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Finish Line leverages IT auditing service to secure increase in cyber budget
Bradley Barth June 5, 2016
In the perennial corporate tug-of-war over budget, some information security executives are relying on independent security assessments to influence their C-level officers, board members and other financial decision-makers to increase funding for cybersecurity and compliance initiatives.
Among them is Cory Deeter, director of security and compliance at Finish Line. A speaker today at SC Congress Toronto, Deeter recounted his arrival at the Indianapolis-based shoe retailer in April 2014, only to determine that a major cybersecurity investment was necessary in order to achieve a defendable security posture. Deeter contracted PricewaterhouseCoopers as a third-party security auditor in hopes that the findings would not only substantiate his assessment but also convince his superiors to prioritize cybersecurity when allocating budget.
"Unfortunately, money is often times in short supply, and we as IT practitioners struggle somewhat in communicating to executive leadership in the finance area exactly why we need what we need," said Deeter at the conference.
Deeter, who has previous experience as an IT systems auditor, believes that Finish Line's assessment was successful due to the implementation of several key strategies that he shared with SC Congress attendees. Among his recommendations:
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Don't shortchange the assessment of your company by limiting it to just the industry your business is in. For instance, Finish Line didn't just compare its security readiness with the rest of the retail industry; it also had itself compared to other verticals and best-of-breed businesses. "You have to have broad knowledge across sectors," said Deeter. "Retail's a mess all over the place, so [looking only at retail is] not really moving the ball forward very much."
Involve your superiors (e.g. C-level executives, VPs, directors, etc.) in participate in, as well as refine, the security assessment process, and let them engage with the auditors even if some of their opinions might be harsh or misguided. "It made the business [side] feel like they were part of this initiative and they were part of this project," said Deeter.
Completing this assessment allowed Finish Line to create a long-term IT plan that properly balanced out financial limitations with imminent security needs. "We built out a three-year strategic plan and we socialized that with the board [of directors] and got everyone one the same page," said Deeter.
Bradley Barth
As director of community content at CyberRisk Alliance, Bradley Barth develops content for SC Media online conferences and events, as well as video/multimedia projects. For nearly six years, he wrote and reported for SC Media as deputy editor and, before that, senior reporter. He was previously a program executive with the tech-focused PR firm Voxus. Past journalistic experience includes stints as business editor at Executive Technology, a staff writer at New York Sportscene and a freelance journalist covering travel and entertainment. In his spare time, Bradley also writes screenplays.
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When finding cyber talent is difficult, end user organizations often turn to managed security providers to fill the void. But then where do MSSPs turn to hire infosec professionals? What are their top strategies for developing and optimizing talent? And for that matter, what makes a quality MSSP infosec pro to begin with? Who's built for this kind ...
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Q: Understanding locally sensitive hashing I recently studied about locally sensitive hashing an a follow explanation was given to me.
To produce a hash for a particular vector X with dimensions 5,
Draw 10 random vectors to form a plane and perform a dot product with the vector X.
In other words, a 10 x 5 matrix will be dot product with vector X.
The hash can be given as 1 if the result of each element in the resulting vector is positive else 0.
However, am i supposed to understand that these matrix can be considered a plane and how does it actually mean that if the dot product is negative/positive, it determines which side of the plane the vector is one?
Does the 10 random vectors form a subspace hence a plane?
Anyone can explain this? Thanks.
A: Let $p_1, p_2, \cdots, p_{10}$ be the random vectors. For each $p_i$, it defines a hyperplane whose normal vector is $p_i$; that is, the hyperplane partitions $\mathbb{R}^5$ into two parts, namely, $$\{v \in \mathbb{R}^5 \mid p_i^Tv > 0\}\quad \text{and}\quad\{v \in \<|fim_middle|> $10$ bits, each telling you on which side of a different hyperplane your vector is. If you have chosen your rows not to badly, then these hyperplanes chop you space into $2^{10}$ "chambers", and your hash code tells you in which of these chambers your vector$~X$ lies.
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Therefore, LSH function maps $x$ to $1$ if and only if
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x \in \bigcap_{i=1}^{10} \{v \in \mathbb{R}^5 \mid p_i^Tv > 0\}
$$
As you can see, it is actually not a hyperplane in general.
A: No, your vectors do not form a subspace.
I think the idea is to get a $10$-bit hash value from your $X$ by computing the $10$ bits independently, each one by looking at the sign of one particular nonzero linear form on your vector space. If $x_1,\ldots,x_5$ designate the coordinates of your vector space, a linear form is an expression of the form $ax_1+bx_2+cx_3+dx_4+ex_5$ for some constant scalars $a,b,c,d,e$, in other words if it the value obtained by applying a one-line matrix $\pmatrix{a&b&c&d&e}$ to your vector$~X$ (as a column vector). The value of that expression is a number, so to get a bit from it just only look whether the value is positive.
This linear form (if it is not entirely zero, which of course you will choose) takes the value $0$ on a hyperplane of your space, in other words on a $4$-dimensional subspace. The bit you obtained by applying the linear form tells you on which side of this hyperplane your vector lies (the linear form make one side "positive" and the other side "negative"; the point of the hyperplane itself are consider as"positive"). Now if you apply a matrix with $10$ rows, then you get | 400 |
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Fekvése
Losonctól 6 km-re keletre fekszik.
Élővilága
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Neves személyek
Gyermekkorát itt töltötte Szvorák Katalin világhírű, Kossuth-díjas magyar népdalénekesnő.
Nevezetességei
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Források
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Külső hivatkozások
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Vályi András szerint "PINCZ. Magyar falu Nógrád Vármegyében, földes Ura Pongrácz, és több Uraságok, lakosai katolikusok, fekszik Bolyknak szomszédságában, mellynek filiája, határja is hozzá hasonlító."
Fényes Elek szerint "Pincz, magyar falu, Nógrád vmegyében, egy szép térségen az Ipoly mellett: 549 kath., 15 evang. lak. Rétje sok, és jó; halászata hasznos; földje termékeny. F. u. Károly Ferencz, kinek uri lakhelye is van itten. Ut. p. Zelene."
A trianoni békeszerződésig Nógrád vármegye Losonci járásához tartozott. 1938 és 1945 között újra Magyarország része.
Népessége
1910-ben 429-en, túlnyomórészt magyarok lakták.
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Every Breakfast Counts bringing nutritious meals to kids this summer
Last year's pilot project raised more than $50,000 in donations, delivering nearly 1,800 meals in 2018
Jun 25, 2019 2:00 PM By: James Hopkin
Mike Delfre with United Way of Sault Ste. Marie and Algoma District, right, talks food insecurity while Sault Ste. Marie Mayor Christian Provenzano looks on during the launch of this year's Every Breakfast Counts campaign at the Harvest Algoma Food Security Resource Centre Tuesday. James Hopkin/SooToday
The Every Breakfast Counts program is back for another summer of providing food to local children in response to food insecurity issues in Sault Ste. Marie.
The program, which will see nutritious food distributed to kids in the city free of charge through social services programming, begins July 2 and will run for nine weeks.
"Food insecurity and poverty are significant issues, and they're issues in our community," said Mayor Christian Provenzano, who was instrumental in launching last year's pilot project. "There are a lot of children in our community that are dependent upon the food programs that the schools run. So they go to school, and they're able to be fed when they get to school."
"When the summer is here and they don't have school to go to, they're hungry - and that's a reality in our community, and we thought it was a problem that could be solved, and that we could solve together."
More than $50,000 was raised during last year's campaign through donations from the private sector and the public, helping Every Breakfast Counts to provide 1,779 meals over a seven-week period last summer.
Roughly $5,000 was used during that pilot project last summer, which has enabled Every Breakfast Counts to expand its footprint this year.
In addition to distributing food at social services hubs and the Greco and Manzo pools, the program will expand to include the mobile unit that will be employed in various 'hot spots' across the city by District of Sault Ste. Marie Social Services Administration Board (DSSMSSAB) and Child Care Algoma.
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The public can follow Every Breakfast Counts on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at @EBCSMM for up-to-date information on its programming.
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James Hopkin is a reporter for SooToday based in Sault Ste. Marie
Every Breakfast Counts surpasses fundraising target
Jun 28, 2018 8:30 PM | we needed to address - and a whole bunch of really great people came together to address it."
Mike Delfre, director of operations for food security with United Way Sault Ste. Marie and Algoma District, says that Every Breakfast Counts will be able to sustain itself for awhile due to the influx of cash contributions from the community.
"We'll use a little more this year because we've expanded the size of the program, but we're in good shape for a couple more years before we either have to go back to the community to look for additional, or we find other ways to fund the program," he said.
Produce will be housed at Harvest Algoma Food Resource Centre, with delivery of food to be carried out by the United Way's Harvest Algoma program.
Delfre credits the City of Sault Ste. Marie and partnerships with organizations like DSSMSSAB, Algoma Family Services, Child Care Algoma and EarlyON Child and Family Centre for coming together to address food insecurity among local children.
"When people work together you really make very good progress, and I think we're seeing that, because a year later we've almost doubled the access to food in the city and increase the number of players of the game," he said. "It's been really good traction in the program | 262 |
West Potomac Wolverines Look to the Future
Graduation ceremony speakers highlight opportunity.
West Potomac graduates Photo by Mike Salmon.
By Mike Salmon
The future is what's ahead for the graduates of West Potomac High School, and it was suggested more than once that they take advantage of opportunities, deal with setbacks and go for the brass ring in life.
These suggestions and more rang through the Eagle Bank Arena on the afternoon of June 6, and the 535 members of the graduating class threw
Photo by Mike Salmon
Hats go in the air at graduation
their mortarboards in the air and headed out as high school graduates.
Some are headed to college, others to the military or jobs, remembering their former life at West Potomac with smiles.
"We are not the same people that entered West Potomac four years ago," said Jacqueline Amacker, the senior class president. "We've got this, congratulations Class of 2019," she said.
Class speakers James Schroeder and Manuela Danso-Fordjour reiterated that feeling. "Explore what the world has to offer," said Schroeder. "You made it, not everyone does, but you did," added Danso-Fordjour.
The stage was full of school dignitaries, and a few elected officials such as Supervisor Dan Storck (D-Mount Vernon), state Sen. Scott Surrovel (D-36), and Del. Paul Krizek (D-44). The teacher of the year award went to history teacher Robert<|fim_middle|>23 Students
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Mount Vernon: West Potomac's Gallagher Commits to Fresno State | Kerr for his work addressing intolerance, and the student of the year went to Mary Ellen Bell.
"Right now in this moment, I'm the proudest principal in Fairfax County," said Principal Tanganyika Millard. "Once a wolverine, always a wolverine. Be strong and never give up."
The band rolled into the graduation favorite "Pomp and Circumstance," diplomas were handed out, the caps became airborne, and people gathered in the parking lot.
Mack Brown's son Savveon Pena went into the Reserve Officers Training Corp as a student, and it helped him out. "Very good education, my son, he's come a long way," Brown said.
Sofia Parkins was there to see her sister Isabel who specialized in architecture through the academy. "Helps them dive more into it," Sofia Parkins said of the academy classes.
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Walking the Derwent River
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From the Tasman Bridge to Hobart's old navy depot
Walking from Cornelian Bay towards the city of Hobart and under the Tasman Bridge was something I had not done for a few years. In the past I could see signs of homeless people using areas under the bridge but not this time. I had a sense that some sort of industrial bridge work was in progress and that the authorities would be around and about here frequently.
From the Tasman Bridge into the city I remained on the bike path where I was continually vigilant for cyclists riding fast and hard – to help them and to help myself, I stayed firmly to the left of the path so they could whip by.
I looked over Ross Bay and across the Derwent River to the shores of previously walked suburbs such as Montagu Bay and Rosny.
I looked down the river and could vaguely see the isthmus joining the South Arm peninsula to the mainland of Tasmania; an area where I walked during Stage 1 and 2 of my walk along the Derwent River.
I continued along the bike path heading towards the old navy depot near the Hobart Regatta Grounds.
I passed two large tug boats resting at their berths.
It did not seem to take a long time and much walking before I could look back and see the Tasman Bridge was growing considerably smaller again.
Uphill on my right, occasionally through the trees I could glimpse parts of the 19th century sandstone block Government House. Further information about the House can be read at http://www.govhouse.tas.gov.au/. The flag was flying high indicating the Governor was in residence.
Tasmania's new Governor is our first female Governor. Her Excellency Professor The Honourable Kate Warner AM, Governor of Tasmania was sworn into service on 9 December 2014.
At 3.55pm I had arrived at McVilly Drive which crossed my path. On the rise to my right, grandiose circus tents filled my view and I could hear a performance was underway with the booming voice of a ringmaster surrounded by pumping pop music.
I discovered a family of powerful Clydesdale horses corralled by electric wire fences and comfortably grazing on the lawns around the other side of the circus.
A different boom startled me. I realised a large ship somewhere close was blowing its 'trumpet'. I was close to the main Hobart port. A seaplane flew overhead presumably with a load of tourists enjoying the view.
I turned left at McVilly Drive and instead of walking down to the water where I could see there would be no further access southwards, I chose to walk to the right along the metal sleepers of the disused railway line behind a cluster of old white painted buildings, which had started their lives as a navy depot. Once past the back of the old buildings I walked downhill, watched a cluster of fishermen not yet catching any fish, and turned left and walked northwards along a road<|fim_middle|> continents
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Currently known as Huon Quays and located at 17 McVilly Drive, Hobart, you can refer to photographs at http://www.realcommercial.com.au/property-land+development-tas-hobart-501343663 and see that this set of old buildings could be sold for a hotel development. First built in 1914 as a naval depot, the building includes a 'Drill Hall' (major function centre) 'Club Huon' (19 rooms for backpackers), 'Commandants House' (residence, bar and lounge) plus offices, amenities block, store rooms and night quarters. Originally this was the home port for the navy ship HMAS Huon and the drill hall was constructed for navel cadets. According to http://www.soldierswalk.org.au/walk_domain.html, the site "served as an important training centre and home dock for a number of small naval vessels until the base was de-commissioned in 1994. The oldest remaining buildings date from 1912-13."
What I saw on my walk was:
I realise that with increased visitor numbers to Tasmania, accommodation can be difficult to find at times of festivals, special concerts and important sporting events, and that therefore Hobart needs more hotels. However the thought of this rather pretty building being demolished to make way for a less interesting building worries me. But perhaps the new owners might create something in keeping with the site's heritage. I will watch with interest. I left at 4.07pm to continue my walk.
This entry was posted in Derwent River, Hobart, Mount Wellington, Tasmania, Walking and tagged Bike path, Clydesdale horses, Commandants House, Derwent River, Drill Hall, Government House, Governor, Hobart port, Hobart Regatta Grounds, Huon Quays, Kate Warner, McVilly Drive, Montagu Bay, naval cadets, old navy depot, Rosny Point, Ross Bay, Tasman Bridge, Tasmania, tug boats on January 17, 2015 by Tasmanian traveller.
What did I see on the walk along the Derwent River from Rosny to the Tasman Bridge last Friday?
Previous posts have explained the route I walked and the bus services that supported my walk from Rosny Point to Geilston Bay last Friday. This and a further couple of posts will provide colour and texture to those bones.
Once off the bus around 9.20am, I walked through a light open forest of wattle, gum, casuarina and other trees and could see snippets of calm Kangaroo Bay to my left. The photo below looks across the Bay to Bellerive Bluff which was the official finish point of Stage 4 of the walk. The suburb of Tranmere with Droughty Hill above, appears in the misty distance (the location of Stage 3 of my walk).
The beautiful Bay seemed like murmuring silk. Almost no breeze. The whoosh of cars on distant roads seemed oddly out of time and place.
The Clarence Foreshore Trail passes the inaccessible Rosny Wastewater Treatment Plant on the left. From the Trail, occasionally rough gravel tracks led down making it possible to reach the water's edge and I could see Dominican Gulls on the rocks and the occasional Pied Cormorant. Around 15 minutes after leaving the bus I reached the Rosny Point curve where the land left Kangaroo Bay and moved around to edge the Derwent River. A few minutes later, a Trail sign indicated the Tasman Bridge was 1.7 kilometres further on. I was thankful for the Trail because the narrow rocky shore was strewn with sharp broken oyster shells; later on I watched a family of Pied Oyster Catchers preening and resting – obviously they had eaten their fill.
A few days ago I posted the story that the 'navy had come to town'. The photo below looks across the River from a place between Rosny Point and Montagu Bay and shows the grey green HMAS Arunta to the left of the orange Aurora Australis Antarctic icebreaker. Oh, and by the way, I discovered the Commander of this naval ship was once responsible for the HMAS Derwent.
Close to 10am, I reached the Derwent River corner of Montagu Bay. Harsh sounds filled the air; very vocal wattle birds and the growling of power brakes used by large trucks on the Tasman Bridge. From here, I had the choice to walk 200 metres up to the Rosny Hill Lookout. However, I continued on towards the heart of Montagu Bay past a clutter of upturned dinghies partly hidden in the bushes by the shore. By 10.05am, I was out of the forest and soon passing Langdon's Welding shop on the left with workers out repairing some boats. By the Trail, I noted a large nectarine tree filled with the start of new fruit and made a mental note to walk this way in December when the fruit should be ripe.
At Montagu Bay I was stopped by an elegant contemporary public sculpture (unknown artist) which I did not know existed. Well worth a visit. This was the Memorial to those who lost their lives when the Tasman Bridge crashed in 1975. Have a look at the photo below.
The idea is that you look through these circles to pin point the part of the bridge which collapsed. An information board provided additional information on this tragedy.
The view across the Derwent from Montagu Bay was magnificent.
Public Toilets are located near the Montagu Bay Reserve parkland area. This area is one of many that are child friendly with kids play equipment for free use.
300 metres along the Clarence Foreshore Trail after passing huge old pine trees, massive gums with fanciful 'painted' bark trunks, then the Montagu Bay Primary School on the right, I reached the Tasman Bridge which I walked beneath to continue towards Rose Bay. The time was 10.20am.
This entry was posted in Derwent River, Hobart, Mount Wellington, Walking and tagged Aurora Australis, Bellerive Bluff, Clarence Foreshore Trail, Dominican Gulls, Droughty Hill, HMAS Arunta, Kangaroo Bay, Montagu Bay, Montagu Bay Primary School, Montagu Bay Reserve, Pied Cormorant, Rosny Point, Tasman Bridge, Tranmere on October 13, 2014 by Tasmanian traveller.
Buses for walking the Derwent – Rosny to Geilston Bay and back to Rosny or Hobart
The website for Metro Tasmania is http://www.metrotas.com.au. When you get onto the bus you should ask for a DayRover bus fare so that you can get one ticket to be used on and off buses throughout the day.
Getting to Rosny Point
Only bus number 670 travels from Hobart city to Rosny Point but this only occurs late in the afternoon. Therefore, from the city centre bus mall in Elizabeth St, Hobart take any bus travelling to the Eastlands Shopping Centre bus mall, Rosny Park. Please be aware not every bus that travels over the Tasman Bridge to the eastern shore of the Derwent River comes through the Eastlands Shopping Centre bus mall, but most of them do. Consider buses numbered 605, 606, 608, 613, 614, 615, 620, 625, 638, 640, 642, 643, 644, 646, 648, 650, 652, 660, or 662. However, I recommend you always ask the driver for confirmation.
From the Eastlands Shopping Centre you have two choices to reach Rosny Point; bus number 670 (Rosny Park to Hobart City) or 675 (Rosny Park to Rosny Park Loop).
Once in the Rosny Point area, get off either at bus stop 20 or 21. Then take the road that travels down to the water from between these two bus stops. Continue walking along the road and eventually it clearly changes to the Clarence Foreshore Trail. This Trail is sometimes marked with a sign naming it. At other times the un-signposted bitumen or concrete pathway, with a broken white line marked down the length, indicates to walkers and cyclists to keep to the left hand side of the path. The Clarence Foreshore Trail continues along the Derwent River in various styles until Geilston Bay, and includes some road walking without the pathway. Along the way it is possible to stop the walk and access various buses.
Leaving from Montagu Bay if you wish
Both the 670 and 675 travel through the suburb of Montagu Bay so, having rounded the Rosny Point and arrived at Montagu Bay, it is possible to catch a bus either back to the Eastlands Shopping Centre, or to Hobart city.
Leaving from Rose Bay if you wish
Once you have left Montagu Bay and walked under the Tasman Bridge, you are in the area of Rose Bay. To access a bus you would need to walk along the Clarence Foreshore Trail for some distance (perhaps 20 minutes) then walk up and away from the Derwent River until you reached the East Derwent Highway which runs somewhat parallel to the River. To bus back to Hobart, you should cross this Highway and wait at a bus stop on that higher side.
Leaving from Lindisfarne if you wish
Continuing onto Lindisfarne and its Bay, four buses regularly pass along the East Derwent Highway. In addition, two buses travel down the main street of Lindisfarne's village (Lincoln St).
Departing from Geilston Bay
At Geilston Bay there are no buses at the wharf. Two choices: to walk up to Derwent Avenue through the suburban streets south of the Bay and find a bus stop along this road or, as I did, walk for 8 minutes to the East Derwent Highway along De Bomford Lane. Cross the road when you reach the Highway. Wait at bus stop 14 located left from De Bomford Lane on the Highway. If you do not cross the road you will end at the outer Greater Hobart Area suburb of Risdon Vale.
This entry was posted in Derwent River, Hobart, Walking and tagged Clarence Foreshore Trail, De Bomford Lane, East Derwent Highway, Eastlands Shopping Centre, Geilston Bay, Lindisfarne, Metro Tasmania, Montagu Bay, Risdon Vale, Rose Bay, Rosny, Rosny Point, Tasman Bridge on October 11, 2014 by Tasmanian traveller.
Walking the Derwent from Rosny Point to Geilston Bay – Stage 5 October 10th
A maximum temperature of 20 degrees but with a 70% chance of rain was Friday's weather forecast. However, I was so desperate to get out and walk another stage that I decided to brave whatever today would throw at me. I am delighted to record that only sunshine between partly clouded skies and the occasional warm breeze greeted me for the 4 and ¼ hours I was away from home.
First up, I was the only passenger to catch the 9.15am Metro bus number 675 to Rosny Point from the Eastlands Shopping Centre at Rosny (Note: this bus started at Eastlands and not from Hobart. Refer to my next posting to understand the range of bussing options for today's walk). Soon after passing Rosny College, the tennis courts and Bowling Club on the left in Bastick Street, I got off at bus stop number 21. I walked down Seabird Lane; this road angled down off Bastick Street between bus stops 20 and 21 and went along closer to the water of Kangaroo Bay. Seabird Lane leads into a continuing Clarence Foreshore Trail that passes along close to the River through the five suburbs: Rosny, Montagu Bay, Rose Bay, Lindisfarne and Geilston Bay. Later postings will detail how the quality of this path changes from one where a person in a wheelchair could comfortably navigate the Trail to other sections where a mountain bike would be more useful. I will also provide information about the challenges of lack of directions on and off the Trail from time to time.
Walking Time
The walking time between the point of Rosny Point and the point where the Derwent River meets the entrance to Geilston Bay is approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes. However, if you decide to take this walk, then in order to get to the starting point by bus from Eastlands and leave the Geilston Bay area by bus, the total walking time will be around 3 and ½ hours.
Walking distance
Today I walked approximately 12 kilometres, but this distance covered only 3.5 kms of the River length. Previously I had covered 19.5 kms of the length. Now I have achieved a total of 23 kms of the Derwent River.
Favourite photo
The photo below is my favourite from today's walk. I clicked it while sitting eating my lunch on the wharf at Geilston Bay. The water reflections on the bow of the yachts on the left were sparkling, and the blue mountain provided a rich and colourful contrast in the background. Experiencing Geilston Bay for the first time was a treat. The starting point for Stage 6 of my walk along the Derwent River will begin here, so I look forward to seeing the place in the early morning light next time.
This entry was posted in Derwent River, Hobart, Mount Wellington, Walking and tagged Bastick Street, Derwent River, Eastlands Shopping Centre, Geilston Bay, Lindisfarne, Metro bus, Montagu Bay, Mount Wellington, Rose Bay, Rosny, Rosny College, Rosny Point, Seabird Lane on October 10, 2014 by Tasmanian traveller.
The five suburbs to be walked through in Stage 5 of my walk along the Derwent River
From Rosny Point to Geilston Bay, I will walk as close to the edge of the Derwent River as possible.
In so doing I will pass through five suburbs: Rosny, Montagu Bay, Rose Bay, Lindisfarne and Geilston Bay. Most were settled early in the existence of Hobart Town. In 1793, Lieutenant Hayes sailed up the River naming it and many points of interest. It was only a decade later the first settlement was made and in 1804 the final site for Hobart was established on the western shore opposite Bellerive and Rosny. Possibly Geilston Bay was named in the 1810s, Rosny in the 1820s, Montagu Bay in the late 1820s. Lindisfarne was named a century after the first settlement in 1903.
The starting point for the 5th Stage of my walk along the eastern shore of the Derwent River will be Rosny Point. The suburb of Rosny, within the City of Clarence, is located on a narrow peninsula which juts out from the eastern shore at Rosny Point and climbs the rising slopes of Rosny Hill to the public Rosny Point Lookout.
According to one of my favourite information sources Wikipedia, Rosny was named by Walter Angus Bethune, the holder of the original grant of land on Rosny Point, after his ancestor the Duc de Maximilien de Bethune Sully of Rosny-sur-Seine (a town situated slightly north west of Paris in France). Bethune, a Scottish merchant, first arrived in Van Diemen's Land in 1820 and was a significant player in the early development of Hobart and sheep farming. His descendants have played important roles in Tasmanian history.
Chateau de Rosny was painted by French artist Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot in 1840
Montagu Bay
This suburb was named after 'mad' judge Algernon Montagu, who in the early 19th century lived in Hobart Town before purchasing a property 'Rosny' in the Montagu Bay area of the eastern shore of the Derwent River. This small suburb sits on the river edge next to Rosny Point/Rosny and contains the Clarence Aquatic Centre and Montagu Bay Primary School. The Tasman Highway travels over a northern corner section of this suburb, leading to the Tasman Bridge which links the eastern Shore to Hobart and beyond on the western shore.
The suburb of Rose Bay sits on the river edge next to Montagu Bay.
Rose Bay High School has a permanent camera facing across the Tasman Bridge over the Derwent River towards the centre of Hobart and with the back drop of Mount Wellington. Normally the site operates 24 hours of the day and night. The site is located at http://ozforecast.com.au/cgi-bin/weatherstation.cgi?station=11233&animate=6. Currently the site is being rebuilt, however I recommend you follow the progress and when re-established, save the site as a Favourite. Then you can see what the weather is like over Hobart and how gorgeous it can be to look at regardless of the weather in daylight and with the city lights sparkling at night.
While the exact origins of naming our Lindisfarne suburb remain unclear, the main thought is that from 1892 the suburb was known as Beltana. Then it was renamed Lindisfarne in 1903 after Lindisfarne a tidal Island (Holy Island) in Northumberland, a region in the far north east of England. The easternmost part of the middle of the suburb, where the Beltana Bowls Club and the Beltana Hotel are located, is still locally known as Beltana.
It has been suggested this suburb took its name from Lindisferne House, a property built in the 1820s near the suburb of Rosny. From the Clarence City Council website at http://www.ccc.tas.gov.au/page.aspx?u=1601 "Lindisfarne is thought to have been named by Hezekiah Harrison, a free settler, who was granted land in the area in 1823. Harrison had lived just a few miles from Lindisfarne Island, on the Northumbrian coast. Known as the 'Holy Island', Lindisfarne was the base from which St Aidan worked to spread the Christian faith through the north of England in the eighth century AD. However, it is unclear whether the area was named by Harrison or the next owner, Thomas George Gregson, a prominent free settler who purchased much of the land between Risdon and Rosny. Gregson grew up in Lowlynn, very close to Lindisfarne Island in England."
Geilston Bay
Apparently the inlet of Geilston Bay was named after Colonel Andrew Geils who was appointed Commander of the settlement of Hobart in 1812. Colonel Geils lived on a property in Geilston Bay which he called 'Geilston Park'.
This entry was posted in Derwent River, Hobart, Mount Wellington, Walking and tagged Algernon Montagu, Beltana, Chateau de Rosny, Clarence Aquatic Centre, Colonel Andrew Geils, Corot, Duc de Maximilien de Bethune Sully, England, Geilston Bay, Hezekiah Harrison, Hobart, Holy Island, Lindisfarne, Lowlynn, Montagu Bay, Montagu Bay Primary School, Mount Wellington, Northumberland, Rose Bay, Rose Bay High School, Rosny, Rosny Point, Rosny-sur-Seine, St Aidan, Tasman Bridge, Thomas George Gregson, Van Diemen's Land, Walter Angus Bethune on October 7, 2014 by Tasmanian traveller.
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El McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II es un avión de ataque a tierra con capacidad de despegue y aterrizaje vertical y/o corto. Es un desarrollo conjunto de las compañías British Aerospace y McDonnell Douglas, basado en el modelo Hawker Siddeley Harrier. Se trata de la última aeronave de la saga de aviones Harrier, que se inició con el desarrollo del Hawker Siddeley P.1127 a comienzos de los años 1960. El AV-8B se emplea principalmente para misiones de ataque ligero o como caza polivalente, siendo operado habitualmente desde pequeños portaaviones, buques de asalto anfibio grandes y desde bases operativas avanzadas.
Aunque el AV-8B Harrier II comparte la designación con el anterior AV-8A/C Harrier, fue rediseñado casi por completo por la compañía estadounidense McDonnell Douglas a partir del Harrier GR.1A / AV-8A/C de la primera generación. British Aerospace se unió al proyecto del Harrier mejorado a principios de los años 1980, y a partir de los años 1990 el proyecto fue gestionado por Boeing y BAE Systems después de la integración de los fabricantes originales en estas compañías.
El AV-8B lo utiliza el Cuerpo de Marines de los Estados Unidos, siendo exportado para la Armada Española y la Marina Militare italiana. Del Harrier II se llegaron a desarrollar también las versiones británicas BAE Harrier II, que fueron empleadas Real Fuerza Aérea Británica y la Marina Real Británica.
Los AV-8B han participado en numerosas operaciones y conflictos, ofreciendo apoyo aéreo cercano a las tropas terrestres y realizando reconocimiento aéreo. Los Harrier II estadounidenses participaron en la Guerra del Golfo (1990-1991) y el subsiguiente patrullaje de las zonas de exclusión aérea en Irak; en el bombardeo de la OTAN sobre Yugoslavia de 1999, marginalmente en la Guerra de Afganistán (a partir de 2001), en la invasión de Irak de 2003 y en la intervención militar en Libia de 2011. Los Harrier II italianos y españoles también han participado en misiones en el exterior, en coalición con las fuerzas de la OTAN. Tanto los Estados Unidos como Italia tienen previsto sustituir sus AV-8B en el futuro por el Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II.
Desarrollo
Origen del programa
El Harrier II es un ejemplo de cooperación en materia militar entre británicos y estadounidenses durante la Guerra Fría. A finales de los años 1960 y principios de los años 1970, coincidiendo con la entrada en servicio de la primera generación del Harrier con la Royal Air Force (RAF) y el Cuerpo de Marines de los Estados Unidos (USMC), se percibió que estas aeronaves carecían del suficiente radio de combate y capacidad de carga. El AV-8A, denominación por la que se conocía a los Hawker Siddeley Harrier en los Estados Unidos, en configuración de vuelo vertical, tan solo disponía de menos de la mitad de la capacidad de carga que el Douglas A-4 Skyhawk, además de disponer de un radio de acción inferior comparado a esta aeronave de menor tamaño que el Harrier. Para resolver este problema, en 1973 Hawker Siddeley y McDonnell Douglas empezaron a desarrollar conjuntamente una versión del Harrier con mejores prestaciones. Los primeros trabajos se centraron en la mejora del motor Pegasus, denominado Pegasus 15, que estaba siendo desarrollado por la compañía Bristol Siddeley. El motor disponía de más potencia, pero su diámetro era mayor que en las versiones del AV-8A, lo que lo hacía demasiado grande para poder ser instalado en la primera generación del Harrier.
El equipo formado por británicos y estadounidenses completaron en diciembre de 1973 el informe que definía el futuro "Harrier Avanzado" equipado con el motor Pegasus 15. Estaba previsto que el "Harrier Avanzado" sustituyese a los Harrier de primera generación en la RAF y el USMC, así como a los A-4 Skyhawk. Este nuevo modelo tenía como meta duplicar la capacidad de carga y de radio de acción del AV-8A, siendo denominado desde un principio como "AV-16" de modo no oficial. El gobierno británico se retiró del proyecto en marzo de 1975, debido al recorte del gasto en materia de defensa, el incremento de costes del programa, y de que el requerimiento de la RAF era tan sólo de 60 aeronaves. Los Estados Unidos no deseaban financiar el desarrollo en solitario, finalizando el proyecto del "AV-16" a finales de ese mismo año.
Las dos compañías tomaron caminos diferentes en desarrollo del la nueva generación del Harrier. Hawker Siddeley se centró en el desarrollo de un ala de mayor tamaño, que pudiese ser instalada en las aeronaves existentes, mientras que McDonnell Douglas llevó a cabo un proyecto de desarrollo menos ambicioso que el AV-16, para satisfacer las necesidades de las fuerzas armadas de los Estados Unidos. Empleando los conocimientos adquiridos del estudio del AV-16, aunque dejando por el camino algunas mejoras previstas en el mismo, McDonnell Douglas utilizó la estructura básica y el motor para una versión diseñada específicamente para el USMC. Este desarrollo del Harrier II recibió el visto bueno por parte del Departamento de Defensa de los Estados Unidos (DoD) en el año 1976.
Desarrollo
En el año 1981, el Departamento de Defensa de los Estados Unidos (DoD) incluyó al Harrier II dentro del presupuesto anual y del plan quinquenal de defensa, a pesar de que el propio DoD y la Armada de los Estados Unidos (USN) intentaron dar por finalizado el programa entre los años 1978 y 1980. La Armada declinó participar en el programa de adquisición, alegando que el Harrier II ofrecía un radio de combate y una capacidad de carga menor a otras aeronaves convencionales. En cambio, el Cuerpo de Marines de los Estados Unidos siguió adelante, con la previsión de incorporar un total de 336 unidades.
En agosto del año 1981, el programa recibió un impulso significativo, cuando los fabricantes aeronáuticos British Aerospace (BAe) y McDonnell Douglas firmaron un memorándum de entendimiento, que significaba el reingreso del Reino Unido en el programa de desarrollo. Bajo este memorándum, BAe quedó relegada a una posición de subcontratista, en lugar de la condición de socio de pleno derecho, posición en la que se hubiese encontrado de no haber sido el caso de abandono previo del programa. En consecuencia, la compañía tan solo recibió, en horas de trabajo, un 40 por ciento del trabajo en el fuselaje de la aeronave. El ensamblaje final de los Harrier II se realizarían en las instalaciones de McDonnell Douglas situadas en San Luis, Misuri, mientras que las aeronaves fabricadas para el Reino Unidos, se finalizarían en las instalaciones de BAe localizadas en Kingston y Dunsfold, en Surrey, Inglaterra. Mientras tanto, el 75 por ciento de carga de trabajo de la planta motriz fue asumida por Rolls-Royce mientras que el 25 por ciento restante fue para Pratt & Whitney. Rolls-Royce había absorbido previamente Bristol Siddeley, el fabricante del motor Pegasus, que monta el AV-8B.
La Armada de los EE. UU., que tradicionalmente adquiría los aviones militares que eran operados por los Marines, insistió en que el nuevo diseño debía ser verificado mediante pruebas de vuelo. Para ello, el fabricante McDonnell Douglas modificó dos AV-8A con nuevas alas, tomas de aire modificadas, toberas rediseñadas y otras mejoras aerodinámicas, mientras que la sección delantera del fuselaje así como la cabina no sufrieron modificaciones en estos dos prototipos. Estas aeronaves fueron denominadas con la designación YAV-8B; el primero de los prototipos realizó su primer vuelo el 9 de noviembre de 1978, seguido por el segundo prototipo el 19 de febrero de 1979. Estas aeronaves fueron empleadas en diversas pruebas durante los años 1978 y 1979. Estas pruebas mostraron que el Harrier II mostraba una mayor fricción a la inicialmente prevista, lo que perjudicaba a la velocidad de la aeronave. A raíz de esto se implantaron diversas mejoras aerodinámicas, que produjeron mejoras poco significativas. Sin embargo, el Harrier II mostró resultados positivos en otras áreas, entre las que se incluía la carga útil, el alcance y el rendimiento en despegue y aterrizaje, lo cual condujo en 1979 a la adjudicación de un contrato de desarrollo, que constaba de 12 aviones en un primer lote, seguidos de 324 a mayores a incorporar a posteriori.
Tras la firma de este contrato, se procedió a la construcción de 4 aeronaves de desarrollo a escala real. La primera de estas aeronaves (BuNo 161396), que se empleó principalmente para realizar pruebas de rendimiento y de cualidades de vuelo, realizó su primer vuelo el 5 de noviembre de 1981. El segundo y tercer ejemplar de desarrollo, en los que se les instalaron las extensión del borde de ataque (LERX) para satisfacer las necesidades Royal Air Force, así como se realizaron modificaciones a las tomas de admisión de aire de motor, volaron por primera vez en abril del año siguiente, mientras que la cuarta aeronave lo hizo en enero de 1984. El primero de los AV-8B del lote de producción se entregó al escuadrón de entrenamiento VMAT-203 de los Marines situado en la Base Aeronaval de Cherry Point (MCAS Cherry Point) el 12 de diciembre de 1983, siendo entregado de modo oficial un mes más tarde. El último de los 12 ejemplares del lote inicial se entregó en enero de 1985 al escuadrón VMA-331. El motor empleado en estas primeras aeronaves era el F402-RR-404A, de 21 450 lb (95,4 kN) de empuje; mientras que las aeronaves entregadas de 1990 en adelante recibieron una planta motriz mejorada de mayor potencia.
Desarrollos posteriores
Durante el curso inicial de entrenamiento de pilotos, se hizo evidente que los AV-8B tenían características de vuelo diferentes a los AV-8A, y que la instalación de aviónica digital en lugar de los sistemas analógicos empleados en el TAV-8A también requería de nuevos métodos de formación. Como consecuencia de esto, en el año 1984, el presupuesto para ocho de los AV-8B se desvió para el desarrollo de una versión de entrenamiento biplaza, denominada TAV-8B. El primero de los 28 TAV-8B que fueron comprados por el USMC realizó su primer vuelo el 21 de octubre de 1986. Esta aeronave se entregó al escuadrón VMAT-203 el 24 de julio de 1987. El TAV-8B sería una versión que posteriormente también encargarían España e Italia.
En 1985, McDonnell Douglas comenzó a trabajar en una variante de ataque nocturno del Harrier II.. La empresa y BAe había alentado para continuar el desarrollo para su exportación, tras el interés mostrado por parte de Brasil, Japón e Italia. El USMC realizó un pedido por 66 AV-8B(NA). La 87ª unidad del AV-8B se convirtió en el primer Harrier II en ser modificado con el equipo parade ataque nocturno, y salió de la línea de producción del McDonnell Douglas en junio de 1987. Las pruebas de vuelo fueron un éxito y la capacidad de ataque validándose su capacidad de ataque nocturno. En septiembre de 1989, los primeros AV-8B (NA) se entregaron a la Infantería de Marina. Se desarrolló una versión equivalente a los AV-8B(NA) para la Royal Air Force bajo la denominación GR Mk.7, siendo posteriormente actualizados todos los GR Mk.5 al estándar GR.Mk.7.
En junio de 1987, BAe, McDonnell Douglas y Smiths Industries firmaron un memorando de entendimiento para el desarrollo de lo que iba a convertirse en el AV-8B Plus. Este memorando fue aprobado por el Cuerpo de Marines de los Estados Unidos, y, después de mucha consideración, las Armadas de guerra española e italiana desarrollaron un requisito común para equiparse con una flota de Harrier con capacidad de defensa aérea. Los Estados Unidos, España e Italia firmaron un memorando de entendimiento en septiembre de 1990 para definir las responsabilidades de cada uno de los tres países y establecer un organismo conjunto para la administración del programa. El 30 de noviembre de 1990, la Armada de EE. UU., actuando como agente de los tres países participantes, seleccionó a McDonnell Douglas como la contratista principal para desarrollar la variante Harrier Plus. A este anuncio también se le uniría un pedido por parte del USMC en diciembre de 1990, que incluyó 30 nuevos aviones, así como la reconstrucción de 72 de los aparatos existentes. Los italianos realizaron un pedido por 16 Harrier II Plus y dos unidades biplaza TAV-8B, mientras que los españoles firmaron un contrato por ocho aviones. La construcción de los AV-8B Harrier II Plus se llevaría a cabo, además de en la planta de McDonnell Douglas, en las instalaciones de CASA en Sevilla, y en la planta de producción de Alenia en Turín.
La producción de la variante Plus se autorizó el 3 de junio de 1992, llevándose a cabo el primer vuelo del prototipo el 22 de septiembre del mismo año, marcando el inicio de del programa de vuelos de prueba. El primer avión de fabricación en serie voló por primera vez el 17 de marzo de 1993. Entre 1993 y 1995 se entregaron estas nuevas aeronaves directamente desde la línea de producción. Al mismo tiempo, se procedió a la conversión de los AV-8B existentes a la versión Plus. El 11 de marzo de 1994, la Junta de Adquisiciones de Defensa aprobó el programa, el cual inicialmente tenía previsto modificar 70 aeronaves, empezando las modificaciones en 4 de ellas durante el transcurso del año 1994. Este programa tenía como objetivo la instalación de nuevos componentes con piezas ya existentes, para construir los Harrier a un coste menor que una aeronave de nueva construcción. Estas conversiones se iniciaron en abril de 1994, entregándose la primera de estas aeronaves a la Infantería de Marina de los Estados Unidos en enero de 1996.
A pesar de las aparentes ventajas del programa, en marzo de 1996, la General Accounting Office declaró que era financieramente más sensato a comprar los Harrier II Plus nuevos bajo un programa de adquisiciones, en vez de reacondicionar los AV-8B existentes. Mientras que la Armada de los Estados Unidos estimó que el costo unitario de reacondicionamiento de cada aeronave estaría en torno los 23 a 30 millones de dólares, en lugar de 30 millones para cada aeronave de nueva construcción, la GAO estimaba que el costo de cada aparato nuevo se situaría en los 24 millones de dólares. Sin embargo, el programa siguió su curso, entregándose en el año 2003 la 72ª y última unidad de AV-8B reacondicionada a la Infantería de Marina. España también participó en el programa, recibiendo su último avión restaurado en diciembre de 2003.
Entre los años 1969 y 2003, se llegaron a fabricar un total de 824 Harrier dentro de las diferentes variantes. Aunque la fabricación de aparatos de nueva construcción terminó en el año 1997, no fue hasta el año 2003 cuando se entregó la última aeronave reacondicionada a la versión Harrier II Plus a España, lo que marcó el fin de la producción del Harrier. En 2001, la revista especializada Flight International informó que Taiwán podría optar por el Harrier como aeronave que cumpliese con sus necesidades STOVL, siendo equipado con el radar APG-66 del F-16 Fighting Falcon, lo que podría haber permitido prolongar la producción de esta aeronave hasta el año 2005. A pesar de que se ofreció la posibilidad de alquilar los AV-8B, el interés de Taiwán por el Harrier se desvaneció cuando el país cambió su preferencia por el F-35.
Diseño
El AV-8B Harrier II es un avión de ataque subsónico. Cuenta con un motor turbofán Rolls-Royce Pegasus con dos entradas de admisión de aire y cuatro toberas orientables de salidas de gases que se pueden mover de forma sincronizada para conseguir el empuje vectorial. Las toberas están ubicadas en los laterales del avión —las delanteras son de aire frío y las traseras de aire caliente— y situadas muy cerca de la turbina, a diferencia de la mayoría de los aviones de reacción, que tienen las toberas en la parte trasera del avión. El Harrier II también dispone de unas salidas de aire más pequeñas y controladas por válvulas en el morro, en la cola y las puntas alares para un mejor control de la aeronave a bajas velocidades.
El tren de aterrizaje está formado por una doble rueda central y una rueda delantera en el fuselaje como tren principal y dos ruedas secundarias en las alas.
Está equipado con seis puntos de anclaje en las alas y tres en el fuselaje para portar un cañón GAU-12 Equalizer de 25 mm, otras armas que incluyen misiles, bombas y cohetes, y tanques de combustible externos. La capacidad de carga de armamento casi duplica la del AV-8A.
La cabina de pilotaje fue rediseñada respecto al AV-8A. El sistema de pilotaje se hizo digital, reemplazando el sistema mecánico del AV-8A, muy difícil de controlar y causa de gran número de accidentes. Los sistemas de ataque y guerra electrónica se modernizan: sistema Hughes AN/ASB-19, contramedidas AN/ALE-39, posibilidad de empleo de contenedor de contramedidas electrónicas AN/ALQ-126C. Empleo de sonda rígida de reabastecimiento en vuelo, montada en el lado izquierdo del fuselaje.
Evolución
El diseño fue mejorado poco a poco, así en 1987 voló el primer AV-8B Night Attack. El Night Attack entró en servicio en septiembre de 1989, transformándose 61 ejemplares de AV-8B de los Marines.
Otra mejora sustancial se realiza en 1992, con el AV-8B Harrier II Plus, un Night Attack equipado con radar multifunción AN/APG-65 (el mismo que emplea el F/A-18 Hornet). El USMC compró 27 AV-8B Harrier II Plus nuevos y convirtió 74 de otras versiones. Italia y España también, dotando a sus pequeños portaaviones de un componente aéreo muy capaz y potente.
Componentes del AV-8B Harrier II Plus
Electrónica
Historia operacional
Existen varias versiones del Harrier II utilizadas por cuatro países. Los Harrier II AV-8B+ españoles e italianos, a diferencia de los de los Marines, pueden utilizar el misil guiado por radar AIM-120 AMRAAM.
Estados Unidos
Antes de la entrega de los AV-8B al Cuerpo de Marines de los Estados Unidos, se realizaron varias evaluaciones con el fin de preparar la aeronave. En la evaluación operativa (OPEVAL), que tuvo lugar desde el 31 de agosto de 1984 hasta el 30 de marzo de 1985, cuatro pilotos y un grupo de personal de mantenimiento y apoyo realizaron maniobras en las que pusieron a la aeronave en condiciones de combate. El avión se puso a prueba para evaluar su capacidad para cumplir con los requisitos operativos, en cuanto a la navegación, adquisición de objetivos, lanzamiento de armas y acciones de evasión y supervivencia a ataques enemigos, dentro de todos los posibles perfiles de misión y de capacidad de carga. La primera fase de la OPEVAL, que duró hasta el 1 de febrero de 1985, exigía que los AV-8B para volar misiones de apoyo aéreo tanto cercano como de larga distancia, en compañía de otras aeronaves de apoyo aéreo cercano, en misiones de interdicción aérea y de reconocimiento aéreo. Para la realización de estas misiones, los AV-8B se trasladaron a la Base del Cuerpo de Marines de Camp Pendleton, a la Base Aeronaval de China Lake, a la Base Aérea de Cold Lake y a la Base Aérea de Yuma. La segunda fase evaluativa se realizó en la Base Aérea de Yuma del 25 de febrero al 8 de marzo, en la que el AV-8B se empleó en misiones de escolta, de patrulla aérea de combate y misiones de intercepción. La evaluación identificó algunos puntos débiles en el diseño que posteriormente fueron rectificados, aunque no obstante, la evaluación OPEVAL resultó ser exitosa. El AV-8B Harrier II logró obtener su capacidad operativa inicial (IOC) en agosto de 1985 con el escuadrón VMA-331 del Cuerpo de Marines de los Estados Unidos.
El AV-8B entró en acción durante la Guerra del Golfo en los años 1990 y 1991. Durante los<|fim_middle|> peso máximo al despegue excediese los 1 500 kilogramos. Después de una larga evaluación de los modelos Sea Harrier y AV-8B, se procedió a realizar un pedido por dos unidades del TAV-8B en mayo de 1989, al cual se le añadió posteriormente otro pedido por 16 unidades del AV-8B Plus. Exceptuando los TAV-8B y los tres primeros AV-8B, todos los demás Harriers italianos se ensamblaron en las instalaciones del fabricante aeronáutico Alenia Aeronautica a partir de piezas procedentes de los Estados Unidos. Los biplazas fueron las primeras unidades en llegar a Grottaglie en el año 1991. Se emplearon para realizar vuelos de prueba en los portahelicópteros de la armada y en el portaaviones Giuseppe Garibaldi (C 551).
Las entregas de las aeronaves fabricadas en los Estados Unidos comenzaron a comienzos del año 1994, siendo desplegados inicialmente en la Base Aérea de Cherry Point para el entrenamiento de las tripulaciones italianas. En el año 1995 se presentó el primero de los Harrier ensamblados en Italia. A mediados de enero de ese mismo año, el Giuseppe Garibaldi partió desde Tarento hacia Somalia, con tres Harriers a bordo, con la finalidad de cooperar en el mantenimiento de la estabilidad del país, tras la retirada del las tropas de Naciones Unidas. Los Harrier, pilotados por cinco pilotos italianos, realizaron más de 100 horas de vuelo, alcanzando el 100% de disponibilidad durante los 3 meses que permanecieron como parte del contingente, realizando misiones de reconocimiento aéreo y otros roles. Este escuadrón retornó a puerto el 22 de marzo de 1995.
En el año 2000, la Armada de Italia intentó adquirir siete aeronaves procedentes de los excedentes de los Estados Unidos, para incorporarse a la flota del Giuseppe Garibaldi y de un nuevo portaaviones que se estaba construyendo, el Cavour. Mientras tanto, las aeronaves que ya formaban parte de la flota fueron sometidas a un proceso de actualización que les permitiese utilizar el misil AIM-120 AMRAAM y las bombas de precisión JDAM.
Los Harrier italianos participaron desde el Giussepe Garibaldi, como parte de las operaciones de la intervención militar en Libia de 2011. Los Harrier realizaron misiones de reconocimiento sobre el territorio libio, empleando contenedores de búsqueda de blancos Litening, equipados asimismo con misiles AIM-120 AMRAAM y AIM-9 Sidewinder para hacer frente al bloqueo aéreo del citado país. Está previsto que los AV-8B de la Marina Militare sean reemplazados por un total de 15 F-35B, la versión de despegue vertical del F-35 Lightning II, operando desde el portaaviones Cavour.
Variantes
AV-8B Harrier II
Los primeros AV-8B Harrier II fueron conocidos comúnmente como la variante de ataque diurno y no permanecen en servicio. La mayoría fueron actualizados a la versión Harrier II Plus o variante de ataque nocturno (Night Attack Harrier) que se sigue utilizando aunque también empieza a ser retirada. Se fabricaron 174 unidades, de las que 72 se convirtieron posteriormente en Harrier II Plus.
La variante de ataque nocturno o Night Attack Harrier apareció en 1991 y estaba equipado con una cámara de infrarrojos de búsqueda frontal (NAVFLIR). La cabina también había sido actualizada, incluyendo la capacidad de utilizar gafas de visión nocturna. Además se equipó con un nuevo motor Rolls-Royce Pegasus II más potente. Se fabricaron 61 unidades.
El Harrier II Plus (AV-8B+) es muy similar a la variante de ataque nocturno, con el añadido de un radar APG-65 (el mismo utilizado por los primeros F/A-18 Hornet) y un morro alargado y la capacidad de utilizar misiles avanzados como los AIM-120 AMRAAM. Son utilizados por España (12 unidades), Estados Unidos (142 unidades) e Italia (16 unidades).
AV-8C Harrier
Una versión actualizada desarrollada a partir del modelo AV-8A mientras se realizaba la entrega del AV-8B. Su estructura no está basada en el AV-8B.
TAV-8B Harrier II
Variante de entrenamiento biplaza. Se fabricaron 22 unidades.
EAV-8B Matador II
Versión especial para la Armada de España. Se fabricaron 12 unidades. Posteriormente se remanufacturaron 5 de estos aviones AV-8B Harrier II para convertirlos a la nueva versión Plus, y se compraron 8 unidades adicionales del nuevo modelo AV-8B Plus. Todos estos aviones se encuentran en la 9ª escuadrilla de la Flotilla de Aeronaves, junto a los 4 restantes AV-8B; basados en la Base Aeronaval de Rota. Actualmente se dispone de 12 EAV-8 Bravo Plus, 4 EAV-8B "Cobras" y un TAV-8B (biplaza de entrenamiento).
El 22 de diciembre de 2006, el Consejo de Ministros aprobó la conversión a la versión Plus de los 4 EAV-8B restantes que aún no habían sido actualizados, pero ésta no se llevó finalmente a cabo al darse de baja el portaaviones Príncipe de Asturias y entenderse las 12 unidades suficientes para el LHD Juan Carlos I.
Variantes británicas
Harrier GR5
Harrier GR5A
Harrier GR7
Harrier GR7A
Harrier GR9
Harrier G9A
Harrier T10
Harrier T12
Operadores
Armada Española. 13 (12 EAV-8B+ y 1 TAV-8B en servicio en diciembre de 2010).
9ª Escuadrilla
Cuerpo de Marines de Estados Unidos. 142 (126 AV-8B+ y 16 TAV-8B en servicio en diciembre de 2010) en los siguientes escuadrones:
VMA-211
VMA-214
VMA-223
VMA-231
VMA-311
VMA-513
VMA-542
VMAT-203
Marina Militare. 16 (14 AV-8B+ y 2 TAV-8B en servicio en diciembre de 2010).
Gruppo Aerei Imbarcati "The Wolves"
Especificaciones (AV-8B+ Harrier II Plus)
Coste
La Armada de Estados Unidos gastó unos 9.000 millones de dólares en comprar y modificar los Harriers originales más unos 4.100 millones adicionales en operarlos y repararlos entre 1986 y 2002. La reconstrucción de cada uno de los 74 AV-8B costó 28,2 millones por aparato. La inversión total en cada avión hasta 2002 se cifraba en más de 50 millones de dólares.
El presupuesto inicial del programa Harrier estadounidense era de 6500 millones de dólares. El sobrecoste final del AV-8B generó fricciones entre el cuerpo de Marines y el resto de la armada de Estados Unidos.
Véase también
Notas
Referencias
Bibliografía
Enlaces externos
AV-8B Harrier II en la web de Boeing.
AV-8B Harrier II en Naval Historical Center (en inglés).
AV-8B Harrier en Federation of American Scientists (en inglés).
AV-8B Plus.
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Aeronaves de ala alta
Aviones embarcados
Aeronaves V/STOL por empuje vectorizado
Aviones monomotores a reacción
Aviones de ataque de los años 1970 de Estados Unidos
Cazas a reacción de cuarta generación
Harrier Jump Jet | preparativos a la contienda, los Harrier II estuvieron basados en los buques de asalto anfibio USS Nassau y USS Tarawa, así como en bases en tierra firme, realizando salidas de entrenamiento junto con otras aeronaves de la coalición internacional. Los AV-8B permanecieron en la reserva durante la fase inicial del asalto aéreo de la conocida como Operación Tormenta del Desierto. El AV-8B entró en combate en la mañana del 17 de enero de 1991, respondiendo a una llamada pidiendo apoyo aéreo de parte de un controlador aéreo avanzado, para hacer frente al fuego de artillería que estaba atacando la localidad de Khafji y una refinería de petróleo que se situaba en sus cercanías. Al día siguiente, los AV-8B del Cuerpo de Marines atacaron a las posiciones iraquíes situadas al sur de Kuwait. Durante la guerra, los AV-8B trabajaron junto con las fuerzas de la coalición en la destrucción de objetivos, así como en la realización de misiones de reconocimiento aéreo. Durante las operaciones Escudo del Desierto y Tormenta del Desierto, los AV-8B acumularon un total de 3.380 vuelos, realizando 4.083 horas de vuelo, con un ratio de disponibilidad para el combate mayor del 90 por ciento. Durante la contienda un total de cinco AV-8B estadounidenses fueron derribados por misiles tierra-aire; dos pilotos murieron y otros dos fueron hechos prisioneros. El AV-8B tuvo un ratio de perdidas de 1,5 aeronaves por cada 1000 salidas, lo cual lo convirtió en el avión estadounidense más vulnerable, con más del doble de pérdidas que el siguiente modelo. Después de la guerra, el general del Ejército de los Estados Unidos Norman Schwarzkopf, nombró al AV-8B como uno de los 7 principales sistemas de armas —junto al F-117 Nighthawk y al AH-64 Apache— que jugaron un papel crucial durante el desarrollo del conflicto. En el periodo posterior a la guerra, desde el 27 de agosto de 1992 hasta 2003, los AV-8B del Cuerpo de Marines junto con otras aeronaves patrullaron el espacio aéreo de Irak en apoyo a la denominada Operación Southern Watch. Los AV-8B operaron desde los buques de asalto anfibio situados en el Golfo Pérsico, así como desde bases en tierra, como por ejemplo la Base Aérea Ali Al Salem. En todas estas operaciones los Harrier operaron como aviones convencionales, sin necesitar sus habilidades de despegue vertical o vuelo estacionario.
El AV-8B participó también en el bombardeo de la OTAN sobre Yugoslavia en el año 1999, dentro de la Operación Fuerza Aliada. Intervinieron un total de 12 aviones Harrier, pertenecientes a las 24ª y 26ª Unidades Expedicionarias de Marines. Los AV-8B de la 24ª Unidad entraron en combate el 14 de abril, y durante los siguientes 14 días volaron un total de 34 misiones de apoyo aéro sobre Kosovo. Durante su despliegue de seis meses de duración, operando desde el USS Nassau, La 24ª Unidad de Harrier tuvo un ratio de disponibilidad del 91,8 por ciento. El 28 de abril, la 24ª Unidad fue relevada por la 26ª Unidad, basada en el buque de asalto anfibio USS Kearsarge. La primera salida de combate de los AV-8B de la unidad tuvo lugar dos días más tarde. Esta unidad se mantuvo en el campo de batalla hasta el 28 de mayo, fecha en la que fue trasladada a la localidad de Brindisi, Italia.
En 2001, el Cuerpo de Marines se movilizó para actuar en el territorio de Afganistán dentro de la denominada Operación Libertad Duradera. La 15.ª Unidad Expedicionaria de Marines llegó a la costa de Pakistán en octubre de 2001. Los primeros cuatro AV-8B entraron en combate en territorio afgano el 3 de noviembre de 2001, operando desde el navío de la unidad. A esta unidad se le uniría un mes más tarde la 26ª Unidad Expedicionaria. En diciembre de 2001, dos Harrier II aterrizaron en tierra firme, en una base avanzada instalada en el Aeropuerto Internacional de Kandahar pero este despliegue duró solo una noche y fue calificado de mera "sesión de fotos" por un piloto. Se llegaron a desplegar más unidades del AV-8B con otras unidades de los Marines durante el año 2002. El despliegue del Harrier en Afganistán terminó el 2 de octubre de 2010, cuando un AV-8B Harrier II aterrizó en la cubierta del USS Peleliu.
España
España, que ya había incorporado anteriormente a su flota el AV-8S Matador, se convirtió en el primer usuario internacional del AV-8B, al realizar un pedido por un total de 12 aeronaves en marzo del año 1983. Estas aeronaves se designaron como VA-2 Matador II por el Arma Aérea de la Armada, siendo a su vez conocida como "EAV-8B" por el fabricante McDonnell Douglas. Las tres primeras unidades del EAV-8B se entregaron en la Base Aeronaval de Rota el 6 de octubre de 1987, finalizándose todas las entregas en el año 1988. Estas aeronaves estaban pintadas en un esquema de dos tonalidades de gris, similar al empleado en las aeronaves de la Armada de los Estados Unidos.
Los pilotos de prueba de la compañía British Aerospace fueron los encargados de preparar el portaaviones Príncipe de Asturias para la operatividad del Harrier en julio de 1989. Este portaaviones, que reemplazó al portaaviones de la segunda guerra mundial Dédalo, tenía instalado un ski-jump de 12°. Estaba previsto que estas aeronaves operasen dentro de la 8a Escuadrilla. Sin embargo, esta unidad se dio de baja el 24 de octubre de 1986 tras la venta de los AV-8S Matador a Tailandia. En su lugar, se decidió crear la 9a Escuadrilla el 29 de septiembre de 1987 con el fin de operar el EAV-8B.
En septiembre de 1990, España firmó un memorándum de entendimiento tripartito para el desarrollo de la versión "Plus". En marzo de 1993 se realizó la compra de ocho unidades adicionales de la variante EAV-8B Plus, junto con un TAV-8B biplaza. Las entregas de la versión "Plus" dieron comienzo en el año 1996. El 11 de mayo de 2000, Boeing y el Naval Air Systems Command firmaron un contrato para comenzar los trabajos de actualización de los EAV-8B españoles al estándar "Plus". Boeing afirmó que el acuerdo incluía la reconstrucción de dos EAV-8B, con opción a otras siete unidades; aunque otras fuentes señalan que la cifra final se elevaba a once aeronaves. La reconstrucción permitiría a las aeronaves el poder transportar cuatro misiles AIM-120 AMRAAM, aumentaba la capacidad situacional del piloto a través de la instalación de nuevos radares y aviónica, y proporcionaba una aeronave de mayor potencia gracias a la instalación de un nuevo motor. Sin embargo, tan sólo cinco de las aeronaves recibieron estas modificaciones, entregándose la última el 5 de diciembre de 2003. Los restantes cuatro AV-8B se quiere que sean transformados a la versión SNUG (Spanish Navy Upgrade).
Los EAV-8B españoles participaron en la Operación Deny Flight, colaborando en el cumplimiento del mandato de las Naciones Unidas de crear una zona de exclusión aérea sobre Bosnia y Herzegovina. En cambio, no participaron los Harrier ni su portaaviones, el Príncipe de Asturias, en la invasión de Irak de 2003, desplegando en su lugar los F/A-18 Hornet y otras aeronaves de apoyo.
Italia
A finales de los años 1960, después de una demostración del Hawker Siddeley Harrier en el portahelicópteros Andrea Doria de la Marina Militare, se empezó a evaluar la posibilidad de adquirir el Harrier. Los primeros esfuerzos en esta línea se paralizaron debido a una ley italiana de 1937 que impedía la operación de aeronaves de ala fija en la armada, debido a que esta otorgaba competencia exclusiva para operarlas a la Aeronautica Militare. A comienzos del año 1989 se procedió a una modificación legislativa que permitió a la armada operar cualquier tipo de aeronaves cuyo | 2,254 |
PORTSMOUTH — Even for just one night, everyone at Prescott Park was young again.
Young and old alike watched as Prescott Park was transformed into its own Never Never Land, complete with flying fairies, pirates that evoked fear (and a few laughs) and a magical boy that reminded the crowd of the magic of youth.
With a picture-perfect night as the backdrop, the Prescott Park Arts Festival kicked off its 36th season with a musical adaptation of the play "Peter Pan" with an artistic set complete with flying effects.
For Peter Sands, watching the musical with his 12-year-old son Eliot stirred up memories of his childhood.
Named after Peter Pan (he also has a sister named Wendy), Sands played one of the Lost Boys in the play when he was in fourth grade.
And although he doesn't remember the lines, Sands said he enjoyed watching the musical with his son.
The family, from Concord, happened to see the set being built while in Portsmouth on a previous weekend and learned about the Prescott Park Arts Festival's summer performances.
With pizza from Flatbread Company and dessert from Breaking New Grounds, the Sands made a night of the occasion.
"This is great," Sands said. "It's something the whole family can go to, and I can feel comfortable<|fim_middle|> an expected more than 185,000 visitors to the park.
There is no fixed admission to the event, although a suggested $5 to $8 donation goes to support the festival.
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Eliot said he also enjoyed the performance, both by the actors and an attention-seeking squirrel who climbed up on the frame of the set during the play.
He added that he also enjoyed hearing Sounds of the Seacoast, which opened the show Friday night.
Across the park, Wendy Warner was enjoying the show with Charles Osborne and their two children.
Although Warner did not share as personal of a connection to the play as Sands, she said she did enjoy the chance to watch the outdoor performance featuring a lead character sharing the same name.
"It's nice just being able to spend time with the children," Warner said.
The Somersworth family said they make a point every year to attend the festival throughout the summer, but the season-opening play is always one of the biggest hits with 8-year-old Lena Osborne.
A singer and dancer herself, Lena said she most enjoyed when Tinkerbell first showed off her dancing and flying moves — soaring into the air above the stage.
Her friend, 9-year-old Desera McCormack, agreed.
Although Peter Pan was entertaining for the whole family, including 3-month-old Hannah Osborne, who watched the stage intently from her stroller, Lena got a special treat last year when the Prescott Park Arts Festival featured Grease throughout the summer.
"She wore (the movie) out," Charles Osborne said of Lena. "Before and after (the play)."
For Charles Osborne, taking a night to visit the Prescott Park Arts Festival and Strawbery Banke is not only an accessible summer treat, but also a chance for him to go back to where he spent his youth.
"I was raised down here, so it's like coming home," Osborne said.
Directed by David Kaye and produced by Ben Anderson, the executive director of the Prescott Park Arts Festival, Peter Pan will continue every Thursday and Sunday evening until Aug. 22, drawing | 388 |
Runners Enjoy Soboba's Terrain<|fim_middle|>906 SOBOBA RD SAN JACINTO CA 92583 |
Annual Trail Race attracts all ages ◆ By Mike Hiles
Runners arrived at The Oaks on the Soboba Reservation at 7 a.m. on Saturday, April 14, to participate in the seventh annual Trail Race, hosted by the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians' Parks and Recreation Department and its director, Andy Silvas.
The 5K, 10K and 25K races all followed the same route, just adding laps for the longer races. Even though the races were timed, most of the participants came for the workout and the opportunity to enjoy the beautiful scenery along the course.
"I am so lucky to be able to come out here and enjoy this every day," said Tekla Diaz, a tribal member who regularly hikes and runs the trails to stay fit.
Diaz has participated in the Trail Race every year since it began and completed the 10K in about two hours, earning a win for her age division.
Kiana Castello finished the 10K in one hour and 25 minutes, placing first place for 15- to 19-year-old females and third place overall for females.
"I've always done the 5K before so I wanted to push myself and knew I'd regret it if I didn't do it. I felt good when I was done," she said. "I used to love running and I still play basketball, now at Mt. San Jacinto College. I also lift weights and belong to three different gyms."
Jade Morillo, a junior at Hemet High School and a member of its cross-country track team, won her age division in the 10K as well as the overall 10K female runner with a time of one hour and 11 minutes.
Silvas and his crew spent the past week clearing the course of weeds and debris and inspecting it for ruts and other erosion that needed repairing before the race.
"We went over it with a tractor," Silvas said. "The trail is pretty dry and powdery today."
Six workers were stationed throughout the course to guide and assist runners, including one person operating a drone over the hilly terrain.
Teams competing in the race included 16 runners from Sherman Indian High School in Riverside. Kina Brings-Plenty, 18, from Pine Ridge, South Dakota attends the off-reservation boarding school for Native Americans. He won his age division for the 5K as well as the overall 5K male runner by finishing the course in 21 minutes.
A team from Golden Era Productions has participated in the race before and do double duty by distributing anti-drug literature when not out on the course. Members of this year's four-member team were Uli Ginter, 48, Bernadette Mueller, 50, Ben Sproule, 44, and Linda Sukkestad, 60. They all ran the 5K together. Along with placing in their age divisions, Ginter placed third and Mueller placed first overall for females and Sproule won his male age division.
Silvas said one major change from last year was the direction of the course, which proved to be a challenge for some returning runners.
"It's a tough course and it was more grueling going this way," said Sproule. "This way was more technical so you had to pace yourself and listen to your body to know when to run and when to take it easy."
Ginter said she ran the race more for the scenery than to be competitive.
"The environment here is so beautiful," she said.
Miles Lindsey ran the course five times to meet the 25K length. After four loops, the official timekeeper, Chad Timmermans from Negative Split Running, said Lindsey was keeping a good pace.
"This was my first time on this course," said Lindsey, 46, of Barstow. "I definitely had a good time."
The youngest competitor was six-year-old Ronald Resvalaso, who ran the 5K.
Negative Split Running has been working the Soboba Trail Race for the past five years. The Newport Beach-based company was started 10 years ago by Chad's father, Lambert Timmermans.
"We are ultrarunners who run races well beyond marathon distances," he said. "Tracking is important and in loop courses, keeping track of loops is extremely important. Sometimes events go on for up to a week of one-mile loops with many participants."
The company handles about 40 races per year.
"We have the ability to track and time races of all sizes under even austere circumstances, including triathlons and biathlons with multiple check points," Timmermans said. "We've even timed horses."
Final results for all runners will be available at www.negativesplitrunning.com.
Jade Morillo makes her way down the path near the end of the 10K Trail Race at the Soboba Reservation, where she placed first for her age division and first overall for female participants
Runners of all ages start the Soboba Trail Race 5K on Saturday morning
Male division 5K winner, Kina Brings-Plenty from Riverside, crosses the finish line as Chad Timmermans of Negative Split Running clocks him on the computer
Miles Lindsey of Barstow was the overall winner for the 25K at Saturday's Soboba Trail Race
A team from Golden Era Productions had a productive day on the Soboba Reservation course at the seventh annual Trail Race. From left, Ben Sproule, Uli Ginter, Bernadette Mueller and Linda Sukkestad
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...and on to the duties and challenges of 2019...
...with three major writing projects and a rising number of Catholic History Walks, and lots of new ventures along the way...
over Christmastide...
...I've been enjoying some of Dorothy L. Sayers' splendid detective stories featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. Pure enjoyment.
...and if you want areally delightful play to which to take the family, go to this one, which comes HIGHLY recommended...
...after a very enjoyable History Walk...
...around Westminster, with young men from Rome's North American College, we finished in the Red Lion in Whtehall. I am impressed with these students for the priesthood - they give hope for the future of the Church in the West.
They were also kind and helpful: I had lost my mobile phone and was anxious. The next morning, panicking, I bought a new one, and only when I had gone through all the trouble thus associated (sim card, transfer of number, etc etc etc) did an email bring the news of the discovery of my phone, harmlessly waiting for me in the church hall where I had left it...
It's old age arriving, I suppose...something to ponder for this New Year's Eve...
Auntie Joanna invites you...
...to start the New Year with a walk through London parks to see places of history as 2019 opens...
Meet 3pm Wednesday January 2nd, steps of Westminster Cathedral. Nearest station: VICTORIA or ST JAMES PARK.
...and as we look forward to a New Year...
...here is a wonderful description of the Church in mission in London, with Christmassy flavour...
Across London, from Marylebone to Charing Cross...
...we went on a Catholic History Walk, a crowd of young people, starting at St James' in Spanish Place with a cheery fish-and-chip supper after Mass. It was great fun, and a splendid way to finish the term's work, as it were...for at Charing Cross, with luggage all trundled along on the History Walk, I took my leave after a non-stop series of talks at every stopping point, and with mutual Christmas greetings and much goodwill headed off for the train.
And now it's Chrisms, and holiday time. May this be blessed season for us all.
The choristers...
...at Precious Blood Church were just finishing their celebration Christmas Tea and as I walked down the road the sound of their singing "The Twelve Days of Christmas" wafted cheerily out from the Parish Room. Later a more sedate group of us, mostly older parishioners, gathered for mulled wine and snacks after Evensong.
It's been carols all week....on Monday the LOGS sang in Flat Iron Square. Yesterday I was at Victoria station singing with a group organised by a friend with support from her local church, St Joseph's, Roehampton.
With the year drawing to its close, a time to look back. Asked by Catholic World Report for books I enjoyed during 2018, I produced this .
....and very cheering morning...
...with carol-singing organised by a friend, who gets a group of us every year to sing in all the wards of a big hospital where she sits on the governing committee. I had been reluctant to go, as yesterday evening I felt tired but, given n an early night with an excellent audio-book (Dorothy L. Sayers' minor Lord Peter Wimsey stories - recommended), in the morning freshness it was suddenly fun. We went from ward to ward singing all the old favourites - Hark the herald, The first Nowell, shepherds and socks and Wenceslas and all....
Then a chatty lunch, and on to London for the annual Dinner of LOGS.
Decorating the Christmas trees....
...after Mass, on this Third Sunday of Advent, Gaudete Sunday.
Two tall trees, one of either side of the sanctuary. They look superb, gleaming with lights and golden and silver baubles. The trunks, wide and thick. were hard to fit into the metal stands, and a strong parishioner chopped away at them with an axe to trim them. A rather notable sight to anyone passing in the street as he swung the axe with vigour and wide-eyed children watched from a safe distance across the aisle.
A dropped bauble was found to have a neat hole - so with the assistance of an enthusiastic member of the Sunday School I wrote a note to put inside, and we hung the bauble on the tree...for the note to be discovered next year, or maybe in 10 or 100 years time, a secret hanging there amid the glitter...
On to Westminster, where I was leading another History Walk. Stopped briefly in the gardens by St James' Park tube station to eat a sandwich made at home earlier. The Walk went well - a good attendance and a cheery atmosphere. They were particularly interested in why and how we date Christmas and how it fits into the rest of the calendar - Lady Day, Midsummer etc - and we had a great time with fun and friendship and a sense pof the joy of the season...
Then afterwards, on arrival at the station to go home, I suddenly felt exhausted, and drooped. . The kind people at the Pret a Manger gave me a cup of tea for free and added a bar of chocolate. I nearly wept with the sudden feeling of being rescued. I needed it and, rested and fortoified, made it home...where I plan an early night.
...and carols...
...at St Mary's University, with a group standing manfully in the main concourse as people hurried in the cold to and from the library and refectory. I had baked some mince pies and we handed these out too as a goodwill gesture. The singing was good and when we felt we had done our bit we repaired to the chaplaincy and finished off the last of the pies with mugs of tea...
I'll be singing more carols on Monday, in Flat Iron Square near London Bridge, with the LOGS group. We have previous sung in London Bridge station, but<|fim_middle|> will remember that I was in London to mark the centenary of the Armistice, and that I remembered conversations with my grandfather who fought in that war.
...will be:
SUNDAY 18th November, 3pm: on a ROYAL theme, starting 3pm Westminster Cathedral, finishing at BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Monday Nov 26th A tour INSIDE Westminster Cathdral: meet at the main doors 3pm
Tuesday Nov 27th INSIDE St George's Cathedral Southwark: meet at the main doors, 3pm
NO NEED TO BOOK: just turn up!
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...and evening Mass at Precious Blood Church at London Bridge - not as crowded as the lunchtime Mass, but beautiful with music (Merbecke - the Mass was in Ordinariate Form) and a cheery gathering afrerwards for anyone who wanted, with prosecco and chat before going out into the rainy night...
Come and hear the LOGS group sing carols: Flat Iron Square, Dec 17th, from 5.30pm.
And a meeting...
...with a longstanding colleague from Christian Projects. Over 25 years ago, we established what is now the annual Schools Bible Project. The young winners of the 2018 project will be coming to London in December to receive their prizes at the House of Lords. There is a sense of achievement about this, but the whole venture is always a work-in-progress. The internet has changed things, not least with the publicity. Local newspapers, radio etc used to report on the project and the prizewinners etc....but it is one thing to have a cheery report in a local newspaper, and another to plaster a child's name and school over a worldwide massive system. And - more importantly - we have to check for plagiarism in the children's work. In the days when all the entries were hand-written, very few children simply copied out something from a textbook, and it was easy to detect it when they did...today the internet offers massive scope for cut-n-past jobs. In a sense, I think that, in all this as in much else, there has been a sort of loss of innocence...
A day...
...at Aylesford Priory, established by Carmelite monks by the Medway over 800 years ago, destroyed under Henry VIII, revived in the 20th century...and glorious on a golden Autumn day, with bright leaves fluttering down beneath a blue sky in crisp fresh air...
After Mass we lunched in the ancient, thick-walled Pilgrim Hall, and then enjoyed the library in its gallery...much to discuss, given the state of the Church and so on...
...and pondering...
...the need for prayer for the Pope, that he may do what is right and stand firm for the Church's teaching on the sinfulness of homosexual acts, and take action as required... read here...
Celebrating St John Paul's FEAST DAY
...and praying very much for the Church today....
Confession and then MASS at Westminster Cathedral where, as Canon Christoher Tuckwell reminded us with a sweeping gesture of his arm to point it out, a great stone set into the floor before the sanctuary commemorates, with a Latin inscription, the fact that Saint John Paul - many of us remember it - came to the Cathedral and celebrated Mass there in 1982.
Then, with colleague Sarah de Nordwall, a visit to the superb celebration of Anglo-Saxon life and literature - glorious illuminated books of the Gospels, psalters, and more - in the British Library. A working lunch there, planning joint history/poetry/cultural events for 2019 with the Catholic History Walks and the Bard School....
...and then, a celebration Tea to honour St John Paul and talk about what he taught us, with sharing of books by and about him...
And may St John Paul the Great intercede for us all in the Church today...we need his prayers badly...
Approaching the 40th anniversary of the election of the great JOHN PAUL...
...and hence his FEAST DAY, Oct.22nd.
And a message from his life, for the current Synod...read here...
WORKING ON...
...the history of this university offers days in the library, adjacent coffee-shop, and lovely grounds. Then, for the train journey home, I can choose something good from the library - currently Ian Ker on Bl John Henry Newman...
Been pondering and reading, too, about good St Paul VI...this week, following his canonisation, there are vicious attacks on him in the com-boxes of some Catholic websites. Some are astonishingly ignorant, and reveal a truly horrible mentality - showing the truth his own sad comment about the "smoke of Satan" issuing into the Church. Such smoke has truly got in via these nasty attackers, who claim to be devout Catholics but are spreading anger and poison. Ugh. However, it has all prompted me to read more by and about him: his call to missionary endeavour and his Credo of the People of God...
...and to the Mansion House...
...home of the Lord Mayor of the City of London, for the launch of the new School of Business and Society at St Mary's University. The idea is to educate "the whole person, not just from a business and technical perspective, but to provide ethical formation". Very well attended and done in grand style - my it all flourish and foster great and good things...
And in a private conference...
...a most useful series of talks on this ghastly promotion of propaganda - in our schools and with complete disregard for the truth - about how people can "transition" from being male to being female, and vice versa, simply because they have a feeling that they should.
Excellent input from medical experts, explaining how wrong this all is...but the most worrying aspect is that there is no possibility of a serious discussion of this subject in medical journals as there is so much fear surrounding it. When a distinguished doctor wrote an important analysis in a major publication he was denounced by "trans" and homosexual/lesbian lobby groups because he did not share their ideas...and the journal formally apologised for oublishing his work.
It's horrible...like the ghastly staged trials in Eastern Europe in the 1950s with people bullied into denouncing their friends and colleagues, and retracting their own ideas on freedom and democracy. What on earth is going on?
On the way home, I picked up an Evening Standard...a chatty feature by a young columnist described how she was "having a baby with a friend" with sperm from a donor, and was wondering how many unknown siblings the child might have.
The Britain of the near future is going to be a frightening place.
A visit...
...from Bishop Lopes, of the North American Ordinariate, who celebrated Mass at the Church of the Most Precious Blood at London Bridge this morning...all this week the three Ordinaries are meeting, so this was a chance for him to see this parish. Opportunity for a celebration...a glass of fizz afterwards along w. the usual coffee etc. For after-Mass gatherings, the parish now uses space at The Sidings, the nightclub under the railway arches where we had Mass during the summer when the church's new floor was being laid...
Meanwhile in Rome, St Paul VI canonised, along with St Oscar Romero and others...saints whose help from Heaven we can now invoke...orate pro nobis...
Paul VI was a man of courage. He was savagely attacked in his lifetime by critics who tried to spread calumnies against him, and now even when his holiness has been recognised by the Church for all time, there are crude voices raised against him. He is a saint for all who are maligned and villified for upholding the truth of the moral law and for loving and serving the Church...read here...
To Richmond...
...and to this church, which has seen a substantial rise in numbers over the past couple of years...it is across the river from St Mary's University, where I am often to be found busy with my research work. Lovely to be in Richmond - a place with strong family asociations for me - on an Autumn evening.
Long ago, a young man made a film - in the early days of home cinematopgraphy in the 30s - about the Autumn tide along the Thames, bringing the Autumn to this roverside town. It featured his parents and siblings: Autumn walks, his schoolgirl sister crunching into a ripe apple, the first leaves scattering down along the paths... and it won an award, and is now of course a period piece. If he had lived, I think he might have been a successful director/producer/writer... But he did not live to do that. When war broke out, he volunteered for the Royal Air Force and was shot down somewhere over the North Sea.....he was my uncle and his name is on the big RAF memorial overlooking the Thames at Runnymede. And you and I owe to him, and others like him, the duty of keeping our country a good and happy one, where truth and freedom are upheld and where we can worship God on an Auytumn evening and practise our faith without fear...
To Bexleyheath...
...in Kent, for a morning assembly, tp present prizes gained by pupils at St Columba'sCatholic Boys School in the 2018 Schools Bible Project. One pupil has won a major prize and will come to the House of Lords in December to receive it from our Trustee Baroness Cox. Full list of schools that have gained main prizes here...in addition, pupils at a number of schools across Britain gained runner-up prizes.
It was a pleasure to be at this school. The boys were smart in their uniforms, friendly and courteous to a visitor, and attentive to the Scripture reading and prayers led by their teacher. At the prayer "St Colmba. pray for us" they rather touchingly put their hands on their hearts as they echoed the response. Distributing the prizes for the Bible Project is always enjoyable and maes all the work of organisation etc worthwhile...
And the latest FAITH magazine...
...can now be read on-line here...
Bl John Henry Newman...
...is commemorated annually on the eve of his Feast Day with a Night Walk through Oxford, marking the night when he was received into full communion with the Catholic Church by Bl Dominic Barberi. This year's Walk was particularly splendid - a glorious Autumn evening, Oxford glowing in lamplight, leaves russet and brown beneath our feet, and a large crowd of walkers - including many young as this is Oxford. The Walk begins at the Oxford Oratory and among the prayer-intentions was one for more vocations for the Oratorians - an apparently unnecessary prayer as there are a good number of young ones and it is all thriving...
I'm doing a good deal of walking at present. The next day, back in London, there was a Westminster History Walk. Again, large numbers. We start at Westminster Cathedral, walk down Ambrosden Avenue, learn about the Choir School and the Archbishops of Westminster from 1850 to the present, and head down towards the Horseferry Road via the pubs and streets named after charity-schools (Green Coat Boy, Grey Coat Hospital etc), and on to Parliament...
WALKING....
...and walking....
After Mass this morning I walked around Southwark and The Borough to check the route for the afternoon's History Walk. Then lunched, and met the batch of walkers waiting at Precious Blood Church - a lovely friendly group - and off we set. On every walk I learn new things...this time about St Olaf, of whom there is an unexpected statue in this church which I attended recently when weekday Masses were not possible at Precious Blood because of the renovation work. St Olaf was the great Viking king who teamed up with Saxons to fight pagan Viking invaders and saved the city of London... I knew the story but until today I had not fully explored the memorial on the rather pleasing Art Deco office block that bears his name...
THE SYNOD...
...has opened in Rome, and THIS contribution by Archbishop charles Chaput is of great importance. NOTE IT, ask your Bishops to follow it up: the issue is a central one, concerning truth, integrity, and the value of the human person.
Rose hips at Walsingham...
...and plenty of serious things in our hearts as we gathered to pray.
I gathered the rose hips along the Holy Mile, and am taking them home to turn into rose hip syrop for the winter. We of the LOGS group had gathered at Precious Blood church at London Bridge and were sent off for Walsingham with a pilgrim blessing after Mass. As we approached Walsingham we stopped for tea with an Ordinariate family who have recently settled there and our pilgrimage began with a cheery catching-up of news and a real sense of welcome...and of course we met them again the next morning for Mass at the Church of the Annunciation where there is a good-sized congregation for week day Mass...
Our days of pilgrimage included a Rosary Walk along the Mile, a priviledged visit to the ruined Francican friary - the Franciscans are now back in Walsingham and much in evidence at the Shrine - and a most useful afternoon meeting for planning our future activities for 2019 and beyond...
There was also the unexpected pleasure of a splendid Pilgrimage Mass celebrated with pilgrims - and their Bishop - from the diocese of Lancaster, plus pleasant evenings one of which included a glorious long walk along by the coast at Wells. The sun was setting in rose-ink glory beyond the sands, and the halyards of the dozens of little boats in the harbour were making that faint bell-like sound against the masts in the evening breeze. Kathie said "I'd like to sing 'The day thou gavest Lord...'" and so we did, turning for home with the cheery lights of the town promising a welcome and a good meal.
A happy time, and a good pilgrimage. We had carried ourpetitions in prayer to the shrine of Our Lady and left them there. Plenty of concerns, and mostly not trivial ones: these are not easy times for the Church and the world.and a pilgrimage isn't an escape from reality but a way of connecting our own duties and responsibilities with reminders of God's providence...
THE GREAT RETURN...
...to church this mornng, as the Church of the Precious Blood at London Bridge opened its doors wide to reveal its gleaming new marble floor and sanctuary and the congregation poured in. Candles glowed and incense wafted up. The children's choir sang from the gallery, the September sunshine streamed in through the windows, and Father C. blessed the new font and we renewed our baptismal promises with great vigour and were splashed with the newly blessed water. It was glorious and solemn and joyful and a new chapter of the Church's long and splendid mission in London. I hadn't expected to find it so moving...
Tomorrow members of LOGS, the ladies group based at Precious Blood, will set off on pilgrimage to Walsingham, where we will place our plans and our hopes - and our concerns and worries and personal prayers and more - into the hands of Christ's mother at the shrine where people have been doing the same for a thousand years.
The Catholic Women's League...
...in the diocese of Southwark invited me to speak at their conference, held today at St Joseph's, Roehampton, and I was given a warm welcome. I spoke about the recent ADOREMUS Eucharistic Congress, and it was great to share memories of this splendid history-making event, and especially of that grand Eucharistic procession, the crowds, the atmosphere...
Today was a golden September day, and simply travelling by bus along by the Common was glorious.
My only regret about speaking at the conference was that I missed the annual "Two Cathedrals" Blessed Sacrament Procession, held each September to mark the anniversary of the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Britain...but I looked up the pics afterwards and it went well, as always...beginning at Westminster Cathedral, crossing the Thames to Southwark and finishing with Benediction at St George's Cathedral...
Mass in a nightclub....
...has been (sort of ) fun for the past few weeks...but it will be good to be back in church again.
The parish of the Most Precious Blood moved across the street to The Sidings, a nightclub created in, well, the sidings of the great railway network that is gathered at London Bridge where lines meet from across Kent and South East London. Beneath the great solid railway arches there are cavernous rooms that are now packed with people and talk and laughter and drink and food in the evenings...and packed even more tightly by Catholics on Sunday mornings as the parishioners seek to squeeze into every corner as Father C celebrates Mass at a makeshift altar.
Meanwhile, in our fine Victorian church, workmen have been labouring to create the new marble floor which will welcome us back again this Sunday.
We've all been peering in to see how things have been going. It now looks superb. A line of red marble leads up the aisle from the font (brand-new, an exact relica of the original design, and due to be blessed and consecrated shortly, with all of us renewing our baptismal vows) to the sanctuary, where a pattern of further red mingles with shining silver-grey and creamy white.
Choir stalls have been installed for the children's choir in the choir-loft. For the main part of the church, all pews have been removed for cleaning - at present the church looks like a great Roman basilica - and they will be back once the floor is ready for them. The new altar-rails won't be in place for a while, and work on the Lady Altar and the Newman shrine will wait for a while, too....first comes a massive cleaning operation because of all the dust created by the creation of the marble floor.
It's going to be superb, and the project has been/is being a sort of shared adventure with a feeling that we are all seeing the writing of a new chapter of local history. Watch this Blog for news of further developments, celebratory events etc.
The forthcoming Synod on Youth...
...looks set to be ghastly, with the initial paperwork a groaning wodge of cliches. Poor Papa Francis seems unable ever to admit that any of his projects might be wrong-headed, so the thing will grind miserably on...
At Vatican II the Bishops courageously ditched some of the initial documentation and verbiage and opted for real debates. Could not something similar happen now?
To THE KEYS...
...which is the name of the Catholic Writers Guild of England and Wales, meeting in London. It was a hassle to get there - tube strike on the Piccadilly Line etc - but so good to arrive and be immediately among friends and colleagues. It really is a Guild - something more than a fellowship, more than a meeting of friends, more than gathering of like-minded people engagedin common endeavours...we are friendly, useful, and helpful to one another in the way that members of a Guild should be, but there's a lot more...this evening's chat included discussion of illustrations for a new book, exchange of ideas on recent projects, plus discussion of the splendid recent Liverpool Eucharistic Congress...
We currently meet at Farm Street church for our monthly Mass, going on afterwards to a nearby restaurant where a room is booked for supper, and then back to the panelled Hall at Farm Street for the lecture. This evening's was about Hilaire Belloc - specifically, his love of Sussex, and finishing with that haunting poem - and was excellent. A good discussion afterwards, tackling his horrid anti-semitism, his talents, his undoubted pariotism, his loathing of all things German including Nazism, and the sorrows of his life (two sons killed, one in the First World War, one in the Second...) and more...
The new Master of the Guild is to be Kevin Turley, an excellent choice. You can read some of his work here and here...
On Saturday...
...there will be the annual "Two Cathedrals" procession in which the Blessed Sacrament is carried across the Thames. The Orocession was started in 2009 to mark the first anniversary of the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Britain. I am unable to attnd this year as I am speaking at a big gathering of the Catholic Women's League in Roehampton.
The Procession starts at 1.30pm at WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL and finishes with Benediction at St George's Cathedral, Southwark.
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The government is to choose our next bishops...
....a very, very bad plan.
That's the plan for China, if the stupid and cruel arrangement that seems to have been agreed by the Chinese govt and the Vatican goes ahead.
It's contrary to wisdom and right justice: Christ did not seek that powerful worldly rulers shuld choose who would be the fathers for his flock. He didn't invite Peter to negotiate wth rulers in Rome or Palestine to choose colleagues.
We don't want government - not the Queen, not the Prime Minister, not President Trump, not the European Union rulers, not Vladmimir Putin, not the current head of the People's Republic of China, not any government - choosing Christ's bishops. It has been tried in the past and had mixed results - it's not a mistake that needs to be repeated.
On this blog, I placed a picture of the Pope when he was elected: the idea is to remind us all to pray for him. He needs wisdom, humility, and the courage to do what is right. He is not popular and is at the core of much controversy: is he being wise and humble, and is he doing what is right? Are you praying?
To Portsmouth...
...for a beautiful Mass at the Cathedral, of which more in due course.
But there is something that is somehow sad about this great city - once a glorious name in the story of our Royal Navy. Deo gratias, we do still have some fine ships, and there is an instintive sense of pride that wells up when one thinks of all that the Royal Navy has meant in our country's story... but...
Somehow, so many things in Britain now have a strange, uncomfortable overlay of sloganising, that makes for a sense of things-aren't-what-they-should be.
The last time I saw an official picture of anyone in naval uniform it was a lesbian lady on a poster in London emphasising that the Navy supported a homosexual and lesbian celebratory event.
Pray for our country.
And on the forthcoming Synod...
do read this...
DO READ....
...and enjoy, this excellent presentation made at the Eucharistic Congress, on how to prepare children for first Communion...
...and there are lots of other reports, and a good DVD of the Procession, here...
Been busy with...
...an Editorial Board meeting for FAITH magazine, in Scotland. Travelled by Caledonian sleeper - my favourite train journey. I had had a very full day in London, and it was a joy to eat supper at Euston and then sit doing some sewing (cross-stitch kneelers, since you ask) quietly and then to get on to the train when it was ready, and snuggle down cosily after a wash and some time to read...
A few days later another journey took me to Southend, where there is a thriving new branch of LOGS, meeting at this church...
Discussion on...
REGISTER RADIO in the USA this evening, about the Liverpool Congress and procession.
And the National Catholic Register has also published this feature about the Walk to Walsingham this summer.
...and don't take my word for it...
...the Eucharistic Congress really was a most remarkable event and even the BBC acknowledged it
So much happening...
...and I went off to Liverpool for what turned out to be a wonderful couple of days....see my first posting about it here....and more follows.
...further to the blog post below, George Weigel's older comment on Archbishop Vigano is also worth a perusal: read here...
And in these worrying days for the Church...
...it has happened that I have been in Walsingham, a good place in which to pray....
It is worth reading this, which has personal insights into the latest developments.
On the ghastly revelations from the USA re Cardinal McCarrick etc......
...READ THIS
...to Littlemore, in pursuit of research on Bl John Henry Newman. A wonderful afternoon with the delightful Sisters of The Work, who run the Newman study centre and offer retreats and hospitality...
Now that the hideous heat of a few weeks ago has dissipated, the English countryside shows inits summer beauty. The Thames running along at Henley...the thick wooded lanes of Oxfordshire...a pub lunch by the river...tea at Littlemore with lively chat and a sense of welcome...a happy day...
Come on the next London Catholic History Walks!
The King's Good Servant
Monday 10th September, 6pm. The story of heroic St Thomas More, as we walk around his Chelsea estate. Meet at the Church of Our Most Holy Redeemer and St Thomas More, Cheyenne Row. SW3 5HS. Nearest Tube: Sloane Square or South Kensington.
The City and its Wall
Sunday, 16th September, 6pm. Meet at St Etheldreda's Church, Ely Place, London. EC1N 6RY. Nearest Tube: Farringdon.
For King and Country!
Sunday 23rd September, 4pm. Catholics and Politics: St Thomas More, Guy Fawkes, Pugin, Parliament and the Abbey. Meet on the steps of Westminster Cathedral. Nearest Tube: Victoria.
Southwark and the Borough
Sunday 7th October, 4pm. See the 'other side' of London, including St George's, the capital's first post-Reformation Cathedral. Meet at the Church of the Most Precious Blood, O'Meara Street. SE1 1TD.
Tuesday 9th October, 6.30pm. Catholics and Politics: St Thomas More, Guy Fawkes, Pugin, Parliament and the Abbey. Meet on the steps of Westminster Cathedral. Nearest Tube: Victoria.
Sunday 21st October, 4pm. The story of heroic St Thomas More, as we walk around his Chelsea estate. Meet at the Church of Our Most Holy Redeemer and St Thomas More, Cheyenne Row. SW3 5HS. Nearest Tube: Sloane Square or South Kensington.
To get a flavour...
...of the message we'll be receiving and spreading at the forthcoming Eucharistic Congress in Liverpool, read this feature by one of the speakers....
Religious Freedom...
...is the basis of all our other freedoms. This is explored in the latest issue of FAITH magazine, now online here...
The NEW DAWN gathering....
...at Walsingham. This is a vast gathering of young Catholic families - lots of children and teenagers - in a meadow at the shrine of Our Lady at Walsingham. In a giant tent, a sort of temporary cathedral, Mass is celebrated and talks are given - and around the meadow are various other substantial marquees in which there are talks and workshops, with music, activities for children and more...it has been held annually for just over 30 years and has played a major role in the great revival of Walsingham which began in the first years of the 20th century and is continuing at an expanded rate in these first decades of the 21st.
A great highlight of the week - held on Wednesday at the mid-point of things - is a pilgrimage down the Holy Mile, singing and praying the Rosary, to the ruined Priory where Mass is celebrated. It is a powerful experience to be part of a crowd of more than a thousand people singing "Ave Ave Maria", many walking barefoot in accordance with tradition, walking along the lane in the way that pilgrims have done for centuries.
Auntie Joanna's involvement in New Dawn included a talk on the significance of Mary in the plan of salvation and in the life of the Church: the New Eve, and Daughter of Sion...and part of this is the significance of male/female roles...
A pilgrimage by boat...
...with LOGS. Read here
An important read....
...for an important anniversary. Read here....
On Monday....
...I will be off to Walsingham for the NEW DAWN gathering. Then, after a visit home to sort things out and reorganise....I'll be going back to Walsingham, this time on foot with a group led by the Dominican Sisters
Other summer events for Auntie include a pilgrimage by boat, and two very important family gatherings, one of which is also on water...
St Teresa's Home...
...in Wimbledon is a most wonderful residence for elderly people, offering superb care and always in an atmosphere of great goodwill, joy, and peace. In this Blog, I have frequently written of a believed elderly relative who spent her last years there....it became also a sort of home-from-home for me too, where I was always welcome.
Recently, this wonderful Home marked its 30th anniversary, and we all gathered for a beautiful Mass, celebrated by Bishop Howard Tripp, and a delicious Tea, with scones with lavish jam and cream, magnificent cakes, lots of prosecco, and the joy of being among so many people with a shared affection for this lovely place.
I mention all this because I'll be back again shortly with some home-made blackberry jam...and will also (if only this hot weather breaks for a while) be joining the group taking some of the residents out for a visit to Richmond or one of the other pleasant local places where we enjoy a wander through parks and gardens, a lovely tea. and lots of chat and laughter...I love St Tetresa's.
Gratitude....
...to God for the glorious rain this evening. London has been parched and ghastly, lawns scorched and grey, great cracks appearing in flower-beds.
...and the family...
...gathered for the beautiful and moving traditional funeral of a beloved mother, mother-in-law, and grandmother,
SUSAN GOWAN BOGLE
in the village church, with lovely music and tender memories.... The family crest stood in the sanctuary, and flowers covered the coffin, and the Rector led the service before a congregation of family and friends, and then we walked in procession to the grave, the church's flag at half-mast in the still air of the summer afternoon, It was fitting and solemn and beautiful, and difficult to write about, because days like this are the essence of the story of our lives...
An Army wife, the creator of a happy home for her husband and sons, a dear mother-in-law and grandmother, a wonderful hostess, a much-loved woman, with a joyful spirit and a welcoming heart. May she rest in peace.
...and the blackberries...
...are just astonishing this year. Two shelves in the Bogle kitchen are already stacked with jars of Blackberry Jam and Bramble Cheese, and as I write another vast batch of berries is gently stewing ready to be made into jam tomorrow...
Bramble Cheese? It's a creamed mixture of blackberry-and-apple, created through careful cooking and then pushing through a sieve. The "cheese" refers to the texture rather than to any link with dairy food. It's delicious on scones or buttered toast, and popular with people who don't like pips in jam. Also goes nicely with pancakes.
Signing a book contract...
...seemed a serious and exciting thing the first time.And in due course we took a photograph in the kitchen where I posed with my completed manuscript, all wrapped up in a big envelope and ready to be posted Many years and many books later...well...it's still somehow exciting. In the steady, scorching heat of this torrid summer of 2018 the post brought my latest contract, and the quickened heartbeat was just the same as thirty years ago. Then, happy and excited, I set off to pick blackberries and ponder the work ahead.
No, I'm not going to tell about the book yet. Wait and see. There are in fact two books now in the offing. Plenty of work ahead.
The passing of...
...a great lady from the finest days of the BBC World Service. Dora Lavrencic had a remarkable life. She was brought up in Maribor, Slovenia, and was studying law, planning to be her country's first female judge. Her father was acting Mayor of Maribor when the Nazis invaded. He refused to fly the swastika flag and was arrested. He died in Dachau. Dora and her mother later escaped over the mountains to Austria where in due course she worked for the British Army as a translator. She married Karl Lavrencic, lawyer, linguist, and author and together they worked for the BBC World Service and were leading figures in Britain's Slovenian community, and a voice for freedom in the dark days of Communism.. Read more about it all here: it's inspiring. Their daughter Alenka, herself a distinguished journalist and author, is one of my greatest friends. It was a privilege to be at the funeral Mass held in the church at Cobham in Surrey.
It was a real pleasure...
...at Westminster Cathedral the other day, to meet the Vatican Cricket team, enjoying a most successful visit to Britain. They have played the Royal Household, and a team from the Houses of |Parliament, plus an inter-faith game in which they joined with the Archbishop of Canterbury's XI plus cricketers from the Sikh, Hindu and Moslem religions...
On Sunday J and I had the pleasure of spending the evening with John McCarthy, former Australian Ambassador to the Holy See, who initiated this whole venture. It is superb to see it all flourishing: the Queen attended the Royal Household match.
In scorching heat...
...London's lawns are turning white, grass is dying, and feet are pounding dry baked earth.At St Mary's University the traces of the underground WWII air-raid shelter can be seen as the drought reveals the pattern beneath the scorched grass.
You can read Auntie's take on it all here...
Recent news...
...a glorious First Mass for newly-ordained Fr Jonathan Creer at the Church of the Most Precious Blood on Sunday July 1st. He had been ordained the previous day at the Birmingham Oratory.
The Mass at Pr Blood was packed and was the last to take place in the church before big renovations begin with the laying of a new floor.
Afterwards, celebrations over fizz in the Redcross Gardens nearby: scorching sunshine across all of London so it was good to be in a place with some trees and greenery.The Gardens were initiated by Octavia Hill, founder of the National Trust and much more...as she was a fervent High Anglican, it is somehow appropriate that the Gardens she created are now in regular use by the Ordinariate with that special heritage.
As the afternoon drew on, I made my way to London Bridge station where after a badly-needed cup of tea I travelled to Tunbridge Wells, and thence to Pembury for Evensong and the blessing of a beautiful stained glass window which completes the transformation of what was once a dreary hall on the village green into a charming little church, St Anselm's. A beautiful traditional Evensong with splendid singing, and then out into the gardens for more fizz and talk and celebrations...
An Ordinariate day...
THIS BLOG...
...has been silent for the past two weeks.
Pray for the beloved soul of
Mrs Susan Gowan Bogle, much-loved wife, mother, grandmother and mother-in-law. "Far above rubies" (Prov.31:10).
This Blog will recommence shortly.
The Eucharistic Congress...
...takes place in Liverpool in September and I'll be there...the ticketing seems unecessarily complex - there are meant to be 2 delegates from each parish, but of course that means lots of discussion and checking and fuss... Why don't they just say:"All welcome! Buy a ticket!"
Anyway, my ticket is all organised, and I'm looking forward to it all, especially as Bishop Robert Barron is to be a keynote speaker.
MASSIVE History Walk on Thursday...something like 100 people. We began at Westminster Cathedral and although we had a formal completion at the gardens alongside the Houses of Parliament, a large crowd wanted to continue down along the Thames to the Tower. A great atmosphere and a wonderful afternoon. Some of us peeled off at London Bridge for Evensong and Mass at Precious Blood church...and then afterwards I hurried across the river to the the pub near the Tower where the final group had agreed to meet for supper....and things finished at a very late hour...a hearty meal, prosecco, lots of lively talk...and then out into the summer night and I caught almost the last Tube trundling out to the suburbs...
It was a busy week...a LOGS meeting at Norwood on Monday evening...excellent talk from Fr James Clark, chaplain at the John Fisher School. A family connection with the school goes back a good many years...and in the chapel there are some altar-kneelers worked by Auntie Joanna...
LOGS has some good plans for the Autumn, starting with a three-day pilgrimage to Walsingham, staying at Dowry House.
At the weekend, a wonderful Silver Wedding party given by a couple whose wedding J and I attended...golly, it just doesn't seem 25 years ago...Saturday's gathering was joyful and full of friends and fun...
Meanwhile in Ireland...
...what on earth do the organisers of the World Meeting of Families think they are doing by inviting this priest to be among the speakers?
Ireland badly needs a large-hearted, open and joyful gathering to celebrate God's plan for love and life. For far too long in the last century, there was more than a hint of Jansenism in the approach to married life and to sexual communion. It created a whole sort of myth about the true nature of the Church's message, that bore sour and poisonous fruit in more recent years, with this ghastly result in the referendum on abortion. It's time for a fresh new approach...not stale rubbish from an American talking about lesbianism.
FOR GOODNESS' SAKE, IRELAND! Wake up! Look to the truth and beauty of the Christian teaching - and give it a fair hearing with open hearts!
and for more on that Arundel procession...
...read Auntie Joanna here...
"Why haven't you written up your blog recently, Auntie Joanna?"
I am flattered that people have been asking. It's only been a few days. But they have been busy days.
Minor adventure in Arundel. After a glorious Corpus Christi procession - packed cathedral, wonderful music, excellent sermon from the Bishop, fabulous procession across the moat and through the castle grounds, glorious gardens and meadowland, Benediction there and then again in the Cathedral - I took a lingering walk through this lovely Sussex town, dallied over a glass of wine, tackled some emails. Then went on to the station - and found there were no trains! A substitute bus would take me to Billingshurst, and the driver was kind and went on to Horsham for me. But the station there was also bereft - must have been engineering works, or something. Another stranded passenger said a mate ran a good hotel not far away and gave me the number...I phoned, got a room, and spent a very comfortable night with an excellent breakfast in the morning.
Trains were running by then, so on to London to meet a colleague to map out some more History Walks.Pub lunch at the Mitre, after Mass at St Etheldreda's...it was good to be back there, a favourite haunt when St E's was the Guild church for the Catholic Writers' Guild...
The weekend saw the regular First Saturday Mass at this church, honiuring Our Lady of Walsingham: I had invited a friend and we had an agreeable chatty lunch afterwards near the river. Then on to Night Fever at St Patrick's, Soho.Sunday saw another History Walk, and then the Procession from St Patrick's through Soho with the Blessed Sacrament, and giving out devotional cards to all the crowds...Benediction in the churchyard at St Giles-in-the-Fields and then, chatting afterwards, a sudden late-night and enjoyable Chinese meal nearby.
There's more. But that's roughly why I didn't have much time to blog.
Approaching the 40th anniversary of the election o...
On the ghastly revelations from the USA re Cardina...
"Why haven't you written up your blog recently, Au... | Flat Iron Square is the new trendy place with pubs and clubs so we wanted to be there. There are all sorts of trendy places set into the arches of the railway: we will be singing in one of these and the accoustics are excellent. The night-club opposite Precious Blood Church has been a good friend to us all in recent months as we have had Mass there when the church floor was being relaid.
A GLORIOUS CONCERT...
...at St Clement Danes Church in London. It stands at the end of The Strand, opposite Australia House and near the Law Courts. It's a beautiful church, originally established shortly after the Norman Conquest, and rebuilt a couple of times, most recently following the WWII Blitz.
The concert was by a superb chamber choir, Vivamus. Among the works presented was a most beautiful setting by Mendeslssohn of the Magnificat. The words sound rather fine in German:"Mein Herz Got/ den Herrn, und es freut sich/Mein Geist Gottes/Meines Heilands..." We also had a pleasing setting of "O Holy Night", a modern carol "My Lord has come", and lots more, including some of good hearty traditional stuff in which we were all encouraged to join, which we did with great enthusiasm. A most inspiring and uplifting evening.
A young relative was singing in the choir and, this being the Royal Air Force church, her great-uncle's name is among those commemorated in one of the glass-fronted memorial stands along the walls. He was shot down somewhere over the North Sea 75 years ago. As it happens, he had a particular link to this part of London, as he worked for a while near Fleet Street and was married at St Bride's church. As the music soared, I pondered that, and the story of our family that it represents, binding us to the story of London and of our country...
Cardinal George Pell is innocent...
...and I make this statement clearly and publicly. Truth matters.
The young prizewinners...
for the 2018 School Bible Project came to Parliament today to receive their prizes from our Trustee Baroness Cox. This is always a very delightful occasion and it is a joy to meet the young people and their families. It gives one new heart :a mix of religious and racial backgrounds, a great sense of goodwill and good cheer, a sharing in a celebration in the magnificent setting of the most famous Parliament in the world.
To St Martin-in-the-Fields...
...which now stands not in fields ploughed by Westminster's monks, but in a busy street adjoining the great Square laid out to mark the great British naval victory off the coast of Traf-al-gah in 1805...
Some weeks ago I found a tiny inexpensive gift in the very attractive shop in the church's basement, and sent it to a friend to be opened at Christmas. It occurred to me that the gift would also amuse my great-nephews and nieces soyesterday went to get another one. Then I sat in the very agreeable cafe and wrote my Christmas cards. It occurred to me that I was supremely happy sitting there. How rarely we give thanks.
The CATHSOC...
....at St Mary's University invited me to give a talk about St John Paul...we met first at the old chapel-in-the-woods for the Angelus - the students gather there and ring the Angelus bell three times, and pray together. Then on to a lecture room in the Shannon suite - named after a former Principal of the College - where there was a pasta supper. A friendly group, and we were joined by some Sisters of the Assumption who have a small convent at the University to be a praying presence there.
If you would like a copy of John Paul II - Man of Prayer just send a Comment to this blog - which I will not pubsh - with your name and address and I'll send it to you, and you can post me back £5.00 (This also applies to the USA, but make it $10).
John Paul is particularly interesting on the subject of authentic religious freedom - some insights here....
We will be singing carols...
...in the trendy hot-spot of Flat Iron Square, near the Borough Market, on Monday Dec 17th. Come and hear us!
To Sussex...
...for a meeting with the team that runs the Catholic History Walks. The programme of Walks for the firstweeks of 2019 is now available: read here...
Earlier, on Friday, I took a group of young Australians on a walk around the Tower of London and a visit to Tyburn. Starting at the gateway to the Tower, one can walk around the moat, pausing at Traitors' Gate and then continuing towards Tower Bridge and going along the road to rejoin the moat path and thence into the Memorial Gardens where the young men and boys who lost their lives at sea in the Merchant Navy in two world wars are commemorated...and finishing at the site of execution where among many others John Fisher, Thomas More Archbiship Laud, and Lord Derwenwater were beheaded...
...with the Catholic History Walks, of WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL yesterday and ST GEORGE'S CATHEDRAL SOUTHWARK today.
The latter - a fine Pugin gothic church, badly damaged in an air raid in WWII but beautifully repaired - is disappointing in some of its recent additions. A ghastly, unsightly enormous yellow cross with ugly decorations stands several feet high in a side-chapel.Apparently it honours St Oscar Romero, but it is hard to see how or indeed why. He is not a local saint, and there is much important local culture that is ignored. The cathedral's regular congregation includes Londoners whose family origins are from Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, and many European countries...and the story ofthe Church in Southwark also includes heroes and martyrs from Saxon times (St Elphege was martyred by the Vikings, nearby) to the Gordon Riots (which were started on this site, when it was St George's Fields). And how about a bit more about St George, and his links with this loop of the Thames?
There is just one newish addition of real merit - a fine stained glass window near the Blessed Sacrament chapel, , honouring St John Paul's visit to the Cathedral in 1982. This is probably the cathedral's best item: it depicts the Holy Father anointing the sick, who were gathered in the cathedral for this historic visit...the whole scene was powerful and moving.
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...presumably takes its name because the Royalist Army massed there during the Civil War. Today, the inhabitants seem to eat many of their meals out of doors, leaving the chip wrappers, beer cans and expanded polystrene burger-boxes around the Kingstanding roundabout.It's a depressing place in which to shop, but I often go there to get extra coffee because halfway through a Maryvale weekend I tend to run out...pleasant coffee-breaks in the Redford Room with a cafetiere and chat.
Maryvale is some distance away on Old Oscott Hill...all Catholic territory as a recusant family long owned the land. There is a busy Catholic parish, big Catholic secondary school, convent (now home to the Sisters of the BVM, formerly of Wantage), the Maryvale primary school, and the Institute itself, once home to Bl John Henry Newman and now welcoming students who obtain diplomas in catechetics or missionary work, or degrees or doctorates in theology or philosophy...
Maryvale is a wonderful oasis...Birmingham with its swirl of motorways, the noise and the traffic...and then the cheery sense of welcome as you turn in at the drive...
... last week,when I bought the gloves, and saw that they had a tiny heart, in reinforced material, on the tips of the thumb, forefinger, and next finger.
No. These are 21st-century gloves and the reinforcement is neccessary because most people spend so much of their time using the those fingertips to tap on their wretched mobile phones.
...of the John Paul Walk for the New Evangelisation, next August (1st-4th). This annual Walk to Walsingham is organised by the Dominican Sisters of St Joseph and is glorious. We walk through the most wonderful countryside, we pray, we sing, we listen to superb talks on aspects of the Faith. We are given overnight accomodation in halls and schools, and there is a hot meal when we arrive at each pilgrim destination...and a splendid welcome at Sunday Mass in Walsingham.
Book the dateds in the diary now, and note that link for further information, booking forms etc.
...to discover the actual statement of the Bishops of England and Wales on the "transgenmder" issue. You can read it here...
I don't want to be rude, but...do our bishops know what they are doing?
...in fact I sometimes wonder if they are in charge at all...
What bureaucrat put out that ridiculous Tweet,and why?
...it is time to speak out in defence of children who are being treated with drugs and surgical mutilation.
The Catholic World Report has published this on the subejct. Please read.
...is ubiquitous in some quarters. Read ...here...
and on a more cheery note, please put these dates in your diary for December and for 2019......
...London at Christmas
Sunday 16th December, 3pm. A walk through St James' Park and on to the Christmas Tree in Trafalgar Square. Meet at Westminster Cathedral. Nearest Tube: Victoria.
London in the New Year
Wednesday 2nd January, 3pm. Enjoy London in the New Year, as we walk to Whitehall and Trafalgar Square, visiting crib-scenes along the way. Meet on the steps of Westminster Cathedral. Nearest Tube: Victoria.
The City and Tower of London
Sunday 13th January, 3pm. A walk through the city with its turbulent history, as we hear the story of brave heroes such as St Thomas More and St John Fisher, walking towards the Tower of London. Meet at Monument Tube Station.
A Royal Walk
Sunday 27th January, 3pm. A walk exploring the history of the Royal Family and Catholicism, through St James' Park and on to Buckingham Palace. Meet on the steps of Westminster Cathedral. Nearest Tube: Victoria.
Richmond-upon-Thames
Sunday 10th February, 3.30pm. Discover the history of this river-side town, with its pre-Empancipation Catholic Church and ancient royal history. Meet at St Elizabeth's Church, The Vineyard, Richmond, TW10 6AQ. Nearest station, tube, and overground: Richmond.
...with a Cardinal: read about it here....
And meanwhile the ghastly fall-out from the sexual-abuse scandals in the USA grinds relentlessly onwards, with the Pope's recent actions showing a tragic failure to understand how people are feeling and reacting in the USA...
...where there is now always a sense of coming home, of things feeling comfortable and familiar as one turns in at the drive.
Funeral Mass for Mgr Paul Watson in Maryvale's chapel, known and used by Bl JH Newman: like so many Maryvale graduates, I owe Mgr Paul a lot...
Refreshments and lots of chat...
Then the Redford Lecture, given this year by the Bishop of Northampton.
And now today, I've just been in the laundry, pressing my gown for the graduation ceremonies which will take place in St Chad's Cathedral. I enjoy wearing my St Mary's (Twickenham) MA gown, with its special lining of Challoner rose-coloured silk.
I return to Maryvale next weekend to lecture to the BA students on apologetics...
...he's been getting this whole McCarrick business mostly wrong so far. Read here...and pray for the Pope. I wouldn't like to have his job. He merits and deserves our prayers.
...were busy at St Elizabeth's Church in Richmond, raising funds which they badly need - because they have good numbers of young women expressing interest in joining them...but have insufficient space to ccomodate them! PLEASE HELP these wonderful sisters.They are the Sisters of Mary Morning Star and you can find out about them here...
And you can help them by sending a donation :Sisters of Maria Stella Natutina, Harvey House,Headley Road, Grayshott GU26 6DP
I was at the church to talk to Fr Stephen the parish priest about CATHOLIC HISTORY WALKS in this beautiful riverside town in the spring. There is rich Catholic history here...evidenced by names like Friars Stile Road and indeed The Vineyard in which St Elizabeth's stands...and there is Bl John Henry Newman's childhood home at Ham...watch for info in due course on the Catholic History Walks website...
I stopped to chat to the Sisters - we met at Youth 2000 a couple of summers back. These are young nuns, and it is somehow fun to have that mix of youth - the way they talk ("It's, like. amazing, like, to be, like, praying" etc) - along with traditional nuns' robes...
I bought some of the sisters home-made produce (bikkies, cake, some Christmas gifts) , enjoyed a cup of tea with them...
Home on the bus with lots of cheery Twickenham Rugby crowds...
...on Church/State relations...an important matter: read here...
..and realised that we must see this wretched thing as part of the crude damage that is being done in so many ways to the natural world. We understand the horrible mess that is being made in our oceans with the dumping of plastic waste and so on. The horrible mess that is happening to human beings with this wetched gender-rubbish also needs to be addressed.
"Valuing one's own body in its femininity or masculinity is necessary if I am going to be able to recognize myself in an encounter with someone who is different. In this way we can joyfully accept the specific gifts of another man or woman, the work of God the Creator, and find mutual enrichment. It is not a healthy attitude which would seek to cancel out sexual difference because it no longer knows how to confront it". Pope Francis, in Laudato Si.
...of the situation in which the American bishops have now been placed...here...
Difficult days for the Church. Pray...
The work of the Church goes on. Today, a gathering in Parliament organised by Catholic MPs and peers, at which Cardinal Peter Turkson spoke, tackling issues of human dignity and human trafficking. There is some good work being done by Catholic groups on this...including nuns who run places of refuge for young women caught up in this ghastly life of prostitution...
The recent Catholic Women of the Year lunch raised funds for Bakhita House...
Today's meeting was in the Speaker's House, approached via a rather grand staircase and entrance just off New Palace Yard. We gathered in rooms lined with enormous portraits of bewigged former Speakers. A gentle reflective moment of history before the talk turned to the matters in hand: Cardinal Turkson recalled singing "God Save the Queen at school as a child in Ghana...
...going on a Catholic History Walk with some of Mother Theresa's nuns...read here...
...has printed a short feature about the FAITH Movement, written by the Editor of the magazine. Might be of interest: read here...
...since the Armistice of 1918 was signed.
J. joined his regiment for the march-past in Whitehall. I went to the local ceremonies at London Bridge. Later, to Westminster Abbey to hear the great pealing out of bells and to see the beacon lit, one of a great number across the whole country.
The bond that unites people in Britain for a short while each November is something quite extraordinary - and ordinary. People feel somehow normal: there is a sense of neighbourliness. In a packed pub, a kilted piper started to play and everyone applauded and called for more. Older men wearing medals - and especially really elderly men wearing a row of medals - were greeted everywhere with respect. At Waterloo, taxi drivers wearing special "poppy rides" jackets offered free transport to Remembrance events to any Forces chaps, serving or retired.
People chatted, spoke of family members who had served in the Great War for the Second World War.. I thought of my grandfather, wounded twice on the Western Front...he reurned home finally to his wife and baby son...my Uncle John who in turn went on to serve twenty years later with the RAF in the Second World War and was killed, shot down over the North Sea...
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Stankovic-Valentin, N., Drzewicka, K., König, C., Schiebel, E. and Melch<|fim_middle|> sites), connections between SUMOylation and nucleocytoplasmic transport (focusing, e.g., on the nucleoporin and E3 Ligase RanBP2/Nup358), links between SUMO- and ubiquitin-conjugation pathways, and regulation of sumoylation by redox-signalling.
Organizer (2008) and co-organizer (2006, 2010, 2012) of EMBO practical courses on ubiquitin and SUMO.
The prize honours Prof. Melchior's outstanding achievements in the life sciences. In addition, winners of the award are role models who inspire future generations of scientists.
Scientists at the Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University have gained new insights into the process of mitosis in mammalian cells, especially into the role of the actin cytoskeleton. | ior, F. (2016) Redox-regulation of SUMO enzymes is required for ATM activity and survival in oxidative stress. In: EMBO J. 35, S. 1312-1329.
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Research in our group centers on posttranslational modification with small ubiquitin-related proteins of the SUMO family. Like ubiquitin, these proteins can be covalently and reversibly linked to other proteins. Attachment of SUMO serves to regulate protein-protein interactions, subcellular localization, enzymatic activity and stability.
Projects in the lab aim at understanding mechanisms, regulation and function of SUMOylation in mammalian cells. We are interested in basic principles of reversible sumoylation (enzymes, targets and acceptor | 634 |
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Student discovers hate speech on keyboard in STEM
On Feb. 14 at approximately 3:44 p.m., Campus Police was dispatched to Green Hall regarding criminal mischief.
Upon arrival, Campus Police met with the assistant director of Information Technology, who reported that he was told by a professor that an unknown student had rearranged keys on a computer keyboard in one of the multiple computer labs in the STEM Building to read the words "NIG<|fim_middle|> attendant before leaving and proceeded to TCNJ Campus Police Headquarters to report the theft. The student advised Campus Police that nothing else was missing from his wallet. The case is currently still open for investigation.
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Campus Police was provided a room schedule and photographs of the keyboard. Campus Police then spoke with the advising professor on the matter. The professor told them that a student pointed out the keyboard to him soon after he arrived to class at approximately 8 a.m.
There are currently no suspects in this investigation.
CA reports intoxicated student in Wolfe Hall
On Feb. 23 at approximately 1:14 a.m., Campus Police was dispatched to Wolfe Hall on the report of an intoxicated person. Upon arrival, the Police discovered a female individual sitting in a chair in the lounge on a floor in Wolfe Hall.
The individual was seen sitting upright, conscious and alert. A community adviser stated that she saw the individual staggering up the stairs and brought her to the Wolfe Hall lobby for evaluation.
While speaking to the female individual, who was confirmed to be a student and resident of Wolfe Hall, Campus Police detected an odor of alcohol emanating from her breath. The student's speech was slow and slurred, according to reporting officers.
Campus Police asked the student if she had consumed any alcoholic beverages. The student then stated that she had consumed multiple mixed drinks.
TCNJ Emergency Medical Services arrived on scene to evaluate the student. She was then cleared and allowed to return to her room. The student was issued a "B" summons for possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages in a public place or motor vehicle by a person under legal age.
Campus Police discover intoxicated female in Wolfe Hall
On Feb. 24 at approximately 12:15 a.m., Campus Police was dispatched to Wolfe Hall on the report of an intoxicated person. Upon arrival, Campus Police discovered a female student laying on the floor in front of Wolfe Hall's rear lobby elevators. The student was accompanied by multiple other female students.
Upon questioning, she was unresponsive and her speech was incomprehensible. Campus Police detected the odor of alcohol emanating from her breath, as well as vomit on her shirt, pants and the floor where she was laying.
Campus Police questioned two of the accompanying students, who they stated that their unconscious friend had consumed multiple mixed drinks at an unknown off-campus house party.
The CA at the scene stated she saw the female student laying on the floor and throwing up on the Wolfe Hall rear lobby elevators. The CA then proceeded to call Campus Police.
TCNJ Emergency Medical Services arrived on scene and evaluated the student. She was transported to a nearby medical facility for further evaluation.
Campus Police did not issue a "B" summons for possession or consumption of an alcoholic beverage by person under legal age due to the level of intoxication of the student. Campus Police reported that she will be issued the summons at a later date.
Intoxicated male vomits in Wolfe Hall
On Feb. 24 at approximately 3:05 a.m., Campus Police was dispatched to a men's room on one of the floors of Wolfe Hall on an intoxicated persons call.
Upon arrival, a male individual was seen sitting up on the floor inside the hallway doors, being evaluated by TCNJ EMS. The individual, confirmed to be a student, appeared to be alert and conscious.
The student told Campus Police that he had consumed nine Bud Light beers at an off-campus location. He was initially found by a female student who stated that she found him lying on the floor outside of her room, having already vomited.
The male student vomited a second time while being evaluated by TCNJ EMS. When asked if he wanted to be transported to a hospital for further evaluation, the student stated that he did not.
TCNJ EMS determined that the student was able to return to his room for the evening. The student was then issued a "B" summons for possession or consumption of an alcoholic beverage by person under legal age.
Theft occurs at Campus Town Fitness Center
On Feb. 26 at approximately 9:15 p.m., Campus Police met with a male student who wanted to report a theft from the Campus Town Fitness Center.
The student stated he arrived at the Fitness Center at approximately 7:45 p.m. and proceeded to the men's locker room. He stated that he rolled up his wallet in his jacket and placed the items in a locker without a lock.
He went back to the locker at approximately 8:45 p.m. to take his belongings from the unlocked locker. Upon exiting the Fitness Center, the student checked his wallet and found that all his cash was missing from his wallet.
He reported that he had $80 in all 20-dollar bills prior to the theft. He notified the front desk | 946 |
The process video was mostly filmed<|fim_middle|>. | by myself, with a few clips filmed by classmates and my professor. Variety was the key, taking a few detail shots, panoramic shots, and a couple time lapses. I edited all the footage together alone, using the shows brand as inspiration for the color overlays and dotted line dividers. Because most of the video was of the show being put up, I only had a weekend to edit all of the clips before the show opened.
For Central Michigan University's graphic design senior thesis capstone show, the class was broken up into groups each assigned to an aspect to the branding and marketing of the show. I was on the video team with one other person, tasked with creating a trailer for the show as well as a process video to showcase the hard work that went into it.
My classmate and I worked within the branding of the show and discussed the direction for the trailer, storyboarding together before dividing up the work. She animated the front half while I animated the portraits and end-screen using the assets from the original poster | 206 |
Houston life insurance agents are often asked which type of life insurance is the best for a particular situation. While each individual's case is different, most people end up opting for term life insurance because there are many positives and only a couple of negatives.
The main reason people seek life insurance in Houston Texas is because they want to ensure that their family is provided for in the event that they pass away. No one wants to leave their family wondering where they will live, or how they will feed themselves in addition to dealing with the loss of a loved one. But of course you also want to get insurance coverage that makes sense for you while you are alive as well.
Term life insurance is a great type of coverage to have as part of your family insurance in Houston, Texas. This type of insurance coverage is designed to cover a specific amount of time. Term policies are usually available from 5 years to 50 years and everything in between. People usually purchase this type of insurance to make sure their family is covered while the kids are growing up, and there are a lot of family expenses that will need to be covered should the main bread winner pass away.
The idea behind term life insurance Houston Texas agents often note, is that while you are paying for the insurance to cover the needs of your family in the immediate term you are also saving to care for your spouse and/or yourself in your later years. This type of insurance is great for people who have a time in their life that they will need to make sure their family is cared for, while they build up the nest egg.
Some people think that term life insurance is a waste of money because it will expire if you don't die during the term and you won't recover any of the money. These people recommend Texas whole life insurance instead. But the truth is that term life insurance isn't about losing money or saving money, it is about knowing you can go to bed each night with the peace of mind that your family is taken care of should you pass away.
In Houston, Texas, life insurance is just as important as it is everywhere across America. The best thing about term life insurance is that it is one of the most affordable types of life insurance out there because it is the one that is the least paid out by insurers.
It is important to sit down with a professional life insurance<|fim_middle|> or wrong answer when it comes to Houston life insurance. The only right answer is you taking the steps needed to make sure your family is safe and secure and all of your dreams for them come true even if you are no longer with them. | broker and go over exactly what type of coverage you need and how much you will need to know that your family is taken care of if you should pass away. As stated earlier in the article, there is no one right | 44 |
The Princess Royal opens the National Museum of the Royal Navy's exhibition: Jutland 1916
The Princess Royal visits Portsmouth's Historic Dockyard to unveil HMS Hood Bell and to open the National Museum of the Royal Navy's new exhibition 36 Hours: Jutland 1916,<|fim_middle|>The Princess Royal celebrates 30 years of St John Ambulance Cadets
The Princess Royal visits Team GB in Brazil
The Princess Royal visits the new home of Concorde 216
The Princess Royal opens the Royal Three Counties Show
Re-opening the Alexandra Bridge in Tain | The Battle that Won the War.
Nine months after its retrieval from the murky depths of the Denmark Strait, the bell from HMS Hood was unveiled by The Princess Royal during a commemorative service to mark the 75th anniversary of the sinking of the ship. Hood was the largest Royal Navy vessel to have been sunk, causing the biggest loss of life suffered by any single British warship.
Her Royal Highness struck eight bells at midday at a ceremony at The National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard as descendants of some of the 1,415 sailors who lost their lives when the ship was hit by Bismarck on 24 May, 1941 looked on. Only three of Hood's crew survived and it was the expressed wish of one of them, Ted Briggs, to recover the ship's bell as a memorial to his shipmates.
HMS Hood's bell provides an extraordinary and moving link between the sacrifice of the Royal Navy in 1916 at Jutland and those made by a new generation of sailors in World War 2
Prof Dominic Tweddle, National Museum of the Royal Navy
Following the unveiling, the bell was carried by a Royal Navy guard to Boathouse 5 for the official opening by The Princess Royal of the exhibition 36 Hours: Jutland 1916, The Battle That Won The War, which marks the centenary of the Battle of Jutland.
With the bell in place, the Jutland exhibition was officially opened by the Princess Royal, who remained in the historic dockyard for the afternoon to spend a couple of hours discussing plans for next year's centenary of women serving in the RN, Wrens 100; HRH is the Chief Commandant for Women in the Navy.
Find out more about the life and work of The Princess Royal...
The Princess Royal celebrates the 'Edinburgh Seven'
The Princess Royal attends the 20th Anniversary Reception for Transaid
The Princess Royal celebrates 150 years of women in universities
The Princess Royal's Charities & Patronages
The Princess Royal visits Gloucestershire
The Princess Royal hosts the annual Not Forgotten Association Garden Party
The Princess Royal attends the WW100 Scotland National Day of Remembrance service
The Princess Royal visits Peru
The Earl of Wessex
Find out more about the annual 'Royal Week' in Scotland
The Princess Royal attends the first ever Accessible Regatta
The Princess Royal visits Cornwall
The Princess Royal visits China 2017
The Princess Royal Visits Ghana
The Princess Royal visits Battersea Power Station's new culture and arts space, The Village Hall.
The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering 2017
The Princess Royal at the WRNS Benevolent Trust AGM
The Princess Royal visits Farms for City Children
The Princess Royal marks 25 years of the Carers Trust
Meeting Speakers and Deputies of Commonwealth Parliaments
Presenting the Queen's Award for Enterprise in International Trade
The Princess Royal visits Yorkshire Dama Cheese
The Princess Royal hosts the Not Forgotten Association's annual Christmas tea party
The Princess Royal hosts inaugural Training Awards ceremony
The Princess Royal and the Olympics
Read more about The Princess Royal's long association with the Olympic Games...
The Princess Royal presents new Merchant Navy medal
Touring the laboratory at the Moredun Research Institute
The Princess Royal visits Malaysia and Singapore
The Princess Royal and Riding for the Disabled
The Princess Royal has been involved with Riding for the Disabled for 50 years.
The Princess Royal presents the WISE Awards
The Princess Royal rewards volunteers at Leuchie House National Respite Centre
The Princess Royal joins commemorations marking the first Arctic Convoys 75 years ago
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Chicago Public Schools to Announce Closings
Lindsay Prossnitz | February 13, 2013 11:00 am
Chicago Public Schools releases a list of schools that are still being considered for closings.<|fim_middle|> closed due to underutilization but could be impacted in other ways like grade alignment, co-location, turnaround, etc.
The updated criteria are meant to aid the District's $1 billion deficit in the upcoming fiscal year in addition to the high rate of underutilized schools in the District.
"As a former teacher and principal, I know that our limited education resources are spread much too thin," said CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett. "By combining schools that lack sufficient numbers of students, we can redirect our limited resources to give all of our children the quality education they need and deserve to succeed."
CPS will make their final recommendations for closings by March 31.
"I will not close any school where I don't have confidence that children will have a safe and smooth transition at welcoming schools next fall," said Byrd-Bennett.
The District has space for 511,000 students but there are currently only 403,000 students enrolled, with nearly 140 schools half empty.
View the list of 129 schools still under consideration for closing.
Chicago Sun-Times article on School-closings panel has conflicts of interest, group charges
Chicago Sun-Times article on As CPS mulls school closings, study finds city has plenty of vacant school buildings | Elizabeth Brackett has the latest on Chicago Tonight at 7:00pm.
Chicago Public Schools Chief Executive Officer, Barbara Byrd-Bennett, released an updated list of schools that remain under consideration for closing. After reviewing community feedback gathered by the Commission on School Utilization and input from CPS community meetings, the criteria for determining underutilized schools was updated.
What began as a list of 330 underutilized schools has now been cut down to 129 schools using the updated criteria.
Schools that meet at least one of the updated criteria will not be considered for closing. Among the new guidelines for schools that will not be considered for closings are: high schools, schools with over 600 students enrolled, schools that are more than a mile away from other neighborhood elementary schools, and schools surrounded by other neighborhood schools that are at or near capacity.
The 129 schools listed won't all be recommended for closure but will undergo a second round of community meetings beginning Wednesday, February 13. This preliminary list is expected to continue shrinking in the coming weeks as CPS gathers community feedback.
Additionally, schools that were removed from consideration will not be | 239 |
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2009 Nebula Award Nominations
February 19, 2010 February 19, 2010 John Scalzi63 Comments
The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) has released the list of nominees for the 2009 Nebula, Bradbury and Norton Awards, and I'm delighted to say<|fim_middle|> so much with the SF section there. He's also an inch or two shorter than I… :)
I would think that the reason for new authors to write short stories and the like is to get noticed for a book deal.
Does a hugo or nebula basically guarantee a young writer a book deal?
Ari B. says:
(Lots of authors I like, including one that I'm actually friends with got nominated this year. Very cool.)
Tim Standish says:
I was so excited to see the Nebula Awards weekend was going to be held nearby and then I saw the ballot and was even giddier. I hope all of you get to make it here. I have enjoyed several books and stories on the list and just started to read your work last year. You are on my list of winners. | The God Engines and Zoe's Tale are on the list. The official press release is here, but you'll find the full list below, with additional comments from me at the end.
The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade, Sep 09)
The Love We Share Without Knowing, Christopher Barzak (Bantam, Nov 08)
Flesh and Fire, Laura Anne Gilman (Pocket, Oct 09)
The City & The City, China Miéville (Del Rey, May 09)
Boneshaker, Cherie Priest (Tor, Sep 09)
Finch, Jeff VanderMeer (Underland Press, Oct 09)
The Women of Nell Gwynne's, Kage Baker (Subterranean Press, Jun 09)
"Arkfall," Carolyn Ives Gilman (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sep 09)
"Act One," Nancy Kress (Asimov's Science Fiction, Mar 09)
Shambling Towards Hiroshima, James Morrow (Tachyon, Feb 09)
"Sublimation Angels," Jason Sanford (Interzone, Oct 09)
The God Engines, John Scalzi ( Subterranean Press, Dec 09)
"The Gambler," Paolo Bacigalupi (Fast Forward 2, Pyr Books, Oct 08)
"Vinegar Peace, or the Wrong-Way Used-Adult Orphanage," Michael Bishop (Asimov's Science Fiction, Jul 08)
"I Needs Must Part, The Policeman Said," Richard Bowes (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Dec 09)
"Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast," Eugie Foster (Interzone, Feb 09)
"Divining Light," Ted Kosmatka (Asimov's Science Fiction, Aug 08)
"A Memory of Wind," Rachel Swirsky (Tor.com, Nov 09)
"Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela," Saladin Ahmed (Clockwork Phoenix 2, Norilana Press, Jul 09)
"I Remember the Future," Michael A. Burstein (I Remember the Future, Apex Press, Nov 08)
"Non-Zero Probabilities," N. K. Jemisin (Clarkesworld, Nov 09)
"Spar," Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld, Oct 09)
"Going Deep," James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's Science Fiction, Jun 09)
"Bridesicle," Will McIntosh (Asimov's Science Fiction, Jan 09)
BRADBURY AWARD (dramatic presentation)
Star Trek, JJ Abrams (Paramount, May 09)
District 9, Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell (Tri-Star, Aug 09)
Avatar, James Cameron (Fox, Dec 09)
Moon, Duncan Jones and Nathan Parker (Sony, Jun 09)
Up, Bob Peterson and Pete Docter (Disney/Pixar, May 09)
Coraline, Henry Selick (Laika/Focus Feb 09)
ANDRE NORTON AWARD (young adult)
Hotel Under the Sand, Kage Baker (Tachyon, Jul 09)
Ice, Sarah Beth Durst (Simon and Schuster, Oct 09)
Ash, Malinda Lo (Little, Brown and Company, Sep 09)
Eyes Like Stars, Lisa Mantchev (Feiwel and Friends, Jul 09)
Zoe's Tale, John Scalzi (Tor Aug 08)
When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead (Wendy Lamb Books, 2009)
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her
Own Making, Catherynne M. Valente (Catherynne M. Valente, Jun 09)
Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld (Simon, Oct 09)
The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented by, active members of SFWA. The awards will be announced at the Nebula Awards Banquet the evening of May 15 at the Hilton Cocoa Beach Oceanfront, just 20 minutes from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
And now, some quick thoughts from me:
* Quite obviously I'm thrilled. This is my first ever Nebula nomination, and likewise my first Norton nomination, and I'm delighted in both cases. In the case of The God Engines, it's different enough from everything else I've ever published that I didn't know whether it would work for anyone else but me, so it getting a nod from my fellow writers is both humbling and gratifying.
And with Zoe, well. It's very nice to see it getting recognition as a YA, considering it was written to be accessible to younger readers, a fact which is sometimes overlooked. Plus I think most of you know how insensibly proud I am of Zoe as a character, so this feels like my peers saying I did well by her, which is again humbling and gratifying. Zoe also makes a little bit of history by being the first novel to be nominated for both the Norton and the Hugo, which is kind of neat. I wouldn't be surprised if that distinction is short-lived, however, as I think Leviathan has very good Hugo chances this year.
* Leaving aside my own work for a moment, I think this is one of the strongest Nebula slates in a long time, in just about every category, including the Bradbury and Norton. SFWA revamped the rules this year to reinvigorate the awards and the nomination process, and I think those changes really paid off; there's a good diversity of nominees, and a wide stylistic and thematic range of stories for voters to choose from. I can't think of a category where any one nominee is a runaway favorite, which speaks to the quality of the work across the board. So a round of applause to you, SFWA. To the voters this year: Well, your job will be tough, but think off all the good reading you'll get to do in the process. That's a fair trade.
* The awards will be given out during the aforementioned Nebula Banquet in May, as part of a larger Nebula Weekend, and yes, I'll be there for that. I was planning to be there regardless, because a) Joe Haldeman is being made a Grand Master then and I don't want to miss that, and b) I'm running for President of SFWA, and that's when the election results are officially announced. So I guess that's another thing I'll be up for, isn't it. As if I won't be twitchy enough.
While the Nebula Weekend is a SFWA function, it is also open to the public; here's more information on that. SFWA also very frequently schedules a mass autographing session featuring its members at a nearby bookstore, so if you're in or around the vicinity of Cocoa Beach that weekend, it's an excellent time to meet your favorite authors. See you there.
Tough But Fair
And Now, a Nebula Awards Geek Out Moment
63 thoughts on "2009 Nebula Award Nominations"
Charles K. Bradley says:
Many congratulations John on your Nebula nominations!! I'm finishing up "The Ghost Brigades" today and read "Zoe's Tale" last summer before the worldcon and loved it. I have "The God Engines" on order.
Good luck and hoping you when the Nebula Award!!!
Opps, I meant so say WIN, nor When.
Bearpaw says:
Zoe also makes a little bit of history by being the first novel to be nominated for both the Norton and the Hugo, which is kind of neat. I wouldn't be surprised if that distinction is short-lived, however, as I think Leviathan has very good Hugo chances this year.
Even if Leviathan gets nominated for both, Zoe will still have been the first. Can't take that away.
P.S. Congrats and well-deserved!
Rachel Swirsky says:
Congratulations, John!
John Scalzi says:
And to you, Rachel! I'm really very happy for you! Now I can say "Hey, I bought her first sale!" with extra pride.
John W. says:
Congratulations on both (well deserved) nominations, John! I agree that it's a very strong field this year in all categories.
Congratulations on you nominations. The God Engines was eggsaladant.
Thomas M. Wagner says:
As always, got lots of catching up to do!
Surprised The Magicians didn't get a nomination – it was the best book I read this year. It was eligible, right?
Awesome, John! I'm very happy for you!!
Susan Ford says:
I also hope we see more YA Science Fiction written thanks to Zoe's Tale.
Chris:
There's always the Hugo. And yes, it was a good book.
Guess says:
Do they ever take the Short Stories, Novellettes, and Novellas (that are not published seperately) and then wrap them into one book and publish those?
I would like to read alot of the shorter ficiton nominated just to check out the authors, but I have to go all over the place to find them. If it was packaged in one place and called "2009 Nebula Nominees" or something like that it may have a fan base to sell to. Might be something you may want to consider if you get elected president of SFWA.
How does the nomination process work? The only Novel in that list I have heard of is The Boneshaker. It looks like bestsellers are almost always ignored in the Hugo and Nebula nominations.
Minor Gripe: Robert Jordan deserves to be a grandmaster. He changed the fantasy genre.
Bozo the Clone says:
Hmm, since I never see any fan-Cons down here in FL, I may have to go for this one. Not sure I could take many of the fan traditions anyway.
Will they be announcing SFWA election results as well, or just the Nebulas?
Guess:
They make Nebula collections, yes. However, each author has control over his/her work and maychoose not to participate, and in any event a Nebula collection featuring current nominees wouldn't be available until after the awards voting for the year is done.
Guess @ 13:
The winners and some of the nominees are published annually in anthologies called the Nebula Awards Showcase. Check with your favorite bookstore. If they don't have one or more of them, they can order 'em.
I would think most of the lesser known authors would want to be in these collections.
If these short stories are sold to magazines like Aasimov's do the authors give up writes to re-publish these in a collection?
Excuse me, as John notes, some of the winners and some of the nominees. Still very much worth picking up, IMO.
Michael A. Burstein says:
And to you, Michael!
Lee Whiteside says:
For the Nebula Awards, most of the short fiction is usually made available to the members of SFWA to read online or in electronic format via the members only section. The Nebula Awards showcase released the following year usually has most of the winners and some of the nominees as well as some additional essays.
It sounds like this year's Nebula Awards Weekend will be a good one to attend, especially with a shuttle launch nearby. If I wasn't chairing a local convention that weekend, I'd definitely be tempted to go.
Matt W. says:
Matt Caron says:
I read more short fiction this year than I usually do, so this is the first time I've read most of the nominees. I am especially happy to see "Divining Light" by Ted Kosmatka nominated as it was probably my favorite of the year and I didn't know it was up for any awards. But its got some stiff, worthy competition. Congrats to all the nominees, our host included!
Martyn Taylor says:
Congratulations to all nominees, escpecially to yourself – anything that beats Zoe's Tale will be one damn fine novel.
A nomination for the Avatar script? I didn't notice it had one. Oh well.
You tolerate me! You really tolerate me!
RickWhoIsNotThatRick says:
Congrats to John (and Rachel and others). It must feel especially good to see TGE nominated since it was a move to a new genre for you.
Dr Rocketscience says:
First off, congratulations John! Now I really need to find a copy of Last Colony, so I can get to Zoe. The bookstores in Northern Colorado have been… discooperative.
Secondly, Star Trek was superbly cast, stylistically beautiful (yes, lens flares and all), and tremendously entertaining. But I swear, that script was so full of holes I couldn't use it to strain green beans.
And don't, don't get me started on Avatar.
Cat Valente says:
First time on a ballot together! *Norton High-Five*
The Pathetic Earthling says:
Awesome, sir! I haven't gotten to God Engines yet but am delighted Shambling Toward Hiroshima made it, too (first of many books I bought because I read about them through the Big Idea).
There seems to be a bias toward the the second half of the year in the nominations. I would presume that is because the nominators recall books they've read recently more vividly.
Do they have awards for cover artists? The cover of God Engines is excellent.
Luisa Perkins says:
Wowee–that IS a strong slate. Congratulations!
Not from SFWA but the Hugos have artist awards. And yes, I've nominated Vincent Chong (who did the God Engines cover) for a Hugo.
Congrats, John!
Although how in the WORLD "Avatar" got a Best Script nod is a question for the ages. I'm pleased to see the other nominees there (especially Moon and D9), but Avatar? Horrible script. If I wrote something like that, I would hope that my Writing Buddy would clock me over the head with a copy of "Characters and Viewpoint" and yell at me to write a second draft.
Johnny Carruthers says:
Congratulations on the nominations, and here's hoping that more congratulations will be coming once the Nebula winners are announced.
Dan Geiser says:
Per the SFWA and this Wikipedia article…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_count
novella's have a length of between 17,500 to 40,000 words. How do those in SFWA who are voting know to vote for Item A as a Novella rather than a Novel?
For example your 136 page count on The God Engines screams Novella to me but James Morrow's 196 pages does not.
Are works noted as eligible for certain categories ahead of time on a big SFWA cut sheet somewhere?
Have SFWA's word counts for categories changed over time? The reason I ask is that there are so many classic SF novels whose pages counts are in the vicinity of today's Novella length works.
Eduardo Méndez says:
Two books of my favorite author, "Zoë's Tale" and "The God Engines".
I apply to my local library "Zoë's Tale" and, in approximately a week, I have the book in my evils hands.
But I have to wait a year to read in Spanish "The God Engines" because a stupid local law, who say "A foreigner author cannot publish more than one book a year", and of course, this year have published in February "Zoë's Tale".
John, Save us from the politicians!!
Mary Robinette Kowal says:
Actually, the Bradbury award isn't for script. It is the "The Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation."
Oh! And congratulations!
But you already knew that I was happy for you.
Heh. Fixed, Mary. And thanks! Thank you to everyone, in fact.
@ 38 Ah, that makes more sense then. I will freely admit that Avatar is visually stunning.
That being said, I'm still not sure that something with a script that horrid can be classed as "outstanding."
D. A. Robertson says:
Congrats on the nom!
Christopher Barzak says:
Congrats, John. Here's to many more!
Pardon me while I delurk:
Congrats, John! And congrats again!
Okay, now I disappea …
Jack Tingle says:
Ouch, conflict. Congratulations, John, but…
I'm rooting for the late Kage Baker, twice. "The Hotel Under the Sand" is one of the best things I've ever read. "The Women of Nell Gwynne's" is good too, but hopefully you have a shot in novella category.
If anyone hasn't read Swirsky's "A Memory of Wind", stop now, go to Tor.com and read it. Period.
Congratulations to all the nominees,
Jack Tingle
I love people who drop by to tell me they're not rooting for me. I sort of wonder why people feel compelled to do that. It's a bit like going to a wedding and saying to the happy couple, "you know, statistically speaking, 50% of marriages end in divorce. But maybe you'll get lucky."
That said, both categories I'm nominated in are really strong categories. Which I like. One is judged by one's peers. And of course Kage's work in both categories is lovely.
Pam Adams says:
Those books/stories/movies that I've experienced all seem like excellent choices and deserving of the nomination. Now it's time to search out those others. Yay- more things to read!!! (or, of course, watch) Off to pick up FINCH now- the library just emailed me.
Karhe says:
First of all, congratulations on the nominations, of course. I loved all your books, including 'The God Engines', which I just finished.
I just wanted to add a little comment about Zoe. I like her very much. For me, reading the story from her point of view was incredible. It's a good feeling to see a teenage girl pictured so intelligent, responsible, strong and also with a no-nonsense attitude. I feel like she would get along very well with one of my all times favorite YA characters, Tiffany Aching (author: Terry Pratchett). Oh well, a bit outside of the subject at hand, but I wanted to share. Thanks.
I see the Nebula Award Weekend is also for nonauthors. Is it anything like a convention with panels and such? Or is it just lots of nonstop schmoozing?
mensley says:
Was just looking at the registration options. Is the banquet really worth the extra $95 per person? According to the website, the cheapo basic weekend still includes the awards ceremony.
Kij Johnson says:
Christopher, Jim, Kij:
And to you too! What company to keep.
I didn't like Zoe's Tale on first reading, but after reading The Last Colony, I went back to it and I really enjoyed it. Best of luck with it and with The God Engines.
Well to celebrate TGE's nomination (and getting a check from a client) I stopped by the University Bookstore and they had a copy so I bought it. The amusing thing? They also have a copy of Judge Sn Goes Golfing. First time I've ever seen them shelve a chapbook. But then, Duane rocks. And yes, they have more of TGE including a couple of the Limited Editions…
Duane does indeed rock. And is TALL.
Eugie Foster says:
You too, Eugie!
AlexC says:
OK, I live close enough (Daytona Beach) that I'm definitely attending. But like others who have commented, I'm not sure what the weekend contains beyond the banquet. Should I register for the weekend or just that evening?
Hehe, that's an awesome picture, John. I worked with Duane long ago when he first started there (not in book, I was in the art supplies area). It's awesome he's still there and doing | 4,243 |
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I hope these pieces will give you the pleasure they have, over the years, given to me.
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LJ Idol Exhibit B: Week 6 - The Hills Are Alive... with Poetry
This is my entry this week in the mini-season of therealljidol, Exhibit B. Please read the many fine entries and check back later for<|fim_middle|> gets worse from there.
But as I delved into Kilmer's work and his life, I began to sympathize with this man: so young, so determined to see beauty in everything. He was only 31 when he died in battle during World War I. While I still dislike most of his poetry, I admire his earnestness, his dedication, and his sincere belief in the underlying benevolent spirit of the earth and all that resides here.
Note: I've taken some liberties with the chronology of his poems.
Tags: exhibit b, fiction, lj idol, lji, poetry | a voting link. This week we had multiple topics. I chose "I think I'll never see..."
Words have power; he'd always believed that. But until it happened to him, he didn't realize just how much power.
Just after he'd written a poem about Dawn striding out to wake a dewy farm, monster footprints shook his family's modest home. He peered out his window to find the source of the noise and saw a great glowing giant, carrying birds that twittered and laughed. Out in the barn, the cows and sheep, rather than mooing and baaing as one might expect, shouted loudly, "It is day!" This nonsense was, he realized, a literal interpretation of his poem, in which he had used one of his favorite literary devices, pathetic fallacy.
Soon, more such images came to life before his eyes. The trees began pressing actual mouths to earthen breasts to drink, their branches converted to arms which raised to heaven in joyful prayer. While it had sounded lovely on paper, in person it was just a bit terrifying.
Before long, the whole landscape was abuzz: the nearby brook whispering; the sky turned into a frail blue butterfly, greeted by an admiring earth; and the distant mountain snoring like a behemoth king with a sleep disorder. Skies weeping, flowers turning their faces gratefully to the sun, squirrels playing like actual children, and all of them wondering aloud about their place in the universe. It was dreadful.
He shut his window to shut out the racket, but even that did not solve the problem. For then, the everyday objects around him came to life. Before you knew it, everything was self-aware: floors groaning, lanterns glowing serenely, and the stair creaking like squeaking mice, chasing after him as he ran upstairs.
"Do you hear it?" he called to his wife, Aline, in bed nursing their newborn son. "Do you hear how the world is alive with voices? The earth and trees shuddering to life with movement?"
A fellow poet, she merely smiled gently. "I hear it, my love. The world is blessing us as we welcome our boy. Our hearts, so recently closed with grief, can now open again to love and hope." Only 12 days previously, they had lost their 5-year-old daughter, Rose.
Vigorously, he shook his head. "No, my... love," he panted, catching himself just the moment before calling her his dove. "I mean it really is all coming to life: the trees, the earth, the very mountains rise up and walk."
Aline regarded him strangely. "It's been a troublesome two weeks, and you have barely slept. Get some rest now, and you'll feel better."
But his anxious mind would not pause long enough to allow him to sleep, so he shut himself into his study, where he knew he would find him: Martin, the ghost of a dear family friend he'd admired. Up until this day, he'd only seen him in memory's halls, but since he'd written his apparition into a poem, the specter himself appeared.
The kindly look on his ghost-friend's face soothed Joyce's anxiety. When the ghost asked him what was the matter, he gushed out the story, as rapidly as any brook he'd once mistakenly described as "babbling." But what to do now? How to remedy the illness that seemingly affected him alone?
Martin leaned on his polished walking stick and pondered. "You may not like my advice, friend." Though his face was solemn, there was a playful gleam in his eye. "As you wrote so aptly about me, you must take pleasure where you can. From the fleck of sunlight in the street to the horse, the book, the girl who smiles at you, appreciate and write what you see, my boy. What you see."
And with that he vanished in a puff of metaphor.
In his short days after this very odd encounter, Joyce took this lesson to heart. Sometimes, he still could not refrain from falling back on his old habits, but he was rudely reminded of the dangers of doing so while riding a frighteningly clamorous train through a profane countryside on his way to basic training.
Joyce had enlisted to fight in the Great War within days of the United States joining the fray. Despite his mathematical skills and college education, which guaranteed him a safe post as a commissioned officer away from the front, he volunteered for a fighting regiment. In battle after battle, he gained a reputation for coolness and bravery under fire.
After each fray, as much as his tired mind would allow, he wrote some brief prose sketches and poems, drawn primarily from the images of his fallen brothers-in-arms, with gravestones and sadness falling away into heavenly glory. This was, he realized, the most important thing he could do for his friends: to write them an afterlife he truly believed would come true, through the magic of his words.
And so, one day, as he'd gone ahead to scout for the Germans, he was not a bit surprised to find himself looking down upon a vast heavenly landscape, as vivid as anything he'd written. He walked off into the haze, leaving his body behind and marveling at all he saw.
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BC Court of Appeal is Open to Broadening Privacy Recourse
Written by Teresa Scassa
The BC Court of Appeal has handed down a decision that shakes up certain assumptions about recourse for privacy-related harms in that province – and perhaps in other provinces as well.
The decision relates to<|fim_middle|> action arose under "federal" common law.
Overall, this decision is an interesting one. Clearly the Court of Appeal is sending strong signals that it is time to rethink recourse for breach of privacy in the province. It may now be that there is both a statutory and a common law action for breach of privacy. If this is so, it will be interesting to see what scope is given to the newly recognized common law tort. "Complete code" arguments have arisen in other lawsuits relating to breach of privacy; the BCCA's response in this case adds to a growing body of jurisprudence that rejects the idea that data protection laws provide the only legal recourse for the mishandling of personal data. Finally, a number of class action lawsuits have asserted the "federal common law of privacy", even though it has been entirely unclear what this is. The BCCA suggests that it is a fabrication and that no such distinct area of common law exists.
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As is typical in privacy class action lawsuits, the plaintiffs sought certification on multiple grounds. These included: "breach of contract, negligence, breach of privacy, intrusion upon seclusion, beach of confidence, unjust enrichment and waiver of tort." (at para 6) The motions judge certified only claims in contract, negligence, and the federal common law of privacy.
The defendants appealed, arguing that the remaining grounds were not viable and that the action should not have been certified. They also argued that a class action lawsuit was not the preferable procedure for the resolution of the common issues. While the plaintiffs cross-appealed the dismissal of the claim for breach of confidence, they did not appeal the decision that there was no recourse for breach of privacy or the tort of intrusion upon seclusion under BC law.
This post focuses what I consider to be the three most interesting issues in the case. These are: whether there is recourse for data breaches other than via data protection legislation; whether the tort of breach of privacy exists in B.C.; and whether there is a federal common law of privacy.
1. Is PIPEDA a complete code
The defendants argued that the class action lawsuit was not the preferred procedure because the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) constituted a "complete code in respect of the collection, retention, and disclosure of personal information by federally-regulated businesses, and that no action, apart from the application to the Federal Court contemplated by the Act can be brought in respect of a data breach." (at para 18) Justice Groberman, writing for the unanimous Court, noted that while it was possible for a statute to constitute a complete code intended to fully regulate a particular domain, it is not inevitable. He observed that the Ontario Court of Appeal decision in Hopkins v. Kay had earlier determined that Ontario's Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA) did not constitute a complete code when it came to regulating personal health information, allowing a lawsuit to proceed against a hospital for a data breach. In Hopkins, the Ontario Court of Appeal noted that PHIPA was primarily oriented towards addressing systemic issues in the handling of personal health information, rather than dealing with individual disputes. Although there was a complaints mechanism in the statute, the Commissioner had the discretion to decline to investigate a complaint if a more appropriate procedure were available. Justice Groberman noted that PIPEDA contained a similar provision in s. 12. He observed that "[t]his language, far from suggesting that the PIPEDA is a complete code, acknowledges that other remedies continue to be available, and gives the Commissioner the discretion to abstain from conducting an investigation where an adequate alternative remedy is available to the complainant." (at para 28) In his view, PIPEDA is similarly oriented towards addressing systemic problems and preventing future breaches, and that "[w]hile there is a mechanism to resolve individual complaints, it is an adjunct to the legislative scheme, not its focus." (at para 29) He also found it significant that PIPEDA addressed private rather than public sector data protection. He stated: "[w]ithin a private law scheme, it seems to me that we should exercise even greater caution before concluding that a statute is intended to abolish existing private law rights." (at para 30) He concluded that nothing in PIPEDA precluded other forms of recourse for privacy harms.
2. Do common law privacy torts exist in BC?
In 2012 the Ontario Court of Appeal recognized the privacy tort of intrusion upon seclusion in Jones v. Tsige. However, since British Columbia has a statutory privacy tort in its Privacy Act, the motions judge (like other BC judges before him) concluded that the statutory tort displaced any possible common law tort in BC. Justice Groberman was clearly disappointed that the plaintiffs had chosen not to appeal this conclusion. He stated: "In my view, the time may well have come for this Court to revisit its jurisprudence on the tort of breach of privacy." (at para 55) He proceeded to review the case law usually cited as supporting the view that there is no common law tort of breach of privacy in BC. He distinguished the 2003 decision in Hung v. Gardiner on the basis that in that case the judge at first instance had simply stated that he was not convinced by the authorities provided that such a tort existed in BC. On appeal, the BCCA agreed with the judge's conclusion on an issue of absolute privilege, and found it unnecessary to consider any of the other grounds of appeal.
The BCCA decision in Mohl v. University of British Columbia is more difficult to distinguish because in that case the BCCA stated "[t]here is no common-law claim for breach of privacy. The claim must rest on the provisions of the [Privacy] Act." (Mohl at para 13) Nevertheless, Justice Groberman indicated that while this statement was broad, "it is not entirely clear that it was intended to be a bold statement of general principle as opposed to a conclusion with respect to the specific circumstances of Mr. Mohl's case. In any event, the observation was not critical to this Court's reasoning." (at para 62)
Justice Groberman concluded that "The thread of cases in this Court that hold that there is no tort of breach of privacy, in short, is a very thin one." (at para 64) He also noted that the privacy context had considerably changed, particularly with the Ontario Court of Appeal's decision in Jones v. Tsige. He stated:
It may be that in a bygone era, a legal claim to privacy could be seen as an unnecessary concession to those who were reclusive or overly sensitive to publicity, though I doubt that that was ever an accurate reflection of reality. Today, personal data has assumed a critical role in people's lives, and a failure to recognize at least some limited tort of breach of privacy may be seen by some to be anachronistic. (at para 66)
He indicated that the Court of Appeal might be inclined to reconsider the issue were it to be raised before them, although he could not do so in this case since the plaintiffs had not appealed the judge's ruling on this point.
3. There is no federal common law of privacy
However keen Justice Groberman might have been to hear arguments on the common law tort of privacy, he overturned the certification of the privacy claims as they related to the federal common law of privacy. He characterized this approach as 'creative', but inappropriate. He noted that while common law principles might evolve in areas of federal law (e.g. maritime law), in cases where there was shared jurisdiction such as in privacy law, there was no separate body of federal common law distinct from provincial common law. He stated "there is only a single common law, and it applies within both federal and provincial spheres." (at para 76) More specifically, he stated:
Where an area of law could be regulated by either level of government, it is not sensible to describe the situation in which neither has enacted legislation as being a situation of either "federal" or "provincial" common law. It is simply a situation of the "common law" applying. The plaintiffs cannot choose whether to bring their claims under "federal" or "provincial" common law as if these were two different regimes. (at para 86)
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Google's Dance
Is Google a benign and helpful information company, or is it a massive advertising agency that spies on consumers and puts our privacy and civil liberties at risk? It's all a matter of perception.
By Robert Epstein March 27, 2013
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Robert Epstein is Senior Research Psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology (http://AIBRT.org) and the former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today magazine. A Ph.D. of Harvard University, Dr. Epstein has published 15 books and more than 200 articles on artificial intelligence and other topics. The views expressed here are solely his own.
When I first started studying psychology as an undergraduate in the early 1970s, a doddering professor of mine told me emphatically that most important thing a psychologist could study was perception. At the time, I dismissed her as a batty old lady. Over the years, though, I've come to believe she wasn't so batty.
How we see things, and how we interpret what we see, is important – critically so, in fact. Take fear, for example. There is only an approximate<|fim_middle|>'s perspective – and I don't mean Google's PR department, I mean Google's management – Google is an advertising company. Ninety-seven percent of Google's revenues, after all, come from advertising.
Because Google tracks every search a consumer makes, Google's search engine is really just a highly efficient tool for collecting information about consumer behavior – the most efficient and profitable tool for collecting such information ever invented. Over time, Google has gotten even more inventive in devising new ways to collect information about what people buy, believe, like, and dislike: by introducing its own browser and its own mobile operating system, for example, and even, for several years, by having teams of employees drive up and down streets in more than 30 countries extracting personal information from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks while snapping photos for its Street View service.
Early in 2012, Google alarmed privacy advocates and a few members of Congress with its announcement that it was combining consumer data across 60 of its various digital platforms to create dossiers on millions of people so detailed they would have made J. Edgar Hoover himself green with envy. Google's spin on this – remember, perception is everything – was that is was merely trying to make the user experience "simpler and more understandable."
There is genius in Google's methodology, and it all has to do with perception. People who use Google's products interpret their experience at one level only: Mr. Smith types in "diet pills" and "depression" and "homosexuality," and Google helps him – free of charge, no less – to find information about those topics. "Thank you, Google!" says Mr. Smith.
That's all the consumer sees.
But what Google sees is: "Jordan Smith – IP address x, computer ID y, dossier z in our database – is overweight, depressed, and gay and is likely over the next seven days to purchase products and services that will help him lose weight, lift his depression, and make him feel comfortable about his sexual orientation."
Within hours, many of the generic ads Mr. Smith sees on multiple platforms are now replaced with ads offering him a variety of services related to his most recent searches, but because of the delay between his search activities and the ads, he sees little or no connection between them. Even if he senses the connection, he engages in his next search with no conscious awareness that he is being observed. Instead, his attention is fully occupied by the search activity itself: by the process of formulating search terms, clicking on links, gathering information, and, ultimately, solving the new problem at hand. It's a cognitively demanding process, requiring considerable attention and producing rapid feedback that further grabs his attention.
Because of the delay and because the search task is so demanding, it completely obscures the stealthy monitoring that's paying Google's bills. For all intents and purposes, that monitoring is invisible.
And just as Mr. Smith is only dimly aware that his activities are being monitored, he is also most likely unaware that by setting up any sort of Google account – or even just by using Google's search engine – he is agreeing to the terms of a 1,682-word contract which in turn incorporates Google's Privacy Policy. Together, these documents allow Google to store and analyze material he uploads through its services as well as to send him "tailored content" – that is, advertising related to his online activities.
From a business perspective, this method of collecting valuable information is brilliant. It's a sleight of hand routine with a new twist: consumers are grateful for the experience they're having while their pockets are being picked. Thank you, Google! One could argue, of course – as Google officials have in fact done – that Google isn't actually cheating anyone; rather, it's performing a legitimate service by efficiently matching up vendors who are willing to pay with consumers who need the products and services those vendors offer – precisely at the moment those products and services are needed, no less.
Thank you, Google!
But two aspects of this transaction are troubling, one immediate and relatively harmless and the other hypothetical and potentially catastrophic.
The immediate problem is that the transaction is inherently deceitful. The consumer perceives the transaction at one level, Google at another. Google never openly asks for permission to record aspects of the transaction and never openly informs the consumer that aspects of the transaction are being recorded. Compare this to the sensibly regulated world of telephone conversations, where consent to record, stated or implied, is mandatory and where consumers regularly hear messages such as "This conversation is being recorded for quality assurance."
If Google were required to display such messages every time someone conducted a search (think: "The search you are about to conduct is being monitored and recorded by Google and might be used in the future for advertising or other purposes"), most people would hesitate before conducting searches that might reveal sensitive personal information. Over time, the privacy-preserving proxy industry would probably mushroom in size, which would pose a serious threat to Google's business model.
The misleading nature of Google's relationship with consumers is a small issue, however, compared to what could go wrong. As both the New York Times and The Atlantic have reported recently, Google is already providing information about its users to government agencies around the world on a regular basis. What is that information being used for? Not for advertising, presumably.
Hoover knew the potential danger that his dossiers contained, because he himself had used them to coerce. That's why he made arrangements to have his entire inventory of files destroyed upon his death. Google's dossiers are in many respects far richer and more detailed than Hoover's, and, unlike Hoover, Google is constrained only by the demands of the marketplace.
What would happen if Google's corporate focus became more nefarious than it already is? And what would happen if Google were somehow hacked to its core, or if a disgruntled Google employee sold out to a Chinese conglomerate, or if a very large hard drive were stolen from Google's headquarters? The larger concern is not about how Google uses its data now but about how millions of detailed dossiers could, in theory at least, be misused in the future to humiliate, manipulate, or coerce. Identity theft would be the least of our worries.
So is Google a benign and helpful information company, or is it a massive advertising agency that spies on consumers and puts our privacy and civil liberties at risk? It's all a matter of perception. | relationship between the fear we feel and the actual threats in our environment. Most people would be terrified by the sight of an approaching lion, for example, but an experienced lion tamer might stay perfectly calm; he or she would see the lion from a different perspective because of special skills and knowledge he or she has. Similarly, most people would feel calm at the sight of an approaching Pomeranian (think "Boo" on YouTube), but someone who had been bitten as a child might be frozen with fear.
Perception is everything, and Google is a case in point. About a billion people use Google's search engine each month to find everything from plastic hangers to plastic surgeons, and, as far as the consumer is concerned, Google is an information company, pure and simple.
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Alan Ruck Knows What Connor Roy Wants
Succession's Alan Ruck Knows What Connor Roy Wants
Connor Roy for president? "That might be the end of the United States as we know it," he says.
By Evan Romano Published: Dec 15, 2021
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The following story contains spoilers for Season 3 of Succession.
Sometimes, they say, the stars are just like us. And in the case of Succession's Alan Ruck— who plays eldest Roy family sibling Connor—that's entirely the case. Just like all the fans obsessively watching HBO's thrillingly-dramatic dark comedy series, he watches one episode a week. And when it came time for the much-awaited Season 3 finale, he sat down as eager as everyone else.
"To tell you the truth, I don't like to watch myself too much," he says on Zoom the Monday after the finale aired. "I like the doing of it. I like to be on a set. I like how it feels on the day to perform it. I've never been a big fan of watching myself, but this show is so good. It's like, there's no way I was going to miss any of this."
Until 2018, Ruck, who looks younger than his 65 years of age, was probably best known for his role in 1986's Ferris Bueller's Day Off, where he plays Matthew Broderick's neurotic-but-loyal best friend, Cameron. Bueller turned 35 earlier this year ("Can you believe it?" Ruck asks), and its starring duo remain as tight as ever.
Ruck and Broderick met while doing the play Biloxi Blues, which was staged just before the pair filmed Bueller; they wound up spending nearly every day together for about a year. They saw each other most recently this past October. "We always joke, we say in a previous life, I think he saved my life, and so then he became responsible for me in this life, something like that," Ruck says with a laugh. "I seem to be following him around."
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But he didn't follow Broderick into Succession, which has become the most talked about show on TV, a favorite among critics and fans alike, and a frequent and annual contender for major television awards. If there's any justice in the world, Ruck's performance as Connor in Season 3—a still largely comic turn but with hints of sadness and frustration—would enter him into the conversation for many of those honors.
As Succession's third go-around on the HBO airwaves comes to a close, there's still a lot to talk about. There's of course, the dramatic and stunning way the season came to a conclusion, and there's also the much-discussed profile on the show's lead actor.
And Alan Ruck is game to get into all of it.
I want to open the Succession portion of this conversation with one broad question, which is: should Connor Roy be President?
No! That might be the end of the United States as we know it. Well, I mean, stranger things have happened, as we all know, but no, I don't think it would be a very happy four years for most people. It would be troubled.
Connor has always been sort of this comic relief character that no one in his orbit seems to take seriously, but in Season 3 he starts to stand up for himself a bit. How did you decide to play that?
Well, actually, if you just place yourself in those circumstances, just for these three seasons, Connor has been the butt of jokes. He's been subjected to eye rolling. He's been told he's an idiot. He's been told to be quiet. And we can assume that this is the way Connor has been treated, first by his father, and then by his siblings, for his whole life. And so what you basically just have to do... even if it's pretend, when somebody says you're an idiot, you feel it.
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And so basically, Connor has never been able to snap back at anybody who has slighted him, not really, over these three seasons. So you just let that build up. It's like memory—it's just memory of character, and you let that build up, and then you let it out.
Did you play anything differently coming into this season than in the first two?
Early on in the season, [director] Mark Mylod said to me, "Look, we want to actually see a moment or two where it looks like Connor, in some way, could be a political person, that he could be a leader of sorts. That he could be someone who could be in charge of other people."
And so we just played with that a little bit. He's so deluded and he marches to the beat of a drummer that nobody else can hear, but he's really committed. And I just think because of how old he is, and the way things are going in the family, he's very determined to do something that's going to grab his father's attention, grab the family's attention. He's going to try, so his determination has been dialed up.
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When you're switching from Alan mode into Connor mode, what's the most important thing you need to remember to get into the headspace to become this character?
There are certain things. Connor has a pretty short attention span. And so people have asked, well, "What are the planks in Connor's platform as a Presidential Candidate?"
And my response is, "Whatever he found interesting that morning. Whatever is currently really exciting him, then it's something that we all have to pay attention to." And so I just kind of let it all go. He's not stupid, but he is damaged, and at times he's a little vapid. It's just like he's experiencing the world and for years he's created his own reality because the real world has been unacceptable. So I just kind of let go. I just let my mind go sideways, go horizontally.
Things did not go your on-screen siblings' way at the end of Season 3, but Connor is kind of on a winning streak. How do you think he'll be approaching things in Season 4?
Well, he's elated right now because Willa said yes [to his marriage proposal]. And so that was a major goal. That was a major victory. And as far as the other stuff, I think Connor feels and realizes truly that he's on his own in terms of everything. The other three are going to be dealing with the fallout of what their dad did in this GoJo deal and trying to rebuild however they can, or hang on however they can, or retaliate however they can.
But Connor has almost always come down on the side of his father. I actually can't remember a time when he didn't. Early in season 3 for a minute, the three of us were listening to what Kendall had to say because maybe he actually had a plan, which he didn't, besides just sticking it to the plan. Connor wants to be needed, Connor wants somebody to say, "I really need your help," cause nobody ever does.
If the old man does that and says, "Con, the other three kids are making a lot of trouble and I need your help," in whatever way, I think he'd step up to help the old man. But if the old man is being, what's the word, intractable? If the old man is just off on his own belligerent course and he does something to slight Connor and the other kids are like, "Con, we really need your help," he might listen to the three kids and say, "What can I do?"
I have no idea, that's the thing. You're never going to outguess [showrunner] Jesse Armstrong. He's constantly surprising all of us.
I think it's interesting too, that Connor during that intervention scene, he was basically saying he wants to be more involved, he wants to be taken more seriously, and then all that drama at the end happens and he's nowhere to be found.
How do you think Connor's going to react to finding out about what happened?
I think Connor has become used to being disappointed by his whole family. So I think while he'll maybe be frightened, how it'll impact his finances, he'll be concerned about that.
In terms of the other stuff, like you say, he says, "I was not apprised of this development. This guy wants to marginalize Maverick thinkers like me and put us in a digital gulag." But he doesn't want to put in hard work of making the company go and he has no talent that way.
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That'd be funny. I don't know how that character would respond to Connor. He says he gets bored easily. So I don't think it'd be a very long scene.
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A big topic of conversation for the last week has been the Jeremy Strong profile in The New Yorker. I really enjoyed it, and I think all of you guys are so well cast, Jeremy included. I'm curious what you thought of that piece.
Well, this is what I think. I think The New Yorker came to Jeremy. They said, "We want to do a piece about you because you're a wonderful actor and you have this eccentric way of preparing. We think that's a good story. You want to do it?"
And he said, "Yeah," and he said, "Yes, I do do all those things. I do whatever it takes to bring a character to life." He said things like—I can't remember if it was this article or another one. I think it was this one—he said, "I'm not sure that the set should be a comfortable place. And I think that it should cost an actor something whenever he performs."
Well, that's what Jeremy believes. That's what he believes he needs to do to get himself into his zone so he can deliver his best work. And does that make him crazy? No. Does that make him a better actor? Well, he thinks it does, but there's a lot of other actors who are just as good who don't do that.
So it's just what he believes. It just makes him Jeremy, it doesn't make him anything but just Jeremy, who is a wonderful actor. Right? So then other people like, say, Brian [Cox] say things like, "Well, he's hard on himself. And sometimes that means he's hard on us."
Well, that's true. I mean, yeah, it's true. And he also says, "I worry about him because he can't seem to separate himself from the work." And that's also true, so all of us have been a little concerned about Jeremy, but maybe he'll be fine. Maybe he's fine.
I think stuff like that, and hearing from Brian, and hearing from Kieran Culkin, and hearing from yourself, is so interesting. Because as viewers, we only see the end product and we see the little bit of Jeremy that we see accepting the Emmy, and he does seem very serious about the work. I think it's a rare sort of window.
I think everybody's entitled to their opinion. So I didn't think that piece was a hit piece. Some people said, "Oh, it was an attack on Jeremy."
I didn't think that at all. I mean, they laid out these facts. So, this is what this guy does and this is how he prepares, and this is what he's like on set. And so I think some people will read it and say, "That's what an actor should do. That's how committed an actor should be." And there are other people that will say, "Oh, that's too much. He's going too far."
And it's just anybody's opinion. We're just talking about storytelling.
Obviously, the Season 3 finale set up a lot of new threads, potentially for a future season or seasons. I know Brian in another interview mentioned that he thinks there's going to be two more seasons. Do you have any idea on how long Succession will go on?
I have no idea. Originally. I'd heard that Jesse conceived it as a three season deal, but then there's just so much story to tell and it's so dense and nuanced that it's going to take at least a fourth season. But I think Brian's instincts are probably right—that we're definitely going to do four and we might do five, but then that's probably as far as that story goes.
Any idea when you're going to start getting back to work on Season 4?
I think it's going to be May or June before we start working. And this is really for the writers because they take their time and they get it right, and HBO is very good about that. They let the writers/creators just take the time they need to make it perfect. And so I think May or June.
And so, let's see, we finished shooting this season in the middle of July and it came out the middle of October. So just three months. So if we start in June and we go to January of next year, maybe it'll come out spring of 2023. I don't know. Maybe.
So five seasons of Succession, but in a world where there's potential for a Connor Roy spin-off, is that something you would be interested in?
Never say never.
You know I'm a big fan of the character.
Yeah. He's singular.
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The Patterns Page has recently been updated. Be sure to check it out! The most recent pattern added has been a killer for us lately while fishing the beachfront - the good 'ole deceiver. You can not get a more perfect bait fish presentation! Color schemes are left to only your imagination.
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The question is -- how long will this stream of schoolie bass continue? The action has been steady all week with the am bite appearing to be<|fim_middle|> | the strongest. Bass at this time of year is not unheard of and is quite common, but what sets this year apart are the numbers milling about in the littoral zone willing to eat a fly. We are talking right in the wash...and if they are not there to start, you can better believe they will follow your fly from the first strip, all the way to your feet! Trying to inhale the entire way! Give it a shot if you have the time and motivation!
December 14, 2006 - Sleigh!
The fish are still around. You definitely need to put in your time, and fish the blind...the sea will look dead at times, but there is plenty of life out there. Sand eels, and peanut bunker are still along the surf zone, with larger baits in the deeper water. Bird life is prolific, and not too far behind are the fish. Follow the birds, and you'll find bass. Schoolies for the most part, but for December, ya can't complain. Long casts are a must. Light winds and nice temps....get out there.
The saltwater scene is still going strong. This cold-snap is going to be short lived and in fact by the time you read this, day-time air temps will be in the 40s to 50s, and winter will be on hold for the foreseeable future. Long-range forecasts show no artic air. The bait is still in the wash, and the fish are still around. Surf temps are still in the low-fifties. This weekend looks prime and we hope to hit it. Look for some feedback next week.
If you are like us, the onset of the cold weather gets you thinking fly tying and re-stocking the arsenal. One of our go-to patterns we always need to replenish first is the early season little black stone. This pattern can work well in cold waether months on streams like Ridley in SE PA. Penns Creek is another PA water where this pattern can really bring the fish to hand. We like to fish it as a dropper off a larger stone...as we tap the bottom. It is time to get tying!! | 446 |
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Photography: Outside world – Shot on Kodak T-MAX 100 at EI 100 (120 format)
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5 (or 6) Frames… Of Thai urban and Rural Scenes with ILFORD SFX 200 and a Pentacon Six TL (120 Format / EI 200 / Carl Zeiss Jena MC Biometar 80mm f/2.8)
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EMULSIVE Interview #220: I am Frank Thorp V and this is why I shoot film
by EM July 8, 2020 Updated July 31, 2021
The Party of Trump - Graflex Speed Graphic, ILFORD HP5 PLUS
Today's interviewee is a busy man, he's a producer and off-air reporter covering the US Congress for NBC News, past Chairman of the Radio & Television Correspondents Association on Capitol Hill, oh and a film photographer who also happens to shoot some of our favourite film stocks (and cameras) while doing the day job.
Looking for American politics on film? You've come to the right place. Over to you, Frank!
Hi Frank, what's this picture, then?
Quarantine Self Portrait, Speed Graphic, J Lane Speed Glass Plate
FT: I took this picture for a project that Washingtonian Magazine did asking photographers to take self-portraits in quarantine. The Coronavirus quarantine has been weird in a lot of ways, and our daughter was born just as things were starting to shut down and life was changing around the world.
I had just (coincidentally) set up a mini-portrait studio in our basement, and decided to try to take the picture with a dry glass plate on my Graflex Speed Graphic. I was really happy with the results, and am extremely grateful that I have this image to remember this crazy moment in my personal, and our collective, histories.
Ok, so who are you? (the short version, please)
Self Portrait, NYC – Leica M3, Kodak Portra 400
FT: I'm Frank, I live in Washington, DC with my partner and that newborn daughter in the first picture, and I work at NBC News as a Producer and Reporter who covers the United States Senate. While photography isn't in my job description, I've folded my passion for it into my work.
Senator Thune Speaks to Reporters, US Capitol – Speed Graphic – ILFORD HP5 PLUS pushed to EI 1600
I'm lucky to be able to have a job that allows me to do that, all while working in a place where shoving a camera in someone's face is not abnormal.
When did you start shooting film and what drives you to keep shooting?
FT: I started shooting film in 2018, and things escalated quickly. I have a colleague who lent me my first film camera, a Hasselblad 203FE, and I took a darkroom class at a local arts organization to learn how to develop and print myself.
I Read the News Today, Oh Boy… – Hasselblad 203FE, Kodak T-TMAX 400
The first time I went through the process of shooting, developing and printing a roll of black and white film I was hooked. The exhilaration of knowing that so many things could go wrong somewhere along the way, but then pulling out a roll of solid negatives, or producing a solid print is unlike anything I had experienced before in photography. I loved slowing down the process, having a tangible, touchable product in the end, and the pictures had a timeless, historic feel to them which I immediately fell in love with.
Pete Buttigieg 1st of the Roll – Leica M6 – Kodak Tri-X 400
What keeps me going is how I feel like analogue photography opens so many creative doors that I didn't know existed, and when you go into one door it leads you to even more. It makes you look at things from a different perspective, and has made me a far better and more deliberative photographer along the way.
I had started shooting black and white exclusively, but then drifted into color which led me to things like the purple-tinted film Lomography produces.
Purple-tinted AOC – Hasselblad 203FE, Lomography Lomochrome Purple
As I was shooting the Hasselblad on Capitol Hill, a photographer friend of mine mentioned he was offloading a bunch of his 4×5 stuff and wanted to know if I was interested. I bought all three of his 4×5 cameras off him, including the Speed Graphic which I use to shoot most of the large format stuff I do on the Hill. That led me to Jason Lane, who produces glass dry plates which I've shot both on and off the Hill.
I love the idea of using the processes that people used while documenting life and news events in the past, and trying to apply them now. If they were able to make it work back then, why can't I now? It's a challenge that I put on myself that sometimes doesn't work, I miss shots that I would normally be able to get if I was shooting digital, but when it does work it's unbelievably rewarding.
Republican Leadership – Speed Graphic, J Lane Speed Plate
Who or what influenced your photography when you first started out and who continues to influence you today?
FT: I remember as a child I would look at the 'Best Pictures of the Year' features that different outlets would do and just marvel at the work, thinking to myself that I wanted to be able to tell a story with a single photo like that.
Secretary Pompeo Testifies – Graflex Speed Graphic, ILFORD HP5 PLUS
But it's close to impossible to list all the photographers who have influenced me along the way. I first started to seriously take pictures while I was living in Haiti after the earthquake that hit that country, and Ben Depp and Allison Shelley were good friends and huge influences on me early on. While working on the Hill I'm surrounded by some of the best photojournalists in the world, and I draw inspiration from each and every one of them.
Additionally, Geoffrey Berliner at the Penumbra Foundation opened my eyes to older techniques of photography and the importance of the history of the medium, and recently I've met and got to know both Louie Palu and David Burnett, who still shoot film as photojournalists and their work is incredibly inspiring. Pete Williams, who is the NBC News Justice Correspondent (and the person who lent me the Hasselblad) is an amazing photographer and has an encyclopedic knowledge of the mechanics of photography and developing and printing film. He's been my sherpa through all this.
Rep Jordan Gaggling – Graflex Speed Graphic, ILFORD HP5 PLUS
Are you a mixed medium photographer? What drives your choice to use film or digital from one day to the next?
FT: Very much so, I regularly use a Fuji x100f, and I still love that camera, the images it makes, and the ability to turn around pictures almost instantaneously. My camera choice day-to-day is largely dependent on the flexibility I need, the light available, or if I have a particular vision for how I want to capture a moment. I haven't found that shooting film has turned me off of shooting digital, but it's made me a better digital photographer.
Fall – Hasselblad 203FE, Kodak Porta 800
Sometimes it makes sense to shoot medium format black and white film, other times it makes sense to go all-in and try to nail one shot with the Speed Graphic on a glass plate, and other times the flexibility and speed of using my Fuji makes that the right camera for the situation. I try not to overthink it, that decision-making process can be a paralyzing one if you let it be. I love all facets of photography, and in my opinion a good picture is a good picture no matter how it was taken.
The Press – Graflex Speed Graphic – Kodak Tri-X 320
What's your next challenge…your next step? How do you see yourself improving your technique? What aspect of your photography would you like to try and master in the next 12 months?
FT: I very much rely on available light for the pictures I take now, which is great, but I'm currently working to learn how to use artificial light sources. To that end, portraiture is what I'd like to focus on next, and is something I've never really practised before.
Sekulow Speaks – Graflex Speed Graphic, ILFORD HP5 PLUS
Also, using the glass dry plates, as well as my interactions with tintype portrait artists like Geoffrey, have me super curious about going down a wetplate rabbit hole, but I'm not quite sure I'm there yet.
Do you have a subject matter or style you always find yourself being drawn to? Why?
FT: People. I love the idea of capturing a moment in time that will never be repeated, and I find that people generate those moments more than places. I also like the idea of having a picture of someone that makes you wonder what brought that person to that moment, and where they went from there.
Fiona Hill Departs – Graflex Speed Graphic, Kodak Tri-X 320
I'm not critical of anyone's preferred subject matter, I just find pictures with people in them to be more emotive and dynamic. Alternatively, I'd love to be able to shoot a scenic shot with the emotion and feeling that Sally Mann's work in the south has, so I could see that focus shifting.
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Look Into the Light – Leica M6, Kodak Tri-X 400
You have 2 minutes to prepare for an unknown assignment. You can take one camera, one lens, two films and you have no idea what you'll be shooting. What do you take with you and why?
FT: If a film assignment was sprung on me like that I'd likely take the Hasselblad 203FE with the 80mm f/2.8 Planar lens. That camera/lens combo takes such beautiful pictures, and I've grown to love the square format. It also has a light meter in the camera, which makes it a great camera in grab-and-go situations.
Break Time – Hasselblad 203FE, Lomography LomoChrome Metropolis
As for film stocks, I'd take Kodak T-MAX 400 and Portra 400. I use Tri-X when I'm shooting 35mm, but the first roll of film I ever bought was T-MAX for the Hasselblad, and I've used it ever since when shooting medium format. Something about the tonal range just fits for me, and I still get the contrast because I typically push it to 1600 when I'm shooting in the dingy halls of the Capitol.
You have an unlimited supply of film to shoot in one location for the rest of your life. What do you take, where do you go and why?
FT: I think I'd go with the Graflex Speed Graphic since I think there's so much more to explore when it comes to that camera and what it can shoot. I'm also in the process of coupling a 7" Aero Ektar to a Speed Graphic (using the step-by-step on this website, actually), and feel like that's gonna keep me busy for a long time.
Impeachers – Graflex Speed Graphic, ILFORD HP5 PLUS
As for where I'd go, man, that's a tough one! Can I pick a state? How about California? Not only does it have interesting people to shoot, but if I'm feeling like putting on my Ansel Adams hat I can head over to Yosemite.
You can never use film again. What's your last roll of film, where and how will you expose it and why?
This is so sad! I'd probably take a box of ILFORD HP5 PLUS in 4×5, and take portraits of my family and friends with the Speed Graphic. Then I'd put them all into a book and give them all a copy.
What do you think is the biggest misconception about film photography today and how would you set it straight?
FT: I think the biggest misconception I've faced about film photography is that it's not something that is readily available and used by people around the world. To be honest, I think I set that straight simply by using film and sharing my work. I get a lot of people asking where you even buy film nowadays, or where I get it developed, and just answering those questions helps people realize that the film medium is very much alive.
Mueller Time – Leica M6, Kodak Tri-X 400
In your opinion, what's the future of film photography?
FT: Oh god, I hope it's bright. Even in the past 2 years it seems to have blossomed in ways that backs up the whole 'film is not dead' mantra. And to be honest, what gives me the most hope is the community that is so passionate about the craft.
It's truly awesome how supportive others are when you simply have a question about how they scanned their negatives, or what kind of tank you're using to develop. Analogue photography is an art for curious people who like to learn and try new things, and I wouldn't be doing the stuff I'm doing now if it hadn't been for the support and encouragement of the people I've met along the way.
The Party of Trump – Graflex Speed Graphic, ILFORD HP5 PLUS
Finally, what advice would you give to someone just getting started, or thinking about jumping into film photography?
FT: What every single one of the best photographers I know has drilled into my head is the importance of studying and understanding the work of those who have come before me. While I'm a strong believer of developing your own eye and not just replicating previous work, that advice has been so important in broadening my understanding of how you can capture an image, either on film, wet plate, digital, or something I don't even know exists yet.
Capitol Rotunda (at night) – Graflex Speed Graphic, Fuji Provia 100F
Also, if you're thinking about starting to shoot film, my biggest recommendation would be to either take a class or teach yourself how to develop film on your own. It's stressful at first, but it's so unbelievably rewarding once you get the hang of it, and it's allowed me to be able to develop at home during this whole pandemic.
~ Frank
A lot of people have a lot to say about photographic education, be it practical or theoretical, process or art. There seems to be a rise in the idea that informal education is better than being stiffly told how to do X or why Y should be appreciated as a "good photograph. While I agree, in part with that sentiment — I'm self-taught for what it's worth — there's incredible value in learning and understanding what's come before. Frank encapsulates that perfectly in his note:
"What every single one of the best photographers I know has drilled into my head is the importance of studying and understanding the work of those who have come before me. While I'm a strong believer of developing your own eye and not just replicating previous work, that advice has been so important in broadening my understanding of how you can capture an image, either on film, wet plate, digital, or something I don't even know exists yet."
Of course, the nature of EMULSIVE is to put forward ideas and let you, the reader, be the judge — aside from the topic of "120mm film". However, I've got to put my foot down a little here and ask those of you shaking your heads if you truly believe that taking time to look back, appreciate and learn from what's come before is time better spent doing something else. Let me know your thoughts.
Please be sure to check out more of Frank (as well as his photography and writing) over on Twitter, and IG. I've been assured that a new website is in the works but until then, check this out 🙂
There's so much more going on here at EMULSIVE, so if it's your first time here, please stick around for a while. To all the regular readers (hello again), you'll have noticed a slight drop in output since the beginning of the month. Well, things are insanely busy for me (in a good way) so for the moment, "normal" service of one article per day has been resumed.
Have fun, stay safe and as ever, keep shooting, folks.
~ EM
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China, the world's largest crude importer, was non-committal about whether it will release oil from its reserves as requested by Washington, while OPEC sources said the U.S. action has not made the producer group change course.
On Tuesday, U.S. President Joe Biden's administration announced plans to release https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/us-set-unveil-emergency-oil-release-bid-fight-high-prices-2021-11-23 millions of barrels of oil from strategic reserves in coordination with other large consuming nations, including China, India and Japan, to try to cool prices.
The United States has made the largest commitment for a reserves release at 50 million barrels of pre-approved sales along with loans to the market, but without China, the action would have less impact.
There was no further announcement from Beijing on Thursday after China on Wednesday said it was working on its own reserves release, confirming a Reuters report last week that China would release oil according to its needs.
On Tuesday, Biden had told a briefing China "may do more".
Rumours of coordinated action drove crude prices lower ahead of the U.S. announcement, but the international market rose more than 3% on Tuesday as Washington confirmed it would tap its strategic reserve and the market lacked clarity on China's intentions.
The market is also keen to see OPEC's next move as Washington's announcement raised speculation that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies, collectively known as OPEC+, might respond.
However, three sources told Reuters the group was not considering pausing its current agreement to boost output by 400,000 barrels per day every month, a rate considered too slow by some consumer nations.
Fuel demand collapsed early in the pandemic but has resurged this year, and oil prices have climbed, stoking wider inflation.
Biden, facing low approval ratings ahead of next year's congressional elections, was frustrated after OPEC+ shrugged off his repeated requests to pump more oil. Retail U.S. gasoline prices are up more than 60% in the last year, the fastest rate of increase since 2000.
On Thursday, Brent crude slipped 31 cents to $81.94 a barrel by 1000 GMT.
"The market seems to believe in OPEC+ to keep oil balances tight more than it believes in the transitory nature of an SPR release," said Rystad Senior Oil Markets Analyst Louise Dickson on Wednesday.
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OPEC+, which includes Saudi Arabia and other U.S. allies in the Gulf as well as Russia, meets again on Dec. 2 to discuss policy.
The group is monitoring whether oil markets are balanced, Iraq's oil minister Ihsan Abdul Jabbar said on Wednesday, saying the group needs to study the latest data before making decisions about supply.
Already the producer nations are struggling https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/us-wants-more-oil-opec-cant-turn-tap-much-harder-2021-11-23 to pump enough oil to meet existing targets and they are also concerned a resurgence of COVID-19 cases could again drive down demand.
Washington's effort to team up with major Asian economies to lower energy prices was a warning to OPEC+ to control crude prices that are up more than 50% so far this year.
In the past, multi-country releases from reserves have been coordinated by the International Energy Agency (IEA), a Paris-based watchdog. The IEA does not intervene to influence prices, but the head of the agency said on Wednesday some producers have been restricting supply too much.
"Some of the key strains in today's markets may be considered artificial tightness ... because in oil markets today we see close to 6 million barrels per day in spare production capacity lies with the key producers, OPEC+ countries," Fatih Birol, IEA head, said.
Under the plan, the United States will release 50 million barrels, the equivalent of about 2-1/2 days of domestic demand. However, some analysts called the structure of the U.S. release - a combination of 18 million barrels of pre-approved sales and a loan of 32 million barrels - too small and temporary.
Goldman Sachs said the volume announced was "a drop in the ocean". [O/R]
The impact of the sale from strategic reserves is expected to be felt first in the United States and then Asia https://www.reuters.com/article/global-oil-reserves-usa-idCNL1N2SG0A0.
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Our configuration on the Dell Latitude 7440 features a 1.9-GHz Intel Core i5-4300U processor with 4GB of RAM and also a 256GB SSD. This combination of elements enabled the notebook to multitask with ease. With ten apps open, like the lenovo g710 akku camera app, Internet Explorer, Bing News as well as the Windows Store, we streamed an episode of "Family Guy" in 1 window while playing "Cut the Rope" in another and didn't notice any latency or hiccups.
The Latitude 7440 delivered mixed results in synthetic benchmark tests. The notebook scored 4,544 on PCMark 7, which is larger than the 3,493 thin-and-light category typical and also the Tecra Z40 (two,542, 1.9-GHz Intel Core i5-4300U with 8GB of RAM). Both the two.6-GHz Intel Core i5-4200U-powered ThinkPad T440s (4,970) and one.8-GHz Intel Core i7-4500U Acer TravelMate P645 (4,886) scored larger.
On the Geekbench 3 test, which measures multicore processor performance, the Latitude 7440 score of five,259 fell short with the five,939 thin-and-light medion akoya e2228t netzteil category average. That is also lower than the Tecra Z40's score (five,326) plus the TravelMate P645 score (five,945), but it nonetheless beats the T440s (5,151).
It only took 14 seconds for that Dell Latitude 7440 to load Windows eight Professional, which is twice as quickly since the 28-second thin-and-light category typical. The Lenovo Thinkpad T440s booted Windows 8 Pro within the similar amount of time.
The Dell transferred 4.97GB of mixed media files in 39 seconds, equaling a rate of 130.5 MBps. This can be twice as quickly as the average thin- and-light notebook (60 MBps) and considerably quicker compared to the Tecra Z40's 320GB 7,200-rpm hard drive (23 MBps). Other business Ultrabook SSDs are faster though, like the Acer TravelMate P645 (175.five MBps) and ThinkPad T440s (188.5 MBps).
The Latitude 7440 matched 20,000 names to their corresponding addresses in OpenOffice in just 4 minutes and 46 seconds, faster than the 6:17 thin-and-lightdell xps 15 netzteil category average. That is also quicker compared to the Lenovo ThinkPad T440s (5:fourteen), but on a par with all the Toshiba Tecra Z40 (4:45) and Acer TravelMate P645 (4:42).
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The performance is accordingly similar to other units with all the similar CPU. It can be a close race in between the Core i5-4200U along with the somewhat greater clocked predecessor Core i5-3337U in Cinebench R11.5, which demonstrates the increased performance per MHz in the Haswell architecture of all around 10%. Considering the reduced power consumption this can be not a bad lead to our opinion.
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The Dell Latitude 7440s doesn't have the staying power of other enterprise Ultrabooks. During the Laptop Battery Test, which consists of continuous Net surfing in excess of Wi-Fi at 40 percent display brightness, the notebook's 4-cell 45 Whr battery lasted 5 hours and 52 minutes. That runtime is shorter compared to the 6:49 thin-and-light notebook chargeur msi ge70 category average, and in addition falls behind the ThinkPad T440s' standard battery (7:01) plus the Toshiba Tecra Z40 (nine:28). You will have to spend USD276 for Dell's 9-cell 97Whr battery slice to obtain further battery life. | minus fifty and 10,000 toes. Both the USD1,749 Lenovo ThinkPad T440s and USD1,229 Toshiba Tecra Z40 are likewise licensed.
The Latitude 7440's keyboard deck sports activities the identical texture as its lid, which felt comfortable even though typing. We like the delicate blue accents Dell additional to the Latitude's keyboard. The baby blue color with the keys' Fn symbols matches the outer lining of your pointing stick, which provides a pleasant distinction towards the otherwise black physique. The E7440's show is able to folding all the way back again, enabling it to lie flat. This can be a fantastic position for providing lenovo ideapad 320s charger shows.Measuring twelve.two x eight.three x 0.seventy nine inches and weighing 3.nine pounds, the Latitude 7440 includes a smaller footprint compared to the slightly heavier Lenovo ThinkPad T440s (thirteen.three x eight.89 x 0.8 inches, 3.8 lbs with 3-cell battery). The Toshiba Tecra Z40 (13.three x 9.three x 0.eight inches) is actually a substantially lighter 3.two lbs, although the Acer Travelmate P645 is taller and broader but lighter (twelve.nine x nine.3 x 0.8 inches, three.5 pounds).
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Having been in the dairy business for over two decades, Aitel, now 63, said he and his wife are going to be sticking it out ― working longer hours themselves and hiring less paid help to weather their decrease in income.
But if he was young farmer just starting out, he said he wouldn't be so sure about committing to organic dairy.
"If I were a 29 year old dairy person, I would think about starting to look around for other options," Aitel, said. "We're going to stick it out, but it's only because we're a bunch of crazies. Dairy farming does take a certain kind of crazy."
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Paul Philbrick, the owner of Ledge Rock Farm, sells milk to Organic Valley. Organic dairy farmers in Maine are seeing less money for the milk they produce due to a nationwide oversupply of organic milk.
By Lauren Abbate, BDN Staff • September 23, 2017 7:26 am
When Paul Philbrick ceased operating his sawmill business, he was left with a barn and a need for a new profession. His younger brother ― a dairy farmer ― suggested he try his hand at raising a herd of organic dairy cows for milk production.
To Philbrick, organic dairy seemed like a solid prospect. He could raise a small herd of cows and enjoy a stable milk price that would be higher than the price paid to conventional dairy farmers.
In 2008 he started Ledge Rock Farm in Knox, and for the better part of the last nine years he's reaped the benefits of his decision to go organic ― which requires farmers to follow specific regulations, such as prohibiting the use of chemical fertilizers and requiring that their cows are fed organic feed.
But in recent months, this hasn't been the case, as an oversupply of product in the organic milk market is creating instability in prices and production ― leaving some farmers worrying what the future of their farm might look like.
"Where I'm at right now, I'm making sure the hired help gets paid, that the bills get paid and that's it. [I've stopped] doing any projects. I wanted to add onto the barn, but I'm holding off on all of those projects," Philbrick said. "That's all I'm doing is breaking even, just trying to weather the storm."
The downturn in production rates and pay price varies depending on the organic dairy processor farmers are selling their milk to, but the root of the problem stems from an oversupply situation that that has been brewing for over a year across the industry.
Two years ago, when processors were seeing an undersupply of organic milk to meet the demand, those in the organic dairy industry essentially put out a call to action for more dairy farmers to transition to organic.
"A lot of new farmers came into the marketplace," Hans Eisenbeis, a spokesman for the cooperative milk processor Organic Valley said. "It wasn't just us, everyone in the organic dairy industry said, 'Oh my God, we can't get enough milk, let's go out and recruit some farmers.' Everyone did that in a way and it directly influenced the oversupply situation that we're in now."
Less milk for a lower price
With more farmers in the market producing more milk, processors are trying to handle the oversupply situation by setting production quotas and decreasing the price farmers receive for their milk.
Organic Valley and Horizon are the two largest milk processors who purchase milk from Maine's organic dairy farmers. According to the latest USDA data, there were 63 certified organic dairy farms in 2016, the latest year for which data is available.
Wisconsin-based Organic Valley buys milk from about 40 dairy farms in Maine. Their pay price is set annually by the cooperative's board to try to create a stable price environment for their farmers. In some cases, this price is adjusted seasonally to reflect demand, and includes quality premiums depending on the product a farmer is producing, Eisenbeis said.
Nationally, the average Organic Valley pay price per hundredweight, which is about 12.6 gallons or 100 pounds, of milk is about $33.02, down from $34.10 in 2016. This year in Maine, the base pay price is $34 per hundredweight.
In an attempt to self-regulate before cutting prices, the cooperative voted to put a production quota in place in May ― setting a limit on how much milk they will accept from their farmers for the full pay price.
"It's essentially, we don't want you to create more milk than what you've agreed to," Eisenbeis said.
In the past, Eisenbeis said the cooperative has generally been able to find a market for excess milk, but given the current oversupply conditions, that is no longer the case.
The limit is based on the average amount of milk a farm produced the previous year. If a farmer goes over that quota, the excess milk is purchased for about $20 less per hundredweight. When the quota was first put into place, Philbrick says he was docked for going over quota, but has since managed to stay in line with the quota because of the adverse effect the drought is having on his cow's milk production. Nutrient-parched hay eaten by the cows results in lower milk production, but Philbrick said if that wasn't the case he would have just dealt with being over quota.
In some other cases, farmers are having to reduce the size of their herd to stay on par with the quota.
"On most of the farms in Maine, you know your cows individually [and] putting them on the truck [for slaughter] is our worst day. And we've put a lot of the cows on the truck, more than we would have in the last two years. We've dropped our herd [size] 20 percent, and that's a really hard thing to do," South China organic dairy farmer Spencer Aitel said. Aitel runs Two Loons Farm with his wife and sells milk to Organic Valley.
Along with establishing the quota in May, the Organic Valley cooperative board also voted to take a $1 per hundredweight deduction from the pay price. In August that deduction was increased to $2. Eisenbeis classified these reductions as "temporary market-related deducts from payprice."
Details surrounding the changes to Horizon's pay price are not as clear. Horizon declined via email to share specific changes due to the "confidential nature" of their contracts with farmers, according to Farrah Lamoreaux, a public relations representative for Horizon.
Lamoreaux did say that the company has been evaluating its oversupply of organic milk, which has been above demand for about nine months to a year. In accordance with this oversupply, in May, Horizon made the decision to decrease the base pay price to farmers in some regions, after previously working with farmers on making voluntary cuts in production. Horizon could not comment on whether Maine was one of these of the affected regions, or what the decrease in price was.
A Maine dairy farmer who sells to Horizon, spoke to Bangor Daily News on the condition of anonymity, and said he has seen his price per hundredweight drop since the start of the year when his price was reduced by $1, in August he said the price cut increased to a $4 reduction per hundredweight. In addition to the drop in price, he has been operating under a five-percent reduction in production, which he said has forced him to get rid of animals to stay at that quota.
Under the current price, he is slated to lose $4,000 to $5,000 a month, leaving the future of his fourth generation family farm uncertain.
"We can't plan ahead because we don't know what the future hold. We can't buy equipment or stuff like that," he said. "There's a big questions mark about whether things are going to work out. If it gets any worse, my son has even said things about wondering if he [still] wants to run the farm."
Across the U.S. organic agriculture operations are on the rise, with USDA data showing a 13 percent increase in certified organic farms and businesses between 2015 and 2016. With this growth, organic dairy processors and farmers are having to wade through newly crowded territory in what used to be a niche market.
"We're definitely in new territory here. In part, because the organic industry has never been bigger than it is now," Hans Eisenbeis, a spokesman for Organic Valley said.
For Maine farmers though, it's not exactly new territory. The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association has been certifying organic agriculture operations in some capacity since the late 1970s. The USDA's National Organic Program which was established in the early 2000s, according to Dave Colson, MOFGA's agriculture services director.
Following national trends, Colson said there has been a steady increase in recent years in dairy farmers becoming certified organic in Maine. Until recently, the increase in large part has been due to the stable milk price that organic processors have been able to offer, as opposed to the month to month pay changes conventional dairy farmers see.
"In the conventional market you actually don't know what you're going to be paid for the milk that you shipped until the milk check comes sometime in the future," Colson said. "The joke on conventional milk pricing is there is only three people that ever knew how that works, and two are dead and one is too old to remember. It's just so convoluted."
Colson said he has heard from at least three farmers who were considering starting organic dairies in Maine, but are worried they won't have a market for their milk given the current industry climate.
While there have been minor price drops and quotas in the organic milk market previously, nothing has been as uncertain or prolonged as the recent changes. Aitel, who has been an organic dairy farmer since the late 1990s, said in his experience, the price changes were generally always on the up.
This year, Aitel said his farm will be in a money losing position.
"[In the beginning] we rarely got a price change, and when we did, it was up," he said. "It takes us all back to the scenario when we were all conventional dairy, which is wondering if we're going to make it financially."
On top of the quotas and decrease in prices, the high cost of producing organic milk is making the current situation even tighter for farmers. Under organic regulations, farmers must graze their herd on certified organic pasture and only use 100 percent organic feed ― which is more expensive than conventional practices. The use of growth hormones is prohibited in organic milk production, and cows must be on pasture for at least 120 days per year.
While the pay prices farmers receive are dropping, the cost of grain and other organic expenses have not. This year, the drought affecting parts of Maine is damaging the hay crop, causing hay prices to go up and making it harder for farmers to successfully graze their herd.
Mike Philbrick, Paul Philbrick's brother, said if he was a conventional dairy farmer, he would be able to mitigate the challenges the drought was posing for his hay crop.
"Your grain price is so high, and we can't use fertilizer. Which fertilizer is a wicked bargain. You could put fertilizer out there so fast and make grass grow so quickly," he said. "It's a crazy year isn't it? It's like the perfect storm."
But with Maine's ― and most of New England's ― organic dairy farms maintaining smaller herds of dairy cows as compared to large farms in the western part of the country, folks in the organic dairy industry in Maine feel as though they're feeling the consequences of an oversupply they didn't cause.
"I think in Maine what we really need is an organic processor ourselves," Colson said. "We basically make enough milk in Maine, both conventional and organic, to supply all the needs for all the dairy products in Maine. But the problem is most of it goes out of state for processing."
Some are also wondering if the call-to-action put out by processors two years ago was the right move to make. "They should have been a little more conservative I guess," Philbrick said.
Eisenbeis said Organic Valley is reviewing the quota and price at least monthly. The cooperative is hopeful that going forward they will be able to lift the quota, but for now they are just focused on keeping the cooperative stable for the benefit of all of their farmers.
"Are we worried? Yeah, we're worried for sure," he said. "We would love to see an upturn sooner rather than later, but it's one of those situations where we hope for the best and prepare for the worst."
In the meantime, Maine organic dairy farmers are just trying to make it through what they hope is a passing period of tough times. Philbrick doesn't expect to see the industry turnaround for 2018, but is hoping 2019 will bring better prices and production levels.
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"Fear Eats the Soul" – Rirkrit Tiravanija at Glenstone Museum
01/21/2020 by Kristine Roome
Graffiti realized by the artist in FEAR EATS THE SOUL by Rirkrit Tiravanija at Glenstone Museum.
© Rirkrit Tiravanija, 2019 Courtesy: Glenstone Museum. Photo: Lance Brewer.
Glenstone Museum is a 300-acre verdant oasis of modern and contemporary art located in Potomac, Maryland, just 15 miles outside of D.C. Open to the public, it includes outdoor sculptures and installations and beautiful modernist architectural buildings including a Gallery and Pavilions designed to house the Glenstone Foundation's expansive post-WWII art collection, as well as a welcome center, two cafes and a bookstore. Admission is free and tickets are available three months in advance. Any day at Glenstone is special, but for a lucky few fortunate enough to score tickets on a warm day this past fall it was particularly eventful as they were invited to take part in the big "Reveal" which marked the opening of Rirkrit Tiravanija's "Fear Eats the Soul" exhibition. At noon, the grounds persons, under the watchful eye of the chef (following Tiravanija's instructions) uncovered a box filled with deliciously cooked pork wrapped in banana leaves that had been baking underground, which was then served to all in attendance. But don't worry, if you missed the opening, the exhibition continues through Spring 2020 and in typical Tiravanija fashion, soup continues to be served free in the Gallery each day throughout its run.
"Fear Eats the Soul" – Rirkrit Tiravanija<|fim_middle|> Anthropology from Columbia University with an expertise in arts, culture, media and museum studies. She is the former Director of Wright Gallery in NYC and has been a part-time faculty member at the New School University and the University of Johannesburg. She is currently Associate Provost and Associate Professor of International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Pete McEvoy says:
After living in the area for years, I've only just discovered this wonderful place. Thanks to Kristine Roome and Artefuse.com for this article about the Rirkrit Tiravanija exhibit. There is so much to see at the gallery and park. Maybe we can hear more from you about other Glenstone exhibits? …. btw, the soup was great !!
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Outside the Gallery, sculptures by Ellsworth Kelly "Untitled" 2005 and Richard Serra "Sylvester", 2001.
The exhibition title "Fear Eats the Soul" is taken from the 1970's Fassbinder film of the same name in which a young immigrant Arab man has a relationship with a much older German women and depicts all the complications and challenges across age, sex, place, and culture, that come with that. At one point in the film Ali, the Arab man collapses with pains caused by ulcers the doctor explains are a result of the stress that many foreigners experience in a new country. Emmi, the German women, promises to try to ease that pain for him, and in a tender moment, she says to Ali, that despite everything, when together, they should be nice to one another. This film, and subsequent Tiravanija exhibition, are as meaningful now, maybe even more so, as when they were first originated.
This is not the first manifestation of "Fear" that Tiranvanija has done. It is an idea he has been exploring for years in different spaces and places. Each time, for visitors sitting down for a shared meal – familiar or not with the artist and/or the concept of "relational aesthetics" – they are nevertheless participants. While waiting in line on opening day for example, people struck up conversations. In general, they were curious about the artist, about what was being served, and why. The line was long and slow and as they waited for their food they chatted about their day so far at Glenstone. Often the conversations turned personal – Where are you from? What do you do? How did you meet? they asked one another. And this, one can only imagine, was part of Tiravanija's plan. We are all "from" somewhere, going somewhere, living somewhere – we work, we love, we partner – all seemingly simple questions yet, loaded with complexity, especially for this New York-based, Argentinian-born, Thai artist. In bringing strangers together over a shared meal, often in art spaces, the artist creates social opportunities in which people can just, as Emmi and Ali in the film promised, be nice to one another – a welcome break in this often contentious, sometimes unkind, and if you will, even "Fear-filled" world.
(Two structures recreate Gavin Brown's enterprise's 1994 New York gallery and alternative art space in FEAR EATS THE SOUL by Rirkrit Tiravanija at Glenstone Museum. © Rirkrit Tiravanija, 2019
Courtesy: Glenstone Museum. Photo: Lance Brewer)
(Ceramic sculptures, facsimiles of the originals, recreate the artist's 1994 exhibition at Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York in FEAR EATS THE SOUL by Rirkrit Tiravanija at Glenstone Museum.
© Rirkrit Tiravanija, 2019. Courtesy: Glenstone Museum. Photo: Lance Brewer).
The opening meal, and soup kitchen are only part of a larger exhibition. The Glenstone Gallery space itself is large and flexible. For this exhibit, gone are the windows, walls, doors and anything that divides and in the center, two smaller rooms were constructed. One houses a printmaking shop in which visitors can take home, for an optional donation to a local charity – the "City Kids Wilderness Project," t-shirts screen printed with the title "Fear Eats the Soul," or the German "Angst essen Seele auf" and other cool phrases Tiravanija has coined or appropriated over the years. The other room houses an exact replica of an exhibition the artist did originally in 1994 at Gavin Brown Enterprises which includes metallic ceramic objects such as: a large bed, bottles, a wok, and Brillo box. On the huge surrounding walls, Tiravanija laid the foundation for a more complex and ongoing collaborative venture, painting in enormous letters FEAR EATS. Recently, returning to the space, invited local artists have filled the walls with their own words and works, layering like a palimpsest images and texts over time.
(The walls of FEAR EATS THE SOUL by Rirkrit Tiravanija at Glenstone Museum after local artists added the first layers of graffiti. Courtesy: Glenstone Museum).
For this "Fear Eats" exhibition in the Gallery, Tiravanija also chose to incorporate the work of the late American artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978), selected from Glenstone's remarkable collection – much of the rest of which is shown in the Pavilions.
The Pavilions are a separate building consisting of thirteen connected areas which surround an 18,000 square foot serene water court. Each room in the Pavillions is thoughtfully curated and includes the works of: Robert Gober, On Kawara, Kerry James Marshall, Charles Ray and Cy Twombly for example. Not to be missed is a special viewing of Shirin Neshat's "Turbulent" which is currently on display. Located outdoors throughout the grounds are sculptures and installations by Charles Ray, Jeff Koons, Andy Goldsworthy, and Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller to name a few.
(Works by American artist Gordon Matta-Clark, selected from Glenstone's collection, installed in FEAR EATS THE SOUL by Rirkrit Tiravanija at Glenstone Museum. © Rirkrit Tiravanija, 2019. Courtesy: Glenstone Museum. Photo: Lance Brewer).
Glenstone is open Thursdays through Sundays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Visitors are also invited to explore the grounds or participate in self-guided sculpture tours from 12 to 4 pm, when guides are present. Admission to Glenstone is free and visits can be scheduled online at: www.glenstone.org. Same-day visits can be scheduled online. Admission is guaranteed to visitors who arrive on the Ride On 301 bus. (see website: https://www.glenstone.org/)
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\section{Introduction}\label{<|fim_middle|>central region by the pion mass $m_{\pi}$, and use a
mean transverse momentum $<p_{T}>$ = 0.4 GeV/c.
\begin{figure}[htb]
\vspace*{-.4cm}
\insertplot{bfig2.eps}
\vspace*{-2.0cm}
\caption[]{Charged-hadron pseudorapidity spectra in the 3-sources
Relativistic Diffusion
Model (RDM), solid curves \cite{wbs05}, compared to $d$ + Au PHOBOS data.}
\label{fig1}
\end{figure}
The model calculations are converted to $\eta$-space and
compared with PHOBOS data for
five centrality cuts \cite{bbb05} and minimum bias \cite{bbb04}
in Figure 1. The minimization procedure yields precise results
so that reliable values for the relative importance of the
three sources for particle production, and for
$\tau_{int}/\tau_{y} (\simeq 0.4$ in central collisions)
can be determined \cite{wbs05}.
The observed shift of the distributions towards
the Au-like region in more central collisions, and the steeper slope
in the deuteron direction as compared to the gold direction
appear in the Relativistic Diffusion Model as a
consequence of the gradual approach to equilibrium.
The magnitude of the equilibrium source in central ${d}$ + Au
collisions at the highest
RHIC energy is about 19\% of the total yield. Comparing this
with a previous result \cite{biy04} for Au + Au in the
three-sources-RDM \cite{wol03,biy04}, we note that the
equilibrium source for
particle production tends to be larger in the heavy
system. However, it turns out that
the determination of the number of particles in the midrapidity
source is not unique for symmetric systems.
\section{Conclusion}\label{con}
We have investigated
charged-particle production in ${d}$ + Au collisions at
$\sqrt{s_{NN}}$= 200 GeV as function of centrality
within the framework of an analytically soluble three-sources
mode. Excellent agreement with
recent PHOBOS pseudorapidity
distributions has been obtained.
Only the midrapidity part (19\% in central collisions) of the
distribution function reaches equilibrium.
Although this fraction increases
towards more peripheral collisions, the formation of a thermalized
parton plasma prior to hadronization can probably only be expected
for central collisions.
| intro}
In order to investigate analytically the gradual thermalization occuring in the
course of particle production at the highest available energies
in heavy-ion collisions, we propose nonequilibrium-statistical
methods. The
approach is tailored to identify the fraction of produced particles in local
thermal equilibrium from their distribution functions in pseudorapidity.
It yields indirect evidence for the extent and
system-size dependence of a locally equilibrated parton plasma.
Recently pseudorapidity
distributions of primary charged particles have become available
\cite{bbb05} as functions of centrality in ${d}$ + Au collisions at
a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 200 GeV. They are investigated
within a nonequilibrium-statistical framework that is based on
analytical solutions of a Relativistic Diffusion Model (RDM), and the
results for this very asymmetric system are compared to
Au + Au at the same nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy, where
the formation of a locally equilibrated subsystem appears
to be more likely.
\section{Relativistic Diffusion Model}\label{rdm}
Our analytical investigation is based on a linear
Fokker-Planck equation (FPE)
for three components $R_{k}(y,t)$ of the distribution function
in rapidity space
\cite{wol99,biy02,wol03,biy04,wbs05}
\begin{equation}
\frac{\partial}{\partial t}R_{k}(y,t)=
\frac{1}{\tau_{y}}\frac{\partial}
{\partial y}\Bigl[(y-y_{eq})\cdot R_{k}(y,t)\Bigr]
+\frac{\partial^2}{\partial^{2} y}\Bigl[D_{y}^{k}
\cdot R_{k}(y,t)\Bigr]
\label{fpe}
\end{equation}\\
with the rapidity $y=0.5\cdot ln((E+p)/(E-p))$.
The diagonal components $D_{y}^{k}$ of the diffusion tensor
contain the microscopic
physics in the respective Au-like (k=1), ${d}$-like (k=2)
and central (k=3) regions. They
account for the broadening of the distribution
functions through interactions and particle creations.
In the present investigation the off-diagonal terms of the
diffusion tensor are assumed to be zero.
The rapidity relaxation time $\tau_{y}$ determines
the speed of the statistical equilibration in y-space.
As time goes to infinity, the mean values of the
solutions of Eqs. (\ref{fpe}) approach the equilibrium value $y_{eq}$.
We determine it
from energy- and momentum conservation \cite{bha53,nag84}
in the system of Au- and ${d}$-participants and hence, it
depends on impact parameter. This dependence is decisive
for a detailed description of the measured charged-particle
distributions in asymmetric systems:
\begin{equation}
y_{eq}(b)=1/2\cdot ln\frac{<m_{1}^{T}(b)>exp(y_{max})+<m_{2}^{T}(b)>
exp(-y_{max})}
{<m_{2}^{T}(b)>exp(y_{max})+<m_{1}^{T}(b)>exp(-y_{max})}
\label{yeq}
\end{equation}\\
with the beam rapidities y$_{b} = \pm y_{max}$ and the mean transverse
masses $<m_{1,2}^{T}(b)>$
that depend on the impact parameter $b$. The average
numbers of participants $N_{1,2}(b)$
in the incident gold and deuteron nuclei are calculated from the
geometrical overlap. The results are consistent with the Glauber
calculations reported in \cite{bbb05} which we use in the further
analysis. The corresponding equilibrium values of the rapidity
vary from y$_{eq}=$ - 0.169 for peripheral (80-100$\%$) to
y$_{eq}=$ - 0.944 for central (0-20$\%$) collisions.
They are negative due to the net longitudinal momentum of the
participants in the laboratory frame, and their absolute
magnitudes decrease with impact parameter since the number of
participants decreases for more peripheral collisions.
The FPE can be solved analytically in the linear case
with constant $D_{y}^{k}$.
The initial conditions for produced hadrons are taken as
$\delta$-functions at the beam
rapidities, supplemented by a source centered at the equilibrium value
y$_{eq}$. This value is equal to zero
for symmetric systems, but for the asymmetric ${d}$ + Au case its
deviation from zero according to Eq.(\ref{yeq}) is decisive
in the description of particle production.
With $\delta-$function initial conditions for the Au-like source (1),
the ${d}$-like source (2), and the equilibrium source (eq), we obtain
exact analytical diffusion-model solutions as incoherent
superpositions of the distribution functions $R_{k}(y,t)$ because the
differential equation is linear. The total number of charged particles
in each centrality bin
$N_{ch}^{tot}$ is determined from the data. The average number
of charged particles in the equilibrium source $N_{ch}^{eq}$ is a
free parameter that is optimized together with the variances
and $\tau_{int}/\tau_{y}$ in a $\chi^{2}$-fit of the data
using the CERN minuit-code.
\section{Comparison with RHIC-data}\label{dat}
For central collisions (0-20\%) of ${d}$ + Au, the charged-particle yield is
dominated by hadrons produced from the Au-like source, but there
is a sizeable equilibrium source that is more important
than the ${d}$-like contribution. This thermalized source is moving since
y$_{eq}$ has a finite negative value for ${d}$ + Au, whereas it is at
rest for symmetric systems.
The total yield is
compared to PHOBOS data \cite{bbb05} which refer to the
pseudorapidity $\eta=-ln[tan(\theta / 2)]$ since particle
identification was not available.
As a consequence, there is a small difference to the model result
in $y$-space ($y\approx \eta$) which is most pronounced in the
midrapidity region. It is removed when
the theoretical result is converted to $\eta$-space
through the Jacobian
\begin{equation}
J(\eta,\langle m\rangle/\langle p_{T}\rangle)
= \cosh({\eta})\cdot [1+(\langle m\rangle/\langle p_{T}\rangle)^{2}
+\sinh^{2}(\eta)]^{-1/2}.
\label{jac}
\end{equation}
Here we approximate the average mass $<m>$ of produced charged hadrons in the
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HELP. Failing flexi`s on Turbo downpipe.
Thread: HELP. Failing flexi`s on Turbo downpipe.
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Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks Hits The Big Screen For The First Time Ever
When BBC needed more room in their storage, many reels of Doctor Who were discarded. Since the revival of the show, a new generation has grown to love The Doctor and demands have risen to watch the classic Doctor Who. Last night, for the first time in North America, Fathom Events sponsored the showing of Doctor Who: The Power of The Daleks, which Whovians had thought was lost to time and space, forever.
The Power of the Daleks was first broadcast in six weekly parts from November to December 1966. It's the first time viewers saw Patrick Troughton as The (Second) Doctor, replacing William Hartnell, who had a huge following. Part of the Fathom Event viewing included interviews with one director stating "We didn't know if we should hire someone who looked like Hartnell or go with someone completely different". Clearly, the creators moved the show in the way their viewers wanted - by creating new and individual personalities for each Doctor's regeneration.
No episodes exist of The Power of the Daleks, although over 400 still photographs, audio recordings and very few actual clips still exist. All six episodes were recreated via animation in black and white. While the animation, at times, was choppy and old fashioned, the sound effects were original from<|fim_middle|> Jennifer stood on line in the cold to try out for a part and actually made it past the first few try-outs. A vivacious reader, she is fascinated watching books and stories brought to life on the big screen. Jennifer has passed her love of movies onto her children and they are often found planning their weekends around opening premieres. Read more reviews and content by Jennifer Broderick.
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Studio logos & other trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners. | audio records, as was the dialogue. It was captivating to hear the Patrick Troughton's voice in an animated character that had such as strong resemblance to the man, himself. The characters were true to the original cast and the entire two-and-a-half-hour animation definitely had the original feel of the 1960's and a true Whovian will be immersed in the experience of watching the re-creation of these important, lost episodes.
The Power of The Daleks, along with being the first episode (series) that Whovians are introduced to the Second Doctor, is also the first-time viewers are introduced to the Daleks, The Doctor's arch enemy. When the Tardis "lands" on the Earth's colony on Vulcan, The Doctor impersonates the Examiner from Earth, called to inspect the Colony. Along with his companions Polly (Anneke Willis) and Ben (Michael Craze), they set out to find out the mystery of the capsule found in the mercury waters. When the capsule is finally opened on orders from the Examiner/The Doctor, the colony is introduced to the Daleks, who at first state "I am your servant" to the humans, all while plotting the humans demise.
Having watched Doctor Who and knowing the history of The Doctor and the show through the current series, it's clear that writer David Whitaker did an exemplary job in setting the stage for the introduction of the Daleks, the future Regenerations of The Doctor, and the continuing battle between The Doctor, the Daleks, and Earth. Anyone who loves Doctor Who, who wants to understand Doctor Who, or who wants to start watching Doctor Who, should see the animation of these very pivotal episodes. Doctor Who would not be himself without it.
All six missing episodes were recreated with a release date of November 5, 2016, exactly fifty years after the original episode aired. One episode is released every six days, digitally, through the BBC store. Beginning the day of the Fathom release, other retailers will have the series available online, also. After the animation ended, Fathom presented a short interview with directors and Anneke Wills, the surviving member of the Tardis Crew from 1966. This was the first attempt by BBC to re-create an entire story line through animation, although missing episodes from other story lines have been previously animated. While clearly not a big budget animation as we'd see with Disney or Pixar, BBC did an amazing job keeping the classic feel of the original episodes throughout the amination.
While true that Whovians would travel any distance through time and space to see this re-creation, it was a little on the long side (two and one half hours) and may have done better in the theater with a short intermission. The story line did flow and it was easy to see where each of the original episodes would have started and finished.
Available to stream starting today, November 15, 2016 through the BBC America website and mobile app, this is a must have for Whovians of all ages
For those searching for more events by Fathom and want to see some more classic films brought to the silver screen, you can visit their website at http://www.fathomevents.com/ to see a schedule of all the upcoming events at a local theater near you.
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gertloveday July 30, 2017 at 7:02 am
There was quite a nasty scene between two members of our party in Finland when a glass of colourless liquid was presented as absinthe. Furious debate as to whether absinthe had to be green. The verdict, 2/3, was yes.
Fennel, my delight. I grew some, Florence Fennel it was, and then a man calling himself a window cleaner trod all over it. I never did know where he came from.
Bug Woman Post author August 2, 2017 at 9:29 am
He would have gone home with aniseed-scented boots. What a shame you didn't have a dog to follow him home!
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Wednesday Weed – Fennel
Every Wednesday, I hope to find a new 'weed' to investigate. My only criterion will be that I will not have deliberately planted the subject of our inquiry. Who knows what we will find…..
Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)
Dear Readers, this member of the carrot family is easily distinguished by its yellow flowers and its very delicate, frond-like leaves that taste strongly of aniseed. If you were to dig it up, you would discover that it also has a fleshy bulb that has a similar flavour. The plant in the photo above was planted in the N2 Community Garden next to East Finchley Station, but I noticed that an intrepid seed had germinated in the gutter nearby, and at this rate it will be popping up all over the place.
Buddleia and fennel making a bid for freedom
Fennel loves disturbed ground and has naturalised in many places in the south of England. Vigorous stands of the plant may often be found at the seaside, as if advertising fennel's long association with fish.
Fennel is said to have been brought to this country by the Romans, and it is a Mediterranean plant. In fact, the Greek name for the plant is Marathon, and the plain where the Battle of Marathon took place means, literally, 'the plain of the fennel'. The capital of Madeira is also named from the Portuguese word for the plant, giving us Funchal. The English name 'fennel' apparently came from the Middle English for 'hay'.
There can be little doubt that fennel was a deliberate introduction in this country, unlike some plants which probably stowed away in seed crops. Fennel has a long history of culinary use throughout its range, and many parts of the plant are used. The flowers, often described as 'fennel pollen', are currently cropping up in fine dining establishments across the land, and the seeds are a popular ingredient in bread and in spice mixtures such as panch phoron (from Assam and Bengal) and Chinese Five Spice. Plus, who can forget the little round steel dishes of mukhwas given with the bill at the end of an Indian meal? The seeds help to freshen the breath, but fennel also has a long-standing reputation for assisting with the digestion, hence this delightful ditty from the Middle Ages, reported by Richard Mabey in Flora Britannica:
In Fennel-seed, this vertue you shall finde,
Foorth of your lower parts to drive the winde.
No winde here! (Photo One, credit below)
The leaves and bulb are also widely used, in everything from salads to sauces. I must confess to having an aversion to the raw bulb: I am not a great lover of aniseed flavours at the best of times, probably due to the effects of an unfortunate cocktail of Ricard and Tizer imbibed at a friend's house when I was fifteen (never again). However, when cooked slowly, or gently caramelised, I find it much more palatable.
Grilled fennel. Yum! (Photo Two – see credit below)
Fennel is also one of the key ingredients of absinthe, that delightful green liqueur that is about as far from Baileys as it is possible to get. Otherwise known as 'the green fairy', the drink was said to have hallucinogenic properties, and was a favourite tipple of, among others Edgar Allen Poe, Oscar Wilde, Pablo Picasso and Aubrey Beardsley. One wonders how much of its fearsome reputation was due to, well, its reputation – it was a strong spirit for sure, but no stronger than many others on offer at the time. Maybe it suffered because of the Bohemian nature of many of its drinkers. And I'm sure that Dega's picture 'L'Absinthe' wouldn't have helped with the marketing. The spirit was banned in many parts of Western Europe at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, on the basis that:
Absinthe makes you crazy and criminal, provokes epilepsy and tuberculosis, and has killed thousands of French people. It makes a ferocious beast of man, a martyr of woman, and a degenerate of the infant, it disorganizes and ruins the family and menaces the future of the country.
'L'Absinthe' by Edgar Degas (1876)
However, the spirit was never banned in the UK (we never seem to have developed a taste for ouzo, or raki, or Pernod, although we are partial to licorice allsorts). Hence, quite recently there's been a new interest in the spirit here, with initial imports coming from Czechia (where it was also not banned in the past). I suspect that drinkers of the spirit will not seem out of place on the streets of many parts of the country on a Saturday night, though the top hat might need to go…
Edouard Manet's The Absinthe Drinker (1859)
It seems strange that a plant associated with making people go blind (among other things) should have a long history as something that strengthened eyesight. Here is Longfellow's poem from 1842:
Above the lower plants it towers,
The Fennel with its yellow flowers;
And in an earlier age than ours
Was gifted with the wondrous powers
Lost vision to restore.
Pliny believed that when snakes shed their skins, they rubbed themselves against a fennel plant in order to restore their eyesight – the eyes of such creatures go milky just before they lose their skins, so it's not a big jump to assume that they are blind.
It was also said to be a cure for obesity:
'Both the seeds, leaves and root of our Garden Fennel are much used in drinks and broths for those that are grown fat, to abate their unwieldiness and cause them to grow more gaunt and lank. (William Coles, 'Nature's Paradise' (1650) (Thanks to A Modern Herbal))
Lots of fennel in the N2 Community Garden next to East Finchley Station
We should not assume that we are the only creatures who enjoy fennel, however: the caterpillars of the swallowtail butterfly (Papilio machaon) are fans. This is a butterfly which is now confined to the fens in the UK, but is rather more widespread in Europe (indeed I saw one powering past when I was in the Alps last week).
Swallowtail caterpillar on fennel (Papilion machaon) (Photo Three – credit below)
Swallowtail (Adult) (Photo Four – see credit below)
In North America, where fennel is an introduced plant, it may be used by the caterpillars of the anise swallowtail(Papilio zelicaon). How subtly different this species is, with its powerful wings and yellow and black livery – I wondered if it was migratory and needed to do a lot of flying, but apparently not.
Anise Swallowtail (Papilio zelicoan) Photo Five (Credit below)
Finally, let's have a look at the use of the plant in Hamlet. When Ophelia has 'gone mad', she speaks to her brother Laertes:
'There's fennel for you, and columbines.—There's rue for you, and here's some for me. We may call it "herb of grace" o' Sundays.—Oh, you must wear your rue with a difference.—There's a daisy. I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died. They say he made a good end (sings) For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy—'
Fennel (and columbine) are presented to Gertrude. There was an Italian phrase 'to give the fennel', meaning to compliment falsely, and this is thought to have been the origin of the later Cockney phrase 'to give flannel' (i.e. to try to fool someone). More directly, fennel was a symbol of adultery, so wholly appropriate for the fickle Queen.
Like all members of the carrot family, the flowerheads of fennel are great favourites with the little pollinators like hoverflies and honeybees (I imagine that fennel honey would be a most interesting foodstuff). And so, it is something of a delight, even to those of us who are not overly keen on the flavour that it imparts so relentlessly to everything that it comes into contact with. Thank you once again to the Romans!
Photo One (Fennel seed digestif) – By Nicolas1981 – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18773548
Photo Two (Grilled Fennel) – By Darya Pino at https://www.flickr.com/photos/summertomato/3440076844
Photo Three (Swallowtail caterpillar) – By Superdrac – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33329657
Photo Four (Swallowtail Butterfly) – By Entomolo – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48664965
Photo Five (Anise Swallowtail) – By Calibas – Own work, GFDL, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3514460
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16 thoughts on "Wednesday Weed – Fennel"
Alittlebitoutoffocus July 26, 2017 at 8:51 am
If Susie Dent ever retires from Countdown (unlikely I know), I think you should apply for her job, as this is a fascinating description of fennel in all it's guises. 🙂
Bug Woman Post author July 26, 2017 at 8:56 am
Why, thank you! Susie Dent is one of my heroes, so I am exceptionally pleased by the comparison…
Alittlebitoutoffocus August 2, 2017 at 3:46 pm
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Sarah Ann Bronkhorst July 26, 2017 at 5:30 pm
Love the image of the caterpillar 'powering past'. And that Monet portrait is superb. I don't know how my Florence fennel arrived in my garden but it's ineradicable now and delicious with fish, chicken & salads.
Bug Woman Post author July 27, 2017 at 3:24 pm
I thought of you when I featured fennel, Ann! I know that you have a very fine crop.
Christine Lucas July 26, 2017 at 6:21 pm
Thanks for this fascinating post. I've got fennel growing in my garden for the lacewings. We dug the plant up a few years back for relocation and we had to use a spade as the bulb was that big!!
I adore lacewings – they are one of the few insects that are beautiful at every single stage of their life cycle.
According to Gardeners' World several weeks back, many of the flowering plants of the carrot family attract Parasitoid wasps as well as hoverflies, and therefore are good for gardeners to grow because the wasps attack aphids by injecting their larvae into them. The larvae then eat the aphids from the inside, which is bad for aphids but good for many of the plants on my allotment …..
Thanks, Brian! I could have done with some parasitoid wasps a few weeks back, when my willowherb was overrun with moth larvae. I shall have to encourage some fennel.
Andrea Stephenson July 27, 2017 at 6:23 pm
So interesting Vivienne, I happen to love aniseed flavours – I don't drink often but my favourite spirit is Ouzo or Pernod and my favourite tradition sweet is an aniseed twist!
Aha! I almost wonder if these things are genetic, although having said that my mother loves licorice/aniseed flavours. I love the way that humans have such widely divergent tastes | 2,700 |
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The Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) Ninth Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change
DTE 88, April 2011
Key areas of debate on COP16 and REDD+
On 8 February 2011, DTE joined 140 participants who gathered in London for the ninth Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change.[1]The RRI Dialogues aim to provide a forum for decision makers and civil society organisations to discuss critically the role of forests in the climate change agenda. The event was co-organised byForests Peoples Programme (FPP), Forest Trends and Tebtebba(Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for Policy Researchand Education),and attracted participantsfrom various sectors across the world including civil society organisations, academia, the privatesector and government.
The Ninth Dialogue focused in particular on the sixteenthConference of the Parties (COP 16) to the UN FrameworkConvention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that took placein Cancún, Mexico, in late 2010. It aimed to encourage critical reflection on thedevelopments on rights and REDD+ (see box),the role of forest restoration and reforestation for climate mitigation and adaptation, and formulating more coherent safeguards and recourse mechanisms for communities in REDD+ programmes.[2]
The conference was organised into four panel sessions, with discussions focusing on:
The global implications for forests andpeople of the Cancún Agreement on Long-term CooperativeAction (see box)
National- and communitylevelimplications of the Cancún Agreement;
Ensuring thatREDD+ complements restoration, poverty alleviation andadaptation;
Promoting and operationalising safeguards andaccountability.
This article aims to highlight just some of the key themes and contrasting views which emerged during the conference: finance and the roles of markets; governance and funding; safeguards, standards and accountability.[3]
The Cancun Agreement on Long-term Cooperative Action (LCA)
The LCA (Decision 1/CP.16) was one of the two main outcomes of the Conference of Parties 16 (COP 16) in Cancun, Mexico, 2010 (the other being the Cancun Agreement on Annex I Parties' Further Commitments under the Kyoto Protocol (Decision 1/CMP.6).
The LCA aims to establish a timeline for finalising a new, comprehensive agreement that would include action by ALL parties on all the various aspects of the Bali Action Plan, agreed in 2007.
For more information visit: http://beta.searca.org/kc3/index.php/k-resources/199-the-cancun-agreements
What is the difference between REDD and REDD+?
The key difference between REDD and REDD+ is that REDD+ includes the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks – with a key aim to support 'pro-poor' development.
REDD+ recognises that "full engagement and respect for the rights of Indigenous Peoples and other forest-dependent communities" is essential for maintaining the resilience of forest ecosystems and consequently, resilience to climate change can be improved. These 'multiple benefits' are a key defining character of REDD + and lie at the core of strategic development and implementation of REDD+ programmes.
For more information visit: http://www.un-redd.org/AboutREDD/tabid/582/Default.aspx
Funding, finance and the role of markets
The CopenhagenAccord noted "the need for a collective commitment by developed countries to provideresources for REDD 'approaching US$30 billion'for 2010-2012, anda goal of US$100 billion annually by 2020"[4]. Governments across the world are faced with immense challenges to 'fill the gap' between this total and what they are actually willing to commit to ensure funding is secured and used effectively.
From the government, finance and business sector perspectives the financing gap for REDD+ can and should be filled by the private sector.[5]Public funding should be used to stimulate markets and mobilise private sector investment through initiatives such as London's Capital Markets Climate Initiative[6](which is initially focusing onprojects in sub-SaharanAfrica).
Although it considers investment from the private sector an effective way of providing a more sustainable form of funding than government finance, the UK government stressed that the nature and sources of private finance needs to be clarified.
Capacity building and early engagement with the private sector, supported by setting up partnerships between the public and private sector (including civil society organisations such as RRI) were considered vital elements for ensuring buy-in from the private sector.[7]Establishing the correct price for carbon was regarded to be of"critical" importance.[8]Setting government targets will be essential for establishing a valid carbon price and setting up carbon market 'products' such as carbon forest bonds.[9]The improvement of safeguards and standardswas considered important for removing market uncertainty.
The UK Government recognised the significant challenges faced by multilateral funds to distribute money in a way that makes a differenceon the ground, and concluded that forthcoming technical workon common standards andperformancewould be welcomed.[10]Equally, clarity regarding 'additionality' (wherecarbon gains would not have happened without a carbon paymentvia a<|fim_middle|> point of contention throughout the discussions. A World Bank representative arguedthat many of theREDD+ elements of the Cancún Agreement revolve aroundindigenous peoples' rights.[15] In contrast, representatives of the civil society movement presented a more critical assessment ofa growing gap between the rhetoric and the reality of what is happening on the ground[16]and lack of understanding regarding rights at the national level. [17]Indigenous peoples must be recognised as agentsof good governance [18]and a clear definition and appreciation of 'participatory governance' is needed, according to an indigenous participant.[19]
Some civil society representatives expressed concern that the large amounts of money being invested in REDD will not reach the people who will be directly affected on the ground[20]. It is important that context specific and community-led considerations continue to drive REDD+ and its links with climate change adaptation practices locally. Property rights and women's access to land; reform of forestrysystems; and greater clarity on funding mechanisms, includingaccess to fundswere regarded as key areas to address if REDD+ and poverty alleviation are to be effectively addressed[21]. The challenge lies in ensuring that national frameworks do not obstruct opportunities for local communities to 'self-manage'[22]. One participant warned government of the risks in outsourcing technicalwork, includingwork onemission measuring, reporting and verification of emissions (MRV)[23].
Concerns were raised regarding 'conflicting demands' from governments; indigenous peoples are expected to protect forests and reduceclimate change, but also impose massive extractive projectson communities. The inclusion of indigenous people in decision making processes was considered weak amongst some civil society representatives. Even where indigenous delegates participate in negotiations, it is felt that these voices are often not heard[24]. This was compounded by theabsence of a referencein the Cancún Agreement to Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) forindigenous peoples[25].The power of FPIC to strengthen reference to land tenurewas recommended as a point of focus for further international attention[26].
Safeguard, standards and accountability
There was general agreement on the need to design and implement effective safeguardsand to set appropriate standards foraccountability.Overall, representatives from government, private sector and international organisations spoke positively about the potential and recent progress made towards establishing more effective safeguards. Contrasting viewsemerged from civil society representatives who questioned the ability of the Cancún Agreement, governments and international organisations (such as the World Bank) to ensure accountability in the private sector, and to enforce appropriate standards and safeguards in the interests of indigenous rights and welfare.
The UK government [27]stressed that the clear focus on safeguards was a key, positive outcome of Cancún. To improve accountability, more explicit detail is needed on the motives and intentions of private sector engagement in REDD+ schemes. The government recognised that although setting standards is essential this may have to happen outside the United Nations.
A representative of the financial sector highlighted the importance of encouraging private sector engagement in the design and enforcement ofsafeguards, development of appropriate standards and addressing accounting[28].
In contrast, civil society organisations expressed concern regarding the effectiveness of guarantees for indigenous safeguards. [29]Reference was made to a recently published report by FERN and Forest Peoples Programme, Smoke and Mirrors,[30]which analyses eight of the Readiness Preparedness Plans (RPPs)[31]submitted to the World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF). The report states that rather than strengthening and implementing the Bank's safeguards, many safeguardsare being diluted or obfuscated.[32]Respect for rights to Free, Prior and Informed Consent within the existing FCPF policies and World Bank safeguards is regarded by some civil society representatives as inadequate.[33]One participant stated that a lack of respect for the role of indigenous peoples and their rights to territories has led to conflict in several countries such as Peru. Here, indigenous peoples have strongly criticised government plans for REDD because they fail to address land conflicts and outstanding territorial claims.[34] Trust in the effectiveness of safeguards has been further undermined by the absence ofFPIC for indigenous peoples in the CancúnAgreement.[35]
To deliver positive outcomes for forests, people and climate change, indigenous participation in the design and implementation of REDD+ initiatives, security of land rights, and courage to address corruption and weak governance in the forest sectorare considered essential.[36]Participants warned that failure to do so could increase forest loss and undermine people's tenure rights.[37]Mexico was cited as a 'good practice' example of REDD+ implementation. Mexico's positive reception of REDD+ was attributed to relative security of indigenous peoples' property rights and other institutional conditions, all of which contributed to the REDD 'readiness'[38]of the country.[39]
Building the 'social mechanism' within REDD frameworks is essential for encouraging involvement and ownership on the ground.[40]Several participants felt that, when supported by the security of clear property rights, REDD+presents a good opportunity for communities to build 'social capital' and a solid platform on which to combine and organise policies.[41]This requires recognition of the differing abilities, training and educational level within communities – and respect for existing knowledge and skills. As new forest management systems are being developed in order to deliver the 'multiple benefits' demanded by REDD+, government ministries must ensure that old forest management practices continue to be valued within that process.[42]
The RRI 9th Dialogue conference provided a crucial snapshot of work being done across the world to prepare for REDD+. It is clear however, that there remains a wide gulf between communities and critical civil society organisations on the one hand, and government and the private sector on the other over funding, FPIC, safeguards and governance. Balancing goals for reducing emissions and forest loss, while respecting human rights, continues to present moral and financial challenges. The conference highlighted that decision-makers must urgently address issues of land tenure and carbon rights, governance and corruption, and ensure adequate safeguards for marginalised stakeholders,in order to avoid the realrisk of fuelling and exacerbating conflicts and undermining fundamental REDD+ goals.
For more background on REDD and REDD in Indonesia see DTE 84.
[1]The RRI is "a strategic coalition of international, regional and community organizations engaged in development, research and conservation.". see: http://www.rightsandresources.org/pages.php?id=92
[2] Rights and Resources Initiative Dialogue Bulletin: A Summary Report of the Ninth Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change. Published by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) in collaboration with the Rights and Resources Initiative. Available online at http://www.iisd.ca/ymb/rri/dfgcc9/. Volume 173, number 3, Wednesday, 9 February 2011
[3]This article is based on notes taken while attending the conference, supported by information from the RRI's Summary Report of the Ninth Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) Dialogue onForests, Governance and Climate Change. For a more comprehensive report of the conference and the views of all the participants, visit http://www.iisd.ca/download/pdf/sd/ymbvol173num3e.pdf. For 'A Brief History of the RRI Dialogues and UNFCCC in Relation to REDD+' see page one of the report.
[4]As above, p2
[5]David Capper, Head of Climate Finance, Institutions and Forests, UK Department of Energy and Climate Change; Gregory Barker, Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change, UK; Abyd Karmali, ManagingDirector and Global Headof Carbon Emissions, Bankof America Merrill Lynch
[6]For more information on The Capitals Market Climate Initiative visit: http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/news/pn_098/pn_098.aspx
[7]Adyd Karmali (as above)
[8]Andreas Dahl-Jørgensen, advisor for Norway's InternationalClimate and Forest Initiative(RRI conference panellist)
[9]David Capper (as above). For more information on forest bonds, visit http://www.forestbonds.com/about
[10]David Capper (as above)
[11]Onel Masardule, Executive Director, Foundation forPromotion of Indigenous Knowledge, Kuna Peoples, Panama (RRI conference panellist)
[12]The Green Climate Fund (GCF) was established at COP 16, December 2010, to be designated as an operating entity of the financial mechanism of the Convention under Article 11. The GCF aims to support projects, programmes, policies and other activities in developing countries, For more information visit: http://unfccc.int/cancun_agreements/green_climate_fund/items/5869.php
[13]RRI conference summary report, p4; Onel Marsardule (as above)
[14]Tim Clairs, Senior Technical Advisor, UN-REDD,Environment and Energy Group, UNDP(RRI conference panellist)
[15]Charles DiLeva, Chief Counsel, Climate Change,Sustainable Development and International Law, World Bank(RRI conference panellist)
[16]Saskia Ozinga, Coordinator, FERN; Onel Marsardule (as above)
[17]Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Executive Director, Tebtebba, Chairperson of the United Nations Permanent Form on Indigenous Issues (and a Philippinesdelegate in the REDD+negotiations in Cancún) (RRI conference panelist)
[18]Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, (as above)
[19] Victoria Tauli-Corpuz (as above)
[20]Onel Masardule (as above); Saskia Ozinga (as above)
[21]Cecile Njdébet, Director, Cameroon Ecology(RRI conference panellist)
[22]Florence Daviet, Co-Manager, Governance of ForestsInitiative, World Resources Initiative(RRI conference panellist)
[23]Tony La Viña, Dean, Ateneo School of Government,Philippines(RRI conference panellist)
[24]Onel Masardule (as above)
[25]Onel Marsadule (as above)
[26]Kristen Hite, Attorney, ClimateChange Program, Centre for International Environmental Law(RRI conference guest speaker)
[28]Abyd Karmali (as above)
[29]Onel Masardule (as above); Victoria Tauli-Corpuz
[30]Dooley, K., Griffiths, S.,Martone, F., and Ozinga, T. 2011. Smoke and Mirrors: A critical assessment of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility. FERN & Forest Peoples Programme. Available online at: http://www.forestpeoples.org/sites/fpp/files/publication/2011/03/smokeandmirrorsinternet_0.pdf
[31]A Readiness Preparedness Proposal (R-PP) is a document that will set out the steps and'minimum requirements' for a country to achieve 'Readiness'. For more information see Smoke and Mirrors: A critical assessment of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility. FERN & Forest Peoples Programme. Page 85. Available online at: http://www.forestpeoples.org/sites/fpp/files/publication/2011/03/smokeandmirrorsinternet_0.pdf
[32]Saskia Ozinga (as above); Smoke and Mirrors report (as above)
[33]Saskia Ozinga (as above)
[34]Chris Lang. March 2011. red-monitor.org. Smoke and Mirrors: A critical assessment of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility. Available online at: http://www.redd-monitor.org/2011/03/15/smoke-and-mirrors-a-critical-assessment-of-the-forest-carbon-partnership-facility/
[35]Onel Marsardule (as above)
[36]Onel Masardule; Saskia Ozinga; Victoria Taili-Corpuz (all as above)
[38] REDD-Readiness is a national strategy to prepare countries to execute REDD activities and manage REDD funding
[39]Andy White, RRI Coordinator (RRI conference chair) ; Juan Maunel Torres-Rojo, Mexico's NationalForestry Commission Director General (RRI conference panellist)
[40]Juan Manuel Torres Rojo(as above)
[41]Juan Manuel Torres Rojo (as above)
[42]Tony La Viña (as above)
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Email: dte gn [dot] apc [dot] org | specific scheme)is regarded important for ensuring indigenous people benefit from REDD+.[11]The government welcomed the Green Climate Fund[12]but recognised challenges in establishing how the funding process would be implemented, and in addressing the lack of trust in the market system amongst communities. It was suggested that the creation of REDD+ carbon markets should follow the establishment of safeguards to avoid the risk that amarketmechanism might result in destruction of the social capitaland distortion ofindigenouspeoples' management structureand rights[13].
Governance challenges relating to forest management, REDD+ and the CancúnAgreement were broadly recognized. Understanding the needs and wishes of people on the ground, and establishing appropriate systems and methodologies for doing so emerged as an area which requires significant further work. Participants presented opposing opinions regarding the degree to which challenges of governance are being effectively addressed, and the amount of political will to address the issues.
The UK Governmentregarded as imperative the need for good governance and regulatory frameworks in developing countries and stated that 'stronger conversations' with forest communities on the ground will be essential. It recognised the need to maintain livelihoods for forest-dwelling communities and develop a clear understanding offorest governance and wider land-use planning issues. It is anticipated this will require government to work closely with forest-dwelling communities through multilateral and bi-lateral programmes to establish stronger relationships, as well as establishing an official review process with key stakeholders and the establishment ofsub-national implementation systems. It raised concerns about lack of clarity regarding resource distribution and ownership, and how this poses significant challenges in identifying carbon rights and ownership of carbon.
A representative from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) outlinedthe UNDP's existing work to develop participatory governance assessmentsand a guidance framework for monitoring REDD+ governance. This work contributes to the UNFCCC's Subsidiary Body for Scientificand Technological Advice (SBSTA) to identifydrivers of deforestation anddegradation.[14]
The degree to which indigenous peoples' rights are being respected was a | 416 |
The AT&T/Sinclair carriage dispute is over
The carriage dispute you probably forgot about is over.
AT&TDirecTVLocal NetworksSinclairBy Joe Lucia on 10/17/2019
The brief carriage dispute between AT&T and Sinclair, which never took on the animosity of last month's carriage dispute between AT&T and Disney, is over.
On Thursday, Sinclair sent out a release announcing that the two sides had reached a carriage agreement for the yet to be rebranded Fox RSNs now owned by Sinclair. In addition, to those RSNs, the carriage agreement also covers the yet to be launched Marquee Sports Network in Chicago (which will be the new home of the Cubs) and Tennis Channel.
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SBGI),<|fim_middle|> by Joe Lucia Follow on Twitter
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The Australian Open speeds into the men's semifinals late night Wednesday/early Thursday on ESPN
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Rick Fox speaks on 'Inside the NBA' about rumors that he was on fatal helicopter crash with Kobe Bryant
"It shook a lot of people in my life."
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Jerry West, Shaq, Charles Barkley, Dwyane Wade and more delivered thoughtful tributes to Kobe Bryant on TNT's pregame show
West called this the "saddest day of my life," while O'Neal said "I lost my little brother."
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Bleacher Report sets up B/R Gridiron House in Miami as one-stop shop for WarnerMedia Super Bowl LIV content
"We are consumer-facing, while Radio Row is much more media- and talent-led. ...We do want it to be fan-friendly and have fans be able to come and engage with their favorite players and their favorite shows."
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Legalized gambling doesn't seem to be boosting NFL ratings yet, with operators "yet to scratch the surface with those casual bettors"
"As the sports gambling market matures and you have more [casual] people coming in, it will be those people who will tune in more often and for longer. There are early signs that that will be the case. But you're not going to see that at the moment."
After taking over 16 NFL teams' Twitter accounts, Saudi hacking group accesses several ESPN accounts
OurMine is having quite the week of taking over big sports accounts. | and AT&T have agreed on a multi-year agreement across DIRECTV, AT&T TV and U-verse for continued carriage of Sinclair's owned local broadcast stations and Tennis Channel, for future carriage of Marquee Sports Network, a regional sports network featuring games of the Chicago Cubs launching in 2020, as well as for the 21 RSN brands Sinclair recently acquired and the YES Network, in which Sinclair is a joint-venture partner.
Sinclair and AT&T reached numerous short-term extensions over the past month, preventing fans from being blacked out of the end of the MLB season and the start of the NHL season. The timing is also fortunate for the NBA, which starts its regular season next week.
As far as I can recall, the only provider not carrying the Fox RSNs is Dish, which is also sparring with Altitude and NBC Sports Chicago and had a week and a half battle with Fox that ended up with a long-term carriage deal. One of the main talking points coming out of Sinclair's purchase of the RSNs was how it would give them more leverage in negotiations with providers, and it is a reasonable assumption that the leverage Sinclair has in owning both RSNs and local networks helped them avoid a messy, protracted battle with AT&T that would have only hurt customers.
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About Joe Lucia
I'm the managing editor of Awful Announcing and the news editor of The Comeback. I also made The Outside Corner a thing for six seasons.
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Winter has set in, share your pics with us !!
Discussion in 'Nature' started by f6cvalkyrie, Nov 27, 2010.
here in Western Europe, we have had the first snow yesterday and today, so it is time to sit back and start our "WINTER" topic.
I enjoy this type of sHot, and these<|fim_middle|> It looks the same as it did for the past 12 months prior.
My wife thought I was a nut out in the back yard for our first snow last week with an umbrella to protect the camera The kids sure had a blast though, there's no missing that genuine joy of the first snow!
On a different note, my GF1 arrived in the mail the other day, and I handed it to my daughter in the back seat of the car to stave off boredom on the way home from the shopping trip at dusk. She shot a lot of blurry messes, then this just popped up in the bunch and I thought it was really pretty.
That's very pretty blurry mess, zpierce !
No snow in the LA basin but the surrounding mountain ranges get snowy peaks if enough winter storms pass through. Here are some from a recent jaunt up Mt. Jacinto State Park near Palm Springs, CA.
Still learning about depth of field..
Ohhh ! love the sheep!
Taken in the North West of England. To be specific, the first and last were taken in Langdale in the Lake District, and the middle two in Lancaster. | ones are a real pleasure.
Impressive use of that lens.
I wish I had winter where I live... | 22 |
How universities are defining the future of VR
Andrew Woodberry / 06 Jul 2017 / Connected Devices / Health / Smart Cities
Higher education has always been fertile ground for the creation of new, boundary-pushing technology. While VR software and hardware innovation have been, to date, largely the domain of startups and large tech companies, it's colleges and universities that are using the technology in some of the most interesting ways.
Professors and students alike are exploring the various disciplines where immersive imagery and audio can be impactful, and the adoption rate is only accelerating.
See also: VR standards – too early or long overdue?
University settings encourage big thinking — What if a search engine could utilize a more perfect algorithm to give more relevant results? What if a social network could redefine how humans interact? What if we could map out the human genetic code? Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality haven't quite approached these levels of disruption.
But with VR expected to be a $75 billion industry by 2021, according to Greenlight Insights, there's no doubt that virtual reality will have a big impact. So it's not surprising that professors and students are delving into all facets of the technology to understand how it will impact us, and hopefully make our lives better.
Almost no university-level subject matter is immune to VR's impact. Take Architecture and Urban Design Program at German University in Cairo, for example. They used our InstaVR platform for creating immersive tours of historical buildings in a project called "Historical Cairo Goes VR." Some of the oldest and most interesting buildings in Cairo were made virtually walkable from thousands of miles away using cutting edge technology.
The students overlaid the 360 tours with image and video hotspots, to provide relevant contextual information. The result was an incredibly immersive and memorable VR and classroom experience, all of which was made possible at a reasonable price point give the preponderance of 360 cameras and low-cost VR headsets on the market.
Images Courtesy of the Hyper Reality Course at German University in Cairo
Studying the impact of VR on society
Besides using VR for teaching or learning, a number of academics are studying the impact VR will have on society as a whole. Earlier this year, the UC Institute for Prediction Technology used our InstaVR app creation tool to create smoking cessation VR applications. Rather than just gather user feedback post-VR experience, they were able to gather actual information on where people were focusing their attention while using a Google Cardboard headset. Overlaid on the VR experience, a heat map shows a visual representation of time spent looking at different areas of the 360 landscape. Since memory is notoriously subject to unconscious biases, VR heat maps can provide academics with actual actionable information.
In this particular case, researchers could see among the VR smoking cessation experiences, where were users focusing most of their attention, suggesting an area successful at capturing focus.<|fim_middle|> than say putting together a PowerPoint presentation.
Ultimately, adoption at the higher ed level largely depends on tech-forward professors, or students taking greater initiative. 360 cameras have fallen in price as they've become more ubiquitous, and web-based authoring software like InstaVR has made distributing apps simple. So don't be surprised if you look into a classroom next time you're at your alma mater, and you see the whole class dawning Gear VR or Google Daydream headsets.
The author is Head of Sales & Marketing at InstaVR. Based in San Francisco, InstaVR is a virtual reality focused technology company, providing tools and services to enable professionals to author and publish interactive VR experiences. InstaVR is completely web-based and requires no specialized engineering knowledge. Since launching in early 2016, over 10,000 companies have created thousands of immersive 360-degree apps for iOS, Android, Web, Gear VR, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Google Daydream. For more information and to access the InstaVR platform, visit https://www.instavr.co.
This article is part of our Virtual Reality series. You can download a high-resolution version of the landscape featuring 431 companies here.
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Andrew Woodberry | And overall, the study could inform whether VR actually helps change behavior in the real world.
Other VR experiences built by InstaVR college/university clients in the past 12 months have included: an app to determine the efficacy of VR for eliciting empathy, an app for acclimating therapists for working with patients, apps to take Australian college students on virtual field trips, and embeddable 360 images to augment news articles by student journalists.
The core throughline of VR in higher education is utilizing the technology to expand and improve what is already taught, as well as to make things more participatory. Traditional psychology experiments give test subjects hypothetical scenarios, and ask — "What would you do if this happened to you?" In the case of determining empathy, the mind has to take a big leap to put itself in other people's shoes. Virtual reality allows users to bridge that gap, and truly feel what the proposed scenario would be like, as least as close to reality as possible. Thus, you can ask them questions within the experience (using Hotspots/Navigation as response vehicles) or look at a heat map afterward, giving you more accurate data than you would in traditional experiments.
Making things more participatory
In terms of VR making things more participatory, that's a win-win for both college students and professors. While lecturing can certainly still be valuable, the multimedia associated with say a virtual field trip to Roman ruins (an actual VR app made on our platform) is more memorable and can lead to more engagement. VR allows for a true "Choose Your Own Adventure", with students empowered to explore and delve deeper with multimedia hotspots into areas they want to explore further. Certainly, with the students from German University in Cairo, the resulting experiences they built themselves were more memorable than say putting together a PowerPoint presentation.
VR allows for a true "Choose Your Own Adventure", with students empowered to explore and delve deeper with multimedia hotspots into areas they want to explore further. Certainly, with the students from German University in Cairo, the resulting experiences they built themselves were more memorable | 420 |
Friendship Walk unites students, kids to raise money for Athletic Department
Tanya Marsh
Swimmers, football players, soccer players and more gathered Sunday afternoon in the name of community involvement and department fundraising for a three-mile Friendship Walk.
Julie Ackerwold, annual giving officer of the Athletic Department, explained what the event was all about.
"The Friendship Walk is all of our student athletes from all of our 20 varsity sports collecting pledges and going on a three-mile walk," she said.
"We invited grades one through five to participate with the athletes."
<|fim_middle|> also money to be raised.
Ben Fast, a junior football player who is president of the Student Athletes' Advisory Council, explained this dual function.
"We're raising money and then giving back to the community by going on a Friendship Walk with the kids," he said.
He said this money was raised through pledges collected by the athletes.
"They wanted to raise $100,000 ? that's each athlete getting $300, and I'm sure we passed that goal, and the proceeds go to the athletic department," he said.
Not just one sport will benefit from the walk, Ackerwold said.
"Proceeds from the walk go to enhance all of our sports," she said. | For many of the athletes, this interaction with the children was the best part. Justin Landis, a sophomore football player, said he was pleased "just to get out and hang out with the kids, show our appreciation for their supporting us ? get[ting] to know some little kids."
Sophomore swimmer Camren Hillewaert agreed.
"You get to interact with the community," she said.
"And after the walk we played football with the little kids?that was the best part."
Ackerwold said the walk is beneficial for both the college and elementary students.
"The elementary kids look up to our student athletes, and it's nice for our student athletes as well as the kids."
This admiration was also noted by Brad Erickson, the men and women's swimming and diving coach.
"I think [the walk] shows that the athletes want to continue to build relationships within the city and the community," he said.
"It's just another chance for [young] people to have interaction with people I think they would consider role models."
Of course, interaction with children was only half of Sunday's goal.
There was | 226 |
So, you're planning a kitchen remodel, and you're doing your due-diligence to find out if cabinet refacing is an affordable option for you. Based on that information alone, you're already showing signs of super-savvy consumerism—so let's keep up with that trend!
As you may already know, cabinet refacing generally costs around 50% of the price for all new cabinetry. Since your existing cabinet boxes and frames do not need replacing when you are refacing, you end up saving the cost of labor and materials that would be required with new cabinets. Cabinet refacing proves to be an affordable alternative to new cabinetry that still delivers a wow-worthy transformation.
That being said, we get that you're going to need to know how much this service costs, in order to decide if it's the right solution for you. So, we're going to provide you with some resources that will give you "national averages" for the costs of cabinet refacing. But, before we do, we ask that you (as the savvy consumer you are) hear us out on a few things first<|fim_middle|> be nearly impossible to determine without the specific measurements of the kitchen and details of the project. There are a few mainstream websites who do provide national averages for the costs of cabinet refacing, and here are the reasons why they should be taken with a very large (golf ball size) grain of salt.
These types of options, and others, will always increase the price, and likewise you can opt to forgo them for more affordable products or features. But, if your expectation is established without taking any of this into account, your likely to incur disappointment as you seek out quotes to match preconceived estimates you may have set for yourself prior to the consultation.
You may notice if you compare them, the cabinet refacing cost estimates presented by the sources we provide below are not the same, and they themselves are not really within each other's ballparks. They are all reputable websites, with which many of you are likely familiar. But, their data is based on a sample set of people that they each collected and analyzed within their organizations or partners. The information they provide gives an idea of what others have paid, but a sample group of people can only illustrate so much information about reality for you and your needs.
The disparity in their results is further evidence to suggest that their figures should not to be taken for reliable estimates. This is not only because of the way they collect their sample data, but also because of the fact which we already mentioned and frankly cannot state enough—the specific measurements and size of the room, materials, and additional options desired will greatly influence the price of the project.
Location also plays a major part in determining cost, which these resources don't take into account with any specificity. For example, a kitchen remodel in San Francisco could cost much more than a similarly sized kitchen with similar materials in a small city in Delaware. Factors like location and region, supply and demand, cost of labor, and quality materials can greatly misrepresent the true value and cost of cabinet refacing in these national averages.
We appreciate you hearing us out, and now we are happy to provide some links to websites that will give you the average cost of cabinet refacing. Go ahead and check them out, if you're still interested in what they have to say. Just please be mindful that, for the reasons we've explained, they may not be helpful to you in setting realistic expectations for the quality of service, products, and results you're looking for from your kitchen remodeling project. These figures should be a baseline at best, and we advise to keep your expectations flexible, and your options open, when reviewing an actual quote from a kitchen consultant.
Our recommendation is to have consultations with professional remodelers and obtain multiple estimates to compare. The estimate quotes should be calculated based on your kitchen's specific needs, as well as your individual wants. We have a great resource, the 25 Point Checklist, that can help you choose the perfect company for your kitchen project. Many companies offer free and in-home consultations, including Kitchen Magic. When you're ready to get started, schedule an appointment and we'll provide you with a bonafide cost estimate on which you can depend. | .
It's our belief that providing clients with "ballpark" figures for price estimates does not benefit them, and in all honesty, it doesn't do much for us either. This is simply because cabinet refacing costs can | 45 |
Diners are responding to flavor stories, linking farm to table. "Those stories work hard for a restaurant's brand, expressing authenticity and craftsmanship in meaningful ways." For example, quinoa,<|fim_middle|> NRN named quinoa its menu ingredient of 2013, and the trend isn't slowing down. If you're looking to work some quinoa into your menu, try out a Curried Quinoa Salad.
Operators are also experimenting with blending whole grains in order to add different colors, flavor profiles and textures. Grains like barley, chia seeds and wheat berries add great variety to menus.
If making the leap to these more unique grains might not be right for your consumers, you can always add it as a switch-out option for regular pasta, much like brown rice can sub in for white rice. For instance, Noodles & Co. recently added a tasty whole-grain Tuscan linguine with broccoli and more.
It's clear that whole grains' popularity isn't going to slow down any time soon, especially as consumers become more and more knowledgeable about the many varieties along with their flavor and health benefits. Look into new ways to incorporate alternative grains for both the health conscious consumer and the adventurous diner. What better time to do it than pasta month? | a Peruvian grain that was domesticated over 3,000 years ago and is known as the mother of all grains, can add modern day dimension to your dishes. Quinoa "sits squarely at the intersection of health, versatility and compatibility with other ingredients." Additionally, It's also highly nourishing, a good source of protein and gluten free making it suitable for a variety of dietary needs. In fact the grain is so in demand that, | 92 |
<|fim_middle|> re-sign but others around the league are watching the same tape. Will be interesting to see if the front office can get him back. Great scheme fit. | Free Agent Overview: Healthy T. McClain Had Solid Impact On D-Line
Kurt Daniels
Editor of Dallas Cowboys Star Magazine / Dallas Cowboys game program
With the NFL offseason now officially underway, it's never too early to start focusing on the next order of business, which is free agency. The Cowboys have 20 unrestricted free agents who can sign with other teams starting on March 9, unless they strike a new deal with the Cowboys before then.
Over the next two weeks, DallasCowboys.com staff writers will break down each free agent, analyzing their strengths and weaknesses and the possibilities of a return in 2017.
Today, we'll continue the series with defensive tackle Terrell McClain.
What's The Deal:What's the old saying? You don't know what you've got until it's gone? The Cowboys found out as much with the play of Terrell McClain this past season. Remember that just two games into the 2015 campaign, the big defensive tackle hurt his toe, which required surgery, and was lost for the year. Given all the other injuries the Cowboys suffered, McClain was more or less overlooked, but his absence was definitely felt. Case in point, Dallas allowed 120.9 rushing yards per contest in 2015, tied for 22nd in the NFL. In 2016 with him in the lineup for 15 games? Try just 83.5 rushing yards surrendered, the league's best mark. McClain helped lead that charge by topping the team's defensive linemen in tackles (41) while also posting career highs in sacks (2.5) and forced fumbles (2). In addition, he added three tackles for loss and eight quarterback pressures, an outstanding overall effort by any standard.
Cowboys Highlight: It can often be hard for a defensive tackle to stand out down there in the muck and mire of the trenches, as he is often asked to just tie up the blockers in order to free up his teammates to make the play. But McClain was able to capture a little of the spotlight himself in the Cowboys' 28-14 victory over Cincinnati in Week 5 of the 2016 season. He finished third on the team with six tackles, including four solo, and collected 1.5 sacks, a tackle for loss and three quarterback hurries. It was, without a doubt, a career day for McClain.
Argument to Keep: Again, the comparison of the Cowboys' defense with and without him over the past two seasons is a pretty good barometer. He's got the size and mentality to take the beating inside and is a leader among a close-knit defensive line group.
Argument to Let Go: There's no denying that he's got a little wear and tear on him. It's hard not to when you're going up against 300-pound behemoths on a regular basis. While he was healthy for the most part in 2016, McClain will be 29 years old when training camp gets underway in July and he has battled injuries in the past. Whether he can continue to play at this same level has to be a concern.
Bryan Broaddus' Scout's Take:Coming out of Oxnard I thought the tackle spot was the strength of the unit and a lot of that had to do with Terrell McClain. It was nice to see him have an entire season of health where he wasn't dealing with some type of injury. Highly competitive player that shows athletic ability and physical toughness. Plays the game with quickness both up the field and laterally. Very good reactionary athlete. When on the move he can be difficult to block. Makes a large number of plays outside the tackle box. Nice one-gap penetrator. Usually the first one off the ball. Good in the hips which helps his change of direction. Will extend into the blocker and shed quickly. Does a nice job of finishing when he gets into position. Was a nice combination with Maliek Collins inside – disruptive pair. One defensive player that I would try | 846 |
Sto.chas.tic (sto kas'tik) adj. 2<|fim_middle|>Swing Index » | . Math. designating a process having an infinite progression of jointly distributed random variables.
- Webster's New World Dictionary
The Stochastic Oscillator compares where a security's price closed relative to its price range over a given time period.
The Stochastic Oscillator is displayed as two lines. The main line is called "%K." The second line, called "%D," is a moving average of %K. The %K line is usually displayed as a solid line and the %D line is usually displayed as a dotted line.
There are several ways to interpret a Stochastic Oscillator. Three popular methods include:
Buy when the Oscillator (either %K or %D) falls below a specific level (e.g., 20) and then rises above that level. Sell when the Oscillator rises above a specific level (e.g., 80) and then falls below that level.
Buy when the %K line rises above the %D line and sell when the %K line falls below the %D line.
Look for divergences. For example, where prices are making a series of new highs and the Stochastic Oscillator is failing to surpass its previous highs.
The following chart shows Avon Products and its 10-day Stochastic.
I drew "buy" arrows when the %K line fell below, and then rose above, the level of 20. Similarly, I drew "sell" arrows when the %K line rose above, and then fell below, the level of 80.
This next chart also shows Avon Products.
In this example I drew "buy" arrows each time the %K line rose above the %D (dotted). Similarly, "sell" arrows were drawn when the %K line fell below the %D line.
This final chart shows a divergence between the Stochastic Oscillator and prices.
This is a classic divergence where prices are headed higher, but the underlying indicator (the Stochastic Oscillator) is moving lower. When a divergence occurs between an indicator and prices, the indicator typically provides the clue as to where prices will head.
The Stochastic Oscillator has four variables:
%K Periods.
This is the number of time periods used in the stochastic calculation.
%K Slowing Periods.
This value controls the internal smoothing of %K. A value of 1 is considered a fast stochastic;a value of 3 is considered a slow stochastic.
%D Periods.
This is the number of time periods used when calculating a moving average of %K. The moving average is called "%D" and is usually displayed as a dotted line on top of %K.
%D Method.
The method (i.e., Exponential, Simple, Time Series, Triangular, Variable, or Weighted) that is used to calculate %D.
The formula for %K is:
For example, to calculate a 10-day %K, first find the security's highest-high and lowest-low over the last 10 days. As an example, let's assume that during the last 10 days the highest-high was 46 and the lowest-low was 38--a range of 8 points. If today's closing price was 41, %K would be calculated as:
The 37.5% in this example shows that today's close was at the level of 37.5% relative to the security's trading range over the last 10 days. If today's close was 42, the Stochastic Oscillator would be 50%. This would mean that that the security closed today at 50%, or the mid-point, of its 10-day trading range.
The above example used a %K Slowing Period of 1-day (no slowing). If you use a value greater than one, you average the highest-high and the lowest-low over the number of %K Slowing Periods before performing the division.
A moving average of %K is then calculated using the number of time periods specified in the %D Periods. This moving average is called %D.
The Stochastic Oscillator always ranges between 0% and 100%. A reading of 0% shows that the security's close was the lowest price that the security has traded during the preceding x-time periods. A reading of 100% shows that the security's close was the highest price that the security has traded during the preceding x-time periods.
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Public Release: 25-Jul-2018
A new catalyst for water splitting that is the best of both worlds
Taking water and ripping it apart into hydrogen and oxygen could form the basis of artificial photosynthetic devices that could ultimately power homes and businesses. However, catalysts, including those used to "split" water, have either worked well but are expensive and unstable, or are affordable and stable, but don't work as well. Now, researchers report in ACS Central Science a new catalyst that is really the best of both worlds.
Identifying ideal materials that can split water is a long-standing problem in renewable energy storage. Catalysts, which help reactions occur, are often used in this process. "Homogeneous" ones dissolve into the reaction solution and are usually active and selective. However, they don't work well in some applications because they are unstable and expensive. In contrast, "heterogeneous" catalysts are solids that are stable, recyclable and convenient to work with, but they are usually not very active or selective. Dunwei Wang and colleagues proposed they could get closer to the ideal catalyst by producing a hybrid material.
The researchers developed a new hybrid catalyst made of iridium dinuclear heterogeneous catalysts (DHCs) attached to a tungsten oxide substrate. They found that attaching the ends of the DHC molecules -- instead of the sides -- allowed the catalyst to perform optimally. The researchers suggest that this first-of-its-kind material could be an important step toward alternative solar energy storage or artificial photosynthesis.
The authors acknowledge funding from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy.
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What Is Strenuous Exercise?
by Bryan Holmes
Vigorous exercise can cut your exercise time.
If you prefer to sleep in during the morning versus getting up to exercise, you're in luck. That's because according to new recommendations from American College of Sports Medicine, you can exercise for fewer days each week -- so long as you exercise vigorously.
Maximal Heart Rate
Before you put away your workout shoes and slink back into bed, understand what the American College of Sports Medicine means by vigorous exercise. For an exercise to count as vigorous, it must raise your heart rate to at least 70 percent of your maximal heart rate. This is the point at which exercise transitions from moderate- to vigorous-intensity exercise according to the ACSM. It is also the moment when every drop of sweat means more to your heart.
Calculating Your Heart Rate
You can estimate your maximal heart rate quickly by subtracting your age from 220, which will give you your heart rate maximum in beats per minute. For example, a 40-year-old woman would subtract 40 from 220, giving her an estimated maximal heart rate of 180 beats per minute. To determine the heart rate for vigorous exercise, she would then multiply 180 by 70 percent. This would give her a minimal heart rate target of 126 beats per minute.
Exercise Efficiently
The ACSM recommends that healthy adults should get at least 30 to 60 minutes of moderate intensity exercise five times per week. But if you exchange the time you spend doing moderate-intensity exercise for vigorous-intensity exercise, you only need to exercise for a minimum of 20 to 60 minutes -- and only on three days per week.
If you do not have a heart rate monitor, use the Rating of Perceived Exertion. Health care professionals use this scale to estimate the intensity level of an activity by asking an exerciser how she feels. This method yields surprisingly accurate results because how an exercise feels highly correlates with your heart rate. For example, most people select the descriptive words of "somewhat hard" or "hard" from the Rating of Perceived Exertion list to describe how they feel as they reach 70 percent of their maximal heart rate. Knowing this, you can estimate when an aerobic exercise is vigorous by asking<|fim_middle|> Breathing When Using the Ab Wheel
What Is a Good Heart Rate After Exercising?
How Much Protein for an Active Lifestyle? | yourself, "How does this exercise feel?" If you choose the words "somewhat hard" or "hard" to describe the exercise, you are probably doing a vigorous exercise.
Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise: Quantity and Quality of Exercise for Developing and Maintaining Cardiorespiratory, Musculoskeletal, and Neuromotor Fitness in Apparently Healthy Adults: Guidance for Prescribing Exercise
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Perceived Exertion (Borg Rating of Perceived Exertion Scale)
American College of Sports Medicine: ACSM Current Comment -- Perceived Exertion
The American Journal of Cardiology: Comparison of Cardioprotective Benefits of Vigorous Versus Moderate Intensity Aerobic Exercise
Bryan Holmes has worked with collegiate and professional athletes as a strength and conditioning coach. He holds a Bachelor of Science in exercise physiology from Ohio University and is a former certified strength and conditioning specialist (CSCS) with the NSCA.
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Why Should I Choose Private Health Insurance?
Medicare covers a range of medical services and medications for Australian citizens, but it doesn't cover everything. Medicare is essential coverage that can protect you if you're injured or sick.
If you're young and don't go to the doctor's office very much, Medicare might be enough for you. Once you get older and start making more money, though, it may be beneficial for you to begin purchasing coverage from private insurers.
What is the Tax Rebate for Private Health Insurance?
As a way to incentivise citizens purchasing private health insurance, the government enacted the Australian Government Private Health Insurance Rebate.
Through this program, the government will pay a portion of your private insurance premium for you. You can choose to get the amount deducted from your monthly premiums or receive the money when you complete your taxes.
These tax rebates vary based on individual needs. Your rebate will depend on your income, family status, and insurance premium rate. The tax rebate does not consider loading fees as part of your premium.
The Medicare Levy Surcharge is one of the ways the Australian Government is attempting to lighten the burden on the Medicare system.
If you or your family makes over a certain amount each year and doesn't pay for private hospital cover, you're obligated to pay the Medicare Levy Surcharge. If you have hospital cover, you won't have to pay this fee.
Click here to visit the Medicare Levy Surcharge Calculator.
The exact surcharge level you'll need to pay depends on your income level and relationship/family status. Use the slider and dropdown menu below to determine what surcharge you're liable for if you don't have private hospital cover.
What is Lifetime Health Cover (LHC)?
Like the Medicare Levy Surcharge, the Australian Government<|fim_middle|>, you won't have to worry about paying your Medicare Levy Surcharge either.
The only element you'll have to consider is your loading fees. If you can afford basic hospital cover, we recommend you do so to prevent your loading fees from accruing. | created the Lifetime Health Cover to incentivise buying private health insurance.
The LHC rewards those who buy private health insurance early in life. On the other hand, if you have never purchased private health insurance by the age of 31, you will gain a loading (or in other words, an extra charge) on top of your premium should you take out private healthcare now or later.
Lifetime Health Cover also benefits those who never have gaps in coverage or people who quickly resolve any gaps that may take place.
What Are My LHC Loading Fees?
If you fail to register for private hospital cover by the time you turn 31, you'll start to accrue loading fees. You might have received a letter in the mail outlining the LHC rules, which signifies that your loading fees have started to accrue.
Loading fees are an additional cost to your private health insurance premium. They start gathering after your 31st birthday if you still haven't purchased private hospital cover.
The loading fees rise at a rate of 2% for every year you fail to purchase coverage. If you sign up for private healthcare at 30, you won't have any loading fees.
If you sign up for the first time at 40, however, you'll pay an additional 20% of your premium in loading fees. This 2% loading applies up until a maximum loading of 70%.
Depending on your age, family status, and income level, you may be entitled to a Government Rebate on your private health insurance policy. Use the sliders and dropdown menu below to calculate your rebate.
How Do I Avoid LHC Loading Fees?
Avoiding LHC loading fees is rather simple if you have enough funds to pay for private hospital cover.
Lifetime Health Cover is an incentive to buy healthcare early, and doing so will ensure that you don't have to pay loading fees in the future.
Just because you bought hospital cover in your 20s doesn't mean you're free and clear. You also must avoid gaps in coverage throughout your healthcare life. If you lose coverage for an extended period, your LHC loading fees will start to accrue once again.
Will I Always Have to Pay LHC Loading Fees?
No. If you purchase coverage after your 31st birthday, you'll start with a loading fee but won't have to pay it for the rest of your life.
After ten years of continued coverage, your insurer will remove the loading fees from your premium. You are even allowed "permitted days" without coverage during the subsequent ten years. These days won't count towards your 10-year total, however.
During these ten years, you'll be able to upgrade, downgrade, and change insurers without negatively affecting your loading fees.
If you remain covered for ten years and remove your loading fees, you might have to pay them again if you lose coverage for too long.
Premiums Anymore (Permitted Days Without Hospital Cover)?
It's not always possible to maintain coverage for your entire life. You might lose your job or come across financial hardship and have to cancel your policy.
The Australian Government understands that this is a possibility, and is therefore lenient with the accrual of loading fees if you have a gap in coverage.
After you purchase private hospital cover, the government allows for a total of 1,094 days without coverage before you start to gather additional loading fees.
These days are called "permitted days without hospital cover." Keep in mind that the 1,094 days are throughout the total of your coverage. Once you use them, they don't come back.
Once you exceed the 1,094 days, your loading fees will again start to increase by 2% for every year you remain uncovered. If you're curious how many permitted days you have left, contact your insurance provider.
my Hospital Cover to Avoid Loading Fees?
If you're going overseas for an extended period, there are a couple of ways to stop paying your hospital cover while avoiding loading fees.
If you are away for a few months, your best option will probably be a suspension of your coverage. You'll have to contact your insurer to start the suspension, and the terms of the suspension are up to them.
Your insurer will determine how long you can go without paying for coverage. After that, you'll have to start paying again or risk accruing loading fees.
Your suspension does not count toward your permitted days without hospital cover. In fact, if you're already paying loading fees, your suspension will still count toward your 10-year window of complete coverage.
Your second option will be cancellation of your plan. If you're spending more than a year in another country, the Australian Government allows you to cancel your policy while you're away.
When you come back, you won't have to pay any additional loading fees as long as you obtain coverage right away. The time between when you come back and when you purchase hospital cover will count toward your 1,094 permitted days without hospital cover.
Make sure you keep documentation of your travel while your away. Your insurer may require that you provide proof of your extended stay abroad to prevent further loading fees.
What If I Can't Afford Private Health Insurance?
If you can't afford private health insurance, Medicare is still a fine option. You'll receive necessary care and checkups from public facilities as a public patient.
You might have to wait months or years for elective surgeries. Still, you'll eventually be able to receive them free-of-charge.
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Community Table Typing
CALAIS - MAY 31, 2019
There are reported to be around 500 people in Calais at the moment though it's difficult to know exact numbers. The police
presence continues to be high and the daily preoccupation of avoiding police violence and destruction of property carries on. Many already exhausted people are fasting in these conditions, while Ramadan ends in a few days time.
This week we spent one day in Calais in the day centre, having travelled the previous week to Le Channel, a dynamic arts centre on<|fim_middle|> gently stirred.
A few men and a woman built with the bricks in amongst the typing, the sound of the keys offering a reassuring presence. A brick beacon which doubled up as a brick oven was left on the table in amongst the pieces of text and alongside the foundations of a new building. | the edge of Calais, to take part in a multi-disciplinary conference on the theme of violence, refuge and art. Reflecting there with others on the value of our 'Community Table' in the day centre, this week we decided to bring two manual typewriters with us to allow for a different sort of communication.
We were also responding to the writing of a moving poem posted on line by our well respected friend and refugee volunteer who was marking the tragic death last week of a young Eritrean on the main Calais road. We wondered whether the typewriter might invite other verse.
There were a number of visitors to the day centre in addition to a gentle stream of young men, and a few women. These included a group of nuns from regions across France, a medical team offering first aid, and several volunteers from the other organisations. Slowly the Community Table found its rhythm and we were joined in particular by Sudanese young men who seemed fascinated by the typewriter machines.
One young man said he comes from a very small rural village and had never seen such a machine before. Working with one of the nuns and ourselves he managed to type some key autobiographical notes, typing over and over the name of his region, and at the same time trying to explain his local language. Later he typed out a fictional tale in which he managed to kill two frightening animals that had confronted him in the woods.
The presence and use of the typewriters seemed to helpfully allow communication to be slowed down across languages. It encouraged playful imaginative interaction with serious intent that felt like work, and allowed some intense conversations to take place. Their 1970s style held a presence at the table and fitted with the other pre-used materials that we bring.
Memories were connected with but the pace of finding the correct keys seemed to help slow things down and allow for some distance. The carbon paper, the idiosyncrasies of each machine, the mechanical keys and in particular the sound of the tapping seemed to resonate, a cultural nostalgia | 414 |
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Film 1 — "Muse"
The auction of a priceless Faberge Egg attracts the attention of an infamous international thief — and the new Thames Valley Constabulary — as Endeavour investigates. He's soon distracted by the gruesome death of a known gangster. But when a history Don and the auction's organiser both meet similarly grisly ends, he suspects the three cases are connected. The hunt is underway to find a ruthless and violent serial killer, and track down the next victim before it's too late. At the station, a new recruit arrives to become Endeavour's apprentice.
Film 2 — "Cartouche"
Hollywood glamour comes to Oxford as the stars of a new horror movie begin filming in the city. Meanwhile, the unexplained death of a former detective sergeant leads Endeavour and Thursday to a local cinema, which is playing host the film's stars in a special event. The case takes a turn when another man is also dramatically killed. The film's star is convinced a mysterious Egyptian curse is to blame, and Endeavour and Thursday find themselves uncovering long-kept secrets and the truth behind a hero's past. Thursday entertains estranged brother Charlie and finds his generosity tested.
Film 3 — "Passenger"
Endeavour investigates the disappearance of a local woman. Things take a surprising turn when a woman's body is discovered at an abandoned railway station; Endeavour realises it's more than a simple missing persons case. The discovery of another body blows the case wide open - and leads to an unlikely culprit. Meanwhile, Thursday is absorbed in the investigation of a lorry hijack — which he suspects is linked to local gangster Eddie Nero. Soon, Cowley is disrupted by the arrival of two burglary squad officers, commandeering Fancy for their plans — whose investigation leads to an important new clue.
Film 4 — "Colours"
A photoshoot on an army base turns sinister when a model is found dead. The investigation is complicated when they discover Sam Thursday is involved. With Thursday side-lined by protocol, Endeavour and Strange take the lead — the first time without their mentor. Tensions rise, and the pair clash, pushing their friendship to breaking point. When another body is discovered, Endeavour uncovers family secrets, political affiliations and thwarted love affairs to find the truth. Elsewhere, a racial protest outside a hairdressing salon turns violent, while a new relationship and new hobby give both Endeavour and Thursday hope for the future.
Film 5 — "Quartet"
A death at an international sporting event opens a new case for Endeavour and Thursday, but their investigation is quickly brought to an unexpected end. While Thursday wants to step away, Endeavour is determined to find out more, and secretly undertakes to discover the truth. While Endeavour chases down the real story behind the death, Thursday attempts to protect a battered wife from her violent husband. When tragedy strikes, Thursday must make a tough moral decision about how to administer justice. Away from the case, Endeavour has to face up to heartbreak with an unexpected departure.
Film 6 — "Icarus"
When a teacher mysteriously disappears, Endeavour finds himself investigating the hidden world of a public school. When a body is unexpectedly discovered, Endeavour must question who he can trust and find the killer before it's too late. With Cowley Station closing, Thursday is determined to crack the unsolved murders linked to Eddie Nero, and charges Fancy with tracking down the suspects, with horrific results. In the shadow of tragedy, Endeavour and Thursday find some unexpected answers to their cases. Meanwhile, Thursday's brother returns with news and Endeavour is forced to look to the future.
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I badgered him until I eventually asked him if it would be hard to get a job if I had a visible tattoo. He replied that it depended on the job, which led me to think about what kind of career path I should travel down. That's when I realized I had no idea. I had absolutely no clue what I wanted to do in college and later in life.
I am interested in certain things, and I have hobbies, but I don't find myself especially interested in anything I could make a career out of.
<|fim_middle|> and do whatever we want, but the fear is that our freedom is fleeting. The fear is that as we get older, we slow down, until finally you've gone through your last door to find yourself in a white room with four blank walls and no windows. When you feel the only exciting thing is reminiscing about the days when the world was in your hand. When you're too old to chase the sun. That's what I am afraid of.
Thinking about it is enough to drive me crazy. I know worrying is useless, but college is rapidly approaching, and I can't help but feel unprepared. Some kids I know practically have their whole life planned out, but personally, I think that's the worst thing you can do. My idea is to embrace the unknown. Accept that I have no idea what's going to happen and go with it. After all, life is unpredictable.
In fact, just the other night I was re-reading some old journal entries from my junior year. All my friends were stoners, and they didn't even like me. I had been trying to get over a girl for months on end, unsuccessfully. My whole mentality was to put my head down and make it to college. I even wrote "People will tell you they love you, they don't. People will say you're going places, you're not. You live and you die, and everything in between is meaningless". I was in dark place, I had no idea that in year I would be living in Arizona, days from graduation, already established as a writer.
A year ago I didn't think my thoughts mattered, I didn't think I mattered, but regardless, here I am. That's growth. In the end, I have no idea what the future holds, and neither does anyone else. So why bother stressing out about it? All I can do, all anyone can do, is work with what we have and hope for the best. | And I have to admit, it's a little scary. I have no idea how my future is going to end up.
I have an older friend back home, more of a family friend. His name is Harris, he's worked the same accounting job for 25 years, and spends his weekends watching movies and drinking beer in his living room. It makes me depressed thinking about it. That's exactly how I don't want to end up, stuck in some dead end job with just enough money to support myself, not going anywhere. Because that's the real fear of growing up, losing momentum.
Right now, while we're young, all the doors are open. We can go wherever we want | 142 |
New Takashi Amano Bio: An Aquarium Life
by Steve Waldron | Jun 2, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Steve Waldron, Freshwater | 0 comments
"I produce the framework of a composition according to the image in my mind by adjusting the orientation and angle of driftwood." Image copyright: Aqua Design Amano.
The Origin of Creation
Book Review and Images Excerpt from Amazonas, July/August 2016
by Steve Waldron • Last summer, the aquarium hobby lost one of its guiding lights with the untimely death of the Japanese master aquascaper Takashi Amano. The void Amano left is as large as the role he played in inspiring the freshwater aquascaping movement, the popularity of which continues to grow exponentially. Thankfully, Aqua Design Amano will soon release the English-language version of Amano's biography, Origin of Creation,<|fim_middle|> have never before been published.
"Trudging through the jungle, carrying the large format camera. Shooting photographs was extremely brutal." Image copyright: Aqua Design Amano.
Origin of Creation is, of course, a biography, and in it we learn some of the details of Takashi Amano's extraordinary life. He grew up in a family of humble means and lived in a region and era of Japan that still resonated with some of the natural beauty and wildness that would inspire him throughout his life. During Amano's childhood he explored aquatic nature and enjoyed the freedom of unsupervised play in a freshwater lagoon called Yoroigata. It was there that his artistic seed was germinated and the blueprint for his career was created. Yoroigata was also the scene of Amano's first ecological heartbreak, as it was destroyed and drained to make way for development. Environmental crisis is another thread that wove through Amano's life and fired his art.
Takashi Amano was an extraordinary young man. He painted beautiful and painstaking pointillistic renderings of his beloved tropical fishes and was a successful professional cyclist who spent all his race winnings on aquariums, travel to exotic places, and photographic equipment. The beauty of Origin of Creation is that it not only tells us about Amano's personal growth, but also transports us to the places and moments in his life where his inspiration was most activated and strings them together in poetic text, sending the reader on an adventurous journey with a man of extraordinary energy and spirit. We see how Amano, throughout his life, followed these sources of inspiration into the Amazon, Borneo, West Africa, and wild Japan, and instinctively allowed that wild creativity to flow through his enchanting aquascapes and photographs.
"Yoroigata Lagoon, where I used to play with my childhood friends, is the landscape of my heart." (Takashi Amano, center, age 10, 1964). Image: Aqua Design Amano.
If there is a formula to Amano's success as an artist, I believe it is this: He was born with a deep love for the wildest, purest, and most primeval expressions of nature and constantly immersed himself in the heart of this inspiration. His famous aquascapes freely and naturally flowed from that energy and from those experiences (though he does admit to having struggled due to mixing whiskey with his first Iwagumi attempts). Wild nature was the origin of every one of Takashi Amano's creations, and because of that elemental core to his art, that natural authenticity, the aquascaping hobby will forever orbit around his genius and his singular expressions of the natural world's beauty.
Steve Waldron is a a senior AMAZONAS contributor and owner of Aquarium Zen in Seattle,WA: www.aquariumzen.net
Available from select aquarium retail shops and AMAZON now in Books.
Publisher: Aqua Design Amano.Co.,Ltd. (March 3, 2016)
Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 10.7 x 1.3 inches
Found this interesting? Please share with your friends! | which I think will bring some comfort to those of us who are still mourning the loss of the master.
"I value the creativity and its power that we find within ourselves when we try to re-create nature. I have a strong conviction: the more I explore and get to know nature, the more in tune I will be with nature. If one is truly in tune with nature, an ecosystem that he or she creates in a glass box will naturally become a beautiful aquascape."
— Takashi Amano, Origin of Creation
In my mind, the book is not just an interesting biography of the man but also a guide on how to lead a creative life and a lodestone for anyone seeking to master the art of the Nature Aquarium. The writing of Origin of Creation was a collaboration between Amano and his daughter, Sayuri. During the final phase of Amano's illness, over the course of a year, they crafted this fine book, rich in stories about Amano's life and filled with beautiful images, some of which | 211 |
Innovation is not an option in today's world of disruptions.
There are critical factors needed for innovation to thrive.
Without safety and trust, innovation will not flourish.
Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Netflix, Cisco—these organizations sit at the top of the 50 most innovative companies of 2018 listed by Consultancy.UK.
In the age of disruption, "all companies today are tech companies", John Chambers said in Fortune's recent Brainstorm Reinvent conference. Industry leaders have no choice but to be the disruptors. Their survival and success depends on their ability to innovate and stay ahead of the times.
The innovation process and approach—research and development, ideation, prototyping, testing—is at the heart of a tech company. What is it that enables a company and its people to excel at innovation? To come together day after day, to dream big, to create, to take risks and fail forward, to push themselves, challenge the status quo, and find solutions to today's problems?
What the most innovative companies in the world have are cultures that create the right environment for innovation.
"There is a strong acknowledgement and recognition that we won't get everything right the first time", says an employee at Cisco.
Because risk-taking is an inherent part of the innovation process, employees need permission to fail along the way.
Steve Blanco, CEO of Documoto, says "I trust my team by providing an environment where experimentation is encouraged and failure isn't penalized. We believe in experimentation so much we made it one of our core principles. We recognize that not everything works out, and that's okay".
Successful organizations create a desire among their people to try new things. This means allowing them to take risks and giving employees the autonomy necessary to innovate. The best employers provide well-deserved recognition when ideas pan out and an understanding response when they don't. "I feel very empowered, and I am accountable for the work my team delivers – we take educated risks and adjust as we need to".
Steve Blanco, CEO of Documoto, shares that "We encourage collaboration and communication, because innovation often springs from a clear understanding of a challenge or business problem".
ASEC (the Association of Executive Search and<|fim_middle|> the key causes of declining performance.
Change initiatives success rates are not high. Neglecting cultural and people issues in change management can be costly.
Leaders play a major role in employee engagement and retention. The reasons top performers leave are directly linked to leadership. | Leadership Consultants) identifies the top innovation strategy in 2018 as: "to create a culture that encourages cooperation across functions and business units and promotes risk taking".
Innovation starts from the top. Leadership plays the key role, setting the stage by empowering the team to take risks. This builds a culture of trust and safety.
"Any company with a leadership team committed to developing a culture of trust will eventually realize that it starts with them. That is, if they're willing to change and set the wheels in motion", says Inc.com.
Read more about Developing Trusted and Relationally Competent Leaders.
An atmosphere of safety is crucial because the process of innovation is iterative. Solutions and breakthroughs are the result of research, ideation, risk-taking, and testing. Unless employees are given the freedom to fail, a team cannot innovate, for fear of the consequences of failure.
Safety and trust are key elements in driving innovation. Notably, it was Google's practice of 20% innovation during its early years, in which engineers were given the freedom to experiment on new tech solutions, that resulted in the invention of GMail, Adsense, and Google Talk.
When employees trust that their leaders have their back, and feel safe to speak their minds or pursue a gut feel, the horizon of possibilities expands, and innovation finds itself at home.
We help organisations build cultures in a deliberate and strategic manner to help solve their business challenges. Find out more about our approach here.
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Dragonfly View Drone Service safely and professionally provides precision agriculture mapping services. Our main focus is collecting and providing multispectral data maps. The multispectral data collected is used by farmers, crop consultants and agronomists to produce more accurate field zone prescriptions with greater efficiency. The primary deliverables are<|fim_middle|>ayers need data input to tell them how much to put where; or, a prescription. The data for this prescription originates from either a satellite which typically has 30 meter resolution or from a drone with 30 centimeter resolution. The more precise the data, the more precise the results can be. Additionally, a commercial drone can produce results more reliably than a satellite or soil sampling alone because the fastest satellite orbits are only every 48 hours and is still limited by cloud cover and the soil sampling is limited to size of the fields grid. When soil sampling maps are combined with our drone data, a farmer or agronomist will be able to see the full picture of what is going on throughout the field. The NDVI map is comprised of every plant in the field. There are no gaps in coverage.
Check in with us often! We'll post information about upcoming events and opportunities to see our technology and services in action to this section. | Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) maps, but we also can provide elevation and plant population maps as well as aerial inspection and photogrammetry maps.
Using professional UAV (drone) services; a reduction in the time that inspection personnel need to spend on visiting the field and processing the results is realized. When a mapping mission's flight has been well planned, a commercial drone can collect imagery or multispectral data that covers a field in a fraction of the time that it takes for manual inspection. Once the data is collected and uploaded, results are produced within hours compared to lab results which can take days or weeks.
With all data and imagery collected during inspection flights, the point cloud created is geo-referenced with real-world geographic coordinates, the end result is maps and imagery that will be able to help identify areas of deterioration–before anyone needs to climb any ladder or scaffolding, undertake rope access procedures, walk on the roof, or access a muddy field.
NDVI is a simple metric which indicates the health of vegetation. When near infrared (NIR) hits the leaf of a healthy plant, it is reflected back into the atmosphere. As the amount of chlorophyll produced in a plant decreases, less near infrared is reflected. This can be used to see the overall health of a crop. The NDVI algorithm compares the reflected intensities of near infrared and visible light.
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I was quickly drawn to Argentinian artist Irana Douer<|fim_middle|> Mag which features the works of different artist. She then translated it to a gallery and shop which she also curates. She also designs and sells eco-friendly bags, stickers and pillowcases on her Etsy Shop. No new items at the moment though.
All images used are property of Irana Douer. | 's artwork because of it's femininity, bold colors and shapes, and the certain shadiness of the female subjects. At first glance, it was very intriguing. Actually, most of the characters display mystic and innocence, like they are possessing deep, dark secrets with those sinister eyes but their exposure also shows their vulnerability. The manner that she depicts the hair is exceptional, too. Such strong contrasts in the simple, minimalist illustrations and detailed lines and geometry.
Every piece provokes a thought, a feeling, sometimes, sympathy. As a woman, it's almost instantaneous that I felt a connection. After looking at most of her creations, in my mind, I imagined each and every character existed in some fantasy world of vibrant hues and emotional symbolism.
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At mile 1016.9. Hiked 14.5 miles today.
Last night I camped at Walker River on a site near the<|fim_middle|> Lake & Chalet, 75 miles away. I enjoyed looking out the window of the bunkhouse to the corral where it seemed 50 horses and mules were kept. This is a big packing operation. I'd love to go backcountry on horseback with a mule in tow. These packers are cool cowboy types and seem to be tough and hard working. KM-North has reasonable prices and is a great stop.
People: I met Golden at KM Ranch. He is 60 something and is also NOBO Thru-hiker. He is back doing a skipped section. He finishes at Sierra City, 100 miles north of where I finish and seemed to be having more of a struggle on this last leg of his hike with sore feet. I wish him well. | footbridge. After a short climb up a canyon, the landscape changed to a high open volcanic expanse. It became windy and cool.
Working my way up to higher and more exposed elevations.
I continue to climb. This is an exciting difference to what I had seen on elsewhere on the PCT.
Barren volcanic views. Only a few spots where low and bent White Bark Pines grew.
I made my way up to the notch seen on the right side of this photo. I'm guessing the approach near the notch was where early hikers needed their Ice Axes. Even without ice, I stepped carefully to avoid sliding on sandy soil and over a precipice.
Closer look at the notch.
Other side with some Nor'east facing snow patch.
By midday I reached Sonora Pass where I hitched a ride to North Kennedy Meadow Guest Ranch in time for a hot Roast Beef aus Jus sandwich and fries. I stayed at the bunkhouse with shower and laundry included and I shopped the well supplied store for my very last resupply all of the way to Echo | 219 |
...and other southern treasures to be visited at the country's national parks now that the security situation has calmed down. Part 2 in a series.
It all began with the adventurous niece of British prime minister William Pitt the Younger. Her name was Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope, and in 1810 she traveled to the Middle East to fall madly in love with Lebanon. While she was living amid the Lebanese Druse, she got hold of a book (or map) describing a treasure deep inside Tel Ashkelon, a man-made hill further south along the coast.
After getting permission from the ruling Turks to excavate the tel, she headed a 150-person expedition that dug for two weeks. Discovery of a large marble statue of a Roman emperor excited her, believing she would find the treasure within. And she instructed her workers – one of whom managed to sketch the statue right after its discovery – to break it apart. But it was empty. Discouraged, she returned to Lebanon.
Over the years the Turks performed half-hearted excavations here and there, covering them up after each attempt as they were required to do by Ottoman law. And so the site remained, until the British conquered Palestine. For two years they excavated the tel, coming up with some fascinating finds. Finally, in 1985, archeologist Lawrence Stager arrived from Harvard, and with the blessing of the Antiquities Authority has been digging Tel Ashkelon ever since. Among the site's most exciting discoveries are a forum, fabulous statues, massive fortifications and one of the only two Bronze-Age gates found in Israel. Today, Ashkelon's ancient gate – the oldest in the country – is the only one that visitors can walk right through.
This is the second in a two-part series that marks the 50th anniversary of the Israel Nature and Parks Authority. Established at the time as two separate entities that united in 1998, the INPA has done a superb job preserving our natural and historic sites while developing their environs for public enjoyment.
The country's first national park was established in the city. Ashkelon National Park, originally named after Yigael Yadin – the first Israeli to insist on physical preservation of our heritage – is a unique and remarkable site. But the antiquities in Ashkelon reach well beyond the borders of the official venue. Indeed, any visit should include, besides the park itself, several exciting attractions located well inside the modern city. Summer visitors take note: An excellent beach is accessible from the park.
Ashkelon's wonders were revealed to us by archeologist Sa'ar Ganor of the Antiquities Authority on a half-day jaunt. Our tour began below and atop the tel, with its massive fortifications and the ancient gate. From there, we viewed the park's other attractions, then moved into contemporary neighborhoods to visit burial sites and a variety of fascinating antiquities. We took a side trip to the newly developed marina – open seven days a week – and its just-completed 5-km.-long wheelchair-accessible promenade.
Neolithic man settled in Ashkelon about 10,000 years ago. During its long history, and until destroyed by the Mamelukes in the 13th century, it was ruled by Canaanites, Philistines, Egyptians, Babylonians, Greeks, Hasmoneans (Maccabees), Romans, Persians, Muslims and Crusaders.
What made the city so worthy of conquest was its excellent port. Part of the Via Maris ("the Way of the Sea"), linking Syria and Egypt, it was in the perfect spot for conducting both overland and maritime trade. Rulers over the millennia understood its importance as a commercial center, and during the Hasmonean, Roman and Byzantine eras left it alone to thrive.
Ashkelon exported world-famous wine, as well as the Ashkelon onion (probably the shallot). No wonder, then, that the name comes from the word shekel, a monetary term mentioned as far back as the Bible. And, although Jews resided there during the Greek, Roman and Byzantine eras, it became a Jewish city for the first time only in modern times.
Visitors to the tel explore the Canaanite city, which was 60 hectares in size, shaped like a semicircle and practically touching the sea. Start with an enormous embankment and the glacis typical of Canaanite fort<|fim_middle|> chambers, columbaria for raising doves, homes and a large underground interconnected system of caverns.
Two months ago, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization declared the park a World Heritage Center.
Located off Highway 35 opposite Beit Guvrin.
Israel's portion of the Red Sea's 4,500-km. coral reef is the most northerly in the world. Stretching from the Gulf of Eilat to the Egyptian border at Taba, it parallels the Eilat shoreline.
Most of it can be perused at no cost and at your leisure. But the part richest in marine life is located within the Coral Beach Nature Reserve where visitors have a wonderful time weaving near and around a plethora of fascinating underwater creatures. You do not need to be a great swimmer or diver to see the fish up close; nonswimmers can simply rent a life jacket and float.
Hours: Saturday to Thursday 9 to 6; Friday 9 to 5.
September events at national parks included in entrance fee: Hai Bar Carmel Nature Reserve, International Eagle Day – September 6, 10 to 3.
Ein Hemed National Park, Day of the Bat – September 13, 11 to 3.
Beit Guvrin National Park, Kites on the Hill – September 27, 10:30 to 3.
For additional events and information call *3639. Or view the Hebrew site: www.parks.org.il (the English site is out of date). | ifications. Archeologists discovered a temple at the foot of the wall, which featured a little "house" for a calf that was covered in pure silver and probably worshiped at the entrance to the city.
View the site where it was discovered, then climb up and walk through the ancient gate. It was made out of mud brick that has been very well preserved.
Afterwards, walk or drive to the park's other highlights, most of them from the Greek, Roman and Byzantine periods. Stroll through the forum (or basilica), a huge gathering place lined with marble pillars sitting on ornamental bases. Adjacent to the forum, the odeum was shaped in a semi-circle and probably held either city council meetings or musical events – or both. A theater has not been uncovered on the tell, but archeologists have found clay tickets to performances.
Magnificent finds from the forum and the odeum are concentrated in a single area of the park. Most are made of marble, imported from areas like Carrara, Italy, and Asia Minor. Look for a statue of Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, and for a sarcophagus boasting the heads of two calves and a third-century Roman amphora that Ganor himself uncovered during excavations.
Along the road that circles the park stands the only Greek Orthodox church in Ashkelon. Dating back to the Byzantine era, it was originally graced with six pillars made of granite from Aswan in Egypt. Muslims turned it into a mosque; the Crusaders turned it back into a smaller church with only four pillars and painted frescoes on the walls. In its heyday it was full of decorations and boasted an iconostasis (wall of icons) typical of an Orthodox house of worship.
Other must-see sights include the Tomb of Mameluke Sheikh Awad, located at the northern end of a colorful and accessible promenade above the sea, and a mosaic floor inscribed with the date (498 CE) and featuring an amphora and floral decorations. The floor belonged in a Byzantine church. Today it is found next to the road, out in the open, across from the Holiday Inn Hotel on Yekutiel Adam Street.
Along the southern coast, it was impossible to bury people in caves. Poor people were interred in the sand; rich families built mausoleums in the dunes. If you take Moshe Dorot Street, stop well above the marina and facing away from a large apartment complex with rounded balconies. Then climb a small hill to reach two such burial sites. One is completely closed, to protect wall and ceiling frescoes that may be one of the most impressive in the country (future plans include a periscope so that visitors can get a look inside). The frescoes depict several goddesses, a flute player, the entire process for manufacturing wine and much more.
The second burial enclosure was brought here from nearby Eli Cohen Street, and its faded frescoes can be viewed from outside. See if you can make out some of the decorations and the images in the alcove frescoes.
From here, head for one of the city's loveliest neighborhoods where, smack in the middle of Zvi Segal Street, you will find the beautiful remains of a Byzantine church. It was erected in basilica style, and its pillars and capitals have been well preserved.
Last but definitely not least, the Sarcophagus Courtyard in the Afridar neighborhood on Bar-Kochba Street features both a large grassy area for kids and grandkids to run around, and possibly the most decorative sarcophagi ever discovered in Israel. Dating back to the Roman era, made of imported marble, they depict the battle of Troy, lions fighting with bulls, the abduction of Persephone (who became goddess queen of the underworld) and two lions guarding a funeral urn.
Open Sunday to Thursday 8:30 to 3:30 and Fridays 8:30 to 1:30; closed on Saturdays.
Ashkelon National Park is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., and in the summer you can stay until 10 p.m.
With its shady picnic sites and great beach, the park is a perfect summer venue.
Here are a few more parks/reserves in the Center and South of the country that are either underground, indoors or let you cool off in the water.
Discovered in 1968 by workers blasting in a nearby quarry, the Stalactite Cave is a wonderland of enchanting formations. Stalactites hanging from the roof of the cave have their own particular beauty as do stalagmites growing up from the ground. Often the two fuse together to create even more magical shapes and figures.
The cave is approximately 86 m. by 60 m. and full of surprises. Visitors see a short production about stalactites and stalagmites (possible with English subtitles) and take part in guided tours (in Hebrew) that leave every 25 minutes.
Hours: Saturday to Thursday 8 to 5; Friday 8 to 4.
To get there take Highway 38 from Sha'ar Hagai to Beit Shemesh.
From Beit Shemesh, follow Highway 3866 about five kilometers to a junction featuring a large monument commemorating the Challenger spacecraft. Follow the signs to the left.
Since its destruction 2,000 years ago, the biblical city of Maresha seems to have become only dried shrubs and scattered stones at the foot of a hill. Under the earth, however, lies a treasure house of caves, including massive "Bell Caves," actually man-made quarries that were dug out to extract soft chalk rock for construction.
The park sports hundreds of underground caves, many of them open to visitors. They house cisterns, spectacular burial | 1,200 |
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Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Schaeberle.
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Using images and readings from Cassini and other hardware, researchers believe Titan is similar in many ways to Earth shortly after its formation. The moon is rocky and icy, and the surface is thought to get less than one percent as much light from the Sun as we get here on Earth, due largely to the greater distance as well as the clouds and haze that often shroud Titan's surface.
At present, the moon's surface is dotted with vast lakes of methane and ethane, oxygen-breathing creatures would find quite unappealing. However, it's been theorized that life could still exist there, having evolved to breath hydrogen rather than oxygen, and exhaling methane instead of carbon dioxide.
Far enough down the road, scientists believe that Titan could actually become a great deal like Earth in its present form, once the Sun transitions to a red giant. At that point, Titan could be much warmer than it is today, allowing liquid water to form on its surface and becoming much more habitable. But don't hold your breath, as that's not expected to actually occur for roughly another five billion years.
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Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1989 to 1992
Place Of Publication/Manufacture: Rochester, New York, USA
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7 Hidden Costs of Contingent Workforce Management
By: TAPFIN April 29, 2022
The workforce was already changing before COVID captured headlines, but the pandemic accelerated trends faster than expected. As more workers embrace side hustles, gig jobs, contract work, and freelance positions, companies need to reevaluate their goals and practices for contingent workforce management.
The number of people working independently has seen a massive increase. In 2021, the U.S. reported 23.9 million independent workers. In 2017, that number was only 12.9 million.
Many workers, especially younger generations, are shifting away from the traditional long-term career model in favor of flexible employment options.
But employees aren't the only ones seeing the benefits of flexibility. Employers are embracing the work shift, too. Managing a contingent workforce allows businesses to fill roles when demand fluctuates and cut unnecessary labor during slow periods to save costs.
A contingent workforce is quickly becoming a normal part of today's society. However, there are hidden expenses with this work model, and employers need to understand<|fim_middle|> the future holds.
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Pros and Cons: Here's Why a Contingent Workforce Costs More Than You Think
Hiring a contingent workforce comes with many benefits for companies, including:
Expanding the labor force during seasonal demands and short-term needs
Reducing the labor force during slower periods without firing or furloughing employees
Accessing a larger talent pool
Utilizing a cost-effective employment strategy
Saving benefit-related expenses for employees, including social security, healthcare coverage, unemployment insurance, sick leave, vacation time, etc.
Freeing up permanent employees to work on more critical tasks while contingent workers handle less sensitive jobs
With these benefits, it's no surprise that the majority of big businesses intend to substantially increase their dependence on a flexible workforce. Intuit reported that 80% of large corporations plan to accelerate this long-term trend and continue hiring contingent workers on the heels of the pandemic.
But is a contingent workforce really a perfect solution?
The truth is, while the arrangement seems to be a win-win for workers and employers, there are hidden costs below the surface. In many cases, these costs are not tracked, so they could be eating away at profits if left unmanaged.
Companies need to fully understand these costs if they're going to implement proper contingent workforce management strategies.
7 Unseen Challenges of a Contingent Workforce
At a glance, the most obvious cost associated with contingent workforce management is labor. However, other variables are at play. To truly maximize the effectiveness of a contingent workforce, you must account for these seven hidden costs.
1. Control and Oversight
If you like to be in absolute control of your business, hiring contingent workers and contract employees may not be the best solution for you. Overseeing these types of workers presents a new set of challenges, including:
Abnormal schedules: Not all contingent workers have traditional hours. Depending on the job and arrangement, they may work at different times and on different days. Many contingent workers, especially if they're working remotely, abhor being micromanaged and prefer to operate on their own schedule as long as they meet their deadlines.
Loss of authority: A contingent worker may have a formal agreement with you, but that worker is not technically your employee even if they represent your business. When it comes to legal measures, disciplinary actions, security, and privacy, you surrender a certain degree of your authority.
Communication: A lack of communication and understanding between the two parties is a recipe for trouble. Contingent workers aren't bound to the same employee handbook as permanent workers, but the rules, guidelines, code of conduct, and job expectations should be clear.
Lack of management consistency: Too many organizations pass the task of overseeing contingent workers off to department managers without a unified company protocol to follow. This strategy (or lack thereof) usually leads to fragmented management, unsupervised workers, and inconsistent reporting and payments.
Adding contingent workers into your organization creates more complexity in your management system. Adapting to these changes will cost time, planning, training, and administrative work, all of which adds up to dollars that you probably didn't factor into your budget for contingent workforce management.
2. Recruiting and Screening
As many businesses learned the hard way in 2021, recruiting isn't always easy, and it's certainly not cheap. For many small businesses, overworked HR teams try to fit recruiting in between their other duties. Simply posting an opening on job boards and waiting for applications to roll in isn't going to attract the best talent to your organization. Recruiting the right candidates is a big job.
Surely it's just easier to hire 1099 contract employees then, right?
Well… not necessarily. Contract employees can be even harder to recruit. Their rates might cost more since they have to pay taxes and healthcare costs out of their hourly rate. Talented contractors with in-demand skills could easily get a full-time job with benefits, but they choose contingent work for the freedom and flexibility. With that in mind, they're not likely to settle for less-than-ideal conditions and pay.
Contingent workforce agencies usually promise that they vetted their temp workers. Many companies have lower screening rates for contingent workers than permanent workers because they believe that the agency has already taken care of the screening process.
But are you ready to put your organization's security on the line? Contingent workers typically have access to the same information as permanent employees, including worksites, equipment, computer systems, data, and other company information.
To err on the side of caution, you should invest in your own background checks on contingent workers. You are absorbing the risk when you bring temporary employees into your business. Any gaps in your screening process can open the door for theft, fraud, security breaches, legal costs, and damage to your business's reputation.
3. Compliance and Legality
Classification laws set in place to protect contingent workers vary per state and even per city. Employers need to ensure that their information is up to date and contracts are as detailed as possible to clearly define the job description, exemption status, pay rate, and time frame.
In-house HR teams can quickly become overwhelmed with the long list of ever-changing compliance factors such as:
Civil and criminal liabilities
Misclassifying contingent workers can result in harsh penalties, not to mention impact the company culture, reputation, consistency, and team morale. Even Google has run into compliance issues with whistleblower accusations about underpaying the "shadow work force that now outnumbers the company's full-time employees."
4. Turnover
A contingent workforce can be a solution for turnover among permanent employees, but it can also be a hidden cost if a company fails to properly manage its temporary workers.
In too many cases, contingent workers are treated as outsiders. They don't feel welcomed into the company culture, and managers expect them to work quickly and quietly until their contracted time is over. Coworkers don't bother to get to know them since they won't be staying permanently.
This isn't a healthy work environment, and it sets the stage for high turnover and poor contingent workforce management. Unlike full-time employees, contingent workers have the freedom to terminate their agreement and move on to the next job with few consequences. They don't have a long-term obligation to stick around if they don't feel like they're being treated well.
High turnover results in higher recruitment and training costs, regardless of whether the lost worker was permanent or temporary.
But, if properly welcomed into the company, contingent workers can become a long-term investment. They sometimes end up in a temp-to-hire job. Or, if your work is seasonal, former contingent employees might have a keen interest in returning, which brings experienced workers back each year and minimizes screening, onboarding, and training.
5. Onboarding
Onboarding new employees, whether they're permanent hires or contingent workers, costs time and money. On average, U.S. employers spend $4,000 and 24 days to hire a new worker.
When considering the costs of a contingent workforce, employers often forget to factor in the repeating expense to onboard temp workers for each project or season, depending on the demand.
A permanent employee goes through onboarding once. A revolving door of contingent workers coming and going requires constant onboarding demands.
To further complicate the onboarding cost factor, only 12% of U.S. employees say their company does a good job onboarding. A poor onboarding experience can impact other factors on our list, including turnover.
For decades, companies held the power over workers who desperately needed a paycheck and healthcare benefits. Employees didn't "shop around" too much and were willing to accept low pay and less-than-optimal working conditions to get by. The burden was placed almost solely on workers to introduce creative elements into their job search and stand apart from the competition.
But now, as evidenced by the labor shortage of 2021, workers are taking some of that power back by demanding more from their employers.
What does this mean for the contingent workforce?
For businesses, it means the competition to attract new workers is getting fiercer. Contingent workers don't get benefits, which takes an extra bargaining chip off the table for employers. How can companies attract contingent workers who have the flexibility to work wherever they want?
You might have already guessed it – businesses need to invest in their culture and work environment to compete for workers. This could mean extra expenses that are rarely calculated into the contingent workforce budget, such as:
Higher hourly pay
Sign-on bonuses
Facility renovations
Employee perks such as snacks, lunches, team merchandise, etc.
Heating and cooling systems in warehouses
On-site breakrooms, restroom improvements, workout facilities, etc.
Training and mentorship programs
Temp-to-hire programs
Workers have been competing with each other for jobs. Now, companies are the ones feeling the competitive pressure to win over employees. How will those costs factor into your workforce management budget?
7. Cultural Fit
Company culture can be difficult to define. Essentially, the culture is an organization's shared ethos made up of values, goals, practices, and attitudes.
A variety of factors add up to create an organizational culture. How do colleagues treat each other? What type of behavior does management reward or punish? Is the hierarchy set in a way that allows people to challenge authority? Do employees have a healthy work-life balance? How does the company measure success?
These are just a small sample of the questions that help to define workplace culture. In a recent PwC global survey, almost 70% of organizations that adapted during the pandemic reported that their culture gave them a competitive advantage. 67% said that culture was more important than strategy or operations.
But can companies maintain their culture initiatives when relying predominantly on a contingent workforce?
This is one of the greatest challenges and hidden costs of contingent workforce management. Organizations often treat temporary employees as an afterthought rather than part of the team. In many cases, contingent workers lack essential onboarding, training, and support.
If contingent workers don't fit in with the established culture, or if they feel excluded from the culture entirely, they're likely to suffer from burnout and job dissatisfaction. They may even become actively disengaged employees and contribute to an increasingly toxic work environment.
Many businesses are investing in their company culture to stay competitive. If you're hiring a contingent workforce, you'll likely face additional challenges and investments to create a healthy workplace culture that is capable of supporting permanent and temporary workers alike.
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LG G6 vs. Samsung Galaxy S8: Camera Comparison
By Chuong Nguyen | July 5, 2017 | 9:00am
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Since the LG G6 and Samsung Galaxy S8 were released, we've seen newer entries in the race, including HTC's U11 and the OnePlus 5. However, the LG G6 and Samsung Galaxy S8 remain popular due to a number of factors—heavy promotions from the manufacturers and retailers, wide retail availability, attractive designs and features. As such, even in mid-2017, the LG G6 and Galaxy S8 are still important devices to benchmark other devices given these two phones' strong popularity.
LG G6 wide angle mode.
There are some significant differences between the camera hardware on the LG G6 and Samsung Galaxy S8. While Samsung chose to use a single 12-megapixel camera sensor with an f/1.7 aperture, LG implemented a dual lens system on the G6, adding a secondary wide angle lens to the main camera system.
The LG G6 has a 13-megapixel main camera with an f/1.8 aperture and a secondary 13-megapixel camera with a wide angle lens and an f/2.4 aperture.
Both the G6 and Galaxy S8 comes with optical image stabilization, fast autofocus and LED flash. The G6 has a dual LED flash while the Galaxy S8 has a single LED flash. Samsung also uses a slightly larger 1/2.5-inch sensor, compared to LG's 1/3-inch sensor. This means that each pixel on the Galaxy S8's sensor is slightly larger than the G6's pixel size, allowing the sensor to capture more light for low-light photography.
Given the wider aperture and the slightly larger sensor size, the Galaxy S8 seems to have the advantage, but the results are closer than you'd expect. In general, I found that the Galaxy S8 does a better job with controlling highlights and shadows with Samsung's excellent use of HDR, even in Auto mode. The LG G6 struggles with highlights in high contrast situations, and you'll see the sky being blown out in a few of the sample shots.
And while it appears that Samsung has tone down its aggressive over-sharpening to make images look more pleasing at a cursory glance with the Galaxy S8 compared to last year's Galaxy S7, I found the G6 actually captures more details in situations where there is more light. The Galaxy S8 does a fantastic job too, and both cameras captured vivid colors. In terms of capturing accurate color, LG's G6 edges out the Galaxy S8's cameras with more realistic color reproduction. In the photo with the carrots, the G6 nailed the white balance, with the Galaxy S8's missed white balance throwing off the colors in this image.
When there is plenty of light to work with, you'll be fine no matter which phone you choose. Neither the G6 nor the Galaxy S8 got everything right, but they each got enough right that you'll be pleased. When it comes to low light photography, the Galaxy S8 edges ahead of the G6, taking clearer night shots with less noise.
Having one focal length for the lens is fine for most users, but LG's G6 comes with a second wide angle lens, giving it far more flexibility. If you're a tourist visiting a new city or are interested in landscape photography, the wide angle lens allows you to take in a wider perspective, capturing more of your environment.
I found the lens to be great for exploring architectural photography on tight San Francisco streets, and it's a useful alternative to having to switch to a panoramic mode on the Galaxy S8. While not everyone will find having a wider focal length useful, it's a nice option to have should you need it. The wide field of view gives images a fisheye effect, similar to unedited GoPro footage.
For my use, the LG G6 edges out ahead of the Galaxy S8 with its image capture capabilities. I appreciate LG's more realistic and natural images, Additionally, if you're a videographer, the G6 gives you more manual control when shooting videos, making it more flexible as a creative tool. However, given how close this race it, you'll be wine with either option.
Low light photographers and those who like punchier pictures with HDR will appreciate Samsung's photo renderings, while those who prefer more creative control and flexibility will likely gravitate towards LG's G6.
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German composer Kurt Weill lived only 50 years, dying in 1950, but he left an indelible mark on 20th century music. Since his death,artists as diverse as Bobby Darin, Tom Waits, the Doors, David Bowie, Ella Fitzgerald and the Young Gods have covered Weill<|fim_middle|> lyricist Bertolt Brecht, including his best-known song "Mack the Knife" from the Threepenny Opera. Fleeing anti-Jewish and anti-socialist oppression under the Nazi regime, Weill settled in the United States, where he picked up jazz and musical theater influences.
On the 27th, 29th and 31st of October, the University of Wisconsin Opera celebrates Kurt Weill with a cabaret of his music at the University Music Hall. Director David Ronin joins Eight O'Clock Buzz host Brian Standing now in the studio, along with pianist Daniel Fung and student performers Emily Weaver and Emily Vandenberg. | 's music. Interested in the social impact of music, Weill collaborated often with playwright and | 18 |
The 74th Etowah County Fair will open Sept. 24 at the Attalla Fairgrounds on Cleveland Avenue.
The fair, sponsored by American Legion Post 71, will have<|fim_middle|>,000 $2 off coupons for wristbands are being distributed to schools.
The midway and rides will be provided by Sonshine Amusements.
This year's theme for groups or businesses that want to enter the booth competition is "Salute to Our Wounded Warriors." Space is available for businesses to advertise, and there's no charge for nonprofit groups to have a booth.
Call 256-613-1011 to reserve a booth.
Green said organizers hope to have more participation in the judging in such areas as canned goods, cooking and youth categories.
He said the Etowah County Extension Service has information about the different categories and how to enter canned goods, baking and cooking, crafts and other categories.
Categories and information are available at the fair's website at www.etowahcountyfair.com.
Green can also be contacted at 256-490-5432 for fair books.
Music is planned each day from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The Christianaires are scheduled for Sept. 24, and Sept. 25 will be Praise and Worship Night with Famous AK, PDA Drama Team, Christa Yow, Patrick Washington, Laquentin Ragland, Chosen, Most Valuable Praiser and Loretta Jones. The Backwoods Boys, a bluegrass band, will perform Sept. 26 and Kelli Johnson Sept. 27.
Nashville artist Trey Morgan, a native of Goodwater who is working on his first album, will perform Sept. 28.
There will be a kid's matinee beginning at noon Sept. 28, and two bicycles will be given away as door prizes, Green said.
Groups or businesses wishing to set up booths can do so from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday or from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday. Green said items being entered for judging also can be brought to the fairgrounds during those hours.
For more information, contact Green at 256-490-5432. | a five-night run, closing on Sept. 28.
Gates will open at 5:30 p.m. each day. Admission is $3.
Wristbands for unlimited rides are $14, or individual ride tickets can be purchased, said post President Randall Green.
Specials are planned for Sept. 24 (Buddy Night, buy one wristband and get one free) and Sept. 25 (Youth Group Night, $10 wristbands for groups of five or more).
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A total of 37 horses remain in the reckoning for the Ladbrokes Troytown Handicap Chase at Navan on Sunday. Clear early favourite Pairofbrowneyes is among them as are leading ante-post fancies Minella Beau, Out Sam and Spider Web. Willie Mullins has left three in the €100,000 event. In addition to Pairofbrowneyes and Minella Beau, the champion trainer could also call on the services Undressed, which would be having his first start for the champion trainer.
I ride Minella Beau for Willie Mullins in the day's feature race, the Troytown Handicap Chase (14:30).
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Another to make a six<|fim_middle|> Win Big With Tote Maiden Hurdle. | -figure sum was Minella Beau, trained by Colin Bowe for owner John Nallen. Anthony Bromley, a colleague of Greatrex's at Highflyer Bloodstock, made the winning bid of £100,000. Minella Beau, a son of King's Theatre, will head to the powerful Willie Mullins stable.
Ruby Walsh registered his first victory at the 2017 Galway Festival when Minella Beau made a successful hurdling debut in the | 98 |
It's time to spill the tea on WTOL's cringe-worthy video
Here is the "word", when it comes to our video originally made exclusively for Toledo Public School students, that has since gone viral. We'll try not to be too "extra" in our language.
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Updated: 4:56 AM EDT March 29, 2019
TOLEDO (WTOL) - Here is the "word" when it comes to our video originally made exclusively for Toledo Public Schools students, which has since gone viral. We<|fim_middle|> to put the students of our community in the best position to succeed.
We'll know later this year if that happened. In the meantime, we'll just "sip our tea… and chill." | 'll try not to be too "extra" in our language.
Here's the "real talk":
TPS has had two consecutive failing grades on the Ohio state report card.
800 TPS students were absent during the 2018 Ohio state test.
There are fears that a third consecutive failing grade could lead to a state takeover of the district.
That was the landscape facing Toledo Public Schools and our community as thousands of TPS students got ready for state testing this week.
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Those at the TPS recognized the challenge and reached out to a number of media outlets, including WTOL for help.
The goal: encourage students to show up and be ready for those tests.
Attendance at these tests is critical for a variety of reasons, including school funding. More importantly, it's a chance to give the district a guide on how its students are doing so teachers there can help them grow. When students excel, our community is strengthened.
"The intent from the very beginning was to help TPS students take the tests and to get the district the funding it needs," said Brian Lorenzen, WTOL General Manager. "This was one of several messages provided by area leaders and media outlets meant to show support and provide encouragement."
So, WTOL went to work to try to encourage and to, well, connect. We created a not-for-television-broadcast video that could be shared with students and on social media.
"It's all about the kids and being relatable to them. We wanted to do something encouraging and fun," said Steven Jackson, WTOL Morning Traffic anchor. "By doing this, not only are we empowering students, but we're strengthening our community."
While the video was admittedly "cringe-worthy", that was by design.
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"We know as journalists, community leaders and human beings that we can't just report on problems in our communities. We have a responsibility to try and help," said Melissa Andrews, WTOL Morning Anchor. "When we heard what was on the line, we felt like we had to do something different to connect with these kids. This was an effort to reach kids where they are—on social media and to give them a laugh at our expense."
Andrew and I visited students at @TPSProud Old Orchard Elementary this morning to wish them luck on #TPSTestingWeek! Good Luck, kids! pic.twitter.com/dgpRLIfx3p
— Mel Andrews (@immelandrews) March 27, 2019
And laugh they did. While there was more than a fair share of cringy comments, we also heard from teachers who showed their students the video the morning of the test. One teacher told us that her students asked to watch it a second and even a third time.
Hi! TPS teacher here...I showed this video to my middle school kiddos this morning before testing and they absolutely LOVED it! They were all cracking up, and asked if we could watch it a second and third time before testing! If you've never seen a large group of kids laugh hysterically, you're missing out on life!
They were so motivated! Thank you, WTOL NEWS 11! ❤️
We also heard from viewers from out of state whom the video reached.
My name is Beth Fullerton. I am a teacher at Morrilton High School in Morrilton, Arkansas. I just read the article about the newscast you were a part of to try to de-stress the students of Toledo which has now gone viral. I personally would like to say thank you to you and the rest of the anchors at your television station for having the courage to stand up and do something that teachers have been doing for years.
As someone who has been teaching school for 35 years, I have spent 35 years getting up in front of a school full of students to do skits, songs, raps, and dances that made my fellow teachers and myself look as stupid as possible just to get our students to relax and be able to have a good week during the testing week.
If we thought we could get someone they saw on television to do what you did for the students of your city, we would have walked over hot coals to do just that. The students and teachers of Toledo are lucky to have the community support you have shown. Please do not ever stop supporting the students and teachers of Toledo.
"Most of us in the video are parents and we hear what our kids and their friends say daily," said Andrews.
We know it was an unusual approach, but many teachers we've spoken with have shared their own classroom techniques to get their students to relax and be in a good frame of mind to take these tests.
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Thousands left without power across Queensland after intense thunderstorms
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9:44am Dec 19,<|fim_middle|> been working their way through 250 separate locations, he said.
While Brisbane is expecting a top of 34 degrees today, the weather bureau is not expecting the heat to help rebuild storm activity in the evening.
"It's clearing, so it'll be dryer today, all of the weather's been pushed north and east," Mr Rolstone said. | 2014
The storms hit parts of Queensland art around 6pm local time. (Picture: Supplied)
Southeast Queensland is mopping up after being battered by a line of intense thunderstorms that cut power to more than 27,000 homes and businesses.
The storms hit the Brisbane area about 6pm yesterday, bringing 5500 lightning strikes and wind gusts of up to 100km/h.
"It's what we call a squall line - a line of thunderstorms that moves in from the west, and it's a narrow band of thunderstorms," Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Bryan Rolstone said.
The storms dumped 10-20mms of rain with isolated pockets of heavier falls of up to 40mm.
The worst hit areas were Ipswich City, Scenic Rim, Lockyer Valley, parts of Logan, Brisbane, Samford Valley and Redland City.
SES crews received 54 calls for assistance from Warwick to the Gold Coast as a result of storm damage.
This morning, Energex crews were still working to restore power to more than 1000 properties after the storm activity knocked down 90 power lines.
"Most of the power lines were brought down by flying tree branches or debris," Energex spokesman Graham Metcalf said.
Crews had | 279 |
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The unpredictable hazards of live television were brought home to the producers of Britain's Got Talent Saturday night when a member of the musicians group backing up a pair of finalists stepped forward and began pelting the judges with eggs. The woman, Natalie Holt, a viola player, later told The Sun newspaper that she did so to protest against the show's policy of obliging musicians to pretend to be playing on camera and also against producer/judge Simon Cowell's growing clout in the business. "I took a stand against people miming on television and against Simon and his dreadful influence on the music industry," Holt told the newspaper. Earlier she apologized to the two finalists, operatic singers Richard and Adam Johnson, "for overshadowing their performance" and admitted, "it was a silly thing to do." The pair came in third in the final voting, behind a Hungarian group of shadow dancers called Attraction, who, as part of their performance, created a silhouette portrait of Winston Churchill with their bodies. Coming in second was 14-year-old comedian Jack Carroll, a cerebral palsy victim who uses his condition as part of his act. In an interview with The Sun, Zoltan Scuzs, leader of the Hungarian dance group, expressed disappointment that the egg-throwing incident<|fim_middle|> egg throwing — was watched by an average 11.1 million viewers in a country that is 20 percent the size of the U.S. That translated to 57 percent of all British TV viewers Saturday night, making it the most-watched show of the year, the figure was off only slightly from the 11.9 million viewers who watched last year's Britain's Got Talent season finale.
Filed under TV News from STUDIO BRIEFING · Tagged with | received more prominent attention in the press than Attraction's big win. "It was not good. We picked up the papers and there was a big article about this girl throwing eggs and just one line on Attraction," he said. "What she did was stupid and we are not happy about it." Their performance — and the | 66 |
Greg Peters
September 24, 1962 - August 2, 2013
A Celebration of Life will be held Saturday, August 10, 2013 for Greg Peters, acclaimed Louisiana cartoonist and writer, who died on Friday, August 2 at New Orleans' Ochsner Medical Center. He was 50 years old. The ceremony will take place at 2 PM at Martin & Castille Funeral Home, Southside location, in Lafayette. Mr. Peters' survivors include his sons, Grey Wilder Peters and Magnus Peters; his parents, Reginald Peters and the former Kay Kent; his partner, Eileen Loh; former wife, Saundra Scarce; aunt, Sharon Strong; and mother-in-law, Shirley Romero Scarce. Mr. Peters was born on Sept. 24, 1962, in Marquette, MI. He graduated in 1980 from Marquette Senior High School, where he was a member of the debate team. He earned two degrees from Northern Michigan University: a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1985, and a master's degree in English in 1990. Peters was a doctoral fellow (ABD) in the English/ Creative Writing program at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His powerhouse intellect was the envy of his friends and fans. When it came to the humanities - particularly literature, philosophy, art, religion, history, music, politics, and current events - Mr. Peters' knowledge was staggering. In conversation and writing, he could effortlessly veer from subjects<|fim_middle|> 2 at New Orleans' Ochsner Medical Center. He was 50 years old. The ceremony will take place... View Obituary & Service Information
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Send flowers to the Peters family. | as disparate as Buddhism and Black Flag, Dadaism and Descartes, PACs and post-structuralism, Shakespeare and The Simpsons. He funneled that knowledge into a worldview that championed people in need, and castigated those who misused power or authority, causing others to suffer as a result. (His compassion was matched by his humility and exactitude; Mr. Peters would hate the praise and generalizations in this obituary.) After moving to Louisiana in 1990 to study at UL, Mr. Peters became a vital and eminently respected member of the state's publishing industry. For more than two decades, he was a graphic designer, cartoonist, and writer for newspapers and publications including Gambit Weekly, The Independent Weekly, and the Times of Acadiana. He was also featured in, and commissioned by, the national publications Fortune and The Chicago Reader. His work earned multiple awards from The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, The Louisiana Press Association, and the New Orleans Press Club. The bulk of those honors were for "Suspect Device," Mr. Peters' brilliant comic strip. "Suspect Device" juxtaposed innocuous clip art and stock images with whiplash-funny humor and satire. He hated nothing more than hypocrisy, and double-talking politicians were the most frequent targets of his scathing commentaries. Loyal to no political party, Peters lampooned Republicans and Democrats alike, as well as Independents. Woe to the public figure caught lying or doing something offensive or stupid: they became fodder for "Suspect Device," skewered and often re-imagined in fantastical worlds populated by historical figures, cartoon characters, or farm animals. (Privately, Mr. Peters' caustic and wicked wit was legendary.) "Suspect Device" was praised and anthologized in the book Attitude 2: The New Subversive Alternative Cartoonists, resulting in exhibits of Mr. Peters' work in New York City and Italy. The comic strip ran from 1996-2010. "Snake Oil," Mr. Peters' bi-weekly cartoon that mirrored the aesthetic approach of "Suspect Device," ran in Lafayette's Independent Weekly from 2003-2008. Peters' design work was also coveted. In addition to his graphics work for the above publications and various businesses, he worked as a designer for LSU Press, and created posters for the annual Rising Tide conference in New Orleans. The sixth incarnation of the conference poster featured an original poem written by Mr. Peters, "Cheval Noir." His Rising Tide work was an extension of his extensive blogging. Peters was an early user and advocate of blogs - and used the medium to excoriate pre- and post-Katrina failures. Mr. Peters spent a year in Egypt in the early 90s, teaching English as a Second Language for the U.S. Consulate General in Alexandria. In recent years he revisited his Midwestern roots, performing in musical reunions of the bands Borax and Voodoo Lawnmowers with his Ann Arbor friends. After residing in Lafayette for nearly two decades, Mr. Peters moved to New Orleans for the last 3 1/2 years of his life. He loved the Crescent City and it treated him well. When he wasn't working as the Technical Editor/Graphic Designer for Geocent LLC, he could be found listening to Dropkick Murphys or Social Distortion at House of Blues, watching Saints games at Vaughan's in the Bywater, drinking at Molly's in the French Quarter or Mimi's in the Marigny, savoring a meal at Serendipity or The Joint, having coffee at Envie, prowling every neighborhood for his new favorite Asian or African restaurant, and rabble-rousing with friends and family. Mr. Peters had a congenital heart defect. If he felt he was living on borrowed time, he never showed it. Even when he was feeling poorly, he never complained or acted the martyr. He cherished his family - especially his sons Grey Wilder and Magnus, whom he taught well. He took particular pride in their academic accomplishments, and in Grey Wilder's musicianship and Magnus' artistic abilities. His devotion, perseverance, and zest for life were inspiring. Mr. Peters passed away surrounded by family and friends who loved him deeply. The family requests that visitation be observed in Martin & Castille's Southside location, 600 E. Farrell Rd., on Saturday, Aug. 10 from 1 PM to service time. The 2 PM service will be held in Martin & Castille's La Fleur de Lis Chapel. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to an educational trust fund established for Greg Peters' sons. Account details are pending. Alternatively, memorial contributions may be made in Greg Peters' name to: Donate Life America, 701 East Byrd Street, 16th Floor, Richmond, VA 23219. View the obituary and guestbook online at www.mourning.com Martin & Castille-SOUTHSIDE-600 E. Farrel Rd., Lafayette, LA 70508, 337-984-2811
A Celebration of Life will be held Saturday, August 10, 2013 for Greg Peters, acclaimed Louisiana cartoonist and writer, who died on Friday, August | 1,122 |
Can investing in the secure sharemarket returns of "boring" stocks make you rich?
Many novice sharemarket investors are filled with dreams of generating substantial wealth in a short timeframe. In other words, everyone is looking for a way to get rich quick, and have share portfolios that are tailored to suit this goal.
But rather than adopting a high risk/high reward strategy and hoping to strike it lucky, there are many benefits to choosing shares for the long-term. In times of volatility and uncertainty, these shares offer a secure investment, stable returns and solid growth.
So what are some of the benefits of "boring" shares and how can you invest for the long-term?
Ever since the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, when Australian shares plummeted by more than 50%, "volatility" has been the word on everyone's lips. Investors who suffered substantial losses between late 2007 to early 2009 know just how financially devastating a sharemarket crash can be. This means investors and market analysts alike are always trying to predict when the next big fall will come.
In 2016, when the All Ordinaries endured a horror start to the year and slumped 7% in the first two weeks of January, global bank RBS warned that share markets around the world might fall by up to 20% over the course of the year. In such volatile and unpredictable times, so-called "boring" shares can offer a safe and secure investment option.
You don't need a risky investment plan to generate wealth from shares. In fact, while shares can provide a great long-term investment strategy, if you're looking to make a quick buck then investing in shares can be very risky.
Despite this risk, it can be very tempting to take a punt on speculative companies. These are companies that do not have a long, well-established history of providing stable returns to investors. They're also typically located outside the list of the top 100 companies in Australia.
While these types of companies may theoretically provide the potential for larger returns, there's also the risk of incurring substantial losses when you invest in them. In most cases, investing in speculative shares is best left to experienced traders who know what they're doing and are willing to accept the increased level of risk.
If you're new to share trading and investing, consider investing in "boring" shares from some of Australia's blue-chip companies. These are companies included in the S&P/ASX 50, a list of Australia's top 50 companies, and they tend to have a long history of providing steady returns with minimal risk.
It's also worth remembering that there are two ways to earn money from shares. Not only can you benefit from capital growth in the value of shares over time, but you can also earn an income from dividends.
A dividend is a company's way of distributing its profits to shareholders. Many companies listed on the ASX pay dividends twice a year, including a smaller "interim" dividend and a larger "final" dividend. However, not all companies pay dividends to shareholders and will instead invest all of their profits back into the company.
Dividends tend to be paid by larger, more established companies on the ASX and you can use them to provide a regular, ongoing source of income. This offers you security and stability for the future, while at the same time giving you a chance to benefit from the company's long-term capital growth.
What are some "boring" shares?
The S&P/ASX 50 is a list of Australia's top 50 companies. It includes companies with a history of providing steady returns and minimal volatility to investors. These companies are spread across a wide range of market sectors, including.
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Retailers tend to offer medium-sized dividends to shareholders, and Woolworths and Wesfarmers (owner of Coles) are popular choices with investors.
Before you start buying or selling shares, consider exactly what you want to achieve with your share portfolio and in what timeframe. Once you have a plan in place you can then choose your investments accordingly.
Share markets fluctuate all the time – look at historical graphs charting the performance of the ASX for proof of this – so don't panic at the first sign of share prices heading south. Stick to your plan and ride out any dips or down periods.
Are you looking for shares to provide capital growth or to generate income? Smaller companies tend to focus more on growth and therefore reinvest profits into their business, while larger companies tend to pay dividends to their shareholders.
Dividends can provide a stable source of ongoing income during uncertain financial times. Look at companies with a history of paying high dividends to shareholders to see whether they could provide an attractive investment option for you.
Blue-chip stocks, also known as large-cap companies, tend to offer secure, stable returns and a minimal level of risk. Smaller companies outside the top 50 or 100 companies on the ASX may provide larger growth potential, but they also come with a much higher level of risk attached.
Looking at a company's annual reports, earnings and historical performance will help you form a clearer picture of whether it is a sound investment. If you're using an online share trading platform, you may also be able to access research reports and buy or sell recommendations for various companies.
In order to ride out any periods of market volatility and enjoy the maximum returns, you typically need to look at an investment time frame of 7 to 10 years when choosing shares.
Depending on your investment goals and appetite for risk, you may also want to consider other options, such as exchange traded funds (ETFs). ETFs are bought and sold on the ASX just like shares, but they allow you to gain exposure to a share index or other group of underlying assets.
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As mining is a cyclical industry, resources companies have the potential to provide high capital growth but also have a reputation for underperforming when the mining industry experiences a downturn. Having said that, companies such as BHP Billiton, Woodside Petroleum and Rio Tinto all feature in the S&P/ASX 50 | 100 |
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Multilateral relations - United Nations
1. Historical Background
Environmental concerns did not appear on the international agenda when the UN was created. This explains the absence of a UN role in environmental protection in the UN Charter. However, with increasing evidence of deterioration of the environment scale in the following decades, the UN became a leading advocate for environmental concerns and sustainable development.
Following the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, held in Stockholm in 1972, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) was established as the main UN body in the field of environment. In the post-Stockholm years, increasing concern over continuing environmental degradation led the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to convene the World Commission on Environment and Development in 1983. The report of the Commission (the Brundtland Report) was a catalyst for the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the Earth Summit. Among other outcomes, the Summit adopted Agenda 21, a comprehensive plan of action for addressing both environment and development goals in the 21st century and the Rio Declaration.
To ensure effective follow-up of Agenda 21 and UNCED as a whole, the General Assembly established in 1992 the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) as a functional commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
The Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development in 2012 was another landmark event for the development of global environmental governance.
In the Outcome Document "The Future We Want", the international community reaffirmed "the need to strengthen international environmental governance within the context of the institutional framework for sustainable development, in order to promote a balanced integration of the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development as well as coordination within the United Nations system."
One major outcome of the Conference, strongly supported by the EU, was the commitment to "strengthening the role of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations".
Implementing the Rio+20 mandate, the 27th UNEP Governing Council in 2013 agreed on a number of institutional reforms, including the creation of the UN Environment Assembly as the new governing body with universal membership (Decision GC 27/2).
Increased financial resources, empowerment of UNEP to lead efforts to formulate UN system-wide strategies on the environment, and strengthened stakeholder participation would make UNEP a stronger voice for the environment and an even stronger partner for the EU.
Furthermore, at Rio+20, in the context of launching the process for developing sustainable development goals for the post-2015 agenda, the High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), replacing the Commission on Sustainable Development, was established in June 2013 through a Resolution by the UN General Assembly as the main forum for sustainable development issues within the UN framework. The HLPF is mandated to provide political leadership and guidance; to address new and emerging sustainable development challenges; and to enhance the integration of economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development.
2. The UN Environment Assembly (UNEA)
The UN Environment Assembly, which replaces the former UNEP Governing Council, was created in 2013. It meets every two years in Nairobi, Kenya. The first meeting with over a thousand participants took place from 23 to 27 June 2014. For the EU, the then Commissioner for the Environment, Janez Potočnik, participated in the meeting. UNEA-1 adopted resolutions and decisions on a large range of global environmental issues, including illegal wildlife trade, chemicals and waste, a UN system wide strategy, the science policy interface, marine litter, air quality, eco-system based adaptation, and alternative approaches to green economy, as well as on the programme of work and budget for UNEP for 2014-15 and 2016-17. In the High Level Segment, Ministers debated Sustainable Development Goals and the Post-2015 Development Agenda, including sustainable consumption and production, and had a dialogue on illegal trade in wildlife. The outcome of the High Level Segment discussions is reflected in an agreed Ministerial Outcome Document.
The second UN Environment Assembly, UNEA-2, which took place in Nairobi, Kenya, from 23-27 May 2016 and was attended by over 2,500 delegates, convened under the theme 'Delivering on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development'. It concluded with the adoption of 25 resolutions and decisions, which can be found here. Some major areas of focus included: implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement, illegal trade in wildlife, and marine litter and debris. During the High-Level Segment of the meeting, which took place from 26-27 May, Ministers endorsed the draft Global Thematic Report on 'Healthy Environment, Healthy People,' but did not agree on a ministerial outcome document.
The third UN Environment Assembly, UNEA-3, took place in Nairobi, Kenya on 4-6 December 2017 under the overarching theme of pollution. It aimed to deliver a number of tangible commitments to end the pollution of our air, land, waterways and oceans, and to safely manage our chemicals and waste. These included a political declaration on pollution, linked to the Sustainable Development Goals, to signal that humanity can work together to eliminate the threat of pollution and the destruction of our planet; resolutions and decisions adopted by Member States to address specific dimensions of pollution; voluntary commitments by Governments, private sector entities and civil society organizations to address pollution; and The #BeatPollution Pledge, a collection of individual commitments to clean up the planet. The Ministerial Declaration, Resolutions and Decisions adopted at UNEA-3 "Towards a Pollution Free Planet" can be found here. This includes the EU-proposed Resolution on "Environment and Health".
The fourth UN Environment Assembly, UNEA-4, took place in Nairobi, Kenya, from 11 to 15 March 2019 under the theme "Innovative solutions for environmental challenges and sustainable consumption and production". UNEA-4 registered a record number of participants and delegations, twice as much as UNEA-3 and five times as much as UNEA-1.Participants included 5,000 delegates from 179 countries, five Heads of State and Government (Kenya, France, Sri Lanka, Madagascar and Rwanda) and 157 ministers and deputy ministers. The Assembly included plenary sessions, leadership dialogues and a multi-stakeholder dialogue, and took place concurrently with a number of side events, two of which were organised by the EU ("Sustainable finance and the circular economy" and a "Ministerial breakfast on natural resource management"). In parallel<|fim_middle|>. Links on the general relations between the EU and the UN
The European Union Delegation to the United Nations hosts a website which contains a well of information and EU statements and speeches of global relevance on the environment and sustainable development.
The European External Action Service (EEAS) has created a webpage on the EU relations with the UN with useful links and publications. | with UNEA and convened by Presidents Macron (France) and Kenyatta (Kenya), the third One Planet Summit took place on 14 March, with a prominent focus on Africa. At the closing plenary on 15 March, the Assembly adopted a Ministerial Declaration, 23 resolutions and three decisions, addressing shared and emerging global environmental issues. A full list and complete texts of the agreed outcomes can be found here.
The fifth UN Environment Assembly (UNEA5) convened on 22 and 23 February 2021, under the overarching theme "Strengthening Actions for Nature to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals". Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, UNEA5 had been split in two parts: the virtual session that was held on 22-23 February 2021 (UNEA5.1) and a presential session that will take place in Nairobi, Kenya, in February-March 2022 (UNEA5.2). UNEA 5.1 ended with overall good outcomes. The adopted UNEA5.1 political message expresses an urgent need for action to protect the planet, for a sustainable recovery from the COVID-19 crisis and for making further progress in the upcoming multilateral fora, in particular the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the negotiations on a post-2020 global biodiversity framework, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and the negotiations on the Strategic Approach and the sound management of chemicals and waste beyond 2020, as well as for the 2022 UNEA-5.2 session to address marine litter and plastic pollution. More than one hundred Ministers and high-level representatives participated in the Assembly's various events, including the Plenary Session, the Global Major Groups and Stakeholders Forum, the Youth Environment Assembly, the Science Policy Business Forum and the Leadership Dialogue. Most high-level representatives made strong political statements on the need to tackle the pressing planetary crisis and called for a fair green recovery. Many referred to the urgent need for action, a change in economic systems to align with climate neutrality, the preservation of ecosystems and biodiversity, the fight against pollution, and the promotion of nature-based solutions, sustainable food systems and circular economy. A large number of speakers, including the Youth representatives, called for UNEA5.2 to start negotiations on an international legally binding instrument on plastics. The flagship UNEP "Synthesis Report" (Making Peace with Nature), co-financed by the EU, was launched before UNEA by the UN Secretary-General. The EU, together with UNEP, UNIDO and several partner countries launched the Global Alliance on Circular Economy and Resource Efficiency (GACERE). At the adjournment plenary, President Kenyatta of Kenya kicked-off the commemorations of the 50th anniversary of UNEP.
The EU participates alongside its Member States in the meetings of the UN Environment Assembly in line with UNGA Resolution A/65/276. The EU, represented through the EU Delegation in Nairobi, Kenya, is also a member of the Committee of Permanent Representatives at UNEP.
Further information and documents relating to the UN Environment Assembly can be found here.
3. European Commission and UN Cooperation on the Environment
The European Commission and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) entered into a more structured cooperation in 2004 with the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). This MoU is implemented through an annual Policy Dialogue in the form of a High Level Meeting. The Policy Dialogue is underpinned by technical and financial cooperation. The MoU was revised in June 2014 and a substantive Annex was signed in April 2015, spelling out a range of concrete work areas to be implemented jointly through to 2020. On 26 February 2021, the EC and UNEP signed a new Annex for the cooperation period 2021-2025, including a stronger focus on the promotion of circular economy, the protection of biodiversity and the fight against pollution. The new Annex was previously adopted by Commission Decision C(2021) 506 of 4 February 2021.
In terms of financial cooperation, the EU is UNEP's main supporter for voluntary contributions to its work programme, mainly from the EU's research & innovation and from development cooperation programmes. This includes support for actions at global and regional level in areas of common interest such as: transforming environmental governance, resource efficiency and green economy, sound management of chemicals and wastes, ecosystems services and natural capital, as well as the science-policy interface. Strategic cooperation agreements were signed between UNEP and the Commission in 2011 and 2014 for over €75 million to support the work of UNEP and UNEP-administered Multilateral Environmental Agreements (e.g. biodiversity, chemicals, and waste conventions). This cooperation is part of the EU's thematic programme for environment and natural resources (2011-2013) and the global public goods and challenges (2014-2017) of the development cooperation instrument.
The Evaluation Office of UN Environment commissioned in 2015 an evaluation study of the Strategic Cooperation Agreements (SCAs) between the European Commission and UNEP to answer the question whether the SCA approach provides an effective way of conducting EC-UNEP programmatic cooperation. The SCAs fall under the Thematic Programme for Environment and Sustainable Management of Natural Resources, including Energy (ENRTP) of the European Union Development Cooperation Instrument.
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"Our players love going to the coast and love going to the beach," Braden said of Hilton Head. "We've only heard great things about the relationship we have with those clubs."
As for Palmetto Dunes<|fim_middle|>The host cities and facilities are all top class and will provide excellent tennis courts and amenities for our players as they vie for state championships." | , which is set to host two league championships later this year -- Combo Doubles from Oct. 16-20 and Adult 65 & Over, 70 & Over from Nov. 5 to 10 -- the tournaments are an opportunity to show off what the club and the island's tennis community have to offer.
"We do feel like we're pretty successful in hosting these events," said Jackie Reynecke, tournament director for Palmetto Dunes. "We have a dedicated staff, a great facility, a super working relationship with the other public and private clubs on the island."
Reynecke said hosting the state league championships not only helps the island's tennis players and local clubs, but provides even wider benefits for local businesses and hotels, which often profit from the influx of out-of-town guests during tournament week. While Palmetto Dunes hosts several events each year, Reynecke said the goal is to find some continuity in the calendar.
"We love being the host site," Reynecke said. "We have just as much pride in anything we're associated with. Being a host, certainly it comes with a few more expectations, maybe, but we are up to the challenge."
The state championships feature teams who have qualified through local league play.
"We are extremely fortunate to have the commitments for our league championships set for the next three years," USTA S.C. Board President Cam Littlejohn said in a press release. " | 295 |
This day tour combines a<|fim_middle|> on the whole American continent and one of only two inhabited craters in the world – with its constantly changing sceneries and huge biodiversity. While circling the central lava cone, we witness volcanic history and nature, interesting geological formations, mineral avalanches blooming with wild orchids and traditional Andean agriculture. The horseback riding time will be about 4 hours. Lunch with panoramic view over valleys and cloud forest covered mountains.
Afterwards we continue by car to the Mitad del Mundo. On an interactive guided tour they will tell you about the history of the tribes in that area and with some help of a few scientific tests you will find out that this place is exactly the middle of the world. After this interesting visit we'll return to Quito.
(Note: All times are approximate, EXCEPT starting time). | visit to the educational museum built on the equator ('Mitad del Mundo') with a beautiful horseback ride through the Pululahua Crater. In the morning we start driving to the ranch where the horses are waiting. From the ranch, robust and amiable mountain horses will take us through the stunning landscape of this ancient volcanic crater – the biggest one | 72 |
Elin woke in his usual place on the silken pallet between Nikil and Rian. The harem was dark, and the night sky outside the elegant, grated windows was still inky. He wasn't sure what had roused him. He couldn't recall a dream, and the room was quiet but for the usual nighttime chorus of the men's sighs and snores.
A moment later, he realized he could hear something else. Not in the room, but maybe down the hall or from the floor below, he could make out rough, raised voices. A fight? But who would it be at this hour, and in this part of the palace? He propped himself on his elbows a little and scanned the room—all the beds seemed to be filled. The men of the harem knew better than to fight anyway, at least not that kind of fighting, with yelling and tussling. The Dragon didn't take damage to her boys lightly, and anyone caught inflicting that damage was likely to disappear without notice or explanation.
Elin, as usual, sat on his own, thoughtfully chewing a honeyed pastry. Though it was hard to ever be truly alone in the harem, his tendency to quiet contemplation left him out of most of the livelier interactions the other men favored. He wasn't much for sport, which was one of the main entertainments among his comrades, and his thoughts tended to follow slow and dreamy pathways that didn't lend themselves to clever banter.
As he was pondering the particular play of light on the grain of the highly polished tabletop, a shadow moved into his peripheral vision. One of the guards, a man named<|fim_middle|> on one of a series of hooks carved into the stone near the door. Hathar looked back now, just in time to see him shucking off his loosely fitted silken trousers. This was another kind of opulence. The boy's beauty was at least the equal of the room. His form was slender, but not scrawny. His skin was smooth and full over the contours of his modest muscles, a testament to a life without lack and plenty of tender care. He was fair, but there was a golden undertone to his complexion that was echoed in the burnished gold of his curls and his uncanny amber eyes, which came into view as he straightened. Whoever ran this place had taste, Hathar had to give them that.
The now-naked man seemed to hesitate under Hathar's gaze before he gathered himself and said softly, So. Uh…you'll need to take your clothes off before we get in. I'll have someone bring you something clean to wear once we're done.
Of course. Hathar wasn't used to having an audience for this sort of thing, but he tried to act casual as he stripped. He wasn't smooth and sleek like the smaller man, but his sunbrowned skin and rugged muscles held their own appeal, and he hoped his companion might enjoy what he saw.
To his disappointment, the other man wasn't looking at him at all. He was instead busying himself collecting towels and implements from nearby shelves and carrying them over to a bench near the tub. Hathar wandered over and stretched a toe experimentally into the pool. It was extremely warm, and he pulled back a moment before easing one foot fully onto the first shallow step. As he was working his way slowly into the water, taking time to adjust to the heat, he was passed by the other man plunging unceremoniously into the depth of the pool, clearly unfazed by the temperature. He ducked his gold curls under the surface, came up sleek and gleaming, and then moved over to recline on an underwater bench against one wall. | Emun, was approaching. The guards of the harem were in a unique position: They were, in most ways, subordinate to the residents they guarded, so they spoke in polite tones, made requests rather than demands, and would usually do whatever was asked of them. At the same time, they were in charge of keeping the men in their place—generally not a hard job. Who would want to escape the lap of luxury, after all? But it was known that, if pushed, the guards would muster force to keep order, which lent an edge to all their interactions with their charges.
I've got something for you to do after breakfast, he said. A new resident who needs some cleaning up.
A new resident? To our wing?
Elin was used to being assigned chores considered beneath the more favored men of the harem, but this was unusual. His wing was inhabited by the twenty-one- to thirty-year-olds. They had all entered the harem as children, as soon as they'd been found by The Dragon's collectors, or ceded by their parents. New arrivals had trickled in through their younger years, a few carefully hidden late arrivals into their early teens, but it had been nearly a decade since anyone had joined the group Elin had grown up with.
Yep. Emun cut his thoughts short. City guard found him skulking around the palace walls and assumed he was an escapee, but we've never seen him before. He's The Dragon's now, of course. Pretty rough around the edges though. Weird accent, needs a scrub and a shave. See what you can do. Jurah will have him waiting for you outside the baths after you're done here.
Sure. Okay. Elin wasn't sure what else to say. How did a fully grown dahabi end up wandering outside the palace? Did he mean to get caught? He supposed he'd have a chance to answer all his questions soon enough, and returned to his breakfast as Emun returned to his post near the door.
Emun asked me to come down after breakfast, he said, not quite ready to volunteer what he'd been asked to do. Maybe Jurah had a different understanding of the matter.
No such luck. Yeah! I've got quite a job for you here, the guard replied jovially, indicating the filthy man by tugging lightly on his bindings. The job in question scowled slightly, but said nothing.
Does he, uh, need to stay bound like that? Helping with a bath was one thing, but Elin didn't think he had it in him to wrestle anyone into submission.
Oh, no. Our friend here has settled down quite a bit since last night. He's going to be on his best behavior for you. Right? With that, Jurah elbowed the other man for a reply.
He looked up from under his brow, directly at Elin as if the guard wasn't there, startling him with moonlit-silver eyes. I'm no threat to you. There was just a…misunderstanding with these other gentlemen earlier, and they don't quickly forget.
Elin found, thankfully, that he believed the man. Let him go then. I can't get him cleaned up with his hands tied together.
The guard did so and then hesitated a moment, as if unsure what do to next. Would you like me to come in there…with you? The guards usually gave the men of the harem their privacy in the baths—it was their job to protect, not to ogle—but Jurah clearly didn't feel the same faith in the stranger's intentions that Elin did.
Elin looked again into the strange, pale eyes. Seeing no malice there, he said, We'll be fine. You can watch the door to ensure a little privacy for our new guest, and I'll call out if I have any need of you.
Elin stepped forward and opened the door to the baths, gesturing for the man to follow. It's just a bath, really, he said to the skeptical Jurah as he closed the door behind them.
The baths were unlike anything Hathar had ever seen. Granted, it was a palace, so he had expected luxury, but not on this scale. Large enough to easily accommodate twenty men, the room was completely clad in glowing white marble interrupted only by tasteful, intricate mosaics of fanciful sea creatures. It was filled with warm, diffuse light from windows slatted for privacy and vast domes on the ceiling that seemed to be made of a thick, translucent glass.
Past an assortment of platforms and benches for preening and lounging, a steaming pool set into the floor took up a large corner of the room. Constantly refreshed by water bubbling forth from the mouths of carved stone fish that appeared to be eternally leaping from the walls above, the pool overflowed into discreet drains set around its edges.
As Hathar gawked at the opulent room, the young man who had taken him from the guard was preparing himself for the baths, removing his shirt and hanging it | 1,046 |
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Given Up On Your New<|fim_middle|> door, the idea goes into your unconscious mind and once it's there it acts like a sponge or a computer program, it just runs on its own."
"I'm not able to 'hypnotise' people because I went for a course," he says frankly.
"We're all hypnotists, to ourselves and the people around us. Your first hypnotists are your parents, teachers are your second."
A lot of times this is done subtly, but McKing's encounter in the A&E had been a case of accidental "shock hypnosis".
Hypnotists generally use shock hypnosis as a form of entertainment; like when they snap their fingers and make an audience member fall asleep.
"What we do is shock the mind, and in that moment your conscious mind's gates go down so suggestions can be slipped straight in" he explains.
"When the doctor told me I was going to die, I went into shock and in that state, my mind was vulnerable and the suggestion I received was 'you will die'."
Though he survived the ordeal, McKing would soon discover that his mind had linked his botched presentation to the idea of death – every time he gave a presentation, he'd suffer a mental and physical breakdown.
"The mind and body are more closely linked than people realise" he goes on, "each time I gave a presentation, my physical body "died" along with my mind."
He'd turned frail, his fingernails had turned purple and soon enough he slipped into depression.
How Hypnosis Heals
Call it fate or plain luck, but in the years to come, McKing would meet someone that would steer him down a path of recovery.
Through this process of healing, his interest in holistic health grew and one serendipitous day, he found a Facebook advertisement for a Neuro Linguistic Programming course that claimed to promote holistic health.
"After attending the course I realised that what I'd been suffering from was Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and that there were techniques to fix it" he recalls.
"I decided to attend a second mastery course to kind of 'cure myself, and over the span of these courses, one of the trainers told me I'd been changing, like coming out of my shell."
He shared his story with his trainer who offered to help him resolve his problems if he'd agree to be part of a demonstration for the class. "It was a very emotional but very healing process," he remarked.
"It was a walking hypnosis technique where you 'walk' physically and mentally back in time in your memories, and you mentally separate yourself the timeline's events to distance yourself from the emotions."
He laughs as he recalls dramatics of it all, "But in my case, the connection was so strong. Can you imagine I walked the whole distance of an auditorium just crying and crying? So my trainer told me to put 3 doors between myself and these memories, and I'd imagined these huge doors with eye sensors and all these security locks. After a while, I started to calm down and heal."
I suppose it only makes sense that this pushed him to where he is now. As an advocate of how much the mind can heal the body, he started his own practice to help others with their issues, however big or small.
Unlike most hypnotists you'd find in Singapore, McKing doesn't believe his clients should have to visit him a handful of times to resolve an issue.
"Traditional hypnotists believe you have to go into a deep state of hypnosis for the suggestions work – which isn't wrong per se. But once it gets to that state, the suggestions or "solutions" are coming from the hypnotist," he points out.
"But what if the problem is a circle and the hypnotist's solution is a square? There's always different solutions, though the problem may look the same."
"If you're lucky it gets resolved, but if you're not, even 6 consultations won't help you because it's just a trial and error process."
"My style is more conversational style hypnosis, let me give you an example." He begins to explain as he adjusts himself in his seat. "This guy came in to resolve his procrastination and he told me he sees procrastination as a huge barrier— like a brick wall."
"So I asked him why does he think so? And he tells me the moment I asked him that question, the barrier turned into a sun that was growing bigger and bigger until it merged with his body."
McKing tells us his client was seated completely still during this 15-minute interaction but claimed that he felt the energy of the sun coursing through his veins. 3 days later, his client had spent each day since their session catching up on work he'd put off.
Being Hypnotised
For the next hour or so he tells us about cases of distracted children, businessmen looking for greater success, depression, letting go and seeking long-lost companions.
In a lot of these examples he'd used a method called "Dynamic Mental Imagery" (DMI) to explore the unconscious mind regarding a certain "problem"— a method I'd be trying out in a few moments.
As I sat in his office, walls made completely out of glass, I started to feel nervous, but definitely curious. After all, I'd heard so many success stories in the past hour.
McKing assured me that the demonstration was just to let me get a feel for it, but asks if I have anything I'd want to resolve.
I mull over it for a minute and succumb to the possibility of free therapy. I tell him I'd like to be more independent, and he agrees to help me explore that possibility.
It begins normally, I breathe deeply, try to relax and struggle to stop thinking about a million things at once. There's a long pause before McKing whispers in a low controlled tone "Now imagine a safe place."
And as if my mind were on auto-pilot, it did instantaneously.
He asks me what I see and I tell him, "Trees, flowers and a pond. I think I'm in a park but I'm alone." I tell him I'm wading in the pond, and he asks me if I see a door of some sort—the door to my unconscious mind of course.
Well, I didn't. But as I spoke to him I felt myself sink deeper into the pond that was supposed to be as shallow as a baby pool.
Before I knew it I was in a carriage—yes, I'm talking horse-drawn with wooden wheels and everything. The only catch was that I had no idea where it was going, and no one was driving.
McKing probed me about my surroundings and what the carriage looked like to try to gather some understanding of the situation, but I hadn't the faintest clue.
I'm not gonna lie – at this point I was starting to get anxious; I had no idea where I was going or how to get out of it. "Why don't you ask the horses where they're going." McKing suggested calmly. Without hesitation, I thought, "home".
I was immediately transported to my childhood home, but unlike usual memories, everything was extremely vivid.
The placement, the colours, even the photographs hanging on the wall—they were all there just as I remembered.
I walked through the familiar apartment as if I were there right then.
I see my mother standing beside the huge closet that used to stand behind our maroon leather sofa and before I knew it I was spectating memories I'd forgotten I'd had.
McKing lets me take my time with this, and tells me that I don't have to tell him what I see if I don't want to, so I don't.
Strangely enough, it was a pretty emotional experience for me, but when I was ready for it to end, he led me out of it as seamlessly as he'd led me into it.
I was still trying to wrap my head around what had just happened so I urged my friend to give it a go. She laughed nervously but was intrigued enough to have a go at being a guinea pig—all in the name of journalism.
She agrees to let McKing try some arm levitation experiments on her while I sit by and watch, pen and paper ready. His "Dictionary Balloon" test starts with her holding both her palms over her lap.
He tells her to breathe deeply and focus on her hands as he suggests slowly that one holds a heavy dictionary while the other is tied to a balloon that is lifting it higher and higher.
I sat patiently watching both her hands quiver as one drifted higher and the other slowly sank.
We laugh nervously, unsure of what's happening, and they even make small talk while her hands continued to move further apart. He brings her out of it and I can't help but exclaim "Oh my god how was it?"
Somewhat bewildered, she says:
"It's kind of surreal, my arms were moving but I felt like I wasn't controlling them but I could still hold a conversation?"
Now she's really curious and has a go at his arm levitation test.
It's similar to the one before but now with only one hand. It begins the same – with deep breaths, focus and some subtle suggestions from McKing.
I watch intently once again, holding my breath as her hand floats higher and higher till it's almost at her chest. McKing asks her if she'd like to bring her hand back down and she says yes.
With a few more deep breaths and instructions, she places her hand back on her knee and starts laughing nervously again.
"Was it different from the other?" I asked after we'd left. "My focus was more intense it was like I was in my own bubble," she replied, still in awe.
"Everything around me faded out, even his voice sounded muffled. But after my hand touched my lap it was like the bubble popped and my mind felt clear and refreshed."
We make more small talk after this, feeling as comfortable as you can with someone you've just trusted to hypnotise you. McKing walks us out of the office, we shake hands and say thank you and go on our usual way.
A few days later, I receive a message from McKing. I wonder what it's about, almost forgetting that I'd asked him to help me resolve something just a few days before.
I admitted I felt different, but I wasn't sure if it was just something I'd been forcibly telling myself.
He assures me that it's normal to try to rationalize how the unconscious mind works, but if I'm happy with the way I'm feeling, I could just accept the change and move forward.
I thank him and tell him I will, and so I have.
To find out more about McKing, visit his website, Instagram or Facebook page.
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I Tried Getting Hypnotised For The First Time
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When I was asked to interview a hypnotist, I'll be honest and say I had my doubts. To be fair, we're talking more "therapist" than Las Vegas magician that'll have you clucking like a chicken on stage—but you catch my drift.
There were only two things I was certain of:
1) that we'd meet at his office
2) that I'd be "hypnotised" at the end of our interview
Neither of which was much to go on.
The day came and we met at his office, a co-working space opposite Bugis Junction. I'd made the last-minute decision to call a girl-friend to join me for the interview—the more the better right?
To be honest, I'm not sure what I'd expected McKing to be like – after all, I'd never met a hypnotist, let alone seen one beyond the rectangular edges of my television. But he was warm, inviting and refreshingly upfront with his responses.
At 29, McKing has already had multiple brushes with death. Which however unfortunate, has led him to the art of hypnosis.
"When I was 20 years old, my lung burst in my sleep. I woke up with breathing difficulties, but I had to give a presentation in school."
"At the time I was studying Child Psychology and Early Education in Ngee Ann Poly, it was a Tuesday—first year, first term, last week." He recalls this with the accuracy of someone who had his first near-death experience.
He made it to class, although he hardly made it through his presentation before finding himself incapable of speaking or breathing. "I could feel pain vibrating through my chest, every time I breathed it felt like someone was stabbing me in my back."
After succumbing to the pain, he was admitted to the A&E. A doctor would soon come to show him an image of his nugget-sized lung that had collapsed the night before.
"He told me I'd die in the next few days or in the next few minutes when the air crushes my heart unless I undergo a procedure" McKing lamented calmly.
He then puts his story on hold to explain how hypnosis works.
"We have 2 minds; the conscious and unconscious mind" he explains.
"The conscious mind deals with what we're knowingly aware of, like the sound of my voice, while the unconscious mind acts on its own; controlling your heartbeat, and being aware of surroundings that you don't even see."
Our conscious minds act as gatekeepers—we can choose to "open" and accept an idea or "close" and reject it. "When you open the | 614 |
Dockless bike company reps – standing L to<|fim_middle|> led me through some bushes where I came upon a Lime Bike Scooter one of the homeless who hang out there had stashed. So, another lie by the Lime Bike folks. | R: Kevin of Mobikes, Zack of LimeBikes and Anna of Ofo; also standing is chair Marcus Turner.
The general manager of the lime-green dockless bikes denied that they had launched in Ocean Beach.
The OB Town Council had invited representatives of different dockless – or bikeshare – companies to make presentations and answer residents' questions and concerns during a forum hosted by the Board during their regular monthly meeting at the Masonic Center.
Besides Bartlett of LimeBike, Board Chair Marcus Turner introduced Anna from Ofo bikes and Kevin from Mobikes – all three made their pitches – and answered some questions.
Anna had a 2-sided flier she passed out explaining how the bikes are used; Ofo hasn't deployed in OB yet, she told the crowd. Ofo is the largest company, originating in China and having bikes in 20 countries worldwide and in 200 cities, including a bunch in the US.
Kevin said Mobikes hasn't been launched in OB either. He said his company has 9 million bikes, their users have traveled 30 million miles, and they're in 16 countries.
Bartlett added that LimeBike is the only American-based company and they're in 50 cities.
Board member Jon Carr raised a couple of issues, as well. "What's to prevent," he asked,"after a special event in OB, that local groups will have to clean up all the bikes?" Examples were made of the Chili Cook-Off or the annual Street Fair, where thousands of people stream into OB – and with dockless bikes, many may be abandoned by their users. Anna from Ofo replied her company is working with local groups to prevent this type of situation.
It also turned out none of the bike companies have contacted the Ocean Beach Mainstreet Association. CEO Denny Knox said, "We have merchants who rent bikes," and "The OBMA hasn't heard from any of you guys." She then asked, "Are you coming to talk to us?" There were some verbal commitments by a couple of the reps to do that.
"We're asking people just to bear with us and view the positives," said Zack Bartlett, general manager of LimeBike San Diego.
Bartlett said LimeBike operates in Imperial Beach, National City and San Diego and has yet to launch in Ocean Beach. He said the bikes are tracked and picked up nightly and the bikes are to stay within the areas where they are launched, but often it depends on ridership.
Chair Turner skillfully guided the back-and-forth Q's and A's, as each response from one of the bike reps elicited more hands being raised with questions.
Kevin of Mobikes said there's an emergency number on every bike and they're available 24/7.
One woman complained of being knocked down by a scooter. None of the companies in the room have scooters. Someone asked "why dockless?" It makes the bikes more accessible and equitable, Kevin replied.
A couple of people asked about numbers of visitor users versus local users and more general figures now that the companies have been deploying their bikes for months. But no one had any numbers for San Diego. Anna of Ofo claimed in Seattle they found 50% of start and stops of their bikes were at transit stops.
There were more complaints of the bikes taking up public space or being left on private property. Board member Priscilla Turner offered that many complaints seem to be based on the users not being considerate.
Some discussion ensued when an audience member raised the point "there's no repercussions to users for leaving bikes in the right of way or on private property." Mobikes has a point system, Kevin explained, and penalizes users for bad parking, etc.
However, Zack of LimeBikes said it's too difficult to determine which user or who did the vandalism; they don't wish to ban anyone unless it's confirmed they were responsible.
A woman asked, "Are any of you giving money into the bike infrastructure?" This was met with silence, until Anna did say Ofo is sharing data with the city, and that can show the city where bikers are actually riding.
Another concern: are the bikes sanitized after each use? Anna said her bikes are sanitized when they go into maintenance. But it's unclear how often that happens. The other bike reps failed to respond.
It happened today, someone said, at the Farmers Market. They saw a lime bike being used by a homeless person.
One guy said, "I'm glad you're here," to the bike company reps. "[The bikes] cut cars from the road." He continued that he'd been in China, in a city of 20 million and their bike program is working.
Tell that, my friend, to Denny Knox.
The Lime Bike people are lying. I often run at night and I was running down by Dog Beach the night these things showed up. I found about 15 to 20 0f these bikes all lined up perfectly in a semi-circle behind the bollards that keep cars from driving into Dog Beach. Perfectly lined up. I do not believe that 15 to 20 people showed up at Dog Beach and were polite enough to park these bikes so nicely, especially after seeing what has been happening. I would vote to remove the Lime Green company immediately because of this and let the other bike companies approach Ocean Beach honestly.
You need to present evidence before making such a bold claim.
How can you prove LB, themselves are bringing them in and instead people aren't riding them in?
People do ride bikes you know… the whole purpose of the things is to be ridden.
An eyewitness report is solid evidence.
If you read what I wrote, you wouldn't suggest people are just riding them in. 15 to 20 bikes all parked perfectly facing the same direction on the same angles evenly spaced all in one spot? So all these people rode in from elsewhere in one night, to Dog Beach, at night, and left the bikes neatly parked like that? Of course not, have you seen anyone parking the bikes like that now? Who would ride from Point Loma and other communities and leave the bikes there and then what? These were the only ones I saw in the whole parking lot. No, there is no way these wound up here like that.
1. I'm with Geoff calling BS on the Lime claim. Once dockless started, my neighborhood was inundated overnight (though I live on Famosa Slough, about a mile east of what most folks would consider OB proper). Lime was everywhere in a few days, it took a couple weeks for the ofos to start showing up and I'm still not sure I've ever seen a Mobike even though my work takes me all over the city.
2. Lime definitely offers scooters – I saw one when I was out for a walk yesterday parked in front of the Mariner's Cove apartments around the 4400 block of W. Pt. Loma.
4. This has certainly been a messy and chaotic rollout, but I'm hopeful that in the end the dockless model will prove successful – docked bikes sounded like a step in the right direction, but absent a dock at every bus stop and shopping center this is the only model that bridges the first/last mile problem with transit. That said, I'm holding off judgment to see if operators can address the entirely legit concerns regarding placement, maintenance, and vandalization.
I agree, Chris, this might be a good thing at some point but the roll out was handled horribly and you have to wonder what this is doing to the small bike shops that rent bikes too.
I'm Dave, man, Chris is my wife (and she's a lot more anti-dockless than I am). And I agree, the rollout has been so terrible it might have permanently tainted the concept.
So far as shops that specialize in rentals, this is a killer. My hope would be that there's still a market for other tourist rentals like boogie/surf/paddleboards, and the loss of local revenue stream here is both all but guaranteed and equally regrettable. That said, while I think there are plenty of valid arguments against the system as it's currently being implemented, suggesting that locals should be denied access to bikes because it'll hurt the pocketbooks of businesses that only serve the needs of tourists seems pretty far down on the list.
I don't think they will have much impact on traditional renal outfits. People are still going to want to rent bikes for the whole day, or even a few hours and not have to pay by the half hour. Plus they will want proper beach cruisers for riding up and down the boardwalk (which is where the majority of bike rentals are anyway). Dockless bikes are pretty much for getting from point a to b.
I saw a few of these parked right nextdoor to the bike rental shop on Cable st, and in front of Bernie's.
Why do these bike polluters get a free ride? Their two wheeled garbage cluttering the environment is predatory, maybe Jeff Bezos should buy in, this behavior is right up his alley.
Visual and physical pollution coming from a sector that is supposed to be environmental friendly, i guess this is the American way.
How much support are these predators getting from the hotel industry? It appears that the hotel crowd wants to turn San Diego into America's playground.
You said "bike polluters" and "two wheeled garbage". LOL!!
Agreed…the Limebike guy is either lying or is ignorant to his own operations. Those bikes suddenly appeared in HUGH numbers and parked in a way the proves they were "distributed" by the company.
I have pictures to prove this!
There is no way that hundreds of riders all came into OB one day, parked their bikes on Newport, nicely aligned and in a row.
He must be a proponent of "alternate facts". He single-handedly undermined any credibility he or his company may have with our neighborhood.
The article said the bike companies don't have scooters. I was walking my dogs in the Point Loma Plant Reserve this morning and my dog | 2,071 |
We arrived in the "City of Brotherly Love" the evening of, Saturday, July 1st, amidst torrents of rain. Outside of our motel the street was blocked off by police cars for blocks in preparation for the Philadelphia Food Festival, a yearly event that draws many, many thousands of people. As the Lord cleared up the rain and the food stands reassembled, we approached the crowded streets with a certain amount of trepidation—police officers, security guards, and even K-9 units were thronging the area, and you could not go a single block without encountering multiple officers. We found a spot halfway between the live entertainment and the DJ where we hoped to be heard above the blasting night music and hastily set up equipment hoping to get in a short but effective outreach before being shut down. To our amazement, the police officers that approached us before we could sing a single note, not only had no problem with us setting up, but also suggested a place for us. For much of our time a couple of officers stood right next to us, and the many that passed by seemed to enjoy and support our message even telling us that this is what their city needs. The songs of "Amazing Grace", "Jesus Loves Me", and "Victory in Jesus" along with many others were received in various ways—some jeered, some stopped to listen and ask questions, some ignored us altogether, but<|fim_middle|> of souls through the efforts of His people!! | overall a great sense of amazement pervaded the atmosphere that such a message was being blasted through the streets of Philadelphia. We were asked if we were Amish, from Lancaster County, and even addressed as the ones who had founded the City (Quakers). Once again thousands came within hearing of our end-time message and hundreds of tracts were handed out.
Next stop was the Liberty Bell where we again sang to many curious onlookers and made additional contacts. Thank God for granting to His servants great boldness and success in this city! May the Lord continue to water the seed that was sown and bring in a myriad | 127 |
While Fitbit might have started as a fitness tracker company, they've really moved further and are developing a complete health and well-being ecosystem. The Fitbit Aria scales give you the ability to measure your weight and body composition.
Although Fitbit is best known for their fitness trackers, they do quite a bit more than that.
Their app pulls together activity from the trackers but also provides a way to capture nutritional information and enter exercise sessions, amount of active time, sleep duration and quality and other health metrics.
All the data can also be accessed via the Fit<|fim_middle|>uana. | bit website.
The Aria scales add another dimension to the Fitbit ecosystem. Percentage body fat and weight are two measures that are reasonably easy to track and can be used to track the results of a well-being program.
Most of us have a goal to maintain our body at a reasonable weight and to not be too flabby. Weight is a simple measure to capture and easy to look at over the long term.
Sitting up the Aria scales is straightforward. Once the scales are turned on for the first time, by pulling a plastic tab out of the battery compartment, the create a wireless network that you can connect to using your smartphone (I used an iPhone 6).
I then entered the details for my home network and linked the scales to my personal Fitbit account. The scales can be linked to as many as eight user accounts so they can be used by most households.
Unlike some connected scales, the Aria doesn't require you to have your smartphone nearby. As they use WiFi, when you stand on the scales, they send your weight and body fat percentage straight to your Fitbit account.
I had my son stand on them. He weighs a lot less than me and the scales "knew" not to send his weight to my account and distort my data.
The body composition analysis is done by sending a safe signal through your body. The speed the signal travels is then used to calculate your percentage body fat. The differences in your body composition create different impedance and this is used for the body fat estimation.
It's important to understand your body composition can be influenced by a number of factors. For example, the percentage body fat can change significantly depending on your hydration. I saw a 2% change from one day to the next.
The backlit display shows weight in either pounds, kilos or stone and percentage body fat, Users can weigh between 9-158kg (20-350lbs). It's easy to ready but that doesn't really matter as the data will sync to your smartphone app. The scales are powered by four AA batteries.
We've seen the Fitbit Aria Scales at a number of different retailers including electronics stores, office suppliers and department stores.
In Australia, they sell for $159 and come in either white or black.
Here's the reality. A $20 set of scales can measure your weight and you can manually record the numbers in a spreadsheet or notebook. And a $10 set of callipers can be used to measure skin folds and give an approximation of body composition.
The value of the Fitbit Aria Scales is their ability to make all of that very easy.
This entry was posted in Reviews, Workout Tech and tagged Apps, fitbit, iPhone, weight, Wi-Fi on March 24, 2015 by Anthony Car | 575 |
Werner Güth How Do Players Split an Amount of Money in the Ultimatum Game?
Werner Güth is the Director of the Strategic Interaction Group at the Max Planck Institute of Economics, in Jena. Previously, Güth was professor at the Humboldt-University, Berlin. His specific take on economics, particularly game theory, experimental economics and microeconomics, is shaped by a strong interest in the social sciences, such as psychology and philosophy. In the field of game theory, Güth traces back one of the most famous economic experiments, following the psychological decision making processes of two game players. His research is set to account for different outcomes of the game,<|fim_middle|>-Operative Commitments." Theory and Decision 49 (2000): 197-222. | when it is modified.
The ultimatum game is one of the most famous experiments in economics. It involves two players, one of them receives a sum of money which he has to share with a second player. The first player, the "proposer", can decide how much he offers the second player, called "responder", who can either accept or reject the offer. If the responder rejects, neither of the players receives any money. Mathematically, the first intuition is to offer the opponent the smallest amount possible. However, during the game players routinely reject even high offers if they deem the split unfair. In this video, WERNER GÜTH explains how he came to develop the ultimatum game and how modifications of the game produce different outcomes.
Werner Güth, Rolf Schmittberger and Bernd Schwarze. "An Experimental Analysis of Ultimatum Bargaining." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 3 (1982): 367-388.
Eric van Damme, Kenneth G. Binmore, Alvin E. Roth, Larry Samuelson, Eyal Winter, Gary E. Bolton, Axel Ockenfels, Martin Dufwenberg, Georg Kirchsteiger and Uri Gneezy. "How Werner Güth's Ultimatum Game Shaped Our Understanding of Social Behavior." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 108 (2014): 292-318.
Werner Güth and Hartmut Kliemt. "Evolutionarily Stable Co | 319 |
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