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Bhagwati Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) established in the year 2008 is spread over a sprawling 15-Acre Campus, based in an eco-friendly environment<|fim_middle|> view that creates both a pleasing and inspiring ambiance for the students. The heart of the main campus is its 'Academic Centre', which houses a selection of fully air-conditioned lecture theaters, classrooms, conference rooms and faculty offices.
The world-class campus thereby also provides the best amenities to students for their comfortable and enjoyable stay during the course. | and amidst the beauty and quiet of nature. Environment plays a very crucial role in enhancing and enriching the learning experiences. This is the reason why the campus is built away from the hustle and bustle of the city, to propagate knowledge in its truest form. The world-class campus thereby also provides the best amenities to students for their comfortable and enjoyable stay during the course.
The Campus is a self-sufficient unit catering to all sorts of needs of the staff and of the students. It is aesthetically designed, expansive with elegant buildings complimented by wide-open spaces, broad roads and abundant greenery. The backdrop of nature gives a | 128 |
When Chrome OS first appeared, it was practically useless without an internet connection. Now, an offline Chromebook is no longer the functionless brick it once was because there are dozens of web apps with offline capabilities. Here's everything you can do today on Chrome OS without online access.
As you might expect, Google is at the forefront of adding offline features to Chrome OS. Google Drive had offline support for a while, and it's great to use. You can create, view and edit files, with changes automatically synced back to the cloud as soon as connection is restored.
You need to set this up ahead of time, though. From the main Google Drive interface, click on the cog icon on the right, then choose Settings. Tick the box next to the Offline heading and the sync starts with a pop-up notification. There are some limitations, but most Google Drive features are still available.
With Gmail Offline and its optimizer extension installed on your Chromebook, you can compose new<|fim_middle|> using Gmail Offline too (these actions are synced to Gmail when connectivity returns).
Pocket has an integrated offline mode available, which mean you can catch up on your read-it-later queue on your Chromebook without even a hint of WiFi. The syncing happens automatically when you launch the Chrome app, although it doesn't work with videos for rather obvious reasons.
There's no such offline functionality for Instapaper, unless you load up all the articles you want to read in separate tabs before you lose connectivity. Google Keep can work without the web, and syncing is done automatically. You can use either the Keep website or the Chrome app to get at your notes.
Plenty of Chrome OS games work offline. To find them, go to the Chrome Web Store, and choose Games, then Chrome Apps, then Runs Offline from the left-hand pane. Once you've installed the games of your choice, they'll load up on Chrome OS with or without an available internet connection.
Cut The Rope is one of the best known offline-ready titles, while there are several versions of Solitaire available, and an awesome Free Rider HD Offline Editor to play around with too. Bear in mind that more complex games are going to use up more of your Chromebook's local storage.
If you have photos stored locally on your Chromebook that need editing offline, then Pixlr Touch Up from Autodesk is one of the simplest options out there. There are plenty of other alternatives. Take a look at Polarr Photo Editor 3 or Piconion Photo Editor, for example, which come with more advanced features.
Open up Pixlr Touch Up and you can apply a range of quick fixes, from cropping to blurring, as well as a number of Instagram-style filters and effects. A text overlay tool is included in the app too. As yet, there's no offline support for the powerful Google Photos, but it wouldn't be a surprise if Google added it.
You can open movie and music files from local storage, but there's more than that. In the Google Play Movies app, for example, each of your purchased titles shows a small download button you can use to sync it for offline viewing later on (head to the settings page to configure the download quality).
Songist plays tracks from local storage and doesn't need an internet connection to load or run. Just make sure you download the songs first. Google Play Music doesn't have an offline mode at the time of writing, and nor does Spotify's web player, but as we've mentioned there is a native player for local files. | emails and search through a cache of older ones, though obviously you can't do any sending or receiving until you're back online. First, select the Allow offline mail prompt to start downloading messages.
You can choose to sync a week, two weeks, or a month's worth of emails using the simple settings pane, and all your labels and inbox categories are carried over as well. You can move, archive, and label messages | 85 |
We're very much liking this application – it lets you choose some of your Flickr shots (by set, tag or group), and post them on any blog or website. And it's ridiculously simple too.
To get your version, all you have to do is click the Info link on the bottom right, create your code, and paste it into your blog or website.
About to make plans for the summer?
Apologies for the recent posting hiatus, which is due to Alistair having broken both his sc<|fim_middle|> be felled by a local park (technically by a local dog in a local park) is lost on no-one.
We're gradually getting our dusty heads round the various aspects of blogging, and the whole Web 2.0 thing.
One of the big things we've been eager to work out is how to use RSS Feeds. Sometimes when you open a web page, particularly a blog, you'll see the little blue box with RSS in it on the right hand side of your address bar. That's a link to the RSS feed for that page. The RSS Feed is a version of a webpage that can easily be read by other websites.
What that boils down to is that if there are a bunch of websites you look at regularly, rather than laboriously open up each individual one, you can create a single page which loads up all the new posts from each site.
There are a bunch of different places that can do this for you, but the one we've taken to like a duck to a large wet place is Netvibes. It's one of those sites that works exactly the way you'd like - it's clean, simple, intuitive, logical, and above all, easy to get your head round.
Alistair's brother Graeme is a copywriter and part time art director, who works with Gavin, an art director and part time copywriter, over at DDB. They've done loads of great work for VW (including this Polo made of ice) and The Guardian, and they've just put their portfolio online. Check it out. | aphoid (wrist bone) and radial head (part of one of the bones in the arm) in a cycling accident in Brockwell Park. The irony of the fact that he survived the rigours of Kilimanjaro only to | 48 |
WASHINGTON -- Max Scherzer keeps finding new ways to flirt with history.
In the Nationals' 4-2 win over the Tampa Bay<|fim_middle|> stadium, everyone here in D.C. -- how could you not wake up with an extra bounce in your step?" he said. "I was itching to get out to the field and play. Good things happen when the whole city gets behind you." | Rays on Tuesday, Scherzer threw an immaculate inning, the second of his career. According to ESPN Stats & Information data, he is believed to be just the fifth pitcher in MLB history to record multiple immaculate innings.
"I honestly didn't know it happened," said Scherzer, who has won back-to-back Cy Young Awards and is one of 10 hurlers to win at least three Cy Youngs. "Then I walked off the field and I was like, wait a second, I think that was it. So yeah, that's cool."
"Awesome," Scherzer said when informed about the historical context of his feat. "It's just one of those things, it just happened. Just executing pitches. It's one of those things where, hey, it happened. That's more to the preparation than anything, and knowing what Seve [catcher Pedro Severino] wanted behind the plate."
Scherzer's immaculate inning was the second in the majors this season. The Baltimore Orioles' Kevin Gausman also pulled the feat, needing nine pitches to strike out Cleveland's Yonder Alonso, Yan Gomes and Bradley Zimmer on April 24.
The immaculate inning wasn't the only thing that stood out about Scherzer's performance. He threw 81 of 99 pitches for strikes, an 81.8 percent rate that is the highest of any starter this season and the best mark in any of Scherzer's 322 career starts (regular and postseason). He also recorded 25 first-pitch strikes (out of 28 hitters), tied for the second most in his career.
"I mean, that's pretty much as good as it gets," Nationals manager Davey Martinez said of Scherzer, who struck out 13 and walked none. "He was awesome tonight."
Aided by his immaculate inning, Scherzer became the majors' first 10-game winner, as he improved his record to 10-1 on the season. It's just the second time in his career that he has reached double-digit wins before the end of June. The previous time occurred in 2013, when Scherzer won his first 13 decisions during a season in which he went 21-3 for the Detroit Tigers and captured his first Cy Young Award.
Although Scherzer, who leads MLB in strikeouts and has a 1.95 ERA, is the front-runner to win yet another Cy Young, he came to the park Tuesday with a different kind of hardware in mind.
"I woke up this morning with an extra bounce in my step," said Scherzer, who on Monday donned a hockey sweater and helmet and, along with teammate Ryan Zimmerman, led the pregame festivities before the Washington Capitals' Game 4 Stanley Cup Final win over the Vegas Golden Knights.
With the victory, the Capitals took a 3-1 series lead and moved within a game of notching D.C.'s first major sports championship since the Washington Redskins won the Super Bowl following the 1991 season.
A day later, Scherzer was still giddy about his high-profile cheerleading gig and the result that ensued.
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St Peter's Square, Manchester
Manchester City Council
Main Contractor:
Laing O'Rourke
Completion Date:
Portland Stone:
Jordans Whitbed
Scope of Project:
New water feature
Following three years of development to St Peter's Square, the new water feature was unveiled in June 2017 to mark it being fully open to the public.
Situated between the new Metrolink stop and Number One & Number Two St Peter's, the feature tops off a major £20m transformation.
The water feature is a discreet 'horizontal fountain' bordered by a profusion of shrubs within a Portland Stone surround.
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© 2020 Albion Stone - 'Portland Stone - Naturally' | 13m³ of Jordans Whitbed block. Portland Stone was chosen to complement the public square as it is bordered by Grade II historical buildings.
Leader of Manchester City Council Sir Richard Leese said:
"This water feature is the closing chapter to what has been a remarkable transformation of St Peter's Square, from a muddle and claustrophobic transport interchange into an enviable public space that can sit proudly amongst the renowned squares across the world. In St Peter's we have somewhere in our city centre that the public can truly be proud of and a space that complements the architecture – both new and old – in the civic heart of Manchester."
Councillor Andrew Fender, Chair of the Transport for Greater Manchester Committee, said:
"As well as being one of Manchester's most important civic areas, St Peter's Square is home to one of Metrolink's busiest tram stops. It's fitting that we now have a completely transformed, bigger and better tram stop at the heart of the square, being used by more people than ever before. The new stop offers even more opportunities for people to travel into the city and enjoy everything the new-look square and surrounding area has to offer."
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Opponents argue that housing mentally ill people does not constitute treatment, but Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg (a co-author of the Mental Health Services Act) and other supporters of Proposition 2 say that misses the point of what treating mentally ill homeless people entails. This is not "stealing" treatment money, as the lawyer who filed the lawsuit against the state argued this year. Just the opposite. This is an effective use of the funding.
Service providers have shown consistently that mentally ill homeless people are most likely to improve when housing is combined with treatment. Developers of the housing built with this money would be required to make mental health and case management services available<|fim_middle|> of the puzzle.
There are nearly 53,000 homeless people in Los Angeles County this year, about 31,000 of whom are in the city of L.A. About 27% are considered seriously mentally ill. Proposition 2 will help them get housed and treated. | as well.
Some opponents are understandably worried that Proposition 2 will siphon off funds from needed treatment programs. But that's unlikely, considering that the cost is expected to be a small and diminishing percentage of Proposition 63 over time.
The funds are disbursed by county, and Los Angeles County stands to receive about $700 million for desperately needed permanent supportive housing. As with L.A. city's homeless housing bond program, the funds provide only a portion of the financing, but they are a crucial piece | 105 |
Biden, Macron ready to talk Ukraine, trade in state visit
WASHINGTON (AP) - French President Emmanuel Macron is headed to Washington for the first state visit of Joe Biden's presidency - a revival of diplomatic pageantry that had been put on hold because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Biden-Macron relationship had a choppy start. Macron briefly recalled France's ambassador to the United States last year after the White House announced a deal to sell nuclear submarines to Australia, undermining a contract for France to sell diesel-powered submarines.
But the relationship has turned around with Macron emerging as one of Biden's most forward-facing European allies in the Western response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This week's visit - it will include Oval Office talks, a glitzy dinner, a news conference and more - comes at a critical moment for both leaders.
The leaders have a long agenda for their Thursday meeting at the White House, including Iran's nuclear program, China's increasing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific and growing concerns about security and stability in Africa's Sahel region, according to U.S. and French officials. But front and center during their Oval Office meeting will be Russia's war in Ukraine, as both Biden and Macron work to maintain economic and military support for Kyiv as it tries to repel Russian forces.
In Washington, Republicans are set to take control of the House, where GOP leader Kevin McCarthy says Republicans will not write a "blank check" for Ukraine. Across the Atlantic, Macron's efforts to keep Europe united will be tested by the mounting costs of supporting Ukraine in the nine-month war and as Europe battles rising energy prices that threaten to derail the post-pandemic economic recovery.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby on Monday described Macron as the "dynamic leader" of America's oldest ally while explaining Biden's decision to honor the French president with the first state visit of his presidency.
The U.S. tradition of honoring foreign heads of state dates back to Ulysses S. Grant, who hosted King David Kalakaua of the Kingdom of Hawaii for a more than 20-course White House dinner, but the tradition has been on hold since 2019 because of COVID-19 concerns.
"If you look at what's going on in Ukraine, look at what's going on in the Indo Pacific and the tensions with China, France is really at the center of all those things," Kirby said. "And so the president felt that this was exactly the right and the most appropriate country to start with for state visits."
Macron was also Republican Donald Trump's pick as the first foreign leader to be honored with a state visit during his term. The 2018 state visit included a jaunt by the two leaders to Mount Vernon, the Virginia estate of George Washington, America<|fim_middle|> there are still areas of tension in the U.S.-French relationship.
Biden has steered clear of embracing Macron's calls on Ukraine to resume peace talks with Russia, something Biden has repeatedly said is a decision solely in the hands of Ukraine's leadership.
Perhaps more pressing are differences that France and other European Union leaders have raised about Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, sweeping legislation passed in August that includes historic spending on climate and energy initiatives. Macron and other leaders have been rankled by a provision in the bill that provides tax credits to consumers who buy electric vehicles manufactured in North America.
The French president, in making his case against the subsidies, will underscore that it's crucial for "Europe, like the U.S., to come out stronger ... not weaker" as the world emerges from the tumult of the pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, according to a senior French government official who briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity to preview private talks.
Macron earlier this month said the subsidies could upend the "level playing field" on trade with the EU and called aspects of the Biden legislation "unfriendly."
The White House, meanwhile, plans to counter that the legislation goes a long way in helping the U.S. meet global efforts to curb climate change. The president and aides will also impress on the French that the legislation will also create new opportunities for French companies and others in Europe, according to a senior Biden administration official who briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity to preview the talks.
Macron's visit comes about 14 months after the relationship hit its nadir after the U.S. announced its deal to sell nuclear submarines to Australia.
After the announcement of the deal, which had been negotiated in secret, France briefly recalled its ambassador to Washington. A few weeks later Macron met Biden in Rome ahead of the Group of 20 summit, where the U.S. president sought to patch things up by acknowledging his administration had been "clumsy" in how it handled the issue.
Macron's visit with Harris to NASA headquarters on Wednesday will offer the two countries a chance to spotlight their cooperation on space.
France in June signed the Artemis Accords, a blueprint for space cooperation and supporting NASA's plans to return humans to the moon by 2024 and to launch a historic human mission to Mars.
The same month, the U.S. joined a French initiative to develop new tools for adapting to climate change, the Space for Climate Observatory.
Corbet reported from Paris.
"He is obsessed with retaking Ukraine," former Secretary Gates said of Putin, who launched the war in Ukraine last February. "He will hang in there."
Islamic State leader operating in Somalia, Bilal al-Sudani, killed by US military forces
Bilal al-Sudani, a senior Islamic State leader who operated out of Somalia, was killed in a raid, the White House said Thursday.
Poll: Americans equally concerned with Biden, Trump classified documents despite differences
The NBC News poll found equal levels of concern despite differences in the number of documents found and how Biden and Trump responded on the issue.
Chris Christie says Donald Trump 'can't win a general election' and GOP is finally recognizing harm of 'loser' candidates after 2022 | 's founding president.
Macron was scheduled to arrive in Washington on Tuesday evening ahead of a packed day of meetings and appearances in and around Washington on Wednesday - including a visit to NASA headquarters with Vice President Kamala Harris and talks with Biden administration officials on nuclear energy.
On Thursday, Macron will have his private meeting with Biden followed by a joint news conference and visits to the State Department and Capitol Hill before Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron, are feted at the state dinner. Grammy winner Jon Batiste is to provide the entertainment.
Macron will head to New Orleans on Friday, where he is to announce plans to expand programming to support French language education in U.S. schools, according to French officials.
For all of that, | 149 |
The Delboeuf illusion leads people to perceive two identical circles positioned side by side as dissimilar in size if one is surrounded by a large<|fim_middle|>tersum explains.
Just understanding the phenomenon of the Delboeuf illusion probably isn't enough to visually compensate for its effects, they say. "In the midst of hard-wired perceptual biases, a more straightforward approach would be to simply eliminate larger dinnerware – replace our larger bowls and plate with smaller ones or contrasting ones," write the researchers. | circle and the other by a smaller circle. It can lead people to misjudge food serving sizes.
"Instead of scooping vanilla ice cream into a white bowl, you'd do better by your diet to pick a different color dish," explains Koert van Ittersum, an associate professor of marketing at Georgia Tech, who conducted this research with marketing professor Brian Wansink of Cornell University.
Their study, published in the Journal of Consumer Research, sheds light on why people tend to over-serve themselves when given larger plates and bowls.
The researchers found that our susceptibility to over-serve ourselves has to do with the Delboeuf illusion, first discovered in 1865. This illusion leads people to perceive two identical circles positioned side by side as dissimilar in size if one is surrounded by a large circle and the other by a smaller circle. They perceive the latter as larger.
When it comes to dinnerware, this means that people (even expert nutritionists) tend to exceed a target amount of food (the inner circle) when the outer circle (the plate's edge) is much larger in diameter.
The researchers found that diners can lessen the effects of this illusion by heightening the color contrast between their food and dinnerware. The study showed that experimental participants served themselves considerably more when they scooped white-sauce pasta onto a white plate than red-sauce pasta onto white dinnerware.
"White on white or red on red doesn't provide enough visual contrast between the target serving area and the outer edge of plate, increasing one's tendency to over-serve onto larger dinnerware and to underserve onto smaller dinnerware," van Ittersum explains. "Those who own larger dinnerware in different colors may want to choose the color that highly contrasts with the food they are serving to minimize over-serving biases."
While greater color contrast between food and plate can be beneficial to those watching their weight, over-serving tendencies also can be reduced by decreasing the contrast between dinnerware and tablecloth, the study shows. "If you place a white plate on a white tablecloth, the Delboeuf illusion is lessened because the outside circle essentially disappears and you only focus on the inside circle, which is the target food area," van It | 453 |
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This book makes for a fun read. At the core of the entire business is the importance of narrative. Darren explains that Gatorade became a success due to it's heritage, there is a truly fantastic story behind the drinks name.
College athletes were dying from heat stroke, and the University of Florida football coach challenged university physicians to come up with a solution for the home team, the Florida Gators.
Gatorade wasn't designed to be a commercial super story, it's heritage was founded in science. University researchers methodically experimented on student athletes in order to create the best drink to improve sports performance.
I love this business because science is at the heart of their history, they care about their customers and the brand is built on supporting athletes.
Even when hugely successful Gatorade would produce products not for retail, only for athletes.
With it's scientific background Gatorade grew as a b2b model, selling bulk orders to football clubs. The business really started to take off when they were picked up by the media.
The commercial geniuses at Gatorade then focused heavily on product placement, PR and sponsorship of sports tournaments in order to grow their consumer base.
It's impressive to note that Gatorade was able to outspend both Coca-cola and Pepsi on advertising campaigns, maintaining a strong monopoly on the sports drink market when threatened by new entrants. They also used scientific studies to debunk competitors Pepsi, who launched carbonated sport drink. Gatorade proved that the bubbles in the drink actually worsened sports performance!
I'd highly recommend this book for people interested in the power of PR and also people interested branding, the dedication to Gatorades scientific heritage continues to this day as they invest heavily into scientific research.
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Q: Derivative of different variables and using chain ruleb
Suppose $\phi(x)$ is defined by a formula in which x occurs in several
places (for example, there are three $x$'s in $\phi(x)=
> \frac{x^2e^x}{x+3}$).
Show that the derivative $\phi'(x)$ is obtained by differentiating
with respect to each of the $x$'s in turn, treating the others as
constants, and adding the results.
Hint: Let<|fim_middle|> $x_i = x_i(t)$ is a function of another variable $t$, then the total derivative is
$$ \frac{dF}{dt} = \sum_i \frac{\partial F}{\partial x_i} \frac{dx_i}{dt} $$
If you take $x_i(t) = t$ for all $i$, then $\frac{dx_i}{dt} = 1$, and so you get that $\frac{dF}{dt}$ is the sum of the partial derivatives (with $x_i = t$ substituted).
A: Hint
By the quotient rule,
$$
\frac{d}{dx}\left(\frac{x^2e^x}{x+3}\right)=\frac{(x^2e^x)'(x+3)-(x^2e^x)(x+3)'}{(x+3)^2} \, \text{.}
$$
| $F(x_1, . . . , x_n)$ be the function of several variables
obtained by replacing each of the $x$'s in the formula for $\phi(x)$
by a different variable.
I need to Express $\phi$ in terms of F and use the chain rule. Now i am having trouble in proving that $\phi'(x)$ is actually the sum of partial derivatives of the function. And therefore cant really reach to a conclusion for this question. The answer in the text book was given the following
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Football: Lisbon wears out stubborn Spruce Mountain
By Tony Blasi, Staff Editor
LIVERMORE FALLS — Key penalties stalled several offensive drives and forced Spruce Mountain and Lisbon to slug it out on defense the entire first half.
But the Greyhounds (6-0) adjusted their offense, scored two third-quarter touchdowns and sidestepped the Phoenix (4-2) with a 22-6 victory at Griffin Field on Friday night.
"We changed our formation up a little bit. We've been working on that a couple of weeks," Lisbon coach Chris Kates said. "Almost pulled it out the first half. We were trying to wait until we could adjust in the second half, but I am real happy with how the way the offensive line responded in the second half.
"Spruce has some really good athletes over there. Seventy-nine (Trent Tibbetts) was a real problem for us. We were really having a hard time with defensive ends. Second week in a row we faced a real solid defensive line. It kind of got us out of rhythm a little bit.
"We both lost our shots due to unneeded penalties on both sides. I have been telling my kids all year you can't make those mistakes. In the playoffs, we have to clean that stuff up."
With the score tied at six at halftime, the Greyhounds figured how to break through Spruce Mountain's obstinate defense.
Lisbon got the ball on the opening kickoff of the second half and began a quick drive from the its 40 all the way to the Spruce 5. Sophomore Cam Bourget took it from there and scored. Junior quarterback Lucas Francis ran in the conversion, giving Lisbon breathing room with a 14-6 lead with 8:20 left in the third quarter.
Knowing the Phoenix were no pushovers, the undefeated Greyh<|fim_middle|>y said. "There was one particular call that hurt us in the third quarter.
"They are a very good team. They are well coached, played hard. They were physical. What can I say — just smash-mouth football."
No question about that in the first half, where offensive drives ended up sputtering out thanks to penalties on both sides of the ball.
But that's when both teams started making things happen in the second quarter.
Lisbon ended its drought on offense when the Greyhounds got the ball back the Spruce 37-yard line. Francis sent a 37-yard pass to sophomore wide receiver Riley Quatrano for the first touchdown of the game with 1:26 left in the first half. The conversion failed, but nonetheless, Lisbon was on the scoreboard.
The Phoenix responded on the kickoff. Kayle Stewart caught the ball and headed for the end zone for a 91-yard return at 1:26. The kick failed and the teams remained tied at 6 heading into halftime.
football, greyhounds, Lisbon Maine, Phoenix, sjvarsity | ounds punched in another touchdown at 2:24 of the third quarter after getting the ball back on the Spruce 38. Lisbon moved to the 13 where Francis scored on a keeper. He also spilled into the end zone on the conversion again.
Lisbon's tough defense made its 22-6 lead hold up after a scoreless fourth quarter.
"It was a tough game. We were physical. I was proud of that point," Spruce Mountain coach David Fre | 100 |
Abstract: T9.00004 : Incorporation of C in Cu for the Fabrication of Transparent Electrodes*
11:51 AM–12:03 PM
Romaine Isaacs
(University of Maryland)
Hongli Zhu
Colin Preston
Peter Zavali
Azzam Mansour
(Naval Surface Warfare Center)
Melbs LeMieux
Liangbing Hu
Lourdes Salamanca-Riba
The incorporation of carbon nanostructures into the copper lattice has the potential to improve the current density of copper to meet the ever-increasing demands of nanoelectronic devices. We report on the structure and properties of a new material formed by the incorporation of carbon in concentrations up to 10 wt{\%} into the crystal structure of copper that we refer to as ``Cu covetic''. The carbon does not phase separate after subsequent<|fim_middle|> ONR under grant N000141410042. | melting and re-solidification despite the absence of a predicted solid solution at such concentrations in the binary phase diagram. Bulk samples, as well as thin films grown at room temperature and high temperature are investigated. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) confirmed that C incorporates in the bulk of the Cu. Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) shows that C forms a modulated structure in the crystal lattice, and Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (EELS) indicates that C-K edge has graphitic nature with \textit{sp2} bonding. Copper covetic films exhibit greater transparency, higher conductivity, and resistance to oxidation than pure copper films of the same thickness, making them a suitable choice for transparent conductors.
*Supported by DARPA/ARL under Grant No. W911NF-13-1-0058 and | 173 |
Burgeon: Sewing a New Economy in Lincoln
Like many New England towns, Lincoln was once a bustling mill town with sawmills, a pulp and paper mill, and the largest logging railroad in New England. Over the decades, the mills closed, and hotels were built around the ski mountain. The economy turned from manufacturing to tourism. But one determined company is working to […]
Like many New England towns, Lincoln was once a bustling mill town with sawmills, a pulp and paper mill, and the largest logging railroad in New England.<|fim_middle|> other New Hampshire towns such as North Conway, down the Appalachians, and even the Rockies. We want to be where people go to enjoy the mountains," says Glocker.
For more information about Burgeon, visit their website or stop by their studio at the Village Shops in Lincoln.
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"The idea first started around 2011. I spent much of my childhood enjoying the mountains of New Hampshire and Vermont. I like to say it was all 'ice cream and swimming holes.' It wasn't until I came back to the White Mountains as an adult that I realized how tough it can be to live here," says Burgeon Founder, Rudy Glocker. "I wanted to find a way to give back to the communities that gave me so much."
In a world of L.L. Bean, Patagonia, and North Face, it might be difficult to break into the outdoor apparel industry but Burgeon is taking a different approach. All of Burgeon's products are made in their studio in The Village Shops in Lincoln or Merrow Manufacturing in Fall River, Massachusetts. Machine-sewn by local artisans, Burgeon is dedicated to using high-quality materials that will stand up to the elements of the White Mountains and beyond.
"Our products are designed and tested in the White Mountains. Unlike other outdoor apparel companies, we can test our gear right outside our doorstep and modify it in a matter of days," says Glocker. Glocker and his team, including mountain guide and Burgeon General Manager, Justin Walsh, have tested their gear this past winter, spring, and summer. They also had a little help from Philip Carcia, a well known mountain athlete who recently broke the speed record when he hiked all 48 of New Hampshire 4000 foot mountains every month for a full year. Carcia was able to provide the Burgeon team with valuable feedback on their products in real-time so Burgeon could continue to innovate their products to meet the demands of outdoor enthusiasts.
In a few short weeks, Burgeon will be launching their first three lines of apparel to the world. Each apparel line is named after iconic White Mountain peaks or ridges. The Flume Base Collection is a fast-wicking and comfortable base layer perfect for laying under your ski jacket or wearing around the house for après ski. The Franconia Mid Layer, made of Polartec Power Stretch Pro, adds an extra layer of warmth and flexibility on those below zero days or for peak bagging in the spring or fall months. The Washington Outer Collection combines Polartec Windpro and DWR (durable water repellent) to keep you warm and dry when the weather changes. And we all know how fast the weather can change in the White Mountains!
Burgeon is a brand built on its mission, which is "to preserve and enhance the enjoyment of the outdoors by investing in the people, economy, environment and social fabric of outdoor communities." Five percent of each Burgeon sale is donated to community and environmental efforts in the White Mountains so generations of people can continue to enjoy the mountains for years to come.
"Burgeon products are New Hampshire made. We have a team of three local artisans who work right in our studio in Lincoln to finish all our products. As we continue to grow, we hope to hire more local community members. Not all our artisans have extensive sewing skills, but we've trained them, and they are producing incredible work that we're proud to sell," says Justin Walsh. One of the reasons that Glocker chose Lincoln for Burgeon's headquarters was the strong work ethic and pride that its community members have for the work they do.
While Burgeon will be launching in November with only a few products, they have been working hard on developing additional apparel lines for women and lifestyle products for those who desire less technical merchandise. Product will be available both online and their shop in Lincoln in mid-November — just in time for the holidays!
"Our Lincoln location is just the beginning. I want Burgeon to be a model that can be replicated across mountain towns in the United States and beyond. In 10 years, I hope we have locations in | 829 |
Open, aware, active is an educational project fostering development of civil and social awareness of young people and development of active social participation and initiatives created by youth. Our project is a response to lack of sufficient actions focused on creating civil attitudes and low level of integration of young people with their local and international communities. The main goal is to raise the social activities of youngsters, their engagement in life of local and international communities they live in. Participants from Poland, Slovakia, Croatia, Greece, Italy and Lithuania, will come to Poland and take part in a youth exchange during which they will work together, exchange knowledge, good practices regarding using informal education methods based on journalism, film and photography. During<|fim_middle|> different countries. | realization of activities we will focus on using almost only informal education – participants will mostly learn from each other (peer education), spending time together in an interesting way, sharing experience, getting to know each others cultures and different points of view. Our project will foster active participation of young people by giving them modern tools based on their interests – we hope that they will play more active role in their communities by taking responsibility for its development like their parents and grandparents did. We will put an emphasis on realization of intercultural dimension of the project. One of the main goals is to break stereotypes, building tolerant approach towards differences and atmosphere of mutual understanding among youth from | 130 |
In discussion determine who the other person in the relationship is, what that relationship is (husband, wife, mother, friend, teacher, etc) and their name.
Calibrate throughout the exercise. Use your voice and language for rapport.
Note, Client is the client addressed by name, and Other is the name of the other person in the relationship. In this eg Other is a lady.
Client chooses which chair will represent them, and arranges the chairs to represent the relationship. Notice the arrangement. Are they facing towards onr another or not? Next to each other, far apart?
◦ "Take your seat." Client is now in 1st position.
The problem and other person are brought in. Ensure sufficient detail is given to the other person, and also that the client is feeling safe and comfortable to continue.
◦ "I'm going to ask you to invite Other's energy into the room. Go inside and ask your highest self if it's okay to work with them." Calibrate!
◦ "Allow her to come in." "Welcome her." "Invite her to site down." Have a slight gap between each of these.
◦ NB!!! "Are you comfortable sitting there with no glass between you?" Calibrate!
Client associates into problem and talks... Give them reassurance to speak in the 'presence' of Other if needed. Ask questions and paraphrase. Ensure that they are associated and also that they say what they need to say. It's very important to calibrate and take notes at this stage. You want to be using their words back at them, and asking open questions that will involve as many senses as possible, and get the right amount of detail. Position yourself so that you can see as much of their face as possible. You are interested in everything – how they say what they say, words, voice, physiology, feelings... Continue until client has let it all out.
Ask client to stand up, in effect breaking state.
Client is going to be asked to go into 2nd position. Give a brief explanation before they sit in the Other chair.
◦ As they associate more fully into being Other, ask them about themselves, addressing them as Other. Paraphrase and feedback their words, and calibrate.
Now guide their (Other's) attention to the chair representing Client, and speaking as if they see Client in the chair, engage in conversation about the relationship. You are going to ask questions that will give Other's experience/perceptions of the realtionship (as understood by Client). Use open questions and calibrate carefully. Be aware that they may have a very different experience. Ask them if there is anything they want to share.
While Client is still in 2nd position as Other, sit in Client chair and tell them what Client experiences. Use details as noted earlier. Important, you are telling them how Client feels etc, no 'finger pointing'.
Stand up and ask Other about what was just said and get their input. Then ask this type of question, assisting by suggesting if need be.
Use<|fim_middle|> them if they would like to rearrange the chairs. Calibrate.
You can also use 4th position, the space/energy between 1st and 2nd. | Other's name when addressing her in order to strengthen and maintain association. When Other has said what they need to say, thank them for being here and for assisting.
Break state – get Client to stand up and move around a bit.
Next client needs to choose their 3rd position. Explain choices, and work with whichever is more comfortable for the client. Obviously there will be subtle differences in how you proceed, depending on their choice.
Walk with client until they are standing next to 1st position, next to Client chair.
""Feel what it feels like on Earth again, with this feeling now of ….(resource identified).
Guide them back into 1st position. Associate fully into resources.
Future pace. Ensure resources are there, and cement in.
Ensure that they are back with you, and ask | 163 |
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Rare Islamic dish fetches £5m
The estimated value of £500,000 was quickly passed at Sotheby's for this fine example of Islamic art.
by: Chris Carter
A lost sibling, now found: the Debbane Charger
An estimated value of £500,000 was quickly passed at Sotheby's, says Chris Carter
The town of Iznik in modern-day Turkey sits on the eastern shore of Lake Iznik, surrounded by hills, in western Anatolia. Its origins date back more than two millennia. In its earliest days, it went by the name of Nicea. Antigonos, a commander in Alexander the Great's army, founded the settlement in 316BC, according to the Greek geographer, Strabo. After that came the Romans, followed by the Byzantines, the Seljuks, the Byzantines again, and eventually, the Ottomans in 1331. These last rulers focused their attention on developing Constantinople, a short hop across the Sea of Marmara, and Iznik's light started to fade.
But not for long. From around 1480, a fine form of pottery began to be manufactured in the town.<|fim_middle|> large dishes, all of which today reside in museums, including the Louvre in Paris. Considering how seldom such pieces come to auction, putting a valuation on the dish was always going to be tricky. Sotheby's went with an estimate of between £300,000 and £500,000 for its "Arts of the Islamic World" sale. On the day, the charger sold for £5,359,950 the fourth-highest price ever paid for a piece of "Islamic art" (see right) at auction.
The artistry of Iznik pottery continued to be refined throughout the 1500s, reaching its peak in the latter half of the century fittingly, about the same time the Ottoman Empire was reaching the zenith of its powers. After that there followed a decline, largely due to a struggling economy, and eventually, the focus of pottery-making in Turkey moved elsewhere most notably to the town of Ktahya to the south. Yet the Debbane Charger remains as a memento of a time when a once-mighty empire was still on the rise.
Islamic art in a new light
That's why the museum last month opened its new Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World, representing a reorganisation of its collection, including a large display devoted to Iznik pottery (pictured). "What you see is an immensely rich variety of objects, and it is our challenge to show the interconnectedness of these many cultures that all pertain to Islam," says Fischer.
It is like entering an Aladdin's cave, says Rachel Campbell-Johnston in The Times. "Light glitters and winks as it catches burnished metal, the lustre of inlays and the glaze of ceramics, the gleam of enamel and iridescence of silk. It picks out the intricate latticework of carvings, the prismatic colours of manuscript paintings, the filigree descriptions of decorative patterns and the serpentine flow of calligraphic scripts." The two rooms are ordered chronologically, weaving in artworks from other faiths, creating a tapestry of interconnected histories. Just don't expect to take it all in at once. "A thousand and one nights may pass" before that happens.
An "extremely rare" imperial Chinese "12-symbol" dragon robe (pictured) was expected to fetch up to £150,000 at Bonhams in London this week. The blue-ground robe has been embroidered with nine "resplendent dragons swirling amidst a profusion of blossoming chrysanthemums", says expert Linda Wrigglesworth in the auction catalogue. Such robes, decorated with the 12 symbols of imperial authority, including the sun, moon and fu fortune symbol, were exclusively worn by rulers on formal occasions this one probably by the 18th-century Qianlong emperor. It had been acquired by British brigadier-general Offley Bohun Stovin Fairless Shore during a visit to Beijing in 1912.
A 3,000-year-old Assyrian relief that once decorated the walls of the Northwest Palace of King Ashurnasirpal II fetched $30,968,750 at Christie's in New York on Wednesday of last week a record for Assyrian art. The seven-foot-tall slab depicts an Apkallu a winged half-man demigod, carrying a bucket and a cone which signified fertility and protection of the king, who ruled Assyria from 883BC to 859BC. Sir Austen Henry Layard, a British archaeologist, took the relief in the mid-19th century, before selling it to an American missionary named Henri Byron Haskell in 1859. Iraq's culture ministry reportedly objected to the sale, citing the looting and destruction of the country's cultural heritage.
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Follow us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterConnect on LinkedInSubscribe on youtube | These jugs, plates and tiles came to be highly sought after not least by collectors today. It's the earlier pieces, dating from the 16th century, that are most coveted, an article in Christie's magazine explains: "This early phase in Iznik production saw impressive vessels, usually painted in a bold cobalt-blue and white, and often with patterns reserved in white."
An example went up for auction at Sotheby's in London a couple of weeks ago. It was, said the auction house, one of the most important pieces of Iznik pottery to still be in private (one hopes steady) hands. Dating from the reign of Mehmet II (the great Ottoman sultan, known as "the Conqueror" for worrying the Balkans, and even Italy), the charger is one of the very earliest of pieces that can be called Iznik pottery. It "is characterised by an intense, inky, blue-black colouring, which reflects the embryonic stage of firing control roughly two decades before a brighter cobalt blue was accomplished", says Sotheby's.
The "Debbane Charger", as it is known (named after Max Debanne, the 20th century businessman and collector who previously owned it), is considered a "lost sibling" to four other | 268 |
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Bankrate has named Quorum the Best Credit Union of 2023. The prestigious award comes after four straight years earning a spot as a Top Credit Union on Bankrate's list. Among the reasons we earned the top spot this year include our streamlined membership application process, our above-average yields on our savings accounts and term accounts, and access to over 90,000 fee-free ATMs.
Branding us a "Digital Leader" once again, Bankrate cited the numerous 5-star user reviews for our mobile banking app on Google Play and Apple's App Store, as well as digital wallet access (accounts work with Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, and Google Pay).
"We couldn't be more delighted to be recognized by such a prestigious publisher—for the fifth year!" said Quorum President and CEO Jeff Pachter. "We work hard every day to drive value to our members by offering the best products and services and are thrilled to be acknowledged by Bankrate for that. We think members will love our offerings in 2023 and we can't wait to show them what we've been working on."
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Quorum Federal Credit Union is a forward-thinking, technology-based online credit union headquartered at 2500 Westchester Avenue, Purchase, NY 10577. Founded in 1934 as the exclusive credit union for Kraft Foods employees, today the Credit Union serves over 50 companies nationwide including Og<|fim_middle|> You™. | ilvy, Avon, Mastercard, Mondelēz International, Philip Morris International, Altria, and Kraft Heinz and has members living in all 50 states. Quorum is banking that is focused on all customers and how its products and services help them to live life as they choose. Its aim is to do "Good" by and for its customers. We call this mission, Banking That's Good. For | 88 |
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Principles of Mahasweta Devi should flow from one generation to another: Arindam Sil
Panaji, Nov 27, 2022, IANS
Praising the work and contribution of Bengali writer and activist Mahasweta Devi, director of Bengali film 'Mahananda' Arindam Sil said that like the River Mahananda, her principles should flow from one generation to another.
"This is the time to talk about the principles of life, as very few people nowadays actually lead a life of principles," Arindam Sil said on Saturday.
He was speaking during the 'table talks' programme in the International Film Festival of India, underway in Goa.
'Mahananda' is a biopic based on the life of writer-social activist Mahasweta Devi.
"This is the time to talk about the principles of life, as very few people nowadays actually lead a life of principles. Mahasweta Devi was one of the few people who lived a life based on principles. I feel it's time we teach our children to lead a life of principles," Arindam Sil said.
Arindam Sil said that he felt that it is the moral responsibility of filmmakers to bring forward and talk about a personality like Mahasweta Devi. "She is someone whom we are all trying to forget. Mahasweta Devi is taught as a subject in American universities. In India's universities however, we don't even talk about her," he said.
He said that Mahasweta Devi's whole life was dedicated to fighting for who she referred to as the real people of India.
"No one in this country has worked for the tribals - the Sabars and the Mundas - the way she did. Medha Patekar and Mahasweta Devi were like comrades in arms," he said.
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"Like the River Mahananda, her principles should flow from one generation to another," Arindam Sil said.
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Ole Scheeren, the architectural genius behind the 2015 World Building of the Year, explains why he rejects the conventional and how his buildings support greater quality of life for people.
German-born, Beijing-based Ole Scheeren is the architectural brains behind The Interlace, which was crowned World Building of the Year 2015.
While many architects aspire to create something different, few are as bold as Ole Scheeren. The 45-year-old German-born, Beijing-based architect effectively changed Singapore's skyline when he designed The Interlace.
"We basically toppled the towers," he said during a recent visit to Singapore.
"We wanted to overcome the 'strait jacket' of the tower where people live in vertical isolation. With The Interlace, we turned the vertical into the horizontal and stacked them in large, hexagonal grids to form huge courtyard spaces. Buildings are for people but architecture today focuses too much on shapes and silhouettes and too little on how people want to live."
"My buildings are borne of an ambition to achieve<|fim_middle|> communal areas with distinctive themes to cater to the diverse needs of its resident community.
After toppling the tower format with The Interlace, Scheeren has since gone on to "dismantle" it in his latest work. The MahaNakhon in Bangkok, Thailand, which was completed in August this year, is an astounding 77-storey skyscraper that resembles a three-dimensional ribbon of architectural pixels. It is impossible to imagine what the architect will come up with next, but one thing is for certain — Scheeren will continue to defy convention and reshape the way Asia lives, works and plays. | a quality of life. In creating them, I ask questions about how things work in this particular space, both functionally and emotionally. If my buildings look unusual, it is because they are answers to such questions, rather than a pure shape-finding exercise," he asserted.
While The Interlace has been lauded by the global architectural community as a "trailblazer" and was crowned "World Building of the Year" at the 2015 World Architecture Festival, it has also attracted its fair share of naysayers. Scheeren accepts this as inevitable.
"As we push boundaries and challenge the status quo, there is always some provocation involved. We don't expect everybody to immediately understand everything. That is why dialogue and communication is very important," he said.
"It is very exciting to be an architect in Asia today. Europe is more about preservation than newness so it is more difficult to intervene radically there. Asia, however, is quite the opposite. Many things are changing and I feel there is a greater commitment to renewing and rethinking things here," said Scheeren, who chose to relocate to Beijing in 2004.
"I knew, early on, that I didn't want to export my work. I want to work for Asia, from within Asia. Design is very contextually specific for me. To be able to experience a place on a personal level has always been absolutely critical. Since I was young, I distrusted any form of mediation of reality. I did not want to look at books or photographs of architecture. Instead, when I was 18, I used all my savings to buy a small car. I drove around Europe just looking at buildings. That taught me a lot about understanding spaces not only in an intellectual way, but also psychologically. There is an emotional element to space that books and photographs cannot convey — it's the feeling you get when you step into a space," he explained.
With his mastery of space and familiarity with Asia, what does Scheeren think is the greatest challenge facing the region today?
Indeed, at The Interlace, one often forgets that 1,040 apartment units occupy the eight-hectare site. This is largely due to clever spatial planning and design, which opens up many | 459 |
<|fim_middle|> is reportedly satisfied with the end result due to Oasis PPD meeting all of its requirements. | Al Qasimia University Sharjah
UAE: Oasis PPD has recently completed a turnkey project for the audio, visual and lighting systems at the new theatre for Al Qasimia University in Sharjah. The prestigious location of the project meant that only high-end equipment would be suitable for the installation.
The solution for the university's theatre was designed by Sharjah-based consultancy, Architectural Academic Office Arch Ali M Khalifa. The design called for an integrated system with a Crestron processor controlling the audio, video and lighting systems. The audio system called on Outline speakers for the main arrays and side fills with a Roland mixer and a DIS interpretation system. On the visual side, projection is from Christie with a DaLite screen and Data Video cameras capture all the events in the theatre. The lighting system includes stage lights and dimmers from ETC.
In addition to the A/V solution, Oasis PPD was also responsible for the seats, curtain system and the acoustic panels for the whole theatre. It also provided the Triax cables from the theatre to provide a broadcast feed for OB vans.
The turnkey project took five months to complete with only minimal changes from the original design required. The client | 243 |
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"But where is all the security?" she continued, miming a guard carrying a machine gun.
It was a g<|fim_middle|> hanging out with the SJMA crowd. Thanks for your visit and contributions and your part in making the young musicians visit possible. | lib statement, and its implication fell short of the truth. Canadians may not have the same level of violent crime prevalent in the rest of the Americas, but the great myth of the nation is that it doesn't have a poverty problem. The poverty exists; most developed nations apart from the United States have simply found better ways of hiding it. And if there were one neighbourhood in Canada synonymous with deprivation and all its concomitant problems, particularly substance abuse, it would be Vancouver's Downtown Eastside – the home of the St. James Music Academy, and the next stop for the South American contingent.
Following an extremely successful week in Prince George and the fantastic performance with the PGSO, the assignment in Vancouver for Ana, Nestor and Samuel was far less glamorous but more challenging: to integrate and work for a week within a Canadian núcleo in one of the nation's most troubled communities– teaching, interacting, learning in the most culturally and pedagogically immersive of fashions.
For this, the staff, faculty and students of SJMA proved to be exceptional hosts, welcoming them with extraordinary open-mindedness, but then again, SJMA is an extraordinary program. I see many el Sistema-inspired programs, but I see few organizations with such pervasive internal culture of dedication to both service and inquiry. I credit this in large part to the Executive Director, Kathryn Walker, long-time resident of the community who simply leads by example at all times. I doubt she's even aware of her influence, nor conscious of the way she consistently models her values, but her attitude towards the children, and her constant effort to serve them in the best possible way seems to have permeated every single one of the SJMA faculty and staff to the point where the (extremely talented) staff media guru, not possessed of any prior musical training, can be found in orchestra with a flute in his hand sitting next to a child half his age but double his playing experience.
The story of the week in Vancouver makes for a relatively undramatic narrative, unpunctuated as it was by brilliant public orchestral performances before audiences measured in the multiple hundreds, but mass approbation is not the yardstick of impact or import. I knew the week had been a tremendous success in its own way when Chris Loh, the media guru, asked each of the South Americans what a highlight of the time in Canada had been. Without fail, each mentioned the first night in Vancouver. The post-concert celebrations in Prince George had only ceased around 4am that day, and we had reconvened barely six hours later for a very bumpy flight to Vancouver, so we were collectively worn out even before we arrived. And yet we were part of something extraordinarily special that evening.
And as such it is, especially in its humblest of forms, incredibly beautiful. Jamie and Hannah, your two original duets were simply some of the sweetest, most lovely things I've ever heard, and I regret that my most prosaic of souls could not express that in any more meaningful way that evening. Brad, the SJMA visual arts teacher and yoga master and a man of far more poetic nature, described your songs as having left him tingling and aglow. I can't remember the lyrics or the melodies of the music you offered, but I will never forget how it made me feel. And for your visitors from South America or for an ex-pat living on the other side of the continent, that, along with all the other beautiful offerings of the evening, is far more lasting and valued a gift than any souvenir. It was a little detail, it was a little moment – is that the stock-in-trade of musicians?
Wonderful and important words Jonathan. This is, in fact, one of the great benefits El Sistema and El Sistema-based program's can offer – the cultural exchange. Maybe we should see music, particularly youth music, as a new form of "ping-pong diplomacy" – globally, and culturally speaking.
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Last week, whilst Pakistanis watched their prime minister try to explain his wealth to an investigative commission, the US made a major decision with dramatic policy implications for Pakistan. President Donald Trump announced that he was formally giving his authority to decide on American troop levels in Afghanistan to James Mattis, the Pentagon supremo who spent years helping manage the US war effort in Afghanistan, prior to his retirement.
Pakistan is still trying to recover from a history of American decisions with respect to Afghanistan. How far back we go depends on how old we are, and how much we respect experience. To contextualise Trump's handing over of troop levels to Mattis, perhaps the best place to start is President Obama's half-baked, weak-willed, lukewarm American "surge" announced at West Point on December 1, 2009. Many Pakistani democrats saw in that speech by Obama echoes and shadows of numerous elected Pakistani leaders – bruised, battered and defeated by the machinations of their generals, trying to put on a brave face while being humiliated and outmanoeuvred.
Obama's 2009 surge of 30,000 troops doomed America's Afghanistan mission by virtue of the absence of conviction behind it. His generals, particularly Stanley McChrystal, and many others that had come to occupy DC think-tanks across the political spectrum, had lobbied for far more. McChrystal himself had pushed for as many as 85,000, and some in the counter-insurgency community believed that without an extra quarter million troops inserted into Afghanistan, the US would not have a reasonable chance of wiping out<|fim_middle|>disclosure: I worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs during this period). On July 4, 2012, Hillary Clinton called the-then foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar to tender a US apology to Pakistan for the Salala attack.
It has been five years since that reset in the relationship, and much has changed in Pakistan and the immediate neighbourhood. But three things remain the same. If Pakistan does not begin to pay more and better attention to the Afghanistan problem – a problem that is simultaneously its India, its America, its Russia, and possibly Turkey, Iran and China problem too – it risks reliving a nightmare that the country can ill-afford.
First, even though Karzai is long gone, the bitterness and distrust between Afghans and Pakistanis has remained. In fact, it has grown substantially over the last two years. Afghans have plenty to introspect about on this front, but Pakistan is a nuclear power with a population over six times the size of Afghanistan. If Afghan-Pakistan relations are broken, it is Pakistan that has the agency, the heft and the incentive to fix it. Instead, Pakistan has sought to punish Afghan business and, worse, Afghan refugees every time the volatile Ashraf Ghani decides to troll Pakistan. This pattern of allowing Afghans to dictate Pakistani moods and policies has produced a forty-year policy quicksand in Afghanistan.
Second, even though Pakistan-US relations are not the disaster they were in 2011, they are far from fully functional. Many important Americans on both sides of the political divide in the US consider Pakistan's behaviour as that of an enemy. They blamed Pakistan for the need for a 2009 surge to begin with, they blame Pakistan for the continued conversation that Mattis will lead throughout June this year, and they will blame Pakistan for its inevitable failure before the year is over, if not sooner. The 'do more' and 'blame Pakistan' argument has always been and remains weak, with many holes. But it is also not entirely without merit, and never has been.
Third, India continues to be unrepentant about its role in Afghanistan. On the surface, this is understandable: Big Momma India helping out orphaned Afghanistan. In reality, India's interest in Afghanistan is principally strategic and malign. Pakistanis are most likely correct to be paranoid about India in Afghanistan. But Pakistan's responses to this threat have been self-effacing, at best: alienating Afghan refugees, and Afghan public opinion, demonising all Afghans as supportive of the TTP and allowing deliberate provocations by the Ghani-Modi combine to successfully trigger over the top reactions.
In this scenario, where so much of the core strategic problems are the same today as they were in 2009, no matter what decision James Mattis and the Pentagon make, or advise President Trump to take, they will find themselves in the same overarching sleeper hold that Obama, McChrystal, and later Petraeus dove into at West Point.
The added complexities today are manifold. Unlike in 2009, the Mullah Omar-less Taliban are fractured and relatively divided. Daesh has established more than a solid foothold beyond the Nangarhar province. Putin's Russia is sniffing around for an opportunity to show up the Americans in an old US-Russia battlefield. Shia Iran is actively engaged with the Sunni Taliban. Qatar – home to the negotiations office of the Taliban – is in limbo. India is slowly but surely turning into a Hindu Rashtra with over one thousand years of existential anger fuelling it. And most of all, Pakistan is still wrought by the tensions between generals who don't know their limits and politicians who won't tell them.
Given the prime minister's preoccupations and track record, and the military's insatiable appetite for poor strategic decisions, it is unlikely that Pakistan is prepared for what is coming. This lack of preparedness is inexcusable. | the Taliban. Obama's political people were mostly sceptical, with many of his bluest supporters strongly leaning toward a smaller training mission for US forces, and a quicker exit.
The 2009 surge was doomed not only because of the bickering and in-fighting curated by an indecisive and inexperienced president who seemed more keen to be fair to his dozens of advisers than he was to get his decisions right. The process leading up to the surge ended up costing McChrystal his job. But perhaps the most lethal element of the 2009 surge in Afghanistan was that it announced the withdrawal date for those troops: July 2011. Neither Obama nor the best advisers in the world could have known what 2011 would actually bring. To top it all off, the process leading up to the 2009 surge firmly enmeshed the topic of Pakistan as the whipping boy for America in Afghanistan. What would take place in 2011 – the year the surge was supposed to have been drawn back – had everything to do with Pakistan.
After the coalescing of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan in 2007, the Lal Masjid fiasco that same year, the assassination of Benazir Bhutto before the year end, and the eruption of suicide attacks across the country throughout 2008 and 2009, Pakistan first tried to tackle the TTP problem in Swat in the summer of 2009. The massive displacement of citizens that summer was followed by the devastating 2010 floods, a tragedy that directly affected over 20 million Pakistanis. Then came 2011. January brought with it the Raymond Davis incident, resulting in the easing out of the foreign minister at that time, Shah Mehmood Qureshi.
In May 2011, US Navy Seals attacked a compound in Abbottabad, killing Osama bin Laden. Pakistan then spent the entire summer in the virtual doghouse of the mainstream US media, followed by two events in September 2011 that soured the mood permanently. Former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani was assassinated on September 20, and two days later, US chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen testified to a senate committee that he believed that the Haqqani Network, a designated terrorist group, was "a veritable arm of the Inter Services Intelligence".
On November 26, 2011 US and Nato forces attacked a Pakistani post on the Pak-Afghan border. Twenty-five Pakistani soldiers were martyred in that attack. Having already virtually suspended relations with Afghanistan because of the-then president Karzai's accusations that Pakistan was behind Rabbani's assassination, the Salala attack essentially put the Pakistan-US relations on ice. Nato's ground lines of communication were suspended, and US use of Pakistani air force ground assets was terminated. It took over seven months to repair the relationship ( | 619 |
We aim to "know Jesus and make Him known", whether that be in our parish or through the many other social networks that we are all part of through the week.
We believe that our calling is, with others, to bring the Kingdom of God to our parish, our city, our region, our nation and to the ends of the earth. This is a reflection of Jesus' final words in Matthew's Gospel, Chapter 28.
We also know that Bath is a City which has seen the Holy Spirit move in great ways in the past, and we long to see a move of God through the whole City. We aim under God to 'win, train and send' labourers into this end-time worldwide harvest field.
As a helpful reminder to us as a church, here is a list of the main missional organisations that we are supporting.
Open the Book (rep – Peter LeRoy).
Send<|fim_middle|>. Julian and Monica have a lively, strategic ministry with the Hangzhou International Christian Fellowship, in the People's Republic of China. Their sons are in University in New Zealand, but are very much part of their ministry! Jim and Liz Woods are our reps.
Dr.Andrew Leake and his family have been living in Argentina for years, indeed, Andrew was brought up there as a child in a missionary family. Many will remember the passionate and challenging talk given by Andrew a few months ago in church. He and his family have worked with the local church for decades, but through his professional skills, Andrew has found himself called into working with the local, indigenous Wichi Indians, whose communities have lived in the forests in the Chaco since time immemorial. Their way of life, their very lives and their futures have been progressively destroyed and undermined by the cynical selling off of their homelands by their own government to global corporations; these corporations raze the forest to the ground, and then plant vast fields of crops of biomass vegetation that is sold on the world market to enable the First World to create fuel to run our machines. The land sales bring no benefit to the local people, immediate or long term, and that is totally unjust. Jan Rich is our rep.
SIM, Hilary and Marc Deneufchatel: Hilary (formerly Inwood) is the daughter of a previous St Luke's vicar, Bishop of Bedford (now retired!). She, and her French husband Marc, are serving as long term missionaries in Benin, involved in a Bible translation project. Would you like to receive their emails? St Luke's rep. is Alison Stubbs.
Five Talents: Fights poverty by providing microfinance. Tom Sanderson, the UK Director of Five Talents, was once a member of the St Luke's congregation. Jamie Jameson represents Five Talents in the South of England and is our rep.
Open the Book: Seeking to open the Bible to school children. St Luke's members take Open the Book assemblies in the Moorlands Schools. Peter LeRoy is a trustee of Open the Book and is our rep.
The Genesis Trust is our local charitable trust, and has been working to alleviate poverty and hardship for local people in Bath for the last 20 years. They work with people struggling with everyday life – mainly as a result of homelessness, addiction, poverty or disability. They provide the practical support they need to get through today, and the emotional support to look forwards to tomorrow. They do this with compassion, skill and with an attitude of hospitality to all. They run nine projects across Bath, including the 'Soup Run', which a number of St Luke's people help with every week. These projects help people meet local people's needs for food, furniture, purposeful activity and one-to-one support and guidance.
The Genesis Trust was founded on a Christian vision and is driven by Christian values, and this ethos remains at the core of their work. However, the project exists to serve anyone in need, irrespective of their faith, background or gender, and they do not actively evangelise. The particular Christian values which underpin our work are love, justice, compassion, truth and a basic equality. The Bible depicts God as having a bias towards the poor and the marginalised in society and that all of us have equal worth in his eyes, and in their relationships with their service users, they seek to reflect this. Five of their projects are volunteer run, and four are run by professional paid staff. They have built a strong relationship with all the churches across Bath; Ian Mackay, a member of our congregation, is a trustee of the Trust and closely in touch with all that they do and is our rep.
Churches support them financially and by provide the majority of our 500 volunteers. They also receive support and donations from the general public who appreciate the work they do in Bath. They are entirely self-funded, and receive no statutory funding or Lottery money.
Please pray for the work of these organizations and people. Is there one that you could take a particular interest in, and support personally? If so, speak to our rep.
Pinnacle Youth Outreach at the Rhenish Church, Capetown: Jerome Hartley's inspirational work with young people in very hard places, drugs and 'gangsterism', creating 'safe places', projects (594 kids at a recent holiday club!), giving them a vision of the gospel, hope and a better life. (Sponsors; Bath Youth For Christ). Sam Packer is our link.
Children's Society: One of our longest-standing relationships (formerly as the Church of England Children's Society). We particular remember their work with children at Christmas time – e.g. a Christingle service. Mary Roberts is our rep.
Christian Aid: St Luke's contributes to the humanitarian ministry of Christian Aid by organising the local Christian Aid Week collection. The last Christian Aid Week was 11th - 17th May 2014 and Tim Harris is our rep.
Samaritans Purse: Operation Christmas Child provides shoeboxes containing Christmas gifts for disadvantaged children in Africa and Eastern Europe. Many St Luke's people are involved, and Frank Finney is our rep.
Mercy Ships: Lynne Melly, a member of our congregation, has recently returned from working on the ship in West Africa, and has given us several talks about her work, working with Africans who have no other access to medical care. Shirley Dewes is our rep.
St Mark's School: St Mark's is Bath's Church of England secondary school. We, along with a number of churches in Bath, support the cost of the school chaplain. Angela LeRoy is our rep.
The Leprosy Mission: Working to eradicate leprosy, and minister to those affected. We encourage St Luke's members to support TLM by using their excellent Christmas catalogue.
Traidcraft: Fighting poverty through fair trade. Polly McKay regularly runs Traidcraft stalls in church. | a Cow: A local charity which started by literally sending cows to Africa. Now helps farmers in Africa to make better lives through training and provision of livestock from local sources. Ann Hatton is a Send a Cow Ambassador and our rep.
John Bailey: with his wife, Esther and their two girls were St Luke's members for a long time, before leaving several years ago to work in Scotland, running a Christian Centre and working for Scripture Union, respectively. A couple of years ago, John moved to work with Operation Mobilisation, a global Christian organisation working to mobilise young people to live and share the Gospel, and demonstrate the love of God, in over 110 countries. You may have heard of their Gospel ships, MV Logos and Doulos ...and more recently, MV Logos Hope, which visits port cities throughout the world, supplying literature, encouraging cross-cultural understanding and training young people for 'more effective life and service'. (480 ports, 150 countries; on average, over 1 million visitors a year). John runs much of the global IT system for the boats and for the organisation...which is a most onerous role; he lives by support from others... and OM needs him, and needs support, too! Esther still works for Scripture Union. They are among our St Luke's missionaries, sent out, and it is our privilege to be in involved in their work. Tim Packer is our rep.
Julian and Monica Hawken: Julian is the son of a former vicar of St Luke's | 315 |
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Woke Culture Has Come For America's High Schools
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High schools across America are embracing a woke curriculum. Charles Fain Lehman, adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute, says he is troubled by a trend in education of embracing<|fim_middle|> Diego, their public schools have actually overhauled their traditional grading system because of racism.
So they've changed the way that they grade as a way to combat racism. It's a little unclear how one plus one, not sure. They didn't seem to draw a super direct link for how changing the grading system then will help to defeat racism in that school district. Do you know more about that situation?
Lehman: Yeah. I mean, I think, basically, one of the enduring problems in American education policy over the past 40, 50 years is that there are large and persistent gaps along race on any standardized tests that you care to name, which is to say Asian students and then white students consistently and significantly outperform Latino students and then black students, and this is called the achievement gap.
And the why is a really complicated question and there are lots of different debates about how we can address this, and I think it's important to ask, what are the underlying causes? That might be whether there [is] socioeconomic inequality, or lack of access to resources, or lack of school choice.
There any given number of factors at play, but having observed this disparity and from beating their heads against it for the past 50 years, I think many of the most progressive figures in education policy and in teaching theory have basically said, "It's no longer relevant to ask, 'What is the cause of this disparity?' We should just choose the disparities, ipso facto, racists."
This is the … logic, "If there is a disparity, then racism is what causes it. There's no other plausible explanation. And therefore … we should address the disparity at the level of metric." Which is to say, "If being graded poorly on homework is the thing that is leading to the achievement gap, the measure of achievement gap on homework between black kids and white kids, then the solution is to change how we grade homework until the achievement gap goes away."
In other words, I think their contention is that the measures are hopelessly racist and so we should change the measures.
I think my contention might be, maybe not homework, but certainly standardized testing is a reasonably good measure of something like academic ability.
And so whatever the underlying causes of the disparities, again, with racists, you can argue inequality, whatever the underlying causes of the disparities are, changing the measure to make that measured disparity go away, changing what your measure is, doesn't actually address the inequalities or issues that are causing the disparity to emerge in the first place. But I think that's the thinking that's going on there.
Virginia Allen: Yeah. That seems so dangerous and obviously so not helpful to those students that are struggling that need the extra help.
I mean, I'm just thinking, for a few years you'll have teachers and administrators thinking, "Well, we 'fixed' the problem," through a bizarre solution that isn't a solution at all, a major problem that needs to be changed probably on multiple levels to really get these students up to par and get them the help that they need.
I do want to pivot and just ask you a little bit about something that you referred to, which is director of diversity. This has become a popular job title at a number of schools. Lots of schools, lots of businesses are hiring someone that's specifically just on staff to make sure that that community is racially aware, that they are diverse enough.
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So what exactly do these people do who wear this title of something like director of diversity?
Lehman: Yeah. I mean, I think it's a person who is responsible for, the industry buzzword is DEI—diversity, equity, and inclusion—and broadly speaking, it's the person who is responsible for any initiatives related to those things as a set of priorities for a business, or a school, or a nonprofit, what have you.
And I think that can mean metrics for diversity, that can mean organizing a speaking event, that can mean consulting on who's getting promoted and who isn't. I think it's a person who's specifically responsible for forwarding a diversity, equity, and inclusion set of goals.
To some extent that might be good. It's conceivable that they could do that role well. I think often in practice, that role, as I argue in the piece, often in practice what that role does is identify reasons that more diversity, equity, inclusion are needed.
So if you look at these schools, their roster of DEI people [has] only grown over the past five to 10 years. They might've started with one diversity chief, and then because of that person finding issues, they hire another person, and then another person, and then you have a seven-person group who's responsible for diversity.
And it is telling to me that as these organizations add administrators, the number of acquisitions of racism only increase, the number of identified instances of racism only increase. Maybe they're measuring better, but they may also typically be measuring more.
I think it is generally true that administrators of this sort seek in their own interest in trying to accrue, just like anybody, trying to accrue resources. And the best way to do that is to say, "Well, actually, you need even more DEI than you first thought."
Allen: Wow, fascinating. And I know you have specifically written about that subject in other pieces, and we'll link those in the show notes so our audience could read your work on that.
But I want to ask, apart from education, we are seeing that woke culture is really seeping into things like professional sports, of course, TV [shows] and movies, large corporations. So if we fast forward maybe 10 or 15 years, what [effect do you think] this very progressive woke culture ideology is going to have on America long term?
Lehman: I'll say two things. One is, I'm not sure what's going to happen in 10 to 15 years, in part because it is hard to disentangle this push for wokism and it's contemporary political context.
Clearly, it started the second half of the Obama administration, but was empowered by the Trump administration, a liberal visceral backlash against the Trump administration. Maybe with Joe Biden in office, it'll ratchet back. Maybe not. Who knows? Let's imagine it doesn't.
I think I would say, here's the thing that's not going to happen, I am not optimistic about the spread of woke ideology actually reducing substantive racial inequality in United States.
If our priority is doing something like reducing the black-white wealth gap, I don't think it's going to have a major impact on that. I don't think Uber Eats-ing from a black-owned restaurant is going to have a major impact on that, even though they lecture me about it all the time.
I certainly don't think you lecturing your employees about their white fragility is going to have a major impact on that. And I think in general, it is unlikely to even help diversity at the top end of the distribution. The Nasdaq can require you to have a more diverse board in order to be admitted to it, but I think companies will be really good at skirting that.
Instead, what I imagine is that mostly the serpent will leave its own tail, that as with diversity execs I talked about a minute ago, in schools, the principle applies more broadly.
What mostly will happen [is] they'll find new ways to identify hard-to-measure racial problems, racial wrongthink, and then hire new consultants and new employees and new directors who are responsible for ferreting it out, none of which will have any interest in correcting any substantive imbalance from a policy perspective, but will instead so focus on reinforcing this idea and therefore, frankly, generating more profit for the people who propound it.
Allen: Charles, we just so appreciate your insight on this issue. I do want to ask, where can our listeners follow you, find your work?
Lehman: Absolutely. I think the best place is at the Free Beacon. That's freebeacon.com. I'm there. All of my great colleagues are there. You can also follow me on Twitter. I'm @CharlesFLehman. … Those are both good places.
Allen: Great. Charles, thank you so much.
Lehman: Yeah. Thank you.
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Lehman, who is also a staff writer at The Washington Free Beacon, joins the show to discuss his recent article "American High Schools Go Woke" and how this development may affect the nation years from now.
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Virginia Allen: I am so pleased to welcome to the show Charles Fain Lehman, a journalist at The Washington Free Beacon and an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Charles, thanks so much for coming on today.
Charles Fain Lehman: Thanks for having me on, Virginia. I feel glad to be here.
Allen: So today, we're talking about a pretty popular subject, and that is woke culture. And that word, "woke," is thrown around a lot. So I want to begin by just asking you to define exactly what we mean when we use that word, woke.
You wrote a great piece on this that we're going to get into in just a minute, but I think it would be really helpful to start with just, what exactly do we mean by that? What does that term, woke, mean?
Lehman: Yeah, absolutely, and I think as a term, it contains contradictions or contains multitudes, as it were.
There's an author, Wesley Yang, who I think the term is generally attributed to, but refers to what he calls the successor ideology, the ideology that comes after late 20th-century Clinton-ite, triumphalist liberalism.
And it's really more of an inchoate thing, but it's the set of increasingly dominant liberal-progressive ideas that really took off in the wake of Barack Obama's reelection in 2012 when we see a lot of this churning up.
So it imports a lot of academic ideas from the 1990s and earlier, has a great deal of focus on race or critical race theory; on sex, gender, and trans issues broadly; and I think is characterized by this particular social justice outlook on how the world works. A fixation on identity categories and defining things in those terms and then defining the world as a set of struggles between those identity categories.
And also, in some senses by the degree of its interest in ideological purity, in getting people to commit themselves fully to the ideology and spurning the nonbelievers, even within their own circles.
I think most viewers, most listeners will recognize this as that increasingly dominant strain in the American left more broadly, especially the college-educated or elite left.
Allen: And you have done quite a bit of reporting on this subject. You've just wrote a piece called "American High Schools Go Woke."
And in the area of education, for several years, we have seen this increase in woke curriculum being promoted, being endorsed. But after the death of George Floyd and then across the summer with protests and riots, it felt like a lot of that very, very progressive education was fast-tracked in schools.
So can you just give us an update, what exactly are we seeing now? What's actually happening in high schools across America?
Lehman: Yeah, absolutely, and I think the first thing that I would do is I would encourage your viewers to type in the name of their local school district or type in the name of their local private school into Google with the word "anti-racism."
And they will find almost invariably that there's a set of resources, or [a] page, or a letter discussing the school's commitment to the importance of anti-racism, whereby anti-racism what's really meant is a set of particular active commitments meant to combat racism that's distinguished from being not racist, as being a set of beliefs that are … about correcting racial injustices actively.
I think across the country, there are both private and public schools that have pushed huge quantitative of time, money, and energy into so-called anti-racist agendas since the summer, essentially.
So, for example, in my article, I looked at, on the one coast, there's Harvard-Westlake, which is by some measures the No. 1 prep school in the United States, and they released a 20-page letter over the summer from their administrators saying, "Here's all of the ways in which we are racist, and here are all of the steps that we're taking to combat racism."
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For example, their 11th-grade U.S. history course is going to be overhauled to be taught from a critical race theory perspective, which means it will incorporate the latest in progressive pedagogy.
On the other coast, we at the Free Beacon have looked at Fairfax County, which is one of the collar counties of D.C. in Virginia, where they spent something like $20,000 to get Ibram Kendi, who's a prominent race scholar, to come talk to them. This is $20,000 of taxpayer money.
I dug up the details on the Anti-Racist Reading List that was sent out to parents and students at one Fairfax area school. So really, I mean, I have identified very few schools that haven't been touched by this stuff in some way, and they're pushing the same ideas everywhere.
Allen: Yeah. I mean, I love the examples that you give in the article because it's wild when you actually see what's happening, and what's happening not that far away.
You tell about one Connecticut prep school in your article, Loomis Chaffee, and they have introduced mandatory diversity, equality, and inclusion training for students. And they're also requiring faculty to read Kendi's "Stamped From the Beginning" and [Robin] DiAngelo's "White Fragility" for what they call professional development.
So you obviously see that there is a problem here, that this kind of mandatory woke education is harmful. Why do you see it as so harmful?
Lehman: I think there are a couple of answers to that, and you can talk about what sort of ideas it's spreading. I think that there are derogatory features of it.
If you look at responses to DiAngelo's book, if you look at some of the more extreme instances, frankly, the accounts of race that they give are startling and disturbing.
There's a controversy because the National Museum of American History I think over the summer released an info sheet about the norms of white culture, which implied that non-White people aren't on time to stuff and that that's a white norm and non-white people don't work hard so white people are willing to work hard.
No, I believe that everyone is able to work hard. That's an important tenant of racial equality, is that we believe that people are equal in common decency and dignity.
But I think that the other thing to highlight is that a lot of this stuff doesn't appear to work. It doesn't appear to have a major impact.
I think everyone can reasonably agree that if we have tools that reduce racial animosity and tension, those are good. All else equal, we want that. But there's a reasonably strong research finding at the corporate level that the corporate diversity trainings, their primary effect is not to reduce inequality in either experience or in hiring, but actually increase racial animosity and to have no effect otherwise on who ends up in top positions.
It seems like it mostly takes some extreme example of Robin DiAngelo, if you pay somebody $20,000 to spend two hours screaming at your employees about how all of their problems are caused by racial animosity, the effect of that will be to cause them to resent each other even more, which is not really surprising.
And then I think this plays out—I highlighted in the piece a couple of different stories about progressive schools that, really, their progressivism has veered into a disturbing level of anti-Semitism.
There was reporting from Tablet Magazine looking at [a] school in New York where they divided kids out by affinity groups that were based on their ethnic identity, and how all of the Jewish kids felt super targeted by being put into the Jewish group and being told that they were terrible Zionists and … the oppression of the Palestinians, that was their fault as Jews.
So that kind of division by race, especially among high schoolers, can promote bullying and destructive behavior.
Virginia Allen: Wow. No, I mean, I think on so many levels, just fundamentally the fact that, OK why are we continuing to do things that, one, we're seeing really don't help, and then, two, that actually have real harmful effects?
I do want to get your opinion on something that you reference in your article. That's the 1619 Project. We've talked a lot about the 1619 Project on this show, the flaws with the curriculum, but we are seeing it continue to be implemented in schools across the country.
I want to get your perspective, as a journalist, and specifically how the media reports on the 1619 Project, because we know that there flaws. The New York Times themselves, they published a major correction to the project central piece.
So why do you think so much of mainstream media just looks the other way at something that's being so promulgated but is so clearly flawed?
Lehman: I think I want to answer that question pretty generally and then focus in on the particular example, which is that there were lots of institutions in American society today, whether it's the Pulitzer Prize, or The New York Times, or it's who gets the Nobel Peace Prize, which has historical legitimacy, which it did.
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Their authority derives from a past treatment of authority, and which today have been more or less co-opted by partisan liberal interests. They use the stamp of their legitimacy to approve things which are ideologically correct if they're not factually correct.
And so this is how you end up in situations, and this is when you talk with journalists specifically, where journalists are happy to pat themselves on the back with things that are factually inaccurate or which don't set an accurate picture, but which served the ideological ends that they want them to serve. You have a laundering of legitimacy that goes on.
So I think something like 1619, the question is not, is it right? Is it presenting an accurate picture? I don't know a huge amount about the details, but for I think your reporting on it, the question is, is this how we imagined history really looks in this Howard Zinn sense of? Is this the untold secret story of history that confirms our ideological priors?
And if the answer's yes, then they're going to go, "OK, this is good. And we're going to put our stamp of approval on it, and we're going to help advance this thing having influence in society." That tool set is apparent across American elite society, and it's so apparent in that case too.
Virginia Allen: Interesting. I want to dive in a little bit more into some of these examples that you give in your piece about what is happening at some of these schools.
I was really fascinated, and then I did some extra homework on it, because I was really interested, that in San | 2,499 |
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The United States Goverment - Islam's Patron?
Islam has dominated American public life on two occasions, once during the period of the Iranian hostage crisis from 1979 to 1981, and more recently since the attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. In both instances, Americans responded with outrage and puzzlement to the sight of ostensibly pious individuals (Ayatollah Khomeini then, Usama bin Ladin now) sponsoring unprovoked violence against American civilians. Each time, Islam became one of the most discussed topics in American public life.
But the U.S. government responded very differently to the Islamic dimension of these two episodes. In that first round, it stayed aloof from the debate, limiting itself to policy pronouncements on Iran. Islam was mentioned hardly if ever, in keeping with the time-honored and correct practice of U.S. officials saying little about matters of faith. After all, these were politicians and diplomats, not scholars of religion. "Discoursing" on Islam was not exactly their specialization, and they were humble enough to know it.
But the reticence ran deeper: as spokespersons for the U.S. government, a constitutionally secular institution, they knew not to articulate views on the truth or falsehood of specific religions. In some contexts, that tradition is still a strong one. When the "Real IRA" killed twenty-eight at a fair in Omagh, Ireland, the U.S. president did not seize the opportunity to ruminate on the true nature of Catholicism. Baruch Goldstein's murderous rampage in Hebron spurred no commentary on Judaism by the secretary of state. The Bharatiya Janata Party, with its Hindu nationalist outlook, prompts no high-level analyses of Hinduism on its coming to power in India.
But this is simply not true anymore. Islam, the most political of religions, now enjoys a privileged place in Washington, just as it does in almost every capital around the world. The first Bush administration began the discussion of Islam in June 1992. On coming to office in 1993, the Clinton administration developed a fairly subtle policy toward Islam. Policy formulation accelerated in the present Bush administration. And since September 11, the president and his team have devoted intensive efforts to explaining what role Islam did and did not play in the recent tragedy. "Islam" now trips off the tongues of American statesmen, politicians, and diplomats with an almost dizzying frequency.
While the intensity of the current debate is new, the substance of current U.S. government statements on Islam is not. The latest statements develop the themes and arguments of a policy articulated over the past decade. That policy has four main elements, each of which has become a policy mantra: There is no clash of civilizations. Terrorism is not Islamic. Islam is compatible with American ideals and adds to American life. Americans must learn to appreciate Islam.
The second task the U.S. government has taken upon itself is severing the common association Americans make between Islam and terrorism. Officialdom does not deny that devout-seeming Muslims are constantly trying to kill Americans, but it vociferously denies their connection to Islam.
The events of September 11 brought this issue to center stage. Interestingly, while all government officials agreed that the four hijackings could not be ascribed to Islam, they differed among themselves on the question of whether it was simply, as Wolfowitz put it, "not an Islamic act"26 or something done in actual contravention of Islam.
To sum up, in the words of John Beyrle: "Some believe that … the Cold War has been replaced by a clash of civilizations. Others, including some in my own country, believe that terrorism is somehow related to Islam. They are both wrong."36 Discussion closed.
Islam, then, is not an enemy or a source of terrorism. But officials do not leave it at that. They postulate two positive features of the religion: its compatibility with American ideals and its potential benefits for the United States.
The picture is confusing. Is there "respect and honor" for Islam or is the religion "so terribly misconstrued"? The solution: blame the media for blocking the positive image of Islam purveyed by the officials. A Department of State fact sheet rues the "sometimes-distorted portrayal of Islam in Western media" while promising that "the United States continues to address" this problem.56 The "United States" here, of course, means the U.S. government, which is the source of truth and light, while the media is the source of the problem. It comes in for special criticism. Hillary Clinton fretted that "news stories about Muslims often focus on extremists like those responsible for the World Trade Center bombing and other acts of terrorism."57 Albright waxed indignant about stereotypes applied "to a quarter of the globe's people." These figured "every day in the press, in public discussions, and even among those who consider themselves knowledgeable and fair- minded."58 In short, there is a battle over American opinion, and officialdom has the duty of enlightening a benighted populace.
What is the objective of these officials? Why go to such lengths to pronounce Islam a faith completely unblemished by the violence of some of its practitioners? Why hold up Islam as an exemplar of American values?
Seen in this diplomatic context, the origins in 1992 of this official U.S. tradition of vocal support for Islam make sense, for it was in the aftermath of the Kuwait war that radical groups such as Usama bin Ladin's began to make more headway in the Middle East and throughout the Muslim world.
Will it work? For perspective, it helps to look at two prior efforts along similar lines. "People of Egypt," Napoleon proclaimed upon his entry to Alexandria in 1798, "You will be told that I have come to destroy your religion; do not believe it! Reply that I have come to restore your rights, to punish the usurpers, and that more than the Mamluks, I respect God, his Prophet, and the Qur'an."69 One of his generals, Jacques Ménou, even converted to Islam.
The analogies are admittedly not perfect, as none of the joint chiefs of staff has yet converted to Islam; nor has President Bush girded himself with any swords. But he did visit a mosque, accept a Qur'an as a gift, and convene a diwan (assembly) of Muslim representatives at the White House. More deeply, U.S. objectives are nearly identical with those of Napoleon and Mussolini—to curry favor with a basically hostile population.
The earlier Western efforts to pander to Muslim sentiments came up short, as the Muslim leaders of Egypt fought Napoleon with all they had, while Mussolini failed to find the widespread Muslim support he had hoped to win. So, too, the American effort will no doubt end in failure. It is nearly inconceivable that moderate Muslims will have any influence in this area over their more radical coreligionists.
Practicalities aside, American officials would do well to ask whether their statements on Islam do not conflict with their government's basic principles. The United States has a message for the world, and that message is not Islam. The message, it hardly needs pointing out, is one of individualism, freedom, secularism, rule of law, democracy, and private property.
Finally, federal officials may not realize the implications of their scolding of Americans who are apprehensive about Islam and of their noisy espousal of that religion's virtues. Here, then, it is spelled out for them: In adopting a determinedly apologetic stance, they have made themselves an adjunct of the country's Islamic organizations. By dismissing any connection between Islam and terrorism, complaining about media distortions, and claiming that America needs Islam, they have turned the U.S. government into a discreet missionary for the faith.
Without anyone quite realizing it, the resources of the federal government have been deployed to help Muslims spread their message, and, in effect, their beliefs. If the "war on terror" is to have any larger purpose, it must be to free people from the yoke of politicized Islam. There can be no better place to begin than right at home.
Daniel Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum. Mimi Stillman is a graduate student in history at the University of Pennsylvania.
1 "Albright Offers Traditional Iftar Dinner," Dec. 19, 2000, at http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/islam/s122000.htm.
2 Deputy Assistant Secretary Ronald E. Neumann, "No Inherent Conflict between Islam and West," Georgetown University address, Sept. 23, 1999, at http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/nea/gulfsec/neum0923.htm.
3 Samuel P. Huntington, "The Clash of Civilizations?," at http://www.foreignaffairs.org/Search/document_briefings.asp?i=19930601FAEssay5188.xml.
4 Remarks to the 53d Session of the United Nations General Assembly, New York City, Sept. 21, 1998, at http://www.un.int/usa/98_154.htm.
5 Madeleine Albright, "Learning More about Islam," State Magazine, Sept. 2000, at http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/islam/s090600.htm.
6 Remarks before the American-Iranian Council, Washington, D.C., Mar. 17, 2000, at http://secretary.state.gov/www/statements/2000/000317.html.
7 Remarks before the American Muslim Council, May 7, 1999, at http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/islam/s050799.htm.
8 Neumann, "No Inherent Conflict between Islam and West," at http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/nea/gulfsec/neum0923.htm.
9 Speech at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Tashkent, Feb. 8, 2000, at http://www.usembassy.ro/USIS/Washington-File/200/00-02-08/eur215.htm.
10 Department of State, "Fact Sheet: U.S. Government Views on Terrorism," Dec. 7, 1999, http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/99120704.htm.
11 11 Bruce Riedel, "The Pentagon Looks at Islam," Middle East Quarterly, Sept. 1996, pp. 87-89, at http://www.meforum.org/meq/sept96/riedel.shtml.
12 R. James Woolsey, "Challenges to Peace in the Middle East," address to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Sept. 23, 1994, at http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/pubs/woolsey.htm.
13 "The U.S., Islam and the Middle East in a Changing World," address, Meridian House International, Washington, D.C., June 2, 1992, in Mideast Mirror, June 4, 1992.
14 Comments at American Enterprise Institute conference, Washington, D.C., Nov. 3, 1993.
15 "Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz with the German Foreign Minister," Sept. 19, 2001, at http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep2001/t09202001_t919wolf.html.
16 Remarks at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser, Oct. 21, 1993, at http://clinton6.nara.gov/1993/10/1993-10-21-presidents-remarks-at-dnc-fundraiser.html.
17 News conference, Jakarta, Nov. 15, 1994, at http://clinton6.nara.gov/1994/11/1994-11-15-president-press-conference-at-jakarta-hilton.html.
18 "Fact Sheet: U.S. Government Views on Terrorism," at http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/99120704.htm.
19 Philip Wilcox, Jr., "Terrorism Remains a Global Issue," United States Information Agency (USIA) Electronic Journal, Feb. 1997, at http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itgic/0297/ijge/gj-1.htm.
20 "Address of President Clinton to the Jordanian Parliament," Oct. 26, 1994, at http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/nea/peace/clint94.htm.
21 "Clinton Oval Office Remarks on Anti-Terrorist Attacks," Aug. 21, 1998, at http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/98082002.htm.
22 Anthony Lake, "From Containment to Enlargement," Sept. 21, 1993, at http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/lakedoc.html.
23 Robert Pelletreau, "U.S. Policy toward North Africa: Statement before the Subcommittee on Africa of the House Foreign Affairs Committee," U.S. Department of State Dispatch, Sept. 28, 1994, at http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/briefing/dispatch/1994/html/Dispatchv5no40.html.
24 R. James Woolsey, testimony before U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on National Security, Feb. 12, 1998, at http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1998_hr/h980212w.htm..
25 Wilcox, "Terrorism Remains a Global Issue," at http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itgic/0297/ijge/gj-1.htm.
26 Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz interview with PBS "NewsHour," Sept. 14, 2001, at http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/july-dec01/wolfowitz-9-14.html.
27 Speech to Congress, Sept. 20, 2001, at http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010920-8.html.
28 Remarks by the president, Islamic Center of Washington, D.C., Sept. 17, 2001, at http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010917-11.html.
29 Press briefing by Ari Fleischer, Sept. 17, 2001, at http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010917-8.html.
30 Interview on NBC's "Dateline," Sept. 12, 2001, at http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2001/index.cfm?docid=4883.
31 White House, Sept. 19, 2001, at http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010919-8.html.
32 Interview with PBS "NewsHour," Sept. 13, 2001, at http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2001/index.cfm?docid=4914.
33 Daily press briefing, Sept. 18, 2001, at http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2001/index.cfm?docid=4940.
34 "Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz with the German Foreign Minister," at http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep2001/t09202001_t919wolf.html.
35 Quoted in Simon Reeve, The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden, and the Future of Terrorism (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1999), p. 242. Judge Duffy accused Yusuf of merely pretending to be a pious Muslim; in reality, he "cared little or nothing for Islam." John Keenan, the judge in the "Millennium" bombing case, also shared this assumption; see Associated Press, July 5, 2001.
36 Speech, Tashkent, Feb. 8, 2000, at http://www.usembassy.ro/USIS/Washington-File/200/00-02-08/eur215.htm.
37 News conference with King Hassan II of Morocco, White House, Mar. 15, 1995, at http://clinton6.nara.gov/1995/03/1995-03-15-press-conference-by-president-and-king-hassan.html.
38 Speech, Tashkent, Feb. 8, 2000, at http://www.usembassy.ro/USIS/Washington-File/200/00-02-08/eur215.htm.
39 "Fact Sheet: U.S. Government Views on Terrorism," at http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/99120704.htm.
40 "Pentagon Iftar Dinner for Muslim Servicemen," Jan. 19, 1999, at http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/nea/gulfsec/pent0119.htm.
41 Djerejian "The U.S., Islam and the Middle East in a Changing World," address, in Mideast Mirror, June <|fim_middle|>.gov/usa/islam/s120299.htm.
61 "Fact Sheet: U.S. Government Views on Terrorism," at http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/99120704.htm.
62 Albright, "Learning More about Islam," at http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/islam/s090600.htm.
63 Interview, June 30, 1999, at http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/islam/a063099.htm.
64 Worldnet "Global Exchange," Mar. 3, 1999, at http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/islam/a030399.htm.
65 "Fact Sheet: U.S. Government Views on Terrorism," at http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/99120704.htm.
66 "President's Ramadan Message," Nov. 22, 2000, at http://clinton6.nara.gov/2000/11/2000-11-22-video-taped-remarks-by-the-president-in-ramadan-message.html.
67 Eid al-Adha greetings from President Bush, Mar. 6, 2001, at http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/03/20010307-1.html.
68 "Fact Sheet: U.S. Government Views on Terrorism," at http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/99120704.htm.
69 Napoleon's proclamation to the Egyptians, July 2, 1798, in J.C Hurewitz, The Middle East and North Africa in World Politics, vol. 1: European Expansion, 1535-1914 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975), p. 116.
70 Martin Kramer, Islam Assembled (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986), pp. 152-53.
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42 Robert Pelletreau, "Symposium: Resurgent Islam," The New York Times, Oct. 2, 1995.
43 "Clinton's Ramadan Message," Nov. 27, 2000, at http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/islam/s112700.htm.
44 "Clinton's Message Celebrating Eid Al-Fitr 2000," Dec. 22, 2000, at http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/islam/s122200.htm.
45 Albright, "Learning More about Islam," at http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/islam/s090600.htm.
46 "First Lady Hosts Third Annual Eid Celebration," Jan. 22, 1999, at http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/islam/a012299.htm.
47 Department of Defense news briefing, Jan. 22, 1998, at http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jan1998/t01261998_t122iftr.html.
48 Remarks to the 53d Session of the United Nations General Assembly, New York City, Sept. 21, 1998, http://www.un.int/usa/98_154.htm.
49 News conference with King Hassan II of Morocco, Mar. 15, 1995, at http://clinton6.nara.gov/1995/03/1995-03-15-press-conference-by-president-and-king-hassan.html.
50 "Islam and America: Changing Perceptions," American Studies Conference, Islamabad, Nov. 5, 1999, at http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/islam/s110599.htm.
51 "The U.S. Is against Terrorism, Not Islam," English Speaking Union of Lahore, Dec. 2, 1999, at http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/islam/s120299.htm.
52 "Albright Hosts Iftar Dinner with American Muslim Leaders," Dec. 21, 1999, at http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/islam/s122199.htm.
53 Hillary Clinton, "Islam in America," The Chicago Sun-Times, Feb. 25, 1996.
54 Interview, June 30, 1999, at http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/islam/a063099.htm.
55 Worldnet "Global Exchange," Mar. 3, 1999, at http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/islam/a030399.htm.
56 "Fact Sheet: U.S. Government Views on Terrorism," at http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/99120704.htm.
57 Clinton, "Islam in America."
58 "Albright Hosts Iftar Dinner with American Muslim Leaders," at http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/islam/s122199.htm.
59 Remarks before American Muslim Council, May 7, 1999, at http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/islam/s050799.htm.
60 "The U.S. Is against Terrorism, Not Islam," at http://usinfo.state | 770 |
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2. Put the washed rice in a big pot, add 2 litres of water (including the scallop water from step 1), the scallops and oil. Bring to boil over a high flame.
3. Once it starts boiling, lower the flame and continue to cook for about 40 minutes or until the porridge is smooth. Add in salt according to taste.
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~ The yao cha guai and salted egg is added according to personal preferences.
This post is linked to the Best Recipes for Everyone August 2015 Event (Theme: Dim Sum) organised by Fion (XuanHom's Mum Kitchen Diary) and hosted by May (厨苑食谱).
Silky smooth. .. 1 bowl of your yummy-licious dried scallop porridge please ^-^!
Wah, Aunty Young! This porridge very "ho liao". Got scallops and my favorite siew yoke! | some fried shallots with the oil and scatter the condiments on top. Serve warm.
~ When the porridge has boiled, lower the flame and open the lid of the pot slightly to prevent the porridge from overflowing.
~ Stir the porridge every once in a while to ensure it doesn't burn.
~ If the porridge gets too thick for your liking, add some water and stir it while | 81 |
A family member or medical practitioner will need to notify a funeral director for transportation of the deceased. Department of Health regulations require this to take place as soon as possible—that's why we offer a 24-hour service.
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A memorial service is usually held when the body isn't present. In place of the casket, the family can use a large photo or urn as the focal point. Memorial services can be held at a favourite beach before sunrise or a local park.
if you would prefer not to have a funeral service, as a family you can opt for a committal service at the graveside or at the crematorium. | You can rely on us to handle all your arrangements.
We handle all of the legalities, advise you of your options and manage all practical aspects associated with organising a funeral.
Some people choose to have a viewing so immediate family and close friends have private time alone with or without an open casket, (depending on the circumstances or personal wishes). This is an opportunity to come to terms with your loss and say goodbye.
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D<|fim_middle|>. | erek Han is considered to be among the primary American pianists of his era. Though he was originally determined using the concertos of Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven — not really least because he documented all of them to generally advantageous important response — he possesses a huge repertory which includes the concertos of Mendelssohn, Chopin, and MacDowell, aswell as specific concertos by Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, and Shostakovich, and a huge body of single and chamber functions. Han's style can be original though pretty simple in its lucid shades, spirited personality, and specialized fluidity and precision. Han was created in Columbus, OH, on June 27, 1957, to Chinese language parents. He was a precocious kid, becoming proficient for the piano young, and graduated from Juilliard at 18. His most significant teacher there is Ilona Kabos, but he researched under a string of a lot more prominent types after graduating: Gina Bachauer, Lili Kraus, and Guido Agosti. Han's discovery emerged in 1977 when he captured initial prize on the Athens International Piano Competition. He hence experienced a meteoric rise in the past due '70s and early '80s, showing up as soloist with different initial- and second-tier Western european and American orchestras so that as a recitalist and chamber participant at a range of essential concert locales. He begun to show up regularly on the Marlboro Music Celebration (on the behest of Rudolf Serkin) with many main concert venues in america and European countries: NY, St. Louis, Buenos Aires, Berlin, London, Warsaw, Moscow, and somewhere else. With the 1990s Han got become not merely an important shape for the concert picture but a favorite recording artist, aswell, with the majority of his function, like the Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven full concerto cycles, showing up for the Intersound Information label. In 1996 Han was asked to be on what would turn into a critically triumphant tour using the Sinfonia Varsovia to South Africa to celebrate the 80th birthday of Yehudi Menuhin, who led the orchestra for the group of concerts. As his musical profession grew, Han also became involved with financial securities, proceeding his very own investment business by 2005. In the brand new century Han continuing to grow in stature and expand his repertory. Among his afterwards recordings was a set of produces from 2006, the initial containing the entire Brahms piano quartets on Excellent Classics and the next the Rachmaninov Concertos No. 1 no. 2, with conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto as well as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, released for the RPO's very own label | 596 |
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By Max Grinnell
Most visitors to Boston might roam around the Freedom Trail for an afternoon, or take a saunter around the Common and the Public Garden. But if you'd like to go in a different direction, we've got some under-the-radar walks to offer. After all, this is America's most pedestrian-friendly city, and these secret stretches will make you see it like never before.
Longwood Avenue
Amidst the bustle of Longwood Avenue's many medical institutions, there's much to admire here. You can pay a visit to the Warren Anatomical Museum and spend a few moments people-watching in front of Harvard University's Medical School campus on their well-appointed grand lawn.
Bay State Road
Once the home of Boston's most proper residents, this expansive road contains a myriad of gorgeous brick buildings, many of which are now part of Boston University's campus. Make sure and stop by The Castle, which is an elaborate Tudor Revival mansion to take a look at its lavish interior.
Shawmut Avenue
A stroll down Shawmut Avenue in the South End is a perfect way to explore the area's distinguished Victorian architecture. Wander through nearby Blackstone Square to look over its lovely fountain, which is decorated with playful dolphins.
William J. Day Boulevard
Originally called the Strandway, William J. Day Boulevard leads curious pedestrians along some of South Boston's finest beaches. Make your way around to Castle Island to take a tour of Fort Independence, which has stood guard over Boston for over 160 years.
Mt. Vernon Street
To walk the length of Mt. Vernon Street on Beacon Hill is to truly take a step back in time. With period streetlights and cheek-to-jowl stately brick homes, it's particularly marvelous to wander during twilight. Don't forget to walk around nearby Louisburg Square, which is surrounded by Greek Revival homes.
Hemenway Street
Truly charming Hemenway Street is the connective tissue between the Fens and the Back Bay. As you walk along it, you might hear a bit of coloratura from an open window at the Boston Conservatory or see folks enjoying a peaceful moment in Forsyth Park.
Dartmouth Street
The bustle of Dartmouth Street offers up an embarrassment of cultural riches, including views of H.H. Richardson's Trinity Church, the Boston Public Library's main branch, and the stunning statuary of the Commonwealth Avenue Mall.
Centre Street (in Jamaica Plain)
Follow the gentle curve of Jamaica Plain's Centre Street to find bookstores, tiny boutiques, and more. Gather strength or finish off the day with sangria and tapas at Tres Gatos.
Park Drive (Back Bay Fens)
Take a long walk along Park Drive to experience master landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted's eye for details. As part of this excursion, you'll pass by elaborate rose gardens, the Fenway Victory Gardens, and the Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral.
Mount Auburn Street (Cambridge)
Prim and proper, Mount Auburn Street is one of Cambridge's greatest thoroughfares. A leisurely journey will take visitors from such stalwart's as J. Press (look out for Harvard scarves and bow-ties) all the way through Harvard Square to the distinguished pastoral setting of Mount Auburn Cemetery | 675 |
Q: Lighthouse audit: JS reduce execution time Thanks lots in advance.
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In this section, there's also the page (for which I was running the report): www.abc.com/cards/
What javascript is this referring to and how can I reduce the "Total CPU Time", "Script Evaluation", "Script Parse" values.
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A: This is an over simplified explanation as there are loads of idiosyncrasies in how JavaScript runs in the browser but it should give a decent idea.
Script parse time is the time it takes for the browser to read the whole file and "understand" what is in it ready for the compilation / evaluation part
Script evaluation time is the time taken between parsing the script and loading the script into memory / executing the script. This is where the browser attempts to optimise code ready for execution.
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Who Can Tell Our Story? The Lambda Literary Awards and the Development of a Transgender<|fim_middle|> Marriage: New Methods and Invisible Populations in Sexuality and Gender Research | Literature
Transgender representations in film, television, and books have contributed to both the understanding of transgender lives, as well as the growing political importance of transgender communities. As part of this wider visibility, dominant narratives regarding the "transgender experience" have surfaced in both the trans community and the wider public. My work maps the narratives of transgender identity present in transgender literature, using books designated as finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards (LLAs) from 1989 to the present. This research focuses primarily on a digital content analysis of published fiction and memoir books, which have been nominated and short-listed for the Lambda Literary Awards, the most well known LGBT book awards in North America. In this presentation I will discuss my preliminary findings from the analysis, but also how my method, topic modeling, opens up doors for additional work with large textual data sets to better understand the experiences of LGBTQ populations through their own words. Topic modeling is a digital content analysis method that uses probability statistics to identify word groups within texts (topics). Because topic modeling uses a probability logic it is best suited for large data sets, such as the Lambda Literary Award finalist texts, full runs of organizational newsletters, or years of organizational meeting minutes. Topic modeling allows me to plot the occurrence of various topics over time, enabling me to explore the development of different themes in transgender literature in relation to other historical developments in the LGBT Rights movement. With this method, I am also able to study the impact that the Awards may have had on shaping and promoting the narratives which are seen as most valid as a transgender identity and who may "rightfully" speak for the transgender community. Finally, by situating the content analysis of the texts in a larger social context, I link the narratives selected by the Awards to the wider visibility and legitimacy of specific transgender narratives in both the transgender community and our culture at large.
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I look forward to three days of immersion into the world of books every year at the Perth Writers Festival, held at the UWA campus. It's always exciting but this year I experienced a different kind of anticipation. I was there as invited author with two panel sessions to take part in and a 3-hour writing workshop to run for twenty-five people. Packing for what was clearly going to be one of the hottest weekends of the year, I wondered how I'd manage to look cool and calm while my nerves were speeding along in overdrive. How would I know what to do, where to go, how to get there and when?
I needn't have worried. From the moment I arrived at the hotel, the PWF team had everything under control and the organisation behind the scenes worked like a very well-oiled machine. I was helped and looked-after in every way, including ensuring there was vego food available and literally guiding me from one place to another between sessions. Even so, it was hard not to feel the world around me<|fim_middle|>ry.com/bb/wp-content/uploads/Picador-cover-image-HR-Cropped.jpg 442 622 Bernice Barry Bernice Barry2016-02-12 12:55:072018-10-24 09:29:19Everything changes and things move on.
My first and strongest motivation in writing a book about the life of Georgiana Molloy was to share as widely as possible the full story and the true facts. Selling so many copies, so quickly, since the book was published in March was a wonderful surprise and hearing from so many readers who've enjoyed the book has been fantastic.
First, I was signed up by a literary agent who's turned out to be the best agent I could have wished for, Martin Shaw of the Alex Adsett Agency. He returned my first email within hours and was excited enough about the book to pitch it to major publishers within a couple of weeks. Then he guided me with wisdom and sensitivity through the process when I was faced with more than one publishing offer and a decision to make.
Pan Macmillan will be publishing the book next year under their Picador imprint and after meeting my publisher, Alex Craig, for the first time last week in Sydney, I'm absolutely sure that Georgiana's story is in the safest of hands to move on and travel more widely than Mike and I could ever have taken it on our own. It's an overwhelming privilege to be working now with an agent and a publisher who bring such knowledge, experience and creativity to what's been a very personal project until now. All I have to do is learn to let go – and try to focus on the book I'm writing now!
And here's a photo of a very happy moment: signing the publishing contract in the Reading Room of the Battye Library in Perth (where so much of the research was done) with Georgiana's great-great grandson Patrick Richardson-Bunbury, to whom the book's dedicated. He signed as the witness on the contract.
Book Club notes can be downloaded from the 'For Readers' / 'Book of the Month' section of the 'Writing WA' website.
Another great review this week. Thank you to the National Trust (Australia) and to reviewer Dr Robyn Taylor (NT quarterly magazine, 'Trust News' August 2015).
'This beautifully illustrated book is a joy to read'.
It 'has a different approach' that 'brings psychological depth to the main characters and greater poignancy'.
And thank you to the Biodiversity Heritage Library, one of my favourite online browsing places. A fascinating article popped up on Facebook this morning.
My own research showed that the Leach family were close friends of the Kennedys and the reason Georgiana met her future husband. John Molloy and Jonathan Leach fought together in the Peninsular Wars. The other two brothers, George (a lawyer) and William Elford Leach were also close friends with Georgiana's parents and she knew them from childhood as house guests in her home near Carlisle. William Elford Leach was a very talented zoologist whose work influenced Darwin, but he died tragically at a young age. Georgiana's youngest brother George was entrusted with some of Leach's precious specimens. You can read about this on Page 111 of 'Georgiana Molloy: the Mind that Shines' and if you'd like to know more or to see images of the beautifully hand-coloured pages of Leach's most well-known publication, here's the link. Thank you BHL!
A big thank you to the Royal Western Australian Historical Society and to Gillian Lilleyman for her review of 'Georgiana Molloy: the mind that shines' in 'History West', August 2015, which describes the book as 'an even closer study of Georgiana and 'a sensitive reappraisal' that 'will assure this fascinating pioneer heroine a new generation of devotees'.
Writing about the strand of anecdotes that relate highlights from my own research story, Gillian Lilleyman says, 'Anyone who researches family and social history will relate to her excitement at chance discoveries, the fragmented pieces of information that suddenly fit together'.
Thank you for putting us in very special company on the front page of the Mother's Day 2015 recommendations newsletter.
What an outstanding read Bernice Barry's new book, Georgiana Molloy, is. This is a biography on a significant historical Australian settler that should become a part of the curriculum and read by anyone who has even the remotest interest in settlement, history, significant Australians or simply an interest in the local area.
I rarely read bio's and although I enjoy history I find most books on history fairly dry, but Bernice's book is one of the best biographies I have read!
This is an exquisitely presented book about the outstanding life of one of Western Australia's leading ladies. Historical narrative exposing a tale of love, drama, adventure and resilience. | was surreal, especially when I first saw my own book on the shelves in the Green Room alongside publications by all the other authors at the festival, including some of my favourite writers like Patrick Holland, Jessie Burton and Hannah Kent.
The first panel session took place in the Tropical Grove amid the sound of parrots and the fringed shadows of palms, a perfect outdoor setting for a discussion about a botanical collector and an artist who painted birds. Convenor Barbara Horgan expertly guided Melissa Ashley and me through a lively discussion about the iconic women who are the subjects of our books. We did have one short interruption, when two members of the audience passed out from the heat! If you haven't already read Melissa's beautiful book, 'The Birdman's Wife' I highly recommend it. You'll find that Elizabeth Gould and Georgiana Molloy had much in common.
The second panel, convened by Vivienne Glance (who so skilfully drew out the less obvious connections between my book and that of Amy Stewart) was just as lively and even standing room at the back of the lecture theatre was full. Feeling a bit more relaxed after two days of nervousness, I found myself laughing as loudly as everyone else at Amy's hilarious descriptions of the personal research she and her husband 'had to do' on the alcoholic beverages that are the subject of her book, The Drunken Botanist. If you fancy creating your next tipple entirely from plants, you'll need to try her recipes!
The writing workshop on Saturday morning was a great pleasure for me, working with twenty-five writers at just about every different stage you could imagine. There were writers of fiction and non-fiction, writers who had already completed a first draft of their manuscript and others who were still making early notes, experienced writers and even writers who didn't yet think they WERE writers. Working with others opens the mind, especially if they bring fresh new views about how and why we write. I always learn as much as I pass on and this time, I'm sure, I'll be seeing a few names I recognise on publishers' lists of new releases before too long. Good luck, everyone!
I must admit to you that meeting some of my favourite authors, having dinner with them and having photographs taken with them while we sat in the book-signing area was a huge thrill. How could it not be? I'm a reader! But there were other wonderful things to remember. My publisher, Picador, is based in Sydney but the team were in Perth for the festival so it was very special to have time for long discussions. Phone calls do their job but nothing can replace talking face to face. But the best thing of all was the same thing that always means most to me and often makes my eyes fill up with emotions I can't really describe. My biggest thank-you goes to all the readers who came to my sessions, asked questions, bought the book, talked to me and told me snippets of their own stories, so many people I've never met before. Somehow, the book I wrote, the book you read, has forged a link between us in the magical way that happens when readers and writers connect. In the end, you're the only reason I believe it's all true and I really am a writer.
One of my fan-girl moments. My book on sale next to the latest by Sebastian Barry, one of my favourite books of 2016.
When the frenzy of writing has been going on for more than a year it begins to feel like the only thing there is. It invades every waking moment and sometimes the sleeping time, too. I dream of words. Not sentences or meaningful phrases, just words. Then suddenly, it comes to an end, on the day a complete manuscript is saved and printed.
That happened to me recently and I hadn't experienced the feeling of closure for two years, something seemingly enormous, finished. I sat at my computer the day after the manuscript was sent off to my agent and looked at my 'writing wall' as I have done for hours every day through a summer, an autumn, a winter and a spring. It's a large board, covered in pictures, photographs, snippets of text and anything else that captures the essence of the places and people in the story. Photographs of old portraits provide faces for me to stare at while I search for the best words to describe a nose, or a smile, or a way of standing. Landscape paintings show me the settings I'm trying to recreate in words. Since part of the plot is set in places I've never been, these add something more to the other research that underpins everything. I don't need my writing wall any more but I can't bear the idea of a blank canvas in front of me so it will stay right where it is until I begin collecting images for the next one and that won't be until after Christmas.
Time at the end of December has already been set aside for the reading I've missed out on for months. The Reading Pile has become The Reading Tower. There's always at least one book on the go but it's a long time since I've been able to do that delicious thing of disappearing into a book and devouring it from beginning to end in one long gluttonous read. Reading is still the most important part of writing, for me anyway, because that's where everything begins – characters, places, lives, words. Especially words.
Sorting through the piles of loose papers on my desk today, I've realised that finishing one thing isn't an ending, it's a beginning. There'll be a lot more work to do on my manuscript next year. There's a historical writing project to begin in January, that's been waiting patiently in the wings for months. And there's a backlog of transcription that I can't set aside any longer if I want to write more on the story of Georgiana Molloy, to make new information available before the end of next year.
I never like to wish time away but I'm looking forward to 2017. Here's the exciting news: at the end of February, I'll be joining about 60 other authors at the Perth Writers Festival. I can't think of much that could be more thrilling than taking part in my own local festival to celebrate reading and writing. 2016 is ending on an equally exciting note too. The wonderful crew at 'Readings' bookstores in Melbourne included 'Georgiana Molloy: the Mind That Shines' in their list of '50 great reads by Australian women in 2016'. While I was writing the book I had no idea I might create something that could be described as 'a good read' so that means a great deal to me.
There are so many times when writing makes you feel vulnerable and inadequate, useless and foolish, but other writers tell me they often experience the same self-doubts. We have to keep going, bent over notebooks and keyboards, finding a way through to the end of the story. And then beginning another.
See the Readings bookstores list of '50 great reads by Australian women in 2016' here.
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Tomorrow, March 22, is the publication date for the new Picador edition of 'Georgiana Molloy, the Mind That Shines'. We'll be celebrating a happy ending to more than a decade of work and a year of self-publishing but with so much going on it feels like an exciting new beginning at the same time.
I'm so happy with the wonderful job that publisher Alex Craig and editor Jodi Devantier at Picador have done with the book, and the new interior design and subtly updated cover from Lauren Wilhelm. There are two more sections of new colour images and I finally have the hand-drawn maps I'd hoped for in the first edition – which had to fall by the way in early 2015 when we reached our budget limit.
The best thing of all at the moment is having the opportunity to talk to so many people about the book. I can't say I look forward to the nerves involved in recording live radio interviews that will air in every state, but it feels fantastic knowing that the outcomes of my research into Georgiana's life will be reaching so far in the next few weeks. My original objective was to make the story publicly available, even if that meant printing fifty copies at home and sending them to libraries or just publishing the book on a website.
In the new edition, a few extra lines appear in the list of thanks, including an acknowledgement of the hard work of the whole team at Picador; so many people contributed their skill to the final lovely package. There's also an expression of gratitude to my agent, Martin Shaw of the Alex Adsett Literary Agency, who's done so much to support and encourage from the very first tentative email I sent him on 21 July last year. He's simply the best and I could not be luckier.
And there's another important addition to that list: 'Huge and heartfelt thanks go to the many bookshops and other retailers who supported the self-published book in 2015 and started it on its journey.' Booksellers shared their enthusiasm with readers and did a great deal to keep sales flying high.
Finally, I'm so glad that the book being published tomorrow still has the same statement on its very first page – and nothing else – just the acknowledgement of country. It was a personal choice for me in March 2015 and Picador have retained it in this new edition.
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Everything changes and things move on.
With just a few copies of the 2015 self-published book left in bookshops and the new 2016 Picador edition on its way, it's time to update the information I share about 'Georgiana Molloy, the mind that shines'. It's also an opportunity to create a website that can manage everything, including new writing.
The design is underway so watch out for that news in a couple of weeks. The site will look very different but all the original information will still be there, including the photographs.
The Picador book will be released on 22nd March.
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Heartfelt, energetic, and down home. Heralded by CMT Edge as "one of the most promising bands on the bluegrass scene," the music of the Nashville based group The Barefoot Movement is as down to earth as their intention for members of their audience: sit back, relax, take your shoes off, and stay a while. All the worries and frustrations of the world melt away as this charming, acoustic band takes listeners back to a simpler place and time. Whether you're seeking emotional ballads or rip-roaring barn-burners, you can expect a collection of music that offers something for everyone. With two full length albums, an EP of traditional music, several cross-country tours, and appearances at some of the top bluegrass festivals in the United States already under their belt, the possibilities for this act are endless. The group has enjoyed almost non-stop touring including a trip to Burkina Faso, Africa where they were guests of the American Embassy, and in September of 2014, they received a Momentum Award, naming them "Band of the Year" by the International Bluegrass Music Association.
Their show is as fun to watch as it is to hear. The smiles on the faces of the band are obvious displays of the joy and excitement they feel when performing and the audience shares in the fun. With effortlessly executed transitions, the pacing between the softer and more vigorous numbers constantly has fans on the edge of their seats.
The "movement" can be traced back to the teen years of singer-songwriter and fiddler Noah Wall, of Oxford, NC. Just as she had begun penning her first compositions, she met mandolinist Tommy Norris their senior year of high school. Convinced of their musical chemistry and driven by mutual ambition, they continued to build the band from the ground up throughout their college careers. While Tommy studied classical music and recording engineering at Western Carolina University, Noah chose East Tennessee State, particularly for their Bluegrass, Old-time and Country Music Program. Here she began to shape her musical identity, under the tutelage of ETSU's renown staff, and found an instrumental home in old time fiddling. With the addition of versatile guitarist and singer Alex Conerly of Hattiesburg, MS in 2013, and most recently, Katie Blomarz of Frankfort, IL on the upright bass, the lineup was complete with all the elements that make up the Barefoot sound: lush harmonies, thoughtful instrumentation, and memorable melodies.
It has now been seven years since The Barefoot Movement took off their shoes and took to the stage. Hard work and talent have taken them from east coast to west, from north to south, and even across the Atlantic Ocean. They have appeared in Country Weekly Magazine, RollingStone.com, CMT Edge, Music City Roots, and Woodsongs Old-Time Radio Hour. Their original music was featured on the Outdoor Channel's program "Huntin' the World: Southern Style" and their music video for their popular song "Second Time Around" has been seen nationally on the Zuus Country Network. They have been selected as showcase artists at both the International Bluegrass Music Association and the Americana Festival conferences and were first runners up at the 2013 Telluride Bluegrass Festival's New Band Competition.
With crowds teeming with enthusiasm at every performance, and new fans joining the fold across the nation, word is surely spreading and the message is clear: barefoot is better. Won't you join the movement?
*Please note: We have a 100 person capacity. The first 80 people to arrive are guaranteed seats, and the remainder is standing room.
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BIO: Skultgrin began his tenure as a Decepticon warrior with great promise. He was an incredibly powerful and intelligent war machine, but his reliance on logic became a detriment in his function as a siege warrior. His commanders demanded a more spontaneous, brutal approach, which the rigid and calculating Skullgrin couldn't comply with. The solution came when Skul!grin adopted a Pretender shell. The armor itself contained a "shell" program to bring out Skullgrin's basest most savage combat instincts. The program worked so well that Skullgrin is a completely different being when in his shell. The formerly calm and collected field commander of the Decepticon<|fim_middle|> robot mode, subject transforms into an assault tank that fires shrapnel bursts from its turrets, whlich are also useable in robot mode. Subject also wields two "slagmaker" laser cannons in both modes; they can be combined to form a double-barreled cannon useable by the Pretender shell.
WEAKNESSES: In his shell, subject gradually loses his capacity for rational thinking. His wild fighting when he degrades into this state is formidable, but his ability to lead or plan strategy is greatly reduced. | Pretender unit becomes a snarling and unstoppable beast that will stop at nothing to destroy his foes.
WEAPONS/ABILITIES: Subject is incredibly strong and highly intelligent He is an expert military planner and tactician as well as a capable warior. His Pretender shell amplifies his strength even further; in this mode, he wields a vibro sword that creates the optimum vibrational frequency for tearing through the armor of whatever target it is locked onto. In | 95 |
A trade deal with China appears near, but<|fim_middle|> data centers within free-trade zones and offer more licenses to operate in cloud services—"a potentially huge outcome" out of the trade talks, Eurasia Group's Paul Triolo, who focuses on global technology policy issues, tells Barron's. That would mean competition for Alibaba Group Holding (BABA) as it gives the likes of Amazon.com (AMZN) Web Services or Salesforce.com (CRM) a foothold in what could be a lucrative business once 5G becomes a reality.
The strength of any deal comes down to the details around monitoring and enforcement. That is no easy task but trade-watchers draw some optimism from the years U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer's spent doing just that in the steel industry.
The market has factored in a deal. Removal of tariffs and a clear process to resolve future disputes could push stocks higher if it spurs companies to reconsider investments and spending they may have delayed because of the uncertainty.
But that is not the base case. While the two sides appear to be moving toward some sort of enforcement accord, indications suggest Trump would like to hang on to the threat of tariffs, which would dampen market enthusiasm created by a deal. TS Lombard's Green expects some tariffs to remain in place—even if they are reduced to 10% from 25%. Perhaps they will be conditioned on a six-month or 12-month review process to see if deal terms are being met.
While news of a trade deal could provide an initial boost to the market, investors might buy the rumor and sell the news if the deal doesn't give them the confidence to move trade issues to the back burner. Plus, another front in the trade battle is building with the European Union—one reason to not get too carried away with trade-oriented cheer. | will the final agreement live up to investors' high expectations? The answer is especially pressing because equity markets have largely baked in a winning deal.
Investors have spent the last 10 months dissecting comments from U.S. and Chinese officials to gauge whether they need to brace for a trade war. Last summer, President Donald Trump decided the U.S. would impose a 25% tariff on $50 billion of Chinese exports. China then retaliated, calling into question if the global world order that companies had built their businesses around was about to crumble. The trade spat was the culmination of years of U.S. allegations about China's unfair trade practices. American complaints gained urgency as China's economic rise has it focusing on becoming more of a technological force versus just an exporter.
As things stand currently, the U.S. has imposed three rounds of tariffs on more than $250 billion of Chinese goods, with rates ranging from 10% to 25%. Global trade has suffered but the bigger hit has been to business confidence–companies are stalling investments in case they need to prepare for a trade war. If all goods traded between the world's two largest economies were subject to tariffs, the International Monetary Fund projects 0.8% of global economic growth would be at risk—a sizable chunk in context of the agency's global growth forecast of 3.2% this year.
Barron's surveyed trade experts, U.S.-China watchers, and investors to find out what a trade deal could look like and what is needed for it to satisfy investors. Investors hoping to remove trade from their near-term worries list may be in for disappointment. Here's what to look for.
China is expected to commit to buying a large amount of U.S. goods, including soybeans and probably also natural gas, over a number of years. This is relatively easy since China has a planned economy and it would give Trump, who has focused on the deficit, something simple to trumpet as a win.
But there could be blowback for recent beneficiaries of the trade tensions as China hedged its bets. China's imports from Brazil rose 40% in 2018 from the prior year. But if China commits to buy more American goods, it could hurt countries whose exports would be crowded out by the U.S., Changyong Rhee, director of Asia and Pacific Development for the International Monetary Fund, warned at a press conference last week. A Chinese commitment to import more from the U.S. could hurt companies including Brazilian soy exporters Terra Santa Agro (TESA3. Brazil) and SLC Agricola (SLCE3. Brazil), Rory Green, an economist at TS Lombard, tells Barron's.
If China does promise to buy more from the U.S., that would also run counter to a broader push by U.S. negotiators to reduce the Chinese government's role in its economy. Structural reforms are at the heart of what would make a "good" trade deal and address U.S. companies' longstanding complaints about anti-competitive practices, which include limited access to China's markets, intellectual-property theft, and forced technology transfers.
A trade deal may loosen foreign ownership restrictions but not necessarily translate into a bonanza for U.S. companies. For example, financial-services companies may be able to own more but could still struggle to get licenses or face restrictions on branch openings or what they can sell, Scott Miller, a senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies who focuses on trade, tells Barron's.
Technology has been at the center of the U.S. and China tensions as the two countries battle to dominate emerging areas such as 5G and artificial intelligence. These tensions will persist, but there are signs of progress as the countries negotiate over opening up China's cloud services to U.S. companies. China could initially let U.S. companies operate wholly owned | 789 |
Student entrepreneurs, industry experts, investors, and other energy leaders convened in Austin, Texas on June 26-27 for the the Cleantech University Prize (Cleantech UP) 2017 National Competition. Held in conjunction with the Smart Cities Connect Conference and co-hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and VentureWell, the event brought together regional competition winners from all across the country. In addition to competing for $100,000 in prizes, the student teams received business development training, investor feedback, and one-on-one industry mentoring.
Some highlights of the<|fim_middle|> Sustainable Future, was moderated by Johanna Wolfson, director of DOE's Technology-to-Market Program.
The U.S. Department of Energy announced the competition winners at Smart Cities Connect. The first-place prize went to Infinite Cooling from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The second-place prize was awarded to Grox Industries from the University of Arkansas, and third place to WEAV3D from Georgia Institute of Technology. Read more about the winners on the Cleantech UP blog. | national competition and the student entrepreneurs working to turn their clean energy ideas into real world solutions are showcased in this photo essay.
The teams arrived at the Austin Convention Center bright and early for a welcome reception.
The competition kicked off with a powerful keynote by Greg Flay of Austin Energy.
Teams had an opportunity to rehearse and polish their pitches before the competition began. Vescense from the University of Houston got some fresh air and practiced with their team mentor outside.
Teams gave a brief pitch to a panel of judges, explaining their idea, their business plan, and the value of their clean energy innovation.
The student entrepreneurs received training and mentorship from industry experts.
After a networking lunch, the second round of pitches and mentorship began.
The judges deliberated to determine which teams would advance to the final round.
The Department of Energy announced the six team finalists. Among them was Resthetics of the University of Houston.
Day two kicked off with a full morning of training from a certified entrepreneurship instructor and continued mentorship.
After a networking lunch, the finalists each gave a ten-minute pitch followed by a five-minute question and answer session. All pitch presentations were open to the public.
Before the winners were announced, teams listened to a panel discussion with Austin's Chief Sustainability Officer, Lucia Athens, Ben Gaddy from Clean Energy Trust, and Gina Schrader of NextEnergy. The panel discussion, Reimagining a | 282 |
In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's heart" (The Village Voice), takes readers on an eye-opening journey through emergence theory and its applications. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT TOP 25 FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR AN ESQUIRE MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Explaining why the whole is sometimes smarter than the sum of its parts, Johnson presents surprising examples of feedback, self-organization, and adaptive learning. How does a lively neighborhood evolve out of a disconnected group of shopkeepers, bartenders, and real estate developers? How does a media event take on a life of its own? How will new software programs create an intelligent World Wide Web? In the coming years, the power of self-organization -- coupled with the connective technology of the Internet -- will usher in a revolution every bit as significant as the introduction of electricity. Provocative and engaging, Emergence puts you on the front lines of this exciting upheaval in science and thought.
Scientific literacy is part of national science education curricula worldwide. In this volume, an international group of distinguished scholars offer new ways to look at the key ideas and practices associated with promoting scientific literacy in schools and higher education. The goal is to open up the debate on scientific literacy, particularly around the tension between theoretical and practical issues related to teaching and learning science. Uniquely drawing together and examining a<|fim_middle|> that effect organizations (six types) and the fundamental structure for organizations are presented to enable the forecasting of an organization's capacity to manage different events as they emerge and how behavior organizes around these events. Academicians studying organizations and practitioners interested in improving them can use this information to facilitate baseline, descriptive thinking and analysis or more sophisticated examinations aimed at understanding the dynamic nature of organizations as fully functioning systems. At the heart of the effort is the examination of what it takes to get the performance needed to achieve a vision or mission and why, despite planning, training and evaluation, few organizations can guarantee or maintain desired levels of performance when faced with events, routine to extreme, that shape their existence. Particular emphasis is placed on understanding how knowledge, evaluation, information and, communication management practices need to be tailored to fit particular organizations rather than treated as a "one size fits all" approach. These are not limited, theoretical discussions but are presented as ways to efficiently talk about an individual organization's profile or competencies within a class of, or in contrast to, other organizations. | rich, diverse set of approaches and policy and practice exemplars, the book takes a pragmatic and inclusive perspective on curriculum reform and learning, and presents a future vision for science education research and practice by articulating a more expansive notion of scientific literacy.
This book concludes a trilogy that began with Intelligent Cities: Innovation, Knowledge Systems and digital spaces (Routledge 2002) and Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks (Routledge 2008). Together these books examine intelligent cities as environments of innovation and collaborative problem-solving. In this final book, the focus is on planning, strategy and governance of intelligent cities. Divided into three parts, each section elaborates upon complementary aspects of intelligent city strategy and planning. Part I is about the drivers and architectures of the spatial intelligence of cities, while Part II turns to planning processes and discusses top-down and bottom-up planning for intelligent cities. Cities such as Amsterdam, Manchester, Stockholm and Helsinki are examples of cities that have used bottom-up planning through the gradual implementation of successive initiatives for regeneration. On the other hand, Living PlanIT, Neapolis in Cyprus, and Saudi Arabia intelligent cities have started with the top-down approach, setting up urban operating systems and common central platforms. Part III focuses on intelligent city strategies; how cities should manage the drivers of spatial intelligence, create smart environments, mobilise communities, and offer new solutions to address city problems. Main findings of the book are related to a series of models which capture fundamental aspects of intelligent cities making and operation. These models consider structure, function, planning, strategies toward intelligent environments and a model of governance based on mobilisation of communities, knowledge architectures, and innovation cycles.
This new journal, fast becoming a staple in the architectural community, aims to revitalize, reform, and rebuild the profession by showcasing the work of promising students, young designers, and innovative educational institutions. Each volume addresses a pressing architectural issue and offers diverse, cross-disciplinary solutions in the form of projects, ideas, buildings, and other media. 306090 06: Shifting Infrastructures focuses on the influence of communication systems, data and material distribution, and other new technologies on existing physical and cultural infrastructures. The volume includes work from AUDC, Daniella Fabricius, Gnuform, Emily Eastman, Designlab, and others.
Improvisation teachers have long known that the human mind could be trained to be effortlessly spontaneous and intuitive. Drinko explores what these improvisation teachers knew about improvisation's effects on consciousness and cognition and compares these theories to current findings in cognitive neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy.
Practical Application of Complexity Theory and Organizational Design to Maximize Performance in the Face of Emerging Events.
Project Overview: What the Book's About "It may not be possible to predict when an organization will confront an operation-challenging event but it is possible to predict the organization's capacity to manage the event when it emerges." (Introduction to Chapter Nine) Performance is the reason why organizations exist. Through performance organizations meet the needs of internal and external stakeholders as defined by their mission, goals and objectives. This is true for all organizations. If a retailer won't stock goods a customer wants, the customer will shop elsewhere. If a religious organization does not meet the needs of its followers, they leave. If a cult doesn't meet the needs of its memberships they seek their goal fulfillment elsewhere. If a manufacturing center can't produce goods that meet customer standards, the customer will reject it. Complexity theory, a tool used to examine the nature of dynamic systems like organizations, can contribute to our understanding of organizations and ways to improve their performance. The models and material outlined in the book illustrate ways competency and organizational programs, processes and procedures are used to manage emerging risks, threats and vulnerabilities that challenge today's organizations. Collectively this information enables the identification of individual organization profiles as a way to advance our understanding of an important theory, complexity, in an applied setting -- organizations. Unique typologies describing organizations (four types), events | 816 |
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No way I'd pay full subscription price for the amount I use the service, especially as I get it basically "free" from Dish. | ?
I have Dish Network for my TV service.
It has the sat radio channels included.
I use the Dish Anywhere app on my phone to stream the sat channels to the car when we want to hear them.
Our Mirage is our "around town". When we travel long distances, where the sat radio really is nice, we normally take the other car that has it built into the car radio.
I got hooked on sat radio for trips while using it on rental cars during vacations. The car we bought for trips came with it on a free trial. Since the trial expired, I have called them every time my subscription is about to expire and have been offered a $5/month rate for a period of 5 months. I figure that is worth it to not have to mess with the phone in this car (especially for my wife, who doesn't like to mess with tech | 176 |
<|fim_middle|> (2021 REMIXES) – by DAVID MINASIAN | CD REVIEW – RETRO – by SIMON MCKECHNIE
by Aaron Gidney
Recent Bad Elephant Music signing, Simon McKechnie returns with 2021's 'Retro'. The Progressive Rock composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist is certainly a classic example of a 'journeyman', writing for BBC, classical ensembles and Jazz Orchestras along with his Prog Rock excursions.
Opening track is a suitably epic 20 minute Prog opener, channeling classic Prog Rock influences, weaving in and out of multiple styles, time signatures and some excellently diverse musicianship. There's something different about this though – it's certainly not 'Prog-by-numbers', McKechnie adds his own avant-garde vibe that is both pleasantly surprising and well thought out without ever sounding cliche. There's plenty of twists and turns amongst the opener and in some parts, a whiff of all the good bits of Belew/Fripp-era King Crimson.
Second track, 'Retro' certainly offers a different feel to the opener. An immediately, frantic, pop-tinged left-field diversion which demonstrates the diversity of Simon's writing skills, influences and indeed, production skills. The clean early 60's surf guitar licks bring a smile to the face, whilst Simon's vocals on this track are most certainly reminiscent of the late, great John Wetton, which is always great to hear.
The Entrantress of Number opens with a frantic, angular string motif that sounds straight out modern avant-garde classical pieces, which is quickly layered with some odd-time signature Prog riffage. The use of the instrumentation and different styles/sections ensures that nothing overstays its welcome and there's plenty of opportunity for the varying styles to come to the fore and show off Simon's skills as a songwriter across different styles. Simon's vocal timbre allows him to sit above the instruments in the mix and cut right through rather than getting lost in the mix. In addition, there's been a great deal of thought put into the vocal harmonies and they seem to be executed at just the right time – whether to melodically/harmonically enhance the lead vocal, or to add some harmonic tension for many of the more left-field and avant-garde vocal lines.
Album closer (and the shortest of the four tracks), 'The Return of the Beagle' continues the stylistic mesh within a more condensed song structure – its nice to hear the 'clash' of classical against modern influences – part-folk, part-Mike Oldfield, part-King Crimson, part-Jazz – before ending abruptly – quite a feat!
There's plenty of styles within this for Prog fans to grasp (dependent on their Prog genre preference/poison) – but most definitely for those with a penchant for experimental art-rock encapsulating both classic '70's influences but also some of the more modern jazz/classical improvisational elements a la Fripp and co. Good stuff!
1. The Origin Of Species
i. The Face Of Nature
ii. The Beagle
iii. Natural Selection
iv. Struggle For Existence
v. The Struggle
vi. What Could Be More Curious?
vii. Laws Of Nature
viii. The Origin
The Enchantress Of Number
The Return Of The Beagle
Mike Flynn – guitar solos on 'The Origin Of Species'
Adam Riley – drums on 'The Origin Of Species' and 'Retro'
Richard Horton – operation of Babbage Difference Engine Number Two on 'The Enchantress Of Number'
Simon McKechnie – vocals and all other instruments
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Progressive Rock and Metal fan. Guitarist in British Melodic Progressive Hard Rock band, Grace and Fire. Chapman Stick player and long suffering Spurs fan.
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Crime of the Century ist das dritte Studio-Album der britischen Pop-/Rockband Supertramp und zugleich der Titel eines Liedes dieser Platte. Im Vergleich zum Vorgängeralbum Indelibly Stamped (1971) agierte die neu formierte Band bei dessen Aufnahme erstmals in ihrer klassischen Besetzung. Es erschien im September 1974 und verschaffte der Band den Durchbruch.
Beschreibung
Für die Aufnahme zur LP Crime of the Century kamen Supertramp (zum ersten Mal) in ihrer Erfolgs-Besetzung zusammen. Weiterhin zur Band gehörten ihre zwei verbliebenen Gründungsmitglieder, Komponisten und Sänger Rick Davies (Keyboards, Mundharmonika, Gesang) und Roger Hodgson (Gitarren, Klavier, E-Piano, Gesang). Hinzu gesellten sich nun John Helliwell (Saxophon, Klarinette, Querflöte, Hintergrundgesang), Bob Siebenberg (Schlagzeug, Perkussion) und Dougie Thomson (Bassgitarre). Die Gruppe war also weiterhin als (umbesetztes) Quintett aktiv.
Als Gastmusiker (erstmals in der Bandgeschichte) agierten zum Beispiel: eine Streichergruppe unter Leitung von Richard Hewson, Scott Gorham (von Thin Lizzy), Christine Helliwell und Vicky Siebenberg (alle drei Begleitgesang) und Ken Scott (Wasser-Gong). Scott, der zuvor für David Bowie und The Beatles gearbeitet hatte, fungierte als Co-Produzent.
Alle Songs wurden von Davies und Hodgson geschrieben, die ihre Werke jeweils selbst sangen. Viele dieser Songs werden noch heute bei den Supertramp-Konzerten gespielt (School, Bloody Well Right, Rudy und Crime of the Century). Alle, mit Ausnahme von If Everyone Was Listening, erschienen später auf dem 1980er Live-Album Paris.
Titelliste
Das Album Crime of the Century (Original: LP "AMLS 68258") enthält acht Lieder. Die angegebenen Längen beziehen sich auf eine CD-Version ("MFSL – UDCD 505") des Albums, das 44:13 Minuten lang ist. Auf der ursprünglichen Schallplatte (LP) befinden sich die Songs 1 bis 4 auf der A-Seite und 5 bis 8 auf der B-Seite. Alle Lieder, außer jenen mit entsprechender Gesangs-Anmerkung ("G.:"), wurden per Hauptstimme von ihren Autoren, die in "()" genannt sind, gesungen.
LP-Seite A:
School – 5:37 (Hodgson, Davies); G.: Hodgson; Teile: Davies
Bloody Well Right – 4:32 (Davies)
Hide in Your Shell – 6:49 (Hodgson)
Asylum – 6:44 (Davies); G.: Davies; Teile: Hodgson
LP-Seite B:
Dreamer – 3:31 (Hodgson); G.: Hodgson; Teile: Davies
Rudy – 7:21 (Davies); G.: Davies; Teile: Hodgson
If Everyone Was Listening – 4:05 (Hodgson)
Crime of the Century – 5:34 (Davies)
Besetzung
Die Band:
Rick Davies – Keyboards (Klavier, E-Piano, Orgel), Mundharmonika, Gesang
John Helliwell – Saxophone, Klarinette, Querflöte, Hintergrundgesang
Roger Hodgson – Gitarren, Klavier, E-Piano, Gesang
Bob Siebenberg (als Bob C. Benberg) – Schlagzeug, Perkussion
Dougie Thomson – Bassgitarre
Gastmusiker:
Streichergruppe unter Leitung von: Richard Hewson
in Hide in Your Shell:
Scott Gorham (Thin Lizzy) – Begleitgesang
Christine Helliwell – Begleitgesang
Vicky Siebenberg – Begleitgesang
Unbenannter Straßenmusiker – Singende Säge
in Crime of the Century:
Ken Scott – Wasser-Gong
Aufnahme und Produktion
Das Album wurde von Februar bis Juni 1974 in London (Großbritannien) in den Ramport Studios (Lambeth), das sich damals im Besitz der Band The Who befand, in den Scorpio Sound Studios und in den Trident Studios (Soho) aufgenommen. Als Produzenten agierten Ken Scott und Supertramp. Die Toningenieure waren Ken Scott und John Jansen. Das Cover und die Photographien stammen von Paul Wakefield, die künstlerische Leitung hatte Fabio Nicoli inne.
Charts
Album:
Die LP Crime of the Century verkaufte sich gut und kam in Großbritannien in die Top-10 der Album-Charts und in den Vereinigten Staaten in die Top-40 der Billboard 200.
Singles:
<|fim_middle|> Büchlein mit allen Liedtexten und ausführlichem Bandportrait.
Inhalt der Bonus-Live-CD
Rezeption
Die britische Musikzeitschrift Classic Rock kürte im Juli 2010 das Album zu einem der 50 Musikalben, die den Progressive Rock prägten. Im Juni 2015 wählte das renommierte Fachblatt Rolling Stone das Album auf Platz 27 der 50 besten Progressive-Rock-Alben aller Zeiten.
Auszeichnungen für Musikverkäufe
Einzelnachweise
Weblinks
Search the UK Top 40 Hit Database, auf everyhit.com, abgerufen am 7. Mai 2010 (englisch)
Album (Progressive Rock)
Album 1974
Supertramp-Album | Als Singleauskopplungen wurden ausgewählt: Dreamer (Hodgson) mit Bloody Well Right (Davies) als zweites Lied, das in den britischen und in den US-amerikanischen Single-Charts in die Top-20 kam, und Bloody Well Right (Davies) mit If Everyone Was Listening (Hodgson) als zweiter Song, das sich in den US-Charts in den Top-40 platzierte.
Ein halbes Jahr zuvor (März 1974) war bereits die Single Land Ho (Hodgson) mit dem auf der Rückseite befindlichen Lied Summer Romance (Davies) erschienen, die die Band erstmals im klassischen Lineup präsentierte. Die Single wurde – wie auch später Crime of the Century – von Ken Scott produziert, erreichte allerdings noch keine Chartplatzierung. Ein Remake von Land Ho befindet sich auf Roger Hodgsons 1987er Solo-Album Hai Hai. Außerdem wurden A- und B-Seite der Single 2005 auf dem Best-of-Sampler Retrospectacle – The Supertramp Anthology wiederveröffentlicht.
CD-Neuveröffentlichungen
MFSL
Das Album erschien im Jahr 1987 vom Label "Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab" als Gold-CD MFSL – UDCD 505 (Ultradisc II).
A&M
1997 und 2002 erschienen vom Label "A&M Records" überarbeitete Neuauflagen des Albums Crime of the Century, deren Aufnahmen von den originalen Bändern stammen. Die Büchlein sind angelehnt an die Album-Gestaltung (mit Liedtexten) der Original-CD.
Aufnahme und Produktion:
Remastering – Sterling Sound (Manhattan, New York City, New York) – Greg Calbi und Jay Messina
Remastering-Aufsicht – Bill Levenson
Künstlerische Leitung – Vartan
Cover-Gestaltung – Mike Diehl
Produktions-Koordination – Beth Stempel
40th Anniversary Edition
Am 5. Dezember 2014 erschien eine überarbeitete Neuauflage des Albums in einer Deluxe Edition; das Remastering geschah durch Ray Staff, Air Studios, London. Neben dem normalen Album liegt dieser Ausgabe eine Bonus-Live-CD bei, die beim Konzert vom 9. März 1975 im Londoner Hammersmith Odeon aufgenommen wurde. Sie hat ein neu gestaltetes, 24-seitiges und bebildertes | 584 |
Predicting the Turn: Harnessing Opportunity in the Post-COVID Economy
Mark Pinard
The COVID-19 pandemic won't last forever, but many of the changes it's made to the business landscape will. We've seen household names like JCPenney, Gold's Gym and Neiman Marcus file for bankruptcy, while companies like DoorDash and Zoom have rocketed to unprecedented levels of success.
But for every crisis, there's an opportunity, and no one is better at spotting those opportunities than Dave Knox. The former CMO, brand marketer, VC has worked across both the Fortune 500 and startup world, giving him unique insights into the way markets evolve. He joined Lob recently to present some key takeaways from his new book, Predicting the Turn, to share insights into how to benefit from the historical changes occurring in the business world.
Crisis Leads to Business Opportunities
The disruption caused by COVID-19 has given a lot of creative people time to think, and spot opportunities<|fim_middle|>Synthesizing Your Understanding
Now that you have insight into the changes multiplying through society, you need to use that insight to predict the long-term changes in the market. That's where market intelligence comes in. David Knox calls market intelligence "the so what?" of predicting the turn.
"What do you do with all of this and how do you apply it? It's about developing a sense of how and when the future will happen and sharing that foresight with key stakeholders throughout the corporation. It's the ability to see the future of your industry before it happens."
How do you do that? Part of it is through taking a global view of the changes happening in society. Knox sees this era as equivalent to the rise of the interstate half a century ago. Much like the new interstate spawned new roads, businesses and attractions, the new phase of the online economy will lead to a fundamentally new order of things that will last for decades.
Knox sees the way Booking.com uses direct mail as an inspiration in this regard. With the movement of life to online, they saw a rise in fake listings to scam unwary consumers. In response to this, they turned to Lob, and began sending customers a physical address confirmation during sign up, as a way to confirm that the property was real. By understanding a second-order consequence of life online (the rise in fake addresses), they were able to improve customer satisfaction, and adapt to the new economic order forming under COVID-19.
"They saw this ninety seven percent drop in fake properties going live because of this verification. And they also saw greater customer satisfaction as those fake listings."
For more insight into predicting the turn, check out our webinar with Dave Knox. | . This has already led to a massive increase in new business applications, as users spot flaws in the online tools we've all come to rely on during the pandemic. This boom in applications has already led to transformation, as entrepreneurs seek out ways to make the most of the current situation and spot new opportunities in the current crisis.
While in many ways the current situation is unprecedented, economic instability has long been a driver of progress.
"50 percent of Fortune 500 companies were founded during a recession or bear stock market," said Knox, "and not just the modern ones." From GE (founded during the Panic of 1890) to Walt Disney (great depression) to modern companies like Salesforce and Square, many of the most prosperous companies in the world were founded in reaction to adverse economic conditions.
While the process is still ongoing, Knox points out that coronavirus "has already created winners and losers in the online economy."
"If you look at the very, very competitive space of food delivery on March1st, a lot of those companies were in pretty even races across the board…. It was kind of a coin toss. Would it be DoorDash or Uber Eats or GrubHub or Postmates? Well, what you've seen is DoorDash has run away with it and has more than doubled their business and taken a lead in that industry that was never before."
The challenge — whether you're an investor or an entrepreneur — is to anticipate which companies, technologies or strategies will emerge victorious, and which will not, a process Dave Knox calls "predicting the turn."
Predicting the Turn
Knox borrowed the concept of "predicting the turn" from poker games such as Texas Hold'em. In these games, players have to make their hand from a combination of shared community cards and their own cards, which only they can see. The turn in Texas Hold'em is when the fourth community card is played.
At that point players have two cards in their hands and four on the table, and can use any combination of five cards to make the best hand possible. There's still a degree of uncertainty, however players have enough information to take an educated guess as to how strong their hand is. Because of this, the turn is a major decision point in the game, where players have to choose what they're willing to bet on the outcome.
Knox uses this metaphor to reflect the fact that in business, like poker, there's always an element of luck. There are things everyone can see (like community cards) and individual insights and opportunities that only a particular entrepreneur may have. While no move guarantees a win, those with the most chance of success are the business leaders who understand the probabilities, and are able to use them to anticipate the most likely outcome.
Gaining Insight From Startups
One excellent source of information for predicting the flop is looking at what startups are already doing. Knox calls startups as "the canary in the coal mine," and sees them as a type of R&D, which can inform observers of what the future might look like.
"They provide a clear picture of a competitive landscape. They identify validated consumer interests and trends, and they reveal market opportunities to us."
Unlike the historical canary, which was used to warn miners of dangerous carbon monoxide (if the bird became sick or died, the miners would know they had to leave immediately), startups don't just warn of danger, but also provide inspiration and evidence of opportunities.
For example, a dental startup offering teeth straightening recently became very successful, in part because of the way they used direct mail. By personalizing communication, they were able to differentiate themselves from the expensive and impersonal competition. One way they did this was to ask people why they were getting their teeth straightened, and use that information to follow up with customers — e.g. by including wedding pictures in follow up mailings if the customer indicated they were getting their teeth straightened for an upcoming wedding.
This is a great data point for startups, because it shows the importance of direct mail personalization in the new, online economy. Companies in radically different industries can use this data point to deduce that it may be worth investing in direct mail personalization, as a way to nurture customer relationships.
Watching the Dominoes Fall
Another important tool in predicting the flop is looking at the way small changes can create a multiplying force, resulting in huge second order consequences. Knox uses an analogy involving dominoes, originally used by nuclear physicist Lauren Whitehead to explain how nuclear chain reactions work.
"What he found was that a domino could knock down another domino, that was about one and a half times its size. [At this rate] it would take twenty nine dominoes to knock down the Empire State Building."
Much like the dominoes, the changes we've had to undertake to cope with COVID-19 have had rapidly multiplying effects. For example, the barriers to living our lives online have been almost completely removed. Although the technology has existed for some time to do telemedicine, remote business meetings and other online activities, a variety of factors previously limited adoptions of these practices, until coronavirus made it necessary. At the same time, COVID-19 has eliminated activities that businesses rely on for advertising, such as sporting events.
Companies like Verizon have gotten great results by looking at how these changes multiply to create second order effects. Before COVID-19 Verizon was a major sports sponsor and TV advertiser. While they've always used direct mail, its applications were somewhat limited in the past due to the long lead times and low agility of their legacy direct mail system.
In response to COVID-19, Verizon partnered with Lob to upgrade their direct mail, enabling them to adapt to the new conditions imposed by the virus:
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When the Portuguese discoverers set out to find the sea route to the east they first had to find the way around the coast of Africa . In 1498 Bartholomew Diaz was the first European to visit the Cape and after being blown out to sea he missed Cape Point altogther and when he eventually sailed northwards came ashore at MosselBay about 350 kilometres east of Cape Point. After sailing further eastwards up the coastline his crew mutinied off the coast of Port Elizabeth and Diaz was forced to turn his ships around and sail back to the Cape. On arrival in False Bay he went ashore on the southern reaches of the Cape Peninsula and because of the storms he had encountered on his outward journey named it the Cape of Storms.
This Cape although later renamed "The Cape of Good Hope" by King John of Portugal has however lived up to its name of the Cape of Storms. As evidence of this there are a number of wrecks to be found in the Cape Point Nature Reserve. The most noteworthy of the ships wrecked off this rocky coastline was the<|fim_middle|>ch point.
In 1965 a second wreck occurred at the same spot when the Nolloth , a 347 Dutch coaster also ran aground on Albatross rock and ended up on the beach just to the south of the Oliphantsbosch point about 800 metres from the Thomas Tucker. The crew were lifted off by helicopter and landed ashore near the Thomas Tucker. As the ship could not be dragged off the rocks its cargo and anything else that could be carried away was salvaged. The remains of the ship lie rotting on the coastline for all to see.
Scheduled tours to the Cape Point Nature Reserve do not include visits to these wrecks so not many people get to see them. | Portuguese liner the Lusitania which ran aground on Bellows Rock just before midnight on the 18th of April 1911. Hugging the coastline because of the mist this 5557 ton passenger liner with 800 passengers on board ran right up onto the rock and remained there for two days before rough seas washed her off and she sank into her watery grave.
On the night of the grounding Lightkeeper J E Allen was on duty at the old Cape Point lighthouse on top of the hill. After noticing the ship aground on Bellows Rock he immediately made his way down to Diaz beach where with a small storm lantern he tried to alert the life boats that were being launched from the Lusitania not to come ashore at Diaz beach but to row around the point to Buffels bay where it was less dangerous to land. Unfortunately two lifeboats decided to come ashore through the surf at Diaz beach and paid the price for their actions. Both boats capsized in the surf and a number of people drowned. Those people who survived the capsizing were dragged ashore by the lightkeeper.
One unlucky sailor was badly injured during the capsizing and was found amongst the rocks by Allen who later arranged for him to be taken for medical treatment in Simonstown. As there were no motor vehicles able to reach Cape Point at the time the injured party had to face a very uncomfortable 30 kilometre horse ride to civilisation.
Fortunately the other life boats which launched from the wreck stayed away from the coastline and were picked up by an Admiralty tug from Simonstown. The amazing part of this whole saga was that very few lives were lost due to the ship remaining aground on the rock for two days thus allowing a rescue to be effected. For his actions during the rescue Lightkeeper Allen was awarded a silver medal from the Portuguese Government and a princely sum of fifty pounds.
Another wreck which can be found in the Reserve is that of the Thomas Tucker which ran aground at Oliphantsbosch point in November 1942. The Thomas Tucker was purpose built in Houston Texas to carry arms and ammunitions needed in the world war that raged from 1939 to 1945. She sailed from her home port laden with hundreds of tanks that were to be used against Rommel's Afrika Korps in the Libyan desert on the east coast of Africa.
After sailing across the Atlantic and avoiding the german submarines that were stationed in the ocean near to the Cape coastline the Thomas Tucker slowly made her way down the Peninsula coastline. Because of the war all lighthouses around the Cape coastline were instructed to be blacked out at night and so it was on the 27th of November 1942.
The lightkeeper George Hayward who was on duty that night kept a vigil over the sea and noticed a ship steaming directly towards the lighthouse instead of in a southerly direction it should have been going. As there were no radio links at that time to enable the lighthouse to warn the ship George Hayward had to make a quick decision as to whether he would risk the wrath of the authorities or save the ship from running aground on the rocks below the lighthouse. He chose to save the ship and switched on the lighthouse light for a few seconds to warn the ship of the impending danger. The Thomas Tucker immediately turned away from the shore and continued her voyage down the coastlne of the peninsula.
Unfortunately this ship's number must have been up because after nearly running aground at Kommetjie, an hour later she hit Albatross rock near Oliphantsbosch Point and ran ashore on the beach there. Fortunately there was no loss of life and the cargo of tanks was saved to be used in the war effort.
At a subsequent enquiry it was found that there was a problem with the ships compass which was found to have a 37 degree error. For people who are interested the wreck can still be visited where she lies on Oliphantsbos | 824 |
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The software is following in the footsteps of the company's digital EIS online tool that uses interactive visuals to display the results of Environmental Impact Assessments in an easily accessible way. According to the creator of iReport, Haskoning's strategic consultant Paul Eijssen, the new reporting tool has been developed and future-proofed based on dialogue, feedback and collaboration with clients and partners.
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Member - Australian Speleological Federation and the Newcastle & Hunter Valley Speleological Society. P.O. Box 15 Broadmeadow. N.S.W, 2292 Australia.
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'Foul Air' is a life threatening hazard which speleologists may encounter in caves with relatively still atmospheres. Although not a significant problem in the majority of caves around the world, those containing concentrations of foul air may become death traps for cavers not familiar with the signs and symptoms of the gases involved.
'Foul Air', sometimes called 'Bad Air', is a cave atmosphere which has a noticeable abnormal physiological effect on humans. In limestone caves, 'foul air' can be described as containing greater than 0.5% carbon dioxide (CO2) and/or lower than 18% oxygen (O2) by volume. As a comparison, normal air contains approximately 0.03% CO2 and 21% O2 by volume. However there are some isolated caves which contain atmospheres influenced by other gases such as:- methane, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide or carbon monoxide, but these gases are generally rare in limestone caves.
An elevated CO2 concentration is usually the most life threatening foul air scenario found within Australian limestone caves. This colourless, odourless and non-combustible gas is the body's regulator of the breathing function. In industry the maximum safe working level recommended for an 8 hour working day is 0.5% (5,000ppm by volume). A concentration of 10% or greater can cause respiratory paralysis and death within a few minutes.
To the novice caver the first encounter with foul air is often a frightening experience. Typically there is no smell or visual sign and the first physiological effects are increased pulse and breathing rates. Higher concentrations of CO2 lead to clumsiness, severe headaches, dizziness and even death. Experienced foul air cavers can notice a dry acidic taste in their mouth, however the average caver may not notice this effect.
Strang and Mackenzie-Wood, (1990) state that, "Carbon Dioxide is regarded as a 'hot gas' due to its low thermal conductivity, heat is not conducted away as rapidly as in normal air so a person standing in it feels warm about his lower limbs".
The Foul Air Types used below were first characterised by James (1977) and expanded upon by Halbert (1982) with the use of the Gibbs Triangle and the Cave Air Index.
1.In this scenario, "Foul Air Type 1", CO2 is absorbed by the ground water as it passes through surface soil containing high concentrations of the gas, due to the decay of vegetation. Soil CO2 contents can reach as high as 10 to 12%, however most values range between 0.15% and 0.65%. The resulting weak carbonic acid percolates through the rock strata and enters the cave system, usually taking part in the calcite deposition cycle. In this instance the addition of extra CO2 to the cave atmosphere equally displaces O2 and nitrogen (N2) in direct proportion to which they constitute the atmosphere being displaced. See Table 2.
Atmospheres consisting strictly of "Type 1" foul air, rarely exceed 1% CO2. An example of this atmosphere could contain 1% CO2 and 20.8% O2.
Halbert (1982), relates "Foul Air Type 1" cave atmosphere to the introduction of CO2 into the cave atmosphere and all other components are diluted - the source of the CO2 is immaterial. An atmosphere resulting from purely a type 1 process occurs quite slowly and it requires five percent CO2 to reduce the O2 level by one percent.
2.In the second scenario "Foul Air Type 2" the CO2 is a by-product of organic and micro-organism metabolism or respiration by fauna such as bats or humans. In this instance the oxygen concentration is reduced in proportion to the increase in CO2. The N2 concentration stays constant. See Table 3.
Halbert, (1982) "Foul Air Type 2" describes in great detail the relationship between consumption of O2, and production of CO2 in the metabolic process of living organisms. Essentially the volume ratio of CO2 produced to O2 consumed, called the "respiratory quotient" (RQ) is not constant and can vary between 0.7 and 1, depending on organic matter involved. ie. carbohydrates, fats or protein. If fats were utilised solely in the metabolic process the RQ = 0.7, and would result in a consumption of O2 with a relatively smaller amount of CO2 volume being produced in return.
3.In the third scenario, "Foul Air Type 3", cave atmosphere which has resulted from the introduction of other gasses, such as methane and nitrogen and the non-respiratory uptake of O2 as well as CO2 stripping by water. Another example is "stink damp" so named because it often contains hydrogen sulfide and the O2 is significantly more depleted than in "Type 2". Foul air consisting strictly of "Type 3" are rare in caves and therefore is only dealt with briefly in this paper.
Also falling into Halbert's third type is an atmosphere which has resulted from a combination of scenarios 1&2 with addition of another mechanism ("Foul Air Type 3"), which alters the gas concentrations.
Of these the first three are covered in scenarios 1&2. Not considered in this paper is source d) which is an external source of CO2, generally of a sporadic nature and the last two don't have any real significance in Australian Caves.
Influencing factors in CO2 concentration.
'Foul air', is often encountered in pockets at the lower sections of deep caves where there are no active streams and air movement is minimal. Frequently there appears to be a definite boundary between 'good air' and 'foul air', with a noticeable elevation in CO2 concentration being present. In caves containing 'foul air' the author has on numerous occasions experienced these invisible boundaries with a transition of less than one metre. Often there isn't a gradual transition in air quality as one might expect if dispersion of the gases were occurring at a relatively fast rate. In Australia most of these atmospheres can be attributed to 'Foul Air Type 2', or a combination of (2+1) or (2+3), however the CO2 is being introduced into a relatively still cave atmosphere and molecular diffusion is insufficient to disperse the gas with an even gradient over the vertical range of the cave.
This build up in CO2 concentration is more prevalent in deep caves, however it can still be found in some shallow caves with a vertical range of less than 10 metres. A very still cave atmosphere may allow CO2 to sink to (or remain at its origin in) the deepest part of the cave and displace O2 and N2. This allows CO2 to build up to a higher concentration, at the lowest point. An example of this would be Suicide Hole Cave at Crawney Pass N.S.W, which has a vertical range of approximately 6 metres and contains a high concentration of CO2 in the bottom two metres of cave passages. The CO2 can be attributed to a large number of fine tree roots in a passage just above the foul air.
An example of how CO2 can be liberated and build up to high concentrations in the bottom of caves is suggested by Osborne, (1981), in a study of the 'CO2 Pit' in Gaden Cave - Wellington NSW Australia. Osborne surmises that the atmosphere is most likely due to degassing of the extensive bodies of still water in the underground lake system. This relates to a strictly foul air type 1, however Osborne conjectures that the test measurements indicate a type 2 foul air is also involved.
Indications are that the gas is being introduced into the cave atmosphere at a greater rate than it can disperse by molecular diffusion, thus a very definite boundary occurs. In the 'CO2 Pit', the boundary between good breathable air and life threatening foul air is often less than 0.4 metre. Recent discussions with divers undertaking mapping and photographic projects indicate that the extensive underground lakes are well known for their acidity and constant production of calcite rafts. This strongly supports the theory put forward by Osborne, that the majority of the foul air in the 'CO2 Pit' is due to Type 1 with the addition of some Type 2.
James & Dyson (1981) found at Bungonia, NSW Australia, that "CO2 is encountered at a threshold and below the threshold it appeared to be relatively homogeneously mixed". While "……caves with flowing streams which terminated in sumps showed a pronounced CO2 gradient, increasing with depth". Drum Cave generally followed this pattern, however during bat maternity season, an inverted gradient was observed even when the stream flowed. The bats respiration and micro-organisms in the guano were concluded to be the major sources of CO2, and were responsible for the highest recordings in the cave, (measured in the entrance series chamber). The CO2 concentration was observed to decrease down the cave toward the terminal sump. They conclude that "in general, CO2 is located in the cave close to the source of its production".
Another factor was highlighted with a study of Grill Cave at Bungonia. This cave is known to regularly contain foul air (which has a short transition distance between good air and hazardous foul air), the relative depth from the surface, (of the interface), varies considerably with climatic change and correlates with highs and lows in atmospheric pressure. The high atmospheric pressure compressing the gasses, thus pushing the interface deeper into the cave and the reverse with atmospheric lows. This can be greatly enhanced by passage dimensions and volume capacities of chambers within a cave system. (Smith G. K., 1998).
Temperature changes outside caves also have an effect on the concentration of foul air. Jennings, et al. (1972) give the example of caves at Bungonia where the average underground temperature is 17.75°C. During summer the above ground air temperature rarely drops below<|fim_middle|> for the workplace to cater for people with a very wide range of physical fitness and ailments and the possible need to undertake continuous strenuous work over an 8 hour day.
One should note that it is simply not just the O2 volume percent which is necessary for human respiration but the O2 partial pressure. For instance the O2 partial pressure decreases at higher altitude while the O2 volume percent remains constant. An example of this is the partial pressure of O2 at an altitude of 2,000 metres above sea level is 17.67kPa (176.7 millibar) and this is equivalent to breathing air in which the O2 concentration has been reduced to 17.5%.
The human body under average conditions inhaling air which contains approximately 21% oxygen and 0.03% CO2. The air breathed out of the lungs contains approximately 15% to 16.3% oxygen and about 4.5% CO2. A person at rest inhales and exhales approximately 6 litres of air per minute but in times of stress, this may increase to more than 100 litres per minute.
The exchange of the two gases (CO2 and O2) takes place in the lungs by diffusion across the walls of the air sacs (alveoli). Oxygen from inspired air diffuses across the lining of the air sacs and enters the circulation, while CO2 moves in the opposite direction. Then the gases are transported between cells and the lung by the blood circulation.
The principle by which diffusion occurs dictates that a gas in high concentration will move to an area of relatively low concentration, until an equilibrium is reached. This enables CO2 in the body at a higher concentration to diffuse to the inhaled air. (Smith. G. K., 1993 & 1997b).
Simple Test for Foul Air.
In the majority of foul air found in caves, the real danger is the CO2 concentration which is the main trigger for the human body to increase the breathing rate. This is generally attributed to a Type 2 Foul Air or possibly a mixture of Types (2+1) or (2+3). Prolonged exposure to a concentration of just 6% CO2 or more may be enough to cause suffocation. In the majority of cases, if a person has any of the symptoms of elevated carbon dioxide, a simple 'naked flame test' will fail to ignite.
In the majority of cave atmospheres an elevated CO2 concentration, corresponds to a depletion of O2. A high CO2 concentration is the most life threatening situation encountered underground while a life threatening low O2 concentration is rarely encountered. The majority of dangerous atmospheres in caves can be contributed to a combination of Type (2+1) & (2+3) Foul Air. This covers a considerable range of CO2 to O2 combinations, however when CO2 is high so as to be dangerous to humans, there is generally not enough O2 to support combustion.
Without sophisticated measuring equipment, the best advice is if you or a member of your group experiences any of the common side effects of CO2, carry out a simple flame test with a butane cigarette lighter. If the flame fails to ignite notify others in the party and the group should vacate the cave in a safe manner.
Carbon dioxide when treated with respect is no worse than the other dangers in caves. Despite the possible dangers, caving is still safer than driving a motor vehicle, which most of us take for granted. The best advice is, "If in doubt, get out".
AS 2865-1995, "Australian Standard, Worksafe Australia National Standard" (1995), Published by Standards Australia (Standards Association of Australia)., 'Safe working in a Confined Space', 48pp, ISBN 0-7262-9473-X.
Field. Dr. G., (August 1992), "The Physical Effects on Humans of Exposure to Gas Mixtures of Air and Inergen", Report prepared on behalf of Unisearch Limited, Department of Respiratory Medicine - The Prince of Wales Hospital, for Grinnell Asia Pacific Pty Ltd.
Jennings. J. N., James. J. M., Counsell. W. J., and Whaite. T.J. (1972) 'Geomorphology of Bungonia Caves and Gorge', Published in "Bungonia Caves", (1972).by the Sydney Speleological Society. Occasional Paper No.4, P.113-143. ISBN 0-9599608-0-5.
Osborne. R.A., (1981), "Toward an air quality standard for tourist caves: Studies of Carbon Dioxide enriched atmospheres in Gaden - Coral Cave , Wellington Caves, N.S.W." Printed in Helictite, V. 19 (2), P. 48-56, Journal of Australasian Cave Research.
Smith. G.K., (1998), "Foul Air at Bungonia", published in 'Under Bungonia', P. 84 - 91, Life on Paper Publishing, PO Box 115 Oak Flats, 2529. NSW Australia. | this temperature, hence the cold, dense air remains in the lower levels without circulating. However during winter the caves "breathe". The warmer air rises, thus causing an expansion of the CO2 regions with a reduction in CO2 concentration.
Calculating gas concentrations in a cave atmosphere.
In dry air the total pressure (of a mixture of gases) is equal to the sum of their partial pressures. In simplified terms, the atmospheric or barometric pressure of dry air is equal to pNitrogen (pN2) + pOxygen (pO2) + pRare Gases (pRG) + pCarbon Dioxide (pCO2).
However since a great majority of cave atmospheres contain high humidity, the water vapour component should be included in the equation.
Barometric Pressure = pN2 + pO2 + pRG + pCO2 + pH2O.
Halbert (1982) uses the Cave Air Index (CAI) to characterise gas mixtures found in caves on a dry atmosphere basis. The water vapour component in the calculation, slightly changes the concentrations of CO2 and O2, but does not affect the arguments derived from the data. Essentially the water vapour constitutes about 0.5% by volume of a saturated cave atmosphere at 20°C and conversely in a dry atmosphere it would be 0%.
For simplicity cave atmospheres may be considered to consist of O2, CO2, and a Residue Fraction (RF) made up of rare gases, N2 and water vapour (H2O).
Table 1. Cave air scenario and correlation with "Foul Air Type" & Cave Air Index.
The theoretical "Foul Air Type 3", where CAI = 0, is rarely known to exist in caves. In general cave atmospheres with CAI of < 0.75 are regarded as falling into the Foul Air Type 3. This could be a mixture of "Foul Air Types" (3+1) or (3+2). Halbert (1982) gives the example of "Foul Air Type 3" atmospheres containing 1% CO2, 17% O2, and 82% RF and another with 4.5% CO2, 10.5% O2, and 85% RF. He points out that a low absolute O2 concentration does not need to be present. However in practice "Foul Air Type 3" atmospheres likely to be encountered in caves will have low O2. Also this type of foul air may have deceptively low CO2.
Halbert (1982) suggests that some readings at Bungonia are a "Foul Air Type 3". They include atmospheres in Grill Cave with a composition of 1.4% CO2, 12.0% O2, 86.6% RF which gives a CAI of 0.16 and readings in Odyssey Cave of 2.8% CO2, 14.5% O2, 80.3% RF which gives a CAI of 0.43. James (1977) had previously speculated on the possible sources of "Type 3" foul air sometimes found at Bungonia. These include:- (1) Anaerobic bacterial action - nitrogen producing bacteria which have been identified in caves at Bungonia. (2) Removal of O2 from the cave atmosphere by oxidation of inorganic or organic sediments.
In 1958 members of Sydney University Speleological Society (S.U.S.S) confirmed that readings of up to 13.5% CO2 at Wellington and Molong Caves (N.S.W.) Australia, were at the expense of oxygen. ie. the sum of CO2 and O2 was constant and the percentage of inert gases was reasonably constant. They also concluded that this was probably due to organic decomposition. (Halbert., E. J. 1972). These CO2 readings appear to be exceptionally high and one would wonder if another mechanism could be involved. The answer could be in a later study of the 'CO2 Pit' in Gaden Cave - Wellington (N.S.W.) Australia, by Osborne (1981), when he surmises that the atmosphere is most likely due to degassing of the extensive underground lake system with some involvement of a type 2 foul air mechanism.
As can be seen from the above, it is one thing to analyse samples of cave atmosphere to determine composition, however the real problem comes with the interpretation of this data to identify the source of the gases, especially if the source is not readily apparent. Calculation of the CAI, appears to be a very valuable tool to assist researchers in identification of foul air types and hence could assist in tracking down the source.
Examples of foul air, theoretical gas concentrations are given in Tables 2, 3 & 4.
Table 2, Theoretical gas concentrations in cave atmosphere. Using scenario 1 with CAI = 4.
Using a combination of scenario 1 & 2, resulting in CAI = 2.
Table 4, Theoretical levels of gases in cave atmosphere, Using scenario 2. with CAI = 1.
Effect of CO2 on Humans.
Table 5. Generally accepted physiological effects of CO2 at various concentrations.
0.03% Nothing happens as this is the normal carbon dioxide concentration in air.
Lung ventilation increases by 50 percent, headache after several hours exposure.
3.0% Lung ventilation increases by 100 percent, panting after exertion. Symptoms may include:- headaches, dizziness and possible vision disturbance such as speckled stars.
10 - 15% Intolerable panting, severe headaches and rapid exhaustion. Exposure for a few minutes will result in unconsciousness and suffocation without warning.
(Strang. J., and Mackenzie-Wood. P., 1990), (Laboratory Safety Manual, 1992)(Osha Regulated Hazardous Substances, 1990), (Matherson, D., 1983).
Exposure of between 1 and 2% CO2, for some hours will result in acidosis, even if there is no lack of oxygen. This acid-based disturbance will occur in the human body when the increase in partial pressure of CO2 (pCO2) is greater than 44mm Hg. Acidemia will result and secondary mechanisms are initiated by the body that attempt to prevent drastic changes in pH and tend to return the pH toward normal. "Intracellular buffering, via red cell haemoglobin, phosphate, and protein, exchange intracellular sodium and potassium for the excess extracellular hydrogen ion. In addition, hypercapnia leads to an increase in renal hydrogen ion secretion and net acid excretion, as well as an increase in bicarbonate reclamation. Although this response begins early, the maximum effect takes several days." (Clinical Management of Poisoning & Drug Overdose, 1990).
Prolonged breathing of air containing around 2% or greater will disturb body function by causing the tissue fluids to become too acidic. This will result in loss of energy and feeling run-down even after leaving the cave. It may take the person up to several days in a good environment for the body metabolism to return to normal.
The "Laboratory Safety Manual (1992)", quotes 0.5% CO2 as the `Threshold Limit Value Time Waited Average' (TLVTWA). This is the concentration to which a person may be exposed, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, without harm. The manual also quotes 5% CO2 and above as being `Immediately Dangerous To Life and Health' (IDLH). This is the concentration that will cause irreversible physiological effects after 30 minutes exposure.
Effects of O2 Defficiency on Humans.
Table 6. Generally accepted physiological effects of reduced O2 concentrations.
reduced from 21 to 14% First perceptible signs with increased rate and volume of breathing, accelerated pulse rate and diminished ability to maintain attention.
between 14 to 10% Consciousness continues, but judgment becomes faulty. Rapid fatigue following exertion. Emotions effected, in particularly ill temper is easily aroused.
10 to 6% Can cause nausea and vomiting. Loss of ability to perform any vigorous movement or even move at all. Often the victim may not be aware that anything is wrong until collapsing and being unable to walk or crawl. This is followed by unconsciousness and death. Even if resuscitation is possible, there may be permanent brain damage.
Should we be looking at O2 Defficiencies as Life Threatening while Underground?
The partial answer to this question can be found in a paper by Field, (1992) which studied the use of a new fire extinguishing gas mixture, designed to be used in enclosed spaces. The gas called 'Inergen' consisted primarily of Argon and CO2. It was designed to disperse and dilute oxygen to below 15% volume, so that there would be insufficient oxygen to support combustion. The research found that the addition of a small percentage of CO2 was beneficial as it induced an immediate and sustained stimulus to increase breathing rates of persons caught in areas flooded with this gas mixture. It was the increase in CO2 and to a much lesser extent the decreased O2 which stimulated the respiratory response.
The report goes on to say that great majority of healthy people whether young or old, would not be limited by their ventilatory function during physical exertion at a work level when breathing air at sea level containing 3.1% CO2 and 15% O2, however many, particularly the elderly would experience mild-moderate breathlessness.
In an atmosphere containing 4.3% CO2 and 12.4% O2, the average healthy person with a reasonable level of physical fitness would be capable of less than half the maximum physical exertion they could normally attain breathing air. (Field, 1992). One thing lacking in this paper is any real mention of time scales of exposure to this concentration of CO2 and O2.
The data as listed in the Tables 6 above, indicates that very little difficulty is caused by short-term exposure to O2 / N2 mixtures down to about 10% O2. In Tables 2, 3 & 4, it can be seen that at 8% CO2 concentration (which is dangerous to humans), there is still sufficient oxygen to support life.
The Australian Standard (AS 2685-1986, P.7) 'Safe Working in Confined Space', states that entry to confined space shall not be permitted if oxygen deficiency is below 18%. This standard was revised in 1995 and the minimum concentration raised to "19.5 percent by volume under normal atmospheric pressure, equivalent to a partial pressure of oxygen (pO2) of 19.8kPa …". it goes on to say that "an airborne concentration of a particular substance in the person's breathing zone, exposure to which, according to current knowledge, should not cause adverse health effects nor cause undue discomfort to nearly all persons." The criteria used is the Time-Weighted Average (TWA). "The average concentration of a particular substance when calculated over a normal eight-hour workday, for a five-day working week." (AS 2865-1995, P. 6-7). One could argue that this is a very conservative O2 concentration, designed | 2,429 |
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Contact the consumer complaint coordinator in their area. The list of FDA consumer complaint coordinators is available at http://www.fda.gov/Safety/ReportaProblem/ConsumerComplaintCoordinators
Health Topic(s) | regulation gives consumers a standardized tool for managing their health and dietary intake — especially those with celiac disease, an auto-immune reaction to eating gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley and rye.
What is Gluten?
Gluten occurs naturally in wheat, rye, barley, and crossbreeds of these grains. Foods that typically contain gluten include breads, cakes, cereals, pastas, and many other grain-based foods.
Gluten is the substance that gives breads and other grain products their shape, strength, and texture. But, for the estimated 3 million Americans suffering from celiac disease, consuming gluten causes damage to the lining of the small intestine which prevents absorption of vital nutrients causing deficiencies that can lead to serious conditions, including anemia, osteoporosis, diabetes, thyroid disease, and intestinal cancers.
FDA's Regulation of "Gluten-Free" Claims
While "gluten-free" is a voluntary claim that manufacturers may choose to use in the labeling of their foods, FDA's gluten-free food labeling rule specifies what the claim actually means on a food label. Accordingly, manufacturers that label their foods as free of gluten are responsible for using the claim in an accurate and not misleading manner, and for complying with all requirements established by the regulation and enforced by FDA.
Inside the Regulation
The rule specifies, among other criteria, that any foods that carry the label "gluten-free," "no gluten," "free of gluten," or "without gluten" must contain less than 20 parts per million (ppm) of gluten. This level is the lowest that can be reliably detected in foods using scientifically validated analytical methods. Other countries and international bodies use these same criteria, as most people with celiac disease can tolerate foods with very small amounts of gluten.
Before the regulation was issued in 2013, there were no U.S. standards or definitions for the food industry to use in labeling products as "gluten-free." This left many consumers, especially those with a health concern, unsure of whether a food was free of gluten. .
Besides the limit of gluten to 20 ppm, the rule permits labeling a food "gluten-free, if the food does not contain:
An ingredient that is any type of wheat, rye, barley, or crossbreeds of these grains,
An ingredient derived from these grains that has not been processed to remove gluten, or,
an ingredient derived from these grains that has been processed to remove gluten, but results in the food containing more than 20 ppm of gluten
Compliance with the Regulation
Manufacturers had until August of 2014 to bring their labels into compliance, allowing them sufficient time to make whatever changes were needed in the formulation or labeling of their foods bearing a "gluten-free" claim. Today, a food that is labeled as "gluten-free" but fails to meet the requirements of the regulation is subject to regulatory action by FDA. In 2017, FDA released the results of an analysis of 702 samples from more than 250 products labeled "gluten-free." Only one of the products did not comply with the labeling requirements. That product was recalled and subsequent testing did not find any products that violated the regulation.
Grains: A Closer Look
Certain grains | 671 |
Dynamo Threedee
My second musical event in Seattle was the Dynamo Threedee "last party of the summer" at the NAF Studios. My main reason for going to this event was to see Sir Mix-A-Lot live.
At the last event I attended, the 2001 Unite Mekka Festival, I remarked how concert going had been remarkably transformed by electronica, changing a passive experience to a more active one. The comments I made there also apply to the Dynamo Threedee party, but this event showcases how an energetic live show can complement a DJ's spinning extremely well.
Sir Mix-A-Lot and Da Posse opened to a crowded dance floor that was pumped up on some amazing techno/trance<|fim_middle|> Zacharia, Eva, Wyle, DJ Syze, Nori, and Big Teej.
The venue, NAF Studios, located south of Seattle was quirky, especially since the organisation of the stages was anything but even (besides there were all kinds of ways to get from one stage to another). This, coupled with its small size, lent a particular unique and cozy atmosphere to the event. The sound was excellent. Many of the people there were dressed in cool costumes and people appreciated my Buddhist Tibetan Monk + Thai Sarong outfit (four pictures, for the record).
Music ramblings || Ram Samudrala || me@ram.org || September 1, 2001 | music. This was the first time I was seeing a rap act that I liked live and it was really awesome. I was jumping and bouncing and dancing more than banging my head or just enjoying virtuoso musicians at work (and I'm not putting down one experience or the other, just saying that I do a lot more of the latter).
Sir Mix-A-Lot played his classic hits like Posse on Broadway and Baby Got Back and some new tunes (I'd have liked to see him play Monsta Mack from The Beavis and Butt-head Experience album but he didn't). He was also the judge (aided by the crowd) of a set of girls he pulled up on stage to decide who has the best arse. As I said before, the electronica acts were all excellent and really had the crowd moving. Sir Mix-A-Lot's rapping was the icing on the cake, making the party more fun and outrageous.
There were three stages at the event: The 3D Mainstage featuring Sir Mix-A-Lot, Charlotte Birch, DJ Irene, Mike and Nick's Big Adventure, Tyler Johnson, Soren, DJXL, and DJ Federal; the Electric Groove Stage featuring DJ Mea, Alain Octavo, Austin Pain, Non-Paralyx, Jimmy Hoffa Hender, Lil Mz Booty, Roman, Sandman, and DJ Ryle and the Bass Tent that featured | 288 |
A perfume design masterclass is a unique concept, something truly new and different for your guests to enjoy. The day will be hosted by an experienced professional, who will help each guest to create a unique fragrance that<|fim_middle|> to maximise the networking potential. Pricing for these additional elements can be supplied upon request. Oliver Myles Events would be delighted to suggest appropriate venues if required. | captures their essence and gives them a perfume to wear and cherish.
The idea is simple: if Victoria Beckham, JLO and a host of other celebrities can create their own fragrance, then why can't you? A trained perfume stylist guides you through a fun and informative fragrance journey. They will help you choose your perfect combination from 21 exquisite blends to create your individual unique scent.
From musky base notes to fruity top notes, the fine fragrance blends represent the entire spectrum of a Master Perfumers' palette.
We recommend this experience takes place at an appropriately located venue and is paired with a champagne afternoon tea | 123 |
Fishing With Faeries
Excerpt From the Introduction by the Author:
"…I have found fishing with faeries exasperating. Still, it has its rewards. You can be assured of both wild trout and aggravation if you happen upon a stream inhabited by faeries. The little people tend to frequent the same out-of-the-way places as do wild trout. The little stream that flows through this story is just such a place."
Skylands Magazine; 2005
"Fishing With Faeries, by Robert J. Romano, is an<|fim_middle|> the ordinary aspects of everyday life; the kind of place you might find faraway in Montana or northern Ontario.
But this is a journal of enchantment waiting in the woods of Northwest New Jersey, along a tiny stream under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service and the protection of a small clan of wood sprites that reside along its banks. Although he asserts that his work is fiction, many of the places the author describes will be familiar to readers who know and love the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. For Bob Romano his superb skills as a fly fisher, and the more universal knowledge he has acquired during his pursuit of those abilities, have allowed a special appreciation of the little stream and a keen sense of the natural and spiritual world around it."
© 2021 Robert J. Romano Jr. | Website by Emily Rose Romano. | Photography & Illustrations © Trish Romano. | enticing chronicle of a fly fisher's extraordinary relationship with a magical piece of water. Constructed as a diary recounting a number of days stretched through one season of fishing, Bob Romano explores the charm of a place removed entirely from | 48 |
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I would like more information about 7111 Wascana Cove Dr, Regina, Saskatchewan, S4V3G1. | stained cabinetry in kitchen with granite counter tops, built-in dishwasher, built-in microwave, corner walk-in pantry, tile flooring and large eating area with garden door that opens onto a covered deck. French doors open into office or formal dining room with hardwood floors. Also, on main floor is half bath and separate laundry room. Three good sized bedrooms upstairs all with walnut hardwood flooring. Huge walk-in closet and beautiful | 82 |
New<|fim_middle|>ately | study points up need to unclog nation's courts
By Curtis J. Sitomer Legal correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
Overloaded court dockets, case backlogs, overworked judges, and a judicial system stretched at the seams - all pointing to increased chances that justice won't be served. That's the picture being painted by concerned jurists, government officials, and others across the United States.
The latest warning flare came this week from a study funded by the US Justice Department. It indicates that the number of criminal cases filed in the courts of 40 states and the District of Columbia increased by 31 percent from 1977 to 198l.
At the same time, civil case filings in state courts increased 22 percent and appellate court filings 32 percent in this same period.
Of the 82 million new cases now flooding the US judicial system, 98 percent are filed in state or local courts - the rest in federal jurisdictions.
This survey, conducted for the Justice Department by the National Center for State Courts and the Conference of State Court Administrators, is the first nationwide assessment of state court caseloads since the 1940s.
Steven Schlesinger, acting director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, a Justice Department agency, calls the results ''important documentation of the substantially increased filings faced by most courts.
''We hope that policymakers at every level will consider the implications of these data,'' he says.
The Justice Department study comes on the heels of a number of impassioned pleas for help in unclogging the nation's courts. Among them:
* An appeal from Warren E. Burger, the chief justice of the US, who says that his court is up to its starched collars in writs of certiorari to review lower-court decisions. Mr. Burger wants to create a special temporary appellate panel to lighten the high court's load - by resolving circuit court conflicts. He also wants Congress to set up a high-level commission to study the court's overload and make recommendations on how to relieve it.
* A call by former US Attorney General Griffin B. Bell for the corporate sector to contain the litigation explosion by finding alternative methods for resolving business disputes.
''Litigation is almost like a game in this country, and we've got to get it under control,'' Mr. Bell is quoted as saying in the coming March 7 issue of The National Law Journal.
The former Justice Department chief suggests that judges could trim trial time by curbing abuses in pretrial motions.
Bell also says corporate officers should get in the habit of viewing the courtroom as a remedy of last resort.
* A suggestion by federal Judge Irving R. Kaufman of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that more civil suits be handled outside the courtroom through negotiation, mediation, and arbitration.
Among other things, Judge Kaufman advocates ''creative sentencing'' - where community service or restitution may be substituted for prison terms in the case of nonviolent crimes. This disposition of cases would lighten court loads, he says.
* A recommendation by many lawyers and judges that compulsory arbitration be employed in civil cases involving claims of less than $50,000 in damages. Three federal district courts - in Connecticut, eastern Pennsylvania, and northern California - are experimenting with this alternative.
The just-released Justice Department survey shows that Massachusetts leads the states with a 132 percent increase in new criminal cases over a four-year period ending in 1981. South Carolina showed a 127 percent jump and Oregon 78 percent.
In the same period, West Virginia's caseload dropped by 27 percent, Iowa's by 14 percent, and Vermont's by 8 percent.
The caseloads of appeals courts are increasing at a faster rate than civil and criminal suits, the study shows. Further, 65 percent of all new civil, criminal, and juvenile cases were related to traffic violations in 198l.
Cries of help to unclog the courts come at a time when some would reduce the judicial workload for ''political'' reasons.
Conservative groups, especially those representing the New Right, would strip the federal courts of jurisdiction in cases involving certain social issues, such as abortion, busing, and school prayer.
So far, legislation along these lines has failed to pass congressional muster.
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ATLAS WINNERS DELIGHT WITH SHOWSTOPPING LANTERN INSTALLATIONS
A growing number of homeowners are asking for the Atlas lantern by name and now three installers have proved that no other lantern can match it for looks and style. Vision Conservatories, Sherborne Windows and Village Conservatories have completed three extraordinary Atlas installations which not only met with exacting customer demands but were also winners in the Atlas Installation of the Month competition.
Vision Conservatories created a large rear extension on a family home, making a stunning architectural statement with three Atlas lanterns in two styles. The new space features a super-slim contemporary lantern in the centre with two regular Atlas lanterns on either side. Vision was able to complete the project in record time because the fitter-friendly lanterns, which were available from stock in just five days, were installed in just one day.
Mike Keeling, managing director of Vision Conservatories, said: "Our customer loved the look of the Atlas lanterns and was very clear from the outset that they wanted them for their new extension, so it was an easy sell for us. We persuaded them to go for it with two lantern styles – it was brave, but the end result has far exceeded their expectations and they are absolutely delighted with their new extension. Although the lantern styles are clearly different, they complement each other perfectly, showing that you can easily combine the two and achieve incredible results."
Third time Atlas Installation of the Month winners Sherborne Windows didn't hesitate in replacing a tired gable ended conservatory with an impressive T-shaped orangery, complete with a spectacular Atlas lantern. The traditionally-styled orangery reintroduced plenty of original features and is<|fim_middle|> a Dorset farmhouse – a novel setting for a vodka distillery. The customer was very keen to impress visitors, so every element of the extension needed to be luxurious. The slim Atlas lantern brings the space to life and cleverly elongates the room, whilst the large aluminium bi-folding doors maximise the views of the surrounding countryside.
Colin Dicker, managing director of Village Conservatories, said: "The homeowner didn't want unsightly tie bars to detract from their new extension or spoil their views, so it's no surprise that the Atlas lantern won their hearts. There are no compromises with the Atlas lantern – it's slim, strong and stylish and it does full justice to this remarkable new space. We're delighted with how this project turned out and to have won an award for it." | much more in keeping with the 1930s property in Surrey, whilst the huge Atlas lantern magnifies the views above.
"The Atlas roof was one of the most satisfying elements of the project," says Chris Long, managing director of Sherborne Windows. "It balances with the traditional orangery and creates a real sense of grandeur but it's not fussy or cluttered at all, which is exactly what the homeowner wanted. We always use the Atlas lantern because it's the best looking one out there and this job shows just what a startling impact it can have on a living space. We love this project and, with so many super entries into the competition from other Atlas installers, we're really proud to have been picked as a winner once again."
'No compromises' was the brief for Village Conservatories when it designed a sensational extension for | 172 |
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Stephane Huard, Jr.
Koch SUPERU – Change the Way You Grow
Dave Leaderhouse
Playing major junior hockey as a 17-year-old is a major accomplishment and cracking the line-up of your hometown team is even more impressive.
Stephane Huard Jr. did just that last season when he got into 46 games with the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League's Blaineville-Boisbriand Armada. The 5-foot-9, 175-pound forward, who was a third-round selection of the Armada in the 2018 entry draft, scored three times and set up seven others during his rookie season, but a move out west to join the Humboldt Broncos appears to have been a nice transition.
Huard had registered points in five of his first six games with the Broncos and as a result had helped Humboldt move to the top of both the Global Ag Risk Solution Division and overall standings before the season was put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
His seven points were still behind several of his teammates, but Huard's addition had helped deepen a Broncos' line-up that was already expected to be much stronger than last season when Humboldt entered the playoffs as the No. 7 seed, but was swept in the opening round by the Flin Flon Bombers.
While Huard completed his midget eligibility playing at the higher level with the Armada last year, his first two years of midget hockey were spent with the College Esther-Blondin Phenix where he amassed 71 points in 81 games over that span. He also got into four games with the Armada as a 16-year-old, but was held off the scoresheet during that audition.
With this season being filled with plenty of uncertainty it is clear that Huard is ready to add some depth and experience to a Broncos' team that looks ready to make some noise whenever the season resumes. With two more years of junior eligibility remaining, Huard could be a key cog in helping Humboldt return to its glory days when the franchise was one of the most successful in Junior "A" history.
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We are proud to announce that, once again, Centerfield has been ranked among the top 100 Best Places to Work in Los Angeles by Built In. Centerfield has also been selected as one of 50 companies with the Best Benefits in Los Angeles for 2021.
Built In reviews thousands of tech employers across the country to highlight the best places to work in America's top tech hubs. Centerfield was chosen as a winner based on culture programs, perks, benefits, and salary packages.
"The vibe in our office is friendly, laid back and casual, but don't let that fool you. Everyone is always hard at work," said Centerfield Culture Manager Tiffany Sayers. "You can tell people care about their individual performance, as well as their contribution to the company's mission. While consistently busy, we still make time to socialize and catch up with each other and have fun!"
Sometimes the lines between work/life balance blur. At Centerfield, we embrace that. "We know employees have many options when choosing a place of employment today and we aim to provide the most robust benefits package with an award-winning culture," said Gena Romano, Centerfield Director of HR.
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COLUMBUS, Ga. (February 23, 2019) – Rollins was shutout for the first time all season Saturday, falling to Columbus State <|fim_middle|>25th-ranked Tars drop to 8-3 on the year while the Cougars improve to 7-4.
CSU pitcher Jalen Latta had the Tars number, allowing just three hits and two walks with nine strikeouts in seven scoreless innings.
Jimmy Robbins took the loss for Rollins, surrendering three runs on four hits in four innings. Tate Stone-Frisina and James Hoelle also threw for the Tars.
Jack Gonzalez went 1-4 to keep his nine-game hitting streak alive. Nick Santucci, Cameron Meehan and Isaiah Russell also went 1-4 on the day.
Drew Webb led the CSU offense, hitting 2-4 with two runs scored and two RBI on a homer in the third.
Columbus State scored three in the third inning to put the Tars in an early 3-0 hole. They exploded for four runs in the sixth and one more in the seventh.
Rollins will meet CSU Sunday at 1 p.m. in the series finale at Burger King Stadium. Fans can follow the action live with links on RollinsSports.com. | 8-0 in game two of the school's three-game series.
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Alfred Jack Cole (1925 – May 30, 1997) was a professor at the School of Computer Science, University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He is credited with building on the establishing of Computer Science at St Andrews.
Career
Cole studied mathematics at University College London, completing his PhD on the theory of numbers in 1952. He then worked as a lecturer at Heriot-Watt College in Edinburgh until 1956, when he moved to Queen's College, Dundee. His interest in the potential of computer technology resulted in a move to University of Leicester in 1962, as Director of the Computing Laboratory. In 1965 he returned to Scotland and St Andrews, as Director of the Computing Laboratory and Reader in Computational Science<|fim_middle|>
"A note on peano polygons and gray codes", 1985
"Direct transformations between sets of integers and hilbert polygons", 1986
"Compaction Techniques for Raster Scan Graphics using Space-filling Curves", 1987
References
Alumni of University College London
Academics of the University of St Andrews
1997 deaths
1925 births | .
From 1965 Cole devoted his next twenty years to establishing computer science at St Andrews. His innovative approach included pioneering the teaching of Information Technology to Arts students. He developed techniques for space-filling curves to be used in video compression, leading to his invention of murray polygons. One applied use of murray polygons is the halftoning of rectangular images without using dithering or edge enhancement methods.
He initiated the Distinguished Lecture Series in 1969. This series kept costs lower than similar conferences, with the intention of exposing students and others to leading edge topics. Costs were reduced through industry sponsorship and support from the university's School of Computer Science.
Jack Cole Building
To recognize his service, the school moved to the new Jack Cole Building in 2004. This was formally opened on .
Personal life
Cole's interests included cats, hill walking, home brewing, folk music (and concertina playing), golf, gardening and football. He was a supporter of East Fife F.C.
Published works
"The preparation of examination time-tables using a small-store computer", 1964
"Plane and Stereographic Projections of Convex Polyhedra from Minimal Information", 1966 | 253 |
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Kurniawan, Adi ; Zhang, Xiantao. / Application of a negative stiffness mechanism on pitching wave energy devices. Proceedings of the 5th Offshore Energy and Storage Symposium. 2018.
Kurniawan, A & Zhang, X 2018, Application of a negative stiffness mechanism on pitching wave energy devices. i Proceedings of the 5th Offshore Energy and Storage Symposium., Ningbo, Kina, 04/07/2018.
Application of a negative stiffness mechanism on pitching wave energy devices. / Kurniawan, Adi; Zhang, Xiantao.
Proceedings of the 5th Offshore Energy and Storage Symposium. 2018.
N2 - Harnessing energy from ocean waves in an economic manner remains a challenge. Recent efforts are targeted at improving the performance of a wave energy device without resorting to reactive control. One such strategy is to use a negative stiffness mechanism. Theoretically, negative stiffness is able not only to lengthen the resonance period of the device, but also to broaden its resonance bandwidth, thus making it potentially capable of capturing energy from a broader spectrum of incoming waves. This study aims to extend the application of such mechanism to pitching wave energy devices by studying Salter-duck type devices as a specific case. We consider first a single duck, and then two lines of multiple ducks meeting at an angle. The analysis is carried out using linear frequency-domain models. For this purpose, equivalent linearised stiffness of the negative stiffness mechanism is derived. Our study confirms that negative stiffness improves the power performance of pitching devices. However, it is most effective when the pitch rotation axis is fixed. It becomes less effective when the axis is allowed to move.
AB - Harnessing energy from ocean waves in an economic manner remains a challenge. Recent efforts are targeted at improving the performance of a wave energy device without resorting to reactive control. One such strategy is to use a negative stiffness mechanism. Theoretically, negative stiffness is able not only to lengthen the resonance period of the device, but also to broaden its resonance bandwidth, thus making it potentially capable of capturing energy from a broader spectrum of incoming waves. This study aims to extend the application of such mechanism to pitching wave energy devices by studying Salter-duck type devices as a specific case. We consider first a single duck, and then two lines of multiple ducks meeting at an angle. The analysis is carried out using linear frequency-domain models. For this purpose, equivalent linearised stiffness of the negative stiffness mechanism is derived. Our study confirms that negative stiffness improves the power performance of pitching devices. However, it is most effective when the pitch rotation axis is fixed. It becomes less effective when the axis is allowed to move. | improving the performance of a wave energy device without resorting to reactive control. One such strategy is to use a negative stiffness mechanism. Theoretically, negative stiffness is able not only to lengthen the resonance period of the device, but also to broaden its resonance bandwidth, thus making it potentially capable of capturing energy from a broader spectrum of incoming waves. This study aims to extend the application of such mechanism to pitching wave energy devices by studying Salter-duck type devices as a specific case. We consider first a single duck, and then two lines of multiple ducks meeting at an angle. The analysis is carried out using linear frequency-domain models. For this purpose, equivalent linearised stiffness of the negative stiffness mechanism is derived. Our study confirms that negative stiffness improves the power performance of pitching devices. However, it is most effective when the pitch rotation axis is fixed. It becomes less effective when the axis is allowed to move | 183 |
I think it's time to acknowledge that Disney is in a second animation renaissance. It should have hit me two years ago when "Frozen" was released, but only with the release of "Zootopia" has it dawned on me that Disney has been producing films so good, of such high caliber, that these are movies that children of this generation are going to hold dear to their hearts the way my generation does with "The Lion King" and "Beauty and the Beast." It's not just that Disney is making huge strides in quality animation and 3D effects, it's that they have a new philosophy in their approach to animated storytelling that has breathed new life into their stories. They are not only playing to their strengths these days; they are playing with their formula in new and interesting ways.
A movie where anthropomorphic animals walk like humans, talk like humans, and wear clothes like humans is nothing new. Disney has made two movies in this vein before with "Robin Hood" and "Chicken Little." These are two movies I consider to be a couple of the studios weakest films by a pretty wide margin. The reason is because the animators seemed to feel that animals living in human worlds without the humans was enough of a funny concept to make full movies out of. It was not. There are plenty of shows on PBS that follow this same concept, and those you can watch for free. "Zootopia" takes this concept and actually does something with it.
The city of Zootopia may have an ideal name, but in practice that only goes so far. As you are aware, some animals just don't get along in the real world, so in the fictional world of Zootopia these animals don't get along so much as they tolerate each other's existence. This is evident<|fim_middle|> and combining the results perfectly.
Like "Frozen" and "Inside Out," "Zootopia" is going to have the kind of word of mouth money can't buy. Kids are going to be begging to see this again and again with their friends in tow. Adults may find themselves enjoying it more. There may be some initial trepidation admitting that at work the next day, but I think that will change sooner rather than later. The only disappointing thing about this is that there are many people who will look at the posters, think this looks too childish to be worth their time, and skip it altogether. Something tells me time will be very kind to this film, and it will be viewed as a classic very soon and will be discovered by people as a gem for many, many years. Like the characters in the movie though, there will be some issues getting past the look of the picture, which probably makes the themes of the movie all the more relevant. | early on when our protagonist Judy (Ginnifer Goodwin) becomes the first bunny police officer on the force. The other officers don't really make a big deal out of the fact that she's a female, they just don't think small animals make for good officers when you have big rhinos and elephants in the same room. Judy is determined to prove her worth though, so she stakes her career on finding a missing otter in hopes of getting more respect.
The problem is there is only one person who may be able to provide a lead to the case, and that person is a fox named Nick (Jason Bateman). Just like the real world, foxes and rabbits are natural enemies in Zootopia, and this is the one animals Judy's parents told her to avoid at all costs. Again though, there is only one lead to be found, he's it, and now the two just have to tolerate each other. As the movie goes on the two have to face the prejudices they have about each other and come to understand on why the feelings of hate run so deep. Judy was raised to distrust foxes because she was taught that they are cunning and manipulative by her parents. Nick is every bit the hustler she was lead on to believe, but he has his reasons for being the way he is, and those reasons are rooting in his own racism.
One of the reasons "Zootopia" is such a fascinating film is that it tackles a relevant topic in a form that is the most logical way to explore it. While I do subscribe to the theory that as a species humans have become more understanding of people who are different, I also understand that racism is something that never completely went away. It's more passive aggressive than it is open, but it is still there with some people. That this is a movie that tackles the timely subject matter during an election year where Americans are known to be angry and divisive on so many issues, this is almost perfect timing. In some ways, this is a movie that might speak more to adults than to kids. It takes a sensitive subject and manages to make a hopeful and fun movie out of it.
This is also where I mention that oh so important Disney formula the company has staked their empire on is here, but like "Frozen," it plays with the formula and tweaks it just enough to make it fresh. The animation is the most detailed I've seen come from the studio, and unlike "The Good Dinosaur" from Pixar last year, the characters and the backgrounds fit together seamlessly. There are even plenty of small jokes in the background that will likely require multiple viewings to catch them all (my favorite visual gags include iPhones that have a carrot logo with a bite taken out of it and a DMV that is run entirely by sloths). In other words, "Zootopia" is the perfect combination of film making, where writers and animators are both working at the top of their game | 600 |
Walk of Shame's Sarah Wright on the Secret She Kept While Shooting—and Playing Jerry's Daughter on Parks and Rec
If you recognize Sarah Wright, it's probably because you own a television. She's guest-starred on Mixology, Happy Endings, and Hello Ladies—and she plays Jerry's daughter, Millicent Gergich, on Parks and Rec. In Walk of Shame, she's Denise, Elizabeth Banks' sexy-flaky best friend—think a grown-up version of Amanda Seyfried in Mean Girls. I caught up with Wright about making the film and fun with the Parks and Rec cast. MA: Your Walk of Shame character is kind of a ditz. How did you have fun with that without making her look stupid? SW: I think the trick is in being completely unaware. Denise doesn't ever really know what's going on, but she pretends like she does. You don't want to come across dumb—I had to walk that line. MA: Without spoiling too much—your character does have this really clever thing, the "douche meter." She barrages James Marsden's character with questions designed to suss out if he's a good guy. SW: James and I had such fun with that. Steve Brill, the director, was totally into going off-page, so we came up with a lot of different questions before we actually shot it. MA: Do you have a "douche meter" in real
By Megan Angelo
If you recognize Sarah Wright, it's probably because you own a television. She's guest-starred on Mixology, Happy Endings, and Hello Ladies—and she plays Jerry's daughter, Millicent Gergich, on Parks and Rec. In Walk of Shame, she's Denise, Elizabeth Banks' sexy-flaky best friend—think a grown-up version of Amanda Seyfried in Mean Girls. I caught up with Wright about making the film and fun with the Parks and Rec cast.
MA: Your Walk of Shame character is kind of a ditz. How did you have fun with that without making her look stupid?
SW: I think the trick is in being completely unaware. Denise doesn't ever really know what's going on, but she pretends like she does. You don't want to come across dumb—I had to walk that line.
MA: Without spoiling too much—your character does have this really clever thing, the "douche meter." She barrages James Marsden's character with questions designed to suss out if he's a good guy.
SW: James<|fim_middle|> him again today!" I felt very lucky to be a part of it. Amy Poehler is one of my idols.
MA: Just like Parks and Rec, Walk of Shame is a female-led production. How does that change the experience of making comedy?
SW: Usually, men are the driving forces in scenes, and you chip in lines here and there, you know what I mean? It's so great to riff with a bunch of girls and get to take charge—not just chime in with the guys.
Walk of Shame opens today. ICYMI, here's my interview with Wright's costar Gillian Jacobs.
Topicselizabeth banksmoviessarah wrightwalk of shame | and I had such fun with that. Steve Brill, the director, was totally into going off-page, so we came up with a lot of different questions before we actually shot it.
MA: Do you have a "douche meter" in real life?
SW: I don't have a meter, but it's like: that guy who drives too muscly of a car, who wears sleeveless tees, and is always at the gym. I always tell my husband [NCIS: Los Angeles's Eric Christian Olsen] that I want him to have a little pouch on his belly—don't try too hard.
MA: The yellow dress Elizabeth's character wears in this movie is basically a character of its own—it goes through so much. But it's actually your dress—at the beginning of the movie, you're wearing it, and then she borrows it. What's the story behind that number?
SW: It was two different dresses—I'm taller than Elizabeth, so hers would have been up to my butt. And I was three months pregnant when we were fitted for it...
MA: Oh, and of course it's the tightest dress ever.
SW: Yes. And I was one of those people that was immediately showing. If you notice in the movie, I'm covering my stomach with my purse.
MA: So no one knew?
SW: No one knew. On the last day of shooting, I was 15 weeks pregnant. I told them then. My son is eight months old now—he's awesome. He's huge! He's looked like a one-year-old for a while.
MA: Since we're on the topic of family, let's talk about your TV family—the Gergiches on Parks and Rec. You play Jerry's daughter, Millicent, who also dated Chris.
SW: When I started, I was working with Rob Lowe—who's the nicest guy on the planet, by the way. So sweet and charming and excited about life. And then, to be Jerry's daughter? It's the best. Christie Brinkley, who plays my mom—she's just a burst of light.
MA: Jerry's family made him even more endearing. Sometimes my heart hurts watching everyone tease him.
SW: I know, he's so lovable. Jim O'Heir is the nicest guy and on set, you'll hear everyone being like, "Oh, no, we have to be mean to | 502 |
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Chapters 9 and 10
Charlie Bucket
Mr. Willy Wonka
Grandpa Joe
Roald Dahl and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Background
Summary Chapters 19 and 20
The Oompa-Loompas stop the boat in front of a red door called the inventing room and Mr. Wonka leans over to unlock it. Mr. Wonka explains that the inventing room is the most important room in the factory and that all the evil chocolate makers would give anything to get inside. Then he warns his guests to keep their hands off of everything. The children agree. Mr. Wonka tells them that no one besides himself has ever stepped inside the room. He then reminds them again to keep their hands off. Charlie's impression of the room is that of a witch's kitchen with cauldrons bubbling, steam and pipes everywhere, and endless delicious smells.
Mr. Wonka grows even more excited and animated in this room. He runs from one pot to another, turning dials, dipping and tasting, and watching a final machine drop green balls out one a time. Mr. Wonka explains that the green balls are a new invention—everlasting Gobstoppers—designed for poor children: they can be sucked indefinitely and never grow smaller. Violet thinks this sounds like gum, but Mr. Wonka tells her that if she were to bite one it would break her jaw. He also explains that an Oompa-Loompa next door is testing a gobstopper and has been sucking it for the last year without it getting any smaller. Then Mr. Wonka bounds over to another pan where he is cooking hair toffee, which he explains will grow hair on your head, including a beard and mustache. Veruca wonders who would want a beard and mustache and Mr. Wonka counters that a beard would be fitting for Veruca. He also explains that the mixture is not quite right. It grows too much hair, as evidenced by an Oompa-Loompa who now needs a lawnmower to cut his beard. Mr. Wonka assures everyone that he will get the mixture right and keep little boys and girls from going bald, to which Mike Teavee responds that little boys and girls do not go bald. His point goes unacknowledged.
Mr. Wonka leads the group over to another machine. This machine has<|fim_middle|> it would crack her jaw. But someone who could not appreciate such things would suffer the consequences. This scene foreshadows Charlie's eventual ownership of the factory.
Nonsense continues to abound in these chapters. Mr. Wonka describes his hair toffee, and he proudly proclaims that little boys and girls will never need to worry about baldness again. Readers can quickly understand the silliness in this comment, which Mike Teavee points out, but Mr. Wonka dismisses. Furthermore, Mr.Wonka takes the opportunity to make fun of Veruca when she says she is not interested in hair toffee, telling her she would look good with a beard. Mr. Wonka has alienated each of the other children for their rudeness, but he never mistreats Charlie.
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Charlie Bucket: Character Analysis CHARACTERS | countless glass tubes spilling into a large glass tub. When Mr. Wonka presses the buttons, the machine begins to shake and steam, and the glass tubes shoot streams of various colors into the tub. When the tub fills, Mr. Wonka presses another button and the tub begins mixing the liquids together, changing colors continually and finally settling on blue. Mr. Wonka tells everyone to watch as the machine stops whirring and begins sucking the liquid back into its belly. Moments later, a little drawer pops out of the machine and inside it is a small, flat object that looks like cardboard. Mike Teavee is unimpressed. Mr. Wonka is incredulous and asks Mike if he knows what the machine has created. Violet interrupts the ensuing silence by saying that it is gum. Mr. Wonka tells her that she is correct and explains that it is the most amazing gum ever created.
These chapters perpetuate the theme that good things come in small packages. The gum-inventing machine packs a tremendous amount of ingredients into a very small package. Though the gum resembles a boring piece of cardboard, it is an incredibly complex creation that ought to be judged on more than just its appearance. This line of thinking can also apply to Charlie. He may be small and meek, but Mr. Wonka senses that he is capable of greatness. Mr. Wonka's fabulous candy creation—Gobstoppers—further distances Charlie from the other children. This candy is created for kids just like Charlie, who would appreciate a piece of candy that lasts a lifetime. If a child like Violet ever tried to bite into the gobstopper, | 333 |
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It made perfect sense for us to team up. After all, most of the South Street Kids group live within 5 minutes of the theatre, and many of them attend Handford Hall School at the end of the road. It was the neighbourly thing to do!
And we're so glad we did! They brought their energy, their commitment, and their sheer excitement at being on a stage with lights and sound. All of these things were a joy to behold.
Ensuring we get our young people to attend these groups and workshops that we run, requires real dedication and leg work on our part. We have to go house-by-house, collecting kids and even waking them up sometimes, but we always know this effort is richly rewarded as the kids bring huge energy and enthusiasm to whatever we do, many of the kids have their own personal barriers and financial constraints regarding attendance or committing to projects, which is why we choose these kids in the first place.
It was wonderful to see such energetic young people, not just devising and performing their own work, but jumping in and filling many other roles within the theatre – designing their own tickets for the show, showing people to their seats and giving front of house and box office assistance. The South Street Kids quite | 278 |
Beer, TX
HB602 is dead *Updated*
By Ronnie Crocker on May 26, 2011 at 1:09 PM
This is an updated version of the original post …
The latest effort by Texas' small craft brewers to bolster their business by letting people leave tours with a six-pack or two is dead.
The final, unresolvable conflict was a last-minute objection by Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest beer company. The Belgium-based conglomerate, which brews Budweiser, Bud Light, Michelob and other high-volume beers in breweries in Houston and elsewhere, opposed a provision in the bill that would have denied large manufacturers the ability to offer the take-home beers.
AB-InBev does not host regular tours.
A spokesman for Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said Thursday that time simply ran out on House Bill 602, which was never offered for a vote by the end of the day Wednesday, deadline for the Senate to consider bills approved by the other chamber.
While saying he'd never heard Dewhurst announce he would not formally recognize such an offer, as required per Senate rules, spokesman Mike Walz said the lieutenant governor had made clear he wanted the bill to create a "level playing field" that did not favor "a select few" brewers.
The bill would have allowed companies that produce no more than 75,000 barrels annually to charge varying rates for tours. Visitors could then take home up to 144 ounces of packaged beer, depending on how much they'd paid. The wording of the bill was designed to satisfy distributors, who in Texas have nearly exclusive rights to move beer from breweries to retailers.
Even in its limited form, the bill would have had a big impact in terms of marketing, brewers said.
Brad Farbstein, owner of Real Ale Brewing Co. in Blanco, said letting people take home beers after a tour, and share them with friends, would create new customers for stores, bars and restaurants, while adding tax revenue and allowing small breweries to expand.
"We weren't privy to the back-room discussions and deals that get done," he said.
Of AB-InBev's opposition, he said, "I find it ironic. They haven't had a tasting room open in Texas for 15 years."
This session, both major distributors' groups voiced public support for the bill. But Keith Strama, attorney<|fim_middle|> Twitter: @rcrocker
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State Sen. John Whitmire, D-Houston, who sat on the Senate committee that approved the bill with no amendments, said last Friday that he was prepared to offer one removing the cap should the bill come up for a vote. He also said he'd heard Dewhurst planned to hold up the bill unless such an amendment was added.
A spokesman for Senate sponsor Eddie Lucio, D-Brownsville, has not yet returned a call for comment.
Campaign contribution records, compiled by Texas Tribune from Texas Ethics Commission filings, show that since 2000 Dewhurst and Whitmire have received $275,000 and $70,000, respectively, from distributors and their representatives, including John Nau, who owns Houston-based Silver Eagle Distributing, one of AB-InBev's largest distributors.
Saint Arnold Brewing Co. founder Brock Wagner, one of the driving forces behind this and two previous legislative efforts, said he was "annoyed" at the continued failure to pass a bill that had no other organized opposition.
"We just got outgunned," he said.
"The laws in Texas need to be changed," he said. "Right now, the laws in Texas are biased against in-state craft breweries. It makes no sense."
Wagner and Farbstein said the brewers will try again in 2013.
House Bill 602, which died when the Texas Senate failed to act on it, would have made an exception to existing alcohol laws by allowing small breweries to let tourists leave with small amounts of packaged beer. This was the third time state Rep. Jessica Farrar, D-Houston, has introduced such legislation — and the third time it has failed to overcome the opposition of major beer interests.
2007: Bill never made it out of a House committee.
2009: Bill was voted out of committee, only to die when it was never placed on the calendar for a vote by the full House.
2011: Bill passed the House and was voted out of committee in the Senate, but it was never brought up for a floor vote after last-minute objections from Anhueser-Busch InBev.
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WAGNER: We're not going out of (AP) Style
Alex Wagner, Copy Editor|April 26, 2022
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Super,well done Alex.
Jill REchenberger • Apr 26, 2022 at 6:45 pm
Oh, the places you'll go! Take the risk, go for the challenge and always take the extra five! (If you need clarification about the "extra five", send me a text! All my best Alex! | 1. Photo courtesy of Alex Wagner
A story has many parts and can be told in many different ways. They can tell great epics of conquering distant lands, a forbidden love and solving century–old crimes. They can also tell smaller stories, but these I find the most important. My story is one of these small ones.
I'm not a journalist by trade. Or a writer. I'm just a man who joined a student newspaper and is now tasked with writing a senior column that I have no business writing. I wrote (yes, past tense) book reviews and proofread articles before they went to print. That's it. It was nothing glamorous or sexy. I didn't find the next Watergate or stumble onto a breaking news story.
Maybe I'm selling myself short. Maybe I should tell you about the little things that made me love my too short time on the Marquette Wire.
My book reviews. They are probably the only time I will write something that will go in print. Books are a somewhat new fascination for me, piqued by my good friend Nora McCaughey. I've read 41 books since July 2021, each with varying degrees of admiration. In the end, I do love them all, even in their fictitiousness. Telling the stories of an astronaut trying to stop an extinction-level event on Earth, the tumultuous marriage of a New York City socialite and her deadbeat husband, a braindead writer and a former Hollywood star, was something I loved doing, and something that I'll miss.
The back table in the Johnston Hall newsroom. I sat next to my friends and talked about nothing and everything. That is probably the thing I'll miss the most. The sheer camaraderie and community forged there is tougher than the bonds holding atoms together. It was there that I found the "vibes" with Randi Haseman, where I discussed "Dune" by Frank Herbert with RJ Siano, and where I found the stalwart John Leuzzi in all his Philadelphian glory.
Last but not least, the thing I loved most about the Wire was Eleanor McCaughey and Alexandra Garner. I met these two lovely ladies last summer when we did the Les Aspin Program in Washington, D.C. We did everything together: walking miles to Central Park in New York City, sitting on the National Mall, eating our body weight in sushi, getting stuck at Georgetown University's campus in a thunderstorm — everything. I wouldn't trade these two for the world.
It is because of them that I joined the Wire. It was late June or early July, we were sprawled out in our friend Erika's apartment trying to keep the swampy humidity of Washington at bay. We were talking about the upcoming school year, and they would reprise their roles at the Wire when the conversation shifted. After at least a half-hour of back and forth, I reluctantly submitted my application. My fate has been sealed ever since.
I think back to that moment a lot as I write this. I think of how different my last year would have been, what paths I could have been on or what I would have done on my Monday nights instead of going to Late Night. It's a classic example of the Butterfly Effect, how one small decision at one point in time leads to a huge difference later.
It's been over 1,300 days since I started at Marquette. I can't say it's all been sunshine and rainbows. Some of it has been hard, and incredibly dark. At points, I felt I couldn't do it, that the finish line was so far out of reach. And now, with graduation less than one month away, I just want to say this: Take the scenic route, take risks and don't let life pass you by.
This is Alex Wagner, signing off.
This story was written by Alex Wagner. He can be reached at [email protected]
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Very nice, Alex!
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Charles Gleyre (full name Marc Gabriel Charles Gleyre) (Chevilly, Vaud canton, 2 May 1806 - 5 May 1874), was a Swiss artist. He took over the studio of Paul Delaroche in 1843 and taught a number of younger artists who became prominent, including Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and James Abbott McNeill Whistler.
His father and mother died when he was eight or nine years of age; and he was brought up by an uncle in Lyon, France, who sent him to the industrial school of that city.
Going to Paris in his late teens, he spent four years in intense artistic study. The following four years Gleyre spent in meditative inactivity in Italy, where he became acquainted with Horace Vernet and Louis-Leopold Robert; and six years more were spent wandering in Greece, Egypt, Nubia and Syria. At Cairo he was attacked with ophthalmia, or inflammation of the eye, and in Lebanon he was struck down by fever. He returned to Lyons in shattered health.
On his recovery he proceeded to Paris, and, establishing a modest studio in the rue de Université, began carefully to work out the ideas which had been slowly shaping themselves in his mind. Mention is made of two decorative panels Diana leaving the Bath, and a Young Nubian as almost the first fruits of his genius; but these did not attract public attention until much later, and the painting by which he practically opened his artistic career was the Apocalyptic Vision of St John, sent to the Paris Salon of 1840.
This was followed in 1843 by Evening, which at the time received a medal of the second class, and afterwards became widely popular under the title Lost Illusions. It depicts a poet seated on the bank of a river, with his head drooping and a wearied posture, letting his lyre slip from a careless hand, and gazing sadly at a bright company of maidens whose song is slowly dying from his ear as their boat is borne slowly from his sight.
In spite of the success of these first ventures, Gleyre retired from public competition, and spent the rest of his life in quiet devotion to his artistic ideals, neither seeking the easy applause of the crowd, nor turning his art into a means of aggrandizement and wealth. After 1845, when he exhibited the Separation of the Apostles, he contributed nothing to the Salon except the Dance of the Bacchantes in 1849. Yet he laboured steadily and was productive. He had an "infinite capacity of taking pains," and when asked by what method he attained to such marvellous perfection of workmanship, he would reply, "En y pensant toujours."
Many years often intervened between the first conception of a piece and its embodiment, and years not unfrequently between the first and the final stage of the embodiment itself. A landscape was apparently finished; even his fellow artists would consider it done; Gleyre alone was conscious that he had not "found his sky." His laboriousness became influential on a large number of his younger contemporaries; for when Delaroche gave up his studio of instruction he recommended his pupils to apply to Gleyre, who at once agreed to give them lessons twice a week, and characteristically refused to take any fee or reward.
By instinct and principle he was a confirmed celibate:<|fim_middle|> and illustrated by 30 plates from his works in Hersent's studio, in Suisse's academy, in the galleries of the Louvre.
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This page was last modified 20:25, 30 May 2011. | "Fortune, talent, health, he had everything; but he was married," was his lamentation over a friend. Though he lived in almost complete retirement from public life, he took a keen interest in politics, and was a voracious reader of political journals. For a time, under Louis Philippe, his studio had been the rendezvous of a sort of liberal club. To the last — amid all the disasters that befell his country — he was hopeful of the future, "la raison finira bien par avoir raison." It was while on a visit to the Retrospective Exhibition, opened on behalf of the exiles from Alsace and Lorraine, that he died suddenly on 5 May 1874.
He left unfinished the Earthly Paradise, a noble picture, which Taine has described as "a dream of innocence, of happiness and of beauty — Adam and Eve standing in the sublime and joyous landscape of a paradise enclosed in mountains, a worthy counterpart to the Evening. Among the other productions of his genius are the Deluge, which represents two angels speeding above the desolate earth from which the destroying waters have just begun to retire, leaving visible behind them the ruin they have wrought; the Battle of the Lemanus, a piece of elaborate design, crowded but not encumbered with figures, and giving fine expression to the movements of the various bands of combatants and fugitives; the Prodigal Son, in which the artist has ventured to add to the parable the new element of mother's love, greeting the repentant youth with a welcome that shows that the mother's heart thinks less of the repentance than of the return; Ruth and Boaz; Ulysses and Nausicaa; Hercules at the Feet of Omphale; the Young Athenian, or, as it is popularly called, Sappho; Minerva and the Nymphs; Venus and Adonis; Daphnis and Chloë; and Love and the Parcae. Nor must it be omitted that he left a considerable number of drawings and water-colours, and that we are indebted to him for a number of portraits, among which is the sad face of Heinrich Heine, engraved in the Revue des deux mondes for April 1852. In Clement's catalogue of his works there are 683 entries, including sketches and studies.
Fritz Berthoud in Bibliothèque universelle de Geneve (1874); Albert de Montet, Dict. biographique des Genevois et des Vaudois (1877); and Vie de Charles Gleyre (1877), written by his friend, Charles Clement, | 556 |
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John Adams (composer)
John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer with strong roots in minimalism. His best-known works include Short Ride in a Fast Machine (1986), On the Transmigration of Souls (2002), a choral piece commemorating the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2003), and Shaker Loops (1978), a minimalist four-movement work for strings. His well-known operas include Nixon in China (1987), which recounts Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China, and Doctor Atomic (2005), which covers Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project, and the building of the first atomic bomb.
John Coolidge Adams was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1947.[1] He was raised in various New England states where he was greatly influenced by New England's musical culture. He graduated from Concord High School in Concord, New Hampshire. His father taught him how to play the clarinet, and he was a clarinetist in community ensembles. He later studied the instrument further with Felix Viscuglia, clarinetist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Adams began composing at the age of ten and first heard his music performed around the age of 13 or 14. After he matriculated at Harvard University in 1965 he studied composition under Leon Kirchner, Roger Sessions, Earl Kim, and David Del Tredici.[1] While at Harvard, he conducted the Bach Society Orchestra and was a reserve clarinetist for both the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Opera Company of Boston. He performed as the soloist in the Carnegie Hall world premiere of Walter Piston's Clarinet Concerto. He earned two degrees from Harvard University (BA 1971, MA 1972) and was among the first students to be allowed to submit a musical composition for a Harvard undergraduate thesis. His piece "American Standard" was recorded and released on Obscure Records in 1975. He taught at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music from 1972 until 1984.
1977 to Nixon in China
Adams worked in the electronic music studio at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, having built his own analogue synthesizer, and as conductor of the New Music Ensemble, he had a small but dedicated pool of young and talented musicians occasionally at his disposal.
Some major works composed during this period include Wavemaker (1977), Phrygian Gates for solo piano (1977), Shaker Loops (1978), Common Tones in Simple Time (1979), Harmonium (198081), Grand Pianola Music (1982), Light Over Water (1983), Harmonielehre (198485), The Chairman Dances (1985), Short Ride in a Fast Machine (1986), and Nixon in China (198587).
Shaker Loops (for string septet) (1978): A "modular" composition for three violins, one viola, two cellos, and one bass, with a conductor. It is divided into four distinct movements, each of which grows almost indiscernibly into the next. Adams worked with a group of Conservatory string players, at times composing as they rehearsed. The "period" that is, the number of beats per repeated pattern of each instrument is different, and this results in a constantly shifting texture of melody and rhythmic emphasis. This piece is a turning point in Adams's oeuvre, as it marks a return to pure instrumental writing and a re-engagement with tonality. Adams later arranged this piece for string orchestra.
Harmonium for Large Orchestra and Chorus (198081): The piece starts with quietly insistent repetitions of one note D and one syllable "no". The successful Harmonium premiere was the first performance of his music by a major mainstream organization, and established Adams as a figure in America's musical landscape.
Grand Pianola Music (1982): Adams commented, "Dueling pianos, cooing sirens, Valhalla brass, thwacking bass drums, gospel triads, and a Niagara of cascading flat keys all learned to cohabit as I wrote the piece."[2] It is one of his first major works to incorporate American vernacular music into the classical symphonic tradition. Adams's use of the repetitive patterns of minimalism within sweeping orchestral gestures is heard throughout the piece.
Light Over Water: The Genesis of Music (1983): This work was commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, California as the score for the collaborative work Available Light, which was choreographed by Lucinda Childs and had a set design by architect Frank Gehry. The work is a long, unbroken composition with contrasting sections whose boundaries are so subtle as to be almost imperceptible. It is a kind of symphony played by an orchestra of both electric and natural instruments and frozen into its idealized form by means of a multichannel tape recorder. Essentially electronic, the piece still exhibits orchestral techniques. Changes in the piece evolve gradually, and sudden entrances are rare. It is personal and emotive, though not necessarily romantic, and it has a dance-like feel.
Harmonielehre (198485): Inspired by a dream of an oil tanker taking flight out of San Francisco Bay and also by Arnold Schoenberg's book, Harmonielehre (Theory of Harmony). This piece is also about harmony of the mind and was Adams's way of escaping writer's block.
The Chairman Dances (Foxtrot for Orchestra) (1985): This is a by-product of Nixon in China, set in the three days of President Nixon's visit to Beijing in February 1972.
Short Ride in a Fast Machine (Fanfare for Great Woods) (1986): This piece is joyfully exuberant, brilliantly scored for a large orchestra. It begins with a marking of half-notes (woodblock, soon joined by the four trumpets) and eighths (clarinets and synthesizers); the (amplified) woodblock is fortissimo and the other instruments play forte. The work uses many elements of minimalist music.
Nixon in China (1987): The opera, in three acts, is based on Richard Nixon's visit to China on February 2125, 1972. Main characters in the opera are: the Nixons, Mao Tse-tung, Chou En-lai, Chiang Ch'ing (Madame Mao) and Henry Kissinger. Richard Nixon's visit to Beijing was made in the hope, but by no means the certainty, that he would see chairman Mao. It was directed by Peter Sellars. This piece is John Adams's second major composition on a text, after Harmonium (1981) for chorus and orchestra.
After Nixon in China
Adams wrote, "in almost all cultures other than the European classical one, the real meaning of the music is in between the notes. The slide, the portamento, the "blue note"all are essential to the emotional expression, whether it's a great Indian master improvising on a raga or whether it's Jimi Hendrix or Johnny Hodges bending a blue note right down to the floor." Adams uses this concept in many of his influential pieces post-Nixon in China.
In October 2008, Adams told BBC Radio 3 that he had been blacklisted by the U.S. Homeland Security department and immigration services.[3]
The Wound-Dresser (1988): John Adams's setting of Walt Whitman's poem, "The Wound-Dresser", which Whitman wrote after visiting wounded soldiers during the American Civil War. The piece is scored for baritone voice, 2 flutes (or 2 piccolos), 2 oboes, clarinet, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, trumpet (or piccolo tpt), timpani, synthesizer, and strings.
The Death of Klinghoffer (1991): The opera's story begins with the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro by Palestinian terrorists and details the murder of a passenger named Leon Klinghoffer, a retired, physically disabled American Jew. The musical basis for The Death of Klinghoffer was the Passions of Johann Sebastian Bach: grave, symbolic, narratives supported by a full chorus. A film version was made in 2003, which emphasised the work's somber, chilling mood.
Chamber Symphony (1992): This piece was commissioned by the Gerbode Foundation of San Francisco for the San Francisco Contemporary Chamber Players. While Chamber Symphony bears a strong resemblance to Arnold Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony Op. 9 in its tonality and its instrumental arrangement, Adams's additional instrumentation includes synthesizer, drum kit, trumpet, and trombone. The piece consists of three movements: "Mongrel Airs," "Aria with Walking Bass" and "Roadrunner." The piece is excited and aggressive, alluding to children's cartoon music (as evidenced by the titles of the movements). The piece is linear, chromatic, and virtuosic.
I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky (1995): A stage piece with libretto by June Jordan and staging by Peter Sellars. Adams called the piece "essentially a polyphonic love story in the style of a Shakespeare comedy." The main characters are seven young Americans from different social and ethnic backgrounds, all living in Los Angeles. The story takes place in the aftermath of the earthquake in Los Angeles in 1994.
Hallelujah Junction (1996): This piece for two pianos employs variations of a repeated two note rhythm. The intervals between the notes remain the same through much of the piece.
On the Transmigration of Souls (2002): This piece commemorates those who lost their lives in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. It won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Music as well as the 2005 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Composition. Adams was the first composer to have earned the latter award three times, having previously won the award for El Dorado (1998) and Nixon in China (1989).
My Father Knew Charles Ives (2003): Adams writes, "My Father Knew Charles Ives is musical autobiography, an homage and encomium to a composer whose influence on me has been huge." In true Ives style, in all three movements the piece begins subtly with few instruments and swells to a cacophonous mass of sound. The piece ranges from utilizing mysterious harmonies in long tones to full scale march feels.
The Dharma at Big Sur (2003): A piece for solo electric violin and orchestra.<|fim_middle|>. American Association of Arts and Letters. Retrieved on 1 April 2011.
Harvard Arts medal
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John Adams in conversation with Robert Davidson
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An American Portrait: Composer John Adams, WGBH, radio, Boston
Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition laureates
1985 Witold Lutosawski ·
1986 György Ligeti · 1987 Harrison Birtwistle · 1989 Chinary Ung · 1990 Joan Tower · 1991 John Corigliano · 1992 Krzysztof Penderecki · 1993 Karel Husa · 1994 Tru Takemitsu · 1995 John Adams · 1996 Ivan Tcherepnin · 1997 Simon Bainbridge · 1998 Tan Dun · 2000 Thomas Adès · 2001 Pierre Boulez · 2002 Aaron Jay Kernis · 2003 Kaija Saariaho · 2004 Unsuk Chin · 2005 George Tsontakis · 2006 György Kurtág · 2007 Sebastian Currier · 2008 Peter Lieberson
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Adagio aus dem Klarinettenkonzert Nr.3 f-moll (CH) | The piece calls for some instruments (harp, piano, samplers) to use just intonation, a tuning system in which intervals sound pure, rather than equal temperament, the common Western tuning system in which all intervals except the octave are impure. The piece was composed for the opening of Disney Hall in Los Angeles.
Doctor Atomic (2005): An opera in two acts, about Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project, and the creation and testing of the first atomic bomb. The libretto of Doctor Atomic by Peter Sellars draws on original source material, including personal memoirs, recorded interviews, technical manuals of nuclear physics, declassified government documents, and the poetry of the Bhagavad Gita, John Donne, Charles Baudelaire, and Muriel Rukeyser. The opera takes place in June and July 1945, mainly over the last few hours before the first atomic bomb explodes at the test site in New Mexico. Characters include Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer and his wife Kitty, Edward Teller, General Leslie Groves, and Robert Wilson.
A Flowering Tree (2006): An opera in two acts, based on a folktale from the Kannada language of southern India as translated by A.K. Ramanujan. it was commissioned as part of the Vienna New Crowned Hope Festival to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Mozarts birth. It takes as its model Mozarts The Magic Flute, and its themes are magic, transformation and the dawning of moral awareness.
Doctor Atomic Symphony (2007): Based on music from the opera.
Fellow Traveler (2007): This piece was commissioned for the Kronos Quartet by Greg G. Minshall, and was dedicated to opera and theater director Peter Sellars for his 50th birthday.
Musical style
The music of John Adams is usually categorized as minimalist or post-minimalist although in interview he has categorised himself in typically witty fashion as a 'post-style' composer. While Adams employs minimalist techniques, such as repeating patterns, he is not a strict follower of the movement. Adams was born a generation after Steve Reich and Philip Glass, and his writing is more developmental and directionalized, containing climaxes and other elements of Romanticism. Comparing Shaker Loops to minimalist composer Terry Riley's piece In C, Adams says,
rather than set up small engines of motivic materials and let them run free in a kind of random play of counterpoint, I used the fabric of continually repeating cells to forge large architectonic shapes, creating a web of activity that, even within the course of a single movement, was more detailed, more varied, and knew both light and dark, serenity and turbulence.[4]
Many of Adams's ideas in composition are a reaction to the philosophy of serialism and its depictions of "the composer as scientist."[5] The Darmstadt school of twelve tone composition was dominant during the time that Adams was receiving his college education, and he compared class to a "mausoleum where we would sit and count tone-rows in Webern."[6][page needed] By the time he graduated, he was disillusioned with the restrained feeling and inaccessibility of serialism.
Adams experienced a musical awakening after reading John Cage's book Silence (1973), which he claimed "dropped into [his] psyche like a time bomb."[7] Cage's school posed fundamental questions about what music was, and regarded all types of sounds as viable sources of music. This perspective offered to Adams a liberating alternative to the rule-based techniques of serialism. At this point Adams began to experiment with electronic music, and his experiences are reflected in the writing of Phrygian Gates (197778), in which the constant shifting between modules in Lydian mode and Phrygian mode refers to activating electronic gates rather than architectural ones. Adams explained that working with synthesizers caused a "diatonic conversion," a reversion to the belief that tonality was a force of nature.[8]
Minimalism offered the final solution to Adams's creative dilemma. Adams was attracted to its pulsating and diatonic sound, which provided an underlying rhetoric on top of which Adams could express what he wanted in his compositions. Although some of his pieces sound similar to those written by minimalist composers, Adams actually rejects the idea of mechanistic procedure-based or process music; what Adams took away from minimalism was tonality and/or modality, and the rhythmic energy from repetition.
Some of Adams's compositions are an amalgamation of different styles. One example is Grand Pianola Music (198182), a humorous piece that purposely draws its content from musical cliches. In The Dharma at Big Sur, Adam's draws from literary texts such as Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder and Henry Miller to illustrate the California landscape. Adams professes his love of other genres other than classical music; his parents were jazz musicians, and he has also listened to rock music, albeit only passively. Adams once claimed that originality wasn't an urgent concern for him the way it was necessary for the minimalists, and compared his position to that of Gustav Mahler, J. S. Bach, and Johannes Brahms, who "were standing at the end of an era and were embracing all of the evolutions that occurred over the previous thirty to fifty years."[9][page needed] The music of Adams is defined by his ability to integrate different styles, especially elements of Americana, and can thus be more accurately compared to Aaron Copland's style in the 1940s and Leonard Bernstein's in the 1950s rather than to Reich or Glass.
Style and analysis
Adams, like other minimalists of his time (e.g. Philip Glass), used a steady pulse that defines and controls the music. The pulse was best known from Terry Riley's early composition In C, and slowly more and more composers used it as a common practice. Jonathan Bernard highlighted this adoption by comparing Phrygian Gates, written in 1977, and Fearful Symmetries written eleven years later in 1988.[10]
Violin Concerto, Mvt. III "Toccare"
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Adams started to add a new character to his music, something he called "the Trickster." The Trickster allowed Adams to use the repetitive style and rhythmic drive of minimalism, yet poke fun at it at the same time. When Adams commented on his own characterization of particular minimalist music, he stated that he went joyriding on "those Great Prairies of non-event."[11]
Oddly enough, his music of the 1990s slowly starts to incorporate it more and more to the point where one critic believes this slowly increasing incorporation of minimalism "represents a coming to terms with minimalism according to a decidedly tonal slant: pulse and repetition have been transmuted, by a kind of reverse-chronological alchemy, into devices of familiar from earlier eras, such as moto perpetuo and ostinato." The third movement of the Violin Concerto, titled "Toccare" portrays this transition.
Adams begins the movement with a repeated, scale-like eight-note melody in the violin and going into the second measure, it appears as if he will continue this, but instead of starting at the bottom again, the violin continues upward. From here, there are fewer instances of repletion and more moving up and down in a pulse like fashion. The orchestra on the other hand is more repetitive and pulse like: the left hand continually plays the high A and it is not until the 5th measure where another note is added, but the A continues to be played throughout always on the off beat. It is this pulsing A, played as an eighth note as opposed to a sixteenth note, that pokes fun at the minimalist, yet Adams still uses the pulse (i.e. alternating eighth notes between the right and left hand, creating a sixteenth note feeling) as an engine for the movement.
John Adams was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for his 9/11 memorial piece, On the Transmigration of Souls. Response to his output as a whole has been more divided, and Adams's works have been described as both brilliant and boring in reviews that stretch across both ends of the rating spectrum. Shaker Loops has been described as "hauntingly ethereal," while 1999's "Naïve and Sentimental Music" has been called "an exploration of a marvelously extended spinning melody."[12] The New York Times called 1996's Hallelujah Junction "a two-piano work played with appealingly sharp edges," and 2001's "American Berserk" "a short, volatile solo piano work."[13]
The most critically divisive pieces in Adams's collection are his historical operas. While it is now easy to say that Nixon in China's influential score spawned a new interest in opera, it was not always met with such laudatory and generous review. At first release, Nixon in China received mostly mixed if not negative press feedback. Donal Henahan, special to the New York Times, called the Houston Grand Opera world premiere of the work "worth a few giggles but hardly a strong candidate for the standard repertory" and "visually striking but coy and insubstantial."[14] James Wierzbicki for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch described Adams's score as the weak point in an otherwise well-staged performance, noting the music as "inappropriately placid," "cliché-ridden in the abstract" and "[trafficked] heavily in Adams's worn-out Minimalist clichés."[15] With time, however, the opera has come to be revered as a great and influential production. Robert Hugill for Music and Vision called the production "astonishing nearly twenty years after its premier,"[16] while City Beat's Tom McElfresh called Nixon's score "a character in the drama" and "too intricate, too detailed to qualify as minimalist."[17]
The attention surrounding The Death of Klinghoffer has been full of controversy, specifically in the New York Times reviews. After the 1991 premiere, reporter Edward Rothstein wrote that "Mr. Adams's music has a seriously limited range."[18] Only a few days later, Allan Kozinn wrote an investigative report citing that Leon Klinghoffer's daughters, Lisa and Ilsa, had "expressed their disapproval" of the opera in a statement saying "We are outraged at the exploitation of our parents and the coldblooded murder of our father as the centerpiece of a production that appears to us to be anti-Semitic."[19] In response to these accusations of anti-Semitism, composer and Oberlin College professor Conrad Cummings wrote a letter to the editor defending "Klinghoffer" as "the closest analogue to the experience of Bach's audience attending his most demanding works," and noted that, as someone of half-Jewish heritage, he "found nothing anti-Semitic about the work."[20] After the 2001 cancellation of performances of excerpts from "Klinghoffer" by the Boston Symphony Orchestra,[21] debate has continued about the opera's content and social worth. Prominent critic and noted musicologist Richard Taruskin called the work "anti-American, anti-Semitic and anti-bourgeois." Criticism continued when the production was released to DVD. In 2003, Edward Rothstein updated his stage review to a movie critique, writing "the film affirms two ideas now commonplace among radical critics of Israel: that Jews acted like Nazis, and that refugees from the Holocaust were instrumental in the founding of the state, visiting upon Palestinians the sins of others."[22]
2003's The Dharma at Big Sur/ My Father Knew Charles Ives was well-received, particularly at Adams's alma mater's publication, the Harvard Crimson. In a four-star review, Harvard's newspaper called the electric violin and orchestral concerto "Adams's best composition of the past ten years."[23] Most recently, New York Times writer Anthony Tommasini commended Adams for his work conducting the American Composers Orchestra. The concert, which took place in April 2007 at Carnegie Hall, was a celebratory performance of Adams's work on his sixtieth birthday. Tommasini called Adams a "skilled and dynamic conductor," and noted that the music "was gravely beautiful yet restless."[24]
(1987) Nixon in China
(1991) The Death of Klinghoffer
(1995) I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky
(2000) El Niño (opera-oratorio)
(2005) Doctor Atomic
(2006) A Flowering Tree
(1979) Common Tones in Simple Time
(1980) Harmonium
(1983) Shaker Loops (version for string orchestra)
(1985) Harmonielehre
(1985) The Chairman Dances
(1986) Tromba Lontana
(1986) Short Ride in a Fast Machine
(1988) Fearful Symmetries
(1989) Eros Piano
(1991) El Dorado
(1993) Violin Concerto, winner of the 1995 Grawemeyer Award for Music composition
(1995) Lollapalooza
(1996) Slonimsky's Earbox
(1997) Century Rolls
(1998) Naive and Sentimental Music
(2001) Guide to Strange Places
(2002) On the Transmigration of Souls
(2003) My Father Knew Charles Ives
(2003) The Dharma at Big Sur
(2007) Doctor Atomic Symphony
(2009) City Noir
(2010) Absolute Jest
Voice and orchestra
(1987) The Nixon Tapes
(1989) The Wound-Dresser
(1970) Piano Quintet
(1978) Shaker Loops
(1992) Chamber Symphony
(1994) John's Book of Alleged Dances
(1995) Road Movies
(1996) Gnarly Buttons
(2007) Son of Chamber Symphony
(2007) Fellow Traveler
(2008) String Quartet
Other ensemble works
(1973) American Standard
(1973) Christian Zeal and Activity
(1975) Grounding
(1982) Grand Pianola Music
(1996) Scratchband
(2001) Nancy's Fancy
(1973) Ktaadn
(1991) Choruses from The Death of Klinghoffer
(2011) The Gospel According to the Other Mary
Tape and electronic compositions
(1970) Heavy Metal
(1976) Studebaker Love Music
(1976) Onyx
(1983) Light Over Water
(1993) Hoodoo Zephyr
(1977) Phrygian Gates
(1977) China Gates
(1996) Hallelujah Junction
(2001) American Berserk
Film score
(1982) Matter of Heart
(1999?) An American Tapestry
(2010) I Am Love (Io Sono l'Amore)
(1990) The Black Gondola (Liszt's La Lugubre Gondola)
(1991) Berceuse Élégiaque (Busoni's Berceuse Élégiaque)
(1993) Le Livre de Baudelaire (Debussy's Cinq poèmes de Charles Baudelaire)
(1995) La Mufa (Piazzolla's tango)
(1996) Todo Buenos Aires (Piazzolla's tango)
(198993) Six Songs by Charles Ives (Ives' songs)
Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Composition for Nixon in China (1989)
Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for Best Chamber Composition for Chamber Symphony (1994)
Grawemeyer Award in Musical Composition for Violin Concerto (1995)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1997)[25]
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1997) [26]
Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Composition for El Dorado (1998)
Pulitzer Prize for Music for On the Transmigration of Souls (2003)
Grammy Award for Best Classical Album for On the Transmigration of Souls (2005)
Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance for On the Transmigration of Souls (2005)
Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition for On the Transmigration of Souls (2005)
Harvard Arts Medal (2007) [27]
Honorary Doctorate of Arts from Northwestern University (2008)
California Governor's Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts
Cyril Magnin Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts
Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters)
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The state of digital activism
Mehran Khalili
01 Mar 2020 • 21 min read
An interview with Asteris Masouras
With global news curator Asteris Masouras, we debate what online activism is getting right -- and how it could improve. Among other topics, we discuss: Twitter's value as a platform for activism, when to call a fascist a fascist, and deplatforming and censorship as political weapons.
Asteris Masouras has been curating global breaking news on Twitter since 2007, where he follows stories ranging from the protests of social justice movements worldwide, to mainstream politics and conflicts around the globe. He was included in the Independent's 2011 list of "The most influential non-celebrity users of Twitter", and was an editor at Reportedly, a real-time news experiment sponsored by Pierre Omidyar's First Look Media.
Asteris is also an editor for Global Voices Online, and a co-founder and editor of Global Voices in Greek.
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Transcript of the interview
A primer on global news curation
ASTERIS: I'm Asteris Masouras. I'm an online journalist and occasionally activist. But mostly I'm a global news curator and amplifier. That's been my métier for the past decade.
MEHRAN: Global news curator… could you take me through the process of how you curate global news? So you're following specific sources on Twitter and retweeting those sources…?
ASTERIS: It's been evolved enough now to have a name. It's called Open Source Intelligence or OSINT. You're following public sources and informing the public, with them by filtering and amplifying. The main issue for that work is… how do you know what's happening on the ground, if you've not been there?
Verifying sources
MEHRAN: Can you take me through, how do you verify sources? Do you have a policy for making sure that what you're reading on Twitter, that people are posting is legit.
ASTERIS: It's an organic process. It takes time. You could conceivably jump into a new sphere of news that you're not familiar with.
But you carry your own preconceptions and prejudice as we all do. And it takes time to listen to what's going on on the ground. Preferably to have an empathic connection with the people at large
MEHRAN: It sounds like what you're saying is you develop a nose for it.
ASTERIS: Yeah you develop a nose for it, but it's also how journalists trust their sources, and find people that are credible enough to carry the general sense of what's going on on the ground. And at the same time, always filtering out biases.
First, you have to filter the biases from your own side. It's part of your job to be, not a contrarian per se, but distrustful of authoritarian narratives. The narratives of power.
And professional journalists know that. Whether they take it into account and practice it or not, they know that.
MEHRAN: Can you give examples? What are some shining lights of good, thorough, clear journalism today?
ASTERIS: The foreign corps working in Syria has been excellent. The journalists who've repeatedly visited the conflict, on the ground, and became attached to the people and the region. They're good journalists. A lot of them are women, which does play a part.
They have an activist side to their reporting. Because they feel that the conflict in Syria has been under-engaged with. Not necessarily under-reported… there was a swath of coverage in the first years of the conflict. But then the world just tuned it out. Just like they did with the Iraq conflict previously.
They've been trying their best to convey what's happening on the ground to people, and not advocating for specific solutions. But advocating for people to care.
Twitter's value as an activism platform
MEHRAN: If I look at Twitter, for example. There's been a shift in Twitter in the last four or five years. I used to feel that it could be a platform where the things that you're describing could happen, that there could be awareness, that it could help people to care more.
Now I see a lot of angry people, split into tribes and lobbing at each other and everyone's watching different movies. So from an input point of view, from an influence point of view, it's changed. Do you feel the same or would you challenge that?
ASTERIS: I do, but it's a lazy assumption to make. I berate myself for making that assumption. Because in the heyday of Twitter in the early days, like the first five years, which coincided with the Arab spring and the Indignants' movement and all the wonderful stuff happening around the world…
Wonderful things still are happening, [but] people aren't even interested, in the main about, for instance, what's happening in Lebanon.
What's happening there is a continuation, not of the Arab spring, but of the same collective spirit of positive change. And yet the same audiences, aren't interested.
So there has been a marginalization of the winds of change on Twitter, but they're not out of the picture completely.
The platform is ideally suited to toxicity and negativity. But the platform is part of the public commons. It's one thing, if you decide for yourself, I can't waste the energy to do this anymore here.
But if you just capitulate to the toxicity, it doesn't help the public.
Protest in Tripoli, Lebanon (November 2019). Source: Wikipedia
MEHRAN: Point well-taken. You cited Lebanon and what's happened in Lebanon. Before we jump into those issues that you mentioned, with regard to extremism and the public commons, I would like to understand what for you are recent examples of good work, where Twitter has come into its own as an activist tool. And has helped to instigate change.
ASTERIS: Lebanon is one it's exemplary because Lebanon has a large English-speaking public sphere. The Lebanese are well versed in online activism and representation of public issues. They seem to have evolved the model of both Occupy and the Arab Spring, without being an iteration of either of these things. It's a new thing.
They've also iterated another shining example, which was the Sudanese revolution. In an even more fraught region of the world.
MEHRAN: The amplification of news from Lebanon,<|fim_middle|>the deplorables'.
So the left always scores an own goal when they're loose with these kinds of words and labeling the opposite side.
ASTERIS: It's true. But it's not just the left. If you look at the far right spectrum, they're doing the same thing with their own nomenclature. Like 'social justice warriors' and all that. I see that vernacular everywhere.
But I agree that it's you'll more frequently hear people calling other people racists, than social justice warriors. [The right] is winning the narrative right now, or being the side of [having its speech suppressed]. They're gaining ground by presenting themselves as being sidelined by the dominant progressive narrative. Which is not true because politics [today] are conservative.
MEHRAN: That's also why progressives need to be careful with de-platforming as a weapon. Because as we talked about before, that helps the opposing group rally more support around them.
Two sides watching different movies
That brings me to something else, a more recent thing. You'll recall, I think yesterday, a NATO summit where Justin Trudeau and Emmanuel Macron were caught on a hot mic bitching about Donald Trump.
ASTERIS: Yeah. And even Boris Johnson was laughing, don't forget.
MEHRAN: Right. And I just saw that the Joe Biden campaign has now turned this into a video.
But this exemplifies a problem that I'm seeing on social media, which is this: that hot mic incident is shared by lots of people on my timeline with ridicule. "Look at this, how ridiculous" or "[other world leaders don't take him seriously, "how can we get rid of this ridiculous orange creature?" This kind of thing.
And then I delved into the comments from people from the right. Their reaction [to the incident] was: "Good; this is exactly the person we want to shake up these stuffy meetings in NATO, and these cowards can't even complain to his face about him".
I see these two different movies being played, and it's so frustrating because there's no common ground on which these two sides could come together and discuss this video and have their views changed in any way.
ASTERIS: That's been a problem for me as well. And I think that for politics to be closer to people, it has to do away with all the artifice on some level. That's one thing.
And the way the Trump campaign is weaponising this, it's like they're trying to make it appear as if Trump is the only honest person in the room. Which is not the case.
MEHRAN: But things like that video could solidify more support for Trump.
ASTERIS: I understand. But you can't do anything about it. There's always going to an intent, a method, to weaponise these things in favor of the autocrat.
MEHRAN: Yes, and I would criticise the leftists on my timeline for sharing it.
Firstly, they're ridiculing it, so you have the problem that they're actually making the other group feel more cohesive and stronger. But second, the fact that they're sharing it and amplifying it, without packaging it in a way that could neutralise it…
ASTERIS: But how do you do that? That's the thing. Trump successful deluged the public sphere with this stupidity effect, to the point that stupid is now the new normal. And you can't even react to it.
I understand what you're saying, and I agree to an extent, but on the other hand, how do you defang it?
Lakoff's "Truth Sandwich" approach
MEHRAN: One of the proposed approaches to this — and I'm not saying it's the best way — but, you know the linguist George Lakoff?
ASTERIS: I've heard of him, yeah. I haven't read his stuff.
MEHRAN: This relates to fact-checking Trump, which was a big thing for the election and continues to be. And Lakoff's argument, as many people also say, is that by checking the facts you're amplifying the lie.
What Lakoff proposes is doing something called a Truth Sandwich, where you tell the truth first. Then you point out what the lie is and how that lie diverges from the truth. And then you repeat the truth, and tell the consequences of the difference between the truth and the lie.
ASTERIS: But that's a technique. You know [journalist] Daniel Dale?
MEHRAN: Yes. But he's only pointing out the gap.
ASTERIS: What, what Daniel Dale is doing is a service to everyone, to every other journalist who doesn't have the time to do that stuff on their own.
MEHRAN: You're right. Dale is providing fantastic raw data. But in terms of the type of communication that doesn't help Trump advance his own agenda, we need [to do] more than that.
We need to take that content from someone like Daniel Dale and package it in a way which the other side cannot use.
ASTERIS: I don't think that's doable. It's impossible to inoculate your message from being repackaged. Because it's in the nature of a message…
You've seen that in oppo campaigns in politics, right? Everything you say can and will be used against you by the other side. What you're proposing are tactics of re-using the core elements of messages so audiences better understand them. But you have to start with the audiences.
Audiences tend to tune out what is not in their immediate interest. They tend to act as tribes, coalescing around authority figures. You have to go door-to-door, mouth-to-ear, talk to your own people.
We have overlooked this. On Facebook, you see 'debate' where people are just throwing arguments and characterisations at each other. They're not talking to each other.
MEHRAN: I agree. And work needs to be done at all levels of the stack. But [Lakoff's Truth Sandwich] is something that could be implemented. I'm not saying it's the best way, but it's one way I've read about which hasn't gained any traction.
And Lakoff has been [proposing this model] for a few years. He has been railing against the fact that Trump is able to manipulate the media because of this dynamicGrassroots protest as a model for change
ASTERIS: That's why I'm inspired by the work that's being done by public movements. Commonly called 'revolutions' nowadays. They're not revolutions in the way that people knew them in the past; not killing people or anything. There's revolutions against normative politics, which are basically corrosive.
It's about getting people on the street and sitting across from each other and talking to each other. And I've seen that work. In the Indignants [protest], it was amazing. People listened to each other from different political regiments. You have to have people co-exist in the square.
MEHRAN: In 2011.
ASTERIS: Yeah, and 2013, and during that time, and it worked. And it's still working now in Lebanon and in Sudan. That's why I believe in the streets.
In Egypt, one of the things that made an impression on me was the young revolutionaries, who were internet savvy and westernised, they went to their folks at home and explained to them why Mubarak had to go.
And I'm not being a Luddite now, you know me…. I spend all my time on Twitter.
It's amazing, in Lebanon. You know what their main slogan is? "All means all". All of them must fall, the entire system.
And I can't even be begin to grasp how they managed to put together an anti-sectarian political movement, because that's what it is.
There are people from all sects, of politics, coexisting, and being revolutionaries first, in the current timeline. That's amazing. How did this happen? In the street.
MEHRAN: And if it sustains itself…
ASTERIS: Yeah, that's the main issue. How do you scale and how do you sustain? But it's a worthwhile political project.
And even if you don't [bring about] change — this is what I've been hearing from the Lebanese — at least you can co-exist with your people for a time. And get a new understanding of how you can talk to each other.
MEHRAN: Yes. And the networking element, which I found incredibly beneficial in 2011 [Indignants' protests].
ASTERIS: Oh yeah.
MEHRAN: The fact that you meet people offline. Like I met you, and lots of other people. And after all the observers went home and stayed home, those people [we met] endured, they stayed [together].
ASTERIS: You're still friends… maybe in an idle way that you don't talk each other, but you're like family of citizens from across political lines.
MEHRAN: Yeah.
ASTERIS: Now imagine that happening in an entire country, in the world. That's the ideal: How do we escalate the potential of this coexistence and engagement and communication and participation? And, you're right, as long as we keep obsessing about political figures…
That's what I'm saying to my mother. She comes from another age and she's like, "we need politicians". I say "no, we need people". You can't expect a strongman to come and fix these things for you. The body politic, the citizens, will fix it.
MEHRAN: That's a nice note to come to a close. I wondered if you could recommend two or three books related to the kinds of topics that we're discussing.
ASTERIS: You're going to laugh but one of them is about the open source movement. It's called "Open Source 2.0" and it's a series of essays about the practices and mentalities behind the open source movement and how they germinated across the technology sphere. It doesn't go into politics per se, but it's interesting.
Dan Gillmor's first book about citizen journalists, "We The Media" was also formative for me. In the sense that I was aware of what he was describing because I was doing it, but I hadn't realised how it ties to the need of local communities to be informed.
And I don't have a third book, but there are tons of science fiction dealing with these issues. Science fiction was my, was my political playground, starting with Ursula Leguin, whose entire work is focused politics and community activism.
MEHRAN: That's been really great. I've really expanded my mind talking to you and, great. Thanks for your time.
ASTERIS: Thank you for the opportunity.
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ASTERIS: Maybe this is a misconception or naive, but I think the more we're monitoring things and engaging, we can help protect these movements from the crackdowns.
The other aspect of engaging from abroad is to put pressure on our own governments. To not cooperate with authoritarians and corrupt figures.
I think also, being there for these people validates their need not to be alone. It's not a Western thing. You can be from anywhere in the world… people want to want to feel that that cause is not indifferent to other people. It's a human need.
The other side is what you're doing as an intermediary. That you can inject a sense of the public discussions and the evolution of public policy into your domestic audience.
MEHRAN: To try to push the focus back on the issues that matter rather than every twist and turn of the impeachment process, or…
ASTERIS: Yes exactly. And the political processes in the Commons. Because the minute you have people starting to peacefully occupy a square, within two days we're going to have vibrant discussions about: What is a public space? What is politics? The essence of nationhood. All these things.
These things are natural tendencies of the human species. We sit together in the same square and start talking with each other. That's why you see many of these revolutions starting with reclaiming public space.
Imagine being a Lebanese, where all the formerly public spaces are owned by private companies. It was a core part of the whole revolution movement to reclaim our spaces and not just defeat corruption, but to take back what is ours.
MEHRAN: And yet, the stories about Lebanon, are nowhere in the media outlets that I'm reading.
ASTERIS: My point exactly.
MEHRAN: It's really off the radar. And this brings me to the idea of impact. Even though you wouldn't give yourself that 'activist' label in the bulk of the work you're doing, it's change that you want to see, isn't it?
ASTERIS: Of course, of course.
Is online grassroots activism making a difference?
MEHRAN: And therefore it comes back to: How do you know when your work is making a difference? Have you got any examples of where you could map, 'we did this, and thanks to that, this happened on the ground'?
ASTERIS: Like the earliest examples would be for instance, here in Thesaloniki, local bloggers stopped the municipality from at least two disastrous development projects. And we had several victories in the European parliament over digital rights.
But I think the biggest impact was the intertwining of activist journalism and the citizenry during the Indignants' anti-austerity movement.
MEHRAN: That was in 2011, and we were eight and a half years on now. Why do you think there hasn't been more of a systemic shift that would facilitate more impact coming from this type of work?
Challenges for climate change activism
ASTERIS: Because that's how humanity operates. It's obvious on the environmental [activism] side of things.
We're at a point where a 16-year-old school student is going on strikes, influencing people around the world and even being hosted by the UN — because, Secretary General Gutierrez is on board with Greta Thunberg's protest.
But although the world is aware, and the world is espousing the viewpoints of the activists,… there's no shift in practices. And we have seen that for decades. And now we're at the brink of irreversible change the ecosystem — the planet is fine, the people are fucked — but there's still no traction, no change.
So why? It has to do with humans. Humanity is embroiled into this day-to-day struggle. And it's incapable of taking larger action. Even to safeguard its own existence.
MEHRAN: I'm not an expert on the climate topic at all, but what I see as an observer are the same issues communicated in the same alarming way.
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And the link to the broader quality of life narrative like traffic jams, congestion, pollution, even economic competitiveness… that link is rarely made. [The problem] always feels like something far away, both in terms of time and in terms of distance.
ASTERIS: I know where you're coming from and I don't disagree. And I'm also critical of NGOs that have whales in the room [for PR purposes].
It's also a larger problem with human mentality, that has to be changed through education. And social education is what we're doing.
Deplatforming and censorship
MEHRAN: That brings me to de-platforming and censorship, for ideas that are deemed too dangerous.
There is a view that bad ideas should be confronted rather than censored. Where do you stand on that?
ASTERIS: I'm in touch with both schools of thought on this, and I have friends on both sides of the equation. It's a core issue of our time.
I'm a fervent believer in freedom of speech. But I'm not a blind libertarian; I do realise that speech can harm.
So it's hard. And what we're seeing now, primarily on Facebook but also on Twitter, is a growing contention between people who use speech to harm and they claim speech rights. And people who are routinely de-platformed because of reporting campaigns by the first group. And that's unsettling,
MEHRAN: So it's a fine line and a fine balance, and it's a case-by-case thing? Are there any first principles that you could fall back on in order to discern what should be de-platformed and what should be let through?
ASTERIS: First, the platforms need to change their architecture and mentality. It's inevitable that we will have hate speech laws in some sense. Even though I'm cautious about their propagation. Because I see a pattern of litigating authoritarianism, even in Western societies.
Like for instance, in Greece, the blasphemy laws. It's ridiculous. Why would Greece have blasphemy laws? And they have been used as political weapons against dissent.
MEHRAN: If I look for example at last year, when Steve Bannon was invited to the New Yorker festival. They invited him; there was an outcry; they disinvited him.
And that was the worst possible outcome, because it first gave his crowd the oxygen of being invited. And then it gave them the right to cry 'he was de-platformed! They're trying to censor his ideas!' What was your take on that?
ASTERIS: There's a fine line between, examining and challenging extremist ideals and amplifying them. And it's true that several institutions have crossed it.
MEHRAN: But at the New Yorker festival, had Bannon been there, they would have sat him down with the New Yorker editor David Remnick. Who presumably would have challenged his ideas before a crowd of people, OK, people agreeing with David Remnick.
But at least it would have been on camera and viewers would understand the light and the shadow in the guy's ideas. Isn't there a value to that? To holding these things up and saying 'what does this person believe'?
Because however we look at it — and I know this doesn't apply to everybody who's been de-platformed; I know there are people who are just toxic and ranting, and again that's perhaps a difficult call to make. But Steve Bannon is a hugely influential figure. He's responsible for the situation that we're in today.
ASTERIS: Yeah, Steve Bannon is the Rasputin of the entire extremosphere.
Protest against Steve Bannon at Oxford University. Source: Oxford Union
MEHRAN: Right.
So if I'm approaching this from progressive side, I'm thinking: 'What are his talking points? What are the holes in his arguments? Where are these people coming from? And what is he actually doing?'
He's running The Movement, a collaboration between all the right wing authoritarian governments and wannabe governments in Europe. He's facilitating this network, and he's very quiet about that. I want to understand what he's up to.
ASTERIS: You want a [David] Frost interrogating him?
MEHRAN: Yes. I don't want to give him a microphone and hear a speech. I want a debate where his ideas are being held up and criticised. And I want to hear how he reacts.
ASTERIS: You disagree then with protesters in Oxford when Bannon was invited. He's insinuating himself into high profile platforms and gaining new audiences.
When to call a fascist a fascist
There was a wave of normalising … let's call them fascists. I do at least. The alt-right. There was a wave of legitimising the alt-right, a year before Trump came into office. This was before the hate wave in the US. And Charlottesville and all of these, extremist attacks on places of worship.
Before all that happened, there was this trend by mainstream outlets, including the New York times to normalise the Nazi next door. Now I don't know how you view this, but I viewed it as complicity.
MEHRAN: I'm hesitant to use that term 'fascist'. And it's not because I don't like calling things what they are. It's because I'm aware of how it makes people feel when they're labeled 'deplorables', 'racists', etc. And how it rallies them around something that maybe they were not believing that firmly in before, but now that those elite Ivy leaguers in the establishment media are calling us this, now they're going to vote for Trump. Now they're going to go to that rally.
ASTERIS: You mean we made them gel together?
MEHRAN: I'm not saying that, but we facilitate it [by labelling them as such].
ASTERIS: But if you don't oppose it, it will happen anyway. How does it facilitate it?
MEHRAN: This was from the On The Media podcast: "The most powerful identities are the ones whose status is being threatened". Insulted, disparaged, anything like that.
So what we're doing, in this time of identities and tribes, by drawing a line around people and saying 'you're racist', 'you're fascist'…. we're just solidifying that group. And that's human nature. We are hardwired for this. We can't avoid it.
ASTERIS: I agree that using simplified vernacular doesn't help. And it's also part of the journalism profession to distinguish. On my own outlet, I insisted that if some grouping was demonstrably espousing a set of values, that they would be called with that name.
For instance, the Golden Dawn group. It is Nazi. It walks like a Nazi, it talks like a Nazi. And it beats people up like a Nazi.
It doesn't matter if they deny it — they're a Nazi group. I'm not saying that all groups in that ecosphere are Nazi. Some are white supremacists, some are nationalists, some are ultranationalist.
But at least, most of these groups are white supremacists. And that means an existential hatred of other races.
MEHRAN: Right. But take Golden Dawn, which you mentioned. The majority of the support that they have is from everyday people. People who are confused or uneducated perhaps, feeling weak, feeling a loss of dignity. I'm not sympathising with their choice to support Golden Dawn…
ASTERIS: But they're good Germans, nevertheless.
MEHRAN: But when we say Golden Dawn supporters are 'fascists' or 'neo-Nazi', are we only talking about the people that are bashing immigrants and wrecking market stalls?
ASTERIS: OK, there's room for distinction there. I'm not saying that all Golden Dawn's sympathisers are Nazis. But they're being put on trial for being a criminal organisation. Not for criminal acts by specific people. There is something called a criminal organisation, and being a part of that means that at least you're being an accomplice.
It doesn't mean that I would like to see everyone persecuted who supported them or voted for them. Voting is an especially touchy subject. But — and there's a 'but' here — if these people, their supporters, are engaging in the public activities that are helping them commit crimes against other people, particularly the vulnerable, then they're complicit,
MEHRAN: But then would they warrant the label 'nazi' or 'fascist' in your mind?
ASTERIS: My view is that the core group and the people who participated in the pogroms are Nazis used and they know it. They believe in the cultist militant fantasy of the Nazi party.
Now, everyone else outside the central group, can fall into shades of the spectrum. But to the extent that they're helping them attack, uh, vulnerable populations…. it's problematic, wouldn't you agree?
MEHRAN: Absolutely. It's a good distinction. At a personal level, I would agree with you in terms of how to label the core of that group.
But generally, for the purpose of the debate, and for activism, these are unhelpful terms because they're always used as a negative.
When I hear labels like 'fascist' but also 'populist', for example, in mainstream discourse…
ASTERIS: Populist doesn't mean anything!
MEHRAN: Exactly. 'Populist' is what the Establishment calls you when it doesn't like what you're saying. So how is it useful?
There's this guy Cass Mudde. I don't know if you've read his work…
ASTERIS: I know of him.
MEHRAN: He writes the same article all the time and changes the words. About how this is populism, that government is populist and that person is populist. It's meaningless; it's not good for the debate.
I'm not legitimising the actions of anyone he's labeling populist. I'm saying let's retire the term, because no-one is going to think a populist is ever a good thing.
ASTERIS: Here's where I disagree with everyone. I disagree with the strict centrists liberals, like Mudde, on using the term populist. And I disagree with the leftists and the anarchists in the generalised use of the term 'fascist' because as you say, it engages people negatively and makes them own the label.
For instance, the villages that marched to the refugee relocation camps around Greece this last month. Were they all fascist? I don't know.
They were obviously racist. Racist is inherent in every human. You have to fight it all the time. Nobody's non-racist. Everyone has a racist tendency because racism springs from the need to classify things, so you can reflexively react. It's an animistic impulse. But if you start getting to know people for who they are, you can't treat them anymore as part of a genetic group that you despise or suspect. You treat them as human beings, individuals. So for us not to be racist, we would have to be on a first name basis with every human on Earth. You push back racism in yourself all the time, assuming that you want to.
Greek migrants attacked on the island of Lesvos by far right groups. Source: AFP
But I wouldn't characterise all these people protesting the refugee relocations as 'fascist'. I don't do that. I reserve this term for people who have a political platform, to exploit other people.
MEHRAN: You take a lot more care than the average person. It's good, because words are all we have, especially online.
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People Leader Q&As
Accelerating Employee Growth Through Learning & Development Opportunities: Q&A with Joanna Wise, SVP People at Whip Media
Dec 6, 2022| Reading time: 10min
BY Kerrel Brown
Joanna Wise joined Whip Media, an enterprise software platform and data provider to more than 50 of the world's largest entertainment organizations, as Senior Vice President of People in 2021. Joanna also has the distinction of being named a 2nd Annual People Pioneer, honoring her work as a forward-thinking HR<|fim_middle|> has led the effort to build a world-class performance management program that helped the company double headcount and increase engagement. Here's a look at how she did it.
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ChartHop: What are your responsibilities at Whip Media?
Joanna Wise: I oversee all things People at Whip Media globally. In a nutshell, I own the creation, delivery, and effectiveness of all People programs, initiatives, and policies across the employee lifecycle to enhance A-level talent attraction, retention, and development. Since we are a small team, I roll up my sleeves and get my hands dirty in every facet of Human Resources, while also working closely with the entire executive team to help generate ideas, set strategy, outline risks, and implement plans.
CH: You have a unique background in both HR and entertainment. How has that shaped your approach to making Whip Media an attractive place to work?
JW: Whip Media is at the crossroads of technology and entertainment, which is why I felt this organization would be a great fit for me. Being able to blend my experience and learnings from various industries over the past 25 years, and especially working with global entertainment companies like EPIX and MLB, has enabled me to provide a fresh approach and perspective to making Whip Media a great place to work. Plus, loving movies and television doesn't hurt either!
CH: You've implemented a series of initiatives geared towards driving continued learning and development for all employees. Can you tell us more about how you developed these programs and why they're important? How do you see employee development fitting into the overall HR strategy?
JW: I have always been passionate about learning and development, so I was excited to have the opportunity to bring new mentoring and manager development programs to Whip Media. One of our company goals this year was to accelerate employee growth – which gave me the opportunity to expand our current L&D offering and offer innovative employee programs.
The mentorship program was designed to help employees to adapt, grow, and be successful. This is important to help employees identify and achieve career development and personal growth goals that support business objectives, while also building a bench of leaders who have people development skills. The program also fosters higher levels of learning and engagement, equips employees with the tools necessary to perform to their highest capability, and provides opportunities for creating a more inclusive, open, and connected workplace. Lastly, our goal was to promote a culture that sees mentorship as an effective way of developing individuals, sharing new ideas, and creating a shared vision.
For the first time, I used an online platform that allowed employees to build their profile and enabled us to select the best match for their mentoring experience. The platform also provided session agendas and the ability to leave feedback.
When I joined Whip, I spoke with many leaders across the organization and one of the biggest requests was for management training. As part of our commitment to employee growth, and to ensure that our leaders are all equipped with the proper knowledge, skills, and resources to effectively lead people, I launched the Manager Development Program. This program consisted of a DISC assessment and a manager bootcamp, which was a hybrid experience in that there was self-paced learning combined with virtual roundtable discussions. As a global and primarily remote organization, we felt this model worked best to allow all people leaders an opportunity to participate. The Manager Development Program is designed to grow our people managers' self-awareness and competency in key areas of management such as delegating, coaching, navigating difficult conversations, emotional intelligence, setting expectations, as well as giving and receiving feedback.
As we move into 2023, my goal is to continue to expand on L&D at Whip Media and provide additional learning opportunities for all levels across the organization.
CH: Did you see any tangible results as it relates to employee retention since implementing these programs?
JW: For both programs, survey results show that employees felt that the company was investing in their careers and that they gained valuable tools to help them grow.
CH: What were you seeing or hearing from employees that led to creating solutions to mitigate burnout? What did you implement in response?
JW: Given that most of our employees have been working remotely the past 2-3 years, there has definitely been the loss of traditional working hours. It is recognized that employees are working harder and longer, often without being able to set boundaries between work and home.
One of the solutions to mitigate burnout that I implemented this spring was "Focus Fridays." Focus Fridays allow employees to be free of non-essential meetings from 1pm onwards (in their local time zone). This ensures that everyone has a large block of time each week to do focused, heads-down work with minimal distractions. This dedicated time can be used to actually get work done, make headway into never-ending to-do lists, and/or plan for the week ahead, so that we can prevent weekend work and head into the following week with a clean(er) slate. Employees may also opt to carve out time for professional development on Friday afternoons.
CH: What has been the impact on employee engagement as a result of these initiatives?
JW: The general sentiment and impact is that Focus Fridays has been well-received from the top down. Employees tell us they appreciate having an uninterrupted block of time in their schedules to get work done and leave work on Friday afternoon feeling less stressed.
CH: What does being a people-first People leader mean to you?
JW: My HR philosophy for 25 years has always been that your people are your biggest asset. I had a manager many years ago say to me, "Employees should just be happy they have a paycheck," when I simply asked about having fruit delivered to the office once a week. I was immediately appalled by that comment and knew that company was not the place for me – as I was clearly not aligned with that manager's vision for how to lead HR.
That said, I thrive in organizations that prioritize employees first and strive to do the right thing by them. When I was interviewing in 2021, this role at Whip Media spoke to me as the first line in the job description said, "One of Whip's primary objectives is to foster an engaging and fulfilling environment for employees; we believe that is the key to achieving consistently outstanding business results. As Head of People, you will be the organizational leader charged with ensuring that objective is continually met."
I am honored to be a Whipster for the past year, helping to fulfill that mission. I strongly feel that making people your priority will build trust, confidence, and commitment. Being a people-first People leader means you also understand that the importance of employees' wellbeing, both physical and mental, is essential for organizational success and that you take proactive steps to create conditions that allow employees to thrive. That also means encouraging employees to bring their whole selves to work and showing vulnerabilities, sharing experiences, being open, and being transparent about challenges and difficulties.
CH: What advice would you give to other People leaders looking to transition to a more people-first way of doing HR?
JW: HR professionals walk a fine line between being a people advocate and a business advocate – there is no doubt we are 100% there to support both. But to transition to a more people-first way of doing HR, you will need to find a balance with your leadership team and emphasize that the value of the well-being and happiness of employees matters just as much as the bottom line. Depending on the organizational culture, there may be a strong headwind, but start small and celebrate each win as you build trust to do more and more.
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The Secret Show is revealed - an All Boston, All Acoustic show!
- Tuesday, November 27th -
3 Boston Artists, an All-Acoustic Night!
The RSL brings you another great line-up - the Secret Show is revealed!
Eldridge Rodriguez (aka E.R.) is an exceptional and most unique artist – hailing from right here in the city. ER is the singer for Midriff Recording Artists The Beatings and currently also pursuing a healthy solo career. 2007 saw the release of ER's incredible solo debut with "This Conspiracy Against Us." Just weeks ago, Rodriguez released "... And the Thunder Chief" - a remarkable EP album which serves as a bookend to a year in which his music played loudly here in Boston. It's hard not to say good things about ER. Not only is Rodriguez terribly talented and dedicated to his art, he is also supportive of neighboring artists in the Boston music scene.
Eldridge Rodriguez - in his first acoustic-only performance of 2007!
Eldridge Rodriguez - Why I Fear the Ocean
Eldridge Rodriguez - Stillborn in New Jersey
Rodriguez's very special acoustic performance during this evening will be the first time his new songs will be publicly given the un-plugged treatment!
E.R. was selected as an RSL Top Ten for 2007 - Very pleased to have him play for us!
Album Review (the new EP) - Pick this one up!
Tom Thumb is an exceptional Boston singer-songwriter with an impressive pedigree. When living in New York, Tom recorded his debut album, "Songs From Holiday." He played solo for sometime – grinding out his way and he learned the trade. He would return back to New England and formed a band; "The Latter Day Saints<|fim_middle|>The Lilypad in Inman Square, Cambridge
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Tom Thumb - Brilliant and Bostonian
Tom Thumb - Long Time Coming
Tom Thumb - Atlantic City
Tom Thumb is remarkable in his adaptability. He can sing, magically, at a whisper or develop his voice into a howl. A true performer - the sound could be ragged and beaten, or strong and triumphant. This is one show that should not be missed!
Annie Lynch and the Beekeepers are a Boston acoustic alternative folk group comprised of artists from a variety of musical backgrounds. Annie Lynch sounds like an angel with a broken heart. Honest and Beautiful, Lynch's lyrics are married to the music. Together with the Beekeepers – she treats the audience to rich, full stories spelled out in sound. Influences range from modern classicism (think Andrew Bird and the music of Zach Condon's Beirut) to modern folk (Gillian Welch and David Rawlings) to Bob Dylan and the Beatles.
The remarkable Annie Lynch and the Beekeepers
Annie Lynch and the Beekeepers - Dirty Laundry
Annie Lynch and the Beekeepers - Charlotte's Web
Annie Lynch and the Beekeepers have been busy exposing listeners from Nashville to New England with a majestic promise of better days. After just a few moments, you may find yourself growing butterfly wings. Annie has a beautiful, beautiful voice!
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Cooking meals for two doesn't mean you have to stick with leftovers (or meat-based dishes). These easy vegetarian meals — ranging from better-than-takeout Pepper-Only Pizza to Spanish Omelets — will keep you and your partner satisfied. Whether you're gearing up for an impressive at-home date night, or just want to avoid grabbing fast food, these plant-based meals for two are equally healthy and delicious.
"Natural foods" are often assumed to be foods that are not processed, or do not contain any food additives, or do not contain particular additives such as hormones, antibiotics, sweeteners, food colors, or flavorings that were not originally in the food.[40] In fact, many people (63%) when surveyed showed a preference for products labeled "natural" compared to the unmarked counterparts, based on the common belief (86% of polled consumers) that the term "natural" indicated that the food does not contain any artificial ingredients.[41] The terms are variously used and misused on labels and in advertisements.[42]
The word diet first appeared in English in the 13th century. Its original meaning was the same as in modern English, "habitually taken food and drink." But diet was used in another sense too in the Middle and early modern English periods to mean "way of living." This is, in fact, the original meaning of diet's Greek ancestor diaita, which is derived from the verb diaitasthan, meaning "to lead one's life." In Greek, diaita, had already come to be used more specifically for a way of living prescribed by a physician, a diet, or other regimen.
Many people choose to forgo food from animal sources to varying degrees (e.g. flexitarianism, pescetarianism, vegetarianism, veganism) for health reasons, issues surrounding morality, or to reduce their personal impact on the environment, although some of the public assumptions about which diets have lower impacts are known to be incorrect.[3] Raw foodism is another contemporary trend. These diets may require multivitamin supplements to meet ordinary nutritional needs.
Vitamins and minerals are required for normal metabolism but which the body cannot manufacture itself and which must therefore come from external sources. Vitamins come from several sources including fresh fruit and vegetables (Vitamin C), carrots, liver (Vitamin A), cereal bran, bread, liver (B vitamins), fish liver oil (Vitamin D) and fresh green vegetables (Vitamin K). Many minerals are also essential in small quantities including iron, calcium, magnesium, sodium chloride and sulfur; and in very small quantities copper, zinc and selenium. The micronutrients, minerals, and vitamins[16] in fruit and vegetables may be destroyed or eluted by cooking. Vitamin C is especially prone to oxidation during cooking and may be completely destroyed by protracted cooking.[17][not in citation given] The bioavailability of some vitamins such as thiamin, vitamin B6, niacin, folate, and carotenoids are increased with cooking by being freed from the food microstructure.[18] Blanching<|fim_middle|> food that provides more food energy worldwide than any other type of crop.[2] Corn (maize), wheat, and rice – in all of their varieties – account for 87% of all grain production worldwide.[3][4][5] Most of the grain that is produced worldwide is fed to livestock. | or steaming vegetables is a way of minimizing vitamin and mineral loss in cooking.
Wine is a popular and important drink that accompanies and enhances a wide range of cuisines, from the simple and traditional stews to the most sophisticated and complex haute cuisines. Wine is often served with dinner. Sweet dessert wines may be served with the dessert course. In fine restaurants in Western countries, wine typically accompanies dinner. At a restaurant, patrons are helped to make good food-wine pairings by the restaurant's sommelier or wine waiter. Individuals dining at home may use wine guides to help make food–wine pairings. Wine is also drunk without the accompaniment of a meal in wine bars or with a selection of cheeses (at a wine and cheese party).
Texture plays a crucial role in the enjoyment of eating foods. Contrasts in textures, such as something crunchy in an otherwise smooth dish, may increase the appeal of eating it. Common examples include adding granola to yogurt, adding croutons to a salad or soup, and toasting bread to enhance its crunchiness for a smooth topping, such as jam or butter.[82]
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The World Bank reported that the European Union was the top food importer in 2005, followed at a distance by the US and Japan. Britain's need for food was especially well illustrated in World War II. Despite the implementation of food rationing, Britain remained dependent on food imports and the result was a long term engagement in the Battle of the Atlantic.
Wine is an alcoholic drink made from fermented grapes.[1] Yeast consumes the sugar in the grapes and converts it to ethanol, carbon dioxide, and heat. Different varieties of grapes and strains of yeasts produce different styles of wine. These variations result from the complex interactions between the biochemical development of the grape, the reactions involved in fermentation, the terroir, and the production process. Many countries enact legal appellations intended to define styles and qualities of wine. These typically restrict the geographical origin and permitted varieties of grapes, as well as other aspects of wine production. Wines not made from grapes include rice wine and fruit wines such as plum, cherry, pomegranate, currant and elderberry.
Some countries list a legal definition of food, often referring them with the word foodstuff. These countries list food as any item that is to be processed, partially processed, or unprocessed for consumption. The listing of items included as food include any substance intended to be, or reasonably expected to be, ingested by humans. In addition to these foodstuffs, drink, chewing gum, water, or other items processed into said food items are part of the legal definition of food. Items not included in the legal definition of food include animal feed, live animals (unless being prepared for sale in a market), plants prior to harvesting, medicinal products, cosmetics, tobacco and tobacco products, narcotic or psychotropic substances, and residues and contaminants.[158]
^ Barański, M; Srednicka-Tober, D; Volakakis, N; Seal, C; Sanderson, R; Stewart, GB; Benbrook, C; Biavati, B; Markellou, E; Giotis, C; Gromadzka-Ostrowska, J; Rembiałkowska, E; Skwarło-Sońta, K; Tahvonen, R; Janovská, D; Niggli, U; Nicot, P; Leifert, C (2014). "Higher antioxidant and lower cadmium concentrations and lower incidence of pesticide residues in organically grown crops: a systematic literature review and meta-analyses". The British Journal of Nutrition. 112 (5): 1–18. doi:10.1017/S0007114514001366. PMC 4141693. PMID 24968103.
The term "cooking" encompasses a vast range of methods, tools, and combinations of ingredients to improve the flavor or digestibility of food. Cooking technique, known as culinary art, generally requires the selection, measurement, and combining of ingredients in an ordered procedure in an effort to achieve the desired result. Constraints on success include the variability of ingredients, ambient conditions, tools, and the skill of the individual cook.[86] The diversity of cooking worldwide is a reflection of the myriad nutritional, aesthetic, agricultural, economic, cultural, and religious considerations that affect it.[87]
Most food has its origin in plants. Some food is obtained directly from plants; but even animals that are used as food sources are raised by feeding them food derived from plants. Cereal grain is a staple | 1,331 |
Matter is all the stuff around you. It is the food you eat, the air you breathe and the clothes you wear. Even you are made-up of matter. Therefore, you need to know the different types, forms and properties of matter<|fim_middle|> a definite composition and definite properties. Pure substances are divided into two groups: elements and compounds.
Elements are the simplest forms of chemical substances and can not be broken down by ordinary chemical means. Examples would be hydrogen (H), sulfur (S) or gold (Au). The simplest form of an element is an atom.
Compounds are chemical combinations of elements that can be described with a chemical formula and can only be separated by chemical means. Examples of compounds are water, sugar and salt. The simplest forms of a compound are molecules or formula units.
Mixtures are all around you. A salad is a mixture of vegetables, a glass of soda is a mixture of water, sugar and flavoring and air is a mixture of gases like nitrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide.
Mixtures are physical combinations of two or more substances with varying compositions, varying properties and can be separated by ordinary physical processes. Typically, mixtures are divided into two main groups: those that are homogeneous and those that are heterogeneous.
Homogenous mixtures are the same through and do not separate into phases when left alone. Many homogeneous mixtures are solutions that consist of a solute and a solvent. The solute is the material that dissolves and the solvent is the material that causes the dissolving. Solutions are completely dissolved and see through.
An alloy is a solution of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal, where the resulting material has metallic properties. Alloys are usually made to improve on the properties of the elements that make them up. Steel for example, is much stronger than iron, which is its main component.
Heterogeneous mixture s have no definite composition and separate into phases when left alone. Heterogeneous mixtures can be separated by ordinary physical means. Examples of heterogeneous mixtures are blood, Italian salad dressing and soda pop.
Another type of mixture is a colloid. A colloid is a suspension that does not separate because the particles are not completely dissolved and remain suspended causing the mixture to appear cloudy. This cloudiness, called the Tyndall effect, is due to the scattering of light by the suspended particles.
A solution does not scatter light because the particles are at the molecular level and way too small to reflect light. However, the colloidal particles are large enough to reflect light and yet small enough not to settle. The scattering of light from automobile head-lights in fog and of a light beam by dust particles are examples of the Tyndall effect.
Colloids are formed from all combinations of solids, liquids or gases (except mixtures of non-reacting gases which are true solutions). Aerosols, foams, emulsions and sols are different types of colloids. Examples of colloids are shaving cream, whipped cream and gelatin. | .
Matter is anything that has mass and volume. Mass is the amount of inertia in matter and the volume is the amount of space occupied by matter. Inertia is the resistance to change and the greater the inertia the greater the mass.
Many times matter is divided into two categories: pure substances and mixtures. It is important that you can distinguish one form of matter from another so that you can describe the changes you observe.
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2. Global health governance and the fight against HIV/AIDS
3. Living with HIV and dying with AIDS : diversity, inequality and human rights in the global pandemic
By: Doyal, Lesley
5. Preventing HIV/AIDS in young people : a systematic review of the evidence from developing countries
By: Ross, David A
6. HIV/AIDS in Africa
7. HIV/AIDS in Asia
8. Design considerations for evaluating the impact of PEPFAR : workshop summary
9. A revised framework to address TB-HIV co-infection in the Western Pacific Region
10. HIV/AIDS in europe : moving from death sentence to chronic disease management
11. Portě mondiale : comment s'organise la riposte des syndicats au SIDA
12. The Zambia HIV/AIDS project : a case study of participatory design
13. National AIDS Prevention and Control Programme : workplan and budget, April 1991-December 1992
14. How to integrate water, sanitation, and hygiene into HIV programmes
By: Bery, Renuka
15. Guidelines for the programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis : [emergency update 2008]
16. Guidelines for the programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis : emergency update 2008
17. Design considerations for evaluating the impact of PEPFAR : workshop summary
18. Preventing HIV infection among injecting drug users in high risk countries : an assessment of the evidence
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46. Trends and patterns of HIV/AIDS infection in selected developing countries : country profiles, June 1996
47. Partners in prevention : international case studies of effective health promotion practice in HIV/AIDS
48. HIV/AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean
49. The impact of HIV/AIDS on world population
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50. Preparing for the future of HIV/AIDS in Africa : a shared responsibility | inject drugs in Asia and the Pacific : an essential practice guide
21. Monitoring equity in access to AIDS treatment programmes : a review of concepts, models, methods and indicators
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22. Safe, voluntary, informed male circumcision and comprehensive HIV prevention programming : guidance for decision-makers on human rights, ethical and legal considerations : June 2007
23. AIDS epidemic update : December 2006
24. Orientation on harm reduction : three-hour training course : Participant manual
By: Larney, Sarah
25. Le point sur l'épidémie de SIDA : Décembre 2006
26. Situacíon de la epidemia de SIDA : Diciembre de 2006
27. Systems for delivering HIV/AIDS care and support
28. Universal framework of objectives for HIV/AIDS
29. Evaluation of PEPFAR
30. (Un)covering men : rewriting masculinity and health in South Africa
31. Behavioral research
32. The World Bank's commitment to HIV/AIDS in Africa : our agenda for action, 2007-2011
33. Thirty years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Argentina : an assessment of the national health response
By: Lavadenz, Fernando
34. Strategic approach to the evaluation of programs implemented under the Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde U.S. global leadership against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria reauthorization act of 2008
35. Studies in global crisis : the international AIDS/HIV crisis. Part 1, 1985-1999
36. The global HIV epidemics among people who inject drugs
37. The global HIV epidemics among men who have sex with men
By: Beyrer, Chris
39. PEPFAR implementation : progress and promise
40. Tackling HIV-related stigma and discrimination in South Asia
41. The global | 426 |
Excursion Train in Hutchinson
This train on the trestle in Carey Park in Hutchinson may look unassuming, but there's something very different about it. It's carrying passengers. Including my friend, Greg Holmes.
Lets see what happiness looks like close up...
It has been a rainy day, as you can see on the window, but that has not diminished Greg's fun. Or that of other folks riding the train. I snapped these photos as the train<|fim_middle|> out.
Then I headed to Carey Park and walked up on the levee to get a shot of the train as it passed over the Arkansas River. (That's pronounced "R-Kansas" if you live in Kansas, but it's still "Ark-an-saw" if you live in any of the other states it runs through.)
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According to their website, this excursion train was operated by WATCO companies, Inc., the Kansas & Oklahoma railroad, and the Heart of the Heartlands Railroad Club. Yesterday there was a ride from Wichita to Yoder and back, and today from Wichita to Hutchinson and back. Today's ride is on the K&O's Hutchinson Subdivision (former Missouri Pacific lines) via Maize, Colwich, Mount Hope, and Haven, and Yoder, KS.
I picked Greg up after he had lunch to drive him to his house for a couple of things, then took him back right before the train boarded for the return trip to Wichita. I couldn't resist taking photos and even a video of the train leaving Hutchinson. You can see Greg in the video, including that distinctive jerk when a train starts pulling | 188 |
The Everest or Khumbu region is justifiably the most famous of all trekking and mountain regions. Located in eastern Nepal, the Everest region offers a wide range of trekking experiences. From the Everest Base Camp trek (listed as one of the ten best trips in the world) to treks in remote semi-wilderness areas, there is much to choose from. Khumbu is also the home of the legendary Sherpas. The northen part of this region lies within the Sagarmatha National Park, which was established to protect the fragile ecosystem of the alpine region. To the east of the Sagarmatha National Park is the Makalu-Barun National Park, a remote and wild stretch of mountain peaks and deep,<|fim_middle|> these regions are elusive, so keep an eye out for mountain goats (most common are the Himalayan tahr) and if lucky, you may chance upon the rare musk deer or the common barking deer in the forest.
The best time to trek in this region is from October to November and from March to May which are peak season time. At these times, the weather is mild and generally dry, making walking conditions ideal. The spring season brings out the wild flowers, particularly the rhododendrons, while the autumn season is generally good for clear mountain views, as the air at this time is crystal clear.
Winter treks are possible but risky particularly in late winter as chances of snow are high and passes may be closed at short notice as snowfall cannot be accurately predicted. Teahouses also may be closed for the winter. The summer/monsoon period is generally unsuitable for trekking as the trails are slippery, leeches abundant and mountain views are unpredictable. However, it can be a rewarding time if these drawbacks can be tolerated, as the wild flowers are at their best around this time and the fact that there are fewer tourists encountered on the trails is an added advantage.
Accomodation: 4 nights hotel, 15 nights camping
Price: US$2,295 | densely forested valleys. To the west is the Rolwaling valley, a well protected microcosm of cultures. The southern part is less frequented by tourists but could be a very rewarding destination in its own right. Mount Everest naturally is the major attraction here, but there are other 8,000 meter peaks in the region such as Lhotse, Cho Oyu and Makalu besides the many lesser peaks which are no less stunning. There's more to Khumbu than just mountains. The stark beauty in the form of glacial lakes, resplendent rhododendron forests, native flora and fauna, charming villages and ancient Buddhist monasteries all add up to make this region an irresistible tourist destination.
Access to the Everest region is generally by air or on foot as the road head stops at Jiri which is 8 to 10 hours by bus from Kathmandu. An alternate route is a trek via the Arun valley where the road head is at Basantapur. These are no tourist buses to these destinations hence taking the local bus is the only option. Buses to Jiri leave from the old bus park in central Kathmandu. For the alternative route, buses leave from the Gongabu Bus Park for Hile, from where there are local buses to Basantapur.
By air, the most popular destination is Lukla which has daily flights leaving from Kathmandu. The other option is to fly up to Phaplu air strip, which is also served by daily flights from the capital city. This is ideal for treks in the southern parts of the region or for Everest trekkers who want to take their time acclimatizing.
Permits and Fees
As long as trekkers refrain from climbing up mountains, no special trekking permits are required for visiting this area. An entry fee paid before entering the Sagarmatha National Park is all one needs to pay and this can be taken care of at the National Park desk in Exhibition Road Kathmandu. However for treks to the east of the main Everest trail, an addition permit is required to enter the Makalu-Barun National Park obtainable from the same location in Exhibition road, Kathmandu. Visitors must also carry a TIMS card when they enter this national park.
The heart and soul of the Everest region is the Sherpas. This is their heartland and their cultural influence is seen everywhere; in their traditional costumes to their distinctive houses and village monasteries. There are also minorities of various other groups, notably Rais, Limbus and Tamangs in the lower hills and the Brahmin and Chhetri farmers in the valleys.
The region ranges in altitude from less than 2000m above sea level at Jiri to the high peaks of the Himalaya at over 8000m. Hence the flora and fauna is diverse with dense forest of pine, oak and the flowering rhododendrons up to 4000m. The latter are one reason to make a trip to Nepal in the spring when the hills between 2000 and 3500 m are a riot of colors.
Wildlife seen here is mostly in the form of birds including the national bird of Nepal-the Impeyan Pheasant, (danfe in Nepali), which is quite commonly found around Namche Bazaar. Other notable birds include the ravens and crows of the middle hills and the coughs which soar to seemingly impossible heights in the mountains. Look out for flocks of snow pigeons wheeling about the hillsides.
Land animals in | 737 |
the limits of your research (in other words, what you are not going to be investigating<|fim_middle|> developing practice-based questions and using PICO and SPICE are available in the unit on searching. | ).
It is important that you establish a research question at, or close to the start of, your project. It is one of the key tools you have, to ensure that your project keeps going in the right direction. Every task you undertake should begin with you checking your research question and asking "will this help me address this question?".
You should be willing to revise your research question as you find out more about your topic. You may discover that the data you were hoping to analyse is not available, or you may find a new piece of information or concept while undertaking a literature search, that makes you rethink the basis of your research question. You should always talk to your supervisor before you make any substantial revision to your plans, and explain why you think you need to make the change.
This sets out your research field but does not frame a research question because it is too general. You do not have time to study everything about a topic, so you should focus on an aspect that interests you.
This is a much better question as it establishes an argument (existence of public transport may have some influence on new housing development). However, it is still quite general and could be improved by further focus.
More information on | 243 |
I took this random ministry pic at Emmanuel Bible Camp in Prince Edward Island when we were there in<|fim_middle|> on the follow up, please post them here. | August of last year. That feels wierd saying last year, but I guess it was the summer of 2005. A group of about 150 christians, including Hayley, myself, Veronica, Lukas, Sylas & Olivia gathered at camp, which served as "home base" for our mission...an amazing feat for Jesus...distributing 50,000 Seed Sowers packages, effectively getting HIS words out to cover the entire province...like the dew! Our assistant in the picture, Matt Cote, is showing us the map that was on the wall at the camp. The map shows Prince Edward Island and each town and village as it was completed. Props to Bob Magregor for the hours he spent working on the logistics and photocopying maps of PEI for each team. Matt is pointing to where the camp is located. It was quite the journey of faith for us, trudging mile after mile from mailbox to mailbox. Special thanks also to the assemblies in PEI who helped in so many ways, as well as Don Cox from Quebec for organizing the outreach. Please continue to pray for the people who received these texts, and for the churches in PEI to continue to reach out! May Jesus get the glory! If anyone from PEI has updates | 268 |
It has a beautiful color on the outside, the banana flavor is just right, and it's super moist….. it's everything you want in a banana bread.
This is my friend Sarah's recipe. Lately, she has been making this bread for my friends and me. Every time she<|fim_middle|> hour and 10 minutes. I turned the bread halfway through baking. Bread is done when a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Let the bread cool in the pan for 10 minutes before turning it out onto a cooling rack. Enjoy ! | makes it, I'm amazed at how perfect it is. I finally begged her to come over one afternoon and bake it with me. So now that I have the recipe, I can share it with you….. and your search for the best banana bread is over.
Banana bread is just one of those classic treats that everyone loves. Plus, it's super easy to make. I always love to whip up a loaf whenever I have overripe bananas. It's perfect to have for breakfast or like us, with our afternoon coffee. You must try this bread sliced and toasted……so good!
1)This is the loaf pan Sarah uses.
2)I love the sliced banana on top it adds extra moisture to the bread.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a loaf pan with cooking spray.
In a large mixing bowl cream together the softened butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs one at time. Add in the dry ingredients; beat well. Mix in mashed banana and vanilla.
Pour the batter into prepared loaf pan, arrange the sliced banana on top and then sprinkle with brown sugar. Bake in preheated oven for 1 | 236 |
Watch your account grow up as your child does. Life milestones are the perfect opportunity to start, ramp up your saving, see how your account is doing, and take advantage of the Ugift® features on your account. The more you stay on top of it, the more successful your account will be.
Open a 529 account using your own Social Security number as the beneficiary—you can shift it into your baby's name when his or her Social Security number is issued.
Suggest contributions along with your shower gifts by sharing your unique Ugift code.
Choose an investment portfolio or options and start building your plan.
<|fim_middle|> great time to share your Ugift code to suggest that gifts come as contributions to college savings.
Plan ahead to pay tuition well before due dates to avoid school-imposed late fees or being bumped from classes for non-payment.
Get the lay of the land for making withdrawals and paying tuition. Do you want to pay an account withdrawal directly to the college, to your bank account, or to your beneficiary? How does the college accept payments?
Make sure your withdrawals match qualified higher education expenses.
Be sure your withdrawals take place the same year you pay for college expenses.
Keep detailed records of college expenses and corresponding withdrawals for tax purposes.
Any remaining funds can be applied to future educational needs of the current beneficiary, including graduate school, or they can be transferred to another family member.
Consider keeping your account growing for the benefit of future grandchildren.
If you choose to withdrawal funds for non-qualified expenses, it may come at a cost.
If you're truly finished with your 529 account, it might be time to close it out. | These are busy days (and nights!). It's the perfect time to set up automatic savings (AIP), even as little as $25 at a time.
This is the best time to establish savings goals for the elementary school years.
Did kindergarten cut down your day care costs? Consider shifting that amount into college savings.
Preschool and kindergarten graduation have become big gifting occasions. Don't forget to share your Ugift code with loved ones.
If you haven't already gotten serious about college savings, now is the time. College comes fast, but you still have time to make a significant impact.
Combine your various pools of money earmarked for college savings into one 529 account to maximize tax advantages.
Suggest that family give contributions as birthday, holiday, and special occasion gifts to help meet your saving goals.
By now, college expenses are becoming more clear. Use our tools and calculators to modify your saving strategy based on how much of the total cost you want to save.
If you're not using an age-based plan, this is when to review your investments and make sure you're comfortable with the risk level.
Adjust your contribution amount as your child gets closer to college, especially once they've decided on a school.
High school graduation is a | 254 |
Wylie names grad, former HSU player Madison McAdams new girls soccer head coach
Jordan Hofeditz
The Wylie girls soccer team didn't have to look far to find its next head coach as it brings Madison McAdams back to campus after her time at Hardin-Simmons.
McAdams graduated from Wylie in 2013 and played at Texas Tech as a freshman. She joined the HSU program in 2015 and has been a Cowgirl ever since – first, for the final three years of her playing career and recently as a graduate assistant coach for the team.
And as McAdams was looking to take the next step, the Wylie job became available.
"It just opened up at the perfect time," McAdams said. "I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to stay in Abilene or not and wasn't expecting to start out as a head coach. But the pieces just fell into place with perfect timing. … As soon as I found out (the job) was open I reached out to them and got the ball rolling."
The early interest was mutual between McAdams and Wylie.
"Madison was a name that came up very early on in the process," Wylie head football coach/athletic director Clay Martin said<|fim_middle|> a great job and lead us in that direction."
McAdams' focus going into next season is to build off the groundwork and take the program to the next level.
"My focus going into it is that the girls have a mindset of growth and learning," McAdams said. "I'm going to be learning a lot too. Learning from their years before and learning and we go and, hopefully we can be successful with that. I'm sure we'll take losses at some point, but as long as we stay together as a team and learn from it and grow and show that in the next game, I think that's the most important."
Swim, XC also name new head coaches
The Wylie swimming and diving team and cross country team will also have new head coaches this coming season.
Boys basketball assistant coach Jody Harvey will take over the cross country program.
"I think Coach Harvey will do a great job in that new role," Martin said. "He has a track background, and I think will do a great job leading our cross country program."
Eddie Ortiz was brought back to Texas to serve as the new swimming and diving head coach. Ortiz's coaching background is in track and field, but he was a 10-time NAIA All-American, a six-time individual conference champion and won a team conference championship during his time with the Texas-Permian Basin swim team.
"Eddie was a junior college track and field coach in Kansas, but has an extensive background in swimming, also," Martin said.
Football staff filled out
The Bulldogs also added to their football coaching staff, hiring three high school assistants and three coaches for the junior highs.
Bryan Hill was brought on as the new defensive coordinator as Martin moved from that position to head coach this offseason. Hill went to the University of Texas and has coached at Wayland Baptist, Midwestern State, UT and most recently was the safeties coach at South Florida.
"Just through a mutual friend, was able to get in touch with Bryan and bring him in early on," Martin said. "He was going to be here for spring football. We've gotten to spend a bunch of time together and he's hit the ground running and has done a great job getting us started with the sport-specific work."
Wylie added Throckmorton native and HSU grad Braxton Oliver to coach receivers and former Albany standout Jordan Morales was also brought on.
Ryan Cox, Charlie Boling and Darius Brooks will coach at the junior high level.
Jordan Hofeditz covers Abilene high schools and colleges, Big Country schools and other local sports. Follow him on Twitter at @jhofeditz. | . "Someone that was interested and entering the education field and had a lot of experience, not only playing, but also coaching soccer. She was someone we brought in early on and was a candidate we felt like would be a great fit to the school and the soccer program."
Along with her time assisting at HSU, McAdams has spent three years coaching at the club level. First, as an assistant with the Abilene Soccer Club and the last two as the head coach for the 05 girls team with the merged FC Dallas West Texas.
"When I got to Hardin-Simmons and started working under Coach (Marcus) Wood is when I really realized how much I loved coaching," McAdams said. "And then I coached club soccer for the past few years, just helping me gain experience and realize that that's what I want to do for as long as I can."
Wood has been the head coach at HSU for 20 years, winning over 350 career games, 17-straight American Southwest Conference tournament championships and the 2010 national championship.
He has worked with McAdams as a player and a coach.
"Maddie and her family have been a part of our soccer community for over a decade," Wood said. "It is a win for the soccer community to have Maddie McAdams coaching the Wylie Bulldogs ... I have coached Maddie and I have worked with her. I know her to be hardworking and a servant-leader. She will be a positive life force for the members of the Wylie soccer team."
As a first-time head coach, the familiarity of soccer in the area, the players and their families will be a benefit for McAdams.
"I still have a lot to learn, it's going to be a challenge, but I think it helps a lot and gives me some confidence going into it," McAdams said. "I know a good amount of the players, too, I've coached them at one point or another. Already having that relationship started is better than starting from scratch. I feel ready for the challenge, but confident that it will work out."
The Wylie girls soccer team went to the Region I-4A finals, but have been unable to replicate that success in Class 5A. After missing out on the playoffs last season, the Lady Bulldogs were set to make their first 5A playoff appearance this year before the season was canceled.
"That's the goal with all our sports, to be competitive across the board," Martin said. "I think that our soccer program is in a situation where it's poised to take that step up and make that jump. I think she's going to do | 552 |
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ComEd has proposed a West Central Reliability Project, which includes the installation of a new 138kV electric line from its Bartlett substation to its substation in Itasca. The village is aware of the project and has been involved in working with a coalition of local government officials to discuss the project with Com Ed. Concerns initially identified by the village include the visual appearance of the lines and poles, the potential impact on the airspace around the Schaumburg Airport, and the potential impact on fireworks at Boomers Stadium.
ELECTRICAL AGGREGATION PROGRAM
The village recently approved a new agreement with Dynegy Inc. for the electrical aggregation program which will run from December 2018 through December 2021 at a rate of 7.487 cents per kWh. There is no cost for enrollment and you will not be charged a switching fee. Click here for details on the Electrical Aggregation program.
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Avery Elle: Welcome to Avery Elle's October/November Blog Hop!
Welcome to Avery Elle's October/November Blog Hop!
Welcome to Avery Elle's October/November Blog Hop! We hope to show you some fun and inspiring ways to use our newest stamp sets today. Be sure to scroll all the way to the bottom of this post for our hop and giveaway details.
Let's get to the hop shall we? I created this card using our new Build A Banner stamp set & die, Winter Wreath stamp set and the Laurels Stamp set & die. I used the new Cheers wine tag die to cut a panel of our Birch Wood Grain Card Stock and one out of red patterned paper. I cut the circle<|fim_middle|>! I can't stop looking at your products!
I follow your fabulous blog by email.
Fantastic release I love the build it up stamps and the fill in the blanks - they give so much room for creativity.
A beautiful blog hop. I love all the holiday themed cards and projects. The wreaths are incredible.
Great release. So many wonderful projects. Thanks.
Already following you on Bloglovin'.
Wow! A great big, beautiful release this time. Thanks for the chance to win!
So excited about this release - all of the stamps are wonderful!
Thank you for the chance to win great stamps.
Also loved Maska' tags, but unfortunately her blog does not support entering comments from my iPad.
Left comments on all the blogs!!! What a great release!
This release is my favorite so far! The design team did an outstanding job!
I love the trees. Let it SNOW!! | section off the top of both tags and trimmed the side edges of the Birch card stock so that when stacked together it created a mat. I used an acrylic block with a grid to line up and stamp my two-toned banner and it was SO easy. I love that!!
To celebrate our October/November Release Blog Hop, Avery Elle is giving away a $25 Gift Certificate to one random winner. To enter to win just comment on this post. There is no purchase necessary and you must be 18 years of age or older to enter. This giveaway is void where prohibited. You can also do options 2, 3, 4, 5 or all 6 of the following to increase your chances of winning. You have until midnight Sunday, September 29th to enter. The winner will be announced on the Avery Elle Blog on Monday, September 30th . All products are available for purchase in the Avery Elle store right now.
Thanks for stopping by to take a peek and for all of your enthusiasm this week. Have a great day!
Incredibly fun product. Love those banner possibilities and the teensy pine cones! Just placed an order over at SSS.
I'm in your Flickr group too!
wow totally fabulous BLOG HOP and fabulous RELEASE..
AWESOME new release! LOVE LOVE LOVE all the fun new stamps - and the gorgeous sequins and that new cardstock!
I'm a follower on Pinterest!
Fantastic new stamp sets. he banner possibilities are amazing and I love the wreath set! Thanks for a wonderful hop.
what an AMAZING release!! wow!! and all of the layers on your card are so wonderfuk! i LOVE that banner with the sentiment stamped on it! gorgeous!
Wonderful new release. Love both the stamps and the dies.
Yay! Love it all!!! Great release!
I'm also a Flickr member!
What a fun release. I especially like Let It Snow and Fill in the Blank. September 30th is my anniversary. Wouldn't some free Avery Elle stamps be a great gift :-) Thanks for the chance to win!!
I already follow your Pinterest board.
A wonderful release, love the images!!
I follow your blog through feedly!!
I'm a member on Flickr too!!
Awesome new release...gotta go shopping now!
I love love love blog hops and the opportunity to win! i also am loving all these stamp sets!
I am part of the flickr group!
I already belong to your FLickr group.
Congrats on a great release, Jamie! I couldn't be more impressed with these new stamp sets and dies...LOVE everything! Love your card, too...the perfect pairing from these sets!
I follow Avery Elle on Blog Lovin' and I'm a member on Flickr!
Wow, fun new stamp sets. I love them!
Such an amazing release - love EVERYTHING!
Eeeeek! What a fabulous release! Almost everything went straight on to my wish list and I'll be purchasing very soon!!
I'm absolutely love everything and want it all! So excited about this release.
I'm already a follower on Pinterest!
What a fantastic release and lovely card!
Joining my voice to the chorus of "awesome' with this release! Gorgeous products and your card...swoon! Heading to SSS to shop right after hop!
I just love all these designs! Such a fabulous release! Can't wait to hop and see all the creations on the blogs!
I'm already a follower of the blog!
This release has some fantastic products. Can't wait to get them into my hot little hands.
What an amazing release! Love everything so my wish list has instantly grown!
Wow! These new products look FANTASTIC!!! What an awesome release!!!
Super cool release! Loving Let it Snow and Laurels, awesome sets!
Great Blog Hop. Looks like a fun release to play with.
I love the new release! I think my favorite is the wreath set!!!
great release!! love the wine set and all of the florals!
I follow your blog through Bloglovin!
Loving the products in this release!
Wow! This is a pretty awesome release. Those birch trees are beautiful and I can't wait to get the new texture tiles. I ♥ my texture tiles!
Another fabulous release! Love your creation with the banner set!
Pinterest? Not only am I a follower, but I created my own Avery Elle board with some of my favorite Avery Elle projects.
Great release. Love the card.
I am a member on your Flickr Group. Great release.
Oh my, there are too many gorgeous things in this release! My wishlist is overflowing!
Wow, I just love this new release!!! Can't wait to get my hands on them.
Beautiful cards and am so excited about all the new releases and can't wait to get my hands on them!!
Already follow your blog, thats how I found out about these brilliant new releases!!
So pretty! Love the new products.
Wonderful release! There are definitely some must haves for me here!
Oh, my!! Everything is so gorgeous and the birch stamps are stunning!! So exciting!
First time to visit! So much fun to discover a new company! Your designers are very creative! Thank you.
Loving everything I see... Best release yet!
I'm a huge fan of the wine tag!
My fave along the way was JJ's Fun card!
You're designs are awesome. Love the way you can put them together like a puzzle.
I just love everything about this release! I want it all!
I am a fan on FB and shared!
Great blog hop. Great stamps and dies. thanks for having the hop and offering a prize.
Your team did a terrific job, as always! You are creating beautiful crafting supplies faster than I can afford them all! LOL! Terrific release!
Those banners are calling my name! What a great release!
Following on fb and shared!
Gorgeous card and great release!!
What a fun releases! Love the Laurel's set!
I follow AE on Pinterest!
I like AE on FB.
I LOVE this release. There are so many things I have added to my wish list.
I follow by email and by Google.
Super fabulous release | 1,268 |
Volume 29, Number 7 - JULY 1999
Kurt Kiesow, KF6QNC will speak on APRS.
We had a speaker on this topic a while ago<|fim_middle|> Day activities I missed most was conversing with Father Wence. We lost him since last Field Day and none of the Fathers came over to talk with us. Father Wence was in China when the Japanese invaded during WW II. Everyone has a period of history and that was part of mine. How many other stories do the priests have? | , but it is time for a refresher. It works like this: Take one ham and attach him to a Geopositioning device, computer and a transceiver. Send the ham out running around in circles. Track the ham by way of the Internet and APRS software which displays the location of the ham on a map on your very own computer.
APRS WEB Sites:
aprs.rutgers.edu - Download site for APRS info and Software.
www.tapr.org
www.aprs.net
www.cave.org/aprs
The following web site is used to track someone with APRS where you know their callsign, like Andy Fu, AC6GN or Chris Verbil, N5CV.
maps.aprs.net/callsign (where callsign is the callsign of the person you want to track)
Information source: Howard, KE6PWH
WILKES LATE WITH NEWSLETTER AGAIN
Sorry about that, I got my weeks mixed up. If I hadn't run into Arv at Haltek, this newsletter would have come out next week.
Field Day was a success after a lot of hard work by the few who participated. We were sadly lacking in operators and loggers.
The new transceiver has been installed at the club station and we encourage club members to get checked out and operate the station.
We are going to be operating the club station in some of the other contests and the purpose of this is to train club members in the operation procedures during contests. This will give you a chance to operate the club station and to learn about contesting.
It is time for club members to start thinking about who you want as officers for next year. We always come up to election time and have a difficult time finding those who are willing to help lead the club.
Some members have served and served and really have done more than their share and it is time that those of you who haven't served to be willing to lend a hand.
APPARENT S-METER ANOMALIES
The 145.230 repeater S-Meter has generated a lot of interest and controversy. I recently heard some interesting S-meter reports. One person who was testing first got an S5 reading then on the next test he got S9. This is an apparent 4 S unit change. As each S unit is 6 dB, that would seem to be a 24 dB increase in power entering the repeater receiver. If one were using a 2.5 watt HT, 24 dB up would mean the person was running an amplifier with 628 watts out. While this IS possible, it is not likely.
There are several other possible explanations. Remember that while the repeater's S-meter is calibrated to respond to an analog input, the controller's output is digital. One can envision this as a set of stairs going up, each step of which is 6 dB (one S unit). Superimposed on this stairway is a smooth curve of the analog signal. Ideally, the analog signal will touch the stairs at the corner of each step. If the initial S5 reading were near the top of one step, say only 1/2 dB below, and the S9 were just above (say 1/2 dB above) the S9 stair step, then instead of a 24 dB increase, there would really be only a 13 dB (two steps at 6 dB each plus two 1/2 dB steps) change. 13 dB above 2.5 watts is ~= 49.9 watts. 50 Watt amplifiers are a lot more common on two-meters than 628 Watt amplifiers.
One other logical explanation assumes that the S5 was obtained with an HT putting out only 200 milliWatts. Some of the new shirt-pocket HTs have the capability to select a very low power output. One 523 repeater user puts out only 50 mW into a good antenna which results in an almost complete quieting of the repeater receiver. Assuming a true 24 dB change, 24 dB above 200 mW is ~ = 50 Watts which is well within the normal range of many amplifiers.
Heard on the repeater recently, a mobile station at rest was testing using the S-meter. This station said that they varied the power setting on his radio from 5 Watts to 50 Watts and the S-meter gave the identical reading at both extremes and at several levels in between. His conclusion: "I guess the S-meter isn't working". What might have been happening there? OK, one could say that the S-meter was not working, but that response was thrown out by other stations testing and obtaining reasonable reports. There are several other possibilities, however. Just because one switches a radio from low to medium to high power does not mean that the radio is in fact changing power levels. I remember checking one HT which had multiple power settings with a through-line wattmeter connected to a good dummy load. Changing the power level switch had NO effect on power output Conclusion: the Power Level switch on the HT was not working.
In a mobile installation there are other possibilities. With the engine off, a weak car battery will experience voltage drop as more current is taken from the battery. In this scenario, with the radio in the low power position, the battery voltage may be 12 volts. At the 50 Watt position, the 10 Amps or so drawn by the radio to put out that amount of power could cause a weak battery to output only 10.5 to 11 volts. Thus the radio is not really putting out 50 Watts even when the switch is in the 50 Watt position.
A similar situation would exist if the car motor were running and a new car battery were installed, but the connection to the to the battery were though the cigarette lighter and/or there were even a small resistance contact somewhere between the battery and the DC going into the radio. At a current of 10 Amps, it would take only 0.1 Ohm resistance to drop one volt between the battery and the rig. Yet this could significantly affect the rig's power output.
Keeping in mind the stair-step analogy above, switching from 5 Watts to 50 Watts should yield a 10 dB gain in signal strength, or one and two-thirds S units. But the controller does not report in thirds of an S unit. The signal has to at least be at or over the next step to read the next S unit. So, if everything were working properly, a change from 5 to 50 Watts output should cause a 1 S unit change in reading. How far would power have to drop not to hear any change? If we assume that at 5 Watts output, the signal at the repeater was just barely above the S5 level, the signal could rise 5.5 dB and still not read an S6. 5.5 dB above 5 watts is: 17.74 Watts. (17.74 / 5 = 3.548 and 10 x log 3.548 = 5.5 dB).
There are other possible causes of apparent S-meter anomalies. Some examples: if one were using an HT to drive an amplifier and both were being powered from the cigarette lighter outlet, if the current taken by the amplifier were causing the voltage to the amplifier to be low, the voltage to the HT would also be low. Even if the HT is operating on internal batteries, how well is the internal battery holding up (over the duration of the test) at 5 Watts out of the HT? If one is using an HT to drive a Class C amplifier, but the HT is on low power, there may not be sufficient drive to the amplifier to have it produce full output.
So what is the answer? For starters, IF the S-meter is not responding the way you expect, monitor the voltage actually going into the back of your rig, whether at home or in the car. (Beware of possible RF effects on any voltmeter using semiconductors. One may have to use an analog meter in series with an appropriate resistor to obtain an accurate reading in the presence of RF.) As we have seen above, even a small resistance somewhere between the power source and your radio could be the problem. Second, attach a power meter at the output of your rig and measure actual change in power output as the power level switch is changed for one level to the next. Chances are that if the S-meter is not changing S unit levels, that the rig is not putting out enough power to cause it to change.
I did an Internet search for newsletter input and was pleased to find the above by one of our very own was the most interesting this month.
Proposed APRS Satellite Some of the nations APRS leaders have been doing conceptual studies for a small nano satellite for relaying APRS status position packets from stations in remote areas and off shore. This, according to an internet posting by the father of the mode Bob Bruninga, WB4APR. According to Bruninga the biggest problem has been designing the system to be optimize for mobiles while mitigating the interfering signals from all the fixed operations on a given radio channel. But says WB4APR the job is not as difficult as first thought. This is because 90% of the North American population located on 20% of the land is already covered by the APRS infrastructure. This means that a dedicated APRS satellite need only supply coverage in the remote 80% land mass. This is because the remote 80% comprises only 10% of the population. This means interference is minimal where satellite relay is needed the most as the remote mobile will be hearing nothing else on the channel since he is far from any other stations. This means an almost 100% chance at hearing the downlink. Bob says that this makes a flying simplex digipeater operating a perfectly viable space satellite application for North America and surrounding off-shore areas. The satellite would be silent over the rest of the world if its operating frequency is not available in order to abide by international agreements. No firm plans for an APRS satellite are in place. It's only in the very beginnings of a discussion phase.
(AMSAT BBS, VHF Reflector)
Kids Day Follow Up The June 19h Kids Day operating event was a bigger success than anyone might have imagined. Hams around the nation heeded the call and gave many of the nations youngsters their first look at the magic world of Amateur Radio. And the world was listening in as we learn from Australia's Graham Kemp, VK4BB: Kids Day on June the 19th showed off Ham Radio to the next generation. Kids Day was started by Larry Tyree, N6TR under the auspices of the Boring Amateur Radio Club in Oregon. During a January running of Kids Day more 400 youngsters took part at a fun on the air event that has grown tremendously popular in the last few years. Much like JOTA, but open to all kids. World Radio editor Rick Mc Cusker, WF6O of Sacramento, California printed brochures about Kids Day and distributed them in his neighborhood. He then threw a barbeque to feed the kids when they stopped by to make some QSO's. And Rick Painter of Tennessee had a similar notion. He invited a church youth group for pizza, soda and ice cream, plus a chance to step up to the golden microphone at the Kids Day Radio Party. This was the last Kids Day of the 20th century. The next one is not that far away. It's slated for January, 2000.
DX In DX, 6 meters continues to conjure up images of 20 meters on that bands very best DX days. For example, Ed Rodigez, WP4O in Puerto Rico reports that he now contacts Europeans on a regular basis. Some of the stations Ed worked on June 16th include G0JHC, EI5FK, F5JK and ON4ST. Ed says that he worked all of these and more running CW to a four element quad antenna up only fourteen feet. (VHF REflector) And even one of the Newsline staff is getting into the 6 meter DX craze. On Monday, June 14th, our producer Bill Pasternak was at work where they had just connected a newly installed 5 element Cushcraft 6 meter beam to the stations Kenwood TS 570 S transceiver. Bill gave a call on 50.125 MHZ and immediately made contact with N2ODU who gave his location as being about 50 miles South of Buffalo, New York. This took place at about 02:00 UTC with signals at 5 by 9 plus on two way SSB. (Newsline) So if we may editorialize to all the Technician and Technician Plus class hams sitting on repeaters and hoping that some day restructuring of Amateur Radio will permit them to chase DX on the high frequency bands. The DX is already there for you on 6 meters. Your current Tech license, a 6 meter radio and an antenna is all you need to bring that very special DX to you.That OTTER Radio Hunt And finally, we all know that here in the United States hidden transmitter hunts are often called Fox Hunts or even Bunny Hunts. But what about a hidden transmitter hunt that takes place on water? According to John Arsay, VK4QA, that's what the Dutch call an Otter Hunt. Here's John with more: Today one should be in the Netherlands for an fascinating experienced as VERON is organizing the fourteenth OTTER Hunt. We all know about fox hunts or, to use its proper name, radio direction finding games. The Dutch, of course, want to be different so they started the Otterhunt, It is held near the old Zuyderzee, now called IJssel Lake, in a place called Meppel. It is a pretty wet area and the fox, sorry, the otter can only be hunted by boat'. The hunters can chase an Otter on two meters or on eighty meters or, if 'they are really keen, can try to locate both otters, using two receivers at the same time. Various boats are available for hire if you don't own one yourself. These hire boats vary from a motorboat driven by an electric motor to one man canoes but they don't say how many rescue vessels there will be on the water! It will be a very busy period as one has to locate not one, but five hidden transmitters, each transmitter point having both a two meter and eighty meter unit. To make things morn interesting or, should I say, more difficult, extra points will be awarded to those hunters who manage to accurately indicate on their maps the location of the found otters.' And to make things more interesting again, a questionnaire must be completed covering the natural habitats of the area around the Otters! If you think that the Otter Hunt is different, how about a T-Hunt in the air. The Dutch are doing that too. That story, next week.
The Amateur Radio Newsline web page is at: www.arnewsline.org. According to our Support Fund Administrator, Andy Jarema, Newsline has received only enough financial support to keep the service going though mid July. In other words, the bills from May have been paid, but now money has to be raised to keep from losing the phones and e-mail service in mid summer. We also need to raise an additional $1500 to cover our part of the expenses involved in administering and presenting the annual Young Ham of the Year Award. picture
This was our site. The HF antenna is in the middle with the VHF antenna on top. The VHF station was in the screened canopy on the right. Behind the canopy was the truck with the HF station. The CW station and picnic area were across the field in the left background and the RTTY station was over the hill behind the CW station.
Some people worked very hard to make contacts. Virginia and her husband came down from Oregon just for Field Day.
So did some others (Note: Get placement fee from 7-UP). Here are Dennis and Charley at the Novice/Tech station. Goal for next year: Get some Novice CW operators. After going through the available voice contacts, there was nothing left except CW.
But then some other people.......... Just kidding. These people and others worked very hard to make Field Day a success.
Paul, Jack, Martin, and Arv take a break after erecting towers (To Hell with the Telecommunications Act).
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Mathematical Treasure: Thomas Simpson's Miscellaneous Tracts
Sidney J. Kolpas (Delaware County Community College)
Thomas Simpson (1710–1761) was a prominent British mathematician. The son of a weaver from whom he was estranged, he studied mathematics informally and became a teacher at age 15. His first work, A New Treatise of Fluxions (1737), was self-published and solved several questions recently proposed involving infinitesimal calculus. Despite Simpson's self-taught background, the volume contained many astronomical and mathematical applications and provided the<|fim_middle|> of his paper was that Simpson chose to focus "not on the observations themselves . . . but on the errors made in the observations, on the differences between the recorded observations and the actual position of the body being observed. . . . [This] was the critical step that was to open the door to an applicable quantification of uncertainty." [Todhunter 1865] noted, "Simpson was the first to characterize the errors in observations as independent events, taking positive and negative values with equal probabilities, and the first to provide a mathematical expression for the probability that the error in the mean result will lie between assigned limits." The fifth and sixth papers deal with problems using fluxions and fluents (derivatives and integrals) and algebra with reference to Newton's Universal Arithmetic. The eighth paper contains discussions of the third and ninth parts of Newton's Principia as they relate to mechanics and physical astronomy.
Title page of Miscellaneous Tracts, from the collection of Dr. Sid Kolpas.
Showing Advantage by Taking the Mean of a Number of Observations, GoogleBooks.
One of the papers on Fluents and Fluxions, GoogleBooks.
Reduction of Algebraic Equations by the Method of Surd Division, GoogleBooks.
Helfgott, Michel. "Thomas Simpson and Maxima and Minima." Convergence 2 (2005).
O'Connor, J. J., and E. F. Robertson. "Thomas Simpson." MacTutor. February 2005. https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Simpson/.
Stigler, Stephen M. The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900. Cambridge and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1990.
Todhunter, Isaac. A History of the Mathematical Theory of Probability from the Time of Pascal to That of Laplace. Cambridge and London: Macmillian and Company, 1865.
Index to Mathematical Treasures
Sidney J. Kolpas (Delaware County Community College), "Mathematical Treasure: Thomas Simpson's Miscellaneous Tracts," Convergence (December 2020) | first derivative of the sine function. Simpson is best remembered for his numerical method of integration known as "Simpson's Rule" which is usually taught in second-semester calculus; the method itself was due to Isaac Newton, as Simpson acknowledged. In 1750 Simpson published The Doctrine and Application of Fluxions, which many consider the best work on Newton's calculus of the 18th century. An 1805 printing of this work is in Convergence.
Thomas Simpson, Convergence Portrait Gallery.
Miscellaneous Tracts (1757) brings together different research papers done by Simpson. The first three papers deal with problems in astronomy. The fourth paper is the first appearance in print of Simpson's important work on taking the average. This is considered a milestone in statistical inference. Simpson was the first to attempt to prove mathematically that the mean result of several observations is nearer to the truth than any single observation. According to [Stigler 1990] a key feature | 206 |
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FAA continues to predict long-term growth in the nation's skies, despite the current recession, but has pulled back from its forecast that U.S. airlines will carry 1 billion passengers by 2016. "We now believe the industry will reach this mark in 2021," agency officials said<|fim_middle|> the safety, efficiency and environmental needs of the future, the agency said. FAA estimated that the cost of delays currently averages approximately $9.4 billion each year.
© 2020 AAAE | at the annual aviation forecast conference, being held this week in Washington, D.C. AAAE is cosponsoring the conference with FAA.
The agency's 16-year forecast for 2009-2025 predicts domestic passenger enplanements will decrease by 7.8 percent in 2009 and then grow at an average of 2.7 percent per year during the remaining 15-year forecast period. The number of passengers on U.S. airlines domestically and internationally is forecast to increase from 757.4 million in 2008 to 1.1 billion in 2025.
U.S. aircraft operations are predicted to experience a 5.7 percent decrease in 2009 from 2008 levels. Beginning in 2010, the agency said operations will grow at an average annual rate of 1.5 percent for the remainder of the forecast period.
The average size of domestic aircraft is expected to decline by 0.7 seats in 2009 to 120.1 seats, FAA said. Average seats per aircraft for mainline carriers are projected to fall by 0.8 seats as network carriers continue to reconfigure their domestic fleets. While demand for 70-90-seat aircraft continues to increase, FAA said it anticipates the number of 50-seat regional jets in service will fall.
FAA said the downturn in the economy has "dampened" prospects in the general aviation sector as well. "Longer-term, we see growth in business aviation demand driven by a growing U.S. and world economy," the agency said. "As the fleet grows, the number of general aviation hours flown is projected to increase an average of 1.8 percent a year through 2025."
The Next Generation Air Transportation System, or NextGen, is a key to transformation of the ground-based air traffic control radar system of today to a satellite-based system of the future and necessary for FAA to meet | 419 |
The tiny VELOGICAL 3-PHASE GENO and the compact charger FORUMSLADER for VELOGICAL is an extra powerful appliance combination for the energy supply of a Velo-Grid on a bicycle. The charger operates with charging current control for low speed, high speed and a buffering battery.
This combination of 3-Phase generator and charger solves important customer problems with energy supply on a bicycle. The handling is easy, meanwhile the hardware operates in the background. The turbine rotates extraordinary quietly with constant torque at all speeds, thanks to the electronics of the charger.
The innovation is not to be confused with classical bicycle dynamos and follows the technical principles for grids on motorcars, established since the 1970s.
No classical dynamo operating mode permitted, therefore NO connection in parallel of alternating current devices to a 3-Phase Generator, as for example AC dynamo lights !
Use with the FORUMSLADER for VELOGICAL only !
A rim with verical flank or braking surface.
Technically and visually these<|fim_middle|> long, especially over rough terrain. For battery lights, the mounting was the Achilles' heel.
Overall, these earlier experiments with rim dynamos did not perform as well as was desired, because the fundamental problem of frictional resistance at high riding speeds had not been solved. To resolve this problem (high speed drag), simply moving the contact point from the tyre to the rim is not sufficient. Only a complete revision of the side-runner principle can achieve this, as demonstrated by the product shown here. | are fully compatible with all types of hub and all types of brake.
Standard configuration for Randonneurs, long distance racers, commuters including Blue Tooth, FL-App, s. photos above.
! Before installation grease the brass tube / torsion tube and the dynamo borehole with bearing grease by help of a tooth pick.
Don´t wipe away the placed grease on the parts when unpacking !
More questions about the choice of the dynamo bracket?
Brake boss adapter "left fitting"
Brake boss adapter "right fitting"
Provide the diameter of the tube at the location where the dynamo will be mounted (around 30mm below/inside the rim).
direction, give the (largest) diameter in the riding direction.
at right angles to the riding direction is critical."
- WITHOUT bosses for rim brakes and frame lock.
Frame stay adaptor medium 20/32 "left fitting" in driv. dir.
The VELOGICAL 3-PHASE GENO is compatible problem-free with all types of hub, any wheel size and type of tyre, without any restriction of functionality and without any painful extra costs from special adaptations. For special applications we will be happy to advise on cable routing questions. Please contact us.
Behind the development of the products shown above is the Cologne (Germany) based company VELOGICAL engineering GmbH. Was that not what you were expecting? VELOGICAL owner Dipl. Ing. Peter Frieden is by profession a developer of wind energy installations, in particular the wind certified turbine Easywind 6 for off-grid energy supply. These have earned the description "stormproof" because they can carry on producing power, unrestricted, even in a hurricane. Before that Peter Frieden directed the vacuum pump development department at Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum. His product developments, protected by numerous patent applications, have been successfully applied worldwide and are outstanding in both their high efficiency and in their reliability and low maintenance. Currently he is developing high efficiency special products to address as yet unsolved technical problems in cycling.
When it comes to cycling, the VELOGICAL engineering GmbH team combines personal passion with the renowned cycling heritage of Cologne industrial region, with its flagship "Six Day Race" and "Tour of Cologne" on Easter Monday: Germany's oldest cycle road race. Cologne has also been in the forefront of many aspects of energy and its transmission, not least because the world-famous Otto engine, still well known today, was developed here from 1876 onwards.
In 2012, wind power specialist Dipl. Ing. Peter Frieden developed his extremely free-running 'Cologne cyclesport dynamo' under the name COMPACT dynamo, taking his concept to its logical conclusion without compromise.
In the course of researching the product it became clear that the famous French constructeurs (such as Herse, Singer, Daudon) had already investigated rim dynamos in the early 1950s on their touring bikes, using various types of drive wheel. In 1980s, mountain bikers also investigated this system, because of the rough profile of off-road tyres and because heavy battery lights would not stay secure on the handlebars for | 648 |
Disney Movies Anywhere, the cloud-based digital movie service the<|fim_middle|> a very different proposition than what was on offer before. | company launched last year, is adding more partners and devices, including expanding to Amazon Video and Microsoft Movies & TV. Users will be able to buy a digital movie once - from pretty much any digital retailer - and be able to access it on any device, through any service, via the cloud.
In a week, free Disney Movie Everywhere Apps will launch for Roku and Android TV, which Disney says will make the service available to more than 90 percent of the digital retail market. To promote the partnership expansion, Disney Movies Anywhere is offering a free digital copy of Pixar's "Monster's Inc."
Disney is uniquely positioned to sell its films, rather than rent them, because children are more likely to watch films over and over. And Disney has been cautious about how it's offered streaming video - it has a deal with Netflix, but this doesn't kick off until Disney's 2016 feature films run. Disney's home entertainment sales have held up better than the rest of the industry's, thanks to that appeal to parents and the success of massive, must-own hits such as "Frozen."
The DVD market was once a huge money-maker for all the Hollywood studios but digital sales of films failed to supplant that revenue, in large part because it was so hard for consumers to access films on multiple devices after purchasing them, making digital rentals a much more practical proposition.
Plus, when a wide range of movies can be instantly streamed from Netflix without 'owning' anything, it takes a very particular kind of name-brand content, such Marvel's superheroes or the Star Wars epics, to convince people it's worth buying. Disney has that kind of content and it's now trying to show people it can offer the convenience of being able to access a film on any device, in order to make digital purchases worthwhile.
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A very rare lantern clock with original verge pendulum made about 1690 by John Washbourn of Gloucester (working from 1679 - died 1731), the first clockmaker to work in Gloucester, this being the only lantern clock yet recorded by him. Pictured after restoration. SOLD.
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A fine lantern clock made during the Civil War period by 'Richard Beck at ye French Church'. He trained at the celebrated Mermaid in Lothbury, London, under the lantern clock making brothers, John and William Selwood, then under Thomas Loomes. He then worked on his own opposite the French Church in Threadneedle Street from 1653 till his unt<|fim_middle|> form, who died in 1682. SOLD.
Cromwellian period lantern clock with alarmwork with re-converted balance wheel escapement by Robert Robinson of London, who died in the Great Plague of 1665. SOLD. | imely death in 1659 aged only 27. His working life was therefore limited to only six years. Only five clocks are so far recorded by him, this one made originally with balance wheel escapement converted later to anchor. Uncleaned externally in many years but in maintained mechanically. Offered untouched. Lacks weight and pendulum. See two articles: article 1; article 2. SOLD.
An exceptionally rare large lantern clock made about 1655 by Thomas Loomes of the Mermaid in Lothbury, made shortly after he married the daughter of Ahasuerus Fromanteel (1654) and became part of the Fromanteel empire. The frame is of a type uniqe to Fromanteel. This is the only clock yet known by Thomas Loomes with this frame and the only clock yet known by him with a gallery and the only one striking by a hammer on the top plate. The clock was probably made to special order for a wealthy client in mainland Europe, where it was until recently, originally with a balance wheel, later altered in Europe to a front verge pendulum of the 'cowtail' type, then altered later still to anchor escapement and long pendulum. It was also altered anciently to eight-day duration by fitting key-wound wooden-core winding barrels, the only lantern clock I have ever seen with this modification. In all an exceptionally rare clock. SOLD.
A most unusual mid-eighteenth-century French lantern clock in neglected state, the dial engraved for a French Count and with two coats of arms implying the union (engagement or marriage) of two noble armorial families. The lower dial marks quarter hours. A restoration project for someone. SOLD.
A very rare miniature timepiece alarm by Jonathan Lowndes of London having the type of frame used almost exclusively by Joseph Knibb. Original verge pendulum and alarmwork. SOLD.
Charles II period lantern clock by 'Jeremy Gregorie Near the Royall Exchange London', who died in 1686, formerly balance wheel, now anchor. SOLD.
A fine, Charles II period lantern clock of the winged type, with alarmwork, made by Richard Ames of London, with centre verge pendulum, one of the first makers of introduce this | 467 |
BMW M8 GTE extends winning run in the IMSA iRacing Pro Series at Mid-Ohio – first win of the season for Nick Catsburg.
Quarterly Statement to 31 March 2020
Liquidity remains at high level – investments prioritisedQ1 EBIT up due to high provision recorded in previous yearBMW Group updates outlook for Automotive segment EBITQ1: Product mix and pricing policy underpin revenuesProduction to be ramped up according to demandFirm commitment to agreed CO2 targets and Euro 6dZipse: "Business model still future-proof after crisis"
Munich, Germany- May 06, 2020… The BMW Group is well prepared to react swiftly and decisively at all times to new developments during the corona pandemic by systematically identifying potential scenarios. This approach is all the more important given that the BMW Group expects the consequences of the corona pandemic to constrain the operations of the entire automotive industry for quite some time to come. It is also becoming apparent that delivery volumes in key markets are not going to return to normal in the space of just a few weeks<|fim_middle|> -6.4
Motorcycles € million 557 586 -4.9
Financial Services € million 7,598 7,146 6.3
Other Entities € million 1 1 –
Eliminations € million -2,893 -4,484 35.5
Profit before financial result (EBIT) € million 1,375 589 –
thereof: Automotive € million 229 -310 –
Motorcycles € million 72 89 -19.1
Financial Services € million 542 648 -16.4
Other Entities € million 12 4 –
Eliminations € million 520 158 –
Profit before tax (EBT) € million 798 762 4.7
thereof: Automotive € million 80 -27 –
Other Entities € million -344 -58 –
Group income taxes € million -224 -218 -2.8
Group net profit 2 € million 574 588 -2.4
Earnings per share (common/preferred share) € 0.84/0.84 0.85/0.85 -1.2/-1.2
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2 Value for Q1 2019 includes a profit from discontinued operations of € 44 million
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In 2019, the BMW Group sold over 2.5 million passenger vehicles and more than 175,000 motorcycles worldwide. The profit before tax in the financial year 2019 was € 7.118 billion on revenues amounting to € 104.210 billion. As of 31 December 2019, the BMW Group had a workforce of 126,016 employees.
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At the same time, the BMW Group is keenly aware of its responsibility as an employer and as an integral part of society. It promotes the protection and health of its employees and endeavours to strike the best possible balance to ensure the enduring success of the enterprise. The BMW Group is also helping public authorities to procure personal protective equipment, providing vehicles for aid organisations, and has even started producing respiratory masks. Zipse went on to say: "We are doing all we can to leverage our expertise to combat the virus. We are contributing towards protecting public health. At the same time, we are also doing our part to help kick-start the economy and revive public life in a number of countries. Both of these factors are highly relevant and they can only work in unison."
Setting the course at an early stage is paying off
Even in the current situation, the BMW Group's strategic decisions are paying off. It set about meeting currently applicable CO2 targets at an early stage, an important aspect of which was the decision to systematically electrify its model range. With its Performance > NEXT programme launched in 2017, the BMW Group laid the foundations for achieving greater efficiency and stronger operating performance. It has also strategically secured access to the raw materials needed to deliver electric mobility. Since the beginning of the current year, the BMW Group has been procuring the required cobalt and lithium directly and passing those resources on to the suppliers who manufacture battery cells.
At the same time, the BMW Group remains convinced of the importance of focusing consistently on customer needs and therefore on the innovations required to meet those needs as crucial to its enduring success: "We remain focused on investing to enhance our future success. We will continue to electrify our fleet as planned and make no compromises when it comes to highly automated driving. Our iNEXT is designed to provide Level 3 performance on highways. We will also continue to invest in hydrogen fuel cell technology. Furthermore, as a dependable partner within our society, we continue to train young people," said Zipse with emphasis. "In no way does the pandemic call our business model into question. Driven by technology and innovation, our business model will remain future-proof after the current crisis has ended." With these aims in mind, the BMW Group continues to invest in broadening its expertise in key future-oriented fields of technology. By 2025, the Group intends to invest over 30 billion euros in research and development to further establish its role as an innovation leader.
Firm commitment to meeting CO2 targets
The BMW Group continues to work tirelessly to reduce CO2 emissions levels in its new model fleet and is again set to achieve the stipulated CO2 fleet target for new vehicles registered in Europe this year. This is around 20% below last year's target. The Group expects to achieve one third of the required reduction through further improvements to its conventional drivetrain systems and the remaining two thirds by increasing the number of electrified vehicles it produces. The BMW Group's efforts to meet future, mandatory CO2 and fuel consumption limits are therefore based on the combined impact of Efficient Dynamics technologies – which the Group has deployed continuously since 2007 – and the progressive electrification of its fleet. Zipse confirmed: "We remain firmly committed to the CO2 targets agreed within the European Union and to the introduction of the Euro 6d emissions standard. We simply cannot afford to rest on our laurels when it comes to protecting the environment."
As a pioneer of electric mobility, the BMW Group is already a leading supplier of electrified vehicles and currently in the process of expanding its range significantly. By the end of 2021, the BMW Group will be able to offer customers a choice of five all-electric series production vehicles. In addition to the BMW i3, the all-electric MINI Cooper SE* went into production at the Group's Oxford plant (UK) at the end of 2019. This year, production of the BMW iX3 will begin at the Shenyang plant in China, followed in 2021 by the BMW iNEXT and the BMW i4 at the Dingolfing and Munich plants respectively – all of which will be equipped with fifth-generation BMW eDrive technology.
The next generation of the BMW 7 Series will undoubtedly mark a new milestone. The BMW brand's flagship also offers customers the "Power of Choice" and is set to be available with four different drivetrain types: as a highly efficient diesel- or petrol-powered version, as an electrified plug-in hybrid and, for the first time, as an all-electric BEV model, which will also be equipped with fifth-generation electric drivetrain technology. With this combination, the BMW Group is underscoring its aspiration to offer every customer the right technology for more sustainable mobility.
Investing with a sense of proportion – liquidity position remains strong
Again in the first quarter of 2020, the BMW Group incurred substantial upfront expenditure on the road to providing tomorrow's mobility – nevertheless maintaining cost and capital discipline. At € 1,380 million, research and development expenses for the three-month period remained high (2019: € 1,396 million; -1.1%). Capital expenditure on property, plant and equipment and other intangible assets amounted to € 687 million (2019: € 999 million; -31.2%) for the first quarter.
"Our proven strategy of targeted investment with a sense of proportion applies more than ever. In view of the current situation, we will either put certain projects on hold or subject them to further review. We therefore expect to reduce capital expenditure from almost 5.7 billion euros in the previous financial year to less than four billion euros in 2020," said Nicolas Peter, Member of the Board of Management of BMW AG, Finance. "The BMW Group has additionally bolstered its already strong liquidity position by increasing liquid funds to almost 19 billion euros at the end of the quarter. We continue to have the best credit rating of all European carmakers and the second-best worldwide. Our long-term strong creditworthiness enables us to continue benefiting from excellent access to international capital markets."
Over the past three years, the BMW Group has already achieved an excellent starting position with its Performance > NEXT programme. One of the many positive outcomes of this initiative is that development times for new vehicle models have been reduced by as much as one third. On the product side, up to 50% of today's drivetrain variants will be eliminated from 2021 onwards in the transition to creating enhanced flexible vehicle architectures. Moreover, the BMW Group's model portfolio is regularly assessed with a view to finding additional potential ways of reducing complexity. Potential for greater synergy and efficiency in indirect purchasing as well as in terms of material and production costs is also being leveraged throughout the Group. By the end of 2022, the Group intends to save more than 12 billion euros through efficiency-boosting measures.
First-quarter Group revenues up slightly
The BMW Group delivered a total of 477,111 BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce brand vehicles to customers worldwide in the first three months of 2020 (?20.6%). Group revenues increased slightly to € 23,252 million (2019: € 22,462 million; +3.5%) year-on-year. Profit before financial result amounted to € 1,375 million and was therefore significantly higher than the previous year's corresponding figure of € 589 million. However, the result posted for the first quarter of 2019 was negatively impacted by the recognition of a provision for approximately € 1.4 billion in connection with the Statement of Objections received from the EU Commission concerning ongoing antitrust proceedings. Despite a number of significant items of expense recognised within the financial result, the Group profit before tax (EBT) finished at € 798 million, still slightly higher than one year earlier (2019: € 762 million; +4.7%). Items influencing the first-quarter financial result included negative valuation effects arising on interest rate hedges due to lower interest rates in the USA. In addition, a one-time revaluation gain arising on the pooling of mobility services with the Daimler Group had positively impacted other financial result in 2019. The Group's EBT margin for the first quarter came in at 3.4% (2019: 3.4%). Group net profit for the period amounted to € 574 million (2019: € 588 million; -2.4%).
Automotive segment achieves good product mix
Automotive segment revenues between January and March totalled € 17,989 million (2019: € 19,213 million; -6.4%). Positive product mix effects and improved selling prices on the back of the further rejuvenated vehicle range cushioned the impact of the significant drop in volumes. Segment EBIT amounted to € 229 million (2019: negative EBIT of € 310 million), giving an EBIT margin of 1.3 % (2019: -1.6%).
In total, 411,809 BMW brand vehicles were delivered in the first three months of the year (-20.1 %). The MINI brand delivered 64,449 units during this period (?23.4%). Rolls-Royce Motor Cars handed over 853 vehicles (-27.2%) to customers during the first quarter.
In total, 30,692 electrified BMW and MINI brand vehicles were delivered worldwide (+13.9%). "We are therefore well on track for meeting the EU's CO2 targets," pointed out Zipse.
A total of 221,024 (-18.3 %) BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce brand vehicles were delivered to customers in the Europe region during the first three months of the year. In Germany, with a total of 66,004 vehicles delivered, the year-on-year decrease (?8.8%) was less pronounced than that seen across the market as a whole. The number of vehicles delivered to customers in China was down by 30.9% in the first quarter (116,577 units). The trend reversal in March and April is an encouraging sign that points to a market recovery. Similarly, the latest figures from South Korea indicate a move in the right direction. In the USA, the BMW Group sold a total of 64,956 (-17.4%) units during the first three months of the year, of which 59,455 (-15.3%) were BMW brand vehicles.
Motorcycles segment deliveries moderately lower
BMW Motorrad handed over 34,774 motorcycles and maxi-scooters to customers during the first quarter (-9.9%). Segment revenues totalled € 557 million (2019: € 586 million; -4.9%). EBIT declined to € 72 million (2019: € 89 million; -19.1%), giving a segment EBIT margin of 12.9% (2019: 15.2%).
Financial Services segment increases revenues
The retail customer contract portfolio under management within the Financial Services segment grew by 0.5% to stand at 5,516,068 contracts at 31 March 2020 (31 December 2019: 5,486,319 contracts). During the first quarter, 449,687 new credit financing and lease contracts were signed with retail customers (2019: 469,624 contracts; -4.2%). Segment revenues increased to € 7,598 million (2019: € 7,146 million; +6.3%). Profit before tax amounted to € 484 million (2019: € 627 million; -22.8%). A significant reason for the deterioration in earnings was the increased risk provisioning expense recorded in conjunction with the expected consequences of measures taken by governments to contain the corona pandemic.
BMW Group updates target for Automotive segment EBIT margin
The BMW Group sets itself ambitious targets, even in politically and economically turbulent times. However, the uncertainty surrounding the global spread of coronavirus and its consequences makes it difficult to accurately forecast the BMW Group's business performance for the financial year 2020. The BMW Group still expects the spread of coronavirus and the necessary containment measures to seriously dampen demand across all major markets over the entire year 2020.
Against this background, Automotive segment deliveries to customers worldwide in 2020 are expected to be significantly down year-on-year. Consequently, Automotive segment earnings are forecast to deteriorate, particularly in the first half of the year. As announced on May 5th the company has widened the guided range for the EBIT margin of the Automotive segment due to the extremely volatile situation. The company now expects the EBIT margin for 2020 to be within the range of 0% and 3%.
In the Financial Services segment, the number of new contracts is expected to decrease and the refinancing cost to increase. The return on equity is now forecast to drop moderately year-on-year.
Motorcycles segmentdeliveries over the twelve-month period are now expected to be significantly below the previous year's level. The EBIT margin is forecast to be within a range of 3% and 5%.
Taking into account the effects described above, Group profit before tax is predicted to be significantly lower than in 2019.
The workforce will be slightly below the level of the previous year. As already communicated, reductions in staff numbers due to natural fluctuation will be used to manage the workforce size. Under the current circumstances, all new recruitment will be considered very carefully.
The updated guidance does not, in particular, include, a longer and deeper recession in major markets, a more severe economic slow-down in China as a result of recessions in other parts of the world, significant market distortions due to an even stronger competitive environment and possible implications caused by a second wave of infections and associated containment measures. The BMW Group continues to monitor further developments closely and is well prepared to take any necessary measures at short notice.
*:Consumption and emission data:
MINI Cooper SE: fuel consumption combined: 0.0 l/100 km, power consumption combined 16.8-14.8 kWh/100 km, CO2 emissions combined: 0 g/km
The BMW Group – an overview 1st quarter
2019 Change in %
Deliveries to customers
Automobiles 1 units 477,111 600,614 -20.6
thereof: BMW1 units 411,809 515,297 -20.1
MINI1 units 64,449 84,145 -23.4
Rolls-Royce1 units 853 1,172 -27.2
Motorcycles units 34,774 38,606 -9.9
Workforce (compared to 31.12.2019) 126,155 126,016 0.1
Automotive segment EBIT margin % 1.3 -1.6 2.9 % pts.
Motorcycles segment EBIT margin % 12.9 15.2 -2.3 % pts.
Pre-tax return on sales % 3.4 3.4 –
Revenues € million 23,252 22,462 3.5
thereof: Automotive € million 17,989 19,213 | 3,502 |
Thirteen contracts were signed last week at $4 million and above, one more than during the same period in 2018. Condos outsold co-ops, 7 to 3, and 3 townhouses were in the mix.
The No.1 contract was 95A at 432 Park Avenue, asking $41.25 million. The developers, Harry Macklowe and CIM, also scored the top sale on the same floor in the final week of December by closing 95B at $30,191,920, a 26% discount off the asking price. Apartment 95A is a corner unit with 3,952 square feet including 3 bedrooms, a library, and 3.5 bathrooms. It features a 29' x 29' living room, an eat-in kitchen, and a 30-foot master suite. The unit has spectacular Central Park, Hudson and East River views<|fim_middle|> library lounge, performance space, and a garage. | . The building is 96 stories high, a concrete-and-glass edifice designed by Rafael Vinoly that can be seen from almost anywhere in the 5 boroughs. Amenities include a fitness center, a 75-foot swimming pool, private dining room, parking, a garden, and a children's playroom.
The No. 2 contract was 60B at 157 West 57th Street, asking $28.9 million and sold by the developer Extell. The unit reportedly went to contract in the $22-million range. The 3-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom unit has 4,193 square feet including a 43' x 30' living room, an over 1000-square-foot master suite, and an entrance gallery—all with Central Park views. 157 West 57th Street was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Christian de Portzamparc, with interiors by Thomas Juul-Hansen. The 90-story, 90-unit condo was built above the 5-star Park Hyatt Hotel, and has a separate entrance for its 210 rooms. Amenities include the use of the hotel's fitness center and pool, and the condo has its own a private dining room, a | 273 |
Silicon Ranch Closes $225 Million Equity Raise with Existing Shareholders
Funding will support capital investments in communities across the U.S.
Silicon Ranch Corporation
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Silicon Ranch Corporation, the U.S. solar platform for Shell and one of the nation's largest independent power producers,<|fim_middle|> ground on solar farm...
GREEN POWER EMC AND SILICON RANCH ANNOUNCE 252-MEGAWATT SOLAR... | has closed an investment round that attracted $225 million in new equity capital. The round was funded entirely by existing Silicon Ranch shareholders, which include Shell and institutional investors TD Greystone Infrastructure Fund (Global Master) L.P., managed by TD Asset Management Inc., and Mountain Group Partners.
Nashville-based Silicon Ranch is a fully integrated provider of customized renewable energy and storage solutions for a diverse set of partners across the United States. The company's portfolio includes more than 2.5 gigawatts (GW) of PV systems that are contracted, under construction, or operating in more than 15 states coast to coast. Silicon Ranch has successfully commissioned every project it has contracted since the company's inception and has further distinguished itself through its commitment to own and operate each project in its portfolio for the long term.
The equity raise will support construction of well over 1 GW of new solar projects over the next two years and enable Silicon Ranch to accelerate its growth strategy by developing new projects, entering new markets, and pursuing strategic acquisition opportunities.
"A decade ago, we launched Silicon Ranch based on our shared faith in a certain set of values, and since day one, our talented team has helped us earn our reputation as a pioneering, innovative, and principled industry leader," said Reagan Farr, Co-Founder and CEO of Silicon Ranch. "Silicon Ranch is honored by this strong support from our shareholders, whose commitment today will help fuel our growth and enable us to make meaningful capital investments in communities across the country."
"We are proud of Silicon Ranch's strong performance and excited about the future together as Shell helps more customers meet their renewable energy goals while progressing our own ambition to be a net-zero emissions energy business," said Elisabeth Brinton, Executive Vice President of New Energies at Shell. "Silicon Ranch has tripled its contracted portfolio since our initial platform investment in 2018 and continues to impress with its track record of successful project delivery and strong customer-led growth strategy."
"TD Asset Management is proud to support the continued growth of Silicon Ranch through the TD Greystone Infrastructure Fund. This follow-on investment, our fifth since 2014, highlights the fund's commitment to investing in sustainable companies that are committed to maintaining high environmental, social and governance standards on behalf of our clients," said Jeff Mouland, Head of Infrastructure Investments at TD Asset Management. "Silicon Ranch has consistently exceeded its own ambitious growth targets and continues to present our clients with a unique opportunity to gain exposure to a world-class independent power producer and leader among its industry peers."
"Since our first investment in 2011, Mountain Group Partners has worked closely with the company's excellent management team as Silicon Ranch has grown from an idea to become one of the top solar companies in America," said Byron Smith, Managing Director of Mountain Group Partners. "It has been truly rewarding to see this company grow through a steadfast devotion to its guiding principles and an unwavering commitment to the partners and communities it serves."
About Silicon Ranch Corporation
Silicon Ranch is the U.S. solar platform for Shell and one of the largest independent power producers in the country. The company has distinguished itself by pioneering new markets for utility-scale solar and has expanded its footprint with more than 140 operating facilities across more than 15 states from New York to California. Silicon Ranch owns and operates every project in its portfolio and has maintained an unblemished track record of project execution, having successfully commissioned every project it has contracted in its history. In recognition of its holistic approach to land management, which the company has trademarked Regenerative Energy®, Silicon Ranch was named 2020's "Most Forward-Thinking" company by Solar Power World. To learn more, visit siliconranch.com and follow on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
Matt Beasley
SOURCE Silicon Ranch Corporation
https://www.siliconranch.com
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