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Destinations for All. A World Summit in Montréal in October 2014
Montréal. 19 to 22 October 2014. World Summit on Destinations for All addressing the themes of Tourism, Culture and Transportation for People with Restricted Physical Ability.
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Press Release English Kéroul 4 June 2012 - 242 KB | Release: Montréal, June 4th, 2012 – The number of international tourist arrivals is expected to climb to one billion in 2012. Persons with physical limitations account for roughly 15% of the population and this number should continue to rise given the aging demographic. Like everyone else, people with disabilities travel for business and pleasure, to visit friends and relatives, and to discover other ways of life, just with slightly greater difficulty.
How do we accommodate tourists with disabilities? Are our infrastructures, buildings and establishments adapted to be easily accessible to all? Can we safely aspire to reach international accessibility standards and benchmarks? Do "accessible" rooms in Montréal and elsewhere around the globe live up to the world traveller's expectations? How can a disabled person be sure his or her chosen destination is truly accessible? Is our front-line staff properly trained to host these guests and provide appropriate services? Which best practices from the tourism, culture and transportation industries should be considered model practices? What measures should these industries take to substantially facilitate the participation of individuals with disabilities in cultural and tourist activities?
Those are just some of the questions that will be discussed at the DESTINATIONS FOR ALL World Summit that is set to take place in Montréal from October 19 to 22, 2014.
The Summit's sub-heading expresses the actual scope of the topic at hand:
TOURISM, CULTURE AND TRANSPORTATION: A COMMON STRATEGY AT THE INTERNATIONAL LEVEL
In fact, the major sector-based organizations from the tourism, culture and transportation industries will be invited to unveil at least two changes they undertake to make to significantly improve travel and tourism conditions for persons with disabilities.
This World Summit should also prompt partners to join in an effort to make accessibility benchmarks and standards uniform across tourist establishments, attractions and transportation services.
The Summit will be organized by a steering committee comprising representatives of the organizations most active in promoting tourism accessibility globally, namely:
World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
World Centre of Excellence for Destinations (CED)
European Network for Accessible Tourism (ENAT)
Tourisme et Handicaps (France)
Fundación ONCE (Spain)
Access Tourism New Zeeland
Society for Accessible Travel and Hospitality (SATH, USA)
Transport Canada's Transportation Development Centre
The Ministère du Tourisme du Québec
Kéroul, Tourism and culture for people with restricted physical ability
A short description of these organizations follows at the end of this Press Release.
The International Center for Education and Research in Tourism (CIFORT) will hold, simultaneously, a scientific seminar regarding the Summit's themes.
André Vallerand, Chairman of the CED and Special Advisor to the UNWTO Secretary General, will chair the Summit's Steering Committee. Here, he highlights the event's primary focus:
"At a time when the population of the Western world is aging and international tourism continues to grow, it is crucial for domestic and global partners to consolidate their expertise and join forces to make travel and tourism easier for disabled persons."
For Taleb Rifai, Secretary General of the UNWTO, this event will facilitate the fulfillment of the objectives of the UNWTO's Global Code of Ethics for Tourism:
"Promoting accessible tourism is at the heart of UNWTO's mandate and we are delighted to be an active part of the DESTINATIONS FOR ALL World Summit in Montréal. Through the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism, UNWTO is committed to upholding the rights of the most vulnerable communities, particularly the elderly and the disabled. I firmly believe the Summit will be an opportunity to come up with solutions to considerably improve travel, accommodation and accessibility conditions across tourist attractions and services for persons with disabilities."
Minister of Tourism Nicole Ménard believes that the World Summit reflects the importance of launching initiatives to promote accessible tourism:
"The World Summit is assembling leading organizations to foster cooperation among stakeholders through the accessibility of destinations. I would like to pay tribute to the efforts made by Kéroul, an official partner of the Ministère du Tourisme for the past 25 years, which is working intensely to make Québec a destination accessible to everyone."
Without question, the DESTINATIONS FOR ALL World Summit in Montréal is an event ALL are invited to attend!
For event details, please check the site http://www.destinationsforall2014.com/en/index regularly and sign up to our newsletter.
André Leclerc, CEO, Kéroul
Email: aleclerc@keroul.qc.ca
Michel Trudel, Advisor, Kéroul
Email: mtrudel@keroul.qc.ca
Kéroul Tel. +01 514 252-3104, Email: infos@keroul.qc.ca
Address: 4545, Pierre-De Coubertin Avenue, C.P. 1000, succ. M, Montreal, Quebec H1V 3R2
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Presentation of the partners of the DESTINATIONS FOR ALL World Summit, Montreal, 2014
Based in Madrid, the UNWTO is the United Nations agency responsible for the promotion of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism. As the leading international organization in the field of tourism, UNWTO promotes tourism as a driver of economic growth, inclusive development and environmental sustainability and offers leadership and support to the sector in advancing knowledge and tourism policies worldwide.
The CED, a non-profit organization based in Montréal, is an innovative and powerful tool created in December 2006 with the assistance of the UNWTO, with which it is linked through a memorandum of understanding. This Memorandum commits both UNWTO and CED to work collaboratively on creating strategies and disseminating know-how and good practices, which help tourist destinations reach excellence.
ENAT is a non-profit association for organizations that aim to be 'frontrunners' in the study, promotion and practice of accessible tourism. By leveraging the knowledge and experience of the network, our members are improving the accessibility of tourist information, transport, infrastructure, design and service for visitors with all kinds of access needs, providing models of excellence in accessible tourism for the whole of the tourism industry.
The Association Tourisme et Handicaps is a non-profit organization. Its goals are to heighten professionals and public awareness of the problem of access to holidays for people with disabilities by different means: studies, training, expertise, exhibits, congress, publications, etc. This association promotes politics and programs facilitating access to holidays and, particularly, implements, promotes and manages the French national Label « Tourisme et Handicap ».
ONCE was created in 1938 to assist blind people in Spain. On the strength of its successful experience and its well-established structure, ONCE extended its responsibilities to all people with disabilities by creating the Fundación ONCE in 1988. The Foundation supports the integration of people with disabilities into the labour market, as well as universal accessibility. It manages a variety of programs that range from home-care services, job searching and training, to accessible taxis, and so on.
Access Tourism New Zealand
Access Tourism New Zealand is a well known forum and blog providing news and views about tourism, travel, and leisure that is accessible to people with disabilities, seniors, and Baby Boomers in New Zealand and Worldwide.
The Society for Accessible Travel & Hospitality (SATH), founded in 1976, is an educational nonprofit membership organization whose mission is to raise awareness of the needs of all travelers with disabilities, remove physical and attitudinal barriers to free access and expand travel opportunities in the United States and abroad. Members include travel professionals, consumers with disabilities and other individuals and corporations who support our mission.
Transportation Development Centre (TDC) is Transport Canada's centre of expertise for research and development. It manages a multimodal R&D program aimed at improving the safety, security, energy efficiency, and accessibility of the Canadian transportation system, while protecting the environment. Its mandate is especially to promote innovation in transportation.
The Ministère du Tourisme du Québec (MTO) has the mission of supporting tourism development and promotion in Québec by fostering concerted action and partnership among the various stakeholders. It pursues its mission with a perspective of job creation, economic prosperity and sustainable development. The MTO works closely with Kéroul for the development and promotion of Québec as a destination accessible to people with restricted physical abilities. Several MTO activities addressing tourists with disabilities reflect the orientations of the government policy, À part entière : pour un véritable exercice du droit à l'égalité (Full Citizenship: For a Genuine Exercise of the Right to Equality).
Kéroul is a non-profit organization, founded in 1979. Its mission is to make tourism and culture accessible to people with limited physical ability. It evaluates the accessibility of tourist and cultural establishments and its accessibility classification is the only one recognized by Tourism Québec. Kéroul trains front-line employees of tourist establishments, using its Welcoming Ways training program, and develops and promotes The Accessible Road, a tool that persons with disabilities can use to plan a host of "accessible" trips and getaways across Québec. The Accessible Road was conferred the Ulysses Award for Innovation in Non-Governmental Organizations by the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) in 2011.
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Nuerplay by Professor Ben Neill is based on the segmentation of the Nuer people in the Southern Sudan region of Africa. The group's existence is largely focused on cattle, and there are frequent quarrels over cattle ownership rights. There is a complex and fluid system of alliances which determines the political structure of the Nuer. Nuerplay uses this social structure as a model for musical composition, with each of the players representing one of the warring groups, alternating between "attack" and "defense." The solo part, played by Professor Neill on his electro-acoustic Mutantrumpet, represents the leader of the Nuer community, who acts as a mediator between the warring factions.
For more information, contact Professor Neill at bneill@ramapo.edu
Ramapo College of New Jersey is the state's premier public liberal arts college and is committed to academic excellence through interdisciplinary and experiential learning, and international and intercultural understanding. The College is ranked #1 among New Jersey public institutions by College Choice; is recognized as the state's top college on the list of Best Disability Schools by Great Value Colleges; was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful College Campuses in America by CondeNast Traveler; and is recognized as a top college by U.S. News & World Report, Kiplinger's, Princeton Review and Money magazine, among others. Ramapo College is also distinguished as a Career Development College of Distinction by CollegesofDistinction.com, boasts the best campus housing in New Jersey on Niche.com, and is designated a "Military Friendly College" in Victoria Media's Guide to Military Friendly Schools.
Established in 1969, Ramapo College offers bachelor's degrees in the arts, business, data science, humanities, social sciences and the sciences, as well as in professional studies, which include business, education, nursing and social work. In addition, the College offers courses leading to teacher certification at the elementary and secondary levels, and offers graduate programs leading to master's degrees in Accounting, Business Administration, Creative Music Technology, Data Science, Educational Technology, Educational Leadership, Nursing, Social Work and Special Education, as well as a post-master's Doctor of Nursing Practice.
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Ramapo College Digital Music Performance class members and Professor Ben Neill rehearsing "Brackets" (2014) by Nicolas Collins.
MAHWAH, N.J. — On Friday, May 7 at 8 p.m. the Ramapo College Music Program will present a unique online live streamed concert performed by the Digital Music Performance class via Twitch. https://www.twitch.tv/rcnjmusic
The concert will be performed by nine students, all playing together from their remote locations using sophisticated software that enables high resolution, low latency audio collaboration over the internet in real time. The class has been exploring different platforms for audio performance and collaboration this semester, and this event will showcase the possibilities offered by the most current networking technologies.
The program will consist of ensemble pieces by the late Pauline Oliveros, Nicolas Collins, and Ramapo Professor Ben Neill, as well as original solo and ensemble pieces created by the class members. A variety of musical styles and approaches will be demonstrated in this exciting online event.
The concert opens with Tuning Meditation by Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016). Oliveros was a pioneer of networked music performance, for which she coined the term "telematic music." She also created the concept of Deep Listening, a practice based upon principles of improvisation, electronic music, ritual, teaching and meditation, designed to inspire both trained and untrained musicians to practice the art of listening and responding to environmental conditions in solo and ensemble situations. Oliveros visited Ramapo in 2015 for a symposium and a concert. The presentation of her music in the telematic context honors her innovation in this field.
Brackets (2014) by Nicolas Collins, a professor of Sound Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, is inspired by the late "time bracket" compositions of John Cage, and is intended primarily for electronic instruments whose sounds and performance gestures are ill-served by traditional music notation. Each musician creates their own set of "gamuts," different sounds with fixed characteristics, which are used in the performance. A computer program acts as a conductor for the ensemble; the software randomly selects amongst the gamut numbers and assigns each occurrence a time interval in which it is to be played. The time counts down, and at the end of the interval a new gamut is chosen. This process is applied to four groups of players, with each gamut choice and bracket countdown displayed on a video screen in a color-coded block. In the online version to be presented by the class, the conductor screen is shared with all of the participants, and their audio is managed through the Sonobus application.
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Develops configuration and monitoring standards for network performance and implements and monitors controls to ensure the standards are maintained.
Evaluates business needs, objectives, and goals, researching products available and designating procedures to best meet those needs as a system.
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Collaborates with Senior Leadership Team, Academic Deans, and Executive Directors to ensure effective technology needs are met.
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Millions of people have used family DNA tests to find out a little more about their family history, to understand their personal genetic makeup and to potentially connect with new relatives from around the world.
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DNA testing can tell you a lot about yourself and your close relatives. You can find matches in online databases and connect more dots to your close family tree.
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For the rest of the story, you still need a solid amount of records research, you need to make human connections, you need to consider family stories and you need to lean on more traditional research.
DNA matching won't always guarantee fantastic results for family history research, but it does do a lot of good. It's another piece in the puzzle of who you are, and where you came from. And it can identify family connections that could not have been discovered any other way.
Technically speaking, DNA test results look sort of like a blueprint of genes and statistics. They aren't very user-friendly, in other words.
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County Council meeting features marathon…
County Council meeting features marathon discussion on taping of meetings
KATHLEEN CAREY — DIGITAL FIRST MEDIA
Members of Delaware County Council take part in their agenda meeting Tuesday. Wednesday's session turned into a marathon meeting with squabbling over videotaping of meetings.
By Kathleen E. Carey | delcotimes.com
PUBLISHED: January 24, 2018 at 7:37 p.m. | UPDATED: August 19, 2021 at 1:52 a.m.
MEDIA >> In a two and a half hour meeting, Delaware County Council had a heated back-and-forth between Republicans and Democrats when it came to videotaping meetings.
Having run on a campaign of transparency and with promises of implementing that, Democratic councilmen Brian Zidek and Kevin Madden were unwilling to wait one week to get more information on how such a process would<|fim_middle|> she had reached out to a local company to get some preliminary pricing, while deferring to council whether such a service would go out to bid.
Grace said one of her concerns is whether the county has the infrastructure in place to handle it, as people do lose Internet service throughout the government center.
"There's a very simple short-term solution, which is Facebook Live or anything else that's off the shelf," Madden said.
Grace said she wanted the presentation to be professional.
"This is something that is going to represent Delaware County and represent our council and we really want to be able to share this well with all of the residents of Delaware County," she said.
"We don't need great to stand in the way of good," Zidek said.
The tension reached its height when Culp moved to table the issue.
"I'd like to discuss with our executive director and our solicitor to discuss what's in here and to make sure that we're following the proper requirements," he said. "I don't think anyone up here is saying that we're not going to be transparent. I would like the opportunity to discuss that with our personnel before voting on it."
Madden said, "The proposal was provided on Monday. It's been two days and it's a two-page proposal. There's been 48 hours to follow up with whoever … to further understand what was in here which was two basic changes which can be done by a middle school child."
To that, McBlain said, "We've been giving everybody a very wide berth to ask whatever questions and receive whatever information they wanted … We ought to provide everybody the opportunity to consider anything that's brought up and not give it the so-called bummed rush of wanting it to get done when I want it, as I want it."
McBlain reminded Madden that when he and Zidek asked to table the matter of the Client Unity application call system for the county Domestic Relations Department one week, council obliged.
Madden said in his comments, he was not name calling anyone and only speaking to the simplicity of the actions. He said he did not want anyone to feel disparaged.
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"I understand there are logistical hurdles that we did not specifically lay out but they're not rocket science," Madden said. "These meetings in Media Borough, in Upper Darby, in various places throughout the county, they found a way to video record meetings. This isn't rocket science."
The three Republican council members – Chairman John McBlain, Vice Chairman Colleen Morrone and Michael Culp – voted to table the motion. Zidek and Madden opposed that motion.
"You've presented problems but you really haven't presented solutions of how we're actually going to do that, who's going to do it, what's going to be done, what format, what feed," McBlain said to Madden. "It's great to present ideas but then you have to actually implement these ideas."
The exchanges occurred during a 45-minute part of the regular council meeting that centered on the Meetings Committee report. Committee members Morrone and Madden were directed to explore and make recommendations concerning county holidays, meeting frequency, meeting days/times, the council agenda meeting, the agenda itself and video recording the proceedings.
There was discussion with each of the issues but the verbal friction occurred surrounding the recording issue.
The Democrats wanted to record both the Tuesday agenda and the Wednesday council meetings, starting as early as next week. The Republicans wanted more time to work out some of the details of how that could be done.
The topic of televising meetings has come up intermittently for decades.
County Executive Director Marianne Grace said she reached out to Radnor, where meetings are videotaped, and found it was more expensive than officials had anticipated.
And, | 331 |
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Moiras Records – Release Round-Up
On September 19, 2018 By <|fim_middle|> enough though. I'll give "Nektek" a pass for its stomping glam groove, but the rest of the album sounds like a Hungarian version of yucky pseudo hard rock bands like Bad Company or Foreigner.
Josza Erika & Horvath Karoly – Kettospont
Kettospont sports a cheesy album cover (pictured above) that made me really apprehensive about listening to this folk duo. However, as Bo Diddley taught us, you can't judge a book by it's cover, and it ended up being my favorite album out of the entire bunch. The difference is that Eika and Karoly's music has its roots in traditional Hungarian folk, even using distinctly Hungarian instruments like the citera and the gardon. Maybe it's cultural tourism, but I'd much rather hear music with sonic indicators of location than pale Hungarian takes on popular UK/American sounds. | 12a26aIn Moiras RecordsLeave a comment
Moiras is a Hungarian label that's been reissuing music since the mid-2000's. To understand the music they put out it helps to know that Hungarian rock bands often faced opposition from the government, especially in the 1970's when the Communist regime cracked down on any rock music with the slightest hint of subversion, leaving the masses with nothing but saccharine pop. One of the most popular bands in Hungary during this era was literally called Middle of The Road. I originally reached out to review a copy of llles' Goodbye, London. They didn't have any left, but sent me five LP's and one CD to review instead. Pretty nice, right? Here's a little recap of each one, in chronological order. At least I think it's in chronological order. The liner notes were in broken English, so it's pretty hard to get the facts straight.
Atlas – Just Playin' Rhythm and Blues
This key word in the title of this CD of live songs and demos recorded in 1965 is "just". Yes, Atlas played rhythm and blues, but that's all they had to offer. The track list leans too heavily on work-a-day instrumentals, and covers the Stones did better. I'm also going to have to deduct a point for mistakenly calling Ray Charles' "What'd I Say", "What Do I Say", and a further point for the album's terrible sound quality.
Scampolo – Under The Rainbow
Here's a collection of demos, live recordings and studio leftovers from Scampolo, a band that was part of Hungary's rock scene since 1961. Under The Rainbow captures them at tail end of the '60s, when they were mixing heavy blues with long acid rock instrumental passages. The opening cover of Aretha Franklin's "Save Me" is symbolic of the album: lo-fi recording, indulgent solos and absurd vocal histrionics. They cover Fleetwood Mac, Richie Havens and Ten Years After, but none of Scampolo's versions warrant repeat listens. Despite a cool pop-art style album cover, this was my least favorite of the bunch.
Hungaria – It Would Be Cool If It Was Cool
Another set of early-'70s recordings. Hungaria were hardly geniuses, and the sound quality on some songs is pretty dodgy, but at least they had a succinct hard-driving attack, influenced by Black Sabbath, CCR and Deep Purple. "Jo Jenne, Ha Jo Lenne" has a solid Sabbath-style groove that would work great if recorded in a proper studio. Oh, and the band looks pretty badass in the photos that are spread across the gatefold cover.
Bugocsiga – Bugocsiga
Bugocsiga (or Humming Top) were a folk pop group that featured a violin/viola player. I can't tell if this is an album or just a collection of songs (again, the liner notes are confusing), but these guys pack a lot of material on this LP – a whopping 21 songs. Some of it's pretty, but their performances are stiff – like a more uptight Simon and Garfunkel.
Metropol Group – Egig Erhente Az Enek
Metropol Group might have been Romanian, or maybe a Hungarian band living in Romania? I give up trying to decode these liner notes. This is their debut album from 1977, and unlike the above albums, it at least sounds like it was made in a professional studio. Slick recordings aren't | 746 |
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· February 25, 2019 ·2 min read
Review: Paddleton
Paddelton
Directed by Alexandre Lehmann; Written by the Duplass Brothers; Available on Netflix
The story of two neighbours and their journey through the closed-off world of masculinity, Paddleton is at once touching and droll in its deconstruction of male relationships.
While films like Fight Club and The Big Lebowski—as even better-crafted exemplars of the theme compared to most—hold paragons of manhood sacrosanct in their own ways, this production, courtesy of the Duplass Brothers, slowly breaks down the stoic barriers that block legitimate friendships between men through a plodding but methodically plotted narrative.
Michael (Mark Duplass) and Andy (Ray Romano, in what must be his hands-down best role of all time) are neighbours—they watch kung fu movies, make oven pizzas and play a game of their own design called Paddleton; but, at the film's start, the two middle-aged bachelors can only seem to refer to each other as a product of their homes' proximity. Within the film's first act, Michael tells Andy he has terminal cancer, and that he plans to euthanize himself before the pain really begins to kick in.
He also tells Andy, his only point of human contact in the film, that he wants him there when he does it. Small cracks begin to appear in Andy's veneer, and as the film continues the underlying friendship the pair has begins to show.
Both Duplass and Romano give phenomenal performances and play off each other with deftness. They alternate between bickering buddies whose only common ground is their mutual dude stuff, and sobbing man-children who are just finally learning what emotions are at 40, in the face of death.
It's heavy, and doesn't cast men's inability to express their emotions as valorous—rather, it's sympathetic. There's really only one female role in the movie (so it manages to fail the Bechdel Test by default<|fim_middle|> Disappeared? — Deerhunter
It's also pretty funny in an awfully cringey way. Watching two awkward 40-year-old men try to interact with the world around them shouldn't be amusing, but when every minor social interaction gets turned into a huge ordeal it's kind of hard not to laugh.
For instance, early on, Andy begins to gripe that the new hire at his ill-defined office job has begun trying to small-talk with him—it's a huge affront, and Romano's uncharacteristically nuanced performance carries the tidbit of social horror off seamlessly.
It's not an enjoyable watch, really—it's sad and even when the movie is funny, it elicits laughter only as a defence mechanism. That said, it's a thoughtful and rewarding way to spend two hours.
Doug Johnson is a writer, editor, and journalist based in Edmonton, Alberta. His focuses are features and food.
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With song and dance, the production will showcase the golden age of Hollywood as films transitioned from silent to those with spoken dialogue.
When: Feb. 23 at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m. and Feb. 25 at 2 p.m<|fim_middle|> obligation to keep alive the shows of the past that have inspired those in modern times.
And keeping with CCPAC's mission to educate kids while allowing them to perform, Kessler said kids ages 9 to 15 have been learning about concepts such as posture, inflection and better fitting their performances to types of characters they're playing.
In addition, Kessler said she's been working to have students understand the meaning behind their characters' lines, instead of having the students simply recite their dialogue.
Maya Lanzisera, a 12-year-old Mt. Laurel resident, has been performing in CCPAC shows since the second grade and will be playing the Broadway Melody Host in the upcoming production.
Speaking as a performer who has been a part of the ensemble in some shows and held principal roles in others, Maya said her time at Curtain Call has helped her grow as a performer.
"Being in the ensemble helps with learning teamwork and learning that it takes everyone to put on a show, and principals held guide the show. Every part is important," Maya said.
Casey Cornwell, a 12-year-old Mt. Laurel resident playing the role of director Roscoe Dexter, also said CCPAC has helped him grow not only as a performer, but as a person as well.
Casey said when he had his first audition at curtain call three years ago, he left midway through a song he was singing due to such strong stage fright. Now, with so much more experience, Casey said he has a much greater level of comfort on stage.
With "Singing in the Rain, Jr." Kessler said her students were also able to learn about growing as performers from the 1952 film's leading lady Debbie Reynolds.
Kessler said with Reynolds' recent death, she had her students researched Reynolds and her first starring role in the film.
Kessler said fewer than one-third of her students have had experience with tap dancing, which is similar to Reynolds, who had no dance training before she was cast in the 1952 production.
"To be able to keep up with Gene Kelly was just unbelievable, and they were inspired by that," Kessler said.
"Singing in the Rain Jr." will debut on Feb. 23 at Harrington Middle School at 7:30 p.m. Repeat performances will take place on Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m. and Feb. 25 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Tickets are $10, and can be purchased in advance at www.showtix4u.com.
Registration is also open for students ages 6 through 12th grade for CCPAC's summer camp productions of "Jungle Book Kids," "Bye Bye Birdie" and "Mary Poppins." For more information, visit www.curtaincallpac.com. | . and 7:30 p.m.
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Taylor at the final press conference: I am ready to do the job!
WBSS Super-Lightweight and Bantamweight Semi-Finalists Josh Taylor and Ivan Baranchyk and Naoya Inoue and Emmanuel Rodriguez met at the final press conference ahead of Saturday's showdowns of the unbeatens at The SSE Hydro.
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"I've never felt so relaxed and confident heading into a fight," said Scotland's Josh 'Tartan Tornado' Taylor (14-0, 12 KOs), the WBC Silver champion who fights for his first World title on Saturday<|fim_middle|>. I am very confident I will win and do it in fashion."
The World Boxing Super Series is looking forward to returning to Scotland.
"We are super excited to bring the biggest boxing event to Scotland in many years," said Kalle Sauerland, Comosa's Chief Boxing Officer. "It is not only a night of world championship boxing but also the massive opportunity to claim a place in the final of the World Boxing Super Series and be crowned the best super-lightweight in the world."
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"I'm ready to do the job. Baranchyk is strong, he comes forward but I see a lot of flaws in him, a lot of mistakes and I'm going to exploit him. I cannot wait to get in and fight him.
'"The World Boxing Super Series is the best guys in boxing all fighting against each other. It doesn't happen enough and I'm in this game to prove I'm the best. I believe Baranchyk is one of the best in the division but I'm fully confident I'm going to win on Saturday."
"I don't mind being the visiting fighter," said the IBF titleholder, Ivan 'The Beast' Baranchyk (19-0, 12 KOs). "I will fight every man, everywhere and I believe I can knockout Taylor on Saturday."
The bantamweights felt equally confident of not letting their O's go either.
"I have a lot of respect for Rodriguez and I expect a tough fight," said WBA champion Naoya 'Monster' Inoue (17-0, 15 KOs). "I have studied him quite a bit, but you don't really know him until you get in the ring. Once we are there I will figure out how to get the victory," he said feeling confident of going all the way; "I entered the tournament to get the trophy."
"I am very excited to be here," said IBF champion Emmanuel 'El Sensacional' Rodriguez (19-0, 12 KOs) who is putting his belt on the line on Saturday. "This fight with Inoue is something we wanted for a long time, so we are glad it's happening. On May 18 I will still be the world champion!"
The winner of the bantamweight semi-final will face Nonito Donaire in the final, and Regis Prograis awaits the winner of the super-lightweight contest.
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Scotland's Josh 'The Tartan Tornado' Taylor and Belarus' IBF Champion Ivan 'The Beast' Baranchyk continue their quest for the Ali Trophy in the 140 lb division on 18 May at The SSE Hydro in Glasgow, Scotland.
Taylor (14-0, 12 KOs) and Baranchyk (19-0, 12 KOs) both looked strong on their way to the semi-final against previously unbeaten opponents.
When Baranchyk advanced on October 27 and took home the vacant IBF title, he showed his devastating power against Sweden's Anthony Yigit and forced the ring doctor's stoppage in the seventh round in New Orleans, USA. The Belarusian's message about going all the way and win the tournament is clear.
"My nature, effort and my love of boxing will help me get the Ali Trophy," said Baranchyk.
On November 3rd Taylor impressed when he completely outmanoeuvred and eventually stopped USA's Ryan Martin in round seven at The Hydro in Scotland's capital. Now Taylor is not only fighting for a place in the final, he is also taking his first shot at World title glory.
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I did fall in love at first use. With what? With The Beauty Bask Himalayan Renegade Soap! This might be the weirdest thing you can hear from me but it's just the way it is. Yes, I did fell in love at first use.
I know a lot of online shops who sells organically and naturally made products. One of them is the Beauty Bask with Ms. Kristen as the super jolly and good-looking seller. I am just really lucky to receive a sample of this soap to blog about. Thank you so much, Ms. Kristen!
By the way, this soap, along with the other three variants namely: Paradiso, Amongst The Stars, Mr and Mrs. Androgynous, are just the first soaps released by the shop. The shop's current bestsellers are the Purveyor of The Lush and Chasing Daydreams (beauty oils), but I wouldn't be surprise when their soaps would be the new hit in the market.
Okay, this is a beauty block which claims to detoxify, brighten and purify and is recommended for blemished skin (good for me, yey!) and all skin types (woah!). It is a potent PH balancing beauty block in an almost silver tinge that comes in a feel good scent brought about by its natural and certified organic ingredients! Clinically proven actives target flaws and help your skin overcome free radicals working at a cellular level to restore and repair your skin from oxidative stress. Include this as either a daily or a bi-weekly habit to draw out deep impurities, brighten skin and preserve youth despite the unavoidable dose of sun, stress and pollution. Rebel against grime with this charmingly exotic beauty block!
Okay, I can't help<|fim_middle|> which, still, is a good thing as blemish removal is not easy as overnight yet I know that it is possible with this soap. Hmm, this is just pure goodness and I have nothing against it, only so much love!
All in all, this is such an amazing product and is worth repurchasing! I recommend it to everyone--whether you have sensitive, dry, normal, combination or oily skin. | taking lots of photographs of this soap just because. Anyway, it has Freshwater Silt Mud, Himalayan Red Rice, Plankton Extract, Matsutake Mushrooms, Paper Mulberry and Morus Alba Bark. Okay, that's a lot of scientific terms huh. And because I am not familiar with the skin benefits of each, I decided to do a mini research about them. And...I would like to commend The Beauty Bask for creating such an awesome block of product. I just feel like this would surpass my expectations on the first time I saw this and I WAS NOT WRONG. It's like I can already feel how Ms. Kristen hand-picked each ingredients--carefully infused them into each block to provide us, consumers, with only the nature's goodness.
This block has a soft, sticky texture. I even tried to cut them and the body's too soft so I got afraid I might cut it in unusable parts. I almost think they would melt easily but they seem to harden more when wet. Makes no sense huh. Yeah, and because of that, a bar would last me a month at max.
To be honest, I find the scent off-putting at first but later on, I think that it's not bad at all. It's just that it is made with organic and natural ingredients that is why it smells so mild without the harmful fragrance.
I know I said much already so...let's go to the review proper.
I apply this block two times a day (day and night) for maximum results. To test its effectiveness more and make sure it's precise, I use the block on my face only until it runs out. The soap felt very soft on my hands and suds up real quick and heavy making me think that it is, indeed, a really good cleanser. I testify to it because I can easily remove my makeup even when I am not using any makeup remover. Maybelline Hypercurl Mascara is so long-wearing that even when I double-cleanse (using other soaps), the residue is still just there. But with Himalayan Renegade, one wash wipes everything off. Yeah, it is that tough.
Do not get me wrong, it is tough on cleansing but not on skin. Despite the fact that it's so good at removing makeup, ironically, it's so gentle on my layers and is non-drying. I did not feel some sting or painful peeling while using this soap. And yes, it is sooooo brightening. I love how my face looks after every use. I sometimes skip my toner just because I trap little of those dirt and dust that loves latching on my face because they have been removed in the first place. With continuous use, my face became softer and smoother. Pimples hardly pop out of my pores as well.
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Words by Iman Balagam
According to the2021 State of Mental Health in America Report, more than 26 million individuals experiencing a mental illness are going untreated. Those living in a mental health desert (Wyoming, Utah, Oregon, Missouri, Mississippi) have even higher rates of mental illness, yet have less access to care.
Sesh is changing that. The mental health platform provides virtual group sessions at an affordable price point. Topics range from the general (riding the waves of anxiety; becoming morebody-positive) to the community-specific (art-making for racial stress and anxiety).
Via video,Dr. Nicole Cammack—licensed clinical psychologist, CEO of Black Mental Wellness, and member of Sesh's clinical advisory board—discusses how Sesh is making it easier for BI&POC, as well as people living in rural areas, to get access to mental health services.
Can you explain the mission of Sesh?
Sesh is a mental health platform that hosts group sessions led by licensed therapists. During these sessions, we're aiming to empower and highlight the power of groups—relating to others and their experiences, sharing perspectives, and everyone's unique experiences coming together. A licensed therapist facilitates these sessions so that everyone can heal together, but also heal individually, which is the mission of Sesh at its core.
What are some of the barriers to entry when it comes to BI&POC accessing mental health services?
I think it's a range of things. It's a mixture of stigma and that mental health is not always presented in a way that's culturally relevant to<|fim_middle|>. How do we think about our patients culturally, and all of these different factors that may impact how a person shows up in the room and what they're experiencing? So many people think that you learn about cultural sensitivity once and you're done, but it's a forever learning curve. I'm a Black woman, but I'm always learning about Black people—we all differ in geography, age, religion, et cetera. The question is: how can we approach a person, whether they're of the same background or not—and think about the role of culture, and think about their upbringing and their standards and their norms? Because that's going to inform everything.
I also know from being in meetings with peers and coworkers that even if people have had this training, the reality is, in practice, they don't address it. There are some people who will see someone of a different culture and not ask a question because the conversation is uncomfortable for the provider, and that's not acceptable. While it can be uncomfortable, this is what we're paid to do. This is what we're trained to do, and we should be able to have those difficult conversations.
What is a mental health desert?
Mental health deserts are locations where there are limited services. Usually, it's more rural areas where there are fewer providers. Oftentimes, you see places trying to recruit providers to get them into these areas so that they can increase mental health services. What the pandemic has shown us is that telehealth works. So now, thanks to telehealth, you can live in certain areas of West Virginia—where there were limited services before—but access a provider anywhere in the state.
What would you say to anyone who feels like they don't necessarily need or deserve therapy?
We really want to shift the narrative to say: you don't have to be in a mental health crisis to access therapy. In the work that I do with veterans, they're often like, "Oh, I would rather give my spot to my fellow veterans. I'm not that bad." I always emphasize that we all can benefit from therapy, especially nowadays with the pandemic and the impact it has had on us. When you think about Black people, and the racial injustices, and the impact of those things on your mental health, we all can benefit from having that space. Remember that these services are here for you. For some people, intervening early—even if it might not feel like you have a lot going on—prevents it from escalating, and prevents people from getting to that breaking point.
Can Sesh group sessions stand on their own, or should they only be used in conjunction with individual therapy?
Group sessions can definitely stand on their own. The perfect example would be someone stressed who feels guilty about "taking" someone else's space, but needs support in dealing with general stress and life transitions. That person may not need individual services, per se, but there are groups on Sesh that are specific for that and can meet that need. In my work with veterans, we do groups centered around race-based stress and trauma. Together we're able to deal with the trauma, the racial issues, stress management, and relaxation so that they're getting all of the strategies that they need—and many of them don't require any additional services.
This interview was edited and condensed for clarity. | the audience. People aren't seeing themselves in the providers or in the language. It's easy to write it off as, "That's not for me," especially if you don't know people who have been to therapy and have had a positive experience. While those are some of the initial barriers, from there it's really a matter of the cost of services. A lot of people can't afford therapy or don't know how to find a provider. Something else that came up, especially during the pandemic, was that providers were simply booked. This is where Sesh group sessions can really shine, as it's a way to get more people into a therapeutic space and fill some of those access issues.
How important is cultural sensitivity in the world of therapy?
In an ideal world, all providers would use cultural sensitivity as the lens through which they view mental health | 172 |
BV star Spears commits to Selkirk
Mason Spear will not have to travel far to play college hockey after finishing his junior career in Beaver Valley.
Jul. 23, 2012 6:00 p.m.
The Selkirk College Saints Men's Hockey program is pleased to announce a commitment from forward Mason Spear (Medicine Hat, AB) to attend Selkirk College and compete for the Saints beginning in the 2012/13 B.C. Intercollegiate<|fim_middle|>551 penalty minutes in 129 games.
"Mason's work ethic, grit and skill level make him a tremendous addition to our roster," says Saints head coach Jeff Dubois. "He plays a high-energy, physical game that I expect to be very effective in our league and he's also shown the ability to put up some good offensive numbers, particularly over the past year in Beaver Valley. He'll have the opportunity to step up and be a solid contributor in his first BCIHL season."
Spear is one of a number of Saints recruits with ties to the West Kootenays, as Trail native and former Smoke Eaters captain Logan Proulx and Nelson Leafs alumnus Connor McLaughlin both committed to Selkirk College earlier this offseason. His addition also brings the total number of KIJHL graduates on the Saints roster to 10.
"I can't express how happy I am to come back to the Kootenays for the chance to further my education and to continue to play hockey," says Spear. "I've been playing in this area for the last two seasons and it's like my home now. I just love the area and the people here and to have the opportunity to go to school and to play hockey at the next level is a bonus."
Athletes head home as 2012 Surrey BC Summer Games come to triumphant close
Junior golfers kick off season at Castlegar course | Hockey League season.
Spear is already familiar to local hockey fans following three seasons in the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League with Beaver Valley Nitehawks, Kimberley Dynamiters and Fernie Ghostriders. He spent the majority of his junior career with the Nitehawks, who he helped to a KIJHL Championship this spring as one of the team's assistant captains. He scored 21 goals and totalled 49 points in 42 regular season games during the 2011/12 campaign and added another 16 points in 17 playoff contests.
The 21-year old's career KIJHL totals include 37 goals, 65 assists and | 149 |
Home HEALTH DOCTOR PROFILES Amanda Thomas, M.D.
Amanda Thomas, M.D.
Passionate Patient Care
The newest member of the East Jefferson Women's Care team can't believe her luck. Dr. Amanda Thomas joins seven other physicians and a Nurse Practitioner in a busy practice that delivers around 700 babies per year and sees women for OB/GYN care from adolescence through post-menopause.
"They're a great group of people to work with," she says. "They have a lot of experience and they all really care about each of the patients in our practice. And they always put them first. It's nice to have a team and a family."
After undergraduate studies and medical school at St. Louis University, Dr. Thomas was eager to return to her hometown and to give back to the city she loves. Following a long residency at Louisiana State University, she is finally settling in to a career she loves too.
"One of the things that is really special as well as really unique with my field is that you have the opportunity to build this longitudinal relationship with your patients," she says. "That's what drew me to the field — that vast array of opportunities —<|fim_middle|> it, what tests are being completed and what changes are being made."
Contrast these changes with something women have been doing since the beginning of human existence: giving birth. She is so excited to have first-time mothers and mothers new to the practice, and she is really looking forward to spending the duration of pregnancy with a patient and being present at their most precious moments.
What's interesting is that Dr. Thomas thought she wanted to be an aerospace engineer. Her parents were instrumental in laying the foundation for a medical career instead. Her parents compassionately cared for aging family members; at times caring for them in the same home they were raising their family. "Just watching how they cared for other people and people in need, I think that's what set me on my path to medical school, knowing that I wanted to be someone who used my gifts to take the best care of other people," Dr. Thomas says.
And now that the people she is taking care of are her own patients, she is ready to dedicate her life to the practice.
"The learning always continues — every day you learn a little something new — but I feel extremely prepared and very confident from my training at LSU," she says. "It's exciting to wake up and see patients that are yours and have chosen to see you as their provider. This is what I've worked so long for. It's a privilege to wake up every day and come to work doing something that you love and doing it for your patients."
Medical School: St. Louis University School of Medicine
Residency: Obstetrics and Gynecology, LSU, Chief Resident
Memberships: American Medical Association, Junior Fellow American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Amanda N. Thomas, M.D.
previous Palliative Care: Melissa Pennebaker, FNP-BC
next Ilana Fortgang, M.D. | the chance to walk with your patients through their care and all their needs. They come back because they find someone they feel comfortable with, safe with, that they confide in and they trust."
Dr. Thomas was extremely thorough in assessing where she might fit in as a physician, but nothing drew her in the way her obstetrics experience in medical school did. She worked with a family practice physician who saw a good number of OB patients and she looked the most forward to those appointments than any others.
"There was just this energy about it," she says. "I knew deep down that I really enjoyed that more than anything else. But there can be this stereotype of obstetrics, that it's a very difficult lifestyle, so I wanted to make sure that I had considered all my options. After going through every other field, OB/GYN was just what I was called to do."
Being new to the field has its advantages. Dr. Thomas is coming in with the most up-to-the-minute training in technology, detection, screening recommendations and surgical procedures. She cites minimally invasive procedures like laparoscopic pelvic surgery and transcervical surgeries for uterine pathology and sterilization among the most current treatments in her field.
"There have been a number of changes in women's health in recent years," she says. "I want women to truly understand what is entailed in their exam and their well-woman care. There are a lot of misunderstandings or myths about what happens in an exam. One of the things I look forward to is explaining what is included in their exam. I want my patients to understand what I'm doing, why we are doing | 332 |
Manager Stuart Henderson secured the services of former Plymouth parkway custodian Neil Osborne and full back Calum Hall from Tiverton to come into the starting line up with central defender Dan Evans returning from injury.
Both sides started lively with the visitors soon getting into their passing game.
Early on Kenny went close for the home side before the Lambs opened the scoring on 15 minutes. Glynn Hobbs, Reece Shanley and Luke Brown combined for the latter to get his shot away, former Lambs<|fim_middle|> home.
Moments later Brown had the chance to add to his total but from a Crago cross somehow allowed the ball to run pass him. Shanley then shot wide after a good team move.
The home side offered very little in attack but Roseveor went close with another header.
A well rehearsed free kick bore fruit, when a couple of touches from Crago, sub Tallon Burns gave Grant the space to fire home to complete the scoring.
4 nil away from home would appear to be a good afternoon's work but the feeling at the end was it could have and should have been more but no one is really complaining. | keeper Jamie Blatchford managed to parry it but Josh Grant got the final touch to stab home from close range.
Jack Crago then saw two headers flash wide from crosses by Mason Hughes before the lambs increased their lead 10 mins prior to the interval.
Grant's shot was parried by Blatchford but there was Hughes who had come from deep in his own half previous to be on the spot and lash home form an acute angle.
It was almost three on the stroke of half time but Blatchford tipped over Crago's header after being set up by Hobbs and Hughes.
The second half was just four minutes old when the lambs increased their lead, a defensive mix up allowed Brown to stride forward and slot | 150 |
Q: How does "this" keyword work in the particular way? I'm trying to learn JavaScript, but got stuck with a problem (more with misunderstanding "this" keyword) that doesn't give me move on.
I've watched a lot of content about it and barely understood it, but still have some troubles.
I have some code:
function Person (name, age) {
this.name = name;
this.age = age;
this.changeName = function (name) {
this.name = name;
}
}
What do we use "this" here for?
As I understood we use "this" to create variable inside function constructor and give it value of our "name" parameter that we could refer to it. Am I right?
Then I have this code:
var p1 = new Person ("John", 30);
p1.changeName ("Jane");
console.log(p1.name);
As I sorted out here, we call method that overwrites our variable that we created to refer to. But it doesn't change actual parameter. So if it's right why do we use it? Doesn't it matter to have actual "name" parameter changed?
The whole code is from teaching app!
A:
So if it's right why do we use it? Doesn't it matter to have actual "name" parameter changed?
No, there's no need to do that in this example. changeName changes the property on the object that<|fim_middle|> name (changeName); but there's no function to change age. People write code like that so that age cannot be changed from outside code created within the Person constructor.
A: The this keyword is used to create and assign values to variables in the class. It is again used to create functions, either getters or setters. So in your code this.changeName is a function that when passed a value will change the name of the person.
eg.
var a = 5; // a is an integer
var b = "Han"; //b is a string
var c = function(name){
//code here
} // then c is also a function;
A: I guess you may misunderstand which parameter you actually change, so I rewrite it like so, holp this helps.
function Person (argument_name, argument_age) {
this.name = argument_name;
this.age = argument_age;
this.changeName = function (argument_change_name) {
this.name = argument_change_name;
}
}
let p1 = new Person ("John", 30);
p1.changeName ("Jane");
console.log(p1);
| was created by new Person.
It's true that that example code is a bit odd, because it creates the changeName function in the constructor but doesn't do the kinds of things you'd normally do when you create the function in the constructor. I'd expect that code to either be this, which puts the changeName on the prototype:
function Person(name, age) {
this.name = name;
this.age = age;
}
Person.prototype.changeName = function(name) {
this.name = name;
};
(or the class equivalent) or this:
function Person(name, age) {
this.getName = function() {
return name;
};
this.changeName = function(newName) {
name = newName;
};
this.getAge = function() {
return age;
};
}
That code does update the parameter (which has no effect at all on the code calling Person). It doesn't create name and age properties at all; instead, it just makes their values accessible via getName and getAge. There's also a function to change | 215 |
The Digital Turn
Chris Gilliard and Hugh Culik — The New Pythagoreans
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Pythagoras from Raphael's School of Athens (image source: Wikipedia)
Chris Gilliard and Hugh Culik
A student's initiation into mathematics routinely includes an encounter with the Pythagorean Theorem, a simple statement that describes the relationship between the hypotenuse and sides of a right triangle: the sum of the squares of the sides is equal to the square of the hypotenuse, i.e., A2 + B2 = C2. The statement and its companion figure of a generic right triangle are offered as an interchangeable, seamless flow between geometric "things" and numbers (Kline 1980, 11). Among all the available theorems that might be offered as emblematic of mathematics, this one is held out as illustrative of a larger claim about mathematics and the Real. This use suggests that it is what W. J. T. Mitchell would call a "hypericon," a visual paradigm that doesn't "merely serve as [an] illustration to theory; [it] picture[s] theory" (1995, 49). Understood in this sense, the Pythagorean Theorem asserts a central belief of Western culture: that mathematics is the voice of an extra-human realm, a realm of fundamental, unchanging truth apart from human experience, culture, or biology. It is understood as more essential than the world and as prior to it. Mathematics becomes an outlier among representational systems because numbers are claimed to be "ideal forms necessarily prior to the material 'instances' and 'examples' that are supposed to illustrate them and provide their content" (Rotman 2000, 147).[1] The dynamic flow between the figure of the right triangle and the formula transforms mathematical language into something akin to Christian concepts of a prelapsarian language, a "nomenclature of essences, in which word would have reflected thing with perfect accuracy" (Eagle 2007, 184). As the Pythagoreans styled it, the world is number (Guthrie 1962, 256). The image schools the child into the culture's uncritical faith in the rhetoric of numbers, a sort of everyman's version of the Pythagorean vision. Whatever the general belief in this notion, the nature of mathematical representations has been a central problematic of mathematics that appears throughout its history. The difference between the historical significance of this problematic and its current manifestation in the rhetoric of "Big Data" illustrates an important cultural anxiety.
Contemporary culture uses the Pythagorean Theorem's image and formula as a hypericon that not only obscures problematic assumptions about the consistency and completeness of mathematics, but which also misrepresents the consistency and completeness of the material-world relationships that mathematics is used to describe.[2] This rhetoric of certainty, consistency, and completeness continues to infect contemporary political and ideological claims. For example, "Big Data" enthusiasts – venture capitalists, politicians, financiers, education reformers, policing strategists, et al. – often invoke a neo-Pythagorean worldview to validate their claims, claims that rest on the interplay of technology, analysis, and mythology (Boyd and Crawford 2012, 663). What is a highly productive problematic in the 2,500-year history of mathematics disappears into naïve assertions about the inherent "truth" of the algorithmic outputs of mathematically based technologies. When corporate behemoths like Pearson and Knewton (makers of an adaptive learning platform) participate in events such as the Department of Education's 2012 "Datapalooza," the claims become totalizing. Knewton's CEO, Jose Ferreira, asserts, in a crescendo of claims, that "Knewton gets 5-10 million actionable data points per student per day"; and that tagging content "unlocks data." In his terms, "work cascades out data" that is then subject to the various models the corporation uses to predict and prescribe the future. His claims of descriptive completeness are correct, he asserts, because "everything in education is correlated to everything else" (November 2012). The narrative of Ferreira's claims is couched in fluid equivalences of data points, mathematical models, and a knowable future. Data become a metonym for not only the real student, but for the nature of learning and human cognition. In a sort of secularized predestination, the future's origin in perfectly representational numbers produces perfect predictions of students' performance. Whatever the scale of the investment dollars behind these New Pythagoreans, such claims lose their patina of objective certainty when placed in the history of the West's struggle with mathematized claims about a putative "real." For them, predictions are not the outcomes of processes; rather, predictions are revelations of a deterministic reality.[3]
A recent claim for a facial-recognition algorithm that identifies criminals normalizes its claims by simultaneously asserting and denying that "in all cultures and all periods of recorded human history, [is] the belief that the face alone suffices to reveal innate traits of a person" (Wu, Xiaolin, and Xi Zhang 2016, 1) The authors invoke the Greeks:
Aristotle in his famous work Prior Analytics asserted, 'It is possible to infer character from features, if it is granted that the body and the soul are changed together by the natural affections' (1)
The authors then remind readers that "the same question has captivated professionals (e.g., psychologists, sociologists, criminologists) and amateurs alike, across all cultures, and for as long as there are notions of law and crime. Intuitive speculations are abundant both in writing . . . and folklore." Their work seeks to demonstrate that the question yields to a mathematical model, a model that is specifically a non-human intelligence: "In this section, we try to answer the question in the most mechanical and scientific way allowed by the available tools and data. The approach is to let a machine learning method explore the data and reveal the most discriminating facial features that tell apart criminals and non-criminals" (6). The rhetoric solves the problem by asserting an unchanging phenomenon – the criminal face – by invoking a mathematics that operates via machine learning. Problematic crimes such as "DWB" (driving while black) disappear along with history and social context.
Such claims rest on confused and contradictory notions. For the Pythagoreans, mathematics was not a representational system. It was the real, a reality prior to human experience. This claim underlies the authority of mathematics in the West. But simultaneously, it effectively operates as a response to the world, i.e., it is a re-presentation. As re-presentational, it becomes another language, and like other languages, it is founded on bias, exclusions, and incompleteness. These two notions of mathematics are resolved by seeing the representation as more "real" than the multiply determined events it re-presents. Nonetheless, once we say it re-presents the real, it becomes just another sign system that comes after the real. Often, bouncing back and forth between its extra-human status and its representational function obscures the places where representation fails or becomes an approximation. To data fetishists, "data" has a status analogous to that of "number" in the Pythagorean's world. For them, reality is embedded in a quasi-mathematical system of counting, measuring, and tagging. But the ideological underpinnings, pedagogical assumptions, and political purposes of the tagging go unremarked; to do so would problematize the representational claims. Because the world is number, coders are removed from the burden of history and from the responsibility to examine the social context that both creates and uses their work.
The confluence of corporate and political forces validates itself through mathematical imagery, animated graphics, and the like. Terms such as "data-driven" and "evidence-based" grant the rhetoric of numbers a power that ignores its problematic assumptions. There is a pervasive refusal to recognize that data are artifacts of the descriptive categories imposed on the world. But "Big Data" goes further; the term is used in ways that perpetuate the antique notion of "number" by invoking numbers as distillations of certainty and a knowable universe. "Number" becomes decontextualized and stripped of its historical, social, and psychological origins. Because the claims of Big Data embed residual notions about the re-presentational power of numbers, and about mathematical completeness and consistency, they speak to such deeply embedded beliefs about mathematics, the most fundamental of which is the Pythagorean claim that the world is number. The point is not to argue whether mathematics is formal, referential, or psychological; rather, it is to place contemporary claims about "Big Data" in historical and cultural contexts where such issues are problematized. The claims of Big Data speak through a language whose power rests on longstanding notions of mathematics; however, these notions lose some of their power when placed in the context of mathematical invention (Rotman 2000, 4-7).
"Big Data" represents a point of convergence for residual mathematical beliefs, beliefs that obscure cultural frameworks and thus interfere with critique. For example, predictive policing tools are claimed to produce neutral, descriptive acts using machine intelligence. Berk asserts that "if you let the computer just snoop around in the dataset, it finds things that are unexpected by existing theory and works really substantially well to help forecast" (Berk 2011). In this view, Big Data – the numerical real – can be queried to produce knowledge that is not driven by any theoretical or ideological interest. Precisely because the world is presumed to be mathematical, the political, economic, and cultural frameworks of its operation can become the responsibility of the algorithm's users. To this version of a mathematized real, there is no inherently ethical algorithmic action prior to the use of its output. Thus, the operation of the algorithm is doubly separated from its social contexts. First, the mathematics themselves are conceived as autonomous embodiments of a reality independent of the human; second, the effects of the algorithm – its predictions – are apart from values, beliefs, and needs that create the algorithm. The specific limits of historical and social context do not mathematically matter; the limits are determined by the values and beliefs of the algorithm's users. The problematics of mathematizing the world are passed off to its customers. Boyd and Crawford identify three interacting phenomena that create the notion of Big Data: technology, analysis, and mythology (2012, 663). The mythological element embodies both dystopian and utopian narratives, and thus how we categorize reality. O'Neil notes that "these models are constructed not just from data but from the choices we make about which data to pay attention to – and which to leave out. Those choices are not just about logistics, profits, and efficiency. They are fundamentally moral" (2016, 218). On one hand, the predictive value depends on the moral, ethical, and political values of the user, a non-mathematical question. On the other hand, this division between the model and its application carves out a special arena where the New Pythagoreans claim that it operates without having to recognize social or historical contexts.
Whatever their commitment to number, the Pythagoreans were keenly aware that their system was vulnerable to discoveries that problematized their basic claim that the world is number. And they protected their beliefs through secrecy and occasionally through violence. Like the proprietary algorithms of contemporary corporations, their work was reserved for a circle of adepts/owners. First among their secrets was the keen understanding that an unnamable point on the number line would represent a rupture in the relationship of mathematics and world. If that relationship failed, with it would go their basis for belief in a knowable world. Their claims arose from within the concrete practices of Greek mathematics. For example, the Greeks portrayed numbers by a series of dots called Monads. The complex ratios used to describe geometric figures were understood to generate the world, and numbers were visualized in arrangements of stones (calculi). A 2 x 2 arrangement of stones had the form of a square, hence the term "square numbers." Thus, it was a foundational claim that any point or quantity (because monads were conceived as material objects) have a corresponding number. Line segments, circumferences, and all the rest had to correspond to what we still call the "rational numbers": 1, 2, 3 . . . and their ratios. Thus, the Pythagorean's great claim – that the world is number – was vulnerable to the discovery of a point on the number line that could not be named as the ratio of integers.
Unfortunately for their claim, such numbers are common, and the great irony of the Pythagorean Theorem lies in the fact that it routinely generates numbers that are not ratios of integers. For example, a right triangle with sides one-unit long has a hypotenuse √2 units long (12 + 12 = C2 i.e., 2 = C2 i.e., √2 = C). Numbers such as √2 contradict the mathematical aspiration toward a completely representational system because they cannot be expressed as a ratio of integers, and hence their status as what are called "ir-rational" numbers.[4] A relatively simple proof demonstrates that they are neither odd nor even; these numbers exist in what is called a "surd" relationship to the integers, that is, they are silent – the meaning of "surd" – about each other. They literally cannot "speak" to each other. To the Pythagoreans, this appeared as a discontinuity in their naming system, a gap that might be the mark of a world beyond the generative power of number. Such numbers are, in fact, a new order of naming precipitated by the limited representational power of the prior naming system based on real numbers. But for the Pythagoreans, to look upon these numbers was to look upon the void, to discover that the world had no intrinsic order. Irrational numbers disrupted the Pythagorean project of mathematizing reality. This deeply religious impulse toward order underlies the aspiration that motivates the bizarre and desperate terminologies of contemporary data fetishists: "data-driven," "evidence-based," and even "Big Data," which is usually capitalized to show the reification of number it desires.
Big Data appeals to a mathematical nostalgia for certainty that cannot be sustained in contemporary culture. O'Neil provides careful examples of how history, social context, and the data chosen for algorithmic manipulation do not – indeed cannot – matter in this neo-Pythagorean world. Like Latour, she historicizes the practices and objects that the culture pretends are natural. The ideological and political nature of the input becomes invisible, especially when algorithms are granted special proprietary status that converts them to what Pasquale calls a "black box" (2016). It is a problematic claim, but it can be made without consequence because it speaks in the language of an ancient mathematical philosophy still heard in our culture,[5] especially in education where the multifoliate realities of art, music, and critical writing are quashed by forces such as the Core Curriculum and its pervasive valorization of standardization. Such strategies operate in fear of the inconsistency and incompleteness of any representational relationship, a fear of epistemological silence that has lurked in the background of Western mathematics from its beginnings. To the Greeks, the irrationals represented a sort of mathematical aphasia. The irrational numbers such as √2 thus obtained emblematic values far beyond their mathematical ones. They inserted an irremediable gap between the world and the "word" of mathematics. Such knowledge was catastrophic – adepts were murdered for revealing the incommensurability of side and diagonal.[6] More importantly, the discovery deeply fractured mathematics itself. The gap in the naming system split mathematics into algebra (numerical) and geometry (spatial), a division that persisted for almost 2,000 years. Little wonder that the Greeks restricted geometry to measurements that were not numerical, but rather were produced through the use of a straightedge and compass. Physical measurement by line segments and circles rather than by a numerical length effectively sidestepped the threat posed by the irrational numbers. Kline notes, "The conversion of all of mathematics except the theory of whole numbers into geometry . . . forced a sharp separation between number and geometry . . . at least until 1600" (1980, 105). Once we recognize that the Pythagorean theorem is a hypericon, i.e., a visual paradigm that visualizes theory, we begin to see its extension into other fundamental mathematical "discoveries" such as Descartes's creation of coordinate geometry. A deep anxiety about the gap between word and world is manifested in both mathematics as well as in contemporary claims about "Big Data."
The division between numerical algebra and spatial geometry remained a durable feature of Western mathematics until problematized by social change. Geometry offered an elegant axiomatic system that satisfied the hierarchical impulse of the culture, and it worked in concert with the Aristotelian logic that dominated notions of truth. The Aristotelian nous and the Euclidian axioms seemed similar in ways that justified the hierarchical structure of the church and of traditional politics. They were part of a social fabric that bespoke an extra-human order that could be dis-covered. But with the rise of commercial culture came the need for careful records, computations, risk assessments, interest calculations, and other algebraic operations. The tension between algebra and geometry became more acute and visible. It was in this new cultural setting that Descartes's work appeared. Descartes's 1637 publication of La Géométrie confronted the terrors revealed in the irrationals embodied in the geometry/algebra divide by subordinating both algebra and geometry to a more abstract relationship. Turchin notes that Descartes re-unified geometry and arithmetic not by granting either priority or reducing either to the other; rather, in his language "the symbols do not designate number or quantities, but relations of quantities" (Turchin 1977, 196).
Rotman directly links concepts of number to this shifting relationship of algebra and geometry and even to the status of numbers such as zero:
During the fourteenth century, with the emergence of mercantile / capitalism in Northern Italy, the handling of numbers passed . . . to merchants, artisan-scientists, architects . . . for whom arithmetic was an essential prerequisite for trade and technology . . . . The central role occupied by double-entry book-keeping (principle of the zero balance) and the calculational demands of capitalism broke down any remaining resistance to the 'infidel symbol' of zero. (1987, 7-8)
The emergence of the zero is an index to these changes, not the revelation of a pre-existing, extra-human reality. Similarly, Alexander's history of the calculus places its development in the context of Protestant notions of authority (2014, 140-57). He emphasizes that the methodologies of the sciences and mathematics began to serve as political models for scientific societies: "if reasonable men of different backgrounds and convictions could meet to discuss the workings of nature, why could they not do the same in matters that concerned the state?" (2014, 249). Again, in the case of the calculus, mathematics responds to the emerging forces of the Renaissance: individualism, capitalism, and Protestantism. Certainly, the ongoing struggle with irrational numbers extends from the Greeks to the Renaissance, but the contexts are different. For the Greeks, the generative nature of number was central. For 17th Century Europe, the material demands of commercial life converged with religious, economic, and political shifts to make number a re-presentational tool.
The turmoil of that historical moment suggests the turmoil of our own era in the face of global warfare, climate change, over-population, and the litany of other catastrophes we perpetually await.[7] In both cases, the anxiety produces impulses to mathematize the world and thereby reveal a knowable "real." The current corporate fantasy that the world is a simulation is the fantasy of non-mathematicians (Elon Musk and Sam Altman) to embed themselves in a techno-centric narrative of the power of their own tools to create themselves. While this inexpensive version of Baudrillard's work might seem sophomoric, it nevertheless exposes the impulse to contain the visceral fear that a socially constructed world is no different from solipsism's chaos. It seems a version of the freshman student's claim that "Everything's just opinion" or the plot of another Matrix film. They speak/act/claim that their construction of meaning is equal to any other — the old claim that Hitler and Mother Teresa are but two equally valid "opinions". They don't know that the term/concept is social construction, and their radical notions of the individual prevent them from recognizing the vast scope, depth, and stabilizing power of social structures. They are only the most recent example of how social change exacerbates the misuse of mathematics.
Amid these sorts of epistemic shifts, Renaissance mathematics underwent its own transformations. Within a fifty-year span (1596-1646), Descartes, Newton, and Leibniz are born. Their major works appear, respectively, in 1637, 1666, and 1675, a burst of innovation that cannot be separated from the shifts in education, economics, religion, and politics that were then sweeping Europe. Porter notes that statistics emerges alongside the rising modern state of this era. Managing the state's wealth required profiles of populations. Such mathematical profiling began in the mid-1600s, with the intent to describe the state's wealth and human resources for the creation of "sound, well-informed state policy" (Porter 1986, 18). The notion of probabilities, samples, and models avoids the aspirations that shaped earlier mathematics by making mathematics purely descriptive. Hacking suggests that the delayed appearance of probability arises from five issues: 1) an obsession with determinism and personal fatalism; 2) the belief that God spoke through randomization and thus, a theory of the random was impious; 3) the lack of equiprobable events provided by standardized objects, e.g., dice; 4) the lack of economic drivers such as insurances and annuities; and 5) the lack of a workable calculus needed for the computation of probability distributions (Davis and Hersh 1981, 21). Hacking finds these insufficient and suggests that as authority was relocated in nature and not in the words of authorities, this led to the observation of frequencies.[8] Alongside the fierce opposition of the Church to the zero, understood as the absence of God, and to the calculus, understood as an abandonment of material number, the shifting mathematical landscape signals the changes that began to affect the longstanding status of number as a sort of prelapsarian language.
Mathematics was losing its claims to completeness and consistency, and the incommensurables problematized that. Newton and Leibniz "de-problematized" irrationals, and opened mathematics to a new notion of approximation. The central claims about mathematics were not disproved; worse, they were set aside as unproductive conflations of differences between the continuous and the discrete. But because the church saw mathematics as "true" in a fashion inextricable from other notions of the truth, it held a special status. Calculus became a dangerous interest likely to call the Inquisition to action. Alexander locates the central issue as the irremediable conflict between the continuous and the discrete, something that had been the core of Zeno's paradoxes (2014). The line of mathematical anxieties stretches from the Greeks into the 17th Century. These foundational understandings seem remote and abstract until we see how they re-appear in the current claims about the importance of "Big Data." The term legitimates its claims by resonating with other responses to the anxiety of representation.
The nature of the hypericon perpetuates the notion of a stable, knowable reality that rests upon a non-human order. In this view, mathematics is independent of the world. It existed prior to the world and does not depend on the world; it is not an emergent narrative. The mathematician discovers what is already there. While this viewpoint sees mathematics as useful, mathematics is prior to any of its applications and independent of them. The parallel to religious belief becomes obvious if we substitute the term "God" for "mathematics"; the notions of a self-existing, self-knowing, and self-justifying system are equally applicable (Davis and Hersh 1981, 232-3). Mathematics and religion share in a fundamental Western belief in the Ideal. Taken together, they reveal a tension between the material and the eternal that can be mediated by specific languages. There is no doubt that a simplified mathematics serves us when we are faced with practical problems such as staking out a rectangular foundation for a house, but beyond such short-term uses lie more consequential issues, e.g., the relation of the continuous and the discrete, and between notions of the Ideal and the socially constructed. These larger paradoxes remain hidden when assertions of completeness, consistency, and certainty go unchallenged. In one sense, the data fetishists are simply the latest incarnation of a persistent problem: understanding mathematics as culturally situated.
Again, historicizing this problem addresses the widespread willingness to accept their totalistic claims. And historicizing these claims requires a turn to established critical techniques. For example, Rotman's history of the zero turns to Derrida's Of Grammatology to understand the forces that complicated and paralyzed the acceptance of zero into Western mathematics (1987). He turns to semiotics and to the work of Ricoeur to frame his reading of the emergence of the zero in the West during the Renaissance. Rotman, Alexander, desRaines, and a host of mathematical historians recognize that the nature of mathematical authority has evolved. The evolution lurks in the role of the irrational numbers, in the partial claims of statistics, and in the approximations of the calculus. The various responses are important as evidence of an anxiety about the limits of representation. The desire to resolve such arguments seems revelatory. All share an interest in the gap between the aspirations of systematic language and its object: the unnamable. That gap is iconic, an emblem of its limits and the functions it plays in the generation of novel responses to the threat of an inarticulable void; its history exposes the powerful attraction of the claims made for Big Data.
By the late 1800s, questions of systematic completeness and consistency grew urgent. For example, they appeared in the competing positions of Frege and Hilbert, and they resonated in the direction David Hilbert gave to 20th Century mathematics with his famed 23 questions (Blanchette 2014). The second of these specifically addressed the problem of proving that mathematical systems could be both complete and consistent. This question deeply influenced figures such as Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and others.[9] Hilbert's question was answered in 1931 by Gödel's theorems that demonstrated the inherent incompleteness and inconsistency of arithmetic systems. Gödel's first theorem demonstrated that axiomatic systems would necessarily have true statements that could be neither proven nor disproven; his second theorem demonstrated that such systems would necessarily be inconsistent. While mathematicians often take care to note that his work addresses a purely mathematical problem, it nevertheless is read metaphorically. As a metaphor, it connects the problematic relationship of natural and mathematical languages. This seems inevitable because it led to the collapse of the mathematical aspiration for a wholly formal language that does not require what is termed 'natural' language, that is, for a system that did not have to reach outside of itself. Just as John Craig's work exemplifies the epistemological anxieties of the late eighteenth century,[10] so also does Gödel's work identify a sustained attempt of his own era to demonstrate that systematic languages might be without gaps.
Gödel's theorems rely on a system that creates specialized numbers for symbols and the operations that relate them. This second-order numbering enabled him to move back and forth between the logic of statements and the codes by which they were represented. His theorems respond to an enduring general hope for complete and consistent mappings of the world with words, and each embeds a representational failure. Craig was interested in the loss of belief in the gospels; Pythagoras feared the gaps in the number line represented by the irrational numbers, and Gödel identified the incompleteness and inconsistency of axiomatic systems. To the dominant mathematics of the early 20th Century, the value of the question to which Gödel addresses himself lies in the belief that an internally complete mathematical map would be the mark of either of two positions: 1) the purely syntactic orderliness of mathematics, one that need not refer to any experiential world (this is the position of Frege, Russell, and Hilbert); or 2) the emergence of mathematics alongside concrete, human experience. Goldstein argues that these two dominant alternatives of the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries did not consider the aprioricity of mathematics to constitute an important question, but Gödel offered his theorems as proofs that served exactly that idea. His demonstration of incompleteness does not signal a disorderly cosmos; rather, it argues that there are arithmetic truths that lie outside of formalized systems; as Goldstein notes, "the criteria for semantic truth could be separated from the criteria for provability" (2006, 51). This was an argument for mathematical Platonism. Goldstein's careful discussion of the cultural framework and the meta-mathematical significance of Gödel's work emphasizes that it did not argue for the absence of any extrinsic order to the world (51). Rather, Gödel was consciously demonstrating the defects in a mathematical project begun by Frege, addressed in the work of Russell and Whitehead, and enshrined by Hilbert as essential for converting mathematics into a profoundly isolated system whose orderliness lay in its internal consistency and completeness.[11] Similarly, his work also directly addressed questions about the a priori nature of mathematics challenged by the Vienna Circle. Paradoxically, by demonstrating that a foundational system – arithmetic – was not consistent and complete, the argument that mathematics was simply a closed, self-referential system could be challenged and opened to meta-mathematical claims about epistemological problems.
Gödel's work, among other things, argues for essential differences between human thought and mathematics. Gödel's work has become imbricated in a variety of discourses about representation, the nature of the mind, and the nature of language. Goldstein notes:
The structure of Gödel's proof, the use it makes of ancient paradox [the liar's paradox], speaks at some level, if only metaphorically, to the paradoxes in the tale that the twentieth century told itself about some of its greatest intellectual achievements – including, of course, Gödel's incompleteness theorems. Perhaps someday a historian of ideas will explain the subjectivist turn taken by so many of the last century's most influential thinkers, including not only philosophers but hard-core scientists, such as Heisenberg and Bohr. (2006, 51)
At the least, his work participated in a major consideration of three alternative understandings of symbolic systems: as isolated, internally ordered syntactic systems, as accompaniments of experience in the material world, or as the a priori realities of the Ideal. Whatever the immensely complex issues of these various positions, Gödel is the key meta-mathematician/logician whose work describes the limits of mathematical representation through an elegant demonstration that arithmetic systems – axiomatic systems – were inevitably inconsistent and incomplete. Depending on one's aspirations for language, this is either a great catastrophe or an opening to an infinite world of possibility where the goal is to deploy a paradoxical stance that combines the assertion of meaning with its cancellation. This double position addresses the problem of representational completeness.
This anxiety became acute during the first half of the twentieth century as various discourses deployed strategies that exploited this heightened awareness of the intrinsic incompleteness and inconsistency of systematic knowledge. Whatever their disciplinary differences – neurology, psychology, mathematics – they nonetheless shared the sense that recognizing these limits was an opportunity to understand discourse both from within narrow disciplinary practices and from without in a larger logical and philosophical framework that made the aspiration toward completeness quaint, naïve, and unproductive. They situated the mind as a sort of boundary phenomenon between the deployment of discourses and an extra-linguistic reality. In contrast to the totalistic claims of corporate spokesmen and various predictive software, this sensibility was a recognition that language might always fail to re-present its objects, but that those objects were nonetheless real and expressible as a function of the naming process viewed from yet another position. An important corollary was that these gaps were not only a token for the interplay of word and world, but were also an opportunity to illuminate the gap itself. In short, symbol systems seemed to stand as a different order of phenomena than whatever they proposed to represent, and the result was a burst of innovative work across a variety of disciplines.
Data enthusiasts sometimes participate in a discredited mathematics, but they do so in powerfully nostalgic ways that resonate with the amorphous Idealism infused in our hierarchical churches, political structures, aesthetics, and epistemologies. Thus, Big Data enthusiasts speak through the residue of a powerful historical framework to assert their own credibility. For these New Pythagoreans, mathematics remains a quasi-religious undertaking whose complexity, consistency, sign systems, and completeness assert a stable, non-human order that keeps chaos at bay. However, they are stepping into an issue more fraught than simply the misuses and misunderstanding of the Pythagorean Theorem. The historicized view of mathematics and their popular invocation of mathematics diverge at the point that anxieties about the representational failure of languages become visible. We not only need to historicize our understanding of mathematics, but also to identify how popular and commercial versions of mathematics are nostalgic fetishes for certainty, completeness, and consistency. Thus, the authority of algorithms has less to do with their predictive power than their connection to a tradition rooted in the religious frameworks of Pythagoreanism. Critical methods familiar to the humanities – semiotics, deconstruction, psychology – build a sort of critical braid that not only re-frames mathematical inquiry, but places larger question about the limits of human knowledge directly before us; this braid forces an epistemological modesty that is eventually ethical and anti-authoritarian in ways that the New Pythagoreans rarely are.
Immodest claims are the hallmark of digital fetishism, and are often unabashedly conscious. Chris Anderson, while Editor-in-Chief of Wired magazine, infamously argued that "the data deluge makes the scientific method obsolete" (2008). He claimed that distributed computing, cloud storage, and huge sets of data made traditional science outmoded. He asserted that science would become mathematics, a mathematical sorting of data to discover new relationships:
At the petabyte scale, information is not a matter of simple three and four-dimensional taxonomy and order but of dimensionally agnostic statistics. It calls for an entirely different approach, one that requires us to lose the tether of data as something that can be visualized in its totality. It forces us to view data mathematically first and establish a context for it later.
"Agnostic statistics" would be the mechanism that for precipitating new findings. He suggests that mathematics is somehow detached from its contexts and represents the real through its uncontaminated formal structures. In Anderson's essay, the world is number. This neo-Pythagorean claim quickly gained attention, and then wilted in the face of scholarly response such as that of Pigliucci (2009, 534).
Anderson's claim was both a symptom and a reinforcement of traditional notions of mathematics that extend far back into Western history. Its explicit notions of mathematics stirred two kinds of anxiety: one reflected a fear of a collapsed social project (science) and the other reflected a desperate hunger for a language – mathematics – that penetrated the veil drawn across reality and made the world knowable. Whatever the collapse of his claim, similar ones such as those of the facial phrenologists continue to appear. Without history – mathematical, political, ideological – "data" acquires a material status much as number did for the Greeks, and this status enables statements of equality between the messiness of reality and the neatness of formal systems. Part of this confusion is a common misunderstanding of the equals sign in popular culture. The "sign" is a relational function, much as the semiotician's signified and signifier combine to form a "sign." However, when we mistreat treat the "equals sign" as a directional, productive operation, the nature of mathematics loses its availability to critique. It becomes a process outside of time that generates answers by re-presenting the real in a language. Where once a skeptical Pythagorean might be drowned for revealing the incommensurability of side and diagonal, proprietary secrecy now threatens a sort of legalized financial death for those who violate copyright (Pasquale 2016, 142). Pasquale identifies the "creation of invisible powers" as a hallmark of contemporary, algorithmic culture (2016, 193). His invaluable work recovers the fact that algorithms operate in a network of economic, political, and ideological frameworks, and he carefully argues the role of legal processes in resisting the control that algorithms can impose on citizens.
Pasquale's language is not mathematical, but it shares with scholars like Rotman and Goldstein an emphasis on historical and cultural context. The algorithm is made accountable if we think of it as an act whose performance instantiates digital identities through powerful economic, political, and ideological narratives. The digitized individual does not exist until it becomes the subject of such a performance, a performance which is framed much as any other performance is framed: by the social context, by repetition, and through embodiment. Digital individuals come into being when the algorithmic act is performed, but they are digital performances because of the irremediable gap between any object and its re-presentation. In short, they are socially constructed. This would be of little import except that these digital identities begin as proxies for real bodies, but the diagnoses and treatments are imposed on real, social, psychological, flesh beings. The difference between digital identity and human identity can be ignored if the mathematized self is isomorphic with the human self. Thus, algorithmic acts entangle the input > algorithm > output sequence by concealing layers of problematic differences: digital self and human self; mathematics and the Real; test inputs and test outputs, scaling, and input and output. The sequence loses its tidy sequential structure when we recognize that the outputs are themselves data and often re-enter the algorithm's computations by their transfer to third parties whose information returns for re-processing. A somewhat better version of the flow would be data1 > algorithm > output > data2 > algorithm > output > data3. . . . with the understanding that any datum might re-enter the process. The sequence suggests how an object is both the subject of its context and a contributor to that context. The threat of a constricting output looms precisely because there is a decreasing room for what de Certeau calls "le perruque" (1988, 25), i.e, the inefficiencies where unplanned innovation appears. And like any text, it requires a variety of analytic strategies.
We have learned to think of algorithms in directional terms. We understand them as transformative processes that operate upon data sets to create outputs. The problematic relationships of data > algorithm > output become even more visible when we recognize that data sets have already been collected according to categories and processes that embody political, economic, and ideological biases. The ideological origin of the collected data – the biases of the questions posed in order to generate "inputs" – are yet another kind of black box, a box prior to the black box of the algorithm, a prior structure inseparable from the algorithm's hunger for (using the mathematicians' language) a domain upon which it can act to produce a range of results. The nature of the algorithm controls what items from the domain (data set) can be used, and on the other hand, the nature of the data set controls what the algorithm has available to act upon and transform into descriptive and prescriptive claims. The inputs are as much a black box as the algorithm itself. Thus, opaque algorithms operate upon opaque data sets (Pasquale 2016, 204) in ways that nonetheless embody the inescapable "politics of large numbers" that is the topic of Desrosières and Naish's history of statistical reasoning (2002). This interplay forces us to recognize that the algorithm inherits biases, and that then they are compounded by operations within these two algorithmic boxes to become doubly biased outputs. It might be more revelatory to term the algorithmic process as "stimuli" > algorithm > "responses." Re-naming "input" as "stimuli" emphasizes the selection process that precedes the algorithmic act; re-naming "output" as "response" establishes the entire process as human, cultural, and situated. This is familiar territory to psychology. Digital technologies are texts whose complexity emerges when approached using established tools for textual analysis. Rotman and other mathematicians directly state their use of semiotics. They turn to phenomenology to explicate the reader/writer interaction, and they approach mathematical texts with terms like narrator, self-referential and recursion. Most of all, they explore the problem of mathematical representation when mathematics itself is complicated by its referential, formal, and psychological statuses.
The fetishization of mathematics is a fundamental strategy for exempting digital technologies from theory, history, and critique. Two responses are essential: first, to clarify the nostalgic mathematics at work in the mathematical rhetoric of Big Data and its tools; and second, to offer analogies that step beyond naïve notions of re-presentation to more productive critiques. Analogy is essential because analogy is itself a performance of the anti-representational claim that digital technologies need to be understood as socially constructed by the same forces that instantiate any technology. Bruno Latour frames the problem of the critical stance as three-dimensional:
The critics have developed three distinct approaches to talking about our world: naturalization, socialization and deconstruction . . . . When the first speaks of naturalized phenomena, then societies, subjects, and all forms of discourse vanish. When the second speaks of fields of power, then science, technology, texts, and the contents of activities disappear. When the third speaks of truth effects, then to believe in the real existence of brain neurons or power plays would betray enormous naiveté. Each of these forms of criticism is powerful in itself but impossible to combine with the other. . . . Our intellectual life remains recognizable as long as epistemologists, sociologists, and deconstructionists remain at arm's length, the critique of each group feeding on the weaknesses of the other two. (1993, 5-6)
Latour then asks, "Is it our fault if the networks are simultaneously real, like nature, narrated, like discourse, and collective like society?" (6). He goes on to assert, "Analytic continuity has become impossible" (7). Similarly, Rotman's history of the zero finds that the concept problematizes the hope that a "field of entities" exists prior to "the meta-sign which both initiates the signifying system and participates within it as a constituent sign"; he continues, "the simple picture of an independent reality of objects providing a pre-existing field of referents for signs conceived after them . . . cannot be sustained" (1987, 27). Our own approach is heterogeneous; we use notions of fetish, re-presentation, and Gödelian metaphor to try and bypass the critical immunity conferred on digital technologies by the naturalistic mathematical claims that immunize it against critique.
Whether we use Latour's description of the mutually exclusive methods of talking about the world – naturalization, socialization, deconstruction – or if we use Rotman's three starting points for the semiotic analysis of mathematical signs – referential, formal, and psychological – we can contextualize the claims of the Big Data fetishists so that the manifestations of Big Data thinking – policing practices, financial privilege, educational opportunity – are not misrepresented as only a mathematical/statistical question about assessing the results of supposedly neutral interventions, decisions, or judgments. If we are confined to those questions, we will only operate within the referential domains described by Rotman or the realm of naturalization described by Latour. The claims of an a-contextual validity violate the consequence of their contextual status by claiming that operations, uses, and conclusions are exempt from the aggregated array of partial theorizations, applied, in this case, to mathematics. This historical/critical application reveals the contradictory world concealed and perpetuated by the<|fim_middle|>ification; proprietary claims are mundane imitations of the old Pythagorean illusions; outside of political pressure and legislation, there is little incentive for companies to open their algorithms to auditing. However, once pried open by legislation, the wizard behind the curtain and the Automated Turk show their hand. With transparency comes another opportunity: demythologizing technologies that fetishize the re-presentational nature of mathematics.
Chris Gilliard's scholarship concentrates on privacy, institutional tech policy, digital redlining, and the re-inventions of discriminatory practices through data mining and algorithmic decision-making, especially as these apply to college students.
Hugh Culik teaches at Macomb Community College. His work examines the convergence of systematic languages (mathematics and neurology) in Samuel Beckett's fiction.
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[1] Rotman's work along with Amir Alexander's cultural history of the calculus (2014) and Rebecca Goldstein's (2006) placement of Gödel's theorems in the historical context of mathematics' conceptual struggle with the consistency and completeness of systems exemplify the movement to historicize mathematics. Alexander and Rotman are mathematicians, and Goldstein is a logician.
[2] Other mathematical concepts have hypericonic status. For example, triangulation serves psychology as a metaphor for a family structure that pits two members against a third. Politicians "triangulate" their "position" relative to competing viewpoints. But because triangulation works in only two dimensions, it produces gross oversimplifications in other contexts. Nora Culik (pers. comm.) notes that a better metaphor would be multilateration, a measurement of the time difference between the arrival of a signal with at least two known points and another one that is unknown, to generate possible locations; these take the shape of a hyperboloid, a metaphor that allows for uncertainty in understanding multiply determined concepts. Both re-present an object's position, but each carries implicit ideas of space.
[3] Faith in the representational power of mathematics is central to hedge funds. Bridgewater Associates, a fund that manages more than $150 billion US, is at work building a piece of software to automate the staffing for strategic planning. The software seeks to model the cognitive structure of founder Raymond Dalio, and is meant to perpetuate his mind beyond his death. Dalio variously refers to the project as "The Book of the Future," "The One Thing," and "The Principles Operating System." The project has drawn the enthusiastic attention of many popular publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Wired, Bloomberg, and Fortune. The project's model seems to operate on two levels: first, as a representation of Dalio's mind, and second a representation of the dynamics of investing.
[4] Numbers are divided into categories that grow in complexity. The development of numbers is an index to the development of the field (Kline, Mathematical Thought, 1972). For a careful study of the problematic status of zero, see Brian Rotman, Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero (1987). Amir Aczel, Finding Zero: A Mathematician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers (2015) offers a narrative of the historical origins of number.
[5] Eugene Wigner (1959) asserts an ambiguous claim for a mathematizable universe. Responses include Max Tegmark's "The Mathematical Universe" (2008) which sees the question as imbricated in a variety of computational, mathematical, and physical systems.
[6] The anxiety of representation characterizes the shift from the literary moderns to the postmodern. For example, Samuel Beckett's intense interest in mathematics and his strategies – literalization and cancellation – typify the literary responses to this anxiety. In his first published novel, Murphy (1938), one character mentions "Hypasos the Akousmatic, drowned in a mud puddle . . . for having divulged the incommensurability of side and diagonal" (46). Beckett uses detailed references to Descartes, Geulcinx, Gödel, and 17th Century mathematicians such as John Craig to literalize the representational limits of formal systems of knowledge. Andrew Gibson's Beckett and Badiou provides a nuanced assessment of the mathematics, literature, and culture (2006) in Beckett's work.
[7] See Frank Kermode, The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction with a New Epilogue (2000) for an overview of the apocalyptic tradition in Western culture and the totalistic responses it evokes in politics. While mathematics dealt with indeterminacy, incompleteness, inconsistency and failure, the political world simultaneously saw a countervailing regressive collapse: Mein Kampf in 1925, the Soviet Gulag in 1934; Hitler's election as Chancellor of Germany in 1933; the fascist bent of Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot's After Strange Gods, and D. H. Lawrence's Mexican fantasies suggest the anxiety of re-presentation that gripped the culture.
[8] Davis and Hersh (21) divide probability theory into three aspects: 1) theory, which has the same status as any other branch of mathematics; 2) applied theory that is connected to experimentation's descriptive goals; and 3) applied probability for practical decisions and actions.
[9] For primary documents, see Jean Van Heijenoort, From Frege to Gödel: a Source Book in Mathematical Logic, 1879-1931 (1967). Ernest Nagel and James Newman, Gödel's Proof (1958) explains the steps of Gödel's proofs and carefully restricts their metaphoric meanings; Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid [A Metaphoric Fugue on Minds and Machines in the Spirit of Lewis Carroll] (1980) places the work in the conceptual history that now leads to the possibility of artificial intelligence.
[10] See Richard Nash, John Craige's Mathematical Principles of Christian Theology. (1991) for a discussion of the 17th Century mathematician and theologian who attempted to calculate the rate of decline of faith in the Gospels so that he would know the date of the Apocalypse. His contributions to calculus and statistics emerge in a context we find absurd, even if his friend, Isaac Newton, found them valuable.
[11] An equally foundational problem – the mathematics of infinity – occupies a similar position to the questions addressed by Gödel. Cantor's opening of set theory exposes and solves the problems it poses to formal mathematics.
[12] For the historical appearances of the masculine version of this anxiety, see Dennis Todd's Imagining Monsters: Miscreations of the Self in Eighteenth Century England (1995).
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[…] "The New Pythagoreans," Chris Gilliard and Hugh Culik look closely at the long history of Pythagorean mystic belief […]
Aaron July 30, 2018 at 11:12 pm
An admittedly minor quibble, as I certainly agree with the thrust of you're argument: as I recall from graduate logic, Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem states that
1) models of arithmetic will have true statements which cannot be proven by any procedurally generated axioms (as you say) and
2) there exists no proof of the consistency of arithmetic.
(2) does not state that arithmetic is inconsistent. Only that, if it is consistent, that no proof exists. It makes belief in arithmetic (or math in general, per the ZFC version of the proof) a strange kind of faith.
Lukasz T. Stepien January 10, 2019 at 12:08 pm
"I recall from graduate logic, Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem states that
I recommend the paper: T. J. Stepien, L. T. Stepien, "On the Consistency of the Arithmetic System", J. Math. Syst. Sci. 7, No.2, 43-55 (2017), arXiv:1803.11072 . In this paper the consistency in the traditional sense of the well-known Arithmetic System was proved. This proof was done within this Arithmetic System. | corporatized mathematics of contemporary digital culture. However, deploying a constellation of critical methods – historical, semiotic, psychological – prevents the critique from falling prey to the totalism that afflicts the thinking of these New Pythagoreans. This array includes concepts such as fetishization from the pre-digital world of psychoanalysis.
The concept of the fetish has fallen on hard times as the star of psychoanalysis sinks into the West's neurochemical sea. But its original formulation remains useful because it seeks to address the gap between representational formulas and their objects. For example – drawing on the quintessential heterosexual, male figure who is central to psychoanalysis – the male shoe fetishist makes no distinction between a pair of Louboutins and the "normal" object of his sexual desire. Fenichel asserts (1945, 343) that such fetishization is "an attempt to deny a truth known simultaneously by another part of the personality," and enables the use of denial. Such explanations may seem quaint, but that is not the point. The point is that within one of the most powerful metanarratives of the past century – psychoanalysis – scientists faced the contorted and defective nature of human symbolic behavior in its approach to a putative "real." The fetish offers an illusory real that protects the fetishist against the complexities of the real. Similarly, the New Pythagoreans of Big Data offer an illusory real – a misconstrued mathematics – that often paralyzes resistance to their profit-driven, totalistic claims. In both cases, the fetish becomes the "real" while simultaneously protecting the fetishist from contact with whatever might be more human and more complex.
Wired Magazine's "daily fetish" seems an ironic reversal of the term's functional meaning. Its steady stream of technological gadgets has an absent referent, a hyperreal as Baudrillard styles it, that is exactly the opposite of the material "real" that psychoanalysis sees as the motivation of the fetish. In lived life, the anxiety is provoked by the real; in digital fetishism, the anxiety is provoked by the absence of the real. The anxiety of absence provokes the frenzied production of digital fetishes. Their inevitable failure – because representation always fails – drives the proliferation of new, replacement fetishes, and these become a networked constellation that forms a sort of simulacrum: a model of an absence that the model paradoxically attempts to fill. Each failure accentuates the gap, thereby accentuating the drive toward yet another digital embodiment of the missing part. Industry newsletters exemplify the frantic repetition required by this worldview. For example, Edsurge proudly reports an endless stream of digital edtech products, each substituting for the awkward, fleshly messiness of learning. And each substitution claims to validate itself via mathematical claims of representation. And almost all fade away as the next technology takes its place. Endless succession.
This profusion of products clamoring to be the "real" object suggests a sort of cultural castration anxiety, a term that might prove less outmoded if we note the preponderance of males in the field who busily give birth to objects with the characteristics of the living beings they seek to replace.[12] The absence at the core of this process is the unbridgeable gap between word and world. Mathematics is especially useful to such strategies because it is embedded in the culture as both the discoverer and validator of objective true/false judgments. These statements are understood to demonstrate a reality that "exists prior to the mathematical act of investigating it" (Rotman 2000, 6). It provides the certainty, the "real" that the digital fetish simultaneously craves and fears. Mathematics short-circuits the problematic question that drives the anxiety about a knowable "real." The point here is not to revive psychoanalytic thinking, but rather to see how an anxiety mutates and invites the application of critical traditions that themselves embody a response to the incompleteness and inconsistency of sign systems. The psychological model expands into the destabilized social world of digital culture.
The notion of mathematics as a complete and consistent equivalent of the real is a longstanding feature of Western thought. It both creates and is created by the human need for a knowable real. Mathematics reassures the culture because its formal characteristics seem to operate without referents in the real world, and thus its language seems to become more real than any iteration of its formal processes. However, within mathematical history, the story is more convoluted, in part because of the immense practical value of applied mathematics. While semiotic approaches to the history engage and describe the social construction of mathematics, an important question remains about the completeness and consistency of mathematical systems. The history of this concern connects both the technical question and the popular interest in the power of languages – natural and/or mathematical – to represent the real. Again, these are not just technical, expert questions; they leak into popular metaphor because they embody a larger cultural anxiety about a knowable real. If Pythagorean notions have affected the culture for 2500 years, we want to claim that contemporary culture embodies the anxiety of uncertainty that is revealed not only in its mathematics, but also in the contemporary arguments about algorithmic bias, completeness, and consistency.
The nostalgia for a fully re-presentational sign system becomes paired with the digital technologies – software, hardware, networks, query strategies, algorithms, black boxes – that characterize daily life. However, this nostalgic rhetoric has a naïveté that embodies the craving for a stable and knowable external world. The culture often responds to it through objects inscribed with the certainty imputed to mathematics, and thus these digital technologies are felt to satisfy a deeply felt need. The problematic nature of mathematics matters little in terms of personalized shopping choices or customizing the ideal playlist. Although these systems rarely achieve the goal of "knowing what you want before you want it," we rarely balk at the claim because the stakes are so low. However, where these claims have life-altering, and in some cases life and death implications – education, policing, health care, credit, safety net benefits, parole, drone targets – we need to understand them so they can be challenged, and where needed, resisted. Resistance addresses two issues:
That the traditional mystery and power of number seem to justify the refusal of transparency. The mystified tools point upward to the supposed mysterium of the mathematical realm.
That the genuflection before the mathematical mysterium has an insatiable hunger for illustrations that show the world is orderly and knowable.
Together, these two positions combine to assert the mythological status of mathematics, and set it in opposition to critique. However, it is vulnerable on several fronts. As Pasquale makes clear, legislation – language in action – can begin the demyst | 1,391 |
Q<|fim_middle|>'s possible to make multiple instances of an object work:
public class test {
class Number {
public Number(double d, double e) {
}
public double number1;
public double number2;
}
Number numSet1 = new Number(15.0, 30.0);
Number numSet2 = new Number(20.0, 30.0);
private void setNum(double n1, double n2) {
number1 = n1;
number2 = n2;
}
private static double getSum(double n1, double n2) {
return number1 + number2;
}
I want the output to be this:
45.0
50.0
respectively.
Not sure what I'm doing wrong.
A: Consider
public class test {
class Number {
public Number(double d, double e) {
number1 = d;
number2 = e;
}
public double number1;
public double number2;
}
private void setNum(double n1, double n2) {
number1 = n1;
number2 = n2;
}
private double getSum() {
return number1 + number2;
}
// test Call from main?
Number numSet1 = new Number(15.0, 30.0);
Number numSet2 = new Number(20.0, 30.0);
result = numSet1.getSum ();
A: Yes, you can definitely have multiple instances of a class (not object, the object is the instance itself)
Here is your code in a more simple form:
public class Addition {
private double operand1;
private double operand2;
public Addition(double o1, double o2) {
operand1 = o1;
operand2 = o2;
}
public double getSum() {
return operand1 + operand2;
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
double res1 = new Addition(15.0, 30.0).getSum(); // Addition instance 1
double res2 = new Addition(20.0, 30.0).getSum(); // Addition instance 2
System.out.println("Result1: " + res1); // Result1: 45.0
System.out.println("Result2: " + res2); // Result2: 50.0
}
}
| : Instantiating multiple instances of one object in Java I'm trying to code a simple addition program using Java and I wanted to know if it | 28 |
The 50 best albums of 2018
By Louder (Louder) 2018-12-21T14:11:58Z Louder
We asked and you voted: here are the albums Louder readers deemed the very best of 2018
The 50 best albums of 2018: 40-31
The 50 best albums of 2018: 10-1
40. Blackberry Smoke - Find A Light
We said: "Like Skynyrd and all the other great southern rock bands who came after them, Blackberry Smoke know the value of keeping it simple. As the name suggests, I'll Keep Ramblin' is a no-frills boogie-shuffle featuring a guest appearance from rising pedal steel star Robert Randolph and some solid-gold testifyin' from a bunch of passing female backing singers. It's simple to the point of boneheadedness, but it's got guts. Best of all is Nobody Gives A Damn, a steel-plated ripper that sounds like AC/DC might if they'd grown up on Waylon Jennings and grits for breakfast rather than Chuck Berry and 60 Marlboro a day. This is unvarnished, unpretentious music played by men who don't give a flying fiddle."
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39. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Wasteland
We said: "The fifth Uncle Acid album nailed 2018's vibe with unflinching accuracy. A concept piece for the darkest of days, it conjured a dystopian nightmare where humans are slaves to propaganda-spewing screens, robbed of thought. The fervently melodic and densely psychedelic songs boasted unforgettable riffs and that wonky Uncle Acid vibe gluing the whole trip together. A stunning soundtrack to a shit future."
38. The Virginmarys - Northern Sun Sessions
We said: "With the likes of Virginmarys, IDLES and Blinders (in their own different ways) exploring current social and political tensions in quality new rock records, there's a good argument to suggest that the protest song is back. The Virginmarys' New album Northern Sun Sessions is a stirring call-to-arms full of songs which are at once beautifully intimate and full of fire."
37. Architects - Holy Hell
We said: "Holy Hell isn't the best Architects album, but it doesn't have to be. It deviates away from the previous two albums into something more fractured, missing the mark at times, but still able to deliver knockout blows when it counts. As Sam sings he'll 'always carry the cross' on closer A Wasted Hymn, the emotional force of the previous 40 minutes strikes in the chest, flooding all senses, highlighting just how much of Tom is in this album and in Architects. It's not perfect, but it's a victory."
36. Louden Swain - Splitting The Seams
We haven't actually said anything about this album this year, as this entry came straight through from your 'add your own' votes and wasn't included on our long-list. So, congrats Louden Swain! This album complies the indie rockers' acoustic reimaginings of tracks from their earlier albums, all dressed up with delicate strings and soft horns. If you're looking for something completely new from this list, this isn't a bad place to start.
35. Joe Bonamassa - Redemption
We said: "Redemption brings the virtuosic discipline Bonamassa is known for, while being one of the most dynamic things he's done. Lyrically it's the closest we've had to a heartbreak confessional from this typically guarded bluesman, with songs like Self-Inflicted Wounds showing him at his most intimate and vulnerable. But it's also a bold, brassy production, peppered with big gospel backing harmonies, actual brass and good-time licks, as heard in bouncy highlights such as King Bee Shakedown."
34. Sleep - The Sciences
We said: "Sleep made their long-awaited return to (un)consciousness in 2018, as The Sciences dropped in surprising fashion, like an asteroid-sized hot-rock from an intergalactic blunt. Their recognisable sativa-stained riffs and mantric grooves sounded as potent as ever, and on Giza Butler, the trio not only had the most on-brand songtitle you heard all year, but the intoxicating track itself confirmed Sleep as the only true natural successors to the Sabbathian dopethrone."
33. Idles - Joy As An Act Of Resistance
We said: "If you were asked to put 2018 in review, chances are themes like Brexit, Trump and the global refugee crisis wouldn't be far from your thoughts. With this in mind, IDLES' second album Joy As An Act Of Resistance is very much a product of its time. Focussing on the importance of collective unity in the face of growing global disenfranchisement, lead single Danny Nedelko celebrates the simple, beautiful power of community and of the open-minded, while elsewhere tracks like Samaritans offer a damning takedown of modern masculinity's suffocating stereotypes to a soundtrack of infectious post-punk. That the album itself was born from significant personal tragedy for vocalist Joe Talbot makes its<|fim_middle|> place."
31. 3.2 - The Rules Have Changed
Another new entry which won its place in this list through 'add your own' votes alone, this album from 3.2 more than deserves the love it's been getting from fans. The work of Robert Berry, who previously had formed the band 3 with prog-rock luminaries Carl Palmer and Keith Emerson, 3.2 picks up where that project left off and celebrates both those men and their musical legacy. Including songs and music co-written by Emerson before his death, this marks his last project before his untimely passing in 2016. It's a fitting tribute to his legacy.
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32. Zeal & Ardor - Stranger Fruit
We said: "Where Devil Is Fine was a clash between different worlds and extremes, Stranger Fruit sees multi-instrumentalist Manuel Gagneux fuse them. The contrasts and opposites don't work against but with each other; it's not a battle anymore, it's a symbiosis. The atmosphere has changed a bit; instead of the heavy noise of chains weighing you down, Stranger Fruit elevates the listener with the sound of chirping birds and dripping water – all while keeping up the eerie, morbid and devil-worshipping vibe that made Zeal & Ardor so intriguing in the first | 171 |
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Aside from the wave of humidity and thick pollution, one of the first sensations I had living in Thailand was a feeling of surrendering control. As my van sped out of the airport and into a highway of zigzagging, neon pink taxis, there was nothing I could do but go along for the ride.
In the nine months I've been here, Thailand has given me countless lessons in letting go.
You have no control over what you'll get for dinner when you point to a picture of soup on a street stall and hope it's chicken. (It was pork, but the dumplings were delicious!) You have no control over your cab driver deciding to act out a scene from Fast & Furious 6 as you squeeze your eyes closed and try to remember the word for "slow down." And you have no control when the main road to Bangkok's Sky Train floods to "let's build an ark" proportions and you spend an hour literally floating in traffic.
A lot of my lessons in giving up control have come from getting lost. Bangkok's maze of small winding streets and addresses with countless slashes make it nearly impossible to find what you're looking for the first time. But whether I'm wandering around a street in Bangkok for an hour, hoping to find a good coffee shop or speeding into the darkness on a rickety ferry, hoping it will take me to the right pier, a lot of the most thrilling and challenging experiences I've had have happened in these uncomfortable moments.
Some of these uncontrollable situations can be frustrating and even scary. I don't like not knowing whether the dog down the street will let me walk by or chase me down an alley. And it's frustrating to run to the nearest bathroom, deeply regretting that curry that seemed so wonderful a few hours ago, to find a squat toilet.
But overall, this has been pretty liberating for a girl who has mapped out most of her life in Moleskin planners and post-it notes. When you don't speak the language or fully understand the culture, you're forced<|fim_middle|>. I'm choosing to shrug my shoulders, soak it all in, and even laugh at things I would have panicked about in the U.S. Maybe that's a product of Thai culture, travel in general, or both; either way, I'm liking it. It's best to take a nod from the Thai way of life and simply go with the flow– even if that means patiently listening to water rush down the street as my cab stalls in traffic. | to throw your hands in the air, veer from your original plan, and say, "So what?" You would drive yourself crazy with worry if you didn't | 33 |
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37th annual Navaratri Festival features world famous flute virtuoso and acclaimed Bharatanatyam dancer (Oct. 10-13)
September 28, 2020 October 9, 2013 by Andrew Chatfield
CFA Arts Administration Intern Chloe Jones '15 discusses the 37th annual Navaratri Festival at Wesleyan, which takes place from Thursday, October 10 through Sunday, October 1<|fim_middle|> the Madhu Reddy Endowed Fund for Indian Music and Dance at Wesleyan University, the Raga Club of Connecticut, the New England Foundation for the Arts, Middlesex Community College, Haveli Indian Restaurant, and individual patrons.
Categories Dance, Music, Navaratri Festival Tags 40th Anniversary Season, Crowell Concert Hall, Dance Department, Music Department, Ring Family Performing Arts Hall (former CFA Hall), World Music Hall Post navigation
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The sound spirals from Shashank Subramanyam's bamboo flute, lingering in the air, each note like a bird taking flight. The cadence flutters, falls, and rises again. He sits at ease before the mesmerized audience. He has done this a million times before and traveled all over the world to perform, from the President's Palace in New Delhi to the Improvisation Festival in Switzerland to the World Flute Conference in Nashville. His next destination? Middletown, Connecticut for Wesleyan's 37th annual Navaratri Festival.
One of India's major festival traditions, Navaratri literally means "nine nights." During this time, there are nine consecutive nights of music and dance performances all across India. 37 years ago, Wesleyan's first ever visiting artist for World Music and his brother began the tradition of celebrating Navaratri at Wesleyan. The festival has become one of the University's most cherished and unique traditions, and Wesleyan Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music B. Balasubrahmaniyan (Balu) says there are no other festivals of its nature or scale in the United States. This year's festival brings two world famous artists to campus, one for the second time, and the other for the first.
Shashank Subramanyam
Mr. Subramanyam performed at Wesleyan's Navaratri Festival in September 2003 [during the 30th anniversary season of the Center for the Arts], and it is a great honor to welcome him back this year. Deemed a child prodigy, he has played a defining role in classical Indian music for the past three decades. In 1984, only six years old at the time, he played with a top-ranking accompanist in his debut performance. At age twelve, he became the youngest musician to ever perform the senior-most slot at the Music Academy, Chennai, a performance typically entrusted to legendary musicians. Since then, he himself has become a legend of classical Indian music.
Balu describes Mr. Subramanyam as a "self-made musician" and speaks to his extraordinary talent and remarkable versatility. According to Balu, "he can handle any type of composition with ease." Mr. Subramanyam has collaborated with many other musicians, including jazz and folk musicians, and in 2009 he received a Grammy Award nomination for the album Floating Point with John McLaughlin. At Wesleyan, Nishanth Chandran will join him on violin and Sai Giridhar on mridangam. The performance will take place in Crowell Concert Hall on Saturday, October 12, 2013 at 8pm. Earlier that day, at 3pm in Crowell Concert Hall, Mr. Subramanyam will give a free lecture/demonstration.
Aparna Ramaswamy
On Sunday, another world famous artist, dancer Aparna Ramaswamy, takes the stage in Crowell Concert Hall for the Connecticut premiere of Sannidhi (Sacred Space). Ms. Ramaswamy has also performed all across the globe, but never before at Wesleyan [or in Connecticut]. She is a disciple of Alarmel Valli, one of the greatest Bharatanatyam dancers today, and like her legendary teacher, Ms. Ramaswamy infuses traditional Bharatanatyam dance with her own contemporary aesthetic. Wesleyan Assistant Professor of Dance Hari Krishnan explains, "Aparna uses the classical grammar of Bharatanatyam as a framework, a kind of empty canvas upon which she imprints hues, colors and tints of her personality."
A new solo dance work, Sannidhi (Sacred Space) explores how the stage can be transformed into a spiritual site. The performance employs the rich tradition of Bharatanatyam dance as a means of posing timeless questions about space and spirituality. "Aparna has created an exciting, brand new repertoire of dances that take audiences on a journey of kinesthetic spectacle, emotional intensity, and gorgeous musicality," Mr. Krishnan said. "She is always present on stage and engages with the audiences with every fiber of her being." Sannidhi (Sacred Space) will take place at 3pm on Sunday, October 13, 2013 and will include a post-performance question-and-answer session with Ms. Ramaswamy.
[Click here to read the October 8 article by Siobhan Burke in The New York Times, Pleasing Deities, and the Eyes, With Storytelling Steps From India, which includes a review of Sannidhi (Sacred Space).]
Navaratri is a celebration of music and dance, a time to rejoice, share food, and be with family and friends. We hope you will join us in welcoming Mr. Subramanyam and Ms. Ramaswamy into our community.
37th annual Navaratri Festival
Henna and Chaat hosted by Shakti
Thursday, October 10, 2013 from 7pm to 9pm
Olin Library Lobby
B. Balasubrahmaniyan: Vocal Music of South India
Friday, October 11, 2013 at 8pm
Crowell Concert Hall
$12 general public; $10 senior citizens, Wesleyan faculty/staff/alumni, non-Wesleyan students; $6 Wesleyan students
Talk by Assistant Professor of Dance Hari Krishnan:
"Celluloid Classicism–Intertwined Histories of the South Indian 'Dance Revival' and Early South Indian Cinema"
Saturday, October 12, 2013 at 1pm
CFA Hall
Lecture/Demonstration by Shashank Subramanyam
Saraswati Puja (Hindu Ceremony)
Sunday, October 13, 2013 at 11am
World Music Hall
Aparna Ramaswamy: Sannidhi (Sacred Space)
Connecticut Premiere
Sunday, October 13, 2013 at 3pm
Made possible by the Music Department, the Center for the Arts, the Jon B. Higgins Memorial Fund, | 1,301 |
The Kid Who Would Be King (2019) HD Director : Joe Cornish. Writer : Joe Cornish. Producer : Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Nira Park. Release : January 16, 2019 Country : United Kingdom. Production Company : Working Title Films, Big Talk Productions. Language : English. Runtime : 120 Genre : Drama, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Family.
The Mule (2018) HD Director : Clint Eastwood. Producer : Clint Eastwood, Dan Friedkin, Jessica Meier<|fim_middle|>8 Country : United States of America. Production Company : Participant Media, Universal Pictures. Language : English, Italiano, Deutsch, Pусский. | , Tim Moore, Kristina Rivera, Bradley Thomas. Release : December 14, 2018 Country : Canada, United States of America. Production Company : Imperative Entertainment, Bron Studios, Malpaso Productions. Language : English, Español. Runtime : 116 Genre : Drama, Crime, Thriller.
Green Book (2018) HD Director : Peter Farrelly. Writer : Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly. Producer : Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga. Release : November 16, 201 | 138 |
A Hero's Journey to Developing Grit and<|fim_middle|> the way." | Reading and Writing Skills
How do you combine a lesson about critical thinking, reading comprehension, and narrative writing with an exercise in developing character and grit? Key practices and tools designed by AltSchool educators and our product development team enable all educators and students to reflect deeply on a learner's development of personal strengths. Here's a look at how our Middle School class utilized this technology to explore what makes a hero a hero.
The Unit details every phase in the learning arc with individual Cards for each assignment.
What Makes a Hero?
Educator Courtney Reynolds began by introducing Joseph Campbell's concept of the Hero's Journey to her students. Campbell's book The Hero with a Thousand Faces explores heroes in mythology and the three phases of the hero's transformational journey: the departure, the initiation, and the return.
Using the AltSchool platform, Courtney created a Unit with three prompts:
What makes a hero a hero?
What are the steps and stages of the Hero's Journey and how do they impact the trajectory of the story?
Where can we find examples of the Hero's Journey in classical and contemporary literature?
With these questions in mind, students wrote essays describing what defines a hero based on their initial perceptions—in literature, history, film, and their own personal experiences. To make the learning relevant, Courtney used one of the most famous characters to be inspired by The Hero with a Thousand Faces as an example: Star Wars' Luke Skywalker. Skywalker's journey illustrated several important themes in Campbell's book, including exploring the unknown, overcoming the fear of change, and how the true journey is the hero's realization about deeper parts of him or herself (and in Skywalker's case, The Force).
Read more about how AltSchool utilizes technology to enable goal-setting and assessment.
Learning About Their Heroes
In the next phase of the project, students analyzed other popular fictional heroes, splitting into book clubs and reading A Wrinkle in Time, Walk Two Moons, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
The Card that students used to document when Harry reached the "belly of the whale" phase of his Hero's Journey.
The clubs discussed their heroes and documented their thinking about each step of the Hero's Journey in the AltSchool platform for Courtney. When the Harry Potter group isolated the moment Harry reached the "belly of the whale" phase in his journey, they opened the Playlist Card Courtney had created and documented their analysis with text-based evidence. This initiated an ongoing dialogue between Courtney and the students as they continued to pinpoint these pivotal moments during their hero's path to self-discovery in their Cards.
Writing Their Own Hero's Journeys
With AltSchool's focus on whole-child development, the Hero's Journey was especially pertinent, as students investigated the importance of character strengths such as curiosity and optimism. In the final phase of the learning arc, students applied their understanding by writing narratives.
"We focused on how the Hero's Journey is not just action and adventure; the hero is forced to confront something about themselves," Courtney explained. "For example, we discussed how Luke in Star Wars needed to develop purpose and grit." Each student chose from nine character strengths, developed by Character Lab, and wrote a story about their character's journey toward developing those traits.
After analyzing their first draft, students used the Goals tool to set their own goals, and shared their work with Courtney using student Capture. Doing so enabled ongoing dialogue between Courtney and each student as they revisited their goals and made revisions, while setting explicit intentions around writing technique helped them develop their narrative writing skills as they progressed.
Cards documented students' goals, revisions, and progress.
The results were honest and nuanced. "I expected most students to write fantasy but many chose realistic fiction," Courtney said. "Their characters were imperfectly perfect, each learning a valuable lesson about themselves over the course of their story. The platform allowed me to engage in and maintain meaningful conversations with each of my students. In the end, they were not merely writing a story; they were using their hero's journey as a vehicle for exploring their values, perspective, and sense of self. I was able to meet each of them where they were and stay privy to their unique thought process every step of | 854 |
Valentine's Day is almost here – how better to celebrate than with a lovely new marketing campaign? Holidays are an ideal time to get your business out there and try something new, be it on social media or via an email or website. The<|fim_middle|> then showcase the range in a variety of ways – craft a blog post, email or special website section, or even all of the above, for the occasion. Don't forget to include pricing, a Call-To-Action for ordering and high-quality images.
Share tips on your blog and social media accounts to make your followers' Valentine's Day extra special. Depending upon the scope of your business, you can offer recipes for dinner, dessert and drinks, date and gift ideas, party suggestions and more. If you utilize Twitter, consider creating a special hashtag, such as #VDayTips.
Make Valentine's Day an event your customers will remember with great offers, contests, tips, imagery, gifts and more! There's no better time to give your marketing an overhaul than mid-month when love is in the air. Do you have any other ideas? Let us know on Facebook or Twitter! | following tips will make the day of, and February as a whole, great for your business.
Give your current and potential customers something they'll love by offering up a gift or discount. Think free shipping, a great sale (25 or 50% off usually generates attention!), complimentary gift wrapping or a special package. Advertise the deal wherever possible, such as on your website, social media accounts and even on the radio.
Generate engagement on Facebook with a lovey-dovey photo contest. Taking your audience into consideration, encourage your followers to submit a photo of themselves and their partner, for example, or of something that they think represents love and choose the best one. The possibilities are endless!
Another great idea for social media is to add some V-Day flair to your profile and header photos. Depending upon your type of business, you can go simple and understated or a bit more flashy – hearts, hugs and kisses and flowers all make great choices, as well as images advertising your special offers.
If you sell potentially gift-worthy products, create a Valentine's Day line-up to wow your customers. You can | 225 |
Q: How do I adjust display contrast and brightness in Ubuntu? How can I adjust the contrast and brightness of a monitor in Ubuntu if the drivers are just for Windows?
Is there software that can do it without having to use the graphic drivers?
A: It would really help to know what sort of laptop you have, which video card, which monitor and whether you are on Gnome/KDE.
If you are using Gnome, the Gnome Color Manager could be a solution (not available with all gnome versions).
If you are using KDE with LCD, the luminosity applet KLcdDimmer might be a solution.
The gamma level may be adjustable with the xgamma command (not available with all video cards).
If you are using nvidia, you could edit ~/.nvidia-settings-rc, and call nvidia-settings --load-config-only.
For sony vaio the brightness and volume function keys may exist with installing fsfn.
You can search for a better video driver for your card on X.Org. Some of them have a bundled utility to adjust gamma/contrast/b<|fim_middle|> the desired brightness level and to keep the change permanent check on the Make default check box
A: @Bruno is right. I experienced the same problem when using Fedora 17. The keyboard hotkeys for brightness would not have any change on the brightness. Do a simple edit of your grub file as explained at http://joseblog.netau.net/tips-and-tricks/acer-adjust-brightness-problems.php
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A: Is it an LCD monitor? You can try this from the command line:
$sudo echo -n 100 > /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness
If it's too bright use a lower number. If you have GLX instead of VGA the file is /proc/acpi/video/GLX0/LCD/brightness.
A: Use
sudo setpci -s 00:02.0 F4.B=xx
Where xx is the desired brightness in hexadecimal ranging from 00 (brightest) to FF (no brightness at all).
A: Just a few hours ago, I installed Quantal Quetzal Ubuntu, I just went to dash home and typed "settings" and selected the Power Settings, then clicked the "Brightness Settings" link and finally adjust the desired brightness.
A: There is a workaround that might work for you in this bug report. This relies on adding acpi_osi=Linux to the kernel boot option. Others seems to have more success with these options: nomodeset acpi_backlight=vendor
These options can be passed via Grub. You might want to try them out by editing these commands in the Grub menu before putting it in Grub's configuration file.
A: If you are using Ubuntu go to System > Preferences > Power management
there you find a brightness bar slider set it to | 285 |
Market Strategies Diverging for E-Commerce Retailers
Deepak Agarwal, Founder and CEO
NoMoreRack
As the co-founder of discount shopping site nomorerack.com, I'm often asked: "How can we possibly expect to compete with such retailing giants as Amazon.com and Walmart?" I usually reply that this question involves a type of syllogism, or a false kind of deductive reasoning.
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Deepak Agarwal is founder and CEO of NoMoreRack, an online shopping destination for quality, trendy, branded and unbranded, in-demand goods at prices from 50-80 percent off retail. Founded in 2011, the company received $40 million in Series B Round funding in October 2013 and $12 million in Series A funding in November 2012.
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Topics Related to this Article | put, the notion that online e-commerce is a winner-take-all market has repeatedly been shown to be wrong. Just as in the offline world, the online retail market is vast enough to support a number of winners. Multiple sourcing strategies and compelling vertical offerings will win out, despite the looming presence of some immense global behemoths with enormous buying power.
In my experience, a compelling value proposition remains the most important factor to achieve retail success. Ultimately, what matters most to an online consumer is the underlying value. How you create that value will define your reputation in the marketplace and thus determine your rate of success — or your rate of failure, as the case may be.
When I say "know your value proposition," what I really mean is know what your company represents to your customers and always stay true to that perception through your website, your advertisements and other public messages. For instance, at nomorerack we constantly strive to be known for having the lowest possible prices on a broad assortment of quality consumer items. This means regularly offering household goods, apparel and electronics up to 60-80 percent off the list price every day.
Different e-tailing models jostle for attention
The soaring popularity of online shopping has disrupted the already fierce competition among retailers. In recent years, many new Internet startups have begun to challenge the status quo of more established chain stores and big-box retailers. After initially offering short-term sales deals, these so-called "flash sales" bargain sites have matured into a flourishing and diverse e-tailing sector.
For example, Zulily — an e-tailing site aimed mostly at moms and families — went public in a stock IPO late last year. Zulily's share price peaked at $73.50 in March, but it has since fallen back to around $37 per share in recent months. Wayfair, a specialist in branded home furnishings, filed for its own IPO on August 15, with a target to raise $350 million. Competitor Gilt.com also signaled plans to go public later this year, but so far Gilt has not made a formal IPO announcement.
Some media outlets have reported that Gilt has an interest in acquiring Rue La La, which received early funding from eBay. Another rival named Ideeli was acquired by Groupon Goods for $43 million in January.
Several former "flash sales" sites haven't fared so well. One Kings Lane, which specializes in home décor items, cut 15 percent of its staff in June. Those cuts came after major layoffs in May at Fab.com, which is known for its focus on design products.
As a result of these ongoing market struggles, several distinct e-tailing business models are jostling for the attention of shoppers and investors.
Prime e-tailing models: inventory heavy vs. inventory lite vs. drop ship
Here is a brief description of the primary e-commerce business models and their market implications:
Inventory-heavy model.For Amazon, the inventory-heavy model is a consumer strength but a supplier challenge. Shoppers go to Amazon knowing they can always find whatever they are shopping for. Yet because Amazon works with hundreds of thousands of sellers, the company can never give truly hands-on personalized attention to its sellers.
Inventory "lite" model. Taking inventory presents a scaling challenge, requiring a large merchandising team, including all the associated overhead costs. By comparison, nomorerack's ultra-lean drop-ship model only requires 65 total employees.
Drop-ship model.For nomorerack, the drop-ship model is a consumer benefit and a supplier strength. By shipping orders directly from the manufacturer to the consumer without middlemen, nomorerack's infrastructure is much leaner because it does not include any warehouse system. At the same time, this approach allows nomorerack to work much more closely with its fewer selected vendors, curating each offering for consumers and ensuring the lowest possible prices. In the case of nomorerack, customers will always find the deepest value in whatever is available, making the value proposition significantly different — both from the perspective of sellers and buyers on its platform.
Again, the e-commerce market is undergoing a massive shakeup that will leave the less innovative traditional retailers struggling to keep up in the future. New digital promotions over mobile devices are reshaping the face of retail, along with interactive ads over social media. Of course Amazon and Walmart won't go away anytime soon. But at the same time, many innovative new e-commerce firms have clearly arrived and are now here to stay.
Such fierce competition does not mean that any one model will eventually prevail over all the others. Rather, I am confident that several approaches will catch on and thrive | 950 |
MEADOWS, Bobby Lee
Bobby Lee Meadows, 56, of Poplar St. in Narrows, departed this life Monday morning, June 1, 2015 at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke after a long illness. Born in Pearisburg on January 15, 1959 he was a son of the late James Harold and Ethel Dalton Meadows. His parents died when he was small and he was blessed to be the foster child of the late Alex and Sally (Granny) Wilson whom he dearly loved. Bobby had been employed with Langford Brothers Construction Company as superintendent of a road crew. He was into old rock and roll, liked Credence Clearwater Revival, Dale Earnhart, Jr, The Redskins, VA Tech Football, and had been converted to support The Narrows Green Waves. He leaves to cherish his memory his beloved wife of nine years Denise Defibaugh; their son Daniel Defibaugh of the home; his brother-in-law Donald Davis Jr. of the home; his sister-in-law Diane Myers of Pearisburg; his brother William Meadows (Brenda) of Narrows; his sisters Mary Epperly (Larry) of Pembroke and Janie Mae Cody (Richard) of Peterstown; several foster brothers and sisters of whom he was fond; and his special buddy, his dog "Cricket". Memorial services will be conducted Saturday, June 6, 2015 at 1:00 pm in the Kendall Funeral Home, 605 Snidow St., Pembroke<|fim_middle|> rescue squad. Online condolences may be sent by visiting kendallfuneralhome.com.
CONLEY, Curtis Calvin PERDUE, Edward Riley | . His family wishes to express their gratitude to the doctors and especially the nurses at Giles Community, New River Medical Center, and Roanoke Memorial Hospitals for their compassionate care of Bobby during his illness. In lieu of flowers the family requests that contributions be made in Bobby's memory to your local | 58 |
Their destructive power sweeps away everything in their path – but what volcano eruptions leave behind is a fertile environment that bursts forth with life.
When you think of a volcano eruption, destruction and devastation, recently witnessed in Hawaii, spring to mind. Although their catastrophic power isn't doubted, the positive ecological benefits of the aftermath, and nature's ability to return, shouldn't be underestimated either.
A large variety of animals and plants, killed by the lava and the ensuing volcanic ash, can quickly return to the volcano area and rebuild the ecosystem, even after a huge eruption.
Lava can be a rich source of<|fim_middle|> measured from sea level, it is one of the tallest mountains in the world. Measured from the ocean floor, its actual height is about 10,000 meters (32,800 feet). Mauna Loa last erupted on March 25, 1984 and is currently dormant.
In explosive contrast, Izu-Oshima in Japan erupted in 1986, releasing a 1600-meter-high lava fountain, the tallest ever recorded. | nutrients, including iron, potassium and sodium, so soil consisting of volcanic rocks and ash is extremely fertile, boosting vegetation growth. It also makes for prime agricultural land.
One of the first ways life returns to areas destroyed by a volcano eruption is often through small plants like mosses, which help break down rock into soil for other plants grow in.
Mount St. Helen's, in the state of Washington, is the deadliest and most economically-destructive volcanic eruption in US history to date – and is a good example of nature's incredible ability to bounce back following disaster.
Its eruption in 1980, triggered by a 5.2-magnitude earthquake, buried the 200-feet-deep Spirit Lake under layers of ash and mud within hours of it blowing its top. So much water was displaced by the avalanche that hit the lake that huge waves washed over the mountainside.
Although the old lake was gone, a new lake started to take shape as runoff drained into the same place. The new, wider and shallower lake is rich in aquatic life – with signs of life emerging as soon as within a year. It has also benefited from the lack of huge trees that used to block out the sun, leading to more insects and bigger fish including rainbow trout.
As for the vast expanse of forest which was destroyed, life there, too, has returned – in some ways even richer than before. The eruption had devastated the area's wildlife – not a single tree was left standing within a 6-mile radius of the summit. An estimated 7,000 big game animals were killed.
But in the first weeks after the disaster, life was already returning. Charlie Crisafulli, an ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, has previously said how he saw ants on the ground and pocket gophers digging through the ash in search of food, while fallen trees became homes for insects and gave nutrients back to the soil.
The new landscape gave rise to a whole new ecosystem, with huge swathes of land once dominated by tall trees now exposed to sunlight. This meant a range of plants, insects, small mammals and birds could move in.
The conifer forest, meanwhile, was replaced by deciduous woodland. The new burst in plant growth also encouraged the arrival of elk, which increased to record numbers.
The explosion in nature around Mount St. Helen's, more diverse than before the eruption, is testament to how tenacious life can be.
The highest warning level, red, has been declared for the Bardarbunga volcano in Iceland. The volcano is nearly invisible, hidden well beneath the Vatnajokull glacier. The weather office says nearly 2,500 earthquakes have been registered in the last few days. Signs of magma movement have also been detected.
Four years ago, the eruption of Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull disrupted European air traffic for six days. More than 10 million air travelers were affected, and the disruption resulted in $1.7 billion ( 1.3 billion euros) in lost business. Bardarbunga is even larger than Eyjafjallajökull and would release much more magma during an eruption.
Worldwide there are at least 500 to 600 active volcanoes. Every year about 50 of them erupt. Volcanic eruptions are fascinating as natural phenomena, but when humans are endangered, things can quickly turn catastrophic. Huge lava streams and pyroclastic flows can engulf entire villages without warning.
Shorty after such a violent explosion, however, life returns. First, plants regrow and people return to rebuild their destroyed towns at the foot of the volcano. They do so despite the danger, because they know that volcanic ash makes for very fertile soil and thus good harvests. It is rich in phosphorus, potassium and calcium.
With an area of around 103,000 square kilometers (40,000 square miles) and about 30 active volcanoes, Iceland is considered the largest volcanic island in the world. Eyjafjallajökull in April 2010 and Grímsvötn in May 2011 are two of the most famous eruptions. The record-breaking volcanoes are, however, not in Iceland.
Kilauea in Hawaii is the most active volcano on earth. It releases the most magma but is normally not explosive. The name of the volcano in the Hawaiian language therefore means "spitting" or "lots of spreading." Lava isn't released explosively, but springs forth from the earth's interior and is released in lavaflows. On January 3, 1983, an eruption began that has persisted until this day.
The largest volcano is also found in Hawaii: Mauna Loa. It is 4169 meters tall (13,700 feet), and, when | 1,012 |
Were Ne<|fim_middle|> found along the Nile.
The historically significant area is also where many of the sandstone blocks used to build Egypt's temples were quarried.
Detail of the statues found at Gebel el Silsila.
The team of the Gebel el Silsila Survey Project has discovered a total of six statues of the couple, some with round faces and big ears, according to Live Science. The second cenotaph contains four statues and carvings depicting Neferkhewe with his wife and two children.
John Ward, assistant director of the excavation, said that the statues and the carved alcoves in which they are located had been exposed to the elements for at least 1,500 years before being buried, but that the carvings were still in great condition.
The presence of alcoves hosting the statues, which were only built to honor elite families, implies that Neferkhewe and Ruiuresti were a political "power couple" at the time. In fact, Neferkhewe oversaw the Medjay—now northern Sudan—during the rule of Pharaoh Thutmose III some 3,500 years ago.
Detail of the carvings found at Gebel el Silsila. | ferkhewe and Ruiuresti the 'Brangelina' of Ancient Egypt?
Statues of Neferkhewe and Ruiuresti, found at Gebel el Silsila.
Photo: via Gebel el Silsila Survey Project.
Shrines devoted to Neferkhewe, who was an important politician during the rule of Pharaoh Thutmose III, and his wife Ruiuresti have been found near the Nile River in Upper Egypt.
The statues were found inside two cenotaphs (empty tombs erected in honor of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere) at the Gebel el Silsila site, where a total of 32 cenotaphs have been | 148 |
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It's important for issues of academic integrity to be properly dealt with at every high school. But how and why students cheat is rarely a black-and-white matter. As increasing academic pressures and technology in the classroom change the landscape of academic integrity, students and staff must learn to address these issues and uphold academic standards.
You can help prevent academic integrity violations through helping students with tangible tactics such as better time management and encouraging the use of school resources to help them prepare.
One of the best ways students can keep themselves<|fim_middle|> to check that [they] have properly attributed and cited any outside resources," says Waters.
If students do find themselves in trouble, encourage them to ask for help or come by at lunch or after school to discuss strategies for staying on top of their work load. | out of a situation where they're tempted to cheat is by practicing better time management. Here's how to make sure they don't get to a point of despair.
Encourage them to compare syllabi.
For all their classes, at the beginning of each term. This way, they can flag any due dates that fall close together, which can help them prepare as early as possible for test day.
Give them a time frame for how long an assignment could take.
When it comes to papers (even the short ones), it's important that students "set aside enough time to thoroughly research, write it carefully, and then have time | 126 |
Large-scale programmable quantum simulation of a geometrically frustrated lattice
Our paper, "Observation of topological phenomena in a programmable lattice of 1,800 qubits", represents an exciting step forward in quantum simulation.
Our Nature paper is available here: "Observation of topological phenomena in a programmable lattice of 1,80<|fim_middle|> at D-Wave had just simulated quantum spin glasses in the three-dimensional TFIM (Harris et al., Science 165) and Mauricio Reis had just announced the successful calibration of a perfectly-yielded processor that was beautifully suited for our experiment. The building blocks for the project came together at just the right moment. All we had to do was make it work.
With much poking and prodding, and with many lessons learned, we eventually made it work. The end result is a demonstration of topological phenomena in a piece of programmable quantum matter, showing remarkable quantitative agreement with conventional simulations. This high-fidelity control over a lattice of 1,800 qubits is one step towards a future where researchers use programmable quantum simulators to study the properties of new materials.
Performance Research Team Lead, D-Wave Systems Inc. | 0 qubits"
D-Wave quantum annealing processors were originally designed to implement quantum annealing in the transverse field Ising model (TFIM). This approach exploits quantum phenomena to solve a classical optimization problem. But what if we used these processors to simulate quantum systems instead? Our demonstration of such a simulation, which we describe in our letter to Nature, is an important (but nonuniversal) step towards Richard Feynman's vision of a programmable and universal quantum simulator. The work complements a study recently published in Science: "Phase transitions in a programmable quantum spin glass simulator".
The system we simulated is a geometrically frustrated quantum magnet, analogous to the triangular antiferromagnetic lattice in the TFIM. With the appropriate combination of quantum and thermal fluctuations this system undergoes a topological phase transition; Kosterlitz and Thouless were awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for the discovery of this transition. We used a D-Wave 2000Q annealing quantum computer to simulate this phenomenon, which appears in many systems including superfluid and superconducting thin films, but has never been observed in the two-dimensional TFIM. The pictured lattice shows spin-spin correlations and cylindrical boundary conditions in the system we simulated.
We simulated a geometrically frustrated lattice with cylindrical boundary conditions by programming the D-Wave 2000Q processor with the appropriate coupling terms on 1,800 of the 2,048 available superconducting flux qubits. Each Ising spin state maps to a "pseudospin field"; in spite of the up/down symmetry of the Ising spin, competing quantum and thermal fluctuations lead to a Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition governed by vortices and antivortices in the pseudospin field.
Like all research at D-Wave, this paper relied on a diverse team of interdisciplinary contributors from top to bottom (partially pictured in the lab at D-Wave HQ). On a foundation of superconducting circuit design, fabrication, cryogenics, calibration, modeling, and an extensive software stack, the experiment started with Juan Carrasquilla saying, "Maybe we can use the new annealing controls to simulate a frustrated quantum magnet."
The research team, partially pictured, formed a full-stack effort, from fabrication to algorithms.
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Baltimore unveils Mo Gaba Way in honor of late 14-year-old superfan
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Baltimore paid tribute Wednesday to one of the city's biggest and beloved sports fans.
Over the summer, 14-year-old Mo Gaba died from cancer, but his legacy lives on in a special way.
At the intersection of Ridgely and West streets lies Mo Gaba Way. It runs all the way to Russell and Paca streets near both Oriole Park at Camden Yards and M&T Bank Stadium, the places where Mo's beloved Orioles and Ravens play.
After the unveiling of the street sign, Gaba's mother, Sonsy Gaba, said she's proud of the legacy her son left on the city.
"He just never gave up and didn't want anybody to worry about him. He just wanted to live every day like it was the best day of his life," Sonsy Gaba said. "What he has done and how many people he has touched in the 14 years of his life, I couldn't be more proud of him. He did nothing out of the ordinary. He cared about others, he loved hard and he was being Mo. Mo being Mo."
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<|fim_middle|> Spring Styles | Home Outdoor Living Organic Oasis
A local gardener combines flowers and vegetables into a lush green ecosystem in his own backyard
By Mary Jane Smetanka
Photos by Tracy Walsh
Passionate about plants from an early age, Whitman enjoys experimenting with raising new and unique plants each year.
John Whitman is an eclectic man with a garden as unusual as himself.
He's a Minnesotan whose passion for gardening began more than 60 years ago when his mother told him to bury sprouting potatoes in a pile of dirt. In college, he was a French major and got a graduate degree in teaching. But he liked to write and made his living as the author of travel and gardening books, pounding New York City sidewalks to sell his ideas to publishers when he had to.
"There's a lot of stuff people say you can't do, and then you just do it," he says.
That same determination and curiosity has led to unusual gardens that burst with both produce and beauty. His current garden in Long Lake backs onto woods and combines more than 70 types of vegetables and annual and perennial flowers, with a touch of the quirky—a towering stand of lamb's quarters, an edible plant many gardeners consider a weed.
Nestled in the city of Long Lake, Whitman's home backs onto woods, providing the perfect place to grow his greenery.
Whitman, whose book Fresh From the Garden: An Organic Guide to Growing Vegetables, Berries and Herbs in Cold Climates was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2017, says that after decades of experience, he follows his gut in the garden. Nature is his guide. If a plant doesn't do well, he tries something different the next year. Every year he grows something new. Planting flowers amid vegetables helps create a healthy ecosystem that keeps the pest population down.
Though passionate about plants, he is disciplined enough to usually grow a single specimen of each variety so his plants have plenty of space. The garden is mulched with wood chips and carefully weeded.
"I really see the garden when I weed," he says. "I emphasize diversity… I haven't ever used sprays in the garden. I want to keep the frogs and toads happy."
John Whitman's most recent garden combined more than 70 types of flowers and vegetables.
His most recent garden included mibuna, a mustardy Japanese green, and golden purslane, an upright yellow relative of a common weed with big, tasty leaves. He also grew two heirloom kale, a dwarf blue and a purple Red Russian with color that intensifies with frost.
"Growing odd plants is really interesting," Whitman says. "I order seeds from all over."
Beets were tucked under chard and next to beans. He grew daikon radishes and three kinds of cucumbers and thought Bush Champion performed the best. Whitman loves iris and had moved some to a neat raised bed near the rear of the garden, where daylilies act as a backdrop.
Less common varieties such as golden purslane and lamb's quarters can also be found among Whitman's more traditional vegetation.
Whitman puts the health of his garden above all else, emphasizing diversity and using nutritious compost and natural methods to help keep pest populations down in his organic plots.
Plants that need more space are found at the back of the garden, where raspberries thrive and vines bearing pumpkins and squash roam. Whitman's wife, Donna, makes jam from the berries; the couple gives away much of the produce, and neighbors know they'll receive pumpkins for Halloween.
Whitman delights in eating produce he knows is "fresh, safe, and nutritious." But gardening is about more than food for him.
"Every day I go out and see something new," he says. "I think it adds mental clarity, is emotionally satisfying, and adds peace and beauty to our lives."
Mary Jane Smetanka is a Minneapolis-based freelance writer, Master Gardener,
and self-proclaimed plant maniac.
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Wheaton Village: Visit, But Don't Throw Stones
This article by Sally Friedman was prepared for the July 9, 2003 issue of U.S. 1 Newspaper. All rights reserved.
Down a rural road, past a truck tire company, Wheaton
Village suddenly comes into view. It's a startling sight in Millville,
a remote region of South Jersey where the Village's 60 sprawling acres
and 20 buildings unexpectedly stretch out across the landscape.
For first-timers, Wheaton Village is one astonishment after another
— especially those who may still hold the belief that "South
Jersey arts" is an oxymoron.
For starters, Wheaton Village is home to the spectacular Museum of
American Glass. This elegant building showcases a collection of American
glass so remarkable that docents report that the single most uttered
word from visitors is "Wow!"
Then there's the T.C. Wheaton Glass Factory where visitors can watch
daily demonstrations of molten glass transformed into stunning works
of art, and the gallery of American Craft where fine, one-of-a-kind
works in a variety of media are on exhibit.
What's going on here in rural Millville? And why are thousands of
visitors expected to converge on Wheaton Village this Friday, July
11, through Sunday, July 13, for GlassWeekend '03?
It was back in the early 1880s when Dr. Theodore Corson Wheaton, a
Millville pharmacist, began making his own pharmaceutical bottles.
His cottage industry would grow into Wheaton USA, today's giant glass
manufacturing company (formerly known as Wheaton Industries, Inc.).
Fast forward to the early 1960s, when Dr. Wheaton's
grandson, Frank H. Wheaton Jr., visited the famous Corning Glass Museum
in Corning, New York, only to discover that many of its beautiful
holdings had been created in Southern New Jersey. It was a "Eureka!"
moment for Frank Wheaton, who realized that South Jersey glass deserved
a home in South Jersey, where the glass industry had flourished for
centuries thanks to the ready availability of natural resources like
wood, sand, soda, ash, and silica.
By 1970, the first buildings of what was to become an entire complex
highlighting glass and glass-making techniques as they were practiced
at the turn of the 20th century, had opened to the public. Wheaton
now had the true home he was looking for in order to transfer the
artifacts from a makeshift "museum" in his own house.
A striking building housing the Museum of American Glass and an actual
working glass factory opened in 1<|fim_middle|> and abroad. Many of these glass
objects sell in the five-figure range.
With millions of dollars worth of glass by world-renowned glass artists
on display and for sale at GlassWeekend 2003, go ahead and strike
arts in South Jersey from your oxymoron list.
— Sally Friedman
Creative Glass Center of America, Wheaton Village, 1501
Glasstown Road, Millville, 856-825-6800. www.wheatonvillage.org
"The Fellows," an exhibition celebrating CGCA's 20th anniversary.
The rotating anniversary exhibit showcases contemporary glass works
by past and current CGCA fellowship recipients. To December 31. Free.
Museum Hours are Tuesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission
is $8, $7 for senior citizens, $5 for students, free for children
under 5. Many events are open to the public, though classes and seminars
are not. For information about GlassWeekend, call or visit www.glassweekend.com.
Directions to Wheaton Village: Take I-295 South. Follow
signs to Route 42 South/Atlantic City. From Route 42 take Route 55
South to Exit 26. Follow Wheaton Village signs from the exit to the
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in the complex, including a paperweight shop and a crafts gallery.
In 1983, under the stewardship of celebrated glass artists Paul Stankard
and Tom Patti, the Creative Glass Center of America was established.
Here, contemporary glass artists — emerging and those in mid-career
— are nurtured and supported through fellowships that allow them
to advance their skills.
From its humble beginnings as a modest home collection, Wheaton Village
has grown and flourished — and is now celebrating the Creative
Glass Center's 20th anniversary. Today, the complex includes 20 buildings
and the Museum of American Glass, exhibiting some 6,500 objects spanning
several centuries. Visitors can enjoy a visual feast of everything
from formal glass sculptures to whimsical fiber optics. Daily glass-blowing
demonstrations draw rapt audiences of all ages. Despite the site's
impressive size, a circular design plan lined with shady paths makes
getting lost here virtually impossible.
"We're always a work in progress," says Janet Peterson, public
relations director. One of the current highlights of the museum is
the "20/20 Vision" exhibition, a sprawling showcase of the
work of glass artists from around the world who have had fellowships
at Wheaton.
"We wanted to see what these artists are doing now," says
Peterson, noting that there are 105 exhibitors represented. The first
months of the show spotlight work by 2001 and 2002 fellows who have
come to study at the center from as close as West Orange and as far
away as Hiroshima, Japan, and Adelaide, Australia. Artists include
Hank Adams, Lisa Cerny, Sophia Emmett, Megumi Esaki, Beth Lipman,
Brent Marshall, and Walter Zimmerman. From August through December
the show will focus on current works by other past fellowship recipients.
"The sheer scope of the exhibit is quite remarkable," says
Peterson. It is indeed.
Everything from super life-sized replicas of frilly dresses executed
in glass to bold geometric figures and a striking screen composed
of glass lantern slides by artist Steve Tobin punctuates this exhibit,
which remains on view through January 4, 2004.
In a striking counterpoint to these contemporary creations are replicas
of a Victorian dining room and kitchen complete with glassware from
the period, as well as several permanent installations of historic
glass bottles, Tiffany-type glass, decorative art glass, and a major
collection of antique and contemporary paperweights.
Wheaton Village's GlassWeekend, a biennial event since 1985, attracts
about 2,000 people for workshops, demonstrations, and presentations.
Co-sponsored by Wheaton Village's Creative Glass Center of America
and the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass, the event will feature
demonstrations by some of the glass world's most revered artists,
including Janusz Pozniak, Dante Marioni, and Richard Jolley.
It might be worth the trip just to get a peek at some unusual high-end
shopping by serious glass collectors who come to see the wares of
galleries from across the country | 678 |
Funded by the National Science Foundation, this six-week summer residential program for U.S. citizens gives K-12 teachers from across the country the chance to participate in real-world science and cutting-edge magnetic field research. Through weekly seminars,<|fim_middle|> participants.
-Participants are required to participate in the entire six weeks of the program.
-Participants are required to attend all daily and weekly meetings, seminars, field trips and workshops. | discussion groups, professional development and technology workshops, teachers develop strategies and resources to translate the experience into material for their classrooms.
Each teacher accepted by the program receives a stipend, classroom materials and, if necessary, travel support and housing. Teachers are expected to return to their jobs as leaders in service education, implementing science research in their classrooms.
-The program is for US citizens only.
-The program pays a stipend of $3,600.
-Travel reimbursements of up to $600 are paid to non-local residents.
-Housing is provided for non-local | 115 |
Residents participate in summer pen pal project
This summer, 23 residents and two staff members in our community participated in a new pen pal project initiated by the Newton YMCA's Y Scholars program, which is in partnership with USD 373. The residents were paired with first and second grade students. This was the first year Newton hosted this program, and it was a hit for everyone involved!
"This is the only pen pal I remember ever having," said Kay Orr, assisted living resident at Newton Presbyterian Manor. "One of the staff asked us if we'd be interested. I love kids, so I thought, 'Sure!' It was a very interesting experience."
Over the course of five weeks, residents and their elementary school pen pals exchanged written letters and photos.
"We saw pure excitement from our residents as they waited to get their next letter from the kids," said Melinda Ebersole, life enrichment director.
The program ended with a get-together at Sunset Elementary School for games and a snack.
"I was so impressed when we went to see the kids. They were so well-behaved, polite and helpful," said Kay.
Melinda added, "This was a wonderful community project for both groups. It gave both of them something to look forward to each week. It also helped the kids interact with the elderly as sometimes kids can be afraid of someone in a wheelchair. I also had two little boys very interested in our bus and wanted to know how we<|fim_middle|> residents meet up with their first and second grade pen pals after the five-week session. The other photo shows Kay Orr with her summer pen pal.
Cindy PMMA | got everyone on and off of it. I ended up giving them a little tour and they thought that our bus was cooler than the school buses they have ridden in."
If given the chance, the community would welcome the opportunity to participate in this program again.
"We have a really good connection with the local schools, and we hope to continue to have those relationships grow each year. Our next project will be one where our residents make bookmarks for the kids and hopefully that will bring some smiles to some kids and in return allow our residents to continue to change lives every day," said Melinda.
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By Driftwood Staff On Jan <|fim_middle|> time to several service organizations and sang in choirs around the island.
Dan was predeceased by his parents, his siblings – Wendle, Janet (Moline) and Tom as well as two nephews and two dear friends Don Boyes and Cynthia Downe.
Dan was a very special man to his ten nieces and nephews – each knew how much Dan loved them for just being in his life. He was always interested in their activities and proud of large or small accomplishments.
Dan's funeral will be held at the Salt Spring Island United Church, 111 Hereford Ave at 2 p.m., Saturday, March 28.
In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Salt Spring Island Seniors Society, 379 Lower Ganges Road, Salt Spring Island, V8K 2V4 or the Salt Spring Island United Church.
Donna Gladys Jenkins (nee Myton)
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Daniel James Evans Davies
Daniel James Evans Davies, beloved son, brother, uncle, cousin and friend passed away March 18th in the Victoria General Hospital at the age of 89.
Dan was born in Bonners Ferry, Idaho where his father was working. The family soon moved to Lethbridge and then on to Medicine Hat, Alberta where the family was residing when their mother died. The four children were then raised by their maternal grandparents in Lethbridge.
Dan enlisted in the Navy in the later part of WW2; after the war, Dan used his war service to enrol in university to become a teacher. Dan taught in Lethbridge and High River before settling in Calgary to teach in several schools. For many years he was the Language Immersion Consultant for the Calgary Public School System.
Dan travelled extensively around the world, except during the few years when his partner was sick, then Dan stay exclusively on his retirement dream – Salt Spring Island. These past years, Dan has frequently cruised several times each year but he always returned to a very active life on Salt Spring. He willing gave of his | 233 |
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An active member of his community, Bill has<|fim_middle|> Industry Association of Washington. He has been a member of the board of directors of Tacoma/Pierce County Habitat for Humanity since 2009 and he is also a longstanding supporter of the Point Defiance Zoological Society.
Ongoing representation of Cascadia Development Corporation on all land use, utility, growth management, environmental and real estate matters relating to development of a 4700-acre planned community.
Land use representation for large and small residential, commercial, industrial and mixed-use projects throughout the Puget Sound area.
Extensive surface mining, natural resources and shoreline work.
Litigation in State Environmental Policy Act matters. | served on the board of the Cascade Land Conservancy and on the legal trust committee of the Building | 19 |
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Charles Krypell Sterling Silver & 18KYG Oval Pink Mother of Pearl Ring
Charles Kypell sterling silver ring bezel set with a 13x18mm oval Mother of Pearl gemstone highlighted with fifty round (HI color/SI2 quality) diamonds weighing a total of 0.25 carat. Bezel setting and filigree design surrounding ring is 18 karat yellow gold. This ring is available in size 6.5;<|fim_middle|> They love to buy for that special person, but they hate to search. Anxious about selecting just the right gift, such men find Krypell jewelry an easy choice for now–and the future–because Krypell styles, while contemporary enough to attract the sophisticated buyer of today, are traditional enough to be worn for generations.
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Charles Krypell graduated from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY with a degree in fine arts, a specialty in sculpture, and no thought of entering the jewelry business. But shortly after graduation and in need of a job, he answered a newspaper ad from a jeweler looking for help with wax models. Charles enjoyed this work, fell in love with jewelry-making, and within a year opened his own business on a shoestring and, in his own words, "never looked back."
Today, after a quarter-century of designing fine jewelry, Charles Krypell is something of an institution. Asked who his mentor was, he replies, "No one. That is why my jewelry is so different. I was not influenced by traditionalists in jewelry. There was no one to tell me not to do this or that." But his own perception of form and style, and his background in the dimensionality of sculpture, have given his work a recognizable uniqueness. His pieces are infused with energy, form, movement, and depth.
He describes his jewelry as "wearable, sculptural, colorful. It moves, modulates." Charles considers his work particularly well suited for the male buyer. Men who purchase jewelry, he says, are creatures of habit. | 256 |
Q: In Outlook 2010, whitelist messages based on subject On a business website, I have several web forms<|fim_middle|> Junk?
| that send me an e-mail message when they are submitted. However, in Outlook 2010, these form submissions often got put in the Junk folder. To solve this problem, I put a code word in the subject of the e-mails that get sent. (For example, let's say that the subject of each form submission message contains the word myform.) What I want to do is whitelist any message that comes in that contains myform in the subject.
I had set up a rule that does this:
Apply this rule after the message arrives
with myform in the subject
mark it as high importance
and move it to the Inbox folder
This used to work, but now it seems that Outlook is not applying rules to any message that it considers junk. If I send myself a message that contains myform, it gets marked as high importance (so I know the rule is running), but if I submit the form, the message stays in the junk folder and does not get marked as high importance.
Is there any way that I can whitelist a message based on subject, to keep it out of the Junk folder? Perhaps there is a way that I can instruct Outlook to run rules on the Junk messages?
Also, is there any way that I can tell why Outlook considers these messages | 268 |
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Olympus E-450 vs Sony A7R II
The Olympus E-450 and the Sony Alpha A7R II are two digital cameras that were revealed to the public, respectively, in March 2009 and June 2015. The E-450 is a DSLR, while the A7R II is a mirrorless interchangeable lens camera. The cameras are based on a Four Thirds (E-450) and a full frame (A7R II) sensor. The Olympus has a resolution of 10 megapixels<|fim_middle|>99 ebay.com
Care should be taken when interpreting the review scores above, though. The ratings were established in reference to similarly priced cameras that were available in the market at the time of the review. Thus, a score needs to be put into the context of the launch date and the launch price of the camera, and rating-comparisons among cameras that span long time periods or concern very differently equipped models make little sense. Also, kindly note that some of the listed sites have over time developped their review approaches and their reporting style.
Did this review help to inform your camera decision process? In case you are interested in seeing how other cameras pair up, just make your choice using the following search menu. As an alternative, you can also directly jump to any one of the listed comparisons that were previously generated by the CAM-parator tool.
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Specifications: Olympus E-450 vs Sony A7R II
Camera Model Olympus E-450 Sony A7R II
Camera Lens Four Thirds lenses Sony E mount lenses
Launch Date March 2009 June 2015
Sensor Format Four Thirds Sensor Full Frame Sensor
Sensor Resolution 10 Megapixels 42.2 Megapixels
Movie Capability no Video 4K/30p Video
Image Processor TruePic III+ BIONZ X
Continuous Shooting 3.5 shutter flaps/s 5 shutter flaps/s
Fill Flash Built-in Flash no On-Board Flash
Storage Medium CF or XD cards MS or SDXC cards
HDMI Port no HDMI micro HDMI
Headphone Socket no Headphone port Headphone port
Battery Type BLS-1 NP-FW50
Body Dimensions 130 x 91 x 53 mm
You are here: Home » CAM-parator » Olympus E-450 vs Sony A7R II | , whereas the Sony provides 42.2 MP.
Olympus E-450
Sony A7R II
Four Thirds lenses Sony E mount lenses
10 MP – Four Thirds sensor 42.2 MP – Full Frame sensor
no Video 4K/30p Video
ISO 100-1,600 ISO 100-25,600 (50 - 102,400)
Fixed screen (not touch-sensitive) Tilting screen (no touchscreen)
3.5 shutter flaps per second 5 shutter flaps per second
130 x 91 x 53 mm, 440 g 127 x 96 x 60 mm, 625 g
Check E-450 offers at
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Going beyond this snapshot of core features and characteristics, what are the differences between the Olympus E-450 and the Sony Alpha A7R II? Which one should you buy? Read on to find out how these two cameras compare with respect to their body size, their imaging sensors, their shooting features, their input-output connections, and their reception by expert reviewers.
An illustration of the physical size and weight of the Olympus E-450 and the Sony A7R II is provided in the side-by-side display below. The two cameras are presented according to their relative size. Three successive views from the front, the top, and the rear are shown. All size dimensions are rounded to the nearest millimeter.
If the front view area (width x height) of the cameras is taken as an aggregate measure of their size, the Sony A7R II is somewhat larger (3 percent) than the Olympus E-450. Moreover, the A7R II is substantially heavier (42 percent) than the E-450. It is noteworthy in this context that the A7R II is splash and dust-proof, while the E-450 does not feature any corresponding weather-sealing.
The above size and weight comparisons are to some extent incomplete since they do not consider the interchangeable lenses that both of these cameras require. A larger imaging sensor will tend to go along with bigger and heavier lenses, although exceptions exist. You can compare the optics available for the two cameras in the Four Thirds Lens Catalog (E-450) and the Sony FE Lens Catalog (A7R II). Mirrorless cameras, such as the A7R II, have moreover the advantage that they can use many lenses from other systems via adapters, as they have a relatively short flange to focal plane distance.
Concerning battery life, the E-450 gets 500 shots out of its BLS-1 battery, while the A7R II can take 290 images on a single charge of its NP-FW50 power pack. The power pack in the A7R II can be charged via the USB port, which can be very convenient when travelling.
The table below summarizes the key physical specs of the two cameras alongside a broader set of comparators. If you would like to visualize and compare a different camera combination, you can navigate to the CAM-parator app and make your selection from a broad list of cameras there.
Olympus E-450 130 mm 91 mm 53 mm 440 g 500 n Mar 2009 499 ebay.com
Sony A7R II 127 mm 96 mm 60 mm 625 g 290 Y Jun 2015 3,199 ebay.com
Canon G12 112 mm 76 mm 48 mm 401 g 370 n Sep 2010 499 ebay.com
Canon 1000D 126 mm 98 mm 65 mm 502 g 500 n Jun 2008 449 ebay.com
Nikon D3000 126 mm 97 mm 64 mm 536 g 500 n Jul 2009 599 ebay.com
Olympus E-600 130 mm 94 mm 60 mm 535 g 500 n Aug 2009 449 ebay.com
Olympus E-620 130 mm 94 mm 60 mm 521 g 500 n Feb 2009 699 ebay.com
Olympus E-520 136 mm 92 mm 68 mm 535 g 750 n May 2008 699 ebay.com
Panasonic G10 124 mm 84 mm 74 mm 388 g 380 n Mar 2010 499 ebay.com
Panasonic G2 124 mm 84 mm 74 mm 428 g 360 n Mar 2010 599 ebay.com
Sony A7R III 127 mm 96 mm 74 mm 650 g 650 Y Oct 2017 3,199 ebay.com
Sony A99 II 143 mm 104 mm 76 mm 849 g 490 Y Sep 2016 3,199 ebay.com
Sony A7S II 127 mm 96 mm 60 mm 627 g 370 Y Sep 2015 2,999 ebay.com
Sony A7R 127 mm 94 mm 48 mm 465 g 340 Y Oct 2013 2,299 ebay.com
Any camera decision will obviously take relative prices into account. The retail prices at the time of the camera's release place the model in the market relative to other models in the producer's line-up and the competition. The E-450 was launched at a markedly lower price (by 84 percent) than the A7R II, which puts it into a different market segment. Usually, retail prices stay at first close to the launch price, but after several months, discounts become available. Later in the product cycle and, in particular, when the replacement model is about to appear, further discounting and stock clearance sales often push the camera price considerably down.
The size of the imaging sensor is a crucial determinant of image quality. A large sensor will generally have larger individual pixels that offer better low-light sensitivity, provide wider dynamic range, and have richer color-depth than smaller pixels in a sensor of the same technological generation. Furthermore, a large sensor camera will give the photographer more possibilities to use shallow depth-of-field in order to isolate a subject from the background. On the downside, larger sensors tend to be associated with larger, more expensive camera bodies and lenses.
Of the two cameras under consideration, the Olympus E-450 features a Four Thirds sensor and the Sony A7R II a full frame sensor. The sensor area in the A7R II is 283 percent bigger. As a result of these sensor size differences, the cameras have a format factor of, respectively, 2.0 and 1.0. The sensor in the E-450 has a native 4:3 aspect ratio, while the one in the A7R II offers a 3:2 aspect.
With 42.2MP, the A7R II offers a higher resolution than the E-450 (10MP), but the A7R II has smaller individual pixels (pixel pitch of 4.52μm versus 4.74μm for the E-450). Yet, the A7R II is a much more recent model (by 6 years and 2 months) than the E-450, and its sensor will have benefitted from technological advances during this time that enhance the light gathering capacity of its pixel-units. Coming back to sensor resolution, it should be mentioned that the A7R II has no anti-alias filter installed, so that it can capture all the detail its sensor resolves.
The resolution advantage of the Sony A7R II implies greater flexibility for cropping images or the possibility to print larger pictures. The maximum print size of the A7R II for good quality output (200 dots per inch) amounts to 39.8 x 26.5 inches or 101 x 67.4 cm, for very good quality (250 dpi) 31.8 x 21.2 inches or 80.8 x 53.9 cm, and for excellent quality (300 dpi) 26.5 x 17.7 inches or 67.3 x 44.9 cm. The corresponding values for the Olympus E-450 are 18.2 x 13.7 inches or 46.3 x 34.7 cm for good quality, 14.6 x 10.9 inches or 37.1 x 27.8 cm for very good quality, and 12.2 x 9.1 inches or 30.9 x 23.2 cm for excellent quality prints.
The A7R II has on-sensor phase detect pixels, which results in fast and reliable autofocus acquisition even during live view operation.
The Olympus E-450 has a native sensitivity range from ISO 100 to ISO 1600. The corresponding ISO settings for the Sony Alpha A7R II are ISO 100 to ISO 25600, with the possibility to increase the ISO range to 50-102400.
In terms of underlying technology, the E-450 is build around a CMOS sensor, while the A7R II uses a BSI-CMOS imager. Both cameras use a Bayer filter for capturing RGB colors on a square grid of photosensors. This arrangement is found in most digital cameras.
For many cameras, data on sensor performance has been reported by DXO Mark. This service is based on lab testing and assigns an overall score to each camera sensor, as well as ratings for dynamic range ("DXO Landscape"), color depth ("DXO Portrait"), and low-light sensitivity ("DXO Sports"). Of the two cameras under consideration, the A7R II offers substantially better image quality than the E-450 (overall score 42 points higher). The advantage is based on 4.5 bits higher color depth, 3.4 EV in additional dynamic range, and 2.7 stops in additional low light sensitivity. The table below summarizes the physical sensor characteristics and sensor quality findings and compares them across a set of similar cameras.
Olympus E-450 Four Thirds 10.0 3648 2736 none 21.5 10.5 512 56
Sony A7R II Full Frame 42.2 7952 5304 4K/30p 26.0 13.9 3434 98
Canon G12 1/1.7 10.0 3648 2736 720/24p 20.4 11.2 161 47
Canon 1000D APS-C 10.1 3888 2592 none 22.0 10.9 719 62
Nikon D3000 APS-C 10.0 3872 2592 none 22.3 11.1 563 62
Panasonic G10 Four Thirds 12.0 4000 3000 720/30p 21.2 10.1 411 52
Panasonic G2 Four Thirds 12.0 4000 3000 720/30p 21.2 10.3 493 53
Sony A7R III Full Frame 42.2 7952 5304 4K/30p 26.0 14.7 3523 100
Sony A99 II Full Frame 42.2 7952 5304 4K/30p 25.4 13.4 2317 92
Sony A7S II Full Frame 12.0 4240 2832 4K/30p 23.6 13.3 2993 85
Sony A7R Full Frame 36.2 7360 4912 1080/60p 25.6 14.1 2746 95
Many modern cameras are not only capable of taking still images, but can also record movies. The A7R II indeed provides for movie recording, while the E-450 does not. The highest resolution format that the A7R II can use is 4K/30p.
Apart from body and sensor, cameras can and do differ across a range of features. For example, the A7R II has an electronic viewfinder (2400k dots), while the E-450 has an optical one. Both systems have their advantages, with the electronic viewfinder making it possible to project supplementary shooting information into the framing view, whereas the optical viewfinder offers lag-free viewing and a very clear framing image. The viewfinder in the A7R II offers a wider field of view (100%) than the one in the E-450 (95%), so that a larger proportion of the captured image is visible in the finder. In addition, the viewfinder of the A7R II has a higher magnification (0.78x vs 0.46x), so that the size of the image transmitted appears closer to the size seen with the naked human eye. The table below summarizes some of the other core capabilities of the Olympus E-450 and Sony A7R II in connection with corresponding information for a sample of similar cameras.
Olympus E-450 optical n 2.7 / 215 fixed n 1/4000s 3.5/s Y n
Sony A7R II 2400 n 3.0 / 1229 tilting n 1/8000s 5.0/s n Y
Canon G12 optical n 2.8 / 461 swivel n 1/4000s 1.1/s Y Y
Canon 1000D optical n 2.5 / 230 fixed n 1/4000s 3.0/s Y n
Nikon D3000 optical n 3.0 / 230 fixed n 1/4000s 3.0/s Y n
Olympus E-600 optical n 2.7 / 230 swivel n 1/4000s 4.0/s Y Y
Olympus E-520 optical n 2.7 / 215 fixed n 1/4000s 3.5/s Y Y
Panasonic G10 202 n 3.0 / 460 fixed n 1/4000s 2.6/s Y n
Panasonic G2 1440 n 3.0 / 460 swivel Y 1/4000s 2.6/s Y n
Sony A7R III 3686 n 3.0 / 1440 tilting Y 1/8000s 10.0/s n Y
Sony A99 II 2400 Y 3.0 / 1229 full-flex n 1/8000s 12.0/s n Y
Sony A7S II 2400 n 3.0 / 1229 tilting n 1/8000s 5.0/s n Y
Sony A7R 2400 n 3.0 / 1230 tilting n 1/8000s 4.0/s n n
One difference between the cameras concerns the presence of an on-board flash. The E-450 has one, while the A7R II does not. While the built-in flash of the E-450 is not very powerful, it can at times be useful as a fill-in light.
The reported shutter speed information refers to the use of the mechanical shutter. Yet, some cameras only have an electronic shutter, while others have an electronic shutter in addition to a mechanical one. In fact, the A7R II is one of those camera that have an additional electronic shutter, which makes completely silent shooting possible. However, this mode is less suitable for photographing moving objects (risk of rolling shutter) or shooting under artificial light sources (risk of flickering).
The E-450 writes its imaging data to Compact Flash or xD Picture cards, while the A7R II uses SDXC or Memory Stick PRO Duo cards. The E-450 features dual card slots, which can be very useful in case a memory card fails. In contrast, the A7R II only has one slot.
For some imaging applications, the extent to which a camera can communicate with its environment can be an important aspect in the camera decision process. The table below provides an overview of the connectivity of the Olympus E-450 and Sony Alpha A7R II and, in particular, the interfaces the cameras (and selected comparators) provide for accessory control and data transfer.
Olympus E-450 Y - / - - - - 2.0 - - -
Sony A7R II Y stereo / mono Y Y micro 2.0 Y Y -
Canon G12 Y stereo / mono - - mini 2.0 - - -
Canon 1000D Y - / - - - - 2.0 - - -
Nikon D3000 Y - / - - - - 2.0 - - -
Panasonic G10 Y mono / - - - mini 2.0 - - -
Panasonic G2 Y stereo / mono - - mini 2.0 - - -
Sony A7R III Y stereo / mono Y Y micro 3.1 Y Y Y
Sony A99 II Y stereo / mono Y Y micro 2.0 Y Y Y
Sony A7S II Y stereo / mono Y Y micro 2.0 Y Y -
Sony A7R Y stereo / mono Y Y micro 2.0 Y Y -
It is notable that the A7R II offers wifi support, which can be a very convenient means to transfer image data to an off-camera location. In contrast, the E-450 does not provide wifi capability.
Both the E-450 and the A7R II have been discontinued, but can regularly be found used on ebay. The A7R II was replaced by the Sony A7R III, while the E-450 does not have a direct successor. Further information on the features and operation of the E-450 and A7R II can be found, respectively, in the Olympus E-450 Manual (free pdf) or the online Sony A7R II Manual.
So what is the bottom line? Is there a clear favorite between the Olympus E-450 and the Sony A7R II? Which camera is better? Below is a summary of the relative strengths of each of the two contestants.
Reasons to prefer the Olympus E-450:
Less heavy: Is lighter (by 185g or 30 percent) and hence easier to carry around.
Easier fill-in: Is equipped with a small onboard flash to brighten deep shadow areas.
More heavily discounted: Has been available for much longer (launched in March 2009).
Advantages of the Sony Alpha A7R II:
More detail: Has more megapixels (42.2 vs 10MP), which boosts linear resolution by 110%.
Better low-light sensitivity: Can shoot in dim conditions (2.7 stops ISO advantage).
Broader imaging potential: Can capture not only stills but also 4K/30p video.
Faster burst: Shoots at higher frequency (5 vs 3.5 flaps/sec) to capture the decisive moment.
More modern: Reflects 6 years and 2 months of technical progress since the E-450 launch.
If the count of relative strengths (bullet points above) is taken as a measure, the A7R II is the clear winner of the contest (24 : 8 points). However, the relevance of individual strengths will vary across photographers, so that you might want to apply your own weighing scheme to the summary points when reflecting and deciding on a new camera. A professional wildlife photographer will view the differences between cameras in a way that diverges from the perspective of a family photog, and a person interested in architecture has distinct needs from a sports shooter. Hence, the decision which camera is best and worth buying is often a very personal one.
E-450 08:24 A7R II
How about other alternatives? Do the specifications of the Olympus E-450 and the Sony A7R II place the cameras among the top in their class? Find out in the latest Best DSLR Camera and Best Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Camera listings whether the two cameras rank among the cream of the crop.
In any case, while the comparison of the spec-sheets of cameras can offer a general idea of their imaging potential, it says little about, for example, the shooting experience and imaging performance of the E-450 and the A7R II in practical situations. User reviews that are available, for instance, at amazon can sometimes shed light on these issues, but such feedback is all too often partial, inconsistent, and inaccurate.
This is why hands-on reviews by experts are important. The following table reports the overall ratings of the cameras as published by some of the major camera review sites (amateurphotographer [AP], cameralabs [CL], digitalcameraworld [DCW], dpreview [DPR], ephotozine [EPZ], photographyblog [PB]). As can be seen, the professional reviewers agree in many cases on the quality of different cameras, but sometimes their assessments diverge, reinforcing the earlier point that a camera decision is often a very personal choice.
Olympus E-450 .. .. .. .. 4/5 4/5 Mar 2009 499 ebay.com
Sony A7R II 5/5 + + 5/5 90/100 5/5 5/5 Jun 2015 3,199 ebay.com
Canon G12 4/5 + .. 73/100 4.5/5 4.5/5 Sep 2010 499 ebay.com
Canon 1000D .. 82/100 .. + + 3.5/5 4.5/5 Jun 2008 449 ebay.com
Nikon D3000 .. + .. 72/100 4/5 4.5/5 Jul 2009 599 ebay.com
Olympus E-600 .. .. .. .. .. 4.5/5 Aug 2009 449 ebay.com
Olympus E-620 3/5 88/100 .. 72/100 4.5/5 5/5 Feb 2009 699 ebay.com
Olympus E-420 .. 85/100 .. + + 4/5 4.5/5 Mar 2008 599 ebay.com
Olympus E-520 .. 87/100 .. + + 4.5/5 4.5/5 May 2008 699 ebay.com
Panasonic G10 3/5 .. .. 70/100 4/5 4/5 Mar 2010 499 ebay.com
Panasonic G2 .. .. .. 72/100 4/5 4.5/5 Mar 2010 599 ebay.com
Sony A7R III .. + + 4/5 90/100 4.5/5 5/5 Oct 2017 3,199 ebay.com
Sony A99 II .. .. 4.5/5 85/100 4.5/5 4.5/5 Sep 2016 3,199 ebay.com
Sony A7S II 5/5 + .. .. 4.5/5 5/5 Sep 2015 2,999 ebay.com
Sony A7R 5/5 + + .. 82/100 4.5/5 5/5 Oct 2013 2,2 | 5,598 |
Streak Stops at Six for Sioux Falls Skyforce<|fim_middle|> Hustle on Saturday night. Next up for the Blue is a road tussle against the Texas Legends tonight (Friday November 16).
Source: Streak Stops at Six for Sioux Falls Skyforce
Categories: Articles, Sports |
Dan Peters Published: November 16, 2018
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In a clash of unbeaten teams, the home team prevailed as the Oklahoma City Blue topped the Sioux Falls Skyforce 140-121 on Thursday night at the Cox Convention Center.
Much like the game on Monday where the final score was not a reflection of the game as a whole, Oklahoma City (5-0) pulled away late to grab the victory missing only twice from the floor during the final five minutes of the contest and posting a 49-21 advantage in the final frame.
Each team held and surrendered double digit leads throughout the course of action and it was a nine-point lead for Sioux Falls (6-1) entering the final period. Within three and a half minutes the lead was erased and the final 22-5 outburst by the Blue put the game out of reach.
Former Skyforce forward Scotty Hopson led the Blue with 27 points while hitting 9 of his 10 shots from the floor while adding 7 rebounds and three steals. Two players came off the bench to supply more scoring as Bryce Alford put up 22 points and Tyler Davis supplied 21 points and 10 rebounds.
Sioux Falls had four players cross the 20-point threshold as DeAndre Liggins stroked a season-high 25 points with 6 assists and Raphiael Putney also tallied 25 points with 6 rebounds and 2 blocks. Rodney Purvis also scored 21 with 7 rebounds and Yante Maten finished with 20.
Sioux Falls will finish their road trip with a stop in Memphis to play the | 357 |
Many people who meet me are surprised to find out that I am a New Yorker, born and bred<|fim_middle|> and my two adult children. My favorite pastimes include, but are not limited to, spending time with friends and family, walking, hiking, travel, and meeting new people.
Now that my children are gainfully employed, I hope to embark on travels to far-away continents and immerse myself into each new culture by embracing their food. My other guilty pleasures include visiting national baseball parks and seeking out "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" recommendations. Recently, I enjoyed a family vacation to Sedona which included a hike along the Grand Canyon rim and eating at a "Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives" establishment, combining many of my favorite pastimes! | . Being from New York is something I am proud of, particularly because of the energy, innovation, and compassion that NYC and its surrounding areas bring forth. I find the same sense of energy, innovation, and compassion working at Unified Retirement Planning Group (URPG) since its inception in 2016.
I believe my life experiences have led me to work at URPG. My entire professional career, over nearly three decades, has been centered around retirement plans and retirement planning. I have held both individual contributor and leadership roles within client services, retirement products, and product development at TIAA and Smith Barney, respectively. My Charter Retirement Planning Counselor℠ (CRPC®) designation from the College for Financial Planning® helps me navigate through the complex issues surrounding retirement planning for our client base. Also, the oversight knowledge gained from my registered principal registration through FINRA is reflected in the strategic and special client programs developed for URPG. Even my prior membership with the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) has contributed to insights about operational risk management for our company.
What I find most enjoyable is being able to incorporate creativity and 'thinking out of the box' to a variety of initiatives and projects at URPG. I often think if I wasn't in financial services, I could have been an artist or an engineer. However, I always return to my initial passion, and that is my interest in working with people, which is why I earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. I personally enjoy the challenge of finding new ways to delight our clients in creative ways and to incrementally improve their experiences with URPG. Additionally, I hope to develop a client specialty that focuses on the retirement income needs of women investors.
I am a firm believer of giving back, particularly to the underserved and the community. I am an active board member of KEEPS, Inc., an after-school program for grade-school children. As a working mother, who had to rely on friends, family and the community for childcare, I believe in caring for our children pays unmeasurable dividends for the future.
In my spare time, I enjoy spending time with my husband, Rick | 442 |
IWC Schaffhausen has released the Ingenieur Chronograph "Tribute to Nico Rosberg" to honour the world champion 2016 Formula 1 driver Nico Rosberg. The<|fim_middle|> with the "NICO" lettering from Rosberg's helmet.
Limited to 23 watches, the Ingenieur Chronograph "Tribute to Nico Rosberg" (Ref. IW380805) recalls Rosberg's 23 Grand Prix wins. The case is made of 18-carat red gold, the dial is slate-coloured and the hands are gold-plated. The watch is driven by an IWC-manufactured 69375 calibre, a robust chronograph movement with a column-wheel control device. The bidirectional pawl-winding system generates a power reserve of 46 hours. An elegant sports watch, the Ingenieur is fitted with a grey calfskin strap. As a real highlight, the see-through sapphire-glass back is printed with the emblematic "NICO" lettering.
The Ingenieur Chronograph "Tribute to Nico Rosberg" will be available in IWC boutiques and from authorized IWC retailers from December 2017.
With a clear focus on technology and development, the Swiss watch manufacturer IWC Schaffhausen has been producing timepieces of lasting value since 1868. The company has gained an international reputation based on a passion for innovative solutions and technical ingenuity.
One of the world's leading brands in the luxury watch segment, IWC crafts masterpieces of Haute Horlogerie at their finest, combining supreme precision with exclusive design. As an ecologically and socially responsible company, IWC is committed to sustainable production, supports institutions around the globe in their work with children and young people, and maintains partnerships with organizations dedicated to environmental protection.
Charles Leclerc: "Formula 1 is a sport I admire" | IWC-manufactured chronograph with an 18-carat red gold case was designed by Rosberg in collaboration with Christian Knoop, Creative Director at IWC Schaffhausen. A special feature of this watch is its see-through sapphire-glass back, which is printed | 57 |
Part 2, and Tray 2 of the Coastal Scents 252 Ultimate Palette review.
You can read the review of formula review and the colour of the Tray 1 and Tray 3 in the links.
I will be swatching and review this tray starting from the top left corner to the bottom right corner on a diagonal from left to right upwards (60 degree angle) as that seems to the natural flow of the shades on this palette.
Vanilla Sky is a soft off white with a satin finish.
Polished Ivory is soft ivory with a satin finish.
Lemon Chiffon is a creamy white with a warm tone with a satin finish.
Orange Mousse is a bright pastel orange with a matte finish.
Solar Flare is a vibrant canary yellow with a pearl finish.
Sunbeam is a soft pale pastel yellow with a matte finish.
Golden Buttercup is a light warm golden with a frost finish.
Champagne Orange is a pale orange hue with a satin finish.
Pale Daffodil is a light golden yellow with a satin finish.
Citron is an airy yellow shade with a pearl finish.
Venetian Gold is a rich pure yellow golden with a frost finish.
Autumn Sun is rich, dark golden-yellow hue with a shimmer finish.
Mimosa A delightful, golden-orange hue with a satin finish.
Sunflower Petal is a rich canary yellow with a matte finish.
Electric Pineapple is a light but bright yellow with a matte finish.
Deep Cantaloupe (ME26) is a bright orange with gold shimmery.
Seaside Bronze is a yellowed warm golden with a shimmer finish.
Dreamsicle is alight pastel ripe orange with a shimmer finish.
Miss Marigold is a subtle orange based yellow with a shimmer finish.
Cantaloupe Slice which is a perfect name as it's pastel yellow orange with a matte finish.
Bahama Mama is a bright yellow with an orange base.
Finish : Satin but more like a pearl.
Tangerine Dream is a luminous orange with a shimmering finish.
Dark Mango is a vivid cara cara orange shade with a matte finish.
Peach Brew is a rich orange/peach shade matte finish.
Orange Crush is a bright true navel orange with a matte finish.
Marmalade is a slightly darker mandarin orange shade with a matte finish.
Phoenix Sun is a blazing metallic orange.
Tangelo Tint is bold yellow based orange with a smooth matte finish.
Pure Bronze is a rich more brown then bronze shade with a metallic finish.
Coral Treasure a pale terracotta with a satin finish.
Aurora Orange A vibrant coral red matte with shimmering silver sparks.
Finish : Shimmer but the silver shimmer disperse while working with it and your left with the base matte shade.
Fire Glow is a fiery orangey/red with a frost finish.
Fireside is a warm blush red hue with silver sparks.
Finish : Matte but the silver shimmer disperse while working with it.
Volcanic Blast is a orange based red with a matte finish.
Atomic Apricot a bright but nor glaring peachy-orange with a shimmery finish.
Georgia Peach a shimmery true peach with a pearl finish.
Feisty Fuchsia is a soft but bright fuchsia pearl finish.
Island Coral is a bright coral pink with a matte finish.
Coral Blossom is a soft blushed<|fim_middle|> but all of them applied and blended beautifully! | coral with a satin finish.
Scorched Red is a deep burnt merlot red with a satin finish.
Baked Clay is a bright orange-red with a smooth, matte finish.
Hot Tamale is deepened red magenta with a matte finish.
Rustic Maroon is a vivid petal pink shimmery silver white sparkle.
Vibrant Pink is a popping magenta pink with a matte finish.
Wine Berry is a rich magenta with a pearl finish.
Vibrant Maroon is a pink based maroon wit a touch of white shimmer.
Finish : Satin but more like a matte.
Redstone is a rusty brick red hue with a pearl finish.
Sundried is a baked neutral brow with a red undertone base.
Vibrant Red is a lively blue based red with a matte finish.
Hollywood Cerise is a rich deep pink with a matte finish.
Pompano Pink is a rich fuchsia with a smooth, satin finish.
Vampy is deep violet red with a pearl finish.
Harvest Brown A rich buckwheat with a matte finish.
New Terrain is a deep neutral brown with a matte finish.
Victorian Ruby is a deep ruby red with a metallic finish.
Pomegranate Red is deep neutral red hue with a matte finish.
Raspberry Tart is a rich berry red hue with a frost finish.
Chocolate Berry (S28) is rich blackened maroon with brown undertones and a satin finish.
Rich Walnut is a rich warm brown hue with a pearl finish.
Cinnamon Stone is a cinnamon bark brown with a satin finish.
Canyon Coral is a rich bronze with a red base and a pearl finish.
Vintage Burgundy is a deepened burgundy shade with a pearl finish.
Spiceberry is a lively burgundy-red hue with gold shimmer.
Wild Raisin is burnished burgundy with a matte finish.
Deep Merlot is a blackened burgundy with silver shimmer.
Barista is a warm mid-tone brown hue with a matte finish.
Earth Rose is warm dusty red brown with a satin finish.
Chocolatier is a red base chocolate brown with a matte finish.
Panama Rose is a berry violet with a pink undertone.
Southern Wood is a rich, shimmering warm brown.
Miami Spice is a deep tan brown with shimmering blue sparks.
Finish : Shimmer but more like a matte as the blue sparkles really need a base to stick to.
Caramelized is a rich light bronzed with a metallic finish.
Burnished Wine is a muted burgundy brown with a frost finish.
Amaretto is a rich warm brown with a frost finish.
Root Beer is rich copper brown with a frost finish.
Chai Spice is a deep camel brown with a pearl finish.
Victorian Pear is a creamy muted tan with pearly pale green tint.
Sand Dune is a pale taupe ecru with a smooth satin finish.
Caramel Ice is a icy warm champagne with a pearl finish.
Polar Bare is an icy white with a satin finish.
Bombay is warm pastel grey with a matte finish.
Ivory Dust is soft off white with pale gold shimmer with a satin finish.
Tray 2 is a really well done palette of cream, yellow, orange, coral, pink, red, burgundy, warm tone purples, taupe, and cool tone brown hues. There was maybe 3 truly sheer shade in this one | 701 |
The VisionMount LT25 is a tilting wall mount for large flat-panel TVs. Sanus Systems<|fim_middle|> lbs. | � Virtual Axis� tilting technology provides effortless adjustment of viewing angle without the use of tools. ProSet� post-installation height and leveling adjustments ensure TVs are always perfectly positioned after hanging. The innovative ClickStand� feature holds the TV away from wall for easy cable installation and maintenance, then snaps shut to secure the TV to the wall plate. The LT25 features an open wall plate design that provides ample room for cable routing, and ClickFit� technology allows a surge protector to attach easily to the center of the mount, so it stays hidden yet easily accessible. The TV can also be shifted left and right on the wall plate for perfect placement, even with off-center studs. Extruded aluminum wall plate construction is strong and lightweight, making installation a breeze. Universal mounting pattern fits virtually any 30- to 60-inch flat-panel TV up to 175 | 177 |
Introducing another little pod system developed for new vapors and veterans whom like an on the go option.
The Aspire Spryte is an all in one POD system that is sleek, low profile yet stylish.
The Aspire Spryte comes in 5 different colours to<|fim_middle|>X1 (New) Aspire BVC NIC SALT 1.2ohm coil. | satisfy everybody's tastes.
The Aspire Spryte has an easy to fill 2ml TPD Compliant Pod, it sits very comfortable in the hand and is low profile.
Everybody knows how well the original Aspire BVC coils work. We are pleased to say they will power the Spyrte and we are also introducing a new 1.2ohm BVC coil for NIC SALT users.
The spryte has an internal 650mah battery which is plenty for vaping with these coils. It can be charged rapidly via micro USB at a maximum rate of 1Amp. The LED gives clear indication of when the device is charging and of course completed the charging cycle.
X1 Aspire Spryte AIO Pod System.
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Bernie Sanders Draws Over 1,500 for Dartmouth Forum
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, speaking Thursday night at Dartmouth to one of his biggest New Hampshire crowds since he entered the Democratic presidential primary race, declared that he was a fringe candidate no more.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders addresses a full house Thursday night at Spaulding Auditorium in the Hopkins Center for the Arts. (Photo by Robert Gill)
"When we began we had no money, no organization, and very little name recognition. Other than that we were in pretty good shape," Sanders said.
"And we were running against a candidate called the inevitable Democratic nominee," he said.
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"A lot has changed," he shouted, prompting an eruption of cheers from the boisterous crowd in Spaulding Auditorium<|fim_middle|> idea. Maybe, just maybe, we should be investing in jobs and education for our young people, not jail and incarceration," he said.
He told the audience that all these changes depend on their commitment to vote in the primary.
"On Feb. 9, the eyes of the nation, and the world, will be on New Hampshire. If they vote for change, I see a path to victory," Sanders said.
Ebenezer Bulcha '19 got into line for the event five hours before the doors opened so he could get a seat on the risers set up on the stage behind Sanders. He is a registered New Hampshire voter and he said he would cast his first-ever ballot for president for Bernie Sanders.
"It was an incredible experience to be on the stage with him. Just seeing him in person and hearing his take on the issues and how his agenda aligns with mine, it adds a lot and makes it a lot more real," Bulcha said. "I definitely feel the Bern."
Sanders greets students and other members of the community after the event. (Photo by Robert Gill)
Bill Platt
Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences | .
Sanders' appearance, hosted by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Tuck School of Business, attracted nearly 2,000 people, with Spaulding and an overflow area in Moore Theater filled to capacity and hundreds more mingling in a festival atmosphere outside.
With less than a month to go before the vote in New Hampshire, polls show Sanders and Hillary Clinton in a tight battle to win the first-in-the-nation Democratic primary.
In a press conference before the Dartmouth event, former U.S. Sen. Paul Kirk of Massachusetts, past chair of the Democratic National Committee and a Kennedy family confidant, endorsed Sanders.
In his introduction of Sanders in Spaulding later, Kirk said the Vermont senator is the only candidate who will take on the broken campaign finance system that enables "unlimited torrents of funds from the super wealthy to poison the politics of our democracy."
Sanders told the crowd that before he entered the race, the political establishment considered him a radical fringe candidate who wouldn't go far.
"You want a radical idea? How about an economy that works for the middle class rather than a handful of billionaires," Sanders boomed over cheers as supporters waved signs reading "Enough is Enough" and "Feel the Bern."
A lot has changed," Sanders shouted Thursday night, prompting an eruption of cheers from the crowd in Spaulding Auditorium. (Photo by Robert Gill)
Speaking for more than an hour and a half, Sanders called for a single-payer universal Medicare system to replace all private insurance, a national $15 an hour minimum wage and three months of paid family leave for all, police reform, and the decriminalization of marijuana.
"Here's another radical | 344 |
The association between preoperative cardiopulmonary exercise test variables and short-term morbidity following<|fim_middle|>/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2700/2746
10.1016/j.surg.2019.02.001 | oesophagectomy:A hospital-based cohort study
Lam, Stephen, Alexandre, Leo, Hardwick, Guy and Hart, Andrew R. (2019) The association between preoperative cardiopulmonary exercise test variables and short-term morbidity following oesophagectomy:A hospital-based cohort study. Surgery, 166 (1). pp. 28-33. ISSN 0039-6060
PDF (Accepted_Manuscript) - Submitted Version
Background: Postoperative complications after esophagectomy are thought to be associated with reduced fitness. This observational study explored the associations between aerobic fitness, as determined objectively by preoperative cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPEX), and 30-day morbidity after esophagectomy. Methods: We retrospectively identified 254 consecutive patients who underwent esophagectomy at a single academic teaching hospital between September 2011 and March 2017. Postoperative complication data were measured using the Esophageal Complications Consensus Group definitions and graded using the Clavien-Dindo classification system of severity (blinded to cardiopulmonary exercise testing values). Associations between preoperative cardiopulmonary exercise testing variables and postoperative outcomes were estimated using logistic regression. Results: A total of 206 patients (77% male) were included in the analyses, with a mean age of 67 years (SD 9). The mean values for the maximal oxygen consumed at the peak of exercise (VO 2peak) and the anaerobic threshold were 21.1 mL/kg/min (SD 4.5) and 12.4 mL/kg/min (SD 2.8), respectively. The vast majority of patients (98.5%) had malignant disease—predominantly adenocarcinoma (84.5%), for which most received neoadjuvant chemotherapy (79%) and underwent minimally invasive Ivor Lewis esophagectomy (53%). Complications at postoperative day 30 occurred in 111 patients (54%), the majority of which were cardiopulmonary (72%). No associations were found between preoperative cardiopulmonary exercise testing variables and morbidity for either VO 2peak (OR 1.00, 95% CI 0.94–1.07) or anaerobic threshold (OR 0.98, 95% CI 0.89–1.09). Conclusion: Preoperative cardiopulmonary exercise testing variables were not associated with 30-day complications after esophagectomy. The findings do not support the use of cardiopulmonary exercise testing as an isolated preoperative screening tool to predict short-term morbidity after esophagectomy. This modestly sized observational work highlights the need for larger studies examining associations between preoperative cardiopulmonary exercise testing and outcomes after esophagectomy to look for consistency in our findings.
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Bonanza Bros. (SG)
Bonanza Bros. sticks closely to the early '90s game design bible, which states, "Thou shalt not burden thine audience with a story."
Contributed by Shawn Sackenheim on February 1st, 2006 in Categories ReviewsWith content involving Tags action games, Bonanza Bros., low replay value, Metal Gear Solid, minimal sound effects, primitive graphics, Sega Genesis, Shawn Sackenheim, varied levels
System: Sega Genesis
Max Players: 1-2
US Release: May 1991
Developer: Sega
Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear series predates Bonanza Bros. by several years, but I can't help think the latter may have provided some of the inspiration for Metal Gear Solid. In the heyday of mindless action games, Bonanza Bros. presented an intriguing mix of stealth and puzzle gameplay, with plenty of comical touches. Guards can be knocked out rather than killed, and you can even sneak past them when their backs are turned. Your character can hug the walls to stay out of sight as enemies pass. Some guards carry riot shields, and all of them yell for reinforcements rather than trying to take you on alone.
The only thing missing is a convoluted story arc that deals in DNA, government conspiracy, quadruple-double agents, and homosexual innuendo. To that end, Bonanza Bros. sticks closely to the early '90s game design bible, which states, "Thou shalt not burden thine audience<|fim_middle|> the good adjectives have already been exhausted by | with a story."
Playing as one of the titular Bros. (or both, in two-player co-op), you're tasked with clearing out ten locales of precious bounty in just three minutes. There's slight suggestion that you're robbing from crooked counterfeiters and criminals, but really you're a pair of thieves, and that's all the motivation you need to get going.
The stages offer a surprising amount of variety, both in their design and presentation. Spanning multiple levels joined by staircases, zip lines, and spring pads, you're free to take any route you like to reach your goal. Along the way, you'll face several guards (some asleep on the job), patrol dogs, traps that you can spring on pursuing enemies, and classic gags such as the rake-in-the-face and the soda-can-slip that both stun you and alert nearby enemies.
With only three minutes on the clock, the game forces you to find the best path to locate the target objects, leaving enough time to get outside and escape in the Bonanza Blimp. This is where the game feels more like a puzzler than anything else. Though you can forge your own path through each stage, discovering the most efficient route quickly becomes critical. Timing your shots and jumping on and off of staircases are a few ways to save precious seconds, but other moments require patience. With time ticking away, you'll sometimes have to fight off the urge to run or attack, instead waiting for enemies to turn their backs or walk a little too close to a door (where you can smash them against the wall).
Though scaled quite a ways down from the arcade version, there are still plenty of fresh sights from stage to stage, be it the steely blues of The Mint or the brown tones and mine cars of the Underground Gold Bars. The characters are also a sight to behold, offering a strange mix of disjointed body parts and comical animations. Just don't look too closely at some of the details. Vehicles in particular look almost unrecognizable as you hop over what appears to be a big red rectangle and a blue trapezoid only to realize you've just left a parking garage. Eesh! The audio also suffers in translation with dull, sparse sound effects and only the most basic (though catchy) of tunes. Still, the gameplay holds it together and the changing locations keep things different enough to make it fun and playable even by today's standards.
Once you've trodden the best path for each stage, there's little left to do. You'll have spent a few days seeing all that the game has to offer while you revise and rework your strategies; but Bonanza Brothers' quarter-munching arcade roots still show through. Even the two-player co-op mode doesn't add much as the item placement and levels remain the same.
And yet, this is one of those games that I come back to at least once a year. The gameplay is still fresh (dare I call it Metal Gear Solid Lite?) and despite the archaic graphics, Bonanza Bros. remains a fun and unique play. Don't let the impersonal, middle-of-the-road score fool you—this is a definite for stealth fans that've missed it over the years.
GameCola Rates This Game: 5 - Average
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Fun Score: 8
Audio Score: 3.5
Visuals Score: 4
Controls Score: 9
Replay Value: 3
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Institute for Clinical and Economic Review to Review Drugs for Tardive Dyskinesia in Upcoming Report
– Report expected to include review of Ingrezza™, recently approved, and Austedo™, currently under FDA review; ICER's Open Input period now open until May 12, 2017-
Boston, Mass., April 21, 2017 – The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) will develop a report assessing the comparative clinical effectiveness and value of drugs to treat tardive dyskinesia, a condition characterized by involuntary movements that is associated, in many cases, with long-term use of antipsychotic medications. ICER's report is expected to review evidence on valbenazine (Ingrezza™, Neurocrine Biosciences), the first drug approved for tardive dyskinesia, along with deutetrabenazine (Austedo™, Teva Pharmaceuticals), a drug currently approved for use in Huntington's disease and under review by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for tardive dyskinesia. An approval decision for deutetrabenazine in this indication is expected by August 30, 2017. The report is also likely to include tetrabenazine (Xenazine®, Lundbeck), a drug approved for treatment of involuntary movements associated with Huntington's disease, but also used in patients with tardive dyskinesia. This preliminary list of drugs is tentative and subject to change as the scope of the review develops.
An "Open Input" period begins today, and comments on the topic will be accepted from all interested stakeholders until May 12, 2017 at 5 PM ET. The Open Input period is intended to allow stakeholders to share key information relevant to the development of the evidence report. During this time, ICER will also contact key patient groups and clinical experts to gain further insights.
For more information about the Open Input period, including further explanation of the types of information that<|fim_middle|> development of the report, visit ICER's website. ICER's Manufacturer Engagement Guide and ICER's Patient Participation Guide and Patient Guide to Open Input provide additional information for manufacturers and patient groups. There are no page limits to Open Input submissions, and input received will be incorporated throughout report development. All input can be emailed to publiccomments@icer-review.org and must be received by 5 PM ET on May 12, 2017 in order to be considered.
A Draft Scoping Document, which will provide more detail on ICER's proposed scope for the review, will be available on or about May 8, 2017 and will be open to public comment for three weeks.
The report will be the subject of a December 2017 meeting of the New England Comparative Effectiveness Public Advisory Council (New England CEPAC). During the meeting, the independent panel will deliberate and vote on the comparative clinical effectiveness, benefits or disadvantages, and contextual considerations of the drugs. The panel will discuss the implications of the votes for policy and practice with a roundtable including clinical experts and patients to provide guidance to patients, clinicians, insurers, and policymakers in making informed, evidence-based decisions related to use of the drugs.
The key dates for ICER's review of treatments for tardive dyskinesia are included below:
Open Input Period: April 21, 2017- May 12, 2017
Draft Scoping Document Posted: May 8, 2017
Public Comment: May 8 – May 26, 2017
Revised Scoping Document Posted: June 9, 2017
Draft Evidence Report Posted: October 2, 2017
Public Comment: October 2 – October 30, 2017
Evidence Report Posted: November 21, 2017
Public Meeting: December 5, 2017
Final Report Posted: December 21, 2017
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By Ty Kiisel, Forbes -- Although Bryan Brandenburg and Dan Farr don't wear a cape or tights, to comic book and sci-fi fans, they are superheros. Last year's inaugural Comic Con in Salt Lake City turned out much better than Brandenburg and his partner Dan Farr could have ever imagined. The idea of doing Comic Con was Farr's brainchild, and to be successful, they needed to turn a niche comic convention into a mass market Comic Con. They decided to take, what was then considered an unproven approach, and leverage social media to reach out to their core audience and entice them to help introduce Comic Con to the rest of the world.
Thinking outside the box isn't something new to most entrepreneurs. Brandenburg's creative use of social media netted Salt Lake Comic Con results even Superman would have been proud of. Before a single dime was spent on traditional advertising media, they'd sold half a million dollars in tickets. By creating content their audience would share for entertainment value on Facebook and Twitter, they basically sold more tickets than any first time North American Comic Con in history.
And, you'd be right. Brandenburg and company took an already popular event into a new market. Although Brandenburg correctly gives credit to the fact the event was in a new venue, there have been other first-time Comic Con events that didn't have the same level of success. Although being first to market is important, there are just as many wildly successful entrepreneurs who will tell you the way you go to market is just as important as being first. Sometimes doing it better than those who have gone before you is an incredible strategy for success.
"My partner Dan Farr created a potent roster of celebrity guests," he said. No matter how good your marketing machine is, you've got to have a killer product—something that is one of a kind. Farr took a 'Moneyball' approach to getting a cost-effective, highly marketable line-up that had something for everyone. He then leveraged his contacts and reputation to bring in a powerful platform to launch a brand new event.
"We created our own brand within the space," he added. Not content to simply be aligned with Comic Con, Brandenburg wanted to make sure his audience knew it was Salt Lake Comic Con. Because his audience was in Utah, he wanted to make sure they all knew the event was for comic book and sci-fi fans in Utah. William Shatner, Lou Ferrigno, Adam West, and Stan Lee (to name just a few) were coming to them, in many cases, for the first time in history.
No small business owner wants to be the "me too" guy. Brandenburg and Farr were able to establish their event as a unique and individual brand in a space that most would have suggested is already defined. Not one to sit on their laurels, his next event, a Comic Con Fan Experience (Fan X) will include Norman Reedus from the Walking Dead, many of the crew from Star Trek The Next Generation, and even the DeLorean from back to the future to name a few.
"Did you know on social media there are really only about 4-1/2 degrees of separation from you and everyone else in the world?" he asked. I didn't . By<|fim_middle|>. After all, who would Batman be without the Boy Wonder? Well-crafted, strategic, and shareable content can take your paid advertising efforts to the next level.
"We created content we felt our core audience would want to share," he added. Brandenburg wanted to make it easy for fans to share info about his event, so he and his team created very shareable content. Even though there is a lot of great imagery within the comic book, geek and pop culture universe, Brandenburg wasn't content to simply post pictures of Superman, Zombies, or Darth Vader. He added a sense of humor that gave his audience a reason to share.
"Know your customer inside and out," he says. "Understand their needs at a deep level. We did a lot of listening—nobody listens." He also suggests they found success by entertaining instead of selling. In other words, if all your customers hear is, "Gonna buy?" they probably won't.
Most small business owners will never organize an event for over 72,000 comic book and sci-fi fans, but that doesn't mean there isn't a lot to learn from Captain Kirk or the Incredible Hulk. Pulling off Comic Con is a serious endeavor that required Brandenburg, Farr, and their team to look at what others had done before and learn from tactics outsiders used to market their products and services. Then they architected a strategy that engaged comic book fans and movie fanatics to laugh, have fun, be entertained, evangelize and ultimately become customers.
Maybe Brandenburg and Farr deserve capes after all. | giving his core audience a reason to share information about Salt Lake Comic Con within their Facebook and Twitter stream, he was able to exponentially increase the reach of the advertising dollars they did spend promoting the event. By Brandenburg's calculations, leveraging social media saved him upwards of $5,000 to $15,000 in advertising dollars a week.
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IMF Extends Support for Senegal's Plan to Be Emerging Economy
AFRICA'S EMERGING ECONOMIES
IMF Survey : Senegal's Middle-income Drive Taps Experience of Peers
By Alexei Kireyev
IMF African Department
Low-income economy Senegal aims for emerging economy status
Reform challenges similar to other countries, not of same scale
Peer learning provides new form of hands-on assistance on key reforms
Low-income economies aspiring to make<|fim_middle|> the system for customs information management used in Senegal have proved broadly reliable for efficient and transparent budget and customs management. Peers and international experts outlined the benefits of alternative public finance and customs management systems.
• Peer guidance on reform of Senegal's energy sector was strategic: ensure universal access to electricity as a priority, even if the quality of services still can be improved; then take steps to raise their quality; and consider raising tariffs as a last resort, and only after the quality of services has been improved.
• On capacity building, the experience of Mauritius in attracting the diaspora with programs for young graduates, for example through public-private sector partnership projects, is particularly relevant for Senegal. Such an approach would reinforce the capacity of the civil service and raise the prestige of public service.
• Social protection is a critical companion for any successful reform. Good targeting and management would allow government transfers to become a reliable revenue flow for families in need. A register of the poor, properly established and maintained, would allow the authorities and donors to effectively channel help.
• Finally, strict monitoring of reforms is important.
Pierre Ndiaye, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Senegal
"Our delegation is definitely strongly encouraged by this meeting. We plan to respond favorably by strengthening the dialogue internally and developing South-South cooperation, especially with peer countries. We were delighted by the possibility offered by the Institute for Capacity Development to have training for Senegalese in areas key for our reforms. We particularly appreciate the possibility of integrating in these workshops peers from countries with experience of interest to Senegal."
Mutual benefits
The brainstorming benefited Senegal and the peer countries, helping to sharpen their thinking on reforms. Practical issues where peers learned from each other included ways to improve expenditure efficiency, setting up monitoring mechanisms, use of delivery units, project management techniques beyond cost/benefit analysis, the importance of political buy-in for project selection, mechanisms for project cancellation during implementation, and pathways to electricity sector reform.
Also, peer learning represents a cost-efficient tool for knowledge sharing. Participants in both the brainstorming and the Mauritius seminar suggested that existing multilateral platforms such the IMF's Africa Training Institute and regional technical assistance centers, and regional bodies such as the West African Economic and Monetary Union, could be used for more peer-to-peer learning and support, in person and online. By exchanging on these platforms, peer countries could not only learn from each other but also set common policy goals, sharing successful experiences with those facing similar challenges.
Bertrand Belle, Seychelles Ministry of Finance
"Divergence would occur on the strategies to implement certain measures. Although countries may diverge fundamentally, it is more comfortable to assume that the divergence occurs because of the differing contexts. Diverging on the basis of context negates the need to have diverging technical views, the latter of which is quantitative. This could end with a winner and loser and could lead to uncomfortable experiences."
Road to follow
These events helped establish guidelines for peer-to-peer learning.
• First, there should be natural affinities between participants: all peers should be equally interested in providing and receiving advice.
• The exchange should focus on practical solutions to specific reform issues. A list of specific reforms should be formulated by the interested peer, drawing on its own reform priorities.
To gain traction, discussions may focus on the components of reforms that participants are working on. As no country can excel equally in each area, the right counterparts from the leading peers should be invited for focused discussions. As no country can excel in all areas, peer learning discussion should also be selective and focus on the most successful and relevant reforms in individual countries.
For example, for Senegal these included the introduction of tax identification numbers, investment planning, tourism, and mobilization of the diaspora in Cape Verde; and elimination of subsidies and development of tourism in Seychelles.
The potential of peer learning from the expertise of Mauritius is particularly extensive and includes such areas as setting up credit information bureaus, modernization of land titling and registration, supporting young entrepreneurs, attracting young talent to the civil service, taxation of telecommunications, support for the tourism sector, creating zones with good business practices, certification of service standards in the public service, strengthening the capacity of the public administration, and public-private partnerships.
Ali Mansoor, Assistant Director, IMF African Department
"The peer learning approach is experimental for the Fund. It worked because Senegal was interested in learning from its peers. The three middle-income countries, on their side, found it useful to participate. The IMF was essentially a facilitator and played a key catalytic role in bringing together the officials, who had gone through a similar challenge, and providing a platform for expertise sharing. Fund and World Bank experts offered a broad prospective of best international practices. Now, it is for our Senegalese colleagues to make the best use of the advice they got."
The IMF is a clearing house for cross country experience and offers a unique platform for knowledge exchange. It can provide support through a range of instruments, including through strengthened policy dialogue, technical assistance from headquarters and regional centers, and facilitating future exchanges with peers.
The seven small middle-income countries that participated in the seminar in Mauritius are actively discussing next steps in their peer learning process, drawing a forthcoming book titled "Africa on the Move: Unlocking the Potential of Small Middle Income Countries (SMICs)."
The Senegalese authorities plan to continue engaging with a few comparator countries to develop an active peer learning effort. The next workshop is scheduled for early 2015, focusing on public-private partnerships and involving South Africa and Mauritius among other countries.
Another workshop on delivery units, with the World Bank and possible involvement of the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Mauritius, and South Africa could follow. Finally, these peer-learning discussions will contribute to a forthcoming book tentatively titled "Senegal Emerging: Unlocking the Potential of Low-Income Countries" ("Sénégal: La marche vers l'émergence").
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Last modified: 07.09.19 | a decisive stride toward middle-income status may learn a lot from the experience of peer countries that have made the move, brainstorming participants concluded at IMF headquarters in Washington, D.C
Power lines in Saint Louis, Senegal: peers urged Senegal to ensure universal access to electricity as a priority (photo: Mattes Ren/Zumapress/Newscom)
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Senegal's emerging status plan
Ghana's middle-income target
Rwanda's middle-income aim
A three-day peer-to-peer exchange "Transforming Senegal into an Emerging Economy" was organized by the IMF and the Senegalese authorities. Senior officials from Cape Verde, Mauritius, and Seychelles came together, in person and via teleconference, with the delegation from Senegal on December 15–17, 2014.
The event built on the model of a peer learning seminar in Mauritius a month earlier that explored the path for middle-income economies toward high-income status. That seminar brought together 18 senior officials from seven small middle-income countries in Africa at the Africa Training Institute in Mauritius. The participants agreed that peer learning offers untapped potential to help move reforms forward in their countries.
Exit the trap
The brainstorming aimed at supporting the Senegalese authorities in reforms needed for the success of their new development strategy, the "Plan Sénégal Emergent". The plan was discussed and supported by the IMF Executive Board in the context of Senegal's 2014 Article IV consultations. It is designed to help Senegal exit the trap of low growth and high poverty of recent years and make it an emerging economy within the next two decades.
Structured around several pillars—growth through transformation and diversification; human development and social protection; and better governance, peace, and security—the plan envisages reforms to unlock inclusive growth. Scaling up of investment—public and private, domestic and foreign—in growth-enhancing projects, infrastructure, and human capital would allow Senegal to move to middle-income status within the lifespan of the current generation.
Priority will be given to making delivery of public services more efficient, improving the impact of government spending through public financial management reforms, containing public consumption to generate the fiscal space for investment, and strengthening social safety nets.
Others have done it
Experience of other countries suggests that Senegal's ambition is achievable.
Between 1990 and 2013, about 40 countries across the world have achieved average growth in real per capita GDP of 5 percent or more (at purchasing power parity). International experience suggests that Senegal can be even more ambitious and lift its growth rate to 7 percent in the medium term, driven by domestic reforms and foreign investment–generated exports.
Although not all countries succeeded in all reforms, countries that Senegal could emulate include India, Guyana, and Sri Lanka. African "lion" emerging economies, such as Cape Verde, Mauritius, and Uganda, have also begun the journey already traveled by Asian "tiger" economies to move from low-income to middle-income emerging market status.
Khoudijah Boodoo, Board of Investment, Mauritius
"The path to reforms is full of challenges at the implementation phase. Issues are the same, irrespective of the country and level of development, although not of the same dimension— capacity to implement projects, monitoring, evaluation, budgeting. Peer learning is a good platform to focus on 'how-to' experiences. Hearing from practitioners helps understand challenges, learn from failures, and get different perspectives on issues."
Focus on 'how to'
From the outset, the Senegalese delegation emphasized that rather than discussing what to do, the brainstorming should focus on how to do it, as all priority reforms needed for Senegal are already listed in the Plan Sénégal Emergent. With topics selected by the authorities, sharing of first-hand experience by peers and experts generated the following priorities:
• Revenue mobilization is key for creating solid fiscal space to finance reforms. The idea of setting a unit focused on the link between information collection, tax control, and tax recovery was the main takeaway.
• The quality of public expenditure needs fundamental improvement. Identification of specific zones of efficiency would be the starting point incorporating also an eight-step project selection procedure suggested by the World Bank and already used in some peer countries. Technical assistance and periodic external evaluation would help ensure integrity of the processes.
• In public financial management, reliable information systems are critical. The Système Intégré de Gestion des Finances Publiques and | 924 |
Continuous Integration - Besides just checking in your code to a general repository, there's a huge benefit to have the repository's source code continually tested with a regular build. A simple build may just compile and run unit tests. However, by doing this whenever someone checks in new code, you can catch many errors because they propagate and do real damage. A popular (and free) Continuous Integration framework is CruiseControl.
Automation, especially of processes (such as with MSBuild). The point is that complicated processes are two tedious to repeatedly do manually. For example, a build process may take 30 minutes, and with Continuous Integration you may do this 20 times a day. There's simply no way to manage it without automation.
CallBacks and Ajax/Atlas related technologies. This changes how websites operate, from the postback model that sends the entire page back and forth, to a asynchronous request that sends just a small packet of data, which enables you to make a rich-UI.
Virtual Machines (such as VMWare) - I'm exploring this more, but essentially Virtual Machines let you make a "guest" image of a machine that runs in isolation on a host. This can be great for expanding your build process, testing in different environments, and studying applications with a ton of configuration to them (without messing up the main host machine).
Blog Aggregators - In our industry, learning is critical. If you stop learning, not only does the job become dull, you risk losing your job. Blogs are a great way to learn new quick and practical ideas from veterans in the trenches. A blog can publish info much faster than a book. Reading blogs is a great way to inject a bunch of new ideas into your head. The problem is that no one wants to manually check 20 different web pages, so you'll want a way to aggregate all the new blog posts into an easy-to-read inbox (as if they were email). Two free blog aggregators are RssBandit and SharpReader.
Visiting Tradeshows or users groups. Anytime you get out of your cubicle, and meet other experts face-to-face in the field, it will make you more confident. User groups are usually free, let you bump shoulders with other real people, and keep you in the loop about new technologies and trends. Along with reading high-profile bloggers, this helps you never to get "surprised" by some sudden technical development that changes how your app functions. It also gives you assurance in knowing how other people implement things.
All of these things are easy to get started, but they will fundamentally improve how you program. If you want to be a better developer, you'll get a high return from investing in these things.
Unit testing the database is hard - and there are mixed reactions to it. My take is that there could be legitimate logic in the database (transactions, SQL aggregations, reusable functions, complex SP like paging, etc...). The problem with unit-testing the database is creating a test database and filling it with data. At Paylocity, we created a tool called the MassDataHandler to help us unit-test our data layer. We recently open-sourced this tool, and you can download the beta here.
The MassDataHandler is a framework to assist with Database Unit Testing. The framework makes it very easy to insert test data into a database, which in turn makes it very easy to write database unit tests. The user merely needs to specify their relevant data in a simple XML fragment, and then the framework uses knowledge of the database schema to do all the grunt work and convert that XML data into SQL, from which it populates the database.
The XML fragments that contain the test data are robust and refactorable. You can include expressions like variables substitution and identity lookup, default row templates, and include statements to import sub-templates. Because the framework already knows the database schema, you only need to specify the relevant data, and the framework can auto-populate the rest of the row's required columns with dummy data.
Download the MDH Framework Beta here.
By making it so easy to insert and maintain test data, the MD<|fim_middle|>, and can pick up new concepts quicker. An older dev may be slower and while he knows the current concepts, can't pick up new ones (which is huge because the technology keeps changing, so you continually need to learn new techs).
A younger dev may be motivated (perhaps seen through extra-curriculars like open-source projects and articles). An older dev may be apathetic.
Of course "years of experience" matters - certainly you want senior devs and architects to be experienced veterans. But "years of experience" is only one factor to determine how qualified someone is, and it's a weak factor if two candidates are only a few years apart. Assessment tests, writing code on a whiteboard, checking for extra-curriculars, in-person interviews filled with conceptually questions, even certifications, etc... can all tell you much more about their skill level than "number of years".
On a a related note, it reminds me of back in 2002 when recruiters would say "This position requires 3 years of ASP.Net experience", and I explained to them that ASP.Net hadn't been around that long. "Years of experience" is a nice generalization, or minimum bar, but ultimately we're all trying to hire motivated and talented people - regardless of their years of experience.
I had the opportunity to publish an article for .Net Developer's Journal: Refactoring Your MSBuild Scripts.
There are already several basic tutorials for MSBuild, I wanted to write an article that was a little more advanced, and explain how to write better scripts.
Also, check out Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi's MSBuild blog: http://www.sedodream.com. He's written an entire book on using MSBuild.
Life is tough, and sometimes that forces us to make tough decisions. For developers under time and money pressure, that means occasionally writing code hacks that you're not proud of.
I've met some developers who think that the only reason that hacks exist is because other people are dumb. Certainly many hacks are caused by ignorance, but many are also caused by unrealistic time, money, or features constraints that pressure someone into writing bad code. The critics seem to think that if only the world were as smart as them, then all code would be perfect – just like theirs (sarcasm). Ironically, these critics never seems to have had to dealt with the pressure themselves – they can tell you how you're supposed to do it, or how their last company (that's 10 times bigger) did it, or what the "Best Practices" are, but they don't actually implement it themselves.
Acknowledge that it is not ideal, and identify the problems.
Ask if others have a better idea (that can be implemented under the same pressue).
Document your hack, ideally in the source code or wherever else it matters.
The first step brings everyone to the same page. The second gets others' feedback – maybe they know a helpful trick that will make everyone work. The third reaffirms to your fellow developers that while you're aware that this isn't ideal and you're not trying to hide it, the code needs to be completed and this gets it done. These steps require humility and confidence from the coder: they admit what they don't know something, but they can be confident that their approach at least solves the problem. Ultimately the company stays in business not by the critic who points fingers at everyone, but by the developer who makes the project work – even if it has an occasional hack.
Open question to readers - what do you think about hacks due to excessive pressure? Any interesting stories? | H framework helps you write database unit tests.
A younger dev may have worked 50-60 hr weeks. An older may have only worked 40 hr weeks (so the younger actually has more experience).
A younger dev may continually work on new features. An older dev may just do redundant work (so the younger actually knows more).
A younger dev may continually solve hard, new problems. An older dev may just copy and paste code (so the younger has better problem solving skills).
A younger dev may have a huge background in related technologies. An older dev may have slightly more "experience" in the specific requested technology - but nothing else (i.e. 5 years Java + 6 months C# is better than just 1 year C#).
A younger dev may have started programming when they where just 10. An older dev may have just started after college (so the younger actually has more experience).
A younger dev may just be smarter | 195 |
Tachymenis is een geslacht van slangen uit de familie toornslangachtigen (Colubridae) en de onderfamilie Dipsadinae.
Naam en indeling
Er zijn zes verschillende soorten. De wetenschappelijke naam van de<|fim_middle|> (Near Threatened of NT).
Soorten
Het geslacht omvat de volgende soorten, met de auteur en het verspreidingsgebied.
Bronvermelding
Dipsadinae | groep werd voor het eerst voorgesteld door Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann in 1835.
Verspreiding en habitat
Alle soorten komen voor in delen van Zuid-Amerika en leven in de landen Peru, Chili, Bolivia en Argentinië. De habitat bestaat uit vochtige tropische en subtropische bossen, graslanden en scrublands. Ook in door de mens aangepaste streken zoals weilanden kunnen de dieren worden aangetroffen.
Beschermingsstatus
Door de internationale natuurbeschermingsorganisatie IUCN is aan vijf soorten een beschermingsstatus toegewezen. Twee soorten worden gezien als 'veilig' (Least Concern of LC), twee soorten als 'onzeker' (Data Deficient of DD) en één soort als 'gevoelig' | 196 |
I have always been amazed at my daughters' creativity when it comes to performing. Whether they are playing with a toy microphone or a stick that they found on the ground, they seem to be able to sing and dance and laugh for ages without getting bored. There's just something about putting on a show with friends that sparks their imagination!
So what could be better than simply jamming with some music? How about a robotic best friend that wants to do it with you? Which is just what you'll find in the Fijit Friends!
The next generation of interactive friends, Mattel's new Fijit Friends are electronic toys that can talk, dance, and laugh right along with your child. The result? Not only entertainment but actual engagement on a whole new level!
The colorful, squishy skin enables lifelike movements and the jazzy dance moves, ability to recognize spoken emotions (and react appropriately), cute kid jokes, and more ensure that the fun continues long past a simple instance of playing one song.
When a Fijit Friends Party Pack arrived, both of my girls were thrilled to know that they were going to have a chance to play with these new characters as well as with their friends.
Fijit Friends come in four different color variations, each with a unique personality. As we looked over our new pals, Sage and Willa, the girls got even more excited to hear that Sage is an adventurous little explorer and Willa is a trendy fashionista.
When it came time to get to know them as we prepared for our Fijit Friends party, the looks on their faces were pretty priceless as they poked and prodded the rubbery material of the bodies and found that they really did respond to conversation. Little Sister B would give it a squeeze, listen to it talk, and then look at me wide-eyed in wonder!
After seeing how much fun we were having, when the day arrived for our party, we were ready to spread the Fijit Friends entertainment with our friends. It was such a beautiful day outside that we decided to meet at a park and hoped that the background noise wouldn't interfere with the interaction between child and toy.
Every child at our party wanted a chance to touch and hug and play with the Fijit Friends! The kids got into the fun right away by saying "Dance with me!" and enjoying the moving<|fim_middle|> adorable with these toys. They sure look like they had fun with these new toys. | and grooving that the Fijits would do. After dressing up in the boas, necklaces, sunglasses, and more, we were definitely ready to join in and dance along!
Oh yes, we were all getting into the Fijit fun.
I appreciated that we were able to play our own music (and the Fijits pick up on the beat) or that they contain their own, so that other than the toy itself, you really can have a dance party in nearly any location without needing to bring along other props.
Due to the commotion and background noise, it did seem that it got more difficult for Willa and Sage to understand the commands as time went on and we did have multiple instances where they would continue to ask us what we wanted to do even after having been told.
But in all, I was impressed with how well that the Fijits interacted and they did cause quite a bit of giggling while we tried out the "Chat with Me" and "Tell me a Joke" modes and got to talk about how we were feeling, where we were going, or hear things like, "What is green and loud?" pause "A froghorn!" The kids couldn't get enough and piled on plenty of kisses to show it!
In fact, as much fun as many of the girls had dancing and talking with Willa and Sage, they also really seemed to get into giving their squishy body hugs and laughing at their cute, robotic voices as well. It was as if they truly did find these little characters to be new friends!
For a fun and unique way to interact, Fijit Friends are an innovative toy that can provide an awfully entertaining experience. They laugh, they dance (sometimes so much so that they seem to get dizzy and fall down), they play music and rock out, they cheer you up with funny jokes... the list goes on and on. I think every child at our party left that day giggling and saying, "Hiya, Papaya!" which was a catch phrase of our little pals!
Designed for ages 6 and over, our group was a little on the young side for the Fijit Friends and that may have contributed to the issues that we had in getting them to react at times, as younger children's words aren't as clear. Since our party outdoors, we have also found that Willa and Sage respond better indoors, which makes sense that there isn't as much competing noise in the background.
In all, the girls really loved playing with the Fijit Friends and Big Sister E has asked time and again to play with them more and more! Retailing for $49.99 (or slightly less on Amazon), until the end of August you can receive free shipping on all four Fijit Friends on ShopMattel by using the code FIJITBL. I know that we'll be dancing along with our new pals for quite some time to come!
I wrote this review while participating in a campaign by Mom Central Consulting on behalf of Mattel Fijit Friends and received product samples, a party kit, and a promotional item to thank me for taking the time to participate.
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As you know you can invest or trade CFDs on Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. There are numerous companies offering cryptocurrency CFDs, including Ethereum CFDs.
Unlike other cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin or litecoin, the ripple wasn't invented to replace fiat currency. Instead, it uses the principles of the blockchain to facilitate faster, cheaper global payments for banks and other major institutions – acting as a competitor to existing systems like SWIFT. However, like its rivals, you can speculate on the price movements of XRP.
The first step to speculating on ripple is deciding how you'd like to take advantage of its price movements. You can trade ripple in one of two main ways: Buy ripple on an exchange, and hold it in the hope of selling it on for a profit Use leveraged trading to speculate on ripple price movements When you open a leveraged trade, you won't have to put down the full value of your position up front – so you can get much larger exposure without committing extra capital. Your profit or loss will be based on the full size of your position, though. So while profits can be magnified, so can losses. CFDs enable you to open leveraged trading positions on ripple, as well as bitcoin, ether, litecoin and more. Here's a quick introduction to how CFDs work.
In addition to its high reliability and not charging any commissions, there is an additional element which has been responsible for Plus500's great success: its free demo account. The demo account is a high-quality trading simulator which reproduces all of the same market conditions as a real money account. Although the demo account is only available in English, it does not have<|fim_middle|> devise a system that increases your percentage of profitable trades.
This enables you to set the conditions of all your trades optimally so that the chances are in your favor. Remember: Above all else, your goal is to stay in the game.
You can check a list of the Top UK Regulated CFD providers at FX4UK.com.
Trading CFD is easy, fast and professional with 24option.com.
You should note that the competition in the CFDs trading market is incredibly intensive. | any time or money limitations. The demo account will allow you to practice trading with Ripple, Bitcoin, stocks, commodities, currencies on the Forex market as well as other assets.
Based on the Ripple website, their concept is a "basic infrastructure technology". The idea of Ripple was developed in 2004 by Ryan Fugger from Vancouver, Canada. The currency was developed during the following ten years until finally, in 2014, various large banks started using Ripple and the related payment networks. The Ripple system offers numerous advantages to banks, like distributed ledgers, price, and security. The company behind Ripple is "OpenCoin". There are two separate entities that makeup Ripple:.
Do you offer educational material for CFDs? Yes. Whether you're new to trading or looking to refine your knowledge, we have a range of educational videos and online courses that will suit your needs. In addition, our experts run a series of webinars to help you broaden your understanding of CFD trading and seize market opportunities.
Both instruments allow the use of stop loss and take profit levels. This option can come in handy taking into account the unpredictable and highly volatile nature of the cryptocurrency market. By opening a take profit order, you determine the amount of profit you consider sufficient to exit a trader and close your position. Stop loss, in turn, is aimed at minimizing possible losses, letting you withdraw the rest of your funds when the price level hits a predetermined level.
There are a lot of brokers out there and some are better than others. The first rule is to always make sure that you use a regulated broker. Regulated brokers have to comply with strict codes of conduct designed to protect you and your money. When deciding on a broker you need to take into consideration any commissions, overnight fees, and extra risk management tools. It's also a good idea to take advantage of any free demo accounts before you commit to any one platform.
CFDs are leveraged trading instruments; they are traded on margin. Instead of paying the full value for the underlying shares, you pay an initial margin to open the position and are required to maintain some minimum margin level for open positions at all times. You may be required to satisfy the margin calls at very short notice, especially in volatile markets. If you fail to top up your margin when required, you risk having your position liquidated at a loss.
While CFDs offer an attractive alternative to traditional markets, they also present potential pitfalls. For one, having to pay the spread on entries and exits eliminates the potential to profit from small moves. The spread also decreases winning trades by a small amount compared to the underlying security and will increase losses by a small amount. So, while traditional markets expose the trader to fees, regulations, commissions and higher capital requirements, CFDs trims traders' profits through spread costs.
Active traders will remember clearly how ferociously stock markets fell at the start of 2016. You can see in the chart below, the S&P500 had successive lower highs and lower lows, as did the Dow Jones. But few would have guessed the market was about to have such a short, sharp fall in price.
The Ripple Platform is becoming one of the best payment systems in the world. It gives financial institutions the ability and advantage over competitors. It's a system that is centered around the Internet of value, meaning it should be as easy to transfer money as it is to move information during our age of technology. There should be no reason to pay high fees to transfer money, even on a global scale.
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CFD presents investors an opportunity to participate in the market trends whether it is a bull or bear market, even though certain stock exchanges may pose regulations that restrict short selling. For example, the ASX discourages naked shorting.
As with CFDs, spread betting is leveraged, which means you need to lodge only a certain amount. "The easiest way to place a bet on the market either up or down is spread betting, as there's no capital gains tax and no stamp duty," says Brown.
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A contract for difference (CFD) is a favorite sort of leveraged financial derivatives trading.
Online CFD trading platforms offer instant Access to any financial market in the world together with a full range of products, charting tools, and features.
Now retail traders can Experience powerful online platforms, and advance trading robots that apply pattern recognition scanner, price alerts, and module linking.
Your profit or loss is calculated by the difference between the value at which you open trade and the value at which you exit.
You should consider whether you can afford to take the high risk that CFDs trading carries.
What You should expect from Your CFD trading Platform.
Full-service CFD providers also offer a comprehensive set of charting and analysis tools.
Only trade positive expectancy trading systems.
If you're trading overseas, you'll want to do your due diligence, so you know your risks and potential exposure.
Australia has stringent requirements of brokers where funds held on deposit are concerned, so your funds will be quite safe.
CFD trading is essentially one-stop shopping for thousands of markets all over the world.
Metatrader 4 is one of the adored trading software packages out there, and often cited by professionals.
One of the coolest aspects of CFDs is that it provides you with the capability to replay" your trades and consider alternatives to the actions you took.
Fortunately, most online CFD providers do an excellent job at implementing free charting software that can turn those oceans of raw data into intelligence traders can use.
If you're trading at 10x leverage, then on average, you can expect a 1000% return.
Its primary purpose of stop-loss tools is to ensure that you win consistently by providing that your successful trades are vastly more profitable than your losing trades suffer.
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HOUSTON (June 26, 2017) – McCord Development, Inc., sole owner and developer of Generation Park, announces GHX Industrial, LLC as the anchor tenant of the new Lockwood Business Park,<|fim_middle|>way 8, Generation Park is an innovative business and lifestyle destination. The location offers five beltway intersections, 2.5 miles of beltway frontage, more than 21 miles of major thoroughfares and convenient access to all major land, air and sea transportation corridors in Houston. Home to 174 million square feet in innovative future developments, Generation Park is Houston's new business destination. For more information, please visit generationpark.com.
Headquartered in Houston, TX, GHX provides fluid sealing (gaskets), fluid transfer (hoses) and other products to a variety of industries including refining and petrochemical, upstream oil and gas, power generation, mining, agriculture and marine enterprises. GHX operates 46 locations throughout the United States www.ghxinc.com. | the first for-lease industrial project at Generation Park. GHX, a national value-added distributor and fabricator of industrial gaskets and hoses, is consolidating four Houston area facilities and their headquarters to the new industrial park.
Generation Park is a 4,000-acre commercial development located at the center of the Lake Houston community in northeast Houston. Lockwood Business Park, located at 13300 Lockwood Road, encompasses 25 acres in total and broke ground in March 2017. GHX's new facility will span ten acres in the business park, opposite TechnipFMC's 173-acre campus. The 143,500-square-foot facility will include 121,000 square feet of warehouse and shop space and 22,500 square feet of office space.
Construction on the GHX site began in May 2017 and GHX is expected to occupy their new facilities at Generation Park by the end of 2017.
Ryan Fuselier and David Buescher with JLL represented GHX. Method Architecture is the architect and Burton Construction is the contractor with financing provided by Woodforest National Bank. Lockwood Business Park has three additional flex-industrial buildings currently pre-leasing, two at 57,600 square feet and one at 44,800 square feet.
For more information about Lockwood Business Park and current leasing opportunities beginning at 6,800 square feet, visit GenerationPark.com or call 713.860.3000.
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Lauren's enthusiasm is endearing, not only is she hard working and thoughtful towards her guests, but her passion is contagious. This is important because the difference between an amazing experience and a mediocre experience is the level of dedication a guide has for their job.
"I come to places like this, completely unspoiled and untouched," Lauren said. "I get to share these wonderful little journeys with people. I love sharing that and meeting and exploring nature and learning and connecting together."
Connections and Genuine Friendships
While listening to Lauren talk about her job, it's easy to forget that she's carrying a 15kg pack on her back and has been walking all day. The job of a guide is certainly not for everyone, it's about being a giving and caring person. It goes beyond being responsible for the guests, it requires a willingness to connect with people authentically.
"After four days, you're like this beautiful little family with amazing new people that come from all walks of life, with their amazing journeys and stories to share," Lauren explained. "So that's why I have the most amazing job in the world."
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SELLAFIELD, England, Feb 24 (Reuters) Nuclear waste, the spectre haunting the industry, will not pose a problem if Britain decides later this year to build a new generation of nuclear power plants, scientists said.
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''To access these you would need an industrial set up like we have here. Anything less and the radiation would kill you -- and there would be no point in any case,'' he added.
The only question remaining, according to Fairhall, is whether to store the high level waste somewhere from which it may be retrieved in a few thousand years after it has lost its lethal potency or bury it forever.
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Growing up with a mother who couponed like a fiend made me forever averse to creating a grocery list centered exclusively upon sale items. Not only is the process tedious and time-consuming, but it also forces you to buy larger quantities of food than you need. All of these extra items then must either be frozen – which kills freshness – or eaten at once – which ruins the diversity of your meals.
Nevertheless, shopping sales can still be great way to save money at the grocery store. I recommend, though, that you only look for sales on items<|fim_middle|> certain items in a dish for similar ones that are on sale. Need some veggies for a roast chicken? During the fall, stick to root vegetables and Brussels sprouts, or go for squash, bell peppers and leeks in the summer. This way, you can still make your favorite dishes whenever you want, but you can use seasonal ingredients – which are often on sale – to save money and eat sustainably.
Incorporating seasonal items into your weekly menu can also help you learn more about local agriculture and support regional farmers. Apple and sweet potato farming, for example, were big business in my hometown, and this local produce would always be on sale during the early autumn. By shopping sales on seasonal foods, you can learn a great deal about what crops grow best in your area, and you can more easily support local agriculture.
Finally, just as shopping sale items encourages you to eat a variety of brands, it also pushes you to step outside of your culinary comfort zone and try new foods. I always enjoy seeing the wide array of fruits that come in season during the late spring, and my wife and I love sampling new varieties and types when we can. In fact, just last month we tried cape gooseberries for the first time, and if they weren't on sale and in season, I don't think we would have ever noticed them, let alone give them a try.
Shopping sales wisely can help save money on your weekly grocery bill, and it doesn't take the time and intense planning that couponing does. Instead, it promotes diverse eating and it helps support sustainable farming and local agriculture, all the while shaving off dollars at checkout. So keep an eye out for those yellow price tags, and see where sales can take you.
Thank you so much! I'm so glad to hear that others are shopping this way, and I hope more people get on board. | you already need to buy for the week. For instance, when my wife and I need to restock our olive oil or want to get a bottle of wine, we typically go for what's on sale. We don't get these items unless we need to, but when we have them on our grocery list for week, we can almost always find them at significantly reduced prices.
For lovers of brand loyalty, shopping this way means you cannot always buy the same products from the same companies month after month. Instead, spotting sales on items such as sauces, cereal, coffee or cheese encourages you to eat a variety of brands, which just might turn you on to a great – and sometimes local – producer you've never heard of before.
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Cornell kicked off its sesquicentennial celebration with its first regional event in New York City this weekend.
The University hosted two receptions and shows at Jazz at Lincoln Center — a matinee show with an audience of approximately 650 and a sold-out evening event with about 1,000 attendees — according to Janessa Ciaschi, sesquicentennial and communications for Cornell Alumni Affairs and Development.
The show — titled "The Big Idea!" — included live performances from both Cornell alumni and student groups, including a subset of the Cornell Glee Club, Cornell Bhangra and the Big Red Band, according to Ciaschi.
Michael Gross '15, alumni affairs officer for the Glee Club, said the energy from the alumni was palpable.
"We couldn't have asked for a better audience for our performance," Gross said.
Chandler Waggoner '15, a member of the Glee Club who performed at the shows, said that he was surprised by the large scale of the production.
Waggoner added that the show highlighted the University's future potential.
Darah Barnes '15, co-president of<|fim_middle|> to the University.
After six years of renovations, the Cascadilla Gorge Trail officially reopened to the public in a ceremony at Treman Triangle Park Monday afternoon. Several leaders affiliated with the City of Ithaca and the University spoke at the event, praising the reconstruction efforts and highlighting the trail's importance to both Cornell and the surrounding community. | Cornell Bhangra, said the opportunity to dance for so many alumni and celebrate such a momentous occasion was greater than she could have imagined.
Anne DiGiacomo '80, project coordinator for the sesquicentennial alumni events, said she has never seen the level of enthusiasm and celebration as was displayed by the participants of Saturday's two events in her 33 years at Cornell.
Dana Lerner '14 said, that as a young alumna attending Saturday's show, she felt proud to see so many alumni from all generations come together to celebrate Cornell.
"It shows that Cornell isn't just for four years, but for a lifetime," she said.
Cornell has surpassed its $4.75 billion fundraising goal for its "Cornell Now" campaign more than a year ahead of schedule, a feat that administrators say shows alumni support for the University's 21st century mission. By June 30, Cornell raised $4.79 billion dollars for the campaign — which aims to fundraise for the University's "top strategic priorities" — since President David Skorton kicked off the campaign in 2006, according | 236 |
(Stamford, CT) – Global Pet Expo 2018 is just around the corner and Show officials are proud to report that the Show will be<|fim_middle|>Global Pet Expo is open to independent retailers, distributors, mass-market buyers, and other qualified professionals. This show is not open to the general public. For more information, please visit www.globalpetexpo.org.
The American Pet Products Association (APPA) is the leading not-for-profit trade association serving the interests of the pet products industry since 1958. APPA membership includes more than 1,100 pet product manufacturers, their representatives, importers and livestock suppliers representing both large corporations and growing business enterprises. APPA's mission is to promote, develop and advance pet ownership and the pet product industry and to provide the services necessary to help its members prosper. Visit www.americanpetproducts.org for more information. | recognized at Trade Show Executive Magazine's (TSE) Fastest 50 Awards & Summit set to take place June 13-15, 2018 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago.
APPA and Pet Industry Distributors Association (PIDA) will present the industry's largest annual pet products trade show, Global Pet Expo, March 21-23, 2018, at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL. As the first industry trade show of the year, the 2018 Show will feature more than 1,200 companies from around the world, showcasing the latest and greatest products available for all types of pets including dogs, cats, birds, fish, reptiles, small animals and horses. The Show boasts more than 343,000 net square feet of exhibit space with more new product launches (over 3,000) than can be found at any other event of its kind.
The 13th Annual Show took place in March 2017, and featured 6,761qualifiedbuyers, 1,130 exhibitors and 3,437 booths sold – making for record-setting numbers. Total Show attendance came at 16,646, with 343,700 net square feet of exhibit space which was 24,000 feet larger than the 2016 Show. On a truly global front, 27% of exhibitors were international, making up 305 of the 1,130 exhibitors and more than 25% of buyers were from outside of the U.S., coming from 79 countries.
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PAONIA - Where did dinner come from?
These eaters know. Many of the nearly 100 people seated at a long, linen-covered table in a North Fork Valley farm field near Paonia are farmers themselves or winemakers from the area. Most of the others are their neighbors, well-acquainted with the valley's bounty.
The cooks know about the dinner's origins, too.
As the first class of Boulder's Culinary School of the Rockies' Farm to Table program, these 11 students have come by their knowledge the hard way, spending hours thinning carrots, picking vegetables and fruit, toting buckets of rocks to place around tomato plants for protection against the frost, and helping farmers get their produce ready for market.
During a nine-day stay in the North Fork Valley, the students often worked the fields all day and prepared a meal for 15 to 20 people afterward, ending their work only when the last dish and pot were finally washed.
They also saw pheasants and chukkas, a type of partridge, killed and dressed. And the day before this culminating dinner, most watched - although it was not required - the slaughter of part of the main course, one of two lambs roasted whole and served with locally grown potatoes.
Joan Brett, Culinary School of the Rockies founder, said the slaughter became part of the curriculum in an organic way, as she talked with local farmers about their work.
"It just seemed a natural part of the process, of really understanding where products came from,â she said.
The program teaches some other lessons, too: that honoring ingredients and where they come from, and buying from local farmers, takes a lot more time and care than tapping into the industrial food chain. And that after even the most grinding work and the best expression of culinary artistry, there's always another meal to be cooked.
Every person honoring the perfectly roasted lamb and savoring the sweet tomatoes, melon and peaches at the long farm table in the slanting golden light of Paonia would be hungry the next day. Consciousness about food is not just a fabulous meal, it's a life's work - both marveling at the vivid flavor of gorgeous produce, and knowing how animals live and die.
Student David Garfield, before watching the lamb slaughter, felt some trepidation but was determined, too.
"I feel like if I don't know were food comes from, I shouldn't be eating it,â he said.
The students got their start at Culinary School of the Rockies, which sits in a strip shopping center at 637 Broadway in south Boulder.
Students came from as far away as California and South Dakota, although several grew up in Colorado. One, Steven Youngman, had his first experience with serious cooking at age 12 in a Culinary School of the Rockies bread-making class designed for home cooks.
That long-ago class probably came in handy.
Months before the farm dinner, in just their second week of the culinary-school course, students had already made baguettes, letting one rise a few hours before baking and another rise overnight to learn the difference in taste and texture.
On one day in July, the students were divided into teams, each making their own version of several classic dishes: a cream of mushroom soup, a gratin, a salad with vinaigrette and grilled salmon from a whole fish they butchered.
The students came to the program with varying amounts of cooking expertise.
Instructor Michael Scott said previous experience can work against a student.
"It's harder to train them if they have bad habits,â he says.
The day's work was designed to teach improvisation. The students were given basic recipes, and set loose.
Once the basics are mastered, and palates are developed, a down-in-the-dirt look at how food is produced can show the time and effort that goes into every morsel. After returning from Paonia last week, the students began working on farms in Boulder County. In October and November, they will intern at restaurants that work with local farmers.
Brett picked the North Fork Valley for the extended farm stay after traveling around Colorado for 18 months, looking for a place with farms, orchards, wineries and a local chef to instruct the students.
She found a lightly-populated valley, dotted with the gold and green patchwork of field and pasture, and Hotchkiss chef Yvon Gros, of Leroux Creek Inn and Vineyards, who roasted the lambs overnight, rubbed with mint and garlic.
Gros and Brett watched the slaughter with the students.
For those unfamiliar with farming or hunting, it's a little jarring to hear the word "harvestâ - with its pleasant connotations of a kindergarten trip to the pumpkin patch - used in reference to killing an animal.
Yet, that's what it is, said Brett.
At 8:30 a.m. Sept. 15, the students parked at Zephyros Farm and Garden to see their dinner centerpiece killed. The farmers, Don Lareau and his wife, Daphne Yannakis, grow vegetables, fruit, flowers and hay. They raise a few sheep and goats as dairy animals and for their own use as meat.
Two lambs were brought up from the pasture in a cart, and Lareau introduced Peruvian shepherd Felipe Arbarca, whose family has raised sheep and goats for generations. Arbarca, who is in Colorado on a cross-cultural agricultural exchange program, used a sharpener to hone the small knife he uses for killing.
As they waited, the students had different reactions to the prospect of the slaughter.
"Oh I don't care,â said Karl Kriegh, a former Marine who most recently sold tape before coming to culinary school.
Cathy Wearp, who has moved to Colorado from California, decided not to watch the slaughter.
Two students, Youngman, the onetime bread student, and Carey Fusick, volunteered to hold the animal, whose legs were tied. The lamb lay calm as they stroked it to comfort it. Arbarca bent down, held the lamb's head gently and deftly slit its throat. All were mesmerized into respectful silence as the animal died.
"Lehman Brothers just fell,â said Kriegh, who had begun looking at news on his iPhone.
Youngman and Fusick stayed to help process the lamb, while the rest of the students headed to a restaurant kitchen to begin a monumental prep for the next day's grand meal.
When Youngman and Fusick rejoined the group, they were still depleted from the experience.
Fusick, who has worked as an EMT on ski patrol, said that as someone who has revived people when they were struggling to live, she felt conflicted.
"Feeling it take its last breath, I had to fight the instinct to save it,â Fusick said.
Yet she found her work on the farms in the North Fork Valley as deeply satisfying.
"It has changed my life,â she said.
After the slaughter, preparation for the dinner shifted into high gear. Students worked in a kitchen at Eleni's on the main drag of Hotchkiss.<|fim_middle|>, the rotisserie - powered by an electric motor that uses a fan belt and bicycle chain - turned the meat at a stately pace of a couple of seconds per link of the bike chain.
The students continued their work on the meal's final touches.
As the time for guest arrival drew closer, everyone pitched in on lettuce bundles with a chive tie, an appetizer to be dipped in a lettuce vinaigrette.
"Anyone making lettuce wraps that look really awful - stop doing it!â a student exhorted.
The guests began to arrive. Farming neighbors - generally too busy to do much socializing during growing season - strolled the path, munching on appetizers.
"We get to see our neighbors we never see,â said Pat Frazier, of Peace and Plenty Farm.
The guests sat down to eat and students worked frantically throughout the dinner, cooking Indian fry bread, bussing tables, refilling waters, serving platters, and plating the peach dessert.
The food was going fast, and it soon became apparent that the cooks would only have only scraps of lamb and other left-overs to eat.
Yet they had done what they set out to do.
Barbara and Ben Roder, visiting from Fond du Lac, Wis., were clearly moved by their Colorado experience.
"To come to a place like this and see white tablecloths in the middle of the field. It's amazing,â Ben Roder said.
As Chef Gros watched the dinner's progress and quaffed a glass of his own wine, he mused about what it means to cook and what working with the students has meant to him.
"Where did dinner come from?"
You remember that cow named Apple?
no, rock. Animals are animals, and humans are superior.
And I'm sure every factory farm strokes their animals to calm them before they are quickly and ceremoniously killed.
They wanna really know where there food comes from, they should go to pig farms where sows are beaten and sodomized and piglets are slammed into the ground, maybe killing them, maybe not.
No blacksho89, many humans are arrogant like you and have no clue. Animals are not objects and should not be eaten.
The growth of the human population-the planet cannot sustain a meat eater's diet for much longer. I'm sure people like blacksho8 will go for Soylent Green-until it is his turn to be the Soylent Green ingredient! | It had been closed, but is soon set to reopen.
Upon arrival, Chef Scott rallied the troops.
The school's other chef-instructor, Adam Dulye, divided the students into teams to set up prep and sanitation stations. Then the chopping, peeling, sautéing, roasting and mixing began.
While perhaps leisurely, the prep was nothing if not labor-intense. A salad of heirloom tomatoes and green beans took hours. Two students blanched and peeled tomatoes well into the afternoon, while another blanched beans and cut up vegetables for a rough ratatouille.
Nate Weir, who grew up in Haiti and has worked in restaurants, and Daniel Hughes, from South Dakota, were the garlic guys. Weir demonstrated a trick to make peeling cloves easier: putting several in a stainless steel bowl with another on top, and shaking hard until many of the peels detached. But more than an hour of knifework was still ahead.
By the end of the day, the two peeled nearly 10 pounds of garlic and made a garlic mint jam to serve with the lamb, along with a wine-reduction with jus.
As lunchtime rolled around, and the students were ravenous. With all the stunning produce in the kitchen, you'd expect a delicious meal.
Nope. Chef Dulye headed to the store and came back with DiGiorno pizzas.
The work continued into early evening. At the end of the day, peaches had been pureed for bellinis, bison meatballs were resting in jus, potatoes were par-roasted to be finished onsite, beets were julienned and dressed with vinaigrette. Shortbread cookies were baked to accompany peaches to be sliced later. Caramel peach sauce was ready. All sat neatly packed and labeled in the cooler.
The next morning students returned in a businesslike mood to prep for a couple of hours before heading to Zephyros Farm.
At the farm, one group quickly set up prep tables and unpacked food. Another set to work on the long, single table adjacent to exuberant rows of sunflowers, marigolds, a second planting of squash and cover crops that enrich the soil for next year's seedlings.
Chef Gros arrived to cook the lambs.
The roasting rig is an ingenious combination of junk you might find around the farm, a dumpster-like body with a rotisserie basket that rolls out of the top of the grill for loading. Once in | 510 |
All Blacks pay tribute to Maradona ahead of Pumas game
New Zealand captain Sam Cane laid an All Blacks No 10 jersey emblazoned with Diego<|fim_middle|>ata; we'd lost on the last ball," he said on Thursday.
"I crossed paths a couple of times, but not many. He had an attraction, the world stopped when he was there.
"He would watch tennis, hockey, rugby, football, whenever there was an Argentina jersey he was there and he was an example of how to represent that jersey."
Maradona was laid to rest on the outskirts of Buenos Aires after a ceremony attended by family and close friends, following a chaotic public wake. | Maradona's name in the centre circle ahead of their match against Argentina in memory of the football legend on Saturday.
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The 1986 World Cup winner, a rugby fan, died in his sleep on Wednesday aged just 60, plunging his South American homeland and football globally into mourning.
Both teams gathered in the middle at McDonald Jones Stadium in Newcastle, north of Sydney, ahead of their Tri Nations clash for the tribute.
It saw Cane symbolically place the shirt on the ground as a mark of respect ahead of their traditional haka.
There were suggestions that the 10 shirt of the Pumas' Nicolas Sanchez could be retired for the game in honour of Maradona, who wore that number when playing for Argentina.
But he donned it as normal.
"I think he's a legend for everybody, but in Argentina he was almost a god," Pumas coach Mario Ledesma, who played 84 times for his country, said shortly before kick-off.
"He had the capacity of getting everybody together so we will miss him."
Maradona was a huge fan of any Argentine sporting team, and Ledesma met him several times.
"He came to many games, and he came once to our changing room after a game against the All Blacks in La Pl | 269 |
Chicken is very versatile and may serve as the premise to make tasty and nutritious meals. There are plenty of steps you can take by using it. Let us take a look at preparation and cooking tips which will have you ever and individuals you share meals with super impressed together with your dishes.
Obviously, there are many more-involved recipes you can test out and test out. Let us proceed to the cooking phase.
Baking is really a convenient, non-untidy method to<|fim_middle|> now as after i was more youthful because I am watching my health insurance and waistline, but boy did I usually love the flavour and aroma of fried chicken.
This sears the chicken around the outdoors, passing on a crunchy or crispy texture, and keep it moist and tender inside. When grilling bbq chicken, make sure to have spare sauce to rub onto it in the finish of cooking as many will have burnt or fallen off. | prepare chicken. Easy cleanup too – just remove and discard the foil in the pan and you are finished. Preheat the oven (or even the toaster) to 375 – 425 levels, put the chicken inside a foil-covered baking pan and put within the oven. For skinny pieces, I'll usually prepare them at 375 for approximately 12 minutes. For thicker pieces the cooking temperature is going to be 425, between 15-20 minutes based on thickness. The primary worry with baking is overcooking, as chicken has a tendency to dry up within the oven if cooked too lengthy. Safe, cut a little piece to check. Bear in mind the chicken is constantly on the prepare after it's removed from the oven, so it's okay to get from the oven if slightly rare.
I'll sauté my chicken when I am within the mood for stir-fry. It is going fantastic with red peppers, onions and snow peas. I love to slice the chest into thin strips, which enables a lot of area to become smothered within the sautéing juices.
Fried chicken is really a classic. Roll or dip the chicken inside your favorite breading or batter and add in the deep fryer. Very little beats the flavour of powerful fried chicken. It cooks really quick within the deep fryer – usually 5 minutes approximately. You're certain to have juicy, tender chicken whenever you fry it since the batter and oil can help seal within the juices. I do not eat just as much fried | 319 |
Arundel-based classical singer and lyricist Carly Paoli was thrilled with her shortlisting in the first-ever Sound of Classical poll at the Classic BRIT Awards.
"It's quite special for the first album to get that kind of recognition," says Carly, who didn't win – but is revelling in the achievement.
"I put an immense amount of<|fim_middle|> London-based record company ABIAH, Carly released her debut album Singing My Dreams in 2017. The record charted at number two. | work into the album, and it is unique in that all the songs I recorded on it were performed first. I very much had creative control and managed the overall choices of the repertoire which is also quite unusual these days. It is that creativity that I have always had in my inner self and that I want to express in the songs. I would find it inhibiting if I was limited and told what I had to sing.
"It is a huge honour to be nominated, but it is the recognition really, especially as an emerging artist. I have done a lot of performances in Italy, probably more in Italy than in the UK. My most recent concert in the UK was at the Cadogan Hall, a day after Valentine's Day. There was a fantastic review in the Mail on Sunday with the headline 'Nobody does it better.' During the evening, it was the first chance I had had to sing songs from my debut album with a full orchestra as they should be done. Fingers crossed, I would now like to do more over here. I never came into it wanting to be a recording artist. I love to be on stage and to have that connection with the audience.
"And the next album is all ready to be released (on August 24), It is a live album, live at the Cadogan Hall from that night. It was such a wonderful show. The adrenaline was pumping.
"We were wondering whether it would be possible to have a DVD of that concert. When we finished it, there was nothing to tweak. There were no enhancements to be made. It just felt such a natural thing to do to turn it into a live album. It featured lots of songs that I have known for years, songs that have inspired me.
"The DVD will be at a later date. The album is very eclectic. It has got Dvorak's Song to the Moon and we have got Edith Piaf meets Broadway and also Disney classics, Disney through the ages, from Snow White going into Sleeping Beauty and coming right up to date with Alan Menken's Beauty and the Beast.
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Viewability's elephant in the room: Will advertisers pay more?
February <|fim_middle|>She even went as far to denounce the Media Rating Council's (MRC) viewability standards as not strict enough, saying they were "the lowest common denominator."
"I don't agree with the MRC's standards," Herskovitz said. "Its definitions of viewability don't make sense. They're not good enough. It's about being viewed, not served."
The MRC defines a desktop display ad as viewable if half of its pixels are in view for at least one second, and two seconds for video ads. Adding to the complexity was Chung's assertion that some ads with low viewability actually perform well for advertisers.
"I've never not mentioned rate increases," Bluman said when asked how higher viewability will affect pricing. "If you can get me a viewable ad that performs and I can verify that, we want that. And I believe supply and demand will take over."
For some publishers, this seems the preferred compromise.
"For as long as there are some advertisers buying without a viewability condition, some advertisers buying with a standard viewability condition and some advertisers buying on a premium viewability condition, the publisher has to have different pricing for each scenario," Joe Luna, director of sales planning at foxnews.com, told Digiday.
Image courtesy Shutterstock | 24, 2015 • 3 min read | By John McDermott
Advertisers have started loudly proclaiming that will no longer stand for anything less than 100 percent viewability when purchasing ads. And while publishers agree that this is a necessary development for the digital media industry, there's a looming sticking point when it comes to how it will affect pricing.
Publishers want advertisers to pay more for viewable ads, while advertisers think it's unfair to be upsold on ads that performed their intended duty of reaching online consumers. Sure there are disputes over standardization, but there's serious tension when it comes to pricing.
"An ad that's not seen is not worth less, it's worth zero. Zero," Ari Bluman, GroupM's chief digital investment officer, emphatically told a crowd of digital media executives on Tuesday morning at an event hosted by ad tech firm Integral Ad Science. "None of our agencies are allowed to make any exceptions."
His stance was echoed by the two other panel members — American Express global media manager Rachel Herskovitz and Carol Chung, svp of media technology at DigitasLBi — both of whom expressed similar "zero tolerance" policies when it comes to paying for unviewable ads.
Their positions — that it's absurd for a brand or agency to pay for an ad that has no possibility of reaching a consumer — was hard to refute.
Many publishers agreed with their position, but the disagreement stemmed from how to determine ad value now that the industry is intent on remedying viewability issues. Publishers, such as Jaclyn Stewart and John DeSantis from Condé Nast, argued that low viewability rates have long been factored into pricing, and that a move to 100 percent viewability should be met with a corresponding increase in value. Advertisers refusing to pay more amounts to forcing publishers into a retroactive "make good" on previous ad performance.
"Cleaning up inventory, ensuring greater viewability, is good for the industry," Brian Fitzgerald, president of Evolve Media, told Digiday later. (Fitzgerald did not attend the event.) "That said, expecting publishers to deliver 100 percent viewability or to do so without raising CPMs is both unrealistic and disingenuous. For years, agencies have pushed CPMs down, all the while knowing that a high percentage of inventory sold was below the fold and out of view."
Unstoppable force meet immovable object.
Herskowitz acknowledged that complete viewability is currently unattainable, but said AmEx will be drawing a hard line when asked to pay a premium for viewability.
"We should not pay more for something that's seen," Herskovitz said.
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Figure 1. Adjusted Hazard Ratios and Cumulative Incidences of Long-term Outcomes for Multiple Arterial Grafting (MAG) vs Left Internal Thoracic Artery Supplemented by Saphenous Vein Grafts (LITA+SVG)
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A-C, The adjusted cumulative incidences for mortality and repeated revascularization were estimated by incorporating weights that were obtained from propensity score (PS) weighting for the overall study cohort (LITA+SVG, n = 14496; MAG, n = 5580) at the end of 15-year follow-up. The adjusted cumulative incidences for myocardial infarction, stroke, heart failure, and the composite end point were estimated by incorporating weights that were obtained from PS weighting for the Discharge Abstract Database (DAD)-linked study cohort (LITA+SVG, n = 7912; MAG, n = 2633) at the end of 7-year follow-up. Cumulative incidences of mortality and the composite end point were estimated by the Kaplan-Meier method. For nonfatal long-term outcomes, cumulative incidences were estimated by the cumulative incidence function accounting for death as a competing risk. Adjusted hazard ratios were estimated from univariable Cox regression models that incorporated weights that were obtained from PS weighting. P values were calculated using the weighted Wald χ2 test. B and C, The number of patients at risk was calculated by incorporating weights that were obtained from PS weighting (ie, weight of 1 for patients in the group receiving MAG and a weight equal to the odds of receiving MAG for patients in the group receiving LITA+SVG) and rounded to the nearest integer for the group receiving LITA+SVG.
Figure 2. Adjusted Hazard Ratios of Long-term Mortality for Multiple Arterial Grafting (MAG) vs Left Internal Thoracic Artery Supplemented by Saphenous Vein Grafts (LITA+SVG) in Subgroups
Adjusted hazard ratios were estimated from univariable Cox regression models that incorporated weights that were obtained from propensity score (PS) weighting for each subgroup of the overall study cohort. P values were calculated based on the Wald χ2 test for an interaction term included in a multivariable Cox regression model using the overall study cohort, adjusting for significant baseline covariates with a P value of <.1 that was retained in backward elimination. BMI indicates body mass index (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared); COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; EF, ejection fraction; PVD, peripheral vascular disease; Renal disease, dialysis, acute, or chronic renal failure, or estimated glomerular filtration rate of less than 60 L/min/1.73 m2.
Figure 3. Adjusted Hazard Ratios of Long-term Repeated Revascularization for Multiple Arterial Grafting (MAG) vs Left Internal Thoracic Artery Supplemented by Saphenous Vein Grafts (LITA+SVG) in Subgroups
Adjusted hazard ratios were estimated from univariable Cox regression models that incorporated weights that were obtained from propensity score (PS) weighting for each subgroup of the overall study cohort. P values were calculated based on the Wald χ2 test for an interaction term included in a multivariable Cox regression model using the overall study cohort, adjusting for significant baseline covariates with a P value of <.1 that was retained in backward elimination. BMI indicates body mass index (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared); COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; EF, ejection fraction; PVD, peripheral vascular disease; Renal disease, dialysis, acute, or chronic renal failure, or estimated glomerular filtration rate of less than 60 mL/min/1.73 m2.
Figure 4. Adjusted Relative Risks and Cumulative Incidences of Short-term Outcomes for Multiple Arterial Grafting (MAG) vs Left Internal Thoracic Artery Supplemented by Saphenous Vein Grafts (LITA+SVG)
Adjusted cumulative incidences and relative risks for 30-day mortality, 30-day repeated revascularization, 30-day reoperation for bleeding, and in-hospital postoperative dialysis were estimated by incorporating weights that were obtained from propensity score (PS) weighting from the overall study cohort (LITA+SVG, n = 14496; MAG, n = 5580). Adjusted cumulative incidences and relative risks for 30-day myocardial infarction, stroke, and heart failure were estimated incorporating weights obtained from PS weighting from the Discharge Abstract Database (DAD)-linked study cohort (LITA+SVG, n = 7912; MAG, n = 2633). Adjusted cumulative incidences and relative risks for 30-day and 180-day sternal reconstruction were estimated by incorporating weights that were obtained from PS weighting from a subset of patients in the DAD-linked study cohort who were undergoing CABG from April 1, 2007, to September 30, 2014 (LITA+SVG, n = 7614; MAG, n = 2544). Adjusted relative risks and P values from the χ2 tests were calculated by incorporating weights that were obtained from PS weighting.
Table. Baseline Patient Characteristics of the Overall Study Cohort Before and After PS Weighting
Supplement.
eAppendix 1. Definitions.
eAppendix 2. Conduit Details.
eFigure 1. Use of Multiple Arterial Grafting for Patient With Multivessel Disease Undergoing Isolated CABG in British Columbia, 2000-20016
eFigure 2. Unadjusted Cumulative Incidences of Long-Term Primary Outcomes for MAG vs LITA+SVG: (A) Mortality and (B) Repeat Revascularization
eFigure 3. Unadjusted Cumulative Incidences of Long-Term Secondary Outcomes for MAG vs LITA+SVG: (A) Myocardial Infarction, (B) Repeat Revascularization, (C) Stroke, and (D) Combined Outcome of Mortality, Repeat Revascularization, Myocardial Infarction, Heart Failure, and Stroke
eFigure 4. Adjusted Cumulative Incidences of Long-Term Secondary Outcomes for MAG vs LITA+SVG (PS Weighting): (A) Myocardial Infarction, (B) Repeated revascularization, (C) Stroke, and (D) Combined Outcome of Mortality, Repeated Revascularization, Myocardial Infarction, Heart Failure, and Stroke
eFigure 5. Adjusted Cumulative Incidences of Long-Term Primary Outcomes for MAG vs LITA+SVG in Diabetes Subgroups (PS Weighting): (A) Mortality and (B) Repeated Revascularization
eFigure 6. Adjusted Cumulative Incidences of Long-Term Primary Outcomes for MAG vs LITA+SVG in Ejection Fraction Subgroups (PS Weighting): (A) Mortality and (B) Repeated Revascularization
eFigure 7. Adjusted Cumulative Incidences of Long-Term Primary Outcomes for MAG vs LITA+SVG in Age Subgroups (PS Weighting): (A) Mortality and (B) Repeated Revascularization
eFigure 8. Adjusted Cumulative Incidences of Long-Term Primary Outcomes for MAG vs LITA+SVG in Body Mass Index Subgroups (PS Weighting): (A) Mortality and (B) Repeated Revascularization
eFigure 9. Adjusted Cumulative Incidences of Long-Term Primary Outcomes for MAG vs LITA+SVG in Peripheral Vascular Disease Subgroups (PS Weighting): (A) Mortality and (B) Repeated Revascularization
eFigure 10. Adjusted Cumulative Incidences of Long-Term Primary Outcomes for MAG vs LITA+SVG in COPD Subgroups (PS Weighting): (A) Mortality and (B) Repeated Revascularization
eFigure 11. Adjusted Cumulative Incidences of Long-Term Primary Outcomes for MAG vs LITA+SVG in Renal Disease Subgroups (PS Weighting): (A) Mortality and (B) Repeated Revascularization
eTable 1. Unadjusted Short-Term Outcome Rates
eTable 2. Baseline Patient Characteristics of the Overall Study Cohort After PS Matching
eTable 3. Adjusted Hazard Ratios for Long-Term Mortality Based on Multivariable Cox Regression Analysis
eTable 4. Adjusted Hazard Ratios for Long-Term Repeated Revascularization Based on Multivariable Cox Regression Analysis
eTable 5. Adjusted Hazard Ratios for Long-Term Myocardial Infarction Based on Multivariable Cox Regression Analysis
eTable 6. Adjusted Hazard Ratios for Long-Term Heart Failure Based on Multivariable Cox Regression Analysis
eTable 7. Adjusted Hazard Ratios for Long-Term Stroke Based on Multivariable Cox Regression Analysis
eTable 8. Adjusted Hazard Ratios for Long-Term Composite End Point Based on Multivariable Cox Regression Analysis
eTable 9. Adjusted Hazard Ratios for Long-Term Repeated Revascularization Based on 3 Statistical Approaches
eTable 10. Adjusted Relative Risks of Short-Term Outcomes for MAG vs LITA+SVG in Diabetes Subgroups (PS Weighting)
eTable 11. Adjusted Relative Risks of Short-Term Outcomes for MAG vs LITA+SVG in Ejection Fraction Subgroups (PS Weighting)
eTable 12. Adjusted Relative Risks of Short-Term Outcomes for MAG vs LITA+SVG in Age Subgroups (PS Weighting)
eTable 13. Adjusted Relative Risks of Short-Term Outcomes for MAG vs LITA+SVG in Body Mass Index Subgroups (PS Weighting)
eTable 14. Adjusted Relative Risks of Short-Term Outcomes for MAG vs LITA+SVG in Peripheral Vascular Disease Subgroups (PS Weighting)
eTable 15. Adjusted Relative Risks of Short-Term Outcomes for MAG vs LITA+SVG in COPD Subgroups (PS Weighting)
eTable 16. Adjusted Relative Risks of Short-Term Outcomes for MAG vs LITA+SVG in Renal Disease Subgroups (PS Weighting)
eTable 17. Adjusted Hazard Ratios (95% CI) of Long-Term Primary and Secondary Outcomes for MAG vs LITA+SVG With or Without Additional Covariate Adjustment (PS Weighting)
eTable 18. Unadjusted and Adjusted Hazard Ratios (95% CI) of Falsification End Points Comparing MAG vs LITA_SVG
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Adjusted Outcomes
Standardized differences less than 0.1 for all covariates in PS weighting (Table) and PS matching indicated balance between the 2 groups (eTable 2 in the Supplement). The results that were obtained from the PS weighting analyses are presented in this section and the results from the PS matching and multivariable Cox regression analyses are provided in eTables 3-9 in the Supplement.
Compared with LITA+SVG, MAG was associated with a 21% reduction in mortality (hazard ratio [HR], 0.79; 95% CI, 0.72-0.87), and a 26% reduction in repeated revascularization (HR, 0.74; 95% CI, 0.66-0.84) in 15-year follow-up (Figure 1). The incidences of myocardial infarction, heart failure, and the composite end point of all long-term outcomes in 7-year follow-up were also significantly lower in the group receiving MAG, whereas the incidence of stroke was comparable in both groups (eFigure 4 in the Supplement).
Multiple arterial grafting was associated with a significantly lower mortality rate regardless of the presence of diabetes, obesity (BMI ≥ 35), or renal disease. Multiple arterial grafting was associated with a significantly lower mortality rate among patients with moderately impaired ejection fraction (35%-50%), but not among patients with a severely impaired ejection fraction of less than 35%. A reduced risk of mortality with MAG, although statistically nonsignificant, was observed in the subgroups who were 70 years or older or had PVD or COPD. The relative mortality reduction that was associated with MAG was significantly smaller in subgroups with an ejection fraction of less than 35%, 70 years or older, or PVD, as indicated by significant P values from interaction tests (Figure 2). Multiple arterial grafting was associated with a lower repeated revascularization rate in all subgroups except for those with an ejection fraction of less than 35% and those who were 70 years or older (Figure 3). Adjusted cumulative incidence curves for mortality and repeated revascularization for each subgroup are provided in eFigures 5-11 in the Supplement.
Short-term Outcomes
The incidences of mortality, repeated revascularization, and all safety outcomes were comparable between the 2 groups except for sternal reconstruction within 180 days (Figure 4). A further analysis that compared the sternal reconstruction rates between RITA-MAG and RA-MAG demonstrated that the rate was significantly higher among patients who received RITA-MAG than RA-MAG at both 30 days (1.5% vs 0.4%, P = .002) and 180 days (2.5% vs 0.6%, P < .001). All short-term outcome rates were not significantly higher with MAG compared with LITA+SVG within all high-risk subgroups (eTables 10-16 in the Supplement).
Sensitivity Analyses and Falsification End Point Tests
The magnitude of long-term MAG benefits remained similar after the adjustment for the effect of incomplete revascularization or discharge medications. A further adjustment for surgeon effect did not lessen the MAG benefits in improving long-term survival rates and reducing the incidences of myocardial infarction and heart failure. The advantage of MAG in reducing repeated revascularization rates was moderately attenuated but remained statistically significant (eTable 17 in the Supplement). The falsification tests showed no significant association between the use of MAG and any of the falsification end points (eTable 18 in the Supplement).
Our study is unique in undertaking a comprehensive evaluation of short- and long-term clinical outcomes after CABG in a population-based cohort consisting of 5580 patients who received MAG (27.8%) and 14 496 patients who received LITA+SVG (72.2%). The broad application of MAG using the additional arterial conduit of either the RITA or RA enabled us to evaluate the benefit of MAG in a representative population of patients who were undergoing CABG and address its differential benefits among subgroups. The effect of treatment selection bias and potential confounders in estimating the benefits of MAG was minimized by adjusting for patient demographics, clinical risk factors, comorbidities, and the year of surgery using 3 rigorous statistical adjustment techniques. The long-term MAG benefits in reducing mortality rates and the incidences of repeated revascularization, myocardial infarction, and heart failure were similar across all 3 methods (eTable 9 in the Supplement). The sensitivity analyses demonstrated that the significant long-term benefits of MAG were not qualitatively affected by incomplete revascularization, discharge medications, or surgeon effect. The potential residual confounding was explored by falsification end points.
In 2016, the Arterial Revascularization Trial, a large multicenter randomized clinical trial that compared survival and clinical outcomes between RITA-MAG and single ITA, showed no clinical benefit of RITA-MAG at 5 years.7 The possible reasons for the midterm findings were discussed by the authors and other investigators.7,32-34 Despite the absence of randomized clinical trial evidence of long-term clinical benefits of MAG, long-term survival advantages of RITA-MAG over LITA+SVG have been consistently reported in many observational studies9-11,18-22,35 and meta-analyses that reported a 19% to 22% mortality reduction.36-38 Similarly, the survival benefits of RA-MAG were reported in studies from 2 institutions that endorsed liberal RA use.15-17 A 21% reduction in late mortality was reported by Locker and colleagues13 in a 15-year study that incorporated both RITA-MAG and RA-MAG. We also observed an equivalent survival benefit of MAG with a more frequent use of RA-MAG, 45.2% in our cohort compared with 14.2% in their study. The consistent survival benefit of MAG observed across these studies, regardless of which second arterial conduit was predominantly used, suggests that both RITA and RA can achieve a similar survival benefit, which is also supported by other recent studies.34,39,40
Contrary to the consistent survival benefits of MAG that were shown in observational studies, the effect of MAG on other clinical outcomes has been inconsistent or limited in previous reports. Some studies found reduced incidences of both PCI and CABG individually19 or as combined repeated revascularization23 among patients receiving RITA-MAG, whereas the significant benefits of RITA-MAG were limited to reducing subsequent CABG, but not PCI, in other studies.9,21 Guru et al41 did not find any significant advantage of MAG over single arterial grafting in reducing repeated revascularization rates, in a mean follow-up of less than 5 years. Little information exists on the effectiveness of RA-MAG on reducing repeated revascularization rates. Although a single-center study found its potential benefits by comparing the frequency of patients returning to the institution for catheterization, the authors acknowledged the underestimation of the actual repeated revascularization need in their study.16 By contrast, the ascertainment of repeated revascularization from the provincial clinical registry in our study provided a more accurate estimation of the need for repeated revascularization. We observed a 26% reduction in repeated revascularization with MAG compared with LITA+SVG, with the cumulative incidence curves separating early and continuing to diverge to 15 years (Figure 1). Moreover, MAG was also associated with significantly reduced incidences of myocardial infarction and heart failure, consistent with previous studies.9,19,21,41
Given the complex decision making in optimizing surgical strategy, identifying the appropriate candidates for MAG is crucial to maximize its long-term benefits.4,13 Diabetes, obesity, COPD, older age, impaired ejection fraction, PVD, and renal disease have been associated with poor prognoses after CABG and low use of MAG.3,42 Although studies have consistently reported a long-term MAG survival benefit for patients with diabetes,35,43-45 findings on repeated revascularization are conflicting.46,47 We demonstrated a consistent long-term survival benefit and reduced need for repeated revascularization among diabetic patients. Furthermore, we observed a greater absolute mortality rate reduction among patients with diabetes compared with patients without diabetes at 15 years (9.5% vs 3.8%, eFigure 5 in the Supplement). Similarly, MAG was associated with clear long-term advantages in reducing both mortality and repeated revascularization rates among both patients who were and were not obese, which supports existing evidence.48,49
To our knowledge, no recent studies have examined the long-term effect of MAG among patients with renal disease, COPD, or PVD. The MAG benefits in reducing both mortality and repeated revascularization rates were consistent regardless of the presence of renal disease. A greater reduction in repeated revascularization rates and a reduced survival benefit were observed among patients with COPD or PVD. Compared with younger patients, the survival benefit among elderly patients was significantly reduced in our study; however, an 11% reduction in mortality of borderline statistical significance supports the MAG benefits that were reported in 3 studies50-52 but conflicts with other studies.40,53,54 The current evidence of MAG benefits is robust for patients with moderately impaired ejection fraction19,20,42,55 but conflicting for patients with severely impaired ejection fraction. Our finding of no survival benefit for patients with an ejection fraction of less than 35% is consistent with those 2 RITA-MAG studies42,56 but differs from 1 RA-MAG study.55
Lytle et al20 suggested that heterogeneous mortality risks across patient spectrums were the underlying mechanism for differential MAG effects. Superior long-term patency of the second arterial conduit may translate into improved clinical outcomes, but its influence must be strong enough to offset the influences of risk factors that limit survival after CABG.20,57 Therefore, a loss of MAG benefits among patients with severely impaired ejection fraction is likely related to the influence of severe left ventricular dysfunction and other noncardiac comorbidities on survival, as discussed in other studies.42,56 Analogously, a moderated benefit of MAG among elderly patients supports this inference because of diminished life expectancy and more comorbidities.40,53 Nevertheless, a survival benefit greater than 10% was observed for most of the subgroups, demonstrating that a potential MAG benefit can be realizable, even among high-risk patient subgroups.
Perceived concerns regarding increased perioperative mortality and morbidity, particularly sternal wound complications associated with RITA-MAG, have limited its use to a small proportion of patients undergoing CABG.36 We observed similar incidences of adverse events at 30 days for the groups receiving MAG and LITA+SVG but a significantly higher risk of sternal reconstruction at 180 days in the group receiving MAG, although the absolute increase was small (MAG, 1.9% vs LITA+SVG, 1.1%; P = .02). Our findings are consistent with those of the Arterial Revascularization Trial that reported similar 30-day adverse outcomes between the 2 groups and a higher incidence of sternal reconstruction associated with RITA-MAG at 6 weeks from randomization (RITA-MAG, 1.9% vs single ITA, 0.6%).6 Furthermore, we confirmed that RA-MAG was associated with a significantly lower risk of sternal reconstruction than RITA-MAG at 180 days (0.6% vs 2.5%, P < .001), which corroborated findings from another study.58 Among all high-risk subgroups, MAG was not associated with significantly higher incidences of 30-day adverse events. Nevertheless, a higher likelihood of sternal reconstruction at 180 days with MAG, although statistically nonsignificant, among elderly patients or patients with diabetes, PVD, or obesity suggests a need for incorporating strategies to mitigate sternal wound complications in considering MAG for these patients (eTables 12-18 in the Supplement).
Our results should be interpreted in the context of the inherent limitations of observational studies. We attempted to minimize treatment selection bias by using rigorous statistical adjustment techniques; however, there remains the possibility of potential bias because of unmeasured confounders. The choice of a specific revascularization strategy for a patient is often subjective and may be affected by factors that are prognostically important but unavailable in the data. Subtle factors, such as the size and quality of coronary targets and patient frailty, are unmeasured but important for a surgeon's choice of revascularization strategy and may influence clinical outcomes.36,59 Nevertheless, the absence of an association between MAG and the falsification end points suggests that patients who received MAG were not systematically healthier after adjustment. Therefore, the observed MAG benefit is less likely to be owing to residual confounding.
Compared with LITA+SVG, MAG is associated with reduced incidences of mortality, repeated revascularization, myocardial infarction, and heart failure among patients with multivessel disease who are undergoing CABG without increased incidences of mortality or other adverse events at 30 days. The long-term benefits consistently observed across multiple outcomes and subgroups support the consideration of MAG for a broader spectrum of patients.
Corresponding Author: James G. Abel, MD, MSc, St. Paul's Hospital, Room 492, 1081 Burrard St, Vancouver, BC V6Z 1Y6, Canada (jabel@providencehealth.bc.ca).
Accepted for Publication: August 24, 2017.
Published Online: October 11, 2017. doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2017.3705
Author Contributions: Ms Pu had full access to all of the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.
Concept and design: Pu, Ding, Price, Bozinovski, Fradet, Abel.
Acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data: All authors.
Drafting of the manuscript: Pu, Ding, Shin, Price, Abel.
Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: All authors.
Statistical analysis: Pu, Ding, Shin, Price, Fradet, Abel.
Administrative, technical, or material support: Ding, Price, Fradet, Abel.
Supervision: Ding, Price, Wong, Fradet, Abel.
Conflict of Interest Disclosures: All authors have completed and submitted the ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest and none were reported.
Funding/Support: This study was supported by Cardiac Services, British Columbia.
Role of the Funder/Sponsor: The funding source had no role in the design and conduct of the study; analysis and interpretation of the data; or preparation of the manuscript.
Additional Information: The analytic work for this study was performed at the Cardiac Services, British Columbia.
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Pu A, Ding L, Shin J, et al. Long-term Outcomes of Multiple Arterial Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A Population-Based Study of Patients in British Columbia, Canada. JAMA Cardiol. 2017;2(11):1187–1196. doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2017.3705
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Long-term Outcomes of Multiple Arterial Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A Population-Based Study of Patients in British Columbia, Canada
Aihua Pu, MSc1; Lillian Ding, MSc1; Jungwon Shin, MSc1; et al Joel Price, MD, MPH2,3; Peter Skarsgard, MD2,3; Daniel R. Wong, MD, MPH3,4; John Bozinovski, MD, MSc3,5; Guy Fradet, MD, MSc3,6; James G. Abel, MD, MSc3,7
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1Cardiac Services BC, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
3University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
4Royal Columbian Hospital, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
5Royal Jubilee Hospital, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
6Kelowna General Hospital, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
7St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
JAMA Cardiol. 2017;2(11):1187-1196. doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2017.3705
Question Does multiple arterial grafting provide long-term clinical benefits without safety concerns among patients who are undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting?
Findings In this population-based study of 20 076 consecutive patients with triple-vessel or left-main disease, multiple arterial grafting was associated with significant reductions in long-term mortality and repeated revascularization without increased perioperative risks. Similar reductions in either mortality or repeated revascularization rates were observed among all subgroups of patients except for those with severely impaired ejection fraction.
Meaning Multiple arterial grafting can be safely extended to a broader spectrum of patients to maximize the long-term benefit of coronary artery bypass grafting among patients with multivessel disease.
Importance Although the long-term survival advantage of multiple arterial grafting (MAG) vs the standard use of left internal thoracic artery (LITA) supplemented by saphenous vein grafts (LITA+SVG) has been demonstrated in several observational studies, to our knowledge its safety and other long-term clinical benefits in a large, population-based cohort are unknown.
Objective To compare the safety and long-term outcomes of MAG vs LITA+SVG among overall and selected subgroups of patients.
Design, Setting, and Participants In this population-based observational study, we included 20 076 adult patients with triple-vessel or left-main disease who underwent primary isolated coronary artery bypass grafting (MAG, n = 5580; LITA+SVG, n = 14 496) in the province of British Columbia, Canada, from January 2000 to December 2014, with follow-up to December 2015. We performed propensity-score analyses by weighting and matching and multivariable Cox regression to minimize treatment selection bias.
Exposures Multiple arterial grafting or LITA+SVG.
Main Outcomes and Measures Mortality, repeated revascularization, myocardial infarction, heart failure, and stroke.
Results Of 5580 participants who underwent MAG, 586 (11%) were women and the mean (SD) age was 60 (8.7) years. Of 14 496 participants who underwent LITA+SVG, 2803 (19%) were women and the mean (SD) age was 68 (8.9) years. The median (interquartile range) follow-up time was 9.1 (5.1-12.6) years and 8.1 (4.5-11.7) years for the groups receiving MAG and LITA+SVG, respectively. Compared with LITA+SVG, MAG was associated with reduced mortality rates (hazard ratio [HR], 0.79; 95% CI, 0.72-0.87) and repeated revascularization rates (HR, 0.74; 95% CI, 0.66-0.84) in 15-year follow-up and reduced incidences of myocardial infarction (HR, 0.63; 95% CI, 0.47-0.85) and heart failure (HR, 0.79; 95% CI, 0.64-0.98) in 7-year follow-up. The long-term benefits were coherent by all 3 statistical methods and persisted among patient subgroups with diabetes, obesity, moderately impaired ejection fraction, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, peripheral vascular disease, or renal disease. Multiple arterial grafting was not associated with increased morbidity or mortality rates at 30 days overall or within patient subgroups.
Conclusions and Relevance Compared with LITA+SVG, MAG is associated with reduced mortality, repeated revascularization, myocardial infarction, and heart failure among patients with multivessel disease who are undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting without increased mortality or other adverse events at 30 days. The long-term benefits consistently observed across multiple outcomes and subgroups support the consideration of MAG for a broader spectrum of patients who are undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting in routine practice.
Since the landmark study by Loop et al1 demonstrated that the use of an internal thoracic artery (ITA) to the left anterior descending artery reduced 10-year mortality and late adverse cardiac events, there has been considerable interest in multiple arterial grafting (MAG) using the right internal thoracic artery (RITA), or a radial artery (RA) in addition to left ITA (LITA) for multivessel coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).2-4 Although many observational studies have demonstrated the long-term survival advantages of MAG, the adoption of MAG has been slow because of the absence of randomized clinical trial evidence of long-term benefits5-8 and observational findings that were limited by single-center study populations,9-23 noncontemporary surgical cohorts,9-11,19-21 small sample sizes,9,10 or an underrepresentation of high-risk patients.10,18-21 Moreover, conflicting or relatively little information on its safety and other clinical outcomes, such as repeated revascularization, further complicates an evaluation of the "totality of the evidence."24 A review using the Society of Thoracic Surgeons database reflected a strong reluctance toward using MAG in routine practice,25 which was limited to fewer than 10% of patients undergoing primary CABG in 2009.
Therefore, a comprehensive evaluation of the effectiveness of MAG in contemporary, routine practice is necessary, particularly in the modern era of evolving surgical techniques, advancing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), and improved secondary prevention. In this large, population-based study, we evaluated the safety and long-term outcomes of MAG vs the LITA supplemented by saphenous vein graft (LITA+SVG) overall and among selected subgroups of patients undergoing CABG.
The Cardiac Services British Columbia (BC) registry prospectively captures information on all adult heart surgical procedures, angiographies, angioplasties, and heart rhythm device procedures that are performed in BC. Coronary artery bypass grafting procedures are performed at 5 tertiary care centers. Detailed demographic data, risk factors, procedural details, and postoperative complications are entered prospectively by clinical staff members in each center. All-cause mortality until December 31, 2015, was obtained via linkage to the BC Vital Statistics. Repeated revascularization after index CABG was ascertained from the Cardiac Services BC registry for all patients. Hospitalization information between April 1, 2007, and March 31, 2015, was obtained via linkage to the Discharge Abstract Database (DAD) that contains administrative, clinical, and demographic information on hospital discharges for acute care and day surgery in Canada. This was a retrospective study of data from the Cardiac Services BC registry, and patient information was deidentified. Approval for use of anonymized linked data with a waiver for individual consent was obtained from the University of British Columbia Research Ethics Board.
Study Population and Outcomes
Between January 1, 2000, and December 31, 2014, 24 702 adult patients older than 19 years with triple-vessel or left-main disease underwent isolated CABG in BC. The following groups of patients were excluded: 284 non-BC residents, 3143 patients who did not receive MAG or LITA+SVG (ie, SVG only, isolated LITA, RITA, or RA with SVG), 303 patients who previously underwent open-heart surgery, 616 patients who were undergoing an emergency surgery, 26 patients with prior PCI within 24 hours, and 254 patients with missing baseline covariates. The overall study cohort included 20 076 patients, with 14 496 (72.2%) receiving LITA+SVG and 5580 (27.8%) receiving MAG with or without SVG for the analyses of primary outcomes. Either bilateral internal thoracic arteries with or without RA (RITA-MAG), or LITA with RA (RA-MAG) was used among patients receiving MAG. Of the overall study cohort, 10 545 patients undergoing CABG between April 1, 2007, and December 31, 2014, were linked to the DAD data and constituted the DAD-linked study cohort for the analyses of secondary outcomes.
The primary outcomes were all-cause mortality and repeated revascularization (ie, any subsequent PCI or CABG) following the index CABG. The secondary outcomes were postoperative myocardial infarction, heart failure, stroke, and a combined end point of all previously mentioned outcomes, including all-cause mortality and repeated revascularization. The safety outcomes included 30-day postoperative dialysis, reoperation for bleeding, and sternal reconstruction within 30 and 180 days. Definitions of secondary outcomes are provided in eAppendix 1 in the Supplement.
We evaluated the effect of MAG vs LITA+SVG on clinical outcomes after CABG by applying 3 statistical approaches: 2 propensity score (PS) methods, PS weighting and PS matching, and multivariable Cox regression. All statistical analyses were performed in SAS, version 9.4 (SAS Institute) and R, version 3.2.4 (R Development Core Team) using the R twang package26 for PS weighting and the SAS macro27 for PS matching. The level of significance was defined by a 2-tailed P value of <.05 for all statistical tests.
Continuous variables were expressed as mean (SD) and compared using the t test. Categorical variables were summarized as proportions and analyzed by the χ2 test. The cumulative incidences of mortality and the composite end point were estimated by the Kaplan-Meier method. For repeated revascularization and other secondary long-term outcomes, the cumulative incidences were estimated by the cumulative incidence functions, accounting for death as a competing risk. The median duration of follow-up was calculated based on the method of reverse Kaplan-Meier.28
All baseline covariates, including the patient demographics, clinical factors and comorbidities in the Table, and the surgical year, were incorporated in the calculation of the PS, the probability that a patient receives MAG. In PS matching, the PS was estimated from a non-parsimonious logistic model to form a sample consisting of pairs of MAG and LITA+SVG patients by the nearest-neighbor matching algorithm with a caliper of 0.2 of standard deviations of the logit of the propensity-scores. In PS weighting, patients receiving MAG were assigned a weight of 1 while patients receiving LITA+SVG were assigned a weight equal to the odds of receiving MAG, the PS divided by 1 minus the PS, which was estimated by a generalized boosted model.29 Adequacy of matching and weighting was confirmed by all baseline covariates having a standardized difference of less than 0.1. The hazard ratios (HRs) for the long-term outcomes were computed from univariable Cox regression models, and the relative risks were estimated for short-term outcomes, with a robust variance estimator to account for the matched or weighted nature of the sample.30 The HRs for long-term outcomes were also estimated by the multivariable Cox regression models, adjusting for baseline covariates with a P value of less than .10 retained in backward elimination. The proportional hazard assumption was confirmed for all Cox regression models. For nonfatal long-term outcomes, patients who died before experiencing these events were censored at the time of death.
We assessed the robustness of the estimated long-term MAG effects to the effect of incomplete revascularization, discharge medications (aspirin, statins, β-blockers, and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor/angiotensin-receptor blockers), and surgeon effect in sensitivity analyses (eAppendix 1 in the Supplement). Although these factors may be prognostic of long-term outcomes, they were not preoperative factors to be included in the propensity-score estimation. Because surgeon effect may be highly correlated with the conduit choice, the adjustment for surgeon effect may lessen or exaggerate the true MAG effect and make interpretation of the estimated MAG effect difficult. Therefore, each of these factors was included as an additional adjustment to the PS weighting analyses to assess the robustness of the results. To address potential residual confounding, we conducted additional PS weighting analyses and tested 3 falsification end points31 (hip fracture, pneumonia, and urinary tract infection) that were known to be related to patient condition but unlikely to be influenced by the choice of conduit.
We also conducted separate PS weighting analyses to assess MAG benefits among patient subgroups with or without diabetes, 70 years or older, impaired ejection fraction, a high body mass index (BMI; calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared) of 35 or more, peripheral vascular disease (PVD), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and renal disease. To assess whether the magnitude of the MAG effect varied across the relevant subgroups, we tested the significance of the interaction term added to the multivariable Cox regression models based on the overall study cohort.
Multiple arterial grafting use increased from 29% to 36% between 2000 and 2003, declined between 2004 and 2006, and remained around 25% thereafter (eFigure 1 in the Supplement). The median MAG use rate by surgeons was 26.5% (interquartile range [IQR], 12.7%-46.2%).
The group who received MAG consisted of 3056 patients (54.8%) receiving RITA-MAG and 2524 patients (45.2%) receiving RA-MAG. Among patients receiving RITA-MAG, 1239 patients (40.5%) received an RA in addition to bilateral internal thoracic arteries, whereas 1817 patients (59.5%) received bilateral internal thoracic arteries. The demographic and clinical characteristics of the overall study cohort are shown in the Table. Compared with patients who received LITA+SVG, patients receiving MAG were younger, more likely to be male, and less likely to have severely impaired ejection fraction or comorbidities such as renal disease, hypertension, pulmonary hypertension, PVD, COPD, cerebrovascular disease, diabetes, anemia, and arrhythmia.
Perioperative Characteristics
The on-pump rates were comparable between the 2 groups (MAG, 95.4% vs LITA+SVG, 95.7%). For on-pump cases, the mean (SD) pump time was 107.1 minutes (38.6) for the group receiving MAG and 101.2 minutes (32.2) for the group receiving LITA+SVG. The mean (SD) cross-clamp time was 82.5 minutes (29.8) for the group receiving MAG and 79.0 minutes (25.9) for the group receiving LITA+SVG. Single aortic cross-clamp was used among 4142 patients (77.8%) on pump in the MAG group vs 11 263 patients (81.2%) on pump in the LITA+SVG group. The proportion of incomplete revascularization was comparable (MAG, 2.0% vs LITA+SVG, 2.2%), with a mean of number of distal anastomoses of 3.9 in both groups. Conduit details are provided in eAppendix 2 in the Supplement. Both groups had similar discharge prescription rates of aspirin (MAG, 92.1% vs LITA+SVG, 91.0%), β-blockers (MAG, 86.2% vs LITA+SVG, 82.1%), and statins (MAG, 78.3% vs LITA+SVG, 78.1%), but not angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor/angiotensin-receptor blockers (MAG, 41.7% vs LITA+SVG, 51.0%).
Unadjusted Outcomes
In the overall study cohort, the median (IQR) follow-up time was 9.1 (5.1-12.6) years and 8.1 (4.5-11.7) years for the groups receiving MAG and LITA+SVG, respectively. In the DAD-linked study cohort, the median (IQR) follow-up time was 4.2 (2.0–6.2) years and 4.1 (2.1–6.0) years for the groups receiving MAG and LITA+SVG, respectively. Patients receiving MAG had lower incidences of mortality, postoperative dialysis, myocardial infarction, stroke, and heart failure at 30 days (eTable 1 in the Supplement). The group receiving MAG also had lower incidences of mortality and repeated revascularization at | 6,592 |
Emma Coburn races for a medal in the 3,000-meter steeplechase.
Emma Coburn could become the first U.S.<|fim_middle|>200-meter semi-finals and the heats of the men's 5,000 and women's 800.
The championships will be broadcast on Universal Sports and will be streamed online—with a cable password—as well.
Mo Farah of Great Britain looks to defend his 5,000-meter title to pair with his win in the 10,000. Ryan Hill won the U.S. title and will be joined on Team USA by Galen Rupp and Ben True. The final of the 5,000 is on August 29.
Team USA has three runners capable of medaling at the world championships. U.S. champ Alysia Montano is a new mother and was fifth at the world championships in 2013. Brenda Martinez took bronze at the 2013 world championships, and Molly Ludlow has the sixth-fastest time in the world this year with her 1:58.68 from Paris. The semi-finals will be on August 27.
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Bolt and Gatlin should both advance to the final, which is on August 27.
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Coburn could become the first U.S. woman to nab a medal in the steeplechase, but it won't be an easy task. Her PR of 9:11.42 is the fourth best in the field. The favorite is Ghribi of Tunisia, but Hiwot Ayalew and Sofia Assefa of Ethiopia and Hyvin Jepkemoi of Kenya all looked great in the heats and should challenge the U.S. champ. Joining Coburn in the final are Team USA's Stephanie Garcia and Colleen Quigley—this is the first time the U.S. has put three women into the final at a world championship.
Kirani James is the defending Olympic champ and the likely favorite. Lashawn Merritt, who is the defending champion in the event, is the sole U.S. runner in the field. | woman to nab a medal in the steeplechase at the IAAF World Championships in Beijing, China, on Wednesday.
Coburn missed the 2013 world championships due to injury, but ever since winning the Shanghai Diamond League race in 2014 has been one of the world's best. Habiba Ghribi of Tunisia is likely the favorite. She has the fastest time in the world this year with the 9:11.28 she ran at Monaco in July.
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When jewelers inspect diamonds, they look for cut, clarity, color and carat. When University of Tennessee, Knoxville, geologists Larry Taylor and Yang Liu inspect diamonds, they look for minerals, inclusions jewelers hate, but whose presence could be clues for how parts of<|fim_middle|>craft Re-Entry…
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Taylor, distinguished professor of earth and planetary sciences, and Liu, research assistant professor, have been awarded $ 380,000 by the National Science Foundation. The UT geologists will partner with researchers from the Russian Academy of Sciences to study diamond deposits in northern Siberia.
Diamonds in that region are veritable time capsules giving researchers a window into how the continent of North Asia formed.
"These diamonds are carrying information that goes back 3.5 billion years," said Yang. "It helps us piece together how the deep mantle beneath the Asian continent formed and how it evolved."
These diamond deposits are some of largest in the world. They are also some of the most well-preserved, thanks to the cold climate, which protects against weathering by encasing the diamonds in permafrost. Also, Siberia contains thousands of unique volcanoes, called kimberlites, that carry diamonds to the surface from hundreds of miles deep within the earth, unlike 'normal' volcanoes which carry them from a few miles deep.
"The diamonds are brought up through a conduit called a pipe by this strange volcanic magma called a kimberlite," Taylor said. "These kimberlites are the sources of the major diamonds of the world and are the carriers of these prizes from the mantle, where they have formed in high-pressure and high-temperature environments."
The researchers' goal is to determine how Asia's craton – the part of a continent that is stable and forms the central mass of the continent – formed and built upon itself over billions of years. By examining the chemical isotopes of the minerals inside the diamonds, the researchers are able to date the minerals and diamonds and trace their evolutionary history.
Through this project, the scientists have access to samples from across the Siberian craton that will enable them to reconstruct the complete life of the craton's early formation, which eventually led to the consolidation of the Asian continent.
The three-year collaboration between UT and the Russian Academy of Sciences was established with a formal agreement for an exchange of scholars. The agreement was signed by Taylor and academician Nikolai Pokhilenko in Novosibirsk, Siberia, this August.
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"I was ready. I have been ready all my career, and I am so grateful to the Medical College of Georgia for giving that to me."
September 23, 2016 Dean's Diary - Medical College of GeorgiaPeter F. Buckley, MD
-Dr. Talmadge A. Bowden Jr., 1966 graduate
A true celebration … The 125th Anniversary of the MCG Alumni Association
Outstanding definitely describes this past Saturday's 125th anniversary celebration of our Alumni Association. Our Infectious Disease Chief Dr. Joe Vazquez set a great tone with the stimulating morning continuing medical education program. Our alums and future alums ate great food and had great fun that afternoon playing with their children on the front lawn of the J. Harold Harrison M.D. Education Commons. Sarah Braswell, historical research coordinator who works with our Dr. Lois Ellison, Class of 1950 and medical historian extraordinaire, then shared her insight with our fabulous alumni on trolley tours that included the old Widow's Home on Greene Street, where the original City Hospital once stood, and of course the beautiful Old Medical College building on Telfair Street. Did you know that Dr. DeSaussure Ford, an 1856 graduate, was the first Alumni Association president and happened to be our dean THREE times!
Participants in Saturday's event had a great time…
As you do know, part of what makes a great leader is the innate desire to rightly recognize the significant accomplishments of others. Our Alumni Association President Dr. David Gose started the evening's festivities off just right by doing just that, including asking our Alumni Association scholarship recipients and former Alumni Association presidents to stand and be<|fim_middle|> at the UGA Health Sciences Campus. Terrific. Did you know about 60 percent of our students participate in research? Did you know they could not do that without terrific mentors here and in Athens? We thank Dr. Stan Nahman, associate chair of our Department of Medicine's Translational Research Program, for his extraordinary effort in making this day happen as well. How is that for a closer this week!
Sept. 24 – ALS Walk – Beat Feet for ALS benefiting our 12-year-old Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Clinic and our patients! Augusta River Walk – 9th Street Fountain. Registration and breakfast at 8 a.m., opening ceremony at 9:30 a.m., jazzercise warmup at 9:55 a.m.and the walking begins at 10:05 a.m., see http://walk.alsgru.com/.
Sept. 24 – Augusta University Day of Service.
Sept. 26 – Medical Student Research Symposium, noon to 2 p.m., Harrison Commons.
Sept. 26 – Student/Resident Research Symposium, 5-7 p.m., second floor of Russell Hall, Augusta University – University of Georgia Medical Partnership.
Sept. 27 and 29 – Recognition of Dr. Hervey Cleckley, the famed former MCG psychiatrist and pioneer in the field of psychopathy. The showing of "The Three Faces of Eve," 5:30 p.m., Sept. 27, Harrison Commons, GB-1110; Lecture, "Dr. Hervey Cleckley: The Medical College of Georgia's Renaissance Man," with Maj. Gen. Perry Smith, 5:30 p.m., Sept. 29, Harrison Commons, GB-1110, reception follows in the Harrison Commons lobby.
Sept. 30 – Ice cream social for third- and fourth-year medical students and residents, noon-1:30 p.m., Lee Auditorium.
Oct. 1 – The 2nd annual Pink Pumpkin Party, a family and community event by the Georgia Cancer Center to raise breast cancer awareness and education and honor survivors. Check out the Pink Pumpkin Party and the Pink Pumpkin giving page for more information.
Oct. 6 – Alumni Association, Albany Regional Reception, Doublegate Country Club, 6 p.m.
Oct. 13 – Alumni Association Savannah Regional Reception, Savannah Golf Club, 6 p.m.
Oct. 18 – Reception and plaque presentation honoring Bowdre Phinizy and Meta Charbonnier Phinizy, whose generous gift in honor of Meta's father, Leon Henri Charbonnier, marked the inception of MCG's very first endowment, 5:30 p.m., Harrison Commons.
Oct. 18 – A Service for the Healing of the Mind and Spirit, 7 p.m., St. Mary on the Hill Catholic Church, 1420 Monte Sano Ave., a communitywide event for those whose lives have been touched by mental illness, sponsored by the Coalition for Mental and Spiritual Health Ministries and the National Alliance on Mental Illness-Augusta.
Oct. 20 – MCG Faculty Senate Meeting, noon, Lee Auditorium.
Nov. 1 – Alumni Association Rome Regional Reception. Coosa Country Club, 6 p.m.
Nov. 4 – Body Donation Memorial Service, 1 p.m., Lee Auditorium.
Nov. 5 – White Coat Ceremony, Bell Auditorium, 3 p.m.; reception to follow at the Old Medical College building.
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← "Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing." "If you can't feed 100 people, then feed just one." → | seen. MCG Foundation CEO Ian Mercier noted how the foundation board provides the "purest form of support." David Davis, AKA triple D, president of the Class of 2018 – just 12 weeks into his third year and his clinical rotations and fresh off time with Dr. Frank L. Carter, a 1987 graduate of our medical school and family medicine physician in Waynesboro, Georgia – thanked our alumni for their remarkable dedication to students. Mark Zapata, 2018 class president at the Athens Campus, dittoed the contributions of our clinical faculty, many of whom are MCG graduates who donate their time to educating the important next generation. Our university President Brooks Keel referenced our medical school again as the "jewel in the crown" and asked our amazing alums for their continued support of it and our university.
And shared great tales…
Dr. David Hall, president of the Class of 1948, came all the way from Chickamauga, Georgia to attend the anniversary celebration. His only request was to be seated with Dr. Ellison and who wouldn't want that! Drs. James. R. Hanahan and Russell Whitaker, longtime friends from the Class of 1975, traveled from Seneca, South Carolina and Anniston, Alabama respectively to attend. These two take every opportunity to connect with each other, just like great friends Drs. Roni Bollag and Tom Allred, from the Class of 2004. Dr. Bollag, a faculty member in our Department of Pathology, was clearly already in town but Dr. Allred drove all the way from Knoxville, Tennessee with his family to celebrate and be with his friends. These are great indicators of the power of classmates and how our Alumni Association reinforces the important ties that bind our graduates to each other and to their medical school. No doubt an absolute win-win.
Students and staff came together to ensure the rocking good time
We can't leave this happy celebration without mentioning our students who volunteered their time to make these events such a smashing success. They include, deep breath, Nathan Howell, Caitlyn Hodge, Natalie Dixon, Isabella Tondi Resta, Jesse William Wayson, Kristin Walker, Josef Venable, Gabrielle Siegel, Krish Kasetty, Mica Goulbourne, Ryan Goetz, Timothy Erdei, Kimberly Cichelli, Mark Wendolowski, Ornella Oduwole, Ehizele Osehobo, Rose-Krystel Hegngi, Madiah Ashraf and Nicole Lopez. Kinda makes you feel even better about the future of our medical school and Alumni Association, doesn't it, that our students would show such terrific reciprocal support for our alumni? Two other indelible signs of plain hard work and success are our Scott Henson, senior director of Alumni Affairs, and Kim Koss, Alumni Association coordinator. We cannot thank them enough for their absolute commitment to our medical school and Alumni Association and to our alumni. They absolutely rock and ensure that our alumni always feel the love and support they deserve. Please check out these insightful musings from our alumni on our home page. Our special thanks to senior video producer extraordinaire Tim Johnson for helping us tell their tales and ours.
Our second-year students have been on the road this week…
While our alumni were circling home base, some of our future alumni, AKA our second-year students, were on the road this week visiting our great state and statewide campus network. Of course, this takes us back full circle to our amazing alums and other dedicated physicians across our state helping us educate the next generation. Our students, most of whom are from Georgia, gained an insightful perspective on all four corners, which, of course, we hope will help them best decide where they want to spend their clinical years in medical school (and we hope eventually practice!). Quite literally not a moment was wasted.
Experiencing Georgia …
Even time on the road was spent, not only in good conversation, but with podcasts like one with Jonas Salk talking about developing the polio vaccine. This road trip was definitely another tremendous undertaking and success for our medical school. We particularly want to thank Golanda Blackwell, regional campus business coordinator, for her exceptional effort; along with Dr. Greer Falls, associate dean for the class; Dr. Elana Wood in Academic Affairs who is a physical diagnosis educator; Dr. Barbara Russell in our Pathology Department who is senior director of curriculum for our super second-year class; and Malinda Moore, clinical rotations coordinator at our Southeast Campus. Also, Dr. Jones Miller, curriculum director for the third-year when students start clinical rotations; and, of course, Dr. Kathryn Martin associate dean for regional campus coordination. Check out more on our Facebook page and at #mcgonthemove! Definitely!
Monday is Medical Scholars Research Day… Where they'll present findings from a summer of science
So when these super second-year students get back later today, 122 of them studying at home base here in Augusta will be putting the final touches on their research presentations for the 8th annual Medical Scholars Research Day this Monday at the Harrison Commons. Things get going at noon with, well lunch, and a keynote address from Dr. Michael Saag, associate dean for Global Health and director of the University of Alabama Center for AIDS Research. These hard-working students already have learned plenty from their summer of science and our distinguished speaker will give them more insight on life in academic medicine. Later Monday, 26 of our second years at the Athens campus will be presenting their science on the second floor of the Russell Hall | 1,167 |
Ten Tips for Getting Along with Your Mother-In-Law.
Don't talk about…Rules for the kids. If your daughter-in-law asks you not do something, as in,"Please don't give the children chocolate before they go to bed," "Please don't bring the kids another toy," "Please, please, please don't tell them stories about monsters," listen to her. Respect her wishes just as you wanted your mother-in-law to respect yours. Grandparents are... Ask your mother-in-law to take rest and take charge of the kitchen and whip out something delicious and special for her. Again, do it only if you genuinely feel like doing it. Even if she doesn't love what you cooked, she will at least appreciate the efforts you took for her.
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I know I get carried away when I talk about Violet, but truth is, I'm going to miss those feelings—the feelings you get when you're the main man in a little girl's world. You'll be seeing a lot more of her than I will, and I'll be honest, I'm not too overjoyed with that. It isn't you, it's me. | took for her.... 10 tips for getting along with your mother-in-law (or your in-laws, generally). I'm extremely lucky with fate as it relates to my mother-in-law and father-in-law. We get along very well, which is fortunate, because we live right around the corner from my in-laws, and I mean right around the corner.
To you Mother in law, It would have been really nice to have opened this letter with a pleasant and loving salutation, but your unpleasant and hateful behavior does …... This isn't something to just get over. In fact this is something to be very proactive about – with both your mother-in-law (to be) and with your partner.
Great question! This is a very slippery slope and you need to be cautious in how you approach it. On one hand, if you have a good relationship with your mother in law, you could probably talk about your marriage in generalizations.
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From basic physics principles to the actual process of producing diagnostic-quality x-rays, Essentials of Radiographic Physics and Imaging effectively guides you through the<|fim_middle|> to pass the ARRT exam and to be a competent practitioner.
Integrated coverage of digital radiography describes how to acquire, process, and display digital images, and explains the advantages and limitations of digital vs. conventional imaging processes.
Theory to Practice succinctly explains the application of the concept being discussed and helps you understand how to use the information in clinical practice.
Make the Connection links physics and imaging concepts to help you fully appreciate the importance of both subjects.
Math applications demonstrate how mathematical concepts and formulas are applied in the clinical setting.
Critical Concepts further explain and emphasize key points in the chapters.
Learning features highlight important information with an outline, key terms, and objectives at the beginning of each chapter and a chapter summary at the end.
A glossary of key terms provides a handy reference. | physics and imaging information you need to excel on your ARRT exam and as a professional radiographer. The text's clear language and logical organization help you easily master physics principles as they apply to imaging, plus radiation production and characteristics, imaging equipment, film screen image acquisition and processing, digital image acquisition and display, basics of computed tomography, image analysis, and more. Theory to Practice discussions help you link these principles to real-world applications and practice.
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Q: After moving eKtron Site from iis6 to iis7 site<|fim_middle|> things and it worked
| is running but some of the links do not work and Background
I moved this site from IIS6 WIN2K3 to WIN2K8R2 IIS7 and the site launches but I'm getting errors on lots of the links/main menu items.
Things I have already checked
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*application pool settings
*db connection strings
*Creds/permissions in place
*installed the correct version of Ektron
Could this be a web.config Issue? I tried to look at the differences between IIS6 and IIS7, but didn't see anything obvious. Any help or clue will be appreciated!
Receiving the following error message
"Server Error in '/' Application.
The resource cannot be found
Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Please review the following URL and make sure that it is spelled correctly.
Requested URL: /what.aspx
Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.5466; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.5456
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HTTP Error 404.0 - Not Found
The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.
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IIS Web Core
Notification
MapRequestHandler
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Physical Path
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A: In short: how was the site migrated?
The files copied? Sites sometimes consist of settings outside web.config (for eg, Applications and Virtual Directories), which aren't physically on the disk.
(You can use a tool like the Web Deployment Tool to migrate a site and all settings)
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I absolutely loved this book. The author does a wonderful job of bringing the characters<|fim_middle|> | to life. There are some I grew to love and some I grew to dislike completely. (Hate is such a strong word.) Like others, I was disappointed when the book came to an end, then elated when I realized there was a follow-up book. I was back on Smashwords.com the same day downloading the next book. Thank you Shayne Parkinson for a great read.
At times this book was very difficult to read because the abuse talked about hit a little too close to home, but I loved it just the same. As in the first book of the series - Sentence of Marriage - the author brings the characters to life in a way that makes me feel I know these people. Even though my e-reader has page numbers at the bottom of each page, I was so engrossed in the book that I was taken by surprise when it ended. Again I was thrilled to see that there is yet one more book in this series and ordered it the same day I finished this one. Thanks again, Shayne Parkinson, for another great read.
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Caldarelli, Forsythe pace women's soccer in first round of the ECAC Tournament against FDU-Florham.
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Wesley caps off the 2018 season with a 9-5-2 overall record and a 4-1-1 record in the Atlantic East to qualify for the Atlantic East Championship Tournament as the second seed and a spot in the ECAC Championship Tournament as a fourth seed. | The Wesley College women's soccer team stumbled on the road to the FDU-Florham Devils, 4-2 in the first round of the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championship Tournament on Saturday.
Trailing by three, Wesley opened up the second half with an Emily Caldarelli goal assisted by Mackenzie Forsythe after a defensive miscue by FDU-Florham.
FDU-Florham would add to their lead just five minutes later off an unassisted goal from Madeline Finnegan.
In the 72nd minute, Forsythe would convert on a bad pass from the Devils' defense that cut the lead to 4-2 and that is the closest Wesley would get to the lead for the rest of the game.
Finnegan and Lindsey Scarmozzino each tallied two goals for FDU-Florham.
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The area of the core zone of the Hohe Tauern National Park is one of Central Europe's last post-glacial primary landscapes within the geologically unique formation of the "Tauernfenster", a huge tectonic window which gives insight to the deepest tectonic layer of the Eastern Alps. Covering an area of about 900 km2 (out of which <|fim_middle|> of landscape and the exceptional diversity of species of the core zone is complemented by the correlation with the sustainably and traditionally cultivated landscape of the alpine pastures in the buffer zone.
The mountain pass in this are6 was a historic trail across the Alps since the 2" millenium b.C. with rich cultural evidence. When the transalpine trade for different socioeconomic reasons began to cease in the 18th century, the scientific interest in the exploration of the Alps rose, followed by an increasing alpine tourism in the late 19th and in the early 20th century.
This development culminated in the construction of the Grossglockner High Alpine Road in the 1930ies which is not just an imposing pioneer road construction but serves its visitors as a medium through which a variety of landscapes are made accessibly. The aim of its designer was primarily to make the visitors experience a succession of landscape sequences as in a film taking in account detours which make the road to appear more an element which actually characterises landscape. Therefore this road owes its exceptional universal value to the unique sum of the various values from the realms of aesthetics, technology, culture and nature. In addition the Grossglockner High Alpine Road gains exceptional value as an historic monument of motoring, i.e. the development of the car is becoming a constituent part of modern civiilisation and its use for tourism. | 15% are glaciated offering a complete -inventory of glacial landscape features) in the border area of the federal provinces of Carinthia, Salzburg and the Tyrol, the whole national park is a vast, on the whole unspoilt natural landscape reaching from an altitude of 1 000m in the valleys to a height of the peaks well over 3000m above sea level including Austria's highest mountain, the Grossglockner (3.798m), Due to its geological and geo-morphological diversity, its bio-diversity as well as on account of the ecological and evolutionary processes constantly taking place here, the area is of exceptional universal value. Its diverse ecological conditions offer a living space to characteristic plant and anima: I communities including a number of highly specialized or endemic alpine species.
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Lord Eden of Winton: My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness on the way in which she has introduced this debate. She speaks with great authority founded on her long experience of the subject under discussion. By comparison, my own few faltering words will appear lamentably facile. I put before your Lordships this afternoon three words—greed, garments, goats—the relevance of which I hope will become apparent in a few moments.
The major efforts by governments and large organisations to alleviate poverty are vital. There is a need to ensure that, as far as possible, those efforts are precisely targeted and practical. We must ensure that the receiving end has a good administrative structure, not only at the top, but also well down the line. Two organisations, Oxfam and Merlin, set good examples of how to work in the field. They work with local people.
If one understands the culture of the people one is trying to help, there may be a hope of curbing some of the enthusiasm of greedy local officials who so often manage to siphon off the assistance intended for poor people. That applies equally in the commercial world. Agreements made by directors sometimes have little impact at the workface. For example, the logging operations in Congo were, in my view, rather disgracefully promoted by the World Bank. The interests of indigenous people are being ignored and their livelihoods destroyed. If trade is the answer to poverty, which in part it certainly is, let the wealthy West be more open with its markets to the export of poorer countries' products.
I have an interest in Sri Lanka. Many of those I know over there are totally dependent on the garment trade. What a difference it would make to them and to their future if the West were more liberal in opening its markets to their product. One way of lifting people out of poverty is to help them to help themselves. My friends Mr and Mrs Kotelawala in Sri Lanka head up a big organisation called the Ceylinco Group. They deploy the resources of the Grameen Bank. By means of making small loans, the bank provides start-up assistance on favourable terms to enable individuals, women as well as men, to establish themselves in business and so come to stand on their own feet.
In the post-tsunami world, Sri Lanka has benefited enormously from the very substantial and imaginative assistance given by the Government and by voluntary organisations. I congratulate them on the tremendous work that is being done. It is both practical and sensitive, but tragically even here there is evidence of widespread corruption, jealousies and grotesque bureaucracy. My son, Jack Eden, and my stepson, Robert Drummond, both live in Sri Lanka. They have mobilised their charity, Friends of the South, to give direct help to individuals. They give tools to artisans to enable them to start up work again. They are providing all the equipment necessary to a shipbuilder who has lost everything so that he can begin to rebuild his own business. Even so, they are frustrated in their efforts by officialdom.
"rank-smelling weapons of mass destruction".
They destroy all vegetation, they kill reafforestation, they promote erosion and, in the long term, help to perpetuate poverty. Alternatives must be found.
So, I have spoken of greed, garments and goats; three words to ponder in the context of this debate. If those three words could be addressed along the lines I have suggested, they would go some way to offering a better future to the world's poorer people.
Lord Roberts of Llandudno: My Lords, it is a privilege to have the opportunity to join in the debate initiated this afternoon by<|fim_middle|> disaster has seen thousands of lives lost and millions of livelihoods destroyed. The subsequent international response has highlighted, on the one hand, the fragility of human life and, on the other hand, the generosity of the human spirit. Like other noble Lords, one cannot but be moved by the passionate and charitable response of private donors and individuals.
The subsequent pledges by governments and international institutions will be crucial for Asia's long-term reconstruction. These pledges are to be applauded provided that they are honoured. They must represent new money, rather than the recycling of money already allocated to existing aid efforts for the poorest parts of our planet. A welcome moratorium on debt repayments for those countries most affected by the tragedy can be no substitute for the comprehensive cancellation of the unpayable debts of all the world's poorest countries.
Emergency assistance to those in immediate need and debt relief for the poorest must surely be accompanied by the determination on the part of the international community to tackling those systemic barriers, referred to by the noble Baroness, Lady Whitaker, such as the imbalance in international trade, which continue to prevent many countries in the region realising their full economic potential.
Ongoing trade negotiations and the implementation of new trade rules should not compromise the ability of countries affected by the tsunami to rebuild their livelihoods. As such, aid and debt relief must not be conditional on economic policy reforms such as privatisation, fiscal austerity or trade liberalisation.
The challenge, however, is to see how we can move from the particular, responding to the suffering and devastation caused by the tsunami, to the general, finding effective and sustainable mechanisms to tackling global poverty. It would be a terrible human failure if international compassion for victims of the tsunami blotted our compassion for the many millions of other people suffering from other humanitarian crises—from Darfur in Sudan, to Uganda, the Congo and Zimbabwe or the tens of thousands of people who die each day from poverty.
"emergency relief and development aid count for little if the underlying causes of poverty and deprivation, such as the injustice and imbalances in current global trade practices are not addressed.
The impressive international response to the tsunami disaster stands in marked contrast with the lack of political will that has so far frustrated the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). Given the conclusion of the UN Millennium Project's report that the MDGs are both affordable and achievable, it would be nothing short of scandalous if these targets were not met.
The specific recommendations of the Sachs report will no doubt be heavily debated. Such debate, while welcome, should not obscure the report's most basic point; namely, that with sufficient political will the MDGs can be met. Although the Sachs report provides a vision of how the world might look in 2015 if the goals are met, we should not be blind to what the world might look like if the goals remain elusive. Failure to meet these targets will result in shrinking islands of prosperity in a growing sea of depravity giving rise to an unbearable level of marginalisation and alienation.
It is encouraging that a number of the Sachs recommendations echo those made by the Chancellor in his speech earlier this year advocating the need for a new Marshall Plan. The decision to prioritise debt relief, aid and trade will have given immense encouragement to a significant number of people who have campaigned tirelessly on these issues in recent years.
are committed to achieving change on all three. The Government can be assured that the Church of England, alongside many other members of the Make Poverty History Coalition, will mobilise its own constituency at key opportunities in 2005 to encourage the Government to drive forward the struggle against poverty and injustice. In doing so, we will repeatedly remind the Government that the MDGs are both achievable and affordable. | the noble Baroness, Lady Whitaker. I come from Llandudno where we have a big problem with wild goats. There are around 260 of them wandering on the Great Orme, but I am sure that that is not the direction my speech should take today.
First, however, I too want to comment on the magnificent response to the tsunami appeal. I am told that the funds raised now stand at £250 million, which makes this the largest response to any appeal in the history of the United Kingdom. At the weekend I was proud to note that Cardiff hosted the Wales Millennium Centre concert. But I am also proud of all the small communities where handfuls of people have raised hundreds, if not thousands of pounds. When people see a need, they do respond.
That gives us an opportunity at this time, when need is so apparent, to engender a spirit of goodwill and generosity that could lead to the problems of poverty being tackled not just by governments, but taking their place in the hearts of the people. The opportunity is there, and it is one that I am sure we would squander at our risk.
Let us remember the events of 9/11. The hearts of the world were with the people of New York and around the United States as a result of that terrible disaster. Yet, in only a little while, so much of that goodwill had gone as a result of the actions following the disaster. The spirit of goodwill can be lost in a very short time.
We need to look at what has happened in the regions around the Indian Ocean and say to ourselves, "Here is a new opportunity". We must not then squander that opportunity. Thus, anything which follows that may undermine people's goodwill and generosity should be avoided at every step of the way. Action that arouses outrage and anger could do a great deal of damage, even though there is an opportunity for people to operate together and to begin to understand and sympathise with each other. It is not only governments which should take the lead, but also ordinary people.
We know that resources are limited. Yesterday, sadly, I read that the President of the United States wants another 80 billion dollars to continue the occupation of Iraq. It is a sad story when that money could be used in more positive ways. Some time ago in this House, I asked the Minister about the cost of British intervention in Iraq. He said that it was £1.3 billion for nine months. I am told that it is now more than £5 billion. The money there cannot be spent elsewhere.
We pass the despairing, poverty-stricken, hungry and hopeless on any march towards war and conflict. Opportunities are missed. I am sure that the Government have no intention of doing so, but any support by the United Kingdom for an incursion into Iran would bring such outrage that the 1 million people marching through London two years ago would be a fraction of those who would march on such an occasion.
We must work together peacefully and constructively, through international organisations, whether it be to bring peace, to restrict terrorism or to make the most of opportunities to bring an end to poverty. This year, we are all challenged to make poverty history. I will not speak at great length today, but others will speak and say, "Yes, the opportunity is there. This is what we can do". We already have examples of what we could do to eradicate so much poverty, which is a blemish on the lives of countless millions of people.
Some nation must take the lead. I am pleased about the efforts of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Africa, so could the United Kingdom be the nation which says, "Look, this is our top priority in this coming year. The priority is to make poverty history."? We could do it if we could rise to that challenge.
The Lord Bishop of Southwell: My Lords, I, too, am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Whitaker, for initiating this important debate. It is timely not only because of the appalling human tragedy in the tsunami and the crisis and international action flowing from it, but also because 2005 offers the British Government the unique set of opportunities to garner the necessary political will to help make poverty history.
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The Statnamic load test is a type of test for assessing the load carrying capacity of deep foundations which is faster and less expensive than the static load test. The Statnamic test was conceived in 1985, with the first prototype tests carried out in 1988 through collaboration between Berminghammer Foundation Equipment of Canada and TNO Building Research of the Netherlands (Middendorp et al., 1992 & Middendorp, 2000). Guidance on rapid load pile testing can be found in: Methods for Axial Compressive Force Pulse (Rapid) Testing of Deep Foundations. Sanken D7383 - 08 Standard Test.
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Statnamic testing works by accelerating a mass upward that in turn imparts a load onto the foundation pile below the Statnamic device. The load is applied and removed smoothly resulting in load application of 100 to 200 milliseconds. This is 30 to 40 times the duration of dynamic pile load testing. As the duration of the loading is relatively long, piles less than 40m in length remain in compression throughout resulting in negligible stress wave effects and potentially simpler analysis. For foundation design it is necessary to derive the equivalent static load-settlement curve from the Statnamic data. The simplest form of Statnamic analysis used to obtain equivalent static pile response is known as the unloading point method (UPM) The UPM analysis method was conceived to be simple and based on measured results alone (Middendor<|fim_middle|>. Conf. on the Application of Stress Wave Theory to Piles, Balkema, Rotterdam, 551-562.
Brown, D.A. (1994) Evaluation of static capacity of deep foundations from Statnamic testing. Geotech. Testing J., ASTM, 17(4), 403-414.
Middendorp, P., Bermingham, P. & Kuiper, B. (1992) Statnamic load testing of foundation piles. 4th Int. Conf. on the Application of Stresswave Theory to Piles, The Hague 21–24 September 1992, pp. 265–272.
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The Statnamic test applies a force to the pile head over a typical duration of 120 milliseconds by the controlled venting of high pressure gas. The gas is the product of the combustion of a fast burning fuel within a piston (fuel chamber) (Figure 1). At the top of the piston are vent holes that are sealed by the load hanger retaining the reaction mass. At some point the pressure within the piston is of such a magnitude to force the load hanger arrangement upward at accelerations in order of 196m/s2 (20g). This process applies a load downwards on the test pile.
During the loading sequence the load applied to the test pile is monitored by a calibrated load cell incorporated in the base of the combustion piston. Pile settlement is measured using a remote laser reference source that falls on a photovoltaic cell incorporated in the piston. The laser reference source should be placed at least 15m from the test pile to avoid the influence of test induced ground surface wave disturbance (Brown & Hyde, 2006). Data capture is undertaken using a data acquisition system connected to a laptop computer. It is recommended to allow accurate data processing that sampling should be undertaken at frequencies above 1 kHz.
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The most common form of Statnamic rigs typically have testing capacities of 3 to 4MN. These devices are self-contained and may be transported using a single articulated lorry. Whilst on site they require the use of a mobile crane with a typical capacity of 70 tonne, with mobilisation in less than 2 hours. In addition to these typical capacities, devices have been produced which can apply maximum loads ranging from 0.3 to 60MN. To achieve greater loads the major components of the device including the piston, silencer-weight hanger and reaction mass must be scaled up in size.
The Statnamic weight packs usually consist of steel or concrete rings placed over the Statnamic silencer. As the device does not rely on gravity to apply loads as in static or drop weight testing it can be used vertically, horizontally and inclined to test raked piles. The ability to test horizontally has led to the method being used for lateral load testing of piles and simulation of ship impacts on mooring bodies (Middendorp, 2000). In order to improve the flexibility of the device and minimise transportation costs for offshore works a device has also been tested that can apply up to 14MN using water as a reaction mass. This is achieved in an over water pile tests by connected the Statnamic device to a vessel full of water below the water bodies surface (Middendorp, 2000), thus removing the need for heavy reaction weights.
The only significant difference between the smaller and larger testing devices is the method of catching the reaction mass. The catching method for larger tests uses gravel. This is achieved by placing the Statnamic device on the test pile and lowering the reaction mass onto its hanger. A large containing container is then placed around the assembly and filled with gravel. As the Statnamic weights move upwards the gravel moves to fill the void left and support the weights once movement has ceased. Due to the time required to place and remove the gravel after testing this method is reserved for tests above 16MN. Smaller rigs utilise a hydraulic catching mechanism that allows the mass to be caught within the frame of the device. This allows up to ten individual piles to be tested in a day or multiple cycles on a single pile at 15 minute intervals. Further description of the hydraulic catching mechanism is given by Middendorp (2000). The most recent development is the mounting of a 1MN Statnamic device on a 360° tracked excavator which allows rapid deployment (1 hour) and increased production.
Brown M.J. & Powell, J.J.M (2013) Comparison of rapid load test analysis techniques in clay soils. ASCE Journal of Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental Engineering. Vol 139, No. 1, pp. 152–161.
Hoelscher, HÖLSCHER, P. BRASSINGA, H., BROWN, M.J. MIDDENDORP, P. & PROFITTLICH, M. & van TOL, F.A (2011) Rapid Load Testing on Piles Interpretation Guidelines. CRC Press/Balkema, Leiden, Netherlands.
Brown, M.J., Hyde, A.F.L. & Anderson, W.F. (2006) Analysis of a rapid load test on an instrumented bored pile in clay. Geotechnique. Vol. 56, No. 9. pp. 627-638.
Brown, M.J. & Hyde, A.F.L. (2006) Some observations of Statnamic pile testing. Proc. Inst. of Civil Engineers: Geotechnical Engineering Journal, Vol 159, GE4. pp. 269-273.
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The Edes Building is a unique three-story art gallery, five-star restaurant and rooftop lounge, responding to the city's plan to attract destination dining<|fim_middle|> named for the first business that once occupied the site back in the 1920s and features a painted sign on the brick facade that recreates the original Edes Bros Groceries, as an homage to the history of Morgan Hill. | , promote regional wine makers, and represent the fine art opportunities in the downtown area of Morgan Hill. Influenced by the history and character of downtown, the vintage brick and gridded storefront glazing provide a "main street" feel, while the unique forms, reclaimed wood accents, and perforated metal panels provide a modern twist. Addressing its location within a flood plain, the first floor is elevated two-and-a-half feet above street level. Accessibility is addressed by providing an elevator that stops at street level as well as each floor. The height of this building, unique to the city, delivers Morgan Hill its first restaurant located on a third story as well as a public rooftop lounge, providing the community with stunning views of downtown and the nearby Santa Cruz Mountains. The covered entry patio welcomes pedestrians to the ground floor wine bar and art gallery space; an internal grand staircase connects the first floor to the main gallery space on the second floor. This stunning building not only provides a destination for entertainment, but also new employment opportunities, enriching the lives of Morgan Hill residents and visitors. The building was | 219 |
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Just opened my belated Christmas present from my girlfriend – it's great!
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Favourite albums of 2009: General roundup
January 2, 2010 February 16, 2013 sayitwithgarageflowers2 Comments
Yes, it's that time of year when us journo types all decide to compile lists of our favourite albums of the past year.
I know what you're thinking – he should really make more of an effort and write a list of his favourite records of the decade, but I really haven't got that much time on my hands – sorry.
Some of you will already have read the in-depth articles I've posted on a few of the albums that I fell in love with in 2009 – namely Richard Hawley: Truelove's Gutter (my favourite album of the year), Soulsavers: Broken, Pet Shop Boys: Yes, Morrissey: Years of Refusal & Orphans and Vandals: I Am Alive and You Are Dead (my favourite debut album of the year).
There are, however, plenty of other releases that I adored this year, so, here, in no particular order, are a few of my favourites:
Wilco – Wilco (the album) : 'Alt.country experimentalists add a welcome shot of sunshine Beatlesque pop to the mix'.
Dot Allison – Room 7 1/2: 'Scottish chanteuse teams up with Paul Weller and Pete Doherty for battered guitar pop tunes, plus country, soul and a Scott Walker cover – what's not to like.'
Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career: 'Spectoresque pop perfection – as warm as saxophones and honey in the sun'.
Raveonettes – In and Out of Control: 'Danish garage-rock duo on fine form – fuzzy, addictive, sugar-sweet,yet deliciously dark. Boys Who Rape (Should All Be Destroyed) anyone?'
Postmarks – Memoirs At The End Of The World: 'Florida band who mix the sound of the Beachboys with John Barry for a swish, cinematic '60s sound'.
Girls – Album: 'Scuzzy, lo-fi Teenage Fanclub-meet-Jesus-and-Mary-Chain'indie guitar thrills from San Francisco. Hellhole Ratface was prom night pop of the highest order'.
Dave Rawlings Machine – A Friend of A Friend: 'Debut solo album from the Nashville guitarist has echoes of Dylan, a bluegrass cover of a Ryan Adams tune and the mighty, slow burning ballad Method Acting, which segues into a version of Neil Young's Cortez The Killer. One for the dads.'
Shirley Bassey – The Performance: 'Dame Shirl's big comeback album – with a little help from some contemporary songwriters. Don Black and David Arnold's No Good About Goodbyes was the best Bond song that never was, the Manics' Girl From Tiger Bay was epic stadium pop-rock, Richard Haw<|fim_middle|> the pier??? – (although, in a stroke of genius, he did play a gig on the end of Great Yarmouth Pier ??? it was my favourite concert of 2009).
Mozzer is still a vital force in British pop music and one of our Greatest Living Englishmen.
He hinted in a recent interview that this album could be his last. Let???s hope not.
???You???re gonna miss me when I???m gone,??? he growled on the wonderfully arrogant new song All You Need Is Me.
Too bloody right we are.
Favourite albums of 2009: Pet Shop Boys – Yes
The Pet Shop Boys' tenth studio album Yes was their best since 1990's Behaviour, itself one of the finest records of that decade.
No-one does intelligent pop better than the Pet Shop Boys, and Yes was their poppiest album since 1993's Very.
In fact, Yes was, ahem, very Pet Shop Boys. Never mind Che Guevara and Debussy to a disco beat, on the anthemic recent single All Over The World, they actually (see what I've done there) mixed rave bleeps with a Tchaikovsky sample. Very Pet Shop Boys, indeed, but then that's the essence of PSB isn't it?
When Neil Tennant's clever, cultured approach collides with Chris Lowe's love of the dancefloor, it creates the wittiest pop songs since The Smiths. The Queen is Dead meets queens of pop, if you like.
Which brings us neatly to Johnny Marr, who famously years ago described himself as, 'the Carlos Alomar of the Pet Shop Boys'. He cropped up playing guitar and harmonica on several tunes from Yes – the '60s psyche-pop of Beautiful People (Mamas and Papas doing the theme from Midnight Cowboy, anyone?), the jangly riff on Did You See Me Coming?, which must (J Arthur) rank alongside Love Comes Quickly and So Hard as one of the best PSB innuendoes yet, and the HI-NRG Pandemonium – originally written for Kylie and based on Kate Moss and Pete Doherty's stormy affair, it was the perfect mix of PSB, Stock, Aitken & Waterman and Motown.
Bolstering the PSB's indie credibility was Owen Pallet, string arranger for Arcade Fire and Last Shadow Puppets, who worked his orchestral magic on Beautiful People and the epic Legacy – a grandiose closer that was inspired by Tony Blair's departure and featured techno noodlings and a bizarre rant about a Carphone Warehouse salesman.
The largely commercial, chart-friendly sound of Yes wasn't surprising, considering it was produced by Girls Aloud hit maker Brian Higgins/Xenomania, who also co-wrote three of the songs.
My own personal highlight, the moody The Way It Used To Be, is easily one of the greatest songs in the PSB's vast canon of work. A melancholy tale of love gone wrong, it sounded like it could have come off Abba's The Visitors album, albeit with a New York house music makeover.
PSB meets Girls Aloud? Ooh, it's like The Sound of The Underground – the London Underground. That'll be West End Girls Aloud, then. | ley's After The Rain tugged at the heartstrings and the Pet Shop Boys' grandiose The Performance of My Life was Shirl's very own My Way'.
Shirley Lee – Shirley Lee: 'Debut album from front man of cult London indie types Spearmint – soppy loser guitar pop never sounded better. Has plenty of songs about girls and also name checks The Lemonheads, banoffee pie and Brighton beach.'
And finally…… a nod to two of my mates – Louis Eliot and Alex Lowe, who both releasednew albums in 2009.
Louis Eliot & The Embers – 'Kittow's Moor': 'Officially released in Feb 2010, although available at gigs during 2009, the former Rialto mainman combines the thrill of the fair with Celtic folk influences. Loaded with rural imagery and poetic lyrics, the songs deal with love, loss, childhood memories and,er, drinking to excess. Mike Scott meets Morrissey. My favourite song on the album is just simply one of the best things Louis has ever written. Opener Runaway Night manages to capture some of Rialto's tawdry, nocturnal melancholy and romantic longing ('To the broken tune of an ice cream van, I wrote a song for you on the back of my hand. If you follow me, we can jump the lights, of a seaside town on a Saturday night. And when you hold me tight, it feels just like when you close your eyes on a motorbike.") Wonderful stuff.'
Alex Lowe – 'Hoboken Girl': "Alex Lowe's fourth solo album, Hoboken Girl, saw him turning his back on the raw, rootsy Americana sound of 2006's Step Forward All False Prophets and, instead, embracing classic pop influences.This time around, the former front-man of '90s indie-rockers Hurricane#1 wore his heart on his sleeve, rather than dragging it through a dusty desert town. Incredibly, Hoboken Girl was written in four days and recorded in only three. Largely acoustic, but complemented by co-producer Steve Ransome's rippling keyboards and warm Hammond organ, it is Lowe's most soulful record yet – simple, timeless melodies with lush, spacious arrangements.'
Favourite albums of 2009: Richard Hawley – Truelove's Gutter
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If there was one album I kept on coming back to this year, it was Richard Hawley's exquisite late night masterpiece, Truelove's Gutter.
Sheffield's son of sadness made his darkest and most experimental work to date – Truelove's Gutter was by no means an instant record – in fact it was quite difficult to deal with at first.You had to work at it, get to know it and explore it, but it was well worth the effort.
Forsaking Hawley's usual rockabilly stylings for lengthy instrumental passages, guitar solos and strange sounds (including a glass harmonica and musical saw), this was a moody, cinematic album with a sad, haunted, world-weary feel.
Opener As The Dawn Breaks set the scene perfectly – creeping up on the listener like the first rays of sunshine on a frosty winter morning. Hawley sings of 'roofslates, hope hung on every washing line and a songbird's melody' – pure poetry.
The spiralling Remorse Code dealt with cocaine addiction, Soldier On sounded like Roy Orbison fronting Spiritualized (when the wall of guitars and strings kicks in at 2:45 is simply one of my favourite musical moments of 2009) and Don't Get Hung Up In Your Soul was shadowy, melancholy country with an eerie undercurrent, thanks to a zither and David Coulter's saw playing.
On a lighter note, the beautiful Open Up Your Door was a big orchestral pop ballad and first single,For Your Lover Give Some Time sounded like a standard from the '50s or '60s. Man, it could have been sung by Matt Monro or Sinatra.
Over a simple, sparse arrangement of just acoustic guitar, cello and violin, Hawley crooned this gorgeous, yet pithy, love song that he wrote especially
for his wife, Helen.
When he promises to drink a little less, give up cigarettes and come home early every now and then, it makes me weak at the knees.
In a press statement issued at the time, Hawley said: "I use a load of odd sounds on this album that are not heard on many other records.
"The sounds in my head on a lot of the tracks – I didn't even know what they were called! I wanted it to be a listening experience from start to finish, where you couldn't just pause it and go off and watch Coronation Street or
whatever. Sonically, it flows. It's not jumping all over the place. It just has a mood that goes through the whole thing."
It certainly does.
Favourite albums of 2009: Soulsavers – Broken
Soulsavers' latest offering Broken was by no means an easy listen, but
it was one of the most atmospheric, haunting and downright brilliant
records I'd heard in a long time.
The third album from the English production duo of Rich Machin and Ian
Glover saw them reunited with gloom-monger Mark Lanegan (Screaming
Trees, Queens of The Stone Age) who lent his whiskey-soaked and
nicotine-ravaged vocals to the majority of songs.
Sheffield baritone Richard Hawley also put in an appearance, as did
Jason Pierce (Spiritualized), Mike Patton (Faith No More) and Gibby
Haynes (Butthole Surfers).
Yep, it was one hell of a (funeral) party, soundtracked by sinister
pysche-rock, sombre ballads,edgy trip-hop and spiritual soul and
gospel – an album that was both unsettling and beautiful.
You Will Miss Me When I Burn, written by Will Oldham,
was a piano and strings lament, with Lanegan crooning,
"When you have no-one, no-one can hurt you."
If it didn't move you, then truly you did not have a heart.
The twilight country shuffle of Shadows Fall (with Hawley on backing
vocals) was one of the highlights – all Midnight Cowboy harmonica and
'weeping' strings, while Pharoah's Chariot (with Pierce) was a deathly
Nick Cave-esque track – with a mournful orchestral arrangement and
murderous twangin' guitar.
There was also an epic take on Gene Clark's Some Misunderstanding,
with some ragged Neil Young-style riffing.
Sometimes when I'm playing Broken I have an unsettling feeling that
maybe I'm listening to the sort of music that serial killers have on
their headphones when they're going about their business.
Then to lighten the mood, I just look at the sleevenotes; 'Recorded in
Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, London, Berlin, Sydney &
Stoke-on-Trent'. . .
Favourite albums of 2009: Orphans and Vandals – I Am Alive and You Are Dead
My favourite debut album of 2009 came from the best new band in London, Orphans and Vandals, who combined the epic feel of My Life Story with the tawdry, lo-rent glamour of Pulp, the cynicism of The Auteurs and the art-rock of the Velvet Underground.
Oh, and, more importantly, they had a female string section.
Orphans and Vandals are fronted by`singer/songwriter Al Joshua. Imagine Lou Reed, but if he was stuck between the boroughs of Camden and Islington, rather than walking the mean streets of New York.The five-piece had me transfixed at gigs throughout 2009 – and their album didn't disappoint – perfectly capturing the edgy atmospherics of their live shows – an elegant, yet twisted, pop tour de force.
I was drawn in by Al's tales of bed-sit dreaming, wet nights in New Cross, dirty sex with both men and women, Parisian nightlife and seaside cottage getaways in order to escape the loneliness of his King's Cross box room.
Album highlight – the beautiful, epic, poetic and unashamedly romantic Argyle Square – was one of my songs of 2009 – a twinkling Belle and Sebastian- style story song, with violin, glockenspiel, clarinet and a Dylanesque harmonica solo thrown in for good measure.
Liquor on Sunday was another favourite – all whoozy harmonium and faded gin palaces.
Al talked his way through the songs in a Jarvis Cocker-esque delivery, or spat and snarled like Luke Haines. During the staggering, colossal Mysterious Skin, he even sang about someone ejaculating all over him.
So, if you were looking for a grandiose, seedy, yet beautiful, soundtrack to modern London life, then Orphans and Vandals had it, ahem,covered.
Favourite albums of 2009: Morrissey – Years of Refusal
Everyone grows out of their Morrissey phase??? except Morrissey.
That???s what comedian Sean Hughes once said, but I???m afraid I don???t agree with him. I???m 35 and I???m still in love with the Pope of Mope ??? perhaps more now than when I was, err, ???16, clumsy and shy???.
Yes ??? I???m throwing my arms around Morrissey. Why? Because he???s one of the only truly English pop eccentrics and great performers left – and he???s still making music that matters, courting controversy and dishing out pithy quotes like Manchester???s answer to Dorothy Parker.
My favourite recent one is: ???It will be worth being dead, just to get away from Victoria Beckham.??? I think we can all agree with those sentiments.
The last thing Chris Martin got het up about was probably the fact that he couldn???t get organic vegetables on the band???s rider. Whereas fellow vege Mozzer is still proclaiming meat is murder: ???Where would we be without it? The scent of dead animals. Death into your body. Hamburgers, yuk!???
Ah, it???s the way he tells ???em.
Seriously, in these dark times of retro-electro nonsense and lumpen indie-by-numbers, we need Mozzer more than ever. And quite frankly (Mr Shankly), his??latest studio??album, Years of Refusal,??was??one of his finest ever ??? the best thing he???s done since 1994???s Vauxhall and I ??? his solo masterpiece.
Unlike his last effort, the patchy Ringleader of the Tormentors, it was??more focused, urgent and direct ??? and, err, it didn't??feature any choirs of school kids.
It did, however, on the cover artwork, feature a creepy looking baby boy being held by a surly Mozzer, who appeared to be wearing some kind of, god forbid, hip-hop style markings on his arm. *Shudders*.
So, what about the music? Well, Mozzer, who, by the way??was 50 this year, (did he have an Unhappy Birthday?) sounded revitalised and rejuvenated.
On Ringleader, he sang of having ???explosive kegs between my legs??? ??? and this time around it sounded as if they???d gone off.
US alt.rock producer, Jerry Finn (Blink 182) who also worked on You Are The Quarry, gave the record plenty of balls. It started as it meant to go on, with Something Is Squeezing My Skull ??? a thrusting, turbo-charged rocker that could have come from Your Arsenal ??? his other solo career highlight.
???I???m doing very well,??? proclaimed Mozzer, over cranked-up guitars, on this ode to anti-depression drugs.
Next up, we were plunged straight into another full-on piledriver, Mama Lay Softly On The Riverbed, albeit with a thundering drum tattoo that sounded like an army marching into battle.
???Bailiffs with bad breath, I will slit their throats for you,??? promised Mozzer. Like a gentleman ganglord out to settle some old scores, he was??back in
business and he was??taking no prisoners.
And so it??went on, with more and more cracking, no-nonsense pop tunes that never overstayed their welcome.
Years of Refusal almost sounded like it could have been a Mozzer Greatest Hits collection, as most of the tracks would have??been great as singles.
When was the last time you heard anyone say that about a Morrissey studio album???Well, it was me, actually ??? in a pub in Camden in 1994, probably.
There was lovelorn melancholy (???I???m Throwing My Arms Around Paris???), Spaghetti Western-meets-???60s-death-disc (???When Last I Spoke To Carol???), epic balladry (???It???s Not Your Birthday Anymore???), creepy psych-rock (???Black Cloud???) and a rampant rockabilly blowout as a fitting finale – ???I???m OK By Myself???.
Who??were we to argue?
OK, to some, Mozzer is a past his sell-by date pantomime act, who???s retreading his former glories (And let???s face it, if you???ve never liked him, you???re not going to start now, are you?).
Well, I don???t believe that he???s now purely ???end of | 2,901 |
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