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The death of a neighbor
Back in 2003, when the wife and I first moved into our house in New Rochelle, N.Y., we had next-door neighbors who we didn't know.
Their names were Paul and Elaine Klein. They were elderly, they were private and, in those first six months, we probably spoke, oh, maybe twice. Every so often an ambulance would pull up to the curb, which meant, well, we didn't understand quite what it meant. Someone wasn't doing well. Someone needed help. Someone was ill.
Then, one day, Paul Klein died.
Then, one day, a friendship and love blossomed.
With her husband's passing, we began to check in on Elaine Klein, which meant we began to know Elaine Klein. And she was … hmm. What's the right word? Awesome. Lovely. Brilliant. Joyful. Riveting. Spunky. Luminous. Engaging. I can't pick one, so I'll use them all. I'll also note that, far too often, we treat the elderly like little children. They speak, we nod and pretend to listen while mentally residing elsewhere. But Elaine Klein was worth hearing. First, because her IQ exceeded mine by (to underestimate) 30-to-40 points. Second, because she had stories to tell. Back in 1967, she became the first layperson and the first non-Catholic appointed dean of academic affairs at Marymount Manhattan College. Among her students was a bright young woman named Geraldine Ferraro—who 32 years later became the first woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket. Elaine was well-read and eternally curious. She asked 100 questions, and genuinely cared about the answers. She always seemed to be traveling somewhere with someone, and on more than one occasion called me over to collect the gifts she brought for my children. Once, when my daughter was doing a toy drive, she handed us the above bear, which had belonged to one of her sons. The charity couldn't take used toys, so we anointed him Paul and placed it in my son's bed. He's been there ever since—and telling Elaine of his name brought a twinkle to her eye.
Despite her general spunk, there was this profound weightiness to Elaine that showed itself late at night. See, I used to take these 11 pm runs through the neighborhood, and oftentimes when I returned home I'd<|fim_middle|> was 88 (Elaine never told us her age). Although I'm sure she was relieved to reach her final days, and return to Paul's side, I can't help but feel profound sadness.
Elaine Klein started as our neighbor, and became a dear friend.
I won't forget her.
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2 thoughts on "The death of a neighbor"
Paul C December 2, 2016 at 6:29 pm
It would be remiss of me not to remark that your best work is still eulogies/obits. This moved me.
Andrew Armiger December 2, 2016 at 7:26 pm
Moving, indeed. | hear a loud noise from the second floor of Elaine's house. It was, I'm pretty sure, always the same thing: Music composed by Paul, who worked as businessman and songwriter. Cliche be damned, when Paul died, a huge piece of Elaine died, too. She would listen and listen and listen to his music; the ultimate slice of pleasure-heartache. We actually once had a conversation at her front door—Elaine was feeling down and lonely, and confessed to me that, all things being equal, she'd prefer to be dead. "I want to be with Paul," she said. "With my husband."
Earlier today, I was told that Elaine passed on Saturday. She | 141 |
Have you ever<|fim_middle|> | been on a tour of a new apartment you're super excited about, only to walk into the kitchen and think, "Whoa, where's all the counter space?" I show downtown Chicago apartments for a living, and I will never forget the first time this happened me.
My customer's name was Mike. I don't know why I remember that (it was a few years ago), but he loved to cook and entertain and he fell in love with this South Loop apartment even before we saw it in person. Fast forward to our tour together and I'll never forget the look on his face when he saw the galley style kitchen (no kitchen island). It was like he lost his best friend. "Where would I put my coffee maker, toaster, cutlery, and where am I going to have room to chop my vegetables and make my dinner?" Houston, we have a problem!
Don't get me wrong, there was counter space, just not enough of it to fit the appliances and have room to make dinner. I was a little puzzled too – I mean, it's not like I could make counter space appear out of thin air…or could I?
I started pacing the apartment and thinking… hmm, mini coffee makers, a toaster and coffee maker in one – that also holds knives, or store the appliances in the cabinets. But, then reality set in and it hit me… a rolling cart on wheels, with a really cool wood top and room for appliances and storage underneath. It would look amazing in Mike's new kitchen.
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Over the next several years, I have had this same situation with other customers and in most cases, the kitchen cart saves the day.
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WoodZone Officially Announced for PC. Timber Empires Will Emerge as Early as in 2020
WoodZone, the first game in history that will allow you to become an entrepreneurial lumberjack and create a wood products empire, will be released on PC in the fourth quarter of 2020. The game, developed by DeSand, will combine the elements of economic strategy, RPG and simulator. WoodZone will distinguish itself through, among others, high approachability, open world and stylised low-poly 3D graphics. A crowdfunding campaign is currently running on Kickstarter to fund the further development of the game.
The game is being developed by the Polish-German studio DeSand, which is simultaneously working on Lands of Raynar, a unique mix of RTS and RPG. WoodZone will be published on PC by Ultimate Games S.A. and Gaming Factory S.A.
WoodZone is a unique game that allows you to become an entrepreneurial lumberjack. The creators are preparing a wide array of available activities. Among others, the player will be able to<|fim_middle|> says Jakub Struś, COO at DeSand.
As the creators explain, the procedurally generated world, which allows you to – among others – explore different climatic zones, plays an important role in WoodZone. The modular construction system allows you to design your own sawmill, factory, apartment house or any other building. The DeSand team has also prepared a realistic economic system, where the behaviour of players is of key importance.
"WoodZone will debut on PC in Q4 2020, in Early Access, and will be further developed after initial release. This kind of game is a novelty on the market, but when it comes to the gameplay and atmosphere, WoodZone will certainly appeal to fans of such games as Factorio, Satisfactory, Roblox or Farming Simulator" – remarks Rafał Jelonek, COO at Ultimate Games S.A.
A Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign will take place between August 21st and September 20th this year. The minimum goal has been set to 10 thousand euro. People who'll decide to support the project can count on, among others, access to a playable demo and various special extras. As the developers explain, the collected funds will be spent on further development of the game (e.g. VR mode, releasing the game on consoles and additional expansions).
WoodZone – features:
Live the life of an entrepreneurial lumberjack.
A multitude of features and elements.
Modular construction system.
Single and multiplayer modes (PvP, co-op).
Realistic economic model.
Stylised low-poly 3D graphics.
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The PC release date (Steam Early Access) for WoodZone has been set to Q4 2020.
WoodZone – Gameplay Trailer
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Ultimate Summer Debuts on PC. The Blood-soaked Tower Defense Game Will Also Hit Consoles
Ultimate Summer, a twisted mix of primitive carnage known from titles like Serious Sam and (un)heroic defensive manoeuvres characteristic of the tower defense genre, is debuting on PC. The game is sc | play the role of a lumberjack harvesting wood, a supplier transporting it, or a builder putting it to use.
As the developers explain, their new project combines elements of different genres, including economic strategy, RPG and simulator, creating an unprecedented mix. DeSand is focusing both on single-player and multi-player modes (PvP and co-op). The game will be accessible and will offer the players a lot of depth and a wide variety of additional solutions.
"This is the first game with such a comprehensive approach to the wood industry. In WoodZone we combine approachable gameplay with a multitude of different options. The possibilities of tree felling are very extensive, but we pay just as much attention to other spheres of the wood world, including logistics and construction. You can take care of transport, management or creating specialised buildings. You can build a big business or focus on climbing the career ladder in another wood products corporation. Virtually everyone will find something for themselves in WoodZone" – | 197 |
Swarthmore Public Library:
The Swarthmorean Newspaper, 1914-1955
Home Swarthmore Public Library - The Swarthmorean Newspaper, 1914-1955 Swarthmorean 1933 October 13
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SWARTHMORE, PA., OCTOBER 13, 1933
$2,50 PER YEAR
HOME AND SCHOOL
ENDORSE PLANS
Unanimous Approval Given to
Projected Gymnasium and
Social Center
The Swarthmore Home and School
Association turned out in large numbers at the High School Auditorium on
Monday evening for a discussion of the
project which is being considered by
thc School Board for the gymnasium
and Social Center. A rising vote at the
end of the meeting disclosed a unanimous sentiment in favor of taking advantage of the Federal Government's
works program which would provide
the funds for the undertaking by donating from the National .Treasury
about a fourth of the cost as an outright gift and loaning the balance of
the money at a low rate of interest and
upon a liberal plan of amortization.
Dr. E. Leroy Mercer, President of
the Association, and Dean of the School
of Physical Education in the University of Pennsylvania, presided and presented a clear statement of the need
and the unquestioned desirability of the
addition to the school plant. His intimate knowledge of the subject and lifelong experience gave great weight to
the statements and were evidently convincing.
Dr. Mercer was followed by Frank
R. Morey, Supervising Principal, who
directed the attention of those present
to the wholly inadequate and antiquated equipment with which a make-shift
effort is being made to develop the physical side of the student body. An opportunity had been given to the parents
present to inspect the plant and be
convinced of the sorry plight of the
school children. The Principal reported
upon the other schools in the County
and showed Swarthmore a veritable
laggard in this important branch of educations He also presented sketches of
tentative plans for the improvement,
which will cost about $60,000. and afford gymnasium, cafeteria, locker
rooms, showers, toilets and recreation
rooms. He demonstrated that the carrying, charges will be surprisingly low
and that the added cost of operation
will be negligible.
George F. Corse, of the School Board,
represented the Board in the absence
of the President, Dr. Bassett and informed the meeting that it was the
desire of the Board to get an -expression of the Association upon the matter, and if this were found favorable
then the Board would place the question on the ballots in the November
election and be guided by the action
taken by the citizens. He stated, however, that the Board has the legal Tight
to borrow the necessary amount for
the work without submitting the question to the voters, but said they preferred to have an expression by ballot.
A general discussion followed, in
which many participated and the feeling of the meeting was early manifested. A sentiment was expressed quite
generally in favor of amplifying the
plans so as to provide a recreation
center and social rendezvous for the
young people of the Boro, and by an
overwhelming majority vote this phase
of the project was recommended to the
consideration of the Board with a general endorsement of the purpose.
MURIELA CIANCI JOHNSON
Swarthmore prima donna in recital at Players' Club next Friday
■»»♦■ —
Address on Repeal
The Rockefeller Report recently published, evidences an earnest attempt to
find a solution for the very serious
problem facing the American people in
the imminent repeal of the 18th Amendment.
Using as his subject "The Liquor
Traffic and the Coming Years", Dr.
Earl I_. Douglas, well known author
and lecturer, will discuss this problem
at the Methodist Church on Tuesday
evening, October 17 at 8 o'clock. It is
a subject that should engage the interest of every thoughtful citizen, and
it is hoped that a large number will
attend.
Girl Scout Leaders
Anyone interested in attending the
Training Course for Girl Scout leaders is
welcome to attend the next meeting which
W'H be held Wednesday evening at 7:30
m the St. James Church in Prospect
Park. For further information call Sw.
WO, or Sw. 55.
COLLEGE SPONSORS
RECOVERY LECTURES
Outstanding Economic Authorities WiU Explain Aims of
Current Recovery Plans
The William J. Cooper Foundation of
Swarthmore College has made it possible
for the people of Swarthmore to enjoy
one of the most unusual educational opportunities possible at the present time.
Under the auspices of this organization,
a series of lectures on the Recovery Program will be given at the College on
successive Sunday evenings at eight
o'clock, beginning on October 22nd. On
that date, Dr. John Dickinson, Assistant
Secretary of Commerce will speak on The
Recovery Program. Dr. Dickinson is a
professor of Law at the University of
Pennsylvania, and is the author of several
works on Administrative Law.
The second lecture of the series will be
given by Major A. Heath Onthank, assistant to the Executive National Recovery Administration. His subject will
be How Codes are Made.
On November fifth, Dr. Alexander
Sachs, Chief of the Division of Research
and Planning of the NRA, will speak
on the NRA and the problems of Economic Planning.
Dr. Leo Pasvolsky of the Brookings Institute, Washington will speak on Monetary Policy on November twelfth. Dr.
Pasvolsky is the author of Economics of
Communism and, in collaboration with H.
G. Moulton The War Debts and Prosperity.
On November 19th, Dr. Leo Wolman,
Chairman of the Labor Advisory Board
of the NRA will speak on the NRA and
the Labor Movement. Dr. Wolman is
Professor of Economics at Columbia University and is the author of various
works on labpr economics.
Thc Agricultural Program will be the
topic of Dr. Rexford G. Tugwell, Assistant Secretary, of Agriculture, who will
speak on November 26. Dr. Tugwell is
also a professor of Economics at Columbia University and is the author of Thc
Industrial Discipline, Industry's Coming
of Age, and other works. He is a member of the super-cabinet or "Brain Trust".
On December third, Dr. Willard
Thorp, Chief of the Bureau of Foreign
and Domestic Commerce, Department of
Commerce, will use as the subject of his
address the International Economic Policy. He is a professor of Economics at
Amherst College, and is the author of
studies of industrial concentration and
business cycles.
The final speaker of the series will be
A. A. Berle, Jr., a member of the "Brain
Trust" and economic adviser to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. He
is a professor of law at Columbia and is
author of The Modern Corporation and
Private Property. He will speak on
Banking Reform.
■ ■»•»
Friendly Circle
The Friendly Circle will meet at the
home of Mrs. Lovett Frescbln at 500
Harvard avenue on next Thursday, October nineteenth. Mrs. F. W. Hadley will
assist Mrs. Frescoln in entertaining.
W.U CONFERENCE
WILL OPEN TODAY
Ex-Governor Sweet Will Speak
Instead of Jane Addams—
Others on Program
One of Swarthmore's exceptional opportunities of the present year is the program which will take place the end of
this week at Swarthmore College. Under the auspices of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in
co-operation with the Fellowship of Reconciliation, a conference is -being held,
at which speakers of genuine merit will
discuss various current problems in which
these two organizations are interested.
The conference begins this afternoon
with a tea and reception to the officers of
the two groups, given by President and
Mrs. Aydelotte.
Miss Jane Addams, of Hull House, International President of the W. I. L. was
scheduled as one of the chief speakers of
the conference. Word, however, reached
Swarthmore the early part of the week
that Miss Addams had been taken very
ill and that it would be impossible for her
to travel. This will come as a great disappointment to those who have been looking forward to hearing Miss Addams, but
the Committee after much work has succeeded in getting ex-Governor William E.
Sweet of Colorado to speak in her stead,
and his address is sure to be extremely
worthwhile. Gov. Sweet is working at
present with the NRA in Washington and
speaking in its behalf all over the country. He has been greatly interested in
World Peace ever since the World War,
and will speak on some phase of peace
work. It is barely possible that if Miss
Addams is sufficiently recovered, she may
(Continued on Page 8ix)
The regular monthly meeting of the
Swarthmore Public School Board was held
on Tuesday night, Oct. 10th at the College Avenue School. Routine Business
was despatched. The chief topic of discussion was the matter of the next steps
to be taken in the new gymnasium procedure. Various technical points were
brought up and discussed. The meeting
adjourned to reconvene on Thursday
night for further discussion after some
points of law had been looked into by the
solicitor.
FALL PROGRAM AT
WOMANmUB OPENS
Walter H. Seely Speaker—Section Chairmen Report Plans
for Coming Year
The Woman's Club opened their fall
meetings at the Clubhouse on Tuesday
afternoon to a well-filled room. Mrs.
Jesse Herman Holmes/having been president of the club once before, told the
members that she felt it quite a compliment to be elected again and the appreciation of the members was demonstrated
with a round of applause. Various chairmen told of the plans for the winter
which is bound to have an interest for
every type of woman. The dramatic
section announced that-the play "It's easy
to write a play" written by Mrs. Stanley
MacMillan, who will also direct it, will be
given in November, also a speaker from
New York will talk to the club concerning plays to be given in Philadelphia this
winter, and those particularly interested
in Drama, will have a "drama workshop"
this winter at which time both actors and
directors will have an opportunity to ply
their trade. The Literature section will
have their splendid course of appreciation
and book reviews this winter and a group
interested in Art will have meetings under tljeir chairman twice a month during
the* winter.. -The music section has arranged numerous musicals, both at private
homes and at the clubhouse. The first
will be on October 31st, at which time
some student-artists from the Curtis
School of Music will play. Numerous
other interesting things will be announced
as the meetings are arranged.
On Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Walter
Hoff Seely, a newspaper man, writer and
lecturer told of "Some Real People".
The speaker started his talk by quoting
the line "I like you, LIFE" and one feels
that he has gotten and is getting a lot out
of life because he does like it and people.
His talk was informal, having obliged the
club by taking the place of the original
speaker, Mrs. Frank Aydelotte, who was
called to New York by the death of her
brother, with only a few days notice. He
told of interviews and of being in San
Francisco during the earthquake and exhibited a newspaper the size of our auction-sales-bills, which was printed on
"scraps from the printing-presses, which
were almost destroyed." He explained that
the numerous fires which followed the
quake were caused by people starting to get
breakfast, forgetting that their chimneys
(Continued on Page Two)
Red Cross Drive Opens
Between October 15 and November
11 occurs the annual membership campaign of the Red Cross. Probably
everyone in Swarthmore is aware of
the splendid work of the Red Cross in
time of great national catastrophe such
as floods, fires and earthquakes, and
there have been enough such disasters
during the past year, both near home
and far away, for the great humanitarian service of the Red Cross to be
vividly impressed on our minds. But
the Red Cross does other work, somewhat less spectacular, but just as important, and of more intimate concern
to most of us who live in a region comparatively free from major calamities.
Red Cross supervised nurses are constantly visiting the sick as a result of
co-operation with the activities of the
local Health Center, and Red Cross
funds assist materially in all the work
of the Center. Flour made from wheat
made available by act of Congress was
distributed locally to the extent of
152,194 pounds since last winter. Cotton
garments and bedding made from cotton also made available by Congress
have been distributed locally to the
extent of 1400 separate articles. The
territory covered by the Swarthmore
Branch covers not only the Borough of
Swarthmore, but also Springfield Township and the communities of Folsom,
Millmont, Woodlyn and Holmes.
The Red Cross has only one source
for its funds—membership dues and
donations. Memberships are of four
kinds—Annual, $1 a year; Contributing,
$5 a year; Sustaining, $10 a year, and
Supporting, $25 a year. The activities
of the local Branch, as' far as they can
be reduced to money, are as follows
for the current year up to September
Gross receipts from Membership
were $1,933.45. (Total memberships for
the Branch, 1066, or for Swarthmore
alone, 972).
Value of articles distributed through
the Swarthmore Branch: Flour, $4,963.-
92; cotton garments and bedding,
$538.33; total, $5,502.25.
Distribution of new Red Cross garments for the destitute through the
Branch Red Cross Cotton Committee
will begin again in October.
One of the priceless contributions of
service by the Swarthmore women to
Red Cross activities has been the making of cotton garments. Cotton made
(Continued on Page Five)
DISCUSSED FURTHER
Many Citizens Opposed to Measures; Additional Parking
Space Desired at H. S.
The proposed change in the zoning ordinance to include the Swarthmore Prep
School buildings in the apartment zone
was once more the chief topic under discussion at the Boro Council meeting on
last Thursday night.
Mr. Ejwood B. Chapman and Rev.
John E. Tuttle both attended the meeting
and presented arguments against the extension of the apartment district. In their
opinion there is no need of further apartment house space and such an extension
might result in bringing to Swarthmore a
class of people not altogether desirable.
Mr. Chapman was originally responsible
for zoning the Boro of Swarthmore and
feels that any change at the present time
would be inadvisable. Dr. Tuttle brought
up the disadvantages which would result
from having cars parked at the back of
the Presbyterian Church, and the fact
that radios and other disturbances peculiar to an apartment house would be unpleasant during the Sunday services.
Mr. Frank S. Reitzel who was president of Council from 1930 to 1932 and a
member of that body when the zoning
ordinance Was passed, expressed the feeling that the time to have included the
Prep School buildings was when the zoning ordinance was first passed and not at
this late, date.
Mr. Howard B. Green also spoke in opposition to the proposed ordinance, saying that the building in question was too
weak to stand alterations and that the
only way it could be converted for apartment use would be to tear down the present structure and rebuild.
A letter was read from Mr. Joseph A.
Perry, president of the Board of the
Presbyterian Church, withdrawing the
Board's' former statement that' they had
no objections to the extension and stating
instead that they preferred to remain .
A point that has hitherto escaped notice
was brought up by Dr. Arthur Bassett,
president of the School Board, who stated
that it costs the Boro approximately $160
a year to educate each school child.
Since there is no longer a per capita tax
in this Boro, apartment house dwellers
pay no taxes; thus every family with
children living in an apartment house increases just that much the burden upon
real estate owners in the Boro.
Captain J. Kirk McCurdy and Mr. Edward F. Hitchcock, who is attorney for
the Presbyterian Board of Pensions which
holds the mortgage on the Prep School
building, presented the other side of the
argument. As far as the Council members are concerned, there seems to be an
inclination toward a liberal attitude. A
committee had been appointed at the last
session of council to investigate the de- •
tails of the matter, but as Mr. Bates and
Mr. Lewis were unable to attend last
Thursday's meeting, Mr. J. Archer Turner, who is the other member of the
committee did not present the report. It
is fully expected that a decision will be
reached at the next meeting on the 19th.
By-Pass Discussed
Having lain dormant for several years,
the subject of the bypass which would deflect through traffic from Chester to
Philadelphia away from Swarthmore,
was revived and it was decided to look
into the matter more thoroughly with a
view to getting the work under way.
Permission has been granted by every
landowner whose property would be affected with one exception.
On behalf of the School Board, Dr.
Bassett offered to give twelve and one-
half feet of the High School's College
Avenue frontage, on the condition<|fim_middle|> this organization, a series of lectures on the Recovery Program will be given at the College on successive Sunday evenings at eight o'clock, beginning on October 22nd. On that date, Dr. John Dickinson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce will speak on The Recovery Program. Dr. Dickinson is a professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, and is the author of several works on Administrative Law. The second lecture of the series will be given by Major A. Heath Onthank, assistant to the Executive National Recovery Administration. His subject will be How Codes are Made. On November fifth, Dr. Alexander Sachs, Chief of the Division of Research and Planning of the NRA, will speak on the NRA and the problems of Economic Planning. Dr. Leo Pasvolsky of the Brookings Institute, Washington will speak on Monetary Policy on November twelfth. Dr. Pasvolsky is the author of Economics of Communism and, in collaboration with H. G. Moulton The War Debts and Prosperity. On November 19th, Dr. Leo Wolman, Chairman of the Labor Advisory Board of the NRA will speak on the NRA and the Labor Movement. Dr. Wolman is Professor of Economics at Columbia University and is the author of various works on labpr economics. Thc Agricultural Program will be the topic of Dr. Rexford G. Tugwell, Assistant Secretary, of Agriculture, who will speak on November 26. Dr. Tugwell is also a professor of Economics at Columbia University and is the author of Thc Industrial Discipline, Industry's Coming of Age, and other works. He is a member of the super-cabinet or "Brain Trust". On December third, Dr. Willard Thorp, Chief of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce, will use as the subject of his address the International Economic Policy. He is a professor of Economics at Amherst College, and is the author of studies of industrial concentration and business cycles. The final speaker of the series will be A. A. Berle, Jr., a member of the "Brain Trust" and economic adviser to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. He is a professor of law at Columbia and is author of The Modern Corporation and Private Property. He will speak on Banking Reform. ■ ■»•» Friendly Circle The Friendly Circle will meet at the home of Mrs. Lovett Frescbln at 500 Harvard avenue on next Thursday, October nineteenth. Mrs. F. W. Hadley will assist Mrs. Frescoln in entertaining. W.U CONFERENCE WILL OPEN TODAY Ex-Governor Sweet Will Speak Instead of Jane Addams— Others on Program One of Swarthmore's exceptional opportunities of the present year is the program which will take place the end of this week at Swarthmore College. Under the auspices of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in co-operation with the Fellowship of Reconciliation, a conference is -being held, at which speakers of genuine merit will discuss various current problems in which these two organizations are interested. The conference begins this afternoon with a tea and reception to the officers of the two groups, given by President and Mrs. Aydelotte. Miss Jane Addams, of Hull House, International President of the W. I. L. was scheduled as one of the chief speakers of the conference. Word, however, reached Swarthmore the early part of the week that Miss Addams had been taken very ill and that it would be impossible for her to travel. This will come as a great disappointment to those who have been looking forward to hearing Miss Addams, but the Committee after much work has succeeded in getting ex-Governor William E. Sweet of Colorado to speak in her stead, and his address is sure to be extremely worthwhile. Gov. Sweet is working at present with the NRA in Washington and speaking in its behalf all over the country. He has been greatly interested in World Peace ever since the World War, and will speak on some phase of peace work. It is barely possible that if Miss Addams is sufficiently recovered, she may (Continued on Page 8ix) School Board Meeting The regular monthly meeting of the Swarthmore Public School Board was held on Tuesday night, Oct. 10th at the College Avenue School. Routine Business was despatched. The chief topic of discussion was the matter of the next steps to be taken in the new gymnasium procedure. Various technical points were brought up and discussed. The meeting adjourned to reconvene on Thursday night for further discussion after some points of law had been looked into by the solicitor. FALL PROGRAM AT WOMANmUB OPENS Walter H. Seely Speaker—Section Chairmen Report Plans for Coming Year The Woman's Club opened their fall meetings at the Clubhouse on Tuesday afternoon to a well-filled room. Mrs. Jesse Herman Holmes/having been president of the club once before, told the members that she felt it quite a compliment to be elected again and the appreciation of the members was demonstrated with a round of applause. Various chairmen told of the plans for the winter which is bound to have an interest for every type of woman. The dramatic section announced that-the play "It's easy to write a play" written by Mrs. Stanley MacMillan, who will also direct it, will be given in November, also a speaker from New York will talk to the club concerning plays to be given in Philadelphia this winter, and those particularly interested in Drama, will have a "drama workshop" this winter at which time both actors and directors will have an opportunity to ply their trade. The Literature section will have their splendid course of appreciation and book reviews this winter and a group interested in Art will have meetings under tljeir chairman twice a month during the* winter.. -The music section has arranged numerous musicals, both at private homes and at the clubhouse. The first will be on October 31st, at which time some student-artists from the Curtis School of Music will play. Numerous other interesting things will be announced as the meetings are arranged. On Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Walter Hoff Seely, a newspaper man, writer and lecturer told of "Some Real People". The speaker started his talk by quoting the line "I like you, LIFE" and one feels that he has gotten and is getting a lot out of life because he does like it and people. His talk was informal, having obliged the club by taking the place of the original speaker, Mrs. Frank Aydelotte, who was called to New York by the death of her brother, with only a few days notice. He told of interviews and of being in San Francisco during the earthquake and exhibited a newspaper the size of our auction-sales-bills, which was printed on "scraps from the printing-presses, which were almost destroyed." He explained that the numerous fires which followed the quake were caused by people starting to get breakfast, forgetting that their chimneys (Continued on Page Two) Red Cross Drive Opens Between October 15 and November 11 occurs the annual membership campaign of the Red Cross. Probably everyone in Swarthmore is aware of the splendid work of the Red Cross in time of great national catastrophe such as floods, fires and earthquakes, and there have been enough such disasters during the past year, both near home and far away, for the great humanitarian service of the Red Cross to be vividly impressed on our minds. But the Red Cross does other work, somewhat less spectacular, but just as important, and of more intimate concern to most of us who live in a region comparatively free from major calamities. Red Cross supervised nurses are constantly visiting the sick as a result of co-operation with the activities of the local Health Center, and Red Cross funds assist materially in all the work of the Center. Flour made from wheat made available by act of Congress was distributed locally to the extent of 152,194 pounds since last winter. Cotton garments and bedding made from cotton also made available by Congress have been distributed locally to the extent of 1400 separate articles. The territory covered by the Swarthmore Branch covers not only the Borough of Swarthmore, but also Springfield Township and the communities of Folsom, Millmont, Woodlyn and Holmes. The Red Cross has only one source for its funds—membership dues and donations. Memberships are of four kinds—Annual, $1 a year; Contributing, $5 a year; Sustaining, $10 a year, and Supporting, $25 a year. The activities of the local Branch, as' far as they can be reduced to money, are as follows for the current year up to September 1: Gross receipts from Membership were $1,933.45. (Total memberships for the Branch, 1066, or for Swarthmore alone, 972). Value of articles distributed through the Swarthmore Branch: Flour, $4,963.- 92; cotton garments and bedding, $538.33; total, $5,502.25. Distribution of new Red Cross garments for the destitute through the Branch Red Cross Cotton Committee will begin again in October. One of the priceless contributions of service by the Swarthmore women to Red Cross activities has been the making of cotton garments. Cotton made (Continued on Page Five) ZONING ORDINANCE DISCUSSED FURTHER Many Citizens Opposed to Measures; Additional Parking Space Desired at H. S. The proposed change in the zoning ordinance to include the Swarthmore Prep School buildings in the apartment zone was once more the chief topic under discussion at the Boro Council meeting on last Thursday night. Mr. Ejwood B. Chapman and Rev. John E. Tuttle both attended the meeting and presented arguments against the extension of the apartment district. In their opinion there is no need of further apartment house space and such an extension might result in bringing to Swarthmore a class of people not altogether desirable. Mr. Chapman was originally responsible for zoning the Boro of Swarthmore and feels that any change at the present time would be inadvisable. Dr. Tuttle brought up the disadvantages which would result from having cars parked at the back of the Presbyterian Church, and the fact that radios and other disturbances peculiar to an apartment house would be unpleasant during the Sunday services. Mr. Frank S. Reitzel who was president of Council from 1930 to 1932 and a member of that body when the zoning ordinance Was passed, expressed the feeling that the time to have included the Prep School buildings was when the zoning ordinance was first passed and not at this late, date. Mr. Howard B. Green also spoke in opposition to the proposed ordinance, saying that the building in question was too weak to stand alterations and that the only way it could be converted for apartment use would be to tear down the present structure and rebuild. A letter was read from Mr. Joseph A. Perry, president of the Board of the Presbyterian Church, withdrawing the Board's' former statement that' they had no objections to the extension and stating instead that they preferred to remain . neutral. A point that has hitherto escaped notice was brought up by Dr. Arthur Bassett, president of the School Board, who stated that it costs the Boro approximately $160 a year to educate each school child. Since there is no longer a per capita tax in this Boro, apartment house dwellers pay no taxes; thus every family with children living in an apartment house increases just that much the burden upon real estate owners in the Boro. Captain J. Kirk McCurdy and Mr. Edward F. Hitchcock, who is attorney for the Presbyterian Board of Pensions which holds the mortgage on the Prep School building, presented the other side of the argument. As far as the Council members are concerned, there seems to be an inclination toward a liberal attitude. A committee had been appointed at the last session of council to investigate the de- • tails of the matter, but as Mr. Bates and Mr. Lewis were unable to attend last Thursday's meeting, Mr. J. Archer Turner, who is the other member of the committee did not present the report. It is fully expected that a decision will be reached at the next meeting on the 19th. By-Pass Discussed Having lain dormant for several years, the subject of the bypass which would deflect through traffic from Chester to Philadelphia away from Swarthmore, was revived and it was decided to look into the matter more thoroughly with a view to getting the work under way. Permission has been granted by every landowner whose property would be affected with one exception. On behalf of the School Board, Dr. Bassett offered to give twelve and one- half feet of the High School's College Avenue frontage, on the condition that the Boro will widen that street at once to permit diagonal parking and thus lessen the congestion in front of the school. He also suggested that someone confer with college authorities in an endeavor to persuade the latter to give the same amount of frontage from their athletic field, so ' that the parking space may extend from Chester road to Princeton avenue. Mr. J. Archer Turner was selected to attend to this. Another proposal which has had no attention for some time was re-opened— namely to cut a road through from Park Avenue by Celia's building, in order to relieve the traffic congestion in the center of town. A committee was appointed to weigh the pros and cons of this project and present a report for the further consideration of Council.
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that the parking space may extend from
Chester road to Princeton avenue. Mr.
J. Archer Turner was selected to attend
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Another proposal which has had no attention for some time was re-opened—
namely to cut a road through from Park
Avenue by Celia's building, in order to
relieve the traffic congestion in the center
of town. A committee was appointed to
weigh the pros and cons of this project
and present a report for the further consideration of Council.
Title Swarthmorean 1933 October 13
Subject Newspapers - Pennsylvania; American newspapers
Description Unlike most communities its size, Swarthmore has boasted a number of newspapers covering both College and Borough news. The first community paper was the Swarthmore, published by the indefatigable John A. Cass. In 1929, the Swarthmorean appeared and continues as a weekly publication.
Publisher Ann Berry Sharples
Location Covered United States; Pennsylvania; Delaware County; Swarthmore
Source sn 88079382
Rights Copyright, The Swarthmorean, 2015
Contact Swarthmore Public Library Swarthmore@delcolibraries.org <mailto:Swarthmore@delcolibraries.org>
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Full Text Swarthmore, Penna* .y.-SJ^y^/SJB llhi*** OCT 14 1933 mm VOL. V—NO. 41 SWARTHMORE, PA., OCTOBER 13, 1933 $2,50 PER YEAR HOME AND SCHOOL ENDORSE PLANS Unanimous Approval Given to Projected Gymnasium and Social Center The Swarthmore Home and School Association turned out in large numbers at the High School Auditorium on Monday evening for a discussion of the project which is being considered by thc School Board for the gymnasium and Social Center. A rising vote at the end of the meeting disclosed a unanimous sentiment in favor of taking advantage of the Federal Government's works program which would provide the funds for the undertaking by donating from the National .Treasury about a fourth of the cost as an outright gift and loaning the balance of the money at a low rate of interest and upon a liberal plan of amortization. Dr. E. Leroy Mercer, President of the Association, and Dean of the School of Physical Education in the University of Pennsylvania, presided and presented a clear statement of the need and the unquestioned desirability of the addition to the school plant. His intimate knowledge of the subject and lifelong experience gave great weight to the statements and were evidently convincing. Dr. Mercer was followed by Frank R. Morey, Supervising Principal, who directed the attention of those present to the wholly inadequate and antiquated equipment with which a make-shift effort is being made to develop the physical side of the student body. An opportunity had been given to the parents present to inspect the plant and be convinced of the sorry plight of the school children. The Principal reported upon the other schools in the County and showed Swarthmore a veritable laggard in this important branch of educations He also presented sketches of tentative plans for the improvement, which will cost about $60,000. and afford gymnasium, cafeteria, locker rooms, showers, toilets and recreation rooms. He demonstrated that the carrying, charges will be surprisingly low and that the added cost of operation will be negligible. George F. Corse, of the School Board, represented the Board in the absence of the President, Dr. Bassett and informed the meeting that it was the desire of the Board to get an -expression of the Association upon the matter, and if this were found favorable then the Board would place the question on the ballots in the November election and be guided by the action taken by the citizens. He stated, however, that the Board has the legal Tight to borrow the necessary amount for the work without submitting the question to the voters, but said they preferred to have an expression by ballot. A general discussion followed, in which many participated and the feeling of the meeting was early manifested. A sentiment was expressed quite generally in favor of amplifying the plans so as to provide a recreation center and social rendezvous for the young people of the Boro, and by an overwhelming majority vote this phase of the project was recommended to the consideration of the Board with a general endorsement of the purpose. MURIELA CIANCI JOHNSON Swarthmore prima donna in recital at Players' Club next Friday ■»»♦■ — Address on Repeal The Rockefeller Report recently published, evidences an earnest attempt to find a solution for the very serious problem facing the American people in the imminent repeal of the 18th Amendment. Using as his subject "The Liquor Traffic and the Coming Years", Dr. Earl I_. Douglas, well known author and lecturer, will discuss this problem at the Methodist Church on Tuesday evening, October 17 at 8 o'clock. It is a subject that should engage the interest of every thoughtful citizen, and it is hoped that a large number will attend. Girl Scout Leaders Anyone interested in attending the Training Course for Girl Scout leaders is welcome to attend the next meeting which W'H be held Wednesday evening at 7:30 m the St. James Church in Prospect Park. For further information call Sw. WO, or Sw. 55. COLLEGE SPONSORS RECOVERY LECTURES Outstanding Economic Authorities WiU Explain Aims of Current Recovery Plans The William J. Cooper Foundation of Swarthmore College has made it possible for the people of Swarthmore to enjoy one of the most unusual educational opportunities possible at the present time. Under the auspices of | 1,253 |
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From god to guide: can patient-centred care become a reality in the NHS?
Mark Britnell
Most parts of the NHS are only paying lip service to patient engagement, recently hailed as the 'next blockbuster drug'
Tue 14 May 2013 03.30 EDT First published on Tue 14 May 2013 03.30 EDT
Educating patients so that they can make informed choices is vital. Photograph: Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters
As healthcare systems the world over continue to groan under the weight of rising expectations, ageing populations and squeezed finances, the search for viable long-term solutions shows no sign of slowing.
For many, the focus remains on system reform – finding new ways to make the money go further by redesigning services to be more efficient. But, increasingly, attention is turning to the people who use healthcare services as the potential saviour of them.
As Maureen Bisognano, president of the influential US-based Institute for Health Improvement, told the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Health in London in April: "Patient engagement is the next blockbuster drug."
Patient engagement is certainly not a new concept but, in truth, most parts of the NHS are still only paying lip service to it. The default position for many health professionals is still to think in terms of, "What's the matter with you?" rather than, "What matters to you?"
It's easy to see why. Most systems, our own included, are heavily geared towards the five hours a year that, on average, we each consume healthcare. However, ccording to a new report by KPMG, called Something to Teach, Something to Learn: Global perspectives on healthcare, the real gains are being made by health systems that understand the importance of the 8,760 hours a year when we are not officially classed as patients.
Technological advances, such as smartphone apps which can speed a patient's hospital discharge by allowing them to measure ECGs at home, or telemedicine systems, which deliver multidisciplinary virtual clinics, offer a partial solution to empowering patients.
But the reason these breakthroughs have not revolutionised care in the way we thought they might 1<|fim_middle|> around the world, that payers – be they private insurers or governments – are becoming more active.
They are gaining a better understanding of what constitutes quality in the eyes of patients and designing new types of contracts that reward "value" rather than "volume".
ParkinsonNet, a ground-breaking patient-led education programme in the Netherlands, is a great example. It has shifted perceptions about what constitutes value for Parkinson's patients and, as a result, has radically changed practitioner behaviour. The programme has already halved the number of hip fractures suffered by this patient group and delivered savings of £13m.
In a system designed around the patient, clinicians need to move from god to guide, focusing their skills on the provision of information and support to help patients make effective choices and manage their own health and wellbeing.
True patient empowerment is not a bolt-on; it should be the centrepiece of the healthcare jigsaw.
This partnership is pivotal and central to an NHS which delivers both high quality healthcare and value too. Is it possible? With our greatest asset – the hundreds of thousands of front-line NHS staff who work with patients every day – yes, absolutely.
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Ewan King and Adrian Sieff | 0 years ago is that a more fundamental issue is being missed – that of understanding a patient's needs beyond treating the condition with which they have been diagnosed. Too often, our systems encourage the health professional to treat the illness, not the person. We chase narrow biomedical indicators, which, while important, don't capture all that matters to the patient.
There's now a great deal of evidence which shows that when patients are asked what they really want, they often choose a different (and in many cases less expensive) course of action to the one their doctor or nurse might have recommended. For example, most patients do not want to spend their last hours in hospital, yet the majority do.
Educating patients so that they can make informed choices, not just about their care but about their overall lifestyles, is vital. But it is also only half the battle. The key is listening to, and acting on, those choices – only then do patients become truly empowered.
And that's where system change comes in. The emerging evidence from around the world, as highlighted in Something to Teach, Something to Learn, is that to thrive in the challenging years ahead, healthcare systems will need to reorient themselves around the needs of patients.
Hospitals will have to look beyond their four walls, bridging the gap with primary care and transforming to become part of health systems, taking responsibility for entire pathways of care.
Primary care will need to become more accessible and more time will need to be given to understanding the needs and expectations of the 3% of patients that drive 50% of NHS costs every year.
These patients, often with multiple conditions, need continuity and access to integrated services which combine primary care, supported by specialists and the effective use of telephone and web-based tools and support. For this to work, health system funding also needs to be reshaped. There are already signs, from | 379 |
This last Thursday my wife and I decided to call it an early weekend and take off to the mountains. We have been talking about going camping for the last few weeks but we have been busy with family outings<|fim_middle|> not be as good of a work out as jogging/running, but statistically I am more likely to stick with it if I am doing something I enjoy rather than doings something just for the sake of losing weight or getting in shape.
If anyone has any other suggestions for cardio workouts without buying a gym membership let me know and I'll be sure to give them a shot. | , reunions, weddings, and any other family gathering you can think of. We knew if we didn't take time during the week to go camping we might as well not even try because of how busy our summer is this year.
So Thursday afternoon came and I got off work and hurried home to help get ready. We decided that we were not only going to haul our camper but we were also going to pack our canoe! Between my wife and daughter and I, we had my jeep loaded to the max with anything and everything we may possibly need for a simple over night camp trip. The thought came to my mind when we were pulling out of town, "we're loaded for bear". Meaning that we were ready for anything. Little did I know how true that saying would later become!
We drove up into the mountains to one of our favorite spots to go camping. Sadly this spot has apparently become quite a few people's favorite spot as well because when we showed up we drove from camp site to camp site looking for a spot we could get some peace and tranquility but we were having a rough time. We drove and drove until we finally found a spot far enough away from the others that we didn't feel like we were camping with strangers. We were close enough we could still hear their campfire conversations but far enough away to be good enough for a one nighter.
When we finally got to our spot we unhooked the camper and unloaded the jeep. By this time it was already about 830 and I still hadn't had a chance to get some fire wood. Before we could get everything situated I told my wife that I was going to hurry and drive back down the road we came in on and grab some fire wood. When getting in my jeep I had the feeling I should take a moment and give her the pistol we had bought her just to be safe... Me being the man I am decided that everything would be fine and I would just be a few minutes... I drove down the road about 2 miles and found a tree that was perfect for fire wood. Just as I was getting out I had another impression that I should at least load my pistol and strap it on my belt just to be safe... Once again I proved my manliness by convincing myself that I could see the tree I was going to cut up so there was no need to have my pistol.
I cut up the tree into a couple sections and strapped them on top of my jeep. I hopped in and headed back to camp glad that it had taken me less time than I had thought it would. Just as I was about 500 yards away from camp I came around a corner into our clearing and spotted a dark colored animal trotting down the road toward my camper. I slowly stopped my jeep to get a better look at the animal without dodging all the bumps in the road. Just as I stopped my jeep the animal stopped and turned broadside to me and then looked right at me. As soon as it looked at me I knew exactly what it was... I was now looking directly into the eyes of a juvenile grizzly bear! This bear was not a full sized bear and was a little on the skinny side which made me a little more nervous than if it was a well fed adult grizzly.
The first thought that came into my mind when I realized what animal was trotting toward my camp was about my wife and baby girl at camp! My heart sunk that I didn't leave a gun with her, and I suddenly got super nervous that something bad was going to happen to them... Before I could decide what to do next the bear turned back toward my camp and started running straight toward my camper. I floored my gas pedal and took off toward the bear honking my horn and yelling out the window, "GET IN THE CAMPER"! I was praying that my wife and daughter could hear me but knew that I was far enough away they probably couldn't. I glanced at my speed odometer and saw that I was going almost 60 down a bumper dirt road with a tree strapped to the top of my jeep. I was slowly gaining on the bear and it was still headed right toward camp. At this point we were about 200 yards from camp and I was finally getting close enough to it I could tell I was making it uncomfortable it kept looking over his shoulder and glancing back at me as I was honking my horn and yelling. Just as we got about 100 yards from camp I was within 40 yards of the bear. The bear suddenly darted off to the left and jumped into the reservoir we were camping next to. The bear hit the water at full speed and started swimming across. My mind was still on my wife and daughter so I proceeded driving into camp. Just as I pulled up my wife and daughter were stepping out of the camper wondering what all the noise was. I told her to get back in the camper and that I was chasing a bear. I loaded her gun and handed it to her then I loaded mine and got back in my jeep to see if the bear swam all the way across the inlet we were camping next to or if it came back to our side.
As I drove back to the spot the bear jumped in, my heart was racing with adrenaline thinking about what could have happened if the bear had not darted off into the water and ran straight into camp. All of the possible outcomes ran through my head while I was looking for the bear. About 5 minutes passed and I hear a gun shot and hollering about 3 camp spots down from us. I assume that the bear had made it that far before someone had seen it and able to scare it off some more. I returned to camp and made sure my wife and daughter were okay.
Later that night we made lots of noise cutting up fire wood and cooking dinner. We knew that this area had bears occasionally but we had never had an encounter like this. I could have easily taken a few picture with my phone during my interactions with the bear but with my wife and daughter back at camp, the only thing on my mind was their safety. We definitely made sure that our dinner was all cleaned up, coolers were in the jeep, and all of our food was put in a safe place before we called it a night.
I learned two very important lessons through this situation. I learned that when you feel a prompting, no matter how dumb it may seem, be sure to pay attention to it and listen! The second lesson I learned is that it doesn't matter what I have, what I'm doing, or anything else, my wife and daughter (and their safety) will always be my number one priority! Never again will I leave their side without first making sure they are safe and protected, prepared for anything they may encounter. I know I have gotten crap about buying a camper and how I have become a softy by not sleeping in a tent, but I am so glad I have that camper for my wife and daughters safety. I will always make sure to listen to the promptings I have from this point on. The bear may have never made it into my camp if I hadn't had seen it but I am glad to have re-learned these important lessons for life.
One of the guys I coach with was asking me how I kept track of how far I hiked or backpacking trips, hunting, or just on random hikes. I told him that I honestly didn't know how far I was walking/hiking but I usually used Google Maps to guesstimate how far I hiked after I finished a trip. He told me that when he was in the military, they used what they called Ranger Beads to keep track of how far they walked when venturing off base. He had one on his backpack and showed me what it looked like.
I thought it looked cool but I will admit I had heard of Ranger Beads but I had no idea how to use them or anything. I will attempt to explain how to use them from his explanation and my one adventure I have tried it out on.
A typical Ranger Bead set consists of 9 beads on the bottom half and five beads on the upper half with a knot separating the two sets of beads. The confusing part for this concept is that you will be keeping track of the distance you travel in meters rather than feet and miles. You can however convert the meters or kilometers into miles after you return from you trip if you desire. One thing you will have to do prior to using Ranger Beads is measure how many paces it takes you to walk 100 meters. What I would suggest is to go to your local high school track and walk exactly 100 meters counting how many steps you take with your right (or left) foot. By counting the number of steps for just one foot you are able to keep track easier and count less. The typical "step" for a human is around 2 1/2 feet or .762 meters. This would equal out to roughly 131 total steps in a 100 meter stretch (around 66 steps per foot). Knowing how many steps you take in 100 meters is the key to keeping accurate record of the distance you travel using the Ranger Beads.
So as I mentioned, you have 9 beads on the bottom and 5 on the top. When you begin your hike/trip/adventure be sure that all the beads on the top are pushed all the way to the top of their section and all the beads on the bottom are pushed to the bottom of their section. At the beginning of your hike the Ranger Beads should look like this.
As soon as you start hiking be sure to count the number of steps you are taking with your right foot. For every 66 steps you take with that foot you will move one of the beads on the lower section to the top of it's section on the Ranger Bead signifying that you have walked 100 meters. So if you walk 500 meters you should have 5 beads slid to the top of the lower section and 4 beads still at the bottom as shown below.
After you have walked 900 meters all of the lower beads should be raised as high as they can signifying that you have walked 900 meters. After walking another 100 meters you will then lower one of the top beads to the bottom of the upper section signifying that you have walked 1000 meter. At this point you can either lower all of the bottom beads again to repeat the process or some people just reverse the process and just lower one bead at a time as they walk additional 100 meter lengths. In the picture below, my Ranger Beads are showing that I walked 1300 meters which is the equivalent to .807 miles. I know that isn't very far but this was a quick hike to try out my Ranger Beads.
I thought this was a simple, yet useful piece of equipment that is extremely light and easy to use. Even if you have a GPS or some other device you use to keep track of the distance you travel on a hike or hunting trip, having a set of Ranger Beads would be a good idea to place in your pack in case your GPS does not get service or runs out of battery life. The Ranger Bead set that I received from my friend is made out of paracord but you could make them multiple different ways. There are also a few places you can buy them online that I have found. I will post a video I found on YouTube which shows how to make the Ranger Beads out of paracord if anyone is interested.
Ranger Beads will be with me on my hunting and hiking trips from this point on. I don't think I will use them every time but I will use them when I want to know how far I hiked. Some of the situations I can see myself using them in would be when I go on a hike to get in shape for hunting season or after I spend all day chasing elk or deer and I want to see how far I walked/hiked when I head back to my vehicle.
Anyone who knows me knows that I absolutely HATE running... I really feel bad when people talk about how awesome it is to run a marathon, half marathon, 5K, or any running event because of how rewarding it is. Coming from me, I cannot comprehend spending money to run any distance no matter what. At the same time a few of my friends who talk to me about how amazing it is to run cannot comprehend why I would hike for miles up and down rough terrain chasing animals who's 5 senses are ten times better than mine are. With that said I don't stop anyone from running their fulfilling races, but the last thing I want to do is join them.
The only problem with what I mentioned above is that if I depend on hiking in the mountains for my exercise I am definitely not going to be in good enough shape for hunting season. At the most right now, I am only able to get out on a real hike maybe once a week... if that... which is not going to get me where I need to be come elk season! With hunting season right around the corner and my belt line getting tighter and tighter I've decided I need to get busy!
I've decided to start riding my bike at least 4 times a week and increasing the distance every bike ride. It may | 2,764 |
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Neural mobilization: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials with an analysis of therapeutic efficacy
Richard F. Ellis, Wayne A. Hing
Neural mobilization is a treatment modality used in relation to pathologies of the nervous system. It has been suggested that neural mobilization is an effective treatment modality, although support of this suggestion is primarily anecdotal. The purpose of this paper was to provide a systematic review of the literature pertaining to the therapeutic efficacy of neural mobilization. A search to identify randomized controlled trials investigating neural mobilization was conducted using the key words neural mobilisation/mobilization, nerve mobilisation/mobilization, neural manipulative physical therapy, physical therapy, neural/nerve glide, nerve glide exercises, nerve/neural treatment, nerve/neural stretching, neurodynamics, and nerve/neural physiotherapy. The titles and abstracts of the papers identified were reviewed to select papers specifically detailing neural mobilization as a treatment modality. The PEDro scale, a systematic tool used to critique RCTs and grade methodological quality, was used to assess these trials. Methodological assessment allowed an analysis of research investigating therapeutic efficacy of neural mobilization. Ten randomized clinical trials (discussed in 11 retrieved articles) were identified that discussed the therapeutic effect of neural mobilization. This review highlights the lack in quantity and quality of the available research. Qualitative analysis of these studies revealed that there is only limited evidence to support the use of neural mobilization. Future research needs to re-examine the application of neural mobilization with use of more homogeneous study designs and pathologies; in addition, it should standardize the neural mobilization interventions used in the study.
Journal of Manual and Manipulative Therapy
The article in German
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Neurale Mobilisation: Systematischer Review randomisierter kontrollierter Studien mit einer Analyse der therapeutischen Wirksamkeit
Ellis, R. F. & Hing, W. A., 2009, In: Manuelle Therapie. p. 47-57 11 p.
Mobilization
Mobilizacje struktur nerwowych - Przegla̧d systematyczny badań z randomizacja̧ i grupa̧ kontrolná oraz analiza skuteczności terapeutycznej
Ellis, R. F. & Hing, W. A., 13 Oct 2008, In: Rehabilitacja Medyczna. 12, 2, p. 34-44 11 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › Research › peer-review
Musculoskeletal Manipulations
Ellis, R. F., & Hing, W. A. (2008). Neural mobilization: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials with an analysis of therapeutic efficacy. Journal of Manual and Manipulative Therapy, 16(1), 8-22. https://doi.org/10.1179/106698108790818594
Ellis, Richard F. ; Hing, Wayne A. / Neural mobilization : A systematic review of randomized controlled trials with an analysis of therapeutic efficacy. In: Journal of Manual and Manipulative Therapy. 2008 ; Vol. 16, No. 1. pp. 8-22.
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The Descendants of Franklin Mary Noyes Rowe of Humboldt County, Iowa
Title: The descendants of Franklin Mary Noyes Rowe of Humboldt County, Iowa, with some notes on their ancestors
Author: Velma Rowe Coffin
Digitizing sponsor: Internet Archive
Contributor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Repository Internet Archive
Franklin Rowe, son of Lucy Stillwell and Lucian Rowe, was born in Onondaga County, New York, possibly at Manlius as his parents were married there March 16, 1826. Franklin was the youngest and eighth child<|fim_middle|>, Crimans, Crissey, Crow, Daugherty, Demoville, Dodson, Dyvig, Eakin, Eames, Ebie, Ellenwood, Engstrom, Ferguson, Fevold, Fisher, Flemmig, Fowler, Freeman, Gahlbeck, Gamble, Gillison, Good, Goodell, Gothard, Green, Halquist, Hammer, Hammock, Hansen, Harms, Hart, Haruda, Haverstein, Helgand, Herbert, Higley, Hill, Hoffelt, Hoover, Hornby, Huckstead, Jackson, Jeffreys, Johnson, Jorgensen, Kammeyer, Kane, Keeney, Kelley, Ketman, Kneller, Knowles, Kramer, Lane, Larsen, Leffler, Lovell, Lowe, Lowery, Maher, Masten, Maston, Mautte, McLarnan, McWhorter, Meshen, Metsfessel, Michelson, Miller, Mitchell, Morgano, Mortensen, Mortland, Muller, Myer, Nachtigall, Nicholas, Nietz, Noe, Odberg, Oliphant, Olson, Pannell, Passig, Perkins, Peters, Pfeil, Pink, Pool, Powers, Rehwodt, Ries, Riley, Rogers, Rowe, Russell, Sampson, Sarmiento, Schroeder, Schultz, Schwartz, Selley, Shafer, Sharp, Shearer, Showalter, Skalley, Smuck, Spencer, Stafford, Stein, Steober, Stone, Stover, Strickland, Thorn, Tilton, Tindall, Tjoland, Trivisonno, Trotter, Vanhove, Vaughn, Wallis, Watson, Whitlow, Widney, Wilbur, Willardson, Williams, Wilson, Winner, Woodman,
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Family tradition has it that Lucian Rowe was a worker on a fruit boat on Lake Erie and was either lost overboard or died and was buried in the lake. At any rate, Franklin became self-supporting at an early age. His eldest son, in 1928, wrote that Franklin started "railroading" which he followed for five years and went out on strike and never took up railroad work again. He was advised by the superintendent to stay as he had been treated fair as he had an engine at 19 years of age. But his elder brother, Elihu, was farming in Wisconsin and he went out there where he met and married Mary Noyes. He rented land for several years during which time three children, Hiram, Percy and Edith were born in Walworth County, Wisconsin.
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Copyright is on the Title page.
It will not be news to many of the older descendants of Mary Noyes and Franklin Rowe that in 1911 John S. Lawrence published the book, "The Descendants of Moses and Sarah Kilham Porter of Pawlet, Vermont."
Since Mary Noyes was a descendant, fifth generation, of this couple, her children and the grandchildren, born prior to 1911, are recorded in the "Porter Book."
"Moses Porter was a Revolutionary soldier, he was in the battles of Bunker Hill, Long Island, and Saratoga and at the surrender of Bur-goyne. He was a Selectman at Pawlet 1786 and 1787, and a Deacon of the Congregational church" is the description given by Mr. Lawrence on page one of his book, he gives in more detail the Military Record of Moses Porter on pages 136-140.
There are several copies of the "Porter Book" in our branch of the Rowe family and the most recent catalogue (No. 465) I have from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 18 Beacon Street, Boston 8, Mass., lists the book as No. 2631, price $7.50. It may also be found in some libraries. Although there is much in this book not directly concerned with our line, it is a worthwhile possession and I feel Mr. Lawrence did his work well. You may note in the "Authorities" given for information relative to eligibility for membership in the Society of Mayflower Descendants on "number 8" the only reference is the Porter Genealogy by Lawrence and this was accepted without question by the National Society.
Having ascertained that the copyright on the Porter genealogy was not renewed when it expired in 1939, I have felt at liberty to copy short portions of the book, giving credit to Mr. Lawrence in such cases.
Since I joined the D.A.R. in 1943, I have become interested in genealogy and lament the scarcity of family records. We are, indeed, most fortunate that Mr. Lawrence did us such excellent service in tracing our grandmother's line the five generations to Moses Porter. It was with the idea of performing a like service for the descendants of this same grandmother and as a memorial to her and her husband that I undertook the task of compiling the records of this line of the Rowe family, from the birth dates of our grandparents to the present-fifty years following their deaths.
To facilitate the keeping of further records of your family, I have inserted blank pages after the record of each child of Mary and Franklin Rowe, except in the case of Edith Bedford who left no descendants.
It is interesting to note that agricultural pursuits and teaching were the chief occupations of the family until the fourth generation when, due to the changing times of our Nation, there has been more diversification in the choice of occupations.
My method of compiling the records for this family history: asking each adult to write his own biography, has resulted in rather a wide spread in the wordage. Some have chosen to give only the records of places and dates while others have given us word pictures of their lives that we may feel a little better acquainted. Whichever has been your choice, I thank you for your help.
An incident, sent by Mrs. Pearl Goodell Rowe Phleger, came after the manuscript was typed but I feel it too interesting to omit, she writes that Edith Rowe Redford told her that one evening on the journey of our grandparents from Walworth County, Wis., to Webster County, Iowa, "they pitched their tent at Cherokee and during the evening the one who was the youngest (Edith) at the time came near rolling down the incline into the Sioux River. They started the next mom back 'east' to find Lizard Creek." Someone must have told them they were traveling in the wrong direction as Lizard Creek is not far from where they made their first settlement in Iowa.
Probably an explanation is due as to why I have given Walworth County, Wis., as the birth place of Percy and Edith Rowe. Both their obituaries gave Bloomfield but I could not find such a place on the map. Edith's obituary read, "Bloomfield, Walworth County, Wis." and Hiram Rowe had written in 1928 that he, Percy, and Edith were born in Walworth County, Wis., therefore it seemed logical to use only the name of the county. Perhaps Bloomfield, Wis., is like David, Iowa, one of the "ghost" towns no longer on the map.
Since Patriotic Societies usually ask place and date for each item, I have tried to supply both and thinking addresses might be of present interest and perhaps of help to some one in the future, I have included them, realizing that many of them may soon be obsolete.
The writing of this little book has given me some interesting experiences. I hope those of you who read it will find the reading as pleasant as I have found the writing.
Velma Mae Rowe Coffin
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September 26, 2017 -- Twelve years after closing, the long-vacant Papermate factory in Santa Monica's Bergamot neighborhood is penning life anew as a slightly more than 200,000 square feet in modern creative office space.
Santa Monica's Pen Factory is finally complete, contractor Morley Builders said last week on its Facebook page.
Compared to the controversy-filled period that followed Papermate's closure in 2005, the site's official re-birth as the Pen Factory was subdued.
"Congratulations to our partners, SOM Architects, Clarion Partners, Lincoln Property Company and to our project team," Morley wrote in its Facebook page Thursday.
In 2014 -- after years of debate -- the City Council approved the site as the location for Bergamot Transit Village. The 765,000-square-foot complex would have included offices, 427 apartments located within walking distance from the future Expo light rail station and retail.
The City's agreement with Texas<|fim_middle|> and bicycle storage. The proposed parking structure is located where there is existing surface parking.
In the end, the development required only Administrative Approval.
On Monday, those who successfully fought off Bergamot Transit Village were glad to welcome Pen Factory.
"Whenever I drive by the Pen Plant I feel such a sense of pride as one of the more than 13,000 Santa Monica residents who circulated and signed the referendum to stop the massive development," said Tricia Crane, who has also been a leader for Residocracy.
"It was such a great day for democracy," she said. the day we turned in those petitions.
The much smaller adaptive reuse "is the hoped-for outcome," Melkonians said.
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"I thought then and still think it should have been housing," said Judy Abdo, a former mayor and leader of Santa Monica Forward, which advocates more transit-oriented development. | developer Hines also included $32.2 million in community benefits to schools, parks and public streets over the next 55 years.
Supporters heralded the project for adding housing next to transit -- a major goal for the environmentally conscious council. They also said it was better than allowing Hines to convert the site into office space, without negotiating community benefits.
But residents already fed up were angered by the thousands of new car trips the project would add daily and argued it was mostly office and commercial space with little affordable housing ("Hines Project Shrinks in Response to Criticism," August 17, 2011).
Activist Armen Melkonians created the online site Residocracy.org to start a grassroots petition drive to put a referendum before voters and, within days, had far more valid signatures than needed for the November election ("Santa Monica Referendum Gathers More than 13,000 Signatures," March 12, 2014).
In a rare move, the council then rescinded its decision on Bergamot. Hines subsequently sold the site to its current owners, who added little to the original 196,317-square-foot footprint ("Slow Growth Advocates Claim Victory in Battle Over Controversial Santa Monica Development," May 15, 2014).
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The year was 1932. The Great Depression had spread a blanket of uncertainty across the country, and those willing to make it into business had to be of a certain stock — determined, driven, and focused. Those qualities were what drove Max L. Holmes to open his own insurance agency<|fim_middle|> expert know-how, and integrity. Holmes Murphy's tradition of commitment to dynamic leadership and independent ownership continues in the shareholders who lead the company today. | . Holmes determined that hard work and dedicated customer service would sustain his business.
In 1948, Raymond Murphy, Jr. bounded onto the insurance scene as a "never-say-die" salesman with a fiercely competitive attitude, eventually becoming an insurance partner with Max Holmes. Ray Murphy was known for playing football with the famous University of Iowa 1939 Ironmen team, and it was his success on the football field that could have predicted his great success in the insurance industry.
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Bultu is a 32 year old woman who lives in a remote village in the West Wollega region of Ethiopia. Her village is almost <|fim_middle|> was found to be in distress and an emergency caesarean was carried out.
Bultu delivered a baby boy, Elsay, weighing 3.7kg and both she and the baby are healthy and well.
Two years later on a recent visit to Ethiopia we were able to catch up with Bultu to find out how she is getting in, you can read about her and Elsay here. | 2 hours walk from the nearest health centre.
When she was 34 weeks pregnant, Bultu attended the new Maternity Worldwide maternal health clinic at her nearest health centre at Homa. Staff at the clinic had been trained by Maternity Worldwide to identify which mothers face the highest risks when they deliver their babies.
One of the leading risk factors is the number of pregnancies a woman has had previously. This was Bultu's 5th pregnancy which meant that she was at risk from post partum haemorrhage (that is heavy bleeding following the birth, a major cause of death in mothers in developing countries). The nurse therefore advised Bultu to come to the clinic to have her baby so she could get the skilled care she needed.
Bultu followed this advice and came to the clinic when she was 41 weeks pregnant. She told the nurse her waters had broken a week earlier. The nurse, who had been trained by Maternity Worldwide in the procedure, carried out an ultrasound scan on Bultu which showed there was no fluid around the baby. Because of this both mother and baby were at risk of serious infection and Bultu was advised to have her baby at Gimbie Hospital.
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Don't Ask…
By Bill on April 22, 2021 Comments
(An earlier version of this was posted on the Authors Electric blog in January.)
To answer that perennially put question 'Where do you get your ideas from?' I always have to think hard. Often, for<|fim_middle|> of the Christian Radich on a voyage from Oslo to Leith. She's the ship which featured in the old BBC series, The Onedin Line. If you don't remember, or don't know the series, you'll see just how beautiful she is if you watch the opening of this Youtube clip:
Anyway, as well as the self-indulgence of taking turns at the wheel of such a vessel, it gave me the material for a long short story, Death Ship. I tried to make this permanently free on Amazon but apparently, that can't be done. So, if you'd like to know what it was like on the North Sea in a fresh South-Easter (with added murders), it'll either cost you 99p. for a Kindle copy or you can email me and I'll send you the typescript for nothing.
Posted in: 19th century sailing victorian fiction | occasions such as talks or workshops, to generate discussion or just activity, it's a question I put to myself. Because the problem is that completed books are more than 'ideas'. All sorts of things fit together to make them – characters, situations, progressions, solutions – and it all seems … well, complete, and certainly much more than just a few 'ideas'. I've written eleven novels so far and there's no real pattern which links them.
The 'idea' for the first in my crime series, Material Evidence, came from reading a book on forensic medicine. One of the cases described was very striking so I borrowed it but, by the time the characters had had their say, the details of the killing had changed completely and only one element of the forensic procedures remained.
The second, Rough Justice, was sparked in a meeting with a very rude, unpleasant individual for whose company I had to write a promotional DVD. He was so typical of a particular type of 'self-made' male that I wanted to pillory him. So I did and he became a plot-driver. Like all 'revenge' it would obviously have no effect on its target but writing it gave me great satisfaction, so maybe it was writing as therapy.
But that little revenge was nothing compared to the one I got on behalf of someone else in the next book, The Darkness. I was at a restaurant near Aberdeen with my wife and some friends (Remember what that used to be like?). The waiter's accent suggested he was from the west country down in England, which is where I originated. I remarked on it and said to him 'you're a long way from home' and he told me the reason why. His wife and two wee daughters had been killed by a drunk driver who'd been sentenced to just two years in prison but been released after eighteen months. 'That's six months for each life' as the waiter put it. It was such a tragic story and the memory of it stayed with me for years until, at last, I decided to try to exorcise it and started writing The Darkness. It obviously came from somewhere deep inside me because in the course of the story my policeman's character started changing and he was different in the two books that followed.
The germ of the next in the series, Shadow Selves, was also with me for years. An anaesthetist friend said that if ever I wanted to include an operation in a book, he could arrange for me to see one close up. I jumped at the chance, was worried that I'd faint, but went anyway and was fascinated not only by the various processes that had to be followed but also by the apparent nonchalance with which those involved went about doing them.
But I didn't use the information until years later. The last (so far) in the modern crime series came from a suggestion made by another friend who suggested that a North Sea oil platform would be a dramatic setting for a crime and that with so many being decommissioned, they were ripe for sabotage – and he was right. Hence Unsafe Acts. But, from the same (non-writer) friend came a totally different idea., one which led to, for me, the very enjoyable experience of writing my first historical novel.
Out of the blue, he said, 'You should write about a figurehead carver'. He had no idea where the thought had come from but I grabbed at the chance and that was the start of The Figurehead. I love sailing so, using research as an excuse, I sailed across the North Sea as a paying crew member on the beautiful square-rigger, the Christian Radich. I also went to wood carving classes, and enjoyed researching and recreating the Aberdeen of 1840. Even then, though, there was a twist because, although most of my books are basically crime novels, the central female character in that one took over and made it into a romance as well.
Not only that, the unresolved relationship between her and my carver needed another book, The Likeness, to bring it to a resolution. This time, another good friend added to the impulse to write by insisting in her review of The Figurehead that 'This novel is screaming for a sequel! I hope Bill Kirton will deliver!'
So, while I was the one who wrote them, the 'ideas' were definitely those of other people.
The 'idea' behind The Sparrow Conundrum, however, is something of a mystery. It's my first novel but it was rewritten many times before publication and I really don't know what made me start it. Up until then I'd written plays, but one day I just started writing the story and the characters were so extreme and absurd that I let them get on with it and wrote down what they did. They must have done something right because it eventually won the Forward National Literature Award for Humor.
There are a couple of other novels, each with its own separate trigger, but this is already too much like a promotional spiel. Its intention, however, is to try to direct readers' and interviewers' attention away from that relatively uninteresting and irrelevant, (and yet still most frequently asked) question with which I started. It has more answers than there are books, and each one is different. Much more important, I hope it may serve to encourage wannabe authors to trust their instincts, follow their (unique) ideas (then edit, cut, cut some more, and proofread with diligence).
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Alchemy or Serendipity?
By Bill on April 9, 2021 Comments
(This post was previously published on April 7th on the Authors Electric blog site.)
When it's going well, there's a certain alchemy to writing. I'll explain with reference to the last (so far) of my novels, The Likeness. It's embarrassing to admit that, when it was a WIP (Work In Progress), the IP bit went on for ages. In the good old days, it used to take me about 6 months to write the first draft of a novel, but The Likeness crawled on (and off) for at least 2 years. It eventually made it over the 70,000 word mark but I had no idea why it had been so much like hard work.
It's a sequel to The Figurehead, which is a historical crime novel that, in the course of writing, also became a romance, and part of the reason why I'd been dragging my heels was that I wasn't sure how I intended to resolve the problems of the relationship between a figurehead carver, John Grant, and Helen Anderson, the daughter of a rich merchant. The novel's set in 1841, when attitudes to marriage and extra-marital goings-on didn't leave much scope for … well, anything really.
But then something – a bit of alchemy – came out of the blue. As well as the romantic relationship and the obligatory crime, the story's architecture relied on two separate threads: the arrival in Aberdeen of a theatre group to perform melodramas at the Theatre Royal; and the determination of Helen, an only child, to become involved in the family business. And, without me planning, or at first even noticing it, they both began to reach a crucial stage at about the same time. For me, it was an interesting – and pleasant – discovery. But I soon realised that it was more than just a coincidence and I started looking at them in a different way, not as the writer but as a sort of analyst of how the various elements were working, what their 'significance' was. In a way, I started thinking like a potential critic or reviewer. I don't mean that I did it consciously; it's just now, writing this, that I realise that's the best way to sum up the experience. I wasn't looking at the situation and wondering where to take each thread next; instead I was aware of what turned out to be pretty obvious parallels between them. On their own, which is how it seemed, these two separate elements had started feeding off one another and were moving closer together.
It's not magical. The two threads were part of my imaginings. They belonged in the same mental space, and were, I suppose, bound to inform and affect one another, but that's at a subconscious level. The effect it had when I started considering them at the conscious level was to help me to understand them better and see how I could exploit the parallels. It was one of those 'being in the zone' experiences which now and then make writing such a privilege.
There's a secondary motive, however, for choosing this subject for a blog. As I mentioned in a previous blog, apart from introducing me to woodcarving, which I took up as part of my research and still enjoy, The Figurehead allowed me to indulge in a dream I'd always had – to sail in a square-rigger. For just a few days I was a paying member of the crew | 1,857 |
Hacks Season 3 Renewal Update: Everything You Need To Know
Entertainment / By Roman Martin / July 11, 2022 July 11, 2022
Hacks is a must-watch if you're a fan<|fim_middle|>.
The programme came to an end in early June, and as of this writing, there have been no announcements or updates regarding a potential season two extension. Until the channel acknowledges and approves this news, viewers should hold off on tuning in. The network may evaluate the show's performance and reception before continuing it in future seasons.
As far as Lucia Aniello was aware, the film has not yet been taken up for distribution. However, Paul, Jen, and I have already met and discussed our plans, so we're all in the same position. Our imaginations are soaring with possibilities, but we haven't been informed what to do with them yet, which is discouraging our progress. 'We already have season 3', says Jen Statsky. More is on the way. "We are very excited about what we have planned."
There will be a third season of the Emmy Award-winning HBO Max series "Hacks." After the season 2 finale implied that the programme would be permanently cancelled, fans were overjoyed to learn of the renewal.
The network has confirmed that the show will air, however, the network has yet to establish a start date. The series is expected to premiere in early to mid-2023 if we have to anticipate the release date.
Hacks Season 3 Cast
Without Deborah (Jean Smart) and Ava (Hannah Einbinder), the programme simply wouldn't be Hacks. Fans of Carl-Clemon Hopkins' Marcus, Paul W. Downs' Jimmy and Kayla and Rose Abdoo and Josefina are also likely to see their characters return. Lorenza Izzo and Ruby are also expected to return. Comedians like Margaret Cho appeared in the second season, so we may expect more appearances from real-life comedians in the third season.
Hacks Season 3 Trailer
No, as there has been no word on whether or not the show will be renewed. A lack of fresh trailers means that fans can't see a glimpse of the future episode and guess the storylines.
Here's a preview of the next season of Hacks. If you haven't seen the series yet, we strongly recommend it.
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Everything We Know About The Terminal List Season 2 | of comedic dramas. After two seasons of this Jean Smart-starred comedy series have been released, fans like you have been impatiently awaiting the announcement of season three of the hacks. In this article, we'll answer all of your questions on whether there will be a third season and what's in store for you. Wait patiently while we unveil all the secrets in this article.
1 Hacks Season 3 Plot
2 Hacks Season 3 Potential Release Date
3 Hacks Season 3 Cast
4 Hacks Season 3 Trailer
Hacks Season 3 Plot
If the new episodes of Hacks are any indication, there will be many questions left unanswered when the third season of the show returns.
Her self-financed and self-produced comedy spectacular has been a huge hit, and Deborah is ecstatic about it.
Her career has been given a fresh lease of life when it was purchased by a streaming service.
To be fair to Deborah, though, she fired Ava because she saw how she was stifling her career to maintain working with Deborah.
There's still IVF treatment going on for DJ, and Jimmy and Kayla are figuring out how to work together as a team after their previous roles as manager and assistant.
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Hacks Season 3 Potential Release Date
Hacks Season 3 has not yet been officially announced by HBO Max. The One, the Only, the second season finale of Hacks, aired just a few days ago on June 2, 2022. The episode was written by Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky and directed by Trent O'Donnell | 365 |
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Installation Was easy, and after a speedy launch, the Windows customer prompted us to select one of five modes: Stream, Internet Freedom, Security/Privacy, File Sharing and Dedicated IP. We guess most folks will wonder whether to select Internet Freedom or even Security/Privacy, and there's no advice to explain the gap.
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We took a Look at PureVPN's Android app, and it had been the exact same story as the Windows version. After choosing a'Mode' (not sure why)we managed to pick countries, cities, or pick a Purpose (optimized for China, unblock that streaming service, and so on). It is more awkward to use than the VPN program, but you'll find it out easily enough.
In a Inspection , we pointed out that PureVPN made a big deal of its'zero log' policy. Nevertheless, the small print said there was some session logging, which appeared to include the time you connect to a server, your incoming IP address and the total bandwidth used.
This Is not a detail. Back in October 2017 reports emerged of a guy being detained on suspicion of running"a comprehensive cyberstalking campaign", in part according to PureVPN records showing that its services were accessed from appearing IPs such as the accused man's home and workplace. The'zero log' VPN kept some sort of logs, after all, and these were able to assist connect internet actions to a particular account.
This Does not address the issue of why the firm described itself as maintaining'zero logs' at the primary portion of the website, however, when this turned out to not be entirely correct. That is also not a trivial point. Logging policies are based almost entirely on trust, along with a VPN isn't inclined to be reliable if it's seen to mislead users or bury the reality of a situation from the small print.
The Policy also explains the minimum link information it does record –'We all know the day you connected to some particular VPN location and from that Internet Service Provider' — and covers plenty of other vital issues in a clear and readable manner.
We Double-clicked the BBC choice, and viewed as the customer joined and displayed a'err-network-changed' message. What? This seemed like a severe problem, but the browser had only detected the shift in our network settings as the client connected, and once this was complete, the BBC iPlayer website opened and opened content as normal.
It had been Much the exact same story with Netflix. The customer started our browser before the connection was complete, thus we saw the exact same error message, but this disappeared mechanically, and we were free to navigate and stream whatever Netflix articles we enjoyed.
You're Not limited to the services built into PureVPN's apps. YouTube wasn't included on the list, for example, but connecting to a US server got us in.
Our Normal performance tests involve running custom software which links to servers, checking ping time speeds, place and much more. Regrettably, we couldn't get this working with PureVPN, or determine why (whether that's our fault or theirs, we can not be sure).
We fell Back on our old manual way of linking via clients and checking the results from various speed checking sites, such as SpeedTest.net, Fast.com and TestMy.net. This will not give us to work with, but there's still enough to get a feel for exactly what the service can provide.
Our local UK servers varied a bit more than normal, but nevertheless gave us acceptable speeds of 50-65Mbps on our test 75Mbps connection.
Close Speeds were mildly under average. Here they have been, although netherlands relations can deliver substantially the same speeds for us as UK servers.
US Performance ranged from approximately 30Mbps on the coast, on the east to 50Mbps. That's far from the fastest we've seen, but unless you are likely 24 hours of intensive torrenting, it's probably not going to cause you any issues.
As usual, Speeds tailed off to the places that were more distant or less typical. By way of instance, New Zealand averaged 12Mbps, Vietnam had been 10Mbps, 1Mbps was reached by Taiwan, and China ranged down to such a speed the web benchmarking sites often stalled mid-test. That places the magnitude of PureVPN's system into perspective (having loads of servers doesn't matter whether many are unusably slow), but if you are only planning to use the significant locations, it won't matter very much.
On a few Events, our PureVPN Windows client wasn't able to connect to our chosen test server. The issue here is that the link did not time out for several minutes, and the Cancel button didn't work, although that is not unusual.
Let us start off by making one thing clear, i.e. whatever VPN service you use, the online rate is going to take a hit. That strike is a result of the security measures used to encrypt and protect your identity. The majority of VPN services make every effort to ensure that the hit is as mild as it can be. Unlike what many people will have you think like using dial-up that it's not going to be.
The way we tested the performance was by using Ookala's nifty speed testing site and app. We ran the speed test on both domestic and international servers. We then compared the outcomes and that's how we discovered PureVPN to be quicker.
PureVPN has a domestic latency of a mere 6.7percent percent. As a matter of fact, during our evaluations, PureVPN improved speeds which by our calculations is an unbelievable 346% percent. We discovered that rival VPN providers were slower. Some individuals suspect were throttling download speeds perhaps because they didn't wish to worry their servers.
Once it comes to uploads, PureVPN did not really boost it did with downloads, but it required a mere 4.5% percent hit. If anything this remains among the very best upload scores we've seen from a VPN provider.
Throughout our global speed tests, the latency increased by 200%. Though download rates have been still a whopping 403.8% percent better than some of the competing products I tested it against. The uploads have been 22.7% percent slower which is second best compared to possibly Hotspot Shield which enhanced the upload rate by 1.4% percent.
The map on the left lets you bypass the software's default recommendation and decide on a server for yourself. Keep in mind that by default PureVPN chooses the fastest server which is often the nearest one. When in China I discovered it kept picking up servers in Hong Kong by default that's not simply nearby but also the fact that Hong Kong's cyberspace is much less rigorously censored as mainland China.
PureVPN has over 2000 servers that are spread across 140 countries and 180 locations around the world. Servers are located in Africa, Central America, South America, North America, Europe, Asia, and Asia. You might believe that PureVPN only has servers in nations which perhaps don't censor or block websites, but you would be wrong. Servers in Russia, Turkey, and China are there just in case they were wanted by you.
Over the years VPN providers, generally speaking, have received bad press for infamously slowing down internet speeds that consumers have not been happy with obviously. There are many VPN services that slow down what may be slow net. Luckily, with PureVPN that's not the case even if you use it to flow Netflix, YouTube, etc..
I've used dozens of VPN apps through time, and PureVPN is like a breath of fresh air. It is simple to use and compared to the last time I used the app its now geared towards people who are new to using VPNs. The moment PureVPN loads you're motivated to pick from five options, i.e. Safety, Internet Freedom, Stream, Remote/Dedi IP (this feature offers you a dedicated IP) and Document Sharing. The program delivers an experience that is based on the option selected.
Another thing I like about PureVPN is that every one of the attributes are to the stage. For example, their Internet Freedom feature enables you to select what area you need to access Netflix out of, such as from the UK, Australia, etc.. In which it is otherwise blocked, you could even access Netflix.
In comparison with the last time I used PureVPN now around it felt zippier. The interface has been bright, with pictures some of which could be hard to read on a display that is smaller. You are going to observe the current IP address, link status, and the length of your session When you are connected to a personal server.
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Like many other competing VPN services, you choose the server and the nation it's based in. You can search for servers and then click them to link. Apparently, some servers based on where you are found are likely to be faster than others because of reduced latency.
We've admittedly used PureVPN before, but following a hiatus or perhaps two years we pretty much forgot how things worked. You'll need to put in your email and choose a password As soon as you've chose to register and download their software. Interestingly and perhaps confusingly, this is not what you will use to log-in to the program, but rather it's used for charging purposes.
After subscribers have compensated, they get an email with the username and password in plain text. We have used VPNs that use the same method to payment identities that were distinguish from consumer identities which guarantees anonymity. Yet we believe that it may be perplexing to first-time customers but its something you get used to. Plus, in our experience the email tends to property for some reason on your spam folder, so be sure before calling service to check that.
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We're, Though It's an impressive Quantity of work Unsure how reliable and successful it might be. We checked the manual OpenVPN setup manual and found it failed completely. OpenVPN wasn't installed there were no PureVPN configuration files, and there was no information in the manual to help us figure this out.
If the Site can not help, you can send an email or increase a support ticket from inside the client. We chose the ticket route and the service performed with the support team sending a answer to our evaluation question to us .
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Vans is adding to its Disney sneakers and accessories collaboration.
Vans wants it to be happily ever after.
The Cypress, Calif.-based brand, which has had a highly popular partnership with entertainment conglomerate<|fim_middle|> to name a few. | Disney, today added to its offering. The skate brand today debuted two Disney prints as part of its Vans Customs program.
The duo of prints — a canvas-colored option with Mickey Mouse along with Pluto, and a bright pink version with Minnie Mouse — will appear on sneakers, backpacks and hats, ranging in price from $35 to $85.
Shoppers can customize the shoes and accessories — namely the Vans SK8-Hi, Slip-On, backpack and trucker hat — online at vans.com through Sept. 4. Styles are also available for young children. All styles can be done on a variety of fabrics.
The additional items follow the shoe and apparel collection launched in May, a six-piece offering that featured Mickey and Minnie Mouse on two colorways of the Vans Classic Slip-Ons. For that collection, the Vans designers styled Mickey in a red sneaker and Minnie in a pink sneaker.
Vans began collaborating with Disney years ago, when the first Vans store opened in Anaheim, Calif., near Disneyland Resort.
Vans has had a number of high-profile collaborations this summer. It has worked with renowned Japanese designer Takashi Murakami, Ohio-based graphic artist Don Pendleton and British label Eley Kishimoto, | 257 |
Denver-based Frontier Airlines is an LCC subsidiary of Republic Airways Holdings. Frontier operates a fleet of recognisable Airbus narrowbody aircraft, all of which feature a unique 'spokesanimal' on the tail. From its Denver hub, Frontier operates extensive services across the US as well as to Mexico and Costa Rica. By Capa aviation.
Frontier Airlines Launches 'Countdown to Cancun':
Warmth Is Just Seven Days and $89 Away
DENVER: Frontier Airlines (Nasdaq: FRNT) is starting the clock and revving its engines, readying for non-stop service from St. Louis to Cancun. In just one week, travelers can be basking in the sun on Cancun's world-famous white beaches, all for just $89* one-way. So, buy now and start your own countdown to Cancun, whether you plan to travel next week, next month, or beyond.
The $89* one-way price is available today, Feb. 18 through Feb. 21, 2005 for travel from Feb. 25 through May 22, 2005.
With the new service, Frontier more than doubles previous scheduled,
non-stop service between St. Louis and Cancun. "We're among an elite group as one of only two airlines to offer scheduled, non-stop service between
St. Louis and Cancun," said Senior Director of Marketing and Communications Andrew Hudson. "The St. Louis community has been tremendously supportive of Frontier, and we can't think of a better way to repay their generosity than with low fares and the industry's best service to a premier vacation destination like Cancun."
Frontier will celebrate the inaugural St. Louis to Cancun flight throughout the day on Friday, Feb. 25, leading up to the first flight's departure at 4:25 p.m. The airline will bring the taste of Mexico to
St. Louis with morning Mexican pastries and giveaways. The celebration<|fim_middle|> reservations at 800-4321-FLY.
To make a reservation, customers may visit Frontier's Web sit at www.frontierairlines.com, contact Frontier Airlines at 1-800-4321-FLY, or consult their professional travel agent.
*Fare shown is one-way, but roundtrip purchase is required for nonstop travel to/from Cancun Tuesday, Friday and Sunday. Flights will not operate on 3/1, 3/6, 3/13 and 3/18/05. This special fare is only available on nonstop flights between St. Louis and Cancun. Maximum stay 120 days. Tickets must be booked and paid for by 10:00 pm MST 2/21/05 or within 24 hours whichever comes first. Seats are limited and certain flights and/or days of travel may be unavailable at these prices, especially during busy travel periods. Tickets are nonrefundable and nontransferable, but may be reissued for a $100 change fee plus any applicable difference in fare. Previously purchased tickets may not be exchanged for these special fare tickets. Fares do not include passenger facilities fees of up to $18 roundtrip, the September 11th Security Fee of up to $10 roundtrip, or fees of $3.20 per segment. A segment is defined as one takeoff and one landing. Federal International Air Transportation Taxes of $28.20 roundtrip or foreign departure taxes, customs and immigration fees, airport improvement and health inspection fees and tourism fees combined for up to $70 are not included in this fare. Fares and schedules are subject to change without notice and other restrictions may apply. Nonstop service between St. Louis and Cancun begins 2/25/05.
About Frontier
Currently in its 11th year of operations, Denver-based Frontier Airlines is the second largest jet service carrier at Denver International Airport with a fleet of 47 aircraft and employing approximately 4,500 aviation professionals. Frontier, in conjunction with Frontier JetExpress operated by Horizon Air, operates routes linking our Denver hub to 44 destinations in
25 states spanning the nation from coast-to-coast and to five cities in Mexico. Frontier's maintenance and engineering department has received the Federal Aviation Administration's highest award, the Diamond Certificate of Excellence, in recognition of 100 percent of its maintenance and engineering employees completing advanced aircraft maintenance training programs, for five consecutive years. In July 2004, Frontier ranked as one of the "Top 10 Domestic Airlines" as determined by readers of Travel & Leisure magazine. Frontier provides capacity information and other operating statistics on its Web site, which may be viewed at www.frontierairlines.com.
CONTACT: Zoe' Guynn of Frontier Airlines, +1-720-374-4505, zguynn@flyfrontier.com/
Web site: http://www.frontierairlines.com / | will continue at Frontier's gate D6 at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.
Flights between St. Louis and Cancun will operate three times per week, on Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday. Passengers can also fly non-stop from Denver to the beautiful beaches of Puerto Vallarta, Cabo San Lucas, Mazatlan, and Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo.
Passengers on Frontier -- to Mexico or any destination coast-to-coast -- enjoy unique amenities including low fares, new Airbus jets, 24 channels of LiveTV, first-run movies on demand, and Frontier's generous EarlyReturns frequent flyer program, which allows travelers to earn a free ticket at only 15,000 miles domestically and 25,000 miles to Mexico -- the lowest in the aviation industry.
To kick off the new service between Cancun and St. Louis, Frontier is offering double miles to its Early Returns members who fly the route by March 31, 2005. To enroll in the program, customers can visit Frontier's Web site at www.frontierairlines.com, pick up an EarlyReturns enrollment form at any Frontier airport counter or call Frontier's EarlyReturns Service Center toll-free hotline at 866-26-EARLY or Frontier's | 263 |
Certificate in Management and Financial Accounting
TThe Certificate in Management and Financial Accounting (previously Certificate in International Public Financial Management) consists of two modules: Management Accounting and Financial Accounting.
The Management Accounting module provides an introduction to the principles of costing and budgeting and their use in providing information to support management decision making. The skills and knowledge that students develop in this module are crucial in performing the finance professional roles of steward, enabler and innovator and underpin much of the activity associated with the business partner role.
The Financial Accounting Module provides an introduction to accounting theory, ethics, bookkeeping and the preparation of financial statements, which are all fundamental to the stewardship role performed by finance professionals in modern organisations.
View the Course Brochure here.
The Certificate in Management and Financial Accounting (previously Certificate in International Public Financial Management) Module Dates for 2023 are outlined below.
Management Accounting (MA)
Full Day Workshops: (In Person at the Institute of Public Administration, Dublin) 9:30am - 12:30pm and 1:30pm - 4:00pm
13 February 2023*, 3 May 2023 and 4 May 2023 (Revision Session)
Half Day Workshops (Online): 9:30am - 12:30pm
17 February 2023, 3 March 2023, 10 March 2023 and 4 April 2023
Exam Date: 5 June 2023
*Change from originally advertised 1 February 2023
Financial Accounting (FA)
10 February 2023, 15 May 2023 and 16 May 2023 (Revision Session)
24 February 2023, 24 March 2023, 31 March 2023 and 18 April 2023
Mix of Full and Half Day workshops over Four Months
Fee: The Certificate consists of two modules: Financial Accounting and Management Accounting. The total cost of the two module programme is €2,950 per person. To complete one module only, the cost is €1,650 per person per module. (2023).
Cost includes CIPFA Registration, access to module/course materials including videos and class notes plus two exam sittings for each module. In addition, students will have access to "MyCIPFA profile" which contains additional resources.
This Certificate in Management and Financial Account<|fim_middle|> for public service organisations.
Financial Accounting includes fundamental content on ethical principles, and it is therefore appropriate that it is studied at an early stage. As it provides fundamental knowledge of financial accounting, it should ideally be studied before CFR and PSFR.
Purpose and context of financial accounting (5%)
Professional ethics, values and attitudes (10%)
Accounting concepts and double entry principles (20%)
Recording transactions and exercising control (35%)
Financial statements preparation (30%)
This course will be delivered by members of our experienced Finance Team: Majella Malone and Dr. Deirdre Bane.
Application (pdf 1828 kb)
Brochure (pdf 1562 kb) | ig programme is suitable for students working in all parts of the public sector, from large central government departments and local authorities to public agencies. New responsibilities or career ambitions may well mean that you require additional education in public financial management. As the programme is delivered through a blend of distance education and on-line resources, you can work toward a qualification while remaining in fulltime employment.
Successful completion of this qualification will equip students with the skills to prepare accounting records per international standards, to draw up simple financial statements, record data relating to costs and use costing and budgeting techniques to help non-financial managers to make decisions and manage finances effectively.
The Certificate in Management and Financial Accounting Module Content is as follows:
Management Accounting Module
The module starts by putting the role of management accounting into context within the accounting and finance function and explains the value of useful management information. The module covers the nature of costs and cost behaviour, before focusing on the application of costing techniques such as marginal costing, absorption costing, activity based costing (ABC) and process costing. Students learn the key aspects of standard costing and variance analysis, and the use of costing information to evaluate performance using techniques such as customer profitability analysis and key factor analysis.
The other substantive area in the Management Accounting syllabus is budgeting. The importance of the budget setting process and the types and uses of budgets are explored before dealing are explored before dealing with the practical skills involved in preparing budgets and estimating costs for inclusion in a budget using techniques such as regression analysis and learning curves.
As it provides fundamental knowledge of management accounting, it is advisable to study the module before the Financial Accounting module.
Syllabus Topics include:
Role of management accounting (5%)
Costs, cost behaviour and cost accounting (30%)
Budgeting (30%)
Control and decision making (35%)
Financial Accounting Module
The essential elements of ethics, values and attitudes as they apply to the accounting profession are introduced, focusing on knowledge of the content of the CIPFA Statement of Professional Practice (SoPP). Application of this knowledge in different contexts is covered in a number of other modules of the qualification. The Financial Accounting module sets out the purpose of financial accounting, the needs of the users of accounting information, and the general regulatory framework. The student is then taken through the main processes involved in financial accounting, from using ledgers to record transactions, through the use of control procedures, to the end result of preparing complete financial statements in standard formats.
The module focuses on sole traders, limited companies and clubs and societies to develop knowledge and skills across these topics. There is brief coverage of a limited number of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) - see table of examinable standards for coverage across relevant modules of the qualification. More detailed coverage of IFRSs is included in Company Financial Reporting (CFR) for limited companies and in Public Service Financial Reporting (PSFR) | 585 |
Jenna Fischer from 'The Office' Coming to Minnesota to Shoot a Movie
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Twitter went crazy a few months ago when Pam and Jim from The Office started talking trash during the NHL Finals.
Jenna Fischer and John Krasinski are both HUGE hockey fans and had a lot of fun going back and forth with each other.
Jenna's team did<|fim_middle|> begin in February in many locations including Eveleth, Minn., Virginia, Minn., the Thunderbird Mine and a variety of hockey rinks on the Range, in Duluth and in St. Paul.
Source: Jenna Fischer from 'The Office' Coming to Minnesota to Shoot a Movie
Filed Under: minnesota | eventually win the Stanely Cup and now she's turning her attention to a hockey movie that will be shot here in Minnesota.
"Way of the Warriors" is an independent film that tells the story of a small Minnesota town that is "bonded by their proud heritage and shared values" and their hockey team that rallies together for an improbable and magical season.
According to the Star Tribune, shooting will | 79 |
Search engines connect users to relevant content (usually in a webpage, but can also be videos, images, maps, answer boxes, etc.) based on their search term or query. They aim to provide a set of results that matches the user intent expressed through the search query. Google, Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, etc are the examples of some famous search engines.
Search engines provide a facility to search their database of web pages and related elements (documents, videos, images, answer boxes, etc.) through a simple interface (text box or voice input) i.e. Search box.
Search Engines have billions of web pages and elements in their database. Search engine basically works on few important processes and components.
Crawling is the acquisition of data about a website. Crawling is a process by which search engines crawler/ spiders/bots scan a website and collect details about each page: titles, images, videos, content, keywords, other linked pages, etc.
An index is another name for the database used by a search engine. Indexes contain the information on all the websites that Google (or any other search engine) was able to find. If a website is not in a search engine's index, users will not be able to find it. The process of storing the crawled website data into the database is called 'Indexing'.
When user enters any query in the search box in Google, the search engine apply different and applicable algorithm rules on the website present in the index/database and displays the best possible result<|fim_middle|> depending on the search query intent.
Google Updates: Google makes changes to their algorithms.
Domain Authority and Trust: Trust of a search engines or users on the website. 0 is the lowest and 100 being the highest.
PA – Page Authority – Reputation earned by website page.
Webinar: Online seminar using web technologies.
Podcasting: Audio streaming of the lectures or talks. | within a fraction of seconds. This process of displaying result is called rankings of websites in SERP.
Rankings refers to a website's position in the search engine results page. There are various ranking factors that influence whether a website appears higher on the SERP based on the content relevance to the search term, or the quality of backlinks pointing to the page.
Search Engine Results Pages (SERP) are the pages displayed by search engines in response to a query by a searcher. The main component of the SERP is the listing of results that are returned by the search engine in response to a keyword query.
The table below shows SERP Features that commonly appear in Google SERPs.
The results are of two general types, organic search and paid search (i.e., retrieved by the search engine's algorithm) and sponsored (i.e., advertisements). The results are normally ranked by relevance to the query.
Each result displayed on the SERP normally includes a title, a link that points to the actual page on the Web and a short description showing where the keywords have matched content within the page for organic results. For sponsored results, the advertiser chooses what to display.
The SERP information may change | 239 |
Manor Square Dental Practice is a modern practice offering high quality dentistry in a personal, relaxed and family-friendly environment. We are conveniently located within travelling distance of the West Yorkshire towns of Pool, Yeadon, Guiseley, Otley, Ilkley and Harewood, as well as North Yorkshire and Harrogate.
Over the last 10 years, we have developed the Practice to bring together various aspects of dentistry under one roof. This means we can provide excellent continuity of care for a wide range of dentistry<|fim_middle|> be verified and your records located.
If you are happy for your data to be extracted and used for purposes described in this privacy notice then you do not need to do anything. If you have any concerns about how your data is shared then please contact the practice.
The practice is registered with the ICO. | treatment plans, from routine and preventative dental care to more complex cosmetic dental procedures, implants and smile makeovers.
We are dedicated to quality family dental care. This includes providing a good dental experience for children, which will set them on the right track for their future oral health.
Clients can often find the cost of dental treatment a confusing one. At Manor Square Dental Practice, we pride ourselves on maintaining competitive prices, with clear and flexible pricing options. You can view a guide to our typical costs on our Pricing page.
For an appointment to suit you, call 01943 461501 or request a free call back from us. You can also use our form to submit your submit your appointment request to us and we'll get back to you shortly.
This privacy notice explains why the Dental Practice collects information about you and how that information may be used.
Health care professionals who provide you with care maintain records about your health and treatment or care you have received previously. These records are used to help provide you with the best possible healthcare.
Details about you, such as your name, address, carers name and emergency contact.
Any contact the surgery has had with you, such as appointments, routine or emergency.
Results from laboratories, tests or x-rays.
Relevant information from other health care professionals, relatives or those who care for you.
To ensure the best possible care, your records are used to facilitate the care you receive. Information held about you may be used to protect the health of the public and to help us manage the NHS. Information may be used within the practice for clinical audit to monitor the quality of the service provided. There are strict measures in place so individual patients cannot be identified.
We will only ever use or pass on information about you if others involved in your care have a genuine need for it. we will not disclose your information to any third party without your permission unless there are exceptional circumstances (i.e. life or death situations), where the law requires information to be passed on and/or in accordance with the new information sharing principle following Dame Fiona Caldicott's sharing review (to share or not to share) where "the duty to share information can be as important as the duty to protect the patient confidentiality". This means that health and social care professionals should have the confidence to share information in the best interests of their patients within the framework set out by the caldicott principles. They should be supported by the policies of their employers, regulators and professional bodies.
In your request you will need to give adequate information e.g. full name. Address, dob, nhs number. This is so that your identity can | 534 |
Have you tried My Digital Studio from Stampin' Up!® yet?
I always thought I would only ever play around with the "real thing" - that is making my<|fim_middle|> than directly from Stampin' Up! | own embellishments, textured papers and stamping, to create cards and scrap pages, but I have to admit to a fascination to this My digital Studio.
The excellent option provided by Stampin' Up! is a "try before you buy" option. You can download a FREE trial for 30 days. No cost, no obligation. How good is that? Have a look for yourself.
To sweeten the deal a little, starting May 1st there will be 25% off the cost of lots of Digital Downloads, and every Tuesday there are new downloads to see and buy if you wish. Often free downloads will be offered so you need to keep checking.
This is what is on offer this week, and the May wallpaper, to the left is Free!
See my facebook page for further details about My Digital Studio and Digital downloads, plus samples of what a novice can do!
It is so easy to order any of your Stampin' Up! products via my website now, but just a friendly word - you'll get better prices if you order via the website of a demonstrator rather | 223 |
Italian restaurant at home. Only one New York City restaurant can claim to be Frank Sinatra's favorite: Patsy's Italian restaurant on West 56th Street, featuring Neapolitan cuisine.
Five lucky winners will win the cookbook from the restaurant, to cook the cuisine that Sinatra loved.
Patsy's Cookbook: Classic Italian Recipes From A New York<|fim_middle|> drawing. Approximate Retail Value Of Prize: $27.50. This contest closes on Monday, January 17th at noon, Eastern Time. Good luck! | City Landmark Restaurant, by Salvatore Scognamillo, presents 100 recipes from the classic southern Italian cuisine that's become American comfort food.
Plan a buffet dinner of Mussels Arreganata, Fettuccine Alfredo, Rigatoni Sorrentino, Chicken Parmigiana, Veal Marsala and Shrimp Scampi, with Tiramisù for dessert.
Directions for the 100 recipes are simple and well adapted to home cooking; the book will please both old and new fans alike.
To Enter This Gourmet Giveaway: Go to the box at the bottom of our Italian Cookbooks Page and click to enter your email address for the prize | 141 |
NN Group is an insurance and asset management company active in 18 countries, with a strong presence in a number of European countries and Japan. NN Group's roots lie in the Netherlands, with a rich history that stretches over 170 years.
NN Group is committed to helping our customers secure their financial future, offering retirement services, insurance, investments and banking products. Our customers range from individuals and small and medium-sized companies to large corporates and institutional investors. We operate through agents, intermediaries and banks, as well as directly with customers through our websites and contact centers.
With more than 15,000 employees, NN aims to deliver high-quality service and products. Our approach is committed, straightforward and personal. We seek to offer our customers value for money, freeing them up to focus their resources on what matters to them.
NN's corporate values are: we care, we are clear and we commit. We put our scale to good use, offering our customers a wide variety of insurance and investment solutions across the globe.
NN Group includes Nationale-Nederland<|fim_middle|> | en, NN, Delta Lloyd, NN Investment Partners, ABN AMRO Insurance, Movir, AZL, BeFrank and OHRA. Formerly part of ING Group, NN Group listed as an independent company on Euronext Amsterdam on 2 July 2014.
NN Investment Partners offers its products and services globally through offices in several countries across Europe, the United States and Asia, with the Netherlands as its main investment hub. | 91 |
Fluff the quinoa and fold in the beans<|fim_middle|>. I liked it just the way it came out.
I used this as a side dish. I had a HUGE zucchini & just used part of the stuffing to fill it. Then I cut each stuffed half to make 4 servings. I left out the almonds and decreased the EVOO & the Parm. These changes drastically reduced the calories etc. to about 1/4. Very good. Served with Garlic & Herb Roasted Turkey.
I would make the stuffing again as a side dish or main course with something else. The zucchini didn't do anything for this dish (very bland). The stuffing was very tasty and an addition of some pepper sauce really made it awesome.
This is a great vegetarian meal. It is surprisingly filling. I didn't have to adjust any of the ingredients. It is perfect just the way it is. I usually fix it with a side salad. It's one of my favorites! | , tomatoes, almonds, garlic, 1/2 cup of the Parmesan, and 3 tablespoons of the oil.
Spoon the mixture into the zucchini. Top with the remaining tablespoon of oil and 1/4 cup Parmesan. Cover with foil and bake until the zucchini is tender, 25 to 30 minutes. Remove the foil and bake until golden, 8 to 10 minutes.
I had several zucchini and lots of cherry tomatoes from the garden, so I tried this recipe. I would definitely make it again. It is definitely a healthy main dish, vegetarian, and I served it with spinach salad. The garlic and parmesan cheese gave it lots of flavor. It did not need any salt or pepper | 153 |
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The kiap reunion 2013: Chips Mackellar
by president · September 16, 2015
It was the biggest Kiap Reunion ever. Held on 10 November 2013 at the Kawana Waters Motel at Mooloolaba on the Queensland Sunshine Coast, a total of 307 kiaps, wives and descendants attended, not counting those who arrived late and did not report in to the reception desk. We were honoured by a visit from our PNGAA President, Andrea Williams, who came with a movie team which is producing a DVD sponsored by PNGAA, on the life and times of the kiaps. They conducted a series of interviews with some of the kiaps attending the reunion.
As with previous kiap reunions, kiaps and their families came from near and far. Nearby from Southern Queensland 146; with 78 from NSW; 48 from Victoria, and 13 from ACT, four each from South Australia, Tasmania and Far North Queensland and three from the Northern Territory. Also, Chris Makin and Peter Salmon, both recently returned from working in PNG, came together with Graham Pople. Roger and Judy Fairhall came from Hong Kong, where they migrated to be close to their daughter and grand-children who now live there. Dan Claasen came from Kenya. He went there to work for the United Nations, then retired there, and has lived there ever since. And would you believe from up there near the Arctic Circle came Ves Karnups from where he is now Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Latvia. We are particularly honoured that these kiaps came from so far to be with us for this reunion.
Despite our advanced years, some of us are still easily recognised. Bob Cleland is easily recognizable because he looks just like his father, Sir Donald. Bob Hoad is still tall and skinny like he always was, and so is Ross Johnson. They are easy to spot. But the sad truth is that some of us have changed so dramatically with the passing years that if we passed each other in the street we might never recognise each other today. Fortunately, recognition at the reunion was made easy because we all wore name tags.
There was much discussion at the reunion about the Police Overseas Service Medal (pictured), which was awarded to kiaps this year. Most said that they were happy to receive the medal, although some kiaps said they<|fim_middle|> Overseas Service Medal be changed to accommodate kiaps, on the basis that, whatever our other duties may have been from time to time, we were all officers of the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary. The message had finally got through.
But there was a problem. The Australian Honours and Awards System is the prerogative of the Queen. It was the Queen who established the Police Overseas Service Medal by Letters Patent in 1991, and only the Queen could alter the criteria to include kiaps. Not to worry though you see, because Scott Morrison was able to convince Jason Clare, the then Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Justice of the justness of our cause, and Jason Clare took the matter to the then Prime Minister Julia Gillard, and Julia Gillard agreed to seek the Queen's assent to alter the criteria. And so it came to pass that, by Letters Patent of 6 June 2013, Her Majesty the Queen altered the criteria for the award of the Police Overseas Service Medal to include "patrol officers in the Territory of Papua New Guinea." And that is how we got our medal.
Our sincere thanks go to Chris Viner-Smith and all those other kiaps who supported his medal campaign; to the Hon. Scott Morrison, Minister for Immigration, for bringing the matter to the notice of Parliament; to the Hon. Jason Clare for taking the matter to Prime Minister Julia Gillard; to Julia Gillard for referring the matter to the Queen; and to Her Majesty the Queen who made the decision to grant us our medal. Our thanks also go to the Federal Police Commissioner Tony Negus whose officers arranged the distribution of the medals to us.
For those of us who have not yet received the medal, its photo here is the front view, depicting the globe of the world overlaid by a sprig of wattle. The reverse side carries the kiap's name surrounded in roundel by the words "Police Overseas Service Medal."
As with past reunions at Kawana Waters, this year the emphasis was on informality. No speeches, no guests of honour, no set seating plan, and no start or finish time. People just arrived for lunch on Sunday and circulated to meet and greet old friends. Some stayed for dinner that night, and some reassembled for breakfast the next day at Belisimo restaurant on the waterfront at Mooloolaba. Unfortunately, Belisimo suffered a power outage before most people could order their breakfast, and many wandered off to have breakfast at the many other restaurants on the waterfront, never to return. Some stayed at Belisimo until the power came on again, but by then we were few in number. The reunion fittingly came to an end at 11 am on Monday 11 November (Remembrance Day 2013). That is, the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the moment the Great War ended was the exact same moment 95 years later that this great reunion ended, when the last survivors, Rod and Virginia Donovan, Bob Hoad, and Bob and Heather Fayle, said their goodbyes and went their separate ways. It was a poignant finale to a remarkable reunion. As Roger Fairhall, who came from Hong Kong to be with us, said "I have attended the Kawana Waters reunions for some years and wouldn't miss them now for the friendship and camaraderie they provide." I think this encapsulates the essence of these reunions.
Our thanks go to Bob and Heather Fayle, and to Denys and Helen Faithful for organising the reunion, with particular thanks to Peter Salmon who keeps our ex-kiap website alive, keeps us in touch with each other, and helped with the mail-out of invitations. Our thanks also go to those who came from far away, that is, from inter-state and from overseas, to be with us, to renew friendships and to catch up with each other's experiences. It was indeed, a wonderful and a memorable reunion.
And finally, our thanks also go to our gracious PNGAA President Andrea Williams and her management team who by Una Voce, website and DVD are preserving our stories so that the legends of the kiaps will live on, long after we are gone. Many thanks to all of you.
Bob Falye and Andrea Williams
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PNGAA 68th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING – 28 April 2019, Address by Incoming President – MAX UECHTRITZ
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Papua New Guinea Association of Australia Copyright 2014 | thought we should have been awarded our own medal, and some said they didn't want any medal at all. Those of us who have accepted the medal are indebted to the many people who lobbied hard for us to get it. Foremost amongst these is Chris Viner-Smith who started the ball rolling way back in 2002 by writing letters to various ministers including the then Prime Minister John Howard, suggesting the need to honour the past service of kiaps with an appropriate medal. The initial response was disappointing, but persistence and perseverance have their just rewards. With thousands of phone calls, letters and emails, Chris continued to lobby those in the corridors of power, including in 2008, the then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. Chris was assisted by other kiaps including Mike Douglas who lobbied his MP Scott Morrison, the current Minister for Immigration. And so it happened that on 16 November 2009 Scott Morrison, in the presence of several kiaps in the public gallery, rose in Parliament to propose that the eligibility criteria for grant of the Police | 219 |
The Basics of E-Discovery , Chapter 3: Data Preservation
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In many ways, preservation sets the foundation for the e-discovery process. It involves taking steps to ensure that potentially relevant data is not destroyed during the pendency of a legal or regulatory matter. Preservation failures, while easy to make, can carry serious consequences, including severe sanctions that result from spoliation, the destruction or alterationof relevant evidence. Preservation is most commonly associated with legal holds, but the two are not synonymous. A defensible preservation process includes many activities and considerations beyond issuing a legal hold.
Learn the fundamentals of preserving electronically stored information (ESI) in this video introduction to data preservation.
There is a lot to think about when it comes to preservation. Of course, above all else, you want to fulfill your legal obligations and make sure electronically stored information (ESI) relevant to litigation is protected from deletion or modification.
But that's only part of the story. Preserving too much data leads to problems as well, potentially as harmful to a company as an e-discovery sanction. What's worse, dealing with preservation blunders and inefficiencies can throw case efforts completely off course, diverting attention away from the substance of the litigation and consuming valuable resources. In other words, even when spoliation and sanctions are avoided, preservation can still be a source of major problems.
We'll begin our preservation journey by looking at what's actually required.
Preservation Obligations
Your duty to preserve ESI for e-discovery is not enshrined in any law or even explicitly defined in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP). It's born out of case law, the bulk of which is fairly recent. As you might imagine, there are grey areas surrounding preservation requirements, and different jurisdictions have their own specific standards. That being said, case law is fairly consistent around a few key areas:
The duty to preserve evidence begins when a party knows of or has a reasonable anticipation of future litigation. The important thing to remember here is that the duty to preserve can be triggered before a lawsuit has been filed or preservation letter has been received (see section on preservation letters below). For an example of preservation obligations being triggered prior to the commencement of litigation, read our E-Discovery Case Law Library alert on Mathew Enter., Inc. v. Chrysler Grp. LLC.
The scope of preservation obligations can vary greatly from case to case and is often a point of great contention among parties. In its "Commentary on Legal Holds: The Trigger & The Process," highly respected e-discovery think tank The Sedona Conference says factors that dictate the scope of preservation include "the nature of the issues raised in the matter, the accessibility of the information, and the relative burdens and costs of the preservation effort." Generally, courts expect parties to apply a standard of "reasonableness" and "proportionality" to their preservation demands and efforts, recognizing that the costs and burdens associated with preserving ESI should always be in balance with the value of the dispute.
The cost and burden of preserving ESI should always be in balance with the value of the dispute.
Failing to Preserve
Judges have a significant amount of discretion when it comes to penalizing parties for spoliation of evidence. In assessing the severity of sanctions, courts will generally focus on two key areas: (1) the level of culpability (was the spoliation intentional or simply the result of negligence?) and (2) whether the party who brought the motion for sanctions was prejudiced by the spoliation. Minor sanctions include monetary fines or attorney compensation. When the failure to preserve is determined to be intentional and involves highly relevant evidence, sanctions become much more severe and can include adverse jury instructions, whereby the jury is instructed to infer that the lost evidence was unfavorable to the spoliating party (as was the case in the famous Zubulake ruling), or default judgements, where the court will actually issue a ruling against the spoliating party for failing to comply with the discovery requirements. There have even been examples of courts deeming spoliation actions so egregious that they might warrant criminal punishment (see Paul Grimm's controversial opinion in Victor Stanley, Inc. v. Creative Pipe, Inc.) But those cases are extremely rare.
Interested in learning how to create a defensible preservation process under the FRCP rules? Download this FRCP Guide to learn how.
Preservation Letters
We mentioned triggering events a little earlier. One common preservation trigger is the receipt of a preservation letter, a communication sent from one party to another notifying them of their preservation obligations and conveying what must be retained. Bear in mind, your preservation obligations kick in regardless of whether a preservation letter is sent or not, and it is not a substitute for an actual lawsuit or court order. Though preservation letters are not a formal component of civil discovery procedure, they are very common. In his popular paper "The Perfect Preservation Letter," e-discovery attorney and expert Craig Ball explains that preservation letters are not just about educating or reminding opponents out of professional courtesy. "The preservation letter can establish such awareness, bolstering a claim that the party destroying evidence knew of its discoverability and recklessly or intentionally disregarded it," Ball writes. Of course, you can't simply send someone a preservation letter asking for everything, although many lawyers certainly try. An overly broad preservation letter will almost certainly be met with resistance.
The overly broad preservation letter.
Disputes over the scope of preservation are often addressed during "meet and confer" meetings. Required by Rule 26(f) in the FRCP, parties must confer as soon as practicable to discuss discovery issues and craft a discovery plan. In theory, this seems like a great idea, but in practice, many lawyers show up at meet and confers (often called 26(f) conferences) without a detailed understanding of their client's ESI or a specific plan for discovery in mind. As a result, meet and confers often consist of little more than a perfunctory phone call between attorneys in which nothing of substance is actually accomplished. This point was echoed by a number of federal judges in our 2017 "3rd Annual Federal Judges Survey: E-Discovery Best Practices and<|fim_middle|> A strong preservation process should take into account e-discovery defensibility as well the need to control data volumes, support larger company goals (including not disrupting other business processes), and keep legal teams focused on the merits of litigation. Though they aren't synonymous, the preservation and legal hold processes go hand in hand so you are encouraged to keep reading. If you're still unsure about the preservation process and what to do, download this Preservation and Legal Hold Workflow Checklist for a good starting point.
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Chapter 3Data Preservation
Chapter 4Legal Hold
Chapter 5Early Case Assessment
Chapter 6Data Collection
Chapter 7ADoc. Review
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Chapter 8E-Discovery Software
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Preservation Challenges
Preserving data may be the single most difficult e-discovery challenge. Data is econstantly being created, sent and received, edited, moved, and deleted. To meet preservation obligations, you essentially have to put a freeze on this entire process. ESI also tends to be highly unorganized. Business users store information in a way that makes sense to them and in several different locations (laptops, smartphones, cloud services, shared drives, etc.). Legal teams have no way of knowing where all relevant ESI resides just by looking at the facts of the case, let alone how best to preserve it.
To Delete or Not to Delete
The way in which organizations manage their data, especially email, goes a long way in dictating the types of preservation challenges they'll experience. Many companies don't require their employees to delete any data and as a result emails pile up for months, and often years, and the sea of discoverable information becomes practically endless. Conversely, some companies employ systems that automatically delete emails after a certain time period to help control the amount of data that is retained.
For a deeper dive into the preservation step of the e-discovery process, download our Comprehensive Guide to E-Discovery Preservation.
The key is to strike a balance between retaining too much data and not enough.
While deletion policies do increase the risk of losing relevant ESI, the 2015 FRCP amendments and case law show the court's tolerance for organizations that have and follow good faith policies for data disposition. Still other organizations create email retention "policies" instructing employees how to manage their accounts. But these rules are often weakly enforced or ignored by employees who see such policies as bureaucratic hassle. Preservation and information governance are very closely linked.
Defensible deletion strategy
For recommendations on implementing a defensible deletion strategy, download Exterro's white paper: "Reality Check – You Can Defensibly Delete Data".
The Cost of Over-Preservation
Because the risks and penalties associated with spoliation are so significant, many companies adopt a "play it safe" mentality, preserving far more data than they have to and keeping that data much longer than what is legally required. This approach might protect against spoliation, but it comes at a significant price. In addition to increased storage costs, the over-abundance of data creates additional potential liability in every future legal matter. Additionally, that data must be processed and reviewed for relevancy, making future e-discovery projects more costly.
Besides the more common preservation challenges listed above, there are many other dangers that can arise during the course of a matter, including:
Employee Status Changes
For large companies with thousands of employees, it's common to experience hundreds of employee status changes (departures, transfers, extended leaves of absence) every year. Just take a look at how systematic your company's exit and onboarding procedures are if you need to be convinced.. In cases where an employee is leaving the company, it is common practice for IT to delete, reimage, or destroy the individual's data from local devices, as well as shared servers, and reissue the equipment to someone new. What often gets overlooked in the process is that the departed employee may have been subject to a preservation obligation, which persists regardless of whether the person is actively employed at the organization. Tracking employee status changes and ensuring responsive data is preserved can be an inefficient and time-consuming endeavor for legal teams, especially when they don't have ready access to company HR data. You can learn much more about this issue by downloading this infographic, "How Employee Movements Cause Major E-Discovery Risk."
Cross-Border Discovery Requirements
E-Discovery rules and procedures vary greatly from country to country. Generally, the United States' legal system places greater emphasis on obtaining evidence than those of other nations, which translates to the U.S., granting civil parties the most unrestricted access to potential evidence of any nation in the world. The simple act of instructing a foreign-based custodian to preserve his or her data may itself violate data protection and privacy laws of another country. The EU General Data Protection Regulation raises these concerns to another level with the imposition of fines as large as €20m or 4% of global revenue as a consequence. For more information on GDPR and its implications for e-discovery professionals, read our white paper A GDPR Road Map for E-Discovery Professionals.
BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)
Most companies have fully embraced the BYOD movement, allowing their employees to use their own personal devices to access the company network, create and store business information. In some instances, this exposes employee mobile device data to preservation requirements when that data is deemed to be under a company's "care, custody, or control." Assuming the company can get access to the device, the mix of employee information (including sensitive personal data) and business information creates significant data privacy issues. Extracting data from a mobile device can also present technical challenges based on unique file formats and require specialized tools (like Cellebrite's UFED device). Stay up to date on new data types by visiting our E-Discovery Case Law Library.
Preserving Cloud and Social Media ESI
As businesses continue to embrace cloud services, more and more company data is moving to offsite servers managed by third parties. This can complicate preservation efforts, because it requires legal teams to understand contractual agreements with cloud providers, especially as they relate to data access, maintenance, and backup policies. The case Brown v. Tellermate illustrates the dangers associated with preserving cloud ESI. A party was sanctioned after failing to preserve cloud-based ESI from a recently departed employee after the employee's account was transferred to a new user, and his data was overwritten. You can read about the case in more detail here. These issues are becoming especially prevalent with social media sites, like Facebook, as parties increasingly target them for discovery. Preservation of social media is covered in more detail in the following white paper: Preserving & Collecting New Data Types.
How to Preserve
To echo our previous point, legal holds are not the only way to preserve data. There are four primary ways that you can preserve ESI, and all of them should be part of your company's preservation arsenal. The four primary approaches are outlined below. Some of these techniques are also discussed in greater detail in the Exterro-PWC white paper, "Three Common Techniques for E-Discovery Preservation."
Legal hold process
We have a whole section on legal holds so we won't go into a ton of detail here. Legal holds are by far and away the most common method for preserving data for e-discovery. The legal hold itself is simply a notification, usually sent over email, stating that a lawsuit has been commenced or is reasonably anticipated and that the party receiving the email must preserve all data potentially related to the subject matter of the case. A mistake that many companies make is treating legal holds like one-off communications rather than a multistep process. As established in the famous Zubulake ruling and underscored by groups like The Sedona Conference, a truly defensible legal hold process includes periodic reminders, compliance monitoring and other considerations as matters evolve.
Another common preservation method is to actually collect relevant data by copying it from the native source and storing it somewhere centralized. Although "collection" is its own stage in the EDRM occurring after preservation (it also has its own section in this guide) the collect-to-preserve approach is a reasonable approach for highly relevant ESI or for technically precarious data, like that from a mobile device, which is at high risk of deletion if immediate action isn't taken. That being said, many companies rely too heavily on this method and end up over collecting and preserving data that ultimately isn't relevant.
A third preservation option that has emerged in recent years involves actually "locking down" data at its source. The data repository itself either inhibits custodians' attempts to delete responsive ESI or maintains hidden copies of files preventing any loss of data. Preserving in place greatly reduces spoliation risk without requiring data collection. It also allows you to be more targeted instead of completely suspending a system's automated retention policy. Software integrations with common data sources, like Office 365, make in-place preservation a viable approach in many matters.
Custodian interviews
While it's not one of the three primary ways to preserve data, custodian interviews are a critical element of the preservation process. They help you expand or narrow the scope of the preservation effort and uncover sources of ESI that might have otherwise been overlooked. Bear in mind, it's the custodians who know the issues of the case, not the lawyers. Custodian interviews allow you to leverage that knowledge to its fullest and are seen as a hallmark of a defensible and thorough preservation process.
For more information on what questions to include in your custodian interview, download a "Custodian Interview Template."
Preservation Tools
There are a variety of technologies that can support the preservation approaches described above.
Some companies attempt to manage the legal hold process via emails and spreadsheets or with homegrown systems. For smaller companies with very low litigation volumes, these approaches may be sufficient, but most large organizations rely on dedicated legal hold software that automates all legal hold notice distributions (including periodic reminders) and tracks compliance. More advanced legal hold solutions integrate with HR and other enterprise systems. These integrations streamline legal hold scoping and tracking, support global privacy controls, and implement policies for data retention when employees change roles or leave the business. We have much more on the legal hold process and technologies in the next section.
Custodian Interview
While extremely valuable, interviews can be time-consuming for legal teams, difficult to manage, and also may be disruptive on employees. To mitigate these issues, you can deploy specialized interview tools that simplify the process by giving you access to configurable and reusable questionnaires, while also tracking and storing responses. Some systems allow these interviews to be appended to legal holds, which further streamlines the process and eliminates the need for custodians to respond to multiple communications.
Data Mapping
Data mapping is also applicable in the context of preservation. Data mapping software helps you create, update, and organize a complete directory of your data environment. Data maps support preservation by helping you quickly connect key custodians with the data sources they use to help focus the preservation efforts. Additionally, a comprehensive data map gives you insight into the risk profile of certain data sources to help pinpoint what data should be targeted for preservation first.
In-place preservation systems integrate with your data sources so you can engage automatic preservation actions (such as freezing a delete function) without directly interacting with the data sources themselves. This capability is especially useful when the in-place preservation tool is integrated with the legal hold application so that all preservation efforts can be consolidated into one centralized system of record for the legal department.
Employee Change Monitoring
Besides integrating your legal hold software and HR systems, e-discovery platform technologies can automate certain actions based on employee status changes. These employee change monitoring systems automatically detect when an employee leaves the company or changes departments and take appropriate actions, such as sending an alert to legal or reissuing a legal hold, to ensure responsive data remains preserved.
Preservation Checklist
A lot goes into an efficient and defensible preservation process. To avoid becoming overwhelmed, have a strategy and follow a repeatable process so that tasks don't get overlooked.
Data Preservation
Start with what you know
While it's true that some matters will involve a long list of custodians and large volumes of data, it's useful to start small. Undoubtedly, there will be key players and highly relevant ESI identified at the outset of the matter, and that's where you should focus your initial efforts. Don't start too broad or you will risk over-preserving and losing sight of what matters most.
Promptly issue a legal hold
While it's helpful to start small, you shouldn't waste any time before issuing a legal hold and making sure that custodians who may have relevant ESI are added to the hold promptly and on a continuous basis. As part of that, your legal hold process should be streamlined so that holds can be distributed quickly and with minimal effort. Technology can make a huge difference here.
Develop an interview process
Custodian interviews should be treated systematically. You should have a basic interview template that includes the types of basic questions that are applicable across matters (i.e., Where do you store your data? Do you know of any co-workers involved in the issues underlying the matter?) ready to go at all times. You should also devise a way, most likely through technology, to quickly access and aggregate custodian interview responses so that information gleaned during interviews can be acted upon quickly.
Create preservation tiers
In the same way that not all custodians and data are equally relevant to a case, not all ESI warrants the same preservation strategy. As outlined above, there are different methods for preserving data, some more costly and resource intensive than others. Reserve the collect-to-preserve approach for your most relevant data, especially if it has a high risk of being deleted. Utilize in-place preservation, but establish clear criteria for when it gets used, so you don't over-preserve and foul up existing retention policies. Your lowest tier custodians should only be issued a legal hold until more information is gathered as to the relevancy of their data.
Develop a system for tracking employee status changes
Your custodian list will never be static. Dealing with custodian departures or movements within the organization reactively will inevitably lead to oversights. It's better to develop a proactive strategy that gets employee status change information in front of legal right away. Relying on HR to deliver this information can be problematic, as they typically are busy, and providing employee info to legal is likely not going to be high on their priority list. Instead, consider leveraging the data stored in the HR system through integration with your legal hold application.
Develop a master custodian list
When a matter is resolved, it's not as simple as just releasing all the custodians from the legal hold and ceasing preservation activities. A custodian in one matter could very easily be involved in another. In fact, it's not uncommon for some custodians, especially high profile executives, to be involved in many simultaneous matters. That's why you should have a central list that details all active custodians and the matters with which they are associated for cross checking when matters come to a close. Of course, constructing that list manually wouldn't be a whole lot of fun. Look for systems that can automate the creation of these types of reports and, better yet, keep them updated without manual intervention.
Don't forget about legal hold release
You'd be surprised how many companies struggle releasing custodians from a legal hold. We've even wrote an entire white paper about it. The problem often relates to the issue described above. When legal teams don't have visibility into which custodians are involved with which holds, the default approach is to simply leave custodians on hold, even when it may not be legally necessary. Needless to say, this precipitates rampant over-preservation leading to a whole host of issues, including increased storage costs and amplified risk exposure. You should develop specific procedures to release the legal hold that account for the need to cross check other matters, and to clearly notify custodians that not only can they stop preserving certain ESI, but that they should stop preserving it if it no longer serves a business value.
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I am really pleased to have as my guest Melissa S. Dillmon, MD. She is the chair of ASCO's State Affiliate Council and a hematologist/oncologist at the Harbin Clinic in Rome, Georgia, as well as a remarkably active ASCO volunteer and contributor. We are going to examine how state-level health care policy may impact the care that we deliver to our patients with cancer, why it's important for us to pay attention to and help shape bills and regulations moving in states, and what ASCO is doing to partner with state affiliates to advance policies that will ensure that our patients are able to access the highest quality cancer care possible.
CH: When most people think about health policies, they often picture activities that are occurring at the federal level, either through Congress or from the administration. Yet so much happens at the state level that is critically important to our members. Can you help us start to understand the specific role that states play in setting health care policies? Specifically, those policies that might impact cancer care and our patients?
MD: Most recently, one good example is the opioid crisis. This has come up at the state level because state legislators often regulate the rights of health care providers to provide narcotic prescriptions. The startling number of our American population dying of legal or illegal narcotic overdoses has really brought this issue forward. While some state Congresses have crafted laws, sometimes these bills can have many untoward consequences, specifically in our cancer care population, because often our patients with cancer have significant pain needs. It's very important to watch those state legislative actions because they could significantly hinder our ability to take care of our patients.
CH: Do you think that the states will in fact serve as a laboratory? Do you see a federal level rollup of some of what the states are offering in terms of legislation?
MD: I think so, and I am fearful. In our state, the law that was originally put forward in was going to significantly limit the ability of oncologists to provide pain medication to a 5-day first-time fill. You know that for a patient with cancer, the pain doesn't go away in 5 days. This was going to be a hardship for our patients, making them come back in for that second fill. It also was a hardship for physicians because if they did not check the data registry to see if a patient was already on pain medication, or filled more than 5 days, they could be charged with a felony and put in prison for 1 to 5 years or get a $50,000 fine.
That kind of state legislation is not what we want to see modeled in federal legislation. It's important for oncologists to get involved and help craft their state legislation, because it may be something that is looked at on a federal level. [In Georgia] we were successful in getting many of those parts of the bill taken out, and we also got an exemption for our patients with cancer so that we are not limited in our ability to get them the pain medicines they need.
One of the services that ASCO provides through the State Affiliate Council is the ability for us to talk to other state affiliates about what's going on in their state legislatures. One of the hottest topics on our Listserv is opioid legislation in different states. We share pending legislation and rules and regulations as a regular part of that communication.
CH: Can you talk in a little more detail about how the State Affiliate Council works? What is its role within ASCO? How does it partner with ASCO on state legislative activities?
MD: The State Affiliate Council is a relatively new council within ASCO. It was created because there is a sense that there are<|fim_middle|> legislative activity in your state, and it will enable you to send messages directly to your state representatives.
Listen to the full podcast online or through iTunes or Google Play. Access ASCO's state advocacy resources. | unique state issues that could help ASCO and that ASCO could help those states. It has been a very effective and well-received council and has been a way for the Government Relations Committee to get a view of what is bubbling up in the states and may become federal legislation that we need to address.
ASCO helps support a twice-yearly State Affiliate Council meeting. The Listserv allows us to communicate and provide resources to our members. We can send a legislative question or a bill to ASCO staff and ask for input on language. We get very rapid turnaround, which we often need because things in the state legislature move a lot faster than they do in the federal government. ASCO has a great resource called the ACT Network, which is an easy way for physicians to reach out to their representative.
CH: I'll inject a little personal note here. Part of the reason that I'm here at ASCO is that in the advanced years of my career, my cynicism about government, and policy, and having an impact actually went down, not up. I saw that while progress can be slow, progress is actually possible; however, it takes expertise, clarity of vision, and commitment for us to have an effect. So I'm asking you this question: What have you personally gotten out of your participation in state advocacy? What are some of the big lessons that you've learned?
MD: I am a frustrated political science major from my college days, so I always liked the process of making legislation. I like the process of debating. When I went into medical school I thought I had left my political science years behind—little did I know that they would become very important. I have always believed that you can't complain about something unless you seek to change it. If I sit back in my chair comfortably and complain about the legislation that prohibits me from being able to get a medication for a patient, then I should do something about it.
And I have seen change, exactly as you said, on a personal level. For instance, there was a bill in our state that looked at compounding. There was one word in there that would have effectively stopped all compounding, as they called it, which was mixing of chemotherapy drugs in any infusion center in the state. If we had not caught that and then sent that legislation to ASCO and had them reply back, all chemotherapy care would have been halted across the state. It was an accidental insertion of a phrase in a bill that could have stopped cancer care for days, weeks, or until the next legislation a year later. A legislator was happy to take that language out and so I saw a change immediately effected.
CH: It sounds to me like you could say, "One person can make a difference." If listeners are convinced, what are some of the specific ways that they might get involved in state advocacy on cancer-related policy developments?
MD: Find out who your legislators are that serve on important committees within the state legislature. If they're not in your own community but you know an oncologist in a neighboring town they represent, then that's the person you call or write to and say, "Would you mind going and meeting with your state senator? There's a big bill coming up and we want him to understand what this means to our patients with cancer."
Get involved with your state Medicaid director. Tell them the story of why it's important to have a mammogram or why it's important to have a Pap smear or why it's important to have a genetic counselor and what difference this makes.
CH: For those of you who want to get involved—and I hope it's a lot of you—I would encourage you to visit the State Advocacy page on ASCO.org. You can learn much more about the state legislative process and about | 766 |
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Ted Cruz Releases First TV Ads of Re-Election Bid, Including Beto O'Rourke Attack Spot
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Friday began airing the first TV ads of his re-election campaign against Beto O'Rourke, a Democratic congressman from El Paso
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U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-El Paso (left), and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has started airing the first TV ads of his re-election campaign, including one that highlights his work on the state's recovery from Hurricane Harvey and another that takes aim at his Democratic opponent, U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke of El Paso.
The Harvey-themed commercial is airing in Beaumont, while the O'Rourke attack ad is on the air in Lubbock. In a news release, Cruz's campaign highlighted only the Harvey spot, and it did not provide any information about how much it was spending on the ads.
The anti-O'Rourke spot focuses on a Cruz bill, which President Donald Trump signed into law last year, that expanded the number of unemployment benefit applicants that states can drug test. A narrator then seeks to contrast the law with O'Rourke's successful effort on the El Paso City Council in 2009 to amend a resolution to urge for an "open, honest, national dialogue on ending the prohibition of narcotics."
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Cruz has previously attacked O'Rourke over the resolution, which was eventually vetoed by then-El Paso Mayor John Cook over concerns it could cause the city to lose out on federal funding. O'Rourke has long supported marijuana legalization but has not advocated for ending the prohibition on other drugs, and at the time he amended the resolution, he said he was not calling for legalizing all drugs but looking to have a "serious discussion about that."
The other TV ad Cruz began running Friday is more positive. It touts Cruz's involvement in passing Harvey aid in Congress and shows media coverage of him visiting affected communities after the storm devastated the Gulf Coast last year. It also features a clip of Cruz at a news conference standing next to Galveston County Judge Mark Henry, who says, "No official, state or federal, has been more involved in the recovery of Galveston County than Sen. Ted Cruz."
"When the hurricane hit, you stood up for Texas," a narrator concludes, "and Ted Cruz stood up for you."
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Sarah Jessica Parker teased fans on Instagram when she posted a photo with fellow Sex and the City actresses Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis hugging Nicole Ari Parker.
The photo is captioned: "Oh so fine.
"I'd sing along to 70's love songs with this trio deep into any night. @justlikethatmax I'll see you ladies tomorrow!"
Nicole will be the group's fourth friend in the reboot amid the news of Kim's absence from the show.
Sex and the City was a cultural phenomenon in the early 2000'sCredit: Alamy
She will be playing the role of Lisa Todd Wexley, a documentary filmmaker, according to The Guardian.
The reboot of SATC will be called Just Like That …, which is set to be executive produced by Sarah Jessica, Kristin, and Cynthia.
The new show was announced back in January 2021, with Sarah Aubrey, head of original content at HBO Max, saying: "I grew up with these characters, and I can't wait to see how their story has evolved in this new chapter, with the honesty, poignancy, humor and the beloved city that has always defined them."
What did Kim Cattrall say about the Sex and the City reboot?
Back in 2017, Kim weighed in on whether she would do a SATC reboot, saying: "Not for me. That was part of turning 60.
"That was a very clear moment of how many years do I have left and what do I want to do with it? What haven't I done? I feel that the show was the best when it was the series and the bonus was the two movies."
Similarly, in 2019, Kim said she would "never" return to the franchise, adding, "You learn lessons in life and my lesson is to do work with good people and try and make it fun."
The actress has yet to comment on her replacement in the SATC reboot.
Who is Nicole Ari Parker?
Nicole is an American actress best known for starring in the acclaimed independent film The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love.
She also appeared on Boogie Nights, Remember the Titans, Black Dynamite, and Almost Christmas.
Nicole starred in the Showtime drama series Soul Food which earned her five NAACP awards.
Her latest roles include starring in Fox's primetime | 582 |
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John Mulholland Motors Raise over £100K to support local people with cancer
John Mulholland Motors has raised an incredible £102,757 to help support patients and families impacted by cancer, through its vital partnership with local charity Friends of the Cancer Centre.
The award winning car dealership in Randalstown and Campsie has been a proud partner of Friends of the Cancer Centre since 2019 and with the support of its staff and customers, they have raised £102,757 in the past two years.
The money raised helps fund vital nursing hours, which supports thousands of local people every year. The money has been raised through a range of activities, including donations for every car sold and serviced, as well as the company's employees taking part in a range of the charity's fundraising events.
The family owned company has a very personal reason for supporting Friends of the Cancer Centre, as owner John Mulholland was diagnosed with kidney cancer in June 2018.
Sadly John passed away in August 2019, but his family and all of the colleagues at John Mulholland Motors have continued to support the charity and continue his legacy in order to make a difference to local families.
Commenting on the partnership with Friends of the Cancer Centre, Shona Mulholland, managing director of John Mulholland Motors, said:
"I'm delighted that over the last two years, we have raised over £100,000 to support the work of Friends of the Cancer Centre.
"As a family, we have first-hand experience of how important the work of Friends of the Cancer Centre is and the charity was a great support to dad during his cancer treatment. The specialist nurse who cared for dad, Melanie, was a vital source of support to me and my family and her post is funded by the charity. It makes me incredibly proud that the money raised to date could help support not only her vital work, but the work of the 10 specialist nurses funded by the charity. To date, money raised by John Mulholland Motors has helped support over 4,000 hours of nursing care, which I know will make an incredible difference to so many people, just as it has to our family.
"I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has helped us reach this milestone, particularly our staff and customers, and we are fully committed to continuing raising as much money as we can to support Friends of the Cancer Centre's vital work."
For over 35 years, Friends of the Cancer Centre has been<|fim_middle|>70660. Each text costs £3 plus network charge. Friends of the Cancer Centre receives 100% of your donation. Please obtain bill payer's permission. Contact the charity on 028 9069 9393. Charity Number NIC101345. | dedicated to making a real and meaningful difference to cancer patients and their families across Northern Ireland. The charity works to enhance the quality of patient care and support through its life-changing and life-saving work which includes funding additional nurses, supporting local research and providing practical support, such as financial grants, which help families through a difficult time. Friends of the Cancer Centre relies entirely on the generosity of the local community and all money donated stays in Northern Ireland, directly benefitting patients and their families.
Commenting on how important the support of John Mulholland Motors is to the charity, Friends of the Cancer Centre's fundraising manger, Ana Wilkinson, said:
"The sum raised by John Mulholland Motors is absolutely incredible and we are very grateful for the support and generosity of the team and their wonderful customers.
"The past year has been incredibly difficult for everyone, but particularly those with cancer. Despite the challenges and the impact the pandemic has had on the charity's ability to raise money, our work has continued and this is only made possible thanks to the support we receive from companies like John Mulholland Motors. In addition to raising funds, John's family, friends and the employees at John Mulholland Motors have helped raise awareness of the charity, as well as supporting our cancer awareness initiatives. In essence, they have carried on John's legacy and commitment to supporting local families affected by cancer, for which the charity is incredibly grateful and I hope the team are incredibly proud of the difference they are helping to make".
For more information about Friends of the Cancer Centre and how to support local people affected by cancer visit www.friendsofthecancercentre.com
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The CCH iFirm workflow management module is an automated tool that eliminates the need to manually move files throughout your office and provides you instant access to all the client information, tasks and deadlines. Timesheets and Job Management are two integral modules of the workflow process of this software. These modules perform individual tasks but contribute directly to the management of overall workflow of the firm. Timesheets for chartered accountants allows chartered accountants to<|fim_middle|> fee for a client which will create automatic write-ups when invoicing.
Therefore, CCH iFirm makes valuable information available at fingertips, letting partners spend more time on analysis rather than documenting, which ultimately increases productivity and profitability. | figure out whether the team is on schedule. It helps in figuring out the productivity and performance of the staff; also, helps in calculating how much time is being invested on individual project.
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HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Daily Star) 2017/11/5 – "She goes to organize someone's home and he's handsome charming boyish," says Christmas in the Air star Catherine Bell.
This is the second holiday movie for Bell that's not part of her Good Witch series. The first one was Home for Christmas Day. That aired this summer.
Eric Close is Robert Trent is a toy maker, father of two and widower. He works best in chaos it helps him be creative. Those around him find it a bit much. He works with his brother.
Ken Tremblett is George Robert's brother and business partner. Trying to get some work done before a potential clients visit, Robert misses his daughter's play rehearsal. He needs to get organized. He hires an organizer.
Catherine Bell is Lydia Evans, professional organizer. She helps Robert organize his life, home, and a dinner for the potential client and his wife.
Malcolm Stewart is Mr. Hennessey, the potential client.
Robert likes what she's done, but is upset when Lydia rearranges a is deceased wife's snow globe collection. He tells Lydia about his late wife while he puts them back the way she had them. Both Robert and Lydia bond over the brightest star, Sirius.
Emily Holmes is Pam. She notices the two seem to be getting along quite well.
Lydia helps Robert with his promise to make cookies for his kids. They are not the prettiest cookies, but Lydia is learning to enjoy imperfection. Lydia bonds with Robert's children.
Trinity Rose Likens is Amilia Roberts daughter. She tells Lydia that she's worried her father will miss her performance, just like he missed the rehearsal. When Lydia sees Robert's office, she realizes<|fim_middle|> at the dinner.
Producers Vicki Sotheran and Greg Malcolm. Production credit: Crown Media Productions, LLC. Directed by Martin Wood. Written by Janna King. Director of Photography Michael Balfry. Production Manager Simon Richardson. Edited by Charles Robichaud. Casting by Candice Elzinga.
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Lydia's work is done with the family, but Robert enjoys her company and invites her to join the family tradition, pin the ornament on the Christmas tree. Robert is a workaholic. That sends up warning bells for Lydia. She's not sure she wants to have that kind of life again.
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All about Navratri and how London celebrates it
Navratri literally means 'the nine nights' and is one of the most awaited Indian festivals, popular for the night-long vigil and the worship of Goddess Durga. This is usually followed by other cultural events such as singing hymns and performing folk dances to the tune of devotional songs. During this period, event organizers from across the globe bring<|fim_middle|> competitions for kids, like the Bal Vihar Children's Garba held on the 29 th day of September at the Campion School and the Slough Hindu Mandir Garba for kids held on the 5 th of October.
How does India celebrate Navratri?
Navratri is celebrated with pomp and gusto across India by the Hindu community and this includes carnivals, fairs, and cultural events. However, every region has its own way of celebrating, so let us now look at some of the most prominent Navaratri celebrations in India.
The Mysuru Dasara and the Royal entourage
The Mysuru Dasara carnival takes place in Mysuru during Vijayadashmi, as this place holds great significance and is connected to the legend. After all, it is here that the legendary battle between the Goddess Chamundeshwari, a fierce form of Goddess Durga and the bull-faced demon Mahishasuru ensued.
So soon after Navratri, the highly famed Mysuru Dasara begins, which involves a procession of decorated elephants parading the city with an idol of Goddess Chamundeshwari. This is followed by the Royal scion, also on an elephant and people from all over the world flock to watch this royal entourage.
For ten nights, the city of Mysuru and the Mysuru Palace remain illuminated with decorative lights and there is a festive mood all over the city. Parallel to that, a month-long fair called the Dasara Exhibition also takes place, in which there is no dearth of entertaining rides, food stalls and artisans from all over India.
Durga Puja West Bengal, Assam, and Bihar
In West Bengal, 'Durgotsav' or the festival of Goddess Durga is celebrated in full swing, from the sixth day of Navratri. These celebrations go on for five days, consecutively, which includes processions, prayers, hymns, and the destruction of Mahishasur, the Bull demon's clay idol. On the tenth day, these celebrations conclude with the immersion of the deity's idol, in the river. The immersion symbolizes the return of the Goddess to her husband, Lord Shiva.
Followers of Hinduism, across the globe, consider it highly auspicious to make new investments or to acquire assets such as lands, vehicles, etc… during Navratri and Vijaydashmi. So, if you plan to follow the suit, then here's how you can get the most out of it. Consider transferring your hard-earned money through Small World, to get the best exchange rates and low transaction fees. | in their best singers and entertainers, sparing no efforts to keep the crowd engrossed.
During Navratri, the elderly usually choose to spend their time singing devotional hymns, while youngsters look forward to shaking their legs. After all, this is the time when devotees perform 'Garba' and 'Dandiya', the popular folk dances from Western India. Besides India, these celebrations are also quite popular in the UK, South Africa, US, Canada, and Australia. In fact, Indians across the globe celebrate it by organizing and participating in community-based or open-to-all ticketed events. Let us now get a quick glimpse of why this festival is celebrated.
The Legend of Navratri
Legend has it that once a Bull-faced demon named 'Mahishasura', intoxicated by the power of a boon that he was granted, broke havoc in the three worlds. To put an end to him, Goddess Durga had to come down to earth and combat him, as the boon protected the demon against everyone else. So, a fierce battle ensued between the Goddess and the demon for nine nights, during which the Goddess destroyed the demon and all the other evil elements.
While dying, the demon put forth his last plea to the Goddess, praying that his name be taken before hers, and so Goddess Durga is also called 'Mahishasur-Mardini', which literally means 'the slayer of Mahishasur'. So these nine days are dedicated to celebrating the power of Goddess Durga, who emerged victorious in the fierce battle. On these days, devotees worship each of her nine forms and each day is dedicated to one form. As she emerged victorious on the tenth day, it is marked by celebrating 'Vijayadashami' which literally means 'the tenth day of victory'.
Navratri celebrations in London
London has a large population of immigrants with Indian origin, and that makes Navratri celebrations quite a big deal. Besides a score of community-based Navratri events, there are also some ticketed open-to-all events that one can participate in. Most of these events include traditional music, and North-Western folk dances such as Dandiya, which is played with a stick in both hands and Garba, which involves clapping and group dancing in a large circle. All of this entertainment goes on amid paid food stalls that serve mouth-watering snacks and sweets.
Now if that sounds exciting and you are all set to participate in these celebrations, then you could try doing so at the Harrow Leisure Center. The International Siddhashram Shakti Center would be organizing Navratri celebrations out there, between 29 th September and 8 th October. As the celebrations would commence around 8 PM, you can attend it after returning home from work. However, you need to book your tickets in advance, and you can do that online.
Another event that you can look forward to in London is the 'Navratri Utsav' organized by the Bromley Temple Trust. This is a ticketed event that is free for children aged under 5 years and for the elderly folks. However, regardless of whether or not you need a ticket, you must register, well in advance. Also, there are other exclusive Navratri events and | 669 |
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter flew on Mars for the third time, and Perseverance took a video
Humans are flying little helicopters on Mars, again!
By Stan Schroeder on April 26, 2021
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Humans are getting better at flying helicopters on other planets.
On Sunday, NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flew for the third time, making records in terms of speed and the distance it covered. NASA says the helicopter rose 16 feet (the same altitude as Ingenuity's second flight), but it covered a distance of 164 feet, and flew at a top speed of 6.6 feet per second.
You can see the video of the flight below, taken by NASA's Perseverance rover. Notice how cool this is: A man-made rover is taking a video of a man-made helicopter flying on another planet.
In the video, you'll see Ingenuity wh<|fim_middle|> we never thought about." | izz out of view, but keep watching until the end to see it land very smoothly on the Martian surface.
"With this flight, we are demonstrating critical capabilities that will enable the addition of an aerial dimension to future Mars missions," said Dave Lavery, the project's program executive for Ingenuity Mars Helicopter.
SEE ALSO: How NASA's Perseverance is making oxygen on Mars
Ingenuity also took new color photos of the Martian surface on this flight; check one of them out below.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Ingenuity will fly again soon. NASA says the project's team is planning a fourth flight "in a few days' time."
New Mars snapshot captures tumbled boulders near planet's grand canyon
The European Space Agency calls it 'geology in motion.'
By Elisha Sauers
The latest killer asteroid hype is just absurd
There's no threat.
China landed on the moon and found water in dirt and rocks
The moon is nearly bone dry. But Chinese lunar lander Chang'E-5's recent detection from the moon's surface shows there might be more water than expected.
This weird-looking distant planet is a one-of-a-kind mystery — for now
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RMA Research Students' Conference 2014: A Report
Another year, another successful RMA Research Students' Conference. Here Alexi Vellianitis (University of Oxford) gives his view on the event. Thanks Alexi! We're already looking forward to RSC2015: Thursday 8 – Saturday 10 January at the University of Bristol.
This year's RMA Research Students' Conference took place between the 6th and 8th of January at the University of Birmingham. The university's spacious new Bramall Music Building easily accommodated 104 speakers for three days of five parallel sessions and provided comfortable open areas in which to relax, socialise and discuss work.
The presentations given by professional scholars were inspiring. The keynote by Howard Skempton (Birmingham Conservatoire), 'Exploring the Hinterland', was touching, funny and admirably brief, allowing ample time for discussion. He described research in terms of an adventure through an uncharted land, and stressed the fertility of moments of surprise, curiosity and playfulness. Jerome Roche Prize winner Christopher Chowrimootoo (Notre Dame) gave an extremely polished keynote entitled 'The Turn of the Screw, or: The Gothic Melodrama of Modernism', which explored a conflict in the reception of Britten's opera between the tantalising superficiality of low-brow gothic melodrama and the ascetic abstraction of high-brow modernism. This excellent paper set a very high standard towards which conference delegates could aim to work. (Due to adverse weather conditions, Georgina Born (Oxford) was unfortunately unable to be present to deliver her scheduled keynote.)
Other talks tackled some of the essentials of academic life: Laura Tunbridge (Manchester) gave advice on publishing in peer-reviewed journals and Geoff Thomason (Royal Northern College of Music) spoke about using music libraries. Both of these presentations provided a solid set of skills for the large number of the presenters and attendees who had just begun PhDs, Master's degrees, or held only undergraduate degrees.
There was a great breadth of papers, although some areas were better covered than others. There was a particular focus on popular, film and video-game music, while early music and non-European music were only represented by one panel each. Many areas were a subtle mixture of the traditional and the diverse: one panel was devoted each to 'Beethoven' and 'Opera', and three each to European art music at the turn of the twentieth century and pure 'Analysis'. But the delightfully diverse content of<|fim_middle|>xford Brookes). | the papers matched for this latter set of panels indicated that one term can accommodate lots of different approaches. A similar thing can be said of the two panels on the study of instruments: one was devoted entirely to 'The Piano', and the other to 'Instruments' as different as the Majorcan bagpipes and the ondes martenot.
Many papers were admirable in their persistent interrogation of fundamental disciplinary issues. A compelling topical analysis of Schoenberg's Five Orchestral Pieces and Erwartung was given byDanielle Hood (Leeds), who successfully defended herself from intense criticism about the applicability of topics to this music in light of Schoenberg's desire to eschew all idiomatic gestures in favour of 'immediate expression'. Other highlights in this respect included Ralph Whyte (Columbia), whose entertaining and richly historical paper placed Richard Strauss at the intersection of idealism and commercialisation in early twentieth-century America, and Amanda Hsieh (Toronto), who gave an understated but profoundly critical paper about the gendering of nature and organicism in Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde.
In between panels and during the conference dinner at the lively Bank restaurant, delegates chattered about a paper on autism by Sara Clethero (London College of Music, University of West London), and a paper on David Cameron's appropriation of mass culture by Stephen Millar (Queen's University, Belfast). Even other more historical or theoretical papers tended to be keenly outward-looking, this large focus on diverse contemporary political and social issues allaying any fears about the insularity of the academy.
In a similar vein, it was heartening to note the very high number of speakers undertaking doctoral research at conservatoires, many of whom presented the freshest and most impressive papers: pianist Maria Razumovskaya (Royal College of Music) provided a sensitive and nuanced reading of Heinrich Neuhaus's interpretation of Beethoven's piano music, and Erin McHugh (Royal College of Music) drew upon her own singing experience to provide an impassioned discussion of the gendering of vocal registers in Berg's Lulu and Strauss's Salome.
Some composers benefited from composition workshops, others from papers they gave on their working method. In particular, these latter papers gave interesting answers to a question, posited by Skempton in his keynote, about the disciplinary gap between musicology and composition, and ways it could be bridged. A stand-out paper was given by Brona Martin (Manchester), who discussed the use of recorded reminiscences of members of her hometown in her hauntingly personal soundscape compositions.
At times certain speakers seemed too self-conscious in questioning their subjective position in the construction of musical meaning, though this should be attributed to some lingering spectres of positivism rather than to actual audience feedback. But the support provided by RMA members and other scholars, both formally in presentations and informally in discussion, was invaluable. The hustings for the election of a new Student Representative fostered a sense of community between students, and it was particularly heartening to see so many of the Association's members in attendance throughout the conference: this support really renewed one's sense of the RMA as a living and breathing entity.
Alexi Vellianitis is in the first year of an AHRC-funded DPhil at the University of Oxford, working on nostalgia as a narrative in the contemporary discourse on tonality.
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But in other places, as a result of changes in landscape management practices, parks are very different landscapes. This is timely as one of our current PhD candidates, Jinvo Nam has just published an article about the acceptability and feasibility of community food growing in parks, marking a shift in the ways in which the park is being considered by landscape managers. Jinvo's research also examined different planting types as well as ways that parks might provide income generation. Peter talked about how the financial pressures on local authorities as a result of this prolonged period of austerity have disproportionately and adversely affected parks as a non-statutory service. Citing the State of UK Public Parks 2016 and 2014 which he co-authored, Peter highlighted how 95% of park managers surveyed expect their revenue budget to be cut over the next three years. The extent of those cuts varies widely, but cities such as Newcastle have seen 'brutal' budget cuts: the council's parks budget has been reduced by 90% since 2010.
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The CBT1000 by JBL Speakers by Harman JBL by Harman introduced the CBT1000 series adjustable coverage column array loudspeaker at InfoComm 2016. The CBT1000 is an<|fim_middle|> a room. Independent selection of four "pattern up" coverage angles and four "pattern down" coverage angles combine to provide 16 different vertical coverage combinations. In its asymmetrical settings, CBT1000 sends more sound toward the far listeners, helping to counteract sound level differences between near are far listeners, while simultaneously being capable of providing smooth down-fill that doesn't overpower those in the front. In the horizontal plane, the system's patent-pending horizontal gradient waveguide provides tapered coverage to reach the front and rear corners of the room while minimizing over-splash. Combined with a bass response below 40Hz, the CBT1000 system provides clear and powerful full-bandwidth coverage of a room from a single loudspeaker.
Twelve 6.5-inch high-excursion, low-frequency drivers and 24 high-power tweeters give the CBT1000 line array system the capability of delivering 130dB continuous output with 3000 watts of power handling for high-output applications. The CBT1000 series is designed to offer a single-speaker solution for venues that might otherwise use larger point-and-shoot speakers. It incorporates technical advancements that provide a level of user friendliness that simplifies the challenges of delivering great sound. | extension of JBL's popular CBT (Constant Beamwidth Technology) column array loudspeaker line, offering substantially greater output, deeper bass response, and more advanced adjustability of the coverage pattern.
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Elliot B. Quick teaches theatre history classes for actors at the Maggie Flanigan studio in New York, NY.
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It is a constant frustration to me that I will never experience the first performance of Oedipus Rex. I will never know what it feels like to gather in the Theater of Dionysus with my entire city and watch an ancient king sacrifice himself for his people, with the civic structures and rocky landscape of my homeland sprawling out from all sides of the open stage. I will never stand among the groundlings of Shakespeare's Globe, smelling the roasted nuts or feeling a pickpocket slit my purse strings as I hear the words "To be or not to be." I will never gasp in shock at the chorus of crickets that Stanislavsky, to Chekhov's horror, piped into the Moscow Art Theater for the first production of The Seagull. Every time I step into the classroom to teach these great dramatic texts, I am reminded of what insufficient evidence they are of the ephemeral live events they first proposed.
Plays are not like other forms of literature. I can pick up my tattered copy of The Great Gatsby, brew up a mug of tea, curl up in my favorite chair, and have something close to the experience that Fitzgerald originally imagined when he wrote the text: an individual encountering words on a page. The work was meant to be read.
Aristotle tells us that a great tragedy can achieve its effect without the benefit of public performance or actors, but I am not so sure. In the theater, our tools are space and time. The spoken word is just one way we shape these media. An important tool, no doubt. Perhaps the most enduring. But a performance also shapes space and time with the actors' bodies, with gesture, with costume, and with music. Its contours are affected by the time of day, the arrangement of the theater space, the unique individuals who are gathered in the audience, and its relationship to the space and time outside the theater. A play operates on the full bodies and lives of its audience. It springs into being anew with each performance, and it takes the shape of the culture that creates it.
"An actor without insight into the history and context of the art form is limited, an incomplete artist whose work is ultimately diminished."
A study of theater history is full of uncertain evidence. Even the things known about something like Greek Tragedy are, at best, an educated guess, cobbled together from fragmentary allusions in history, philosophy, and the visual arts. And the list of things we think we know is dwarfed by what we know we never will—melodies that were never noted down, movement that defied description, countless performances that were never recorded in written form or whose manuscripts have been lost to time.
But if I were deterred by the prospect of never-knowing, then I would not be in the theater. For all their uncertainties, the dramatic texts that have survived are great texts, full of vivid clues to these lost moments in space and time. For any serious actor, learning to listen to these clues is a skill just as important as technique and craft—this | 629 |
Pepsi Introduces Mountain Dew Pitch Black II
Hoping to build off the original's success, Pepsi-Cola North America is bringing back Mountain Dew Pitch Black, but this time with a sour edge.
Mountain Dew Pitch Black II, which is Mountain Dew with a blast of sour and black grape, hits stores nationwide in 20-ounce and two-liter bottles, as well as 12-packs of 12-ounce cans. The beverage is available for a 10-week period from now until November.
The original Mountain Dew Pitch Black debuted last year for<|fim_middle|> paint-out car at the Nextel Cup race in Kansas City on October 9.
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"Every great movie deserves a sequel. Consumers loved Mountain Dew Pitch Black and they wanted us to bring it back, but with something new," said Katie Lacey, vice president of marketing, carbonated soft drinks, for the Purchase, NY-based Pepsi-Cola North America. "Sour flavors are big right now with teens and young adults, so we added a sour bite to Mountain Dew Pitch Black II."
The rollout will be supported by eye-catching point-of- purchase materials and an Internet marketing campaign. The Web site -- www.pitchblackexperiment.com -- features a character named Cliff who shows his devotion to the product by conducting a "Pitch Black Experiment," living in total darkness for 90 days.
Later this fall, NASCAR's Jeremy Mayfield will drive the Mountain Dew Pitch Black II | 161 |
Ex-Sunderland, Aston Villa and England duo in 'advanced talks' with South Shields after Graham Fenton departure
<|fim_middle|>But I think that is more down to the fact that everyone has done really well, rather than Frederik not meeting some sort of level."
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This is why West Ham United have recalled Sunderland defender
West Ham United have recalled Frederik Alves from his loan spell at Sunderland.
By Phil Smith
Friday, 14th January 2022, 12:50 pm
The central defender made ten appearances for the Black Cats after arriving in the summer, but struggled for regular game time and did not start a League One game.
The Premier League club have therefore moved to bring an early end to the loan, as expected.
Though Lee Johnson has said that he expects there to be opportunities for Arbenit Xhemajli and Ollie Younger to impress in the near future, it is likely that Sunderland will now go back into the market.
Frederik Alves in action
Alves' return to his parent club means they now have another slot for a further loanee to take a place in the matchday squad.
Sporting Director Kristjaan Speakman said: "Throughout Freddy's loan, we have remained in regular dialogue with him and West Ham United regarding his programme.
"He's progressed and he's matured off the pitch, but he's missing the frequency of games required at this stage of his development and we collectively understand the need for him to be playing regular football.
"Having reviewed this with his parent club, we agreed that it is the natural solution for him to return in January to plan out the second part of the season. We thank West Ham United and we wish Freddie well in his career."
Speaking to the Echo earlier this month, Speakman said his lack of game time was predominantly a consequence of the strong form of others in the squad.
He said. "Frederik has had some real positive experiences with us but he's probably not had the gametime that he would want.
"Quite rightly, because he's a young Premier League player coming in wanting to play games.
"But like I've said before, our squad of players has performed really, really well and I think that's a really good marker of having competition in the squad to lift the level up.
"It's always difficult when players come on loan and don't quite get the minutes that they want, that their parent club wants and that we wanted to get out of them in the first place." | 467 |
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Sponge Docks, Travel, Tampa, travel, adventure, escape, road trip, sponges | Sponge Docks: A Little Taste of Greece (Part I)
When I think of Greece, I think of its storied history, temple ruins, mythical gods and undeniable beauty, much like Helen of Troy, "the face that launched a thousand ships" in Greek mythology. The beautiful island of Greece is definitely on the family's bucket list of places to see, so when we heard of a little Greek community at the Sponge Docks at Tarpon Springs along Tampa Bay, Florida, we took the opportunity to experience a little taste of Greece.
A trip to the Sponge Docks from where we live is a short 30-minute drive, making it ideal for a quick Saturday family adventure. Despite what mythical stories may tell you, there is no Greek tragedy here. The Sponge Docks came into being after John Cheney discovered the business potential of selling sponges harvested from Florida's rich ocean floor. Cheney was an associate of a wealthy entrepreneur named Hamilton Disston who, in 1880, saved the state of Florida from bankruptcy by purchasing four million acres of land (Tarpon Springs included) from the government.
By 1890, the sponge industry was firmly established at Tarpon Springs. With news of a growing sponge industry, Tarpon Spring's population grew as experienced sponge divers from Greece were soon after hired to help meet a growing market demand. Along with this, tourism exploded as more tourists were eventually drawn to the Sponge Docks to purchase sponges, see the divers in action and indulge in authentic Greek food.
As more and more Greek divers came to Tarpon Springs for work, they later created a community that continued to celebrate the Greek way of life. Today, a life-sized statue of a sponger stands tall to honor the early divers who helped put Tarpon Springs on the world map as the "Sponge Capital of the World."
Sponges are aquatic animals that cling to a rock or coral. When harvesting, divers gently squeeze out the gurry, a gelatinous substance found in sponges. They then pound and clean the sponges on the ship's deck. Be warned: You'll likely get a whiff of rotten smell while walking by a ship with drying sponges. While the sponges' skin is drying, heat releases a gas that causes a salty, dead-fish smell.
Today, the Sponge Docks offers a lot of quirky finds, including decorated bicycles randomly displayed throughout the street, which are actually art installations by a local artist named Warren Gregory who was inspired to create art bikes from his time in Amsterdam. Visitors and diners may also enjoy acoustic music al fresco-style, with a view of the calm sea, docks and ships. Who could possibly resist a nice glass of wine, gyro or baklava with a stunning view?
Clockwise: Ariana with her Papaw Arvil at The sponge factory; playing with puppets sold at one of the gift shops and with the rest of the family for a customary photo shoot in front of the divers' memorial.
At the Sponge Docks, there are surprises at every turn. There are many more to this | 637 |
Tailoring the Electronic Properties of TMDs through Atomic Scale Interfaces, Defects, and Dopants
Matthew Edmonds
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD
Quasi-particle interference (QPI) from defects combined with Fourier-transform scanning tunnelling spectroscopy (FT-STS) proved to be a powerful probe of the electronic structure, most notably in a complex 1H-WSe2/Au(111) heterostructure system. Combined with angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and theory, the electronic states could be mapped; revealing that the R25° 1H-WSe2/Au(111) could be described as a weakly interacting Umklapp system. QPI patterns showed the signature band-folding induced by the moiré super-lattice, and were used to experimentally determine the location of the shifted Au(111) Shockley state. Both FT-STS and ARPES identified a non-dispersive intragap state, which was explained by simulations as a hybridised continuum of states between the W and Se gap edge states and Au bulk bands; now indicating that the system was of metallic nature. To our knowledge this the most extensive analysis involving QPI over such a wide range of energies in a complex system. In addition, FT-STS was used to investigate defects in the transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) WSe2; where the presence of spin-flip scattering processes determined a magnetic defect. One such defect with a structure corresponding to a column defect of which is predicted to be magnetic, induced these spin-flip channels, whereas other defects only displayed spin-conserving processes. The structures of other intrinsic defects were also explored with scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM), and two types were identified; the Se monovacancy and the Se, or<|fim_middle|> doping of the material. High-temperature annealing then resulted in a large-scale reconstruction of the surface, mediated by the Pd adatoms. Regions were observed with a 1T'-WSe2 structural phase indicating a phase transition.
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Edmonds, M. (Author). 2020 | O interstitial defect. A separate study was done on the decoration of Pd atoms on the WSe2 crystal surface. Pd dopants were found to locally and globally influence the material; introducing edge states into the electronic structure and a resulting p-type | 51 |
BASALT An art center that has called Basalt home for two years is searching for a permanent space in the town.The Wyly Community Art Center wants to buy land from the Basalt town government and build a facility. The art center is eyeing town-owned land where Taqueria el Nopal restaurant, near Old Pond Park. The town already has sold a portion of the site to the Roaring Fork Conservancy for its proposed offices and education center.The Wyly currently rents space in the Riverside Plaza building along Two Rivers Road in Basalt. The nonprofits budget is strained paying the rent, according to a letter to the town from executive director Deborah Jones and Annie Chapman, the chairwoman of the board of directors.Our occupancy expenses are 25 percent of our annual budget, which has created a significant challenge for us, the letter said. At this time the organization is diligently assessing what it really takes to sustain a nonprofit community-based art center, both programmatically and financially.Jones and Chapman wrote that they have contacted the Roaring Fork Conservancys board and staff about the possibilities of adjoining facilities; they already have concluded that a permanent home in downtown Basalt is critical to its long-term viability. Our vision is to acquire the land or a portion thereof through purchase or long-term lease from the town and build a permanent visual art center with the option of shared facilities with the Conservancy, the letter said.The town hasnt taken formal action on the request yet. A work session will be scheduled in the near future to dig into details, said Basalt Town Manager Bill Efting.
BASALT The Basalt Town Council donated $2,000 on Tuesday night to study the impacts of a mudslide on the lower Fryingpan River.The study would determine the number of macroinvertebrates available in the stream, and compare it to data collected prior to Aug. 6. The movement of sediment and its effects also would be studied, according to a letter to Basalt officials from Roaring Fork Conservancy executive director Rick Lofaro.The Conservancy is seeking $2,000 eachfrom the town, the Colorado Division of Wildlife, Eagle County, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the Colorado River Conservation District for the $10,000 study. The council voted 5-0 to contribute.Lofaro said the study will make recommendations on revegetation, flushing flow and possible removal of sediment.
CARBONDALE Representatives from three Ute Indian nations granted $480,000 to Ranch Good Days, a Carbondale nonprofit that provides a safe harbor to young women in need.In a recent meeting of members of the Southern Ute Indian Nation, the Ute Mountain<|fim_middle|> the first for girls in the state, Otabachian said.My interest is to get a house up here, so I can house up to 20 girls, she said. | Ute Indian Nation and the Ute Nation of Utah (home of many Roaring Fork Valley Ute people), officials agreed to sponsor the nonprofit with money from a federal funding pot.Ranch Good Days founder and director Donna Otabachian began the home in Missouri Heights as a safe place for Ute girls in trouble, but has opened her doors to all local young women.Chairman of each one of these tribes are taking the leadership, Otabachian said.There are eight homes for Native American boys, but hers is | 106 |
As soon as he puts a foot on dry land, Jesus is met by a most alarming man. But the way he deals with the situation seems to alarm people even more.
Then they arrived at the country of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee. 27As he stepped out on land, a man of the city who had demons met him. For a long time he had worn no clothes, and he did not live in a house but in the tombs. 28When he saw Jesus, he fell down before him and shouted at the top of his voice, 'What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, do not torment me'— 29for Jesus had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. (For many times it had seized him; he was kept under guard and bound with chains and shackles, but he would break the bonds and be driven by the demon into the wilds.) 30Jesus then asked him, 'What is your name?' He said, 'Legion'; for many demons had entered him. 31They begged him not to order them to go back into the abyss.
32 Now there on the hillside a large herd of swine was feeding; and the demons begged<|fim_middle|>. 37Then all the people of the surrounding country of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to leave them; for they were seized with great fear. So he got into the boat and returned. 38The man from whom the demons had gone begged that he might be with him; but Jesus sent him away, saying, 39'Return to your home, and declare how much God has done for you.' So he went away, proclaiming throughout the city how much Jesus had done for him.
Where is the country of the Gerasenes?
Who wants to be near Jesus and who wants to be distant?
What word would you use to describe the man's problem?
How would you feel if you came across such a man?
Do you feel anything for the pigs?
How would you feel if you observed all this as a disciple?
How could you reach out to those wo suffer like this man?
Could you find ways to use the question, 'what is your name' to greater effect? | Jesus to let them enter these. So he gave them permission. 33Then the demons came out of the man and entered the swine, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned.
34 When the swineherds saw what had happened, they ran off and told it in the city and in the country. 35Then people came out to see what had happened, and when they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had gone sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind. And they were afraid. 36Those who had seen it told them how the one who had been possessed by demons had been healed | 144 |
Meet the Consort Homes Team
Ken Stricker
Ken Stricker joined The Jones Company in April 1994 as operations manager, later earning promotions to vice president, chief financial officer and president. He became president and CEO at Consort Homes in March 2006 before returning to The Jones Company as CEO in January 2013. Prior to joining The Jones Company in 1994, Stricker was an accountant and audit manager at Kiefer, Bonfanti and CO, LLP, CPA, where he was assigned to The Jones Company account and worked closely with them for several years. As an active community member, Stricker serves as commissioner of the St. Louis County Building Commission and Board of Appeals, trustee of the Carpenters District Council Pension and Health and Welfare Plan, chairman of the Homebuilders Association Legislative Policy Committee and director on the board of St. Louis Bank. He is also a committee member for the HBA Federal Government Affairs Committee, the Home Building Industry Political Action Committee and the Southeast Missouri State University Corporate Planning Committee.
Robin Ruckman
Named Senior Vice President in 2017, after serving as Vice President since 2012, Robin Ruckman has been involved in virtually every aspect of Consort Homes' operations since the firm's inception, including contract/closing administration, permitting, purchasing/estimating, and marketing.
She holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from Maryville University and began her career in the homebuilding industry working part-time as a teenager. From field supervision to management, her leadership abilities and thorough knowledge of new-home construction have been self-evident, making her uniquely well-qualified for her executive position.
Determined to maintain and grow Consort Homes' prominence in the local marketplace, Ruckman is committed to upholding the firm's longstanding reputation for value, quality, superior design, and integrity.
Julie Ellis is responsible for all financial aspects and legal affairs of the company. In 2004, Ellis joined The Jones Company as a controller after gaining five years of experience at Kiefer Bonfanti & Company. In 2012, Ellis was promoted to her current position due to her proven expertise in budgeting, financial analysis and reporting, contract management, real estate and strategic planning. Ellis earned her Bachelors degree in accounting from Missouri State University and holds a CPA license in both Tennessee and Missouri. Ellis is a member of the Missouri Society of CPAs and the Tennessee Society of CPAs.
Bill Wannstedt
Vice President and Division Manager
"A job worth doing is worth doing right." That's Consort Homes' philosophy, and it has been a fundamental principle for Bill Wannstedt throughout his 35-year career in construction. As Vice President and Division Manager, Wannstedt oversees all aspects of Consort Homes' day-to-day functions, reporting directly to CEO Ken Stricker.
Originally from Pittsburgh, Wannstedt earned a BBA from Marshall University, then an MBA in management/marketing from Loyola University Chicago. Raised in a coal mining area, he entered the workforce in coal engineering and construction. The professional skills he acquired in this field translated well to homebuilding, and he's spent nearly three decades in the St. Louis region's new-home industry.
Wannstedt currently serves as President of the Board of Directors of the HBA of St. Louis & Eastern Missouri. Formerly, elected as president of the HBA of Southwest Illinois in 2007. He joined Consort Homes in 2012 and maintains, "Our leadership has confidence in our people and their decision-making ability. For the Consort customer, this means an efficient process and a quality-built home."
Joe Chilcutt
Joe Chilcutt's involvement in construction has been a constant for all of his life. His education and experience have centered around home building.
During his summers in high school, Joe worked as a laborer and developed his passion for construction. From his time as an apprentice carpenter, to crew foreman, to job site superintendent and construction manager, Joe's field-based knowledge and hands-on approach has given him the industry experience to lead the new home building construction process.
Joining Consort Homes at its inception, Joe has been instrumental in building strong relationships with other trade industry professionals to maintain an innovative approach to building new homes.
Erin Oliver
Coming from a family involved in land development, custom home building, and real estate, Erin Oliver might well have been destined for her role as Director of Sales for Consort Homes.
With a BFA from Missouri State University, she initially established her own graphic design business, but was lured back<|fim_middle|> with Coldwell Banker Gundaker. Through her years at CBG and owning her own marketing consulting firm, Dawn has worked with many Realtors and vendors. Building close and lasting relationships has been one of her greatest rewards. She has an eye for detail, can add creative flair to nearly any project and enjoys making people smile through her work. She has a way of capturing people's ideas and bringing them to life. Dawn also enjoys planning events, from agent open houses to charitable fundraising opportunities. She takes great pride in a well-executed event. Her main responsibility at Consort is to support the marketing needs of the company and the needs of individual communities. She works closely with the management and sales team to enhance everyday operations and practices while building relationships with other builders within the communities where we build. | to the new-home industry in 2001. Working with a local builder, she immediately began setting sales records and earning award recognition. She joined a national Fortune 500 homebuilding company in 2005, quickly rising from sales consultant to area sales manager.
Oliver's decision to join Consort Homes in 2010 was based on the firm's outstanding reputation, flexibility, streamlined homebuilding procedures, and exceptional customer satisfaction rating. She holds a Broker license, CSM and IRM designations, and has received multiple national and local awards for her sales performance over the years.
Greg Bowers
Purchasing and Estimating Manager
Greg Bowers has always had a passion for building things, with a knack for taking things apart and putting them back together again. Bringing 29 years of experience in construction, he started in the flooring industry in 1986 and soon after became a carpenter. Bowers owned his own home building company until 1998, and then began as a carpenter for The Jones Company until 2011. Bowers joined Consort Homes in 2012 as the Purchasing and Estimating Manager.
Bowers was born and raised in Park Hills, MO, where he met and married his high school sweetheart. He is the proud father of two sons, and enjoys spending time with them. Outside of work, Bowers volunteers for Habitat for Humanity and church organizations. His hobbies include family time, working on his property, and riding his Harley Davidson with family and friends.
Chelsey Barrett
Interior Design Consultant
Growing up as a member of a military family that was frequently relocated around the world, Chelsey holds dear to all her memories of anticipation and excitement of a new community and a new home! And, while she prefers to reminisce on the fun and adventure, Chelsey can also recall the concerns and stress of moving somewhere different. It has been through her work with Consort Homes that she brings her personal experience, compassion, and understanding to make each customer's transition from dreaming of building a brand new home to owning the home of their dreams a seamless and engaging reality for their entire family. In 2015, Chelsey and family realized that dream for themselves, when they chose to build their own Consort Home.
In 2013, a life-long calling to work with people earned her a B.A. in Organizational Communication from McKendree University, where she also minored in Sales and Marketing. Soon after, a career with Consort Homes began. With a dedication and passion for constant learning and self-improvement, Chelsey earned the National Association of Home Builder's Certified New Home Sales Professional (CSP) designation, after only one year in the home building industry. Currently working as the Interior Design Consultant, Chelsey's knowledge and growth have yet to meet its boundaries.
A dedicated and enthusiastic young woman, Chelsey strives to actualize her potential in the home building design industry. Her desire to share her own knowledge and experiences are steadfast in helping every customer achieve the goal of loving the design features of their new home. After a lifetime of being in new places, Chelsey knows that she is home to stay, with Consort Homes.
Dawn Thurman
Dawn Thurman joined the Consort Homes team in late 2017. She received her Master of Management from Fontbonne University in St. Louis and received her B.A. from Blackburn College in Carlinville, IL.
Dawn brings over 16 years of real estate marketing experience, most recently | 730 |
Tiger Gives $5 Million to Youth Project
Tiger Woods has broken ground on the new $25 million Tiger Woods Learning Center, in Anaheim, Cal., started with Woods $5 million donation.
Located at H.G. (Dad) Miller Golf Course - a course Woods played in high school - the project will include a 30,000-square-foot computer-based education center and a 23-acre golf teaching facility. Course architect Tom Fazio has donated his services to the project, which hopes to open its doors to Southern California youngsters from kindergarten through grade 12 by the summer of <|fim_middle|> and we want to do it right.'
While golf will be an important part of the new center, Woods stressed it isnt the reason he got involved.
'This isnt a school,' he said. 'Its a place where kids can enhance their lives. Its about being better educated and becoming a better person. Its about following your dreams.'
Earl Woods, Tigers father, announced that Target Stores has become the first major donor in the project, pumping in $2.5 million. | 2004.
'It just blows my mind sometimes that this high school-punk kid gets a chance to give back where it all started,' said Woods. 'Our directive is to have this built first, then build more around the country. This is the model | 53 |
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For today's Geo Quiz --- we're searching for Kryptops palaios. Kryptops palaios is the<|fim_middle|> tanker standoff between Iran and the UK
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South AmericaAntarcticaAfricaAustraliaNigerIndiaAfricascience | name scientists are using to describe a new kind of dinosaur. This feroucios meat-eating creature is thought to have lived in the region called Gondwana. That's the super-landmass that formed some 500 million years ago. It included the landmasses that later became South America, Africa, India, Australia and Antarctica... all balled into one. Kryptops was a creature of Gondwana. It roamed an area that is today called the "great desert." Actually it's the world's second largest desert....and we want you to name it. Kryptops's fossilized bones were discovered at the edge of this African desert ... in the valley of what is now the Niger River. Ready for the answer? The Sahara Desert is the answer we were looking for to today's Geo Quiz. The "Great Desert" or the world's largest hot desert, is comparatively smaller than Antarctica, considered a cold desert. The fossils of two new dinosaurs were recovered from a region of the Sahara Desert, specifically the Elrhaz Formation along the western edge of the Tenere Desert in Niger in a place known as "Gadoufaoua".
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Past, present and future come together in a Hawaii Kai family home.
Darlene Dela Cruz,
Photos: Aaron K. Yoshino
When the time comes to break down your childhood home and construct anew, you'll likely have a range of emotions. Cherished memories collide with pragmatic project decisions — but behind it all is a sense of hope for the bright future a fresh build will bring.
A Hawaii Kai family recently experienced all of that. Connecting treasured elements from their old home with forward-thinking design resulted in a new abode that's inviting and full of character. Initial discussions on the Homeworks Construction project began in 2020, followed by permitting in 2021 and completion in mid-2022.
The home's outdoor living elements combine contemporary aesthetics with nostalgic landscaping details.
"We wanted a design-build firm," says the homeowner, who points to Homeworks' "excellent follow-through and communication" and "reliable, responsive and knowledgeable" service.
To plan the project, Heather Hickox of Homeworks met the homeowner and her husband at their family home, which was built in 1962. An on-site walk-through and clear ideas from the homeowner and her husband for a new build established a mutual understanding between contractor and client on how to proceed.
A look at the innovatively designed master bathroom, which includes a rock garden in tribute to the homeowner's parents.
"I walked into a house that was cared for throughout the years," says Hickox of the old home before it was torn down. "There was an intense feeling of pride and love … Immediately, I knew the homeowner wanted to preserve this feeling. Even though she was going to start anew, she was not going to wash away her family's presence."
Adds Elyse Grable, Homeworks selections specialist: "The original house was so interesting and had a lot of traditional Japanese elements to it. There were a few pieces that the homeowner wanted to keep and incorporate in the design of the new home."
A serene arrangement of stones and plants provide a calming feel to the master bathroom.
The homeowner's parents, for example, had a Japanese rock garden in their furo and shower room. Homeworks re-created this feature beautifully in the current master bathroom, where skylights allow streams of daylight to illuminate a peaceful arrangement of stones and plants.
Outdoor considerations were also handled with heart. Moss rocks from the first iteration of the property were saved and used for landscaping. Reclaimed midcentury redwood planks now line a pool shower. Decorative ohia posts from the old lanai were reused at the front door after being sanded down and naturally refinished.
Perhaps the most appreciated homage inside the home are the wood lattice screens mounted behind the headboard in the master bedroom. These four panels, which are more than 60 years old, once served as dividers between the previous living room and dining room. Refurbished and painted, they're now a one-of-a-kind decorative statement piece. Katen Karlten of Bloom Again Design came up with this tribute to the homeowner's childhood.
Repurposed midcentury redwood planks were incorporated in the design of an outdoor pool shower.
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• Interior Design: Bloom Again Design/Katen Karlten
• Pool: Gemini Pool And Spa
• Landscaping: Turf And Shrub Care Hawaii
• Pantry/Master Closet: Dream Closets Hawaii
This article appears in the December 2022/January 2023 issue of Hawaii Home + Remodeling.
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Grable says the homeowner "was a great mediator" between her designer and Homeworks Construction. "She made it a point to have us on the same page as her so we could work together to complete their vision."
Wood lattice screens from the original home are mounted behind the headboard in the master bedroom, a heartfelt homage to the homeowner's childhood.
That vision also included modern aesthetics with "clean lines, neutral colors and open areas," says Hickox. The home office, for instance, has a sleek Murphy door bookcase that opens into a closet for internet cables. In the living-dining-kitchen area, the air conditioning unit is cleverly concealed in the attic, with vents blowing cool air down to the entire open space.
"It looks like we have central AC in the living-dining-kitchen but we don't," says the homeowner, who describes the system as an "incredible example of an innovative solution that made the house have clean lines and cool more efficiently."
Despite supply chain issues and an uptick in costs for lumber and materials while construction was in progress, the homeowner and her family are grateful for the outcome of the project. For others who are looking to rebuild an old home or embarking on fresh construction, the homeowner advises patience and a good rapport with their contractor.
An air conditioning unit is hidden in the attic above the open-concept living-dining-kitchen area. Vents in the ceiling help create the look of central air conditioning with more efficient cooling.
"It's a long process so remember to take it step by step," she shares. "Research at least a few companies for your project. Ask to see examples or talk to previous clients. Don't be afraid to ask questions or express concerns. It will be worth it in the end!"
Marshall Hickox of Homeworks adds that it is important "to choose a contractor you feel comfortable communicating with and [who] is equally passionate about | 427 |
Seven-time Canadian Superbike Champion Jordan Szoke has every intention of moving forward with his future racing plans, despite recent news that one of his primary sponsors, Canadian Kawasaki Motors, announced yesterday their withdrawal from the Canadian Superbike Series.
Grateful for the long history the accomplished rider has had with Canadian Kawasaki (he has won 5 of his 7 Superbike championships and 4 of his 5 Sportbike titles aboard Kawasaki livery), Szoke has every intention to keep<|fim_middle|> brand of motorcycle. Szoke made it clear that he wishes to continue racing and continue to work with his current sponsors, "We want to assure our existing sponsors that we will be continuing to represent them for 2012," explained Szoke, "Right now we are open to any and all potential manufacturers and sponsors for 2012 to continue our program."
Times remain tough for professional motorcycle racers who have been all too familiar with the industry's economic decline, but Szoke brings with him years of talent and experience, as well as a handful of Number One plates; even in these tough times, that's still got to count for something. | his job as a motorcycle racer in 2012.
According to Szoke, "I am still young, fit and successful. This is my job. It's what I do."
Szoke intends to continue racing in Canada or abroad and has reportedly been in talks with his 2011 sponsor, Competition Systems, about continuing to ride their ZX10R's or possibly another | 80 |
Getting them Ready for School.
In the first few days your child will face new places, people, rules and relationships. This can be both exciting and frightening.
" Make at least one visit to the school before your child's first day. If possible, arrange to show your child around their new classroom and meet their teacher. Take a look at where they'll leave their coat and lunchbox and show them the toilets, playground and hall.
" Talk about each place as you visit it. For some children just looking will be enough. But others, who learn more rapidly through hearing, will benefit from your descriptions.
" Find out about the daily routine from the teacher and let your child know what to expect. For example, many schools start with reading on the mat, the daily register and so on. Knowing what's coming next will help your child make sense of their day.
" Lastly, for your own reassurance you could ask the teacher what strategies he or she uses to settle the children.
1. Point out the school whenever you pass it.
2. Tell stories about what you enjoyed at school and the fun things you did.
3. Build a school with your child from cardboard boxes or play-bricks, then act out some classroom scenarios with your child.
4. Read some positive books about starting school. Good titles include Topsy and Tim Start School by Jean and Gareth Adamson or Starting School by Alan and Janet Ahlberg.
5. Walk or drive to school together so your child gets to know the route. Note how long it takes so you leave in plenty of time on the first day.
Shop for uniform and other equipment early - you're more likely to find things in the right sizes and you'll avoid the crowding of the last week before term starts. Make the shopping trip into a special event for you and your child and emphasise they're choosing their grown-up school clothes.
<|fim_middle|> off with a smile and a wave along with the reassurance that you'll be there to collect them later. Remember even distressed children settle very quickly once you're gone, so make your leave loving but brief. If you're particularly worried, most schools will be receptive if you want to phone in later to check your child is ok.
Do make sure you're a little early to collect your child at the end of the first few days - even a few minutes late can seem an eternity to a waiting child. Your child will probably be tired and hungry so a healthy snack and some quiet time, with or without you, will be just what they need after school.
Make listening a priority. They'll probably talk about their day in their own time so avoid pressing your child, but do give them opportunities to talk to you.
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You may need to get into the term-time habit too. Write a list of all the things you'll need to organise, such as dinner money, snacks and lunches, gym clothes, reading folder and painting coverall. Stick the list to the fridge and tick each item off as you sort it out.
Last of all set your alarm early for the first day - even the most organised parents and children need extra time to get ready for the big event.
Your feelings will guide your child's emotions. If you approach your child's first day with confidence that they'll be fine, using positive words about school and loving attention, their anxieties will be reduced.
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Taking Back Our Lives
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How people living with HIV—at high risk of suicide—vanquish thoughts of death.
November 21, 2011 • By Mark Leydorf
"I don't believe in tragedy," Nate says. "It's a powerless, helpless frame of mind." A New Yorker in his late 40s, he's been positive since around 1986 and sober from drugs and alcohol for 13 years. Tall and handsome, Nate has a wry sense of humor and a sage way of closing his eyes before he answers questions, as if listening for a distant radio signal. He has a survivor's optimism. He's lived through childhood abuse (which he repressed for decades, until therapy helped release the truth), the AIDS crisis and getting his own HIV diagnosis, as well as a long struggle with addiction. Yet his drive to live is palpable. You'd never guess, talking to him today, that he tried three times to kill himself.
That's the thing about suicide. Even when the warning signs are all there, the prospect is so unthinkable that friends don't see it coming, or don't want to see it coming. Nate asked to remain anonymous for this article<|fim_middle|>
#post-traumatic stress disorder
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Drug-Related Deaths More Likely Stimulant-Linked in San Franciscans With HIV | . He is studying for a degree in social work and is more discreet about his history than he used to be. "Talking about my suicide attempts has been my shtick since I got sober," he says, laughing. "I'm kind of sick of it."
It's quite a story. Although Nate fits virtually every risk factor, he has never felt like a statistic. "What I do with all those little bits of data is up to me," he says. "It's the only control I have—my perception of those checked boxes. Each one can make me a richer, fuller person more capable of expressing love. Or they can just bury you." He adds, "They've buried a lot of people."
Nate knows he's lucky. According to a Swiss study published last year in The American Journal of Psychiatry, people with HIV remain more than three times likelier to commit suicide than the general population, though the HIV-positive suicide rate has fallen by half since the advent of HIV combo therapy. In 2008, a survey at clinics in London and Brighton found that one in three positive people had suicidal thoughts during the previous week. In the United States, one study found that 20 percent had considered it at some time.
While many people with HIV in this country and around the world still struggle with AIDS and opportunistic infections, many others—those with access to meds and good health care—could live to a ripe old age. We have retaken life. Why then do so many of us long for death?
Round up the usual suspects: In the Swiss study, stigma, discrimination and social isolation—leading to or compounding anxiety, depression and substance abuse—were major factors. Suicide rates remain highest among older people—men, IV-drug users and people with advanced HIV-related illness, lower CD4 cell counts or poor HIV-med adherence. This at least suggests that HIV therapy might continue to reduce suicide rates over time.
Even so, says New York City psychiatrist Bruce Kellerhouse, PhD, many people who lived through the worst of the AIDS crisis are still suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which makes suicide more likely. Kellerhouse sees many patients struggling with the problem. "For men over 50, the narrative is filled with loss. Whereas guys in their 30s and 40s, that's not so much the case. Forty-five seems to be the break-off point."
Suicide among younger people living with HIV is more often related to substance abuse. This is especially true of gay men using crystal meth. The newly diagnosed are also especially vulnerable. "The question is, how traumatic is it to receive a diagnosis? And what is it like to live with that?" Kellerhouse says. "For some it's a walk in the park, but for others it's difficult. There is no uniformity in post-test counseling and follow-up. People may get a little bit of counseling, and then they are out the door. We need intensive post-test referrals and follow-up."
Unfortunately, in the rush toward rapid HIV testing, the trend seems to be in the opposite direction. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's website stresses three points for counselors: Explain the meaning of a positive test; emphasize the importance of a confirmatory test and follow-up visit for results; and urge people to avoid transmitting HIV while awaiting test results. Not terribly helpful for the shocked, frightened, despairing person just hearing he or she has HIV.
After years of hard work with a therapist and the New York City support group Friends in Deed, Nate has come back from the edge. "The therapist began by saying, 'I want to get old with you. So if you don't go to AA tonight I won't work with you.'" He laughs. "Pretty tough statement to someone with bandaged wrists!" That firm approach, he says, was just what he needed. "I was ready." (For more on preventing suicide, see "How To," below; for more on how Nate healed himself, click here.)
Nate is not immune to morbid reflection. When he remembers the many friends he lost to AIDS, he can feel the old despair. "When I think they got robbed, they suffered…. But when I believe they've just 'moved on,' I'm less down." On the whole, he exudes confidence and even joy. Asked what he would say to his lost, younger self, Nate barely pauses. "Hang on," he says. "You don't know everything that's possible."
How to: Fight for Life
If you suspect a friend or relative is suffering, Bruce Kellerhouse, PhD, says, act before there's a crisis. "People who show obvious signs of suicidality, you get them help. You don't leave it up to them. You walk them to the clinic, to the ER." In less obvious cases, he says, discuss the danger openly.
In 12-step programs and other support groups—and with loved ones—listen for helplessness. "Do people feel hopeless—about recovery from substance abuse? About HIV? Some profound sense of despair sets in, and problems don't seem solvable," Kellerhouse says. "For people who are [relapsing], talk about the real danger in that—apart from screwing up your life, your meds, there's a deeper, insidious hopelessness that can set in."
Nate, who has HIV and has survived suicide attempts, agrees: "People going through difficult times more often than not just want to know someone is listening and honestly comprehends what they're going through," he says. "Rarely is there a better message to offer than, 'I heard what you said.'"
If you feel like giving up or you just can't get out of bed, seek help sooner rather than later. Take your needs seriously.
Join a support group. A local AIDS service organization (ASO) or clinic can help you find a group. Or search for services in your area at directory.poz.com.
Find a therapist. Get a referral from your doctor or your local ASO. Or call the National Alliance on Mental Illness helpline at 800.950.NAMI (800.950.6264).
Call for help. In a crisis, phone the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, a 24-hour, toll-free service available to anyone in suicidal crisis: 800.273.TALK (800.273.8255).
Reach Out. If what you've been doing—staying home, avoiding people, sleeping—isn't working, do the opposite. Make a call, send a text. Let someone know you need to talk, you need a friend.
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Guided Visit and Performance: "Grand Theatre of Xiqu Centre followed by backstage<|fim_middle|> and English surtitles
Adapted from a well-known Korean folk tale, this new opera is set in imperial China and recounts the forbidden love between a courtesan's daughter, Cheng Chunxiang (Lady Spring Fragrance), and Li Wenyan the son of a magistrate. Despite challenges and hardships, Cheng remains committed to her lover. But will Li risk a promising career and fight for Cheng in the face of danger?
Born in New York from a family of Cantonese opera heritage and a graduate from Wellesley College, Li Pui-yan (李沛妍) has been taught by numerous famed Cantonese opera performers. Since her debut as principal actress in Floral Princess (Youth Edition) in 2007, she has performed for the Hong Kong Arts Festival, Chinese Opera Festival, Macau Arts Festival as well as the benefit inaugural performance at ASHK's Miller Theatre. Her repertoire ranges from classics to new productions such as Deling and the Empress Dowager Ci Xi and Arrant Revenge, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Recently, through working with artists from other disciplines, such as Ming Wong and Mariko Mori, she is inspired to further explore the cross-disciplinary potential of this traditional art form. Aside from performing, Li is devoted to the English translation of Cantonese opera librettos and has served on the Cantonese Opera Advisory Committee in Hong Kong for various terms. | visit to see Li Pui-yan (李沛妍) and performance of Cantonese Opera Lady Spring Fragrance 《春香傳》"
18:45 Guided Tour and Backstage Visit (in English); 19:30 Performance (in Cantonese with English subtitles)
Xiqu Centre, 88 Austin Road West, Tsim Sha Tsui
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Yvonne Choi at [email protected] or 9132-1669
We will start off the evening with a guided tour in English of the Grand Theatre of the newly opened Xiqu Centre located in the West Kowloon Cultural District. The building's striking design, created by Revery Architecture (formerly Bing Thom Architects) and Ronald Lu & Partners, was inspired by traditional Chinese lanterns and blends traditional and contemporary elements to reflect the evolving nature of the art form. Stepping through the main entrance, shaped to resemble parted stage curtains, visitors are led directly into a lively atrium with a raised podium and space for presenting the rich and ancient culture of Chinese traditional theatre.
The Grand Theatre accommodates over 1,000 seats and a unique feature of the Grand Theatre is its location at the top of the building, which allows for a large open atrium below with space for exhibitions, stalls, and xiqu (戲曲) demonstrations and workshops.
Following a tour of the Grand Theatre, we will visit backstage to see Li Pui-yan (李沛妍) dress and make-up for her female role in the new Cantonese Opera performance, Lady Spring Fragrance《春香傳》. The performance will be in Cantonese with Chinese | 342 |
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D Gaist, U Jeppesen, M Andersen, L A García Rodríguez, J Hallas, S H Sindrup
Neurology 2002 May 15
BACKGROUND: Several case reports and a single epidemiologic study indicate that use of statins occasionally may have a deleterious effect on the peripheral nervous system. The authors therefore performed a population-based study to estimate the relative risk of idiopathic polyneuropathy in users of statins.
METHOD: The authors used a population-based patient registry to identify first-time-ever cases of idiopathic polyneuropathy registered in the 5-year period 1994 to 1998. For each case, validated according to predefined criteria, 25 control subjects were randomly selected among subjects from the background population matched for age, sex, and calendar time. The authors used a prescription register to assess exposure to drugs and estimated the odds ratio of use of statins (ever and current use) in cases of idiopathic polyneuropathy compared with control subjects.
RESULTS: The authors verified a diagnosis of idiopathic polyneuropathy in 166 cases. The cases were classified as definite (35), probable (54), or possible (77). The odds ratio linking idiopathic polyneuropathy with statin use was 3.7 (95% CI 1.8 to 7.6) for all cases and 14.2 (5.3 to 38.0) for definite cases. The corresponding odds ratios in current users were 4.6 (2.1 to 10.0) for all cases and 16.1 (5.7 to 45.4) for definite cases. For patients treated with statins for 2 or more years the odds ratio of definite idiopathic polyneuropathy was 26.4 (7.8 to 45.4).
CONCLUSIONS: Long-term exposure to statins may substantially increase the risk of poly | 441 |
HomeHow a 17th century mathematician inspired a very modern novel
How a 17th century mathematician inspired a very modern novel
Irene Katz ConnellyAugust 23, 2021Image by iStock
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Rivka Galchen showed up to our Zoom interview wearing white headphones and a baseball t-shirt bearing the words "Brooklyn Poets."
"I don't even live in Brooklyn," she said apologetically, twisting around to show me that the back was emblazoned with W.H. Auden's name and adding that it was "super soft."
It made sense that Galchen was quick to disavow New York's most stereotypically writerly precincts: Her writing is sharpest when it comes to unprepossessing places and people. "A neighborhood feels 'right' to me only when it suits me in no particular way," she wrote in an essay on the appeal of Hell's Kitchen, where she lived for several years.
Galchen's keen sense for the overlooked grounds her latest novel, "Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch," which takes place in the early 1600s, at the outset of the Thirty Years' War — a period of astonishing violence which has faded into an equally astonishing obscurity. Her protagonist has been equally forgotten by history: Katharina Kepler, an elderly herbalist and the mother of mathematician Johannes Kepler.
As conjured by Galchen, Katharina is a woman of her own time and of ours: A prosperous but illiterate widow, she spends her time providing well-intentioned but often unwanted advice to her neighbors in the German market town of Leonberg. Katharina's intrusiveness makes her endearing — you probably have a woman like her in your life, especially if you're a Forward reader. But in a culture that regarded self-sufficient older women with intense suspicion, her personality also renders her vulnerable. When a neighbor's petty accusations of witchcraft spiral into a years-long trial, she realizes how fragile her status in the community really is.
I talked to Galchen about her writing routine (or lack thereof), 17th-century litigation and the risks of rationality. The following conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
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Rivka Galchen.
What's your morning routine like?
When I wrote my first novel I had this amazing morning routine. The Hungarian Pastry Shop was near my home. It opened at 7 a.m., I would be the first one there, I would have 45 minutes of cookies and coffee and spacing out. It was really efficient for writing because being in the same place every day got me to the "zone" faster. After my daughter was born, which was 1,000 years ago (she's eight), that was just dynamited. But I've developed a better muscle for getting into the "zone" whenever I have a little bit of time.
What are your biggest distractions?
Well, we got a pandemic cat. I feel like she needs my love all day long.
You've written some really lovely essays about motherhood. What are you reading with your daughter?
This is sort of cheesy, but we're reading<|fim_middle|>, just some pettiness and fearfulness. The kind of human fragility that seems manageable, but once it enters into this other framework it becomes terrifying.
Did you look to any other historical novels while you were writing this one?
The only one I had as a conscious model was "Wolf Hall," because [Hilary Mantel] made it modern. I didn't feel that she was unfaithful to the time period, but she translated it into the present tense.
In the acknowledgements, you write that you've never enjoyed writing a book as much as this one, even though "it is a sad book, written during a distressing time." Why do you think that was?
I think I needed it more than I'd ever needed another project. It gave my head something to think about that felt more productive and valuable than reading the news for hours and hours a day. And I really liked my main character. She was tangled up with people I love, and kinds of people I love. You don't always like your characters; if I have a character who resembles me, then of course I'm not going to like them as much.
Irene Katz Connelly
Irene Katz Connelly is a staff writer at the Forward. You can contact her at connelly@forward.com. Follow her on Twitter at @katz_conn.
Rivka Galchen on writing the 17th century | that classic book that I didn't have in childhood but everyone else did: the D'Aulaire Greek myths. Even though it's all about Zeus and his sexual exploits — that's the main plot, one after another set of children he has to hide from his wife — she really loves it.
How did you become interested in Katharina Kepler?
The book that brought her to life for me was "The Astronomer and the Witch" by Ulinka Rublack. It honestly felt like being hit by lightning. Katharina is not just any woman, she's the mother of one of the greatest mathematicians in history. And it seems like he got that from her; he was very much like his mother and not like his father. I thought about the mathematicians in my life, who believe that if something is true, and you show people the error of their ways, and you think logically, then everyone will respond to that. Of course, the world is quite unresponsive to reason and logic and evidence, even today. So I connected to that slightly magical personality.
Katharina is such a recognizable character — I think everyone knows a person like her. How much of her personality could you discover in primary sources, and what did you have to invent?
When Kepler was 26 years old, he did a big horoscope of the whole family, and he basically said she's a sly, difficult, quarrelsome person. He was also really hard on himself. And from the way her neighbors describe her in the depositions, you get the sense of there being a disjunct between how she saw herself and how others saw her. I felt immediately that she was a woman I know — a woman who's very intelligent, but who doesn't necessarily read the room or know how she's being received. Like a lot of people I admire, she wouldn't be a great politician. She doesn't know when to flatter and when to misdirect.
What did you do to get a feel for the time period?
I like reading more than I like writing. It was really fun to find things out — for example, Katharina is illiterate, but what books were in people's households at that time? What were they reading? There were some great scholarly books about crimes that women were prosecuted for at that time, besides witchcraft. They were, of course, quite different from what men were prosecuted for.
Can you give some examples?
A lot of them were things like, a woman criticized her husband in public for not speaking out at the guild meeting, and she gets put in the public stocks and humiliated. There was so much instability that there was an uptick of laws regulating minor things. So, servants would sometimes get clothes from the people they worked for. But someone of a servant's station wasn't supposed to wear velvet, and if they were seen in the market wearing velvet they might get prosecuted for that.
What was the most surprising thing you learned?
I realized that just because child mortality was very common didn't mean people handled it very well. I would come across stories like, a woman whose two-year-old died went crazy and stole a child from a peasant, dressed her in the dead child's clothing, and raised her. I had a sense that people just adjust to whatever horrible things are going on around them, but it was never easy for anyone.
It's easy to think of the 17th century as backward and barbaric compared to our own time. But much of this book feels very modern — for example, there's a widespread distrust of science, and a social contract more precarious than the characters realize. Were you looking for parallels as you wrote?
I wasn't doing it consciously. That ruins writing for me, if I have an "op-ed" relationship to my work. But I'm sure that was part of why the story was so vivid to me. The main thing was that sense of a juggernaut having begun, and there's no way to stop it, even though it's perilous for many people. There's no evil genius in the story | 838 |
ST. PETERSBURG — A weekend that features shows by Don Henley, Marc Anthony and Cedric the Entertainer will launch a new era of management at Mahaffey Theater.
Henley, Anthony and Cedric will play consecutive nights Nov. 18 to 20 at Mahaffey in what is billed as a gala opening weekend. The first two shows in the theater will be Kenny Rogers (Oct. 14) and Jennifer Hudson (Nov. 4).
Joe Jimenez, managing<|fim_middle|>rek: The Musical (Dec. 16), a solo show by Cloris Leachman (April 15) and One Night of Queen (April 22); a small dance series featuring the Chocolate Nutcracker (Dec. 17); and a midday series of seven shows by the likes of the Duke Ellington Orchestra (Nov. 29) and Shirley Jones (Jan. 18).
The potential of Mahaffey — also home to the Florida Orchestra — has long been apparent, given its prime location on the downtown waterfront. Now it is ideally situated across a grassy plaza from the new, immensely popular Salvador Dali Museum. But the theater has failed to find its niche in the same market as two of the country's leading presenters, the David A. Straz Jr. Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa and Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater.
Recently, Edwards took over BayWalk, the moribund retail center in downtown St. Petersburg not far from Mahaffey. He's undaunted by the prospect of trying to turn around two troubled operations. "There's no law that says you can't do more than one thing at the same time," he said. | director of the Edwards Group, said for the following season, an exhibit is planned in the theater lobby tied to the 100th anniversary of the sinking of theTitanic.
Along with pop acts, Big 3 plans to continue Class Acts, programming for schoolchildren that includes shows such as, A Thousand Cranes (Oct. 18),Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates (Dec. 12) and Schoolhouse Rock Live! (Feb. 7).
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Chester-le-Street, County Durham. This was the site of an important Roman military station on the River Wear. The church stands where the remains of St Cuthbert rested in a little wooden Anglo-Saxon church from 882 to 995, before they were taken by the monks from Lindisfame first to Ripon and finally to Durham. For these 113 years, the town was the centre of a large diocese. The present church, St Mary and St Cuthbert, was begun in the early 11th century and rebuilt in the 13th and 14th. The octagonal tower dates from about 1400. A small stone cell for an anchorite huddles against the north wall of the tower, with a narrow squint into the church. It became an almshouse after the Reformation. Inside on a stone bench along the wall of the north aisle are squeezed 14 effigies of members of the Lumley family, put there in 1594 by John Lord Lumley. Lumley Castle is 1 mile East. The town is now a market place for the area. Lambton Castle, 1½ miles North East, is a romantic reproduction of a medieval castle, turrets, curtain wall and all. The original was dismantled in 1797 and replaced by a ball which in 1833 was enlarged and castellated. Almost wrecked in 1854 by mining subsidence, it was altered again in 1875.
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250MX AMA Pro Motocross Champion Adam Cianciarulo Interview
In the Cycle News 250MX AMA Pro Motocross Champion Adam Cianciarulo Interview, we talk to Cianciarulo about his first major Pro Championship and his move up to the 450cc class in 2020.
Many thought that when Adam Cianciarulo graduated from the amateur ranks, the road to the top would be a short one. It's been anything but short.
By Eric Johnson
Photography by Rob Koy and Monster Media
A few days removed from winning yet another battery of titles at the 2012 Loretta Lynn Amateur National Championships in Tennessee, 15-year-old minicycle sensation Adam Cianciarulo sat at a table inside the Pro Circuit Racing headquarters in Corona, California, and pondered a few things. Permitted to talk about his impending professional debut set for the spring of 2013, teenaged Cianciarulo spoke about his rise through the ranks.
"Kawasaki just signed a deal for me," said the then-diminutive teenager. "It's a five-year deal, and it's to be here at Pro Circuit with Mitch Payton through my Lites career, which is a dream come true for me, for sure. It's an unbelievable feeling. I've always wanted to ride for Mitch since I was a little kid. It's where I want to be. I want to make the best of it. I want to have a great pro career, and this is the first step. It's a huge step, so it's all on me from here!"
Kick the transmission up a few years to late autumn 2019, and Adam Cianciarulo is taking the next big step of his career after having finally carved out his first major pro championship, the 250cc AMA Pro Motocross title. And had it not been for a seemingly simple fall at the Las Vegas Supercross in May, the outdoor title would've been the second of his career. It's been a longer-than-expected road to get to this point, but Cianciarulo is ready for the next big step of his career, the 450cc class.
The new AMA 250MX National Champion from Port Orange, Florida, is now poised to line up behind the starting gate as a Monster Energy Kawasaki 450cc factory rider come Angel Stadium and the Anaheim Supercross on January 4, 2020.
A long, twisting journey whooped-out with big wins, big injuries and big heartbreaks, Cianciarulo has endured, and to his absolute credit, never given up, steadfast in his goal to be a multifold champion at the very highest level of the sport. About to take his final colossal<|fim_middle|> a bonus. That's not to say I'm going to try any less, I can assure you that. It's certainly a nice feeling to have, and I'm very grateful." CN
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Shoei Hornet X2 CNS-2 Transitions Shield | step up into the 450cc big leagues in one of the most prestigious forms of motorcycle racing in the world, Cianciarulo is looking at 2020 as an opportunity to put his name up in lights as this country's number-one super-motocross racer.
Cleared for takeoff back to his home state of Florida to test and train atop the KX450 for the entire month of November, Cycle News sat down with Cianciarulo and asked him to recount his recent journey to the premier level of the sport where he hopes to fulfill the rest of racing his dreams. Relaxed, appreciative and in good spirits, AC was in a talking mood, and we were all ears.
Cianciarulo made his 450cc debut a winning one at the Monster Energy Cup.
Monster Cup
"After the Monster Cup, we went to Cabo San Lucas in Mexico," said Cianciarulo of the beginning of his off-season. "My girlfriend and I and a couple of our friends went. I was super-excited to kind of just take a week away to relax. I actually hadn't had a real vacation in quite a long time, so it was cool to get away a little bit, but we're now right back to it testing.
"We're testing some suspension stuff and a couple of other things, as well. I'm just getting ready, and we're going back to Florida for the month of November so I can go back East and let the real training begin for Anaheim.
"And to now ride the 450 for Kawasaki, it's one of the things that in racing you accomplish a goal, and that's great, and it's cool to be proud of it, and to really look back on your journey. However, at the same time, you want to win again, and you kind of automatically go to the next goal, and that's definitely where my head has been at. You know me, I love riding dirt bikes. Even though it is technically my job, I still enjoy doing it, so I was really anxious to get on the new bike and start making improvements, and I was totally prepared to get to work.
"In what was my first race on the 450, I tried to come into the Monster Cup with an open mind and not too much temptation. I felt pretty good at the practice track beforehand. I think when I initially got on the 450 that I wanted to be smart and ease into it, and that's exactly what I did. I started ramping it up a little bit in the week leading up to the race. I felt like we had a good shot to be battling and maybe be in contention to win the race. I certainly didn't close my mind to that option. I mean, I think it worked out perfectly just being up there. You know, even getting a bad start in the second race and having to come through and race those guys and make some passes, I felt like I got a really good experience out of it. I got some good laps, and we got some good stuff that we can definitely lean on going on into the regular season. Man, what a special night for me.
"In retrospect, it was kind of funny how the Monster Cup worked out."
One simple fall kept Cianciarulo from winning the 250SX West title. Instead of dwelling on that, he used it as motivation going into the outdoor nationals. Photo: BrownDog Wilson
Championship-Coasting Crash
"I don't really look at how Vegas ended last May and with me crashing out of that Supercross championship. It's all too much in a negative light now, to be honest with you. It's just a part of my story, and I use it for motivation and fuel to kind of propel me to something that I wasn't sure that I was fully capable of beforehand, and that was when the 250cc outdoor motocross championship started.
"Coming off of supercross where I had such a great year, and it ended the way we didn't want it to, it definitely motivated me a little bit more for the outdoors. It definitely made me want to come out swinging and put the Las Vegas crash out of my mind as quick as possible. Nothing puts the past behind [better] than a win."
The moment Cianciarulo realized that his dream of becoming a champ had just come true.
"To be able to start the series at Hangtown, and win, and then to be able to win the next three races like that was something out of a dream, especially because I'd only won one outdoor national (Budds Creek, 2017) in what was my whole 250 career prior to the '19 season. I think that when I came into the pro ranks, I was seen as the next big thing or whatever it was that they wanted to call me. It appeared like I had everything handed to me, and I think for fans, that's kind of hard to root for. I think once people got to know me a little bit, then they saw my struggles. I think that everybody can relate with a struggle and that everybody can relate to a comeback story. We all have stuff that we have to go through in our lives, and I think people rally behind that. Not just in motocross, but in other sports and in life, as well.
"I can say from a personal perspective that the 250cc outdoor championship would have meant far, far less had I not had to go through what it took to get there. I'm stoked just to even still be in the sport. Let's put it that way. And to accomplish that on top of what I feel already, and just feeling that gratitude to still be a part of it, you can imagine how good it felt to win the 250 title. It was definitely one of the proudest moments of my life, for sure. I've been through a lot of adversity, and we all know that.
"After we won the championship, a number of my friends, industry members, and even fans asked me what it felt like to cross the finish line when I clinched the title. You know, that's a tough question to answer. I think when I was going through a lot of the stuff I went through, even when I was at rock bottom, I would always just imagine what it would be like to win a championship and how it would feel to go over the line. I would just imagine that over and over again in my head. I put it so high in my mind that when I actually did cross the finish line at the Ironman, I was almost numb to it; I was almost unsure of how to feel; it was so much relief and elation."
Cianciarulo's nemesis all year was Frenchman Dylan Ferrandis, who edged him out of the 250SX West Supercross Championship.
"Looking back on it all now, I think you have to be careful, for sure, with how much of your own self-worth that you put into the results. It's how we are brought up, you know? We kind of live and die with how we do on the weekend. Yes, it's challenging, and it can be tough, but it's also what makes it so rewarding when it works out in your favor. That's why we train every day and why we do what we do to the extent that we do it. We do it for that rewarding feeling. You can't have that feeling without some risk. Obviously, it is love/hate when you're not getting the results, but you're always striving for more and always reaching for the next thing."
Tomac and Cianciarulo
So now, Eli, myself, and the entire Kawasaki team are totally preparing for Anaheim. I've been around Eli a little bit here and there since I joined the team. He came out the couple weeks before Monster Cup, and he's been awesome. He's been a great teammate so far. I have nothing but great things to say about that guy. You have a guy of his caliber on your team, it's a pleasure to be on the same team and to be able to learn as much as I can. It's been nothing but positive so far. I'm really excited to be his teammate, and hopefully, we can put the two Kawasaki 450s up on the podium quite a bit this year."
450 Goals
"I think for me with this first year on the 450, first and foremost, I want to be at all the races, do all the laps, and just gain experience. I think the challenging part of it—and this is highly publicized—is how long the season is and how grueling the schedule is. Long season, a lot of laps, I think that's all something that I'll need to adapt to. However, and at the same time, I feel like I've been mentally preparing myself for this moment since I was a little kid. I feel like I'm prepared as I can be, and I think the next couple months is about getting the bike the absolute best we can have it going into Anaheim. And also myself, just getting into long motos and making sure that the speed is there."
Cianciarulo won't get the chance to defend his number-one plate, but that's okay, because he's moving up to join the big boys of the 450cc class in 2020.
"All of this is a dream come true for me. It's really easy to get caught up in it all as a racer at this level. We are all focusing on the results and focusing on winning and winning championships, and that's our job. That's how it should be. At the same time, every now and then, you have to stop and reflect on how lucky you are to be doing this. You know, for the amount of guys that started off in this sport as amateurs, there are not too many people who make it to the position that I'm in now. I'm riding for factory Kawasaki in the premier division in the most popular racing series in the entire world. From that perspective, I'm just grateful to be here, and I think it's good for me to have the perspective that I do, as well. It calms my nerves a bit, just knowing that I'm already in a great spot. Basically, the way I look at it is | 2,172 |
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We have been married for just over 6 months now and we still love to reminisce about our day. A day that we would more than likely still be saving for if we hadn't won a competition. A day which was everything we have always wanted and dreamed of.
In July 2017, I entered a competition whilst sat in my pjs scrolling through my news feed to win a dream wedding and honeymoon. I told Liam about the competition when he arrived home from work and he just laughed at me, as though to say 'dream on'. So when the newspaper who ran the competition called to confirm we had made it to the final 10, we were in complete shock!
We spent the next week asking friends and family to vote and jumped on to Facebook to spread the word. We didn't think we stood a chance against the other 9 finalists. Yet again, we were in complete shock when we got the phone call to say we had received the most votes. It feels so surreal just talking about it. If you had asked me my opinion on competitions before, I would have told you that they're all a big fix and no one actually wins these things. But here we are!
How did you decide on an outdoor tipi wedding?
Prior to winning the wedding, we were planning a very small get together at either the registry office or a local wedding venue. Our attitude at that time was fully centred around our non-existent budget, and after being together for 9 years, we simply wanted to be man and wife. That was all that mattered. So when we won the competition, which gave us a budget of 15k for a wedding venue of our choice, we knew we had to disregard our old plans and go big!
This was a once in a lifetime opportunity and we wanted to make it memorable. We wanted a party and for our wedding to be remembered as a fun, relaxed day for everyone. To us, everything feels right in nature so we instantly knew that we wanted an outdoor wedding. Being outdoors is a big part of our lives so we just couldn't imagine any other setting to say our vows. As well as drinking under the trees and partying under the stars.
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And what about the evening?
For the evening we wanted stone baked pizza and Jodie recommended Biddulph's Pizza for the best taste experience. She was right! The team set up a small marquee outside their van and served the most delicious, fresh pizzas and garlic breads. To this day, our guests still talk about those pizzas! They definitely were a highlight of the day!
Choosing the right photographer was a big deal for me and we definitely hit jackpot with Emily & Katy. I've never been a fan of posed wedding photographs so I already knew that I wanted to find someone who would capture the natural moments. And that's certainly what they delivered.
Emily & Katy made everyone feel so relaxed. They were both so friendly with all of our guests and just got on with it without anyone actually realising, which is exactly what we wanted. A big thing for me also was making sure Liam felt comfortable and that we could get some nice images together on our day. Liam absolutely hates having his photo taken yet Emily and Katy managed to make it all feel so natural. We ended up with a lot of really beautiful shots.
The location obviously helped again massively and some of my favourite photos were taken when we sneaked off into a field behind the lake at sunset. The sunshine was so golden and looks amazing in contrast with the green fields. I really couldn't rate Emily and Katy more, it just felt like two friends were there taking photos and that made such a difference for us.
Jodie was so helpful throughout our planning process by recommending and arranging most of our suppliers, which we are so grateful for. I've been unorganised for pretty much my whole life so throw in a toddler and a new born and my head was a shed. Jodie really helped us pull everything together and took a lot of stress off our shoulders.
Any Top Tips for future Sami Tipi couples?
A small tip which we learnt is to avoid a buttercream wedding cake for a tipi wedding in the middle of a heatwave. Cake fail! Although it did provide entertainment to see a melting cake in the corner. We both agreed that if that's the only thing to go wrong then we did pretty well!
My biggest advice for planning an outdoor wedding would be to not stress the small stuff. Details & styling are lovely and can obviously make or break a venue, but once you find that dream location and then match that with a Sami Tipi wedding, you're already on to a winner. Ourselves and our guests were blown away by the finished product. Seeing the tipis next to the lake and the atmosphere that they created was perfect. The styling was, of course, an added bonus and set a romantic mood but don't stress if you don't have the time to do DIY bunting or make your own quirky favours. You really can let nature do all the hard work!
We just wanted a laid back day with our loved ones and that's exactly what we got and how we will remember our wedding day. A beautiful day in the sunshine.
If you are interested in finding out more about planning your own Tipi Wedding, we would love to hear from you. Complete this simple form and a member of the Sami Tipi Team will be in touch. | i Tipi on Instagram and loved everything about their tipis and their locations. It was love at first sight! Especially when Jodie sent me photos of The Secret Garden in Derbyshire. It was perfect! It was special to us as we share a lot of special memories in Derbyshire, and it was local-ish! We visited the secret garden and it was even better in real life. Set in a beautiful, quiet village in a secluded area of pine trees and its own lake. It was a little slice of heaven. We decided to have our full day there, our ceremony in a small woodland area and the reception in the tipis.
I wore a dress by Kelsey Rose, which was purchased from a local, independent bridal boutique. It wasn't a dress that I initially thought I'd go for. I had dreamt of a floaty, boho slip dress. However after giving birth to a huge baby boy just 6 months before my wedding, I felt I needed something more structured to flatter my shape. I loved the classic design of my dress and I feel like it suited the laid back vibe that we wanted to create.
How would you describe your theme/styling?
We hired Tara, the stylist behind Tickety Boo Events, to beautify our day. Choosing Tara was easy, simply from seeing her work at one of Sami Tipi's open weekends. We fell in love with the boho/romantic details which she had created inside the tipis and the surrounding areas.
Tara created a beautiful scene for our ceremony, as we chose to say our vows in the small woodland area. Making an aisle using glass tea light holders and a macrame backdrop, which suited the natural environment perfectly. She went the extra mile by creating a children's corner, complete with goodie bags and mini toadstool garlands!
How did you feed your guests?
Again with the menu, we really wanted to keep things simple, fun and laid back.
In homage to my husbands Spanish routes, we decided on paella and tapas for the daytime. We hired Gary, from Your Paella, who cooked fresh tapas in huge steel pans. As well as a tapas platter of patatas bravas, tortilla, olives, cheese and breads. It went down a treat mixed | 470 |
Arundel baseball walks off Old Mill, 2-1, in 10 innings to advance to 4A East Region I final
By James Peters
Arundel, celebrating Jayden Borza's home run against Severna Park on May 19, walked off Old Mill in 10 innings on Wednesday to advance to the 4A East Region I championship game. (Paul W. Gillespie/Capital Gazette)
Arundel junior pitcher and outfielder Corbin Warner couldn't have dreamed of a better outcome in his team's 2-1, 10-inning walk-off victory against visiting Old Mill Wednesday afternoon in a 4A East Region I semifinal contest.
Or could he?
No, Warner doesn't purport to be Nostradamus or a prophet, but he has thought long and hard recently about the types of situations he could encounter during his team's playoff run.
"The thing in my head is that I've already been through this before," Warner said. "Not literally, but I've been visualizing tough situations the last 2-3 days."
That mental practice came in handy as Warner threw 2 ⅔ shutout innings in relief and started the rally that led to the game-winning, bases-loaded walk by Tyler Pelletreau in the bottom of the 10th inning.
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Warner laced a single to right field, stole second, and eventually scored on Pelletreau's four-pitch base on balls to propel the second-seeded Wildcats (10-4) into the Region I final Friday at 7 p.m. against visiting No. 4 Howard, which defeated top-seeded North County, 5-3, in the other semifinal.
"It's the same thing, going back to that visualization of hitting and doing my job," Warner said of his rally-starting hit, which was followed by an intentional walk to Jayden Borza and a sacrifice-bunt-turned-base hit for Jake Long to load the bases.
"I was just going up there to hit the ball and see how it goes from there," Pelletreau said. "I got the take sign at 3-0. We just kept fighting. Mike [Taylor] did a great job on the mound and Corbin did great, too."
Taylor and Old Mill lefty Ty Jacoby battled to a 1-1 draw through 7 ⅓ innings, combining for 14 strikeouts before giving way to relievers in the eighth while working out of early jams or just plain dominating the opposing lineup.
"It was Old Mill-Arundel in the playoffs," said Patriots coach Charlie Chaffin of Wednesday's epic battle. "That's what it is. My congratulations to Arund<|fim_middle|> A runner was picked off at second in the ninth with one down.
"Howard is going to be a game," Hood said. "They beat North County with [Carson] Lowman on the mound. One and done in the playoffs, you have to play with high energy." | el and [Wildcats coach] Frank Hood and his staff. His kids fought hard. Our kids did as well."
The scoreless deadlock ended in the bottom of the third on a run-scoring single to shallow left field by Borza that scored John Greenawalt for a 1-0 lead.
Greenwalt singled to right field to ignite the rally that ended with runners on second and third following a single by Jake Long and an error in left field.
Two days after @BenFader hit a walk-off grand slam against Glen Burnie, the @Howard_Baseball senior ended @nrthcountyaacps's season as he drove in the go-ahead run in a 5-3 come-from-behind win to advance the Lions to the 4A East Region I final.
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Old Mill answered in the top of the fourth on a hit-and-run perfectly executed by Stephen Mollohan that moved Eric Mondragon into scoring position. He then scored on a fielder's choice off the bat of Cole Fletcher to tie the game.
The Wildcats had three reach via walks, but a double play on a soft line drive to second and a fielder's choice on a ground ball up the middle ended the threat.
The Patriots threatened with two on and one out in the sixth before Taylor worked a strikeout and flyout to center to strand the runners.
Old Mill loaded the bases in the top of the seventh on a single, walk and an error, but Taylor worked out of danger again with a weak flyout to first base.
Base-running errors ended a pair of threats for Arundel in the eighth and ninth. In the eighth, the Wildcats were doubled up on a deep flyout to left when two runners were confused if the ball was caught with one breaking late to second base. | 415 |
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In 2019, the goal is to rebrand and reflect more on who we became: a program builder for financial services eco-systems, combining a format, a partnership and a vertical.
Our Financial Inclusion Program in Africa with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will enter full swing in the first quarter, and we will be able to share insights soon!
In Italy, we now have TWO large gatherings: the FinTechStage Festival from 13 to 17 May, and #SIOS19 in December. Both of them will showcase the findings and highlights of our programs, explained below.
Following on to last year's successful Festival in Italy, we want to replicate with the 2019 edition, where we will try to connect even more FinTech players and to explore all the hottest global topics! Open Banking, Payments, RegTech, FinTech Trends, AI, Identity, Data, Asset Management, InsurTech and much more.
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To have a great brand, you have to know what branding is and how it works. A brand is anything that separates one thing from another. To create your brand, you choose a unique name and image for your product. The goal with branding is to establish a significant, and if possible, unique presence in the market that attracts and retains your audience.
Why does your brand exist? Your brand is your identity as a business. It is therefore important to identify the primary product, service, resource, special ability, etc. you have to offer others. What makes your product or service unique? Perhaps you're business offers a unique solution or service that differs you from your competitors. This "edge" should be conveyed as part of your brand. If you aren't clear about your business, brand our product, then neither will your audience. You have to know your brand before trying to explain or express it to others.
What are you particularly gifted at delivering or creating? This is your specialty. A good way to<|fim_middle|> businesses with the same interests as you to help build recognition amongst peers. By forming networking relationships with people in your audience, you can grow your business and your brand long-term. After all, word of mouth recommendations are always more valuable to a business.
Consistency is a critical in creating a brand. Think about the most successful companies you know. Chances are, you remember a logo, the product presentation, website, business cards are all "speaking" their brand. By communicating your brand to your customers with a consistent "tone of voice" makes your brand and your company memorable. It will make things seem familiar and reliable to the audience and creates an unspoken trust relationship. Consistency also helps your customers to have a consistent expectation and value of your product or service.
In short, branding is your business identity that goes with whatever medium you use, print, digital, radio or face to face. The more consistent your brand is, the more recognizable and trusted it will be in a customer's eyes. Your brand should express your specialization, goals and values of your company. More than anything, branding can be that little something that makes your business a successful business. | start is to think of five key skills that you offer. What are your most important values as a business? Keep in mind that creating and building your unique brand is an ongoing process. Anticipate refining your specialties as your company expands and grows.
Networking is one of the best ways to become known in your industry. Social Media platforms can assist you in managing and staying connected with others in your industry. Add and follow people and | 86 |
Up and Coming Rapper Kordas Releases New Hit Song
<|fim_middle|> song is sure to leave a lasting impression.
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New Music by Wavy Westbrook Out Now! | Kordas is an Eastern European rapper from Lithuania, born on September 13, 1996, the day when Tupac passed away. Growing up in a struggling economy, Kordas found solace in rap music and quickly developed a passion for music in the early 2010s as a means of introspection and escape from reality. Kordas cites rappers like Kendrick Lamar, Mac Miller, A$AP Rocky and many more as his influences.
Kordas is one of the most promising young talents in the Rap scene, and he is quickly making a name for himself both at home and abroad. With his unique blend of intricate lyrics and catchy beats, Kordas is poised to become one of the most important voices in Hip Hop.
Troublesome is an unquestionably thought-provoking and introspective lyrical piece. The rapper seems to be reflecting on their own life and how they perceive themselves, and how he affects others. There is a strong message of overcoming demons and breaking away from the patterns of a self-destructive lifestyle, as well as questioning the materialistic attitudes of the modern day. The rhyme schemes in Troublesome are impressively complex – the rapper weaves together multiple rhyming patterns to create a dense web of words. The emotive and passionate delivery against a dark instrumental backdrop creates an overall chilling effect.
In conclusion, Troublesome is a very well-crafted and impactful song that is sure to touch the hearts and minds of its listeners. The rapper demonstrates exceptional lyrical prowess, and the | 317 |
To B.W.T.
Philip Guston
American, born Canada (1913–1980), oil on canvas,<|fim_middle|>, 1972
Helen Frankenthaler, Dawn Shapes, 1967
Acquired April 26, 1973
Clyfford Still, PH-338, 1949
Ad Reinhardt, Painting, 1950, 1950
Acquired January 8, 1974
Jackson Pollock, Untitled, 1951
Acquired March 29, 1974
Francis Bacon, Portrait of Man with Glasses I, 1963
Alberto Giacometti, Femme de Venise II, 1956
Robert Motherwell, Irish Elegy, 1965
Acquired November 7, 1975
Francis Bacon, Study for a Portrait, 1967
Willem de Kooning, Town Square, 1948
Acquired December 6, 1976
Joan Mitchell, The Sink, 1956
Acquired September 12, 1977
David Smith, Cubi XXV, 1965
Acquired February 22, 1978
Philip Guston, To B.W.T., 1952
Mark Rothko, Untitled, ca.1945
Lee Krasner, Night Watch, 1960
Philip Guston, The Painter, 1976
Acquired February 1, 1982 | 48 × 51 in. (122 × 129.2 cm). Seattle Art Museum, Gift of the Friday Foundation in honor of Richard E. Lang and Jane Lang Davis, 2020.14.10. Photo by Spike Mafford / Zocalo Studios. Courtesy of Friday Foundation. © The Estate of Philip Guston, courtesy Hauser & Wirth.
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Born in Montreal, Canada, in 1913 to Ukrainian immigrant parents who settled in Southern California, Philip Guston knew poverty and social strife from an early age. His first artistic love was the comic strips that he copied from the Sunday newspapers in the solitude of a closet. His next aesthetically formative discovery was the Italian Renaissance, to which a high school teacher introduced him. Nevertheless, despite the revelation the old masters and his mentor provided, Guston dropped out before graduation, never to return, enrolling instead in classes at art schools in Los Angeles. Hardworking and prodigiously gifted, he excelled at emulating neoclassical figuration with a high level of finish. When still in his twenties, he made a reputation for himself in Mexico and across the United States as a painter of heroic-scale murals and complex allegorical canvases. Then, at the age of 36, he unexpectedly turned his back on a promising career in the various representational idioms he had mastered and began, tabula rasa, to improvise abstract compositions out of dense accumulations of simple vertical and horizontal marks, in the process taking his place in the forefront of postwar American modernism alongside Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and his erstwhile high school classmate Jackson Pollock.
The most elegiac of these early abstractions, To B.W.T. (1952), is dedicated to the most refined and lyrical member of the artist's New York cohort. Among the bold, gestural painters of first-generation Abstract Expressionism, Bradley Walker Tomlin was a deft calligrapher. With strokes on some occasions leisurely and nearly meandering, while on others short, crisp, and cryptic, he deployed brushes of varying widths like italic pens trailing bands of tone and color (fig. 1). The contrast between a Tomlin line and one by Pollock, for example, is between quivering ribbons and a snapping whiplash. That distinction put Tomlin at roughly an equivalent aesthetic distance from the downtown Manhattan school of muscular angst and from the Northwest Coast master Mark Tobey's work. With this difference: whereas Tobey seldom mingled socially with his East Coast contemporaries (and not all that frequently on gallery walls), Tomlin lived among his New York School peers and exhibited alongside them like an elder brother or youthful uncle.
Of that legendary group, Tomlin—an archetypal "painter's painter" whose work was owned by no less discriminating a talent than the proto-Minimalist Robert Ryman—had perhaps the closest painterly affinity with Guston, Pollock's coeval, approximately a dozen years Tomlin's junior. Graceful tracery and formal embroidery, rather than propulsive drawing or dramatic mark making, were Tomlin's forte. Possessed of a fluent command of academic contouring and shading equaled only by Willem de Kooning, Guston harnessed those capacities to the task of delineating intricate scenarios that by the end of the Depression won him precocious fame and numerous prizes and public commissions, including one for the facade of the Works Progress Administration Pavilion at the New York World's Fair in 1939.
However, by the late 1940s, Guston grew impatient with his acquired facility and the figurative conventions that had paved his way to wide national recognition, and he went back to basics—which for him meant simple structural annotations and tonal as well as chromatic harmonies. The use of musical metaphor is not incidental. Guston's acquaintance with the avant-garde composer John Cage—who became aware of Tobey while teaching in Seattle at the Cornish College of the Arts—was essential in clearing a path through the thicket of ideas and imagery that had accumulated during the artist's long apprenticeship to old masters such as Piero della Francesca and modern ones like Giorgio de Chirico and Pablo Picasso, thereby freeing Guston to disregard the picture-laden past and lose himself in the non-objective present.
Thus, starting in 1949–50, for the first time in his life, Guston embarked on paintings without a carefully worked-out conception of what the final result would look like—that is to say, without detailing what the subject matter or ultimate formal design of his canvases would be. And, inasmuch as Cage provided him the artistic permission to enter into and reconnoiter the "nothingness" of pure abstraction as an alternative to the fully understood but increasingly daunting "too muchness" of his previous figurative work, the Dutch modernist Piet Mondrian gave him the means for doing so.
Fig. 1 Bradley Walker Tomlin, Number 3, 1948, oil on canvas, 40 × 50 1/8 in. (101.3 × 127.2 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of John E. Hutchins in memory of Frances E. Marder Hutchins, 423.1960. Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY.
In the early teens of the twentieth century, Mondrian had arrived at a reductive method for charting pictorial space based on fracturing the traditional grid that had underpinned Western perspective since the Renaissance. He then moved the fragments around within the standard rectangle of the pictorial field he had emptied out (and sometimes within ovals inscribed upon such fields, as had been done by the Cubists slightly before him, as well as by portraitists and landscape painters going back centuries). In short, Mondrian delineated the armatures upon which representational art had been hung, leaving out the depiction of natural or human-made forms altogether. Or, at most, hinting at them with details—a curve for a tree branch, a vertical rectangle for a church window—for which no one but the artist could specify the referent with much assurance. These drawings and paintings by Mondrian became known as his Plus/Minus works (fig. 2), because all that remained for viewers to get their bearings were the intersections of vertical and horizontal lines that had once articulated the structural matrix of the image. Instead, that broken matrix was the image in and of itself.
Picking up where Mondrian had left off, Guston, in effect, dispensed with the intermediate stage of disassembling the archetypal grid and mapped out the vacuum of the spatial construct of the canvas with increments of painterly substance. That is to say, he filled the void with solid patches of pigment applied intuitively rather than in accordance with any a priori idea of what the result would or should be, patterning the surface with improvised rhythms and intervals much as a composer like Cage would fill silence with random sounds.
In these transitional works, Guston achieved a degree of ambiguity and suspended animation that suggests the gradual coalescence or dissolution of something evolving or devolving that transformed the painting as a whole into a drama of accretion or, conversely, one of disintegration. Viewed another way, Guston created paintings that served as existential clocks that told the time of becoming and of decay.
Fig. 2 Piet Mondrian, Composition in Line, Second State, 1916–17, oil on canvas, 42 1/2 × 42 1/2 in. (108 × 108 cm). Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands, KM 106.482. Photo: Rik Klein Gotink, © 2021 Mondrian/Holtzman Trust.
To B.W.T. is a prime example of this chapter in the story of Guston's unceasing metamorphosis as an artist. Indeed, metamorphosis is the leitmotif of his art, both abstract and figurative, from the early 1950s through to the end of his life thirty years later. In this instance, the shreds or fibrous facets of forms float in a shallow pool of mottled grays, massing toward the center of the horizontal canvas in something resembling an oval that recalls Mondrian's paradigm, but devoid of rigid angles. The net effect of this loose, trial-and-error approach to composition is the exact opposite of the hard-and-fast quality of so much Cubist and Cubist-derived painting. Rather, it is an emblem of perpetual flux, of the shift and shimmer of scintillating natural forms in a tide pool.
The analogies used here, or similar ones, frequently occur to viewers anxious to translate paintings that are neither more nor less than that—paintings. Yet the work is not, as some critics of the 1950s were quick to infer, an incidence of Abstract Impressionism; any claim to the overt emotions associated with the rubric of Abstract Expressionism would be similarly hard to justify. Palpable emotion is certainly present in each brush mark Guston made, but that feeling is anything but demonstrative. Rather, it is doubt laden and nervously probing, though never tentative, like a stick poking a banked fire or the still-glowing embers in the ashes of one that has all but burned out. In short, characteristics that lend the image its tenuous intensity, its elegiac aura, its look of a once-blazing hearth that has almost consumed its fuel.
Its special muted radiance is owed to the subtle contrasts between dispersed patches of golden yellows, blood reds, and dense orange, dull greens and a full spectrum of quiet grays whose chromatic neutrality and faint unnamable tinting assume the glow of hues complementary to the colors to which they are juxtaposed. The amalgam they constitute is held together in space by the vibrant optical tensions Guston is able to orchestrate in the dim ambience of his painterly field.
Comparing the evanescent quietude of To B.W.T. to Guston's figurative work of the 1940s, one finds the same moody, elegant inwardness in a radically different stylistic idiom; in short, one meets the same man. Compared to the grand manner of his murals, these canvases almost appear to be the work of a different artist altogether. However, this discrepancy reminds us that the two approaches are all of a piece, since the drama of Guston's art is precisely that of a sensibility that is not so much at odds with itself as one that refuses to look away from its multifaceted dualities. During the last ten years of Guston's career, they fused in tragicomic figurative works of astonishing poetic scope, emotional complexity and force, and unprecedented graphic invention, works that made Guston the touchstone for the Neo-Expressionists and New Image artists who emerged in the decade following his death in 1980. The later, 1970s paintings resonate as wholly contemporary even today because of their prescient articulation of America's abiding malaise and bad conscience.
Robert Storr is an artist, critic, and curator based in New York. He was previously senior curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and professor of painting and printmaking at Yale University School of Art. His writings on Philip Guston include Philip Guston (Abbeville, 1985) and Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting (Laurence King, 2019).
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Right after I completed my earlier post, A theory of institutions, I started thinking about cooperatives. Cooperatives don't really fit at all into the theory. I can try to shoehorn them in: they do deliberate and vote, but that isn't their primary motive: members of a cooperative aren't institutionally rewarded or punished for their voting in the same way that politicians are (or should<|fim_middle|>or should act) directly on the long-term, global goals. And they not only act directly on those goals, they act to set those goals, and even in setting those goals, they don't (or shouldn't) act just to push their own small goals on the big goals of the cooperative, but try to develop a mutual, cooperative sense of what the organization "should" be. In short, in a cooperative, people (should) actually cooperate, on every level. There's no dialectic between short-term and long-term, local and global. (There are always dialectical processes, of course, just not those particular dialectical processes.) Thus, in the sense of the previous post, cooperatives are just not institutions.
I think this conclusion helps us understand the interaction between capitalism, communism, and "socialism" (in the sense of the transition between capitalism and communism). | be). They do creative work, i.e. they solve problems big and small, but, again, they aren't rewarded or punished for their creative work in the same sense that a team of engineers would be. (I was, for example, a creative worker in the Kerista commune, but the organization as a whole wasn't primarly involved with problem-solving.) And cooperatives are certainly not self-interested organizations such as capitalism: people are not vying with each other within the organization to maximize their short-term material self-interest.
There are two ways that seem to make sense to define "institution." One is simply any well-defined collection of individuals that reproduces itself, i.e. persists in time and space. The other, of course, is my definition in the earlier post, an organization that uses short-term, local incentives to achieve long-term global goals.
Cooperatives (ideally) just don't do the latter. Everyone in the cooperative acts ( | 196 |
Chinese Retailer Miniso Shows Strains in Dash for Global Growth
By CK Tan
(Nikkei Asia) — The Parisian district known as the 8th Arrondissement is famous for the showcase luxury stores of the Avenue des Champs-Elysees.
China's Miniso Group is hardly in their league. Yet<|fim_middle|> offering document notes several potential complications in the U.S., including that it could be forced to delist its shares from the New York Stock Exchange by 2022 due to tightened requirements for Chinese companies.
Investors already appear to be cooling on Miniso. Its shares, which shot up as high as $24.90 on their debut day, closed Nov. 25 at $20, flat with their IPO price.
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Chinese Muji Lookalike Opens Its First Store in Paris
Chinese Retailer Miniso Beats Uniqlo and Muji at Their Game | last month, fresh on the heels of its successful $608 million initial public offering in New York, the first French outlet for Miniso's signature mix of cheap but trendy household goods opened in the district under a franchise deal with Jonathan Siboni, head of a local luxury retail consultancy.
"I was set on bringing this popular brand to the French market the moment I saw their stylish yet affordable products, together with their advanced store management," Siboni said in an accompanying announcement.
With 2,533 stores already open across China as of June, Guangzhou-based Miniso Group is counting on foreign markets to help drive future growth for its brightly lit stores which offer an eclectic range of discretionary goods from cartoon-character neck pillows to earphones and notebooks.
Miniso, which is backed by Chinese internet company Tencent Holdings Ltd., has entered 80 overseas markets since venturing into Hong Kong in 2014, a year after its founding, but aims to reach 100 on the way toward raising chainwide annual sales to 100 billion yuan ($15.2 billion) by 2022.
Such sales totaled 19 billion yuan in the fiscal year ended June 30, with 8 billion yuan of that coming from overseas. The combination was enough to make Miniso the world's largest "global branded variety retailer," according to Frost & Sullivan market research cited in the chain's IPO prospectus.
In an announcement this week, Miniso hailed its upcoming entry into Italy and Iceland and noted a flurry of openings in Spain had helped bring the total number of new store launches since the IPO to 100.
Yet Miniso's growth model is showing strains. Clashes with franchisees have seen the company retreat from several countries this year and tensions also drove the company's Canadian affiliate into creditor protection last year. Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the group's Australian affiliate sought court protection while the company quietly abandoned Germany.
Factoring in rising competitive pressures at home in China as well, some are questioning whether the self-described Japanese-inspired lifestyle product retailer can achieve its targets.
"Similar-sounding brands selling similar-looking products — personal and home accessories, sourced from China — are available at local malls across Asia," wrote Devi Subhakesan, an analyst with stock research company Investory in Singapore in a report on the Smartkarma research platform.
"Miniso's products lack dollar-store products' appeal of functionality," she added. "Nor does it have the durability of Muji products," she added, referring to the Japanese retailer Miniso has been accused of copying from.
"Without addressing a specific buyer need, nor having a strong brand, it [Miniso] is at risk of getting shunned by its trend-conscious customer base — mostly young women with limited spending power — when the next 'cooler' looking product arrives in the market."
For the moment, Miniso is still finding new customers to excite.
Shah Rayeed Chowdhury, director of family-owned textile maker Evince Group, has opened 12 Miniso shops over the past two years under the franchise he holds for Bangladesh. He aims to open eight more by March.
"In Bangladesh, the retail market for lifestyle products is growing," Chowdhury told Nikkei Asia. "There was no such chain in Bangladesh and Miniso's prices were affordable."
In some Asian markets, Miniso has taken sales away from Daiso, an older Japanese discount household goods chain.
"Miniso's plush toys and towels are of better quality than Daiso's," said Evelyn Tan, a building surveyor in Kuala Lumpur.
Analyst Oshadhi Kumarasiri with LightStream Research in Colombo thinks Miniso can find plenty more customers like Tan.
"We believe there is long-term growth potential in overseas markets through store count growth in existing geographies as well as through expansion to new countries," he wrote in a note published on Smartkarma.
"The company has already proven that it is capable of profitably expanding into 80 countries across various continents," Kumarasiri said. "Furthermore, the business model used in overseas expansion is easily scalable and the company's efficient supply chain provides competitive pricing, even in overseas territories."
Miniso owns few stores itself, with the bulk run under a form of management contract or a franchise model. But while it has full control of just 0.3% of Chinese Minisos, it owns 7.2% of the 1,689 stores that were open overseas as of June. These are concentrated in North America and India.
Goldman Sachs projects that average annual overseas revenue growth will run at 30%, almost double the rate of Miniso's domestic business, through June 2023, with the chain's international store count rising to 2,839 by then and overseas stores topping domestic outlets in average sales.
International markets contributed a third of the company's overall revenue of 8.98 billion yuan last year. Of that total, 80.9% came from supplying products to store operators.
Even in growing markets like Bangladesh, though, competitors are nipping at Miniso's heels.
Fakir Apparels, a knitwear producer, in June opened an outlet in Dhaka of Yoyoso, a "Korean-inspired" chain from China offering a similar range of goods to Miniso. Fakir plans to open at least 10 more shops under its franchise.
Other similar chains emerging from China include Mini Good, Mumuso, Usupso and Ximiso.
Any challenger that can beat Miniso on pricing is likely to quickly lure away a share of its customers.
Hasan Murad, a businessman from Chittagong who was visiting a Dhaka outlet, bought perfume and earrings for his wife but balked at dolls for his daughter. "Many products I like are not affordable," he said.
Under the twin pressures of competition and Covid-19, Miniso's per-store revenue fell 19.8% to 2.2 million yuan in the year ended in June.
While the pandemic has disrupted shipping and thus affected Miniso's ability to keep its global store network well-stocked with goods from China, inventory was already an issue in some places before Covid.
Local press reports from South Africa, where Miniso had 19 shops, tell of store operators unable to keep their shelves filled with requested goods starting from late 2018.
Store owners took Miniso to court but it ultimately sold off its South African business, along with its operations in Nigeria, Uganda and Tanzania, to Ye Guofu, Miniso's chairman and chief executive, earlier this year for the nominal sum of 7 yuan, according to the company's IPO prospectus. Its Kenyan business was sold to another buyer for 1 yuan.
After disputes with its Canadian affiliate, Miniso successfully petitioned a judge there to put the unit into court-supervised restructuring last year at a time it had 48 stores in operation. In its prospectus, Miniso said its Canadian distributor "engaged in fraudulent activities and caused harm to our reputation, our business and results of operations." A group of franchisees were reported to have filed suit against the company this year.
The nature of Miniso's troubles in Germany is unclear. After arriving in Berlin in 2017, new Minisos were still opening as recently as last December but by this past June, all were having closing sales or shuttered. The German business was included in the 7 yuan sale to Ye.
In Australia, Miniso's master franchisee sought court protection from creditors in July, with A$18 million ($13.24 million) in debt, after shopping centers went quiet due to the Covid-19 outbreak. Stores run by sub-franchisees, however, have remained open and Miniso still expects to add 15 stores to its current 30 in the country by the end of next year.
In India, a Delhi court in August censured the local operator for falling behind rent at one store, according to local media, but the company nevertheless opened a new outlet in the capital on Oct. 18.
Politics has been another source of trouble for Miniso, which declined to comment for this article.
Amid anti-government protests last year in Hong Kong that occasionally targeted Chinese companies and saw windows at one of its shops smashed on China's Oct. 1 National Day, Miniso closed all 50 of its outlets in the city for a period. Protest supporters included Miniso on lists of shops to boycott for alleged support of police repression.
Months later, Mandy Wong, a marketing executive, still avoids Miniso. "This is a form of protest I can take part in every day," she said.
A Miniso in Pyongyang has brought other headaches. Miniso was named in two U.N. reports for possible violation of the organization's trade sanctions against North Korea.
Miniso said in its prospectus that its former trading partner in North Korea continued to use its brand without permission after August 2017, a few months after the store opened, even though the two ceased dealings with each other. The aborted venture has drawn attention from authorities in Hong Kong and Japan as well as bank compliance officials, the prospectus indicated.
Tensions between Beijing and both Delhi and Washington are another worry.
The prospectus notes measures India has taken against Chinese companies amid recent border clashes and warns Miniso could become a target. The | 1,950 |
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Rebecca Lynn Petersen is the director of development for West Central Initiative, which serves 82 Minnesota cities in nine counties in west central Minnesota. For seventeen years, she was the executive director of A Center for the Arts in downtown Fergus Falls, working with the board of directors to successfully complete a capital campaign and theater renovation project in 1997. In 2001, A Center for the Arts, under her leadership, partnered with Artspace Projects to finance and renovate the Kaddatz Hotel, which now houses 10 artist live/work spaces, two gallery spaces, studio space, and rehearsal space. From 2011 to 2018, she was the executive director of the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra for seven consecutive seasons. Highlights with the DSSO included hiring a new music director, facilitating contract negotiations through interest-based bargaining, rebranding the organization and working towards a sustainable and balanced budget through a robust Heritage Campaign. Petersen perform(ed) – pre-pandemic- frequently with several regional Minnesota orchestras including; Fargo Moorhead Symphony, Fargo Moorhead Opera, NDSU Baroque series, Bemidji Symphony Orchestra, Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra, Itasca Symphony Orchestra and the Fergus Falls Civic Orchestra. Petersen has a BA in music from the University of Vermont, has done advanced studies in early childhood development, and was a participant in the Creative Community Leadership Institute class of 2013 in the Twin Ports (Duluth/Superior). She has been awarded a Jerome Travel Study grant, a Bush Leadership fellowship, and the Sally Ordway Irvine Award for Commitment. In 2018 she was appointed to the Greater Fergus Falls economic development board and to the City of Fergus Falls Port Authority. She also serves on the board of Pioneer Public Television and Kaddatz Galleries, Inc. Rebecca has two daughters and two doodles and a lifelong partnership with Mark Solie (who, by the way, grew up in Dawson, Minnesota where Petersen spent her last two years of High School!)
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Missy currently serves on the New Ulm Chamber of Commerce Board; the Women's Networking committee; is the local chairperson for Leave a Legacy New Ulm; and is an active volunteer in the New Ulm and Sleepy Eye communities – sharing the importance of volunteering with her children.
In her free time, Missy enjoys ATV rides, bonfires and being outdoors watching and photographing sunsets.
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Country In A Gun Culture, Says Dames
Minister of National Security Marvin Dames, said that "every time an officer pulls a trigger, he or she has to account for their actions and there will be no cover ups." Mr. Dames was responding to the recent police<|fim_middle|> in this country is the fact that a vast majority of the crimes that occur on the streets of New Providence involve persons brandishing firearms.
"Well over 80 percent of the armed robberies and the homicides are firearms related. I'm not speaking to the incident that would have occurred a few days ago that is currently under investigation. The officer or officers involved in that will have their day of accounting and if they did something outside of their scope of responsibility, then they will have to account before the coroners court on that particular matter," Mr. Dames said.
The Minister while acknowledging that the country is now in a gun culture, also acknowledged that there are things that law enforcement agencies can do to improve.
"No one likes the fact when someone loses their life; don't matter who it is. A life is a precious gift and we always have to be cognizant of that.
"But we have to allow the process to run its course. Is there room for improvement? Absolutely. You always have to look at these incidents and say how can we improve, how can we get better?
"That's what we have been doing since we came into power; that's why we introduced the man power audit; that's why we are introducing new training tools for Police Officers, Defence Force Officers, Prison Officers, Customs and Immigration Officers and so we are restructuring these organizations and these agencies as we move on. It's only been a year," he said.
Mr. Dames said that one improvement could include body cameras, which were introduced to the police force sometime in February.
"Well you know we would have been running some testings on body cameras over the last few months. We have budgeted for body cameras in the upcoming fiscal period and it is expected that it will be introduced at that time. I will speak a little more on that during my budget communication," Mr. Dames said.
Since January, there has been eight police involved killings. In January, there were four police involved killings, three in New Providence and one in Abaco.
Two shootings occurred in February and two this month.
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He said that "if those officers acted in good faith in the execution of their duty, then they will be vindicated".
The former Deputy Commissioner of Police was responding to reporters before heading into Cabinet meeting on the latest shooting of a 22-year-old in the area off Mason's Addition.
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The changes to the NSW syllabus are challenging us to rethink and redefine our teaching of science in Stage 6.
Here at Stile, we want to support you and your students to embrace this challenge.
The major changes, of course, come in the form of depth studies, and the greater emphasis on developing students' inquiry<|fim_middle|> the resources available in Stile will ensure that your students will be adequately prepared to tackle these changes. And, more importantly, they'll be equipped with the skills that allow them to become lifelong learners. Together with Stile, you can set students into their senior studies and beyond as scientifically literate citizens. | skills. We're particularly passionate about this at Stile, and as such, have developed a range of resources to help students in Years 5–10 to develop science inquiry skills. This early preparation will ensure that your students are ready to tackle these components of the curriculum head-on when the time comes.
Over the past year, we've added even more science investigations to our units which require students to develop their 'working scientifically' skills across a range of contexts. Stile provides varying levels of scaffolding, from closed to open inquiry. This allows students the opportunity to authentically explore science phenomena and contexts before (importantly) applying them to real-world contexts.
As an example, our latest update to our Forces unit for Stage 4 scaffolds a scientific inquiry using an interactive simulation that tests the factors that affect braking distance. With students having learned and practised the necessary skills; such as identifying and selecting variables and collecting and analysing results, they are then asked to apply their knowledge to a new context — planning and conducting their own hands-on scientific inquiry, investigating how forces affect the motion of a toy car travelling down a ramp.
Alongside the science investigations that are embedded within Stile's units, we've also created templates to help scaffold students' independent inquiries or research projects. They even allow you to design your own investigations for your students. There are primary, junior secondary and senior secondary versions of each of these.
Each science investigation also includes an assessment rubric, that can be used for self, peer or teacher assessment, so that students can monitor their progress and see the growth in their skills over time.
In the next few months, we'll be releasing a 'science investigations' mini-unit to help students develop their understandings of each different aspect of the inquiry process.
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Winter Dance Party underway in Clear Lake
CLEAR LAKE — It's been 60 years since Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson and pilot<|fim_middle|> the "Rock'n'Roll Royalty Show", featuring the families of musical pioneers to celebrate their rock'n'roll heritage. Edan Everly will perform in honor of his father Don Everly; Frank Avalon in tribute of his father Frankie Avalon; Wendy & Carnie Wilson in honor of their father Brian Wilson; The Killer Vees in honor of Bobby Vee; Tommy Allsup's son Austin Allsup will also perform; Linda Gail Lewis, whose brother is Jerry Lee Lewis; Bobby Cochran; Craig Westover with James Popenhagen; and Mario Rameriz, who is Ritchie Valens' little brother.
Lietz says Saturday night is headlined by Chubby Checker and The Wildcats. The night also includes: Shirley Alston Reeves, who was the original lead singer of The Shirelles; The Chiffons; Albert Lee and Friends; Brian Hyland; Chris Montez; the Holy Rocka Rollaz; and Johnny Tillotson.
While the Winter Dance Party is sold out, there are a number of other activities people can participate in. Click here to take you to the Winter Dance Party website | Roger Peterson died in a plane crash just north of Clear Lake, and the 40th annual Winter Dance Party is getting underway at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake.
Surf Ballroom executive director Laurie Lietz says despite the cold weather we've been having the last few days everyone is looking forward to the weekend's activities. "We're looking forward to some great evenings full of rock'n'roll and a little bit of Rockabilly and just some great music and fun times throughout the community."
Events kicked off last night with the Family Sock Hop and continue tonight with Jay and the Americans, Little Anthony and the Imperials, the Good Clean Fun Band and Robin Luke.
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1. Moral Identity
2.1. Conscious and non-conscious reason
2.2. Contents of non-conscious reason
2.3. Naturalistic Decision Making
3. Skills, Habit, and un-conscious moral action
4. Personality and character
4.1. Dispositions
4.2. Characteristic Adaptations
4.3. Narrative Identity
5. Moral Emotion
6. Bildung
7. Conclusion: The Ubiquity of Heteronomy
Chuck Huff, Almut Furchert. Embracing the Complexity of Moral Action. Dialegesthai. Rivista telematica di filosofia [on line], vol. 19 (2017) [published: 15 May 2017], available on World Wide Web: <https://mondodomani.org/dialegesthai/>, ISSN 1128-5478.
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Embracing the Complexity of Moral Action
Chuck Huff, Almut Furchert
A man was walking from Jerusalem down to Jericho when he fell among thieves who beat him and left him by the side of the road, naked and to all appearances dead. A priest was also passing that way and saw the man, but walked to the other side of the road to avoid him. Likewise, a Levite (a religious assistant at the Temple) passed by, moving to the other side of the road. But a Samaritan (a despised group) was moved with compassion for him, bandaged his wounds, took him to an inn and paid for his care (Luke 10: 25-37).
This well-known story presents us with a time-honored image of doing good for others. Those who volunteer are often called Good Samaritans to praise them; Hospitals, charitable societies and volunteer organizations use the name to indicate their approach to helping. But considered from the perspective of Lawrence Kohlberg's moral psychology the Samaritan's action does not count as "moral, " because the Samaritan does not make a conscious choice "preceded by a judgment of right or wrong".1 Instead, as the story reads, he is moved by compassion. This means he is swayed by his emotion2 and therefore acting from influences that Kohlberg, following Kant, called heteronomous, since they are not based in the autonomy of reasoned action alone. Thus, though the Samaritan binds the victim's wounds and brings him to the inn, he is not from this perspective acting morally. This odd conclusion is based in a commonsense idea about what it means to be moral: that ethics cannot just be doing the right thing but must also be doing it for the right reason. Kohlberg, in an effort to rescue the psychology of morality from relativism, moved away from the deterministic approaches that were broadly accepted in his day. Instead, taking his sources from Kant and other philosophers, he emphasized the importance of conscious moral judgment and decision making: "An action … is neither good nor bad unless it has been preceded by a judgment of right or wrong [by the actor]".3 In later work he would call this the assumption of phenomenalism, opening up, but at the same time restricting the domain of morality to conscious, explicit moral reasoning.4 In doing so, Kohlberg also posits a developmental hierarchy of moral reasons, with reasons associated with self-enhancement or social influence being less developed than reasons of concern for justice for others.5 These assumptions have been widely shared in early moral psychology.6 Though the Kohlberg approach to morality acts as a helpful corrective to earlier mechanistic approaches, its insistence on the sole legitimacy of autonomous cognitive reasoning disallows other sociological and psychological aspects of the ethical situation such as personality, non-conscious influence, emotion, and even skilled action. It treats them as, at best, irrelevant and at worst a biasing influence on moral action.7
But moral action like that illustrated in the story of the good Samaritan is far more complex than moral reasoning alone. Indeed, one might think moral reasoning would be more the expert domain of the other actors in the story, the priest and Levite, who by profession have been steeped and practiced in moral judgment processes. But they, confronted with the same ethical situation at the roadside, rush by. As the story goes, the Samaritan has been first moved by an emotion that in turn seems to be crucial in shaping his response to the ethical situation. He appears to act immediately, without extended deliberation, and in doing so reaches across social divides to offer needed help. He may even have simply felt compelled to respond, without much moral reasoning at all, in order to "do what one has to do".8
The rich metaphor of moral action we find in the ancient story of the good Samaritan is open to a multitude of interpretations of the actors'motives. We use it here as a reminder that moral action cannot be reduced to one-dimensional explanations but must be understood in the complexity of the whole narrative. To try to pull a single thread of rational deliberation, or of emotional response, out of this dense weave of influences and processes would reduce the richness of this image of good acting to a thin caricature. The recent flowering of research in moral psychology is likewise transcending the narrow confines of the Kohlbergian approach and attempting to better grasp the complexity of moral action. It allows us to do justice to the richness of the ethical situation and to the variety of individual responses to it. We introduce here six aspects that capture the recent work on the complexity of moral action: moral identity, moral reasoning, skill and habits, personality and character, moral emotion, and Bildung.^[9] We give a suggestion of the importance of each influence on moral action, some idea of the variety of their interactions, and discuss them in the light of the heteronomy debate. We build on this framework to suggest that almost all moral action has influences that Kohlberg would count as heteronomous. The processes of moral action are so intricately interwoven that it would be rare indeed to find pure rational deliberation as a singular, isolated influence. We conclude that psychology and philosophy will need to embrace the complex, heteronomous, weave of moral action in order to better understand its philosophical and psychological underpinnings.
Even when people are capable of making reasoned moral judgments, this ability often does not result in moral action.9 Blasi catalogued the consistently small correlations10 that obtained between increases in ability at moral reasoning in Kohlberg's sense and taking the corresponding moral action. He labeled this disappointing state of affairs the judgment-action gap, and proposed moral identity as the motivational factor needed to bridge it. Moral identity is the possession of a particular kind of self concept11: a self concept with regard to issues of moral obligation, responsibility, and the good. The judgment-action gap is most problematic for those approaches, like Kohlberg's, that have conscious moral judgment as the central aspect of the model.12 These models use psychological consistency pressures as the main engine to bridge the gap.13 If one judges something to be the moral thing to do, it is often quite uncomfortable to think that one has not done it. For Kohlberg, this consistency pressure to act morally comes from holding a principle (e. g., justice) and is thus about consistency with the principle.14 Moral identity approaches are also powered by cognitive consistency but here it is consistency with one's moral identity and associated moral goals.15 Thus, for Kohlberg, immoral action is a betrayal of a principle, but for Blasi, it is a betrayal of the self, with presumably more motivating power.16 With the addition of moral identity as an important motivator of moral action, we have our first heteronomous aspect of moral action. If individuals are acting because of their moral identity as, e. g., a caring person, then they are being influenced by some good for the self. Walker and colleagues17 have shown that for some of the morally exemplary actors they study, there is a fusion of the sense of self with particular moral goals. Thus in acting in service of a moral goal (an autonomous action description), they are also acting in service of the self, which is identified with the goal (a heteronomous action description).18 But the heteronomy of moral identity does not stop here. Many researchers have shown how one's identification with groups can be a source of moral motivation.19 Hart20 argues that "If the notion of identity is to contribute to an understanding of moral functioning, then it must be a construct with deep roots in a social world". Thus, moral identity itself is heteronomous. In research on rescuers in the holocaust, the Oliners21 show that the largest category of these extraordinary helpers consists of those who helped because of their identification with certain groups that were committed to helping. Others helped because of moral identity commitments to abstract ethical principles, and still others helped because of the compassion they felt for individual victims. The theme again is one of the complexity of motives and influences in moral action. Here, social roles might come to the rescue of the priest and Levite in our story, with the hypothesis that they might be motivated to maintain purity by avoiding a person who is likely dead.22 This social embeddedness of moral identity is only one aspect of the multidimensional nature of the moral self. There is a voluminous literature showing that self-concept (and thus the moral identity that is a part of self concept) can have different facets that are relevant in different domains (e. g., religion, work, tribal affiliation, obligations to guests and travelers) with often only a modest drive toward unity.23 Thus, moral identity, a central motivating influence on moral action, is shot through with heteronomy.
There is now a growing literature in qualitative studies of morally exemplary individuals.24 One of the central findings in all the reports is that none of the individuals studied spend much time doing reason-based evaluations of the right thing to do. For instance, none of the 24 computer scientists and engineers interviewed in Huff and Barnard25 ever mention using the codes of ethics of their professional societies.26 This was not for lack of time — the interviews lasted between 3 to 5 hours over two days, and the individual transcripts run from 12 to 21 thousand words in length.27 Nor was it for lack of familiarity — some of the interviewees had written the ethics codes for their national organization. But morally exemplary individuals do share a common use of moral reasoning. They are constantly engaged in the instrumental use of reason to help them achieve, and to argue for, their moral goals. Recent work on moral cognition can help us to understand this odd disjunction of moral reason and moral action.
Some cognitive processing requires effort — it takes concentration and working memory. But at other times, and for other kinds of stimuli, processing is relatively effortless, non-conscious, requires little in the way of working memory, and gives us access only to the outcome rather than the process (e. g. insight, intuition, highly practiced routines). This latter kind of process has been called "system 1" processing, in partial reference to its earlier evolution. Controlled, working-memory-intensive, "system 2, " processing gives us access to both outcomes (e. g. decisions, judgments) and also to the inputs and processes (e. g. assumptions, values, goals, evaluations, etc.). People may well have individual differences in the extent to which they use and develop one system or the other28 but everyone uses both. In addition, by practice one can move routines from the effortful system 2 to the practiced system 1.29Like Kohlberg,30 when we think of cognition we normally think of conscious, deliberate, guided processing, or type 2 processing. Here, one has conscious access to both the processes and their outcomes. That is, we are aware of and deliberatively guide our selection of the things we consider, how and how long we consider them, and the conclusions we reach. This deliberation takes effort, is associated with intelligence, and can be abstract and hypothetical (e. g. What if the man at the roadside was not dead? Do obligations of compassion trump obligations of purity?). Type 1 processes are rapid, more hidden from our awareness, usually proceed without our conscious guidance, and we only have access to their seemingly self-evident conclusions. For this reason, type 1 processes are often called "intuitive, " but might better be called highly practiced.
So far we have only talked about characteristics of Type 1 processes (e. g. automatic, fast, nonconscious). But it is, after all, the contents of these processes that might allow us to decide if the processes are autonomous or not. What are people (not) thinking about when engaging in type 1 and type 2 processes in the moral domain? We will mention here two approaches.31 Work by Haidt and colleagues32 suggests that there is a relatively small number of moral foundations that underlie moral judgment and action (e. g. in recent work,33 6 are listed: harm, fairness, ingroup, authority, purity, and liberty). These foundational moral evaluation schemas most often work in system 1, autonomously, and give rise to simple intuitions about whether something is morally good or bad, along with a characteristic emotional response (e. g. disgust for purity violations). Thus, coming back to the image, the Levite might, for non-consciously-processed reasons, automatically cross the road to avoid impurity. He would not be consciously deciding to do so, and might not even remember that he had. Another approach to the contents of moral (non) cognition is a massively cross-cultural research program on values, which concludes that cultures do in fact share underlying values, though they differ in the emphasis they place on them. Depending on how finely one slices it, the program identifies between 10 and 19 values, but always grouped as a circle within a two dimensional space: 1) openness to change vs conservation, 2) self-transcendence vs. self-enhancement.34 Some of these values seem easily to fall into autonomous sources of motivation (e. g. universalism, benevolence) while others seem not to (conformity, tradition).
Many models of reason (and most published research on reason) presume a correct way to reason35 and this benchmark allows researchers to document ways people depart from the model, thus also achieving the goal of description. A glaring shortcoming of this approach is that the models implicitly restrict their reach to those places where the "correct" answer can be calculated, and thus ignore those domains of life in which people do important reasoning, but not of the kind the model can track. In response, many researchers are now adopting purely descriptive approaches to rationality. These approaches have variously been called naturalistic decision making,36 real-life decision structuring,37 grounded cognition,38 and autobiographical reasoning.39 Here, we refer to them all as naturalistic decision making. Naturalistic decision-making research finds that perceiving situations and matching roles or solutions to them is more important than calculating outcomes of courses of action. For instance, chess experts match possible solutions to situations40 and managers (one can imagine the Levite here) match situations to roles in a "logic of obligation".41 It also finds that this sort of naturalistic decision making is best modeled within domains, based on the kinds of decisions made in those domains rather than in generic, one-size-fits-all reasoning models like those of Kohlberg.42 The logic and function of autobiographical narrative is, for instance, much more complicated than that of simple historical truth-discovery.43 Narratives about the self do have a directive function that involves understanding the past and predicting the future, but they also have important functions in self-definition.44Finally, in the spirit of naturalistic decision-making, one must note the research that suggests that experts in a moral domain (e. g. science ethics, environmental ethics, business ethics etc.) do their reasoning using concepts that are at the middle level.45 For example, when asked to comment on cases, philosophers who are expert in computer ethics use concepts like informed consent and privacy, while novice undergraduates tend to use higher-level concepts from consequentialist frameworks.46 Thus, like moral identity, actual moral reasoning, as it occurs in the real world, is embedded in the domains and tasks where it occurs, is often automatic in its action, is consistently (for both good and bad) intermixed with emotion, and only in part resembles the independent, generic, logical form imagined by theorists of autonomy. Reason does have a significant guiding role to play (see the section on Bildung below). But most forms of reasoning that guide moral action are blended with goal seeking based on (often laudable) desires. And these desires are rarely limited to abstract goals such as general justice or respect for the moral law.
Ethical education guidelines for middle school47 and college48 and guidelines for ethics instruction in computing,49 dentistry,50 psychology,51 science,52 and many other areas make explicit links between skill and ethical competence. In the same way that skill is central to professional ethics, it is also a centerpiece of most Aristotelian approaches to virtue ethics.53 We have already mentioned that most moral exemplars do not ponder ethical difficulties as much as they ponder how to achieve ethical goals. Much of the reason they have become exemplary is because they have invested large amounts of time and effort in following a particular moral goal. This continual practice helps their actions to become more skillful, often to the point where they feel effortless and unplanned, even automatic. Work on expertise54 and habit55 suggest that it is this kind of practice effect that can turn consciously guided action (playing scales, doing surgery, listening carefully) into automatic or semi-automatic routines — in the language of the previous section, moving from conscious system 2 to automatic system 1. At this point, many things that require attention or conscious weighing of alternatives become automatic and under normal circumstances can happen without further conscious guidance. This is helpful because it can free the actor to concentrate on higher-level goals or decisions. Of course, when circumstances are not normal, the most highly skilled actor can recognize the difficulty and "slow down when you should, " switching to more controlled processes to guide action.56 Thus these skills and the decisions that underlie and compose them, are automatic but still capable of following a moral goal (e. g. good surgery, thoughtful listening). To claim that these skills are not really moral, is to miss the embeddedness of real moral choices within them. The doctor, business manager, or soldier doing triage under severe time pressure uses moral decision procedures, trades off values, chooses goals, and evaluates outcomes and reasons, though with the speed and grace of expert automaticity. To ask that this trading, choosing, and evaluating be done consciously at all times would be to risk failure of the entire enterprise. Because these procedures have become automatized, the skilled moral actor can make decisions under pressure, and even note when it is necessary to slow down to consciously evaluate things. But the morality must be trained into the system through extensive conscious practice, which include the appropriation of moral goals or even of the highest good. The Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) has revived this Aristotelian idea of ethical practice and developed a psychology of appropriation (understood as a internal process of embodying and incorporating the moral goal deeply into the self concept) that is still waiting to be unpacked for the context of moral psychology.57
It is important to note that this sort of automatized, skilled moral action is not confined to the professions. It is a part of the skills we all learn (more or less) as we mature from children to adults. As children we learn self-regulation, the process by which we manage goals and standards, selecting and ordering them and then monitoring them to make sure they're being met.58 We also learn emotional-regulation, how to calm ourselves, recognize pain in others, how to share emotion with others, and to plan for stressful times.59 And we learn moral attentiveness, recognizing situations as containing moral import, evaluating that import, spotting stakeholders, perpetrators, and victims.60 All these are skills that can become highly automatized, with real moral decisions being pushed below conscious awareness in the service of more effective interaction with the world and others. Much of the good work of highly skilled actors (care-givers, health professionals, engineers, rescue workers, social reformers) would be impossible without the skilled, automatized action that belongs to those professions. Some scholars suggest that the priest and Levite were professionally skilled actors, with a morality embedded in their profession that led them to prioritize purity over compassion.61 But they might have simply been in a hurry, or not known what to do. Once we accept this embeddedness of morality in skilled behavior, it seems also reasonable to say that the more general skills that we must all learn (self-regulation, emotional-regulation, and moral attentiveness) are crucial to moral action. It is an open research question how much of our moral life is guided by this sort of automatic moral expertise, but to the extent that it is, its very automaticity counts against it as real morality in the eyes of autonomy theory.
Often what we mean by personality is the continuity of an individual's behavior across situations, a continuity that is "characteristic" of the way that individual interacts with the world — or, character. There has already been a great deal of ink spilled by psychologists and philosophers in describing the influences of cultural and situational pressures on moral action.62 Here we suggest the relation of moral action to three levels63 of personality: dispositions (general personality traits), characteristic adaptations (smaller scale attitudes and commitments), and narrative identity (our story of who we are).
Despite some claims to the contrary, recent work has found reliable effects of personality dispositions in areas such as helping, cooperation, criminal behavior, and espoused moral values. Thus, "despite the pessimism of earlier reviews in this area, a growing body of literature suggests the importance of individual differences in helping".64 The Big 5 is a widely accepted approach to personality traits,65 consisting of 5 dimensions (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness), with each dimension being a broad level summary of more specific traits (e. g. extraversion has somewhat independent sub-traits of sociability and dominance). In their study of Canadians who won prizes for bravery or social service, Walker and colleagues66 found that brave prize winners were more likely to score highly on dominance, while social service prize winners scored more highly on nurturance (an aspect of Big 5 agreeableness). Huff and Barnard found that, among the moral exemplars in computing they studied, the more extraverted exemplars tended to be involved in social change movements while some of the more introverted exemplars tended to use their craft to help individuals.67 These examples with extraversion suggest the complexity of the likely relationships of dispositional personality traits with moral action. Morality is related in varying and complicated ways to each of the Big 5 dispositional traits and it might be best to say these dispositions more describe the different ways that individuals are moral: individuals on different ends of a dispositional dimension can be differently moral rather than more moral.68
This level of personality consists of the characteristic ways that an individual adapts to his or her environment(s). To say "his or her" already suggests that there is likely more than one way of adaptation, and more than one kind of environment. These aspects of personality differ from the broad trait aspects mentioned above in that they are more closely linked to particular motivations and cognitions and more likely to change over time (through therapy, Bildung, or environmental influence). Two examples of this level include prosocial personality and cynicism. Other characteristic adaptations that are relevant to moral action are optimism,69 internal locus of control and efficacy,70 and generativity.71 The prosocial personality is closely linked to beliefs about social responsibility and motivations driven by other oriented empathy.72 It strongly predicts long term volunteering and spontaneous helping during accidents. And though it is enduring, the nature and extent of its commitments can change over time.73 It is not surprising that someone who has a negative attitude towards others and suspects them of dealing selfishly and dishonestly will be unlikely to help those individuals. Cynicism has been most extensively studied in the organizational literature,74 but has recently made an appearance in work on ethics in science.75 In these and other domains, cynicism is a reaction to perceived inequity and unfairness, and the source of a disposition not to help others.
In one of the most careful studies of moral exemplars, Walker and colleagues76 did extensive interviews with those who had been nominated in Canada for national prizes for heroic rescue or for sustained social service. They also interviewed a matched sample of "normal" individuals. They coded the interviews for how they structured their life narratives.77 Prize-winners did not differ very much from non-prize winners in terms of Big Five trait characteristics or lower level characteristic adaptations, but they did differ markedly on how they told the stories of their lives. Exemplars'stories emphasized early secure attachment to parental figures, a lack of early enemies and presence of early support. Their narratives had more positive affective tone, they spoke more positively about communication, and were more likely to emphasize the needs of others. Finally, the stories they told also tended to see good coming out of bad occurrences, something McAdams calls a "redemptive" theme.78 The conclusion from this short review of personality research is that at every level of personality, one can find influences that shape moral action but are somewhat separate from considered moral reasoning. We can also conclude that there is no single moral personality and that personality characteristics and their expression dramatically shape moral behavior.79 The priest, Levite, and Samaritan can surely be thought of as differing in the way they would tell their story about the ethical situation on the road to Jericho.
Philosophers often make a distinction between emotion-based and reasoned based influences on moral action. Almost all current approaches to moral cognition or emotion reject the necessary opposition of emotion and reason and often reject even the distinction between them, seeing reason, values, emotion, etc. bundled together in structured ways that support action.80 Most models of cognition and of emotion see the two working in complex interaction rather than simply in opposition.81 One makes a judgment (conscious or not) of unfairness and is angry. One feels disgust at terrorist beheadings or bombings and condemns them. One sees a suffering victim and is moved with compassion. Reason can lead us to fruitful questioning of our values and of our emotional commitment to them, but our empathic response to suffering can lead us to question the reasons we give for our non-involvement. Reason, too, can serve as a biasing influence, allowing us to rationalize bad behavior, just as the priest and Levite might excuse their non-helping with obligations of purity. Bandura82 provides a model of the many different ways that reasoning can help to distance actors from the harm they cause. Thus both reason and emotion can support or undermine moral behavior. In the same way that a once monolithic reason has now been shown to be multifaceted,83 the notion that "emotion" is a single thing and opposed to reason has been found to be much more complicated. Theories of emotion range from evolutionary models that identify discrete states,84 to appraisal theories85 that emphasize the structure of a limited set of emotions, to cultural models86 that see infinite variety. All these approaches recognize the complexity of emotions and share common errors in the way they sometimes treat emotion.87 For instance, cognition, emotion, and motivation have often been approached as separate systems, while emotion, mood, and affect are often treated as synonyms. Emotion is reduced to a feeling without regard to its other components and is often treated as a single state (one is angry) instead of a process. As an alternative, Sherer and Peper88 propose a list of components in the range of things that we call emotion, including: cognitive processes, physiological system regulation, motor expression, action tendencies, and associated subjective feelings. Each of these can change within any "one" emotion, like anger, and give it a different aspect or profile. They also propose a set of processes that humans (and some other animals) go through that involve or shape the emotion: initial appraisal, priority setting, action selection, behavior preparation, and behavior execution. Other processes like self-regulation, might be added to these.
One final note to this review of the complexity of emotion: they way we respond emotionally can change over time, both as a result of circumstances89 and as a result of learning. Compassion, for instance, can be cultivated,90 as can empathy.91 One can use reason to reappraise the basis for an emotional reaction and moderate or intensify it.92 And one can learn long-term patterns of reappraisal or of emotion regulation as a part of a program of self-education or therapy.93 What qualifies an emotion as "moral" is disputed,94 but emotions that involve social evaluations are the most likely candidates. These include: disgust, anger, contempt, guilt, shame, compassion, pride, awe or elevation, and gratitude.95 In the voluminous literature on each of these emotions, they are usually treated as though each is discrete. But there is clear evidence that they are at least overlapping in any real occurrence of an emotion.96 Thus the moral emotions are emotions and like other emotions have intimate links to appraisal and reason, and direct and indirect influences on action. They cannot be separated easily from reason or from reasoned evaluation. Nor can reason be easily abstracted from emotion. Emotions, and thus moral emotions, are a mixture of cognition and emotion. Thus the Samaritan's acting "in compassion" can encompass the moral emotion of compassion, a compassionate cognitive judgment that this was a person in need, as well as the compelling motivation to help the other.97The complexity of emotion, and also of reason, should give us pause in making any simple statements about the relation among the two, or the supposed autonomy of reason from the tangled weave. This is not bad news, for it allows there to be people who are passionately committed to principles of justice. It allows us to be moved by compassion and to ponder the parable as an impulse to reassessing our values.
We have mentioned in earlier sections that moral action can be supported by a variety of cognitive, emotional, and perceptual skills one learns. But why would individuals want to learn these skills? Certainly having a basic level of skill in emotion regulation helps one be less distressed in everyday life. One can say the same thing for many other skills that are associated with moral action — they help one live in reasonable cooperation with others. So most people98 will feel the need to develop these skills to some minimal level. There is no good psychological terminology for this intentional attempt to become better at things moral. Colby and Damon document the pattern among the moral exemplars they interview, and speak of it as a "transformation of goals through social influence".99 Others call it "control processes"100 or self-regulation.101 We propose a term from German that sometimes appears in English: Bildung, which literally means to build up knowledge and character.102 This is a kind of encounter with the world that serves the purpose of self-development. With its overtones of intentional construction of the self, we think it is a useful term for this process. Education in the sense of Bildung should also be "upbuilding" in the sense of facilitating the development of the whole person — including moral identity and virtue. To engage in Bildung toward a more moral self one not only needs to identify the goal, but also incorporate it into one's personal identity and narrative, embody it not only in one's life philosophy but also in one's daily practice. Thus, moral education must include self-formation.103 There clearly are individuals whose life trajectory arcs toward justice, or compassion for others, or concern for specific moral goals.104 These exemplars of moral focus may not show up (and perhaps should not show up) in large samples of regular people. But studying them helps us to understand how extraordinary moral commitment develops. An important thing to note in this arc of development is that it is a transformation of moral goals through social influence105. Some, but not all, of this social influence comes in reasoned (and sometimes passionate) discussion with others. The work of many researchers on moral exemplars also documents how they are embedded in social networks that help them achieve their goals but who also shape their goals. Thus even among those whom we are most likely to praise for leading lives of moral commitment, we find crucial influence from sources not based in conscious moral reason.
This short survey of influences on, and processes of, moral action makes clear that in the broad range of action directed toward good only a quite small space might be called truly autonomous action. There are indeed times when even experts or moral exemplars pause and consciously reflect. But these do not seem likely to be a significant fraction of people's moral acting. What is the fraction? In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle suggests that the virtuous person was prepared (or "cultivated") for virtue by learning good habits.106 The importance of habits for moral behavior can be seen from how much of our behavior they constitute. In experience sampling studies, habitual actions comprise 45% of everyday activity.107 So we are talking about significantly large fractions of what we would like to call moral action being eliminated by a strict criterion of autonomy that follows Kohlberg's definition. Still, one has to be willing to learn such habits, one has to decide to begin incorporating them into ones lifelong practice. Thus, as Aristotle says, good habits start with practicing the good, and this is something the individual must decide to do. This brings us back, through Bildung, to the realm of the reasoning-action gap. In order to be able to act on one's moral judgment, reasoning, or philosophy, one must start to cultivate what one considers the good in one's own life. Such cultivation could in turn help explain why some people seem to be more ready or equipped to respond to an ethical situation. We should understand this Bildung as an active and in part autonomous process, where one seeks out teachers but also teaches oneself. This autonomy stands outside Kohlberg's conception of autonomy, which only looks at reasoning in the ethical situation itself and not at the processes of Bildung and appropriation as life long developmental processes. But this does not supplant the need for consciously guided reflective reasoning in those situations that call for it. Even though much moral action is influenced by social, cultural, personality, self-identity, and emotional factors, there are still times when conscious moral reflection is helpful and even necessary.108 Indeed, the work of many moral exemplars consists of constant moral critique of social systems that lead to injustice.109 The work of personal moral development can be guided by reasoned argument. The parable of the good Samaritan is a reasoned attempt to influence people to reconsider their values. Parables like the one we have investigated may be one of the most appropriate mediums for Bildung because they facilitate reasoned reflection and emotional engagement and appropriation. The ubiquity of heteronomy suggests that the story of how moral action is best supported is more complicated than isolated, consciously guided, reflective reasoning. The multiple influences on moral action and their interactions are so diverse, layered, multidimensional, and extended over time, that considering them as a whole should change our evaluation of the role of conscious moral deliberation in moral action. If we want to learn how people do good, and become good, or to evaluate whether they or their actions are good, we will need to embrace this complexity.
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Both words in "consistently small" are important to note [Blasi (1980)]. There is a very consistent correlation (about .33) between moral cognition and moral action, but this consistency is at best "somewhat modest" [see Walker (2004a), p. 2]. ↩︎
Blasi (1984). ↩︎
Frimer and Walker (2008). ↩︎
Festinger (1957). ↩︎
Kohlberg's approach was philosophically based on Kant's [Frimer & Walker (2008); Lapsley & Narvaez, (2005)] and borrows its motivational structure from it. Indeed, in a well-known footnote in Kant's (1785/2011, p. 30-31) Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant bridges the gap by treating the feeling of respect or reverence (Achtung) for a principle as both a cognitive and a motivational construct: "through a motivation self-wrought by a rational concept" (durch einen Vernunftbegriff selbstgewirktes Gefühl). ↩︎
See Lapsley (2008), for a review. ↩︎
Frimer and Walker (2009); Walker (2013). ↩︎
Badhwar (1993) argues that this fusion of self and moral goals helps to resolve the philosophical puzzle of altruism. ↩︎
Snyder and Omoto (2008); Stürmer and Snyder (2010); Sturmer, Snyder, Kropp, and Siem (2006). ↩︎
Hart (2005), p. 260. ↩︎
Oliner and Oliner (1988). ↩︎
Hanson and Oakman (2008). ↩︎
For reviews, see Frimer and Walker (2008); Gergen (2000); Mischel (2004). ↩︎
Bronk (2012); Bronk, King, and Matsuba (2013); Hart, Murzyn, and Archibald (2013). ↩︎
Huff and Barnard (2009). ↩︎
Huff and Furchert (2014). ↩︎
Each interview transcript is 2 to 3 times longer than this chapter. ↩︎
Evans and Stanovich (2013). ↩︎
Theorists disagree on a range of issues about this approach, including whether there are 2 or even more systems, whether the difference is one of type (with a clear distinction) or of mode (with a range of intermediate positions), the extent to which they can be consciously controlled, and a host of other disagreements [Evans & Stanovich (2013)]. Any generalization at this early stage of theorizing should be done with caution. ↩︎
Kohlberg et al. (1983). ↩︎
For two other approaches, see Cosmides and Tooby (2008) and Fiske and Haslam (2005). ↩︎
Graham and Haidt (2012); Graham et al. (2011); Haidt (2001); Haidt and Joseph (2004); Haidt and Joseph (2007). ↩︎
Graham et al. (2011). ↩︎
See Cieciuch, Schwartz, and Davidov (2015) for several versions of this approach, and its history. ↩︎
Evans and Elqayam (2011). ↩︎
Lipschitz, Klein, Orasanu, and Salas (2001); Zsambok and Klein (2014). ↩︎
Galotti (2007). ↩︎
Barsolou, Simmons, Barbey, and Wilson (2003). ↩︎
Bluck, Alea, Habermas, and Rubin (2005); Habermas (2011). ↩︎
Newell and Simon (1972). ↩︎
March (1982). ↩︎
Evans and Elqayam (2011); Lipschitz et al. (2001). ↩︎
Habermas (2011). ↩︎
Bluck et al. (2005). ↩︎
Bebeau and Thoma (1999). ↩︎
Keefer and Ashley (2001). ↩︎
Narvaez (2006). ↩︎
Callahan (1980). ↩︎
Huff and Martin (1995). ↩︎
Bebeau (1994). ↩︎
De las Fuentes, Willmuth, and Yarrow (2005). ↩︎
Mumford et al. (2008). ↩︎
Snow (2010). ↩︎
Dreyfus and Dreyfus (2004); Narvaez and Bock (2014). ↩︎
Rothman, Sheeran, and Wood (2009). ↩︎
Moulton, Regehr, Mylopoulos, and MacRae (2007); Schön (1984). ↩︎
Furchert (2012). ↩︎
Kuhl and Koole (2004). ↩︎
Aldao (2013); Tamir (2015). ↩︎
Reynolds (2008). ↩︎
Some conclude that there is no such thing as personality or character [Doris (2002)]. Most of these critiques have missed much of the recent history of personality theory, and seem to be refighting the skirmishes of the situation vs. person debates of the 1980s [Nisbett & Ross (1980)]. There is indeed continuity across situations, if one looks for consistency in the pattern (or "behavioral signature") of how individuals respond to situations they construe as relevant [Mischel (2004); Shoda, Mischel, & Wright (1994)]. ↩︎
McAdams and Pals (2006). ↩︎
Dovidio, Piliavin, Gaertner, Schroeder, and Clark (1991), p. 101. ↩︎
John and Srivastava (1999); Roccas, Sagiv, Schwartz, and Knafo (2002). ↩︎
Walker, Frimer, and Dunlop (2010). ↩︎
See Hill and Roberts (2010); McAdams (2009) for a larger review. ↩︎
Midlarsky, Fagin Jones, and Corley (2005); Penner and Orom (2010); Treviño, Weaver, and Reynolds (2006). ↩︎
de St. Aubin, McAdams, and Kim (2004). ↩︎
Penner and Orom (2010). ↩︎
Colby and Damon (1992). ↩︎
Dean, Brandes, and Dharwadkar (1998). ↩︎
De Vries, Anderson, and Martinson (2006); Mumford et al. (2007). ↩︎
Walker and Frimer (2007). ↩︎
McAdams, Reynolds, Lewis, Patten, and Bowman (2001). ↩︎
McAdams et al. (2001). ↩︎
Hill and Roberts (2010). ↩︎
The massive interconnectivity of emotional and judgment areas in the brain [Pessoa (2008)] attest to this blending of cognition, emotion, and action, and Moll et al (2006) refer to (and also track over time) "cognitive-emotional" complexes in moral judgments. ↩︎
Bandura (1999); Bandura (2002). ↩︎
Ekman (1999). ↩︎
Ellsworth (2013). ↩︎
Cameron, Lindquist, and Gray (2015). ↩︎
Scherer and Peper (2001). ↩︎
e.g. trauma - Berntsen et al. (2012). ↩︎
Weng et al. (2013). ↩︎
Eisenberg (2005). ↩︎
Feinberg, Willer, Antonenko, and John (2012). ↩︎
Koole and Aldao (in press). ↩︎
Oatley, Keltner, and Jenkins (2006). ↩︎
see Haidt (2003); Tangney, Stuewig, and Mashek (2007) for a review. ↩︎
Cameron et al. (2015); Ellsworth (2013); Hutcherson and Gross (2011). ↩︎
Indeed, compassion might be an excellent candidate for a central commitment that serves as a cognitive, emotional, and motivational construct, just like the moral emotion of respect in the Kantian sense which Kant describes precisely as a self-wrought feeling embedded in reasoning (durch einen Vernunftbegriff selbstgewirktes Gefühl).. ↩︎
Not psychopaths, perhaps. But it is likely the development of these skills that allows some psychopaths to "pass" and to take advantage of others [Fowles (2011)]. ↩︎
Colby and Damon (1992), p. 169. ↩︎
Carver and Connor-Smith (2010); Carver and Scheier (2002). ↩︎
Boekarts, Pintrich, and Zeidner (2005); Cervone, Shadel, Smith, and Fiori (2006); Koole and Aldao (in press). ↩︎
Stojanov (2012). ↩︎
Huff and Furchert (2014). But note that self development is not always in the service of moral goals. McGregor and Little (1998) have documented the primary life goals of a sample of Western students, and identify agentic, communal, and hedonistic goals. These are not necessarily moral goals and thus suggests caution in looking for all self-development to be moral Bildung. ↩︎
Colby and Damon (1992); Huff and Furchert (2014); Plaisance (2014). ↩︎
Aristotle (1941), NE 10.9 1179b4-31. ↩︎
Neal, Wood, and Quinn (2006). ↩︎
Besser-Jones (2011). ↩︎
Keane (2015). ↩︎ | Identity as the aim of education", in L.P.Nucci & D.Narvaez, eds., Handbook of Moral and Character Education, New York: Routledge, pp. 30-52.
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Kohlberg (1958), p. 5. ↩︎
See the section on moral emotion to appreciate the complexity of claiming that something is "an emotion." ↩︎
Kohlberg & Levine & Hewer (1983), p. 69. ↩︎
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It is a widely shared finding in the study of moral exemplars that they often feel like they "must" do the moral thing. See the section on moral identity to understand this claim. ↩︎
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File this under late; but last week small-indepedent home video distributor Eureka Entertainment announced on social media that they will releasing Osamu Tezuka's feature-length-animted-film Metropolis as a Blu-ray and DVD Combo Pack later this year.
Eureka Entertainment have not provided any specific details on what to expect from the release but we can only assume that it will presented in full High Definition (for the Blu-ray) and contain the original Japanese Audio (with English Subtitles) as well as the English Dub. One would also suspect that any bonus features that were present on the original DVD release, which was published by Sony Pictures UK in 2002, would be retained for this newer Combo Pack release by Eureka Entertainment.
For those unfamiliar with Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis then you can check out the synopsis below:
Synopsis: Anime retelling of Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis'. Ruled by the despotic Duke Red, ultra-futuristic city Metropolis is a playground for its rich citizens, but is serviced and kept going by an underclass of Robots toiling below ground. The Duke who lost his biological daughter is consumed by the desire to create a robot version of her, much to the chagrin of his adopted son, the belligerent loner Rock. Arriving in the poorer side of the city are Kenichi and his uncle, who are in search of missing scientist Dr. Laughton. But Dr Laughton is the genius behind Duke Red's robot-building centre and also mastermind of the part-human, part-robot replacement daughter the Duke has requested, known as Tima. Ever more jealous of his father's interest in the Tima project, Rock attempts to kill the Doctor and Tima just as Kenichi and his uncle arrive. However, Kenichi and his uncle rescue Tima and Rock pursues them through the robot underworld. Tima then starts to learn what it's like to be a girl and promptly falls in love with Kenichi. But it soon transpires that she has a special place in the Duke's plans and things go from bad to worse as the Duke plugs her into the robot grid, elevating her to serene leader of all Metropolis with disastrous results | 498 |
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Seductive VAT Data Raises More Questions Than Answers, By Azu Ishiekwene
By Maravi Post Reporter / Thursday, 02 Dec 2021 06:22PM / Comments Off on Seductive VAT Data Raises More Questions Than Answers, By Azu Ishiekwene / Tags: Africa News, Maravipost, Nigeria, Opinion / 294 views
In the last two Mondays two newspapers – Daily Trust and Nigerian Tribune – have published data on the collection of Value Added Tax (VAT) in the first eight months of 2021. The reports have shed more heat than light.
On Monday, November 22, Daily Trust published an exclusive story entitled, "Kano beats entire five South East in VAT collection." In the tradition of the newspaper, the story was a serious attempt to explain, in numbers, the tangled mess that VAT sharing has become in recent times.
The newspaper said that in the first eight months of 2021, Kano State collected more in VAT than the five states of the South East – Anambra, Imo, Enugu, Ebonyi and Abia – combined. In other words, the data obtained suggests that the bogey about Northern states leeching off VAT revenue from the South, is just what it is – a bogey.
It reported, for example, that according to the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) data cited, Kano raked in N24.4 billion in eight months, compared to the five South-eastern states which collected N20 billion – a repudiation, if you like, of the widely held caricature of some Northern states as parasites.
To drive home the point, the report also cited higher VAT collections by states which had been significantly impacted by banditry, like Kaduna and Yobe, compared with Southern states such as Abia, Cross River, Osun, Ekiti, Ondo and Imo, for example, as evidence that the VAT debate championed mainly by two Southern governors – Nyesom Wike of Rivers and Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos – is wrong-headed.
According to the report in the first eight months of this year, and I'm now quoting the exact figures published, Abia collected N2.25 billion; Anambra, N5.56 billion; Ebonyi, N17.21 billion; Enugu, N5.19 billion; and Imo, N 1.01 billion. That adds up to N31.22 billion, and not N20 billion, as the newspaper mistakenly reported.
Then on Monday, November 29, ostensibly from the same set of figures, Nigerian Tribune launched a counter VAT data war.
In its headline, "Oyo's VAT revenue higher than total collection of 17 Northern states," the newspaper reported that Oyo State, its home base, collected N64.646 billion from VAT in the first eight months of this year, beating 17 Northern states (excluding Kano and Kaduna), which collected N61.174 billion.
Again, although the newspaper said this sum is N3.472 billion more than the collection by the 17 Northern states, my addition showed that even by their own reported figures, Tribune under-estimated the collection of the Northern states by N81 million.
But addition is not the only problem with the data by Trust and Tribune. In the current politically charged climate, chances are that some would be inclined to interpret the referenced Trust-Tribune data skirmish as a continuation of the now familiar North-v-South brickbat. I won't be drawn into such potentially distractive side talk.
According to a September 11, 2021 report by PwC, the top contributing sectors to VAT in 2020 (which was N1.53 trillion) were professional services and telecoms 10.6 percent; manufacturing 10.07 percent; commercial and trading 5.06 percent; brewing bottling and beverages 3.90 percent; transport and haulage, 2.84 percent.
The first question that the data by the newspapers raises is which sectors delivered the sterling performance in the total VAT collection of approximately N1 trillion in eight months in 2021?
It would be interesting to know how FIRS surpassed the one trillion naira mark in the first eight months of this year when key sectors responsible for significant revenues have taken an incredible beating.
State revenues have witnessed nearly 60 percent fall and apart from corporates in ICT/telecoms and perhaps the pharmaceuticals, virtually all sectors have taken a big blow.
It's also difficult to understand the whole point about the weaponisation of the data when the states supposed to be the new VAT champions have traditionally been<|fim_middle|>1999 Constitution (Exclusive Legislative list). This means that the imposition of VAT/sales taxes is a residual matter, which falls squarely within the legislative and administrative domain of states. This is the real issue.
The Court of Appeal ruled that the status quo before the dispute be maintained, which some could interpret as "maintaining the long-standing practice".
However, there is also a strong legal opinion on whether the Court of Appeal can legally give a mandatory ruling, suspending a judgment of the Federal High Court, before considering the case and delivering its own judgement.
The overriding view is that it can only urge or advise both parties to maintain the status quo pending its own decision, in order to avoid chaos in case the lower court's decision is eventually overturned by a superior court.
I understand that those who have benefited from the current illegality, knowing that VAT has become the crown jewel of the seven main taxes, would feel obliged to defend and maintain the status quo.
It is also perfectly understandable that an increasingly cash-strapped Federal Government would be desperate to grab all the revenue it can find. But the way to redemption is not paved by dubious facts.
If the Federal Government genuinely thinks that a mistake has been made in the past, it can reach out to all the parties involved and agree on a way to amend the law. After all, the APC has a majority in the National Assembly.
But until the law is amended or perhaps the Supreme Court rules otherwise, the Federal Government must let states collect VAT, as provided by the law.
Ishiekwene is Editor-In-Chief of LEADERSHIP
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Lagos, Kano, Oyo, Rivers and FCT traditionally get a higher percentage of VAT largely for historical and demographic reasons. Any data that seeks to compare collections on a state-by-state basis can hardly make sense without stating clearly which sectors are responsible for the performance. That important detail is absent in both reports.
The second question is timing. In the last three years, the South-east has been under a siege. But that siege devolved into a state of anarchy in the first six months of this year, claiming scores of lives, including those of innocent persons caught in the crossfire. Apart from the burial of Obi Cubana's mother, I'm not sure there was any other viable economic activity in the region for months.
As for the Northern states, except if bandits who have significantly disrupted telecoms and other normal business activities in swathes of the area are now paying VAT, I wonder what is to be gained by comparing performance there with elsewhere.
Comparative VAT data targeting a period of abysmal economic activities, worsened by insecurity, the fallouts of COVID-19 and declining oil revenues does not help anyone.
Not only was the timing bound to yield a tendentious narrative, the decision to focus on a few outliers instead of looking at the trend over a period was also sure to produce a misleading picture.
And that brings us to the third question. Do the figures quoted tally with those submitted at the Federation Account Allocation Committee over the same period or were they taken from data that has not been officially reported?
This is important since only reported figures are relevant in computing what was collected or what can be shared among the component units. Usually, each state takes 50 percent, and the principle of derivation accounts for not less than 20 percent.
And then the fourth. Why does the FIRS which stands to gain a lot from letting the facts speak for the agency prefer leaking a report, when openness and clarity are required? It's hard to resist the temptation that the agency has an agenda.
Yet, even if the data could answer all these questions, it would still be irrelevant in dealing with the most fundamental point in the VAT debate: the illegality, under the present Constitution, of the Federal Government collecting for the last 27 years, revenue which it is not authorised to collect under the law.
The real point of the VAT debate is not how much Kano is getting from beer even though the hisbah routinely crushes beer bottles. It is not whether Kaduna is collecting more than all the South-south states combined or whether the South-east could have posted higher collections with better Federal presence or greater peace and security, too. Nor is it about whether or not Oyo is the new VAT champion.
It's simply that the Federal Government has been appropriating income that the Constitution does not authorise it to. No data can defend this illegality.
When the FIRS was created in 1994 – and this has been said publicly by Emmanuel Ijewere, a key member of the Committee that set it up – states were supposed to keep 100 percent of the revenue. The FIRS was to retain five percent as administrative cost. That plan was discarded.
The recent ruling of the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt only reaffirmed what was known all along: that the Federal Government is only authorised to make tax laws and impose and collect taxes that relate to stamp duties, income tax, profits and capital gains tax, as contained in items 58 and 59 of Part 1, Second Schedule of the | 733 |
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Shavrov SH-2 Amphibian
Courageous posted a topic in Work in Progress - Aircraft
This kit somehow found its way into my car when I was at Modelkraft Model Show at the weekend. I had never heard of this type but looks rather interesting. First some 'fluff'. The Russian Shavrov SH-2 was an amphibian aircraft in a sesquiplane design that was developed in the 1930's for use as a trainer, fishery protection, patrol and an ambulance. The SH-2 was made primarily of wood and was powered by Shvetsov M-11L 5-cylinder air-cooled radial engine, driving a 2-bladed propeller that was capable of producing 100 hp. Being an amphibian, the SH-2 was fitted with wheels that could be lifted by a hand crank that was fitted on the cockpit dashboard. The cockpit had seats for the pilot plus one other and in the ambulance roll, had room for a stretcher patient behind the seats. Over 700 were built when production started in 1934 and proved very popular with pilots, staying in service until 1964. The kit. The boxart, looks rather cute. 1 plastic sprue. Second sprue. Third sprue. Clear bits. Decals. This will be the first time that I have encountered an Amodel kit and I have few illusions of the work that will be needed with a limited-run kit. A quick inspection of the main sprues show the usual flash and the detail is a little lacking. The glazing is a little thick with a number of options available. Decals look good but only time will tell how well they will go. If anybody knows anything about this puppy that could be useful, chip in. Stuart
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After reviewing this kit a while back here, I figured I'd give it a go, cos I do rather like these Russian side-by-side two-seaters, and I've not built anything modern for a while. I've built a few Kitty Hawk kits over the years, and found that as long as you test fit and keep your wits about you, they build up into pretty good models. So, with as many wits as I can scrape together, I set about building it, which is nice I'll try to flag up any gotchas so you don't have to find them out the hard way, but there's always a better way of doing things, so I reserve the right to be wrong at any point I began at the beginning (really? ) with the cockpit, and the seats, which are made up from a surprisingly large number of parts. I always clean up parts prior to fitting to remove mould seams, any flash and such that inevitably crop up with even the bestest moulding machines. The seats went together well with a bit of the aforementioned fettling, and given the part count, I took my time, adding a few parts and leaving them to dry off while I did something else. Each one has 20 parts before you break out the seatbelts, so if you try to put them all on together, you're gonna have a mushy mess on your hands. I ran across an issue with the rear panels on the headbox, which were a bit wide at the front, so I trimmed them down and they fit nicely now. I also noticed that the kit sides have two location pegs, but only one hole in the seat pan, so I cut off the rear one. It doesn't affect fit at all, as they butt hard up against the rear of the seat. The end result is some rather nice seats Their ejection rails are a single styrene part with a PE back, but there's a little break in the groove that holds the PE, so I sliced and trimmed that out so they fit within it better. Quite delicate, so I'm trying to be careful when I'm handling them. Incidentally, some of the part numbers are switched on the small parts, so check the diagrams, rather than trusting you have the correct arm-rest or whatever. The cockpit floor needs a few parts adding, and those are quite small and delicate, so before you add those, widen the slots for the launch rails a bit, so they fit a little looser. You'll thank yourself later Here's a weird thing. There's only one pair of rudder pedals, and they seem to be fitted between the two pilot stations, with one pedal for each pilot. Is that a mistake on the designer's part, or is that how they look? The rear bulkhead is a snug fit to the floor too, so test that and check if it needs a little easing. Now for the engines. Cutting and preparing took a couple of minutes, and I cut them dremelled off the ejection turrets inside to save weight, even though it's unnecessary for all but the one at the rear. Less plastic at the back, less nose-weight needed I glued two sections together first, and allowed the glue to set up a little before I tried in the third section, holding the ends betwixt thumb and forefinger while I got the join nice and neat. You can run glue along the last two joins from inside if you've left the first joint long enough, and adjust the seams while the glue is still moist ( ) . I'm not bothering with ancillaries or painting the engines on mine, so I won't be hiding the seams, but with care you can get them nicely lined up to minimise the job. The 2nd one was a tad harder because I hadn't left the first seam long enough, but overall not too difficult. I later glued in the engine fronts, but left the rear off for now, while I fill the three seams that'll probably never be seen The gear bays were a mixed bag. The nose gear bay is easy enough up until you put the rearmost C-shaped panel in, which I think is a little wide for the aperture. I test fitted the main parts of the bay in the lower fuselage, and couldn't find a way to make part C26 fit unaltered. The groove it fits into could be the culprit, but I ended up sanding away the lip until it was very small, after which it fitted nicely. Part C25 fits the bay ONE way, which you can tell by looking at it from above. The end of the lips taper in at one end, and that matches the contours of the bay. That'll save some head-scratching There's a couple of square ejector-pin marks in the bottom of this part, one recessed, the other proud. I put a slip of styrene in the low one and sanded them both back flush with a narrow stick. The main bays go together fairly easily, but F16 isn't used for both bays. F15 is used with B30, and F16 is fitted to B29. Those can be added after you've built the bay to make things easier for yourself. The same goes for D9 and D10. The numbers are switched in the diagrams, so swap 'em over if you haven't yet spotted they wriggle in the wrong direction. The gun bay is a simple affair, so not worthy of leaving the access panel off, so I built it up without titivating it, and won't paint it either. part F33 is a bit mushy as well as being tiny, so take care fitting it. My barrel had a weakness in the corrugated part, probably caused by two cooling wavefronts of styrene meeting and not mixing well. I glued that back together, and will replace the muzzle with some micro-tubing to get a nice hollow barrel and a realistic steel finish. Here's a pic of the various assemblies sat together: I'm currently working on the fit of the engines to the fuselage, which are held into the lower fuselage by a slot on the bottom of the engine, and two tabs on the leading edge, which you can see in the pic above. The bulkheads that glue into the fuselage aren't tooled properly, and one of the slots has been inverted in CAD, and has been moulded as a rectangular block sticking out. Oops! I chopped them off and drilled a new slot, tweaking fit as I went. They should fit reasonably central in their nacelles now, once I've painted the front and rear. Those two afterburner rings also had a couple of cold-front weak-points, so I drizzled glue in there and left them to set up. I've just started cleaning the parts up, with tiny amounts of flash on the uprights that I would rather remove, even though you'll be hard pushed to see up the tail without a flashlight! That's where we're up to as of now, and I'm quite enjoying myself. I would have held out for some Eduard parts to detail things normally, but as the canopy doesn't open, there's not a lot of point me lavishing detail on it, even if the sets were available (which they aren't at time of writing). If the exterior sets arrive before I get the fuselage closed up, I could be tempted, and I've just noticed that KH are working on a set of metal legs for this kit. After building the AMK Mig-31 and watching its legs spread under the weight over the next year or so, I'd really like to get hold of a set Shall I carry on with a detailed description of the build, or just crack on in a "today I built the xxxx" manner?
MiniArt Soviet Road Signs WWII (35601) 1:35
Mike posted a topic in Diorama & Accessory
Soviet Road Signs WWII (35601) 1:35 MiniArt via Creative Models Ltd. If you're travelling unfamiliar roads you need a little help to find your way, which is where road signs come in, and with the size of Russia and the likelihood that most of their troops weren't used to being away from their home villages, it's hardly surprising that signs became more important once the Great Patriotic War began in earnest. This set is full of signs of this nature, and includes military signs to guide their troops to rally points, service areas and so forth as they didn't have the luxury of GPS and satnav back then. The set arrives in a shrink-wrapped figure box with a painting of the contents on the front and brief instructions on the rear. There are four medium-sized sprues in grey styrene in the box, plus a decal sheet on thick paper that contains all the painted descriptive fronts of the signs. As well as the signs themselves there are a number of posts on which to hang then, one of which is a two-part telegraph pole with a lamp on a decorative bracket and ceramic insulators on short metal arms from which you can hang wires loose as shown in the diagrams, or taut if you have something to attach them to. Each sign is either metal or moulded with a restrained wooden texture that will show through the decals if you use decal solution during drying. Some of the larger signs are also made from a few planks, so the joins will also show through the decal. On the sprue that contains the pole there are also additional undocumented parts for poles and such, which you could also press into service if you can figure out how to put them together. There are 50 signs so there will be a few decals left over, but it's entirely up to you how you lay them out. The instructions recommend painting the faces of the signs gloss white before you apply the decals so they obtain the maximum brightness, and in case you don't read Russian, there's a helpful translation graphic on their website, which we have reproduced for you below: Conclusion Dioramas rely on the minutiae of the background to give that "lived in" look to the terrain, and signage is essential for all but the straightest of roads. The addition of the telegraph pole gives extra depth to any road scene, and the painting guide helps with painting the plastic parts. Highly recommended. Review sample courtesy of
Modern Russian Pilot Uniform Colours
MarkEP posted a topic in Modern
Hello everyone I'm new here, and I'm already impressed by the worldwide modelling contingent (that I hope include men AND women). Was wondering if any of you can point me in the right direction with respect to finding out the actual uniform colours for modern military Russian pilot uniform? I've carried out a lot of searches online, but to no avail! My immediate plans are to build a collection of Sukhoi aircraft, commencing with (possibly, haven't fully decided) the 1/72 Su-24 from Zvezda. Tiny figures (bought some from Pavla), I know, but what colour is their uniform? Where can I find out this information, with reference to manufacturers model paint types that are available in the UK?
BIch (Boris Ivanovich Cheranovsky) 7, Scratchbuilt 1/72
Moa posted a topic in Ready for Inspection - Aircraft
These are all old builds, and in retrospect should have been posted at the beginning of these series. They often represent the first, hesitant steps on scratchbuilding. Here is another from 2007, 12 years ago (original text as posted then): The flying parable of Boris Ivanovich Cheranovsky. The BIch 7a is the predecessor of the BICh 14: a twin engine transport, also a parabola wing design, being the 7 a bit smaller (could carry just two comrades). Yes, it flew, having some trouble with the engine but otherwise pretty good in performance. Not much came out of it, though. If you think that this was 1932, and also considered the Russian winter, only admiration can be felt. A singular machine that could well have been included by Andrei Tarkovsky in "Solaris" –by the way, the original one-.
BIch (Boris Ivanovich Cheranovsky)14, 1/72 scratchbuild Parable wing,
These are all old builds, and in retrospect should have been posted at the beginning of these series. They often represent the first, hesitant steps on scratchbuilding. Here is another from 2006, 13 years ago (original text as posted then): Some times Russians don't make just planes. They make flying poetry. Boris Ivanovich Cheranovsky dreamed about the half-moon gliding on the frozen surface of the lake. And he created a series of planes with a charm that is hard to ignore. The daring design created some stability problems, but most of his planes at least flew, and some times they flew very well. I just posted my scratchbuilt BICh 7a, a smaller, previously designed plane, for size and type reference: The BICh 14 was a transport (four passenger) version, and both date from the early 30's. For the construction of the model I used some styrene, wood, metal, invocations, imprecations, a magic wand and some pixie dust. The interior was provided with five seats, control column, instrument panel and rudder bar, all to be forever forgotten under the dark, impenetrable canopy. The Townend rings were made of two layers of .010 styrene wrapped around the right size of metal tube, and later a half-round styrene rod was added as a lip to the inner front side. Once dry the part was sanded close to shape. The engines were made of scored styrene rod and stretched sprue, and the half-round front covers are heat-and-smash styrene over a rounded dowel end.
MarkEP posted a topic in New Members
Hello everyone I'm new here, and I'm already impressed by the worldwide modelling contingent (that I hope include men AND women). Was wondering if any of you can point me in the right direction with respect to finding out the actual uniform colours for modern military Russian pilot uniform? I've carried out a lot of searches online, but to no avail! My immediate plans are to build a collection of Sukhoi aircraft, commencing with (possibly, haven't fully decided) the 1/72 Su-24 from Zvezda. Tiny figures (bought some from Pavla), I know, but what colour is their uniform? Where can I find out this information, with reference to manufacturers model paint types that are available in the UK?
Sukhoi Su-34 - Italeri 1/72
Andy Moore posted a topic in Ready for Inspection - Aircraft
Sukhoi Su-34 Fullback Italeri 1/72 This is a bit of a blast from the (not to distant) past. It's the first model I built on getting back into the hobby in early 2012. At the time I hadn't really built a model in 20+ years apart from a couple of AMT Star Trek kits in the mid 90's and this build marked a number of firsts for me. 1st time using an airbrush, 1st time using acrylic paints (Vallejo in this case), 1st use of Alclad and 1st time using an after market etch set (although in the end, I hardly used any of it). I was aware that there were a few issues with the kit but I didn't want to get bogged down with trying to make corrections when this was the first aircraft I'd done in 22 years, I just wanted to get it done without making a complete pigs ear out of it. In the end I did make a few additions, mainly the door in the rear cockpit bulkhead and a crude attempt at the boarding ladder on the nose gear. The colours are pretty much approximations and far from accurate but at least it looked like a Fullback (just about) and the main thing was I enjoyed the build immensely and it hooked me back on modelling. I'd like to think I'd improved a little since then and I'd certainly do some things different if I built another but it's still one of my favorite builds and sits right in the middle of my display cabinet Hope you enjoy the shots Thanks for looking Andy
dov posted a topic in Ready for Inspection - Aircraft
Hallo again This is the Trumpeter 1/48 kit. I used etched parts from Eduard and stencils from Bregnun. The Su-24 was for me a challenge. I never saw this a/c in real. Yes, most a/c I know in reality, also the old birds. This one not at all. So I had to use just the web and my own feeling. A new and in this case the very first experience to me. No literature I could rely on. Yes, sometimes it is fun, just to guess. Well, finally you may find out if my guess was good or false. Happy modelling
Kitty Hawk Su-34 Fullback (KH80141) 1:48
Mike posted a topic in Kits
Su-34 Fullback (KH80141) 1:48 Kitty Hawk The Sukhoi Su-34, known by the NATO reporting name 'Fullback' is an all-weather strike fighter, designed to replace the ageing Su-24 Fencer in Russian service. Despite being based on an existing design (the Su-27), the type endured an extremely protracted development, punctuated by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Eventually, 200 of the type are expected to enter service, replacing approximately 300 Su-24s. There are many differences between the Su-27 and the Su34, principal amongst which is a completely new nose, which accommodates the crew side-by-side, and gives it a duck-billed look that is hard to capture, plus small canards forward of the main planes, all of which has a reduced front radar signature, due to basic stealth shaping. Since September 2015, Su-34s have been involved in the conflict in Syria, dropping BETAB-500 and OFAB-500 bombs. There has already been interest in the type from overseas customers. Algeria has ordered an initial batch of 12 aircraft, while Vietnam is apparently also interested in the type. The Kit This is a complete new tool from Kitty Hawk, following on from another manufacturer's slightly flawed attempt, so a lot of people are hoping it's right. It arrives in a large box, as it is a big aircraft with 12 hardpoints for attaching munitions, of which KH are apt to include many! The boxtop art shows a Fullback climbing out after causing some chaos with some oil storage tanks, and inside the lid it quite a full box – the artwork header has also been updated from the original to a more modern, funky look to catch the eye, as you can see above. Many of these semi-blended designs are moulded with wings integral to the fuselage halves, which reduces the part count and usually means that half the box is taken up with just two parts. Not so here, as the wings are separate, and all the available space is taken up with parts. The fuselage halves still take up the full length of the box, and there is a high parts count due to the generous provision of Russian weapons. Beside the two fuselage halves there are thirteen sprues in pale grey styrene, a sprue of clear parts, four resin (yes, resin!) exhaust cans, a sheet of Photo-Etch (PE) parts, and three decal sheets of various sizes. The instruction booklet has a glossy cover with fold-out leaves that detail the box contents in front and painting of the weapons at the rear, while the full colour painting and markings guide is found in the centre of the booklet, which will be more use when removed carefully and the staples bent back so your instruction booklet doesn't fall apart, which is exactly what I've just done. First impressions are good, with a little flash around the large complex fuselage mouldings, which isn't entirely surprising, as they are complex shapes. There are slide-moulding seams behind and forward of the cockpit opening that will need a little attention before construction, and just aft of that a few panel lines have been tooled very faintly so they don't catch on the mould as the part is ejected. These would be best deepened with your favourite scribing tool before you get too far into the build. The inboard walls of the rear engine nacelles also suffer from this to a slightly lesser extent, so while you have your scriber out, fix those too. They're not defects, but necessities of production that have been present since injection moulding model kits began. The massive array of weapons provides spans six sprues, and it's best to consider them as a generic set, as there are some that won't be used and more that the Su-34 can carry. It's cheaper for KH to tool one set of weapons for all Soviet/Russian subjects than individual load-outs again and again. Construction begins with the cockp…. Nope, with the engines for a change, which KH have included for good measure, and to which are fair quantity of parts are devoted, only to be hidden away unless you're planning on opening up some panels, which will of course require some surgery to the upper fuselage, but if you flip it over, you'll see that KH have thoughtfully included two panels above each engine that can be cut out from the inside to provide access to the engines, with rivets engraved on the interior so they can be left lying about as if they are being worked on. Sure, they're a bit thick, but this is a much better option than just hiding the detail away, and if you're interested in scale fidelity, you have a shape template to base your work on. Both Saturn AL31FM1s are included, and they are set aside until later on in the build. Whether you paint them fully is entirely up to you and whether you want to cut those panels out, but I'd probably just do the front and rear faces, as they're all that will be seen eventually. Now it's the turn of the cockpit, and the first item is a pair of well-detailed Zvezda K36dm seats, which have PE seatbelts included, and are an improvement on earlier kits. The cockpit floor has the side consoles moulded in, and slots for the ejection ladders, plus control columns and decals for all panels, which are printed on a small decal sheet that has an almost photographic look to it. The rear bulkhead and access door fit to the back, and the instrument panel to the front to finish off, then this too is set aside while the gear bays and cannon bay are built up. The former are well-detailed with individual panels and additional parts to give a busy look, while the cannon bay is somewhat simpler with only a few parts in addition to the breech. The nose gear bay is more complex, and has the hatch for crew access moulded in, with a ladder built into the nose gear bay later on. This explains why you should never see a Fullback with its cockpit open, unless the crew are about to disappear on their ejection seats. Finally, the fuselage is ready to close up, after the aforementioned fettling and the removal of the residual sprue gates that can be found on the mating surfaces in places, which is an effort to avoid marring surface detail and IMHO is a great idea that is slowly creeping into kits from various manufacturers. The gear bays, two engine supports, the engines themselves and the cockpit are all added to the lower half, with the upper fuselage dropped on and glued along with the canards, which pivot on a pin, so you can set them to whatever pitch seems appropriate after checking your references. The forward facing radar is fitted to the blunt end of the fuselage, and the nose cone is popped over it, covering it up unless you do some scratching and pose it opened. The pilot's HUD is a sizeable part, and has a trough in the cockpit coaming, a PE glass support, and two part glazing, plus a horizontal lens on the clear sprue.<|fim_middle|>-500KR TV guided bomb 2 x KAB-500L laser guided bomb 2 x KAB-1500-L/KR laser/TV guided bomb 2 x UB-16 rocket pod 2 x KH-31 A2G missile 2 x KH-58ME Kilter missile 2 x KH-58 Kilter missile with AKU-58 pylon adapter There are two pages of diagrams showing which stations the various weapons are suitable for, but if you're going for accuracy, check your references for some real-world loadouts, as with all aircraft there are limitations. The parts on the sprues are also marked by designation, with all the parts for each weapon sub-numbered within that section of the sprue. Markings The largest decal sheet is for the armament, with each weapon's stencils and markings sectioned off with a dotted line and the designation, which will make applying them a much easier proposition. Four pages of colour diagrams at the rear of the booklet show their colours and markings. Once you have unpicked the main painting guide from the centre of the booklet, you can rotate them so they're easier on the eye, where you'll discover that there are four markings options, each with four views so that there is no guesswork with the camouflaged options. Everything is a good size too, which makes reading the decal numbers and other details a lot easier than some of their first kits, proving that KH have come a long way in all departments. There is a variety of schemes available out of the box, two of which use the three shades of blue camo, one in primer, and another in dark blue over blue, and all rocking a fetching white radome. There are also large expanses of bare metal where paint wouldn't last, on the underside of the engine nacelles, and the leading edges of the elevators (hot missile exhaust?). From the box you can build one of the following rather generically described airframes: Russian Aerospace Defence Forces Red 02 in three-tone blue camo Russian Aerospace Defence Forces Red 03 in three-tone blue camo Russian Aerospace Defence Forces in primer Russian Aerospace Defence Forces in dark blue over pale blue It is unclear where and by whom the decals were printed by, but in general they are of good quality with decent sharpness and colour density except for the use of half-tones to create orange and the dielectric panel decals. On my sample, the dielectric panels also expose an element of mis-registration of the white, which is offset, giving the panels a drop-shadow effect on the sheet, which will probably disappear once applied. I would however be tempted to paint them and create some masks using the decals as templates. The white also shows up in the outlined digits as well as the tail decal BBC POCCИИ having the entire white outline projecting from the top, rather than equally spaced around the letters. Conclusion The plastic looks great, and as Kitty Hawk has stated that they want their Su-34 to be the best on the market in the scale, it shows that they have put additional effort into this model. The huge choice of weapons are also highly detailed, which are likely to be seen again as KH fill more gaps in the Soviet/Russian line-up, and we can forgive them for the little faux pas with the decals, which can be rectified fairly easily – hopefully it's an isolated case. As to shape, I've put some of the main parts together with tape to get a feeling for the overall shape of the airframe, and my first impression is that it's a good overall shape, with maybe a little more of a flare to the tip of the radome needed at the front, but it's very hard to gauge against photos of the airframe due to distortion and such, so I'll leave the final decision to you guys. If you want to discuss it further, start a thread in the main forums and link back to this thread Very highly recommended. We're now building this one, and you can find the thread here, with plenty of hints and tips, as well as pictures of the process Review sample courtesy of Available soon from major hobby shops
Hobbyboss T-18 Light Tank
Andy Moore posted a topic in Work in Progress - Armour
T-18 Light Tank Model 1927 Hobbyboss 1/35 It occurred to me recently that, what with all the Bandai Star Wars kits I've been doing recently, it's been a while since I've done an armour build on here. In fact I think the last one was the SS-23 and that was over a year ago. Time to change that then, and something Soviet and inter-war seems like a good idea. This is the new Hobbyboss T-18, which was the first all Russian tank, albeit heavily based on the French FT. It's a pretty standard Hobbyboss kit, moulded in sand coloured styrene with non-working indi links and a splash of PE. This isn't meant to be an in-box review (I'm sure Mike will be doing a proper one soon), but I'll post some sprue shots so you've got something to look at until I start cutting plastic. It all comes in a smallish box (12" x 8" if you're curious) with just four sprues for the tank and another 2 for the tracks. There's a separate lower hull, upper hull and turret, and a small sheet of PE. Sprue A's got some of the hull panels and the fenders, along with a few details including, annoyingly, a solid moulded headlight. It's not even moulded with a separate solid lens, which would at least have made swapping it for a clear replacement easier. Rather it's got the housing and lens as a single solid piece, so to replace it I'll have to drill it out. Not much on sprue B. Just the turret base and main hatch. It looks like the sprue's been designed to be modifiable to take alternate part for future releases. I seem to recall Hobbyboss having more than one version listed in the 2016 catalogue. Two sprue D's carrying duplicate parts for the running gear. Two sprue T's (T for track, get it... oh, ever mind). Indi links aren't everyone's cup of char, nor mine for that matter, but these don't look too bad. No separate guide horns or pads to add, and the runs are only 51 links long. The single piece lower hull... ... and the upper hull and turret. Last up there's the small PE sheet. Mainly the perforated shroud that will need bending to a curved profile. There's no jig provided for that, so I'll probably end up doing it round a knife handle or pencil. I don't like the look of the tiny individual bolt heads. Don't know where they go yet, but I'll more than likely substitute some Meng bolt heads for them. And that's it. No decals as there's only one scheme provided, and it carries no markings. From a cursory glance everything looks well moulded. I've not really started checking references regarding accuracy, but I'll get on to that in the build. It looks like a T-18 which is the main thing. And, just so you know, this is a tiny tank. How tiny... this tiny More soon Andy
Ammo The Weathering Magazine - Special Iron Factory - Ammo by Mig Jimenez
Julien posted a topic in Tools & Paint Reviews
The Weathering Magazine - Special Iron Factory Ammo by Mig Jimenez We have now seen a few weathering magazines from Ammo this publication is longer at 114 pages and is in effect a book not a magazine. As the title would suggest this edition concentrates on painting & weathering techniques for tanks/AFVs. Different products are show , though as the title suggests Ammo products feature. This book deals with Soviet equipment in conflicts since WW2. The book features; 2S3 SPG from Afghanistan. BMP-2 from Donestsk. BTR-70 from Afghanistan. T-64B from Ukraine. T-80B from Chechnya. T-90A from Syria. Conclusion This looks to be a very useful publication, although in magazine format the print quality is that of book. Overall a high quality publication. Recommended. Review sample courtesy of
1/72 Joseph Stalin-7 (IS-7) Trumpeter
CzarPeppers posted a topic in Ready for Inspection - Armour
While waiting for some scratch building materials for my Mig-3 project I decided to do this Trumpeter IS-7 kit I had laying around, because I find Trumpeter 1/72 kits are always a pleasure to work on. I did a few modifications for added detail, but overall the kit had the nice detail that I have come to expect from these 1/72 Trumpeter kits. The last one I did was an STRV-103 from Trumpeter that I loved building, so I was hoping this would be another reasonably priced gem. Although it was missing a few details that were present on the model shown on the package, it was pretty much just as good. Hope you enjoy. For those who are curious it was primed with black Stynylrez primer (same as Mig One Shot) with some pre-shading done with light grey. Colours used were XF-13 then XF-67 NATO green for some modulation, Vallejo Metal Color steel was used for the tracks with Vallejo 70.862 grey black used for the tires. I also used the grey black for the machine gun barrels after which I dry brushed them with Mr. Metal Color iron once the final flat clear was applied. My gloss coats for decals and weathering was Future (or Pledge whatever it is now) and the final matt was Microscale Micro Flat thinned 50/50. I often see people saying they have really bad results from Microscale flat and satin clear coat, but it seems like most of the time they don't thin it enough. I at least thin it 40/60 and I have always had good results, I've tried the Tamiya flat clear but I find it just doesn't do a very good job at achieving a flat finish. Anyways that's enough of my flat clear coat rant. As far as weathering goes I just used Tamiya black, dark brown and brown panel liner along with AK European earth and dark earth pigments. Then using enamel thinner for pre-fixing pigments and then enamel pigment binder or Vallejo water based binder depending on whether applying with brush or airbrush. I also had detail upgrade parts for the main gun and plethora of machine guns mounted all over this thing. The main thing I wish I had done better were the headlights. They were just molded out of one piece normal plastic, so I made it recessed with a ball engraving bit which worked well, painted the inside silver (wish I had done a slightly cleaner job or used a bit of panel liner for the edge) then put a thick dab of microscale kristal klear on for a lens. Sadly it didn't quite dry in a convex manner as I hoped, but it still look pretty good for the scale. Any recommendations on what I could use in the future? Clear epoxy maybe? I thought about shaping something out of some scrap clear sprue, but the scale was just too small to do something like that properly.
Zvezda 1/48 Lavochkin La-5 finished
Twentecable posted a topic in Ready for Inspection - Aircraft
Hi guys and girls, You can find the built thread here on the site. I finished this one having some issues here and there, most of my own making. The engine didnt fit too well. Needed some surgery to convince it to stick in reasonable. Lesson learned, more dryfitting even or maybe because my own scratch detailling. I had few problems with the landing gear, a first . With enourmess trembling hands I attached the antenna wires, they could be thighter but I take it. The canopy parts had disstortion and scratches otb. I was affraid to repair them, an error I will live to regret. Next time I will just try or order new ones. For the rest I tried to keep it tidy with minimal weathering. I hope you guys like it. I want to enter this one in the next IPMS Netherlands Euromilitaire show. You guys think I should do that? Tips tops are welcome. Greetings Lars
Russian Spitfire colors
Crane posted a topic in WWII
Can someone tell me what the basic colors of this aircraft would be? or where I can find more info. on this particular aircraft?
My First Build on Britmodller/ ICM 1:48th scale Lagg-3 series 11
THE_COMBAT_WOMBAT posted a topic in Ready for Inspection - Aircraft
This 48th scale kit is my most recent and my proudest kit. Though the icm decals discintergrated in water, i am very fond of my work and the kit. The kit overall fitted well together, the wings required a bit of sanding to get the right shape but apart from these the kit was very nice.
ZVEZDA 1/35 russian T14 tank
oldmodeler posted a topic in Ready for Inspection - Armour
Here are some pictures of my completed model. this was made straight out of the box. I dirtied it up as though in service, though only nice clean parade ones have been seen. Used Humbrol enamels sprayed over a base green, then a pin wash to bring up the line work and details, then used mixed W&N artisit pastels ground up to dirty it up a bit. pressed on with a stiff brush end. The ZVEZDA model goes together with little filler needed, only a bit on the flat panels at the front of the turret. Even at 1/35th there are tiny parts for the optical and radar systems. Tracks were strips of flat links, glued with superglue, not always fitting well. prefer rubber ones. Engine side grilles stand off grid panels are very difficult to fit on to the various tiny supports, I just used a lot of super glue there. T14 Tank T14 Tank T14 Tank enjoyable make. Transfers were very good but not used. Wheels were painted black for the rubber, all the rest spray painted then dirtied up. OH!, and the empty bottles on top: the crew are inside, sleeping of six bottles of wine . ZZzzzz.
1/72 ZVEZDA ISKANDER SS26 TEL
Here is my finished model of the topical SS26 Transporter erector and launcer kit from ZVEZDA. I have problems making small kits now, ,but wanted to include this on in my collection, so I did as best I could. The unusual digital camflage I saw on several web sites, and thought interesting. Made straight out of the box. The model transmission parts are minute and very fiddly to do all the bits! the position of the cab and other top parts are delicately mounted on the model to fit exactly the same as the real ones. where the engine fits wasn't clear, so I messed that up, but it is hidden inside. I painted the interior of the cab matt black, then took special care to paint all the sides of the transparencies with a matt black pen, as this made the very thick windows look better, without internal reflections. I do this to all kits and it helps a lot I think. I messed up the details on the rockets so I just painted them green. the digital camouflage was seen on parade pictures, and done thus: 1 felt tip for the black , 2 over: paint brush and enamel for the white bits. The model is of a topical system as the missile is supposed to be nuclear capable, and thus contravening Tactical misslile agreements. An interesting addition to any armour collection. though a very expensive kit. Added to my missile section. SS26_4 SS26_5 SS26_6 SS26_2 SS26_3 SS26_1 after seeing the enlarged pictures, I realise I have a few bits to paint: the cable, the tow hooks, the wipers...
Here is my finished model of the topical SS26 Transporter erector and launcer kit from ZVEZDA. I have problems making small kits now, ,but wanted to include this on in my collection, so I did as best I could. The unusual digital camflage I saw on several web sites, and thought interesting. Made straight out of the box. The model transmission parts are minute and very fiddly to do all the bits! the position of the cab and other top parts are delicately mounted on the model to fit exactly the same as the real ones. where the engine fits wasn't clear, so I messed that up, but it is hidden inside. I painted the interior of the cab matt black, then took special care to paint all the sides of the transparencies with a matt black pen, as this made the very thick windows look better, without internal reflections. I do this to all kits and it helps a lot I think. I messed up the details on the rockets so I just painted them green. the digital camouflage was seen on parade pictures, and done thus: 1 felt tip for the black , 2 over: paint brush and enamel for the white bits. The model is of a topical system as the missile is supposed to be nuclear capable, and thus contravening Tactical misslile agreements. An interesting addition to any armour collection. though very expensive. SS26_4 SS26_5 SS26_6 SS26_2
ICM WWI Russian Maxim MG Team - ICM 1:35
Julien posted a topic in Figure Reviews
WWI Russian Maxim MG Team ICM 1:35 The set from ICM brings us a Maxim 1910 and a crew of two. 58 Maxims were purchased by the Imperial Russian Army in 1899 but then they contracted Vickers to make them in Russia. Even though the contract was signed in 1902 manufacturing only started in 1910. Due to these delays and the war with Japan in 1904 an additional 450 guns we purchased from overseas. The gun was supplied on a wheeled carriage. There is one sprue for the gun crew, two small sprues for the gun and carriage, and one sprue of Weapons & Equipment. This is one sprue from ICM 35672 WWI Russian Infantry Weapons and Equipment. Conclusion This is a good set which provides the gun and crew, it will make a nice little model/diorama in its own right, or can be used as part of a larger diorama. Its good to see ICM producing kits slightly out side the normal westen countries for WWI. Highly recommended. Review sample courtesy of
T34/85 1/35
ShaunJ25 posted a topic in Ready for Inspection - Armour
Hi, So this is my T-34/85. The story behind this model is the tank has been taking some heavy hits from ze Germans (seen by the deep gouges in the armour) and they were unfortunate enough hit a landmine, destroying the left track and leaving them stranded in the thick mud, leaving the crew no choice but to open the hatches and leg it. Let me know what you think - constructive feedback always welcome Tanks for looking (Pun intended, I'm sorry)
Hasegawa Su-27P Polish Flanker 1:72
replicant posted a topic in Ready for Inspection - Aircraft
Hello fellow Modellers! This "Red" 02 is a "Polish Flanker" stationed in Stargard, Poland and featured by photographer Robert Senkowski in Verlinden Lock On 17. 1992, when VVS left, there was a big fly out ceremony. I spent a lot of time to make a sleeker aft fuselage and other corrections and detailing. I made this model 2002/2003. The older pictures on tarmac were on film. I hope you like this grey stuff, Cheers!
Polikarpov I-16 Type 24
Polikarpov I-16 Type 24 Eduard 1/48 I don't often post in the aircraft section, as I'm usually an armour and SF builder, but I've been sorting through the photos of some of my older builds on Flickr, and came across this I-16 I built back in 2015. I didn't get around to posting it at the time, so I thought I may as well do so now. It's a strait OOB build of Eduard's excellent Polikarpov, and the third one I've built over the years, painted with Gunze Aqueous and weathered with various AK pigments and washes. Thanks for looking Andy
Mini art su85
Steve_farrier posted a topic in Ready for Inspection - Armour
Well I think she is finished, Thanks for looking!! Steve build thread
SU-76M Self-Propelled Gun w/crew - 1:35 MiniArt
SU-76M Self-Propelled Gun with Crew 1:35 MiniArt The SU-76 was one of the most widely used AFVs of WWII by the Russians, and was based upon an enlarged version of the T-70 Light Tank chassis, adding width and an extra roadwheel to the length of the vehicle. Although the T-70 wasn't particularly effective or well liked, this much changed and improved development of its basic running gear was, because of its simple agricultural design, which made it easy to maintain, and forgiving in combat conditions. Initial problems with the drive-train were soon cured, and the SU-76M was the result, with the armoured roof of the casemate removed for ease of service and repair of the 76.2mm ZiS-3 gun. Production went on to reach almost 14,000 units before war's end, and although production of the SU-76 ceased, a further development continued production in the form of the ZSU-37, the first dedicated anti-aircraft tank in Soviet service. The Kit MiniArt are a growing force within the AFV world, and have a good reputation for their diorama bases and figure sets. Their toolings are more traditional in style, but an element of slide-moulding is starting to creep in, making for better detail on the parts. The kit arrives in a top opening grey box with a vignette painting of an SU-76M on grassy terrain. Inside are five sprues of mid-grey styrene, a single hull "tub", 16 sprue ladders of track links, a tiny sprue of clear parts, and a simple decal sheet printed by Begemot. The instruction booklet is printed in black and white on good stock, while the colour and decaling sheet is printed in full colour, and includes painting call-outs for the included figures. The first thing that is immediately apparent is that the hull of this tank is rather small. One of its nicknames was "bare a**ed Ferdinand", which referred to its similar layout but diminutive size when compared to the giant German design. The tub struggles to make 5" in length, but detail on the outer hull is good, with rivets, panel lines and raised detail in good supply. There is also detail inside the hull toward the rear where it will be visible due to its open top. Whether you will need to remove the large injection moulding lump that sits in the middle of the hull bottom is questionable, especially as there is a panel placed between it and the viewer during later construction. Unusually for a tank, the gun and its support-work are first to be built up, and there are plenty of parts to make this a well detailed section of the model. The barrel is supplied in two halves, so the more aftermarket conscious amongst us might want to source a replacement, but with some careful seam-work, the kit part should suffice, particularly as it has a 2-piece flash-hider that is added after the barrel is pushed through the mantlet, giving the impression of a hollow barrel. Careful assembly and judicious use of glue should permit you to retain the ability to traverse and raise the barrel, which is of use to retain until you have chosen the final position of the gun, at which time it can be fixed by freezing the pivot points with liquid glue. Once the gun is completed, the chassis makes an appearance, and each side takes six keyed suspension arms, onto which a roadwheel is glued. A triplet of return rollers fix further up the side of the hull on axles, and the idler wheel attaches at the very rear of the vehicle, almost as an afterthought trailing behind. The drive sprockets are mounted to the front on their final drive housings, the edge of which stand proud of the glacis plate once complete. The front of the chassis is boxed in with armour plate at this stage, and various shackles and detail parts are added to the forward and aft bulkheads. There are two hatches on the glacis plate, one for access to the gearbox and the other for the driver, which has a domed armoured surface that has a nice cast texture moulded in. The tracks are separate links that are provided on ladder-like sprues with only small stubs of sprue between each link and no outer runners. Detail is excellent throughout, and they should clip together with no glue, which is backed up by a symbol in the instruction. Each link has three sprue gates sensibly placed, and no ejector pin marks – these have been cleverly left on the sprue stubs between each link. Clean-up and construction of each track of 92 links should proceed relatively quickly as a result of these positives, and there are 8 links spare in case of broken pins. The slide-moulded fenders are then mounted with five bracing brackets on each side, along with some small details and stowage areas. A driving light is placed on the port fender, which has a clear lens piece, so the rear of the part will need painting silver to represent the reflector. On the rear of the starboard fender is a large box containing the radiator and the twin exhaust pipes. The open face of the radiator has moulded baffles that expand the surface area, which are neatly moulded, and the exhausts are made up from two halves with an exhaust pipe stub which will need drilling out to add a little realism. The upper hull is then covered with pioneer tools, while the fenders receive more stowage boxes, and the towing cable is bend into a C-shape for mounting on the glacis plate. My sample had already sheared where the two cooling wavefronts of styrene had met and cooled too quickly to mix, so the single-piece rope would be of no use. However, MiniArt have sensibly included an extra pair of towing eyes without rope moulded to them in case you want to make your own. As usual with my armour builds, I will be using a length of RB Models braided cable, because nothing looks quite like braided cable other than braided cable! At this stage the gun is installed onto a hub moulded into the rear of the top deck, and secured in place from the underside with a pin, which will take some very careful gluing to retain the ability to traverse. A basic floor piece is added, which has some treadplate detail moulded in, plus the aforementioned doors into the inner hull that blank off the moulding pip on the lower hull. A series of parts then build up into the rest of the cladding of the fighting compartment, blocking off the view into the rest of the chassis. Five palettes of shells are built up for the interior, containing a mixture of blunt nosed shells and more pointed armour piercing in each. These are sited around the crew compartment, making for a very loud bang indeed if it received a direct hit. The casemate is next to be built up, and is constructed from three individual sides, each of which is detailed up before installation. Painting the interior in stages is likely to be a necessity with this kit due to its open top and close confines. Fortunately, the casemate panels all meet the hull at an angle, so could be installed completely painted onto the model. A rear bulkhead is then added with a small door that simply eases the step over the back of the hull. Corner stiffener plates are added to the casemate, an aerial onto the starboard side, and safety "roll-cage" to the rear. Curiously, the exhaust pipes from the engine to the mufflers/silencers are almost the last parts to be added, disappearing into an angular box on the top of the hull. A set of five crew figures are included with this kit as a bonus item, and they are contained on the fifth sprue. There are three figures holding shells, one appearing to lean forward to operate the sighting mechanism of the gun, while the final figure would be the commander figure, who is looking through a pair of binoculars. The commander and one shell carrier are wearing heavy greatcoats, while the remaining three wear quilted Soviet tankers uniform. All the figures are wearing the protective leather helmets used by soviet tank crew, which are separate parts on the sprue. The figures are nicely moulded and the greatcoat wearers have separate lowers to their coats, to give a more realistic appearance to them. Some of the crew have separate hands where appropriate, while all have separate arms and legs. The legs are moulded separately and joined at the crotch to give better detail to the inseam area, and all the heads are separate parts. Some small personal items are included for the figures' belts, and eight shells are provided for the chaps to hold (the set is also sold separately as a figure set). The decals are printed by Begemot as mentioned earlier, and have a creamy tint to the white lettering. That shouldn't really notice on the dark background, but should in fact help them not to look too stark. Surprisingly from such a small sheet you can build one of five vehicles, which share the same Russian Green scheme, which is of course no surprise. SPG Artillery Division 11th Guard Army, Eastern Prussia, 1944 Unknown Slef-Propelled Regiment, Eastern Prussia, 1945 1238th SPG Regiment, Poland, March 1945 1448th SPG Artillery Regiment, 9th Krasnodar Kozak Division, Poland, 1944 1223rd SPG Artillery Regiment, 5th Guard Tank Army, 3rd Belorussian front, Vilnus, July 1944 Colour call-outs are provided from Vallejo, Testors, Tamiya, Humbrol, Revell and Mr Color. Colour names are also supplied, as well as a column of something unintelligible (to me) in Cyrillic. The same table applies to the crew figures who are surrounded by a cloud of arrows and legends. Conclusion A detailed kit of this diminutive but powerful Self-Propelled Gun, which grew from a mediocre lineage to become an important tank during WWII. The inclusion of five crew figures and individual workable track links makes it a very generous package, and should appeal to many. Highly recommended. Review sample courtesy of
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Britmodeller.com Powered by Invision Community | A few probes and the refuelling probe are added, although I'd leave those until later on in case I broke them off. The twin vertical stabilisers are next, with a single thickness that is bolstered at the root, and with separate rudder, antennae and clear formation light. These are also set aside (the theme of this build!) while the exhausts and stinger are made up. You may have noticed that the exhaust cans are resin, and you can choose open or closed positions to suit your intended situation, with the tabs at the rear locking it in place on the two-part exhaust trunks. Careful painting whilst paying attention to your references will result in a good finish to this area. The Stinger is the fairing between the engines, and contains the rear radar, as well as various other equipment, and the chaff and flare dispensers that are fired to confuse and thwart incoming missiles. The body of the stinger is two part, with a recess in the top for the PE dispensers, and holes in the rear that accommodate three PE exhaust vents, which will need rolling to fit the contours of the surrounding area. These assemblies are all fitted to the rear along with some more small parts, and the tail fins attach to the sides of the fuselage with two locating pins each. Before the engine nacelles are installed, additional parts are added inside the main wheel bays that will mate with the corresponding cut-outs in the nacelles later on. Each nacelle is built up in the same manner, with a main outer skin, small PE auxiliary intakes on the sides, plus a pair of blow-in doors further back. The intake ramp attaches to the eventual roof of the intake, and a two-part trunk changes the interior profile to match the cylindrical shape of the engine front. A small elliptical insert is added to the outside of each one before they are fitted to the fuselage, along with a few more small parts hither and thither. It still needs wings, which is next and begins with the elevators, which have fairings added at their base, and when they are attached to the fuselage, another part is added, which connects them to a hinge-point in the fuselage rear. The main wings are each two parts, with slats and flaps front and rear respectively, along with a small wing fence toward the tip, and a choice of straight or curved fairing where the leading edge meets the tip rails, which you'll need to check your references to select the correct one for your airframe, as all the decal profiles show curved fairings. They fit into the fuselage on two tabs with a good mating surface, and should blend with the upper surface with a little care and test-fitting. Landing is tricky without wheels, and Russian fighters invariably have tough gear for rough field operation, and twin rear wheels on bogies are the norm. The Fullback has sturdy struts reminiscent of the Mig-31, but with both wheels on the outer face of the bogie. The legs have separate scissor-links and additional actuators, with a pair of two-part wheels each, which have decent hub and tyre detail. There should be some circumferential tread, which is absent due to moulding limitation, but as these aircraft are often seen with threadbare tyres, painting them to resemble well-used examples gets round needing to replicate this. Either that or you could treat yourself to a set of wheels from Eduard that will doubtless fit this newer tooling. The nose gear is also pretty substantial and has a high parts count, which includes a pair of clear landing lights. The crew ladder is in two parts and fits to the rear of the leg, above the mudguard that nestles behind the tyres to reduce FOD intrusion into the airframe on rough airstrip movements. The wheels are each two parts, and again there is no tread, despite it being shown on the diagrams. Happily, each gear leg can be added to a completed airframe, which is good news as it saves them from damage during handling. There are scrap diagrams of each main gear bay showing how things should look once you have installed them and the small surrounding panel at the rear of the bays. The front gear bay doors are single parts, while the rear bay doors all have additions before they can be inserted, with actuators adding a bit of realism. More scrap diagrams show their orientation after they are added, so there's little chance of making a slip-up here. Before you can load up your Fullback, you need pylons, which are all fitted with PE shackles or styrene sway-braces before they are added to the model alongside the wingtip rail. A twin rail fits between the nacelles, and either three underwing pylons, or two and a double are attached to each wing, plus the wingtip pods already mentioned. Additional single rails fit to the underside of the nacelles level with the gear legs. As already mentioned, there is a ton of weapons on those six sprues, with ten pages devoted to building them up. This is what's selected to be carried by the Su-34: 2 x FAB-500-M54 general purpose bomb 2 x BETAB-500 bunker buster 2 x OFAB-250-SZN bomb 2 x SPPU-22 gun pod 2 x U-6 pylon adapter 2 x R77 Missile Adder medium range A2A missile 2 x R73 Archer short range A2A Missile with APU-73 adapter 2 x UBK-23 gun pod 2 x GUV-8700 gun pod 2 x R27-ET/R27-ER Alamo medium range missiles with APU-470 pylon adapter 2 x R27-T Alamo medium range missiles with APU-470 pylon adapter 4 x R60 Aphid short-range A2A missile with three types of pylon adapters 2 x U-4 adapter rail 2 x UB-32 rocket pod 2 x KH-35 Kayak anti-shipping missile 2 x S-24 rocket with APU-68 pylon adapter 2 x KH-23 Kerry A2G missile with APU-68 pylon adapter 2 x KH-59 Kazoo TV guided missile 2 x KAB-250 satellite guided bomb 4 x FAB-250-M62 bomb 4 x FAB-250-TS bomb (there's a spelling mistake showing it as "F2B" on the instructions) 4 x FAB-250-M54 bomb 2 x BETAB-500-ZD penetrator bomb 4 x SAB-100 high explosive bomb 2 x S-25-A, B & C rocket 2 x RBK-500-250 cluster bomb 2 x B-8M rocket pod 2 x B-13 rocket pod 2 x KH-25-ML/MT Karen A2G Missile 2 x KH-29L Kedge laser guided A2G missile 2 x KAB | 1,500 |
Kannonji, also known as Kannonshōji, located in present-day Shiga Prefecture east of Lake Biwa, is the thirty-second stop on the Saikoku Kannon pilgrimage route. As in all the prints in the Kanzeon reigenki set, this one has a framed landscape of the temple's buildings illustrated by Hiroshige II above and a dramatic image of a temple legend illustrated by Kunisada below.
The text in the lower scene explains that as Prince Shōtoku (c. 574–622) was passing by a field<|fim_middle|> | of rushes in Ishidera Village at sunset, a strange half-human and half-fish being appeared. The creature explained that she had been transformed into a mermaid because of the bad karma she accrued from enjoying killing living beings as a fisherman. She said that if the Prince could take pity on her and build a temple to enshrine an image of the Thousand-armed Kannon, her suffering would soon end and she could be born in paradise. Right away the Prince built the temple, carved an image of the Thousand-armed Kannon, and then held a seven-day ritual for the mermaid. On the seventh day she descended and said, "Because of the power of the Prince's compassion, I have already been reborn in heaven." Thereupon she thanked the Prince and flew away.
This miraculous story with its connection to Prince Shōtoku, who has been heralded as one of the earliest major proponents of Buddhism in Japan, affirms the temple as a sacred space and assures that it is worthy to be one of the Saikoku thirty-three pilgrimage temples dedicated to Kannon. | 223 |
It's as easy to fall into the trap of hibernating in the cool air conditioning, during the summer months, as it is to hide from the cold in the winter. So while the sun is shining and the summer is here, let's get outside with our little ones. These 10 outdoor summer activities for toddlers and preschoolers are fun, will help you make memories, and build neural pathways in your child's brain!
I'm a sunny-with-a-high-of-75 kinda gal. The perfect breeze on the perfect fall day is my jam. Not TOO hot, but definitely not needing a coat, is where comfort resides for me. Even as a kid, when most children can play for hours outside, ignoring the heat or cold, I couldn't hang.
As a Momma, I force myself to play in the snow with my kids during the winter and to melt with them outside during the summer. Each summer, we're looking forward to fall. But I'm a big believer in not wishing your time away. So while the sun is high and the weather hot, we<|fim_middle|> will be one you both treasure forever. Since I know great parenting consumes most of your brain space, I'm going to give you list of outdoor summer activities to do with your child, so you don't have to spend your thought capacity coming up with them yourself.
Take these 10 summer activities and spread them out on the calendar to last however much summertime you have to fill. You'll find many of these activities encourage brain development. I am always on the lookout for each and every way I can be training, teaching, nurturing and growing my child. I'll explain the cognitive benefits as we go along… Shall we?
#1. Go to the Fair.
No. Not a lot of brain development here. Other than having your senses accosted by the smells, lights, and sounds. This summertime activity is on this list, simply because I believe it's a must. I grew up going to several fairs all throughout the summer. I loved it. My kids love it now. So I think you should take your little ones. Keep it affordable by going only to visit the animals, watch talent shows, and see the sights. Do some research ahead of time. Find a fair close by that offers the most value. Some are very expensive and have little to offer.
#2. Visit a Splash Pad.
Most kids love to be wet. I, however, do not. This is one of those activities I have to force myself to do for the sake of my children's childhood memories. Many towns have a park with a free splash pad. Do a little digging online with a google search for "splash pad near me" to see if you have one within 20-30 minutes. Take some sandwiches and have a picnic before or after.
#3. Catch a Drive-In Movie.
Alright, for the sake of full disclosure, you gotta know that I have never actually been to a drive-in movie! We didn't have a drive-in movie theater anywhere near where I grew up. However, now that I have kids of my own, there are like 2-3 within driving distance. Can you guess why I've never been? Ya… I'm cheap! Still, all my friends have been saying it's the bomb dot com and that I should take my kids. So, I'll go, if you'll go?!
Alright, on to the Free Stuff!
My favorite summer activity of all time! My kids can do an outdoor scavenger hunt, like this one, over and over and over and over. It's one of the best, most effective, and most beneficial ways to keep them occupied. I am a mega-over thinker. Don't be me. Don't over complicate this. You do not need to know the scientific names of different leaves. A simple, "something purple" or "something bumpy" is FANTASTIC! Come up with as few or as many items to find as you like. Send your child on a hunt, then send her on another! The textures and colors of nature will boost your kiddo's brain power!
#5. Paint With a Squirt Gun.
This was one of those ideas that I kicked myself for not discovering sooner. I ran across it one day perusing Pinterest. I've got the squirt guns. I've got the pain. Although, I've yet to take the painting plunge. Let's do it together! Get inexpensive squirt guns like this, fill them with liquid watercolors like this, and go to town on a canvas like this! Viola!
#6. Investigate the Yard With a Magnifying Glass.
You can do this with your child or encourage him to do it alone. I would, however, suggest investing in a quality magnifying glass like this one. Otherwise, you can't really see anything. As kids grow older, it's easy for them to lose their sense of wonder. The more effort you put into showing them how fascinating the world is… the better! Some of the most notable scientists throughout history did not have an expensive education… they were simply explorers!
This is one of our favorites. My kids LOVE to wash the car. And by wash the car, I mean spray it with water repeatedly of course. Keep costs down on your water bill, by using a nozzle like this. Get a few rags, a bucket of soapy water, pull up a chair and let your child have a ball! Just remember to give it a final rinse so soapy residue doesn't get left behind.
Your child will either have an easy-peasy time picking up worms and bugs with her bare hands, or she'll hate it. Even if she doesn't like touching the worms, hand her a shovel like this one and see if she'll enjoy the digging part. Instruct her to let you know as soon as she finds a worm, so you can celebrate together. Getting into the microbes of the earth this way is beneficial and healthy for a child!
#10. Trace Each Other with Chalk.
This kinda always freaks me out. I'll step out onto the parking slab and see tiny little crime scene drawings all over the place. My kids love to trace each other though. This is another great way to grow neurodevelopmental-ly. Tracing skills are beneficial, as they work on hand-eye coordination. As well as the visual impact of size relation. Seeing "their" body traced next to yours or a sibling's allows your child to see variations in sizes in a different way. Get chalk here.
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When Pressure Turns To Poison
Stress often comes from pressure. When we experience pressure, we usually respond by trying to relieve it - often to the detriment of our work.
In today's episode, we talk about the dangers of pressure, and some strategies to employ in the face of pressure.
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We're going to start today's episode with a familiar story. Our hero developer will call her Anna as you recently started working on a feature on a team that she recently joined. The requirements she needed to accomplish her part of the work were a little bit late, but she's started on it and she's making headway. In a meeting, a product owner will name him Brad. And everyone in the meeting that a deadline is approaching. Anna's manager, Kendra, reminds everyone also that this feature is very important for our bottom line. And then turns to Anna and asks for a prediction on when she'll be done with her part in estimate. At this moment, this difficult scenario for everyone, and honestly, it's often better to avoid this altogether. We're going to talk about why and what to do about it in this episode. My name is Jonathan Cutrell, listening to Developer Tea and my goal on this show is to help driven developers like you find clarity, perspective, and purpose in their careers. You probably have been one of the people in this story. Maybe you are a fourth person that we didn't name. Maybe you've seen this happen in your company and it made you uncomfortable. Or maybe you are the one that has put the pressure on someone like Anna, or maybe you are the engineer. Most of us have experienced what Anna experienced. How do we arrive at moments like the one in this story? How does this happen? The stress in this meeting, it can be enormous. And the moment is critical in a project because it represents a moment of intense pressure. And we arrive at these moments most of the time by mismanaging our expectations, by having teams that are relying on estimates too heavily. There's a lot of ways that we can arrive at a situation like this. And it doesn't always look exactly like this. There are other ways that we can arrive in a moment of intense pressure. Not only is the team generally put under pressure by an approaching deadline, for example, and the apparent late deliveries that have already happened, but the individuals in our story each have their own pressures to deal with. For example, maybe you are like Brad, the product owner, and you're trying to figure out when things are going to be done. And it seems like nobody can give you a straight answer. Or maybe you are the engineering manager. And you feel like you're not really doing your job unless you communicate to your direct reports just how important this particular feature is. Try to help them meet their goals. All of this seems reasonable, but it ends up putting pressure on the engineers. And we're going to talk<|fim_middle|> under pressure? We can't always avoid it when it happens to us. We can't predict when somebody's going to put us on the spot in the meeting, for example, but perhaps the most important thing you can do in that moment is to search for a relief valve. We may not be able to resolve the underlying cause of the pressure right away, but it's likely that there's a way to relieve the pressure. Relieving pressure tends to provide flexibility, and it reduces that stress that's going to cause burnout or poor quality work. It creates a more functional operating environment, and sometimes the relief valve is actually coincident with an MVP implementation to begin with. In other words, if you search for this relief valve, it's possible that you'll find a more efficient way to get done what you were trying to do with a more complicated approach before. So this approach is not only good for relieving that pressure, but it's also good as a product principle to begin with. Another important thing to recognize, especially for managers, is that when you are asking for commitments, make all of your commitments asynchronous. In other words, give the person time to respond to you offline. This allows both you and the person to go and do your separate research, and it avoids the social pressures of trying to make an overly ambitious, for example, estimate about when that work is going to be done. This principle can apply to almost any kind of commitment. For example, when you're hiring, allow the candidates to make all of their commitments asynchronously as well, if they're going to accept a job position with you or not. Don't use pressure as a way of manipulating their decision-making process. This almost universally results in poor decisions, another incredibly powerful way of handling pressured meetings in particular, is to do a pre-meeting discussion, even if it's three to five minutes long. The intent of this discussion, particularly for managers and the reports, is to set expectations about what you believe the meeting will entail. This might be a good time for a manager to encourage the engineer to feel free to be honest about not knowing how long something might take or to come up with a reasonable estimate together beforehand, rather than being put on the spot to do so. In the end, we're never going to be able to completely eliminate all of the sources of pressure that we face as engineers, but we can find ways to relieve that pressure or to work with it in reasonable ways, that use it rather than allowing it to poison all of the work that we're doing. Thanks so much for listening to today's episode of Developer Tea. Thank you again to Square for sponsoring today's episode. A reminder, you can win $20,000 in the build what's possible hackathon. For more information and to register, head over to squ.re slash cps. That's squ.re slash cps. You can enter that hackathon today. Thanks so much for listening and until next time, enjoy your tea. | about the fundamental issues of using pressure. All right, this is something that happens all the time. Using pressure as a tool for manipulating priorities. This is what is essentially happening here. Whether this is overt and on purpose, or whether it's happening accidentally, by communicating all of the importance and the impending deadline and all of this that's happening in the meaning is ultimately going to have the effect of using pressure as a tool for manipulating priorities. Even if this is the engineer's top priority, perhaps this pressure will make them manipulate even their personal priorities. Have them stay late at the end of a work day to finish something. We'll also talk about ways to avoid this scenario as well as ways of diffusing pressure when it inevitably creeps into our working processes. But first, let's talk about the issues that pressure causes. The issues of putting pressure on, especially putting pressure on individual contributors. Pressure ultimately results in stress. This shouldn't be a huge revelation. If we start putting pressure on somebody, putting them in an awkward scenario where they have to, for example, produce an estimate for something that is of an unknown quantity while everybody is watching. This is an emotionally stressful moment. It is a socially pressured moment. It's a professionally pressured moment. There's all kinds of leverage against this person in that moment to say the right thing. And very often, the truth is a difficult reality to accept. It's a hard thing to say in that moment, for example, in our scenario. And a very likely should have said, I don't know. I don't know when this is going to be done. I know it's important. I know that it should be done as quickly as possible. But I don't know how long it's going to take. Pressure can also lead people to overwork. We already talked about this and how it happens, the using pressure as a tool for manipulating priorities. If this item is already the top priority on your list while you're at work and it doesn't seem like you're going to be able to finish it, well, adding pressure to the situation might make you intuitively believe that you need to cut into your personal time or cut into your personal priorities in order to get more done to finish the project in time. This can lead to further stress and eventually burnout. And this all compounds into poorer quality work. And if we continue to do this, we also train ourselves to answer pressure by increasing that workload. To respond to that stress by working more and ultimately the product that we're working on is going to suffer. Pressure to make a commitment in the moment is often formed as an emotional plea rather than a rational one. In most cases, the on the spot estimate is unlikely to be accurate, right? In this scenario that we presented, this is essentially an emotional plea because we're making an argument and we're waiting for someone to respond to an argument that they already know the details of. We're not comparing these items to other items, for example, right? There's no processing of information. There's no kind of algorithmic prioritization process that's happening. Essentially, the case is being made for just how important this task is. And over emphasizing this leads to essentially an emotional plea rather than a rational one. Now, the truth is, when we have these emotional pleas on the table, when we're being pressured to prioritize this over other things, but we don't really know why other than feeling that pressure, right? Where we are basically filtering what we're feeling and turning that into adjustments in what we are prioritizing. Well, this gives us mixed signals on how we are supposed to prioritize. The stakes in this situation aren't even clear. For example, what is the actual cost of having to delay the launch? You've told me how important it is, but why exactly is it the most important thing? Or why exactly is an important to deliver by that particular date? Have we discussed, for example, the possibility of incremental release with our stakeholder? Maybe that's a way of avoiding the situation where we're in a high-stake scenario. Pressure tends to occur as a result of urgency and reactive behaviors to begin with. So it's also likely that we're not only focused only on what we're pressured to do, but also we might miss out on prospective opportunities and priorities. In other words, things that nobody's really telling us to do, but that we really have a huge opportunity if we did them. For all of these reasons, pressure can turn into a poisonous substance in our teams. Now, that doesn't mean that pressure is always bad, and of course, pressure can be used as a signal to help us prioritize. pressure is often the downstream effect of some kind of market force. Somebody wants something upstream from that, and so they're asking for it, they're willing to pay for it, but they need it by a particular time, for example. And this is where our pressure is born. Now that market force is important for business to continue, and it's important for us to listen to it, but it's not the only important thing. So we shouldn't discard pressure or think of it as evil altogether, but instead we shouldn't consider pressure to kind of end all be all way of moving something from a normal prioritization queue to a high urgency one. This is the primary mistake that gets made far too often. What should we do though? What should we do when we find ourselves in a pressured scenario or to avoid one altogether? 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Harikatha (Kannada: ಹರಿಕಥೆ : Harikathe; Telugu: హరికథ : Harikatha; Marathi: हरीपाठ : Haripatha, ), also known as Harikatha Kaalakshepam in Telugu and Tamil (), is a form of Hindu traditional discourse in which the storyteller explores a traditional theme, usually the life of a saint or a story from an Indian epic. The person telling the story through songs, music and narration is called a Haridasa.
Harikatha is a composite art form composed of storytelling, poetry, music, drama, dance, and philosophy most prevalent in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Karnataka and ancient Tamil Nadu. Any Hindu religious theme may be the subject for the Harikatha. At its peak Harikatha was a popular medium of entertainment, which helped transmit cultural, educational and religious values to the masses. The main aim of Harikatha is to imbue truth and righteousness in the minds of people and sow the seeds of devotion in them. Another of the aims is to educate them about knowledge of Ātman (the self) through stories and show them the path of liberation.
In Hindu history
In Hindu mythology, the first Harikatha singer was sage Narada who sang for Vishnu, other prominent singers were Lava and Kusha twin sons of Rama, who sang the Ramayana in his court at Ayodhya.
History
This is an ancient form that took current form during the Bhakti movement in around 12th century. Many famous Haridasa are Purandaradasa, Kanakadasa.
The Telugu form of Harikatha originated in Coastal Andhra during the 19th century. Harikatha Kalakshepam is most prevalent in Andhra even now along with Burra katha. Haridasus going round villages singing devotional songs is an age-old tradition during Dhanurmaasam preceding Sankranti festival. Ajjada Adibhatla Narayana Dasu was the originator of the Telugu Harikatha tradition, and with his Kavyas<|fim_middle|>ami Bhagavatar, Embar Srirangachariyar, Konnoor Sitarama Shastry, Sulamangalam Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, Sulamangalam Soundararaja Bhagavatar, Ajjada Adibhatla Narayana Dasu, Embar Vijayaraghavachariar, Saraswati Bai and Padmasini Bai popularized the Harikatha tradition.
Saraswati Bai was a pioneering woman Harikatha exponent. She broke the monopoly of Brahmin men over this art form. This was attested by F. G. Natesa Iyer (in 1939) who said: "Saraswati Bai is a pioneer, and today, as a result of her sacrifices. Brahmins and non-Brahmins walk freely over the once forbidden ground. C. Saraswati Bai has achieved this miracle."
Recent practitioners of Harikatha include Veeragandham Venkata Subbarao, Kota Sachchidananda Sastri, Mannargudi Sambasiva Bhagavatar, Banni Bai, Mysore Sreekantha Shastry, Kamala Murthy, Embar Vijayaraghavachariar, Kalyanapuram Aravamudachariar, Vishaka hari, Gururajulu Naidu and T S Balakrishna Sastry.
Paruthiyur Krishna Sastri started out as a Harikatha exponent and then changed to Pravachan style. One of the best harikatha renderings is on the life of saint Tyagaraja by Mullukutla Sadasiva Sastry from Tenali.
See also
Burra katha
Carnatic music
Katha - The Art Of Story Telling In India
Kirtan
Oggu Katha
Pravachan
Notes
References
Harikatha: its origins and development, by Kalaimamani B. M. Sundaram. Publisher Vidwan R.K. Srikantan Trust, 2001.
Harikatha : Samarth Ramdas' Contribution to the Art of Spiritual Story-Telling by Meera Grimes. Indica Books, 2008. .
External links
Article on Harikatha
Art of rendering Harikatha at The Hindu
Indian styles of music
Hindu music
Culture of Maharashtra
Culture of Karnataka
Culture of Andhra Pradesh
Hindu traditions
Performing arts in India
Storytelling | and Prabandhas has made it a special art form.
Style
Harikatha involves the narration of a story, intermingled with various songs relating to the story. Usually, the narration involves numerous sub-plots and anecdotes, which are used to emphasize various aspects of the main story. The main storyteller is usually assisted by one or more co-signers, who elaborate the songs and a Mridangam accompanist. The storyteller uses a pair of cymbals to keep the beat.
Famous exponents
Following Krishna Bhagavatar, other great exponents of this art form such as Pandit Lakshmanachar, Tirupazhanam Panchapakesa Bhagavatar, Mangudi Chidambara Bhagavatar, Muthiah Bhagavatar, Tiruvaiyyar Annas | 171 |
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Logline: A singing Siren in the swamp terrorizes four young boys by taking control of them, luckily one of the boys is deaf and must save his friends from being lured by the Sirens song to their demise.
Dark Matter Score: 8/10
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Overall Impression:
If Stand By Me and The Blair Witch had a little movie baby, that movie would look a lot like Defying Sirens. Overall, Defying Sirens is a well-constructed, classical horror/suspense script. We greatly enjoyed Danny, the reluctant hero, whose deafness is a key advantage in the battle between Danny, his three best friends and a mysterious Siren. This script is highly contained in terms of sets, cast and location, and very producible. What holds it back from a top score is a bit of sloppiness in execution, scene and act pacing (each a bit slow), and an overall need for a few more events/action.
What We Found Most Effective:
The plotting and story structure are excellent. Act I ends with a big event (Trent's disappearance) and that event logically compels Danny and his friends into their Act II mission. Act II slowly builds and crescendos with Danny alone and facing seemingly insurmountable odds. Act III burns hot and quick and ends on a satisfying note.
What We Found Least Effective:
Fundamentally, Defying Sirens is a suspense/horror script. Yes, there is also some comedy (and perhaps a bit more is needed), but to excel in this space, you need to hit all the high notes of a suspense/horror script. While there are a handful of scenes that are at least adequate in this regard, the script needs both a greater volume of suspense/horror scenes, as well as scenes with a bit more oomph. E.g., this is the only horror script we can recall reading where no one dies.
Suggestions For Improvement:
Big Picture Suggestions
You should be shooting for a 90-minute runtime or less in this genre. Yet, the script is 19,000+ words (or about 108 pages). The script needs to be condensed in a general sense – in particular the excessive exposition in the first 30 pages could be at least halved. Stay laser focused on getting into scenes at the right moment, conveying only the essence of what is needed from the scene to advance the script, and getting the heck out. The boys (or at least Scott, Logan and Danny) do a fair bit of waiting around for the Siren to sing – do we really need to see much of the characters simply waiting? While not a horror movie, we hold Birdman in high regard for its punchy, tight scenes. It's worth a watch (or a re-watch) for a little inspiration in this regard.
More needs to happen. This may seem counter to our first suggestion, but we think you can both condense the script and create more memorable events. Take, for instance, the scene where the Siren bites off Trent's finger; you had your mojo working in this scene and we wanted more events like this that are truly impactful to the characters. Specifically, we think some people need to die. We certainly admire the simplicity of the 5 person primary cast you've constructed, but we think you need a few token members of the crew to kill off. It's a horror script<|fim_middle|> more consistent presence.
Pg. 33. Typo. "…the boys return to silence and listens."
Pg. 38. We like the moment you've created: the creepy story from Danny; the fact that Logan is getting scared; the prank by Trent to douse the campfire. But, we thought you could have milked it for a little more suspense. What about a shock/scare when Logan turns on his flashlight? Could be a good moment for him to catch a brief/terrifying glimpse of a siren?
Pg. 39-43. The sequence where Trent disappears has an excellently eerie quality to it. Loving it!
Pg. 44. Great job using Danny's deafness as a way to create tension, misunderstanding and lack of communication.
Pg. 47. Wow, these sirens are pretty freaky.
Pg. 49. Duh, of course [slaps head]. We admit we didn't see it earlier, but now it seems so obvious that Danny (or one of the characters) needed to be deaf for immunity to the sirens. Well… kudos on finding a good plot device, it feels organic to the story.
Pg. 50. Typo. "Danny and Scott are standing the same position that we seen them last…"
Pg. 60. We like Logan's disbelief, but it's a little one-dimensional (all frustration). What if it had stages. Frustration, turning into humor, then anxiety and finally hysteria (or some other sequence you think fits his character).
Pg. 62. "I hate you." Hahahahaha – great line! We can envision the dry, sarcastic delivery.
Pg. 67. It's not clear to us why Danny had to wait for nightfall and to hear the Siren again before going back into the swamp house to rescue Trent. Why couldn't he just go right back in?
Pg. 75. It feels like Danny gives up a little too quickly when the Siren starts calling Trent back. Sure, Danny took an elbow – but that was all it took? We keep waiting for Danny to physically confront the Siren. It seems overdue.
Pg. 76. The Siren sings "Don't go defying Sirens…" and all we can hear is "Don't go chasing waterfalls…" Is it intentional? If not, you might want to consider re-phrasing to avoid any unintentional comedy.
Pg. 80. The boys discuss going to the police, and reiterate their concern that the police won't believe them. This is a key moment of suspending the audience's disbelief, and it didn't quite get us there. What if they dispatched one member of the group to get the cops? You could even add in a character just for the purposes of having someone to send off (earlier on – probably right when they realize Trent is missing). Another thought is that their camping trip could be further away, making it infeasible to get help.
Pg. 88. The Siren popping out of the water here should be a pretty good scare!
Pg. 90. Each time Danny survives a physical confrontation with the Siren, our fear of her ratchets down. What if you threw in some additional characters for her to kill off? So far, all she has done is kidnap Trent, force him to eat some fish and then bite his finger off (which was totally cool, btw), but we want the audience to be absolutely terrified of her and convinced that she is invincible.
Pg. 91. Since Scott and Logan are not on the screen in this scene, their dialogue should be designated either (V.O.) or (O.S.) immediately next to the character name.
Pg. 96. Typo. "Your the one who has come up with…"
Pg. 105. Good job isolating Danny and stacking the odds against him. Even though we know he'll win, we're starting to wonder how he possibly could, and whether anyone else will make it out of the swamp alive.
Pg. 109. Totally gross/awesome spear shot by Danny!
Pg. 111. The Siren's resurgence is sort of clichéd.
Pg. 116. Typo. "…knowing that he looked exactly what he seen in his vision." | : give us the goods!
You have the framework for Danny's emotional journey built-in, but the execution is lacking. At times, we got the sense that Danny is looked down on, or treated as an outsider by part of his group (Scott and Logan). At other times, he seemed to be an equally valued member of the group. We see the potential for Danny's emotional journey to be: 1) Danny is looked down on for his disability, 2) this treatment by his "friends" has in turn affected his self-confidence (he doesn't like to talk, even though he can), 3) when they meet the Siren suddenly his disadvantage becomes a clear advantage, 4) he saves the group despite their unworthiness of him as a friend. Despite the structure, you don't really execute on this (it's there between the lines at best, at worst it's just sort of muddled). We suggest you build in a few tweaks to fully flesh out this clear emotional through-line for Danny.
General Note: Consider generating a .pdf version – that's what most folks submit and what we believe is generally expected. Also, add page numbers. We've included page numbers in our comments below for ease of reference – these are based on exporting the .txt document to a .pdf.
Pg. 2. Typo. "Continuious." This error recurs throughout.
Pg 2. Spooky intro, we dig it. What does the Siren look like? She is revealed here for the first time (albeit briefly), so in theory we should get a description.
Pg. 4. How old are Trent, Logan and Scott. Also, what do they look like?
Pg. 10. Scott's joke is that Danny curses like a sailor. The punchline is that Danny is deaf and mute. The joke/cruel jibe falls flat since you haven't yet established that Danny has a disability.
Pg. 3-11. The first 1.5 pages are quick, punchy vignettes. Then we hit the high school hallway scene and the pacing slows drastically. Varied pacing is good, but this scene feels long. While we generally like the dialogue/humor and getting to know these characters, see if you can condense this sequence.
Pg. 15. It's cool that Danny is a primary character – we've not seen many movies or read many scripts where a deaf character plays a meaningful role. We like it!
Pg. 20. The joke about swallowing the paper doesn't really work. It seems unlikely that Trent is going to show up and demand to see the last note Danny wrote. Why not just pocket it? Or have Danny take his notebook back?
Pg. 31. Some of the opening scenes feel too long and lack in structure. The initial camping sequence runs about 10 pages. The boys tell jokes, settle in to their campsite and you establish that Trent brought a hatchet. But what really happens in the scene? Why is it integral to the story?
Pg. 32. It's been 30 pages since we've had a siren sighting. Given the title and the fact that a siren appeared in the first scene, we expected sirens to be a | 673 |
The theatre was built in 1923 after the original Thatcher Opera House burned in 1912, with a recent restoration to its original splendor in 1991. The Ellen Eccles Theatre is home to the largest full-production stage north of Salt Lake City. The Ellen Eccles Theatre Presents season provides a broad spectrum of the finest performing arts available. As our premiere program, you'll find something for every artistic taste. Many local performing companies also utilize the Theatre including Utah Festival Opera, Cache Regional Theatre, and Cache Valley Civic Ballet. The atmosphere is magical, the space intimate, with<|fim_middle|> until television emerged in the 1950's. The crowds waned and films shared the space with community productions.
By the 1980s, the Capitol Theatre had suffered from years of neglect. The ornate plasterwork had been painted industrial green, burlap sacks covered the stunning murals portraying the mythical phoenix bird, and a massive plywood wall blocked the stage. Some spoke of demolishing the building to provide additional parking. A few visionary citizens, seeing a greater potential, united the community in an ambitious $4.3 million project to restore the theatre and create the adjacent Bullen Center. As a result of this grass roots effort, the building was transferred to the City of Logan, becoming a community theatre in the very best sense. Thousands of volunteer hours were contributed to the effort, and on Jan. 8, 1993, the Capitol Theatre was reopened and renamed the Ellen Eccles Theatre in honor of early Logan resident and philanthropist Ellen Stoddard Eccles.
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The following policies are designed to ensure your understanding of, and satisfaction with, the purchase process on the CacheArts website. CacheArts utilizes the Arts People ticketing system. By purchasing tickets through the CacheArts website, you agree to be bound by these policies. These purchase policies may change at any time, and such changes shall be effective upon posting. You agree to be bound by such changes when they take place.
CacheArts sells tickets on behalf of all events produced at the Ellen Eccles Theatre, both for the Nationally Touring Season as well as Resident Events.
The Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre company rents the Ellen Eccles Theatre during the summer and operates an independent ticketing system and office. Please visit the UFOMT website for their specific policies.
CacheArts acts only as agent for Resident Events, which means CacheArts does not set the ticket prices or discounts and is not responsible for any claims or representations made by Residents companies. Resident Event providers reserve all rights to add, withdraw, reschedule or substitute artists and/or events, prices, venues, seating arrangements and audience capacity.
Tickets are generally sold through several distribution points, including online, by phone, and in person at the CacheArts ticket office. Therefore, tickets for popular events may sell out quickly.
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Replacement tickets for lost, damaged or destroyed tickets purchased through CacheArts may be obtained by contacting the CacheArts ticket office. Replacement tickets will be set up for Will-Call pick up only and requires presentation of valid picture ID of the person whose account was used to purchase the lost, damaged or destroyed tickets.
All ticket sales are final and non-refundable. Discounts are not retroactive. Tickets may be exchanged in advance for another performance of the same production. Exchanges must be made at least 24 hours prior to the date & time of your tickets. Exchanges are based on availability and comparable seats are not guaranteed. A $2 fee per ticket exchanged will be assessed. Before finalizing your purchase, please carefully review your event and seating selection.
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When purchasing tickets on our Site, you may be limited to a specified number of tickets for an event (also known as a "ticket limit"). Please refer to the event page for posted ticket limits. This policy is in effect to discourage unfair ticket buying practices. We reserve the right to cancel any or all orders and tickets without notice to you if you exceed the posted limits. This includes orders associated with the same name, e-mail address, billing address, credit card number or other information.
Occasionally, performances are canceled or postponed. Should this occur, CacheArts shall use reasonable efforts to inform you of refund or exchange procedures for that performance. If an event is canceled, and you purchased your ticket through CacheArts, we will automatically issue you a refund of the amount you paid for your tickets to the credit card that you used to purchase that ticket. If you used any other payment method, please contact us for more information. Only the original purchaser will be eligible for a refund. If you bought your tickets at a retail outlet, you will have to return them to that location.
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You voluntarily assume all risks incidental to the event for which the ticket is issued, whether occurring before, during or after the event, and you waive any claims for personal injury or death against us, management, facilities, artists, other participants, and all affiliated entities, agents, officers, directors, owners and employees on behalf of yourself and any accompanying minor. You bear all risks related to weather.
Please remain in your seats until the end of the curtain call and until the theatre technicians have turned on the house lights for your safety. Make this experience enjoyable for others around you by not talking during the performance. No food or drink is allowed in the theatre (with the exception of bottled water). We have no official dress code at the theatre. Please turn off all electronic devices prior to entering the theatre. Patrons expecting an emergency call are encouraged to leave their phone & seat number with our house manager. Our theatre is accessible to patrons with disabilities; please indicate any special seating requests when ordering your tickets. Arrive 30 minutes before curtain time to obtain assistance from our house manager. Hearing enhancement devices are available at the concessions counter, free of charge, for each performance on a first-come, first-served basis. A sign language interpreter may be provided upon request. A minimum two-week advance notice is required to make arrangements for an interpreter. Emergency exits are located throughout the theatre auditorium. Please identify the emergency exit closest to your seat. Should an emergency arise, you will be directed to leave the building by theatre personnel. When exiting, please proceed in an orderly fashion to a safe area away from the building.
The Cache Valley Center for the Arts is located in the heart of Historic Downtown Logan, an easy 85-minute drive north from the Salt Lake International Airport. Interstate 15 takes you on a scenic ride along the Wasatch Mountains, then through the beautiful Cache National Forest and Wellsville Canyon.
The following companies offer convenient door-to-door service 24 hours a day with advance reservations.
Fare-free bus transportation operates within Logan and the Cache Valley area. Two express routes run directly to the USU campus every thirty minutes from the Transit Center. Visit www.ltdbus.orgfor specific route schedules. | flawless acoustics, exquisite sight lines, and state-of -the-art equipment. Just like ancient Egypt's mythological Phoenix, the Ellen Eccles Theatre has been revived as the "Crown Jewel" of entertainment for Northern Utah and Cache Valley. This European style theatre accommodates 1,100 patrons and is a superb example neoclassical design. The ornate grand foyer, sweeping balconies, and exquisitely restored murals of the mythological Phoenix will enchant you.
Performing arts facilities have been a vital part of life in Cache Valley for at least 126 years. In 1912, when the 800-seat Thatcher Opera House was destroyed by fire, George and Brigham Thatcher envisioned an ornate, first-class theatre to replace it, in the backyard of the Thatcher-Young Mansion.
The theatre they envisioned became reality 12 years later when the new Capitol Theatre opened on March 23, 1923. At the hefty price of $250,000, the beautiful new theatre boasted a fly system, excellent acoustics, and an opulent interior. Named for its rival in Salt Lake City, the Capitol Theatre contributed to the image of Logan as "the Athens of Utah" and for the next few decades it was at the heart of cultural activities in Cache Valley.
The beautiful structure was grand enough to attract the great entertainers: Abbot and Costello, John Philip Sousa, the Marx Brothers, and George Burns and Gracie Allen. Live performances shared the stage with films, which became dominant through the 1930's. Thousands of avid moviegoers flocked to the theatre | 345 |
Broadway's Beethoven Composes Despite Hearing Loss
Meeting Deaf Composer Jay Alan Zimmerman
Nancy M. Williams, Founding Editor November 14, 2011
As I rode up the cramped, old-fashioned elevator at the New York Academy of Medicine, apprehension fluttered within my stomach. Attending a reception for the Hearing Restoration Project, I was to meet Jay Alan Zimmerman. Known as Broadway's Beethoven, Jay is profoundly deaf to all sounds above middle C. Although I have a high-frequency hearing loss for which I wear hearing aids in both ears, I do not know sign language. I worried that, with the chatter at the reception making for some tricky background noise, we would be unable to communicate.
Earlier in the week, Jay had told me in an email that his hearing began to deteriorate with a high-frequency loss in his late 20s. Like Beethoven, during his childhood, Jay's hearing was normal. His mother, a music theory professor and piano teacher, had Jay classically trained on the piano. "One of our favorite activities," Jay told me, "was to sight-read piano duets, playing as fast as possible."
Jay's mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's at the same time that his hearing was slipping away. "At the end of her life, we still played some duets," Jay wrote me. "Her not remembering the mistakes she made and my not hearing them anyway." I had smiled when I read that last line in the email.
The Academy's elevator door slid open, and I walked into a long reception hall with enormous, arched windows. I spotted Jay, very tall with dark layered hair, from photos on his website. I'm just going to go up and introduce myself, I decided.
"Hi!" Jay exclaimed with a wide smile, throwing open his arms. He turned out<|fim_middle|> Jay while I spoke.
On one of the windows in the center of the hall, Jay had created a multimedia installation called Window Music. He explained how he had created a piano of sorts out of the window, by fitting matte board over each of the window's small panes. Different colored lights flashed onto different regions of the window, depending upon the music's frequency. For one song originally composed for Jay Alan Zimmerman's Incredibly Deaf Musical, for example, purple colored lights streaming in from the right represented bass notes.
"My goal was to experiment with different ways of visualizing music, to begin to develop a visual language for music," Jay said. "My hope is to somehow combine all the information about sound—pitch, rhythm, tone, melody, mood, etc.—into one comprehensible image."
I realized that, rather than feeling awkward around Jay, I felt very much at ease. Some of that comfort stemmed from his engaging personality, yet I also felt relaxed because Jay and I are part of the same hearing-impaired community. It was a relief to meet someone who understood that part of me that I often try to hide.
My conversation with Jay set the tone for that evening. Many of the people that I met, from the publicist to one of the HRP's board members, also suffer from hearing losses. (The HRP seeks to cure hearing loss in a decade by leveraging birds' abilities to regenerate the ear's damaged hair cells.) People formed tighter conversational circles so as to hear. I felt no compunction about saying "What?" when I missed a point.
"How was the reception?" my husband asked when I returned home late that evening.
"Great," I said with a smile. "Everyone had a hearing loss or was deaf."
My husband looked puzzled by my wry comment until I described the evening. It had been exhilarating to meet Jay, a composer and artist who has confronted his deafness with a feast of visual sound.
If a Tree Falls: Hearing Loss Redeemed
Reliving our Own Time with Voices of Light
Hearing Aids at My Piano Recital
How My New Hearing Aids Affected My Adult Piano Lessons
Italian in Adult Piano Lessons (2 of 2)
Top 5 on Music and Hearing
How My Hearing Aids Helped Me Rediscover Eyes
Birdsong and High-Frequency Hearing Loss
My Experience with Sudden Hearing Loss
Classical Piano Music Infused with Traditional Irish Singing
Composer Notes: Beethoven's Hearing Loss
My Secret to Finding a Good Hearing Doctor
Why Pianists Need Musicians' Earplugs
Gregg Kallor's Modern-Classical Videos
An Incredibly Deaf Musical Probes Hearing Loss
High-Frequency Hearing Loss Bugaboo
From Accounting to Adult Piano Lessons to Guiding Light
Coming Out About Hearing Loss
Hearing Loss at the Opera
Hearing Health Affirmations
Preparing for Fun and… WHAT?
Making Music with a Hearing Loss
Finding a Community of Musicians with Hearing Loss
Veteran Plays Piano Despite Suicide Bomber Attack
Top 5 Tips for Wearing Hearing Aids and Making Music
Inaugural Conference for Musicians with Hearing Loss
Music On My Mind
A Pianist Experienced with Hearing Loss
Hearing Health Affirmations from a Singer
Hearing Health Affirmations from a Violist
How to Listen Despite Hearing Loss
Deaf composer Jay Alan Zimmerman shares his wisdom on how to deeply listen to music by making use of your whole body.
Practice Listening with Your Eyes
Practice Listening with Your Body
Practice Listening with Your Ears | to be as gregarious as he was tall. I found myself easily slipping into accommodations, speaking more slowly, and enunciating my words as clearly as possible. I understand that feeling of straining to hear, a feeling I have experienced countless times myself. Jay's wife, Lisa Ingram, an abstract artist, introduced herself, then signed to | 70 |
The popular press<|fim_middle|> of entry for building a website, and the higher general usage means the cost of being online will drop relative to its efficiency or return on investment. But the average business will need to begin to re-think where they spend money, allocating more to their web strategy and potentially less in areas like the Yellow Pages, print and traditional advertising.
The strategy not to eliminate any particular media, but to downsize them and point the action to the web. For instance smaller Yellow Pages ads can "push" prospects to a more comprehensive understanding of a businesses offerings on their website. The same applies to display ads. More post cards might be used instead of full mailers, where a specific concept is used to push interested parties to the specific page with an offer and link to the actual transaction.
Make no mistake, the average budget for successful websites will increase not decrease, but the effectiveness will increase as well. | lost interest following the stock market bust which some believe was lead by over rated Internet stocks. But no one told the users of the Internet. It has continually increased in almost every performance metric, from online users and purchases to the use of email and search.
In a recent USA Today interview of several of the Internet's most important creators and innovators, moderated by Kevin Maney, it is apparent that innovation is far from dead online—there is more to come.
The general tone agreed that this decade will be more exciting that the last with more voice applications, video programming and applications delivered online.
What does all this mean for the average small business website? Good news. The lower cost | 137 |
Individual tickets and passes for SCAD aTVfest 2019 go on sale 10 a.m., Friday, Feb. 1, 2019, online or by calling the SCADshow box office at 404.253.2740 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,<|fim_middle|> to save screenings to your favorites list. | Monday through Friday.
Day passes — access to all panels and screenings beginning before 5 p.m.
Tickets can be picked up at the SCADshow Box Office one hour prior to each performance or during normal box office business hours: Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Will call is located in the lobby of SCADshow.
No refunds or exchanges will be issued. Please see SCAD events terms and conditions and consumer disclosures.
SCADshow is wheelchair accessible. Specify need when you purchase your ticket.
For more than 20 years, the SCAD Savannah Film Festival has celebrated cinematic creativity from award-winning professionals and emerging student filmmakers. Each year, more than 50,000 people attend the eight-day festival to enjoy a variety of film screenings, workshops, panels and lectures.
SCADFILM festivals spotlight the hottest trends in entertainment all year long. Participants benefit from the experts, information and creative work covering television and digital media, augmented and virtual reality, animation, gaming and more.
For details on how to be a sponsor, contact Tish Campbell at [email protected].
Offering one of the most comprehensive arrays of art and design degree programs in the world, SCAD prepares talented students for professional, creative careers in thriving industries such as film and TV.
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SAFETYGas SafetySafety InitiativesPipeline InspectionHigh-Tech Gas Safety Tools
High-tech gas safety tools
Inspection robots
Building on our efforts to enhance pipeline safety throughout northern and central California, PG&E has been an industry leader in supporting investments in new technology—including inspection robots.
In 2014, PG&E tested and implemented a variety of gas pipeline inspection robots. One such inspection robot is a customized "smart pig," which travels inside transmission pipelines and captures detailed information about the inside of the pipe without any interruption to gas service. These smart pigs travel inside pipelines to identify dents, cracks and corrosion before they become a problem.
Smart pigs rely on GPS mapping data, magnetic sensors and other technology to record detailed information from inside the pipeline. They can find defects as well as measure the thickness of pipeline walls. And, if corrosion or any other signs of weakness are found, repair crews are able to reach the part of the pipeline that needs work with precision.
PG&E also began testing a miniature robot that will allow the visual inspection of natural gas pipelines for signs of corrosion without the need for disruptive construction digs. PG&E joined with NYSEARCH—a voluntary research organization representing several gas companies in North America—and Honeybee Robotics to develop the robot prototype.
This robot is designed to travel through tight, rounded vents to the space between the pipe and casing to record the condition of each covered segment. The integrated cameras will allow PG&E gas crews to visually examine the health of the external surface of the pipe, the condition of the protective casing, detect any liquids and determine whether there is undesired contact between the pipe and casing.
PG&E has added another tool in its toolbox as it continues its progress to improve the safety and reliability of its gas system. Called the Pipetel Explorer, the untethered robotic device allows crews to inspect pipelines that are not accessible to other in-line inspection devices. The battery-powered robot can travel through a gas pipeline to identify defects in pipe walls. This device can successfully<|fim_middle|> collect the gas and testing it a lab, a process that could take as long as a week.
PG&E's crews are now able to find 80 percent more leaks using this device, and the company is responding by accelerating repairs and increasing any necessary pipe replacement.
Currently, PG&E has six vehicles mounted with the Picarro Surveyor, with plans to add four more by the end of 2015. | identify, size and pinpoint dents, metal loss and other potential issues. It is 12 feet long, weighs 250 pounds and has cameras on each end.
Piccaro car
In recent years, PG&E has made significant progress in finding and fixing natural gas leaks on its 80,000-mile transmission and distribution gas system, including a 99 percent reduction in non-hazardous leaks in its backlog in 2013.
PG&E was the first utility in the country to test and deploy the industry's most sophisticated car-mounted leak detection system, which is 1,000 times more sensitive than traditional equipment. PG&E collaborated with the Silicon Valley-based Picarro scientists to refine the natural gas detection system.
The technology uses GPS to pinpoint even the most miniscule natural gas leak. Natural gas molecules are measured with a near-infrared laser. A high-precision wavelength monitor, meanwhile, ensures that only natural gas is being monitored, virtually eliminating the interference of other gases. Leaks are displayed on an iPad secured on the dashboard. If the system is in surveying mode, the information is automatically sent in real-time to Picarro's headquarters.
The technology also can tell in less than 10 minutes whether the gas being detected is natural gas or naturally occurring methane. Determining the exact type of gas using traditional leak-surveying would involve using a syringe to | 289 |
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