing X really is essential to my victory in a certain area of my life. How could I ever know?
To worry about such things is to miss the point about God's promises. The point is that I do not need to know those things. God's promise of victory surely does hold regardless of what I know. Indeed, David did not need to know that smacking the philistine at a certain time turned out to be essential to his victory. Rather, here is what is important: David fought with all his heart, and trusted that God would arrange his circumstances so that what he in fact did would result in victory. David put it better: '"As waters break out, God has broken out against my enemy by my hand"' (1 Chronicles 14:11; emphasis is mine). | the most natural way of explaining David's need to fight make God's promise to give him victory superfluous.
Typically, when we talk about God's promises, we take them to hold regardless of what we do. For instance, God promises that the good work He began in any given Christian believer, He will bring to completion (Philippians 1:6). Since it is a promise, we reason, it legitimately does not matter what we do—God will make it happen. Accordingly, the same goes for David.
We reason: God promised David victory over the Philistines. Of course, what God says will happen must happen! So, even if David forgot his sword, or forgot to get encouraged by the prophet Nathan, or even didn't show up for battle but slept instead, God would have given him victory. Hence, according to this line of reasoning, the actions David took towards victory are superfluous in light of God's promise to him.
Interestingly, we can give a different, though equally compelling, line of reasoning for the reverse conclusion. Reality check: our actions matter. We know that what happens in this life is (in part) dependent on what we do. There is a natural order to life. E.g. You talk back to your momma, momma gets mad and sends you to your room (or worse, if papa is home). You drop a brick on your toe, you feel pain. Examples abound. Accordingly, we can only imagine what David had to do to win against the Philistines, even after God said "Go, I will deliver them into your hands." He probably had to talk to the prophet Nathan for encouragement and discernment. He had to bring his sword to battle. He had to whack that one Philistine in the jaw. He had to duck for cover when arrows were flying at him. He had to do all of these things. And we know that if he had not done them, he would not have won. Plain and simple.
To summarize, the puzzle is this. We know two things: (a) God's promise to David that he would win could not have failed, and (b) David's actions were essential to his victory. How on earth can we hold onto both at the same time? Some theologians say we simply can't. That is, (a) and (b) are contradictory.
But I submit to you that both are true in the fullest sense. In order to see how, let me make a few remarks about the pitfalls of each line of reasoning, starting with the second about how our actions matter. There is no denying that our actions matter in this life. But the argument overlooks all the things that happened leading up to David's victory, which were outside of his control. Indeed, he had control over whether he wacked that one Philistine in the jaw. Needless to say, he had little or no control over whether that Philistine would bring his axe to battle, or what the weather would be like, or how much sleep his men got, how much adrenaline was pumping through their veins, whether the leader of the philistines had a blistering head-ache before and during the battle, among many other things. Surely, then, even if David's actions were quite crucial to his victory, God was taking care of all of the things that were outside of David's control. God was busy orchestrating the world in such a way that David's actions had the effect needed for his victory.
(i) What God says will happen must happen.
(ii) If David had done different things than he in fact did before or during the battle (e.g. sleeping in, missing the rally before the fight, telling his men to stand down, etc.), God would still have given him victory.
I contend that even if (i) is true, (ii) might still be false (which is why (ii) does not follow from (i)). Understanding exactly what (i) means will help us see why (ii) need not follow from it. The key to understanding (i) is found in what that pesky little word 'must' means.
Usually, 'must' gets an epistemic interpretation or a deontic interpretation. On a deontic interpretation, 'must' means something close to should or ought. When someone says "Joe, you must not hit your brother with his shoes again, or else", the word 'must' gets interpreted deontically. It is clear that the 'must' in (i) does not get a deontic interpretation (It does not mean something close to "What God says will happen ought to happen"—albeit true).
Whenever a philosopher says the word 'epistemic', think having to do with knowledge. So 'must', if interpreted epistemically, means something close to "it is guaranteed by what we know". If you say, for example, 'It must be raining in Moscow', you mean something like our knowledge guarantees that it is raining in Moscow (Or, more technically, all the possibilities compatible with our knowledge are ones where it is raining in Moscow). 'must' in (i) should be understood epistemically. According to this interpretation, (i) means something like "Whatever God says will happen, He knows will happen." (i) is absolutely true as understood in this way. But does (ii) follow from it? No, it does not. For even if God knows that event E will happen, it does not follow that no matter how things went down, E still would have happened. An analogy will help here. Compare God's knowledge of what will happen to a perfectly reliable barometer, a device that tells you what the weather will be like. The barometer predicts the weather (with 100% accuracy) but it does not necessitate the weather.
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Curbing GOP nuts' power: How Obama can ignore the debt ceiling
An expert tells Salon the president may even have a legal duty to bypass Congress if it won't raise the debt limit
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October 1, 2013 4:21PM (UTC)
Today's government shutdown is only one act in a budget brinkmanship drama that includes America's next debt ceiling deadline, scheduled to arrive by Oct. 17. While some Republicans reportedly see the debt ceiling as their strongest leverage, some legal scholars have argued that President Obama could simply refuse to participate, wielding his legal authority – or obligation – to keep paying the bills even if no debt ceiling increase is passed.
The president has said White House lawyers "are not persuaded that that is a winning argument" – a position a White House official recently reaffirmed to NBC. But House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi last week told reporters she "would never have taken that off the table." Sens. Barbara Boxer, Tom Harkin, Bernie Sanders have urged the president to exercise his 14th Amendment option in the 2011 debt ceiling fight; former President Bill Clinton said he would have done it "without hesitation, and force the courts to stop me."
To parse the law, politics and history in play, Salon talked to Garrett Epps, a legal scholar and former Washington Post staff writer who teaches constitutional law at the University of Baltimore. A condensed and edited version of our conversation follows.
If Congress refuses to raise the debt ceiling, what's the strongest legal case for the president to ignore it?
There are two provisions of the Constitution that speak to this issue. One is the clause that gives the president the duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. And the other is the 14th Amendment, which imposes a duty on the government not to question the public debt of the United States authorized by law. So the combination of those two with some other statutes -- particularly appropriations statutes, in which Congress directs the president to spend money -- means that the president is supposed to try to follow all of the laws. And that includes the Constitution.
The Constitution doesn't say Congress shall pay the debt -- it says the public debt shall not be questioned. And that means that all three branches of government are bound by this -- that's the way I read it -- and if Congress declines to act, then the president arguably has not simply the power, but the duty to act in order to honor that norm.
Some people have said the president can deal with that by just paying the debt, and not spending money on anything else, because probably there will be<|fim_middle|> There are people who say this is wrong, and their arguments are not laughable. We don't know whether the president has the authority to do this or not. If Obama were to do it and he was not impeached or removed from office, then the president would have that power and we would never have another debt ceiling crisis again.
I'm just saying the Constitution's kind of ambiguous, and under certain circumstances where there's virtually an existential threat to the nation, the president has acted in the past and gotten away with it.
How does this executive authority question compare to Obama's approach to the use of force in Syria, Libya and Pakistan?
There have been many times, going back hundreds of years, when presidents have used military force without seeking congressional authorization beforehand, and in all of those cases there was a circumstance that made it in some sense an emergency. In Syria, you don't have anything like that, and therefore if there's going to be war, you can argue the president needs to ask Congress. Now compare that with what happens if the Congress refuses to raise the debt ceiling, and we're preparing to default on our debt. If that happens, it is a very severe immediate emergency threat to the nation. Not simply to the economy -- although that in itself is apocalyptic -- but to the country's full faith and credit, to its ability to function in the international plane. So the president, it seems to me, would have much more justification for saying this is a genuine emergency, I can't wait for Congress to decide.
The Pakistan drone war has been carried out under the rubric of the Authorization for Use of Military Force, which says the president has the authority to use military force against al-Qaida and forces associated with it wherever they may be found. Libya is a more difficult question. The [administration's] argument was twofold. One is that our forces were not really going into hostilities, and so the War Powers Resolution -- and, arguably, the war power itself -- was not triggered. And the other is that we were doing it pursuant to a multinational treaty, and had to do that to honor our obligations as members of NATO.
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Democrats are bailing on the Senate | enough cash on hand to pay the interest on the debt. But the problem with that is there are other laws providing that the president shall see to it that certain things are paid -- whether they're entitlements like Social Security, or appropriated items like the military budget. Those are laws, and they are directed to the president to carry out. So the president is in a very difficult situation. He cannot avoid breaking the law by simply refusing to pay anything except the debt. He still will be violating the law and violating his duty that the laws be faithfully executed.
So the argument is that when you have dueling laws, you try to obey as many of them as you can. And the president can obey the command of the 14th Amendment and also obey the command of these appropriations and entitlement provisions by ignoring the statutory debt ceiling. And I think that is a fairly strong argument, coupled with a historic fact and that is that since the time of Washington, there has been a school of constitutional interpretation, which is quite powerful, which says that when the federal government has a power and that power is not explicitly given to Congress, then the president can exercise it.
We have the command to honor the debt in Section 4. That is not directed at any branch. That authority arguably can be claimed by the president. It's no stranger, it's no more of a leap, than some of the other claims that have been made successfully on behalf of the president over the years, such as the power to abrogate treaties. That's not provided for in the Constitution. The president assumed that power fairly early in the republic, and subsequently there was a court challenge, and the court said we're not going to stop this. That's an example of how the executive gets power, gets authority, out of basically constitutional ambiguity or silence.
If the president moved forward in this way, what would the legal fight over it look like?
It would look like what is called impeachment. I can't imagine any other way that the matter would be resolved. I may be missing something. [But] if the president is paying the debts, and he's paying the appropriations, then I don't see what individual has the power to sue him. And Congress does not have the power to sue the president and say we don't like what you're doing. So the remedy Congress has would be to bring articles of impeachment in the House.
When you're dealing with the Supreme Court generally, and this Supreme Court in particular, you cannot rule out the possibility that they'll inject themselves into it. But at present I don't see the path by which they would.
What historical parallel comes to mind for this kind of constitutional confrontation?
The very first constitutional confrontation between the executive and the Congress occurred when Washington was president, and he proclaimed American neutrality between England and France after they went to war. The Jeffersonians were outraged by that. They made a stink to the effect that the president didn't have this power, and Washington said he did, and basically in the end Congress acquiesced. And I can imagine that being the circumstance here.
The really interesting example is the reaction when Obama went to Congress to ask for authority to bomb Syria, and a number of members of Congress reacted very negatively and said, "What are you doing? You have the authority as commander in chief." People have come to expect president to act unilaterally when they say there's a threat to the national security interests of the United States.
Suppose the Venezuelan army invades Florida. But meanwhile Congress has passed a statute that says, "You can't go into battle with Venezuela because of the 'Venezuelan Battle Ceiling.' We won't let you defend Florida unless you repeal Obamacare." Well, I think it's pretty clear the president would be entirely legally justified in saying, "I'm the commander in chief. The armed forces and the nation are under attack. And so regardless of whether I'm authorized by Congress to use military force, by practice, custom and the necessity of the case I can." Now I think you can argue this is precisely the same thing -- that the damage to the country is analogous to permitting an invasion to take place without being resisted by the armed forces. The president is not commander in chief of the Treasury, but he does have the duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed.
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Therefore, it is not inherently problematic that definitions don't fit empirical information: a normative definition need not mirror how individuals categorize items as artwork. One other non-definitional method to answering the epistemic question of how we'd set up that a candidate is an artwork is that we accomplish that by employing historic narratives (Carroll 1993 and 2001).
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A spread of associated topics are gathered collectively below the title "The Definition of Artwork." These embrace: (1) metaphysical questions, comparable to "Is there a set of essential properties whose possession is conjointly sufficient for a candidate to qualify as an paintings?" and, if that's the case, "What are they?"; and (2) the epistemological challenge of how we go about establishing that a candidate is an artwork.
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With artificial intelligence (AI) changing into integrated into more points of our each day lives, from writing to driving, it is solely natural that artists would also begin to experiment with it. It has also been urged that the definition's apparent circularity is vicious, and that, given the inter-definition of the important thing concepts (art work, artworld system, artist, artworld public) it lacks any informative method of distinguishing art establishments methods from other, structurally related, social institutions (D. Davies 2004, pp. 248-249, notes that each the artworld and the commerceworld" seem to fall underneath that definition).
AICAN can, nonetheless, generate art work that human curators can then ground in our society and connect to what's happening round us. That's just what we did with Various Facts: The Multi Faces of Untruth," a title we gave to a series of portraits generated by AICAN that struck us with its timely serendipity.
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Physics is the department of science pertaining to the study of different types of matter, their properties, interactions, and transformations, and so on. The primary is because artwork is an entirely subjective matter and as such permits for hundreds of thousands of definitions. Still other definitions try to explain each art's contingent characteristics and its extra abiding ones while giving precedence to neither.
The definition of artwork itself is as follows: ∃Z∃Y (Art iff (Z ∨ Y)), where (a) Z and Y, formed from properties on Gaut's cluster listing | 481 |
How Nevada Gold Mines Uses Drones to Measure Stockpiles on a Massive Scale
When it comes to leveraging the power of daily progress tracking that drones have to offer, few are operating on the scale that Ben McKnight is. McKnight is the chief surveyor at Nevada Gold Mines, a 40-mile stretch of land with four operating pits, which comprises "the single largest gold-producing complex in the world," according […]
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When it comes to leveraging the power of daily progress tracking that drones have to offer, few are operating on the scale that Ben McKnight is. McKnight is the chief surveyor at Nevada Gold Mines, a 40-mile stretch of land with four operating pits, which comprises "the single largest gold-producing complex in the world," according to them.
For such a massive mining site, McKnight requires a larger-than-average surveying team—seventeen survey field techs, eleven of whom are licensed drone pilots. Every morning, his team flies their armada of drones, gathering the information his engineers and managers will need to make critical decisions.
Recently, Propeller CEO and co-founder, Rory San Miguel, sat down with McKnight to talk about his drone program success, as well as his decade-long journey with drones.
You can check out their conversation in the video below or read on for a quick summary of what they discussed.
Using drones to measure stockpiles on a daily basis
While McKnight uses drone data for a variety of reasons, by far the most important application is stockpile measurements. Documenting precisely how much of each material they have on hand is one of McKnight's primary responsibilities. It's his responsibility to make sure their record of material excavated, processed, and moved reconciles with the accounting at the end of each month.
McKnight makes sure his records line up with the truth on the ground by using AeroPoints, Propeller's smart ground control points, to shoot for ¼-foot accuracy for all his stockpile surveys. McKnight has twenty AeroPoints, which he uses as ground control and check points, distributed around his site.
However, he knows that some days necessitate shorter drone flights, meaning<|fim_middle|>"We proved within those first couple months the value of the data we were getting out of the stockpiles," says McKnight. "It didn't even make sense to anybody that you could get this much data, this quickly, with this much accuracy."
Even though he was initially met with skepticism, as time went on, everyone else in his company began to understand the benefits of his new "toy."
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As time went on, McKnight stayed ahead of the curve on drone survey adoption. He sought out newer software packages with improved functionality, like the ability to inspect and improve haul roads. He also wanted to use a cloud-based platform so he didn't have to host the data and could share large orthophoto and point cloud files more easily with parties inside and outside the organization.
Then, six months into a contract with a company that met those standards, his Trimble dealer introduced him to another drone survey player that exceeded them: Propeller.
With Propeller, McKnight saw many of the features he'd been waiting for someone to bring to fruition actualized:
Interactive 3D models. While he, as a surveying professional, is able to glean plenty of valuable information from a 2D orthophoto, being able to show his coworkers realistic 3D visualizations—that he doesn't have to construct himself—would be a time-saving communication asset.
Coordinate system flexibility. Nevada Gold Mines actually consists of two older mining sites, which were originally set up in different, non-localized coordinate reference systems. McKnight needed an easier way to apply drone surveys—referenced through WGS 84—to disparate datasets.
Ease of use. McKnight wanted more of his colleagues to be able to pull stockpile volumes and other measurements without having to go through him. But he also sought ease of use on the hardware front; With an ever-expanding team, he needed high-quality tools he could easily train people on, whether they'd be using drones to measure stockpiles or for another use case. (McKnight's fleet now includes the DJI Phantom 4 RTK—which he uses with the Propeller PPK workflow—along with an assortment of other drones.)
While it's the tech that pointed McKnight toward Propeller, it was our customer-driven product development team that put us over the edge, in his opinion:
"The surveying and mining world has made me beat my head against the wall at times," says McKnight. "With Propeller, the willingness to look into my suggestions is a major factor for me. Even if I have an impossible pipe dream, you'll take a couple minutes to listen and say, 'yeah, I see where you're coming from, let's see what we can do.'"
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Why DJI's Phantom 4 RTK is the Missing Piece in the Drone Surveying Puzzle | less accurate results. That's why he's built one final, longer drone flight into his workflow at the end of every month. With that data, he's able to go back and correct stockpile volumes for the days he knows the data accuracy might have been lacking.
Once he has his stockpile data, McKnight is able to easily export it into a .CSV report for stockpiles and share it with anyone who needs it.
Nevada Gold Mines' metallurgical department has even built out an integration with their own tracking platform that allows them to import the report and automatically update their material trackers.
From early drone adopter to survey standard setter
When McKnight came to Nevada Gold Mines, he was already intimately familiar with drones. All the way back in 2008, the company McKnight worked for was approached about using a remote-controlled helicopter to take an aerial survey of their site. Suffice it to say, McKnight was intrigued.
"I've always tried to stay at the forefront of technology," says McKnight. "I'm in the survey world, and I love helicopters, so those two things just meshed."
From there, McKnight convinced his managers to purchase a drone, even then optimistic about their potential for faster, reliable stockpile measurements. He believed he could use photogrammetry to get more accurate stockpile volumes than he could with traditional base-and-rover surveying or lidar.
And he was right. After a month flying his first drone, McKnight was able to detect a 30% discrepancy in their stockpile reporting.
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Halifax microbrewery loses court bid to upend NS's sales markup
Appeal court's decision upheld a January 2018 Nova Scotia Supreme Court ruling that the markup was within legal regulations.
February 19, 2019 by Keith Doucette
HALIFAX — A Halifax microbrewery has taken on the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation over beer markup fees – and lost.The province's Court of Appeal found the NSLC<|fim_middle|> in Nova lawsuit jointly owned Joffre ethane cracker
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Muskrat Falls cost overruns obvious soon after start: audit | 's markup fee on beer sold on Unfiltered Brewing's own premises was a proprietary charge, not an unlawful tax.
When it challenged the fee, Unfiltered paid a 50-cent charge for every litre of beer it sells or gives away – and argued that it receives nothing for the liquor corporation's markup.
The appeal court disagreed.
"Unfiltered has the ability to sell beer in this province. Without the licences and permits issued by the NSLC and compliance with them, it could not do so," states the ruling, released last week.
The appeal court's decision upheld a January 2018 Nova Scotia Supreme Court ruling that the markup was within legal regulations.
"The … judge correctly identified and applied the law with respect to proprietary charges to the facts of this case," the appeal court said.
"His conclusion that the markup was a proprietary charge is supported by precedent, the provisions of the Liquor Control Act, its regulation and NSLC policies."
Unfiltered Brewing was also ordered to pay $1,000 in costs to the province's attorney general as part of the appeal court's ruling.
Unfiltered first launched court action against the beer markup in August 2016, about two years after the microbrewer's startup.
The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal decision comes on the heels of an Alberta court decision last year, where that province's beer markup scheme was found to be unconstitutional.
The Alberta government was ordered to pay $2.1 million in restitution to Great Western Brewing of Saskatoon and Steam Whistle Brewing of Toronto, after the court found the subsidies portion of the pricing scheme created a trade barrier against their products.
Alberta filed a notice of appeal over the ruling.
The case was noted in the latest Nova Scotia ruling.
The appeal court said in the Steam Whistle case, the applicant took positions that were "similar, it not identical, to those taken by Unfiltered."
It said the Alberta court reviewed several other cases, including the earlier Nova Scotia court decision, in reaching a conclusion that "the markup in question was, in pith and substance, a proprietary charge."
The ruling also cited the 2018 Supreme Court of Canada decision in the case of New Brunswicker Gerard Comeau, who fought the provincial law restricting the importation of alcohol from other provinces.
"Recently the Supreme Court of Canada … reiterated that the provinces are permitted to enact schemes to manage the supply and demand for liquor within their borders."
"The reality is simply this: no one can sell liquor in Nova Scotia without complying with the procedures put in place by the Act, regulations and policies of the NSLC," the court said.
In December 2016, Nova Scotia reduced the bee markup fee to make it consistent with farm wineries and craft distilleries. Under the change, craft brewers pay five per cent of wholesale costs of sales made on their premises.
At the time the provincial government expected to reduce the amount paid by the province's craft brewers by about $800,000 per year.
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Persimmon is one fall fruit that doesn't get the same limelight as apples and pears, but is equally delicious. I first fell in love with these orange fruit when I spent a year studying in Israel. I bought them whenever I had a chance, biting into them like I was chomping on an apple.
There are 2 types of persim<|fim_middle|>About 7 oz. or so. It's not the type of recipe that has to be exact. Just use whatever you have (5 oz. is also ok). | mon – the heart shaped hachiya and the tomato-shaped fuyu. Hachiya persimmons contain high levels of tannins causing them to taste "furry" if eaten before fully ripening. Believe me, I know this because I've spent a lot of time scraping the "pithy" substance off my tongue. Fuyu persimmons, on the other hand, are non-astringent and can be eaten when firm. Upon ripening, they become freckled with tiny brown specs which add sweetness and flavor to the fruit.
What do persimmon taste like? Channeling Ron Ben-Israel on Sweet Genius, I would describe a ripe persimmon as, creamy. juicy. sweet. fragrant. peachy. hints of mango.
Freezing the persimmon and blending it with yogurt results in a thick, creamy consistency that is almost as good as ice cream!
Peel and quarter persimmon and freeze overnight. Add frozen fruit, yogurt and milk to a blender. Drizzle some honey and add a pinch of cinnamon and nutmeg. Blend, and add more milk to reach desired consistency.
I am SO excited to see this recipe. I love persimmons and never have enough uses for them. Definitely trying them in a smoothie this week. Thank you!!
You're so welcome! So glad you liked it!
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Paula Red- McIntosh type apple with softer flesh and a pleasant sweet\slightly<|fim_middle|> slightly tart yet bland flavor (allowing other flavors to be "expressed" more).
HoneyCrisp- To some, considered to be the perfect apple. Very Sweet flavor with the perfect crispness to complement. Can be baked with.
Empire- Cross between and Red Delicious and McIntosh apple, Empire have a mostly tart\ slightly sweet flavor with a very jucy texture. Great overall cooking apple that keeps very well. | tart taste. Excellent baking apple, perfect for apple sauces.
Molly Delicious- Very Sweet eating apple greatly similar to a Red Delicious.
McIntosh- Classic apple variety with a mildly tart flavor. Excellent apple for applesauce, bakes into a more smooth texture than other apples.
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Wolf River- Older apple veriety favored by bakers. Grows very large (making it easy to peel by hand) and has a | 121 |
Leftover Salmon - Formed in the early '90s, Boulder-based "polyethnic cajun slamgrass" group Leftover Salmon forged a path that has been followed by many others. Back in the day, Vince Herman and company took its aggressive style of bluegrass to unheard of outposts that included rock 'n' roll bars, winning over legions of fans. After the death of original banjo player, Mark Vann, in 2002, the future of the group was uncertain. But thanks to some high-profile replacements (Matt Flinner, Scott Vestal, Tony Furtado, and Noam Pikelny), Lo<|fim_middle|> bass in a Georgia prison band while serving 11 years for running moonshine. Her mother was a West Virginian who played guitar and mandolin and sang on local radio shows. Cook was singing onstage with her mother at age four and her had own band when she was nine. After graduating from Georgia Southern University with degrees in Accounting and Computer Information Systems, Cook moved to Nashville and, within a year, landed a publishing deal and released "Elizabeth Cook/The Blue Album" in 2000. "Balls," issued in 2007, was produced by Rodney Crowell, and included the brash anthem "Sometimes It Takes Balls To Be A Woman" while 2010's "Welder," featured cameos by Dwight Yoakam and Rodney Crowell. In addition to touring on her own, Cook has been a staple on the Grand Ole Opry, appearing on more than 200 shows, sings back-up for Nanci Griffith, and hosted a Sirius XM radio program titled "Apron Strings." Her new release is titled "Exodus on Venus" which includes a duet with Patty Loveless. | S carried on. Adding banjo phenom Andy Thorn, the group issued "Aquatic Hitchhiker" in 2012. The current lineup features original members Herman and Drew Emmitt, Thorn, Greg Garrison and Alwyn Robinson.
Elizabeth Cook - Described by Nanci Griffith as "this generation's Loretta Lynn," singer/songwriter Elizabeth Cook comes by her talent honestly: The youngest of 11 half-brothers and sisters, Cook grew up in rural Florida where her musician parents met while playing in local country bars. Her father learned to play upright | 119 |
We believe in the power of transformation through first hand experience. It does not happen by reading a book, or listening to words, it happens when you give yourself willingly without any expectations or selfish motive, (SEVA). You have a heart to serve and to experience other cultures, lifestyles, family relationships, and spiritual growth by giving back to these communities all over the world.
We believe that the greatest reward for our students and participants is the shift of energy perspectives that ignites the transformtation to their self discovery. To the special gifts that have been dormant within.
We believe that when you experience the enrichment of the journey, that you will be so moved, you will want to make a difference where you live. To lead by example of living your truth, not just speaking it.
We believe the greates gift of transformation happens, when you are removed from your comfortable surroundings and into empowering ones.
Each year we are guided to a new place to<|fim_middle|> most parts. The hustle and bustle is constant and rare is the time for any moments that it stops. Yet, there is a certain awe or peace that is found through all of it. One of the most spiritual countries in the world and by far one of the most interesting and most visited. Drawing millions of people yearly and thousands monthly. This is the home and heart of YOGA. Where is all began. We will continue to visit India often, both the Northern and Southern. If you would like to join us on one of our Yoga Wellness and Volunteerism Retreats, please message us or stay tuned for our next adventure.
When one thinks of escaping from the everyday, some think of heading to a tropical paradise...and that place tends to be the lovely Costa Rica. A rich oasis that covers a variety of altitudes, habitats, agriculture, and experiences. From talented and welcoming people, a thriving yoga culture, to delicious food, hidden waterfalls, secret treasures hidden within the grumbles of the volcanoes that encompass the country...there is always much to do and a way to help the locals from the droves of visitors that turn Costa Rica into their new homes. We tend to help the local children with offering some love and compassion for some play time, beach clean up from the visiting surfers, or wildlife clean up to protect the animals. We visit often, so keep checking back for our next visit if you would like to join us on one of our Yoga Wellness and Volunteerism Retreats, please message us or stay tuned for our next adventure. | serve a purpose. This year, April 2018, we were guided to Northern India. Here we had the opportunity to live the life of a local, cook like a local in their home and learn the traditions and customs. We experienced a variety of styles of cooking, along with visiting some of the most holiest places, as well as an NGO for women and children. India is a place of inquisition and mystery around every tiny street or hidden nook. There is so much to take in and an over abundance to the senses. It is not a place for everyone. It is a land you must be called to come too. You will see many colors, experience many scents and various aromas. Chanting is a practice held all day in | 156 |
Form<|fim_middle|>! | ed in 1976 in North London, BAD MANNERS spent the first half of the 80's in the UK charts with a dozen hits including timeless classics including 'Lip Up Fatty', 'My Girl Lollipop' and 'Special Brew'. Since then, the man once dubbed the anti-christ of etiquette, BUSTER BLOODVESSEL has barely left the stage, playing Ska anthems to audiences everywhere with his boisterous band of misfits egging fans on to ever increasing levels of joyous pleasure.
Sillier than The Specials and madder than Madness - BAD MANNERS have always been notorious for their on-stage party atmosphere and their devilishly memorable frontman Buster's large girth, bald head and outlandishly long tongue.
BAD MANNERS are a non-stop party band and promise to excite with a set-list chock-full of their BIGGEST HITS. Just some of the heavenly Ska set for outrageous performances are: 'Walking In The Sunshine', 'Lorraine', 'Lip Up Fatty', 'Special Brew', 'Just A Feeling', 'Skinhead Love Affair', 'My Girl Lollipop', 'Inner London Violence' and of course the ultimate knees up 'Can Can'.
Lace up your boots, pull up your braces and get ready to party with Buster and the boys. You won't forget it | 283 |
Rock Stars Who Were Nominated for Razzie Awards
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For 40 years, the Golden Raspberry Awards, colloquially referred to as the Razzies, has honored the worst that Hollywood has to offer.
Created by publicist John Wilson in 1981, the original Golden Raspberry Awards was little more than a bunch of friends getting together to make<|fim_middle|> nominated and even won the tongue-in-cheek award, including some of the biggest names in music history.
Prince was a repeat offender, singled out for both his musical and acting contributions. Freddie Mercury, AC/DC, U2 and Motley Crue's Tommy Lee are among the other legendary rockers to feel the Razzies' wrath. Some artists have even had the strange experience of earning Oscar and/or Grammy nominations for the same piece of work that was deemed Razzie-worthy.
Check out our collection of rock stars who've been nominated for Razzie Awards in the gallery below.
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"I set up a cardboard podium in my living room, put a foam ball on a broomstick to create a microphone and just asked people to make random award presentations," Wilson recalled of the first Razzie Awards during a conversation with the BBC.
From those humble beginnings, it has since grown to a full scale event, covered by press across the globe.
Like the Academy Awards — the prestigious event on which the Golden Raspberry Awards is loosely based — the Razzies feature categories for all aspects of films, including acting, directing, screenplay and music.
Sylvester Stallone currently holds the record among actors, having taken home 10 Razzies in the past. Among actresses, Madonna holds the dubious title, having "won" nine times.
Of course, the Material Girl is far from the only musician to be singled out by the Razzies. Many rockers have been | 184 |
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UNIFIL's Nepalese peacekeepers support Meiss Ej-Jebel technical school
UNIFIL's Nepalese Battalion (NEPBATT) commander Lieutenant Colonel Narayan Bahadur Thapa today inaugurated the project "Renovation of Basketball Court and School Garden" at Meiss Ej-Jebel Technical School. The opening ceremony was attended by the Mayor of Meis El Jabal, Abd El Menem Shukair, teachers of the School, representatives of the Lebanese Armed Forces and local authorities.
Lt. Col. Thapa, joined by Mayor Shukair and the Director of School, Farai Kabalan, inaugurated the project by planting a tree sapling.
Over the past weeks, peacekeepers from NEPBATT planted green flooring seeds in the school garden, decorated garden surface with tiles, and refurbished and painted the garden wall. They also carried out some maintenance work in the basketball court.
The renovation work was carried out from 29 November until its completion on 16 December. The Nepalese peacekeepers also gifted some sports items, including footballs and volleyballs to the school.
In their remarks, the Mayor and the School Director expressed their appreciation towards UNIFIL for the support, while vowing to work together in other collaborative projects in the future.
Lt. Col. Thapa expressed his gratitude for the support and cooperation extended by the locals and the Mayor of Meiss Ej-Jebel towards the Nepalese Battalion in accomplishing the mandated tasks in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 1701.
Whenever possible, UNIFIL and its peacekeepers work with and extend support to local authorities, municipalities and communities. All these activities have the central objective of sustaining the existing 11 years of calm and stability in south Lebanon, while continuing to work – in the bigger picture – to encourage the parties to work towards achieving a permanent ceasefire.
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As the husband of a hard-working female farmer, Hamilton musician Matthew de Zoete has learned to appreciate the literal meaning of the biblical verse "whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Perhaps it's why de Zoete has decided to sow something new in his own career, hoping to eventually harvest the fruits of the labour involved in launching his latest musical project.
Having recorded three albums under his own name as a solo artist, de Zoete has resurfaced with a new six-song EP, Super 8, released last April under his new pseudonym, COLOUR FILM.
The overarching concept behind this new COLOUR FILM venture can be traced back to the similarly named title track of his last album. De Zoete was inspired to write the song "Colour Film" after viewing some vintage Super 8 home movies of his grandparents.
The sonic pieces of nostalgia captured in the six songs on Super 8 are a very apt beginning for COLOUR FILM according to de Zoete, who feels the new project is an accurate representation of how he thinks about and approaches his recording career.
The song tracks on Super 8 are all woven together with threads of heartfelt emotion, whether it's the keyboard laden melancholy of the song "Tomorrow" or the happier, hypnotic harmonies of the first single, "Fall." The song "Money's On The Dresser," which contains the lyric "the only time we get along, is when one of us is asleep or gone," seems to reflect a deeper vein of<|fim_middle|> 18th at Mahtay; that means taking care of the business side of his musical career, something musicians like de Zoete are not always fond of doing.
What the result of this new career course will be for de Zoete remains to be seen. While gaining a broader audience for his music is always the ultimate goal, de Zoete says he finds his greatest satisfaction in simply connecting with the people at his shows.
For details on the show visit http://mahtay.ca/events/. | emotional turmoil in the album's narrative. While not giving too much away, De Zoete admits that emotion is usually at the heart of his songwriting.
Produced by Les Cooper (Jill Barber, Good Lovelies) and featuring the soulful harmonies of Julie Fader (Great Lake Swimmers), Super 8 features de Zoete playing only acoustic and electric guitar despite the talents at piano, drums, bass and even banjo he's shown on his other solo projects. He credits the musicians who joined him in the recording – keyboardist Robbie Grunwalk, bassist Mark McIntyre and drummer Joel Stouffer -- for giving him the freedom to focus on singing and guitar.
"I found a group of people on this record and the last record that make it so I don't have to do any of that stuff. They have much better ideas than I do and much better skills than I do. With this one it was just my playing the songs for the musicians I hired and they immediately tuned into what I was doing and where I was heading.
Where de Zoete a.k.a. COLOUR FILM is headed now is back on the road to promote the songs, which will no doubt be part of his set list April | 250 |
For those who use drafting or drawing software to design clocks and their mechanisms, could you please offer your suggestions or thoughts as to which packages are most suitable for this purpose?
- No requirement for specialized hardware such as CAD cursor pads, video accelerators, and the like. I'd like to use my mouse, keyboard and standard monitor to access all the functionality of the package.
- Ability to accurately render gear tooth profiles.
- Ability to create sub-assemblies and form them into a complete assembly.
- 3D capability so that I can view objects from various angles and assess clearances.
- Ability to render objects that adhere to explicitly defined dimensions, i.e., a cylinder 4 inches high and 0.75 inches in diameter.
- Ability to print full-scale drawings accurately, i.e., a 4 inch circle that prints as a 4 inch circle, not an oval.
- Import of images such as .bmp or .jpg files so that artwork may be superimposed on objects.
As always, any help is most appreciated.
Dave, I use BobCad Cam software. It will do all the things you require plus write NC code for the parts you have drawn and it is less expensive than most similar packages. If you are as slow as me, you will have a considerable learing curve, but that is true of an CAD program. With it, I can generate any size or module wheel, draw it, send it to my mill and have a finished part in about half an hour. It takes most of the drudgery out of making clock parts.
The BobCad company is kind of a pain, calling you every month or so to try to sell you upgrades but I just ingnore them.
Really decide if 2d is what is needed now or do you want a 3d parametric modeler.
expected to do everything that $500 software will do.
Following up my original post -- do you feel that 3D software necessary when designing and drawing out a clock for subsequent assembly?
I'm assuming that it aids in placing the gears so they don't interfere. Do most clock designers use 3D software?
i use AutoCad. it has 3-D capability, but i design my clocks using only 2-D.
i make one file for the "front" view to get shaft spacings, frame and dial layout, etc., and another file of the "side" view to determine clearances, posts, spacers, etc.
it requires a certain amount of "visualization", but i find it easier than messing with 3-D.
3D software is just outstanding once you begin using it--- you will not return to 2D.
With great rendering tools, dynamic rotation, ability to add material textures to a cad model and placement of components, and parametric sketching, it is very difficult to resist 3d.
Nick Andonis used Visio a 2d drawing package (like Corel Draw) not exactly a Cad package to design his clock as I recall from an old email.
Gary's site show a drawing of "clockacadver14.dwg" is contained in the zip file. This file contains all of the gear and faceplate templates in Autocad ver 14 format.
Remember cars, machines, engines all were designed in a 2d cad environment. However, the 3d design tools are now used in all the major segments. Even today many smaller companies still draw in 2d.
If your drawing by hand, move to some type of 2d cad (arrays,mirrors, move copy type of commands). If you can afford 3d ($100-500) go with the latest and greatest (parametric where the dimension value will change the design of the model).
I think it would be great to have a 3D capacity but fear I am too old and impatient to suffer the learning curve. I use my cam feature to write the code for my machining center, and cut the frames and dials as well as the wheels and pinions. I don't need to use depthing tools to place bushing holes, I drill them at the same time as I cut the frame outlines, all done from my cad drawing. I am terribly spoiled by all this machinery and technology but it does give me the opportunity to make multiples if I ever design a clock that is good enough to offer for sale.
I purchased TurboCAD for Mac 2d, about 80 bucks, and have been dealing with it for about a week. I read the manual and messed around and finally was able to replicate one of Brian Law's wheels and pinions (he posted all of the major measurements.) After some hunt and peck I discovered some hidden beauty points in the program. My CAD drawing lays over the Law drawing perfectly. I did it again with fewer teeth - neat proof--and could change the mod by rescaling the whole drawing. I've moved on to make drawings of gears I generated with my gear cutters and they match well. These are built for lantern pinions and quite small. the printouts are clear -- no wobble between curves etc. I should be able to cut these nicely with a scrollsaw.
All that to say-- a week ago I felt stupid.---like I was handed a typewriter with no letters or numbers on the keys and told to write the great American novel and I don't touch type. Now I think I can do this thing!!
A suggestion-- whatever CAD program you use.-- keep notes so you don't make the same mistake again and again. Things don't work the way you think they should -- but work well-none the less.
You definitely put a brand new spin on a subject that has been discussed for many years. Excellent stuff, just excellent!it depends on your goal.
I've just started learning Autodesk Fusion 360,<|fim_middle|> | which is free to businesses under $100,000/year and hobbyists. It's a full 3D program that will do CAM - it generates the M-Codes needed for CNC machines.
The learning curve is very steep, but then the program is fully capable and it's fully cloud based. | 64 |
Jasło County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, south-eastern Poland, on the Slovak border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat is Jasło, which lies south-west of the regional capital Rzeszów. The only other town in the county is Kołaczyce, which is <|fim_middle|> gminas (one urban, one urban-rural and eight rural). These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population.
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Land counties of Podkarpackie Voivodeship | north of Jasło.
The county covers an area of . As of 2019 its total population was 113,730, out of which the population of Jasło was 35,063, that of Jasło was 1,409, and the rural population was 77,258.
Neighbouring counties
Jasło County is bordered by Gorlice County to the west, Tarnów County to the north-west, Dębica County to the north, Strzyżów County to the north-east and Krosno County to the east. It also borders Slovakia to the south.
Administrative division
The county is subdivided into 10 | 150 |
Italy is well known for its beautiful lakes, here are my three favourites.
Lake Iseo is located east of the city of Bergamo (a Ryanair hub) and to the west of the better known Lake Garda. I love Lake Iseo, it's not so busy and touristy as the other lakes. It has an island, Monte Isola, the largest lake island in Europe, in the middle of the lake which is reached by regular ferries from several lakeside towns. Monte Isola is car free so ideal for walking and cycling. Iseo Town on the southern shore has a lakeside promenade, some great restaurants and is close to the Franciacorta sparkling wine region. The Sassabanek complex on the outskirts of Iseo town has tennis courts and three swimming pools. The town Lovere on the north western bank is home to the Accadenmia Tadini art gallery, created in the 1820 by Count Luigi Tadini in memory of his only son Faustino. To the north of the lake in Val Camino is the National Park of Rock Engravings where you can see prehistoric rock carvings.
Lake Como is a good place to do some celebrity spotting as George Clooney, Richard Branson and Sting all have homes there. The lake has two legs, I stayed in Como town on the southern tip of the western leg. You get marvelous views of the town and lake if you take the funicular to the village of Brunate. The Como Silk Museum illustrates the history of the silk industry in the area. There's a wide choice of boat trips from Como town, I went to the village of Bellagio at the fork of the two legs by hydrofoil. I didn't manage to visit Villa Carlotta in Tremezzo, as it closes from mid November to mid March, but the house and gardens are highly recommended.
Lake Trasimeno is located mid way between Florence and Rome. While not the most dramatic of Italian lakes, Trasimeno which borders Umbria and Tuscany , was a very pleasant water side stop when touring the area. Some of the best views are from the castle at Passignano sul Trasimeno. Another pretty town is Castliogne del Lago. I had a paddle in the lake which was pretty shallow even at 200 metres from the shore, but my husband went out further in order to swim. There are three small islands in the lake, only one of which, Isola Maggiore, is inhabited.
Do you<|fim_middle|>ature, pascobs, lorenzinhos, asterix.
believe me or not, the best lake in Italy is the Orta Lake (and his pretty Isola di San Giulio in the middle), in Piemonte, not far from Lake Maggiore.
1h by car from Malpensa Airport.
Oscar, I haven't been to Lake Orta but have read that it's very beautiful.
Como's good, but Garda gets my vote. Not been to the others yet.
Jools I have been to Lake Garda but overall prefer Como. | have a favourite Italian lake?
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The world number two claimed the £10,000 prize dropping only twelve legs on his way to the win and was dominant throughout the day.
Anderson started the day with impressive 6-1 and 6-2 wins over Harry Robinson and Mickey Mansell respectively. Next for the Scot was Paul Nicholson, where the former Players Championship winner was blown away by Anderson in a 6-0 defeat.
Anderson then gained revenge over Michael van Gerwen who had beaten him the day before despite averaging well over 100 with a 6-4 victory. The two-time World Champion was at his ruthless best again in the quarter-finals where he whitewashed Jonny Clayton to claim a place in the last four.
Steve West was also powerless to resist the 46-year-old as Anderson secured a 6-2 win to move in to the final. Peter Wright was Anderson's opponent in the final but yet again little could be done to stop his rampant march to the title.
The 2017 Masters finalist opened up a 3-0 lead over Wright, including a 124 finish. The decicive moment of the match came in the sixth leg where Anderson took out 116 on the<|fim_middle|>0 against Michael yesterday so was really nice to get my revenge today.
"These aren't easy to win anymore. There are 128 tops players so you've got to play really well to win one." Wright's run to the final ended a good seven days for the Scot after claiming his seventh title of the year at the HappyBet German Darts Open the week before.
The event will also be memorable for the 47-year-old as he hit a perfect nine-dart leg in his semi-final victory over Michael Smith. The world number three hit back-to-back maximums before taking out 141 on double twelve to fight back from 2-0 down to beat Smith.
Earlier in the day he overcame Mike de Decker, Jeffrey de Graaf, Wayne Jones, Jermaine Wattimena, Ryan Searle and then memorably Michael Smith before being defeated by Anderson in the final. The next set of Players Championship events takes place April 20-21 as the world's best players head to Milton Keynes. | bullseye to move in to a 5-1 lead with a double break of throw.
Despite a break back from Wright, Anderson secured the win on tops and was delighted with the way he played. "It went very well today, I played well and am happy with the win. "I had an average of about 11 | 69 |
Last year, we finally photographed a black hole. Now what?
In-orbit telescopes could help us image black holes like never before.
By Charlie Wood | Published Mar 26, 2020 12:00 PM
Future black hole images could look sharper, although probably not as sharp as this rendering. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman
It took Sheperd Doeleman nearly a decade to pull off the impossible. As the director of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a project involving an international collaboration of hundreds of researchers, he spent years flying suitcases full of hard drives around the globe to coordinate observations between radio telescopes on four continents, including Antarctica. On April 9, 2019, the collaboration at last released the fruits of their labors and the world gazed upon the first image of a black hole.
The feat—which pioneering black hole theorist James Bardeen called hopeless in 1973—represented a towering achievement of astronomical technology. But once the data processing was done and the champagne popped, the EHT collaboration in some sense resembled the dog who caught the car. "It took everyone a little by surprise that they got such a good image so fast," says Andrew Strominger, a theoretical physicist at Harvard University. "Sheperd and Michael [Johnson, a Harvard-Smithsonian astrophysicist and EHT coordinator,] were asking me about it. 'What do we do with this? We took the picture, now what?'"
Now Strominger and an interdisciplinary group of researchers including theorists, experimentalists, and one philosopher are back with a wild answer, which appeared last week in Science Advances. With access to a distant enough telescope, the EHT collaboration could discern multiple reflections of light streaming from around the black hole. By sorting through the precise pattern in these jumbled rays, astronomers could directly measure the basic properties of black holes and stress test Einstein's theory of gravity like never before. Basically, they hope black holes will become more like stars and planets: not just objects to ponder, but to directly observe.
"These are objects that for me have just been equations that I try to visualize mathematically in my mind," says Alex Lupsasca, a Harvard theorist who worked on the research. "But now we're getting real pictures of them."
The team did pencil-and-paper calculations using Einstein's theory of General Relativity and simulations of unprecedented resolution to analyze what black holes do to light. Spoiler alert: it gets weird. "Black holes, they're just kind of the best at everything they do," Lupsasca says. And that includes bending light rays into loops.
As the densest objects permitted by the laws of physics, black holes have a lot of cosmic pull, and physicists have long known that the abysses cloak themselves in shells of light. Where Earth might attract a passing space rock—drawing it into a few orbits before it escapes into space—black holes can capture actual light particles. Anything crashing into the black hole gets stuck inside forever, but photons that closely skim the boundary can make a few turns around the black hole. "This is the warped nature of spacetime in your face," Lupsasca says.
Exactly what Strominger, Lupsasca and their colleagues calculated was the light shell's specific structure, and what it would look like from Earth.
Here's how it works. As light rays approach the black hole, its fearsome gravity drags them into orbit. Rays passing at one particular distance make half a turn around the black hole before escaping into space. Rays passing a bit closer might make a complete circle before returning from whence they came. Rays passing closer still might make a turn and half, others two turns, and so on. Each of these infinite groups of light rays can form an image (if they hit a camera or an eyeball), so the black hole could produce an infinite number of such images. Strominger likens the trippy effect to standing between two department store mirrors and seeing images of yourself stretch off into the distance.
"In a perfect world with a perfect telescope, you'd look at the black hole and see not only an infinite number of nested images of yourself, but of the whole universe," he says.
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But the EHT is, like all telescopes, not perfect. It's also not exactly a telescope, but technically an interferometer. Interferometers work by comparing observations of a distant point from two different locations. The farther apart the locations sit, the finer the features on the object they can resolve. Because the successive black hole reflections (which would appear as rings to an observer) get thinner and thinner, astronomers need to harness more far flung observatories to see them. Unfortunately, with facilities in Hawaii, Chile, Spain, and on the south pole, the EHT is running out of space. "They've already used up the whole earth just to see the first image," Strominger says.
To spot the reflection rings, the EHT will have to go further still. Eventually, the research authors conclude, the collaboration should add a space-based observatory to their network. Just one would do it. A satellite orbiting the Earth could clearly spot the first ring, or hardware orbiting the moon could see the second. If they could get a spacecraft out to a location between the Earth and the Sun known as the second Lagrangian point (the destination of the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope) they could resolve the first three rings. Such a mission might cost a few hundred million dollars—pricey but not as nearly as expensive as the largest science projects. "It's something that someday someone will do," Lupsasca says. "It's just a matter of time."
With that pile of cash, astrophysicists would be buying a wealth of black hole knowledge. An observation of the rings would immediately serve as the first test of general relativity in an environment with gravity intense enough to bend light rays into full-on loops. The way the rings narrow is very precise, so any deviation would signal that something weird was going on. "There's no wiggle room," Lupsasca says. "You go out there and do the measurement and it either matches the theory or it doesn't."
Few theorists expect a breakdown of Einstein's most successful theory. Rather, they're more excited about what the rings can reveal about the two black holes close enough to image in this way. Astronomers have a few ways of measuring the basic<|fim_middle|> Science, his work has appeared in Quanta Magazine, Scientific American, The Christian Science Monitor, and other publications. Previously, he taught physics and English in Mozambique and Japan, and studied physics at Brown University. You can view his website here. | properties of a black hole, such as its mass and spin, but they have to make a lot of assumptions to do so. The ring pattern depends only on the black hole—having nothing to do with the glowing plasma and debris nearby—so such observations could provide a cleaner way for physicists to answer their most basic questions about these enigmatic objects.
And this analysis is just the beginning. After the work was released last summer (ahead of peer review), it sparked a flurry of follow-up research as physicists raced to flesh out the theory. "It's emphasized that there are a lot of cool details we haven't explored yet, and gotten us excited about possible new signatures," says Elizabeth Himwich, a Harvard graduate student who analyzed how the type of light alternates from one ring to the next.
Lupsasca likens the effort ahead to the early days of biology. "Before you want to understand how to sequence DNA and use CRISPR to copy and edit DNA, first you go out into the woods and say, 'that's a tree, that's a flower,'" he says. "This is where we're at with black hole physics as an experimental science."
Charlie is a journalist covering developments in the physical sciences both on and off the planet. In addition to Popular | 257 |
Significant security threats emerged in 2014. Closing out this epic year with a bang is Destover, aka Wiper. Wiper, as far as security threats go, is significant. Significant enough that the FBI quietly sent a memo to businesses and government agencies advising vigilance against Wiper based attacks. In this post I'll provide five clear steps every organization can employ to harden their defenses against Wiper.
First, a little background on the Wiper malware. Paraphrasing the great poet Robert Frost, I'll say Wiper walks the road less traveled. Most modern malware avoids detection for as long as possible. Wiper's goal, on the other hand, is nothing short of completely erasing an infected system. Wiper's name aptly derives from this very destructive nature. Armed<|fim_middle|> the other hand, may expedite an infection.
The difference between major event and minor annoyance is a strong disaster recovery strategy. A good DR plan well implemented reduces an attack's impact. Recovery time and data loss are minimized. Business continuity plans ensure operations continue regardless of the systems lost. Data de-duplication and virtual desktop infrastructure offer modern technologies for enhancing DR strategies. Take advantage of these technologies when practical to augment current systems.
Operating system updates don't just add features and functionality. In fact, most OS updates are security, not feature related. These patches provide necessary protection against vulnerabilities identified since an OSes release. Likewise, updates to software such as Office, Adobe Acrobat, and Java are key in preventing attackers from leveraging these applications for system access. Microsoft and Adobe both release patches monthly for their products. Test and deploy these updates quickly. Being attacked is bad. Being attacked by an exploit that was patched, but you never deployed, is much, much worse.
There's no doubt Wiper is a nasty piece of malware. Its recent use in attacks against Sony Pictures Entertainment cost them significantly. Lost files, leaked movies, and cancelled press tours and movie premiers all direct outcomes of the Wiper based attack. Taking the few simple steps outlined above will enhance your system's protection against Wiper. Don't be surprised when Wiper shows up on your network; be prepared! | with an understanding of what makes this malware uniquely dangerous, here are five steps to help protect you from becoming Wiper's next victim.
Malware protection is somewhat like a flu shot. Each year a new shot is developed against that year's predominate virus strains. Malware protection updates similarly provide protection against the latest malware threats. Configure client anti-malware systems to update signatures daily. Servers deserve more stringent protection, so have them update hourly. Firewalls with embedded IPS or other malware protection should update every 15 minutes if possible.
Informed users are the best defense against most attacks. Users are on the "front lines," barging their way daily through email and web browsing activities. Teach them to identify odd attachments, phishing attempts, URL anomalies, and other attack vectors. Encourage them to "ask first, click second." Diligent, educated users may prevent malware from ever getting a foothold inside an organization. Distracted, uneducated users, on | 198 |
5 scholars you need to know from the Islamic Golden Age
"They don't make them like they used to"
The above is a famous english idiom that perfectly characterizes the following scholars and (pre-)Renaissance men. Leonardo DaVinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Aristotle would be proud, maybe even humbled, to stand alongside each one of these 5 scholars that you need to know from the Islamic Golden Age.
These truly gifted individuals were often not just experts in one scientific, philosophical, or judicial discipline but were masters of many. It was relatively commonplace to be a man of mathematics and medicine while dabbling in physics or chemistry because why not, right?! Perhaps merely coincidental but it should be noted that each one of these learned, revered men is always depicted sporting a long, flowing full beard...hmmm :)
Ibn Sina/Avicenna
Birth Name: Abu Ali Sina; Anglicized to Avicenna; AKA "the most influential philosopher of the pre-modern era"
Born in present-day Uzbekistan in 980, Ibn Sina was a Persian Muslim polymath and is widely considered to be one of history's most influential physicians, astronomers, thinkers, writers, and the father of modern medicine (whew, get used to it!).
His encyclopedias "The Book of Healing" and "The Canon of Medicine" (1025) were core medical texts at many medieval universities and in use as late as 1650.
Ibn Rushd/Averroes
Birth Name: Abdul Walid Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Rusd; Anglicized to Averroes; AKA The Commentator.
Born in Cordoba, present-day Spain in 1162, Ibn Rushd was an Aristotelian philosopher and thinker who wrote about various disciplines including philosophy, theology, medicine, astronomy, physics, law, and linguistics.
Born to a family of judges, Ibn Rushd also served as a judge and court physician in the Almohad caliph<|fim_middle|>azir ("Book of Optics") so it should come as no surprise that ibn al-Haytham's scientific specialties were related to the principles of optics and visual perception. He was the first to explain that vision is a product of light reflecting off an object and passing into the eyes. He was also the first to note that vision occurs in the brain, not the eyes. Further, he was an early proponent of the scientific method five centuries before Renaissance scientists.
Ibn al-Nafis
Birth Name: Ala-al-din abu Al-Hassan Ali ibn Abi-Hazm al-Qarshi al-Dimashqi; AKA "the father of circulatory physiology"
Born in Cordoba, present-day Spain in 1162, Ibn al-Nafis was an Arab physician and anatomist from Damascus and is famous for being the first to describe the pulmonary circulation of the blood. Aside from medicine, Ibn al-Nafis studied jurisprudence, literature, and theology; he was also an expert on the Shafi'i school of jurisprudence.
Ibn al-Nafis made several important physiological and anatomical discoveries as he performed several human dissections during the course of his studies. Apart from his famous discovery of the pulmonary circulation, he also gave an early analysis of the coronary and capillary circulations. The number of medical textbooks written by Ibn al-Nafis is estimated to be over 110 volumes.
Banu Musa ("Sons of Moses") Brothers
Birth Names: Muḥammad ibn Musa ibn Shakir Abu Jafar, Aḥmad ibn Musa ibn Shakir Abu Al-Qasim, and Al-Ḥasan ibn Musa ibn Shakir.
Raised in the House of Wisdom, Baghdad, Iraq in the 9th century, the Banu Musa brothers were a trio of scientific siblings most known for their "Book of Ingenious Devices" which described inventions, hacks, and contraptions that relied on automation and engineering ingenuity.
Another publication of theirs, "Book on the Measurement of Place and Spherical Figures" became a foundational work on geometry that was frequently quoted by mathematicians across the world. Studying in the House of Wisdom under Yahya ibn Abi Mansur, the Banu Musa brothers translated ancient Greek works into Arabic. At first, they paid large sums for translations but soon learned Greek themselves. The brothers sponsored numerous scientists and translators, paying about 500 dinars a month as a stipend. Had the brothers' not exerted so much effort, many of the Greek texts would have been lost and forgotten. | ate. His in-depth writings on Aristotle's philosophies and teachings gained enough prominence that they became a sub-philosophy and school of thought called Averroism.
Ibn al-Haytham/Alhazen
Birth Name: Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham; Anglicized to Alhazen; AKA "the father of modern optics", "Second Ptolemy", and "The Physicist".
Born in Basra, Iraq in 965, Ibn al-Haytham was an Arab mathematician, astronomer, and physicist.
His most significant publication is Kitab al-Man | 139 |
Texas<|fim_middle|>-52 | A&M's Blair and Bond-White honored as season's top women's college coach and assistant in the state of Texas
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By TAMU Sports Information Department/David Waxman
Texas A&M women's basketball head coach Gary Blair was named Texas Coach of the Year by the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches, and Aggie associate head coach Kelly Bond-White was named Texas Assistant Coach of the Year, as the TABC presented their annual awards Thursday.
"I am honored to be recognized by other coaches, not just for what we have done this year, but for our 13-year run of consistency," said Texas A&M head coach Gary Blair. "I am very proud of Kelly Bond-White, who is getting the proper recognition for what she has done for not just our program, but the game of women's basketball. She is an excellent teacher, communicator and leader, and is very deserving of the award."
Blair is receiving the award as the top women's basketball head coach in the state for the fifth time, having also received the award in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2011. Blair guided the Aggies to their 13th straight NCAA Tournament appearance, and the seventh Sweet 16 in program history, posting a 26-10 record.
Blair is the SEC's active leader or co-leader in career wins, SEC wins, 20+ win seasons, NCAA Tournament appearances, Women's Final Four appearances and National Championships. He ranks seventh among active coaches with 765 career wins, 357 of which have come at Texas A&M.
"I am honored, humbled, and blessed to receive this award," said Bond-White. "I am grateful to be on my journey in this profession, and receive this honor, next to Coach Blair, who has set the blueprint and standard of excellence for so many. We have an phenomenal group of young ladies that our amazing coaching staff gets to help develop on the court and in life, which is the reason I started and continue in the amazing profession."
Bond-White is a first-time recipient of the TABC Assistant Coach of the Year Award, which is only in its second year of existence. In addition to playing a major role in the team's success, Bond-White was responsible for coaching Texas A&M's point guards in 2017-18, helping Chennedy Carter to unanimous National Freshman of the Year honors and AP All-America honors.
Bond-White has been a member of Blair's staff for 18 seasons, and has been a part of 429 wins and 16 NCAA Tournament appearances as a college assistant and associate coach. A reputation as a phenomenal recruiter, she helped reel in the No. 2 recruiting class in the nation in 2012 and again with the No. 8 recruiting class in 2017.
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Saint Francis: an attentive, welcoming, and accepting brother.
As we celebrate the feast of Francis, our holy founder, father, and brother, we continue to feel drawn to him as a person, attracted by his message and how he lived it. Through his radical gospel life, his personal authenticity, and his courteous, fraternal connection with every being that surrounded him, St. Francis is an inspiration to humanity, evoking a deep bond of love and respect with the Church, with society and the whole of creation.
This passage of the Rule reminds us that we, Friars Minor, need to actually "go about in the world" – that is, in the world of today, which we must love and accept with its lights and shadows, aware of the great challenges that it presents to our lives and mission. At a global level humanity has attained an unprecedented level of development in culture, science and technology. While this has led to the achievement of extraordinary advances for humanity and for the planet, at the same time we are also witnesses to how this same power can be used solely from a selfish perspective, creating new forms of poverty, violence, fear and human conflict, as well as deeply wounding the natural world.
The above extract from the Rule also reminds us that the Friars Minor, through the way we live, must testify to the good that the human person is capable of. In our relationships within our fraternity and with society, we ought to avoid quarrels and disputes. On the contrary, we must cultivate gentleness, modesty, meekness, humility, honesty, and peace<|fim_middle|>ed and sustained by Christian hope, is a great witness to God's active presence in the Church and in the world.
By his example and intercession, may Francis, our seraphic father and brother, help us to work with all those who believe in creativity and solidarity, building with them a more humane, fraternal, kindly and joyful society. May the Lord grant that we be meek, peaceful, modest, gentle and humble, honest among ourselves and towards all, so that Christ's beauty and merciful love may shine forth in our world. | amongst ourselves, and towards all.
Francis, by means of simple but deep words, and through gestures that are concrete and meaningful, presents us with a religious and human ideal that can give our lives an appealing and authentic meaning – something we ourselves can first receive and then pass on to others. Francis was a man who well knew how to discern what was happening inside him and around him; he was man who listened, always attentive to the voices of God and of other people; he was open to an encounter with all those who surrounded him; he welcomed everyone, especially the poor and needy; he was totally committed to the reality in which he found himself, in circumstances torn apart by violence and exclusion.
We Friars Minor, reflecting both on Francis and on today's world, can enhance the culture of our time in a spiritual way by means of our lifestyle and the values expressed in our spirituality. We can offer brotherhood, kindness and courtesy to a society fragmented by so much injustice and violence. In this way we will live out our vocation to be tireless heralds of Jesus Christ, evangelizers who call on every baptized person to be a peacemaker and a credible witness to a reconciled life (cf. EG 239). Dialogue in all its aspects (Ecumenical, Interreligious and Inter-Cultural) is a powerful God-given instrument in our mission. St. Francis exemplifies dialogue that allows relationships to develop into encounters that bring about peace, with the hope of building a society that is just, fraternal and inclusive.
Part of the inspiration and attraction of our father St. Francis is his ability to communicate the Word of God not just in theological terms, but also in a manner that connects with human and social realities. For him the Gospel must continuously be lived out in a pattern of interconnected relationships; with God, with humanity and with all created things. Thus the Word will be made flesh and will send us the Holy Spirit, who can transform and enlighten different aspects of our lives, such as the religious, social, political, cultural, scientific, and economic spheres.
So today how can we take the treasures of the Gospel, as well as the experience of God in our fraternities, and translate these into activities and projects that can be of help to our brothers and sisters? From the point of view of the good of the Church and of service to humanity, what can we do at a personal level, and at the level of our fraternities and entities, in order to further dialogue, the inclusion of the poor, and care for creation?
The celebration of the feast of St. Francis cannot be reduced to just singing his praises, but must also mean allowing ourselves to be engaged by the calls of the Gospel and of today's world; only this will lead to a renewal of our Franciscan vocation.
By living a life in fraternity, we too wish to be men of hope, just as Francis was. Hope is another facet of love, because those who sincerely love someone are always ready to accept the unexpected. We want to be men who have the capacity to look out for the great goodness that God puts into the heart of every person. This is a quality that can possibly change the course of history, accomplishing God's plans for humanity and for the world. We want to be people who hope, and consequently can envision and realize the unhoped-for. We want to be men of prayer, continually drawing light from God, the source of all hope. This light shines in every individual, bringing peace to hearts which have been opened up to gracious mutual sharing.
In Franciscanism, hope implies a distinctive attitude to life. This involves courage, a spirit of creativity, a willingness to risk, optimism of spirit, and a genuine social commitment. The ability to be audacious, enliven | 779 |
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The Motions of a Moored Ship in Waves
G. van Oortmerssen
It is the intention of this thesis to formulate a mathematical model which can be used for computer simulations of the behaviour of a moored ship in waves. In order to achieve this, two problems must be solved. First, a set of equations of motion must be drawn up, which can describe adequately the behaviour in six degrees of freedom of a ship, moored by means of a non-linear mooring system in regular or irregular waves. Second, a method must be found for the computation of the wave<|fim_middle|> a quay parallel to the ship can be taken into account. An extensive experimental verification has been carried out by means of model tests, for a 200,000 tdw tanker in shallow water (the keel clearance amounted to 20 percent of the draft). Comparative computations and measurements of wave loads, hydrodynamic restoring forces and free floating ship motions have been carried out. Further, computer simulations have been made for the case that the ship is mooted in regular and irregular waves to a jetty, by means of mooring lines and fenders. The results of these computations are also compared with those of model experiments. An analysis of the results obtained shows that the typical behaviour of the moored ship, with subharmonic motion response, is represented adequately by the mathematical model. In conditions where the ship is pushed against the fenders by the waves, the subharmonic motions are caused mainly by the non-linear characteristics of the mooring system. When the angle between direction of wave propagation and the longitudinal axis of the ship is small, or in case the ship is pushed away from the fenders by the waves, it appears that the second order wave force has a dominant influence on the low frequency motions of the moored ship.
The Motions of a Moored Ship in Waves (pdf)
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The Effect of Wind Spectra on the Low-Frequency Motions of a Moored Tanker in Survival Condition
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Non-linear Ship Motions in Shallow Water
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The Low Frequency Motions of a Semi-submersible in Waves
In this paper attention is paid to low frequency wave drift forces on a semi-submersible moored in i... | forces and the hydrodynamic reaction forces acting on the ship. For the description of the motions, the six coupled equations of motion in the time-domain according to Cummins are used. These equations can bake into account non-linear and asymmetric restoring force characteristics of the mooring system, while the exciting forces may be arbitrary. The only restriction of these equations is that linearity is assumed of the hydrodynamic restoring forces. In general, mooring of ships occurs only in areas with a restricted water depth. In shallow water the flow around a ship has a three-dimensional character, and therefore the three-dimensional source technique is applied to obtain the wave loads and hydrodynamic reaction forces on the ship. Based on the linear potential theory, this technique supposes an ideal fluid and small amplitudes of waves and motions. The effect of a forward speed is not included in this method, but this is not of interest for moored ship problems. The influence of a restricted water depth and | 193 |
This is René, our Area Sales Manager for Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Central & South America. Quite a mouthful. Also quite a global scope indeed. And that is just René's cup of tea.
'I've always pursued an international career. I'm proud of the fact that Pop Vriend Seeds has an considerable market position in over 100 countries, as a specialist in a limited number of crops. We are relatively small, but we think big.
The other good thing about working at Pop Vriend Seeds is that I can combine a global job with a healthy work-life<|fim_middle|>. Currently, for instance, I follow a personal leadership training program together with several colleagues.
When I travel, I always point out to my oldest boys where daddy is going this time. | balance. I have three wonderful kids in the ages between 6 months and 6 years old, and I do not want to miss out on family life and watch them grow up. We have a huge world map on our living room wall. At Pop Vriend, we keep developing ourselves | 58 |
La Porte County Office of Community & Economic Development in conjunction with the LaPorte Economic Advancement Partnership and the Economic Development Corporation of Michigan City to Host ZOOM COVID 19 Emergency Disaster Loans Interactive Webinar
By: City of La Porte Last Updated: March 31, 2020
On Thursday April 2nd 2020 at 2:00 p.m. the LaPorte County Office of Community and Economic Development in conjunction with the LaPorte Economic Advancement Partnership and the Economic Development Corporation of Michigan City will host a ZOOM COVID 19 Emergency Disaster Loans Interactive Webinar
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The primary purpose of this interactive zoom meeting is to ensure that every small business owner in LaPorte County fully understands that there are resources available to help them through this unbelievably trying time. They are not alone in the COVID 19 Pandemic and the United States Congress has moved quickly to action and has past legislation that provides for assistance to the country's largest employer, the US Small | 193 |
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Tarapur is a town in Tarapur Taluka in Anand district in the State of Gujarat, India. It is located on the Baroda – Rajkot Highway. It is the administrative seat for the taluka, a major trading centre of the Bhal region and gateway to the Charotar region.
Demographics
Tarapur is a multi-religious town with a population of roughly 35,000. The economy is based on farming, trade, and services. Major crops are wheat, rice, chickpeas,<|fim_middle|>. A warrior and farmer named Dharmadas and his five brothers and other relatives were a great help in defeating Khalji, so the king rewarded him with of land at the border of his kingdom. They were to protect the border and farm the land. They build seven homes and started living in the centre, and divided the land equally.
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0.56% = == History == Punjab to native Jagirdars Punjab Tarapur was established in 1215 by Dharmadas from Adalaj. King Jayarajsing defeated Mahamad Khalji of Delhi. A warrior and farmer named Dharmadas and his five brothers and other relatives were a great help in defeating Khalji, so the king rewarded him with 40 square kilometers (10,000 acres) of land at the border of his kingdom. They were to protect the border and farm the land. They build seven homes and start living in the center, and divide the land equally. At present his descendants live in Tarapur village and also in the country and abroad.
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Welcome to Tarapura.org Gujarat
તારાપુર તાલુકા ગુજરાત પંચાયત
Cities and towns in Anand district | and millet. Some of the neighbourhoods are almost empty because people have migrated to Indian cities or abroad for work in businesses and professional fields.
History
Tarapur was established in 1215 by Dharmadas from Adalaj. King Jayarajsing defeated Mahamad Khalji of Delhi | 63 |
August 6, 2016 – Elko, MN
The MN Lottery presented an Eve of Destruction with NASCAR Whelen All American Series racing in front of a huge crowd of race fans at Elko Speedway on Saturday night.
The Hiway Federal Credit Union BIG 8 style Late Models were the premiere division and they raced two 20 lap features. Dylan Warner #11 jumped out to an early big lead in race number one, Bryan Wrolstad #13 tracked him down and then made a pass on the high side for the lead with 5 laps remaining. Wrolstad from Northfield (MN) never gave up the top spot and won his first trophy of the year, he ended up winning by 1.535 seconds over #4 Grant Brown who was celebrating his 16th birthday. Michael Beamish #40 finished third, Ryan Kamish #42 was fourth and Warner dropped back to fifth at the finish line.
The second Big 8 feature saw #17 Jon Lemke take the early lead. Todd Kamish raced Lemke side by side and then overtook him in the top groove with 12 laps remaining. Kamish #5 from Farmington (MN), won the race by .808 seconds and scored his second win of 2016. A great battle for the runner-up position was won by Lemke, who held off the other brother, Ryan Kamish by less than a fender. Michael Beamish finished fourth and #19 Michael Haggar rounded out the Top-5.
Dylan Moore #54 had difficult starting positions and finished the two races 8th and 9th but he held on to the point lead. Moore now has an 11 point lead over Lemke in the battle for the Championship.
Conrad Jorgenson #3 came across the finish line first in the Genz-Ryan Thunder Car main event but he denied the post-race Technical Inspection request and was disqualified. Dillon Sellner #07 from Farmington (MN) was declared the winner, it was his first win of the season. Adam Wiebusch was also disqualified for the same infraction so, Jeremy Wolff #32 was awarded second, Brent Kane #99 third, Eric Campbell #<|fim_middle|> over Brandon Olson in the point standings.
All results and points are unofficial at this time and may be revised later in the week. Check ElkoSpeedway.com or the new ELKO! Racing app for updates.
The Green Mamba Jet Car thrilled the crowd on Eve of Destruction night, as did stuntmen Clay Gallagher and captain crash. The Flippen-out Extreme Trampoline show entertained pre-race and at intermission, as did the Skyview Ranch pony rides and petting zoo. J.J. Romans did freestyle MX, we had school bus races, spectator drags and Hitchville put on a great show at Champions Entertainment Center.
Up next at Elko Speedway is more NASCAR Whelen All American Series racing on Saturday night August 13th. It is tribute night as we honor both Dwain Behrens and Scott Kingery with special memorial races.
Gates open up at 5pm with action beginning at 6pm at Elko Speedway a 3/8th mile progressive banked asphalt oval located in Elko (MN), 30 minutes South of downtown Minneapolis just off of I-35 and County Road 2.
Get more information by following Elko Speedway on Social Media, go to ElkoSpeedway.com, download the free ELKO! Racing App or call (952) 461-7223. | 25 fourth and #20 James Lindgren fifth.
Jeremy Wolff now has a 23 point lead over Brent Kane as they renew their rivalry from last year in the quest for the Thunder Car Championship, Eric Campbell is currently third in points, only 24 out of the lead.
The Pepsi Power Stock main event was a good one as 21 cars raced 20 laps for the honor to take home the hardware. Brandon Petersen #7 held the lead early in the race, he was closely followed by #56 Paul Hamilton and #36 Brandon Olson as the Top 3 checked out on the field. Hamilton put some pressure on Petersen with five laps to go and then passed him on the outside with three laps to go in the main event. "It was getting down to the end," said Hamilton "I was thinking OK, I'm going to have to try the high-side, and this car usually doesn't like the high-side, but it stuck and we kept pushing it more and more and more and eventually we ended up getting it." Hamilton won by .478 seconds over Petersen with Brandon Olson finishing third, #54 Tom Quade in fourth and #62 Tom Doten in fifth. This was the first win of the year for Hamilton who had run a charity half-marathon earlier in the day.
With the good finish for Petersen and #37 Bryce Blohm finishing seventh, Blohm now leads Petersen by only two points in the season-to-date standings. Tom Doten is third in points, 16 behind the leader.
Brady Fox-Rhode #4 from Loretto (MN) spent his birthday week in Rome Italy on vacation, he rushed back just in time to get his Great North Legends car ready to race on Saturday night. It turned out to be well worth the effort as Fox-Rhode led every one of the 20 laps and held off some big names to take the win, his second of the year at Elko Speedway. Shon Jacobsen #22 finished 1.028 seconds behind Fox-Rhode with #13 Tim Brockhouse finishing third, Matt Allen #16 fourth and #7 Jackson Lewis in fifth out of the 21 cars competing.
Two time defending Champion #71 Derek Lemke had bad luck again, he finished dead last for the second week in a row, this time due to an engine failure and fire. Lemke still leads in points, but now by only 15 over Matt Allen in the race for the Championship.
The Hornets main event was won by #89 Michael Weiss from Bloomington (MN). Weiss had to get past #41 Ashley Bell, who led for a majority of the race. Weiss made the winning pass with five laps remaining and won by .963 seconds over #36 Brandon Olson, #55 Brandon Plekkenpol finished third, Ashley Bell fourth and 2014 Champion Brian Adams #0 in fifth out of the 17 cars in the field. This was the first win of the year for Weiss.
Justin Schelitzche from Lester Prairie (MN) had a tough night and finished 7th, reducing his lead to only 9 | 665 |
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Großenstein est une commune rurale de Thuringe (Allemagne), située dans l'arrondissement de Greiz.
Géographie
Großenstein est située au nord-est de l'arrondissement, à la limite avec l'arrondissement du Pays-d'Altenbourg, dans la vallée de la Sprotte, affluent droit de l'Elster Blanche. La commune est le siège de la communauté d'administration Am Brahmetal et se trouve à au nord de Ronneburg, à au nord-est de Gera et à au nord de Greiz, le chef-lieu de l'arrondissement.
La commune est composée des quatre villages suivants : Baldenhain, Großenstein, Mückern et Nauendorf.
Communes limitrophes (en commençant par le nord et dans le sens des aiguilles<|fim_middle|>.
Histoire
La première mention du village date de 1294 sous le nom de Stegen. Ce n'est qu'à la fin du qu'il prend son nom actuel de Großenstein.
Les communes de Baldenhain, Mückern et Nauendorf ont été incorporées au territoire de Großenstein.
Les villages de Baldenhain, Mückern et Großenstein ont fait partie du duché de Saxe-Altenbourg (cercle de l'est, ostkreis jusqu'en 1900, cercle de Ronneburg ensuite) jusqu'en 1918 et elles ont été intégrées au nouveau land de Thuringe en 1920 (arrondissement de Gera). Après la seconde Guerre mondiale, ils sont intégrés à la zone d'occupation soviétique puis à la République démocratique allemande en 1949 (district de Gera). Nauendorf, elle, a fait partie de la Principauté de Reuss branche cadette (cercle de Gera) jusqu'en 1918.
Démographie
Commune de Großenstein dans ses dimensions actuelles :
Communications
Le village de Großenstein est traversé par la route régionale L1081 Seelingstädt, Ronneburg, Pölzig, Heuckewalde ou Meuselwitz. la route K113 le relie à Korbußen et Gera.
Jusqu'en 1972, la commune était desservie par la ligne de chemin de fer Raitzhain-Meuselwitz.
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Commune en Thuringe | d'une montre) : Brahmenau, Bethenhausen, Reichstädt, Wildenbörten, Löbichau, Ronneburg, Korbußen et Schwaara | 40 |
GM's Sonia<|fim_middle|>Green gives her age as "45-plus." She came to GM from Ingram Micro, a technology products company, where she was general manager. Green spent most of her career at Avon Products Inc., heading its U.S. marketing units.
This month, Green is moving to Florida to head a statewide pilot project aimed at boosting GM vehicle sales to Latino buyers. "This pilot has enormous potential," she says.
The orchid she brought to Detroit will return with her family to Florida. | Green is aggressive in marketing to Hispanics.
Like the orchid she brought to Detroit four years ago from Florida, Sonia Green is thriving.
Green directs General Motors' diversity marketing and Hispanic sales. "You need to be a pit bull," the native of Puerto Rico says of her job.
Since she joined GM in 2001, Green has persuaded the company to be more aggressive in its Hispanic marketing and to increase media spending dramatically. She convinced GM's vehicle brands of the merits of integrated national advertising and marketing initiatives, rather than the spotty, market-by-market approach of the past.
She cut the number of GM's Hispanic ad agencies from more than eight to one: Accentmarketing Inc. of Miami.
Hispanic buyers accounted for 4.5 percent of GM sales in the 2003 model year, up from 3.6 percent in 2002, according to the Strategic Vision consulting company in Tustin, Calif. A comparable 2004 figure was not available.
Green is urging GM regional field offices to take part in Chevrolet's sponsorship of an annual music awards show on Telemundo, a Spanish-language TV network. The show, which will be broadcast this fall, gives awards based on viewers' votes.
The partnership started two years ago as a media buy. But Green persuaded Chevrolet and its dealers to take a more grass-roots approach. Last year dealers set up ballot boxes, and award nominees appeared in Chevrolet showrooms.
Brent Dewar, GM's vice president of North American marketing and advertising, says Green "brings enthusiasm and passion to our diversity marketing efforts. Her consumer insights have elevated GM's approach to both the diversity and general markets."
Green says her biggest marketing challenge is gaining deeper understanding of various Hispanic population groups. "How do we best reach bilinguals and English-dominants as a corporation?" she asks.
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Pai Gow is also known as 'double hand poker'. It is basically a different version of the Chinese domino game called 'Pai Gow'. It is played with cards which bear the values of various poker hands and it has 52 standard playing cards including a joker, that can be used as an ace for completing a flush, a straight flush or a straight. The tables are set for six players and one dealer and the main aim of this casino game is to create a couple of poker hands, one 5 card hand and one 2 card hand out of the 7 cards which have been dealt to each player. The only condition here is that the value of the five card hand needs to be higher than the value of the two card hand.
SicBo is a dice/craps game that is played by a lot of people on the internet via online casinos. It is a game which was first originated in China and uses three dice and a large number of betting options. The aim of this game is to guess what the outcome of a dice roll will be. The winning combinations and numbers light up the moment the dice are revealed and all of the winning bets are then paid out. Sic Bo may seem a little complicated but the fact of the matter is that it is easy to understand and play.
Chuck a Luck is a simple dice/craps game. Players have a number of wagering options as they need to predict the outcome of a dice roll just like Sic Bo. However, this game is far simpler than Sic Bo. The table has three dice and a number of betting options and the game is such that it usually entices players into making one bet after the other because they feel like they have a good chance of winning.
The bets placed on any Kwok numbers in Fan Tan have a 1:1 payout, the bets placed on the Nim numbers have a 2:1 payout and the bets on Sheh-Sam-Hong or Nga Tan numbers have 1:3 and 1:2 payout respectively. The regular fan payouts for 1, 2, 3 and 4 are a fixed 3:1. It is important for players to understand how these payouts work before they try their hand at it. Players can pick any amount between the maximum and minimum bet amount. There's a main square on the board which is marked with the numbers from one to four. Once bets are placed, there is a number of counters which are revealed. The betting here is a little complicated and players should practice a bit before they start placing large bets. Like any number prediction game, when a player makes the right guess, they win as per the payout for their respective bet or else they lose the money they have bet.
Faro is a simple game that requires a little bit of luck. It involves one deck of cards and was considered the most popular game in America during the 19th century. There are two types of<|fim_middle|> while there are at least 23 cards left in a deck. When there are 21 cards left, the odds are 1:1 and when there are 19 or fewer cards left, the odds are usually better for case bets.
This is a card game which is also known as Yablon. Here, a player's hand has three cards. The winning hands are ranked just like the rules of poker. Red Dog is quite simple and doesn't really require too much strategy in order to be successful. It can be played with one or multiple decks and unlike most other card games, the house advantage doesn't really go up no matter how many additional decks are added. If anything, the house advantage goes down a little. What happens here is that players place their bets and then the dealer lays a couple of cards on the table. There are three outcomes here, consecutive cards, equal value cards or cards with a spread greater than one place. The card suit doesn't really matter here as it is not a winning factor at all. The Ace cards are the highest. When cards are consecutive, the hand is called a push and the player gets the value of their bet back. If the two cards have the same value then an additional card will be dealt. If the third card is also the same value, the player will receive 11 times the amount that was bet. If the card isn't the same, it will be a push again and the player will get the money that was bet, back.
The above games are just a few of the most popular online casino table games which are played around the world today. There are multiple benefits of playing these games instead of the traditional games like poker, blackjack, slots, etc. and that is why so many people prefer giving them a shot. Besides, the greatest software developers are already applying their high tech knowhow in order to improve the quality of the above casino games. Anyway, players need an alternative from time to time and these kind of casino games offers them the chance to spice their online casino activity up a bit. Perhaps it is time for these games to start coming into the limelight and settle down to the online casino industry. | bets which players should place in this game. The first type is flat bets when just two cards of any rank are left in a deck and the other is known as case bet. The best winning strategy to use in this game involves placing flat bets | 49 |
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Meadows Casino to be Rebranded as Hollywood Casino in The Meadows
By Brian Walker
Meadows Casino is getting a new name on October 15.
The Washington, Pennsylvania Casino will be renamed to Hollywood Casino at the Meadows beginning Friday. Hollywood Casino is the flagship for Penn National Gaming Inc. which took over the gambling property in 2019. The race track, which opened in 1963, will retain its old name.
Said Rahul Kaushik, Vice-President for Marketing of Meadows Casino:
"This is more than a name change. It has been a journey since 2019. This is a key milestone in the transition to our re-branding. Hollywood Casino is the flagship brand of Penn National."
Hollywood Celebrations
To welcome the rebranding, a series of Hollywood celebrations have been lined up for this weekend. Kicking things off on October 15 will be a Pink Out and Family Fun Night from 4 pm to 7 pm. Activities include live harness racing, puppy races, a silent auction, food trucks and special beverages.From 5:30 to 8:00 pm on the casino floor, $100,000 worth of prizes will be given away, including the grand prize of a Mercedes Benz car.
The celebrations will continue on October 16th from 2pm to 7pm on the outdoor racetrack. These include live local entertainment, food trucks, and raffle prizes drawing every hour. A fireworks display will conclude the festivities at around 7:15 pm.
New Amenities
Aside from the celebrations, the rebranded Hollywood Casino will have new amenities to offer its customers. A sportsbook will be added to cater to customers who want to bet on sports events. The H Lounge will be an entertainment venue and a great place to watch live games as well.
The casino floor will also be upgraded, the layout modernized, and new slot machines will also be added. Another transition is the shift from the food court to The Eatery by Fabio Viviani which will have four different restaurants: The Mercato, The Classic, Joe & Dough, and Zen Noodle.
Casino, Pennsylvania, Slots, Sports Betting, Table Games
College Township Council Approves Nittany Mall Casino Development Plan
The land development plan for the proposed casino at the former Macy's property at the Nittany Mall has been approved by the College Township Council.
The project is still awaiting the approval of its Category 4 casino license from the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board before the it can move ahead. The Board held a public input meeting last month and it will hold another similar discussion on a future date where the developer will be given the opportunity to present the plans for the board to vote and decide.
The Nittany Casino
Dubbed as the Nittany Casino in the plans, the project is expected to have 750 slot machines and 30 table games with sports betting also being eyed. A restaurant, bar, mini-outlet, and a quick serve food and beverage area are also in the works in the said casino project.
According to Chad Stafford of project engineer PenTerra, there will be few major renovations to be done for the exterior of the 94,000 square foot facility. However, a sally port will be added on the building's Benner Pike side while a large canopy will be placed on top of the main entrance on the East College Avenue side.
New License in Centre County
Last September, Penn State trustee Ira Lubert won an auction for a Category 4 gaming license to be situated at Centre County with a $10M bid. In January, Bally's Corporation announced that it had entered into an agreement with Lubert to develop the $123M mini-casino. Lubert's group submitted an application that named the former Macy's at the Nittany Mall<|fim_middle|>00% interest in retail sports betting, online sports betting, and iGaming activities.
If approved, the casino will breathe some life back to the Nittany Mall which has lost several of its top stores in recent years. Macy's, Sears, JC Penney, and Bon-Ton have all left Centre County and right now, there is only one anchor store left in the mall-Dunham Sports. With these closures, hundreds of jobs in the area have been lost. | as its targeted location.
According to Lubert, a casino at the Nittany Mall would reinvigorate the property and draw many new businesses to the mall itself and the surrounding area. That in turn will create jobs for local residents and hellp drive the region's economy forward while also providing a new entertainment venue that the community can enjoy.
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PlayStar Casino Gains Access to Pennsylvania via Caesars Entertainment
Online casino brand PlayStar has secured market access to Pennsylvania through a multi-year partnership with Caesars Entertainment.
Its launch in Pennsylvania, targeted for Q2 of next year, will double its reachable market in terms of population and gaming revenue.
Per Adam Noble, co-founder and Chief Business Development Officer at PlayStar Casino in a statement:
"We are thrilled to have secured market access in Pennsylvania through this multi-year deal with Caesars, allowing us to double our addressable market. This is the second market access deal we have secured after announcing our entry into New Jersey earlier in the year and will continue to seek such partnerships as we expand the PlayStar Casino brand. We are looking forward to working through the regulatory process with the Pennsylvanian Gaming Control Board (PGCB) and all going we'll look forward to launching to players in Pennsylvania in the first half of next year."
Powered by the GiG Platform
PlayStar will be powered by the GiG platform after announcing a long-term partnership with the Gaming Innovation Group last February. Under the agreement, GiG will supply its iGaming platform technologies to PlayStar as was seen during the latter's entry into New Jersey earlier this year.
The addition of Pennsylvania as its second market will allow PlayStar to use the spill over effects of its marketing and brand awareness campaign in the Garden State to help its local campaigns in the new market.
2nd Largest Gaming Market
Pennsylvania is the 2nd largest gaming market in the United States with the Keystone State reporting a third consecutive record breaking month the last time out. Gross gaming revenue across all legal channels totaled $413,182,161 for the month of May, eclipsing the previous record of $403M set by April 2021.
Despite its current performance, industry experts believe that the Pennsylvania gaming market is far from reaching its full potential. With its personalized and exemplary customer service strategy, PlayStar hopes to get a god share of the pie in that emerging Pennsylvania market.
Centre County Casino Project to Have Major Economic Impact
Updated projections on the economic impact of the planned Pennsylvania casino at Centre County reveal eye opening figures.
Among the highlights are the first year revenue projection of $91M and more than $100M one year after that. The projections also predict an annual new tax revenue of $60,000 for Centre County plus 500 permanent jobs in College Township, where the casino will operate for at least a decade.
Located At The Former Macy's Site
The new Pennsylvania casino would be built on the former Macy's at the Nittany Mall, which is an ideal location because of the ample free parking space on that side of the mall. Construction is expected to begin later this year, with the casino opening being targeted for next year.
As a mini-casino with a Category 4 license, the planned Pennsylvania casino is expected to have 300-750 slot machines. For an extra fee of $2.5M, the licensee can apply to add up to 30 gaming tables, with the option to add another 10 after one year of operations. Sports betting is also an option but at another additional cost of $10M in licensing fees.
$120M Mini-Casino Project
Last January, Bally's Corporation announced that it had signed and agreement with Penn State alumnus Ira Lubert to jointly design, develop, construct, and manage a $120M mini-casino project in Centre County. Under the deal, Bally's will acquire a major interest in the partnership, including 1 | 831 |
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January 17, 2023 by Jason Barr 3 Comments
Left Hand Meet the Right Hand: New York's Failure to Implement Transit-Oriented Development
Jason M. Barr January 17, 2023
Gotham has a housing affordability problem. Gotham has a transit problem. There's a simple solution to help both. Given New York's decentralized governance structure, however, the right hand—transit—doesn't speak to the left hand—city planning. The result: vast resources are needlessly wasted. It's high time Transit and Planning became friends (or more!).
The Housing Problem
Simply put, housing supply has been unable to keep up with the demand to live, work, and play in the Big Apple. The result: many New Yorkers can't make ends meet. In 2021, more than half of the city's renters—nearly one million households—were rent burdened, in that they paid more than 30% of their incomes toward rent; one-third were severely rent burdened, paying more than half of their income for rent. Only 30% of New Yorkers earn enough to have a "living wage"—the minimum amount to pay for food, clothing, housing, health care, child care, transportation, and taxes.
The vacancy rate for apartments that rent for less than $1,500 per month is below 1%. In essence, it is virtually impossible for low-income New Yorkers to find affordable housing. Governor Hochul is pushing for 800,000 new units statewide in the next decade. If the City wants to hit its target, it had better rethink its housing strategy.
The Subway Problem
When the Covid Pandemic hit in the spring of 2020, the platforms became ghost towns. Ridership was a mere 7% of what it had been just a couple of months earlier, and today it's up to about 70% of pre-Pandemic levels. But even before Covid, the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) struggled to balance its books.
The number of straphangers in the 21st century is far from the peak in the late 1940s. Fewer riders and expensive maintenance and operating costs spell financial trouble. Even though the MTA's recent budget includes a 5.5% fare hike, the subway would cease to function without government subsidies and dedicated tax revenues.
And yet, transit riders and city advocates are scratching their heads. What's to be done to get ridership back up? There remains too much competition from automobiles, but politicians are not interested in reducing car dependence. Drivers vote, and they don't like their tolls going up.
But the answer is in plain sight: The MTA and the City Planning Commission should be united in a mission to create a large-scale transit-oriented-development (TOD) program.
Anti-useful-transit-oriented (AUTO) zoning (AUTOZone). This map shows that outside of Manhattan 92% all of buildings in Gotham within one kilometer (0.62 miles) of a subway stop are three stories or less. Sources: here.
Housing Gotham
When you put building height and zoning maps together with the subway map, you can see how much land is "wasted." To keep things simple, let's zoom in on that part of New York within one kilometer (0.62 miles) of a subway station (see the figure above). The typical person would need to walk about 10-15 minutes to catch a train, a reasonable distance to focus on transit-oriented zoning.
Low-rise Gotham
A look at the buildings reveals a shocking fact: Outside of Manhattan, 63% of all properties within one kilometer (1KM) of a subway have two stories or less, while 92% are three stories or less. (Data sources and calculations are here.)
Turning to zoning, the City regulates building density by placing caps on the so-called Floor Area Ratio (FAR), which limits the total floor area relative to the lot size. A maximum allowable FAR of one, for example, means that a property owner can build a one-story building on the whole lot or a two-story structure on half the lot. A FAR of one limits the property to either a one-story office or retail or a one- or two-family home.
Outside of Manhattan, there are two million housing units within one kilometer of a subway stop. 63% have a maximum allowable FAR of 1.35 or less. In other words, nearly two-thirds of properties are required—by law—to be one or two-family homes. To build a typical apartment building with ten stories requires a FAR of at least 6.
Zoned Out
Also, within the 1KM zone, many structures were built before the FAR caps were imposed in 1961 and are currently above the maximum allowable FAR (since they were grandfathered). Tearing down a building, in this case, to build a new one, is uneconomic because the developer would need to produce less floor space than what's there now. 56% of residential structures are either overbuilt or within 25% of the allowable maximum, a de facto limit, given all the hurdles to redevelopment.
In short, the vast majority of residential structures within walking distance are three stories or less and are legally required to stay that way. What's a good phrase for this? How about anti-useful-transit-oriented (AUTO) zoning (AUTOZone)?
Wasted on 242nd Street. This is a typical example of how New York does not do transited-oriented development. Adjacent to the last stop on the 1 train is a string of one-story retail buildings. These lots should contain mixed-use mid-rise apartment buildings.
What Would Real TOD Look Like?
How many more units and subway riders could Gotham have if it adopted a relatively modest version of transit-oriented zoning? Here are a few examples.
Case I
Let's exclude Manhattan and say the City upzones all residential properties to a maximum FAR of 4 if within one kilometer of a subway stop. If an existing building has a residential FAR above 4, it keeps that value.[1<|fim_middle|> so far, no substantive policy proposals have been put forward, and it's likely that, without meaningful reform, Nimby Nation will block significant growth in New York's housing stock.
As I have discussed elsewhere, policies for change require both carrots—incentives and payouts—and sticks—punishments for inaction. However, real progress will only occur when those seeking to prevent change come to see change as being in their economic and political interest.
The way to do this is to create strong inducements for a pro-housing and TOD environment. Examples include:
Land value insurance that insures homeowners against loss in property values due to neighborhood redevelopments.
Universal congestion pricing on roads, bridges, buses, and subways.
Renter savings accounts that allow renters to earn "equity" in their apartments.
Automatic local public services upgrades that are triggered when population densities hit certain thresholds.
Land value taxation that taxes land values at a higher rate than building values.
Political leaders must realize that the status quo is no longer sufficient to handle our current problems. They require new leadership, governance, and policies. The success of New York's vast subway system is being thwarted by its stringent zoning regime. It's high time that Transit and Planning became friends (or more!) and that Gotham's leaders kindle the relationship.
[1] Note for this and the remaining exercises, I treat Staten Island the same as the other outer boroughs in terms of FAR changes.
Filed Under: Skynomics Blog Tagged With: affordable housing, city planning, floor area ratio, mass transit, MTA, New York City, subway, transit oriented design, transit oriented development, zoning | ]
Under this scenario, if fully built out New York city could build about 4 million net new units, and with few buildings taller than ten stories (calculations and assumptions here). As a side note, Mayor Adam's best projection for office-to-residential conversions is 20,000 new units.
The average building would have 14 units versus 4.7 now—hardly mammoth skyscrapers. With a relatively modest increase in zoning caps, Gotham could get an enormous number of units and new straphangers. Based on my estimates, a 10% increase in the population within a one-kilometer (0.62 miles) radius of a subway stop increases ridership at that stop by 7%. Given those four million new units, that's a new population of about 10 million people!
Case II
Well, maybe you say that a maximum FAR of 4 is too high. Let's repeat the exercise with a cap of 3 (excluding Manhattan) or the current FAR on the property, whichever is higher. This scenario gets us a net increase in units of 2.8 million units, with a corresponding population increase of seven million residents.
Case III
Perhaps you say it's better to have a sliding scale, with higher FAR caps closer to the stops and diminishing further away. Let's say we go with a maximum FAR of 6 for, say, 0 to 200 meters (0.12 miles), 4 for 200 to 500 meters (0.31 miles), and 3 for 500 to 1000 meters (0.62 miles). The results get us back to something similar to Case I, with a net increase of some 4 million units and a net increase in the population of 10 million.
Under these scenarios, based on relatively modest changes in the FAR restrictions, we can potentially get tremendous increases in housing units and transit riders. Ironically, we are not talking about Manhattan-like densities. Instead, these exercises show the need to replace the many one- and two- family homes with low- and mid-rise apartment buildings. The scenario numbers are so high because we are talking about vast quantities of urban space throughout the four boroughs—75 square miles of developable land (excluding streets and parks). By forcing most of the city to be three stories or less makes, vast acreage goes wasted; the result is unaffordable housing and an underutilized subway system.
Zoned Out in Brooklyn. This map shows that about 90% of Brooklyn buildings within one kilometer (0.62 miles) of a subway stop is mandated by law to be low rise or is prohibited to have housing by keeping the maximum allowable residential FARs less than 2.5. Note that a typical Brooklyn brownstone has an FAR of 3. Sources: here
Getting to TOD
I suggest two possible strategies for getting to transit-oriented development. One is relatively "easy" in that it follows the standard approaches used by the City over the last few decades—it's the "carrot" approach of incentivizing developers but not having any "sticks" to punish inaction. The second would be more controversial but is not without precedent.
The "Carrot" Approach
The first approach is to systematically upzone for more housing in neighborhoods within either 0.5 miles or 1 kilometer of a subway stop. The upzoning can be done strategically to encourage relatively more units at particularly underutilized stops.
The upzonings must be generous enough to incentivize the construction of apartment buildings. FARs of at least four near the subway lines are likely necessary. A more flexible air rights market can help redistribute FAR more efficiently to where it is needed.
The upzonings would also come with generous construction or tax subsidies. This type of program would be similar to New York's recently-lapsed 421a program, which gave large tax breaks to developers, generally with strings attached to provide a certain amount of affordable units.
The "True Friends" Strategy
Another strategy is arguably more controversial and would run into greater resistance. But it could be more helpful to the MTA's long run financial position (and reduce its dependence on taxes and subsidies). This approach would be like the Hong Kong model, where the Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway (MTR) Corp. owns the land around all its transit stops. Between the sale of development rights, income from rents and ridership, the MTR operates without any state subsidies and runs at a profit!
In the case of New York, the process would need to unfold like the current Penn Station Revitalization plan. The state declares particular lots as "blighted" and takes ownership through the eminent domain process (after compensating the owners). The designated agency sells the development rights.
Regarding the TOD for the subway, officials would create Special TOD Zones. The land in condemned and brought under the ownership of the MTA, which sells the development rights through long-term ground leases. As the property owner, the MTA gets the land lease revenue to help run the subway system.
Creative zoning can also allow the MTA to develop property on the elevated lines themselves, say above or inside the stations to provide more retail and other services. Similarly, in underground stations, where practical, the MTA can expand the subterranean space for mini-malls or other forms of commercial space. Much of this would make sense if it had a "captured audience" from denser neighborhoods.
A TOF (Transit-Oriented Future)?
The good news is that Governor Hochul and Mayor Adams have recently begun discussing the need to address the housing affordability problem and the role that transit-oriented development can play. However, | 1,181 |
Jane Swan Joins Veris Wealth Partners
Former Northern Trust Advisor Joins Leading Impact Investing Firm
Veris Wealth Partners
Mar 03, 2015, 09:00 ET
SAN FRANCISCO, March 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Veris Wealth Partners, one of the nation's leading independent wealth advisors for sustainable and impact investors, announced<|fim_middle|> management firm that aligns investors' wealth with their financial and social objectives. Veris believes that superior investment performance and positive impact are complementary parts of a holistic investment strategy. Veris is based in San Francisco with offices in New York City, Portsmouth, New Hampshire and Boulder, Colorado. For information, call 415.815.0580, or visit www.veriswp.com.
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http://www.veriswp.com | today that portfolio manager Jane Swan joined the firm as Senior Wealth Manager.
Swan has more than 15 years of experience in private wealth management and specializes in creating impact investing strategies for individuals, families and foundations. She is located in San Francisco at Veris' headquarters.
"Jane Swan is an outstanding wealth advisor who has been a leader in aligning investors' wealth with their values," said CEO Patricia Farrar-Rivas. "Jane shares our commitment to providing exceptional wealth management solutions that also deliver positive environmental and social impact across every asset class."
Prior to joining Veris, Swan worked as Portfolio Manager and Vice President for Northern Trust. During her 15-year career with the company, Swan developed impact investing strategies for individuals and families. At Northern Trust, she also served on several committees, including the Corporate Social Responsibility Task Force, Women in Leadership, and the LGBT Advisory Team.
Swan is a member of the Financial Women's Association and previously served on the Investment Committee of the Horizons Foundation. She graduated from Mills College in Oakland, California with a degree in Economics and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.
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Hi Grant, Kerry Burdell here. Just wanted to let you know that I remember you and still follow this forum. I don't remember a lot as the brain is going. My father (sgt John Burdell of 183 Rec<|fim_middle|> or old photos.
Who knows, old friendships could be rekindled.
I will post a shot on the FB page which I am pretty sure is you (from the rear) at a school sports carnival in Lae. I am at the front of the queue.
And nice shot to use of the FB profile!
Craig mentioned a Facebook group a couple of threads ago. At present it is a fairly elite group...and we would dearly love to have more of you as members!
If your are interested follow his link above.
And one more thing; kids also associated with kids they saw at the Clubs our folks went to; Yacht Club, Golf Club, Lae Club, RSL and Comworks Club, later known as the Aviat Club. We were Comworks Club people. | ce flight) like the rest died of brain cancer two years ago. But I do remember you.
I am surprised I received a reply, especially so fast. I must admit my memory is definitely worse than yours, I recall you name but cant place the face, sorry. I did have a great trip down memory lane after I visited this site though. Thanks for taking the time to reply. I will keep a look out on this site periodically.
When I started the thread quite a number of years ago I had also just stumbled onto the forum with memories of Lae. As I could not find any Igam posts I asked a question...Probably Facebook would be the place to go now and if I can overcome my apathy I might create a page although there is an "I used to Live in PNG" or something like that page with some stuff on it. This thread remains the closest link though to Igam. So great that people are still contributing memories to it.
I vaguely remember you (were you in Scouts?) - my memory is not as good as it used to be although a picture paints a thousand words as they say... pretty sure I have posted a few photos of the Lauw's of Igam so no guessing who we are. Pretty sure I have some pictures of a Cubs/Scouts walk in Lae.
So any photos of those days would be great (invitation to Kerry too!). Like others fate dealt a great hand when Dad was posted to Igam as the memories are really very hard to beat of growing up in what was an idyllic existence. I still bore my children to death with stories of Igam; the bus ride to Lae High, escaping primary school to creek, playing in the jungle, long bike rides wherever the wheels would take us, of course the Theatre and the canteen, playing British bulldog across from the Ottways place and much more.
I find it incredible that 40 years on people are still contacting and remembering each other. All I have read so far is how everyone has such fond memories of Igam, including me.
I must admit, I cant actually remember you, and yes I was in the scouts, so we probably did know each other. As you say, the memories are becoming dim, but several still remain.
It was such an idyllic childhood there, kids of today have no idea that we could have so much enjoyment from such simple things. I am glad I stumbled across this page and will continue to monitor it.
I was trolling Facebook last year and came across all my old High School friends and now we are having a 40th reunion later in the year. Being Army brats like we were, we never really made any live long friends, being uprooted every few years and being dragged from pillar to post. I have never been able to get the travel bug out of my system and cant settle in any place or job for more that a few years.
Currently I am in the Solomon Islands, cant get much closer to PNG.
I have created a Facebook group, IGAM Barracks Kids (Lae PNG).
Feel free to join in and post comments | 640 |
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Many new bamboo houseware products are available as well, such as serving dishes, cutting boards, disposable, biodegradable picnicware, utensils and baskets. Look for items with organically grown bamboo which uses less pesticide.
Decorative items like photo frames, shelving, plant stands, mats, wastebaskets, bathroom sets, mirrors and spice racks can also be found.
Bamboo fabric is another great alternative for the home. Made from the pulp of bamboo grass, bamboo fibres are strong, sustainable, have wicking properties and anti-bacterial properties. It is an expensive alternative but hopefully will come down in price as its popularity grows. Again, look for organically grown bamboo when considering bamboo textiles.
Because it can be used in place of most wood products it's a natural choice for furniture manufacturers. Everything from bedroom suites to dining sets can be found in bamboo-based products. Computer desks, coffee tables, bedroom suites and more are now being made.
Bamboo can be an attractive, greener choice for your home.
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$20,000,000,000,000 spent on "The Great Society" and "Urban Renewal" and all we got are ever expanding "No-Go" zones and failing schools.
"Progressivism" is like a deadly virus, the violence and poverty is slowing expanding to the suburbs.
The saddest thing was before the "War on Poverty" we were WINNING the war on poverty. Throughout the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations the poverty rates were dropping. Then came Johnson and Viet Nam. In order to keep the mob happy back home he has this big welfare give away. Many people think Johnson was unpopular because of the war. Just the opposite. His poll numbers were high to the end. He was the Candyman and Santa Claus all rolled into one. But the Great Society destroyed the Black family and made the inner cities a war zone.
73,000,000 Americans on Medicaid. 45,500,000 Americans on Food Stamps (1 in 7 Americans can't even provide for their own food).
A very inaccurate misreading of history.
Why don't you give us your take then since you are smarter than everyone else? What good has come out of welfare? Why is it good that over 70% of black babies are born out of wedlock? Why does DFL mean dumb for life?
Though the "War on Poverty" did cut poverty in half according to the stats.
Couple of writers supporting the soccer stadium argued the Hamline Midway area is the safest. Why isn't that area on the list?
And you'll be here all week?
Where would you recommend it be built?
That wasn't the point of the story, Randy. Have a great weekend.
Well, yeah, North Oaks. A gated community is going to be safe.
Actually, North Oaks is no longer gated. They do have signs up, however, stating that it is "private access".
Obviously they are racist and xenophobic. We better get this data over to the Obama Administration and put Plainview on the top of the list as a destination for Migrants.
Good thinking! A good dose of "Diversity" should get these stats in line with Minneapolis.
A town of 3300 residents better be safer than one with over 300k residents. But who knows, crime might have been unreported due to everyone knowing everyone or corruptions in the top. These small towns can be run like a dictatorship sometimes. | counted only those with populations of at least 2,500 (we're sure you're plenty safe in Funkley, Minn., too), using data from the FBI, Census Bureau and Federal Emergency Management Agency. The ratings only measure crime rates, not | 53 |
El reflectómetro de dominio del tiempo (TDR) es un instrumento electrónico usado para caracterizar y localizar los defectos en cables metálicos (por ejemplo, los pares trenzados de alambre, cables coaxiales) y, en otro tipo de OTDR, fibras ópticas.
Empleo
Son imprescindibles para la conservación y mantenimiento de líneas de telecomunicación. Con ellos se pueden detectar aumentos de los niveles de la resistencia en empalmes y conectores que se corroen, y disminución de aislamiento por degradación y absorción de la humedad, etc. Los<|fim_middle|> Topp), SSSA Book Series No. 5. Soil Science Society of America, Madison WI.
Dowding, C.H. & O'Connor, K.M. 2000a. Comparison of TDR and Inclinometers for Slope Monitoring. Geotechnical Measurements – Proceedings of Geo-Denver2000: 80-81. Denver, CO.
Dowding, C.H. & O'Connor, K.M. 2000b. Real Time Monitoring of Infrastructure using TDR Technology. Structural Materials Technology NDT Conference 2000
Kane, W.F. & Beck, T.J. 1999. Advances in Slope Instrumentation: TDR and Remote Data Acquisition Systems. Field Measurements in Geomechanics, 5th International Sympo-sium on Field Measurements in Geomechanics: 101-105. Singapore.
Farrrington, S.P. and Sargand, S.M., Advanced Processing of Time Domain Reflectometry for Improved Slope Stability Monitoring, Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Conference on Tailings and Mine Waste, October, 2004.
Enlaces externos
Instrumentos de medición en electrónica
Seguridad eléctrica | TDRs son instrumentos también muy útiles para medidas de mantenimiento, donde ayudan a determinar la existencia y la ubicación de empalmes de cable. Las aplicaciones nuevas de TDR incluyen aislar los puntos de fallo.
Método de operación
Fundamento
Un TDR emite un pulso muy corto en el tiempo. Si el conductor es de una impedancia uniforme y está apropiadamente terminado, el pulso transmitido se absorberá en la terminación final y no se reflejará ninguna señal de vuelta hacia el TDR. En cambio, si existen discontinuidades de impedancia, cada discontinuidad creará un eco que se reflejará hacia el TDR (de ahí su nombre). Los aumentos en la impedancia crean un eco que refuerza el pulso original, mientras que las disminuciones en la impedancia crean un eco que se opone al pulso original. El resultado del pulso medido en la salida/entrada al TDR se representa o muestra como una función del tiempo y, dado que la velocidad de la propagación de la señal es relativamente constante para una impedancia dada, puede ser leído como una función de la longitud de cable. Esto es semejante en su funcionamiento al del radar.
A causa de esta sensibilidad a las variaciones en la impedancia, un TDR puede utilizarse para verificar las características de impedancia, las ubicaciones de empalmes y conectores, y las pérdidas asociada en un cable, estimando tanto la longitud del mismo, como cada discontinuidad del cable que será detectada como una señal en forma de eco.
Indicación de corto
Para verlo de forma simple, consideremos el caso trivial donde el extremo final del cable se cortocircuita (es decir, se termina en una impedancia de cero ohmios). Cuando la orilla creciente del pulso se lanza a través del cable, el voltaje en el punto que lanza los pulsos alcanza un valor instantáneo dado, y el pulso comienza a propagarse a través del cable. Cuando el pulso alcanza el corto, no se absorbe ninguna energía en el extremo final. En vez de eso, un pulso opuesto se refleja hacia atrás. Cuando el reflejo opuesto alcanza el punto de lanzamiento, el voltaje en este punto aumenta bruscamente, señalando que hay un corto en el final del cable. Esto es, el TDR no tiene indicación de que hay un corto al final del cable hasta que el pulso emitido haya viajado por el cable -aproximadamente a la velocidad de la luz- y el eco haya vuelto a la misma velocidad. Tras este tiempo de ida y vuelta, el corto puede ser detectado por el TDR. Conociendo la velocidad de propagación de la señal en el cable, se obtiene de esta manera la distancia a la que se produce el corto.
Indicación de circuito abierto
Algo parecido ocurre si el extremo distante del cable es un circuito abierto (termina en una impedancia infinita). En este caso, el reflejo del extremo distante se polariza idénticamente al pulso original y añade lo cancelando anteriormente. Así que, tras una demora de viaje de ida y vuelta, el voltaje en el TDR salta bruscamente a dos veces el voltaje inicialmente aplicado.
Una terminación perfecta teórica en el extremo distante del cable, absorbería enteramente el pulso aplicado sin causar ningún reflejo. En este caso, sería imposible determinar la longitud del cable. Afortunadamente, las terminaciones perfectas son muy raras y casi siempre se produce algún pequeño reflejo.
La magnitud del reflejo se denomina "coeficiente de reflexión"; que puede ser relacionado con la proporción de la impedancia nominal del sistema contra la impedancia verdadera en cada discontinuidad.
Véase también
Reflectómetro óptico
Reflectometría de dominio de tiempo
Reflectografía infrarroja
Reflectometría de dominio-ruido
Reflectómetro óptico de dominio de tiempo
Medición del contenido de humedad (TDR)
Reflectometría
Reflectografía infrarroja
Línea de transmisión
Fibra óptica
Referencias
Hoekstra, P. and A. Delaney, 1974. Dielectric properties of soils at UHF and microwave frequencies. Journal of Geophysical Research 79:1699-1708.
Noborio K. 2001. Measurement of soil water content and electrical conductivity by time domain reflectometry: A review. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 31:213-237.
Pettinellia E., A. Cereti, A. Galli, and F. Bella, 2002. Time domain reflectometry: Calibration techniques for accurate measurement of the dielectric properties of various materials. Review of Scientific Instruments 73:3553-3562.
Robinson D.A., S.B. Jones, J.M. Wraith, D. Or and S.P. Friedman, 2003 A review of advances in dielectric and electrical conductivity measurements in soils using time domain reflectometry. Vadose Zone Journal 2: 444-475.
Topp G.C., J.L. Davis and A.P. Annan, 1980. Electromagnetic determination of soil water content: measurements in coaxial transmission lines. Water Resources Research 16:574-582.
Topp G.C. and W.D. Reynolds, 1998. Time domain reflectometry: a seminal technique for measuring mass and energy in soil. Soil Tillage Research 47:125-132.
Topp, G.C. and T.P.A. Ferre, 2002. Water content, In, Methods of Soil Analysis. Part 4. (Ed. J.H. Dane and G.C. | 1,345 |
Housing and Residence Life Handbook: Southern Miss Standard
Policies on Tolerance, Respect, and Civility
Relevant Excerpt
The Southern Miss Standard was developed to embody the values we hope residents possess. At the same time, the university is strongly committed to freedom of expression. Consequently, these principles do not constitute<|fim_middle|> from violence when addressing conflict at Southern Miss. | university policy and are not intended to interfere in any way with a resident's personal freedoms. We hope, however, that residents will voluntarily endorse these common principles, thereby contributing to the traditions and scholarly heritage left by those who preceded them, and will thus leave Southern Miss a better place for those who follow. We encourage residents to demonstrate respect, integrity and compassion in every facet of their university lives, thus ensuring the success of each resident. Our community will be our strength as each resident values and appreciates scholarship, service and involvement, and assumes an active role in our society.
Implicit within the Southern Miss Standard is
• A respect for the hall environment and university property;
• A respect for language that is appropriate, never obscene, and neither demeans nor intimidates;
• A respect for the level of noise at all times and an understanding of how personal noise levels affect others in the community;
• A respect for the academic community and a commitment to the academic principles of scholarly study and class attendance;
• A respect for the differences that exist among residents and a commitment to know the members of the floor/hall;
• A respect for the staff of the hall and compliance with all policies and procedures;
• A respect and adherence to the principles of truth and honesty;
• A respect for all safety measures and the adherence to safety practices; and
• A commitment to refrain | 275 |
and I will like you better.
you must wait your turn.
in a sticky parade from the kitchen.
in the unctuous cream fillings.
about fear in the woods without food.
being not the one dead but not exactly alive either.
The skin is a glove that wrinkles as it tightens.
our stakes in these weightless names.
where sand yesterday, now uncovered rocks.
—wanting to stop the inexorable clock.
lifts the stalling craft, pushes it on out.
the beast out the window on ropes.
that shines like the side of a horse<|fim_middle|> a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.
8. Poetry is a slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet a number for.
9. Poetry is an echo asking a shadow dancer to be a partner.
10. Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly the air.
11. Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.
12. Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between.
13. Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.
14. Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.
15. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.
16. Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.
17. Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.
18. Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.
19. Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring.
20. Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.
21. Poetry is a sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.
22. Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.
23. Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.
24. Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.
25. Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.
26. Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night.
27. Poetry is a statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only never-changing sign being the sign of infinity.
28. Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
30. Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables.
31. Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on the hard ways to the stars.
32. Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.
33. Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.
34. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
35. Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters.
36. Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
37. Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.
38. Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.
2. Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.
3. Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.
4. Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.
5. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.
6. Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
7. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
8. Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
9. Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.
I have a difficult time telling which version of this article/poem is definitive. From what I can tell (not having access to the primary sources), it seems like the first incarnation was an article called "Poetry Considered" in The Atlantic Monthly (vol. 131, 1923, pages 342-343). Then, the 38 "definitions" were republished in Good Morning, America (1928), perhaps as the opening poem? Years later, Sandburg selected and re-numbered 9 of the "definitions", and published them in Harvest Poems (1960), as "Nine Tentative (First Model) Definitions Of Poetry". Finally, people on the internet seem to have cherry-picked 10 of their own favorites, and labeled the poem "Ten Definitions Of Poetry, by Carl Sandburg", but it doesn't seem like those particular ones were ever selected and titled as such by the author. | .
and yank out the rack of purple felt mallets.
just from its insides—a piano.
assurances, but I could see it: a dour adolescent scythe.
and writhing spurts of flame. How can they stand so close?
So this is what I came to, this last pyrotechnic dither.
flashbulb fading, first on the blade, then on the retina.
your fingernails blackened with marjoram and thyme.
yields not bitter water, but dark mystery.
You cut everything into bits.
your feet are as pounded as brioche dough.
1. Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths.
2. Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.
4. Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.
5. Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps.
6. Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension.
7. Poetry is a plan for | 256 |
Content rules the world in the digital age. Information has never been more readily available,<|fim_middle|> have hours and hours of movement progressions, talks and other valuable information available to the public for free at any time.
When you've got subject matter experts like Sean Waxman, Dusty Hyland and Kelly Starrett posting videos and articles with the highest-level insight into weightlifting, gymnastics and mobility, nearly anyone can learn the basics of these subjects from their desktop. Quite honestly, many CrossFit coaches would be lying to you if they said they didn't supplement their experience with content from these three coaches and others before they teach their own students.
So, what does this mean? Well, the truth is, watching a video of Carl Paoli teaching the muscle-up doesn't replace the coaching one can receive in person, but it does raise the bar. "Common knowledge" is a pool of information that is growing daily in the information age.
The battles for the best, most-viewed content on the Internet will force coaches to be better. Furthermore, these content wars are, in my opinion, the early bits of momentum in a revolution in the fitness industry. The proverbial cream is rising to the top, and with performance as a governor, athletes and coaches are going to continue to raise their game with access to world-class information. | and the population has never been more thirsty for it. With both supply and demand for information at record highs, thanks to the Internet, subject-matter experts are rising to the top with newfound recognition and clout. Also, consumers are taking advantage of an opportunity to gain higher-level insight outside of the traditional, more time-consuming, more expensive channels (like college, trade school, etc.).
The CrossFit community is right at the head of this movement, as well. The CrossFit Journal, for example, is quite possibly the most comprehensive (at least for the cost) online resource for exercise, nutrition and other relevant topics accessible with just a few clicks 24 hours a day, seven days a week. YouTube is a viable threat to the personal-training community, as some of the world's best coaches | 163 |
It appears speaker and fitness tracker company Jawbone is struggling and could be on the verge of going out of business, with news today suggesting production has ceased on all of its current products.
According to a report from Tech Insider, Jawbone has fully ended production on its line of fitness trackers and has sold the remaining inventory to a third-party reseller, and a report from Fortune says the company is also seeking a buyer for its speaker business.
Jawbone has reportedly struggled to sell its fitness trackers in an increasingly competitive market, forcing it to offer all remaining UP2, UP3, and UP4 tracking accessories to a third-party reseller at a discounted price in order to keep the business afloat.
As for its speaker line, Jawbone is said to be courting potential buyers and liquidating its remaining speaker inventory. Jawbone has not commented on either decision, leaving it unclear whether the company will aim to produce additional fitness trackers in the future, but Fortune says Jawbone is selling its speaker business so it can focus on health and wearables.
Jawbone has been floundering for several months as interest in its fitness trackers and speakers has dwindled. No new products have been released since the early months of 2015, and in November, Jawbone laid off 15 percent of its global workforce, closed offices in New York, and downscaled its operations in Sunnyvale and Pittsburgh.
The company did raise $165 million in funding in January, but its valuation dropped from $3 billion to $1.5 billion.
Update: The Verge says Jawbone is still developing a new "last chance" wearable product. It won't be a fitness tracker, instead offering clinical-grade health tracking related to heart monitoring. Jawbone is said to be planning to announce the product this summer.
Update 2: Jawbone denies claims that it is going out of business, telling Engadget that it remains committed to creating new wearable products.
Speculation that Jawbone is exiting the wearables business or going out of business altogether is false. This speculation appears to emanate from wrongful insinuations made in a blog post in which the reporter has since posted a "Correction." Unfortunately, other media picked it up before the reporter posted a correction and spread this false information. Jawbone remains wholly committed to innovating in and building great wearables products. The company has never been more excited about its pipeline of technology and products and looks forward to sharing them when ready. We manage our inventory positions according to internal business processes, and strategic product lifecycle objectives. This situation is no different and we will continue to support all of our products in the marketplace.
So "what" begins? Are we saying Apple put them out of business, after all of the noise on this forum about how Apple Watch doesn't compete with the devices that are reported to outsell it? Choose one: having the cake, or eating it.
Wrist real estate is a scarce resource. Cheap fitness bands compete for the same<|fim_middle|> wayside. Even once strong ones like jawbone.
I personally own a Garmin vivosmart hr. I love it. I would never have bought it if apple hadn't come out the Apple Watch and brought attention to the market. But I don't like the features/price of the Apple Watch.
Stuff was way overpriced. Very few companies can get away with that and survive. Yes we all know of one other one that does, but Jawbone ain't it.
I've seen Jawbone speakers (and their clones) go for far less on bargain websites such as Tanga, so this doesn't surprise me in the slightest.
Yea the first one I bought 2 of. One for me and wife. Had to get mine replaced 4 times. Hers twice.
Squeezed out by the Apple Watch and Fitbit.
I've got a pile of 18 broken UP bands to prove that (I actually went through around 25 of them but some they asked I send back). Great product if it actually functioned without breaking after a month every time. | space on your wrist; looking forward, increasingly sophisticated smartwatches will put specialized devices out of business.
It's Blackberry 2009 time for FitBit.
Too many issues with their fitness trackers.
I'm not surprised really; both their speaker and fitness products were some of the earliest to market, but lacked the attention to detail that gives a product that lasts, and regular software fixes.
Fitbit isn't going anywhere. They are synonymous with fitness trackers. Apple Watch will die first.
That's because you probably have a Fitbit and you like it. I respect that. But at some point people will get tired (or realize that it's useless) to "track" their activity. Right now it's "cool" to do that. It gives you a sense that you are accomplishing something.
Meh. A little dramatic. I think the point is there are so many companies entering this category of tech some companies are going to go by the | 195 |
Cardiac arrest patients in Finnish intensive care units: insights into incidence, long-term outcomes and costs
Ilmar Efendijev
Department of Diagnostics and Therapeutics
Anestesiologian yksikkö
Doctoral Programme in Clinical Research
Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis › Collection of Articles
Background: Sudden cardiac arrest (CA) represents a significant cause of death worldwide. Inhospital patients carry a particularly high risk of CA, both on the general ward and in the intensive care unit (ICU). With over 10,000 CAs occurring daily globally, undoubtedly CA has a significant socioeconomic impact. However, data on in-hospital CA (IHCA) and CA-related healthcare costs in Finland and globally, remain limited. Critically ill patients are often admitted to ICUs to undergo complex treatments that may or may not influence patient outcomes. Yet, changes in treatment intensity can potentially reflect a specific patient's clinical condition and carry additional prognostic value. Aims: This study aimed to systematically review published literature on in-ICU CA (ICUCA), to investigate outcomes and healthcare-associated costs for CA patients treated within Finnish ICUs and to explore the individual effects of early treatment intensity and cardiopulmonary resuscitation on hospital mortality amongst Finnish ICU patients. Methods: The study consisted of a systematic review of the published literature (study I) summarising scientific evidence on CA in critically ill patients, and three original substudies on patients treated in Finnish ICUs between 2003 and 2013. The data for the substudies were acquired from the databases of the Finnish Intensive Care Consortium (FICC), the Social Insurance Institution of Finland (SII) and the Finnish Population Register Centre. Cost data comprised index hospitalisation expenses, rehabilitation costs and social security costs up to one year after CA. Effective cost per one-year survivor reflected the economic impact of CA, calculated as the sum of the total of healthcare costs divided by the number of survivors. Results: Across substudies, patient population size varied from n = 1024 to n = 164,255. A systematic review of the literature analysed 18 studies published between 1990 and 2013. Most of the reviewed publications were single-centre and retrospective with highly variable incidence and the outcome of ICU-CA. In Finland, there were 29 ICU-CAs for every 1000 ICU admissions. ICU-CA hospital mortality reached 56%. Amongst CA patients treated in a tertiary teaching hospital ICUs, 58% of out-of-hospital CA (OHCA) patients, 41% of IHCA patients and 39% of ICU-CA patients remained alive at one year following the initial arrest, of these 88% to 94% had a favourable neurological outcome. The effective cost, expressed in 2013 euro, was €94,688 for a one-year ICU-treated CA survivor and €102,722 for a one-year survivor with a favourable neurological outcome. A CA event and poor preadmission functional status were associated with a similar increase in the risk of hospital mortality. An increase in the intensity of early treatment associated with a higher risk of in-hospital death, particularly amongst patients with an initially low mortality risk. Conclusions: The incidence of ICU-CA amongst Finnish critically ill patients was higher and mortality was lower than previously published findings. The effective costs for one-year survivors were comparable to or lower than costs for ICU-treated patients with acute renal failure and critically ill cancer patients, healthcare expenditures considered generally acceptable. The increase in the risk of in-hospital death due to CA was comparable in magnitude to a poor preadmission functional status. Early increase in treatment intensity can serve as an additional warning sign of deterioration in Finnish critically ill patients.
Print ISBN<|fim_middle|> analysed 18 studies published between 1990 and 2013. Most of the reviewed publications were single-centre and retrospective with highly variable incidence and the outcome of ICU-CA. In Finland, there were 29 ICU-CAs for every 1000 ICU admissions. ICU-CA hospital mortality reached 56%. Amongst CA patients treated in a tertiary teaching hospital ICUs, 58% of out-of-hospital CA (OHCA) patients, 41% of IHCA patients and 39% of ICU-CA patients remained alive at one year following the initial arrest, of these 88% to 94% had a favourable neurological outcome. The effective cost, expressed in 2013 euro, was €94,688 for a one-year ICU-treated CA survivor and €102,722 for a one-year survivor with a favourable neurological outcome. A CA event and poor preadmission functional status were associated with a similar increase in the risk of hospital mortality. An increase in the intensity of early treatment associated with a higher risk of in-hospital death, particularly amongst patients with an initially low mortality risk. Conclusions: The incidence of ICU-CA amongst Finnish critically ill patients was higher and mortality was lower than previously published findings. The effective costs for one-year survivors were comparable to or lower than costs for ICU-treated patients with acute renal failure and critically ill cancer patients, healthcare expenditures considered generally acceptable. The increase in the risk of in-hospital death due to CA was comparable in magnitude to a poor preadmission functional status. Early increase in treatment intensity can serve as an additional warning sign of deterioration in Finnish critically ill patients.
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Efendijev I. Cardiac arrest patients in Finnish intensive care units: insights into incidence, long-term outcomes and costs. Helsinki: Helsingin yliopisto, 2019. 74 p. (Dissertationes scholae doctoralis ad sanitatem investigandam Universitatis Helsinkiensis; 16/2019).
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title = "Cardiac arrest patients in Finnish intensive care units: insights into incidence, long-term outcomes and costs",
abstract = "Background: Sudden cardiac arrest (CA) represents a significant cause of death worldwide. Inhospital patients carry a particularly high risk of CA, both on the general ward and in the intensive care unit (ICU). With over 10,000 CAs occurring daily globally, undoubtedly CA has a significant socioeconomic impact. However, data on in-hospital CA (IHCA) and CA-related healthcare costs in Finland and globally, remain limited. Critically ill patients are often admitted to ICUs to undergo complex treatments that may or may not influence patient outcomes. Yet, changes in treatment intensity can potentially reflect a specific patient's clinical condition and carry additional prognostic value. Aims: This study aimed to systematically review published literature on in-ICU CA (ICUCA), to investigate outcomes and healthcare-associated costs for CA patients treated within Finnish ICUs and to explore the individual effects of early treatment intensity and cardiopulmonary resuscitation on hospital mortality amongst Finnish ICU patients. Methods: The study consisted of a systematic review of the published literature (study I) summarising scientific evidence on CA in critically ill patients, and three original substudies on patients treated in Finnish ICUs between 2003 and 2013. The data for the substudies were acquired from the databases of the Finnish Intensive Care Consortium (FICC), the Social Insurance Institution of Finland (SII) and the Finnish Population Register Centre. Cost data comprised index hospitalisation expenses, rehabilitation costs and social security costs up to one year after CA. Effective cost per one-year survivor reflected the economic impact of CA, calculated as the sum of the total of healthcare costs divided by the number of survivors. Results: Across substudies, patient population size varied from n = 1024 to n = 164,255. A systematic review of the literature analysed 18 studies published between 1990 and 2013. Most of the reviewed publications were single-centre and retrospective with highly variable incidence and the outcome of ICU-CA. In Finland, there were 29 ICU-CAs for every 1000 ICU admissions. ICU-CA hospital mortality reached 56{\%}. Amongst CA patients treated in a tertiary teaching hospital ICUs, 58{\%} of out-of-hospital CA (OHCA) patients, 41{\%} of IHCA patients and 39{\%} of ICU-CA patients remained alive at one year following the initial arrest, of these 88{\%} to 94{\%} had a favourable neurological outcome. The effective cost, expressed in 2013 euro, was €94,688 for a one-year ICU-treated CA survivor and €102,722 for a one-year survivor with a favourable neurological outcome. A CA event and poor preadmission functional status were associated with a similar increase in the risk of hospital mortality. An increase in the intensity of early treatment associated with a higher risk of in-hospital death, particularly amongst patients with an initially low mortality risk. Conclusions: The incidence of ICU-CA amongst Finnish critically ill patients was higher and mortality was lower than previously published findings. The effective costs for one-year survivors were comparable to or lower than costs for ICU-treated patients with acute renal failure and critically ill cancer patients, healthcare expenditures considered generally acceptable. The increase in the risk of in-hospital death due to CA was comparable in magnitude to a poor preadmission functional status. Early increase in treatment intensity can serve as an additional warning sign of deterioration in Finnish critically ill patients.",
keywords = "Critical Care, Critical Care Outcomes, Critical Illness, Heart Arrest, +diagnosis, +economics, +epidemiology, +mortality, Death, Sudden, Cardiac, Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest, Health Care Costs, Health Status, Hospital Mortality, Hospitalization, Intensive Care Units, Inpatients, Risk, 3126 Surgery, anesthesiology, intensive care, radiology",
author = "Ilmar Efendijev",
note = "M1 - 74 s. + liitteet",
isbn = "978-951-51-4856-8",
series = "Dissertationes scholae doctoralis ad sanitatem investigandam Universitatis Helsinkiensis",
publisher = "Helsingin yliopisto",
number = "16/2019",
address = "Finland",
Efendijev, I 2019, 'Cardiac arrest patients in Finnish intensive care units: insights into incidence, long-term outcomes and costs', Helsinki.
Cardiac arrest patients in Finnish intensive care units : insights into incidence, long-term outcomes and costs. / Efendijev, Ilmar.
Helsinki : Helsingin yliopisto, 2019. 74 p.
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N2 - Background: Sudden cardiac arrest (CA) represents a significant cause of death worldwide. Inhospital patients carry a particularly high risk of CA, both on the general ward and in the intensive care unit (ICU). With over 10,000 CAs occurring daily globally, undoubtedly CA has a significant socioeconomic impact. However, data on in-hospital CA (IHCA) and CA-related healthcare costs in Finland and globally, remain limited. Critically ill patients are often admitted to ICUs to undergo complex treatments that may or may not influence patient outcomes. Yet, changes in treatment intensity can potentially reflect a specific patient's clinical condition and carry additional prognostic value. Aims: This study aimed to systematically review published literature on in-ICU CA (ICUCA), to investigate outcomes and healthcare-associated costs for CA patients treated within Finnish ICUs and to explore the individual effects of early treatment intensity and cardiopulmonary resuscitation on hospital mortality amongst Finnish ICU patients. Methods: The study consisted of a systematic review of the published literature (study I) summarising scientific evidence on CA in critically ill patients, and three original substudies on patients treated in Finnish ICUs between 2003 and 2013. The data for the substudies were acquired from the databases of the Finnish Intensive Care Consortium (FICC), the Social Insurance Institution of Finland (SII) and the Finnish Population Register Centre. Cost data comprised index hospitalisation expenses, rehabilitation costs and social security costs up to one year after CA. Effective cost per one-year survivor reflected the economic impact of CA, calculated as the sum of the total of healthcare costs divided by the number of survivors. Results: Across substudies, patient population size varied from n = 1024 to n = 164,255. A systematic review of the literature analysed 18 studies published between 1990 and 2013. Most of the reviewed publications were single-centre and retrospective with highly variable incidence and the outcome of ICU-CA. In Finland, there were 29 ICU-CAs for every 1000 ICU admissions. ICU-CA hospital mortality reached 56%. Amongst CA patients treated in a tertiary teaching hospital ICUs, 58% of out-of-hospital CA (OHCA) patients, 41% of IHCA patients and 39% of ICU-CA patients remained alive at one year following the initial arrest, of these 88% to 94% had a favourable neurological outcome. The effective cost, expressed in 2013 euro, was €94,688 for a one-year ICU-treated CA survivor and €102,722 for a one-year survivor with a favourable neurological outcome. A CA event and poor preadmission functional status were associated with a similar increase in the risk of hospital mortality. An increase in the intensity of early treatment associated with a higher risk of in-hospital death, particularly amongst patients with an initially low mortality risk. Conclusions: The incidence of ICU-CA amongst Finnish critically ill patients was higher and mortality was lower than previously published findings. The effective costs for one-year survivors were comparable to or lower than costs for ICU-treated patients with acute renal failure and critically ill cancer patients, healthcare expenditures considered generally acceptable. The increase in the risk of in-hospital death due to CA was comparable in magnitude to a poor preadmission functional status. Early increase in treatment intensity can serve as an additional warning sign of deterioration in Finnish critically ill patients.
AB - Background: Sudden cardiac arrest (CA) represents a significant cause of death worldwide. Inhospital patients carry a particularly high risk of CA, both on the general ward and in the intensive care unit (ICU). With over 10,000 CAs occurring daily globally, undoubtedly CA has a significant socioeconomic impact. However, data on in-hospital CA (IHCA) and CA-related healthcare costs in Finland and globally, remain limited. Critically ill patients are often admitted to ICUs to undergo complex treatments that may or may not influence patient outcomes. Yet, changes in treatment intensity can potentially reflect a specific patient's clinical condition and carry additional prognostic value. Aims: This study aimed to systematically review published literature on in-ICU CA (ICUCA), to investigate outcomes and healthcare-associated costs for CA patients treated within Finnish ICUs and to explore the individual effects of early treatment intensity and cardiopulmonary resuscitation on hospital mortality amongst Finnish ICU patients. Methods: The study consisted of a systematic review of the published literature (study I) summarising scientific evidence on CA in critically ill patients, and three original substudies on patients treated in Finnish ICUs between 2003 and 2013. The data for the substudies were acquired from the databases of the Finnish Intensive Care Consortium (FICC), the Social Insurance Institution of Finland (SII) and the Finnish Population Register Centre. Cost data comprised index hospitalisation expenses, rehabilitation costs and social security costs up to one year after CA. Effective cost per one-year survivor reflected the economic impact of CA, calculated as the sum of the total of healthcare costs divided by the number of survivors. Results: Across substudies, patient population size varied from n = 1024 to n = 164,255. A systematic review of the literature | 2,421 |
She gave her companion an angry glance.
"Are you taking me as your companion?" she asked.
The countess was sitting with her companion Belova, playing grand- patience as usual, when Pierre and Natasha came into the drawing room with parcels under their arms.
He sensed the entrance of another before his companion spoke.
His gaze settled on Jade's familiar features, and he studied his companion of so many years.
The companion cells are cut off from the same cells as those which unite to form the sieve tube.
January 1907), was his constant companion after his wife's death.
Dolokhov remarked that the Cossacks were a danger only to stragglers such as his companion and himself, "but probably they would not dare to attack large detachments?" he added inquiringly.
Pelageya interrupted her companion; she evidently wished to tell what she had seen.
He then sat at the table, helping himself and his companion to the assorted pastries.
For a week I heard the circling, groping clangor of some solitary goose in the foggy mornings, seeking its companion, and still peopling the woods with the sound of a larger life than they could sustain.
"If only I could smell the tannery once more," said he to his companion, "I should feel well."
The deaf person with sight looks at the fingers of his companion, but it is also possible to feel them.
As the wheels rolled softly over the straw beneath the windows, Anna Mikhaylovna, having turned with words of comfort to her companion, realized that he was asleep in his corner and woke him up.
What companion, my dear boy?
But the abbe, though he evidently enjoyed the beauty of his companion, was absorbed in his mastery of the matter.
"Look, Anna Tim<|fim_middle|> with their governess and tutor, his wife's nephew with his tutor, Sonya, Denisov, Natasha, her three children, their governess, and old Michael Ivanovich, the late prince's architect, who was living on in retirement at Bald Hills.
Shipton's traveling companion, Penelope Something, hysterically filled in what little she knew to Jake Weller and Emile Corday, both of whom visited the patient at the hospital.
The precursor of the thegn was the gesith, the companion of the king or great lord, the member of his comitatus, and the word thegn began to be used to describe a military gesith.
Leo, the saint's favourite disciple and companion on Mount Alverno at the time, which describes the circumstances of the stigmatization; Elias of Cortona, the acting superior, wrote on the day after his death a circular letter wherein he uses language clearly implying that he had himself seen the Stigmata, and there is a considerable amount of contemporary authentic second hand evidence.
The choices are endless, making this form of dining great for a large group or a special night out with your companion.
This was wild country, but she had a right to ride it, with or without a companion, as he was now.
R, Optical section of leptoid (sieve-tube segment) of Phanerogam, with two proteid (companion) cells.
It is the companion of His throne, and by it He made the world (Prov.
HYLAS, in Greek legend, son of Theiodamas, king of the Dryopians in Thessaly, the favourite of Heracles and his companion on the Argonautic expedition.
The favours he received from the sovereign excited the jealousy of the vizier, and he was driven back to Africa (1364), where he was received with great cordiality by the sultan of Bougie, Abu Abdallah, who had been formerly his companion in prison.
Had given St Peter's banner at Lucca, only arrived - the last of the crusaders - in May 1097 (their original companion in arms, Count Robert of Flanders, having left them to winter at Bari, and crossed to Constantinople before the end of 1096).
In 1274, at the council of Lyons, Gregory X., who had been the companion of Edward in the Holy Land, preached the Crusade to an assembly which contained envoys from the Mongol khan and Michael Palaeologus as well as from many western princes.
He spoke of you even at the very last, she went on, turning her eyes from Pierre to her companion with a shyness that surprised him for an instant.
(1866), and of Life in the South: a Companion to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), was superintendent of common schools in1853-1865(the executive head of the state's educational department having previously been a " literary board "), and won the name of the " Horace Mann of the South " by his wise reforms. He kept the public schools going through the Civil War, having advised against the disturbance of the school funds and their reinvestment in Confederate securities.
He glanced once at the companion's face, saw her attentive and kindly gaze fixed on him, and, as often happens when one is talking, felt somehow that this companion in the black dress was a good, kind, excellent creature who would not hinder his conversing freely with Princess Mary.
An interesting member of this constellation is a-Capricorni, a pair of stars of 3rd and 4th magnitudes, each of which has a companion of the 9th magnitude.
The chart of the world by Juan de la Cosa, the companion of Columbus, is the earliest extant which depicts the discoveries in the new world (150o), Nicolaus de Canerio, a Genoese, and the map which Alberto Cantino caused to be drawn at Lisbon for Hercules d'Este of Ferrara (1502), illustrating in addition the recent discoveries of the Portuguese in the East.
It's been my only companion since my father died many years ago.
Princess Mary looked at her companion without understanding what she was talking about.
When not with us, he was on his own, with no companion but his troubled mind. | ofeevna," she added to her companion, "see what a box for cards my son has brought us!"
She'd been quiet for a day or two, going everywhere with him, a companion in his head who was beyond the touch of his angry master.
He probably ate out all the time, and had a female companion to look after as well.
She'd proven how willing she was to become his companion, a surprise considering she really did seem fragile in his world.
Belle, our dog, my other companion, was old and lazy and liked to sleep by the open fire rather than to romp with me.
Donald Ryland kept up a nonstop conversation with his son and front seat companion, as they whipped along the highway.
He fought by his side in the war against the giants and was his companion in his travels and adventures.
As companion to his son, the future king.
If she knew I was hiring you as a companion, she'd be embarrassed.
No companion or wife anywhere?
I figured I'd open the door and then pawn her off as a companion to someone in the government.
He is the constant companion of Dionysus, whom he was said to have instructed in the cultivation of the vine and the keeping of bees.
Companion cells are not found in the Pteridophyta and Gymnosperms. In the latter their place is taken by certain cells of the medullary rays and bast parenchyma.
Another class of nocturnal demons are the incubi and succubi, who are said to consort with human beings in their sleep; in the Antilles these were the ghosts of the dead; in New Zealand likewise ancestral deities formed liaisons with females; in the Samoan Islands the inferior gods were regarded as the fathers of children otherwise unaccounted for; the Hindus have rites prescribed by which a companion nymph may be secured.
In 1771 he took holy orders, and afterwards visited many parts of Europe as tutor and travelling companion to various noblemen and gentlemen.
In a sleigh drawn by two gray trotting-horses that were bespattering the dashboard with snow, Anatole and his constant companion Makarin dashed past.
On seeing the young master, the elder one with frightened look clutched her younger companion by the hand and hid with her behind a birch tree, not stopping to pick up some green plums they had dropped.
Just then the lady companion who lived with Helene came in to announce that His Highness was in the ballroom and wished to see her.
Fowler (1903); De Morgan, Companion to the Almanac (1845); De Moleon, Voyages liturgiques (Paris, 1718).
The first volume of a Histoire naturelle des perroquets, a companion work by the same author, appeared in the same year, and is truly a monograph, since the parrots constitute a family of birds so naturally severed from all others that there has rarely been anything else confounded with them.
According to Callimachus (Hymn to Diana, 190), she was a nymph, the daughter of Zeus and Carme, and a favourite companion of Artemis.
This was Speranski, Secretary of State, reporter to the Emperor and his companion at Erfurt, where he had more than once met and talked with Napoleon.
He made an excellent companion, a fact that hadn't occurred to her before that moment.
A tissue mother-cell of the phloem may give rise to (i) a segment of a sieve-tube with its companion cell or cells; (2) a phloem fibre; (3) a single phloem-parenchyma (cambiform) cell, or a ve~rtical file of short parenchyma cells.
I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.
It appeared to have no companion in the universe--sporting there alone--and to need none but the morning and the ether with which it played.
He raised his companion and said something, pointing to his mouth.
Henry meanwhile, however, had sent William Knight, his secretary, on a separate mission to Rome to obtain facilities for his marriage with Anne; and on the cardinal's return in August he found her installed as the king's companion and proposed successor to Catherine of Aragon.
He'd regretted taking her to his bed initially but now wished he'd taken up her offer to become his companion, even if only for the few nights they had together.
This uncle was an old companion of La Perouse and a survivor of the expedition in which that navigator perished.
Dolokhov said that he and his companion were trying to overtake their regiment, and addressing the company in general asked whether they knew anything of the 6th Regiment.
His early friend and school companion, Adelmann, archdeacon of Liege, wrote to him letters of expostulation on the subject of this report in 1046 and 1048; and a bishop, Hugo of Langres, wrote (about 1049) a refutation of the views which he had himself heard Berengar express in conversation.
The marching band had one percussion player who played the triangle.
He had already gained a reputation in his narrow circle as a keen debater and a jovial companion, and it is said that he had several smuggling adventures.
It was with the hope of restoring my self-confidence that she persuaded me to write for the Youth's Companion a brief account of my life.
His eldest son, an officer in the army, was killed in a duel; and his second son, Charles, intended for the church, left Trinity College and became companion and secretary to the duke of Buckingham, at whose house he died.
He was a very agreeable companion and a thorough man of the world, singularly free from arrogance and pomposity; owing to his small stature, he was often known as "die kleine Excellenz."
Again the princess glanced round at her companion with even more uneasiness in her manner and was about to add something, but Pierre interrupted her.
At that table were his mother, his mother's old lady companion Belova, his wife, their three children | 1,294 |
Premier correct to go ahead with easing of restrictions; now he can go further
Apr 2, 2022 | David Honey MLA, State News
The Shadow Treasurer and Shadow Minister for Small Business Dr Steve Thomas says that the Premier Mark McGowan was correct to proceed with the partial easing of COVID restrictions, despite the urgings of the AMA.
"The Premier was right to reject the advice that suggested he was wrong to reduce strict level two restrictions," said Dr Thomas. "As much as it may pain me to acknowledge it, I agree with him, but I also ask him to look at the standard of his own modelling and go further.
"The COVID numbers reported over the last week indicate that the previously released modelling from his own Government has proved to be highly accurate, and we can now have enough faith<|fim_middle|> on the pathway out of COVID restrictions.
Dr Thomas said that the modelling had predicted peak COVID infection rates of between 9,770 and 10,956. Over the last week, the new infection rates have been:
Hospitalisation rates have stabilised at just over 200 and ICU numbers are still in single digits.
The Premier was quoted this week as saying, "the most important thing to note now is th hospitalisation rates and the intensive-care rates — and they have remained relatively stable".
"That is indeed the case," said Dr Thomas. "I have been saying for weeks that those are the numbers that should be used to determine the restrictions, and I am pleased that he now agrees."
"The accuracy of the modelling means that we can trust it as the basis for a plan out of COVID, and I support the Premier's approach to using it as justification to wind down some of the previous COVID restriction," said Dr Thomas.
"The situation is changing, and this has been highlighted yesterday with the Health Department announcement that they will no longer publish exposure sites.
"This is an admission that we are entering the endemic phase of COVID, and it should see the Premier outlining a timeframe for further easing of restrictions.
"This should include releasing a timeframe for the removal of mask rules, and the thresholds of hospitalisation and ICU cases that will trigger it. "I also want to see a timeframe presented for the removal of the two square metre rule for businesses," said Dr Thomas.
"This rule continues to undermine business survival at a time that it has lost its value as a preventative measure.
"We need a plan to transition out of restrictions and that plan should have a timeline. The good work in creating accurate modelling deserves an adequate plan in response," said Dr Thomas. | in it to be making good decisions | 7 |
Other Summer Movies of the 80s: The Cannonball Run
Released June 19th, 1981
Burt Reynolds: J.J. McClure
Roger Moore: Seymour
Farrah Fawcett: Pamela
Dom DeLuise: Victor Prinzim
Dean Martin: Jamie Blake
Sammy Davis, Jr.: Fenderbaum
Jack Elam: Dr. Nikolas Van Helsing
Adrienne Barbeau: Marcie
Tara Buckman: Jill
Screenplay by Brock Yates
Directed by Hal Needham
Sandwiched in between the release of Raiders of the Lost Ark and Superman II was the opening weekend of Hal Needham's The Cannonball Run, another of his wacky car chase stunt spectaculars. Raiders is one of the best movies ever made. Superman II is a gold standard in superhero sequels. The Cannonball Run finished fourth in box office for 1981 behind both those movies and Stripes and holds the distinction as the<|fim_middle|> the cool choice to be someone who wrote stories when all the notoriety was attached to athletes and gifted students. The realization that I was neither of those sunk in on that trip to Virginia, but it would months before it forced to make a difficult decision. | only movie I saw more than once that summer. Three times total. I loved it. LOVED IT. My early film viewing teeth were cut on annual televised airings of the classic It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. I loved that movie, too, for many reasons. It was funny, of course, but it was also a movie that made my dad laugh out loud and that was always nice to witness. The Cannonball Run came the closest to capturing the insanity and spirit of It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
Junior high had ended only a month prior and I was deep into another season of Babe Ruth League baseball. This time around I had to accept something I previously ignored. I had a bit of an anger problem when it came to playing sports, especially for someone who wasn't anywhere near as talented as I aspired to be. I was a below average ball player. A moderate fielder who couldn't hit. I loved the game and believed I was going to play high school ball, but this particular summer forced me to accept the reality of my lacking skill. I didn't handle it well and that combined with lingering eighth grade angst left me in a perpetual state of frustration. A much needed break came from two sources. Repeated viewings of The Cannonball Run and a road trip to Virginia with my oldest brother.
The movie's unashamed goofiness won me over and I loved getting to see a movie in the theater that featured Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr., two performers I admired. I loved Dom DeLuise's performance as Burt Reynolds' sidekick who inexplicably transformed into a superhero(?) named Captain Chaos. This was the most ridiculous and random character trait I'd seen in a movie and I thought it was a glorious choice. I imagined myself playing a character like that. Sure, Burt Reynolds was handsome and charismatic and the biggest damn star in the world, but what Dom DeLuise was doing felt like a calling. It was same feeling I had watching Tim Conway perform. I could do that, I thought to myself. I could play Captain Chaos.
A whole series of blog posts could be written about the drive to Virginia. It was the furthest I'd been from home up to that point and I soaked up seeing new sights. Since these were the days before GPS, we used a road atlas for navigation and memorized obscure town names. I thought a lot about the movies I'd seen while on that trip and about the prospect of playing basketball and baseball in school. I also had a little notebook with me to write stories in, which was something I did far more often than homework in school. Inspired by The Cannonball Run, I wrote a story about a group of kids who competed in a big race like the one in the film only with go-carts. One of the characters pretended to be a superhero because the fine line between homage and plagiarism didn't register in my soon-to-be 14-year old brain.
It occurred to me that storytelling was more enjoyable for me than baseball and basketball and I LOVED baseball and basketball. It didn't seem | 639 |
Kunstkacke
From a very young age, I was fascinated by art films. It impresses me how these films address topics abstractly and illustrate facts about in an unusual way. Likewise, I have an affinity for old monochrome films. The works of George Méliès fascinated me since I saw them for the first time. And luckily in the summer of 2015, I met someone who loved them just as much as I do and agreed to make one ourselves. We wrote the screenplay together and had the luck work with Christophe Schammel, an amazing filmmaker from Luxembourg as our Director of Photography. Tina Radler became our<|fim_middle|> and effectively. And until today counts "Kunstkacke" (which was titled after a long night of cutting) to one of my favorite films of mine!
Boy – Ludwig Johannes Schrader
Girl – Joy Annahoy
Written and Directed by Emma Rosa Katharina Sauter and Quirin Thalhammer
Director of Photography – Christophe Schammel
Camera Operator – Tina Radler
Gaffer – Giovanni Zeitz
SchlagwörterArt short film, Christophe Schammel, Emma Rosa Katharina Sauter, Emma Sauter, Giovanni zeitz, Joy Annahoy, Kunstkacke, Kurzfilm, Ludwig Johannes Schrader, Short Film, Tina Radler
Vorheriger BeitragZurück Anna
Nächster BeitragWeiter Dead Hearts | camera operator and brought in some great ideas. The lighting was set by Giovanni Zeitz, who also worked for the award-winning series "Homeland". The idea was to shoot a movie in the style of old Hollywood. Monochrome, 4:0 and silent. We combined that style à la Metropolis with a futuristic robot story.
The shooting took place in Arendsee, a small city in eastern Germany, in three days. At first, everything went according to our plan. Up to an accident on the second day of shooting. Our leading actor had an accident on his way to the city while on his bike. He drove down a street when suddenly a car rushed out of a driveway and crashed into him. Fortunately, the fall was less severe than suspected at first, and he only had to spend one night in the hospital for observation. He had no serious injuries, so we could continue shooting the next day!
During the shoot, I spontaneously came up with the idea of a wedding dress for the final scene. For me, this dress showed the desperation of the protagonist perfect! But since I had this idea so late in the production process, I did not expect that it would be possible to organize a wedding dress overnight. Luckily, a small bridal shop nearby spontaneously gifted us with a sample dress. So I got the big dramatic showdown I aimed for.
To this day, this week of shooting has remained well in my memory. It was interesting and great to work with all these different people. Besides, I still can not believe we made the film in one week, despite a hospital stay and no real pre-production. This was mainly because we grew together as a team over time and were able to work so quickly | 346 |
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Book Review: Garbage World, Charles Platt (serialized 1966)
August 18, 2015 June 20, 2019 / Joachim Boaz
(Keith Roberts' cover for New Worlds SF, October <|fim_middle|>is",it's Fat,who might be called the "darker" side of Dick,who believes the origin of the visions,not the rational Dick himself.Throughout his life,this "split" in his persona,was one with which "they" had to battle to become joined,and reflected the disparate nature of his work,that also makes his style unmistakable.
It's true,that much of his 1960s stuff,predated what happened to him later.As you know,he had experienced strange visions then,and the one he had in 1964,became the source for "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch".The point is though,that to the fullness of my knowledge,he believed it happened.Whatever you might think of this,at least the experience was personal,unlike the cultist beliefs of Van Vogt.Who knows what to think.
My thoughts on Dick are predicated upon the vast body of his work I've read,whereas of Van Vogt stuff,I've only read one collection of later short stories and his "Black Destroyer" in an anthology.I'll reserve judgement then.
It is interesting that you mention the double motif. You just reminded me of Confessions of a Crap Artist. He split himself into two characters in that book also. It is interesting more than 20 years before the publication of Valis he was doing this. Jack Isodore was crazier self in the earlier book. Maybe this is because he had a twin sister who died when he was infant but he liked doubles. There is also a twin of sorts in Dr Bloodmoney. Have you read Radio Free Albemuth? That was his first draft of Valis. In some ways I liked it better.
I think you're right about "Confessions of a Crap Artist",but Isodore isn't aware of his craziness or has a mirror opposite to remind him of it."Valis is similair in theme to "A Scanner Darkly",where a man is split into two halves because of his ambiguous life,and no longer knows his own identity,but is strangely aware of being two personas.
I can well understand the relationship to his twin sister though.I think the conflict between Dick and Fat,is the struggle for "him" to find his feminine half.The character of St.Sophia in "Valis",the feminine form of God,whose voice he actually claimed to have heard,I think he associated with his dead twin.It was salvific for him.She also appears as the character Zina in "The Divine Invasion".
Yes,the twins theme,much disguised,did not infrequently find itself within his fictionalised reality.It also came to mean something more spiritual within a dualistic context.
"Radio Free Albemuth" seems more controlled and of greater clarity than "Valis",but seems an anodyne book compared to his previous stuff,and is a lesser book compared to them I think.I can see why it needed a rewrite,but "Valis" was an entirely different novel,of a literary intensity that was damaging I think.
The sf magazines that Van Vogt wrote in,were an important influence on him,but can't help thinking that he would have wanted to write it within the wider world of literature,such as Olaf Stapleton,whose books were published the same time as the "odious" magazines.I think he would have wanted to have wrote books that were something of both,and of course he did within the sf genre.He went through an hiatus though,when he only read literary classics,and this is what really influenced and shaped his later stuff.
Richard,his mainstream literary influences were Kafka,James Joyce,who are among the "modernist" writers. He mentioned Proust once also. As for his science fiction influences the only name after Van Vogt that he mentioned often was Ray Bradbury. It is said his early works tried to divide these two interests into two careers. One mainstream,which never sold,and science fiction was the other. Sometime around Eye in the Sky and Time out of Joint he merged these influences. I see it starting in Eye but most people say Time,where it was far more obvious. You can also the merger in the next few books of the early 60s.
Yes,I'm well aware of Dick's literary influences,particularly Kafka it seems.The looming shadow of his novels,"The Castle",in "The Man in the High Castle",and "The Trial" in "Time Out of Joint" and "A Maze of Death",can be particularly felt I think.Another one was Borges of those I've read,whose "Fumes the Meritorius",I've cited elsewhere as bearing a sharp similarity to his early novel,"The World Jones Made",although his presence is obviously luminous elsewhere in his work.
Of his sf influences,do you know John Sladek was supposed to be a significant one upon him? I suppose there could be said to be similarities in their stuff,but it seems strange,as Sladek came later than him,and would have thought it would be the other way around.I've heard of life imatating art,but never an author imitating his own style!
"Time Out of Joint" as I've said before,was very much the fiction he wanted to write,combining both his sf and mainstream ambitions,and what his later books would probably have been like.Unfortunately,it attracted little critical attention,and he changed direction again.Yes,a much more brazen approach was attempted in the early 1960s starting with "The Man in the High Castle",but his next books he wrote were too maverick for publishers it seems,and was met hostilely.Of these,the excellent "Dr Bloodmoney",was published by Ace,and was a much gentler novel than "We Can Build You" and Martian Time-Slip",but still with a definite mainstream flavouring,but none of the next novels they published,were like it.
I will have to read "Confessions of a Crap Artist" again.Does this mean then that Jack too had a more sanguine side,and isn't really insane at all? In fact,all of the characters in COACA,are insane really in a non-clinical way,but his "insanity" seems to allow him a clearer outside view of their condition.
"Now Wait for Last Year" was an excellent novel,but perhaps the ending wasn't the best he could have came up with.However,much of his acerbic but humourous stuff,ends in despairing circumstances.What's usually noteworthy,is whether the characters have the courage to survive in perplexing and uncomfortable circumstances.It is typical I think of the strange angst that made his style unmistakable.
I don't think Dick's characters develope an extra personality,but they do separate clinically from each other in the cases mentioned above.They are complex characters,who are often morally ambiguous.
Actually Richard,Jack Isodore is aware of his problems by the final chapter of the book. It is not a great ending but not one of Dick's worst. Ever read Now Wait for Last Year? The ending just did not work for me. It was not believable nor was it pleasing. Some people like that book but it ended with the hero went back to a hopeless situation.
Went off on a tangent there. By the way Scanner Darkly is a excellent example of the dual identity theme. Did you know that was inspired by the split brain research of Roger Sperry at Cal Tec?. Of course split brain patients never developed a extra personality . That is fiction.
Richard,I totaly agree with you on that. Forgot about We can Build You being written at that time. But that High Castle,Martain,and Bloodmoney all have a mainstream flavor that the books from Stigmata onward would lack. It was not really until Flow my Tears that he did something that felt more mainstream.
I am sort of disappointed in Bloodmoney. It is often considered one of his best but there are too many characters coming and go and the book sort of meanders. And few of the characters are that interesting. The most interesting ones are Eddie Keller and her brother who lives inside her. After reading this I wondered if Harlan Ellison named the tv character in his Star Trek script Edie Keller. Never seen anyone mention this before. Does anyone know of a connection?
Speaking of connection there is one more involving Blloodmoney. Do not if you or the other posters read comic books but the character of Hoppy is similar to a character in Frank Miller's Ronin.
Yes,the Ace paperbacks that followed the writing of those four,didn't have that scrict,mainstream feeling,but I'm not sure if this can be said for some of his later 1960s novels."The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" was a brilliant novel not written for Ace,which had a quirky,comic yet elegant style of prose different to the earlier novels you cited,and was very mainstream in it's themes and concerns.Later still,"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" was composed in a crystalline prose that ranked it among his best written books I think,while "Galactic Pot-Healer" was written with a simple,light-hearted but beautiful artistry,that like DADOES,contains very poignant themes.
"Flow my Tears,the Policeman Said" was a necessary change in direction for Dick,but seemed flawed in structure despite it's obvious mainstream character.I thought it was faulted compared to the earlier novels I mentioned above,perhaps because it was too intense and self conscious in it's composition in trying to achieve mainstream "modernism".His next novel,"A Scanner Darkly",which came the closest at the time to mainstream greatness,was reminisent of his earlier work in tone,meaning it was dished out in a fast and quirky manner,but was a more simply written and concise novel than FMTTPS I think.He is remarkable for the diversity of tone between different books,but are still recognisably his.
"Dr Bloodmoney" is one of his best books,that has a very sanguine,earthy feeling of a contemporary world that is unique among his varied output,but perhaps does as you say,meander.Probably he was being over ambitious in trying to write a novel about various and different characters to fulfill a literary ideal,not because it lacked brilliance of thought.At 300 pages though,it is his longest novel,and is sustained very well without rambling and lost of interest.You can't say that of a lot of books of that length.
Yes,the twins though are probably the best characters in the book,and would probably have been better being more focused on them.It's definetly one of the best examples on his theme based on the angst at the lost of his twin sister that plagued him throughout his life.It was done in a poignant but modest way without self conscious posturing.
Don't know about "Ronin",but do you know of a "Guardians of the Galaxy" issue from 1976,titled "Planet of the Absurd",written by Steve Gerber? It's about a planet inhabited by the mentally ill who form a society that is almost exactly like Earth,and has shades I think,of "Clans of the Alphane Moon".
Richard, you should start a PKD review site where you read through and review his entire catalogue 🙂 hehe
Yes Joachim,and make my living from it too!
I read all of the books you mentioned. Bloodmoney is longest SF novel but many of his earlier mainstream works were supposed to 400 or 500 pages long. Only mainstream ones I read Confessions and Timothy Archer which was the last book he had published in his lifetime. It is very good. Pot Healer is decent but nothing more. Must check out that story. Steve Gerber is one of my all time favorite comic book writers. Did not Roger Stern take over his Guardians run but they cancelled it? Arnold Drake Created them but he only the their first appearance in Marvel Super Heroes 18,was it? it was Gerber who brought them back
in the Thing team up title Marvel Two in One. Gerber wrote the first 8 or 9 issues of that and they appeared in the middle of the run. Gerber was really ahead of his time and his stuff on Defenders is great. Much better than the overrated Claremont X-Men stuff. Have you read those?
You should read his other early mainstream books then,they are very good,particularly "Puttering About in a Small Land" I think,an outstanding novel that's less funny but equal to "Confessions of a Crap Artist".I haven't read "Voices from the Streets" and "Gather Yourself Together" yet,which I think are the longer ones you mentioned,but yes,"The Transmigration of Timothy Archer" is excellent.They are among the greatest literary works of the twentieth century,that easyly stand head and shoulders over acclaimed novels like "Catcher in the Rye".
Don't agree with you about "Galactic Pot-Healer".Yes,it is of almost abstract simplicity and doesn't appear obviously profound,but is subtle and brilliantly comedic.Still,it doesn't matter,what you think and like,is up to you.
Steve Gerber was one of my favourite comic book writers and writers imperium.He possessed an unusual genius,that displayed a brillance for characterisation,dialogue,state-of-the-art idioms and an eye for the depravity of modern society in unsettling and bizarre situations that combined emotion,terror and black humour that was often terrifying but mesmorising.
"Guardians of the Galaxy" would have started in the states in the latter part of 1975,and had a complete run where I live in England,during 1976,but was cancelled here the following year,until the final issue,when as I remember,it had changed authorship.I don't know the issue number,but yes,they first appeared in "Marvel Super Heroes",and it was a solo appearence,also drawn by Gene Colan.I read the 1975 reprint.
Gerber's work on the "The Defenders" was excellent,with adequate art by Sal Buscema,even the ones inked in the scratchy style of Vince Collecta.Yes,they were superior to the second series of "The X-Men" by Clairmont.It first appeared in Marvel's line of quarterly giant sized comics,in 1975,which I never had,and they discontinued them the same year.That meant it was put out bi-monthly.I don't know what the longer magazine issues were like,but considering the quality of the regular sized ones,I think perhaps they would have allowed time for development rather than being produced for a fast schedule.Their longevity and the spinoffs they spawned,can be attributed I think as much to commerciality as quality.Also,Clairmont is hardly like Steve Gerber.
Forgot to mention the Harlan Ellison interview. The two later had a falling out neither will talk out. Here however his interview is favorable. It also is filled Platt's psychological opinions of the writers personalities. That is one of the things that makes it interesting even though you may not agree with his observations.
Just checked the ereader edition of Dream Makers that Platt published last year. His Harlan Ellison interview is not it. Interesting.
I read the Malzberg interview… exactly what I expected from "grumpy SF hates me Barry." Love him anyway! haha
Søren Jamesson
Platt has always been spectacularly inept, even by the standards of science-fiction publishing, and his work has mostly vanished and rightly so. He failed upwards; the last time I checked, he worked for WIRED magazine.
Charles Platt's greater claim to fame, is stating forcefully in a printed review that David Drake, a combat veteran of the Vietnam War in the armor, would not write what he writes (which he describes as 'queasy voyeurism') if he had ever seen war up close. Drake has since memorialized him more than adequately.
Yeah, I read somewhere a few years ago about Platt's idiotic spat with Drake.
I have enjoyed a few of Platt's short stories.
"The Total Experience Kick" (1966) was solid: https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2016/09/17/book-review-the-best-sf-stories-from-new-worlds-2-ed-michael-moorcock-1968/
"The Disaster Story" (1966) was even better: https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2015/02/24/book-review-best-sf-stories-from-new-worlds-3-1968/
Oh, and his third novel The City Dwellers (variant title: Twilight of the Cities) (1970) was pretty spectacular — I never got around to reviewing it but it might deserve a reread. | 1966, ed. Michael Moorcock)
2/5 (Bad)
In 1980, 3,000 copies of Charles Platt's SF novel The Gas (1968)—in which, the "eponymous gas, accidentally released over England, works as an irresistible aphrodisiac […]" and, according to John Clute at SF encyclopedia, contains "sex material" in "transgressively pornographic terms"—were seized by UK's Director of Public Prosecutions in effect preventing a UK distribution [article].
Platt's first novel, Garbage World (serialized 1966), feels like The Gas's SF juvenile little brother i.e. without the transgressive porn but all the intent to shock a 14 year old boy, although it's never more than "the warmth of the mud mingled with the warmth of their lovemaking" (95). So, what is this tidbit of effluvia all about? First, the silliest part of the novel—the often scatalogical chapter titles: "Garbage Party" (21), "The Hole" ( 57), "The Yellow Rain" (81), "The Defecated Village" (100), "The Great Purgative Plan" (105), etc.
And the rest of the silly novel… Garbage World dolls up a plot rudiment straight from the pulps with a distinct patina of mud and mire. Nice Oliver Roach and his evil villain colleague "Minister of the Government of the United Asteroid Belt Pleasure Worlds Federation, Zone Two, Commander of the Imperial Survey Craft" (9) Larkin are from the clean astroids. These men fetishize the clean and bathe compulsively. They arrive at the astroid of Kopra, which is the astroid belt's trash heap, to ostensibly avert a catastrophe. Kopra has grown from a small rock to a giant veritable ball of trash with jungles and yellow rain: "a century's worth of refuse has accumulated here, and the layer is now more than ten miles thick in places […] This vast layer is only held in place by a three-quarter gee field from an obsolete, malfunctioning generator" (12). The goal, replace the generator to prevent the astroid from falling apart because…
…an entire society of trash dwellers—who plod across the squalid, mushy, and smelly trashscape—eek out an existence tracking down the trash "blimps" lobbed over from the other astroids. The new trash in the "blimps" provide food and the status providing "cool" trash fragments that form each man's horde. The man with the largest horde rules the town. Evil clean man Larkin has other plans of course—to streamline the astroid belt's trash problem. And, he can't get over how dirty everyone is: "You seem to see these slimy creatures as human beings, rather than the offensive vermin they really are. They are not men" (107).
Soon, as Oliver's last name (dirty insects are the best insects) indicates, his dirty interior takes over and his cleanliness fetish disappears. As is so often the case, Oliver wants to get the girl. But, first, he must grapple with the fact that Juliette is covered (literally) with trash. As they trek across the trashscape looking for trash nomads, fighting giant trash slugs, falling into giant vaginal trash chasms, Oliver has a revelatory trashgasm of belonging and love and well, discovers he has a thing for oozy trash mud:
"He had to admit it. He could never go back to the clean life, now. Not anymore. Never again. Lying in the mud, in the gentle sun, he picked up a handful of ooze and squeezed it out between his fingers. He rubbed it over his arms, smooth and warm. He wiggled his toes in it and felt its gentle touch all over his body" (95).
He proclaims, "I just can't believe what's happened to me" (95). I proclaim, "I just can't believe I read this far."
What is Platt's purpose in all of this? Why did Michael Moorcock serialize Garbage World in the highly influential New Worlds magazine? Other far superior authors of the day played with and subverted the SF trope of a clean/sterile future. For example, Brian W. Aldiss in The Dark Light-Years (1964)—another highly problematic novel—posited a sentient alien species which spent their days copulating, laying around, and eating in their own filth. Humankind is confronted, and bewildered, by these aliens. And again in "Legends of Smith's Burst" (1959), Aldiss took a Vance-esque planetary romance story but filled the worldscape with filth and decay, elements the human hero can never come to grips with.
Platt attempts to chart similarly subversive waters. At the core Garbage World is a SF juvenile: morally upright man encounters and wins woman and saves the planet. But, here the world worth saving is a ball of trash, and everyone on the planet is covered with trash, and governs the entire social structure of the society—like Aldiss' aliens in The Dark Light-Years, Kopra's inhabitants revel in their environment. Consciously or unconsciously, Platt conveys the entire work in the vocabulary of a SF juvenile. The language is simple, clunky, and superficial. An intriguing exercise, but ultimately, Garbage World is about as engaging as finding a fecal remnant left by my cat which just missed the litterbox. Darn cat.
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66 thoughts on "Book Review: Garbage World, Charles Platt (serialized 1966)"
Richard Fahey
The bottom Berkley 1967 one,looks like Platt's style.
That's the edition I own — but, I can't figure out the artist. But yes, a lump of things dumped together in a sort of brown/black pile.
I strongly think it is by him.It's those thin lines for the edges.
Ah, did not realize he was a cover artist! I thought you were making a joke about how hazy that image was and Platt's novel itself—which is terrible… 😉
The few images on isfdb.org do not look similar (they are collages etc). But it's such a small sample size.
Do you mean Keith Roberts (artist/author)? The guy who did the first New Worlds cover I posted? They have some similarity…
kaggsysbookishramblings
Oh dear – I'll make sure I avoid this one, then! 🙂
I like SF that prods and provokes if there is something of substance — at least Aldiss' SF which often explores similar ideas about filth and decay dabbles a bit philosophically and are well crafted… This is a SF juvenile with scatalogical jokes — and little else.
Yes,he did covers for "New Worlds",including "Behold the Man" and "Pavane".
So, Keith Roberts not Charles Platt…. (sorry for the confusion: you originally listed Platt which confused me! haha)
I think you're right…..I'm getting them confused.I go and have a look.
Keith Roberts was much more the artist—and the MUCH better author. Platt seems to have made a handful of covers for New Worlds but nothing substantial or similar to that cover.
Yes you're right,I looked.I remember now anyway.It looks like Roberts style.
Tom Hering
Platt was New Worlds' graphic designer: https://pedromarquesdg.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/the-new-worlds-of-charles-platt/
I thought he was a major illustrator at "New Worlds",which was why I probably confused him with Keith Roberts.I was pleased to see the link.
He also wrote "Dream Makers",has you know,a series of interviews with sf authors,but I haven't read or even seen them.
Yeah, they look interesting. They are 1 cent on US Amazon…. and used copies go for a few pounds on UK Amazon. You should pick them up!
I might one day.So far as I know,they first brought exposure to James Tiptree Jr's true identity.I did hear the taped interview he did with Philip K.Dick for the books on UTube,although the sound quality was poor.
He also became the editor of New Worlds after Moorcock stepped down in 1970…
Parlor of Horror
I have this on my looong list of SF 'to read' – I think I've read some praise about his work. Do you have a SF recommend list I can check out?
I have grouped all of my around 250 reviews by rating [here].
As with everyone who asks for these types of lists be aware of the type of SF I generally prefer — 60s/70s (some 50s) and definitely more experimental/literary etc. Some people track down a 5/5 novel and tell me — well, "that was terrible. It didn't have much of a plot and was more interested in philosophy." Yeah, sounds like my type of SF novel!
And perhaps Platt's juvenile on a trash planet with lots of silly poop and sex jokes is your cup of tea — I guess you would know.
It also depends on how much SF you've read — if you know about Platt than I'm guessing you've probably read a lot of the classics already. Keep in mind that my ratings list is only of the novels I've reviewed in the history of my site — so there are many more novels that I enjoy….
I actually don't read that much Sci Fi but have been looking for some good places to start. The reason I've heard of Platt is probably because of the book art as I do posts on book cover art at my blog. I guess i'd be interested in soft Sci fi (i think I heard that term used) more along the lines of Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Borrows. I guess they have more fantasy elements to the stories.
I've read both Verne and Burroughs. I enjoy Verne but dislike Burroughs — I understand their appeal and historical importance but little to none of the SF I read really relates stylistically/conceptually/ideologically (in part because they are writing decades and decades and decades earlier) to those authors… If you want more pulp adventure recommendations consult MPorcius over at his book blog. He dabbles more than I do.
Jack Vance perhaps….
Thanks for the info, that's closer to what I read 🙂
You could always explore a bit outside of that subgenre 😉
I've said as much,that so much fiction with the sf genre overlaps with that published outside it,and viceversa.
i write fiction in the horror genre and have stories published in a dozen books and magazines, but I never crossed over into sci-fi. So i would want to do a lot of reading before I attempted any stories. The closest I have come was a 50's sci-fi movie style story with giant monsters battling in a midwest town and a Kaiju story upcoming in another anthology. 🙂
Well, I recommend working through the Hugo awards for the 50s/70s/80s etc to get and idea of what was popular at various times. And work through the Nebula awards for the more radical authors (some overlap)…. You then know the major authors and be in a position to delve into their lesser known works.
fromcouchtomoon
"feels like The Gas's SF juvenile little brother i.e. without the transgressive porn but all the intent to shock a 14 year old boy,"
Hahaha! Laughing and clapping and a little bit curious to read it. I wonder what Moorcock saw in it.
admiral.ironbombs
I think you should read this one if only to give us a wordcount on all the squelchy effluvia-laden words.
Haha, only if they'll digitize it first. Sure, I'll handcount Heinlein's sexism (which I did for Job and got so confused that I left it out of the post. 76 at last count, by the way), but I need a digital spyglass for the many, many, many incarnations of effluvia.
Megan, do you want my copy of this book (it's crappy and falling apart, like the novel itself)? I can send it to you. I don't want it…. I would love to read your review.
I wonder if there is a good work of scholarship on New Worlds… I'd love to read a serious book on its workings etc. It's such an unusual publication.
Glad you thought the review was funny.
This one is pretty good.
Wow, that sounds awful. I mean I'm still curious enough to read it—the core idea sounds kinda interesting… maybe I'll look into it for the next time I want to write a rant.
The magazine cover I find strangely appealing, though I'd probably try to buy that last Berkeley cover… should be easier to find in the States.
I found the Berkley edition with you at Dawn Treader Books. However, you made fun of mine as a large chunk of the cover (due to some giant sticker) was missing. If I had known that Platt was routinely this terrible….
🙂 I didn't even recognize the art without a huge sticker glob obscuring it.
Wow, that … I … I guess I can imagine the wry, amusing book that could be written from the premise. I mean, "newcomer plunges in, saves the world and gets the girl" subverted by being on a repugnant planet? For that matter, getting out of the early-20th-century technophile overcoming-of-nature mindset and discovering the joys of being down in the mud? That would still be a slightly dangerous vision, if I may say so, at least submitted to Analog . Anyway I can imagine a version of this that worked.
It is amusing but incredibly stupid. It STILL is a juvenile regardless of the situation/environment. It still is poorly plotted and rather unexciting despite the attempt to subvert the "clean" vs. "dirty" paradigm.
But yes, the novel winds up being anti-intellectual etc. I do enjoy the idea of making due with what you have — but, the novel reinforces the "us" vs. "them," we can NEVER return to the rest of the society because we like dirt, divide. Which is ridiculous… The rest of society perhaps can learn something from the Kopra inhabitants rather than simply reinforce the divides which already existed despite Oliver's move to live with them.
Gary Gibson
I must admit, I laughed out loud at this as well.
Haha, the book did make me laugh — I will give you that….
Jonas Waldenström
This book was translated to Swedish in 1969, and I have it waiting in the bookshelf to be read at some point. However, given your review I think it will have to wait a loooong time for its turn. At the moment I read Walk to the End of the World by Suzy McKee Charnas – couldn't resist buying that one after you praising it in an earlier blog post. It is a brilliant book.
For a peek on the Swedish cover you can surf in here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/130149172@N04/18000402830/in/album-72157651657128289/
I'm glad you enjoyed Walk to the End of the World! Did you read it in Swedish? Was the translation ok? Her prose is very interesting in English…
Nope, I laid my hands on the English version, the one with the horrible cover. Mint condition, for roughly 3 dollars – a real bargain!
Have you read Platt's Dream Makers? It is a very good collection of interviews with well known science fiction writers circa 1979-80.
No I have not. I definitely want to. If you look near the top of the comments you'll see a discussion about it.
The interview with James Tipree Jr must be in the second book. I only have the first. Almost all the writers he interviews are male in this volume. The Philip K. Dick interview is one of the best in the collection. The one with Alfred Bester is also very interesting. Bester was never a full time SF writer like the rest of the subjects.Some Interviews are only okay. He could not really get much information out Sam Delaney. Delaney was more interested in discussing literary theory than anything else. He spent a few days with Barry Maltzberg and the stories pretty entertaining. The Ballard interview was pretty good. The weakest entry was Damon Knight and his wife. He did not interview them but let them writer a conversation. Thomas Disch,Brian Aldiss and Michael Moorcock,all New Wave writers were interviewed but he did not get as much out of them as one would think. Asimov was nothing new but there is one good and insightful incident that he recalls from his interview. E.C. Tubb was interviewed but I never read any work of his.
One interview that is odd is the Van Vogt one. Interestingly it is the chapter right before Philip K. Dick. You have wonder if it was intentional since he was such a huge influence on Dick. Maybe it is because they both lived in California. He makes Van Vogt sound like a crackpot with illogical ideas. He doesn't call him "ditzy" you get the impression he wants to. But in fairness Van Vogt believed in things Dianetics which are scientifically questionable.
Van Vogt as you obviously know,was the seminal influence on Dick.He came to his stuff through the magazines,so his future course as an sf writer was already charted,but I would have thought he would have been reading sf outside of the magazines,such as Wells I suppose,and also Olaf Stapleton,whose themes were closer to his own,than those of Van Vogt,so the influence seems to be obvious.Both sources would seem to have inspired him in tandem.
Dick and Van Vogt would later become poles apart as writers,and Dick was as equally inspired by modern literature as generic sf,that doesn't include the two British writers I mentioned.However,it's strange perhaps that you mentioned Van Vogt as having "illogical ideas" and was "scientifically questionable",as it's something he seems to have equally in common with Dick.I would not say though that Dick was just simply plain crazy,but the same reasoning should in fairness be said of Van Vogt it seems..
Richard,these are all very good points. Let me tackle the last part first. If you are speaking about his "visions" in 1974,Dick was agonistic about that.He was never certain it is was real. It just speculated endlessly on what it could haven been assuming it 'was real;. It is sort of a shame he did use this time to write more novels instead. On the other hand the same themes in his vision are covered in his earlier pre 1974 books.
The illogical things regarding Van Vogt were types fake science like Dianetics,or the Bates eye improvement,etc. Dick never subscribed to any group of thought. Though he was influenced many sources. Carl Jung was probably his main intellectual influence.
Platt give a more respectable view of Dick,making him out has a misunderstood mysitc who was kind and even wise. Van Vogt he treats as a crackpot pot who Platt actually says is out of touch with reality a number of times. Not insane,but someone who believes things that are not true. At he was enough of a gentleman not say it to his face. .
Yes that's right,as I say,he wasn't really crazy.He was sanguine enough to realise that what was "happening" to him was of doubtful truth,but he was in a very bad state of mind then,but one perhaps that needed the "revelations" it seems.In "Val | 4,370 |
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Hampered performance of migratory swans: intra- and inter-seasonal effects of avian influenza virus
Bethany J. Hoye, Vincent J. Munster, Naomi Huig, Peter de Vries, Kees Oosterbeek, Wim Tijsen, M.R.J. Klaassen, Ron A. M. Fouchier, Jan A. van Gils
The extent to which animal migrations shape parasite transmission networks is critically dependent on a migrant's ability to tolerate infection and migrate successfully. Yet, sub-lethal effects of parasites can be intensified through periods of increased physiological stress. Long-distance migrants may, therefore, be especially susceptible to negative effects of parasitic infection. Although a handful of studies have investigated the short-term, transmission-relevant behaviors of wild birds infected with low-pathogenic avian influenza viruses (LPAIV), the ecological consequences of LPAIV for the hosts themselves remain largely unknown. Here, we assessed the potential effects of naturally-acquired LPAIV infections in Bewick's swans, a long-distance migratory species that experiences relatively low incidence of LPAIV infection during early winter. We monitored both foraging and movement behavior in the winter of infection, as well as subsequent breeding behavior and inter-annual resighting probability over 3 years. Incorporating data on infection history we hypothesized that any effects would be most apparent in naïve individuals experiencing their first LPAIV infection. Indeed, significant effects of infection were only seen in birds that were infected but lacked antibodies indicative of prior infection. Swans that were infected but had survived a previous infection were indistinguishable from uninfected birds in each of the ecological performance metrics. Despite showing reduced foraging rates, individuals in the naïve-infected category had similar accumulated body stores to re-infected and uninfected individuals prior to departure on spring migration, possibly as a result of having higher scaled mass at the time of infection. And yet individuals in the naïve-infected category were unlikely to be resighted 1 year after infection, with 6 out of 7 individuals that never resighted again compared to 20 out of 63 uninfected individuals and 5 out of 12 individuals in the re-infected category. Collectively, our findings indicate that acute and superficially harmless infection with LPAIV may have indirect effects on individual performance and recruitment in migratory Bewick's swans. Our results also highlight the potential for infection history to play an important role in shaping ecological constraints throughout the annual cycle.
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swans Agriculture & Biology<|fim_middle|> negative effects of parasitic infection. Although a handful of studies have investigated the short-term, transmission-relevant behaviors of wild birds infected with low-pathogenic avian influenza viruses (LPAIV), the ecological consequences of LPAIV for the hosts themselves remain largely unknown. Here, we assessed the potential effects of naturally-acquired LPAIV infections in Bewick{\textquoteright}s swans, a long-distance migratory species that experiences relatively low incidence of LPAIV infection during early winter. We monitored both foraging and movement behavior in the winter of infection, as well as subsequent breeding behavior and inter-annual resighting probability over 3 years. Incorporating data on infection history we hypothesized that any effects would be most apparent in na{\"i}ve individuals experiencing their first LPAIV infection. Indeed, significant effects of infection were only seen in birds that were infected but lacked antibodies indicative of prior infection. Swans that were infected but had survived a previous infection were indistinguishable from uninfected birds in each of the ecological performance metrics. Despite showing reduced foraging rates, individuals in the na{\"i}ve-infected category had similar accumulated body stores to re-infected and uninfected individuals prior to departure on spring migration, possibly as a result of having higher scaled mass at the time of infection. And yet individuals in the na{\"i}ve-infected category were unlikely to be resighted 1 year after infection, with 6 out of 7 individuals that never resighted again compared to 20 out of 63 uninfected individuals and 5 out of 12 individuals in the re-infected category. Collectively, our findings indicate that acute and superficially harmless infection with LPAIV may have indirect effects on individual performance and recruitment in migratory Bewick{\textquoteright}s swans. Our results also highlight the potential for infection history to play an important role in shaping ecological constraints throughout the annual cycle.",
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Hoye, BJ, Munster, VJ, Huig, N, de Vries, P, Oosterbeek, K, Tijsen, W, Klaassen, MRJ, Fouchier, RAM & van Gils, JA 2016, 'Hampered performance of migratory swans: intra- and inter-seasonal effects of avian influenza virus', Integrative and Comparative Biology, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 317-329. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icw038
Hampered performance of migratory swans: intra- and inter-seasonal effects of avian influenza virus. / Hoye, Bethany J.; Munster, Vincent J.; Huig, Naomi; de Vries, Peter; Oosterbeek, Kees; Tijsen, Wim; Klaassen, M.R.J.; Fouchier, Ron A. M.; van Gils, Jan A.
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Hoye, B. J. (Creator), Munster, V. J. (Creator), Huig, N. (Creator), De Vries, P. (Creator), Oosterbeek, K. (Creator), Tijsen, W. (Creator), Klaassen, M. (Creator), Fouchier, R. A. M. (Creator) & Van Gils, J. A. (Creator), Marine Data Archive, 21 Oct 2016
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Hoye, B. J., Munster, V. J., Huig, N., de Vries, P., Oosterbeek, K., Tijsen, W., Klaassen, M. R. J., Fouchier, R. A. M., & van Gils, J. A. (2016). Hampered performance of migratory swans: intra- and inter-seasonal effects of avian influenza virus. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 56(2), 317-329. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icw038
Hoye, Bethany J. ; Munster, Vincent J. ; Huig, Naomi ; de Vries, Peter ; Oosterbeek, Kees ; Tijsen, Wim ; Klaassen, M.R.J. ; Fouchier, Ron A. M. ; van Gils, Jan A. / Hampered performance of migratory swans: intra- and inter-seasonal effects of avian influenza virus. In: Integrative and Comparative Biology. 2016 ; Vol. 56, No. 2. pp. 317-329.
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