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<|fim_middle|> broadest audience. | This is a follow up to my previous YOUmoz post on understanding the value of a link. Because of the positive feedback from that post as well as new research emerging from SEOMoz regarding social media's effect on SEO, I've decided to expound on social links.
When Rand posted his data and findings of social media's influence on Google, the wheels in my head really got turning. I've always been of the opinion that the whole search getting more social deal was really overblown. It probably still is as I believe content that is popular in social media is probably already popular with search engines, independent of how many shares, likes or tweets it may receive.
But no one can ignore the growing connection between very popular social content and very high search rankings. And since Google and Bing both confirmed the use of social signals in rankings, it's time we do an in-depth analysis of social links and how to value them.
What Social Media Links Are Even Worthwhile?
It should be pointed out that just as in non-social link building, not all links matter for much. You can find a million social bookmarking websites out there, but that doesn't mean you need an account with each one. It's very likely that Google is not looking at all the activity on all the social media platforms out there.
So which ones are they looking at?
I believe search engines are at least looking at the following sites: Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Reddit and StumbleUpon. These are established, trusted social media platforms with large user bases. They also all have public profiles, so search engines can index anyone's profile and learn about that user.
I believe user authority, or user trust, is the single most powerful link metric when it comes to social links. This is mostly because Google and Bing both have said they incorporate authority elements into how they value social links.
But just how do they incorporate these elements? Obviously it differs from site to site. With Facebook, your user profile is public. Search engines can see your wall and info and put that data into their index.
This means they know how active you are, they know the topics you tend to be interested in, and they know how popular you are within the network. If a lot of your activity revolves around health and fitness, your authority on Japanese nuclear reactors may be limited.
The same goes for Twitter. Search engines can see your tweets. They know about your followers and who you are following. While Kim Kardashian may be popular on Twitter, she may not be viewed by search engines as an authority on anything. Rand Fishkin may be less popular on Twitter, but surely he is viewed as an authority on SEO by search engines.
On the flip side, I may also be viewed as an authority by search engines on SEO, but because I have fewer than 100 followers and Rand has nearly 30,000, he is viewed as a more trusted authority than I am.
With social news websites, search engines can see what type of content you share, like and subscribe to. They know what topics you are an authority on and they can see how trusted you are on that topic.
With StumbleUpon, you can actually review the collection of favorites of any user. You can also review their individual discoveries. It should be no trouble to find what topics you are interested in and how trusted you are on those topics.
Something important to remember here is that if you have a unique username and use it across various social platforms, search engines may be able to know that the same user is behind all those different accounts. So being consistent on all social media may influence your authority overall.
Key Takeaway: The best way to gain authority in social media is to connect with other industry authorities, share valuable and popular content and grow your network.
Recency refers to when the social link was shared. Recency plays a huge role in social media. If I share this link about the Giants winning the World Series, you don't care and neither does anyone else. If I had shared a link about their win two minutes after they won, then you might be interested in checking it out.
Bursts of social media links tend to boost rankings in the short term. A quick Google search of "Michael Jackson death" brings back a guess on the date from Google, two Wikipedia pages, CNN, news results, image results and then TMZ.
I'm guessing on the day he died, TMZ was showing up on the top. Why? Because they broke the story, so naturally they had a lot of social links come their way in a very short time. They have probably not received many since, and more authoritative domains have moved to the top of the results.
This seems to be backwards from traditional SEO thinking. Normally we tend to think the more aged a link is, the better. It shows it has really been established. Not so in social media. If all your social links are old, then you are old news.
Key Takeaway: Find a way to sustain consistent social link growth. A large burst may help in the short run, but in the long run social links will help most if they appear regularly.
Like we always say, its more about link quality than link quantity. This is true with social links, but it doesn't mean that quantity doesn't matter. If your content is frequently shared, this can be a great thing.
However, some search queries will return results that have very few social links. In the SEOMoz study, only 62% of the websites in their 10,000 or so searches had been shared on Facebook. In some instances, only a few social links may go a long way if no one else in the top ten has any.
Another perspective here is the frequency that you share content. If you are constantly sharing content, your links may not be valued quite as much. If you only occasionally share content, it may be more valued. This is obviously due to spammers and is a way to combat them.
A different thought would also be the frequency you share the same content. If you share the same URL over and over again, it will receive no value. This is what spammers do. Do what spammers do and you get treated as spam.
Key Takeaway: Don't repeatedly share the same content. Don't share 100 new links every day. Make it easy for people to share your content so that you can generate larger volumes of social links.
Influence refers to how well received your social link is. If you share something on Facebook and a lot of people like it and others share it as well, then your link had a lot of influence.
The same is true of retweets on Twitter, votes on social news sites or thumbs up on StumbleUpon. A non-influential link is one that receives no likes, no retweets, no votes or a lot of thumbs down.
It is critical to understand your audience when sharing content. If your network consists of a lot of SEO folks, then a link to something related to SEO is likely to have more influence than a link to a blog about kittens.
Key Takeaway: Only share content that is valuable and relevant. I would be sure to also like, retweet and recommend the links of others as they will be more likely to reciprocate in the future.
Obviously the collision of search and social is still new and there is a lot we don't understand. Google has added their +1 button and the ability to block websites in search results. They are obviously looking at user data and finding ways to incorporate some of those signals into search.
I still believe at this point that social links have a lot more impact on real-time, news and discussion results than they do on normal web results. But I don't think we can deny their growing impact on traditional search results.
The key to success with social links is to be authentic and avoid being a spammer. Spammers have shallow networks, share lots of links, repeatedly share the same links and tend not to participate within their networks. If you simply look at how your non-SEO friends use social media and follow their example, you will be fine.
Just a word of caution: acquiring social links is essentially predicated on having appealing content. To get social links you need other users, and you will never motivate other users to share a terrible website regardless of your authority, trust or influence.
And just think, if you have trouble getting others to share your website, imagine how hard it will be to convert your visitors into customers. Great rankings and social media success can never compensate for a website that fails to convert.
Simply enter in the full URL and you can see how many Facebook likes, shares and comments there are for it, how many Tweets, how many Diggs, etc. Lots of good social link data to mine there, I've been using it a lot and you should too. I update my numbers once a week to see what kind of social link growth I'm generating; good to see those numbers go up and rankings improve at the same time, more evidence this social + search stuff is not going anywhere.
Oh I like that site, nice one.
Make sure to use the full URL, including http://www. if it isn't working, try leaving of the www or whatever, sometimes that changes things. But it only works for me with the http:// so try that.
That link is fantastic. I'm developing a dynamics CRM add-on for Social Media. I'm going to include this API.
Only just got round to reading this article - thanks for this link - REALLY useful. Thanks.
"I believe content that is popular in social media is probably already popular with search engines, independent of how many shares, likes or tweets it may receive"
I have always felt this way. Great content is great content. Great post!
Influence is the most important part in my book, if my tweet about link building is retweeted by Rand and svereal other authority users than it is sure to get some mileage going and incerase traffic, at the same time send a signal to search engines that this is good content, even if I am a new user with low level authority on my profile and a small base of followers. But in the end all of the signals matter, and like you said, if we were to use Twitter and other social media just like a regular user we would fair better than spammers posting links in 99% of their tweets.
Excellent post! It makes so much sense to me that Google would rely on social data to some extent as this can tell us what information is interesting to people and relevant to current topics. I would imagine that the anti-spam algorithms are constantly developing.
Now the key is to write good content that is worthy of being shared!
Social media is very important for branding..
The issue of recency is an interesting one with social media, because of how immediately status updates and tweets can happen. It seems like if you're linking recent news within a certain time frame it's "relevant", but people notice right away if you're posting stuff that happened a week ago like it's news. Interesting breakdown of link value, thanks!
Thanks for the article ! Is always really interesting to know how exactely move your self in the social media presence world.
Continuing education ! thanks again .
Social media should not have much affect on SERPS. I am not saying it does not but that it should not if you want good quality results. I assume that social media users are more likely to be young than old, female rather than male. Should SE results reflect the views of the young females of facebook? Or the public as a whole?
Some good points, and easy to understand format for people who may not know how to break down social links.
I think Authority and influence are really important factors to get the ball rolling, becuase if you have no influence people will not be able to really see your content.
Ive seen that shared content link in the past it is quite decent but I am not sure if it is 100% accurate, but a good quick little guide similar to the ones the likes of SEO for firefox pull in thr social metric section.
Hey, great post. :) I think the whole social element is only going to get more important over time and it extends beyond twitter & facebook onto blogs and forums as well.
Unified logins with facebook & twitter + the kind of publicly available information on forums (number of times someone has liked your post) all provides additional information to determine the value and legitimacy of a link.
I am getting invalid link also. Am I doing something wrong?
I have noticed that Google has been increasing some SERP results for facebook pages as well.
In the beginning, webmasters controlled the links.
Then it was the commenters on a blog.
Now everyone can easily share links.
Search engines will be paying more and more attention to the social realm, and I'd bet less to the traditional non-social links. Its like a poll, the broader the audience the better results, social media has access to the | 2,659 |
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BAE Systems Saudi Arabia recently participated in a Careers Day organised by Al-Yamamah University in Riyadh. The fair aimed to introduce university students and graduates to the requirements of professional life and the job opportunities available to them in various fields.
A number of the Company's Human Resources employees handled questions and queries from students, outlined different aspects of the activities and work of BAE Systems Saudi Arabia and its current plans for Saudisation.
Dr. Hussein Bin Mohammed Al-Freihy, the University Director, visited the Company's stand and he heard about the company's efforts to provide employment opportunities for Saudi youth and to prepare them for the labour market, in accordance with a variety of plans and programmes.
Dr. Hussein Al-Freihy praised the role of the company and its constant contributions to these events which are seen as an opportunity - provided by the University - to its graduates in order to help them refine their skills and prepare them for work after their studies. Such events also provide the perfect link between firms and organizations on one hand and the career aspirations of job seekers on the other.
Majid Al-Muzairi, Director HR Centres of Excellence said: "Our participation aims to introduce Al-Yamamah University students - as well as attendees from the public - to the activities and the role BAE Systems plays in Saudi Arabia. We can offer career opportunities for graduates and developmental programmes, as per one of the most important objectives set by the company. That is equipping Saudis with the practical experiences that will help develop their professional and personal skills in accordance to the latest global training systems."
BAE Systems Saudi Arabia takes pride in its commitment towards the employment of the largest possible number of local individuals in various functions across the Company. Currently approximately 60% of the workforce in the Kingdom are Saudi Nationals.
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Vigilant Hose Company Holds Its Annual Banquet Emmitsburg Firefighters Support Presidential Inauguration in D.C.
Thurmont Community Ambulance Ban<|fim_middle|>30's Secretary, Joyce Stitely, made 300 baskets by hand to commemorate the opening of the Thurmont Ambulance Company's Event Facility. A basket was given to each banquet attendee as a gift.
Tagged with → annual awards banquet • Company President Lowman Keeney • Keegan Coolidge • Lawyer's Lane in Thurmont. • Rocky Ridge 4-H Club • the catoctin banner • Thurmont Ambulance Company Event Complex. • Thurmont Community Ambulance Service • Venturing Crew 270 | quet Held
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Members of Company 30, also known as the Thurmont Community Ambulance Service, Inc., held their annual awards banquet on January 21, 2017. This banquet was the first event held in their new event facility on Lawyer's Lane in Thurmont.
Company President Lowman Keeney served as the master of ceremonies during the banquet. The banquet meal was catered by approximately fifty members of the Rocky Ridge 4-H Club and their parents.
Lowman Keeney expressed appreciation to all involved with the progress made by the company throughout 2016, including the demand of the construction of the new facility, and, in spite of that demand, members staying up-to-date on training and conducting the primary day-to-day operations of the busy company. (See article on page 1 about the new event facility for more information about the building.) The building took two and a half tough years to build. "It was a tremendous undertaking. Thank you to all the members," said Keeney.
Keeney also acknowledged Venturing Crew 270 for completing a substantial stonework project in December 2016 that took 25 days and 739 volunteer hours. The stonework project was spear-headed by Keegan Coolidge. Another project by Venturing Crew 270 was led by its president, Devon Stafford, during which 112 trees were planted on the property.
Company 30's secretary, Joyce Stitely, worked diligently over the course of a full year, from February 2016 to January 2017, to make 300 hand-made baskets to commemorate the opening of the new Thurmont Ambulance Company Event Complex. The sight of the baskets lined up for distribution at the banquet was worthy of appreciation and awe. Each attendee was able to exit the event with one in hand, as a commemorative gift.
Lowman introduced the recipient of the President's Award, James Wolf, stating, "He'll do anything in the world for you."
Chief Dennis "DJ" Ott reviewed that Company 30 responded to 1,258 calls for the year 2016. "We're busy. We run a lot of calls." He reviewed that, in addition, members participate in, and conduct, a lot of training. They had just sent two ambulances to Washington D.C., and had helped prior to that with the Marine Corp Marathon. He reviewed that an ambulance was purchased by Company 30 in 2016. It cost $271,000, empty, before adding top-of-the-line equipment. He said, "We had a good year, but we can absolutely do better." He thanked the Town of Thurmont employees and police for their support.
Chief Ott acknowledged the Top Five Responders: Jen Frushour (416), Rose Latini (188), Brooke Kennedy (184), Lisa Eichelberger (95), and Jared Snyder (93). He awarded individuals for operational support: Lowman Keeney, Denny Ott, Glenn Muth, Bob Lookingbill, and Walt Kelch were acknowledged. He also cited Joyce Stitely and Shirley Stackhouse for their dedication to the company.
Chief Ott presented the Chief's Award to Judy White. About her, he said, "Without this person, we wouldn't be sitting in this building. She stops what she's doing at any time to help."
Incoming officers were sworn in by the president of the Maryland State Firemen's Association, Mike Davis. He said, "The camaraderie found in this community shows what it used to be about for other communities (that have since grown large and lost the small-town closeness). We've wained from that, especially when we have to have 350 hours to be an EMT." He assured, "I am behind you." 2017 Company officers include: President Lowman Keeney, Vice-President Bob Lookingbill; Secretary Joyce Stitely; Assistant Secretary Shirley Stackhouse; Treasurer Judy White; Assistant Treasurer Dennis Ott, Sr.; and Board of Directors, Glenn Muth, Jim Wolf, Tim Wiltrout, and Dave Place. Operational Officers include: Chief D.J. Ott; Assistant Chief Rose Latini; Lieutenants, Brooke Kennedy and Renea Coolidge; and Sergeant Jen Frushour.
Life memberships were awarded to Kevin Albaugh, Sue Moss, Jason West, Sarah Pigula, Dan Harbaugh, and Eugene "Sonny" Grimes (recently deceased).
The invocation and memorial for active member, Franklin Lee Shriner, who passed recently, was given by Pastor Ben Hays of Life and Liberty Baptist Church in Walkersville.
Honored guests included Thurmont Mayor John Kinnaird and his wife, Karen; Thurmont CAO Jim Humerick and his wife, Lisa; Thurmont Commissioner Wes Hamrick and his wife, Kim; Thurmont Public Works Butch West; Thurmont Chief of Police, Greg Eyler and his wife, Brenda; John and Maggie Doll of Gateway Farm Candyland and Liquors; Frannie Black of Catoctin Mountain Orchard; Frederick County Councilman Bud Otis and his wife, Rose; Frederick County Sheriff Tim Clarke and his wife, Becky, and Jason West; Medic 30's Walt Kelch and Steve Adams; Frederick County Fire and Rescue's Michael Davis and his wife, Ann; Mount Carmel Church's John and Kathy Dowling; Guardian Hose Company's Vice President Terry Frushour, Treasurer Bev Frushour, and Doc Simmers and his wife, Pat; Rocky Ridge Volunteer Fire Company's Dennis and Paulette Mathias, and Alan and Ethel Brauer; Wolfsville Fire Company's Steve Nalborczyk and Tammy; and Vigilant Hose Company's Carl White and Karyn Myers. The Middletown Fire Company was acknowledged as the fill-in crew during the banquet.
Thank you to local businesses for their support of Company 30 and donation of door prizes: Bollinger's Restaurant, Hobb's Hardware, Cousins ACE Hardware, Mountain Gate Restaurant, Weis, Jen's Cutting Edge, Food Lion, At Home Primitives, No. 1 Nails, Direct To You Gas Station, Wendy's, Gateway Candyland, Rocky's Pizza, and Fratelli's Pizza.
Company Officers are shown (top to bottom): (left) Vice-President Bob Lookingbill; Secretary Joyce Stitely; Assistant Secretary Shirley Stackhouse; Treasurer Judy White; Assistant Treasurer Dennis Ott, Sr.; (center) President Lowman Keeney; Board of Directors, Jim Wolf, Glenn Muth, Tim Wiltrout, and Dave Place; (right) Operational Officers: Chief D.J. Ott; Assistant Chief Rose Latini; Lieutenants, Brooke Kennedy and Renee Coolidge; and Sergeant Jen Frushour.
Top Five Responders are pictured top to bottom: Jen Frushour (416 incidents), Rose Latini (188 incidents), Brooke Kennedy (184 incidents), Lisa Eichelberger (95 incidents), and Jared Snyder (93 incidents).
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2012 Mazda3
20-25 CITY / 28-33 HWY
2.0L, 4-cyl, 148 HP
Here's a car that lives up to its zoom, zoom slogan. The Mazda3 is a peppy little compact car with pizzazz – it's perfect for a cash-strapped starving student or new grad because it's fun to drive and won't break the bank.
By Pet<|fim_middle|> 2012 – it costs $22,900 compared to $22,510 for the 2011 version. But it comes with all the bells and whistles including a moonroof, leather seats, heated front seats, keyless entry, and an 8-way power driver's seat. Navi is extra. So, be careful adding the options. Before you know it, the price jumps to more than $25 grand with Navi and an automatic transmission. And that gets into Mazda6 territory.
The 2012 Mazda3 5-door hatchback starts at slightly more than its sibling, $18,950.
You'll love the Mazda3 if you're a cash-strapped student or new grad who wants to ditch the metro and drive to school in an affordable, peppy small car that's easy to drive everyday of the year.
ChaChing. Mama needs a new pair of shoes – and you'll be able to afford them after buying the base model – it's cheap and cheerful.
The smiling front end – it'll make you grin everytime you spot it.
Skip options like the Navi package – it pushes the price up fast. | rina Gentile
If money is tight and you're searching for a fuel-efficent and practical set of wheels, the Mazda3 fits the bill. Available in a 4-door sedan or 5-door hatchback, it's not your boring, run-of-the-mill small car. The giant smiling grin at the front end is toned down slightly for 2012. It's a feature you either love or hate. But most women, including myself, think it's cute and adds character to the car. Go for a bold colour so its easier to spot in a crowded shopping mall parking lot littered with Mazda3s and Civics in all tints of grey and black. Copper red mica or celestial blue mica will do the trick.
The Mazda3 gets a facelift for 2012. The interior gets some tweaks including new cloth seats and a revised instrument cluster. But personally, it looks a bit cheaper than the last model. At least, the layout is simple and clean — you don't have to take your eyes off the road to crank up the air conditioning — a girl's best friend in the summer. Huge HVAC (backlit) dials are easy to find and use — even in the dark.
Inside, there is plenty of room for your friends — 2 in the front; 3 in the rear. Three petite gals can squeeze into the rear seats. But stick to short drives — on longer drives, they'll be cramped. If you don't need the rear seats, they fold down easily for extra space. And the hatchback has serious cargo-carrying capacity — with the rear seats down, you'll be able to fill the back with everything from groceries and shopping bags to furniture and sports equipment.
FAMILY-FRIENDLINESS
The Mazda3 isn't designed for large families – if you're looking for a big family car go for a Mazda5 or Chevy Orlando. Still, the Mazda3 is a kid-friendly car, if you have one or two in your brood. It comes with child safety rear door locks and LATCH child-safety seat anchors & upper tethers. If you're making the transition into motherhood, you can get by with one car seat – two would be stretching it. The cloth seats are durable and strong, but if you spill milk or coffee on them they're difficult to clean. For busy moms, leather seats are easier to maintain, but they cost extra.
My sisters hate small cars – they don't feel safe in them. From a safety standpoint, they prefer larger crossovers and SUVs. But there's no reason to believe small cars aren't safe. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) named the Mazda3 a 2011 Top Safety Pick. It received top marks in frontal, side, rear, and rollover crash tests. It also comes with numerous safety features such as front airbags, side-impact airbags, curtain airbags, ABS, dynamic stability control, traction control, and a collapsible steering column – standard equipment on all trims. You don't pay extra for these features – a big bonus for your purse, and one feature Mazda has over competitors.
GIZMOS AND TECH
One of the coolest innovations on Mazda's front is the SKYACTIV engine, which is new for 2012. The Mazda3 is the first vehicle to don the new engine — but soon, it'll trickle into other vehicles across the lineup. The engine is more powerful, but with better mileage. More about it, in the driving experience section.
Besides that, at this price, you won't find many gizmos and gadgets in the Mazda3 – but personally I don't mind. Who needs fancy distracting gadgets like adaptive cruise control, which automatically applies the brake and throttle as needed to keep a safe distance between you and the vehicle ahead. Sure, its innovative technology, but it's expensive and when it breaks – good luck fixing it – it'll cost a fortune. Who needs that headache and extra expense?
But the Mazda3 does have some cool features including rain-sensing windshild wipers. The wipers start automatically with the slightest drop of rain. But this, too, costs extra. It's part of a Technology Package which includes a navigation system and keyless entry & start system. It costs nearly two grand, so maybe skip it.
As a single woman, I love the automatic door locks. They're speed sensitive and lock automatically when you start accelerating. It's a smart safety feature.
First off, I love the fact Mazda has added a new SKYACTIV engine to the Mazda3 for 2012. It's designed to deliver more power and better fuel economy — you'll be able to travel up to 40 mpg on the highway — that's a 15 percent improvement in fuel efficiency which spells extra cash in your pocket. The 4-cylinder engine has 155 horsepower and comes with your choice of a 6-speed manual or 6-speed automatic transmission, which adds $850 to the price. Personally, I'd go with a stick — I love Mazda's manual transmissions. The clutch and gear shifter are light and easy to use — even when wearing high-heels. It's not a jarring or heavy clutch — you won't be thrown back into the seat with each changing gear like you might experience in a Porsche. And besides — guys dig a chick who can drive a stick.
The Mazda3 is no speed demon — you won't win any races driving to the outlet mall. But it does have enough zoom, zoom to make you smile behind the wheel. It's fun to drive and merging onto the freeway is a cinch — it has enough guts to make it just the right side of sporty.
Pricing and Trim Levels
The Mazda3 4-door sedan comes in five trims, which are well priced. Another bonus for 2012 is the price — the base model costs less — $15,200 compared to $15,800 for the 2011 version. Sure it's somewhat bare bones — it comes with power door locks and power windows, but you'll have to pay extra for a/c and cruise control.
The most expensive sedan is slightly more expensive for | 1,300 |
This is the fourth blog of the seven-part series of "7 habits of highly effective teh tarik kakis".
Do you<|fim_middle|> also GIVE in return.
should be discarded. It is all in the mind. When we go to a teh tarik session with a mindset of other than win-win (or win-win-win), most probably the outcome will be one of the above scenarios.
That's all for Habit #4. Stay tuned for Habit #5! | waste time in a teh tarik session?
How many of us go for yum cha (teh tarik) session just to gossip away our time, chit chat away our teh tarik money? Unless you have plenty of time and money, the better approach is to make sure your yum cha session is of "I Win-You Win-He/She win" situation.
For example, you meet to explore a business deal or opportunity, ask yourself whether your meeting with your kaki benefit him/her and yourself? If it only benefits one party, think twice because nobody likes to be taken advantage. Best still the yum cha session should benefit the third party, i.e. WIN-WIN-WIN situation!
So never take advantage of your teh tarik kaki, always do something to benefit him/her during a teh tarik session, and if possible it also benefits the third party.
It is like bargaining a price between a seller and buyer. The buyer always wants to sell at the highest price and buyer wants to buy at the lowest price possible. It make no sense if a teh tarik session only benefit one party and while the other party is in the losing end. Therefore it is advisable to NOT only take you must | 248 |
Elon Musk's SpaceX has asked the FCC for permission to launch and operate two broadband satellites on a testing basis within the next 24 months. The pair of satellites that are proposed for launch are called Microsat 2a and Microsat 2b, names that indicate that they will be similar in nature and stature to a pair of satellites that the company asked permission to launch for similar purposes a while back, Microsat 1a and Microsat 1b. Microsat 1a and 1b are not in the air as of this writing, and seem to have been supplanted by these two new ones. The satellites are proposed as a payload for an upcoming mission for SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.
The testing mission for these two satellites will mainly serve to check whether the way that they're designed sees them functioning as intended, and whether both the satellites and the ground-based array can communicate effectively. The satellites have one end rigged with solar panels for charging, and broadcasting antennae on the other end. The ground-based array that will be communicating with these satellites, meanwhile, consists of 2 fixed points, and a number of mobile stations. All of<|fim_middle|> to provide worldwide broadband service for some time, and this will be the first time that the company has actually put that plan into action outside of its offices and factories. The company's note to the FCC specifies that it may end up asking permission to launch more satellites later on, and that these initial two are supposed to have a lifespan of 20 months. Cost estimates for this attempt to vastly upstage Google's Project Loon sit around the $10 billion mark, but if Elon Musk and his company can pull it off, they'll be looking at a system that could potentially cause a massive disruption in the current broadband markets, both in and out of the mobile worlds. | this equipment uses high-frequency spectrum that's not typically ideal for long-distance transmission, along with a number of hardware and software enhancements to work around the spectrum's weaknesses. During the initial testing period, a variety of data will be sampled for only 15 minutes at a time each day. The launch will apparently take place on Saturday, February 17, should all go well leading up to the big moment.
SpaceX has been talking about building out a network of satellites | 95 |
Happy St. Patrick's Day! I'd like to share something that I'm passionate about, being creative. This week I had this urge to draw. Really draw. To go big or go home. I had a burning need to plan and sink into the process. One of the most valuable aspects of art and creating is about the process. Never be afraid or self conscious to create. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but creating art can be very personal, spiritual, introspective and uplifting. This is why I love working with chalk. Chalk is forgiving and chalk is temporary.
This mural is for the people at<|fim_middle|>che. Amazing artist (hand letterer). Exceptional teacher (Skillshare course on Drop Caps). The culture at my office is supportive of this type of thing too. It wasn't my idea to bring chalk art to the office, it was encouraged by our Waffle Wednesday chair.
Ponder & Marinate. It starts with the simple question "what am I going to do?". Let it swirl and brew.
Go slow and focus on your breathing for getting the circles filled in right. I noticed this made the arcs a lot cleaner. Far less lopsided than I usually do.
Put your body into it. For the big arc (rainbow), I started on the left, visualized how it should go, used my shoulder as a pivot, and put my whole arm into it with a really good exhale. Exciting! It worked! A little off, but fixable by shaping.
Create a skeleton first, build the forms on top (sketch then sculpt).
Reassess. When it was almost done, I realized that it needed a Leprechaun. I searched for this on Dribbble.com. Found lots of great inspiration (never steal from these artists! this is their life and they are sharing it with us). I looked fast (as an exercise it can be fun to go quick) came away with some ideas for very graphical beards. Made the guy really hairy so that I didn't have to get into the details of his coat and face.
Use a damp Q-tip for details. Damp. Wet will drip. I use damp Q-tips for detail work like eyes and cleaning edges. Eyes are generally more pleasing when dark. So, I'll create these by erasing what is already there.
What did I get out of it?
Experiencing that a little planning does go a long way.
Noticing that this was part illustration (the planning and the skeleton sketch), part sculpting (filling in the parts of the shapes that felt off, redirecting the bend of the line, without having to erase).
Walking the line of complex and simple—There's a lot going on here… Rainbow, Letters, Leprechaun, A Waffle, A Shamrock, Stripes that drip like Maple Syrup! Complexity and trying to say to much is a definite no in graphic design. On the flip side, know the rules to break the rules. All these details being grouped as one (more or less) element works for me.
A piece of art I love looking at. Something I am proud of. | QuickBase, Inc. to make them smile! Put something happy and bright in their day (our initials as a 60s rainbow ligature).
Working towards minimalism has taught me about all the joys of letting go. What a shock! World's best kept secret. Now that I know about this secret, I can create with less fear. It's not about putting in hours of work that will soon be erased. It's about knowing that only the physical footprint will be erased. My experience has been created. It's a part of me forever.
Get your inspiration. Mine came from Jessica His | 122 |
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STAFF and residents at Beechmere Extra Care development in Crewe, are celebrating after the site scooped a national award.
The development, which boasts 132 apartments, an IT suite, library, hairdressing salon, restaurant, gym and village hall won a silver award for 'Best UK Housing with Care' at the Elderly Accommodation Council Housing for Older People Awards 2011.
Nominations for the awards were made solely by the residents, and with over 500 entries received from across the UK, Beechmere beat off stiff competition to scoop the award.
Contracts manager Debbie Seymour said: "We are delighted that Beechmere has been recognised.
The award was presented during a ceremony held at Ascot Racecourse on February 3 which celebrated the achievements of the 'retirement and housing with care' industry.
Beechmere residents Anne Burgess, Brenda Tilley, and David and Elsie Tate attended the awards ceremony along with facilities and events manager Marion Shaw.
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Is Richard Blais Married? Who Is His Wife? Does He Have Kids?
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"I had to get this pretty girl. I was this chubby guy, and I literally had to run after this girl," Richard added. "She'd run two miles, I'd be sucking wind behind her, but I eventually caught [up to] her and proposed to her at the end of my first race — a 10K…And we're still together." In fact, he and Jazmin are nearing 16 years of marriage as of writing, and they've made it no secret that, if they had to, they'd do it all over again. Their witty banter on their social media platforms and their podcast, 'Starving For Attention,' also proves that humor and love often go hand in hand.
Richard Blais' Kids
Richard Blais is not only a proud chef and husband, but he's also a proud father of two girls; Riley Maddox Blais (born on May 29, 2008) and Embry Lotus Blais (born on February 6, 2011). According to his accounts, the family has a tradition of cooking and grilling together for some downtime bonding, which has only increased in frequency since the pandemic began, but the revered chef absolutely loves it.
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From his time as a contestant on 'Top Chef' to winning 'Top Chef All-Stars' to being a mentor on 'Next Level Chef,' Richard Blais is no stranger to the spotlight in the culinary world. In fact, due to his consistent hard work, esteemed restaurants, successful cookbooks, and forward-thinking culinary company Trail Blais, Richard is considered one of the most elite chefs in the industry these days. So now that most of the world already knows the details of his professional ventures, let's delve into his personal life and find out more about Richard's partner and children, shall we?
Richard Blais' Wife
Richard Blais met the love of his life, Jazmin Zepeda Blais, around the early 2000s, while she was completing her education and bartending at a local Atlanta establishment. Their romance blossomed shortly after, and they ended up tying the knot in a beautiful ceremony on April 8, 2006. By that point, there was not only a mutual sense of trust between them, but they also had unconditional love and understanding. That's why, when Richard hit a stage where he couldn't even physically recognize himself in the mirror anymore, his partner helped him shed the extra pounds.
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Richard had let his long work-days of only cooking and tasting take over his existence at the time; thus, when he decided to make changes to his lifestyle, Jazmin, a former personal trainer, motivated him at every step of the way. The couple ran together; she helped Richard find substitutes for high-calorie foods and even supported him as he began to focus on nutrition first. "What kick-started my weight loss was a combination of a really joyous thing and some massive depression: I lost a restaurant, and I found the love of my life — my wife," Richard said in | 398 |
Consider Moses for a moment. When did his face shine? After he'd been in the presence of God. He came away from those encounters with a radiant face. But it wasn't a one-time deal. He didn't go up on Mount Sinai and come back with a face forever glowing. Rather, as he wore the veil, his face slowly faded and returned to normal until the next time he was in God's presence. So it is with us. Sanctification is a lifelong process rather than a one-time thing. As we spend time in God's presence—in the Word<|fim_middle|> tell I've been in the presence of God!" But trust God when He says it is so.
The process of sanctification is a gradual one, similar to physical growth. You don't notice your kids getting taller because you see them every day. But people who haven't seen them for a year can tell right away that they've grown. So it is with sanctification—it happens slowly and gradually. You won't read one chapter of the Bible and become instantly more patient, more kind, more generous, etc. But every day you spend in the Word, every time you pray, every time you participate in corporate worship, God is working in you and giving you His glory to reflect to those around you.
Take the time every day to spend time in the presence of the Son. You can't help but reflect His glory when you're in His presence. Pray that He continues the work of sanctification in your life, and trust that He will answer that prayer. Then go forth into the world transfigured, ready to shine His light.
It's interesting that the terms Luke and Paul use for "transfigured" and "transformed" comes from the Greek word "metamorpho'omai" – the same term used to describe the "metamorphosis" of a homely caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly. | , in divine worship—God is working on our hearts. We come away from those encounters with radiant faces, reflecting God's glory, as we are "being transformed into His likeness." True, we may not feel like that's the case. Moses didn't realize his face was radiant. You probably won't finish your devotion thinking, "Wow, I'm sure reflecting God's glory now! I bet my family can | 84 |
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The festive season is here and I see everyone in a mad rush to get designer clothes, beautify their homes and keep mithai and gifts ready to distribute. But none of these will matter if you feel tired and worn out on the festival days itself. All the prep-ing can bog you down, snatching away that glow from your face. How do you get it back? Steal some 'ME' time in all this madness and head straight to a spa. Better still, head to Saks Salon and Day Spa, which has just opened its second outlet in Andheri, Link Road. The first one is in Bandra. You'll be surprised at how just entering a serene space like a spa can calm your tired nerves. The biggest advantage that Saks has is its gigantic space. A lavish 6,000 sq ft area, the Andheri outlet is segregated into manicures and pedicures areas, facial rooms, hair treatments and the like. The first floor is for face and body related treatments, while hair care is restricted to the ground level. The second floor is for administrative staff.
Stark white interiors invite you to further calm your senses and indulge yourself. The spa and facial rooms have an attached steam room, so unlike in most other spas, you don't have to parade around wrapped in a towel till you reach a common steam room, located in another corner of the spa!
Saks also gets full marks when it comes to cleanliness and hygiene. One normally assumes that international salons follow high standards of hygiene but it is not always the case. If I had a dime for every time my friends and I saw dirty towels lying around or<|fim_middle|> have the Estee Lauder Companies Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign to thank for this initiative. Three Cheers!!! | almost threw up seeing masseurs rinsing used mixing bowls.
Saks, UK's leading hair and beauty salon, thankfully, lives up to its reputation. The face tissues used are disposed off and the towels touching your face are warm, freshly steamed. Hygiene is a big concern with me and I avoid going to spas and salons that use cold towels and have equipment just lying around. I didn't find myself worrying about nitty-gritties like these at Saks and that is a good sign.
The menu is crisp and designed keeping in mind what men and women want out of a spa outing. There is a separate section for Kerastase Rituals, which will take care of all your hair related worries, with their volumising and purifying rituals. The 90 minute Kerastase Rituals are priced at Rs 2,500 to Rs 3,000. Next on the menu are youth specials, a variety of high performance facials and body wraps to rejuvenate tired senses.
I went for the Luminous C and Sea high performance facial. Its aim is to provide absolute radiance, reduce lines and strengthen elasticity. It also provides relief for sun damaged skin, Vitamin C and freeze dried sea weed are clubbed to give a smooth complexion and luminous glow… just what I needed to sail me through Diwali festivities.
The expert wasted no time in showing me to the facial room, adjusted the air-condition cooling to my comfort and started right away. A cleanse and then the faciaI, I could feel her hands swirling my cheeks, oddly in rhythm with the mellow sound of the music in the background.
A 75 minute ritual, the facial lasts till the very last minute. The spa therapist told me not to wash my face till the next morning, to allow the ingredients to work their magic on my skin. I abided and to be honest, there was a visible glow on my face the next morning. I guess the technicians at Saks know what they're doing, after all. And I'm all set for a glowing start to Diwali celebrations.
This is an easy to prepare Broccoli and Almond Soup recipe. However, the preparation may take up a bit of your time. Don't get worked up, the end result is worth the effort.
The following recipe is courtesy Chef Amit Chaudhary, CORNICHE restaurant in Bandra, Mumbai.
NOTE: Any other vegetables may be added as per the requirement.
remove from the flame. Once it cools, make a fine paste.
cooking till it gets a colour.
mixture and blend well making sure that no lumps are formed.
the almond paste to the mix. Add the veloute and cream and cook till the desired thickness is attained.
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Valpolicella, the valleys with many cellars
ppagani• 13 February 2014
The origins of the name Valpolicella are still uncertain. There have been many interpretations throughout the centuries. The name 'Val Polesela' appears for the first time in an official document of the 12th century: it is a decree dated 24 August 1177 and carries the seal of a famous historical personality: Federico Barbarossa. Humanists looked for meaning in the Greek language: some translated the name "Policella" into "of many fruits"; others opted for the "very splendid" or "very blessed". Any of these interpretations describe the characteristics of this area. More recent studies connect the origin of the name to the terminology 'pollone' ("pollus" in Latin), which describes fertile, sandy deposits, rich in seeds and vegetation. According to some reliable hypothesis the name Valpolicella originates from a contraction of the toponym "Valleys (vallis) – with many (polys) – cellars (cellae)". Hence a territory where history and tradition are not meaningless words, as a matter of facts they are the true social structure of a reality nowadays evolving but still well-rooted in the people, in the places they have been living in and in the land they have been working for centuries.
The production zones
Considering the Valpolicella as a wine-growing region we have to speak about a territory that covers practically the entire area at the foot of the hills in the Verona province.
The production area of the Valpolicella DOC covers the three valleys of Fumane, Marano e Negrar and the Valpantena, the Val Squaranto and the Illasi and Tramigna. To be precise, the Production Specification divides the Valpolicella into three distinct zones: the Classic Zone; the Valpantena Zone with the Squaranto and Mezzane Valleys; the East Verona Zone with the Illasi and Tramigna Valleys.
Sustainable viticulture in the Valpolicella
"Reduce, Save, Respect", three key words that summarize the efforts of the Consortium for the Tutelage of Valpolicella DOC Wines to increase the eco-sustainability of wine-production in the area in order to protect the intrinsic prestige association with the Valpolicella wines. The Consorzio's project is both a precursor of the European directive and a step towards meeting growing consumer awareness of such issues.
DOC Valpolicella wines
They are characterized by the use of local native varieties. The ampeloghrapic basis is mainly given by Corvina, Corvinone, Rondinella and other native varieties.
If Rondinella proves to be particularly important for the shades of colour it gives to the wine, Corvina and Corvinone, rich in polyphenols and tannins, express their best in the structure.
Valpolicella and Valpolicella Superiore
Valpolicella of the harvest year is therefore a fine youthful ruby-red wine with a winy, light perfume with hints of nougat, cherry and rose; the palate is fresh, dry and rather soft, pleasantly tannic, bitter and lively. "Superiore" is made from selected grapes grown in suitable locations and it ages for a year minimum thus obtaining its characteristic ruby-red colour with garnet shades; the nose is slightly ethereal and with hints of vanilla; the flavour is fine, harmonious, dry and velvety.
Valpolicella Ripasso DOC is obtained from the contact between basic Valpolicella and residual Amarone lees for about 15/20 days. It is characterized by a heavier structure and longevity. If compared to basic Valpolicella the alcohol content is higher, the acidity lower, the roundness more marked and the values of the phenolic substances and extracts are higher.
Ruby-red in colour with garnet shades, it offers a slightly ethereal perfume of red fruits with notes of vanilla. The palate is fine, harmonious, dry and velvety.
For its pleasant characteristics it perfectly pairs with winter first courses, main courses, cold cuts and medium-seasoned cheese. Wrongly considered a lower rank product compared to Amarone, Valpolicella Ripasso has recently been subject to an exponential increase in consumers' liking. This is surely due to its high quality/price ratio, in part also due to market trends (linked to a name which currently is a registered trade mark) and to the fascination of a wine appreciated by the younger generations.
Valpolicella Ripasso has had a big success abroad as well and this has boosted the Veronese oenology.
It is obtained from dried grapes left in grape-drying buildings for 100/200 days. Its fermentation is stopped to preserve the sugar percentage necessary to grant the typical structure of this wine. The colour is intense dark ruby-red, at times impenetrable; distinct perfume of dried fruits and cherries in alcohol that continues in the harmonious and bold flavour with an austere tone and a good total acidity.
It perfectly pairs with desserts and blue cheese.
Obtained from grapes dried in fruttaio (grape-drying building) for 100/120 days where the sugar fermentation is completed, Amarone is one of the most enduring wines among the great Italian wines.
It has a very intense red colour with garnet shades and a perfume that reminds of dried fruits, tobacco and spices due to the noble rot which develops during the drying process. The flavour is very fruity and fragrant, dry but highly soft, with a full body, warm, invigorating and robust; it has a strong personality and can be stored for more than twenty years.
For its characteristics it pairs meat-based main courses, game, seasoned cheese but can also be enjoyed on its own, as a meditation wine.
A new logo for the Consortium
A new logo for the Consortium for the Tutelage of Valpolicella DOC Wines encapsulating the irreproducible link between the area, production of wine and uniqueness of the products. The logo will benefit from protection in 28 European countries starting from this year. The reference to the Valpolicella is essential as it portrays the ancient origins of the indigenous grape varieties used in the Valpolicella wines. The new logo also associates the concepts of grapes, work and wine linking them with a detailed image to reflect the meticulous work needed to make the wines of the Valpolicella.
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Editors' Notes Sometime during the sessions for Between the Buttons in fall 1966, The Rolling Stones saw Jimi Hendrix play live. Hendrix was in London then, doing what would become known as doing his Jimi Hendrix thing: playing the guitar with his head, his teeth, while it was on fire, and with a general degree of power and lightness that made everyone else look mortal. The band was impressed. (Brian Jones, who was taking acid so continuously that he may have been<|fim_middle|> and Cream—let the kids run with the ball. Chasing them would only wear you out.
So, maturity—maybe. But confidence and self-sufficiency—definitely. At a time when even The Beatles—then between Revolver and Sgt. Pepper's—seemed to be coming down with a case of futurism, The Rolling Stones of Between the Buttons stood firm in their moment. Still, the bite bit. When they played "Let's Spend the Night Together" on The Ed Sullivan Show in January 1967, Jagger acquiesced to changing the lyric to "let's spend some time together," but not without rolling his giant eyes. Sexy was manageable. But pair it with smart and one has cause for worry.
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Not that they shifted course. If anything, Between the Buttons was an entrenchment. Touring, which the band had spent most of the year doing, had toned their muscles. Jones' indifference toward the guitar had mellowed into polite estrangement. Where the marimba of "Under My Thumb" had seemed striking a year earlier, Jones was now playing trumpet, vibraphone, recorder, and kazoo. Charlie Watts, who until then often seemed to be drumming primarily because rock bands need drummers, became a focal point: "Connection," "Yesterday's Papers," "My Obsession"—all instances where less and less (tight, primitive, often cymbal-free patterns) felt like more and more. The rhythm was there, and the soul was, too.
But the white British blues that the Stones had made their name on was fading like a scar. Aftermath had introduced new kinds of ballads: part folk, part psychedelia, guided by the feel of soul but not the structure of it. "She Smiled Sweetly," which had no guitar at all, is one. The indomitable "Ruby Tuesday"—left off the album's UK version—was another. If Aftermath's "I Am Waiting"—always an underrated song—proved the band could submit themselves to a woman without turning it into a power play, Between the Buttons combined that new vulnerability with a stoicism that defined the band's ballads for years to come: wistful and bittersweet, but faced unblinkingly toward the wind. Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, | 345 |
Using Linux is anything but boring, especially when it comes to personalizing your OS. That extends way beyond just the ability to install multiple Desktop Environments like Budgie, Pantheon and KDE Plasma. Sure I've tinkered with them, tweaked the appearance a bit, installed some cool desktop widgets. But nothing prepared me for my first trip to /r/unixporn.
I repeatedly insist that Linux makes your PC feel personal again, but the level of customization and pure creative beauty on display below left my jaw on the floor, and me with a desire to learn how to accomplish what's been done here.
I must have watched Catvert's accompanying video about 5 times, and you<|fim_middle|> is out there, eh? | should too. The GIF I made doesn't do it justice, and neither does the above screenshot.
This user's vision for a desktop full of dynamic color and useful information is obvious. The designer wanted to display the system's resources (drive space, CPU usage, RAM) without the display looking busy. So they created a custom sidebar that can be toggled on or off, clickable widgets, a redesigned logout screen, a personalized homepage, and much more. If you want details about each element such as Terminal, wallpapers, icons and window manager, check out the original post.
If things go according to plan, he'll have all the code uploaded to Github within the next week. It seems like an enormous undertaking for one guy, but I sure hope things go according to plan because this is downright stunning. And if he follows through and does release it as a full-fledged desktop environment, I'll report the details here.
There's something timeless about paper. It's tangible. It's personal. This simple theme -- inspired by Mocca's My Diary album -- really captures that. It uses the FVWM window manager, and you can download the complete theme including wallpaper from here.
I'm not normally a fan of anything yellow (except Bumblebee obviously), but for this I'll happily make an exception. From the angled elements and buttons in the system bar to the unique yellow or blue window padding (see it on the left?), it's a bold splash of perfect color but done in a minimal, almost retro way.
If you're new to the Linux world or just haven't gone into deep customization with your desktop, I encourage you to visit /r/unixporn for inspiration. We may not be capable of designing anything like these works of art, but we're certainly capable of installing them! It's probably time to leave the confines of my default window managers and desktop environments and see what else | 385 |
Tyre Cartel: The CCI Rolls-on with Price Parellelism "Plus" Against Tyre Manufacturers
The CCI's decision in the Tyre Cartel Case continues its approach of "price parallelism plus", especially in the context of oligopolistic markets demonstrating high levels of concentration, and dealing in a homogenous and commoditized product.
The decision is a reminder of Do's and Don'ts while participating in industry association meetings. Particuarly any exchange of competitively sensitive information (including pricing, production and dispatch information) are likely to fall foul of the Competition Act.
The decision underscores the need for well-structured competition law training and compliance programmes by companies, and the need to maintain justifications and documentations for market facing decisions taken by the management.
In what may appear to be a typographical error, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) on 2 February 2022, issued an Order dated 31 August 2018 imposing cumulative penalties of INR 1788 Crores upon five major tyre manufacturers (Apollo Tyres, MRF, CEAT, JK Tyres and Birla Tyres) and the Automotive Tyres Manufacturers Association (ATMA), for contravening provisions of Sections 3(1) and (3) of the Competition Act, 2002 (CA02).1 Not suprisingly, the steep penalties imposed under the CCI's 2018 Order led to wiping off 4.66% of the aggregate market capitalization of the five tyre manufacturers, shorly after the publication of the Order.2
While the Director General (DG)'s investigation was concluded in 2016, and subsequent proceedings before the CCI were concluded as early as 2018, the Final Order was withheld and kept in sealed cover in accordance with the directions of the High Court of Madras.3 Subsequent to the Madras High Court and Supreme Court rejecting the tyre manufacturers' pleas against the validity of the CCI's Orders on grounds of procedural improprieties associated with the initiation order (under Section 26(1) of the CA02) and the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA)'s reference to the CCI on the subject matter – the CCI issued and published its Final Order on 2 February 2022.4
In this Hotline, we review the Final Order of the CCI, and analyse how the CCI's Final Order in the Tyre Manufacturers' Case takes sits with the CCI's existing jurisprudence on cartels, and what it means for businesses' looking to mitigate risks of anti-competitive dealings.
Genesis of the Investigation
The investigation, which was intiated by the CCI in 2014, is not the first inquiry into alleged collusive practices in the tyre industry – with earlier investigations having been undertaken under the erstwhile Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices (MRTP) Act as well.5 After all, the tyre industry is arguably one of the more concentrated industries in India with five major tyre manufacturers representing approximately 83% of the market measured by turnover.6 However, the present order represents the first adverse order against tyre manufacturers, and one of the steeper penalties imposed under the CA02.
Resultantly, when the MCA acting upon a representation from the All India Tyre Dealers' Federation (AITDF) shared a reference with the Competition Commission of India (CCI) suggesting potential collusion amongst major tyre manufacturers to fix prices of cross-ply/bias tyres,7 the CCI directed an enquiry to determine the existence of any agreement or understanding, which could contravene the provisions of Section 3 of the Competition Act, 2002 (CA02).
The MCA's reference maintained that despite signficant price fluctuations in input costs, including repeated drops in natural rubber and crude oil prices, the prices of cross-ply/bias tyres were consistently hiked or kept constant, resultantly denying the benefits of input cost reductions on to end consumers. Moreover, it was alleged that the tyre manufacturers had exchanged commercially sensitive information/ pricing strategy, and colluded to fix prices under the banner of the ATMA.
The DG's Investigation
In its investigation, the DG noted the following:
Whereas input pricing pressures caused a decline in EBIDTA of the tyre manufacturers in the period from 2010 to 2012, subsequent easing of pricing pressures (with input costs as a percentage of sales revenues going down from 79.45% to around 60%), did not translate into a reduction in prices for Truck Bus Bias (TBB) Tyres, despite increase in operating margins. The DG considered this as evidence of concerted action amongst tyre manufacturers to artificially keep the prices of TBB tyres at higher levels. The DG also noted that in a competitive market, such price levels could not have been sustained save for concerted action amongst manufacturers.
There was a high degree of price parallelism between the prices of the most representative variants of TBB tyres offered by the tyre manufacturers, and that price increases in the 2011 to 2013 period were nearly identical despite the tyre manufacturers operating at different levels of efficiency.
There were several "plus factors", which indicated the existence of an understanding, which went beyond mere concisous price parallelism. These included:
Regular non-minuted/non-recorded meetings between the tyre manufacturers at various committees/sub-committees of the ATMA – indicating the existence of a platform which could potentially facilitate sharing pricing information and monitoring price movements.
Evidence of ATMA having collected and compiled information relating to company-wise and segment-wise data (both monthly and cumulative) on production, domestic sales and export of tyres on a real-time basis.
Evidence of e-mail communications between some of the investigated tyre manufacturers, discussing commercially sensitive information and price strategy, in the absence of any evident business rationale for doing so, barring collusion.
Stability in production and market share figures of the tyre manufactuers, and parallelism in capacity utilisation figures, coupled with stable pricing practices despite fluctuations in domestic demand.
Taken in totality, the DG observed that the above factors indicated the presence of a cartel amongst tyre manfuacturers, especially in the absence of adequate justifications for the tyre companies pricing decisions – which could have suggested the presence of independent market facing decisions.
Arguments Advanced by the Tyre Manufacturers
Rebutting the findings of the DG, the tyre manufacturers inter alia pointed to:
The independent nature of pricing decisions taken by the tyre companies, which, as argued by the tyre manufacturers, was not influenced by any inter se discussions amongst the tyre manufacturers.
Errors in DG's selection of reference period, reference prices and comparable product pairs, which in turn, led to errors in the coefficient of correlation between tyre prices.
The DG's failure to consider:
A shift in demand structure of TBB Tyres, which lead to an increased demand for Truck Bus Radial (TBR) Tyres. This, as per the tyre manufacturers explained the low capacity utilisation.
The impact of imports on the market for TBB tyre (which increased over the investigation period from 7.22% of total sales to 13.59%)
The rationale for information collection conducted under the aegis of the ATMA, i.e. to comply with Government data requests.
Evidence gathered through depositions, which clarified the purpose and agenda of various meetings held under the aegis of the ATMA. These included discussions around increasing prices<|fim_middle|>52.pdf; A Division Bench of the Hon'ble Madras High Court vide an order dated 06.01.2022, dismissed the Tyre Manufacturer's Writ Appeal. SLPs filed by the Tyre Manufacturers against the Madras HC's Order before the Hon'ble Supreme Court, were dismissed vide the Supreme Court's Order dated 28.01.2022.
5 See, In Re: All India Tyre Dealers' Federation v. Tyre Manufacturers, MRTP Case RTPE No. 20 of 2008, 30 October 2012, Available at URL: https://www.cci.gov.in/sites/default/files/202008_0.pdf
6 Supra Note. 1 at Para 6
7 Cross-ply or bias construction is a method of constructing tyres in which a series of cords or plies criss-cross over each other to form a carcass or frame over which rubber is integrated to create a tyre that bears the load of the vehicle. While inexpensive when compared to their successors radial tyres, cross-ply/bias tyres tend to increase friction resultantly reducing fuel economy and leading to faster wear and tear.
8 See, In Re: Builders Association of India v. Cement Manufacturers Association & Ors., Case No. 29 of 2010, 31 August 2016, Available at URL: https://www.cci.gov.in/sites/default/files/Final%20Order%2029%20of%202010%2031.08.2016%20.pdf
9 See, In Re: Anti-competitive conduct in the paper manufacturing industry, Suo Motu Case No. 05 of 2016, 17 November 2021, Available at URL: https://www.cci.gov.in/sites/default/files/05-of-2016_0.pdf
10 See, In Re: Alleged anti-competitive conduct in the Beer Market in India, Suo Motu Case No. 06 of 2017, 24 September 2021, Available at URL: https://www.cci.gov.in/sites/default/files/06-of-2017.pdf
11 See, In Re: Alleged Cartelisation in Flashlights Market in India, Suo Motu Case No. 01 of 2017, 6 November 2018, Available at URL: https://www.cci.gov.in/sites/default/files/SuoMoto-01-of-2017.pdf | of carbon black, discussions relating to sunset review of anti-dumping duties imposed by the Government, etc
Absence of any restrictions under law, which could bar the tyre companies from maintaining higher operating margins.
Absence of any evidence to suggest that the nature of discussions held under the aegis ATMA related to discussion of anything apart from publicly available information, or evidence to establish that the tyre manufacturers acted upon such information.
The CCI's Decision in the Tyre Cartel Case
Based on the DG's Report and arguments advanced by the tyre manufacturers, the CCI found that the tyre manufacturers had engaged in cartelisation under the aegis of the ATMA during 2011-12, and that the tyre manufactuers had acted in concert to increase the prices of cross-ply/bias tyres in the truck/bus segment. Resultantly, the CCI directed the tyre companies to cease and desist from indulging in any activity pertaining to the Agreement. The CCI's order extends to the ATMA as well, and directs it to disengage from undertaking any exercise which amounts to an exchange or collection of price information – through the member companies or otherwise.
The CCI's findings are based on the (i) existence of price parallelism; (ii) financial performance; (iii) cost analysis of key raw materials; (iv) circumstances conducive for collusion; and (v) evidence of communication exchanged on emails or through meetings held in private and otherwise. In particular, factors such as the existence of an oligopolistic market, a commoditized and homogenous product, the existence of a platform for exchanging commercially sensitive information, and high-levels of parallelism in production and pricing – were key to the CCI's determination of the existence of a cartel.
As regards certain submissions of the tyre manufacturers relating to consideration of imports, etc. the CCI noted inherent inconsistencies in the arguments advanced including the presence of anti-dumping duties which effectively shielded the domestic industry from competitive imports. Similarly, the CCI dismissed the presence of any irregularities/errors in the DG's economic analysis, including with respect to selection of the reference period, reference prices and product pairs.
The CCI imposed penalties at the rate of 5% of the average turnover of the tyre manufactuers for the last three preceding financial years i.e. Rs. 425.53 crore on Apollo Tyres, Rs. 622.09 crore on MRF Ltd., Rs. 252.16 crore on CEAT Ltd., Rs. 309.95 crore on JK Tyre and Rs. 178.33 crore on Birla Tyres. A penalty of Rs. 0.084 crore was imposed on ATMA for facilitating and promoting the price discussions.
In addition, the persons who at the time of such contravention were in charge of and responsible for the conduct of the business, have also been held liable under Section 48 of the Act, thereby making them liable to payment of pecuniary penalties amounting to 5% of their average annual income for the three financial years preceding the date of the Order.
The Law on Cartels in India
As per Section 3(3) of the CA02, the existence of a cartel needs to be established on the basis of an agreement between competitors to fix prices, limit or control supply, production, markets, technical development, investment or provision of services, share or allocate markets or rig bids. Once the existence of such an agreement is established, the CA02 presumes the agreement to be causing an appreciable adverse effect on competition (AAEC), thereby contravening the provisions of Section 3 – which prohibits all agreements (amongst competitors or between entities operating at different levels of a supply chain) which cause or are likely to cause AAEC. While the presumption of AAEC under Section 3(3) may be rebutted by demonstrating the existence of a pro-competitive efficiency enhancing joint ventures.
As for the existence of an agreement, the CA02 provides a widely worded definition, which includes "any arrangement or understanding or action in concert whether or not formal or in writing or intended to be enforceable by legal proceedings." Resultantly, instances of tacit collusion are also considered to be an agreement for the purposes of Section 3(3).
The DG's approach to establishing an agreement in the Tyre Cartel Case is premised primarily on evidence of (a) price parallelism; and (b) other 'plus factors' such as the existence of a forum to exchange commercially sensitive information including pricing strategy, i.e. ATMA. Past decisions of the CCI, appear to validate this approach, wherein mere conscious parallelism is insufficient to establish an agreement. However, when evaluated against an evidentiary standard of preponderance of probabilities, price parallelism taken together with other "plus factors" indicating the existence of collusive behaviour, are considered sufficient to establish the existence of an agreement for the purposes of Section 3(1) of the CA02. For instance in the Cement Cartel Case, the CCI's approach, eventually upheld in appeal by the NCLAT, was premised upon the platform provided by the Cement Manufacturer's Association (CMA) for exchanging information, coupled with evidence of price, dispatch and production parallelism.8
As with the Tyre Cartel Case, while the CMA argued that information exchange was necessitated on account of Government data requests, the CCI held that sharing such information amongst CMA's members would have facilitated collusion on prices, something that is also borne out by parallelism exhibited in the industry.
Typically, the existence of trade associations which could act as forms for information exchange, and evidence of information exchange itself has been relied upon quite extensively in CCI's decisions relating to cartels. Information exchange, in and as of itself (i.e. in the absence of evidence to demonstrate actions taken on the basis of such commercially sensitive information) has been relied upon as evidence of an anti-competitive agreement in the Paper Cartel Case9and the Beer Cartel Case.10
The only notable exception remains the Flashlight Cartel case, where despite parties having admitted to exchange of commercially sensitive information including pricing information as a part of their application under the CCI's Lesser Penalty Regulations,11 the CCI did not find the existence of an anti-competitive agreement – owing to the lack of evidence ot establish an agreement to act upon such information and fix prices, or limit or control production, supply, markets, technological development or investments.
The Flashlight Cartel case remains an outlier. While admittedly the CCI's decision in the Tyre Cartel Case is dated, in that the views in the CCI's Order date back to 2018, the findings remain relevant and reflective of the CCI's approach to evaluating evidence towards establishing the evidence of a cartel.
The Tyre Cartel Case also brings out some additional factors that have not been relied on previously by the CCI for arriving at its adverse inferences. These inter alia include high operating margins, circumstantial evidence to point to end-consumer lock-in (the CCI observed that the price differential between TBB tyres and its closest product substitute, i.e. TBR tyres was high enough to lock-in end consumers in the tyre replacement market to TBB tyres), the absence of competitive pressures from exports, and the lack of minutes for ATMA's committee meetings despite the association having been previously investigated on allegations of collusive conduct.
How is the Decision Relevant for Businesses?
Participation in industry/trade association meetings are not per se frowned upon under competition laws. Industry/ trade associations provide useful avenues for discussing and advocating industry wide issues, and may enable meaningful policy change. However, as the CCI's decisional practice increasingly suggests, collection or exchange of competitively sensitive information, such as information relating to pricing strategy, production and capacity utilization, dispatch and sales, may be viewed as an anti-competitive agreement for the purposes of the CA02. While the Flashlight Cartel case did indeed stop short of viewing information exchange as a standalone evidence of an anticompetitive agreement in the absence of any further evidence of actioning such information, it remains an outlier.
Given that most association meetings are likely to involve participation form the same set of officials, even a one-off inadvertent slip-up may also pave the way for adverse findings of concerted practice. Therefore, it becomes extremely important for businesses to know what to discuss and what not to discuss with each other and how to conduct themselves at meetings of their respective associations. It is even more important for the association themselves to implement such governance and hygiene measures which ensures that no concerted action takes place between the members.
Likewise, companies would be well-advised to develop compliance and training programs, and ensure independent justification and documentation of firm-level market facing decisions (such as pricing, supply and marketing strategies), alongside proactive measures to prevent exchange of competitively sensitive information amongst employees and competitors.
In this regard, companies may consider the following while approaching their interactions with industry/ trade assocaitions:
Email Communications: Ensure that email correspondences with external stakeholders (especially employees and officers of competing businesses, and officials and employees of trade associations) do not contain any competitively sensitive information related to their businesses.
Information Exchange at Common Fora: Ensure that information exchange is limited to industry-level issues, and does not relate to competitively sensitive information of any level of granularity (firm-level or industry-level) unless such information is aggregated at an industry level, publicly available and does not directly or indirectly disclose firm-level market facing strategies. Appropriate institutional firewalls must be put in place to ensure that offials in charge of information collection and aggregation are unable to share any firm-level data with members of such fora.
Discussions and Meetings at Common Fora: To the extent possible discussion around competitively sensitive information, including marketing and pricing strategies should be avoided. While in-principle and non-specific discussions around industry practices may be held, as a measure of good practice video/audio recording of meetings should be conducted, or at the very least all meetings should be minuted.
If participants inadvertently/ consciously disclose or discuss any competitively sensitive information, it is advisable to object to the same, and cease participation in such meetings. The objection should be recorded in the minutes.
– Indrajeet Sircar & Ratnadeep Roychowdhury
(With special thanks to Vinay Shukla)
1 See, In Re: MCA v. Apollo Tyres Ltd. & Ors., Reference Case No. 08 of 2013, 31 August 2018, Available at URL: https://www.cci.gov.in/sites/default/files/08-of-2013.pdf
2 See, Bhatnagar R., "Shares Of Apollo Tyres To MRF Fall As CCI Levies Rs 1,800-Crore Fine For Cartelisation", Bloomberg Quint, 3 February 2022, Available at URL: https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/cci-levies-rs-1800-crore-fine-on-tyremakers-for-cartelisation
3 See, Competition Commission of India, "CCI imposes penalty on Tyre manufacturers and their Association for indulging in cartelisation", Press Release No. 65/2021-22, 2 February 2022, Available at URL: https://www.cci.gov.in/sites/default/files/press_release/PR65-2021-22_0.pdf
4 See, M/s MRF Limited v. Ministry of Corporate Affairs & Ors., WA No. 259 of 2018, 6 January 2022, Available at URL: https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/mrf-limited-v-ministry-of-corporate-affairs-and-ors-4072 | 2,468 |
Just been looking at the yellow VX for sale and noticed there are some rather nice Veha Cross decals on the side which look raised are these available to buy in the USA?
Yes they are OEM and can be purchased from Merlin at St. Charles Isuzu in St. Charles, Missouri.
I replaced mine when I bought it. About $110 USD then for both.
Thanks, I'll place an order.
I want to buy some for my VX too. Can you give me the contact info to place an order?
Call Merlin at St. Charles Automotive in Missouri.
<|fim_middle|> no longer. If this part is so hard to find, has anyone tried 3d printing them or is someone remaking them? I would like to have two. The po removed them. | He's kind of our favorite Isuzu parts guy, ask for Merlin in Isuzu Parts Dept.
Website has same prices Merlin will quote you, and free shipping is also the same.
Great to look up part/s and schematics you need, then call Merlin.
Their prices are good, but his vast knowledge of the VX and all things Isuzu make it definitely worthwhile to buy thru him. He's worked there for about 14+years, knows everything!
He can also tell you whether the part is available in a U.S. Isuzu warehouse or if it has to come from Japan, and that's about 6-8 weeks.
He's very familiar with our forum and knows many people so mention you're on it.
Call until you reach him "live", he's not much on email or voice messages.
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NOTEBOOK: How questions and answers frame ISU's success, winning close games and more
Rob Gray, Dec 01 • 0 Comments
Nov 21, 2020; Ames, Iowa, USA; Iowa State head coach Matt Campbell leads his team out of the tunnel before their football game against Kansas State at Jack Trice Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Brian Powers-USA TODAY Sports
Iowa State head coach Matt Campbell asks at least three elementary questions of his team after every game.
What did we do well?
What didn't we do well?
How can we continue to improve?
So far, the No. 12 Cyclones (7-2, 7-1) have provided ample answers to all three simple, but wide-ranging queries — and that's a big reason why they sit alone atop the Big 12 standings entering Saturday's 2:30 p.m. (ESPN) regular-season finale against West Virginia at Jack Trice Stadium.
"I think the old rule is you're either getting better or you're getting worse and you're never staying the same," Campbell said. "So I think that's found in this group's ability to go back to the drawing board after every game. … Ultimately that's the great challenge for this group right now. I think (what will) be tested as much as anything here down the stretch run is, 'Man, can you keep growing? Can you keep evaluating? Can you check ego at the door and continue to pound away at your craft?' I know, myself and our staff and I know the leaders in our program, we're really excited for that challenge."
So there are more questions — and perhaps even deeper answers forthcoming.
As Campbell often notes, the Cyclones aren't perfect, but they're relentless grinders. They're young in spots, but maturing at a<|fim_middle|> answers fan questions on hoops, the Telephone Trophy and more
NOTEBOOK: ISU's second-half surges and fourth down success | rapid pace with the help of 16 seniors. They're finding ways to win despite the imperfections that permeate the margins.
Case in point: The final three minutes and one second of Friday's 23-20 triumph at Texas.
Brock Purdy and Breece Hall started in a fast-paced but tense touchdown drive to surge head.
Then with 1:25 remaining, the defense sealed it thanks to a handful of clutch plays, a Latrell Bankston sack, and a 57-yard field goal that drifted just wide left.
Last season, close games such as Friday's often went awry.
ISU went 2-4 in games decided by seven or fewer points in 2019 — and three of those losses came by a combined four points.
This season, the Cyclones are 4-1 in such games — and asking and answering key questions after each triumph or travail has paved the way for that reversal of fortunes.
"That's where the growth has to happen," Campbell said. "We're late in the season right now and there are areas that we must improve on and we must grow in if we want to continue to take another step this week. Those are the challenges that exist and that's why it is really hard when you're dealing with a team sport like ours to continue to find those challenges and continue to grow, even this late in the season. Somebody will and some team will and some team will have a chance to reach their full potential down the line."
Why not ISU? So far, so good, but the Mountaineers (5-3, 4-3) have been navigating serious Q and A sessions, as well, and boast talent and toughness across all position groups.
West Virginia allows a Big 12-low 17.8 points per game. Quarterback Jarret Doege ranks second in the conference in passing yards per game (277.4) and tailback Leddie Brown ranks second to Hall in rushing yards.
"They jump off the film because of how talented of a football team they really are," Campbell said. "They're one of the teams that's playing as good of team football as anybody in college football right now. We all know the challenge in front of us in terms of the who we play and then in terms of who we are, I don't know if it ever has been about being satisfied. I think it's been about, win or lose, the end result will tell us whether or not we reached our full potential. There's a lot, if you turn on the videotape from last (Friday), that we have to continue to chip away at if we want to become the team that we have the ability to become."
So another stern test awaits. More questions, more answers. Just as it should be.
"They play all four quarters so this is going to be a really good game," ISU senior safety Lawrence White said. "So it comes down to our precision. We've got to be precise and just do what we do and let everything take care of itself."
STAYING FRESH
The Cyclones have outscored opponents in three of four quarters this season. Guess which one ISU trails in? Yeah, the first one. That said, the Cyclones' ability to look strong at the finish of every game, except for the season opener, is another prime example of team growth.
"Again, I think this is where the credit must go with our players, because for three months, really, they were accountable to their their success," Campbell said. "They were accountable to getting themselves into great physical shape and they really had to believe that, number one, football would be played and then, number two, they had to be ready. And I said this quite often, I think coach (Dave) Andrews, his strength and conditioning staff, did a phenomenal job coming up with a game plan of making sure each of our student-athletes had a plan for what they had at home to be successful and give them a blueprint, but ultimately our kids had to do it."
POWERFUL EMOTIONS
Campbell was asked about his emotional postgame interview Friday after the Texas win that became a viral video. His answer?
"I would say that my nature is probably emotional, at times," Campbell said. "My sense of my deep appreciation for the character of this team and up to this point, this group has been through so much. What they've had to go through since March, how they've handled themselves, the challenge of getting ready to play the season on such short notice and then the ability to navigate this season. I really felt like the leadership and character of this team (and it) has been incredible. A lot of that showed in the guts they had with the ability to get ready in a short week to be able to play four quarters and with their backs against the wall, they showed who they were. Like I said, up to this point, they've been a really special group and it's going to be fun to see if they can continue to grow and carry those characteristics all the way through an entire football season."
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María de Waldeck y Pyrmont (en alemán, Marie zu Waldeck und Pyrmont; Arolsen, 23 de mayo de 1857 - Stuttgart, 30 de abril de 1882) fue la tercera hija del príncipe Jorge Víctor de Waldeck-Pyrmont y de su esposa, la princesa Elena de Nassau, la joven media hermana del gran duque Adolfo de Luxemburgo.
Familia
María nació en Arolsen, siendo la tercera hija de sus padres. Su hermano menor, Federico, fue el último príncipe reinante de Waldeck-Pyrmont. Dos de sus hermanas menores, Emma y Elena, estaban casadas con el rey Guillermo III de los Países Bajos y Leopoldo de Albany (el hijo más joven de la reina Victoria del Reino<|fim_middle|>incesas de Wurtemberg
Princesas de Waldeck-Pyrmont
Fallecidas por parto
Alemanas del siglo XIX | Unido), respectivamente.
Los niños fueron criados por su madre, quien trató de darles una educación polivalente, enseñarles autodisciplina e inculcarles el sentido del deber. Vivían en el Palacio de Arolsen, pasaban el verano en el Castillo de Pyrmont. La corte principesca era pequeña y había un ambiente agradable.
Matrimonio y descendencia
El 15 de febrero de 1877, en Arolsen, María se casó con el príncipe Guillermo de Wurtemberg (más tarde el rey Guillermo II de Wurtemberg), se cree que el matrimonio fue por amor. Debido a que en ese entonces el rey Carlos I de Wurtemberg no tenía descendencia con la gran duquesa Olga Nikolaevna de Rusia, Guillermo era el heredero previsible del trono. Aunque provenía de una familia gobernante políticamente insignificante, la opinión pública de Württemberg no le dio importancia, ya que el rey Carlos aún vivía.
Tuvieron tres hijos:
Paulina (19 de diciembre de 1877 - 7 de mayo de 1965), casada con el príncipe Guillermo Federico de Wied (1872-1945), con descendencia.
Ulrico (28 de julio - 28 de diciembre de 1880).
Hija nacida muerta (24 de abril de 1882).
Muerte
María murió el 30 de abril de 1882 en Stuttgart, debido a complicaciones derivadas del nacimiento de su tercera hija que había muerto el mismo día de su nacimiento. Tres días antes su hermana Elena se había casado con el príncipe Leopoldo, duque de Albany, por lo que la noticia la entristeció mucho. Guillermo se casó de nuevo en 1886 con la princesa Carlota de Schaumburg-Lippe.
Títulos y nombramientos
23 de mayo de 1857 - 15 de febrero de 1877: Su Alteza Serenísima la princesa María de Waldeck-Pyrmont.
15 de febrero de 1877 - 30 de abril de 1882: Su Alteza Real la princesa María de Wurtemberg.
Ancestros
Referencias
Sönke Lorenz, Dieter Mertens, Volker Press (Hrsg.): Das Haus Württemberg. Ein biographisches Lexikon. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-17-013605-4, p. 335
Hansmartin Decker-Hauff: Frauen im Hause Württemberg DRW-Verlag, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 1997, ISBN 3-87181-390-7, p. 266
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/people-and-culture/food/the-plate/2015/02/09/fruit-or-vegetable.html
Photograph by Rebecca Hale, Nat Geo Image Collection
The Plate
Is a Tomato a Fruit? It Depends on How You Slice It
By Rebecca Rupp
Everybody knows the difference between a fruit and a vegetable, right? Fruits are tempting and scrumptious. Adam and Eve, unable to resist one, were booted from the blissful Garden of Eden; a fruit kicked off the Trojan War; and a fruit so seduced kidnapped Persephone in the Underworld that she simply couldn't help taking a bite, thus landing the rest of us forevermore with the chilly season of winter. Vegetables don't pack this kind of punch. Vegetables, traditionally, are the stuff kids push around on their plates and hide under their mashed potatoes.
So what's the real difference between fruits and vegetables? Which is which?
To a botanist, a fruit is an entity that develops from the fertilized ovary of a flower. This means that tomatoes, squash, pumpkins, cucumbers, peppers, eggplants, corn kernels, and bean and pea pods are all fruits; so are apples, pears, peaches, apricots, melons and mangos. A vegetable, botanically, is any edible part of a plant that doesn't happen to be a fruit, as in leaves (spinach, lettuce, cabbage), roots (carrots, beets, turnips), stems (asparagus), tubers (potatoes), bulbs (onions), and flowers (cauliflower and broccoli).
Politically and culinarily, however, it's a whole different ball game.
Photograph by Jon T. Schneeberger, Nat Geo Image Collection
The Supreme Court Weighs In
The classical vegetable/fruit story is the tetchy tale of the tomato. In 1886, importer John Nix and colleagues landed a load of West Indian tomatoes at the Port of New York where the resident customs official—one Edward Hedden—demanded payment of a ten percent tax in accordance with the Tariff Act of 1883, which levied an import duty on "foreign vegetables." Nix, who knew his botany, objected, on the grounds that the tomato –a fruit — should be tax-exempt. The case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court where, in 1893, Justice Horace Gray ruled in favor of vegetable.
"Botanically speaking," said Justice Gray, "tomatoes are the fruit of the vine, just as are cucumbers, squashes, beans and peas. But in the common language of the people…all these vegetables…are usually served at dinner in, with, or after the soup, fish, or meat, which constitute the principal part of the repast, and not, like fruits,<|fim_middle|> frui, meaning to enjoy; vegetable, a more stolid, commonsensical kind of word, comes from vegetabilis, which means growing (as in plants). Much of the enjoyable appeal of fruits lies in their irresistible sweetness: most temperate-zone fruits contain about 10 to 15 percent sugar by weight, and tropical fruits, by and large, are even sweeter. A juicy apple or orange, contains about 23 grams of sugar; a banana, 17 grams; a peach, 15; and a ripe fig, 10.
Overall deliciousness explains why fruit tends to lead us into temptation. If thieves sneak into your garden, they're more likely to pinch the peaches than the peas. In early America, cautionary tales of moral instruction sternly warned that stealing fruit was the sort of gateway sin that led children straight to a life of crime. In Victorian England, filching fruit could get you transported or hanged. Even so, it's a sin with a long persistent history. Even Saint Augustine, in his pre-sainthood days, admitted to having stolen pears.
No one, however, puts a better spin on stealing fruit than Mark Twain. Twain (along with his most famous hero, Huckleberry Finn) was a shameless stealer of watermelons. In one story, he tells how, as a boy, he lifted a melon out of a farmer's cart while the farmer was waiting on a customer. He ran away with it, retreated with it to a "secluded bower," broke it open, and found it green. This led to some soul-searching.
"What ought a boy do who has stolen a green watermelon? What would George Washington do? Now was the time for all the lessons inculcated at Sunday School to act. And they did act. The word that came to me was 'restitution.'"
So young Twain took the watermelon back to the farmer and conned him into apologizing and handing over a ripe one. Here lies, in my opinion, the solution to the slippery conundrum of fruit vs. vegetable. The watermelon, Oklahoma, is not a vegetable. It's a fruit.
Nobody goes to that kind of trouble over a vegetable.
State Symbols USA lists all official state symbols, categorized by both symbol category and state.
Mark Twain's Melon is the full text of his speech on "Practical Morality" delivered at the New Savage Club, London. | generally as dessert."
This was neither the first nor the last time that the Supreme Court was forced to struggle with botanical definitions of food. In 1886, Justice Joseph Bradley in Robertson v. Salomon ruled that beans were vegetables. (The lawyer for the protesting importer, arguing that beans were seeds, pointed to garden catalogs; the defense countered with a dinner recipe for baked beans.) "The Supreme Court has just decided that beans are vegetables," commented a gleeful Iowa newspaper. "This is rough on Boston. That cultured city can no longer push them on to a suffering world as fruit."
Subsequent court decisions found truffles, onions, and water chestnuts also to be vegetables, but ruled that rhubarb (a leaf petiole or stalk, like celery) was a fruit, presumably from its popularity in strawberry-rhubarb pie. In 2001, the European Union declared carrots, sweet potatoes, and the now thoroughly confused tomatoes all to be fruits, at least for the purpose of making jam.
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Oklahoma's State Vegetable: The Watermelon
State legislatures have muddied the fruit/vegetable waters still more. The custom of creating state symbols dates to the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 (a.k.a. the Chicago World's Fair), where some 27 million visitors viewed 65,000 exhibits, among them the world's largest conveyor belt, a U.S. map made of pickles, Bach's clavichord, a herd of ostriches, and a 22,000-pound Canadian cheese. Also featured at the Fair was the National Garland of Flowers, for which each state was asked to select a representative flower.
State flowers were soon followed by a host of other official state symbols, among them birds, trees, animals, insects, reptiles, fossils, minerals, gemstones, songs, and folk dances. Utah and Delaware now have official state stars. Maine, Massachusetts, and North Carolina have official state boats. Texas has designated the cowboy boot its Official State Footwear. In the food category, we have official state fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains, herbs, beverages, muffins, cookies, and pies.
Some state fruit and vegetable decisions have been straightforward. Six states, for example, chose the apple as their symbolic fruit, and three opted for the strawberry. Two—Georgia and South Carolina—chose the peach; Alabama—unable to make up its mind—picked the blackberry as state fruit and the peach as the state tree fruit.
Tennessee and Ohio went with botany and chose the tomato as their state fruit; Arkansas, hedging its bets, decreed the tomato to be both the state's official fruit and official vegetable. Louisiana, on the other hand, appointed the sweet potato state vegetable, but named the tomato the state's official "vegetable plant." (Louisiana's state fruit is the strawberry; they've also got a state doughnut, a state jelly, and a state meat pie.)
Oddest of all, perhaps, is Oklahoma, whose state vegetable, as of 2006, is the watermelon. The Oklahoma watermelon bill was sponsored by senator Don Barrington, Republican, from the watermelon-growing district of Rush Springs, and former winner of a hometown watermelon-seed-spitting contest. Barrington's argument was that the watermelon was a vegetable by virtue of its genetic relationship to the obviously vegetable (that is, not eaten as dessert) cucumber and gourd; and he got some back-up from the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service, which lists melons under "Vegetables." The deciding factor, on the other hand, may have been the fact that Oklahoma already had a state fruit: the strawberry.
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N. Ireland 1-0 Russia: Match Report
Omonayajo Oladapo - August 15, 2013
Northern Ireland clinched a remarkable first win of their World Cup qualifying campaign as Martin Paterson's header saw off Fabio Capello's Russia.
Paterson superbly guided in Niall McGinn's fine cross just before half-time to give Michael O'Neill a first win as NI manager in his 10th match.
Just before the goal Jamie Ward struck a post and in the second half Paterson had a header ruled out for offside.
It was Northern Ireland's first win since August 2011.
That was a 4-0 success over the Faroe Islands under Nigel Worthington, who resigned just a few months later after a poor Euro 2012 qualifying effort.
Former Shamrock Rovers boss O'Neill took over in December 2011 but has had to wait almost two years for a maiden victory.
With their hopes of reaching the 2014 World Cup all but over after disappointing home draws against Azerbaijan and Luxembourg, and the most recent defeat by Israel, things were looking bleak.
But, as they have done so often in their history, the men in green produced an against-the-odds victory when it was least expected.
Paterson's header was his first competitive goal for Northern Ireland – his only other in a green shirt having come from a penalty in a friendly against Finland in August 2012.
It came just seconds after Ward's low 25-yard drive had crashed off an upright, with Paterson just missing out on forcing in the rebound.
O'Neill's men had started brightly with McGinn directing an ambitious volley wide and Paterson seeing his shot comfortably saved by CSKA Moscow keeper Igor Akinfeev.
However Russia, knowing victory would take them to the top of Group F over Portugal, took over and penned the hosts deep into their own half.
There was a real heart-stopping moment when Alan Dzagoev seemed to have worked an opening in the box but West Brom defender Gareth McAuley was again on hand with a fine sliding tackle to dispossess the Russian.
Northern Ireland, hit by the late withdrawals of Manchester United defender Jonny Evans and Palermo striker Kyle Lafferty, emerged from the pressure unscathed and produced a blistering finish to the first half.
The drama started in the 41st minute when Ward collected Danny Lafferty's quick free-kick and ventured forward to drill a low shot against the post from 25 yards.
Paterson could not get any power as he attempted to force in the rebound but the Huddersfield Town striker responded to<|fim_middle|>apo
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McGinn set it up by getting behind his man and delivering the perfect ball from the byeline on the right, Paterson rising to steer a sublime header beyond the reach of Akinfeev.
In the 58th minute Paterson, who only started because of Kyle Lafferty's injury, and Northern Ireland briefly thought they had a second.
Shane Ferguson's corner was played back across goal by Craig Cathcart and headed in by Paterson, only for an offside flag to cut short the celebrations.
Northern Ireland continued to play their hearts out, with their belief visibly expanding.
Russia became increasingly frustrated and, in the end, failed to get the result they needed to go top of Group F.
The night belonged to Northern Ireland and manager O'Neill.
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Abnormal Security Raises $210M to Push Beyond Email Defense
Abnormal Wants to Apply Its Account Takeover Prevention Technology to New Areas Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • May 10, 2022
Abnormal Security CISO Mike Britton (Photo: Abnormal Security)
Abnormal Security has closed a $210 million funding round on a $4 billion valuation to apply its account takeover prevention technology to areas other than email.
The San Francisco-based email security firm wants to use its artificial intelligence and behavior analytics expertise to protect accounts across more systems and SaaS platforms as well as in environments such as Workday and Salesforce, according to Abnormal CISO Mike Britton. The Series C funding round was led by Insight Partners and brings Abnormal up to $284 million of outside funding since its 2018 founding.
"We look at ourselves as more than just an email security platform in the future," Britton tells Information Security Media Group. "That's our future road map and where we see ourselves going."
Abnormal Security was founded in 2018 and employs 432 people, up from just 175 employees a year ago, according to LinkedIn and Crunchbase. The company closed a $50 million Series B round led by Menlo Ventures in November 2020 and a $24 million Series A funding round led by Greylock Partners in November 2019.
Britton says the company's technology excels at correlating various signals to distinguish legitimate user activity from abnormal behavior or possible malicious activity. Abnormal has invested heavily in recent years to understand what normal behavior looks like in Office 365 or Google Workspace, and Britton says the company need to gain a better understand of key IT signals in other areas of the workplace (see: Business Email Compromise: Why It Works - and How to Prevent It).
Abnormal is looking to extend its account takeover prevention muscle to SaaS platforms and corporate IT that's heavily used in the Fortune 500, such as Salesforce and Workday, which are the leading CRM and HR management platforms for many large enterprises, Britton says. Many enterprise SaaS tools today are API or event-driven, meaning that Abnormal's ability to detect logging or account sign-ons will be handy.
"There are a variety of things that we can do for each customer and across tenants where we can really hone in and say, 'Okay, this is indicative of an attack,' or, 'This is indicative of normal behavior,'" Britton says.
A New Approach to Security Awareness Training
For Abnormal's core email security technology, Britton says the company hopes to use the $210 million to increase the efficacy of its ML and AI models and expand the threat indicators that can be pulled out. The company plans to build out capabilities around security awareness training as well as pursue new integrations with third-party SIEM or SOAR providers, he says.
According to Britton, Abnormal's approach to security awareness training would be different from that of players such as Cofense and Wombat - now part of Proofpoint - that rely on a library of templates. Instead, Abnormal is hoping to dynamically take real-world threats and flip them into training simulations in real time with the click of a button so users can see how their defenses fare against the<|fim_middle|> 'Oh, I wouldn't have fallen for that. That's not a real attack."
Abnormal has historically been used to augment either existing secure email gateways from Mimecast, Proofpoint, Broadcom or Cisco or to augment native defenses offered by Microsoft or Google. But Abnormal recently rolled out an Integrated Cloud Email Security, or ICES, platform that can displace secure email gateways altogether, and Britton says Fortune 500 CISOs are becoming increasingly open to that.
"It's scary and it's hard to switch off your email gateway, because ... when you cut over from that to pointing straight to Office 365 or Google, there's potential risk for business interruption of email," he says.
US Government, Global Expansion on Tap
From a geographic standpoint, Britton says Abnormal wants to use the money to build upon last year's expansion into the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. Abnormal has the opportunity to both do more in those countries by getting into marketplaces as well as expand into other regions, such as the Nordics; Benelux, which is Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg; and Singapore; according to Britton.
"There's a big market in both [the U.K. and Australia/New Zealand]," Britton says. "We feel there's an opportunity for us to displace incumbent secure email gateways."
Britton says Abnormal is strongest in verticals such as financial services, healthcare and manufacturing that are heavily represented in the Fortune 100 and on the Fortune 500.
Abnormal also wants to use Series C proceeds to embark upon the FedRAMP journey and take on U.S. government agencies as customers, according to Britton. The company has a team assembled, is looking for the right civilian agencies to sponsor it, and has drawn up a playbook that has the company seeking the authority to operate in the federal market in the second half of 2022 and first half of 2023.
"There's been a large push to modernize technology in the federal government, a large push for cloud, and we feel like we have a first-mover advantage when it comes to the newer generation of email security solutions," Britton says. "It's a very wide-open market with the government agencies, especially the civilian agencies, so I think there's a lot of addressable market there."
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This week we're talking to Dr Peter Søgaard Jørgensen and the working group from the International Network of Next-Generation Ecologists (INNGE). Peter Søgaard Jørgensen is a biologist studying the macroecological consequences of global environmental change and sustainable solutions that may improve biological food, resource, health and environmental systems in the 21st century. This is currently studied through the lens of macroecology and applied evolutionary biology at the Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere Program at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Here he and the rest of INNGE's working group outlines what INNGE is all about, how it can benefit early career ecologists, and how you can get involved.
What is the International Network of Next-Generation Ecologists?
The International Network of Next-Generation Ecologists is a global community platform for early career researchers and professionals in the ecological sciences.
We aim to address early career issues and to facilitate innovation of the ecological sciences in all its aspects. Examples of the latter include advancing open science and interdisciplinary issues. INNGE connects early career ecologists from all continents, through membership of 24 institutions, with a combined individual membership estimated around 20.000. These include some of the largest learned societies in the ecological sciences, e.g. the Ecological Society of America and the British Ecological Society.
Finally, INNGE connects early career ecologists through a vibrant network of around 2000 individual early career ecologists communicating via online channels.
How can early career ecologists benefit from INNGE?
Early career ecologists can benefit in two main ways from INNGE. First, INNGE provides a platform for them to realize and connect with the community of ecologists at a global scale. Secondly, the activities carried out by INNGE help improve work conditions for early career ecologists. Here are some examples of services that INNGE provides:
INNGE organizes early-career events at meetings such as the quadrennial INTECOL congress and otherregional and national meetings.
INNGE provides a forum for early career ecologists to debate emerging and influential topics in ecology both in internal and public fora.
INNGE provides advice and support to new,local and regional early-career groups, such as the effort to establish a regional network in Africa.
INNGE provides surveys of early-career issues.
INNGE hosts EcoBloggers, an open aggregator of posts from more than 100 ecology blogs.
INNGE promotes papers published by early career ecologists on Twitter hashtag – #ecrpaper.
INNGE's wiki works as a one stop shop to online resources in ecology.
INNGE promotes novel ways of peer-reviewing, such as the peer-review mentoring scheme in the New Zealand Journal of Ecology.
INNGE provides networking opportunities for early career ecologists via communication with other INNGE participants through e.g. listservs or our facebook group or through direct interactions with topical specialists via Twitter or EcoBloggers.
INNGE provides space for early career ecologists attending various meetings and events to report about their experience through INNGE Reporter.
What have your members achieved through INNGE?
Being involved with INNGE provides our members with the opportunity to gain rare organizational experience at an international level. INNGE unlocks a great opportunity: to increase your international network of dedicated early career ecologists and some of the global leaders in ecology.
More specifically, members of INNGE have gained experience organizing international events, such as workshops for early career ecologists or conferences such as the Future Earth young scientist conference. Others have gained experience leading surveys of the international community of ecologists or published opinion papers. Ecologists in INNGE all contribute toward our vision of building a global online platform for community innovation (see our recent paper on Global Community Innovation Platforms).
What sorts of careers do your members do?
The careers of our members are as diverse as the sum of the thousands of early career members of our 24 institutional members and active individuals. Most of our working group members are currently conducting their PhD, are in a PostDoc, lecturer or junior professor position. INNGE also have several very active members doing research or other functions in NGO's.
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Clay Buchholz roughed up as Red Sox lose to Blue Jays
By Peter Abraham Globe Staff,April 29, 2015, 1<|fim_middle|>We know the pitching will get there."
As Sandoval tried to be optimistic, the meeting continued in Farrell's office.
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Manager John Farrell gets the ball from Red Sox starter Clay Buchholz in the third inning.Aram Boghosian/For the Globe/Globe Freelance
General manager Ben Cherington paced back and forth in the small space that serves as the office of Red Sox manager John Farrell on Tuesday night, head down and hands buried in his pants pockets.
Farrell sat at his desk, half his uniform still on. Mike Hazen and Brian O'Halloran, two of Cherington's top assistants, sat silently on opposite ends of a couch.
As the decision-makers spoke in low tones, the players hurried out of the clubhouse, eager to be most anywhere else after a dispiriting 11-8 loss against the Toronto Blue Jays.
It was a scene reminiscent of last season, when the Sox finished in last place. Cherington eventually stopped trying to figure what went wrong and traded seven players in July after releasing two others.
The Sox can't give up this time, not with the highest payroll in team history. Their problems are ones that have to be fixed, not forgotten.
"It's just a tough patch right now and we'll get through it. We've got to find a way," second baseman Dustin Pedroia said.
The Sox scored four runs in the second inning, then watched Clay Buchholz give the lead away in the third inning. The Sox kept scoring but their worn-out bullpen allowed six runs.
After getting the lead, Buchholz walked the first batter he faced. That opened the door to a bigger inning by Toronto.
"Whenever the team gives you a four-run lead, it's supposed to come out a lot better than that," Buchholz said.
Buchholz (1-3) allowed five runs, four earned, over 2⅔ innings. The team's Opening Day starter, Buchholz has a 5.76 earned run average. That two other starters have higher ERA speaks to how bad the rotation has been. As a group, the starters have a 6.03 ERA.
"So many times the starter sets the tone," Farrell said.
Tuesday night was the fifth time in 21 games a Red Sox starter was unable to complete five innings and the eighth time a starter allowed five or more runs. The Red Sox have allowed 34 runs on 43 hits in the last three games.
"It's a part of the game. There's times where we're going to score one and they're going to pick us up, win 1-0," Pedroia said. "We're a team . . . it's not football. It's not an offense and a defense. It's a whole team. That's how we look at it."
The Sox are a study in extremes. They are second in the American League with 109 runs scored and last with 118 allowed. That they are 11-10 and only two games out of first place suggests there's no reason to panic. But clearly something has to change.
"It's 21 games, but it's a small sample compared to the big picture. We've got to get back to the process in every phase and go from there," Pedroia said.
The Red Sox took a 4-0 lead in the second inning against Toronto starter Drew Hutchison.
With two outs and Pablo Sandoval at third base, Xander Bogaerts singled, scoring Sandoval. After Ryan Hanigan walked, singles by Mookie Betts, Pedroia, and David Ortiz each drove in runs.
Pablo Sandoval went 4-for-5 and scored twice Tuesday. Aram Boghosian/For the Globe
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He walked Kevin Pillar on five pitches. Ryan Goins followed with a single off the wall in left and Devon Travis with an RBI single to right field.
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Buchholz was taken out of the game at that point and booed by the crowd of 33,920.
"I'd have liked to stayed in there a little bit longer. It's not my call," Buchholz said. "I've got to do a better job of persuading, I guess."
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"You give up 90 feet by starting your delivery before you come set," Farrell said. "A guy who's probably not done that in his career. We've got to be better."
Anthony Varvaro was next out of the bullpen. He allowed one run over 1⅓ innings, a sterling effort compared with those who preceded him.
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\section{Introduction}
Confining energetic particles, especially alpha particles born in nuclear fusion reactions, is of key importance for magnetic confinement fusion reactors. In configurations where axisymmetry is not present, either tokamaks with non-axisymmetric perturbations, or stellarators, some particle orbits will have a non-zero bounce-averaged radial drift causing them to leave the confined region, sometimes very quickly. These promptly lost particles can cause significant damage to plasma facing surfaces and reduce the lifetime of the plasma wall \cite{mau2008divertor}. It will never be possible to confine all alpha particles in a fusion device, but reducing the losses, especially prompt losses, is crucial for the longevity of the device. This paper will show collisional energetic particle transport results from various stellarator configurations at the reactor scale with the goal of identifying the properties of configurations with good confinement.
Several metrics have been developed for neo-classical confinement in 3D systems \cite{grieger1992physics}. Some configurations possess a symmetry in the magnetic field strength, $|B|$, and therefore are isomorphic to axisymmetric systems. These configurations are called quasi-symmetric, because they possess a symmetry in $|B|$ similar to an axisymmetric system \cite{reiman1999physics}. This paper includes configurations of two quasi-symmetric types, quasi-axisymmetric (QA) where $|B|$ contours connect toroidally, and quasi-helical (QH) where $|B|$ contours connect helically \cite{Nuhrenberg_PLA_1988}. In all the configurations exact quasisymmetry is not present, but rather an approximate symmetry exists. The deviation from a strict symmetry is referred to in this paper as quasisymmetric deviation. Mathematically this is obtained by transforming coordinates into the Boozer coordinate system, and then calculating the energy in the non-symmetric modes.
It has been shown experimentally that quasi-helical configurations improve neoclassical confinement \cite{canik2007experimental}. Additionally, many numerical explorations of quasisymmetric configurations of all types exist as well. Specifically, recent results indicate that low quasi-symmetric deviation can help alpha confinement in both quasiaxisymmetric \cite{henneberg2019improving} and quasi-helically symmetric configurations \cite{bader2019stellarator}.
There are alternative methods for improving neoclassical confinement in the absence of quasisymmetry exist. A broader class of configurations are omnigenous, in which the second adiabatic invariant, $J_\parallel = \oint v_\parallel dl$, is constant on a flux surface. A consequence of this optimization is that all the maxima and minima of a field line on a flux surface are the same. Configurations that approximate omnigeneity are called quasi-omnigenous (QO). If, in addition, flux surfaces close poloidally, the configuration is quasi-isodynamic. A consequence of this optimization is that drifts are purely poloidal, and bootstrap and Pfirsch-Schl\"uter currents vanish. This optimization was used to produce W7-X \cite{nuhrenberg2010development}. Confinement of energetic particles in quasi-isodynamic configurations is expected to improve at high pressure when the alignment between $J_\parallel$<|fim_middle|> exceedingly well at confining prompt losses. This good performance in the collisional results appears despite not performing particularly well on the $\Gamma_c$ metric. Figure \ref{fig:elosshist} illustrates this by plotting a histogram of the number of lost particles in the collisional calculation against the energy at which they are lost. Prompt losses are on the far right of the graph. These prompt losses are lowest for the LHD inward shifted configuration compared to both Wistell-A and W7-X. The LHD losses reach their maximum between 2.5 and 3.0 MeV after which they fall to a very low level. The Wistell-A and W7-X, in contrast have fewer particles lost between 2.5 and 3.0 MeV but considerably more particles lost at energies under 1 MeV. These configurations will be examined closer in sections \ref{ss:lhd} and \ref{ss:qh}.
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.5\linewidth]{eloss_histogram_iaea.png}
\caption{Histogram of number of particles lost (per 10k) as a function of the loss energy for Wistell-A (black), W7-X (magenta dashed) and LHD-inward shifted (green dashed). Prompt losses at 3.5 MeV are at the far right side of the graph.}
\label{fig:elosshist}
\end{figure}
\section{Discussion}
\label{sec:disc}
\subsection{Optimization}
One salient feature of the configuration scan is that two of the configurations with lowest achieved values of $\Gamma_c$ were not actually optimized for $\Gamma_c$ but rather for quasisymmetry only. These are the Ku5 and Simsopt configurations. Since perfect quasisymmetry will confine all particles, and a perfectly quasisymmetric configuration will have $\Gamma_c$ = 0, an optimization for quasisymmetry will almost always improve $\Gamma_c$ as well. The cases where this does not occur, such as one of the configurations presented in \cite{bader2019stellarator} are fairly uncommon. In fact, in several steps of the Wistell-B optimization it was found that the best improvement on both metrics, quasisymmetry and $\Gamma_c$ was obtained when the $\Gamma_c$ optimization was turned off in the optimizer.
The reverse is not true. Optimization for $\Gamma_c$ alone will almost never improve quasisymmetry. There are many pathways to improving $\Gamma_c$ that do not include quasisymmetry, for example, the optimizations that lead to W7-X.
Another important point of consideration is that many of the configurations were designed with additional metrics included. Both the NCSX and ARIES-CS equilibria placed strong emphasis on stability properties at finite $\beta$. Among other things, this generates a strong crescent shape at the $\phi = 0$ plane. In contrast the Simsopt QA is a vacuum configuration without a vacuum magnetic well and no attempt to provide stability at high pressure. The Simsopt configuration should be viewed as what is possible if you attempt to make the most quasiaxisymmetric configuration possible perhaps in opposition to other desired or even necessary properties. As always, significant effort is needed to weigh different optimizations considerations together to produce the ideal configuration for an experiment or reactor.
A similar story exists in the QH configurations. While Wistell-A and Wistell-B are both vacuum configurations, Wistell-A has a vacuum magnetic well and Wistell-B does not. Furthermore, attempts to generate coils to reproduce the Wistell-A configuration were successful, while attempts to produce coils for Wistell-B or Ku5 have not been successful to date. Of course this does not mean that it is impossible to find coils for these configurations, just that it is comparatively easier to design coils for Wistell-A. Despite having entirely different optimization schemes, Wistell-B and Ku5 have similar features. Specifically, both have a strong indentation in the teardrop shape that is very difficult to reproduce with coils. Future work that incorporates coil buildability should examine whether this feature is necessary for good confinement or not.
Finally we note that several of the configurations, namely the LHD configurations are actually built machines. It is much easier to design a configuration with good parameters than to actually build one. It is possible that the performance of the other configurations would degrade due to accumulated errors in the construction process. Efforts to optimize taking into account manufacturing errors are being undertaken by others \cite{lobsien2020physics} and will not be discussed further here.
\subsection{LHD Inward Shifted}
\label{ss:lhd}
A surprising result from the configuration scan was the performance achieved by the LHD configuration. While it has been theorized and experimentally verified that the confinement improves in LHD with inward-shifted configurations, the actual performance deserves some additional discussion here.
The specific optimization in question aligns the minimal values of the magnetic field on the surface, referred to as $\sigma = 1$ optimization. This can be seen in figure \ref{fig:lhdmodb} where a field line from both the outward and inward shifted cases are plotted as a function of toroidal angle. The minima align for the inward shifted case (green) but do not align for the outward shifted case (yellow). Another feature of these LHD-like equilibria is because the field is generated with helical coils, the field strength is smoothly varying with no local minima above the global minimum value. These local minima are problematic for particle confinement and can lead to promptly lost particles, similar to ripple trapped particles in a tokamak.
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.5\linewidth]{lhd_modb_iaea.png}
\caption{Magnitude of the magnetic field, $|B|$ along a field line for the LHD inward shifted (green) and outward shifted (yellow) configurations}
\label{fig:lhdmodb}
\end{figure}
Since the maxima along the field line do not align, particles in the the LHD inward shifted configuration have a finite radial drift. In fact, as visible in figure \ref{fig:ploss} even in the absence in collisions, all trapped particles in both LHD configurations are eventually stochastically lost. The end result is a configuration which has no prompt losses due to the $\sigma=1$ optimization, but eventually loses all the particles. The parameters used for this calculation use the ARIES-CS parameters which have high plasma density and low temperature giving a slowing down time of $\approx$50 ms in the core, and considerably lower in the edge. When examining the collisional results under these conditions, the LHD inward shifted configuration compares favorably to configurations such as Wistell-A even though stochastic losses are very low in Wistell-A.
\subsection{QH: Collisionless vs Collisional losses}
\label{ss:qh}
The performance of Wistell-A is worth looking at closer. In the collisionless losses (figure \ref{fig:ploss}) the total losses are low, below all other configurations except for Wistell-B and ITER. Furthermore, almost all the losses that do exist are prompt, occurring well before 1 ms. Yet, when collisions are added, Wistell-A performs significantly poorer to Wistell-B and Ku5 and instead performs equally well to W7-X which has more prompt losses and significantly more collisionless stochastic losses. The performance of Wistell-A is actually slightly worse than LHD, which has fewer prompt losses, but very large values of collisionless stochastic losses.
To understand this behavior it is necessary to not only distinguish between prompt and stochastic losses, but between the pitch angle of promptly lost particles. Particles can diffuse through phase space by pitch-angle scattering. Although pitch-angle scattering is small for 3.5 MeV alpha particles compared to momentum loss (by roughly a factor of 20), it still exists. If a particle diffuses into a region of phase space which is promptly lost, it will likely be lost before it can diffuse out. The distribution of these loss regions in phase space is important. If there is one major region of losses, such as all deeply trapped particles, the only particles that will be lost are those born in the region or close to it. However, if the prompt-loss regions are scattered around phase space, even if the total volume is lower, the amount of particles that may drift through a prompt-loss may be higher. Although verification will require statistical analysis tools beyond the scope of this paper, some basic analysis can be done by examining the pitches of promptly lost particles. Figure \ref{fig:lvp} shows a histogram of prompt (within 1 ms) collisionless particle losses for W7-X and Wistell-A as a function of pitch. The pitch parameter is given as $E/\mu$ where E is the particle energy and $\mu$ is the first adiabatic invariant. This ratio is the maximum field a particle can reach before reflecting. The trapped-passing boundary is slightly different for the configurations and is shown with vertical dashed lines. All the lost particles are trapped. Most of the losses from W7-X are from deeply trapped particles. All the losses for Wistell-A are near the trapped-passing boundary. While there are some losses near the trapped passing boundary for W7-X, these losses are significantly less in number than for Wistell-A.
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.5\linewidth]{lvp_iaea.png}
\caption{Histogram of collisionless prompt losses (less than 0.1 s) as a function of starting pitch for Wistell-A (black) and W7-X (magenta). The vertical dotted lines represent the minimum possible value of $E/\mu$ and the vertical dashed lines represent the trapped-passing boundaries for each configuration. The large population for W7-X corresponds to deeply trapped particles, while the other peak, larger on Wistell-A is near the trapped-passing boundary.}
\label{fig:lvp}
\end{figure}
One explanation for the relatively poor performance of Wistell-A compared to the expectations from collisionless losses is as follows. The LHD-inward shifted has no prompt losses and the collisional results appear similar to the collisionless results. Most particles are lost, but they are lost slowly. W7-X does have prompt losses, but these occur mostly in the deeply trapped particles. Only particles that are close to the deeply trapped region can diffuse onto lost orbits and be lost. In contrast, the losses from Wistell-A occur mostly near the trapped-passing boundary. The phase space volume near the trapped-passing boundary is significantly larger than the deeply trapped volume. For this reason, it is easier to diffuse into loss regions near the trapped-passing boundary and the losses are enhanced for Wistell-A when collisions are included. One result from this analysis is that if a configuration is to have prompt losses, it is far better to have them in deeply trapped regions.
\subsection{Limitations and Caveats}
The analysis presented in this paper is useful particularly for comparing different configurations, but to actually calculate losses in reactor configurations additional steps need to be taken. This section outlines some of the limitations of the calculations.
As noted above, the same profiles were used for every configuration despite significant differences in $\beta$. Furthermore, including a realistic profile for each configuration would obscure some of the differences between the configurations, which is the primary purpose of the results presented here.
Another limitation is the particle following algorithm is a guiding center algorithm and does not include finite gyro-orbits. Finite orbits for alpha particles can be large and a full-orbit analysis between configurations would help determine whether the alpha loss estimates are accurate. At increased machine size, the effects of finite orbits are smaller and the guiding center approximation gets increasingly better. Many other effects are also not included, including any transport from Alfven Eigenmodes.
The configurations presented here all rely on \texttt{VMEC} equilibria. \texttt{VMEC} describes the equilibria as having nested toroidal flux surfaces without magnetic islands or stochastic field regions. This limitation is mitigated somewhat because the large orbits of alpha particles may average over small regions of stochasticity. Calculations with more realistic field, which also includes the effects from fields generated from coils are left for future work.
Particles are considered lost if they pass beyond the penultimate surface in the \texttt{VMEC} equilibrium. In reality, particles may leave the confined plasma and reenter. This effect may be strongest in QA configurations which have the longest connection lengths and thus the largets banana widths.
\section{Conclusions and Outlook}
\label{sec:conc}
The analysis presented here shows that it is possible to optimize for stellarators to have good energetic particle confinement, often by ensuring very high quasisymmetry, as was done in the Ku5 and Simsopt equilibria. Post-hoc analysis of these two configurations indicate that it may be possible to achieve acceptable levels of energetic particle loss by optimizing for $\Gamma_c$ instead. Since $\Gamma_c$ is less restrictive than quasisymmetry, a large configuration space is available, and it may be possible to find a configuration that satisfies various other needs as well. Indeed, the Wistell-A configuration was optimized with $\Gamma_c$ and has both a vacuum magnetic well and a buildable coil set.
Unfortunately, none of the configurations presented here satisfy all of our needs for a stellarator reactor, which requires not only energetic particle confinement, but performance at high pressure, a buildable coil set, as well as other properties that are more difficult to quantify, like a viable divertor solution and reduced turbulent transport. As optimization algorithms and the physics metrics that feed into them improve, it is more likely that configurations which perform satisfactorily on all required axes will be found.
\section*{Acknowledgments}
The authors would like to acknowledge Mike Zarnstorff and Sam Lazerson for providing the NCSX and ARIES-CS equilibria, Don Spong for providing the ITER equilibrium, and Joachim Geiger and Carolin N\"uhrenberg for providing the W7-X equilibrium. Work for this paper was supported by DE-FG02-93ER54222, DE-FG02-00ER54546 and UW 2020 135AAD3116. Matt Landreman was supported by Simons Foundation (560651, ML)
\section*{References}
\bibliographystyle{iopart-num}
| and flux surfaces improves \cite{lotz1992collisionless}.
An even less restrictive optimization for improved confinement is described as $\sigma$-optimization \cite{mynick1983improved}. In LHD it is possible to achieve an equilibria where $\sigma = 1$, where for a given flux surface the minima of each field line are equivalent, but the maxima do not. This is achieved in LHD by shifting the axis inward, creating the "inward shifted" configuration \cite{murakami2002neoclassical}. In this optimization, collisionless drift orbits are not fully confined, but the coefficient of neoclassical transport drops significantly.
Various metrics have been used to quantify the degree of neoclassical transport. One metric, $\epsilon_\mathrm{eff}$, is the coefficient of the neoclassical diffusion in the low-collisionality ($\sim 1/\nu$) regime has been regularly used for stellarator optimization \cite{nemov1999evaluation}. However, recent results indicate that there is little correlation between $\epsilon_\mathrm{eff}$ and good energetic particle confinement \cite{bader2019stellarator}. However, a different metric $\Gamma_c$ \cite{Nemov_PoP_2005, Nemov_PoP_2008}, that seeks explicitly to align contours of $J_\parallel$ with flux surfaces similar to the omnigeneity constraint, has been shown to correlate better with energetic particle confinement. This metric has been used to optimize quasi-helically symmetric configurations with good energetic particle confinement \cite{bader2019stellarator, bader2020advancing}.
In previous publications stellarators were compared only between variations of similar classes (QA, QH, QO). Comparisons between stellarators of different classes, have often been hampered by different choices of magnetic field strength, size, and profiles of density and temperature. Some calculations include collisions where others do not. Comparisons between published results is therefore very difficult. This paper attempts to rectify the situation by providing consistent scalings across a broad class of configurations and then comparing the energetic particle confinements both collisionlessly and with collisions.
The layout of this paper is as follows. In Section \ref{sec:configs}, we will briefly describe the configurations used in this paper. Section \ref{sec:scaling} will explain how the reactor scale configurations were constructed. Section \ref{sec:coll} will show results from both collisional and collisionless calculations of alpha particles. Section \ref{sec:metrics} compares the alpha particle losses for the metrics of interest in each configuration. Section \ref{sec:disc} will discuss the results and describe the limitations of the current work. Section \ref{sec:conc} will conclude the paper and provide areas for future research.
\section{Configurations}
\label{sec:configs}
This paper considers three quasi-helically symmetric configurations, three quasi-axisymmetric configurations, a W7-X like configuration, and two LHD-like configurations. An ITER configuration is included for comparison. A table of all the configurations and their relevant properties has been included in table \ref{tab:configs}.
\begin{table}
\caption{\label{jlab1}A list of configurations along with relevant properties}
\footnotesize
\begin{tabular}{@{}lllll}
\br
Name&Type&Periods&Aspect ratio&$\beta$\\
\mr
Wistell-A & QH & 4 & 6.7 & Vacuum\\
Wistell-B & QH & 5 & 6.6 & Vacuum\\
Ku5 & QH & 4 & 10.0 & 10.0\%\\
ARIES-CS & QA & 3 & 4.5 & 4.0\%\\
NCSX & QA & 3 & 4.4 & 4.3\%\\
Simsopt & QA & 2 & 6.0 & Vacuum\\
W7-X & QI & 5 & 10.5 & 4.4\%\\
LHD st & Torsotron & 10 & 6.5 & Vacuum\\
LHD in. & Torsotron & 10 & 6.2 &Vacuum\\
ITER&Tokamak&N/A&2.5&2.2\%\\
\br
\label{tab:configs}
\end{tabular}\\
\end{table}
\normalsize
The quasi-helically symmetric configurations are: the "Wistell-A" configuration which has been described in a previous publication \cite{bader2020advancing}; the "Wistell-B" configuration, a five-field period vacuum configuration optimized with the \texttt{ROSE} code \cite{Drevlak_NF_2018} explicitly for quasisymmetry and $\Gamma_c$; "Ku4" a four field period configuration from \cite{ku2010new} that was optimized for quasisymmetry at high normalized pressure, $\beta$. The three quasi-axisymmetric configurations are comprised of the NCSX (specifically "li383") \cite{koniges2003magnetic, mynick2002exploration} and ARIES-CS (specifically: "n3are") \cite{ku2008physics, mynick2006improving} configurations. Also included amongst quasiaxisymmetric configurations is a more recent vacuum configuration. called Simsopt, which was optimized solely for quasisymmetry at the $s=0.5$ surface using the \texttt{SIMSOPT} optimizer \cite{simsoptcode}. Here and throughout the paper, $s$ represents the normalized toroidal flux, $\psi/\psi_{\mathrm{edge}}$. The W7-X like configuration is a high-mirror configuration designed for improved energetic particle confinement \cite{grieger1991physics}, with coefficients given by Table IV in \cite{nuhrenberg1996global}. The two LHD \cite{murakami2002neoclassical} configurations are vacuum configurations, with one in the standard (outward) configuration and the other in an inward shifted configuration which is known to have improved confinement properties \cite{mynick1983improved}. Finally the ITER configuration is a near-axisymmetric configuration, although this equilibrium includes coil ripple, blanket modules and ferritic inserts \cite{tobita2003reduction}.
\section{Scaling to Reactor size}
\label{sec:scaling}
In order to properly scale configurations to each other it is necessary to adjust to a benchmark size. The ARIES-CS parameters are used for the scaling, representing a fairly compact reactor size. There are two possible ways to scale the configurations. One option is to scale the configurations to have the same volume (444 m$^3$) the other is to scale the minor radii to the same value (1.7m). For this paper we only show results using the volume scaling, although the main conclusions do not change when the configurations are scaled to have equivalent minor radii.
All configurations are represented by \texttt{VMEC} equilibria \cite{Hirshman_POF_1983}, and the size scaling is accomplished by adjusting the boundary coefficients such that all configurations have the same volume. The magnetic field strengths are made equivalent by ensuring the volume averaged magnetic field is equivalent across all configurations (5.86 T). For non-vacuum configurations, the rotational transform are adjusted for each configuration by using $I \propto RB$, where $I$ is the total current in the plasma. The normalized pressure, $\beta$ is similarly kept constant through the scaling procedure. The boundary flux surfaces for the configurations at the $\phi$=0 plane, often referred to as the "bean" or "crescent", are plotted in figure \ref{fig:fs}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\begin{subfigure}{0.25\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{fs_iaea1.png}
\end{subfigure}%
\begin{subfigure}{0.32\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{fs_iaea2.png}
\end{subfigure}%
\begin{subfigure}{0.43\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{fs_iaea3.png}
\end{subfigure}%
\caption{Boundary flux surfaces for the scaled configurations are shown. Left: Quasihelically-symmetric configurations. Center: Quasiaxisymmetric configurations (including ITER) Right: non-quasisymmetric configurations}
\label{fig:fs}
\end{figure}
For all configurations, with three exceptions, the scaling is accomplished by starting from an idealized fixed boundary equilibrium and scaling the coefficients. These fixed boundary equilibria are usually generated through optimization and do not include effects from finite coils. One exception is the ITER equilibrium which includes coil ripple and the effect from ferritic inserts and blanket modules. The scaled ITER equilibrium is a direct replica of the unscaled ITER equilibrium, but with slightly larger volume and higher field. There was no attempt to recalculate the effects of blanket modules and ferritic inserts on the larger size. The other exceptions are the two LHD equilibria which represent two configurations very similar to those generated in the actual LHD device. In these cases, the coils used to generate the equilibria were adjusted and new free-boundary equilibria were generated from the enlarged coils. Results from these free-boundary equilibria are presented in this paper. A second set of LHD calculations were undertaken with a scaled fixed-boundary equilibrium and the differences were not noticeable, and are not included here.
In order to perform the collisional calculations, it is necessary to define the temperature and density profiles. These profiles determine the initial launch points for collisional calculations as well as the slowing down behavior of the alpha particles. The density profile chosen for these simulations is mostly flat with $n = n_0 \left(1-s^5\right)$, the temperature profile is more peaked with $T = T_0\left(1-s\right)$. These profiles are roughly consistent with those chosen for the ARIES-CS studies \cite{ku2008physics}. In the previous equations, $s$ represents the normalized toroidal flux, $\psi/\psi_{edge}$. The values of the core temperatures, $T_0$ and $n_0$ are approximately equivalent to those of ARIES-CS: $n_{e,0} = 4.8 \times 10^{20}$ and $n_{D,0} = n_{T,0} = 2.25 \times 10^{20}$, with $T_{e,0} = T_{i,0} = 11.5$ keV. The difference between $n_D + n_T$ and $n_e$ arises from a flat profile of $Z_\mathrm{eff} = 1.13$ as in the ARIES-CS equilibrium. However, collisions with impurity ions are not included in these calculations. Once the temperature profiles are chosen, the reaction profile is determined. The temperature, density and reaction profiles are shown in figure \ref{fig:profiles}. The same reaction profile is used for each equilibrium, and is estimated as
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\begin{equation}
R \frac{dV}{ds} = n_D n_T \langle \sigma v \rangle \frac{dV}{ds};\; \langle \sigma v \rangle = 3.6\times10^{-18} T^{-2/3} \exp{\left(-19.94 * T^{-1/3}\right)} \mathrm{m}^3/\mathrm{sec}
\end{equation}}
where $n_D$ and $n_T$ are the deuterium and tritium concentrations, $T$ is the temperature in keV and $dV/ds$ is the derivative of the volume with respect to normalized toroidal flux $s$ for the ARIES-CS equilibrium. Even though the reaction profile varies slightly from equilibrium to equilibrium due to variations in $dV/ds$, the same fusion reaction profile is maintained in order to keep consistent particle launch profiles across equilibria.
\begin{figure}
\centering
\begin{subfigure}{0.5\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{ntprofile_iaea.png}
\end{subfigure}%
\begin{subfigure}{0.5\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{reactivity_iaea.png}
\end{subfigure}%
\caption{Left: Temperature (red) and density (blue) profiles as a function of normalized toroidal flux $s$. Right: The derived reaction rate given as a function of temperature and density for the ARIES-CS equilibrium.}
\label{fig:profiles}
\end{figure}
Since the configurations vary in pressure from vacuum configurations to normalized pressures of 10\%, it is impossible to choose profiles consistent across configurations that also match the pressure profiles from each configuration. The main goal is to determine what magnetic configuration properties affect alpha particle confinement rather than to do self-consistent studies of each of the configurations. Therefore, the same temperature and density profiles are used in all configurations for alpha particle confinement calculations even though there is no self-consistency with the plasma pressure used in the equilibrium.
\section{Alpha Particle Losses}
\label{sec:coll}
Particles are sourced by first choosing a radial location such that the distribution matches the reaction profile given in figure \ref{fig:profiles}. Next a random location on the surface and the velocity pitch angle is chosen in the same manner as described in \cite{bader2019stellarator}. The guiding centers of the particles are followed using an Adams-Bashford integration scheme and can under go both slowing down and pitch angle scattering. The \texttt{ANTS} code is used for all particle following calculations \cite{Drevlak_NF_2014}. If a particle passes beyond the penultimate flux surface at any point in time it is considered lost. If the particle's energy is the same as the background thermal particles it is considered confined and is no longer followed.
The results from the collisional calculation are shown in Figure \ref{fig:eloss}. The line style indicates the configuration type, with solid lines indicating QH, dotted lines QA, dashed lines for the LHD-like configurations and both ITER and W7-X use dashed-dotted lines. To help the reader, throughout the paper consistent colors and linestyles (where possible) for each configuration are used. Among the quasisymmetric configuration, the QHs strongly outperform the QAs with the exception of the Simsopt configuration which performs as well as the best QHs. The three best performing configurations shown (outside of ITER) are the Ku5 configuration (QH), the Wistell-B configuration (QH) and the Simsopt configuration (QA). W7-X performs about equivalently to both the WISTELL-A configuration and the inward shifted LHD configuration. This behavior will be examined in depth later. Note that due to differences in machine size, magnetic field, and particle sourcing, the results shown here may differ from previously published results on energetic particle confinement.
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{loss_energy_iaea.png}
\caption{Energy loss from alpha particles as a function of time for all configurations. }
\label{fig:eloss}
\end{figure}
In addition to the collisional calculation, calculations without collisions are also presented in Figure \ref{fig:ploss}. For these calculations particles were started on a specific flux surface, in this case $s$=0.3, representing a surface just outside the midradius is chosen. Particles are launched on this surface and followed until they are lost or 200 ms have elapsed, corresponding to several ($\sim3$) slowing down times. Figure \ref{fig:ploss} shows the particle loss versus time rather than the energy loss, but because no collisions are included, all lost particles have the full energy. Collisionless calculations were previously used to distinguish between configurations \cite{bader2019stellarator}, and they are very useful to highlight the specific loss behaviors of the configurations, which will be examined below. Note that the addition of collisions tend to enhance energetic particle losses due to pitch angle scattering onto lost orbits.
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{loss_s3_iaea.png}
\caption{Particle loss as a function of time for all configurations for particles born on the $s$=0.3 surface.}
\label{fig:ploss}
\end{figure}
Before a more detailed look at the configurations, it will be useful to distinguish between the different types of losses seen. Some particles are born on lost orbits and leave the confined region at almost the full energy values even in the collisional calculation. Particles born on the outer regions of the plasma are likely to be lost in this manner. In fact all the losses from ITER are particles born near the edge that are promptly lost. We will refer to these particles as ``prompt" losses.
There is a second class of lost particles that undergo many orbits before being lost. Sometimes this is the result from diffusive properties, especially pitch-angle scattering which becomes increasingly important at low energies. However, these slow losses can also occur in collisionless calculations discussed below. As such we will refer to all losses on extended time scales as "stochastic" losses, following the convention in \cite{albert2020accelerated}.
The exact boundary between prompt and stochastic losses is not clear in all configurations, but it is often easy to see the distinction in some of the configurations. The W7-X collisionless losses at, say, $s = 0.3$ are particularly clear. The W7-X configuration loses about 2\% of launched particles born at $s=0.3$ before 0.2 ms. There are almost no additional losses until about 1 ms when additional stochastic losses begin accumulating again. Many of the particles are lost stochastically, however the precise behavior is important. Slow stochastic losses are less problematic because particles will be able to deposit most of their energy. The same distinction between prompt and stochastic losses in W7-X exists with collisionless losses on other flux surfaces (not shown). It also is visible in the collisional losses, however, with collisional losses, diffusive behavior causes there to be some particles losses between 0.2 and 1 ms. A more detailed discussion about prompt versus stochastic losses is in sections \ref{ss:lhd} and \ref{ss:qh}.
\section{Alpha Particle Loss Metrics}\
\label{sec:metrics}
We consider two metrics for alpha particle losses, quasisymmetry and $\Gamma_c$. A given configuration is quasisymmetric if the variation of $|B|$ along a field line is the same for all field lines on a flux surface \cite{helander2014theory}. Quasisymmetry can be determined by Fourier decomposing $|B|$ on a flux surface in the straight field line coordinate system known as Boozer coordinates \cite{Boozer_PoF_1982}. If the only modes present are ones where the ratio of the toroidal mode $n$ to the poloidal mode $m$ is constant, the configuration is quasisymmetric. For quasiaxisymmetric equilibria, $n/m = 0$ and a perfectly quasiaxisymmetric equilibrium will only have modes with $n=0$. For quasihelically-symmetric equilibria, the ratio $n/m$ is usually equal to the number of field periods (modulo a sign). So for a perfectly quasihelically-symmetric equilibrium with four periods, the only modes present are ones where $n/m$ = 4. A third symmetry, quasipoloidal symmetry, where only modes with $m=0$ are present, is not considered in this paper.
Excepting precisely axisymmetric configurations, it is conjectured that perfect quasisymmetry can only be achieved on a single flux surface \cite{garren1991existence}, and a metric is needed to describe the deviation from perfect quasisymmetry. The metric used in this paper is calculated by first Fourier decomposing the two dimensional flux surface in Boozer coordinates, and then summing the magnetic energy in all non-symmetric modes normalized to the $m=0, n=0$ mode, which is representative of the background field strength. That is,
\begin{equation}
Q_{qs}(s) = \frac{1}{B_{0,0}(s)}\left(\sum_{m/n \neq C_{qs}} B_{m,n}^2(s) \right)^{1/2}
\end{equation}
where $C_{qs}$ represents the target for quasisymmetry, 0 for quasiaxisymmetry and the number of field periods for quasihelical symmetry. Lower values of $Q_{qs}$ indicate better quasisymmetry.
Figure \ref{fig:qsqx} shows the results of $Q_{qs}$ for quasiaxisymmetric configurations (left) and quasihelically symmetric configurations (right) as a function of flux surface. There is clear separation among the quasiaxisymmetric configurations. At all $s$ values, the ARIES-CS configuration is the least quasisymmetric and the Simsopt configuration is the most quasisymmetric. The story is less clear for the quasihelical configurations. The Ku5 configuration is the most quasisymmetric in the core and the least quasisymmetric in the edge. Overall the Wistell-B configuration has the best average quasisymmetry.
\begin{figure}
\centering
\begin{subfigure}{0.5\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{qsqa_iaea.png}
\end{subfigure}%
\begin{subfigure}{0.5\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{qsqh_iaea.png}
\end{subfigure}%
\caption{The deviation from quasisymmetry as a function of normalized toroidal flux, $s$ for quasiaxisymmetric configurations (left) and quasihelically symmetric configurations (right)}
\label{fig:qsqx}
\end{figure}
The second metric, $\Gamma_c$ was introduced by Nemov \cite{Nemov_PoP_2008} (eqs 61, 50, and 36) as a measure of the energetic ion confinement properties and is given by,
\begin{equation}
\Gamma_c = \frac{\pi}{\sqrt{8}} \lim_{L_s \rightarrow \infty} \left( \int_0^{L_s} \frac{ds}{B}\right)^{-1}
\int_1^{B_\mathrm{max}/B_\mathrm{min}} db' \sum_\mathrm{well_j} \gamma_c^2 \frac{v \tau_{b,j}}{4 B_\mathrm{min}
b'^{2}};\;\gamma_c = \frac{2}{\pi} \mathrm{arctan}\frac{v_r}{v_\theta}
\end{equation}
Here, $v_r$ and $v_\theta$ are the bounce average radial and poloidal drifts respectively; $v$ is the particle velocity; $\tau_b$ is the bounce time, $B_\mathrm{max}$ and $B_\mathrm{min}$ are the maximum and minimum field strength on a flux surface or suitably long field line; $b'$ represents a normalized field strength, here equivalent to $|B|/B_\mathrm{min}$ and $L_s$ is the length along a field line. The summation is over every well along a field line, where the boundaries of the wells are themselves a function of the integrating variable, $b'$. When $\Gamma_c$ is small, contours of $J_\parallel$ align with flux surfaces, and the bounce average radial drift goes to zero. More information about $\Gamma_c$ and its use for stellarator optimization can be found in \cite{bader2019stellarator}. Unlike quasisymmetry, the $\Gamma_c$ metric can be calculated for all stellarator configurations. All calculations for both $\Gamma_c$ and quasisymmetry were carried out using the \texttt{ROSE} code. Due to an unresolved difficulty with handling single field period equilibria, $\Gamma_c$ for the ITER calculation is unavailable for this paper.
Nine configurations are represented in figure \ref{fig:gcvss} in the two plots showing $\Gamma_c$ as a function of normalized toroidal flux $s$. The six quasisymmetric configurations are plotted on the left, and the three non-quasisymmetric configurations are plotted on the right. Looking at the non-quasisymmetric configurations first, there is a clear distinction between the optimized configuration W7-X and the two LHD configurations. There is also a clear improvement between the LHD inward shifted configuration compared to the outward shifted configuration. However, the LHD inward shifted configuration has roughly the same magnitude of $\Gamma_c$ as the worst of the quasisymmetric configurations NCSX (note the difference in y-axis scale).
\begin{figure}
\centering
\begin{subfigure}{0.5\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{gcqs_iaea.png}
\end{subfigure}%
\begin{subfigure}{0.5\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{gcnonqs_iaea.png}
\end{subfigure}%
\caption{$\Gamma_c$ as a function of normalized toroidal flux, $s$ for quasisymmetric configurations (left) and non-quasisymmetric configurations (right)}
\label{fig:gcvss}
\end{figure}
The quasisymmetric configurations also show considerable spread in the $\Gamma_c$ metric. Once again there is clear separation among the three quasiaxisymmetric configurations. The best performing case is the Simsopt equilibrium. Contrary to the quasisymmetry result, ARIES-CS outperforms NCSX with regard to the $\Gamma_c$ metric. This behavior is not surprising since the ARIES-CS optimization explicitly degraded quasisymmetry in order to improve energetic particle confinement \cite{mynick2006improving}. The particle loss results shown in figures \ref{fig:eloss} and \ref{fig:ploss} indicate that this optimization was successful.
For the three quasihelically symmetric configurations the Wistell-A and Wistell-B configurations have almost identical values of $\Gamma_c$ (these are similar in scale to the W7-X value). The Ku5 configuration has a larger value in the core, but a lower value in the outer half of the plasma. Since the Ku5 and Simsopt configurations represent the best performing configurations, it appears that the edge values in the outer half may be more important. The importance of the quasisymmetric values on the outer half of the plasma has already been discussed with respect to optimizations of quasisymmetry \cite{henneberg2019improving} and the results presented here indicate that the values of $\Gamma_c$ in the outer half of the plasma may be more closely related to energetic particle confinement as well.
Figure \ref{fig:scatter} shows the total energy loss for each configuration plotted against the value of a parameter of interest evaluated at $s$=0.6. The deviation from quasisymmetry (for the QS configurations) is plotted on the left hand plot and $\Gamma_c$ is in the right hand plot. A correlation between alpha energy confinement and $\Gamma_c$ is clear from the right hand plot. Although a perfect correlation does not exist, it is clear that the best/worst performing configurations also have the best/worst performance with regard to this metric. For quasisymmetry the correlation is weaker. While the Simsopt and Wistell-B configuration both perform very well on this metric, the Ku5 configuration performs worse despite having the best overall energetic particle confinement.
\begin{figure}
\centering
\begin{subfigure}{0.5\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{scatter_qs_iaea.png}
\end{subfigure}%
\begin{subfigure}{0.5\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{scatter_gc_iaea.png}
\end{subfigure}%
\caption{Values of total collisional energy lost as a function of quasisymmetry on the $s$=0.6 surface (left) and $\Gamma_c$ on the $s$=0.6 surface (right)}
\label{fig:scatter}
\end{figure}
Among the QA configurations the best performing configuration is the Simsopt QA, which also performs the best on both metrics, despite only optimizing for quasisymmetry. As noted above, ARIES-CS performs worse in quasisymmetry but better in both $\Gamma_c$ and energetic particle confinement.
The QH configurations include two stellarator configurations with excellent confinement, Ku5 and Wistell-B. For the QH configurations, Wistell-A performs worse in the quasisymmetry metric but approximately as well in $\Gamma_c$. Both Wistell-A and Wistell-B were optimized including both quasisymmetry and $\Gamma_c$ in the target function. The Ku5 configuration only optimized for quasisymmetry, but despite this has the lowest $\Gamma_c$. There is a caveat to the performances of the two high performing QH configurations. In both the Wistell-B and Ku4 configurations, strong indentations in the plasma boundary make designing coils extremely challenging (see for example figure 13 in \cite{ku2010new}). However, coils that reproduce the energetic particle properties have already been designed for the Wistell-A configuration \cite{bader2020advancing}.
The W7-X configuration was specifically designed for good energetic particle transport \cite{grieger1991physics} and indeed it outperforms ARIES-CS and is on par with the Wistell-A configuration. Interestingly, the W7-X and Wistell-A configuration also have almost the same minimum value for $\Gamma_c$ so the points are very close in Figure \ref{fig:scatter}b.
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75 John Lennon quotes for his 75th birthday
John Lennon would have been 75 years old today. In honor of the occasion, we've compiled 75 quotes and lyrics attributed to the late rock icon . Enjoy, and remember. On the Beatles: "We're not Beatles to each other, you know. It's a joke to us. If we're going out the door of the hotel, we say, 'Right! Beatle John! Beatle George now! Come on, let's go!' We don't put on a false front or anything." — Look, 1966 "Paul (McCartney) and I made a deal when we were 15. There was never a legal deal between us, just a deal we made when we decided to write together that we put both our names on it, no matter what." — Playboy, published in 1981 "I said we were more popular than Jesus, which is a fact." — Look, 1966 "We were really professional by the time we got to the States; we had learned the whole game. When we arrived here we knew how to handle the press; the British press were the toughest in the world and we could handle anything. We were all right." — Rolling Stone, 1971 "You see, we're influenced by whatever's going. Even if we're not influenced, we're all going that way at a certain time. If we played a Stones record now — and a Beatles record — and we've been way apart, you'd find a lot of similarities. We're all heavy. Just heavy." — Rolling Stone, 1968 "Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or The Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It's not living now. It's an illusion." — Playboy, 1981 "They've been trying to knock us down since we began, especially the British press, always saying, 'What are you going to do when the bubble bursts?' That was the in-crowd joke with us. We'd go when we decided, not when some fickle public decided, because we were not a manufactured group. We knew what we were doing. — Rolling Stone, 1971, on The Beatles "There is not one thing that's Beatle music. How can they talk about it like that? What is Beatle music? Walrus or Penny Lane? Which? It's too diverse: I Want to Hold Your Hand or Revolution Number Nine? — Rolling Stone, 1971 "Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves?" — Playboy, 1981 "I've got used to the fact — just about — that whatever I do is going to be compared to the other Beatles. If I took up ballet dancing, my ballet dancing would be compared with Paul (McCartney)'s bowling." — Rolling Stone, 1975 "I said to Paul 'I'm leaving.' " — Rolling Stone, 1971, on quitting The Beatles "It's like saying, you know, 'Did you remember falling in love?' Not quite. It just sort of happens" — The Dick Cavett Show, 1971, on his memories of breaking up with the Beatles On songwriting: "All we are saying is, 'This is what is happening to us.' We are sending postcards. I don't let it become 'I am the awakened; you are sheep that will be shown the way.' That is the danger of saying anything, you know." — Playboy, 1981 "I was trying to write about an affair without letting me wife know I was writing about an affair, so it was very gobbledegook. I was sort of writing from my experiences, girls' flats, things like that." — Rolling Stone, 1971, on writing Norwegian Wood years before "The first line (of I Am The Walrus) was written on one acid trip one weekend. The second line was written on the next acid trip the next weekend, and it was filled in after I met Yoko." — Playboy, 1981 "They can take anything apart. I mean, I hit it on all levels, you know<|fim_middle|>." — Newsweek, 1980 "Yoko became the breadwinner, taking care of the bankers and deals. And I became the housewife. It was like one of those reversal comedies! I'd say (mincingly), 'Well, how was it at the office today, dear? Do you want a cocktail? I didn't get your slippers and your shirts aren't back from the laundry.' To all housewives, I say I now understand what you're screaming about." — Newsweek, 1980 On faith: "I believe Jesus was right, Buddha was right, and all of those people like that are right. They're all saying the same thing — and I believe it. I believe what Jesus actually said — the basic things he laid down about love and goodness — and not what people say he said." — Look, 1966 "I don't believe in magic … I don't believe in Jesus … I don't believe in Buddha … I don't believe in Elvis … I don't believe in Beatles." — God, 1970 "Imagine there's no heaven/ It's easy if you try/ No hell below us/ Above us only sky/ Imagine all the people/ Living for today." — Imagine, 1971 On listening to music: "There is nothing conceptually better than rock 'n' roll. No group, be it Beatles, Dylan or Stones, have ever improved on Whole Lot of Shaking for my money. Or maybe I'm like our parents: that's my period and I dig it and I'll never leave it." — Rolling Stone, 1971 "All music is rehash. There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. Try to tell the kids in the Seventies who were screaming to the Bee Gees that their music was just The Beatles redone. There is nothing wrong with the Bee Gees." — Playboy, 1980 "I'm still a record man. There's nobody — including meself —– on earth that I can sit down and listen to a whole album." — Rolling Stone, 1975 "I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music." — Playboy, 1981 On other rock stars: "It depends who they are. If it's Mick (Jagger) or the Old Guard as I call them, yeah, they're the Old Guard. Elton (John), David (Bowie) are the newies. I don't feel like an old uncle, dear, 'cause I'm not that much older than half of 'em, hehe." — Rolling Stone, 1975 "I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love 'em." — Rolling Stone, 1971 "I stopped listening to Dylan with both ears after Highway 64 (sic) and Blonde on Blonde, and even then it was because George (Harrison) would sit me down and make me listen." — Playboy, 1981 "Wouldn't it be interesting to take Elvis back to his Sun Records period? I don't know. But I'm content to listen to his Sun Records. I don't want to dig him up out of the grave." — Playboy, 1981 On health and mortality: "I don't want to grow up but I'm sick of not growing up — that way. I'll find a different way of not growing up. There's a better way of doing it than torturing your body." — Rolling Stone, 1975 "We're mostly macrobiotic, but sometimes I take the family out for a pizza." — Playboy, 1981 "I could still be forgotten when I'm dead. I don't really care what happens when I'm dead." — The Dick Cavett Show, 1971 "Cat has nine lives/ Nine lives to itself/ But you only got one/ And a dog's life ain't fun." — Crippled Inside, 1971 "Two branches of one tree/ Face the setting sun/ When the day is done." — Grow Old With Me, released in 1984 On drugs: "It was only another mirror. It wasn't a miracle. It was more of a visual thing and a therapy, looking at yourself a bit." — Rolling Stone, 1971, on how LSD affected his music after he began experimenting in 1964 "We were smoking marijuana for breakfast. We were well into marijuana and nobody could communicate with us, because we were just all glazed eyes, giggling all the time. In our own world." — on The Beatles during their Help! period "(Happiness Is A Warm Gun) not about heroin. A gun magazine was sitting there with a smoking gun on the cover and an article that I never read inside called 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun.' I took it right from there. I took it as the terrible idea of just having shot some animal." — Playboy, 1981 "If somebody gives me a joint, I might smoke it, but I don't go after it." — Playboy, 1981 On fame: "I don't mind looking to the camera — it's people that throw me." — Look, 1966 "You don't have to be a star to get a cheese sandwich. You just have to be first." — Look, 1966 "I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is that you don't exist if you're not at Xenon with Andy Warhol." — Newsweek, 1980 "Half the time you don't know what you're talking about when you're talking to reporters." — The Dick Cavett Show, 1971 "No longer riding on the merry-go-round/ I just had to let it go." — Watching the Wheels, 1980 On the human condition: "You're born in pain. Pain is what we are in most of the time, and I think that the bigger the pain, the more God you look for." — Rolling Stone, 1971 "The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that … it's all illusion." — Playboy, 1981 "Remember though love is strange/ Now and forever love will remain." — Bless You, 1974 "Better recognize your brothers/ Everyone you meet." — Instant Karma!, 1970 "Every day in every way/ It's getting better and better." — Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy), 1980 "After all is said and done/ You can't go pleasing everyone." — I'm Stepping Out, released 1984 On politics and revolution: "I don't want to die, and I don't want to be hurt physically, but if they blow the world up … we're all out of our pain then, forget it, no more problems!" — Rolling Stone, 1971 "That radicalism (of the '70s) was phony, really, because it was out of guilt. I'd always felt guilty that I made money, so I had to give it away or lose it. I don't mean I was a hypocrite. When I believe, I believe right down to the roots." — Newsweek, 1980 "In England, there are only two things to be, basically: You are either for the labor movement or for the capitalist movement. Either you become a right-wing Archie Bunker if you are in the class I am in, or you become an instinctive socialist, which I was." — Playboy, 1981 "There is no denying that we are still living in the capitalist world. I think that in order to survive and to change the world, you have to take care of yourself first. You have to survive yourself." — Playboy, 1981 "It's quite possible to do anything, but not to put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don't expect Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself." — Playboy, 1981 "All we are saying is give peace a chance." — Give Peace A Chance, 1969 On the future: "The sun will never disappear/ But the world may not have many years." — Isolation, 1970 "I couldn't think of the next few years; it's abysmal thinking of how many years there are to go, millions of them. I just play it by the week." — Rolling Stone, 1971 "I hope we're a nice old couple living off the coast of Ireland or something like that — looking at our scrapbook of madness." — Rolling Stone, 1971, imagining himself at 64 with Ono 'It looks like I'm going to be 40 and life begins at 40 — so they promise. And I believe it, too." — Playboy, 1981 "I hope some day you will join us/ And the world will live as one." — Imagine, 1971
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Happy Birthday Matt Damon! Celebrate with 15 Favorite Quotes From The Actor
Matt Damon turned 45 on October 8. The actor, writer, producer and screenwriter won an Academy Award–with Bed Affleck–for the screenplay, Good Will Hunting when he was just 27. But Damon has managed to stay incredibly grounded. On the British television show, the Graham Norton Show, he reflected about winning an Oscar when he was so young, "… I suddenly had this kinda thing wash over me where I thought, imagine chasing that and not getting it. And getting it finally in your eighties or your nineties with all of life behind you and realizing what an unbelievable waste… It can't fill you up. If that's a hole that you have, that won't fill it. I felt so blessed to have that awareness at 27."
We celebrate The Martian star with our favorite quotes from the actor, including memorable lines from Good Will Hunting. Click to this Parade.com story to read all 15 quotes.
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Empire Season 2 Premiere Recap: The 13 Craziest Moments and Quotes
Empire is back, boo boos! And, to nobody's surprise, season two began with all of the over-the-top shenanigans, cutthroat double-crossings, and "can they really say that?!" lines as we have come to expect. So what…
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"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." (Tom Clancy)
"I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it." (William Faulkner)
"I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87." (Steve Martin)
"I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know." (Mel Brooks)
"It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous." (Robert
Benchley)
"A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction." (William Faulkner)
"The free-lance writer is the person who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps." (Robert Benchley)
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37 Kobe quotes for Kobe's 37th birthday
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10 Inspiring Quotes To Read Again And Again After A Split
The weeks and months after a split can leave you feeling shaken up and completely unsure of yourself. You've spent years and maybe even decades with one person, so it's understandable that being on your own again might seem like a slightly scary prospect.
But while your life may feel completely unfamiliar right now, it won't always be that way. (And hey, you may even grow to love being on your own.)
As a reminder that life goes on and gets better post-split, we've rounded up some of our favorite quotes on single life, self-growth and embracing change. Read them below.
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30 definitive rock and roll quotes from music legends
30 definitive quotes from music legends ranging from Little Richard to Keith Richards
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Football Coaches' Quotes
"Show me a good and gracious loser … and I'll show you a failure." Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
"I make my practices real hard … because if a player is a quitter … I want him to quit in practice, not in a game." Bear Bryant / Alabama
"It isn't necessary to see a good tackle … You can hear it." Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
"At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat … That costs money and we don't have any." Erk Russell / Georgia Southern.
"Football is only a game. Spiritual things are eternal. Nevertheless, Beat Texas." Seen on a church sign in Arkansas prior to the 1969 game.
"After you retire, there's only one big event left … and I ain't ready for that." Bobby Bowden / Florida State
"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it." Lou Holtz / Arkansas
"When you win, nothing hurts." Joe Namath / Alabama
"Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated." Lou Holtz / Arkansas
"If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold … you gotta know the password, "Roll, tide, roll!" Bear Bryant / Alabama
"A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall." Frank Leahy / Notre Dame
"There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you." Woody Hayes / Ohio State
"I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation." Bob Devaney / Nebraska
"In Alabama, an atheist is … someone who doesn't believe in Bear Bryant." Wally Butts / Georgia
"You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life." Paul Dietzel / LSU
"It's kind of hard to rally around a math class." Bear Bryant / Alabama
When asked if Fayetteville was the end of the world. "No, but you can see it from here." Lou Holtz / Arkansas
"There's one sure way to stop us from scoring … give us the ball near the goal line." Matty Bell / SMU
"Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died." Frank Leahy / Notre Dame
"I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms – Truman's and Eisenhower's." Alex Karras / Iowa
"My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor." Bowden Wyatt / Tennessee
"I could have been a Rhodes Scholar … except for my grades." Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State
"Always remember … Goliath was a 40-point favorite over David." Shug Jordan / Auburn
"They cut us up like boarding house pie … And that's real small pieces." Darrell Royal / Texas
"They whipped us like a tied up goat." Spike Dykes / Texas Tech
"I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me and he said: 'Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren't any
good.'" Walt Garrison / Oklahoma State
"Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel." Bobby Bowden / Florida State
"Football is NOT a contact sport – it is a collision sport. Dancing IS a contact sport." Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State
After USC lost 51-0 to Notre Dame, his post-game message to his team: "All those who need showers … take them." John McKay / USC
"If lessons are learned in defeat … our team is getting a great education." Murray Warmath / Minnesota
"The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb." Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
"Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon." Spike Dykes / Texas Tech
"We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches." Darrell Royal / Texas
"We didn't tackle well today, but we made up for it by not blocking." John McKay / USC
"Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad." Darrell Royal / University of Texas
"I've found that prayers work best … when you have big players." Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
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How Well Do You Know Your 'Clueless' Quotes? [QUIZ]
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Test your memory of the now-20-year-old 'Clueless' with this way fun quotes quiz.
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101 Life Changing Quotes – Tim Beachum
101 Life Changing Quotes
Publish Date: May 13, 2012
Publisher: Tim Beachum
101 Life Changing Quotes is a gift from award winning author, Tim Beachum to all of his readers. For over two decades I have been starting each day off by reading a new positive, or motivational quote. My belief is what you put in your mind will manifest through your physical actions. Imagine reading wise words that you know for a fact has already motivated people throughout history. In life we are sometimes faced with obstacles that at the moment seem insurmountable. We will let whatever the obstacle is eat at us until we are mentally broken down. What we do not realize is, all negative obstacles in our lives are just like seasons. It to shall pass. It is not what happens to us in life, it is how we view what happens that will make the difference. This is where the quotes come in to play. For me these quotes help me to remember during my darkest days that this to shall pass! I am giving this book away free, however all I ask is that you pay it forward. Tell someone else about it, share it on your social network e.g. Facebook, Twitter – etc… Again thank you for downloading 101 Life Changing Quotes and I hope that it serves you as well as it has served me.
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Here's What It Would Look Like If Inspirational Quotes Were Honest, Vol. 4
If a tree falls in the woods, and you're not there to hear it, wouldn't you want it to fall on that friend who posts WAY too many inspirational quotes on Facebook?
Ah, the inspirational quote. On social media, it's like a language all its own. Whatever event is happening in someone's life, their is an eye-catching image and some pretty-fonted words to express the emotion attached to that event. But sometimes these inspirational quotes reach just a bit too far, and they need to be brought back down to earth.
Here are some of those inspirational quotes you're always sharing, and their more honest translations:
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The Most Popular Quotes From Summer's Best Beach Reads
Choosing what to read over summer vacation is a daunting task. Do you go for the new buzzy titles? Or that book from last year that you never got around to reading? And what if…
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Lil B Isn't Just Jinxing NBA Stars; He's Also Inspiring Yearbook Quotes
See how highschoolers are using Lil B quotes in their yearbooks.
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The 2015 GLAAD Media Awards: 5 Powerful and Inspiring Quotes
Tonight's GLAAD Media Awards in New York City honored media for their representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Glamour was nominated this year in the category of Outstanding Magazine Overall Coverage—and we…
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17 Kid Quotes That Will Make You Laugh So Hard You'll Cry
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Kids say the darndest things, often to the surprise and confusion of their parents. Whether they are asking the tough questions about life or having a chat with their toys, sometimes the craziest things come out of the mouths of babes. We recently asked the HuffPost community to share the funniest thing their kid said that week, and we got some great responses. Oh, to be a kid again!
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Happy Birthday, Grace Coddington! Her 10 Best Fashion Quotes, Ever
The 'Vogue' creative director (and uber fashionable cat lady) turns 74 on April 20, and to celebrate we've rounded up her best nuggets of wisdom from fifty plus years the fashion game.
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Quotes We Love From The Breakfast Club
Remember the great John Hughes film The Breakfast Club, in which five high school students (labeled as "the brain, the athlete, the basketcase, the princess and the criminal") are forced to peacefully coexist in Saturday detention? As the movie celebrates its 30th anniversary, cinemas throughout the United States are screening a special newly restored version of the movie on on March 26th and March 31. (Visit here for details.)
The Breakfast Club's many great lines continue to resonate. Like this passage:
Andrew: My God, are we gonna be like our parents?
Claire: [teary] Not me… ever.
Allison: It's unavoidable; it just happens.
Claire: What happens?
Allison: When you grow up, your heart dies.
John: So, who cares?
Allison: I care.
To read more memorable quotes from The Breakfast Club, click on this Parade.com story.
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'If You Stand For Equality, Then You're A Feminist': 9 Fab Quotes From Emma Watson's Facebook Q&A
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To commemorate International Women's Day, inspiring human and actress Emma Watson participated in a Q&A at the Facebook office in London to stress, yet again, just how critical it is for both women and men to come together in the fight for gender equality.
Watson clearly does not take the topic lightly; she is, after all, a United Nations Women Goodwill Ambassador who represents the organization's HeForShe Campaign, a movement that calls for both genders to advocate for equal rights.
Last year, during a stirring speech at the UN, Watson kicked off the solidarity campaign by formally inviting men everywhere to join the fight for women's rights. "I want men to take up this mantle. So their daughters, sisters and mothers can be free from prejudice but also so that their sons have permission to be vulnerable and human too — reclaim those parts of themselves they abandoned and in doing so be a more true and complete version of themselves," she said.
On Sunday, the 24-year-old "Harry Potter" actress reiterated the idea during the hour-long Q&A session, saying: "We're never, ever, ever going to be able to fly as high unless we're both in support of each other." Watson said many wonderful, powerful things about feminism and its impact on her life (all of which you can watch here). Below, we share nine of our favorite quotes.
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12 Beautiful Quotes From Women In Art Who Aren't Afraid To Call Out Injustice
Today is International Women's Day, a day globally dedicated to acknowledging the economic, social and political achievements of women across the world. In honor of the occasion, we're rounding up some of the best interviews we've had with women in the arts, all of whom aren't afraid to tackle the tough issues women face in their daily lives. From education to beauty, success to authenticity, popular perceptions of body hair to the epidemic of catcalling, these female artists don't veer away from injustice; instead, they face obstacles head on.
Behold, 12 beautiful quotes from women in the arts:
On the importance of education:
" It's not enough to have a few women's studies courses. Why is it more important to study Paul Revere's midnight ride than it is Susan B. Anthony's 50-year effort to transform the face of America for women? When you're in school, most of the events you study are about men. Men's activities lauded and repeated over and over. What about us? What about commemorating the decades-long struggle for suffrage? Why don't we hear those stories over and over and over again. It's almost inconceivable for men to understand what it would be like to live without that constant valorization."
On catcalling:
"There are always those who want to tell women that their experiences are not valid or not important whenever they speak up. For me, as a black woman, this is particularly true. Wanting the basic right of feeling comfortable and safe and not sexualized as I walk out of my house is very much worth prioritizing." -artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh (read more here)
On success in a contemporary world:
"Success is now lined up with the realm of glamour, money and accoutrement which in essence have nothing to do with an originating vision but they do have to do with establishing recognition in commercial culture. I think women artists have a chance to deflect that and break that grip apart." -performance artist Carolee Schneemann (read more here)
On finding your authentic self:
"I came of age before women's lib, and wanted to buck the stereotypes of a culture that branded me a pretty girl, thin enough to be a fashion model and not much more. Armed with my camera and tripod, I found a way to define myself on my own terms in the most authentic way I could." -photographer Lucy Hilmer (read more here)
On our culture's preoccupation with female body hair:
"I entered making this work with a sense of fascination that hair is both beautiful and repulsive in our culture. The fragile influence of context is its only distinction. We see long hair on a woman as a symbol of beauty and femininity, but as soon as the hair is cut or removed the body, we think of it as unsanitary and strange. Likewise, we seem to never have enough hair in the places we want it, and too much hair in the places that we don't want it to be!" -photographer Rebecca Drolen (read more here)
On definitions of beauty:
"The power to show real women, honest, present, complex and complete. Individuals, radiant in their own right. Not stripped of their personhood, or manipulated for a fantasy or metaphor. I like to think the power of lifting the veil from individuals helps to challenge societies darker fetishes and beliefs, perhaps shatter notions of bigotry and stereotypes… One of my greatest joys is working with women who do not usually dwell in this side of their beauty and yet in the work recognize themselves completely, as they are and magnificent." -painter Victoria Selbach (read more here)
On the realities of trans women:
"[My] series was inspired by my love for the trans women I have met online and my sympathy with the struggles they have being seen as women and people… Trans women are everywhere, but until recently have been marginalized by the invisibility enforced by the intensification of misogynist violence toward them. It is up to cisnormative society to stop questioning their femininity, embrace their beauty, and counter the disadvantages they have just by being themselves." -artist Janet Bruesselbach (read more here)
On gun control laws:
"My hope is that the young men in the 8th Ward and the surrounding neighborhoods are inspired to trade killing for creativity. Through the relationships they've developed they decide they can move past the paradigm of gangsters and guns. Healing in the neighborhood, by the neighborhood." -artist and curator Kirsha Kaechele (read more here)
On the radical nature of the selfie:
"Yes, of course they have the capability of being radical or feminist. Our generation knows the image of the self better then any other generation before, because of our access to cameras, media and sharing. And also, the language of the image is no longer in the hands of specialists. We are all experts in reading images and we know how to control and manipulate the viewer through images." – artist Melanie Bonajo (read more here)
On feminism's potential for future change:
"The Future Feminist point of view has increasingly leaned not towards striving for equal status within a male construct or a male society, but rather to invite a redesign of society based on the principles of a feminine archetype in order to create the hope of a sustainable future for us all." -The Future Feminists (read more here)
On inclusion in the art world:
"I am aware of the fact that in the bigger scheme of things in the art and literary worlds there are still a lot of gaps as far as diversity and representation goes. That is part of my personal inspiration to make art and tell stories and have more representation for women and people of color." -comic artist Yumi Sakugawa (read more here)
On hope
-Barbara Nessim (read more here)
Gay Voices – The Huffington Post
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10 Times Mean Girls Quotes Directly Applied to Motherhood
Cady. Regina. Gretchin. Karen.
We all know who they are.
But that was, like, 11 years ago. (I know, right? So last season.) Now, The Plastics are old enough to have squeezed out a few babies, bought Escalades and signed up for personal trainers while the kids are with the nanny.
Even though they're no longer the Queen Bees of North Shore High School, their words live on. And you know what?
They totally apply to motherhood.
1. "The limit does not exist."
Oh, you're tired? You've been up for two days straight and all the kids have stomach flu? What's that, you've reached your limit? HA! This is motherhood. "The limit" does not exist.
2. "It's like I have ESPN or something."
I can't tell the weather with my boobs, but I totally know that my kid is pooping by the way he is frozen in the corner, hiding behind a bookshelf. And I know when he needs a nap when he's screaming bloody murder while rolling around on the playground. It's like I have ESPN or something.
3. "You can't just ask someone why they're white."
There's more than one way to skin a cat and more than one way to start a family. Stop asking crazy questions.
4. "Don't have sex. You will get pregnant and die."
Pretty much.
5. "I can't help that I've got a heavy flow and a wide-set vagina."
Disgusting things happen. Thank you, childbirth.
6. "Did you see nipple? It only counts if you saw nipple!"
This is actually, literally Facebook's breastfeeding picture policy. Did you see nipple? Then you can't report me. HAHAHAHA!!!!
7. "Whatever, I'm getting cheese fries."
I usually give my kids organic homegrown everything from a juicer. I swear. (I'm lying.)
8. "I like invented her, you know what I mean?!"
That's right. I birthed that little punk, so she better get in line. I brought her into this world…
9. "I used to just think there was fat and skinny. But apparently, there are lots of things that can be wrong with your body."
Chin hairs, stretch marks, bladder leakage. Who cares about baby weight, I feel like Shrek!
10. "I'm a cool mom."
Wait, this doesn't apply. Cool Mom isn't even a thing… In fact, it's a total oxymoron.
Oh, you thought you were done with Mean Girls? Think again. Motherhood is its own high school lunchroom, and equally hard to navigate. The good news is when you become a mom, you are automatically upgraded to Queen Bee. (The kids are just our little workers). So hop in, biotch. We are going to the playground. And by the way…
On Wednesdays, we wear pink.
This post originally appeared on Mom Babble.
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8 Charlamagne Tha God Quotes That Prove He Should Be A Permanent Third 'Catfish' Host
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Charlamagne Tha God appeared on the Season 4 premiere of 'Catfish' and did a bang-up job — here are his best quotes.
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"All men are not homeless, but some men are home less than others." (Henry Youngman)
"To attract men, I wear a perfume called 'New Car Interior.'" (Rita Rudner)
"Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself — like, for instance, he can't
find any clean socks." (Jean Kerr)
"Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the
same choice we've always had: work or prison." (Tim Allen)
"I love men, even though they're lying, cheating scumbags." (Gwyneth Paltrow)
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Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Old age is when you're forced to. – Bill Vaughn
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man. – Benjamin Franklin
I'm a little bit older, a little bit wiser, a little bit rounder, but still none the wiser. – Robert Paul
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. – John Burroughs
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. – Albert Einstein
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9 of Taylor Swift's most Taylor Swift-y quotes from her WSJ op-ed
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Categories Entertainment ArticlesTags From, Most, OpEd, Quotes, Swift's, Swifty, Taylor | . We write lyrics, and I write lyrics that you don't realize what they mean till after." — Rolling Stone,1968, when asked about "philosophical analyses" of Strawberry Fields "In Baby You're A Rich Man the point was, stop moaning, you're a rich man and we're all rich, heh heh, baby!" — Rolling Stone, 1968 "I'm always proud and pleased when people do my songs. It gives me pleasure that they even attempt them, because a lot of my songs aren't that doable." — Playboy, 1981 "The images (in Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds) were from Alice in Wonderland. It was Alice in the boat. She is buying an egg and it turns into Humpty Dumpty. The woman serving in the shop turns into a sheep and the next minute they are rowing in a rowing boat somewhere and I was visualizing that. There was also the image of the female who would someday come save me … a 'girl with kaleidoscope eyes' who would come out of the sky. It turned out to be Yoko (Ono), though I hadn't met Yoko yet. So maybe it should be Yoko in the Sky With Diamonds." — Playboy, 1981 On himself: "I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic." — Look, 1966 "I'm a freakin' artist, man, not a (expletive) race horse." — Rolling Stone, 1975 "Yes, if there is such a thing, I am one." — Rolling Stone, 1971, when asked if he thought he was a genius "One of my big things is that I wish to be a fisherman. I know it sounds silly — and I'd sooner be rich than poor, and all the rest of that … but I wish the pain was ignorance or bliss or something." — Rolling Stone, 1971 "I never went to high school reunions. My thing is, out of sight, out of mind. That's my attitude toward life. So I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past." — Playboy, 1981 "I'm not telling. Lots more than I ever had before." — Rolling Stone, 1971, asked how much money he had "Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who controls me is me, and that's just barely possible." — Playboy, 1981 On marriage to Yoko Ono: "It was very romantic. It's all in the song, The Ballad of John and Yoko. If you want to know how it happened, it's in there. Gibraltar was like a little sunny dream. I couldn't find a white suit — I had sort of off-white corduroy trousers and a white jacket. Yoko had all white on." — Rolling Stone, 1971 "When we got married, we knew our honeymoon was going to be public, anyway, so we decided to use it to make a statement. We sat in bed and talked to reporters for seven days. It was hilarious. In effect, we were doing a commercial for peace on the front page of the papers instead of a commercial for war." — Playboy, 1981, on his and Ono's 1969 "Bed-In" "I was a working-class macho guy who was used to being served and Yoko didn't buy that. From the day I met her, she demanded equal time, equal space, equal rights." — Newsweek, 1980 "She inspired all this creation in me. It wasn't that she inspired the songs; she inspired me." — Playboy, 1981 "It is a teacher-pupil relationship. That's what people don't understand. She's the teacher and I'm the pupil. I'm the famous one, the one who's supposed to know everything, but she's my teacher." — Playboy, 1981 On fatherhood: "If you know your history, it took (Ono and me) a long time to have a live baby. And I wanted to give five solid years to Sean. I hadn't seen Julian, my first son (by ex-wife Cynthia), grow up at all. And now there's a 17-year-old man on the phone talking about motorbikes | 977 |
Time to get Medieval on the competition, because adidas has unsheathed their latest collection. It's called the Black Pack, and each silo has its own Middle Ages-themed design. These days, I'm pretty sure knighthood is solely bestowed upon famous actors, but a few hundred years ago, they were the baddest men on the planet. Adidas has decided to outfit all their new boots with a slick blackout knight-inspired upper design. You might have to get close to your screen to see the subtle touches, but they are more than impressive. Let's examine them one-by-one by injecting a little historical perspective to the proceedings.
History time!: You've probably seen the Fleur-de-lis before; it's one of the more ubiquitous symbols in history. It represents a stylized lily or iris flower. Having been featured on countless badges, coat of arms, and flags (including my hometown of St. Louis, Missouri) for centuries, it brings with it an air of royalty and austere beauty, which has to be why adidas is highlighting it on their new F50 adiZero.
Even though many countries have used the Fleur-de-lis, adidas has said this boot takes on a French theme, since the symbol was used to represent French royalty as far back as the 14th century. You know those coats knights wore over their chainmail? French knights had their family insignia sewn on their surcoats, many times using the Fleur-de-lis.
Anyway, this gorgeous blackout F50 weighs in at 194 grams and will be going for $230 retail (or $207 on SoccerPro). This is the first updated F50 that we haven't seen the "ghost graphic" on the upper, but it still is identifiably an F50, mostly because of that fantastic outsole.
History time!: The Ottoman Empire had their own elite infantry units, called Janissaries. Beginning in the late 14th century, Christian youths were taken from their families, converted to Islam, and taught strict discipline to become soldiers of the Ottoman Empire. A Janissary was basically a paid slave, but they were lethal. Before the advent of firearms, they were skilled archers before later utilizing muskets to carry out their protective duties.
Janissaries eventually met a sudden and dramatic end. As militaries began modernizing toward a more Western European-style, the Janissaries became increasingly and desperately violent against their own as their relevance slipped. By 1826, they were no longer the fierce outfit of past centuries and Mahmud II, the Empire's Sultan, knew<|fim_middle|> it because it looks so wonderfully regal. What is clear about this 11Pro is its synthetic construction, as opposed to the Kangaroo leather we have seen since the next-generation 11Pro was released in November of last year. I assume it's because imprinting those graphics on a leather upper would be quite difficult. It should be interesting to see what folks think of a synthetic 11Pro on the field. This one comes in at 237g and costs $195 retail ($175 at SoccerPro).
Man, a blackout Nitrocharge just looks right, doesn't it? This one won't be getting a historical overview, because there isn't much to explain. According to adidas, its upper has been adorned with Italian Renaissance features. Since the Renaissance is one of the most discussed epochs in history, I'll let you do your own research if you aren't familiar. Sorry.
This Nitrocharge weighs 228g on the scale and will force you to fork over $199 retail, which could be worth it because this thing looks magnificent.
History time!: Showing off the legendary Tudor rose, the Predator Instinct represents British knights of the Middle Ages. The story behind this floral English symbol is fascinating. After Henry VII, of the House of Lancaster, defeated Richard III, from the House of York, he married Elizabeth of York and merged the Houses' rose symbols: red for Lancaster, white for York. This became known as the War of the Roses.
The problem is that this was most likely all just a marketing ploy by King Henry VII. According to historian Thomas Penn, Henry rebranded the kingdom under the Tudor rose even though his House never regularly used the red rose as its symbol. It's probable that nobody at the time thought of it as the War of the Roses at all. Related: History is written by the winners (Predators).
At 273g, the Predator is the heaviest of the four. Its $230 retail price (one last time: it's less at SoccerPro) aligns it with the F50 price-wise.
my name's illiad and I was wondering if there is a place where I could find 11pro black 10.5 cleats. I went to soccerpro but they're all sold out. I have a pair but they're falling apart and I really want a new one. | something had to be done. Some historians believe he incited a Janissary mutiny and then set fire to their barracks, killing thousands. Survivors were executed or exiled and Mahmud's successful eradication of the Janissaries became known as the Auspicious Incident.
This 11Pro apparently has the feel of Janissary attire, but it's difficult for me to point out specifically why. We'll just take their word for | 91 |
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LAS VEGAS, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- George C. Biehl, chief financial officer and corporate secretary for Southwest Gas Corporation, has been elected to the company's Board of Directors, according to Michael <|fim_middle|> Gas in 1990 as senior vice president and chief financial officer after serving as the chief financial officer for PriMerit Bank for five years. Prior to that, he served in a number of capacities with the national accounting firm of Deloitte Haskins & Sells for 16 years.
A graduate of Ohio State University with a degree in accounting, Biehl completed his master's in business administration with an emphasis in finance from Columbia University. He is a licensed certified public accountant in several states and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He is also a member of the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce Leadership Las Vegas Program, and serves on the finance committees of several trade associations. | 0. Maffie, Southwest's president and chief executive officer.
Biehl, 50, joined Southwest | 24 |
Who needs flights to Cuba when cigar partying with 'Castro' rocks in H-Town?
Who needs flights to Cuba when partying with 'Castro' rocks in H-Town?
The scoop: Bar Bleu was indeed blue, awash in clouds of cigar smoke during the eighth annual Cuban-themed mid-summer bash. Guys and dolls, many in fedoras, all in cool summer chic threads, partied as if they were already on the streets of old Havana. Mojitos and margaritas flowed and, yes, the stogies were Cuban.
DJ Senega spun the tunes while the 1,000 generous partygoers (the biggest haul yet for the annual event) filled the coffers on behalf of Big Brothers Big Sisters. Among highlights: Fidel Castro aka David King Jr. provided a 1982 Cadillac Fleetwood limo for the step and repeat, "Havana Cigar Girl"<|fim_middle|>man Brown, Jed English, Tanner Atkinson, Isabella Dao, Amber Maelin, and Fidel Castro aka David King. | Carmen Patricia Martinez brought the cigars, a special appearance by Optimus Prime, and late night arrival of Minion.
Who: Stacy and John Andell, Andrea Simmons, David Rafferty, Katherine Sin, Shiva Rafferty, Sahar Rahmani, Tien Davis, Stephanie Valentz, Minda Post, Ted | 66 |
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We are approximately 4 miles from the ocean and, as our name implies, we are situated on the top of a bluff, the clubhouse features a 3-table billiard room, card room with small library, and a full-sized catering kitchen. The main reception room is large enough to seat 200+ residents.
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Curtain Call has a fabulous new sponsor, Pretty Pink Posh, for the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge: Pink & Pretty! The LEAD of this challenge will receive a gift certificate to the Pretty Pink Posh Shop<|fim_middle|> simple and cute card!
So cute. I like the scalloped die. Hope you have a Happy, Happy Day.
A belated Happy Birthday! What a fun card! | !
For this card I used Reverse Confetti's scalloped die from the Love Note die set. I added in some clear acetate for the window and added in some Gold Confetti from the Pretty Pink Post shop. The banner is from Reverse Confetti's Tag me Die set and the sentiment from Beautiful Banners, I heat embossed in gold as well.
The background is made from layering some gold striped washi tape.
Stop by the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge: Pink & Pretty and play along with us!
OOOO! this is fabulous (love that you worked smart and combined the challenges). Love your shaker!
LOVE the gold confetti! So much fun and happy birthday!!
Happy Birthday sweet lady! Enjoy your day! What a sweet card. Love the sequins framed with the cute scallop frame.
Happy Birthday Laurie! I hope you have a fabulous day!!!
The happiest of birthday wishes and blessings to you Laurie!! PRETTY card, love the shaker frame.
Happy birthday! Wishing you a fantabulous day!!
Happy Birthday, Laurie! I love your card, love all of the pretty gold!!
Great way to spend part of your day! Happy Birthday!
So perfect. Happy birthday to you!!!! I hope you've been feeling better and were able to really celebrate!
Happy Birthday ! Love the simplicity of both shaker cards! Hope you had a great day!
I love love love this Laurie!!
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IMSA's Fittipaldi Sets Retirement Date
Jim Pedley | Managing Editor, RacinToday.com Saturday, August 4 2018
Sports car driver Christian Fittipaldi said he will retire after next year's Rolex <|fim_middle|> second. Michael wasn't happy about that, but I don't really care. That was one of the days that I'll definitely never forget." | 24 at Daytona.
Christian Fittipaldi, a two-time IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Prototype champion, announced Saturday that he is retiring following the 2019 Rolex 24 at Daytona.
Fittipaldi has collected victories in the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring, Motul Petit Le Mans and the Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen, and three Rolex 24 At Daytona wins.
"Because I wanted to give it a shot," he said when asked why he will wait until Daytona '19 to retire. "I owe a lot to Daytona. I owe a lot to the France family and Daytona has brought me a lot of happiness. I have had a lot of success there. We won three times. I think I have six or seven podiums in total. Maybe it's not Scott Pruett's statistics, but it's not bad."
Fittipaldi's third Rolex 24 win, which came this year in the No. 5 Mustang Sampling Cadillac DPi-V.R with Filipe Albuquerque and his longtime co-driver, Joao Barbosa, with whom he shared the championships and the majority of his IMSA wins, was what started him thinking about retirement from driving.
"I think one of the last items of it – and it was a huge weight that came off my back – was Daytona this year," he said. "After what happened in 2017 – and don't take me wrong, I'm not here to point fingers if Ricky (Taylor) should be disqualified or if he shouldn't. I'm way beyond that. If he pulled a good move or a bad move, at the end of the day, we lost the race and they won the race, and I thought we would have won the race. So, we kept that for almost a year and it was heavy inside the team.
"When we managed to pull it this year, I said, 'Wow, three is a cool number.' Obviously, four, five or six would be even nicer, but three is a cool number. I think that started generating the little snowball. From that point onward, I went to Long Beach and it was the first time I was out of the car and I was spotting for the team and helping out the team technically. Then something else clicked in.
"My relationship with my family, my daughter, my age, so it's the package. It's not one thing. It's not that I went out there, I had a huge accident and said, 'Whoa, now I'm afraid of doing this. I can't do this anymore.' It wasn't that. It was the package and I think the timing is correct. I'm going to respect the timing a lot."
If Fittipaldi does win the Rolex 24 again next year, it'll be his fourth overall victory. The record – shared by Hurley Haywood and Pruett – is five.
"No," Fittipaldi replied to the obvious question of if he'd go for five. "Honestly, I think that's very unlikely to happen, because I respect my decision. Everything has a beginning, middle and an end. I'm not going to force the issue beyond the end. I would be more than happy with that.
"I would be more than happy to let Hurley and Scott keep the five and I'll keep the four. The five are in great hands. Never say never, but honestly, I do not see that happening. Especially at the level that IMSA is running at right now. You can't hop in the car, do half a stint, get out of the car and that's it. It's a huge team effort out there and you need to be on top of your game, otherwise you're not going to move forward."
Fittipaldi can move forward knowing he's accomplished plenty in his career. Prior to embarking on his sports car career, Fittipaldi was a successful Indy car racer, who earned his first victory here at Road America in 1999. The significance of that wasn't lost on Fittipaldi.
"I think one of the best days of my racing career happened in this track back in 1999, where [Fittipaldi's Newman/Haas Racing team co-owner] Carl Haas was the promoter," Fittipaldi said. "The CEOs from [team sponsors] Texaco and Kmart were here and we had a flawless weekend, we had a flawless race and we finished 1-2. It was my first win and Michael (Andretti) finished | 941 |
I have a pretty set in stone routine with my usual skin and body care products, so I wanted to to give Nathalie's completely natural and organic range a go to see how my skin got on as I'm trying to make a conscious effort to introduce more organic and natural products into my skin care and make up routine!
They sent me the most gorgeous package of some of their beautiful products. Each product was in a different scent that they make, so I could put each one to the smell test. The products were beautifully presented in the box, wrapped in delicate tissue paper sealed with fresh little cuts of lavender that fell out of the package as I opened it!
Products: Lemon Grass Body and Face Scrub, A Rose Geranium and Patchouli Skin Balm, A Lavender and Bergamot cold pressed soap block and finally a Peppermint Lip balm.
Nathalie describes this products as an exfoliating body scrub to revitalise tired and dull skin- With ingredients such as dead sea salts, coconut oil and jojoba oil with the natural fragrance of lemon grass, it helps to brighten up your skin and your shower experience.
Well it certainly does what it<|fim_middle|>bing away dull, old skin cells. Once I'd showered if off, my skin was left feeling uber soft, nourished and awake! I loved it!
This scrub could also easily be used on the skin of the face if used gently. I also tried it as a lip scrub along with the lip balm which I will talk about later on and it gave my lips the perfect surface, ready for my lipstick.
The Skin balm Nathalie has created is just the perfect multi tasking product! I first tried it out by using it on my body, using just a small amount and warming it up in my hands until it melts into a oily texture, allowed me to sweep it evenly all over my body. My skin still felt just as moisturised as if you'd used a larger amount of lotion or cream. I felt this texture gave it that extra luxurious feeling, like you are using something of true quality.
The mix of Rose Geranium and patchouli essential oil gives it a deeply relaxing and calming aroma. I feel using the mixture of using the scrub in this scent or even the Orange & Cedarwood scent in the bath or shower then the skin balm after would be the most calm and indulgent way to relax in the evening before bed!
I'd say this product would work beautifully for someone with severely dry skin on their face and wanting to achieve a super hydrated glowing finish to their foundation. Using a little of this product instead of a usual moisturiser would be just the trick to ensure a dryer skin type stays hydrated all day long and the foundation keeps that natural looking radiance.
Now if I'm being really honest, I would never usually use a soap block other than to wash my hands. Having always had quite dehydrated or dry skin, I've always kept away from using soap based cleansers or body washes however this soap block doesn't have the same effect I'd often get- That tight feeling on the surface of the skin!
I used this on my body because for my skin type on my face, I feel it wouldn't be the right product. Over all this is a beautiful smelling and lathering soap wash but not something I would use day to day on my skin. I would use it as a luxurious, non drying hand soap!
I have been a huge fan of the lip balms for a good while now, it was one of the first products I used from the range and I instantly fell in love with texture, effect and benefits it has!
First, lets talk about the scent. I'd usually use the sweet orange fragrance however since getting the peppermint fragrance, I think I may have a new favourite. I love how truly minty it is, it doesn't at all have a synthetic taste or smell- Well of it doesn't, its completely natural and organic!!
The lip balm in itself has such an uber hydrating texture. Having the essential oils in there, again like the other products gives a gorgeous smooth, silky finish.
Now this products has been a miracle saviour for quite a few of my lipsticks!
I have a lot of lipsticks that I love purely for the colour but the texture or finish isn't great- for example, I struggle with a lot of matte finish lipsticks but buy them for the colours. This is where the Lip Balm as become an absolute must have- Using a little of the lip balm under matte lip stick, just transforms it into this super hydrating, satin finish.
Go and check out Nathalie Bond Organics and give some of her beautiful natural products a go! | say's on the tin!
It's amazingly vibrant and fresh scent instantly lifts you, I'd say its definitely one for the morning shower! The product and effects itself are just as uplifting- When applied onto the skin it has a smooth oily texture along with the exfoliating salts, I like that it didn't feel rough but you could feel it working. The essential oil of the lemongrass along with the exfoliation feels like its hydrating and nourishing whilst scrub | 97 |
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Report on Karymsky (Russia) — 1 May-7 May 2019
Karymsky
1 May-7 May 2019
Global Volcanism Program, 2019. Report on Karymsky (Russia). In: Sennert, S K (ed.), Weekly Volcanic Activity Report, 1 May-7 May 2019. Smithsonian Institution and US Geological Survey.
Weekly Report (1 May-7 May 2019)
KVERT reported that a weak thermal anomaly over Karymsky was visible in satellite images during 27 and 30 April and 1 May. The Aviation Color Code remained at Orange (the second highest level on a four-color scale).
Geological Summary. Karymsky, the most active volcano of Kamchatka's eastern volcanic zone, is a symmetrical stratovolcano constructed within a 5-km-wide caldera that formed during the early Holocene. The caldera cuts the<|fim_middle|> of the cone is mantled by lava flows less than 200 years old. Historical eruptions have been vulcanian or vulcanian-strombolian with moderate explosive activity and occasional lava flows from the summit crater. | south side of the Pleistocene Dvor volcano and is located outside the north margin of the large mid-Pleistocene Polovinka caldera, which contains the smaller Akademia Nauk and Odnoboky calderas. Most seismicity preceding Karymsky eruptions originated beneath Akademia Nauk caldera, located immediately south. The caldera enclosing Karymsky formed about 7600-7700 radiocarbon years ago; construction of the stratovolcano began about 2000 years later. The latest eruptive period began about 500 years ago, following a 2300-year quiescence. Much | 145 |
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Women's Basketball: No. 21 Buckeyes outpace Bowling Green 94-63
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Ohio State women's basketball sings Carmen Ohio after the Ohio State-Bowling Green game on Wednesday. Ohio State won 94-63. Credit: Gabe Haferman | Assistant Photo Editor
Behind a brilliant shooting performance, the No. 21 Ohio State women's basketball team outpaced Bowling Green Wednesday at Value City Arena, defeating its in-state rival 94-63.
Although head coach Robyn Fralick's team (1-2, 0-0 Mid-American Conference) held its first two opponents to a combined 37 percent shooting, the Buckeyes were dominant on the offensive end from the opening tip, shooting 56.6 percent from the field and 57 percent from three.
Head coach Kevin McGuff said his team gained momentum from its strong start, as it allowed the Buckeyes to find their rhythm on both ends of the court.
"I thought we had a great start, and I thought that had a significant impact on the game on both ends of the floor," McGuff said. "I thought we showed up focused and ready to go with great effort and energy."
Leading the offense for Ohio State (2-0, 0-0 Big Ten) was senior guard Taylor Mikesell, who set the tone in the first quarter with 10 points on 3-of-5 shooting, including a four-point play with 6:18 remaining in the period.
The Massillon, Ohio, native, who tied the team-high in points with 19 on 6-of-10 shooting,said she and her teammates were able to find their rhythm because of the spacing and selflessness they played with on offense.
"We've stressed a lot about trying to get the ball side to side," Mikesell said. "We want to reverse the ball a little bit and try and get everybody a touch. It makes the defense work more, so it's easier to break down the defense when you switch sides and you get better reads."
Joining Mikesell on the offensive front was junior forward Rebeka Mikulasikova and junior guard Jacy Sheldon, who each reached double figures with 19 and 17 points, respectively.
McGuff said he was especially impressed with the Nitra, Slovakia, native's ability to assert her dominance in the paint throughout the game, as it allowed his team to space the floor and get more open shots.
"We need her presence to get us a little balance in how we play, especially on offense," McGuff said. "We play a little smaller around her, but we can really space the floor because everybody can shoot it. So she needs to give us a presence there and she's been doing it."
Being the only forward in a starting lineup consisting of four guards, the 6-foot-4 forward said she placed extra emphasis on performing inside the paint, as it was needed in order to slow down a formidable Falcons frontcourt which features its top two scorers.
"We have four guards and just me, so I know I have to play inside, play hard, grab the rebound," Mikulasikova said. "It is a lot of responsibility, but I feel like I am working hard and trying my best down there."
On the defensive end, the Buckeyes' defense generated 25 turnovers by putting pressure on its guards and disrupting the flow of the Falcons' offense — one which has four players averaging double figures in points.
Mikesell said instituting a full-court press sped up the game and allowed the team to play at a pace that is geared towards its strengths.
"We've been stressing it a lot," Mikesell said. "Since we are a little bit undersized, we have to put people in tougher situations and pressure them full court. I think it plays to our full strengths, being predominantly guards."
The Buckeyes will return to action Tuesday when they host Bellarmine of the Atlantic-Sun Conference. The contest will tip off at 7 p.m.
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SOUTHPORT F<|fim_middle|> TODAY | LOWER SHOW BOOKS ITS PLACE IN HISTORY
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The seeds for the new book were sown by Objective One funding from Business Link for Greater Merseyside which subsidised PR company support for the design and production of the glossy 62-page publication.
Judy Haselhurst, the Show's marketing manager said:- "This year's event will be bigger and better than ever before and we hope to go on building on our success.
The book will play a part in this while the PR support from Paver Downes Associates also includes promoting the Show, conducting market research and providing photo displays around the site."
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By Jonathan Kliment
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With all of the extracurricular activity taking place tonight, the festivities did not fail to start right away. Within three minutes of puck drop, Elmira already found themselves trailing on the scoreboard. Coming into the game, Elmira's plan was to contain Danville's leading goal scorer, Stephen Gaul. However, early on, the slippery center was able to make his presence known. The Dashers took off on a 3-on-2 fast break, with Head Coach Brent Clarke on the defense. Ultimately targeting the rusty veteran, Danville was able to find Clarke on the weak-side and seam a pass across the slot that left a wide open net for Gaul, marking his 15th goal on the year. Later in the period, Clarke started shaking off the rust and holding his own, peppering some shots on goal and making some crisp tape-to-tape passes. Eventually, the Enforcers were able to strike with just 17 seconds remaining in the first period. Tom Tracy was able to pound home a rebound after a booming slap shot came from the point off the stick of Cameron Yarwood. Better late than never, the Enforcers were able to knot the score at 1-1 before heading into the locker room after dominating the shot chart, 18-9.
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When it comes to the Enforcers, you never know what surprise may be thrown your way. However, you can always rely on some quality and entertaining hockey. The fans who walked into the arena tonight most likely did not expect their Head Coach to tally an assist, but it got the job done and sent the crowd home happy.
Come down to First Arena tomorrow night at 7:05 PM to see what the Enforcers may have up their sleeve in a rematch with the Danville Dashers. The Enforcers will look to continue to make history and secure their fifth win in a row.
Photo credit: Andy Malnoske of WETM | of the Danville goaltender, leaving Reynolds a juicy rebound. Doing what he does best, Reynolds lit the lamp and proceeded to celebrate twice in one shift. After putting the team on his back with hustle and production, Reynolds and the Enforcers left the ice after two periods with a 3-1 lead.
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It also means the possibility of increased errors.
I was recently speaking with an attorney about this very issue. He pointed out that a consulting physician wrote a narrative note that did not include key information that he later dictated into the EMR. Most of the treating team members relied on the handwritten consultation note…to the detriment of the patient.
Consider this…is it reasonable to expect healthcare providers to look for patient information in multiple places? Does it make sense to have patient information that is not cohesive and readily available in one place? Who has time to click through many computer screens, especially in an emergency?
The bottom line is that in order to prevent "dropping the ball" in patient care, members of the healthcare team must find ways to promote excellence in their communication, and document as if their patient's life depends on it | 286 |
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In the category of leaving the bad news to the end, we must report the death on August 20, 2003, of Bill Knittel as a result of a cerebral hemorrhage. We have little information at this time other than that Bill was a doctor living in Puyallup, Washington.
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By Gregory A. Weiss
"As an active participant in international business," Tom Barry is "delighted that President Levin's administration is making major efforts and enjoying success in making Yale a truly international univer-sity. My family is well; Pat and I are fortunate to be parents of Oliver, Princeton '05; Lillian, Yale '08 (one-year deferment before entering); and Michael, 11th grade."
We received a nice note from James Levin proudly announcing, with his wife Joanna, the marriage of their daughter, Lori Christ, to Adam Siegel. "They were married September 5 on the private outdoor terrace at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, with the hotel's fountains dancing to the Sinatra version of 'Fly Me to the Moon.' Our daughter, Debra Christ, was maid of honor. Serendipity! While staying in Las Vegas, we bumped into my college roommate, Harvey Berman, the mystery bookstore entrepreneur and his wife, Dr. Lois Berman, the noted New York psychologist, at the high-limit and baccarat tables. They said they were ahead!!"
Clark Abbott's "only excitement" is the arrival of second grandchild — a boy — "currently expected to join the Class of 2024." Clark is looking forward to seeing everybody in January at the Vail mini-reunion. A short note from Bob Fischer in Vienna, Virginia: "Still systems director at the Aerospace Corporation, leading efforts to use space systems to support the U.S. Looking forward to 2004 presidential election as an extension of Yale class elections (grin)."
Bill McKelvy's wife Dana reports that Bill will retire in January 2004, after 30 years of flying for Fed Ex. "Seems just a moment ago that we came to Memphis after the Vietnam years." Dug Chisholm's daughter Sara is attending grad school in forensic and clinical psychology. His son, Dugald III, has just begun medical school at Tufts. "Getting older takes its toll," says Dug; | 436 |
AT&T Shifts Exec Duties, Puts Mobile and Video Under One Roof
By Diana Goovaerts | February 2, 2016
AT&T is seeking to strengthen the ties between its mobile and video services with a shift in responsibilities for two of its top executives.
According to a report from CNET, the company has shifted responsibility for<|fim_middle|> la Vega's involvement in wireless and IP services as head of AT&T's Business Solutions. Comments from AT&T about the reason for the change have also been added.
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Key takeaways from 6G Symposium | the company's consumer mobility operations from former mobile head Ralph de la Vega to John Stankey, head of the company's DirecTV, Internet and TV businesses as CEO of the Entertainment group. Glenn Lurie, chief of the company's mobility business, will now report to report to Stankey.
AT&T said de la Vega will remain involved with wireless and IP services as CEO of AT&T's Business Solutions unit and will continue to run the company's Mexican wireless operations, but will also take over responsibility for DirecTV's Latin American businesses.
Both Stankey and de la Vega will report to AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson.
The moves come as AT&T looks to offer more integrated service choices to consumers, incorporating wireless with broadband and video services.
"To help us better execute on that strategy for consumers and deliver an integrated entertainment, mobile and broadband experience that is truly unique, we're moving to a single consumer organization," an AT&T spokesman said in an emailed statement Tuesday. "With a single organization…we can deliver the fully integrated entertainment, mobile and broadband solutions consumers want. We made a similar move for our business customers in 2014 when we integrated our mobility and business solutions group, and the results of that have been terrific."
Since AT&T's merger with DirecTV, Stephenson has been vocal in stating his opinion that the operator has the most unique set of assets – which he has called premium content – in the market and is in the best position to provide new options to consumers.
During the company's fourth quarter earning call last week, Stephenson said the company is planning to roll out several new integrated offerings throughout the year, the first of which is expected within 45 days.
Earlier this month, the company rolled out a new unlimited deal linking its video and wireless services. The promotion offered new and existing DirecTV and U-Verse subscribers an AT&T wireless plan with unlimited data.
According to Stephenson, more than a half a million wireless customers have already taken advantage of the promotion. Stephenson said that figure was part of a growing trend the company is seeing in customers bundling mobile with broadband and video services
This story has been updated to clarify Ralph de | 444 |
The purposes in an organisation's rules are really important and this page explains why broadly worded purposes may not be acceptable.
The written purposes of an organisation, as set out in its rules, are important in that they determine the type of activities that the organisation<|fim_middle|> "principles" section in their rules. This section often includes more broad terms that articulate the way that the organisation will carry out its purposes. For example "honouring the Treaty of Waitangi" or "contributing to a fair and equal society". This is acceptable as long as one of the purposes of the organisation is not to carry out the principles. | may carry out. These rules will bind not only the people currently involved in the organisation but the people who are involved in the future. Having very clear purposes is important so that the charitable objects of an organisation are not lost in the future.
Having a broad purpose that can be interpreted in a number of different ways can be problematic if one of the ways that the purpose could be interpreted is not charitable. We have included some examples below and note that the ideas and logic applied in these examples applies equally to other broad purposes.
If an organisation had a purpose to "promote social wellbeing" this could be interpreted in many ways. One organisation might use this purpose to mean helping the elderly from becoming isolated from the community. This is a charitable purpose. Another organisation might use this purpose to mean promoting social events or promoting friendship or fellowship. These are not charitable purposes (while they may be worthy purposes the promotion of entertainment or friendship are not charitable). This is why purposes should be clear that they are limited to charitable purposes, for example "to promote social inclusion for elderly people at risk of isolation".
A purpose that is not exclusively charitable is "to raise the standard of life". An organisation could undertake many activities in the name of raising the standard of life, some of these might advance charitable purposes and some might not. One organisation might use this purpose to mean helping families in poverty by providing them with fruit and vegetables and healthy cooking classes. This is a charitable purpose of advancement of health and relief of poverty. Another organisation might use this purpose to mean promoting businesses in a community so that these businesses will grow and bring money and jobs to the community. This is unlikely to be a charitable purpose unless the community in question is deprived relative to the rest of New Zealand. This is because, unless the community is deprived, the private benefit to the business owners is unlikely to be incidental to the public benefit to the community, i.e. there is too much private benefit. The first organisation could instead use an exclusively charitable purpose such as "to relieve poverty and advance health for local families".
To promote the education, spiritual, health, economic and social development of the community.
This purpose is not exclusively charitable. The promotion of health and education are charitable, and the promotion of spiritual development may be charitable, but the promotion of social and economic development is too broad to be considered charitable at law.
It is common for organisations to include a long list of possible areas that they may wish to cover in the future. This is especially true for organisations starting out and/or those representing communities such as iwi or hapū.
A purpose should be written in a way that is expressly charitable and describes how the organisation achieves the purpose. For example, to promote education by providing classes in Te Reo Māori.
Broad purposes that are expressly charitable will be accepted but organisations will need to provide detailed information about the intended activities to meet registration requirements and keep us up to date if those activities substantially change after registration.
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At this point it is such a cliche to make New Year's Resolution, and so many people have the experience of making them and not keeping them that it can seem futile. However, setting goals, making timelines for those goals, and periodically reviewing those goals is always a good idea and a New Year is a good a time as any to do that.
If one of these ten goals don't resonate with you I would be very surprised. Consider adding a couple to your list of resolutions for the New Year.
Review Salaries: Take a look at your company's pay rates and make sure you are keeping up with the industry and what people are paying in your region. Particularly look at the 20% of your staff that gets most of the work done. Don't lose your best press set up person over $2 an hour, don't be paying your invaluable artist $20 an hour when the going rate is $25, don't pay your bookkeeper that knows your business inside and out $18 an hour only to find out that you are going to have to hire a rookie to replace them at $25.
<|fim_middle|>. Also talk to your suppliers, maybe they can save you a bundle buying a drum instead of a five, 50 yards of mesh instead of 10, or what have you.
Try Something New: Resolve this year to try something to give you more game, because if you don't move forward you go backwards. It is time to try discharge ink, s-mesh, subcontracting some DTG work out, roll-on platen adhesive, puff embroidery, or something new. Between info on line, reputable suppliers, and your own efforts you can figure out a couple things to improve your decorating. | Learn Something: Make plans to go the Long Beach ISS show or Printing United or to ThreadX, read Impressions, get in an online Facebook group with folks that know something. Invest in your brain.
Squeegees: Sharpen your squeegees or throw them out. Now.
Washing Machine: If you don't put one in your shop, make sure you regularly test your prints for cure by washing them at home or a laundromat. Nothing else will really tell you if you are getting a good cure.
Safety Walk: Take a walk around your shop inside and out and look around. Those dust bunnies on top of the ceiling are a fire hazard, the extension cord laying across the floor is a no-no, that loose railing on the front steps, that dead tree limb over the parking lot, the fire extinguisher that has expired, etc.
Computer Backups: Make sure all your data is getting backed up regularly and that the back up really works. That's art department, bookkeeping, emails, and order info. Make sure it also regularly goes physically off site or in the cloud as well.
Spare parts: Make sure you have all the spare parts you need to keep going, particularly the inexpensive ones. At the least don't be shut down by a belt that tears, a bulb that burns out, or bushings on your press.
Review Pricing: Make sure you aren't overpaying for the things you buy the most of like reclaiming chemicals or ink. Don't go across the street for a penny, but if you are paying $35 more per five gallon of white ink you might at least want to discuss it with your current supplier | 344 |
Former Bristol Rovers and Bristol City defender suffers heart attack
Fans and clubs on both sides of the Severn are sending their best wishes
Christian Edwards celebrating after scoring Bristol Rovers' second goal in a 3-1 win over Northampton Town on January 3, 2005
The football world on both sides of the Severn have been sending their best wishes to Christian Edwards, one of the few players to have played for both Bristol Rovers and Bristol City, who has suffered a suspected heart attack.
The 43-year-old collapsed at training session at Cardiff Met FC, where he is the manager, and is currently in hospital.
Edwards was rushed to hospital on Thursday evening, and a statement from the Welsh Premier League side said they are hopeful for his recovery.
"Cardiff Met FC are sending our best wishes to our manager Christian who last night suffered a suspected heart attack at training," a statement from the club said.
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"We can confirm he is okay and under observation. We would like to thank you for your kind words and messages," it added.
A host of rival teams have sent their best wishes to the boss, who had a long career as a player in Wales and England.
Caerphilly-born Edwards began his career at Swansea, before moving to Nottingham Forest for five years between 1998 and 2003.
Christian Edwards
While at Forest, he went to four different clubs in five loan spells, including playing three games on loan at Bristol City in the 1998-99 season.
He moved from Forest to Bristol Rovers in 2003, and was one game short of the 100 club in three injury-hit seasons at the heart of Rovers' defence.
<|fim_middle|> wishes to Christian and hope for a speedy recovery.
"If we can do anything to help please do let us know, including for those who were in training with Christian at the time." | He ended his career with a brief spell at Forest Green Rovers, before four seasons at Aberystwyth Town, where he began his management career.
Edwards has taken Cardiff Met up four flights in the Welsh football pyramid, and they are now in the Welsh Premier League - and became the first British University men's team to play in European competition this summer when they made the preliminary round of the Europa League.
Aberystwyth Town tweeted their support, saying: "Aberystwyth Town Football Club extends its best | 107 |
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Interviewing Then and Now: How Job Interviews Differ from Fellowship Interviews
Published on: Jan 21, 2020
If you're a medical resident or fellow, you may have wondered if your future job interviews will be any different than the interviews you participated in for your current role. After all, both situations use roughly the same cast of characters: the candidate (you), a department chair or other management-team member, and possibly someone<|fim_middle|> out of medical school and neurology residencies and fellowships are highly trained and resilient. They have embraced remarkable challenges at a young age. I believe if you're lucky enough to be a neurologist, you will shoulder unbelievable responsibilities and are on the brink of a life of deep relationships with your patients and understanding of mankind. I believe that people know what they want really; they just have to express it."
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Not only is the process different, but so are the stakes. Consider this: When you interview for a fellowship, it's only for a year or two. Everyone involved tries to make the best match possible, but even so, it's understood that the time will pass quickly. So it's not the end of the world if the fit isn't just right between the candidate and the organization. But when you interview for a permanent position, your future employer is taking the long view. Suddenly it matters very much if he or she likes you as a person, believes you'll fit with the team, and trusts your ability to move forward with the organization's goals. And sometimes those goals won't even be clearly defined. That's quite different from a fellowship, where the structure is evident from the outset.
Here's what Judy Rosman, president and CEO of Rosman Search says about the two processes: "When you're interviewing for a fellowship, it's very clear what your job is. And the people are there to train you. In some ways, they're there to serve you. But when you're interviewing for a job, you have to demonstrate that you're ready and eager to serve them. And it's often less clear what they want you to do."
Stephen M. Sergay, MB BCh, FAAN, managing partner of Tampa Neurology Associates and former president of the American Academy of Neurology (2007–2009), agrees that at least some fellowship hiring strategies differ from those for a job. For one thing, both parties in the conversation know what the candidates' interests are before interviews are even scheduled. "With a fellowship," he notes, "you've already declared your hand: 'I want to work with seizure disorders.' So you might expect to be asked, 'What attracts you about seizure disorders?'"
By contrast, Sergay says interview conversations for permanent positions are necessarily more layered, at least when he conducts them for Tampa Neurology Associates. "We have a general neurology practice with some subspecialists," he explains, "and I believe that being a clinician is a calling, not a trade. It's challenging to be with patients all day if you don't enjoy being with people." With that in mind, Sergay says that is he is watching for a combination of skills, approach, personality, and chemistry. Each criterion can be difficult to discern from a single point of reference so he relies on a number of steps: phone interviews, followed by conversations with the references the candidate provides, followed by conversations with his partners to confirm their comfort, and finally, daylong interviews for a final few. It's an intensive and expensive process with a high stakes outcome: The chosen candidate is employed with the group's understanding that there is a high likelihood that this candidate will continue to partnership. "We all do better with continuity than with continual change" he said.
With so much on the line, Sergay and his partners are highly invested in finding the right fit, on all levels. For him, that means conducting conversations with candidates that reveal as much as possible about the individuals and their goals. "First, I talk to somebody on the phone when I get their name," he says. "I try to spend an hour or so to get to know them: what they're interested in, if they have family needs and how they see spending their time going forward. I'd like to know about the relationships they have had with patients, referring docs and with the nurses on the floor, and other "human stuff." I hope our interviews allow candidates to look into their hearts and define how they want to spend their working days and we try to match this by making them aware of exactly how our practice works. The last thing we would ever want is a surprised employee when she arrives for work. Our hope is that our candidates will be able to look into themselves and articulate their hoped-for future while we talk, so that we can ensure a high likelihood that our goals match."
While Judy Rosman dislikes stock answers as well, she's careful to advise candidates she's recruiting for open positions that they need to thoroughly research potential employers so they can better frame the answers they give. "In order to demonstrate that you're able, eager, and willing to meet their needs," she says, "first you have to determine what their needs are." With this research, Rosman is hopeful that the candidate can avoid common pitfalls of interviewing, such as answering "What's your perfect job?" with an over-abundance of idealism. "I had one person answer, 'Well, ideally I'd like 12 weeks off so I can do mission work in Africa,'" she recalls. While that response might lead to an interesting conversation, it could also scare off an employer who perceives that the candidate would prefer the mission work over the daily tasks of the position. "Before you answer the question of what would be the ideal job," Rosman advises, "you need to understand what the employer thinks would be an ideal candidate. If you don't take the time to do this, you might rule yourself out the first time you open your mouth."
Which, of course, is Sergay's point: He'd prefer that candidates rule themselves out rather than try to win a job that might not fit them well. Coming from a slightly different perspective, Rosman holds a similar philosophy when it comes to "fit": "I think it's very important for candidates to understand the job for which they are applying. I don't coach candidates but I do make it clear to them: The job that we're representing is the job. If the employer wants an EMG specialist, they don't want someone who will just do a little EMG."
So to recap: Do interviews for permanent jobs differ from those for fellowships? By now, you're probably convinced that they do. But you may also be a little intimidated. No need, according to both Rosman and Sergay. According to Rosman, "Once people really understand the job, they generally don't have a problem with the phone interview," which is the entrance point for later in-person meetings. And, from Sergay, this word of confidence in neurology candidates everywhere: "I believe that people coming | 1,310 |
John Pearson and Elizabeth Ann "Betty" (ne Blondin) Mihlbauer
In the early morning on April 17, 2020, John (92) passed away in his home, surrounded by his wife and children. Six weeks later, on the evening of May 29th, Betty (91), with their children at her side, joined him in heaven. They were preceded in death by their youngest son Peter and son-in-law Leonard Lum. They are survived by six children: John Jr. (Liz) Mihlbauer, Kathie Lum, Eileen (Greg) Weber, Grace (Leo) Alarcio, Mary (Jim) Lancaster & Margie (Dave Mendoza) Mihlbauer, and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
John was born in Newark, New Jersey on March 19, 1928 to John Lawrence and Lorain (Pearson) Mihlbauer. He graduated from Rogers High School in Newport, Rhode Island in 1946 and from the US Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut on June 2, 1950. Betty was born on July 21, 1928 in Newport, Rhode Island, the second to the youngest daughter of Rodolphe and Sophie M. (née Arsenault) Blondin. Her sisters Eileen and Grace were her best friends and she always enjoyed spending time with them. In 1946, she graduated from Rogers High School in Newport at the top of her class.
Not one for wasting time, John married Betty, the former Rogers High School glamour girl and love of his life, at St. Augustin's Church in Newport just one day after his graduation from the USCG academy. Betty accompanied John on his assigned duty stations, making homes for their family in Portland, Maine; Saipan in the Mariana Islands; Ledyard, Connecticut; Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Cape May, New Jersey; McLean, Virginia; Norfolk, Virginia; Kailua, Hawaii; Governors Island, New York; and North Olmsted, Ohio. In 1980, after officially retiring from the Coast Guard, they resettled in Kailua, Hawaii where they remained for the duration of their lives.
Both John and Betty were long-time parishioners at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church and former Eucharistic ministers. John was also active in the St. Anthony of Padua Parish Council, the Rotary Club of Pearl Harbor, the Coast Guard Foundation, and numerous other community organizations. Betty often donated hand-made afghans and other knitted items for fundraisers. The "Captain" was a sailor and an engineer with a long and distinguished career that included 30 years as a Coast Guard officer and over 30 years with All Ship & Cargo Surveys. Betty was a faithful first mate who skillfully managed the home front during their 70 years of marriage.
John was honest, kind,<|fim_middle|>cestry® | principled and thoughtful — a true gentleman and man of integrity. He loved animals, especially dogs, having had numerous "best friends" throughout his long life. He loved to sing in an "off key" kind of way and had a sense of style all his own. If he wasn't working or involved in community services, he was sailing (every chance he could get), walking (it was a great way to get to know a new place), biking (when he could convince Betty to go), traveling (if an opportunity presented itself...or Betty could convince him), visiting with family and friends and a little (very little) cooking (he could burn a good steak, make a mean omelet and, once, he even baked a delicious, albeit flat, chocolate souffle). But mostly, he enjoyed quiet time with his wife and family.
Betty, though small in stature, could be described as a firecracker — feisty and strong-willed. She was an ardent reader and a crossword puzzle enthusiast. She was good with her hands, and gifted in the arts of sewing, knitting and crocheting. She was an excellent baker (and crazy about coffee, sweets and everything chocolate). Betty may have preferred to be home, but she also loved to travel. Fortunately, John's careers provided many travel opportunities. Like John, she loved to talk of their many adventures, often reminiscing about their "once in a lifetime" trip around the world. And, though not as fond of sailing, particularly on small boats, as John was, she did share his enthusiasm for walking (she walked so fast she could leave you in the dust), biking and exploring new places.
Due to Covid-19 restrictions, services were put on hold until this time. A combined Service/Celebration of Life for John and Betty will be held at 0930 on Thursday, June 3, 2021 (their 71st wedding anniversary) at St. Anthony of Padua in Kailua, Hawaii. A small, private burial service for family will follow at the National Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.BorthwickOahu.com for the Mihlbauer family.
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Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-96) was one of the most important composers to have emerged in the Soviet Union in the last century. A Jewish emigré who fled from war-torn Poland (where the rest of his family were killed), his substantial output encompasses 7 operas, a Requiem, 22 symphonies, 17 string quartets as well as a large number of other orchestral works, ballets, chamber, instrumental, choral, vocal and film music.
Of these over 150 works, though, it was his opera The Passenger (1967-8) that Weinberg considered to be his finest achievement. A harrowing tale (after the novel by Zofia Posmysz), it revolves around a chance post-war encounter on an ocean liner – between a former Auschwitz guard and one of her prisoners. Following its first ever staged performance in Bregenz in 2010, English National Opera are giving the UK premiere performances of The Passenger, commencing 19 September 2011 and running until 25 October (8 performances in total). David Pountney's production, to be conducted by Sir Richard Armstrong, is being co-produced with Bregenz Festival, Austria, Wielki Teatr, Warsaw and Teatro Real, Madrid.
Faber Music Ltd is the exclusive UK/Eire hire agent for Peermusic Classical, Weinberg's publisher.
The climax musically and emotionally comes when Marta's proud violinist fiancé, Tadeusz, sung with compelling anger by Leigh Melrose, is ordered to play the camp commandant's favourite tacky waltz, but instead strikes up Bach's magnificent Chaconne… a supremely symbolic confrontation - Germany at its noblest confronting Germany at its foulest.
'The Passenger is perhaps the boldest artistic take ever on the Holocaust…'Mieczyslaw<|fim_middle|> spotlights operated by camp guards on watchtowers.
This is a music drama in which the music is distinctly subservient to the drama, and Mieczyslaw Weinberg's score has a huge amount to recommend it. Weinberg fled Nazi Poland to the USSR and became friends with Shostakovich, who greatly admired The Passenger. His style has a great deal in common with Shostakovich: it's equally mercurial, dragging in elements from a dozen different styles. It's also strong in providing melody and harmony in ways that are interesting and engaging to the ear without explicitly following the rules either of 19th century romanticism or 20th century atonality. I enjoyed many passages, but most of all, I was impressed by the sparse orchestration and how Weinberg ensures that every phrase enhances the stage action of its particular moment. At the climax of the opera, the music takes centre stage in an effect that hits you like a thunderbolt.
Director David Pountney draws acting performances of the highest quality from a large cast. The most outstanding of the singers were Kim Begley as Walter, whose voice was rich and powerful and whose characterisation totally believable, and Michelle Breedt as Anneliese, whose voice was continuously enjoyable and who gave a riveting exploration of character nuances. The role of Marta seems very challenging vocally, and although Giselle Allen dealt with it technically and gave an excellent acting performance. | Weinberg's Holocaust opera… [is]one of the most unflinching engagements with this subject ever made… [it]demands attention. And risky though it may be to label a first production "definitive", it is hard to imagine it ever being done better. Johan Engels's set counts among the most impressive seen on the Coliseum stage, potent in its symbolism and ingenious in its layered integration of Auschwitz with a ship's deck above.
Weinberg's music is…distinctive…and while sharing some "Soviet common currency" with Shostakovich, he also makes remarkable use of quotations – above all, the Bach Chaconne with which the violinist Tadeusz seals his own fate. It is so well scored that every word of Pountney's translation comes across here under the muscular baton of Richard Armstrong.
'David Pountney's exceptional production, brought from the Bregenz Festival, moves fluently, as does the action of the opera itself, between ocean liner and death camp: the former gleaming white, the latter an unspeakably grim hellhole.
Much of the long first act recalls jagged Shostakovich, tender yet anguished Bartok and muscular Hindemith,… Act Two… adds new dimensions: neo-Romantic lyricism which together with jazz band music and Russian folksong creates a fractured but powerfully expressive synthesis.
'Everything about the history of The Passenger is extraordinary… As we re-enter the horrific past, Liese and her husband are forced to revaluate everything. The result, in Pountney's highly charged, two-level staging, provides a bleak yet potent visual experience.
'Johan Engel's set design is brilliant…Weinberg's score is powerful and versatile, ranging from a convincing musical migraine when Annaliese sees Marta for the first time to a banal waltz epitomising the camp commandant's lack of musical taste.
'The music is most effective when at its sparest, thinned down to single lines to support the declamatory voices. That's when Weinberg's close association with Shostakovich is most obvious.
'Now… that the secret is truly out [following suppression by Stalin in the Soviet Union when it was written in 1968]… with English National Opera hosting the UK premiere, we can surely hope that its reputation will spread.
The opera meditates on living in – and surviving – Auschwitz, from the perspective of both oppressor and oppressed. When Walther learns of Liese's past his first concern is for his reputation, while Liese's own proclamations see guilt mixed with self-justification. In the camp we gain personal insights into the characters from numerous backgrounds whom the Nazis simply lumped together as undesirable or sub-human.
'[David Pountney]… describes the opera as "incredibly powerful". While the music has a "profound kind of melancholia"… Weinberg is acutely restrained in musical terms about the awful inevitability of the camp.
'[ This opera]… works above all thanks to two superb lead performances and a host of telling ensemble contributions.
A finer, more secure voice than Michelle Breedt's hasn't been heard at ENO.
Giselle Allen as Marta is ' strong enough to sustain the big memorial song Weinberg sets to bittersweet verses in Act 2, and the Brittenish epilogue, Marta's final quiet triumph many years later by the banks of a wide river, is as moving as it can be.
[There are many]… moving solos 'in the women's barracks, realistic in the sense that prayers and ballads would indeed have been sung by the inmates to keep each other's spirits alive. Simple as the text by Weinberg's preferred librettist Alexander Medvedev may be, its reiteration here of the human wish to imagine freedom rings true.
'One of the most striking and effective opera sets I've ever seen, both framing the action and adding colour. Many details add emotional resonance: the pervasive railway tracks, or the follow | 839 |
Join us this February half term to experience a Creative Medley<|fim_middle|> also inclusive of children with SEN and learning difficulties, if you have any special accessibility requirements please get in touch!
We will be making our own clay necklaces, working with common objects as still life references and painting them in the afternoon. This workshop is inspired by the work of Beli Heredero. Then we will be working again from still life and photographs to create unique pieces by pay(int)ing attention to composition and style.
I'm a poet, and I know it! We will be joined by guest artists Lewie and Marta, who will show us how to create poetry using word collage by responding to live piano music provided by the talented Chameli. We will be learning about stanzas, rhyme and beat in poetry and how to use them to express ourselves with words! Then, we will use our poems to create a visual narrative in the form of a zine – we will learn about how to co-ordinate words and images to reflect each other and emphasise their meaning, using mixed media and experimental image making.
On the last day, our older participants will be learning about photography with our guest artist Rachel, who will be showing us the fundamentals of photography as well as talking about photography theory and what to pay attention to when taking photos. Our younger participants will be creating their own photo-booths, transforming their surroundings using hand-made frames and having their photo taken in their own imagination land. We will finish the day off with our guest Shahana Yasmin who will be teaching us how to do the cat and cow at her art yoga session. | !
Barkingside Art Club is opening its doors for children aged 4-16 to join Eliyah Qureshi and her team, as well as guest artists for a 3 day workshops where we will be dabbling our paint covered fingers into a variety of activities, from poetry to painting, zine making to photo taking, there is something for everyone!
Each session of the day will run for 3 hours 30 minutes with a break in between the first and second half of the workshop, from 11am to 2:30pm, at Fullwell Cross Library.
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Rove: Will someone tell Woodward that I'm not in Washington?
Ed Morrissey Feb 21, 2013 1:21 PM ET
It's been a tough week in public relations for Karl Rove. First, the Tea Party Patriots objected to Rove's criticism of extreme rhetoric from grassroots organizations by, er, putting him in a Nazi uniform in an e-mail — for which they apologized, but not before making Rove's case. At nearly the same time, Bob Woodward painted Rove's efforts to find prepared Republican candidates as an attempt to create an establishment "politburo" within the GOP, which Rove angrily denounced on Fox's Hannity last night:
Karl Rove is defending his new super PAC's intention to get involved in primaries, and criticized Bob Woodward's assertion that he was creating a "politburo."
"[Bob] Woodward goes on Fox News Sunday and calls me a member of the Politburo," Rove said on Fox News' "Hannity." "The last time I checked the Politburo was the ruling body of the Soviet Communist party and oversaw the extermination of tens of millions of people and during the Cold War threatened the United States with nuclear annihilation and just because Woodward is a center-left journalist, he can get away with calling me a communist and nobody is bothered by this."
Woodward was critical of Rove's new super PAC, the Conservative Victory Project, during his Sunday appearance, arguing it was against Republican traditions.
"You're going to set yourself up<|fim_middle|> and it's not the same as having official party orgs like the NRSC intervene in primary contests, which really is an establishment-control issue.
Here's the full clip from Rove's appearance last night, courtesy of Mediaite. Does the revelation that Rove spent nearly $6 million in support of Richard Mourdock last year temper any hard feelings over Rove's new direction?
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Karen Townsend Jan 21, 2022 12:41 PM ET | as a kind of Politburo vetting these candidates," Woodward said. "I mean, the whole theory of Republicanism is to let the local, state or district decide."
I'm afraid I don't know what Woodward is talking about here. Rove didn't invent the independent PAC, not even within the GOP. Both parties have a number of outside groups that provide funding to candidates in primaries and general elections. Rove may be better organized than most, but it's not a novelty, and since it's not part of the Republican Party, it's not a politburo, either — not even figuratively.
Maybe Woodward missed this for the last hundred cycles or so, but politicians who want to seek higher office are often judged on their effectiveness in interceding in primaries. In fact, that's practically a fantasy league for earlier presidential handicapping. The local and state voters decide, but neither Republicans nor Democrats have ever been non-interventionists when it comes to flexing political muscle at any level. Woodward has confused governing principles with election principles.
Frankly, I don't get the angst over Rove's PAC. No one is forced to contribute to his PAC, so the people sending him cash must appreciate his efforts, as do the candidates receiving the donations. Those who dislike Rove's choices can organize for other candidates. It's no different than what has transpired in every election in recent memory, | 287 |
Legally immigrating to the U.S. can be a puzzling jumble of forms, rules and proof. Dreams of family, freedom and success motivate aspiring immigrants to accept the challenge, and quotes from successful immigrants provide inspiration throughout the process. Here are some of our favorite inspirational immigration quotes.
"This may sound cliché to some, but for my family it's not. In one generation we went<|fim_middle|> new wave of immigration has reached America, it has been faced with problems... Somehow, the difficult adjustments are made and people get down to the tasks of earning a living, raising a family, living with their neighbors, and in the process, building a nation."
"I could say it was by magic that a loving and supportive community emerged around our family. But that village force of good neighbors, church friends, American-born school teachers who took the initiative to visit our home and offer a word of praise and encouragement—that doesn't happen by magic. In response to a life embraced, a life that is often turbulent, painful and imperfect. This is what I learned from my mother, may she rest in peace...My Cuba is now buried in a Miami cemetery. But my America resounds in all its glory, like a hundred conga drums playing beneath Friday night lights in Hialeah."
If you find yourself in a dry spell during your immigration experience, these inspirational immigration quotes can be a shower of encouragement to revitalize your motivation to build your dreams through U.S. citizenship. Keep them handy. | from parents with little formal education to all four kids graduating from graduate school and going on to successful professions. I have no doubt that my kids will achieve and contribute even more to the American enterprise. This is what keeps me going: that you can go from a sub-basement apartment in a 1960's Brooklyn ghetto to working for the President of the United States in one generation."
According to recent estimates, 36 percent of the 8 million people living in New York City are, like Carrion's family, immigrants.
The philanthropic culture of our country, leading to the sense of satisfaction in having a positive effect on the lives of others is another great characteristic of the United States. I consider myself very fortunate to be a citizen of the United States."
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How many of you are running a St. Patty's Day Dash this weekend?
<|fim_middle|>'s Day, I asked a few Brooks employees what their less rational rituals are.
Here are a few ways they make sure they run lucky. See if you can figure out which one of these runs ultra-marathons (it's not hard).
The day of the race I have oatmeal for breakfast with a banana. I also wear the same hair clips and I have to talk to my mom before the race no matter what. It calms my nerves.
The only thing I am super crazy about is putting on a clean singlet. I don't put on my race singlet until 10 minutes until the start. That way it is clean and dry. Nothing makes me feel fast like a clean, dry singlet.
For some of my bigger and longer races, I'd eat five Snickers bars and wash it down with a 32 oz. Gatorade. I'd also pair this with some of the fiercest death-metal my ears could handle at 4 a.m. It's a good way to get the blood pumping when you shouldn't be awake for another three hours!
I avoid wearing new items that I have never run in before, clothing or shoes. I want to make sure I don't get annoyed by fabric or the feel of the materials.
The morning of, I have mantra's that I tell myself (pre-thought-up mantras that I can easily access in my brain) such as, "pain is temporary," "pain is about seeing how mentally tough you are," "learn to suffer," "you can do this," "you will do this," "one foot in front of the other," and the list goes on.
One race ritual to always fall back on is to Run Happy. It works like a charm.
What are your run lucky strategies? Be sure to share them with us in the comments. | For those of us running a St. Patty's Day Dash this weekend, there are tons of great pre-race strategies available out there, but in honor of St. Patrick | 35 |
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emilee's birth story probably starts about 2 weeks before her birth. i go to my weekly appointment to find out my blood pressure had taken a jump. the doctors were a little concerned, so they took me off work, and asked me to return two days later. when i return in 2 days, the blood pressure is still high. the doctors decided to take me off work, and kept talking about inducing labor if the blood pressure continued to climb. they asked me to stay off work, and to monitor my blood pressure at home. they also ordered me into their office every 2 days....each appointment i went in not knowing if i was going to be induced or not. finally, at 38 weeks pregnant, i was told i would be induced the following week, at exactly 39 weeks. however, when i returned that monday, i was<|fim_middle|> as she delivered the doctor literally tossed her onto my tummy and i went to pull her closer and got a "wait! the cord is short!!!" and then watched as the doctor talked my hubby through cutting the cord. he handled it all like a champ. i was so proud of him. so, so proud. he didn't think he'd be able to watch any of it, but he did. and fed me ice chips in between contractions, and told me when he could see her hair.
after daniel cut the cord, they pushed her down my gown and my girl laid on my bare chest, covered in blood, and fluid, and white pasty stuff. lol. it didn't even matter. i was just so happy to finally see her.
we both had a fever, and they were worried they'd have to send her over to NICU, but it came down quickly and she was just fine. after i got over to my room, we kept our girl with us for about an hour or so and then let the nursery keep her for the night. we had had very little sleep in 48 hours and were needing it.
i can honestly say i think labor was the easiest part, with recovery being the worst. the absolute worst. this could be because i tore really bad (i don't know exactly how bad, i just know that the nurse apologized while i was pushing because "oh, honey, i'm sorry - you're already tearing" and the doctor said "i need more sutures when stitching me up!). | told the induction was pushed back to friday.
i was told to call the hospital at 6:30am on friday, may 28, to find out when they would start my induction. if the hospital wasn't busy, i'd come right in...if they were busy, i'd have to wait until beds were available. talk about the longest day ever...i called the hospital at 6:30, at which point they told me to call back at 8:00 because they were busy. so i called at 8:00, then 10:00, then 1:00, then 4:00, then 7:00...and finally at 9:30 they had me come in. at one point in the day the nurse that answered the phone said "just go ahead and do what you were going to do today instead of sitting and waiting on us". oh really? because i was pretty sure what i was going to do was have a baby!!!!!
when i got there, the nurse got me changed and then my doctor came in. he checked me and i was still at barely 1 cm dilated and my cervix hadn't thinned enough, so he decided to start cervadil. not before telling me scary stories of women who were induced and stayed in labor for 4 days first, though. haha. he was trying to scare me...and it kinda worked. however, it had already been the longest day in history and i just wanted to get this thing rolling. jill, manda, and daniel were all there with me...they gave me ambien to help me sleep. haha. no sleeping for this girl. i kept watching my contractions on the screen and watching my blood pressure and watching emilee's heart rate.
at about 2:30 am, i told the girls "i think my water just broke". when the nurse came in, i told her and she used this little strip to swipe the pad under me and said, "no, i don't think so. you probably just peed". i was like um, no really - my water broke, but she wasn't buying it. about 45 mins later, she came back in to help me get to the bathroom and when i stood, my water HAD broken, and proceeded to spill all over the floor and near her feet. kinda like "i told you so". haha.
this part was all very boring, as the cervadil had to be in for 12 hours. after my water broke, my contractions picked up and started to intensify. but 8:30 am they were starting to get really uncomfortable, so the doctor gave me some pain meds to help. at 10:00, they removed the cervadil and and checked me again. at this point, i was 2 centimeters dilated and 80% effaced. they decided to start the cervadil. there was a doctor change at 7:00 am and i was kinda glad, as i liked my female OB better than the other guy.
the rest of the day was pretty eventful. i got my epidural around 1:00 pm, and i seriously just hung out. the biggest fiasco was the inlaws losing manda's pass to get back to labor and delivery. seriously, my labor was so uneventful, and i'd be lying if i said it was hard/bad.
i was checked on and off all day - and finally at 6:00 pm, i was 10 cm dilated. did this mean i got to push? nope. sure didn't. i had to "labor down", as emilee hadn't dropped low enough. at 7:15 (after an hour and 15 mins of sitting there just shaking - be it nerves or the transition phase or whatever, it was weird) - my doctor came in and said she had a c-section scheduled at 8:00pm and did i want to just wait until after she completed that to push. i looked at her like she was crazy. no i did not want to wait any longer. she said she was worried i'd hafta push for 2 hours or so (i guess this is common for overweight gals), but if i wanted to go ahead and try, we could.
a nurse came in and coached me. it was a nurse, my husband, and jill in the room. it all went faster than they expected and the doctor came just in time. i actually had to stop pushing to keep from having emilee without the doctor. 28 minutes of pushing and out popped this baby girl with the chubbiest cheeks known to man. :) it was crazy to me. once her head was out, the next push had her body out and i swear it felt like a little fish swimming out of me. (keep in mind i had an epidural haha).
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Sportscaster Bob Costas sits and NBC parted ways after a 40-year partnership.
Just by the sound of his voice or the sight of his face, a televised sporting event took on extra significance. It was time to drop what you were doing and pay attention to the screen; there was something worthwhile going on, and Bob Costas was here to put it in perspective, his familiar voice narrating sports moments you'd remember all your life.
There are no hard feelings, he's said, and no animosity. "It's all settled quietly and happily for all concerned," Costas told the New York Post this week.
"Everything in this transition was planned and done (by) mutual agreement," his agent, Sandy Montag, said in an emailed statement to The Associated Press.
Costas, at 66, is now free to contemplate what comes next, ideally "something that is a hybrid of his HBO show and 'Later' (his former NBC show)," as he told the New York Post. That would free him to become more of an elder statesman, a reasoned voice in a sports world dominated by hot, often silly and misguided, takes. Costas could have the luxury of time.
Costas, who joined NBC Sports in 1979, has been the Zelig of televised sports, hosting Olympic coverage 11 times and broadcasting the Super Bowl, the World Series, the NBA<|fim_middle|>as stepped into a different role for the network, similar to the one Tom Brokaw has occupied in NBC's news coverage.
No longer confined merely to television, he might find a new platform, one that would free him to "pursue a journalism show that includes news-making interviews and commentaries," as he told USA Today last summer. The reach of such a platform could extend beyond sports. He would be free to speak freely about controversial topics, as he did after the Chiefs' Jovan Belcher was involved in a murder-suicide in 2012; Costas then delivered a much-discussed prime time commentary about gun control. He later regretted it, not because of the content, he's said, but because 90 seconds wasn't enough time for thoughtful commentary. | Finals and the Triple Crown. He was inducted into the broadcasters' wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame last summer.
His last Olympics work was in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro and, when Mike Tirico moved into a "Football Night in America" role preceding "Sunday Night Football" games last season, Cost | 66 |
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Massive Manhunt Under Way for James DiMaggio; Al Qaeda Conference Call?
There's breaking news. Late new developments in the search for a 16- year-old girl who could be in the hands of a murderer.
Also tonight, tearing down the house of horrors. Three young women held here, tortured year after year after year. Tonight how a neighborhood in Cleveland comes to grips with it all as they try to exorcise the demon who lived next door.
And later, the couple who chose prayer over medicine for one sick child then another, then ended up burying both. Some are now asking, why did it take not one but two dead children for the law to get serious?
We begin, though, with the breaking news. What looks to be a big development in the search first state-wide now nationwide for James DiMaggio. The man that we're about to show you this picture up on the screen. That's him.
A young woman's life could be at stake. Her mother is dead. Now we're learning her brother might be as well. Now his car may have been spotted. DiMaggio, who's believed to be driving a blue four-door Nissan Versa, is wanted for murder in the killing of Christina Anderson whose body was found in his burned out home outside San Diego.
Authorities suspect he now has her daughter with him, 16-year-old Hanna and possibly 8-year-old Ethan. However this afternoon a law enforcement source told us that other charred remains found at the house are consistent with those of a young boy.
DiMaggio was a friend of the family. Now last night at a vigil Hanna and Ethan's dad, Brett Anderson, made an emotional plea.
BRETT ANDERSON, FATHER: The gentleman that was a friend of ours for a long time, he's taken everything. Hanna will come back. And Ethan and Tina, I love you both. We all love you. And I know everybody is here for support of all three of them, and I want to thank you all. God bless.
COOPER: As you might imagine this story is unfolding fast.
Paul Vercammen joins us now from San Diego with the latest.
So the spotting of this vehicle. What do we know about this, Paul?
PAUL VERCAMMEN, CNN SENIOR PRODUCER: Well, Anderson, we know that Oregon State Authorities have issued a statement saying in their hedging terms that first, they believe the car was spotted near Alturas, California. That's in the extreme northeast corner of the state, and the vehicle was going northbound.
Then a second reported sighting of that vehicle in question, that in Lake View, Oregon. An Amber Alert has now been issued in the state of Oregon for the vehicle that they have been searching for for the past three days -- Anderson.
COOPER: So do we know exactly what time the vehicle was spotted?
VERCAMMEN: Yes, we do. We understand in Lake View, Oregon, that it was at 2:00 this afternoon and previous to that was the spotting in Alturas, California, with the direction of the vehicle being north bound. That would be consistent with the direction you would travel to get into Oregon and they say possibly it could have gone toward Nevada at that point, as well.
COOPER: And I want to try to keep these pictures up on the screen as much as possible, just in case anybody out there has seen either of these kids or the man believed to be holding at least one of them right now.
Paul, are authorities concerned he may be trying to leave the country?
VERCAMMEN: Well, they are very concerned about him on a myriad of levels, Anderson. Number one, they say he is still dangerous. They say they found weapons at his house. They will not confirm that he is armed right now but he's a fugitive who has been AWOL now for three days. And also back in his past, he does have a misdemeanor conviction for fleeing a police officer, that's back in Texas in 1995. So yes, they are extremely worried about him.
Right now he would be considered a colossal flight risk, even if he were arrested, so therefore when they issued a warrant today for his arrest for the murder of the mother, they made sure attached to that would be a $1 million bond should he be taken into custody. They just leveled one charge at him, the homicide, but likely to follow, a second homicide charge, possibly kidnapping charges and arson charge, and a cruelty to animals charge because, Anderson, also burned in the fire was a dog. So a whole host of charges against this man who they consider to be very dangerous. COOPER: And as I said, the remains that were found in the house were consistent or other remains were consistent with those of an 8- year-old child. Do we know much about the relationship between this man and the family? I mean, I understand he was kind of life-long friends of -- or at least acquaintances of the family?
VERCAMMEN: No, it is friends, Anderson. Very strong relationship, possibly even best friends. They say that Mr. DiMaggio, Jim DiMaggio, and the father Brett Anderson, had known each other for more than 20 years. He knew the children since their births and in fact the relationship was so close that they called him uncle.
So an extremely close relationship. So what's being alleged here right now is absolutely the ultimate betrayal -- Anderson.
Again, the breaking news. A vehicle has been spotted. Another Amber Alert issued. Let's dig deeper now into what might motivate someone to abduct the child and vitally how to track, locate and ultimately separate a predator from his or her intended prey.
We're joined by former FBI profiler Mary Ellen O'Toole also Mark Klaas, founder of the KlaasKids Foundation, he lost his daughter Polly almost 20 years ago.
Mark, this story is obviously just horrific. When you saw Hannah's dad deliver that message to her, urging her to try to make a run for it if she was able to, if she got the chance, what went through your mind? I mean, it's an important message that he try to get to her and to the man believed to be holding her.
MARK KLAAS, FOUNDER, KLAASKIDS FOUNDATION: Sure, I think he did a tremendous job. First, he appealed directly to the kidnapper or his daughter and then he gave her an action plan. And I think that it's very important that people -- and she listen to this because she doesn't have to just wait around to be rescued.
What she has to do is find ways to keep herself alive until that moment comes when she can extricate herself from the situation. That could take days, as it took my friend Missy Sanchez or it could even take years as it took women up in Cleveland earlier this year. But she has to find a way to stay alive and then effect her escape when she has an opportunity.
COOPER: Mary Ellen, what do you -- what's your gut tell you about this case, about the suspect? I mean, from your experience, what causes someone to do something like this?
MARY ELLEN O'TOOLE, FORMER FBI PROFILER: Well, there's a couple of things here. But first looking at the case based on the available information. The crime scene behavior itself appears to be very impulsive and extremely high-risk and that would suggest to me that something occurred very recently in terms that probably had something to do with Hannah, and it may have made him feel like he wasn't going to see her again or that relationship was going to be cut off.
And -- that he saw the mother as the person that came between him and Hannah, but the behavior itself, on top of that, is behavior that, again, doesn't indicate long-term planning. It really was a disorganized crime scene. So now he's committed murder, arson, kidnapping, and now he's on -- he's probably the most wanted fugitive in the U.S. today.
So his thinking is going to go downhill. It's going to debilitate because he is now having to come to grips with what he's done, so his paranoia is increasing and now he's realizing that there really is no turning back. So the message, really, if I were working on this case, the message would be, look, Jim, what happened is horrible but you have control of this situation because you can -- you can make a big difference in what happens to Hannah.
And we know you care about her in your own way. You can control what happens to her by releasing her.
COOPER: And you have no doubt he's following this via the media?
O'TOOLE: I really do think he is. It may not be via television, unless he has access to television, but that's his only means to monitor the investigation. So I believe very strongly he is monitoring any source of news that he can.
COOPER: And so the message to him, which you're trying to get out, is what is done is done but he has control of this in terms of what happens to Hannah and he can start to make this right?
O'TOOLE: He can start to make it right. It has snowballed and we may even be able to persuade him and I hope if he's listening we can that it did get out of control and we get that. And right now there's one person and one person only who can start to bring it back under control, and that is you, Jim.
And by doing so, you need to pull off to a restaurant, let Hannah go, pull off to the side of the road, let Hannah go, but you do have control over how this thing ends up.
COOPER: And Mark, you would certainly second that. I mean, the best scenario for him is to let -- to let this young girl go?
KLAAS: Well, there is no escape, Anderson. If he's in that vehicle and he is, in fact, headed north on Highway 5, which is what this sounds like. He's not going to be able to get away with anything. So absolutely, let this young girl go. Let the police find you or turn yourself in and do exactly as Mary Ellen said, start to make this thing right.
COOPER: Mary Ellen, you said -- you talked about the sort of the chaotic crime scene. The idea that someone would burn down their house. That seems to be an indication of kind of no way out, not going back.
O'TOOLE: It does. There is multiple reasons we see that and another reason and maybe one of the primary reasons here could be to destroy evidence, and by delaying identification of the victim's bodies, he felt that that would give him time and distance. The problem with that thinking, though, is that when you start a fire, there are large flames, the<|fim_middle|> stop him. Obviously, we suspect him in at least one murder, two murders already. So if they see him, please, you know, try to be observant, get all the information you can and call 911 and police will be there hopefully as soon as they possibly can to take the appropriate action.
But they should not -- citizens should not try to interfere with this person at all. He's already proven he's a pretty dangerous fellow.
COOPER: Well, Sheriff Bill Gore, appreciate your time. Thank you.
GORE: Thank, Anderson. Appreciate your help on this matter.
COOPER: All right. Well, coming up, was it a terrorist conference call that triggered America's global alert? We'll talk about that next.
Also tonight, for 11 years, Michelle Knight was held captive inside Ariel Castro's house. Today she returned to the scene of her nightmare as the house itself was torn down.
Also ahead tonight lawyers say Fort Hood gunman Nidal Hasan is trying to get the death penalty as he represents himself at court martial. We'll tell you why the proceedings abruptly came to a halt today.
COOPER: President Obama got a shout-out from troops today at California's Camp Pendleton when he credited them with taking out Osama bin Laden. He also had a warning for them about the dangers still out there.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Al Qaeda affiliates and like-minded extremists still threaten our homeland, still threaten our diplomatic facilities, still threaten our businesses abroad. And we've got to take these threats seriously.
COOPER: Well, signs of that threat have triggered a global terror alert, as you know, but also questions about the bases forward. In other words what exactly got everyone so worked up?
Reporters Eli Lake and Josh Rogin believe they know. Their "Daily Beast" article tonight is headlined "Al Qaeda Conference Call Intercepted by U.S. Officials Sparked Alerts." Some kind of conference call. They quote one U.S. intelligence official describing it this way, quote, "This was like a meeting of the legion of doom."
Josh Rogin joins us along with national security analysts and former Homeland Security advisor Fran Townsend. Franc currently serves in the DHS and CIA external advisory boards.
Josh, good to have you on the program. I know you can only say so much because you want to protect obviously your sources and your concern about balancing your reporting with national security. That being said, CNN has spoken to a number of sources today as well as terrorism experts who say that 20 plus leaders of al Qaeda communicating with each other at the same time on a conference call would be a big departure from how they -- and specifically Zawahiri -- operate. How do you respond?
JOSH ROGIN, SENIOR CORRESPONDENT, THE DAILY BEAST: Sure, let's remember that this intercept of communication between al Qaeda's leadership and Pakistan and their leadership in Yemen was first reported by McClatchy. What we did was basically flushed out the details of that communication and what we learned was that this included representatives and leaders of al Qaeda groups ranging from North Africa to Southeast Asia to you name it.
What some officials have said on background to reporters today is that they took issue with the use of the term conference call. I should -- it's important to note that we withheld many of the details about exactly how al Qaeda pulled off this communication at the request of our sources, but what I'm willing to share with you and your viewers right now was that it was not a phone call.
And in fact, al Qaeda went to extensive means to set up what you might say is like sort of a virtual meeting space. I'd rather not go into a lot more detail than that, and that they took very extensive measures to provide an environment for this meeting that they felt was secure.
Of course, the U.S. intelligence committee was able to crack that security and I guess that's a credit to them.
COOPER: Any idea, Josh, why Zawahiri and al Qaeda would take such a chance communicating like this all together at the same time? We have Peter Bergen, a terrorism analyst, on a couple of nights ago, he said you can look at this as if true a sign of desperation almost that al Qaeda Central is reaching out to all these affiliates saying do something?
ROGIN: Right. Well, what we know is that al Qaeda's leadership in Pakistan uses various methods to communicate with its affiliates. They use couriers carrying thumb drives. They have all sorts of things. But we also know that these conference calls have happened periodically over the years.
Again, this is something that they believed was secure. In this case they turned out to be wrong and it wasn't secure. But this is sort of a meeting of all of the representative to sort of cover up a bunch of broad issues.
So yes, in a sense, they did take a risk in this instance and it backfired but that's not to say that it's unusual for them because, of course, that is exactly what they, the U.S. intelligence committee are doing every day, playing a game of cat and mouse where they try to set up interactions and the U.S. intelligence committee tries to intercept those interactions.
ROGIN: I would just also quickly say that, you know, that it doesn't necessarily indicate that al Qaeda is desperate. It may indicate that al Qaeda is actually more cohesive in working more on a top down leadership structure and in a more organized fashion than we previously realized.
COOPER: And again, when you're using the term conference call, you're not literally meaning a conference call?
ROGIN: Right. I mean, again, you know, we are not saying whether it was a phone call or a video or Internet or voice or data or whatever. The bottom line here is that, you know, this is considered sort of like a virtual meeting space. It was not a phone call and this was a -- an environment that al Qaeda's leadership set up that other people could plug into and they -- again they went to extensive lengths to try to make sure that it was secure. In this case they seemed to have failed.
COOPER: Right. I want to bring in Fran.
Fran, what's your take in all this?
FRANCES FRAGOS TOWNSEND, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY CONTRIBUTOR: It's just so counterintuitive to the operational security of al Qaeda. Look, there's lots of ways of communicating and we know that there were a number of things that triggered the alert. So Zawahiri had issued a videotape calling for the release of the Muslim brothers from prison. We knew there had been prison breaks. We knew he hadn't -- he had appointed the head of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemen group, as his number two.
There's a whole series of things. So whether or not why you would have needed, in addition to all that, to pull them all together, they understand very well the U.S. government and their allies ability to target their location using their communications.
And so to give the U.S. intelligence committee the opportunity to target people across the world, not just between Pakistan and Yemen, but around the world and locate them would have been a very dangerous thing, and it's not clear to me why that would have been necessary for them to take that risk.
COOPER: Josh, there have been some, you know, reporters, frankly, I've seen raise the question is it possible some of your sources were using you to justify the NSA, coverage of the NSA program or to kind of obscure human intelligence, assets, and saying it was signals intelligence?
ROGIN: Sure, first to Fran's point it's totally true this is one of many and one piece of information in a broad collection that the U.S. intelligence community has engaged in. This meeting was significant according to officials and reports in both "The New York Times" and lots of other outlets because it was where the vague discussion of impending attack was discussed and if you look at the embassy closings around the world it matches the people on the call.
So you can sort of understand why the U.S. government took such a broad approach. As for it being motivations in taking the risk, I can't speak to that. Some of them they take risks on. As far as some of the other reporters linking this to the NSA and Snowden and what have you, it's important to point out the programs disclosed by Snowden are not related to this particular communication particularly intercepted.
They are about collecting information, domestically and it's not really connected. So I think some people may be work inflating those issues where there isn't a strong connection.
COOPER: Fran, how long do you see the embassies being closed for? There have been a number of drone strikes in Yemen, again, we don't know who was hit, how significant they were.
TOWNSEND: Look, I think what they are trying to do is to shatter the operational organization. You're seeing these drone strikes. I think the one person that is key to all of this is the bomb maker in Yemen.
COOPER: Who has not been found as far as we know.
TOWNSEND: As far as we know. So I think he's one of the keys to the feeling they deflated this threat but they will look to take enough operational capability it knocks the legs out before they are comfortable reopening embassies and makes sense to me. There is a number of other things besides drone strikes that will go on, the CIA and U.S. intelligence will be working with foreign allies around the world doing searches and trying to arrest people and it will take place until they feel like they deflated the threat.
COOPER: Fran, good to have you on. Josh, thanks very much for being on the program. Appreciate it.
Let's get some of the latest on the other stories we're following, Isha is here with the 360 Bulletin -- Isha.
ISHA SESAY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Anderson, the house in Cleveland where Ariel Castro held three women captive was torn down today. Michelle Knight who was held captive for 11 years released balloons outside the house before the demolition. She said she wanted to remind families that other abducted children that there is always hope.
The court martial of admitted Fort Hood gunman, Major Nidal Hasan, is on hold until tomorrow because his backup legal team wants out. Hasan is representing himself, but has defense lawyers to help him. He wants to be sentenced to death and they can't ethically stand by to help.
President Obama has cancelled the trip to Moscow next month for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The White House says there hasn't been enough progress in bilateral relations to hold the summit.
A 360 follow, the two young boys in Canada who were apparently killed by a 100-pound python died of affixation according to preliminary autopsy result. The boys ages 4 and 6 were found dead Monday morning, so very, very sad.
COOPER: Yes, indeed. Thanks very much, Isha. Appreciate it.
Just ahead, they choose prayer over medical care for their children not once but twice, both times with deadly results and now they are facing murder charges. Why did they get off so easy the first time is one question? We're keeping them honest ahead.
COOPER: More than 40 people killed in that fiery train wreck in Canada, next, the major impact on the railroad behind it.
COOPER: A Philadelphia judge today refused to dismiss murder charges against a fundamentalist Christian couple whose infant son died from pneumonia. When their baby got sick in April, Herbert and Catherine Schaible didn't call a doctor or seek any kind of medical treatment. They prayed. This case would be tragic if the facts ended there but they don't. This isn't the first time the Schaible's have been charged in the death of one of their children. They've relied on faith healing before with disastrous result. Here's Gary Tuchman.
GARY TUCHMAN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): At this North Philadelphia cemetery, most of the graves are marked, but not this spot where two small children are buried, two children who would be alive today say authorities if their parents gave them medical care. Herbert and Catherine Schaible are charged with third-degree murder following the death of their 8-month-old son, Brandon, this spring.
SETH WILLIAMS, PHILADELPHIA DISTRICT ATTORNEY: Instead of caring and nurturing him, they ultimately caused his death by praying over his body instead of taking him to the doctor. TUCHMAN: Unbelievably, this isn't the first time this has happened to the Schaibles. In 2009, their 2-year-old son, Kent, died. The parents did not seek medical care to treat him.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I tried the previous case two and a half years ago, and the circumstances to that case to this case are eerily similar.
TUCHMAN: In the first case, the Schaibles were found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Kent. The prosecutor asked for prison time, but the judge instead opted for probation and allowed the couple to move back to the home with their seven other children. The judge did order them to seek medical care for their children in the future. Joanne Pescatore prosecuted the case then and will prosecute this case as well.
(on camera): When the judge gave probation you must have been upset.
JOANNE PESCATORE, PHILADELPHIA ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY: I was upset at that and I was upset because I felt they didn't get it and weren't going to get it and here we are standing here again two and a half years later, another one of their children is dead and they still don't get it.
TUCHMAN (voice-over): Which is why they've been charged with a more serious count of third degree murder this time around for the death of their baby, Brandon. What is with these parents? Authorities point to Philadelphia's First Century Gospel Church where the Schaibles belong, a church that declares trust in God alone for physical healing.
(on camera): This church lists many of its core philosophies on its web site. Relevant to this case is one particular belief that I will quote in part. If we are trusting in pill prescription or medication, Satan is able to hinder or victory from God.
(voice-over): So why is this faith healing preached? We wanted to talk to the church's pastors. The daughter of the chief pastor said he didn't want to speak with us.
(on camera): How are you? Good. Is the pastor home?
(voice-over): Herbert Schaibel remains in jail, but Catherine Schaibel has been released to live with her parents. The remaining children are in state custody.
(on camera): Do you feel you did right by God?
TUCHMAN (voice-over): This is Herbert Schaibel's attorney.
BOBBY HOOF, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: He's sad. He's still in a grieving mode. I looked at him this morning. He seems to have lost weight, but in terms of holding up, he's a stand up guy. TUCHMAN: Certainly, that's the most controversial characterization. We wanted to show you pictures of Herbert and Catherine Schaibel's two little boys, but lawyers on both sides say they don't know of any pictures of them in life. All they have are autopsy photos taken shortly before they were buried in their unmarked graves.
(on camera): They say you don't have love for your child because you let two die without medical help.
COOPER: Gary Tuchman joins us live from Philadelphia. Gary, this is so upsetting. How did it play out in court today?
TUCHMAN: Anderson, in Pennsylvania, you have to have evidence of malice to charge third degree murder so when this courthouse today, the two different attorneys for the husband and the wife told the judge there is no malice, there should be no third degree murder charge. But the judge totally rejected that, he said this isn't a close case. He pointed out the case of their first son dying when they thumbed their nose at the law and he says the third degree murder charges will stand and the husband and wife face 20 to 40 years in prison if found guilty of that.
COOPER: Were they in court together?
TUCHMAN: They were in court together. He's in jail and she's out on bond. She was sitting in the back when he walked in. He walked in and looked around, saw her, smiled at her and she looked straight ahead. Her father sitting next to her and he smiled at his son-in-law, a very strange and horrible situation.
COOPER: They have other children. All the other children are in foster care?
TUCHMAN: Seven other children are in the foster care system right now and that reassures a lot of people those children are no longer with those parents.
COOPER: All right, Gary, appreciate the reporting. Joining me now are Arthur Caplan, head of medical ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center and also, Areva Martin, an attorney and children advocate. It's hard not to get furious when you hear this case. People are obviously entitled to religious believes. Parents do not get a religious exemption. It gives them the right neglect their children, do they?
ARTHUR CAPLAN, DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF MEDICAL ETHICS, NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER: Well, the classic phrase, Anderson, is you can make a martyr of yourself. You can't make a martyr of your children for religious beliefs. They do not get a pass. There are a couple exceptions. We do allow parents to say I'm not going to vaccinate my child. So we have built it in. The difference here is you can't say no to therapy. If there is a proven established therapy insulin for diabetes, antibiotics for what this poor child had, the state steps in and says you must treat, no exceptions.
COOPER: So just antibiotics would have saved this child's life?
CAPLAN: Would have saved the child's life. What the -- when you get a case like this when you're in the hospital, you want to appeal a refusal to appealed care. You go to the judge. What they will look at is do you have a history of proven treatment. Can you say it's very, very likely to work? If you can hit the standard and the antibiotics would work here, you'll get a court order to over ride and I'm sure the judge was horrified they agreed to use medicine and didn't do it.
COOPER: It's hard to believe this could have happened twice. The prosecutor in the first case, in fact, she said she knew this would happen again. Did the system fail here?
AREVA MARTIN, ATTORNEY/CHILDREN'S ADVOCATE: Absolutely, Anderson.
COOPER: Sorry, Areva, go ahead.
MARTIN: I'm sorry. We had these kids placed at home with parents who had proven they were not going to give their children medical care. We have weird exception laws in states particularly Pennsylvania saying faith healing an exception to giving your children care, but not when there is bodily harm or a potential for death like in this case.
I think the child protective services, the court system, everyone failed these children and it's just a shame we are looking at the death of a second child when the courts had an opportunity to remove these children in the first instance and avoid the death of the second child.
COOPER: Areva, from a legal standpoint if they are known as loving and caring parents without malice, wouldn't it be hard to prove the third degree murder charges, that they intentionally killed their children?
MARTIN: Well, Anderson, I take exception to this characterization of caring and loving parents. They went through this a first time. They were on probation for ten years. They stood in court with the death of first child and said if any of our children get sick, we will seek medical care. They completely ignored the orders of the court from the first case saying you cannot ignore medical treatment your kids need. I don't think there will be an issue whether they intended to kill their child.
They knew -- there will be testimony from the assistant pastor where he told them to call the probation officer and apparently, the dad said if I do then they will intervene. You know, somehow I'm going against my faith and God. So I don't think there is going to be any reservation in anybody's mind that these people knew what they were doing and taking calculated risk and this child could die.
COOPER: Art, I've heard you say you see cases like this all the time. Is that really true?
CAPLAN: You do see them. I don't want to suggest they are common, but they do come up. Sometimes people say I don't want to treat on religious grounds, sometimes they want alternative medicine. Again, and again, what we see prosecutors are unwilling to be tough on the first death and that's what leads to the problems because child social services, Anderson, in a city like Philly, they are overwhelmed.
They can barely keep up with the harm people are doing directly to kids, much less monitor a family like this. We do see them. You got to be tough with them and assistant this is child abuse and neglect and you can do what you want as an adult with religious believes. You can't sacrifice your child in this way.
MARTIN: One point, Anderson, about the first amendment and constitution often comes up in the arguments and there is this tension between the parents' right to raise the child versus the states right to take action when children are in danger. I just want to say in these cases. What about the rights of the children? Yes, parents have their first amendment right, but children have rights, too. They have the right to be safe and to be protected from this kind of harm.
COOPER: Areva Martin, good to have you on. Art, as well, thanks.
Just ahead, new developments, new information after several somewhat conflicting reports in the search for 16-year-old Hanna Anderson and possibly her brother, Ethan, and the alleged killer James DiMaggio who may have one or both children with him. Some new updates and details ahead.
COOPER: A quick update for you, new information in the search for 16-year-old Hanna Anderson, possibly her brother, Ethan, and the alleged killer, James DiMaggio who may have one or both children with him. The latest centers on a possible sighting of DiMaggio's car in Northern California and action being taken right now further north in Oregon.
Paul Vercammen continues working the story for us. So Paul, a lot of conflicting reports. What are you learning now?
PAUL VERCAMMEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, in a story that's already had absolutely so many bizarre twists, now we have what seems to be dueling agencies here. There have been two separate agencies who are checking out and again they hedge what they believe to be or possible sightings of the car that DiMaggio is driving that is at the center of this amber alert.
In Modot County in California no less than the undersheriff has said that a business owner wrote down a license plate number of a Versa that exactly matched the license plate number of DiMaggio's car and that undersheriff went on to tell CNN that this is from a very credible source, again, a business owner and their surveillance video in the area so now they have gone into neighboring Oregon and they are looking at these leads suggesting that DiMaggio was traveling north in the car -- Anderson.
COOPER: OK. So earlier a San Diego sheriff said those leads weren't panning out, but now what you're hearing from an undersheriff in a different county is they actually are taking these leads very seriously and they are searching for this vehicle?
VERCAMMEN: Exactly. And all the while, we're now not hearing anything from the San Diego County sheriff. So we're trying to run it down. We've pressed hard to talk to them, but in California and Oregon state officials both saying that they are taking this lead seriously, and thoroughly checking it out.
COOPER: This is a Nissan Versa that they are looking for. Paul Vercammen, appreciate the update. Thanks very much. Isha is back with the 360 News and Business Bulletin -- Isha.
SESAY: Anderson, a 360 follow, the rail way company whose runaway train killed more than 40 people in Quebec last month has filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. and Canada. The unmanned 73 car train exploded slamming into commercial center.
New relief in South Central Missouri where flooding has prompted a state of emergency, more than 100 homes flooded overnight and more rain soaked the region.
Yahoo says it will unveil a new corporate logo next month, the first redesign in two decades. Until then, for each of the next 30 days it will display a different version of the updated logo on the home page.
Anderson, plywood box is shoved out of a plane at 14,000 feet with escape artist Tony Martin chained inside. It took him 30 seconds to break free. He made a perfect landing. He did the same stunt for the first time 25 years ago. You think he would have learned his lesson by now.
COOPER: Isha, thanks. We'll be right back.
COOPER: We run out of time for "The Ridiculist." Sorry about that. Thanks for watching. "PIERS MORGAN LIVE" starts now. | fire department is going to respond more quickly than if you just quietly and secretly got away.
But he chose not to do that. So again that would suggest to me based on that and other things that his thinking was much more impulsive and reckless, and that kind of thinking is going to only deteriorate.
COOPER: I should -- Paul Vercammen just spoke to the sheriff who said that the lead on that vehicle did not pan out. So that certainly some bad news there because that was the first bit of an actual lead that they had had. I'm going to talk to the sheriff a little bit later on.
But, Mary Ellen, you made an important point earlier and I just want to go into a little bit more depth on it. You know, in stocking cases often we focus on the person who's doing the stalking and their victim, the person that they're focused on, but there's often danger for a third party, for -- not necessarily the intended victim but somebody who is perceived as being in the way.
O'TOOLE: There is. And that's often overlooked as a dynamic. If the stalker believes that immediate person, that person in the middle, is going to come between him and the object of his affections, no matter how worth they are then that person in the middle could be in danger.
COOPER: I don't want to speculate. We don't know what the situation is that led to all of this or why he has taken this young girl, allegedly. There is still a lot more left to know.
Mark, when you see a case like this, what is the message that, you know, parents out there, that everybody should just take away from this?
KLAAS: Well, that this is not about strangers. I mean, so many times in my career as a child advocate I run into these cases where the evil Uncle Billy or the evil Uncle Jim who's lurking in the background is the one that in fact goes after the child and creates all of the chaos and the mayhem and oftentimes the murder.
Therefore we shouldn't be talking to our kids about strangers. We should be talking to our kids about making correct decisions and then if something feels bad, they need to put distance between themselves and whatever that is, and this is indicated in this case. And then go and tell a trusted adult what's going on so that they can intervene and try to make things right.
COOPER: Mark Klaas, appreciate you being on. Mary Ellen O'Toole as well.
And again, we began just 12 minutes ago with optimistic news, breaking news that a vehicle had been spotted and that an Amber Alert had been issued. The vehicle believed to match the description of the suspect. Now our Paul Vercammen talking to the sheriff saying that lead has not panned out. So that's some -- obviously a setback for this case, but authorities are very much wanting the public's help in this, appealing to anybody out there who has seen Mr. DiMaggio or has seen Hannah to call 911, to call operators.
That is suspect, Jim DiMaggio, right there believed to be in -- to have with him this girl, Hannah, and possibly a young boy, 8-year- old, her brother, but again, remains were also found in the house earlier and DNA is being tested on that, on those remains.
Let us know what you think, you can follow me on Twitter right now, @andersoncooper.
Coming up next, there's some kind of an al Qaeda conference call, an actual conference call, a group chat sparked that massive global terror alert. We'll talk to the reporter whose sources yes, and a skeptic as well.
COOPER: More now on the search for 16-year-old Hannah Anderson and possibly her brother Ethan and the alleged killer James DiMaggio who may have one or both children with him. Late this evening we've got a report from authorities a car was spotted that might have been the suspect's. Just moments later that report was dialed back.
Paul Vercammen is monitoring all the developments. He joins us now.
So, Paul, authorities now saying from what we talked to the sheriff that that vehicle is not the suspect's vehicle, correct?
VERCAMMEN: Yes, they have dialed back, as you said. They said that this lead just frankly did not pan out, that despite Oregon authorities. And they did hedge, by the way, saying that possibly a sighting in northern California and they believed a possible sighting just across the border in Oregon.
But again, saying right now, Anderson, that that lead did not pan out. As you can imagine everyone here on pins and needles. There is a sense of urgency here. This is a desperate search and they do believe, as we stated earlier, that Jim DiMaggio is a very, very dangerous fugitive.
COOPER: All right. Paul, I appreciate the update.
A short time ago, right before we went to air, I spoke extensively with the San Diego County sheriff, Bill Gore, whose office is spearheading the investigation. Sheriff, what's the latest? Do you have any idea where James DiMaggio might be right now?
SHERIFF BILL GORE, SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA: No. We don't have a lot of clues in this case so far, Anderson. That's why we're asking for the public's help and we appreciate your efforts in getting the word out. You know, we're -- we need all the eyes and ears out there we can get to try to find the -- both DiMaggio and hope that these two kids. So -- and bring them back to San Diego County safe and sound.
COOPER: There have been some earlier guidance that he might be in Texas. There was also a report in Canada, but right now there's no information pointing to that, correct?
GORE: No, we have no real good leads that take them any particular place. That's why we're -- you know, we're trying to get -- solicit help from anybody anywhere that might see this car or any individuals involved.
COOPER: And I know the remains that were found in the house were consistent with those of an 8-year-old. Have the results of the DNA testing come back?
GORE: No, no. We expect those to come back hopefully in the next day or two. But yes, they are a small child. We're hoping that Ethan is still out there with Hannah and they'll be returned but, you know, we just don't know at this point in time.
COOPER: Do you know anything about James DiMaggio's connection to the family?
GORE: Well, you know, there's -- we talked to Brett Anderson, the father of the two girls and the ex-husband of Christina, and this is a life-long friend of theirs. They know him very well. And if you saw Brett's appeal last night, you know, he said, Jim, you've taken away so much already. Just please, bring my -- bring my daughter back to me.
So that's our plea, also. Let's not make this any worse than it already is and we're asking everybody out there to keep their eyes open and maybe bring this little girl back to her father.
COOPER: And, I mean, I read that a family friend had said that DiMaggio had some sort of feelings for or crush on the 16-year-old daughter, Hannah. Do you have any information about that?
GORE: Well, we're talking to all her classmates and, you know, we're developing certain stories. We just don't know. There's just a lot of speculation right now. We don't want to go too far out on a limb one direction or the other.
GORE: We know that they were -- they were life-long friends, and we're not exactly sure what that relationship was. We don't know if Hannah is with him willingly or not. We just don't know right now. You know, that's why we use the national emergency alert system to try to get all the people out there looking for this couple, whether they are in this state or in another state.
COOPER: And I want to put James DiMaggio's picture back up on the screen again. If anybody sees this man, what should they do?
GORE: Well, don't try to | 1,737 |
Patrick Tignyemb confident Bloemfontein Celtic will repeat 2012 Telkom Knockout triumph
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Tignyemb is the only survivor from the side that last won the Telkom Knockout, and he is confident they will clinch it again
Bloemfontein Celtic goalkeeper Patrick Tignyemb has a feeling that they will walk away with the Telkom Knockout title on Saturday.
"I told the guys at training that the feeling I had in 2012 before the final in Durban is the same one I have now," Tignyemb told the media.
That success which was also achieved in the KZN province pushed them on to achieve their best joint league finish as they ended fifth that season.
"I know that if we keep the same fighting spirit that we have shown this season, we will win it. Wits are a big team.
"They've proven that. But we are also a good team. We are<|fim_middle|> trophy, we will have a lot of motivation to go far in the league.
"Our main target is to win the Telkom and go as far as possible in the league. As far as possible means winning it (the league). But we must start with this Cup and create a winning culture first," Tignyemb concluded. | strong and we believe in ourselves," Tignyemb said.
As far as the Premiership title goes, the Cameroonian believes they are in with a shout, but they must first get the job done by lifting South Africa's league cup.
Since arriving in the country nine years ago, the 2012 TKO success remains Tignyemb's only piece of silverware to date and is desperate to add another one to equation.
"We know that if we work and fight hard like we have done, we will beat them. 2012 is a long time ago. I need one more title. If we get this | 130 |
NASA Makes Ultima Thule 'Pop' in Artsy 3D Images
By Genevieve Scarano 03.11.2019 :: 12:50PM EST 03.11.2019
Wear a pair of 3D glasses to see this cool image of Ultima Thule 'pop.' (Photo Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/National Optical Astronomy Observatory)
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Get your 3D glasses ready: NASA's New Horizons team just unveiled new Ultima Thule photos and they make the icy space rock "pop" on computer screens.
On Thursday, NASA's New Horizons shared the artsy Ultima Thule photos in a blog post, and they detail the space object's overall shape and topographic features. The "3D effects" are a result from combining or pairing images taken at different viewing angles, enabling people to see 3D images with a pair of red-blue stereo glasses.
For this Ultima Thule view, try looking "through" it to create the effect of a third image in the middle. (Photo Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/National Optical Astronomy Observatory)
"These views provide a clearer picture of Ultima Thule's overall shape," Alan Stern, mission Principal Investigator from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Colorado, said in the blog post. "Including the flattened shape of the large lobe, as well as the shape of individual topographic features such as the 'neck' connecting the two lobes, the large depression on the smaller lobe, and hills and valleys on the larger lobe."
.@NASANewHorizons presents captivating new 3D views of Kuiper Belt object #UltimaThule.
These images were produced for science: they reveal<|fim_middle|> | topographic features to help us understand how this space rock came to have its extraordinary shape. Zoom in: https://t.co/94fU6SAmfu pic.twitter.com/zkxrLHTr8l
— NASA (@NASA) March 10, 2019
To generate the Ultima Thule 3D images, the New Horizons team paired sets of processed images taken by New Horizon's Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on Jan. 1, from different distances of 17,400 miles and 4,100 miles, enabling original scales of roughly 430 feet and 110 feet per pixel.
If you want to view these images, you'll need to wear a pair of red-blue 3D glasses or exercise your eyesight. With some 3D glasses, you can see Ultima Thule's distinctive landscape, including hills, valleys, and larger depressions.
NASA's cool images follow NASA's New Horizons spaceship Ultima Thule flyby, which took place at approximately 12:33 a.m. EST on Jan. 1. The flyby, which was the most distant flyby reported in human history, occurred almost four billion miles away from the sun. With this mission, NASA can learn more about the Kuiper Belt and Ultima Thule, and how these ancient space objects played a role in the early days of the solar system.
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This is a time of<|fim_middle|> Search, dig, investigate, claw your way to God, and if you do that in sincerity and truth, He will rain righteousness upon you! Open the floodgates because you are redeemed!
Next postJustice/Judgement: it's not about vengeance; it's about love! | Harvest when we bring in the goods of our garden and prepare for the lean months of winter. Hebrew scripture is overflowing with farming metaphor of the garden and the gardener. It is interesting to note that the Biblical metaphor of gardening and the concept of righteousness are closely connected, something that is often overlooked.
For as the earth brings forth her sprouts, and as a garden causes the things sown in it to spring up, so the Lord YHWY will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
To be righteous is not to be holier than thou or self-righteous. We've been taught that to be righteous is to follow a moral compass of what is good and right and pure. It has nothing to do with pointing fingers or seeing yourself as better than someone else. But to be truly righteous you have to look inward and then seek God in an outward way. According to the Psalms righteousness and justice are the foundation of God's throne and so it needs to be part of who we are as children of God.
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; Lovingkindness and truth go before You. How blessed are the people who know the shouts of joy! O LORD, they walk in the light of Your countenance.
If you want to live and possess what God offers you MUST pursue righteousness.
Righteousness… righteousness you shall pursue so that you may live and possess the land which YHWH your God is giving you.
Hebrew has no punctuation: no question marks, no apostrophes, no exclamation points… so one of the ways to create emphasis is to duplicate words. As you read above: Righteousness, righteousness you shall pursue. Seeking out righteousness will put you on the right path of life. In the time of the book of Deuteronomy it was seeking out the Promised Land through righteousness.
[Side note: almost all Bible translations translate Deut. 16:20 as "justice" you shall pursue. The Hebrew language has a different word for justice, mishpat, which we'll look at next week. The translation of these two words- righteousness and justice- are a bit of a tangled mess throughout most OT translations, frequently flip-flopping between the two. Deut. 16:20 should be read as righteousness, not justice].
Today, as it was in Moses day, it is not possible for us to live a 100% purely righteous life. But God had a plan for humanity's salvation.
As followers of Jesus the Messiah (Yeshua HaMashiach), we believe that Jesus is the salvation that God promises. His name, Yeshua in Hebrew, is the literal translation of the word "salvation" AND He is God's righteousness revealed. Yeshua (salvation) dying on the cross for the salvation for mankind means we don't have to live up to the impossible. Sincerely trying your best to live in righteousness AND continuously seeking out the Creator is what we are asked to do.
Let Your priests be clothed with righteousness, and let Your Godly ones sing for joy. For the sake of David, your servant, do not turn away the face of your Messiah. The LORD has sworn to David a truth from which He will not turn back: "Of the fruit of your body I will set upon your throne".
In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch of David to spring forth; and He shall execute justice and righteousness on the earth. In those days Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will dwell in safety; and this is the name by which she [Jerusalem] will be called: YHWH is our righteousness.
It is not surprising that Mary Magdalene, when she comes across Jesus after he was resurrected from the dead, confuses Jesus as the gardener. She wasn't wrong!
"Woman, why are you weeping?" Jesus asked her. "Who are you looking for?" Thinking He was the gardener, she said, "Sir, if you have carried Him off, tell me where you have put Him, and I will get Him." Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned and said to Him in Aramaic, "Rabboni!" (which means Teacher).
At the sound of her name she recognized Jesus. There is praise in her voice when she calls out "Rabboni"! She sought Him out ("Who are you looking for?") and was rewarded. Mary Magdalene, by no means perfect, is one of the best examples of righteousness. Because righteous is not just following a moral compass, it is also continuously seeking out God.
Sow for yourself righteousness (tsedeq); reap according to lovingkindness (chesed). Break up your fallow ground for it is time to seek YHWH, until He comes and rains righteousness upon you.
YHWH is our righteousness… and, according to Scripture, YHWH connects with His people through the Messiah Yeshua, the Righteous Branch, of the Nations.
There is a calling to live in righteousness AND seek YHWH… but not necessarily in that order. If you feel that living in righteousness is not attainable right now, then just SEEK God out. | 1,078 |
Q: Removing certain word in file name I would like to remove the word ".pdf" in the file name. It's not the extension of the file as I named it with ".pdf" previously. How do I remove it on all of the<|fim_middle|> directories):
Get-ChildItem -Recurse -File |
Rename-Item -NewName { $_.BaseName.Replace('.pdf', '') + $_.Extension } -WhatIf
The -WhatIf common parameter previews the operation. Remove it once you're sure it will do what you want.
Note that files whose base names do not contain the substring .pdf are effectively ignored.
To speed up processing, you could make Get-ChildItem preselect the files of interest with -Filter *.pdf?*
| files? My files are located in many folders within the main folder.
C:\MainFolder\Folder1\document.pdf
C:\MainFolder\Folder2\document
C:\MainFolder\Folder3\document.pdf
Get-ChildItem | Rename-Item -NewName { $_.BaseName.Replace(".pdf","") + $_.Extension }
I tried using this but it only removes in the folder itself. I need to do it for all of the folders
A: This should do the trick:
$files = Get-ChildItem 'C:\mypath' -Recurse
foreach( $file in $files ) {
if( !$file.PSIsContainer ) {
$extension = $file.Extension
$newname = $file.BaseName.Replace('.pdf', '' ) + $extension
Rename-Item -Path $file.FullName -NewName $newname | Out-Null
}
}
A: Replace your piece of code with this:
#Finds all files with the string "pdf" anywhere in the name recursively and will replace with nothing(which will remove basically).
Get-ChildItem -Path C:\your\root\folder\path -Filter "*pdf*" -Recurse | Rename-Item -NewName {$_.Name -replace "pdf",''}
Hope it helps.
A: As Filburt points out in a comment on the question, the only thing missing from your command is the -Recurse switch in order to process files in the entire directory subtree of the input path.
Additionally, to be safe, add the -File switch in order to limit processing to files (and not also | 343 |
Why we're ditching our Kindles in favour of audiobooks
Longer commutes and better headphones are helping to fuel a rise in audiobooks
2 December 2019 • 4:43pm
Once upon a time, the rise of Kindles was thought to spell the end for printed books. Today, however, the popularity of ebooks is waning. Just 26pc of Britons own an e-reader compared to 31pc in 2015.
Instead, the greatest success in storytelling appears to be a different innovation altogether: the ever-convenient audiobook.
According to new research by Deloitte, the global audiobook market will grow by 25pc to almost £4bn by 2020, with the US and Chinese market making up over 75pc of the total.
The Tech Trends 2020 report forecasts that audiobooks will generate revenues of £115m in the UK alone next year, up 30pc on 2018. By 2023 audiobook revenues in the US, the world's largest market, are expected to surpass e-books for the first time.
This is partly driven by an increasing willingness for celebrities and film stars to narrate new readings of both classic and modern texts.
For instance, you can now indulge in Hollywood A-listers Meryl Streep and Clare Danes reading Nora Ephron's Heartburn and Margaret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale.
Elton John narrates his own autobiography alongside Taron Egerton, who portrayed the music star in cinematic hit Rocketman Credit: Getty Images
There<|fim_middle|> text-to-speech programs that could synthesise an audiobook at a stroke using AI.
Then again, there is a good chance that any robotic voice may miss the point of audiobooks increasing popularity. Yes, technology is making them more accessible. But perhaps the reason we are increasingly drawn to them is much simpler than that.
"When you are a toddler you get read books until you are five or six" says Lee. "People like being told stories. I think that never goes away, even if we can argue forever about what the purest experience of a book is." | is also a growing trend for authors to narrate their own work. The audiobook version of Elton John's autobiography has the glam rock star reading excerpts alongside Taron Egerton, the actor who plays Elton in cinematic smash Rocketman. David Walliams snappy readings of his children's books have proven hugely popular.
It isn't just celebrity endorsement – a time-honoured gambit for books of all stripes – that has fuelled the rise of the spoken word. It's the convenience and accessibility audiobooks provide in our daily lives.
"Part of it is the growing fondness for the spoken word; it's always been there in radio," says Paul Lee, Deloitte's global head of technology, media and telecoms research.
"But now most people have a smartphone to access audiobooks and other changes are making a difference; wireless headphones, linking phones to speakers in cars, better noise cancelling and longer commutes. People like having spoken books for commutes. If you are on a train, you can shut your eyes and lose yourself in an audiobook. If you are driving it's something you can listen to in the background and you can keep your hands on the wheel... which is advisable."
Deloitte also suggests that the growing presence of smart speakers in our homes is another contributing factor.
Around 20pc of British households now own a smart speaker, up from 12pc last year. We now have access to a vast library of books, instantly streamed from subscription services such as Amazon's market leading Audible or downloaded individually, available on an increasing number of devices.
The increased presence of smart speakers in the home are said to have contributed to audiobooks rise
Fittingly, it is also increased word of mouth that is helping to drive a boom in audiobooks.
"The UK Audiobook Consumer study shows that curiosity is the main drive behind people buying audiobooks for the first time," says Jaclyn Swope at Nielsen Book Research. "But there's also been increases for things like recommendations and seeing advertisements.
"Basically the more we keep talking about them the more consumers are going to be aware of audiobooks as an option. And audiobooks allow for multi-tasking so they're engaging consumers who previously might not have had time to read or might not have had the inclination to pick up a print or e-book."
Those concerned that the proliferation of audiobooks might have a dire impact on the pleasure of reading traditional print books needn't worry just yet. The projected £115m value of audiobooks in the UK remains a sliver of the £6bn book market at large.
Globally the market is set to be worth almost £100bn in 2019, according to PWC. While print sales dropped £168m last year, they are still 8pc up on five years ago and make up over 80pc of total book sales.
"I wouldn't say the cause of the fluctuations of the print and e-market is the growth in audio," says Swope. "Buyers are just figuring out which formats work for them in given situations or for different types of books.
"For most genres and circumstances consumers still prefer print books to audiobooks, to varying degrees. But it's also popular for consumers to listen to books they've already read. Audiobooks provide the opportunity to gain a new perspective on a favourite book or experience it in a different way."
Lee agrees, citing the example of the autobiography of Everything But the Girl singer Tracey Thorn. Read by Thorn herself, the audiobook precedes chapters with music tracks. Elizabeth Uviebinené and Yomi Adegoke's acclaimed Slay in Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible features numerous clips of young women interviewed for the book.
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While audiobooks may not be troubling print just yet, that impressive 30pc growth will ensure that publishers and authors alike will be pushing the boundaries of the genre. Publisher HarperCollins has said that it has a "total audio policy", turning every book with a narrative structure into the spoken word. The publisher has also experimented with "StoryCastle", an app for Google Assistant that delivers daily audio stories for children.
Some books are, naturally, a better fit for print – pre-school picture stories, cookbooks and lengthy tomes for example – but spoken storytelling has its own benefits.
"I can see trends from films moving into audiobooks," says Lee. "Stories being created for two hour commutes so you can lose yourself in it, but it has an end. There is no law that says a book has to be a particular length. With audiobooks, one of the things is to make it more accessible. You can still deliver a really good story in 100 pages."
The long-term effects of audiobooks' rise on the art of storytelling is hard to gauge, but there seems little doubt it will continue to grow as technology allows us to fit books more easily into our lives.
Even producing them may become simpler and less expensive, as companies such as London-based start up DeepZen work on sophisticated machine-learning | 1,057 |
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A bit of horror from my childhood
Back when I was a kid, I couldn't get enough of horror movies. We're talking like 1975 and earlier horror movies. So no Halloween, Friday the 13th, or anything like that. I was enthralled with the classics; Universal films like Frankenstein, Dracula, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Hammer films like Horror of Dracula, Curse of Frankenstein, etc. And of course Tojo films like Godzilla, Godzilla vs. Mothra, King Kong Escapes, and so forth (plus their rival studios' offerings like Gamera!).
And of course there were a lot of other movies in there as well. Science fiction back then was tossed into the horror movie mix with abandon, and vice versa. So include wonders like Planet of the Apes, Silent Running, those wonderful Ray Haryhausen movies, and Colossus: The Forbin Project into the mix.
Of course I was a huge Famous Monsters of Filmland fan, and had a thick stack of magazines in my room, most of which got quite worn over the years. But when I was about 8 years old or so, I got a pair of books about horror movies from a local bookstore, and they were my constant companions. I had completely forgotten the titles (and indeed one title still eludes my memory and my Google skills), but I recently found one on eBay; A Pictoral History of Horror Movies.
To say I had read this book repeatedly when I was just a youngin' is an understatement. These books were my constant companions. I read them and read them and read them, and viewed all the wonderful photos of movies I had seen - usually on Chiller Theater on channel 11 in New York, which showed all sorts of movies from the 30's onwards - and drilled them into my memory.
So when I found that one book, A Pictoral History of Horror Movies, it was like being transported back to 1975. I still remember every picture, every caption, and even a lot of the text. That was a simpler time in horror movie-dom; fewer serial killers (and the ones that were there were kitschy and flashy and usually played by Vincent Price) and more monsters. And I loved it. There's a certain classiness, and of course more than a little self-aware silliness, in there that modern horror movies (which seem to veer more and more into torture porn, body horror, and SHOCK, none of which I particularly like) simply lack.
Hell, I still love it.
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I still own that book. It's great.
Dr. Theda April 29, 2016 at 4:28 AM
The Dr. Phibes pic has hung in my room since I first got the book !!
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Here is some information about the red corn: This unique corn is tender, sweet and delicious. It is great on the grill,<|fim_middle|> much. I still have 6 ears of it left and will share it with my family this weekend.
Also, dinner was "use it up" at our house because we were going on vacation. The yellow corn was fresh picked from our garden and so were the tomatoes. In the back is kale and cottage cheese mixed with lime juice. On the left is a quesadilla type thing with cheese, tomatoes, 2 slices of bacon, and salsa. It was a very veggie filled meal and was delicious!
The corn looks delicious. Thanks for sharing! Have a great vacation. | or roasted; either on the cob, or as kernels shaved into salads, pastas or salsas. It gets its marvelous color straight from traditionally bred, heirloom style seeds. The color is a plant pigment called anthocyanins, part of a family of health friendly molecules called flavinoids.
For dinner the other night, I boiled this corn which unfortunately took away some of the pretty color. The corn still tasted great and was the sweetest juiciest corn that I had ever had. Usually, my husband and I put either chili powder, Parmesan cheese, or butter on our corn but both of us agreed that it didn't need it. Next time, we would grill it so that it doesn't lose the color as | 150 |
Adaptive Management on Cascade Head Preserve and a Conservation Action Plan for Salmon River Watershed (~2006)
CS Steps: Full Cycle | Geography: North America | Thematic Scope: Protected Areas, Species Conservation, Threat Reduction | Keywords: adaptive management, fire, Oregon Silverspot butterfly | Posted on May 1, 2017
Rooted in The Nature Conservancy's (TNC) Cascade Head Preserve, this case study features adaptive management using ground based research for the Oregon silverspot butterfly, that later grew to encompass diverse stakeholders for conservation management of the Salmon River watershed. See the Miradi share file here, and the detailed account of the case study here.
Natural areas managers often work in degraded systems and face uncertainty about how to restore them. Imperiled species require immediate actions for improving habitats even when ideal techniques are unknown.
Additionally, individual natural areas are surrounded by a diversity of land uses and ownerships that can have consequences for management of the natural area. This case study shows how adaptive management addresses this dilemma.
The Salmon River watershed encompasses 75 square miles (approximately 50,000 acres) in Oregon, NW USA, empties into the Pacific Ocean in protected areas, but upstream, the watershed is dominated by dense rural residential and small commercial developments, plus private industrial timberland.
Cascade Head Preserve at the mouth of the Salmon River estuary. Steep, south-facing slopes harbor remnant coastal prairie and several endemic species, including the threatened Oregon silverspot butterfly. Photo Credit: The Nature Conservancy.
Adaptive management for the Oregon silverspot butterfly
The Oregon silverspot butterfly, the focus of much of The Nature Conservancy's activity at Cascade Head, used to occur in coastal grasslands from southern Washington to northern California, but now four populations remain, including the one at Cascade Head and now severely at risk.
Silverspot larvae feed almost exclusively on Viola adunca, the western blue violet, an early successional species that requires disturbance to prosper. Conceptual models of their ecological requirements identified altered fire regimes and invasive non-native plants as key threats.
Field experiments from 1994 to 1999 to compared two management options; fall burning and fall mowing followed by raking, with an unmanaged control to test the response of butterfly resources (nectar and food plants) and the overall plant community, especially invasive non-natives. This showed that a single fall burn of non-native grassland maintained the existing degraded community rather than restoring its native composition, but did have a positive effect on the violets.
As a consequence, management-scale burns were introduced in 1998, along with further research into timing and intensity of burns, plus active restoration methods to tip the balance more towards the favoured native plant species.
Despite these management changes, though, the silverspot's population crashed in 1993 and again in 1<|fim_middle|> The population remain imperiled and research continues.
Salmon River Conservation Action Plan
Salmon River Watershed CAP
Recognising the Salmon River area as an important place for the conservation of biodiversity in the Pacific Northwest Coast Ecoregion, TNC brought together a diverse group of stakeholders in 2006 who used the Open Standards to develop the Salmon River Conservation Action Plan.
Participants in the process included community members, representatives of state and federal agencies, timber companies, conservation organizations, private landowners, scientists and academics. Over the course of seven months (December 2006 – July 2007), participants compiled information and data to profile the current condition of the area, defined the desired conditions that stakeholders envision for the basin and nearby ocean environments, and identified concrete steps that citizens, conservation organizations and conservation partners can take to realize that vision.
We showed that active adaptive management can advance our understanding even at a small site with a modest budget and limited staff. Whilst we have not recovered the butterfly at Cascade Head, we eliminated some ineffective management actions. Without adequate monitoring to provide information about how key components of the habitat were responding, the site could lose the components of native grassland, including violets, through the increasing density of invasive plants or lose nectar sources due to incompatible mowing practices. Alternatively, we might have delayed implementing ANY management until we had conclusive research results showing us what our management should be. That approach can result in loss of habitat that is already declining in quality.
We found collaboration with key partners to be an effective way to stretch our resources to accomplish this work. Building teams of scientists and land managers through partnerships with local universities, NGOs, and natural resource agencies can increase the capacity of managers on a shoestring budget to do effective adaptive management. Using the Open Standards planning methods provides a compelling approach for bringing diverse stakeholders to the table and getting all land managers in an area on the same page and working towards shared goals using coordinated strategiesRooted in the TNC's Cascade Head Preserve, this case study features adaptive management using ground based research for the Oregon silverspot butterfly, that later grew to encompass diverse stakeholders for conservation management of the Salmon River watershed. See the Miradi share file here, and the detailed account of the case study here.
DOCX TNC Cascade Head Preserve and Salmon River CAP case study summary | 998 and the outlook remained bleak. Captive breeding commenced in 2002 and releases continued through 2012. Monitoring after the cessation of captive release indicated that this approach did not yield a permanent, but only a temporary population increase. | 53 |
Journal of Computer Security - Volume 14, issue 2
ISSN 0926-227X (P)
The Journal of Computer Security presents research and development results of lasting significance in the theory, design, implementation, analysis, and application of secure computer systems. It also provides a forum for ideas about the meaning and implications of security and privacy, particularly those with important consequences for the technical community.
The journal provides an opportunity to publish articles of greater depth and length than is possible in the proceedings of various existing conferences, while addressing an audience of researchers in computer security who can be assumed to have a more specialized background than the readership of other archival publications. The journal welcomes contributions on all aspects of computer security: confidentiality, integrity, and assurance of service - that is, protection against unauthorized disclosure or modification of sensitive information, or denial of service. Of interest is a precise understanding of security policies through modelling, as well as the design and analysis of mechanisms for enforcing them, and the architectural principles of software and hardware systems implementing them.
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Authors: Focardi, Riccardo
DOI: 10.3233/JCS-2006-14201
Citation: Journal of Computer Security, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 111-111, 2006
Role-based access control for a distributed<|fim_middle|> extension of the π-calculus to study the behaviour of concurrent systems in a RBAC scenario. We define a type system ensuring that the specified policy is respected during computations, and a behavioural equivalence to equate systems. We then consider a more sophisticated feature that can be easily integrated in our framework, i.e., the possibility of automatically adding rôle …activations and deactivations to processes to be run under a given policy (whenever possible). Finally, we show how the framework can be easily extended to express significant extensions of the core RBAC model, such as rôles hierarchies or constraints determining the acceptability of the system components. Show more
Keywords: RBAC, process calculi, Type Systems, Behavioural Equivalences
Enforcing Robust Declassification and Qualified Robustness
Authors: Myers, Andrew C. | Sabelfeld, Andrei | Zdancewic, Steve
Abstract: Noninterference requires that there is no information flow from sensitive to public data in a given system. However, many systems release sensitive information as part of their intended function and therefore violate noninterference. To control information flow while permitting information release, some systems have a downgrading or declassification mechanism, but this creates the danger that it may cause unintentional information release. This paper shows that a robustness property can be used to characterize programs in which declassification mechanisms cannot be controlled by attackers to release more information than intended. It describes a simple way to provably enforce this robustness property …through a type-based compile-time program analysis. The paper also presents a generalization of robustness that supports upgrading (endorsing) data integrity. Show more
Keywords: Computer security, confidentiality, integrity, information flow, noninterference, security-type systems, security policies, declassification, endorsement
On the impossibility of building secure Cliques-type authenticated group key agreement protocols
Authors: Pereira, Olivier | Quisquater, Jean-Jacques
Abstract: The A-GDH.2 and SA-GDH.2 authenticated group key agreement protocols showed to be flawed in 2001. Even though the corresponding attacks (or some variants of them) have been rediscovered in several different frameworks, no fixed version of these protocols has been proposed until now. In this paper, we prove that it is in fact impossible to design a scalable authenticated group key agreement protocol based on the same design assumptions as the A-GDH ones. We proceed by providing a systematic way to derive an attack against any A-GDH-type protocol with at least four participants and exhibit protocols with two and …three participants which we cannot break using our technique. As far as we know, this is the first generic insecurity result reported in the literature concerning authentication protocols. Show more
Keywords: Authentication, Cryptographic protocols, Diffie–Hellman, Dolev–Yao model, Group key agreement, Symbolic analysis | calculus
Authors: Braghin, Chiara | Gorla, Daniele | Sassone, Vladimiro
Abstract: Rôle-based access control (RBAC) is increasingly attracting attention because it reduces the complexity and cost of security administration by interposing the notion of rôle in the assignment of permissions to users. In this paper, we present a formal framework relying on an | 76 |
A Sober Moment in Our History: The Impeachment of a President
Republicans have charged that Democrats have intended to impeach the president from the moment he was sworn in. They forget that they intended to do that before the 2016 election if Hillary Clinton were elected. Republicans continue to argue process, and that Democrats have passed no bills. Never mind that many (in the hundreds) seat on Leader Mitch McConnell's desk.
However, they have a very small point. Some Democrats have wanted to impeach the president from early on in his presidency. However, they are forgetting the parallel to Andrew Johnson, the first president to be impeached. There were several attempts to impeach the president, and he was finally impeached after legislation was passed. You could argue that the law was designed to entrap a president that his opponents did not like. After he fired Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, Congress finally got him impeached. It was the third attempt. He was not convicted in the Senate, and his party did not choose him to run again.
The parallels in the intent end here, however. Nor was the country less divided back then. In fact, it was even more divided, since it had just emerged from a civil war that almost tore the country asunder.
Like Johnson, President Donald Trump argues he is the greatest victim in the history of the Republic. Johnson went so far as to argue that none sacrificed as much as he did to preserve the Union. He forgot his predecessor (Abraham Lincoln) died for the Union since he was murdered.
Trump's defenders though are doing great damage to the nation. They are pushing forth conspiracy theories, even at this late hour. These involve the intent of a coup, which means the constitutional remedy is somehow a deep state coup. The president is a victim in this theory, and right now we are facing a coup. They forget, a coup involves troops in the streets, and usually, it ends in nasty ways for the president.
It gets worst. The president sent a letter to the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on the eve of impeachment. It is an airing of grievances, that starts with the idea that the House does not have a right to impeach. It is the sole responsibility of the House to impeach.
The letter states in the beginning:
By proceeding with your invalid impeachment, you are violating your oaths of office, you are breaking your allegiance to the Constitution, and you are declaring open war on American Democracy. You dare to invoke the Founding Fathers in pursuit of this election-nullification scheme — yet your spiteful actions display unfettered contempt for America's founding and your egregious conduct threatens to destroy that which our Founders pledged their very lives to build.
This is astounding, as the president puts in White House letterhead exactly one of the arguments that his defenders keep repeating today. They are calling it a "sham process," and a "coup."
This part of the letter is alarming, for its authoritarian tones:
You are turning a policy disagreement between two branches of government into an impeachable offense — it is no more legitimate than the Executive Branch charging members of Congress with crimes for the lawful exercise of legislative power.
Is the president threatening to arrest those who have exercised their legislative duties? Are we moving towards an elected dictator? Are we moving towards a president for life? This is exactly what the founders feared. Somebody who is so full of himself that he believes he is above the law? This is extremely dangerous. His supporters have followed the same talking points and there are feigned calls for violence as well.
The other talking point<|fim_middle|> president has been convicted in the history of this republic. But three presidents have been impeached. A fourth one resigned before the process led to this moment, and left the White House in disgrace.
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Omid Panahi | , that both Trump and his defenders in Congress are using is that this is overturning the election. Worst it is an attack on the separation of powers. Never mind that the refusal of the president to provide documents and witnesses under subpoena to do exactly this. He was also invited to participate in the judiciary, and the letter sent by his lawyer partially reads like this.
Your inquiry is constitutionally invalid and a violation of due process. In the history of our Nation, the House of Representatives has never attempted to launch an impeachment inquiry against the President without a majority of the House taking political accountability for that decision by voting to authorize such a dramatic constitutionalstep. Here, Houseleadership claims to have initiated the gravest inter-branch conflict contemplated under our Constitution by means of nothing more than a press conference at which the Speaker of the House simply announced an "official impeachment inquiry." Your contrived process is unprecedented in the history of the Nation, and lacks the necessary authorization for a valid impeachment proceeding.
This was a direct attack on the process, which has been a constant talking point. The president complains that he was not given an opportunity to participate in the process. Yet, the letter from Pat Cipollone to Congress, dated Oct 8, 2019, is contrary to this claim.
This idea that the impeachment is invalid is bizarre, and it is long-standing. They are denying that there is a right, even a duty, to impeach a rogue executive. it is going to be up to the Senate to decide if the charges have any validity in a trial. However, we already know what the Senate will do. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell does not intend to run a trial. Mind you, the Constitution has no rules how this goes, beyond an oath. What he will do, and he told this on Fox TV (which is functioning as state media at this point) that he will do all he can to run this though like shit through a goose.
Republicans complain there were no witnesses for the president, yet the White House prevented all his people from testifying. They also blocked all document production and refused all subpoenas. He also refused to participate in any way, after the White House was invited to do so. Yet, at the trial, where witnesses would also be appropriate, the Foreman of the Jury has said he wants no witnesses. If you think this is strange, you should.
Now, let me tell you something about democracy. It is a fragile thing. It is not something that will survive in spite of all attacks. What the president, and his party, are doing, is an attack on democracy itself. We are watching the emergence of an authoritarian state, where the president can do as he will.
What Democrats are doing is reaffirm the role of the House in this government. They are trying to put guard rails on a president who believes he can do whatever he wants. It is not a coup, nor overturning an election. It is a Constitutional act.
The president will be impeached today. It is not a minor thing. In fact, this is a major step in our history. The president will be impeached, and he will continue to air his grievances on Twitter.
The president will be impeached, and this is a sober moment in our history. It is also a fork on the road. We also know the Senate will not convict. No | 686 |
Gotta catch'em all
A popular smart phone application game is sweeping the nation and picking up steam in Webster City. Local residents are perusing the parks, post office, community theatre, Fuller Hall, and area churches to catch as many Pokemon as possible.
Pokemon Go is a free app that can be downloaded on any smartphone. The game combines real-world elements with the Pokemon that those who grew up in the 90s know and love. The goal of Pokemon Go is to compete with friends and catch as many Pokemon as possible.
According to Vox explainer, Pokemon Go uses the smartphone's GPS and clock to decide which Pokemon appear in the game. Vox gives examples of users finding more bug and grass Pokemon types at the park as opposed to being by a lake and finding more water Pokemon.
Sebron Bovia, 14, downloaded the game two weeks ago.
"I was bored one day, so I downloaded it," said B<|fim_middle|>0, noted that many of the stops in town are highly populated areas where kids tend to hangout.
Fifteen-year-old Alex Wolfgram estimates that there are eight Poke-stops in Webster City.
"My friends started to play it and they told me I should get it. So I got it," said Wolfgram. "I got hooked. I've been to about all the Poke Stops."
Wolfgram had prior interest in Pokemon, owning games for Gameboy and Nintendo DS.
"I think it's pretty big because we've seen a lot of people going around town. I think the farthest we've gone is the post office or the park," said Myla Groth. "We've gone pretty much all around."
"I had a couple of the games and cards and stuff," said Hank Ambrose, 14. "I like how you can explore more with this version. You can go in the woods, the water, all around town."
Alyssa Groth, age 14, describes the game as interesting and a great way to get exercise.
"It's addicting and actually pretty interesting," said Alyssa Groth.
Several young people had gathered under the shade of a large tree at the First Congregational UCC Church, waiting for Pokemon to pop up Thursday afternoon. Several had already completed an average of seven "Poke-stops". They have all spent an average of three hours a day in the past week trying to "Catch 'em all."
Although the game is meant for entertainment, there are real life problems and cautions that go hand-in-hand with the app.
"Be aware of what's going on around you," said Webster City Police Chief Shiloh Mork. "It's a game. Pay attention to what you're doing."
According to Mork, there have been instances across the United States in which people have been assaulted and robbed at Poke Stops. Mork cautions all players to take in their surroundings and play safely.
Mork has only had one instance of the game causing a problem in Webster City. There was a complaint of kids trespassing on private property three days ago.
"Players cannot be on private property without permission," said Mork. "If you see people on private property don't confront them. Call us and let us deal with the situation."
Mork cautions all players to adhere to the law while playing the game.
"The game does not give you the right to be places where you are not allowed to be," said Mork.
To contact the police about players trespassing on private property call the Webster City Police Station on their non-emergency line at (515) 832-9166. | ovia. "If you don't buy stuff, you can't do as much. You have to walk a lot to find Pokemon."
"My friends started playing it. I wanted to be better than them, so I started playing as much as I could," said Brady Auderer, 15. "It takes a lot of time."
Auderer also addressed concerns the game is dangerous.
"People are getting the idea that it's dangerous and causing car crashes and stuff," said Auderer. "Any game can do that. People just have to be smart with what they're doing."
"It's addicting,'" said Emma Groth, 12. "I've been wanting to play it for a few days. This is my first time playing."
Myla Groth, age 1 | 161 |
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Celebrity and VIP guests at the party included Martha Stewart, Kelly Rutherford, Ric Pipino, Olivia Culpo - Miss Universe 2012, Kelly Bensimon, Deborah Lippmann and more.
Guests enjoyed music by DJ Alexandra Richards while experiencing beauty treatments from LORAC cosmetics, manicures by Deborah Lippman nails (two of my favorite shades are a copper-colored Phoenix Rising and a gunmetal Hit Me With Your Best Shot), hair styling | 177 |
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Boo! Scaring up savings at Halloween
I've admitted<|fim_middle|> seemed detached to my life at the time — and was pleased just to get a passing grade. However, I think it was because it was presented in the abstract and not so much as problem-based learning. We should learn and teach math in such a way that takes the mystery of finding the answer but is more challenging for students!
Did you have to learn new skills in order to do the math you use in your job?
I had a basic foundation from school, which I use in my job today.
Happy Halloween everyone! Come back on Wednesday, when we'll start our month of nesting–with tips on home winterizing and settling in for the colder months (at least for many of us), filled with special family time. | it here before: I'm a dedicated DIYer. Pinterest is a huge playground for me, and I scout craft shows for ideas I can try at home. Like most Martha Stewart wanna bes, I leave a lot of projects undone. It can turn out to be an expensive past time.
After years of this back-and-forth, I've realized one important few thing: sometimes DIY is more expensive — in money and time. That's why I included the following in my book, Math for Grownups. Yes, the example is based on my own, personal experience, except that the ending turned out differently. (The obscure character? Luna of Harry Potter fame.) Had I really thought it through before heading to Joann's Fabric, I would have saved myself some cash and a lot of time.
Rita loves Hallowe'en, and she loves making her kids' costumes. This year, her 10-year-old daughter has requested a velvet-like cape and gown so that she can dress as some obscure character from her favorite novel about magical kids.
The pattern Rita is using calls for 7 yards of fabric, 2 fancy fasteners, and 3 yards of fringe. Looking at the Sunday circular for the local fabric store, she sees that crushed panne velvet is on sale for $2.99 per yard and the fringe is priced at $4 per yard. Rita guesses that the fasteners are about $5 each. To estimate her costs, she adds everything together:
(7 • $2.99) + (3 • $4) + (2 • $5)
(In case you lost track, that's 7 yards of fabric at $2.99 per yard, 3 yards of fringe at $4 per yard, and 2 frog clasps at $5 each.)
$20.93 + $12 + $10 = $42.93
A terrifying price!
Rita is starting to think that a trip to a thrift shop might be a better investment of her time and money. Sometimes doing it yourself just isn't worth it.
Do you have any scary costume stories? How have you learned to save money while DIY and celebrating Halloween?
Scary Statistics: Halloween by the numbers
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For many folks along the East Coast, Halloween will (at the very least) be postponed, thanks to the very real terror of Super Storm Sandy. I know all of us keep these folks in their thoughts.
And the rest of us? For the most part, tonight marks a very strange annual tradition here in the U.S.: going door to door in costume, asking for free candy. To mark the occasion, I've collected some scary statistics about the night of tricks and treats. Read at your own risk! Bwa-ha-ha-ha! (Um… that's my attempt at an evil laugh.)
170 million: The number of people who plan to celebrate Halloween in the U.S. (National Retail Federation)
$79.82: The average spent on costumes, decorations and candy this year. (National Retail Federation)
$113 million: The total value of pumpkin crops in the three top pumpkin-producing states (Agricultural Marketing Resource Center)
1,818: Number of pounds weighed by the largest pumpkin on record. (Guinness World Records)
15.2: The percent of costume ideas that come from Facebook. (National Retail Federation)
15.1: The percent of people that will dress their pet in a costume. (National Retail Federation)
0: The percent of pets that enjoy this tradition. (Just a guess)
6: Number of times I went trick-or-treating as a "hobo," because I was too lazy to do much else. (Personal data)
268: The population of Skull Creek, Nebraska — named for "A LOT" of buffalo skulls and bones found in a nearby creek. (U.S. Census)
1690: The number of pieces of candy that will fill an average-sized pillow case. (www.myscienceproject.org)
41: The percent of adults who admit eating candy from their own candy bowl between trick-or-treaters. (National Candy Association)
90: The percent of parents who admit stealing from their kids' trick-or-treat stash. (National Candy Association)
99.9: The percent of parents who actually steal candy from their kids' trick-or-treat stash. (Just a guess)
30: The percent of kids who sort their candy before digging in. (National Candy Association)
0: Number of kids who would rather get a toothbrush than candy, while trick or treating. (Just a guess)
Happy Halloween, everyone! Just one last word of warning: Watch out for the zombies. (Here's how math can help you plan during a zombie apocalypse.)
What are your Halloween plans?
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Math at Work Monday: Ronn the State Anatomy Board director
Ronn Wade talks with a student during University of Maryland's Mini-Med School for Kids at a summer camp in West Baltimore. (Photo courtesy of University of Maryland.)
At first glance, you might find Ronald Wade's job a bit gruesome, but he plays a pretty important role. As the State Anatomy Board director for Maryland, Wade is responsible for the bodies that are donated to science in Maryland. Each year, about 1,500 cadavers are available to Maryland research facilities.
"Anatomy is not just dissecting bodies," he says. "Yes, a large part of what we do is to implement anatomical preparations and provide surgical areas and research equipment. But we also assist students to enhance and improve learning, and assist clinical staff to develop skills and expertise, all for the sake of the patient."
In our interview, he explains how he uses math in his work.
Can you explain what you do for a living?
I administer the state's Body Donation Program, which means I carry out the disposition (cremation and burial) of Maryland's unclaimed decedent bodies. I also provide for the transport, preparation and medical study use of those bodies to advance medical and health science through education, training and research. And I provide anatomical facilities and prepare cadavers and specimens for medical school study and for clinical use by physicians, surgeons and allied health occupations (i.e. surgical residence, trauma, paramedic & EMT training). Since I manage a public program, I provide aid and assistance to the citizens of Maryland and advance anatomical understanding and knowledge.
When do you use basic math in your job?
Because I work for the state, I manage four budgets, which requires that I calculate and forecast state appropriations revenue and expenses. Then there's the accounting, which includes data entry for detailed ledgers and updating accounts, and managing inventories and controls. I also need to use chemical formulations to compound dilutions.
Do you use any technology to help with this math?
I do use calculators, computers. In particular, I depend on spreadsheets and databases to perform math functions.
How do you think math helps you do your job better?
In my job, being able to perform arithmetic and math calculations with current technology is basic to minimal acceptable performance.
How comfortable with math do you feel?
It's a matter of repetitive use and progression. Increased familiarity raises the comfort level and skill.
What kind of math did you take in high school?
I took basic math, binary systems ("new" math), algebra, calculus and accounting. I never liked math — it | 1,551 |
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December 2013 ~ Paris & Marseille Visit
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We are often encouraged to take a step back and get a balcony level view of our work rather than an on the ground perspective. Although we all know that this is a healthy process to regularly pursue, we often get buried with tasks, agendas, meetings, projects, follow ups and the like. When I was invited to participate in a study tour in Paris and Marseille in December of this year, the traveler in me was thrilled and the ground level manager in me was weary of the time away. However it was clear that the benefits would outweigh the backlog of emails. So on Saturday, December 7th, I boarded a flight to Paris and arrived Sunday morning around 10am.
Let me back up and explain the purpose of the trip and the program that we embarked upon. The French-American Foundation (based in NY) funded three years of an exchange program called Sustainable Cities in which a French delegation toured the US and vice versa each year. In 2013 the French delegation spent a week in Seattle in November and the US delegation (my group) spent a week divided between Paris and Marseille from December 9 through December 13. This was the last of the three years and our team was the last of the delegations chosen. Joining me were five impressive individuals: Ariella Cohen (Editor for the online publication dedicated to urban renewal called Next City), Toni Griffin (founder of the Bond Center on Design at the City College of New York), Rip Rapson (CEO of the Detroit based Kresge Foundation), Chris Rogers (Developer located in Seattle, WA), and Beth Takekawa (Executive Director of the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle, WA).
Marseille was chosen for our study because it is the 2013 recipient of the European Capital of Culture designation. This designation is bestowed among two European cities annually and the cities are chosen for their ability to execute an exceptional year-long program that produces urban renewal, highlights the richness of their citizens and attracts visitors, among other criteria. Marseille was an excellent choice for our study and comparable in many ways to Fresno. With wide spread poverty, many different cultures represented, and a desire to revitalize the<|fim_middle|> to visit the beautiful grounds regularly.
We closed the day with a reception hosted by Société Marseillaise de Crédit, the largest sponsor of the initiative. This bank had contributed 2.5 million euros to the initiative. This opportunity to talk with a private funder about the value of investing in culture gave us yet another perspective into the French way of thinking. Our host, Francis Papazian, was also one of the French delegates who had toured Seattle a few weeks prior. Prior to this sponsorship, the largest gift the bank had given was 100,000 euros. The bank's visibility had increased substantially in the course of the year. But according to Francis, their main goal in participating, was to ensure the success of the venture for their customers – the restaurateurs and shop owners who would see a massive influx in customers during the course of the year.
Thursday morning we took the train back to Paris and then spent the afternoon at CentQuatre. This facility is located in the 19th district of Paris where gangs, drugs and low income housing are the norm. The 420,000 square foot facility was once the location where all low income Parisian deceased individuals were delivered for government provided funeral arrangements. Today it is an international highly competitive artist in residence program with performance spaces, exhibit spaces, and open spaces for the community to congregate. For some reason, they have successfully integrated the youth – who have an unspoken agreement that this is neutral territory – and they spend hours here. While we were there, one group was perfecting their street dancing while another group was working on juggling and contortion. In addition, there is a Maison des Petits, literally a play area for local families to bring their children 5 and under and have a safe indoor space. We stayed and toured the current exhibit, "Trouble Makers Sensation vs. Digital" and then the performance that evening, Via Sophiatown, a new creation that is going on tour by a South African dance troupe.
Friday we closed with a tour of the Cite de l'Architecture and a panel discussion with the entire delegation of French participants that went to Seattle. Also joining us for the discussion were many representatives of the French Ministry of Culture and even a cultural representative from the UN. The discussion was purposeful and lengthy as we delved into our observations of each other's cities/countries and how culture is valued, funded, presented, and integrated into the communities.
Saturday was my chance to be a tourist in France and buy a few goodies for my daughters, who always expect treats from a parental trip. I had planned to conquer multiple museums and see various sights, but time was a bit more restricting. I arrived at the Musee d'Orsay when it opened and spent two hours there. It is a magnificent building and the current exhibit, Masculine (focused on the importance of the male figure through the history of art) was incredible. I walked over to Notre Dame and then took the Metro to the Montmartre neighborhood to see the Sacre Couer and have a late lunch. After a little shopping, I walked back to my hotel and then met some of my US team for dinner. After dinner, I wanted to see the Arc de Triomphe before heading back to the states Sunday morning and so I made the walk down the Champs Elysées at 11pm. I was amazed to see the hundreds of Christmas booths set up along the strip and the many festive additions, including an ice rink. It was a two hour walk to the Arc de Triomphe and back and as I returned to my hotel after 1am, the Christmas market was just closing and the streets were still packed. Exhausted, I headed to the airport only 4 hours later.
For me the greatest lessons were around the value of culture. France believes in the value of culture as an inherently basic need, not to be considered a commodity but a right of all citizens. The inclusion of art begins with birth and continues at every age. Every venue that we visited had a dedicated experience for children that incorporated the art form of the venue. There were children present in every location, building, drawing, playing, experiencing culture. The government funding is an indication that culture is highly important to the people as a whole. We often asked if these projects were controversial and if the funding was protested but the answer was always "no." Culture breaks down isolations. They believe that funding these initiatives in low income neighborhoods acts as a bridge connecting people, regardless of their income level or heritage. Finally, they were very clear that they do not – and they would not – consider tracking other derivative data points to justify the cultural assets. For example, there is no desire to demonstrate that an artistic activity leads to other improvements. They don't need to find out of less students are dropping out of high school now that CentQuatre is providing them a space. They don't want to know if students' math scores are improving after participating in a musical project. They believe in culture for culture's sake. This idea of tracking data was completely foreign to them. However, in Marseille they are well aware of the need to improve the city for the sake of additional tourism and increased residential activity. They believe that the year of the Cultural Capital designation generated a 6 to 1 return on investment (recall 660 million euros spent). And they clearly believe that the infusing of cultural institutions, museums, programs, and heritage festivals will be the driver to turning around their city. Now the question is how to apply these lessons here in Fresno and in the US, for that matter. We have our work cut out for us!
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I arrived in Paris on Sunday morning December 8th and had the afternoon to explore prior to starting the tour on Monday morning. I spent the day walking the city streets and absorbing French culture. I stumbled upon the Eiffel Tower and did my own internal critical analysis of management of the space. It seems as if one of the most visited monuments in the world could find a way to get their "bone yard" out of the public view, but surprisingly the chain-link fenced area with construction materials didn't seem to be regarded by any other guests. I also found a market street for lunch and thoroughly enjoyed the curves and the architecture of Paris.
Monday December 9th we began with a tour of the Cinema Etoile Lilas and were greeted by a representative of the French Ministry of Culture. Cinema is regarded as a cultural activity (rather than simply entertainment) and the production of film is very valued in Paris. Every community has it's own movie house with most of them having only 2 screens. Cinema Etoile Lilas is a private development project that opened on a site that is built above the recently covered ring road that wraps around Paris. The mixed-use project incorporated a restaurant and other retail spaces into the base of the buildings and all opened less than a year ago. The project connected a neighborhood to the center of Paris where there had only been a freeway previously serving as a divider. It was interesting to understand the value of film to Paris and to know that film is subsidized by the government just as other more traditional cultural activities. The Cinema is actively engaging all the neighborhood schools, offering a reduced rate to neighborhood attendees, offering up the venue for local corporations for conference space, and offering the venue for private events and larger gatherings.
From the Cinema Etoile Lilas we headed over to the construction site of the new Philharmonie which is scheduled to open in 2015. We were given the royal tour complete with hard hats, construction boots and orange vests. The Philharmonie has been designed by the Parisian firm, Ateliers Jean Nouvel. It will be a state of the art building with one grand hall that seats 2400 people, multiple rehearsal halls, practice rooms, and a roof that everyone can enjoy. Great attention has been spent on the acoustics by designing scale models and testing the sound as it would be enjoyed in each seat. The development site is literally at what used to be a city wall, the farthest you can get to the edge of Paris. Again the goal is to incorporate the neighborhoods and bring venues to areas that previously haven't been served.
That evening we took a high speed train to Marseille and the next morning started early in this new city. Marseille suffers from perception problems and is depicted as a dangerous, drug-ridden city. As a port city, there is a steady stream of immigrants and 1/3 of the population is Italian. There are also large immigrant populations from Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, & Armenia. The French government is deliberately directing funding to this port city and results were clearly visible. At first glance the cruise ships are docked regularly bringing over 1 million visitors annually.
First we met in Marseille City Hall with the Deputy Mayor and the Director of Cultural Affairs and had a lengthy Q&A session regarding the process for designation as the Capital of Culture. France has an impressive federal funding stream for cultural initiatives, and there is regional funding as well as local funding. What is greatly lacking in France, in general, are the private sector donations. The Deputy Mayor explained that they applied for the Capital of Culture back in 2004 and were designated in 2008. The City invested 660 million euros in the programming and initiatives that took place during the year. The designation sped up many projects that were in the works and many new programs were designed. Multiple festivals were produced that drew hundreds of thousands of attendees. Entire museums were designed, funded, built and opened during 2013.
From there we went to tour La Friche Belle de Mai, which was an old tobacco factory that has been turned into a community venue. We began with a working lunch on the premise and were joined by Marielle Riche, the Dean of the Marseille School of Architecture. We were often given these opportunities to dine with individuals that represented venues we weren't able to physically visit. Then we toured the facility. The location is in a low income community near the edge of the city (also a theme) and the project re-instated life into an old factory that was an eyesore and a barrier between the neighborhoods and the city. Today it houses a myriad of ways for the community to participate. From a skate park to a community garden to a kindergarten on one end of the spectrum to performance venues and exhibit halls on the opposite end, the 11 acre venue invites everyone.
Next we toured the Conservation and Resource Center that is a partner facility to the MuCEM (which we visited the next day). The MuCEM is the only national museum outside of Paris and it focuses on Mediterranean exhibits. The Conservation and Resource Center, which we affectionately called the Storage Place, houses over 250,000 objects that are part of the MuCEM's permanent collection. The building have a variety of different temperature controlled spaces and art is housed based on its material. The building was designed by Corinne Vezzoni who gave us the tour.
After this we went to the offices of the Euroméditerranée Project. This project was launched in 2005, is funded locally and nationally, incorporates government and local organizations, and aims to make Marseille more attractive and influential. The project got a great deal of power by the Cultural Capital designation and many projects were fast tracked. The project strategically looks at all the neighborhoods, addresses everything from housing to hotels, and has redesigned the port and the freeway systems that come into Marseille. The large scale model helped us to understand Marseille from a different perspective.
From there we attended the closing reception for the Capital of Culture, sponsored by their largest private funder, the Société Marseillaise de Crédit. The reception was located in one of the venues that was created for the year, which was previous a cruise ship hangar where passengers would unload. The simply raw space was transformed into a gallery for the year and the exhibition currently there is of the works of architect/painter Le Corbusier, which we were able to enjoy.
Wednesday morning we toured the MuCEM with their International Relations staff member. The museum only opened 6 months ago and has already had 500,000 visitors. The goal of the museum is to present subjects from multiple perspectives. For example if they depict a war, they will show works of art and include stories from both sides of the situation, to gain understanding of other cultures. The museum is in a newly constructed building that is adjoined to the oldest fort that still remains in Marseille. The building connects the city to the water and the grounds are always free to explore. The venue is also outside what was once the city wall and in recent years was the seediest part of Marseille.
We returned to the Hangar that we visited the previous evening to have more time with the exhibit and to have lunch with the Executive Director of the Capital of Culture initiative. For years leading up to this designation, the organization existed to prepare and had a minimum of 30 staff members. At the peak there were over 300 staff members. Currently they have four months to complete reporting and cease operations.
We spent that afternoon in the northern neighborhoods of Marseille. We began with the Cité des Arts de la Rue, which is an entire venue dedicated to street arts, or buskers as we might call them. Various organizations pay rent to the venue and are housed here collectively. There are entire rooms designed for aerial work, spaces that might appear to be junk yards but are actually collections of large scale props. Street arts are highly valued in French culture and are funded by the government. These artists take traditional performances and bend them to use public space and incorporate the citizens. Royal du Luxe, a group that creates large scale performance installations and is commissioned world-wide for grand performances, is one of the organizations located here. We left there and went to La Gare Franche, a creation space with many artist in residence programs that is located in the midst of multiple housing projects and invites the community | 1,738 |
If you need to ward off increased competition or generate additional customers, or clients, then advertising is a necessity. Because you can't yell loud enough to let all of the region hear why they should do business with you, you need to select an advertising platform (radio, television, print, etc…).
When you advertise you are buying an audience. WMRC is the only radio station serving over 250,000 people, in the fastest growing market in the state.
2. Is radio right for me?
If radio were invented today it would be all the marketing rage. Why? Because we live in an on-the-go society, and unlike newspaper or television, radio is with us everywhere; in the car, in the office, and all in the house. Radio's mobility, intrusiveness and targetability makes it a cost-effective marketing platform for nearly any type of business.
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First, complete a custom marketing analysis or meet with one of our Multi-Media Account Executives. We can then suggest if you should buy the occasional special promotion, or if you can afford to invest in a small TOMA (top-of-mind awareness) marketing plan.
47. What is drive time?
Morning drive is 6am to 10am, and afternoon drive is 3pm to 7pm. The other primary radio "dayparts" are mid-day, 10am – 3pm and evenings 7pm to midnight. Though drive-time rates are available, the most cost-effective rates are TAP (Total Audience Plan); where your commercial is heard equally in all four primary dayparts, including drive times.
48. Should I advertise during nights and weekends?
It's not cost effective to "anchor" your commercials in drive time only. When our clients buy "TAP" (Total Audience Plan), their commercials run equally in all dayparts; including drive times.
Attacking a night and weekend audience is a great way to stretch a small advertising budget. Think we're kidding? Think of the hundreds of possible customers you could easily influence who work night and weekend shifts at hospitals and plants in our area and the hundreds who are running errands on the weekends. For just a small percentage of the number of people listening on the weekend drive through the parking lots of the region and imagine all those car radios turned on. Plus, there's less advertising in the evening and weekends, which means your commercial will be noticed even more than usual.
49. Is there a charge for an account manager to meet me for a marketing analysis?
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That depends how much of an impact you want to make and how much competition you have. Though you can purchase an occasional special package for a few hundred dollars, our most effective advertisers invest between $500 to $4,000 per month. Finding the budget you're comfortable with while providing a sufficient return on investment can be developed through a marketing analysis.
5. What are the most frequent mistakes advertisers make?
Not filling up one cup before moving to the next. Many business owners think they need to do a little of everything instead of doing one thing well. It's been said, "I throw my advertising dollars against the wall and hope some of it sticks." Almost any business can get all the customers they need by simply attacking and owning a radio stations audience.
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Be honest with your expectations and investment you're willing to make, then meet one of our account managers to do an in-person marketing analysis interview. We can then provide you a demo tape and custom marketing plan that matches your goals and targeted demographics.
7. What's the best way to advertise?
Unless you're having a special event, TOMA (top-of-mind awareness) advertising yields the greatest long-term benefits. Not everyone needs your products or services today, so advertising for a month is a crapshoot. Reminding a large group of consumers who are most likely to do business with you about your unique selling position over and over is most beneficial. When any of our 250,000 listeners need your product, our goal is to have your business in their top-of-mind recall.
8. How long does it take for advertising to begin working?
TOMA (top-of-mind awareness) advertising yields the greatest long-term benefits. Not everyone needs your products or services today, so advertising for a month is a crapshoot. Reminding a large group of consumers, who are most likely to do business with you, about your unique selling position over and over is most beneficial. When any of our 250,000 listeners need your product, our goal is to position your business in their top of mind recall.
10. Who makes my commercial?
Our custom marketing plan advertisers receive agency quality production from our Creative Services Department, and our sales/event/occasional advertisers receive professional standard production from one of our DJs or announcers. Our mission is to create top quality advertising that works for our client's custom marketing plan. How? By Listening to the client to find out what their true needs and goals are. Spending the time required to develop the right message to serve the client's needs.
Our mission is to create top quality advertising that works for our client's custom marketing plan. How?
By Listening to the client to find out what their true needs and goals are.
Spending the time required to develop the right message to serve the client's needs.
Our company is very aware that better tools make a better product. WMRC - First Class Radio is outfitted with state-of-the-art production facilities that rival most national agencies. We currently have three fully digital production suites that would be as easily suited to mixing an album as producing radio commercials. Is this overkill? We don't think so. We believe our clients deserve the best that we can give them, and it shows in our work.
11. What should I say in my commercial?
Ask yourself, "Why should someone do business with me?" Be specific. "What truly makes me a better choice than my competitors?" "What makes us special?" "What is our unique selling position?" Take a look at your strengths versus your competitor's weaknesses that can result in taking business from them. Our goal is to grow your business by getting you your unfair share of the market's dollars from your competition. A completed marketing analysis can help us fine-tune your message to the right audience.
12. How much is commercial production?
At WMRC Radio, both writing your ad and producing it are free. We provide standard DJ voiceover production for all occasional advertisers and complete agency quality production via our Creative Services Department.
13. How can I guarantee success?
After ensuring your business is in fine operating order, stick to a well-constructed advertising message month after month. If you deliver your message consistently to the right people, your advertising will yield rewarding results. What you say times how many times you say it is the only thing that works in advertising.
At WMRC-First Class Media our goal is to influence, persuade, and motivate more people than ever before, more often than ever before, and in more ways than ever before. And now we can position your personal sales message to these potential customers on ALL of our media platforms.
15. I'm a small business with a small budget - can I still advertise effectively?
The bare minimum recommended spending is in the ballpark of $300.00 per month. That would perhaps get you one newspaper ad, but we can strategically pick a day or two each week, that really may help you grow to the next level.
16. Do you have sponsorship opportunities?
We do, but too many to list. Set up a meeting with a WMRC Multi-Media Account Executive and we'd be happy to share each with you.
17. I'm a retailer, what's best for me?
Do you live and die by sales events or do you want more consistency for your business? Sales event advertising can drive customers, but it's the "cocaine of marketing." The more sales you have, the more advertising you need. However, if you want a steady, non-fickle customer base, we recommend the safer TOMA approach.
18. I'm NOT a retailer, what's best for me?
Consistency, consistency, consistency. Whether you're a doctor, lawyer or carpet cleaner, a well-developed commercial stating your unique selling position will keep you in the consumers mind when the day comes they need your services.
19. I'm having an event, how should I advertise?
Heavy. We recommend fifteen to twenty commercials a day for a minimum of three days prior to an event or major sale.
20. What about television and cable advertising?
Getting a good commercial that doesn't look cheap runs thousands of dollars, and buying prime time can cost hundreds of dollars for just thirty-seconds. Effective television advertising can get costly.
21. What about newspaper advertising?
We're not crazy about it and rarely use it ourselves. Some advertisers use newspaper because it's easy to write ad copy. But, circulation is down, ad space prices are unreasonably high, and noting scores are less than impressive. Newspaper was great twenty years ago when we had time to sit and read it everyday. But we're too "on the go" now. Newspaper can't target your customers so there's too much wasted marketing dollars. Plus, you never know where your ad will be placed or whose ad you'll be next to.
22. What about yellow pages?
They're a great way to say, "turn here," or "next exit." However, telling the story of your business's benefits in just a few words and a picture is difficult. If you can't afford at least eight "100 showings" a year (approximately 5-10K each for four weeks), we don't recommend them.
24. What about other radio stations?
25. Should I hire an advertising agency?
If your budget is sufficient and you need to develop extensive creative, there are some talented advertising agencies to choose from and we would be happy to provide any contact information you may need.
26. Should I have a jingle?
If you intend on using electronic media (radio, cable, TV), a jingle can really tie it all together. If you're willing to invest in a music image campaign with WMRC, we'll reward your commitment. We will have one produced, if you become a custom marketing plan advertiser, and we'll rebate your investment in bonus radio ads.
27. What's a positioning statement?
All major companies use positioning statements. It's a necessity. Our marketing department uses "First Class Media Solutions." You can use your positioning statement in all your advertising (radio, print, TV). Just try to keep it 3-5 words and be sure it hits on your unique selling position.
28. What is image advertising?
When you advertise image, you're establishing TOMA (top-of-mind-awareness), and avoiding the "I've got to have a sale" syndrome. Establishing your unique selling position(s) with clarity, creativity and consistency is at the heart of image advertising.
30. How does a buying cycle affect my business?
Create your business as a point-of-destination in the mind of the consumer. When they have forgotten about your competitor's ad minutes after they pass over it in print, you'll be there to TELL them your story; with consistency, day after day. That's how you create top-of-m | 1,906 |
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Le Jarrier Gite is in the beautiful and popular ALPES MANCELLES and offers self catering accommodation for up to 4 guests in a rural setting. It is a converted stable / barn renovated to provide a detached holiday home with modern facilities & a well appointed kitchen. We also provide Free WIFI. The gite sleeps 4 in a total of 2 bedrooms. The large secure garden area benefits from a south facing position with lovely views & an above ground private pool (3.6 meters). The pool is seasonal, however it benefits from solar heating. There is private parking for two or more vehicles.
Le Jarrier Gite has a well equipped kitchen & the conservatory / garden room provides excellent views of the private large garden and surrounding countryside. The shower room, with walk-in shower is on the ground floor as is bedroom 2 with full / adult size bunk beds.
On the first floor is Bedroom 1, the main private/gallery style bedroom directly off the stairs, with a double bed and an en-suite W/C, giving the gite the added benefit of 2 W/C's (one on each floor).
There is UK Freesat 32" LCD TV & also French TV in the lounge.
We have a travel cot for a baby / toddler with bedding and also a high seat. Heating is provided via electric wall heaters and there are no additional charges for electricity.
Bedding and towels are all provided free of charge.
Children and adults love feeding our friendly sheep.
2019 will be our 12th year & we have been fully booked every season to date, with a high number of returning customers +/or their friends & family. We are<|fim_middle|> Gary and Heather.
Owner's reply: Thank you Katherine, we are pleased you enjoyed your holiday.
We traveled with our two young children ( 1 & 3) looking for a relaxing break while remaining entertaining for the kids. This holiday ticked both boxes. The Gite is beautifully restored and is well equipped for adults and children alike. It's located in a peaceful, rural area providing the perfect base for exploring the surrounding area (with which there's plenty to explore). The owners Gary and Heather were extremely helpful and although we didn't need to see them at any point in the week i'm certain that they'd have done everything in their capacity to help us with anything we required. I'd definitely recommend the Gite and will be doing so. We are already thinking of when we can next re-visit. Thanks again and look forward to returning soon.
We don't normally stay in gites on the owners property but we are so glad we did this year. Heather and Garry made us feel so welcome and were there if we needed them but without being intrusive. The animals were so entertaining. We had everything that we could have wished for and will certainly be returning with family next time. So thank you for a fantastic holiday Heather and Garry.
As above a well finished gite right out in the country. Lovely hosts for whom nothing seemed to be a hassle. Would highly recommend and think that it would suit most groups / age ranges.
The site was spotlessly clean, very comfortable, a real home from home. Equipped with everything you could possibly need. The location is perfect for peace and tranquility. The owners are onhand if there are any issues or questions. I would highly recommend.
A perfect setting for a first class gite, supported by the most friendly & helpful of hosts in Garry & Heather. A compact gite with all the facilities we were looking for. Set in beautiful countryside, this is the perfect base to explore the region or simply relax in the garden and dip in the pool. The whole experience was very good, with nothing to dislike. | also proud of our EXCELLENT score rating of 5/5 on Trip Advisor (50+ reviews).
This Gite has 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and sleeps 4. It's been listed on Holiday Lettings since 06 Aug 2008. Located in Sarthe, it has 54 reviews with an overall rating of 5. The average weekly rate is £486.
A lovely cottage, very complete and then some! Plenty of garden furniture, games and small but perfect pool. Overlooking fields -we regularly spotted birds of pray and foxes....and cows :-). Heather and Gary are extremely hospitable, no question is too much. We have enjoyed the regular visits from Geo and Flo the cats. You will need a car. If you want to avoid mass tourism locations this is your holiday. The Super U in Fresnay or Sille are best for your groceries. Activities: hiking in the forests nearby or river walks. Canoeing, horseriding, wallclimbing, go-Ape, bungyjumping. The swimming lake in Sille Forest. Le Mans (40 min) and Le Fleche zoo (1hr15min drive) highly remmonended. We also enjoyed the stargazing and hearing the owls hoot at night. All in all a holiday to unwind and enjoy the French outdoor.
Owner's reply: Thank you so much for your review and information for other guests. We are pleased you enjoyed your holiday. You were the perfect guests.
Back for another visit! Heather and Garry do such a good job making visitors welcome and the gite and it's lovely garden are most appealing. They offer everything for a 'home from home' stay with a very generous amount of equipment and facilities. Perfect for relaxing or as a base for taking in the local villages and towns. A fantastic gite. Well done Heather and Garry. Hope to be back again.
Owner's reply: We are pleased you enjoyed your stay and thank you for your review.
Excellent getaway. Wonderful facilities with an amazing welcome pack. Peaceful, relaxing and just a great time.
Owner's reply: Thank you, we are pleased you enjoyed your stay at Le Jarrier.
Beautiful, clean, well equipped gite. Wonderful welcome with essential items and a bottle of wine. The gite was set in the most beautiful countryside, easy access to many places of interest. An amazing place to unwind an relax. Thank you | 510 |
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Warner Bros. Records, Bronze
Prog Rock, Classic Rock
WBS 8252
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Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Watch | Records Bronze Prog Rock Classic Rock 1976
1 Blinded By The Light
Written-By – Bruce Springsteen
2 Starbird No. 2
Written-By – Slade, Thompson, Pattenden, Flett, Mann
BRO 29 Manfred Mann's Earth Band Blinded By The Light (7", Single, Kno) Bronze BRO 29 UK 1976
WBS 8252 Manfred Mann's Earth Band Blinded By The Light (7", Single, Pin) Warner Bros. Records, Bronze WBS 8252 US 1976
BRO 29 Manfred Mann's Earth Band Blinded By The Light (7") Bronze BRO 29 Italy 1976
WBS 8252 Manfred Mann's Earth Band Blinded By The Light (7", Promo) Warner Bros. Records, Bronze WBS 8252 US 1976
21027 Manfred Mann's Earthband Blinded By The Light (7", Single) Bronze 21027 New Zealand 1976
Producer – Manfred Mann and Earth Band
Taken from the album The Roaring Silence.
A: Laurel Canyon Music, Ltd. - ASCAP. Edited version of the album track on "The Roaring Silence".
B: WB Music Corp. - ASCAP. Identical to the track "Starbird" on the same album.
℗ 1976 Bronze Records Limited
This edition was pressed by Columbia Terre Haute - identified by etched 'TH' in runouts.
Other pressings exist with the following runout etchings/symbols:
JW - Blinded By The Light
LW - Blinded By The Light
WW - Blinded By The Light
♢-P-♢ Blinded By The Light
Matrix / Runout (Label side A): UAA7187 VIS
Matrix / Runout (Label side B): UAA7192 S
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, etched): WBS-8252 UAA-7187-VI-S TH-2 TIII T
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, etched): WBS-8252 UAA-7192-S TH-2 TIII
Record Company – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Bronze Records Ltd.
Published By – Laurel Canyon Music Ltd.
Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Terre Haute
Blinded By the Light - Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Лента с персональными рекомендациями и музыкальными новинками, радио, подборки на любой вкус, удобное управление своей коллекцией. Blinded by the Light is a song written and recorded by Bruce Springsteen, which first appeared on his 1973 debut album Greetings from Asbury Park, N. A cover by British rock band Manfred Mann's Earth Band reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States in February 1977 and was also a top ten hit in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Canada. Текст песни: Blinded by the light Revved up like a deuce Another runner in the night Blinded by the was then recorded by the Manfred Mann Earth Band in 1976, becoming a mega hit all over the world. The song has dozens of interpretations, the most common that its a song about drugs primarily cocaine and marijuana. Springsteen has never responded directly to that assertion, but he did say this about the song: I was under pressure from the A&R guy to have a song on the debut album they could release as a single. So I wrote the song one night in my bedroom, going through a rhyming dictionary. That rhyming dictionary was on fire that night. by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Album: The Roaring Silence 1976. Charted: 6 1. Get the Sheet Music License This Song . This is Manfred Mann's cover of Bruce Springsteen's Blinded By The Light, though you'd hardly recognize Springsteen's version after being familiar with this one. And familiar you must be - it has gotten monster airplay on radio stations throughout the English-speaking world, and continues to be played daily. It is one of the most triumphant covers ever recorded. Manfred Mann's Earth Band released a version of the song on their album The Roaring Silence. The song reached 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 on 19 read more. Blinded by the Light is a song written and originally recorded by Bruce Springsteen. It is best known for a 1 hit version recorded by Ma read more. It is best known for a 1 hit version recorded by Manfred Mann's | 1,039 |
Queen's Park: Cottages and community in the heart of Westminster
Prudence Ivey
Published: 12:21 AM November 19, 2015 Updated: 1:46 PM October 14, 2020
Houses on the Queen's Park Estate - Credit: Archant
The Westminster<|fim_middle|> extremely popular with locals and is often packed. They say they are one of the few restaurants in London to make their own pasta in house by hand rather than machine and they run workshops in the art at weekends.
Ida, Queen's Park - Credit: Archant
Hana on Chamberlayne Road serves fresh sushi and other Japanese food to takeaway and offers a local delivery service.
Also popular is Kandana, a cosy delicatessen serving coffee, freshly made sandwiches and cakes, alongside speciality store cupboard ingredients.
Kandana - Credit: Archant
Fitness fiends are well-provided for in this pocket of Queen's Park. Although the Jubilee Sports Centre is slated for demolition to be turned into housing, nearby Moberly Sports and Education Centre is due to be refurbished and will get a new swimming pool.
For fitness class fans, Frame on Beethoven Street offers their signature fitness classes - a mixture of ballet, yoga and cardio – as well as pilates and personal training. The shop also stocks healthy snacks and exercise clothing. The branch of hot yoga franchise Fierce Grace on Kilburn Lane also boasts a juice bar.
Frame - Credit: Archant
Queen's Park Gardens has a wealth of amenities, including a wildlife area with an outdoor classroom, a playground, a ballcourt, designated dog run and a rose garden.
Kids playing in Queen's Park Gardens - Credit: Archant
The Beethoven Centre on Third Avenue is a community hub offering cheap fitness classes for children. Zumba, Creative Dance and Chinese Kung Fu are among the weekly after school offerings. There are also summer and half term activities camps to keep children entertained, as well as a weekly greengrocer selling fresh fruit and veg on site. | portion of Queen's Park is a small enclave of late Victorian housing and it's still possible to pick up one of the ex-workers' cottages for under £1million. Homeowners have been getting wise to this though, and the area has renovations galore with at least three building sites on every street as new residents move in
A street in Queen's Park - Credit: Archant
Queen's Park is situated in the City of Westminster and has the W9 and W10 postal district. It is in the Westminster North parliamentary constituency. Council tax bands range from £448.50 per year for Band A properties, to £1,345.48 for properties in Band H. Average Band D properties pay £672.74 per year.
The average price of a two-bedroom flat in Queen's Park is £573,574, for a terrace it's £1,294,916. Homes in the Westminster portion of the area are mostly found in the Queen's Park Estate, a network of 2,000 late Victorian terraced homes in the Gothic revival style, which were originally built for working class residents. The surrounding streets have much larger and grander terraces, although some of the streets remain a little shabby.
ARK Atwood Primary Academy opened in 2011 and has been rated Outstanding by Ofsted. The Queen's Park Primary School is an average sized school with an Ofsted rating of Good. Wilberforce Primary School received an Ofsted rating of Requires Improvement at its most recent inspection, but was identified as improving. Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee School is the only local state option for secondary education and is rated Good by Ofsted.
Queen's Park station - Credit: Archant
Queen's Park is in Zone 2 on the London Underground network and is served by the Bakerloo line. There is also a station on the Network Rail line that travels between Euston and Watford Junction. Brondesbury Park station is the nearest London Overground connection. There are also numerous buses in the area that travel to areas in northwest and central London.
Landmarks and history
Queen's Park was developed in the 1870s and was named to honour Queen Victoria. The Queen's Park Estate was built from 1874 to house the local working class population in its distinctive Gothic revival cottages, which have polychrome brickwork, pinnacles and turrets. The area is also recognisable through its street naming, with First to Sixth Avenue running more or less north-south and cross streets, originally A-P but now named in alphabetical order from Alperton to Peach Streets.
The estate was built by the Artizans, Labourers and General Dwellings Company, whose ornate insignia can be seen on many of the terraces. Many of the original footballers at QPR FC lived on the estate when the club was founded in 1882.
Shopping and culture
While not a prime shopping destination, Queen's Park does have a range of quirky outlets for the niche shopper. Spy Store near the station sells secret surveillance items for James Bond fanatics and budding private eyes with gadgets ranging from nanny cams and personal alarms to bullet proof vests and car bugs.
Bohemian Dreams - Credit: Archant
Nearby, Bohemian Dreams is a one stop shop for vintage-inspired wedding items such as invitations and wedding favours.
The Westminster part of Queen's Park is very residential and much less well populated with bars, cafes and restaurants than the Brent side. Ida is the area's biggest draw. A family run Italian restaurant, it is | 753 |
I have some important news to share with you regarding the appointment of a new headmaster, and I want to share it before we meet on Speech Day. It is important to remember that the process we have undertaken recently to find a new leader for the OBH community was precipitated by a difficult and sad set of personal circumstances for John and Clare Brett, and as we announce the appointment of John's replacement, I want to acknowledge all the work the Brett's have done and continue to do in shaping and driving our happy, thriving school community. The focus for this coming weekend will be on celebrating our current success and their contribution, but given our desire to ensure a smooth and successful handover, the Board of Governors is happy to announce that we have found an outstanding candidate to take OBH forward from January 2015.
Mr Tom O'Sullivan will join OBH as Headmaster in the Lent term. Tom joins us from Mowden Hall Prep School in Northumberland, part of the excellent Cothill Schools Trust, which also includes Cothill, Ashdown House and Sauveterre. Tom has been Deputy Headmaster for 6 years and is Head of Science. After graduating from Durham with a law degree, he worked in the retail and pharmaceutical industry gaining invaluable commercial experience but after a few years recognised that his real interest lay in education (not surprising given his family background<|fim_middle|> now focus on ways to ensure a smooth transition through the Michaelmas term, in preparation for his arrival in January. This will hopefully include a number of visits to the school and a chance for parents and children to meet him. As we have details of this plan, I will make them clear to all.
For now, we should return to focus on the end of a busy and successful summer term. On Saturday, John and I will have the chance to celebrate a school that continues to thrive. Thank you again for your continuing enthusiasm and support for the school, and I hope to see many of you at Speech Day. | in teaching). He gained his PGCE from Cambridge and before Mowden, he taught at the Beaudesert school in Gloucestershire. He has successfully raised academic standards at Mowden at both Common Entrance and in terms of Scholarships, and exam results attest to this. He is a firm believer in the importance of strong links throughout all tiers of the school and has introduced innovations to Mowden such as a whole school performance where each member of the school community can play a part. At OBH, we believe strongly in the importance of our Pre-Prep. Tom shares this commitment and we believe he will help us strengthen further the sense that we are one OBH community. He is a keen sportsman and places great value in maximising the use of the natural facilities that abound at OBH. He is committed to the boarding ethos that lies at the heart of a school like OBH and has direct practical experience of how to maintain and strengthen the appeal of that offer while recognising the realities of being in a rural setting. Finally, and importantly, Tom brings with him a clear educational ethos focused on ensuring every child maximises his or her potential.
Tom is the outstanding candidate in a very strong field of applicants – clearly the reputation and appeal of OBH was a significant factor in attracting good candidates. After a rigorous process where the shortlisted candidates visited the school several times and met with members of the SMT, Governors and some of the children, Tom's all round qualities – including a palpable sense of energy and a bias to action – were evident to all.
Tom's impact at Mowden can be seen at many levels – improving academic standards, increasing pupil numbers, increasing boarding numbers, a broader array of successful senior school applications and many others achievements – and these are all things we are confident he will bring to OBH. Above all, he understands that what defines a successful school is happy children. Tom will join a school full of happy children and we believe strongly that he can build on those strong foundations and help us fulfil the ambition we have for the school.
With Tom's help and supported by the Brett's, as well as an excellent management team, we | 443 |
Home Community Is this the end?
So far our denomination has followed the inexorable trajectory of organisational development—from a grassroots movement to an established institution. "Adjourning" is next. The organisation is approaching the end of its natural life cycle.
Organisations decline and there's no human reason to expect that the Adventist Church is exempt.
In 1965 psychologist Bruce Tucker came up with five memorable labels for the stages of organisational development: forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning.
"Forming" is exciting—it's when a group has its first enthusiasm and begins to work spontaneously towards a goal. But you'll never see a sequel to Tell the World. Because the next chapters of our Church's history deal with the difficult "storming" phase: 1888, the Kelloggs, Ellen White's removal to far-off Australia. Not particularly inspirational.
Since the Adventist Church's establishment in 1863, there has certainly been a lot of "<|fim_middle|> of movement Adventism look to new converts, church plants, student outreach groups, pioneer missionaries and emerging ministries. That's where the action is. Lines are increasingly blurred as you approach the borders. Budgets are hazy, plans are fluid. But if Adventism is to recover its movement mentality it needs to nurture the innovation at its margins—to offer effective support without strangling fresh initiatives in red tape.
Revitalise the centre. Adventism is institutionalised. It has to be. Legally, financially and in terms of human resources Church leaders are accountable for their decisions. But it's so easy to get bogged down in the bureaucracy and forget the reasons these institutions exist. We need to find ways to increase the exposure of institutional personnel to the frontlines as well as improving the representation of innovators at key decision-making forums. Meaningful shifts in organisational culture will only be achieved by structural change—streamlining, transparency, responsiveness, democratisation.
First things first. It's a pity Dr Ted Wilson's "Revival and Reformation" is now yesterday's catchcry, because it encapsulates a message we need to keep hearing. Whether we're on the cutting edge of mission efforts or deep in the bowels of the denomination we need Jesus. All the clever strategies in the world will founder unless there is genuine spiritual power infusing us and driving us forward.
Interestingly, theorists stress that organisational decline is not necessarily a bad thing. A legitimate reason—surely the best reason—for an organisation to end its existence is that it has achieved its goals. I'm looking forward to that final committee meeting, adjourned due to an unexpected shout and trumpet blast from the skies. | norming"—establishing leadership, institutions, official statements—and "performing"—membership growth to nearly 20 million and an incredible global impact in health and education.
The plateauing of membership numbers in parts of the world where Adventism is the oldest could be seen as an early sign of organisational decline, along with ageing demographics and an increasing willingness to minimise our peculiarities.
Is this the end? Here are three strategies that may help us avoid the inevitable.
". . . if Adventism is to recover its movement mentality it needs to nurture the innovation at its margins . . ."
Empower the margins. To find the authentic spirit | 129 |
The Landbay Rental Index is set to launch later this month, promising to offer a more advanced insight into the UK's private rented sector.
The index, commissioned by MIAC, a provider of mortgage asset analytics, will monitor rental prices and market trends across the country. This will allow buy-to-let investors to have have access to a deeper analysis of current trends<|fim_middle|> | .
The index intends to include a blend of local data and bedroom number analysis, giving those who are considering investing a more practical and informative guide.
Through this analysis, it will become apparent who and where is pulling the leavers in the current rental market.
The property data used in this index are all sourced by Zoopla, and 100,000 pieces of individual property data will be inputted each month.
Starting from September, this index will also report trends based on geographical levels, including region, county and London Borough. The report is set to be updated monthly, and will be accompanied by data concerning emerging trends, both locally and nationally. | 134 |
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ProntoForms is still undervalued, says Industrial Alliance
June 22, 2017 by Nick Waddell
The completion of a private placement puts ProntoForms (TSXV:PFM) in a better place to execute on its business plan, says Industrial Alliance Securities analyst Blair Abernethy.
Yesterday, ProntoForms announced the completion of financings that will net the company $5.7<|fim_middle|> Analysts, Software Tagged With: pfm | 7-million. The company said the cash injection would be used for working capital and general corporate purposes.
Abernethy says he views the additional captial as a way for ProntoForms as a way to get where it is going more quickly.
"In our view, this financing is an incremental positive for the Company as it provides Pronto with more financial flexibility to support its working capital, fund its growth, and pursue technology-based tuck-in acquisitions," he says. "In terms of acquisitions, we believe Pronto could accelerate its product roadmap through the acquisition of emerging technologies, particularly in
the artificial intelligence space. We also see opportunities for Pronto to broaden its offering through the acquisition of other form automation vendors, which can allow Pronto to grow its existing customer base and cross-sell existing products."
The analyst adds that this development takes risk off the table.
"Pronto is now better positioned to invest in product development and sales and marketing in order to sustain its high growth rate. We believe this financing significantly mitigates any going concern or liquidity risk for the Company for the next few years," he adds.
In a research update to clients today, Abernethy maintained his "Speculative Buy" rating and one-year price target of $0.75 on ProntoForms, implying a return of 82.9 per cent at the time of publication.
Abernethy thinks ProntoForms will generate Adjusted EBITDA of negative $3.5-million on revenue of $14.7-million in fiscal 2017. He expects those numbers will improve to EBITDA of negative$1.7-million on a topline of $19.4-million the following year.
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Rusin tosses first PCL no-hitter since '09
I-Cubs left-hander keeps New Orleans at bay in historic outing
By Sam Dykstra
The Pacific Coast League has a reputation as a hitters' league, but this was getting a little ridiculous.
As of Wednesday morning, the last no-hitter -- one of the greatest pitching achievements in the game -- in baseball's western Triple-A circuit had occurred when Oklahoma City right-hander Luis Mendoza fooled Salt Lake and kept the AT&T Bricktown Ballpark (now Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark) scorekeepers from touching the zero in the Bees' hit column. That was Aug. 14, 2009.
To illustrate the fickleness of the no-hitter, consider its recent history: the PCL no-hitter prior to Mendoza's was just three weeks before when Salt Lake's Sean O'Sullivan blanked Sacramento on July 28, 2009. There was a no-hitter celebrated in the interim: a potential no-no by the same Luis Mendoza (this time in 2011 with Omaha) was reversed two days later after a review changed an error into a double.
What's more, despite everything that needs to go right for a no-hitter to occur -- great pitching, good defense, maybe some luck -- the 2013 season featured a no-no in every domestic full-season league. Except the PCL.
And then Iowa left-hander Chris Rusin took the mound Wednesday morning in New Orleans. And 27 outs later, the drought had ended.
Rusin struck out three, walked two and tossed 118 pitches (72 for strikes) in the I-Cubs' 3-0 win over New Orleans to complete the PCL's first no-hitter in five years. It was the first no-no for an Iowa pitcher since Reggie Patterson completed the feat on Aug. 21, 1984.
Speaking<|fim_middle|> on himself and not how he hoped the organization would view his latest feat.
"I just tried to go out there and get a good start," he said. "I wasn't aiming for it to be a no-hitter maybe, but I just wanted to throw as good a game as I could. Yeah, you would hope they realize it that you've thrown a no-hitter and will give it some thought. But all I can do is just go out there and get my numbers as good as they can get."
With Wednesday being an afternoon game in New Orleans, Rusin wasn't initially sure how he'd celebrate throwing the PCL's first no-hitter since 2009, but he had one idea to maybe press his luck.
"I'm not sure," he said. "I'm just kinda relaxing right now. It really hasn't hit me yet. I'll spend some time calling my family and friends and stuff like that. Maybe later I'll grab dinner with some buddies.
"Maybe I'll try to go to the casino because today seems to be my lucky day."
Sam Dykstra is a contributor to MiLB.com. | almost two hours after the game had completed, the 27-year-old southpaw still couldn't fathom the historic event.
"It was unbelievable," Rusin said. "It went by so quick. It still hasn't really hit me yet, to be honest with you. It was one of the better moments of my career, maybe second-best behind getting called up the first time [in 2012]. It still hasn't hit me."
The no-hitter was Chris Rusin's second complete game and second shutout of his Minor League career. (Parker Waters)
Rusin had to help himself early on.
Zephyrs leadoff man Matt Angle tried to bunt for a base hit on the left-hander's first pitch, but the hurler collected it and threw him out at first. He walked Josh Rodriguez right after but got Mark Canha to fly out and Justin Bour to ground out to end the game's first frame.
Those two outs started a streak of 17 straight batters retired by Rusin, who gave the Cubs a 3-0 lead with a two-run single of his own in the second inning. A leadoff walk to Rodriguez in the seventh ended the perfect run, but a Canha groundout and Bour double play kept the no-hitter intact.
"My two-seamer, sinker, cutter, slider -- they were all working well for me," said the former University of Kentucky standout. "But today was more about mixing speeds and working everything in and out. [Catcher Luis Flores] deserves a lot of credit because he and I did a good job of being on the same page. I felt like I wasn't shaking him off really at all."
As the outs piled up, Rusin, who normally has a good hold on what's going on in each of his outings, admitted it took him a while to realize the potential feat.
"As a pitcher, you always know your stats pretty well," he said. "But it went by so fast that I didn't fully realize it until the seventh or eighth. And that's when I started thinking, 'Oh wow, this could really happen.'
"At that point, you can feel the defense hanker down behind you, and that's when you know you to have bunker down if you're going to finish it off."
Entering the ninth with 94 pitches under his belt, Rusin's final frame got off to a rough start when Kyle Skipworth reached on catcher interference. The left-hander retired Zack Cox and Angel on three combined pitches and got Rodriguez to a full count when the New Orleans second baseman smacked a ball to center.
Enter the good defense.
Cubs center fielder Matt Szczur dove, stretched and snagged the ball for the game's 27th out.
"I thought off the bat, he might have found the perfect spot to get a hit," Rusin said. "Matt made the perfect catch."
The left-hander improved to 2-4 with a 3.58 ERA, 26 strikeouts and 11 walks in six starts with the I-Cubs following the first scoreless outing of his 2014 campaign. He allowed a run on three hits in five relief innings on April 12 during a brief promotion to the Majors but was sent back down immediately after.
Despite being passed over for a rotation spot in Spring Training and being denied a chance to stick last month, Rusin preferred to keep the focus | 712 |
One-Off Feature: Bad Reputation
Thu, Oct 11 7:30 pm
Director: Kevin Kerslake; Cast: Joan Jett, Billie Joe Armstrong, Rodney Bingenheimer, Carianne Brinkman; Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival; R, 93 mins.
It's true, Joan Jett became mega-famous from the number-one hit "I Love Rock n Roll", but that's only part of the story. That fame intensified with the music video<|fim_middle|> she never compromised. She will kick your ass, and you'll love her all the more for it. "Secures Jett's reputation as a rock & roll bad-ass" —Rolling Stone | 's endless play on MTV, world tours and many hits to follow like "I Hate Myself for Loving You", but that staple of popularity can't properly define a musician. Jett put her hard work in long before the fame, ripping it up onstage as the backbone of the hard-rock legends The Runaways, starting her record label out of the trunk of a car after being rejected by 23 labels, and influencing many musicians—both her cohort of punk rockers and generations of younger bands—with her no-bullshit style. Bad Reputation gives you a wild ride as Jett and her close friends tell you how it really was in the burgeoning '70s punk scene and the rocky road to rock stardom decades on. Their interviews are laced with amazing archival footage. The theme is clear: Even though people tried to define Jett, | 173 |
Q: string::erase() gives different result in linux/windows I have a piece of code which reads in a line from a file, then removes the whitespace and tells you the length of the string. In windows it works as I expect it to, however in linux it returns a different result.
Code:
// Find how many characters are in the first line
std::string line;
std::ifstream map ("level1.map");
getline(map,line);
// Remove whitespace from the string to get the<|fim_middle|> code handle newlines however it wants, but don't rely on non-portable newline conversion.
*Choose a standard format (LF or CRLF) for the tile map, and output that format on all platforms.
Then, it will work the same provided you're testing with the same level1.map.
| useful length of line
for ( unsigned int i = 0, j ; i < line.length( ) ; ++ i )
{
if ( line [i] == ' ' )
{
for ( j = i + 1; j < line.length ( ) ; ++j )
{
if ( line [j] != ' ' )
break ;
}
cout << j;
line = line.erase ( i, (j - i) ) ;
}
}
// Output
cout << line.size() << endl;
It's essentially just trying to determine how many tile columns there are in the map file, where the map is formatted thusly on each line:
2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2
And so whitespace needs to be removed.
In windows given an initial line length of 160 the end length is 80, however when compiled in linux the initial length is 160, but the end length is 81. The only place the value becomes different appears to be after line = line.erase ( i, (j - i) ) ;
Any ideas why this is happening?
A: I'd hazard a guess that this is related to the different newline markers on Unix/Linux (\n) vs DOS/Windows (\r\n).
A: I think therefromhere is right. The solution is two-fold:
*
*Always set the binary flag when constructing an ifstream or ofstream. Let your | 327 |
New Ableton Max For Live Devices - Download 18 for Free!
If you are an Ableton Live Suite owner, you'll definitely want to take advantage of the many unique music production and sound design tools Max for Live has to offer! Max, originally developed by Cycling'74 in the late 90's has since been renowned as one of the world's leading tools for sound designers, interactive composers and music technologists. Max for Live is a special version of Max that operates within Ableton Live 9 Suite. What makes it so awesome is it's ability to offer custom tools and macros for building a wide variety of devices to manipulate incoming MIDI signals and digital audio.
Recently, Ableton and Cycling'74 announced some great Max for Live devices you should know about; AND some of these devices aren't just useful for producers. They are also for live performers and those integrating computers and electronic elements into bands<|fim_middle|>-expanding tools Live offers for improvisation and experimentation for "live" electronic music. You can purchase this device for $29 right from Ableton's online store.
In addition to the release of BeatSeeker, Cycling'74 also recently announced the release of Max version 7. This update brings some new features and to highlight some of them, Ableton and Cycling'74 are offering 18 unique devices that 100% free to download. These devices categories include sample playback, pitch shifting, pitch analysis, vocoding, retuning and MIDI sidechaining. All of the devices in this free pack highlight some of Max 7's new and unique algorithms for real-time intonation, pitch and time correction.
Last, we want to take a moment to tell you about another great download from the innovative Max for Cats developer called OSCiLLOT. This collection of modules allows you to create a virtual modular dream synth right inside your DAW. While the full version of OSCiLLOT costs $99, there is a free download version called OSCiLLOT Lite which includes 26 cool modules so you can get started patching and building yojur own instruments right away. If you've ever used Native Instruments Reaktor to build your own instruments, OSCiLLOT has somewhat of a similar workflow. It's also a great tool for picking up some sound design and signal flow techniques along the way. | .
First, meet BeatSeeker by developer Andrew Robertson. This device has some really cool tempo-syncing features you can use when performing live. The device works by "detecting the BPM of any incoming, rhythmic audio signal and matching Live to its tempo". All you need to do is set up a microphone with a rhythmic audio signal going into Live, have Max for Live opened and BeatSeeker enabled on the track. From there, Live's master tempo will adjust in real time to the changing tempo of the incoming audio.
While we haven't extensively tested it with a variety of audio sources just yet, it seems like a great addition to the ever | 133 |
NASA originally expected they'd only last a few months, but the plucky Martian rovers are still crawling across the surface of Mars – more than 3 years later. So the agency has gone<|fim_middle|>.51 miles) and has returned more than 102,000 images. Opportunity has driven 11.57 kilometers (7.19 miles) and has returned more than 94,000 images.
Opportunity turned up evidence of the planet's watery past, when oceans affected rocks for long periods of time, and deposited layers of material. Spirit also found that water altered the mineral composition of the rocks and soil in its surroundings. The rovers have been instrumental in helping scientists understand the Martian dust devils. And both have discovered metallic meteorites sitting the surface of the Red Planet. One of these has a similar composition to the meteorite that reached Earth from Mars. | ahead and extended their missions… again. This is the fifth time NASA has extended their mission, keeping them operational potentially through 2009.
The twin rovers landed on the surface of Mars in January, 2004. Mission planners expected that it would only take a few months before dust coated the rovers' solar panels so thickly that they wouldn't be able to generate power any more. But the Martian weather had a trick; dust devils and wind gusts came by often enough to keep the solar panels relatively clear of dust. Without the loss of power looming, the rovers have been able to keep going, and going, and going.
Their accomplishments to date have been staggering. So far, Spirit has driven a total of 7.26 kilometers (4 | 161 |
Each week brings new jobs, emails, files, and job lists. Just how much of that is totally different from the work<|fim_middle|> documents from a template — and the way to use templates in your favorite programs –so you can get your tasks done quicker.
Programs take the time to build, and it's easy to wonder if they are worth the investment. The brief answer: absolutely. Editing a template requires far less time than formatting some thing from scratch. It is the difference between retyping it, or copying and pasting some text.
That is not the only advantage: Using a template means you're not as inclined to leave out crucial info, also. For example, if you want to send freelance authors a contributor arrangement, modifying a standard contract template (instead of writing a new contract every time) guarantees you won't leave out the crucial clause about possessing the content once you've paid for this.
Templates additionally guarantee consistency. Maybe you send clients or investors regular job updates. Using a template, you know the update will constantly have the formatting, layout, and general arrangement.
Imagine you're creating a template of your resume. You would want to record facts so you'll have all the information you need to apply for almost any job.
You can always delete notes that are less-important on, but you may forget it in the last 25, when it is not in the template.
Some applications will automatically fill in these variables for you (more on that in a little ). But should you have to fill in the data by yourself, include some text that is obvious and simple to search for so you can locate. | you've done before? Odds are, not much. Many of our tasks are variations on something we have done countless times before.
Do not reinvent the wheel each time you start something new. Use templates–standardized documents with text and formatting as starting point for work. Once you save a variant of the template add, eliminate, or change any info for that exceptional document, and you'll have the job done in a fraction of the time.
Programs work anywhere: in word processors, spreadsheets, project management programs, survey platforms, and also email. Here's how to create | 118 |
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